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Mazur (surname)
Mazur (archaic feminine: Mazurowa, plural Mazurowie) is the 14th most common surname in Poland (68,090 people in 2009). It signifies someone from northern Mazovia and has been known since the 15th century. Over 70% of people with this surname live in the south of Poland (mainly between Katowice and Lublin). Prevalence of the surname in Polish voivodships * 1st in Subcarpathia (9,530) * 3rd in Lublin Land (8,019) * 3rd in Opole Silesia (2,512) * 3rd in Swietokrzyskie (2,512) People with this surname * Aleksandr Mazur (1913–2005), Ukrainian wrestler * Alexander J. Mazur (1969–2016), American scholar * Alexandra Mazur (born 1986), Russian beauty pageant contestant * Alla Mazur (born 1965), Ukrainian journalist * Amy Mazur (born 1962), American political scientist * Barry Mazur (born 1937), American mathematician * D. Bennett Mazur (1924–1994), American politician * Daniel Mazur (born 1960), American mountain climber * Eddie Mazur (1929–1995), Canadian ice hocke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Most Common Surnames In Europe
This is a list of the most common surnames in Europe, sorted by country. Albania At the moment, listings for the most common names are unavailable for Albania. However the most common names include the following: * Common names denoting profession. Of these, religious professional names have been particularly widespread, including Hoxha (a Muslim priest, Sunni or Bektashi, with its variant Hoxhaj), Prifti (a Christian priest, Catholic or Orthodox), Shehu (a Bektashi priest) and Dervishi (Bektashi clergy). Bektashi itself is also a common surname. Ironically, Hoxha was the surname of Enver Hoxha, the leader of Communist Albania who banned all religions. There are numerous other professional names which are not as common. Begu also denotes a former ruler and also the surname(s) Gjoni or Gjonaj. * Common names which originated as patrinomials. Common names of this sort include Leka or Lekaj (Alex), Gjoni or Gjonaj (John), Murati (Murad), Mehmeti (Mehmed), Hysi (typica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Mazur
Amy Gale Mazur (born May 5, 1962) is an American political scientist and professor at Washington State University, as well as an associate researcher at the Centre d’Études Européennes at Sciences Po, Paris. Education Mazur attended University of Caen Normandy in 1982-1983 and attained her B.A. at Colby College in 1984. She completed graduate work at Sciences Po in 1986-1987. She obtained her M.A. in 1986 and in 1992 her Ph.D. in Politics and French Studies at New York University. Career Mazur's research and teaching interests focus on comparative feminist policy, women’s policy agencies/state feminism, feminist policy implementation, conceptualization and mixed methods, and French politics. She is the co-convener of the Gender Equality Policy in Practice Network (GEPP) and the associate editor of ''French Politics''. She is one of the founders of the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State (RNGS). From 2006 to 2014, Mazur was coeditor of ''Political Research ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henryk Mazur
Henryk Mazur (born 29 January 1953, in Tarnów) is a Polish former wrestler who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics. He lives in Varberg, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on .... References External links * 1953 births Living people Olympic wrestlers for Poland Wrestlers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Polish male sport wrestlers Sportspeople from Tarnów 20th-century Polish sportsmen 21st-century Polish people {{Poland-wrestling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Mazur
Henry J. Mazur (November 19, 1919 - March 26, 1988) was an American football player and military officer. He played college football for the Army Cadets football team and was selected by the International News Service as a second-team halfback on the 1942 College Football All-America Team. Early years Mazur was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the son of Stanley and Katherine (Clehowicz) Mazur. He attended St. Stanislaus school until 1933 when he enrolled at Lowell High School. While at Lowell, he was an outstanding athlete, playing baseball, football, basketball and track. He was selected as an all-state halfback in 1936 and also played for an American Legion baseball team that won the New England championship. He graduated from high school in 1937 and, during the 1937-1938 academic year, studied at Stanton Preparatory Academy at Cornwall, New York.(profile includes extensive archive of newspaper clippings and other biographical material on Mazur; much of the content her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyula Mazur
Gyula Mazur (4 April 1888 – 26 November 1953) was a Hungarian cycle sport, cyclist. He competed in two events at the 1912 Summer Olympics. References External links * 1888 births 1953 deaths Hungarian male cyclists Olympic cyclists for Hungary Cyclists at the 1912 Summer Olympics Cyclists from Budapest {{Hungary-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Dane Mazur
Grace Dane Mazur (born 1944) is an American writer. Her works include the novels ''Trespass'' (1998) and ''The Garden Party'' (2018), the short story collection ''Silk'' (1996), and ''Hinges'' (2010), a book that combines "personal essay, literary criticism, art history, and memoir." Biography Initially pursuing a career in the biological sciences, Mazur earned a PhD in cellular and developmental biology from Harvard University in 1981, after which she spent a number of years researching morphogenesis and micro-architecture in silkworms at Harvard's Biological Laboratories. In 1993, she earned a Master of Fine Arts in fiction from Warren Wilson College. Mazur worked as fiction editor at the ''Harvard Review'' from 1993 to 2004, and has worked as fiction editor at Tupelo Press from 2009 to the present. She has taught creative writing at the Harvard Extension School and the Master of Fine Arts program at Warren Wilson College. Her works have been reviewed in ''The New York Times' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federico Mazur
Federico Mazur (born 14 May 1993) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a defender for Barracas Central. Career Mazur, after a youth stint with All Boys, began his career with Albania's Shkumbini Peqin. He appeared eight times in the 2013–14 Albanian First Division season, including for his senior bow on 15 February 2014 as they won 3–4 against Kamza. Mazur left at the end of the campaign as they finished seventh, with the defender subsequently joining Espinho of Portugal's Campeonato Nacional on 31 July. Five league appearances followed, along with one in a Taça de Portugal loss to Sporting CP. Mazur returned to Argentina in 2015 with Torneo Federal B's Atlético Camioneros. In 2016, Ferro Carril Oeste signed Mazur; a team of his brother's. After an overall of just seven appearances for Atlético Camioneros and Ferro Carril Oeste, Mazur moved to Primera B Metropolitana side Estudiantes. One goal, versus Excursionistas, in twenty-four matches subseque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Mazur
Eric Mazur (born November 14, 1954) is a physicist and educator at Harvard University, and an entrepreneur in technology start-ups for the educational and technology markets. Mazur's research is in experimental ultrafast optics, condensed matter physics and peer instruction.Mazur, Eric (1997). ''Peer Instruction: A User's Manual'', Prentice Hall. Born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, he received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Leiden University. Education Mazur studied physics and astronomy at Leiden University. He passed his "doctoraal examen" (equivalent to a master's degree) in 1977 and continued his graduate studies at the same institution. His PhD thesis investigated the structure of non-equilibrium angular momentum polarizations in polyatomic gases. Career and research Although he intended to go on to a career in industry with Philips N.V. in Eindhoven, he left Europe at the urging of his father, Peter Mazur, to pursue a postdoctoral study with Nobel laureate N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epic Mazur
Bret Hadley "Epic" Mazur (born August 31, 1970) is an American vocalist, rapper, and record producer. He is best known as a founder and former frontman of the rap rock band Crazy Town. Early life Bret Mazur grew up in Brooklyn, New York before his parents moved across the country to Hollywood, Los Angeles. It was here that he began to work as a DJ at age 16, and received the pseudonym "Epic" from a friend. Mazur graduated from William Howard Taft High School in Los Angeles. He then collaborated with Richard Wolf as part of the production team Wolf & Epic on albums by Sheena Easton, Bell Biv DeVoe, Ralph Tresvant, MC Lyte and MC Serch, among others. Crazy Town Crazy Town was formed by Mazur and Seth Binzer, who started collaborating in 1995 under the initial name of "The Brimstone Sluggers". By early 1999, they were calling themselves Crazy Town, and the full band consisted of Mazur, Binzer, Rust Epique, James Bradley Jr., Doug Miller, DJ AM, and Antonio Lorenzo "Trouble" Valli. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elżbieta Trela-Mazur
Elżbieta Trela-Mazur (born 1947) is a Polish historian, author, Doctor of Humanities in contemporary history, and Professor in the Department of International Relations at Opole University, specializing in political history of modern world with emphasis on the history of Germany, Russia and the Soviet Union; totalitarianism, Sovietization of the Eastern Borderlands, Polish diaspora (Polonia) in Europe and elsewhere, as well as Central and Eastern Europe in general. Professional career In 1973–89 Trela-Mazur worked at the WSP Institute of History (''Wyższa Szkoła Pedagogiczna'') in Opole, and in 1990–2004 at the '' Akademia Świętokrzyska'' in Kielce, as well as in Brussels (1998-2003). Since 2004 she has served at the Opole University Institute of Political Science. Trela-Mazur received her degree of Doctor of Humanities in 1979 for the work ''Education among Polish children in the Soviet Union in the years 1941-1946''; awarded First Prize in Doctoral Thesis for the year 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliyahu Mazur
Eliyahu (Eljasz) Mazur (, born 1889, died 24 September 1973) was a Polish-Israeli activist and politician. Biography Born in Zagórów in the Russian Empire (today in Poland), Mazur received a religious education. He founded a branch of the Mizrachi movement, but later joined Agudat Yisrael, becoming a member of the Polish branch's executive committee, and later a member of the World Agudath Israel committee. In 1929 he became a member of the executive committee of Jewish Merchants, later becoming its president. In 1933 he was elected president of the Warsaw Jewish community, a role he held until 1938. He also served as president of the Wise Men of Lublin yeshiva between 1934 and 1939. In 1940 he made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine, where he established a diamond company in Tel Aviv. He became a member of the executive committees of both the Diamond Association and the Industrialists Association. He narrowly missed out on a seat in the elections for the first Knesset in 1949, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Mazur
Edward Mazur (October 25, 1946, in Lubzina – May 29, 2023) was a Polish-American businessman. Personal and professional history Born in Lubzina, Poland, Mazur immigrated to the U.S. as a child in the 1960s, and became naturalized in 1969. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Chicago Technical College and held various executive positions at THE Cargill International and John Deere & Co. After working with those companies on developing their markets in Central Europe, he became involved in a number of his own business ventures in Poland after the end of the Communist rule in 1989. He was a co-founder of Bakoma S.A., the largest yogurt company in Poland, which was eventually acquired by Dannon Company. In 2003, Mazur was listed as one of the 25 richest Poles, with his family's permanent residence in Glenview, IL. Investigation and dropped charges Mazur was accused by Poland's prosecutors of contracting, in 1998, the murder of Polish National Police ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |