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Efron
Efron is a Jewish surname. It is taken from the Biblical place name, he, עפרון. Another version to it is the demonym Efroni (). Notable people with the surname include: * Bradley Efron (born 1938), American statistician * Edith Efron (1922–2001), American libertarian * Inés Efron (born 1984), Argentine actress * Marshall Efron (1938-2019), American actor * Nora Ephron (1941–2012) playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, director * Paloma Efron (1912–1977), Argentine singer * Sergei Efron (1893–1941), Russian poet, officer of White Army and later NKVD agent * Zac Efron (born 1987), American actor and singer See also * Efron's dice, a set of four nontransitive dice invented by Bradley Efron * Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary *Ephron Ephron is a Jewish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Ephron (biblical figure), Hittite who sold a cave to Abraham according to the Bible *A family of American writers: ** Henry Ephron (1911–1992), fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zac Efron
Zachary David Alexander Efron (; born October 18, 1987) is an American actor. He began acting professionally in the early 2000s and rose to prominence in the late 2000s for his leading role as Troy Bolton in the ''High School Musical'' trilogy (2006–2008). During this time, he also starred in the musical film ''Hairspray'' (2007) and the comedy film '' 17 Again'' (2009). Efron subsequently rose to mainstream prominence with starring roles in the films ''New Year's Eve'' (2011), '' The Lucky One'' (2012), '' The Paperboy'' (2012), '' Neighbors'' (2014), ''Dirty Grandpa'' (2016), ''Baywatch'' (2017), and ''The Greatest Showman'' (2017). He played Ted Bundy in ''Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile'' (2019). In 2021, he won a Daytime Emmy Award for the Netflix web documentary series ''Down to Earth with Zac Efron'' (2020–present). Early life Efron grew up in Arroyo Grande, California. His father, David Efron, is an electrical engineer at Diablo Canyon Power Plant, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradley Efron
Bradley Efron (; born May 24, 1938) is an American statistician. Efron has been president of the American Statistical Association (2004) and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1987–1988).Cochran, J. (1 September 2015), "ASA Leaders Reminisce: Brad Efron", ''Amstat News''. He is a past editor (for theory and methods) of the ''Journal of the American Statistical Association'', and he is the founding editor of the '' Annals of Applied Statistics''. Efron is also the recipient of many awards (see below). Efron is especially known for proposing the bootstrap resampling technique, which has had a major impact in the field of statistics and virtually every area of statistical application. The bootstrap was one of the first computer-intensive statistical techniques, replacing traditional algebraic derivations with data-based computer simulations. Life and career Efron was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in May 1938, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants Esther and Miles E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergei Efron
Sergei Yakovlevich Efron (russian: Сергей Яковлевич Эфрон; 8 October 1893 – 11 September 1941) was a Russian poet, White Army officer, and the husband of fellow poet Marina Tsvetaeva. While in exile, he was recruited by the Soviet NKVD. After returning to the USSR from France, he was executed. Family life Sergei was born in Moscow. He was the sixth of nine children born to Elizaveta Durnovo (1853–1910) and Yakov Konstantinovich Efron (1854–1909). Both were Russian revolutionaries and members of the Black Repartition. Yakov worked as an insurance agent and died of cancer in 1909. The following year, Elizaveta found one of her sons had committed suicide and soon after that day, killed herself. Yakov was from a Jewish family, while Elizaveta came from a line of Russian nobility and merchants; Yakov converted to the Lutheran faith to marry Elizaveta.Efron, Ariadna. (2009). ''No Love Without Poetry: The Memoirs of Marina Tsvetaeva's Daughter''. Northwestern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marshall Efron
Marshall Efron (February 3, 1938 – September 30, 2019) was an American actor and humorist originally known for his work on the listener-sponsored Pacifica radio stations WBAI New York and KPFK Los Angeles, and later for the PBS television show ''The Great American Dream Machine'' (the original showcase of Chevy Chase). Career At WBAI, Efron was a frequent guest on Steve Post's & Bob Fass's shows, along with left-wing/counter-culture figures such as Paul Krassner. One memorable broadcast had Efron and Krassner filling in for the vacationing Steve Post, and identifying themselves as Columbia University students who had taken the station over as part of the Columbia University protests of 1968. Although regular listeners were very familiar with the voices of Krassner and Efron, many listeners were not. NYPD officers responded three different times during the broadcast in response to reports from listeners who thought the "takeover" was a legitimate event. Efron also produced fea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brockhaus And Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
The ''Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary'' (Russian: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона, abbr. ЭСБЕ, tr. ; 35 volumes, small; 86 volumes, large) is a comprehensive multi-volume encyclopaedia in Russian. It contains 121,240 articles, 7,800 images, and 235 maps. It was published in Imperial Russia in 1890–1907, as a joint venture of Leipzig and St Petersburg publishers. The articles were written by the prominent Russian scholars of the period, such as Dmitri Mendeleev and Vladimir Solovyov. Reprints have appeared following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. History In 1889, the owner of one of the St. Petersburg printing houses, Ilya Abramovich Efron, at the initiative of Semyon Afanasyevich Vengerov, entered into an agreement with the German publishing house F. A. Brockhaus for the translation into Russian of the large German encyclopaedic dictionary ( de) into Russian as , published by the same publishin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Efron
Edith Efron (; 1922 – April 20, 2001) was an American journalist and author. Biography Efron was born in New York. Graduating from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where Efron studied under journalist John Chamberlain, her career began as a writer for the '' New York Times Magazine''. In 1947, she married a Haitian businessman, with whom she had a child. After living in Haiti and working as a Central America correspondent for ''Time'' and ''Life'' magazines, she divorced and returned to New York City where she worked on the staff of television journalist Mike Wallace. After her return to New York, she also became part of Ayn Rand's circle, contributed to Rand's magazine, ''The Objectivist'', and presented a lecture series on non-fiction writing at the Nathaniel Branden Institute in the 1960s, although the two women later parted ways. She became a writer and, later, a senior editor of the widely circulated ''TV Guide'' magazine in the 1960s and 1970s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
