Famous People with Name Solomon

Solomon Porfirio Ortiz            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Solomon Porfirio Ortiz: is an American politician from the State of Texas who currently serves in the United States House of Representatives from Texas's 27th congressional district (map) based in Corpus Christi.

Solomon Sebastian "Sol" Davis            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Solomon Sebastian "Sol" Davis: is an English footballer currently playing for Luton Town.Davis is a tough tackling left back who played over 130 times for Swindon Town before being transferred to Luton Town in August 2002 and bought by then manager Joe Kinnear.

Solomon Taiwo            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Solomon Taiwo: is an English footballer playing for Dagenham & Redbridge. He joins the Daggers from Conference South side Sutton United on a month to month contract.He joined Sutton in March after a second spell with Bromley. A former Millwall academy player he has also had spells with Charlton Athletic, Maidenhead United and Weymouth and he has also played in the USA.

Solomon Borisovich Gotthilf            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Solomon Borisovich Gotthilf: was a Russian chess master.He shared 3rd in the 1922 Leningrad City Chess Championship (Grigory Levenfish won),[1] took 6th in Leningrad City-ch in 1924, won twice at Leningrad 1925, shared 6th at Leningrad 1925 (the 4th USSR Chess Championship, Efim Bogoljubow won),[2] took 3rd at Leningrad 1925 (Peter Romanovsky and Bogoljubov won),[3] and tied for 18-19th in the Moscow 1925 chess tournament (Bogoljubow won),

Solomon H. Snyder            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Solomon H. Snyder: an American neuroscientist.Snyder graduated from Georgetown University in 1958 and Georgetown Medical School in 1962. At a very early age he published his research on ornithine decarboxylase and RNA synthesis which opened up countless vistas in the neurosciences. After a two-year fellowship at the NIH, Snyder moved to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to complete his residency in psychiatry.He studied under Julius Axelrod and in 1973, in close collaboration with Candace Pert, discovered the opioid receptor and later endorphins. For this work he was awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1978. He also received the AMA Scientific Achievement Award in 1985, the National Medal of Science in 2003 and the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research (2007).

John R. Solomon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John R. Solomon: was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1941 to 1957, alternately as an independent and as a Liberal-Progressive. He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1941 provincial election, for the rural constituency of Emerson. At the time, Manitoba was governed by a coalition ministry representing all of the major parties, and some independents. Solomon contested the Liberal-Progressive nomination, but lost it to Herbert Wright and entered the contest as a pro-coalition Independent Liberal. He defeated Wright by 701 votes in the general election.