Famous People with Name Burman

Jayasri Burman            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Jayasri Burman: a contemporary Indian artist. She studied at the Kala Bhavan in Shantiniketan, and the Visual College of Art, Kolkata. She went to Paris and studies print-making under Monsieur Ceizerzi.She is a member of an extended family of eminent artists: Her husband, Paresh Maity; uncle Sakti Burman who lives and works in France, though he is considered an Indian artist; and her cousin, Maya Burman. In 2005, she helped create an exhibition called "The Family" featuring work of all these artists.

Sakti Burman            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Sakti Burman: a contemporary Indian artist of Indian parentage living in France. (His name has also been spelled Shakti, Shakthi, and Sakthi.)He grew up in what is now Bangladesh (but was part of pre-Independence India). He has lived in France for the last five decades, while maintaining strong ties with India, where he regularly exhibits his work. His extended family includes several eminent artists: His daughter, Maya Burman also lives and works in France; his niece, Jayasri Burman was inspired by him and is a notable artist in her own right; as is his niece's husband, Paresh Maity. He has had several exhibitions of his work in India, and elsewhere, and won several prizes.

Nicolaas Laurens Burman            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Nicolaas Laurens Burman: was a Dutch botanist.He was the son of Johannes Burman (1707-1780). He succeeded his father to the chair of botany at the University of Amsterdam., and at the Hortus Botanicus. He continued the correspondence with Carolus Linnaeus, joining him at the Univ

Daniel Burman            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Daniel Burman: a film director, screenplay writer, and producer.According to film critic Joel Poblete, who writes for Mabuse, a cinema magazine, Daniel Burman is one of the members of the so-called "New Argentina Cinema" which began c. 1998.Film critic Anthony Kaufman, writing for indieWIRE, an online community of independent filmmakers and aficionados, said Burman's A Chrysanthemum Burst in Cincoesquinas (1998) has been cited as the beginning of the "New Argentine Cinema" wave.He holds both Argentine and Polish citizenship, like his films' character, Ariel. He studied law before changing to audiovisual media production.

Pieter Burman            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Pieter Burman: was a Dutch philologist, born at Amsterdam.He was brought up by his uncle in Leiden, and afterwards studied law and philology under CA Duker and Arnold von Drakenborch at Utrecht. In 1735 he was appointed professor of eloquence and history at Franeker, with which the chair of poetry was combined in 1741. In the following year he left Franeker for Amsterdam to become professor of history and philology at the Athenaeum. He was subsequently professor of poetry (1744),