Famous People with Name Lazo

Gabriel Pierre Lazo            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Gabriel Pierre Lazo: is a Cuban baseball player and Olympic silver medalist.

Alejo Véliz Lazo            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Alejo Véliz Lazo: is a Bolivian politician and activist. He is a member of the ASP party. Véliz is a former executive secretary of the Federación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Cochabamba (FSUTCC), and former Secretary General of the Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia (CSUTCB).

John Paul (Johnny) Lazor            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Paul (Johnny) Lazor: (September 9, 1912 - December 9, 2002) was a backup outfielder in Major League Baseball who played his career for the Boston Red Sox (1943-1946). Lazor batted left handed and threw right handed. He was born in Taylor, Washington.

Suzana Lazovic            Origin/Culture/Country: Slavic

Suzana Lazovic: is a team handball player from Montenegro. She plays on the Montenegrin national team, and participated at the 2011 World Women's Handball Championship in Brazil.

Dr. Eugene Lazowski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Dr. Eugene Lazowski: was a medical doctor and professor of Pediatrics at the State University of Illinois. During World War II Lazowski served first as Second Lieutenant of the Polish Army on a Red Cross train – throughout Polish September Campaign – and subsequently, as military doctor of the underground Home Army. Thanks to medical discovery of his friend, Dr Stanislaw Matulewicz, Lazowski created a fake epidemic of dangerous infectious disease, Epidemic Typhus in the town of Rozwadów (now a district of Stalowa Wola) and the surrounding villages and towns. He saved an estimated 8,000 Polish Jews from certain death in Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust, performing his services in utmost secrecy under the threat of death punishment.