Famous People with Name Vasa

Vasa Mijic            Origin/Culture/Country: Slavic

Vasa Mijic: is a Serbian volleyball player, who won the gold medal with the Yugoslavian Men's National Team at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Standing at 1,86 m, he played as a libero.

Vasa Mihich            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Vasa Mihich: is an American artist based in Los Angeles, California.Mihich has lived in Los Angeles since his arrival in the United States in 1960. He is an academically trained painter and a senior Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Design | Media Arts. Mihich teaches theories of color to understand interdependence and interaction of color and form, color and quantity, color and placement, and after-image.

Váša Príhoda            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Váša Príhoda: was a Czech violinist known for the perfection of his technique and the beauty of his tone. He was considered a Paganini specialist, and his recording of the Violin Concerto in A minor by Dvorák is still very highly praised.[7][8][9] His artistry was controversial, and tended to polarise listeners.He married the violinist Alma Rosé in 1930, but they divorced in 1936.[15] The circumstances of this have been controversial; it has been claimed that he divorced her for opportunistic reasons, she being a Jewess in an increasingly anti-semitic environment, and to remain with her would have been detrimental to his career.[7] But this theory is given the lie by the fact that his second wife was also Jewish.[16]

Sigismund III Vasa            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Sigismund III Vasa: (20 June 1566 – 30 April 1632 N.S.) was King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1587 to 1632, and King of Sweden (where he was known simply as Sigismund) from 1592 until he was deposed in 1599.