Famous People with Name Birge

Raymond Thayer Birge            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Raymond Thayer Birge: was a physicist. Born in Brooklyn, New York, into an academic scientific family, Birge obtained his Doctor's Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1913. In the same year he married Irene A. Walsh. The Birges had two children, Carolyn Elizabeth (Mrs. E.D. Yocky) and Robert Walsh, Associate Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1973-1981. After five years as an instructor at Syracuse University, he became a member of the physics department at University of California, Berkeley where he remained until he retired, as chairman, in 1955.

Jean-Jacques Birgé            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jean-Jacques Birgé: is an independent French musician and filmmaker, at once music composer (co-founder of Un Drame Musical Instantané which with he records about 30 albums, as well as for movies, theater, dance, radio), film director (La nuit du phoque, Sarajevo a Street Under Siege, The Sniper), multimedia author (Carton, Machiavel, Alphabet), sound designer (exhibitions, CD-Roms, websites, Nabaztag, etc.)[1

Pablo Birger            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Pablo Birger: was an Argentine racing driver who raced in two World Championship Grands Prix for the Gordini team. He raced a Gordini Type 15 in the 1953 Argentine Grand Prix but the car lasted just twenty-one laps. Two years later he again rented a seat with Gordini, this time racing a Type 16, but spun on the first lap and collided with Carlos Menditeguy.

Birgitta Birgersdotter            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Birgitta Birgersdotter: later known as Saint Birgitta, also known as Santa Brigida or St. Bridgid of Sweden and Birgitta of Vadstena (in Swedish commonly as den heliga Birgitta), was a Mystic and saint, and founder of the Bridgettine Order, after over 20 years of married life before her husband died. Uniquely among saints of the second millennium, she was also the mother of a saint—Saint Catherine of Vadstena of Sweden.