Famous People with Name Wassily

Wassily Leontief            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Wassily Leontief: economist notable for his research on how changes in one economic sector may have an effect on other sectors. Leontief won a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1973.

Wassily Kandinsky            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Wassily Kandinsky: was a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract works.

Wassily Wassilyovitch Leontief            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Wassily Wassilyovitch Leontief: was an economist notable for his research on how changes in one economic sector may have an effect on other sectors.

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky: was a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract works.In 1896 he settled in Munich and studied first in the private school of Anton Ažbe and then at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. He went back to Moscow in 1914 after World War I started. He was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Moscow and returned to Germany in 1921. There he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France where he lived the rest of his life, and became a French citizen in 1939. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944.

Wassily Hoeffding            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Wassily Hoeffding: was an American statistician, and one of the founding fathers of the nonparametric statistics.