Abraham David Abe Beame
Origin/Culture/Country: AmericanAbraham David Abe Beame: was mayor of New York City from 1974 to 1977. As such, he presided over the city during the fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s, during which the city was almost forced to declare bankruptcy. He was also distinguished for being New York City's first Jewish mayor.
Abraham Harold Maslow
Origin/Culture/Country: AmericanAbraham Harold Maslow: was an American psychologist. He is noted for his conceptualization of a "hierarchy of human needs", and is considered the father of humanistic psychology.Maslow was born and raised in Brooklyn, the eldest of seven children. His parents were uneducated Jewish immigrants from Russia. He was smart but shy, and remembered his childhood as lonely and rather unhappy, because, as he said, "I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I was isolated and unhappy. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends." In later life he was a confirmed atheist.
Abraham P Sarmiento
Origin/Culture/Country: FilipinoAbraham P Sarmiento: was a Filipino student journalist who gained prominence as an early and visible critic of the martial law government of President Ferdinand Marcos. As editor-in-chief of the Philippine Collegian, Sarmiento melded the University of the Philippines student newspaper into an independent though solitary voice against martial law rule at a time when the mass media was under the control of the Marcos government. His subsequent seven-month imprisonment by the military impaired his health and contributed to his premature death.
Abraham Charles Vigodah
Origin/Culture/Country: AmericanAbraham Charles Vigodah: best known as Abe Vigoda, is an American movie and television actor.Vigoda gained fame through his supporting character roles, notably as mobster Sal Tessio in the 1972 movie The Godfather. He later played Detective Sgt. Fish on the television series Barney Miller and its spinoff Fish. Before Barney Miller, he made a few appearances on the ABC-TV soap Dark Shadows. He has appeared on Broadway in Marat/Sade (1967), The Man in the Glass Booth (1968), Inquest (1970), Tough to Get Help (1972), and Arsenic and Old Lace (1987).
Abraham Bram Pais
Origin/Culture/Country: AmericanAbraham Bram Pais: was a Dutch-born American physicist and science historian. Pais earned his Ph.D. from University of Utrecht just prior to a Nazi ban on Jewish participation in Dutch universities during World War II. When the Nazis began the forced relocation of Dutch Jews, he went into hiding, but was later arrested and saved only by the end of the war. He then served as an assistant to Niels Bohr in Denmark and was later a colleague of Albert Einstein at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. Pais wrote books documenting the lives of these two great physicists and the contributions they and others made to modern physics. He was a physics professor at Rockefeller University until his retirement.
Abraham Ben Abraham
Origin/Culture/Country: PolishAbraham Ben Abraham: is a legendary figure who is claimed to have been a Polish nobleman who converted to Judaism and was burned at the stake by the Roman Catholic Church because he had renounced Catholicism and had become an observant Jew.
King Arthur Abraham
Origin/Culture/Country: GermanKing Arthur Abraham: Armenian-German professional boxer residing in Berlin, Germany. He is the current IBF Middleweight World champion.
Walter Abraham
Origin/Culture/Country: AustralianWalter Abraham: was an Australian architect and town planner, noted for designing the layout of the campus of Macquarie University
Arthur Abraham
Origin/Culture/Country: ArmenianArthur Abraham: is an German professional boxer residing in Berlin, Germany. He is the current IBF Middleweight World champion.