Famous People with Name Samis

George Roy Samis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George Roy Samis: is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1974 to 1985 as a member of the New Democratic Party (NDP). He was born in Montreal, Quebec, and was educated at the Université de Montréal and the University of Waterloo. A high school teacher, he first sought election to the Ontario legislature in the 1971 provincial election, and lost to Progressive Conservative Fern Guindon in Stormont. Guindon resigned from the legislature in 1974, and Samis contested a by-election to succeed him. He was successful, defeating Progressive Conservative Guy Leger . Samis was re-elected for the redistributed constituency of Cornwall in 1975, 1977 and 1981. He supported Bob Rae for the party leadership in 1982. Samis later moved to the Kingston area. In the 1999 provincial election, he endorsed Liberal candidate John Cleary in Stormont—Dundas—Charlottenburgh, a successor constituency to Cornwall.

Friedrich (Fritz) Sämisch            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Friedrich (Fritz) Sämisch: was a German chess grandmaster. He was the champion of the first, although unofficial, Austrian Chess Championship in Vienna, Austria in 1921, and finished third at the Baden-Baden tournament 1925, after Alexander Alekhine and Akiba Rubinstein. In 1921, h