Famous People with Name Friedman

Henryk Friedman            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Henryk Friedman: (1903 – 1942) was a Polish chess master.He lived in Lvov (Lviv, Lwów, Lemberg). In 1926–1934, Friedman won seven times in succession the Championship of Lvov but 1930, when he took 2nd place behind Stepan Popel. Friedman played in four Polish championships.

Jerome Isaac Friedman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jerome Isaac Friedman: American physicist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois to parents who emigrated to the US from Russia, and excelled particularly in art while growing up.

Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman: was a Russian and Soviet cosmologist and mathematician. Alexander Friedman lived much of his life in Leningrad. He fought in World War I (on behalf of Imperial Russia) as a bomber and later lived through the Russian Revolution of 1917. He discovered the expanding-universe solution to general relativity field equations in 1922, which was corroborated by Edwin Hubble's observations in 1929.

Benjamin Benny Friedman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Benjamin Benny Friedman: was an American football quarterback who played for the University of Michigan (1924-1926), Cleveland Bulldogs (1927), Detroit Wolverines (1928), New York Giants (1929-1931), and Brooklyn Dodgers (1932-1934). He is generally considered the first great passer in pro football. In 2005, Friedman was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

David Director Friedman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

David Director Friedman: is a writer who became a leading figure in the anarcho-capitalist community with the publication of his book The Machinery of Freedom (1973, revised 1989). He has also authored the books Price Theory: An Intermediate Text (1986), Law's Order (2000) and Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life (1996).