List of Famous Arians

John Turton Randall

First Name John
Last Name Randall
Born on March 23, 1905
Died on June 16, 1984 (aged 79)

Sir John Turton Randall, was an English physicist and biophysicist, credited with radical improvement of the cavity magnetron, an essential component of centimetric wavelength radar, which was one of the keys to the Allied victory in the Second World War. It is also the key component of microwave ovens.

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Norman McLaren

First Name Norman
Last Name McLaren
Died on January 27, 1987 (aged 17)

Norman McLaren, was a Scottish Canadian animator, director and producer known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). He was a pioneer in a number of areas of animation and filmmaking, including hand-drawn animation, drawn-on-film animation, visual music, abstract film, pixilation and graphical sound.

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William Henry Danforth

First Name William
Last Name Danforth
Born on April 10, 1926
Died on September 16, 2020 (aged 94)

William Henry Danforth II was a physician, professor of medicine, and academic administrator. He was chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis from 1971 until 1995. He was the grandson of Ralston-Purina founder and St. Louis businessman William H. Danforth, and the brother of former U.S. Senator John Danforth.

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Antonín Švehla

First Name Antonín
Born on April 15, 1873
Died on December 12, 1933 (aged 60)
Born in Czech Republic

Antonín Švehla was a Czechoslovak politician. He served three terms as the prime minister of Czechoslovakia. He is regarded as one of the most important political figures of the First Czechoslovak Republic; he was the leader of the Agrarian Party, which was dominant within the Pětka, which was largely his own invention. Švehla is also credited with the slogan of the Pětka: "We have agreed that we will agree."

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Mario Merola

First Name Mario
Last Name Merola
Born on April 6, 1934
Died on November 12, 2006 (aged 72)
Born in Italy, Campania

Mario Merola was an Italian singer and actor, most prominently known for having rejuvenated the traditional popular Neapolitan melodrama known as the sceneggiata.

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Nao Takasugi

First Name Nao
Born on April 5, 1922
Died on November 19, 2009 (aged 87)

Nao Takasugi was an American politician from California, a member of the Republican Party, and a survivor of the Japanese American internment camps.

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Namrata Rao

First Name Namrata
Born on April 15, 1981 (age 45)
Born in India

Namrata Rao is an Indian film editor, who works in Hindi cinema, where starting with Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! (2008), she edited films like Ishqiya (2010), Band Baaja Baaraat (2010), Ladies vs Ricky Bahl (2011) and Kahaani (2012). She is most famous for editing and acting in the film Love Sex Aur Dhokha (2010) for which she received the Filmfare Award for Best Editing in 2011. She received National Film Award for Best Editing and Filmfare Award for Best Editing for the critically acclaimed Kahaani (2012).

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Arthur Edmund Denis Dillon-Lee

First Name Arthur
Last Name Dillon-Lee
Born on April 10, 1812
Died on January 12, 1892 (aged 79)
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Jonathan Zenneck

Jonathan Adolf Wilhelm Zenneck
First Name Jonathan
Last Name Zenneck
Born on April 15, 1871
Died on April 8, 1959 (aged 87)

Jonathan Adolf Wilhelm Zenneck was a German physicist and electrical engineer who contributed to researches in radio circuit performance and to the scientific and educational contributions to the literature of the pioneer radio art. Zenneck improved the Braun cathode ray tube by adding a second deflection structure at right angles to the first, which allowed two-dimensional viewing of a waveform. This two-dimensional display is fundamental to the oscilloscope.

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Erik Tohvri

First Name Erik
Last Name Tohvri
Born on March 22, 1933
Died on June 12, 2020 (aged 87)
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