List of Famous people named Abraham
Abraham Lunggana
Abraham Lunggana, popularly known as Lulung or Haji Lulung, is an Indonesian politician and businessman who is a member of the People's Representative Council and was the deputy speaker of Jakarta Council.
Abraham Maslow
Abraham Harold Maslow was an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization. Maslow was a psychology professor at Alliant International University, Brandeis University, Brooklyn College, New School for Social Research, and Columbia University. He stressed the importance of focusing on the positive qualities in people, as opposed to treating them as a "bag of symptoms". A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Maslow as the tenth most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
Abraham Olano
Abraham Olano Manzano is a Spanish retired professional road racing cyclist, who raced between 1992 and 2002. He won the World Road Championship in 1995, and the World Time Trial Championship in 1998, becoming the first and so far only male cyclist to win both.
Avi Loeb
Abraham "Avi" Loeb is an Israeli-American theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology. Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. He had been the longest serving Chair of Harvard's Department of Astronomy (2011–2020), Founding Director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative and Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Abraham Stavans
Abraham Stavans, born Abraham Stavchansky Altschuler, was a Mexican actor and theater director. He was known for his work in film, telenovelas, and other television series, including the Mexican sitcom, El Chavo del Ocho. Stavans appeared in more than thirty telenovelas and forty-five plays and theater productions during his career.
Abraham González Casanova
Abraham González Casanova, known simply as Abraham, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Cypriot club AEK Larnaca FC as a central midfielder.
Abraham Fraenkel
Abraham Fraenkel was a German-born Israeli mathematician. He was an early Zionist and the first Dean of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is known for his contributions to axiomatic set theory, especially his additions to Ernst Zermelo's axioms, which resulted in the Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory.
Abraham ibn Daud
Abraham ibn Daud was a Spanish-Jewish astronomer, historian, and philosopher; born at Cordoba, Spain about 1110; died in Toledo, Spain, according to common report, a martyr about 1180. He is sometimes known by the abbreviation Rabad I or Ravad I. His mother belonged to a family famed for its learning. Some scholars belive he is the Arabic-into-Latin translator known as “Avendauth.”
Abraham Samad
Abraham Samad is an Indonesian lawyer and activist who was elected in December 2011 as chair of the country's Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for period 2011–2015.
Abraham Neumann
Abraham Neumann (1873–1942) was a Polish painter and artist.