John Friedberg was a sabre fencer who attended college at the University of North Carolina. Friedberg won two gold medals in team sabre at the Pan American Games, winning in 1991 and 1995. He was the ...

Jan Šrámek had the following placements at major international championships - Pairs: 1967 World Championships (10th); 1968 World Championships (7th); 1966 European Championships (16th); 1967 European ...

Joe Jackson entered the U.S. Marine Corps in 1901 as an enlisted man, won the distinguished marksman badge in 1913, and was promoted to an officer in 1917. Jackson was the first great internationally ...

Geraldo de Oliveira was the first of a series of top Brazilian triple jumpers who appeared in the 1940s. He reached world class and was second on the 1947 world list. At the 1948 Olympics, de Oliveira ...

John Huffman competed in fencing while a student at Yale, and was one of the proponents of the NCAA starting an NCAA fencing championship. He competed in sabre for the US at the 1928, 1932, and 1936 ...

From 1910 to 1917, Harry Hebner held all the world backstroke records. He won 35 AAU titles in freestyle and backstroke events, including the 150y backstroke for seven straight years from 1910. Hebner ...

American painter and illustrator Walter Granville Smith studied in Newark, New Jersey. He then started his artist career as a magazine illustrator, but later travelled to Europe (Netherlands, Belgium ...

French sculptor and graphic artist René Iché studied law before studying sculpture and architecture in Paris. His daughter Laurence Iché (1921-2007) later became a surrealistic poet and was often his ...

Herman Stokes placed in the top five at the AAU triple jump every year from 1957-63, with best finishes of second in 1959 and 1962, and third in 1958. Stokes won a silver medal in 1959 in the Pan ...

John Savidge had the following podium finishes at major championships: 1st in the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Shot Put. In in the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games he also ...

Jaime Piqueras had the following podium finishes at major championships: 2nd in the 1951 Pan American Games Pole Vault. Personal Best: PV – 4.04 (1951).

Jan Kavan first attended the Hofice School of Sculptors and Stonemason. He studied at the Praha Academy, later in Paris, Roma and Firenze. As a teacher he was on the faculty at the Secondary School of ...