Empire
Journalist Jeremy Paxman presents this five-part series that traces the complex story of the British empire. Paxman travels the globe in search of the characters, motivations and principles responsible for an empire that has influenced the modern world -- politically, technologically and socially. He investigates how the empire began and grew into a massive financial network; how the British made themselves at home wherever they settled; how Britain laid the groundwork for almost all the major sports of today; and the many ways in which Britain took and held power in the empire. … MORE
People born in Empire (First 49 people) - Page 8
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Bernard Halpern
Pharmacologist
Stanisław Zarakowski
Prosecutor
Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik
Russian writer
Yisrael Galili
Israeli Politician
Eduard Pleske
Former Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation
Nikolai Khryashchikov
Actor
Ace Gutowsky
American football player
Tatiana Bulakh-Gardin
Actor
Vasily Khomenko
Commander
Vladimir Grigor'evič Orlov
Vladimir Menshikov
Zhayau Musa Bayzhanov
Composer
Kristaps Krišs Upelnieks
Latvian military officer
Michail Denisovitsj Kapoestin
Pyotr Shafranov
İvan Malıqin
S. Auslender
Russian-Soviet writer
Bolesław Kontrym
Officer
Victor Khain
Juho Halme
Finnish olympic athlete
Roman Ivanovich Panin
General
Napoleon Cybulski
Physiologist
I. M. Maergoĭz
Boris Vorontsov-Velyaminov
Author
Stanisław Ossowski
Sociologist
Mina Ben-Zvi
Commanding officer
Karol Benda
Polish actor
Nikolay Alexandrovich Tolstoy
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's father
Khachatour Yesayan
Artist
Hryhorii Epik
Ukrainian writer
Ivan Matveev
Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy
Moshe Erem
Politician
Mikhail Alexandrovich Kedrov
Naval officer
Michail Nikolaevitsj Vladimirov
Lidiya Dyko
Camera operator
Mikhail Zasulich
General
Vyacheslav Vinokurov
Military officer
Rafail Levitsky
Russian artist
Dmitriy Vasilevitsj Osin
Arus Asryan
Armenian actor
Filipp Michaylovitsj Andreev
Ivan Nikolaevitsj Velikorodniy
Alexei Ivanovich Avtonomov
Commander
Vasiliy Grigorevitsj Karpenko
Viktor Fjodorovitsj Voronov