Berlin (surname)
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This is a list of notable people with the surname Berlin.
- Boris BerlinBoris BerlinBoris Berlin was a Canadian pianist, music educator, arranger, and composer of Russian birth. He is primarily remembered for his work within the field of piano pedagogy, having published an extensive amount of material in that area and teaching a large number of notable pianists...
(1907-2001), Canadian pianist, music educator, arranger, and composer - Brent BerlinBrent BerlinOverton Brent Berlin is an American anthropologist, most noted for his work with linguist Paul Kay on color, Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution .He originally received his Ph.D...
, anthropologist - Eve BerlinEve BerlinYves Berlin is the bassist for St. Louis, Missouri band Living Things. He is the second oldest of the three brothers, being three years younger than Lillian, and two years older than Bosh...
, bassist for St. Louis rock band Living Things - Irving BerlinIrving BerlinIrving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
(1888-1989), composer - Isaiah BerlinIsaiah BerlinSir Isaiah Berlin OM, FBA was a British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas of Russian-Jewish origin, regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century and a dominant liberal scholar of his generation...
(1909-1997), philosopher and historian - Isaiah Berlin (rabbi)Isaiah Berlin (rabbi)Isaiah Berlin was the most eminent critic among the German Talmudists of the eighteenth century.-Biography:...
(1725-1799), Talmudic critic - Jeff BerlinJeff BerlinJeff Berlin is an American jazz, jazz fusion and progressive rock electric bass player.Jeff Berlin's bass playing is somewhat similar to that of Jaco Pastorius, though Berlin plays a fretted bass and has stated his distaste for Jaco imitators.-Early life:Jeff Berlin was born to parents who were...
(b. 1953), musician - Lillian BerlinLillian BerlinLillian Berlin is the lead singer/guitarist for St. Louis rock band Living Things. In addition Berlin is songwriter/producer and composer. He is also published author for the controversial book "Post Mortem Bliss'" and scored The Runaways film starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning...
, lead singer for St. Louis rock band Living Things - Naftali Zvi Yehuda BerlinNaftali Zvi Yehuda BerlinNaftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, , also known as Reb Hirsch Leib Berlin, and commonly known by the acronym Netziv, was an Orthodox rabbi, dean of the Volozhin Yeshiva and author of several works of rabbinic literature in Lithuania.- Family :Berlin was born in Mir, Russia in 1816 into a family of Jewish...
(1817-1893), Russian rabbi - Violet BerlinViolet BerlinViolet Berlin is a Turkish born English television presenter, writer and producer best known for her coverage of video games.-Career:Berlin began presenting in the early 1990s when she presented WildBunch on BBC One, and Cool Cube on BSkyB...
, television presenter - William M. BerlinWilliam M. BerlinWilliam Markle Berlin was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.William M. Berlin was born on a farm near Delmont, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Laird Institute at Murrysville, Pennsylvania, in 1896, and moved to Greensburg, Pennsylvania, in 1916...
(1880-1962), U.S. politician