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- Avner GreifAvner GreifAvner Greif is an economics professor at Stanford University, Stanford, California. He holds a chaired professorship as Bowman Family Professor in the Humanities and Sciences....
- economics professor at Stanford University, - Eric GreifEric GreifEric Greif is a lawyer and entertainment personality known first for a management career within the heavy metal musical genre in the 1980s and later within the legal profession...
- lawyer and entertainment personality - Gideon GreifGideon GreifGideon Greif is an Israeli historian.-Education:From 1965 until 1969 Gideon Greif attended Municipal High School in Tel Aviv. Later, from 1974 to 1976 he attended Tel Aviv University where he got his Bachelor's degree in Jewish History, studying the History of the Land of Israel...
- Historian - Jean-Jacques GreifJean-Jacques GreifJean-Jacques Greif is a French journalist and writer. He has written for the magazine Marie Claire for thirty years.-Biography:...
- French journalist and writer - Mark GreifMark GreifMark Greif is the co-editor, co-founder, and contributor to the magazine n+1, as well as a frequent contributor to American Prospect and occasional contributor to the London Review of Books.-Background and education:...
- Editor - Martin GreifMartin GreifMartin Joel Greif was an American editor, lecturer, publisher and writer...
- Late American writer, uncle of Eric - Olivier GreifOlivier GreifOlivier Greif was a French composer of Polish-Jewish parentage. His father was an Auschwitz survivor, a fact which affected Greif deeply and led him to compose a number of Holocaust-themed works, notably Todesfuge, based on the poem by Paul Celan, and Lettres de Westerbork, a song cycle which uses...
- French composer of Polish/Jewish parentage. - Stephen GreifStephen GreifStephen Greif is an award-winning English actor.His television appearances include Waking the Dead , Spooks , Mistresses 2 , He Kills Coppers , Holby City , The Last Days of Pompeii as Sporus, Judge John Deed , Space Race , EastEnders , The Bill and...
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- Greif, Inc. , a Fortune 1000Fortune 1000Fortune 1000 is a reference to a list maintained by the American business magazine Fortune. The list is of the 1000 largest American companies, ranked on revenues alone...
company - Operation GreifOperation GreifOperation Greif was a special false flag operation commanded by Waffen-SS commando Otto Skorzeny during the Battle of the Bulge. The operation was the brainchild of Adolf Hitler, and its purpose was to capture one or more of the bridges over the Meuse river before they could be destroyed...
, a German infiltration operation using English-speaking troops during the Battle of the BulgeBattle of the BulgeThe Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive , launched toward the end of World War II through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium, hence its French name , and France and... - The Heinkel He 177Heinkel He 177The Heinkel He 177 Greif was the only operational long-range bomber to be operated by the Luftwaffe. Starting its existence as Germany's first purpose-built heavy bomber just before the war, and built in large numbers during World War II, it was also mistakenly tasked, right from its beginnings,...
, a German heavy bomber during World War IIWorld War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis... - Torgelower SV GreifTorgelower SV GreifTorgelower SV Greif is a German football club from the city of Torgelow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The football team is part of a sports club which also has departments for women's sport, table tennis, and handball.- History :...
a German football team - Greif (brigantine)Greif (brigantine)"Greif" is the name of a brigantine, owned by the town Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.The ship is used as a training ship for maritime youth education. In the GDR the ship was named from 1952 till 1990 after the first president Wilhelm Pieck....
- SMS GreifSMS GreifSMS Greif was a converted freighter serving as a merchant raider with Imperial Germany.Originally named Guben, she was a steel-hulled steamship owned by the German-Australian Line , Hamburg. Greif was converted for military service at Kaiserliche Werft Kiel, in 1915...
was a converted freighter serving as a merchant raider with Imperial Germany in World War I - Greif was the name of Erwin RommelErwin RommelErwin Johannes Eugen Rommel , popularly known as the Desert Fox , was a German Field Marshal of World War II. He won the respect of both his own troops and the enemies he fought....
's command vehicle during his command of the Afrika KorpsAfrika KorpsThe German Africa Corps , or the Afrika Korps as it was popularly called, was the German expeditionary force in Libya and Tunisia during the North African Campaign of World War II...
during World War II - Badener GreifsBadener GreifsThe Badener Greifs are an American football club from Karlsruhe, Germany.The clubs greatest success came in 1987, when it reached the German Bowl but lost to the Berlin Adler.-History:The club was formed in 1982 by a group of motor cycle enthusiasts....
, an American football team from Karlsruhe, Germany