The Famous People from Subcarpathian Rus

The Famous People from Sabcarpathian Rus and from Carpathian region

They say that in some Jewish families living in the suburbs of New-York somewhere in the outskirts of Brooklyn or the Bronx, before the wedding planning take place, the parents can send their granddaughter to the very distant town of Rakhiv, to make a pilgrimage to the grave of her great-grandmother. The future bride lays on the ground a wedding invitation and kwantlen(the note), in which she asks for the blessings of her ancestors who rest in peace in the cemetery of Rakhiv.

How much do we know about the emmigrants from the Carpathian region who have achieved fame?
Do we know what the Carpathian region inspired in the descendants of those people who later became famous?

Ian Robert Maxwell - British media proprietor and Member of Parliament, originating from Solotvyno.( The Ruthenia, The Carpathian Rus )

Also in Ruthenia was born Avigor Hameiri - the Israeli writer and interpreter.

Israeli writer Dorit Peleg, used to visit the homeland of her ancestors, the Zakarpathian town- Rakhiv.

Alexander Rovt- the entrepreneur in the chemical and mineral industry, and philanthropist, was originally from Carpathian region.

'' I spent all my youth in the shadow of the Carpathians, I am always drawn to the mountain tops and I love their silence and mind-blowing mysteries.'' ( Elie Wiesel -A Native of Sziget , the journalist and the Nobel Prize Winner.)

The Parents of the Nobel laureate and economist -Milton Friedman were originally from Berehove. (Transcarpathia oblast)

The physicist and the Noble Prize Winner- Isidor Rabi(from Lemkivshena, today its a territory of Poland.)

Shmuel Josef Agnon, Noble laureate in literature - a native of Buchach,Ternopil region. The Chemist,

Roald Hoffmann (born in the city Zolochyn. Galicia region) Both scientists are Noble Prize Winners.

The mother of Sigmund Freud - Amalia Freud, was born in Brody, Galicia (today- Lviv oblast).
Famous people from Mukacheve:

David Samuel Gottesman (1885 – April 21, 1956) was an Hungarian-born, American pulp-paper merchant, financier and philanthropist. He was generally known as Samuel Gottesman or D. Samuel Gottesman.

Grand Rabbi Baruch Yehoshua Yerachmiel Rabinovich, (1914–1997), was born into a distinguished chassidic dynasty, and succeeded to the title Munkacser Rebbe.

Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss (1902–1989), also known as the Minchas Yitzchak, was a prominent Dayan, Halachic authority and Talmudic scholar. He was a world-renowned expert on Jewish law.

Naomi Blake (née Dum) is a famous British sculptor. She was born in in Mukacheve.
Famous people from Khust:

Veronica Vovchuk (1990), Queen of the World, an international top model and actress with their own cosmetics line, "Queen Veronica" Count József Teleki scientist was born here on December 21, 1738.

Jenő Benda, writer, journalist was born here in 1882. Leslie Buck (born Laszlo Büch), American business executive and Holocaust survivor, designer of the Anthora coffee cup, was born in Khust in 1922 Ernő Szép writer was born here in 1894.

Jaromír Hořec, Czech poet, writer and journalist was born here in 1921.

József Koller, historian of religion was born here in 1745.

Antonín Moskalyk, Czech film director was born here in 1930.

Notable residents from Uzhgorod:

Samuel Lipschütz, a chess player and author Avhustyn Voloshyn, a Subcarpathian politician, teacher, and essayist.

Anatoly Zatin, a composer, pianist and conductor Józef Kasparek, a Polish lawyer, historian and political scientist.
Mikhail Kopelman, a violinist Yozhef Sabo, a Soviet football player of Hungarian ethnicity Vladimir Koman.
Ukrainian-born, Hungarian football player.
János Erdélyi, a Hungarian poet, critic, author, philosopher and ethnographist.
Shlomo Ganzfried, an Orthodox rabbi and posek.
Gregory Zatkovich, first governor of Carpathian Ruthenia.

Famous people from Khust:
Veronica Vovchuk (* 1990), Queen of the World, an international top model and actress with their own cosmetics line, "Queen Veronica" Jenő Benda, writer, journalist was born here in 1882.

József Koller, historian of religion was born here in 1745.

Count József Teleki scientist was born here on December 21, 1738.

Leslie Buck (born Laszlo Büch), American business executive and Holocaust survivor, designer of the Anthora coffee cup, was born in Khust in 1922.

Jaromír Hořec, Czech poet, writer and journalist was born here in 1921.

Antonín Moskalyk, Czech film director was born here in 1930.

Ernő Szép writer was born here in 1894.