Kantor
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People named Kantor include:
- Isaiah KantorIsaiah KantorIsaiah Kantor was a mathematician who introduced the Kantor–Koecher–Tits construction, and the Kantor double, a Jordan superalgebra constructed from a Poisson algebra.-References:...
(or Issai Kantor), mathematician - Istvan KantorIstvan KantorIstvan Kantor is a Hungarian born Canadian performance and video artist, industrial music and electropop singer, and founder of Neoism....
, Hungarian-born Canadian performance artist - Jodi KantorJodi KantorJodi Kantor is a The New York Times correspondent and author of The Obamas, to be published by Little Brown in November 2011. She has been writing about President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama, along with numerous other political figures, since 2007.-Education and career:She graduated...
, New York Times journalist - MacKinlay KantorMacKinlay KantorMacKinlay Kantor , born Benjamin McKinlay Kantor, was an American journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He wrote more than 30 novels, several based on the American Civil War, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1956 for his 1955 novel Andersonville, about the Confederate prisoner of war camp...
, American novelist and screen writer - Maxim KantorMaxim KantorMaxim Karlovich Kantor , is a Russian painter who published a controversial book called "The Drawing Textbook" in 2006.Born in December 1957, Moscow. He studied at the Moscow Art Polygraph Institute, graduating in 1980. In 1983 he organized the independent group of painters that was later called...
, Russian painter and writer. - Mickey KantorMickey KantorMichael "Mickey" Kantor is an American politician and lawyer. After serving as the Clinton-Gore campaign chair in 1992, Kantor was appointed United States Trade Representative, holding that office from 1993 to 1997. He was, in 1996 and 1997, United States Secretary of Commerce.-Life and...
, U.S. ambassador - Tadeusz KantorTadeusz KantorTadeusz Kantor was a Polish painter, assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director. Kantor is renowned for his revolutionary theatrical performances in Poland and abroad.- Life and career :...
, Polish painter and theatre director - Viatcheslav Moshe KantorViatcheslav Moshe KantorViatcheslav Moshe Kantor is a prominent public figure, businessman and philanthropist who actively participates in the promotion of tolerance and reconciliation in the modern world. He is also engaged in discussing and elaborating ways to stop nuclear proliferation and prevent a nuclear catastrophe...
, prominent public figure, businessman, philanthropist, Russian oligarch
See also
- Kantor (disambiguation)
- Cantor
- KantorCantor (church)A cantor is the chief singer employed in a church with responsibilities for the ecclesiastical choir; also called the precentor....
as the title of a church musician - Kantorovich
- A hazzanHazzanA hazzan or chazzan is a Jewish cantor, a musician trained in the vocal arts who helps lead the congregation in songful prayer.There are many rules relating to how a cantor should lead services, but the idea of a cantor as a paid professional does not exist in classical rabbinic sources...