"Vaidyanathan is an eminent Mridangam player. D. K. Jayaraman D. K. Jayaraman (popularly known as DKJ), the renowned brother of D. K. Pattammal, was a professional Carnatic music singer. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 1990. After learning music from his sister, he furthered his musical skills under many known masters in the field, including Muthiah Bhagavathar and Papanasam Sivan. Like his sister, Jayaraman was known for his moving krithi renditions, especially of Muthuswami Dikshitar's compositions. Jayaraman also sang Tamil songs such as those of Papanasam Sivan. Born on 22 July 1928, to Damal Krishnaswamy Dikshitar"
"K.d. lang Kathryn Dawn Lang (born November 2, 1961), known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Lang has won both Juno Awards and Grammy Awards for her musical performances; hits include ""Constant Craving"" and ""Miss Chatelaine"". She has contributed songs to movie soundtracks and has collaborated with musicians such as Roy Orbison, Tony Bennett, Elton John, Anne Murray, Ann Wilson, and Jane Siberry. Lang is also known for being an animal rights, gay rights, and Tibetan human rights activist. She is a tantric practitioner of the old school of Tibetan"
"received the National Arts Centre Award, a companion award of the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards. On June 3, 2008, it was announced that she would receive a star on Canada's Walk of Fame. In 2018 Lang was appointed to the Alberta Order of Excellence. K.d. lang Kathryn Dawn Lang (born November 2, 1961), known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Lang has won both Juno Awards and Grammy Awards for her musical performances; hits include ""Constant Craving"" and ""Miss Chatelaine"". She has contributed songs to movie soundtracks and has"
"Philip D. Lang Philip David Lang (born December 16, 1929), was an American politician who was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives. Lang was born in Portland in 1929 and served from 1961 to 1979, including a stint as speaker of the house from 1975 to 1978. He was an insurance company executive. He also served in the United States Air Force and as a trooper with the Oregon State Police upon his graduation from Lewis and Clark College. Lang is a former chairman of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission and of the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association."
"Philip D. Lang Philip David Lang (born December 16, 1929), was an American politician who was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives. Lang was born in Portland in 1929 and served from 1961 to 1979, including a stint as speaker of the house from 1975 to 1978. He was an insurance company executive. He also served in the United States Air Force and as a trooper with the Oregon State Police upon his graduation from Lewis and Clark College. Lang is a former chairman of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission and of the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association."
"detective Jim Padar, who's now a writer and multi-time Moth StorySLAM champion. Donald Lang Donald Lang (born c. 1945) was charged with having killed two prostitutes in Chicago, in 1965 and 1971. The cases achieved national attention because Lang could not be convicted as he was deaf, unable to read or write, and did not know lip-reading or sign language. Lang was 6 years old when his parents divorced; subsequently his mother could no longer afford tuition for his special training. Lang had worked at Chicago truck loading docks when he was charged with murder in 1965, shortly after the"
"David Lang (Civil War) David Lang (May 9, 1838 – December 13, 1917) was a land surveyor, Confederate States Army officer during the American Civil War, civil engineer, and Florida politician. Lang was born in Camden County, Georgia. He attended the Georgia Military Institute in Marietta, graduating in the Class of 1857 and ranked 4th of 16. He moved to Suwannee County, Florida, and became a surveyor. With the secession of Florida and the outbreak of the Civil War, Lang enlisted in the Confederate Army on April 2, 1861, as a private in Company H of the 1st Florida Infantry."
"David Lang (composer) David Lang (born January 8, 1957) is an American composer living in New York City. Co-founder of the musical collective Bang on a Can, he was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for ""The Little Match Girl Passion"", which went on to win a 2010 Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance. He was nominated for an Academy Award for ""Simple Song #3"" from the film ""Youth"". Lang was born in Los Angeles, California. After completing his undergraduate degree at Stanford University, he went to the University of Iowa; he says, ""There was a teacher in"
"head of all the Middle East and South Asia analysis in DIA for counter-terrorism for seven years. For his service in the DIA, Lang received the Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Executive. After leaving government service, he joined Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, but left that group over policy differences. For a period prior to and during the Iraq War, he registered under the U.S. Department of Justice's Foreign Agents Registration Act, for his work on behalf of a Lebanese politician and industrialist. He promoted the peace process, vocational training for the building trades, English and French-language instruction, and extending"
"Kevin Lang Kevin Lang (born February 16, 1955) is a professor of Economics at Boston University. He is also an elected Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He is the author of ""Poverty and Discrimination"" and over 100 papers and articles on topics in Labor Economics. Lang received his BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) from Oxford University, his MSc in economics from the University of Montreal, and his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982. He went on to become an"
"Charles Lang Charles Bryant Lang, Jr., A.S.C. (March 27, 1902, Bluff, Utah – April 3, 1998, Santa Monica, California ) was an American cinematographer. Early in his career, he worked with the Akeley camera, a gyroscope-mounted ""pancake"" camera designed by Carl Akeley for outdoor action shots. Lang's first credits were as co-cinematographer on the silent films ""The Night Patrol"" (1926) and ""The Loves of Ricardo"" (1927). After completing ""Tom Sawyer"" for Paramount Pictures in 1930, he continued working at the studio for more than twenty years. The style of lighting he introduced in ""A Farewell to Arms"" became heavily identified"
"Herbert Lang Herbert Lang (March 24, 1879 – May 29, 1957) was a German zoologist. Lang was born in Oehringen, Württemberg, Germany. His childhood interest in nature led to a job as a taxidermist and later work at the natural history museum at the University of Zurich. In 1903, Lang, then 24, emigrated to the U.S. and began working at the American Museum of Natural History. He made his first field expedition to Kenya in 1906, returning with 178 mammal and 232 avian samples. After his successful expedition, Lang was put in charge of the Museum's Congo expedition, accompanied by"
"G. Schirmer, Inc.) David Lang (composer) David Lang (born January 8, 1957) is an American composer living in New York City. Co-founder of the musical collective Bang on a Can, he was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for ""The Little Match Girl Passion"", which went on to win a 2010 Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance. He was nominated for an Academy Award for ""Simple Song #3"" from the film ""Youth"". Lang was born in Los Angeles, California. After completing his undergraduate degree at Stanford University, he went to the University of Iowa; he says, ""There was"
"D.L. Lang D.L. Lang is an American poet. The author of nine full-length books of poetry, Lang serves as the Poet Laureate of Vallejo, California. Lang holds a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies from the University of Oklahoma. Prior to publishing her poetry, Lang created documentary films, including ""Liquid Wind"" and ""The Hebrew Project"". Her poems have been published in the ""Benicia Herald"", ""The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles"", ""A Poet’s Siddur: Friday Evening: Liturgy Through the Eyes of Poets"", the Benicia First Tuesday Poets anthology ""Light & Shadow"" and the ""2018 Marin Poetry Center Anthology"". She currently"
"Leo Lang Leo Lang (21 October 1919 – 25 January 2005) was a Croatian athletics coach and sports worker. Lang entered athletics in 1939 as a long-distance runner for HAŠK. After World War II he worked as a coach in Akademičar and Dinamo athletic clubs. Lang coached the Yugoslav national athletics team, as well as individual athletes such as Joško Murat, Franjo Škrinjar, and, most notably, European 800 meters champion and world record holder Vera Nikolić. He also advised Kenyan and Ethiopian long-distance runners, among them Mamo Wolde and Kipchoge Keino. Between 1973 and 1991 Lang worked at NK Dinamo"
"was credited with bringing the Preakness national attention when the Kentucky Derby overshadowed it. He tirelessly promoted the Baltimore race, and traveled to the Kentucky Derby with signs reading, ""Next Stop Preakness"". He once floated hundreds of yellow and black balloons over the Kentucky Derby Parade. Lang started as a successful jockey’s agent and worked at Pimlico from 1960 to 1987, holding the positions of director of racing, vice president, and general manager. In 1965, he brought a school bus full of his daughter’s friends to the infield to watch the races. Chick Lang died on March 18, 2010 of"
"Robert Lang (producer) Robert Lang is a Canadian film producer, director, writer. He began his career in Montreal working at the National Film Board of Canada as a documentary film director and camera operator in the mid-1970s. In 1980, he moved to Toronto, where he founded his own independent production company, Kensington Communications, to produce documentaries for television and non-theatrical markets. Since 1998, Lang has been involved in conceiving and producing interactive media for the Web and mobile devices. Robert Lang's work in television includes a number of documentary and factual series: ""Museum Secrets"", a 22-part television series that investigates"
"Thomas Lang Thomas Lang (; born 5 August 1967) is an Austrian drummer, multi-instrumentalist, composer and record producer. He is the founding member of the Los Angeles-based progressive/avant garde metal band stOrk and is known for his international session work on a wide variety of genres such as rock, pop, jazz, and heavy metal with artists such as Robert Fripp, Peter Gabriel, Robbie Williams and Sugababes, among many others. He is married to music publicist, Elizabeth Lang. Peter Wildoer described Lang as a ""drummer's drummer"", and Mike Portnoy cited Lang as a drummer he ""can't replicate"". Thomas Lang, a native"
"Fritz Lang Friedrich Christian Anton ""Fritz"" Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best-known ""émigrés"" from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the ""Master of Darkness"" by the British Film Institute. His most famous films include the groundbreaking futuristic ""Metropolis"" (1927) and the also influential ""M"" (1931), a film noir precursor that he made before he moved to the United States. Lang was born in Vienna as the second son of Anton Lang (1860–1940), an architect and construction company manager, and his wife Pauline"
"serves as Poet Laureate of Vallejo, California. D.L. Lang D.L. Lang is an American poet. The author of nine full-length books of poetry, Lang serves as the Poet Laureate of Vallejo, California. Lang holds a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies from the University of Oklahoma. Prior to publishing her poetry, Lang created documentary films, including ""Liquid Wind"" and ""The Hebrew Project"". Her poems have been published in the ""Benicia Herald"", ""The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles"", ""A Poet’s Siddur: Friday Evening: Liturgy Through the Eyes of Poets"", the Benicia First Tuesday Poets anthology ""Light & Shadow"" and the"
"Definition Camera to help pioneer the HD 24p format over the last five years.. He still serves as instructor for the Santa Fe High Definition Workshops, held annually. . George Lang (cinematographer) George Lang is an American director and cinematographer. With over thirty years experience in the entertainment industry, he has worked for a number of major media outlets as well as video mediums, with experience in broadcast television, corporate video, and advertising. He is also the founder and president of The Big Picture Film and Video Arts, a production company which he launched in 1997. He continues to serve"
"and good, to present the Croatian experience of suffering, trials, persecutions and slander, with the aim of joint efforts for the good of our peoples and for the good of all mankind."" Rikard Lang Slobodan Lang Slobodan Lang (8 October 1945 – 23 February 2016) was a Croatian physician, professor, diplomat, Member of Parliament, politician and Adviser for Humanitarian Issues of the first Croatian president, Franjo Tuđman. Lang was born on 8 October 1945 in Zagreb. His father was a prominent Croatian university professor, Rikard Lang, and his mother was from the notable Sorkočević family of Dubrovnik. Lang's paternal grandfather"
"Chick Lang Sr. Charles John ""Chick"" Lang Sr. (1926 – March 18, 2010) was an American businessman and general manager of the Maryland Jockey Club. During the 1970s and 1980s, Lang wore several hats in the racing business but was perhaps best known in his roles as general manager of the Maryland Jockey Club tracks, Pimlico and Laurel. He also was the jockey agent for Bill Hartack, when Hartack rose to prominence during his Hall of Fame career in the 1950s. In his later years, Lang served as a consultant and commentator for numerous tracks and media outlets. Chick Lang"
"Rikard Lang Prof.dr.sc. Rikard Lang (February 22, 1913 – September 16, 1994) was prominent Croatian university professor, lawyer and economist. Lang was born to a notable Jewish family, of Ignjat and Terezija Lang, in Vinkovci on February 22, 1913. His father was president of the Jewish community Vinkovci and his mother was a housewife. Lang finished elementary and high school in Vinkovci. He attended and graduated from the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Law in 1936. During his study he joined the leftist movement in Zagreb. During World War II, from 1941 to 1945, Lang joined and fought with the"
"W. Patrick Lang Walter Patrick ""Pat"" Lang, Jr. (born May 31, 1940) is a commentator on the Middle East, a retired US Army officer and private intelligence analyst, and an author. After leaving uniformed military service as a Colonel, he held high-level posts in military intelligence as a civilian. He led intelligence analysis of the Middle East and South Asia for the Defense Department and world-wide HUMINT activities in a high-level equivalent to the rank of a lieutenant general. Lang graduated from the Virginia Military Institute with a BA in English and from the University of Utah with an MA"
"and as manic depressive. Lang was born in Ohio in 1846. Early in his career he designed at least three buildings in Kansas including Albion School in Albion, Nebraska. He moved to Denver in 1886. Lang is known for his use of turrets, gargoyles, polychromatic stone, and a mixture of columns. He ran into financial and related legal troubles. His business collapsed and he seems to have lost his mental faculties. He was hit and killed by a train. Lang's presentation book is at the Western History Collection of the Denver Public Library. He married Delia and had one daughter,"
"news personality. Federal Riding of Saskatoon East Federal Riding of Saskatoon Humboldt Otto Lang Otto Emil Lang, (born May 14, 1932) is a Canadian lawyer and former politician. Lang was born in Handel, Saskatchewan. In 1961, he was appointed Dean of Law at the University of Saskatchewan, the youngest person to be appointed to that position, and served until 1969. Lang was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1968 election, and was re-elected in the 1972 and 1974 elections as the Member of Parliament for Saskatoon—Humboldt. He served as Minister without Portfolio (1968–70), Minister responsible for"
"Robert J. Lang Robert J. Lang (born May 4, 1961) is an American physicist who is also one of the foremost origami artists and theorists in the world. He is known for his complex and elegant designs, most notably of insects and animals. He has studied the mathematics of origami and used computers to study the theories behind origami. He has made great advances in making real-world applications of origami to engineering problems. Lang was born in Dayton, Ohio, and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. Lang studied electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology, where he met his wife-to-be,"
"Robert J. Lang Robert J. Lang (born May 4, 1961) is an American physicist who is also one of the foremost origami artists and theorists in the world. He is known for his complex and elegant designs, most notably of insects and animals. He has studied the mathematics of origami and used computers to study the theories behind origami. He has made great advances in making real-world applications of origami to engineering problems. Lang was born in Dayton, Ohio, and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. Lang studied electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology, where he met his wife-to-be,"
"David Marshall Lang David Marshall Lang (6 May 1924 – 20 March 1991), was a Professor of Caucasian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He was one of the most productive British scholars who specialized in Georgian, Armenian and ancient Bulgarian history. Lang was born in Bromley, educated at Monkton Combe school and St John’s College, Cambridge where he was a Major Scholar and later held a Fellowship. At the age of 20, having graduated from Cambridge, he was an officer in Iran when he was appointed in 1944 as acting Vice-Consul in Tabriz, Iran, where"
"Kirsty Lang Kirsty Lang (born 1962) is a British journalist and broadcaster who works for BBC Radio and Television. Earlier in her career, she was on the staff of ""The Sunday Times"" and ""Channel 4 News"", working as a presenter and reporter. Lang was a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York for several months at the beginning of 2012 and sits on the board of the British Council. Lang was raised in various parts of the world; her family were evacuated from Nigeria at the time of the Biafran war in 1967. Lang was educated at private schools"
"George Lang (restaurateur) George Lang (born György Deutsch; July 13, 1924 – July 5, 2011) was a Hungarian born American restaurateur, food and travel writer, critic and journalist. Lang was the only child of Simon Deutsch, a tailor, and Ilona Lang. He grew up in this ""modestly prosperous"" Jewish family in Székesfehérvár, Hungary where he practiced violin. After Döme Sztójay took over as prime minister in March 1944, György was ordered into a labor camp; both his parents later died in Auschwitz, but György escaped within six months. In order to survive, he hid his identity and joined the pro-Nazi"
"Donald Lang Donald Lang (born c. 1945) was charged with having killed two prostitutes in Chicago, in 1965 and 1971. The cases achieved national attention because Lang could not be convicted as he was deaf, unable to read or write, and did not know lip-reading or sign language. Lang was 6 years old when his parents divorced; subsequently his mother could no longer afford tuition for his special training. Lang had worked at Chicago truck loading docks when he was charged with murder in 1965, shortly after the death of his mother. He had picked up a prostitute who was"