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science journalist and physicist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMKBS7w_-Hw

Ranganathan Gregoire Yogeshwar, mostly short Ranga Yogeshwar (* 18 May 1959 in Luxembourg), is a Luxembourg science journalist, physicist and presenter.

In 1987 Ranga Yogeshwar began working as a science editor under Jean Pütz at Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne. Until 1990, he moderated numerous programmes of the science show with Pütz.

In September 2008, Yogeshwar ended his career as an editor at WDR and has since worked as a freelance presenter. He regularly hosts the major shows of the Highlights of Physics and IdeenExpo. His books are bestsellers and have been translated into several languages.

In 1993 Yogeshwar was assaulted in Prague and since then he has been increasingly involved in initiatives against racism.

(Source: wikipedia)

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by Michel Rodange

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by Roger Leiner

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His Royal Highness the Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg

- was born in Berg Castle on 5 January 1921 and died on 23 April 2019

- took courses in law and political science at Laval University

- married Her Royal Highness Princess Josephine-Charlotte of Belgium, who died in January 2005

- had five children, including Prince Henry, our current Grand Duke

- became Grand Duke of Luxembourg on 12 November 1964

- abdicated on 7 October 2000 in favour of his eldest son Prince Henry
- was particularly interested in environmental issues, the protection of fauna and flora
- loved sports, photography and music.
Source: monarchie.lu

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architect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZo08Nn9JaU

Date of birth: 13/03/1953 at Remerschen

Age: 66 years old

Profession: architect and professor at the "De Tao Master Academy" in Shanghai, China since 2011

His great idea: He was the first representative of Luxembourg at the Biennale d'Architecture de

Venise

Among other interesting things: the Luxembourg Pavilion for the Universal Exhibition in Shanghai (2010)

2010-2014 Construction of a new open-air amphitheater « Mozarteum » in Trancoso, Bresil

http://www.valentiny-foundation.com/fileadmin/user_upload/videos/trancoso/Projeto Anfiteatro Trancoso_copyright Paolo Lacombe.mp4.mp4
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industrialist

Date of birth: October 10, 1862

Date of death: March 5, 1928

Profession: industrialist and businessman

His big idea: In 1911, he succeeded in merging three large steel companies with Luxembourg capital, thus creating Arbed (Aciéries Réunies de Burbach-Eich-Dudelange), of which he became the technical director.

Source: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Émile_Mayrisch

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Father of Europe

https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/fr/eureka-schuman-father-of-europe_J003-0027_ev

Birth date :

June 29, 1886
His father was French, but became a German when the region in which he lived, was annexed. His mother was a Luxembourger. Schuman himself was born as a German citizen. When the Alsace-Lorraine region became part of France again after the First World War in 1919, he became French.

Date of death :

September 4, 1963

Profession:

Lawyer and 1948-1952 French Minister of Foreign Affairs

Great idea:

Robert Schuman is considered one of the founding fathers of the European construction alongside Jean Monnet, Konrad Adenauer, Johan Willem Beyen, Paul-Henri Spaak, Joseph Bech and Alcide De Gasperi.

He also gave his name to the Robert Schuman high school.

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President of the European Commission

Date of birth: 9 December 1954

Age: 64 years old

Occupation: Master of Laws

Functions :

- President of the European Commission since 2014

- Prime Minister of Luxembourg from 1995 to 2013

- On 1 January 2005, he also accepted the presidency of the Eurogroup

- President of the Christian Social People's Party in 1990

- after the June 1989 parliamentary elections, Minister of Finance and Minister of Labour.

- In June 1984, first elected to the Luxembourg Parliament and appointed Minister of Labour and Minister Delegate for the Budget in the first government led by Jacques Santer

(Source: www.wikipedia.org)

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woman of letters and patron

- was born in Luxembourg on 22 August 1874 and died on 24 January 1947 in his villa La Messuguière, in Cabris, France.
married on September 15, 1894 the industrialist Emile Mayrisch, future founder of ARBED (Aciéries Réunies de Burbach-Eich-Dudelange)
- had two children: Jean, who died young in 1899, and Andrée, known as Schnouky
- played the role of mediator between the French and German cultural worlds
- maintained correspondence with a large number of artists and intellectuals such as André Gide and Jean Schlumberger
- also published articles in the Nouvelle Revue Française, including one on Rainer Maria Rilke, which considerably increases his reputation in France.
- created the Association for the Interests of Women in 1906 with the objective of helping the most disadvantaged and promoting the education of young girls
- also supported other social works, such as the League against Tuberculosis, the Anti-Cancer League, infant clinics and the first nursery school in Esch-sur-Alzette

She also gave her name to the Aline Mayrisch high school.

(Source : laml.lu)

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- Date and place of birth: 23 January 1896, Colmar-Berg Castle, Berg

- Date and place of death: 9 July 1985, Fischbach Castle

- Husband: Félix de Bourbon-Parme (d. 1919)

- Children : Jean, Marie-Gabrielle de Luxembourg, Alix de Luxembourg, Marie-Adélaïde de Luxembourg, Charles de Luxembourg, Élisabeth de Luxembourg

- Parents : William IV, Mary Ann of Braganza

- Sister: Marie-Adélaïde

- receives the Golden Rose, awarded by Pope Pius XII

- abdicated on November 12, 1964 in favour of his eldest son, who became Grand Duke Jean

- returned to Luxembourg on 14 April 1945, when order and security were ensured, and undertook a tour of the regions devastated by the war

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count

- born around 922 and died in 998
- was the first count of the county of Luxembourg
- was the son of Wigéric, count of Bigdau, then count palatine of Lotharingia, and Cunégonde, granddaughter of the Carolingian Louis II the Stuttering
- owned property in Upper Lotharingia. In order to protect them effectively, he had a fortress built in 963 in the centre of his estates, the Château de Luxembourg. A city was quickly created around the castle.

His big idea: He created Luxembourg, called Lucilinburhuc.

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engineer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wPXAlolgG8

Age:

68 years old

Date of birth:

September 30, 1859

Date of death:

May 31, 1928

Profession :

engineer, inventor and industrial engineer

Great idea:

He is best known for the technical and economic improvements. He has made the lead-acid battery.

Moreover, the name Tudor is still associated with the battery today.

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physicist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czmkktsIsYQ

Age: 75 years old

Date of birth: August 16, 1845

Date of death: July 13, 1921

Profession: physicist

His idea: He won the Nobel Prize in Physics of 1908 for his method of reproducing colors in photography.

(Source: https: //fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Lippmann)

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chef cuisine

https://youtu.be/Kl9yT6qU01I

Date of birth:  April 27, 1955

Age: 64 years old

Profession: a Luxembourgish chef and the first woman in the world to win the Bocuse d'Or, a prestigious gastronomic competition, in 1989.

Great idea: Since the opening of its Luxembourg gastronomic restaurant in Frisange, it has excelled in gastronomic culture and the art of the table.

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athlete

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lguoJ8695wo

Date of birth: born on 24 April 1927 and died on 7 July 1992

Age: 65 years old

Profession: chemical engineer by profession and Commissioner for Water Protection, he was Minister from 16 September 1977 to 20 December 1984 (Resources: Transport, Energy, Environment, Tourism, Communications)

His great idea:

He won the 1500m race at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games after a phenomenal final sprint in front of US-American Bob McMillen and German Werner Lueg

Josy Barthel is the only Luxembourg athlete in history to have won a world or Olympic title.

From 1946 to 1956, he was 11 times in a row Luxembourg national champion.

He also was President of the Luxembourg Athletics Federation from 1962 to 1972 and President of the Luxembourg Olympic and Sports Committee from 1972 to 1977.

The Josy-Barthel Stadium, an athletics and football stadium located in Luxembourg, bears his name.

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cyclist runner

Date of birth: March 4, 1933, Garnich

Age: 65

Profession: She races bicycles.

Her big idea: Elsy Jacobs was Road World Champion in 1958, and held the hour record from 1958 to 1972. After her death in 1998, a mass participation ride, the Elsy Jacobs Randonnée was set up in her name, and then in 2008, the elite race, GP Elsy Jacobs was added.

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writer

Date of birth: 3 January 1827 at Waldbillig

Death: August 27, 1876

Age: 51 years old

Profession: Professor, writer and poet from Luxembourg

His big idea: He is known because he wrote Renert's famous satirical novel, the Luxembourgish version of "Reineke Fuchs", describing the characters of Luxembourg at that time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaSWwXPVySU

He also gave his name to the Michel Rodange high school.

(Source: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Rodange)
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actress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNsiQMeSvMk

Age: 35
Date of birth: 4 October 1983
- in a relationship with actor Jonas Laux
- lives in Berlin, Germany [2018]

- is the granddaughter of Luxembourg politician and war-time member of the Luxembourg Resistance, Robert Krieps.

Profession: actress

Famous for: After taking part in several theater plays, the young actress plays her first role in front of a camera in Eileen Byrne's short film "La Nuit passé", which allows her to receive the prize for best hope at the Budapest Festival .

Best known : for the film Phantom Thread (2017)
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writer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJoddCLExI8

Born: June 12, 1928 at Eich

Activity: poet, writer, translator

A Luxembourg national, Anise Koltz is today one of the major writers of French literature.

She is the grand-niece of Émile Mayrisch, co-founder of the Arbed

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writer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq5q4oK0ZGI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZumJmWLgJk

- lived from 21.05.1820 to 07.09.1893
- first studied philology at the Université libre de Bruxelles for a year. In 1842, he opted for the public service, first at the government secretariat and, from 1869, at the Chamber of Accounts.
- has written poems and songs mainly in Luxembourgish around themes such as
love of the homeland, celebration of major events, poetry of social criticism, poetry of ideas or evocation of nature
- created our grand-ducal identity through our national anthem "Ons Heemécht", set to music by Jean-Antoine Zinnen in 1864
- wrote the most frequently quoted sentence in Luxembourg literature, the last verse of the poem "Feierwon", created on the occasion of the inauguration of the first Luxembourg railway line, "Mir welle bleiwe wat mer sin".

(Source : autorenlexikon.lu)

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cartoonist

-Date of birth: February 2, 1955 and died on December 29, 2016

- Age: 61 years old

- Profession: Draftsman/Cartoonist

- Functions : Luxembourg comic strip designer, illustrator and caricaturist.

He is best known for his series of Superjhemp comics that he created in cooperation with Lucien Czuga

(Source: www.wikipedia.org)

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painter artist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6_tERpQ_JU

Date of birth: December 12, 1894 and die January 2, 1941

Age: 47 years old

Occupation: painter

He was greatly influenced by the Impressionists but developed his own distinctive Expressionist style.

In Kutter's paintings, the subjects often stand in the foreground as if being photographed.
His portraits, painted with strong brushstrokes, typically show figures with excessively large noses, always attracting attention.

(Source: www.wikipedia.org)

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pianist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FuIvOe3d_w

- began his piano studies at the age of 5 at the Conservatoire de musique de Luxembourg

- entered Pavel Gililov's virtuoso class at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne in 1999 at the age of 14

- continues his studies and improves his skills in masterclasses with Robert Levin in 2006

- studies at Fiesole, the Scuola di musica with Andrea Lucchesini

- plays regularly in the different festivals in Luxembourg

- in 2008, first recording of solo works (Scarlatti, Chopin, Haydn, Dutilleux and Müllenbach)

(Source: https://www.francemusique.fr/personne/cathy-krier-0)
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actor

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- born on 23 October 1958 in Geneva, Switzerland and died on 11 January 2009 in Luxembourg

- was an actor in several Andy Bausch films

- won the Adolf-Grimme Prize for his performance of Baba Can Rudolph in Buket Alakus' Eine andere Liga (2005)

- has had a career as a theatre actor on the Luxembourg stages and as a popular singer in various groups

(Source : wikipedia.fr)

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artist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCFzW_aMjcg

- born in 1973 in Luxembourg
- is a musician, artist and photographer
- combines photography, video, installations and music
- got in 2003 the Golden Lion for the Best National Participation at the 50. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Biennale di Venezia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=434&v=E7Lvr-bdOsI
- famous for her fountain of ink at the MUDAM (Museum of Modern Art Grand-Duc Jean) in Luxembourg

(Source : mudam.lu)