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title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
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Helene Mayer | Helene Julie Mayer | 1910 | 1953 | German | fencer who won the gold medal at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, and the silver medal at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene_Mayer |
James Melcher | James Laurence Melcher | 1939 | n/a | American | hedge fund manager and former Olympic fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Melcher |
Sergey Sharikov | Sergey Aleksandrovich Sharikov | 1974 | 2015 | null | left-handed Russian Olympic champion sabre fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Sharikov |
Sada Jacobson | Sada Molly Jacobson | 1983 | n/a | American | Olympic fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sada_Jacobson |
Nickolas Muray | Nickolas Muray | 1892 | 1965 | Hungarian | photographer and Olympic saber fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickolas_Muray |
Eli Dershwitz | Eli Dershwitz | 1995 | n/a | American | Olympic sabre fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Dershwitz |
Allan Jay | Allan Louis Neville Jay MBE | 1931 | n/a | British | former five-time-Olympian foil and épée fencer, and world champion | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Jay |
Soren Thompson | Soren Hunter Miles Sussman Thompson | 1981 | n/a | American | épée fencer, team world champion, and two-time Olympian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soren_Thompson |
Abram Cohen | Abram "Abe" Dreyer Cohen | 1924 | 2016 | American | Olympic foil, epee, and sabre fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Cohen |
Daniel Bukantz | Daniel Bukantz | 1917 | 2008 | American | four-time individual United States national foil fencing champion, Maccabiah Games individual foil champion, four-time Olympic fencer, fencing referee, and a dentist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Bukantz |
Ellen Preis | Ellen Müller-Preis, née Preis | 1912 | 2007 | null | German-born Austrian Olympic-champion foil fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Preis |
Tim Morehouse | Timothy Frank MorehouseElfman, Lois. "Our Olympic Moment: Tim Morehouse Heads To London", Chutzpah, July 25, 2012. Accessed July 26, 2012. ""Much of his sense of determination | null | null | American | fencer who won a Silver Medal competing in the men's sabre as a member of the United States fencing team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Morehouse |
George Worth | George Vitéz Worth | 1915 | 2006 | Hungarian | sabre Olympic medalist fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Worth |
Paul Anspach | Paul Eugène Albert Anspach | 1882 | 1981 | Belgian | épée and foil fencer who competed in four consecutive Olympics (1908, 1912, 1920 and 1924) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Anspach |
Yakov Rylsky | Yakov Anufrievich Rylsky | 1928 | 1999 | null | Olympic champion and three-time world champion sabre fencer of the Soviet Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Rylsky |
Otto Herschmann | Dr. Otto Herschmann | 1877 | 1942 | Austrian | Jewish swimmer, fencer, lawyer, and sports official | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Herschmann |
Dezső Földes | Dezső Földes | 1880 | 1950 | Hungarian | saber fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dezső_Földes |
Emily Jacobson | Emily Phillipa Jacobson | 1985 | n/a | American | Olympic sabre fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Jacobson |
Mark Midler | Mark Petrovich Midler | 1931 | 2012 | Soviet | foil fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Midler |
Jacques Ochs | Jacques Ochs | 1883 | 1971 | Belgian | Jewish artist and Olympic épée (champion), saber, and foil fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Ochs |
Ilona Elek | Ilona Elek | 1907 | 1988 | Hungarian | Olympic fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilona_Elek |
Allan Kwartler | Allan S. Kwartler | 1917 | 1998 | American | sabre and foil fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Kwartler |
Byron Krieger | Byron Lester Krieger | 1920 | 2015 | American | foil, sabre and épée fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Krieger |
Albert Axelrod | Albert "Albie" Axelrod | 1921 | 2004 | American | foil fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Axelrod |
Edgar Seligman | Edgar Isaac Seligman | 1867 | 1958 | British | épée, foil, and sabre fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Seligman |
Jenő Fuchs | Jenő Fuchs | 1882 | 1955 | Hungarian | sabre fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenő_Fuchs |
Nick Bravin | Eric Oliver "Nick" Bravin | 1971 | n/a | American | fencer and lawyer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bravin |
Eduard Vinokurov | Eduard Teodorovich Vinokurov | 1942 | 2010 | Soviet | Olympic champion and world champion sabre fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Vinokurov |
Maria Mazina | Maria Valeryevna Mazina | 1964 | n/a | Russian | women's épée fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Mazina |
Attila Petschauer | Attila Petschauer | 1904 | 1943 | Hungarian | Olympic champion fencer of Jewish heritage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila_Petschauer |
Ralph Cooperman | Arnold Ralph Cooperman | 1927 | 2009 | British | three-time Olympic fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Cooperman |
Armand Mouyal | Armand Mouyal | 1925 | 1988 | French | epee world champion fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Mouyal |
David Tyshler | David (also "Davyd") Abramovich Tyshler | 1927 | 2014 | Russian | sabreur, part of the first generation of internationally successful Soviet fencers (Olympic bronze medalist in 1956, and five-time World Championship finalist between 1955 and 1959) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tyshler |
Dan Kellner | Daniel Kellner | 1976 | n/a | American | Olympic foil fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Kellner |
Noam Mills | Noam Mills | 1986 | n/a | Israeli | fencer, who competed in the individual women's épée event for Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Mills |
Johan Harmenberg | Johan Georg Harmenberg | 1954 | n/a | Swedish | Olympic and world champion epee fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Harmenberg |
Yves Dreyfus | Yves Dreyfus | 1931 | 2021 | French | epee fencer who holds two medals as part of the French Olympic épée team | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Dreyfus |
Endre Kabos | Endre Kabos | 1906 | 1944 | Hungarian | sabre fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endre_Kabos |
Alexandre Lippmann | Alexandre Lippmann | 1881 | 1960 | French | Olympic champion épée fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Lippmann |
Grigory Kriss | Grigory Yakovlevich Kriss | 1940 | n/a | Soviet | retired Olympic épée fencer who won four Olympic medals | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Kriss |
Albert Bogen | Albert Bogen | 1882 | 1961 | null | fencer who competed for Austria-Hungary at the 1912 Summer Olympics and for Hungary at the 1928 Summer Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bogen |
Delila Hatuel | Delila Hatuel | 1980 | n/a | Israeli | Olympic foil fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delila_Hatuel |
Tomer Or | Tomer Or | 1978 | n/a | Israeli | foil fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomer_Or |
Cliff Bayer | Cliff Bayer | 1977 | n/a | American | two-time Olympian foil fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Bayer |
Richard Cohen (fencer) | Richard A Cohen | 1947 | n/a | British | retired fencer who competed at three Olympic Games and the author of Chasing the Sun, the story of man's relationship to that star, and By the Sword, a history of sword fighting | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cohen_(fencer) |
Harold Goldsmith | Harold David Goldsmith | 1930 | 2004 | American | Olympic foil and epee fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Goldsmith |
János Garay (fencer) | János Garay | 1889 | 1945 | Hungarian | fencer, and one of the best sabre fencers in the world in the 1920s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/János_Garay_(fencer) |
Yuval Freilich | Yuval Shalom Freilich | 1995 | n/a | Israeli | left-handed épée fencer and 2019 individual European champion | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuval_Freilich |
Ayelet Ohayon | Ayelet Ohayon | 1974 | n/a | null | three-time Olympian Israeli foil fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayelet_Ohayon |
Tamás Gábor | Tamás Gábor | 1932 | 2007 | Hungarian | Olympic champion épée fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamás_Gábor |
Peter Jacobs (fencer) | Peter Jacobs | 1938 | n/a | British | fencer who competed at the Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jacobs_(fencer) |
Siegfried Flesch | Siegfried "Fritz" Flesch | 1872 | 1939 | Austrian | sabre fencer who competed during the late 19th century and early 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Flesch |
Herbert Cohen (fencer) | Herbert Morris Cohen | 1940 | n/a | American | Olympic foil fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Cohen_(fencer) |
Nathaniel Lubell | Bennet Nathaniel Lubell | 1916 | 2006 | American | three-time Olympian fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Lubell |
Lajos Werkner | Lajos Werkner | 1883 | 1943 | Hungarian | Olympic champion sabre fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_Werkner |
Gaston Salmon | Gaston Joseph Clement Marie Salmon | 1878 | 1918 | Belgian | épée, foil, and sabre fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Salmon |
Jonathan Tiomkin | Jonathan Tiomkin | 1979 | n/a | American | Olympic foil fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Tiomkin |
Oszkár Gerde | Dr. Oszkár Gerde | 1883 | 1944 | Hungarian | sabre fencer who won team gold medals at the 1908 and 1912 Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oszkár_Gerde |
Tamir Bloom | Tamir Bloom | 1971 | n/a | American | epee fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamir_Bloom |
Claude Netter | Claude Netter | 1924 | 2007 | French | Olympic champion foil fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Netter |
Chris O'Loughlin (fencer) | Christopher S. O'Loughlin | 1967 | n/a | American | Olympic épée fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_O'Loughlin_(fencer) |
Iosif Vitebskiy | Iosif Davidovich Vitebskiy | 1938 | n/a | Soviet | former Olympic medalist and world champion épée fencer, and current US fencing coach | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iosif_Vitebskiy |
Ralph Goldstein | Ralph Myer Goldstein | 1913 | 1997 | American | Olympic épée fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Goldstein |
Sándor Gombos | Dr. Sándor Gombos | 1895 | 1968 | Hungarian | Olympic champion fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sándor_Gombos |
Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier | Dr. Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier | 1888 | 1965 | Danish | Olympic medalist, and world champion, fencer who fenced foil, épée, and saber | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Joseph_Martin_Osiier |
Norman C. Armitage | Norman Armitage | 1907 | 1972 | American | saber fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_C._Armitage |
Zoltán Ozoray Schenker | Zoltán Ozoray Schenker | 1880 | 1966 | Hungarian | Olympic sabre and foil fencer, who won three Olympic medals | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoltán_Ozoray_Schenker |
Ildikó Rejtő | Ildikó Rejtő | 1937 | n/a | Hungarian | retired two-time Olympic and five-time World Champion foil fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ildikó_Rejtő |
Ellen Osiier | Ellen Osiier | 1890 | 1962 | Danish | foil fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Osiier |
Henri Anspach | Henri Lucien Ernest Eugène Anspach | 1882 | 1979 | Belgian | épée and foil fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Anspach |
Roman Kantor | Roman Józef Kantor | 1912 | 1943 | Polish | Olympic épée fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Kantor |
Robert Blum (fencer) | Robert Blum | 1928 | n/a | American | and former Olympic fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Blum_(fencer) |
Jean Stern (fencer) | Jean Stern | 1875 | 1962 | French | Olympic champion épée fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Stern_(fencer) |
Lydia Hatuel-Czuckermann | Lydia Hatuel-Czuckermann | 1963 | n/a | Israeli | fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Hatuel-Czuckermann |
Eugene Glazer (fencer) | Eugene Gerson "Gene" Glazer | 1939 | n/a | American | fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Glazer_(fencer) |
David Micahnik | David Micahnik | 1938 | n/a | American | fencer and fencing coach | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Micahnik |
Brooke Makler | Adrian Brooke Makler | 1951 | 2010 | American | Olympic fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Makler |
Peter Schifrin | Peter Schifrin | 1958 | n/a | American | Olympic epee fencer and sculptor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Schifrin |
Benjamin (Benji) Ungar | Benjamin "Benji" Nathanial Ungar | 1986 | n/a | null | US Men's Épée fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_(Benji)_Ungar |
Albert Wolff (fencer) | Albert Wolff | 1906 | 1989 | French | Olympic fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Wolff_(fencer) |
Paul Friedberg | Paul Ronald Friedberg | 1959 | n/a | American | Olympic fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Friedberg |
Martin Lang (fencer) | Martin Lang | 1949 | n/a | American | Olympic foil fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Lang_(fencer) |
John Friedberg | John Friedberg | 1961 | n/a | American | Olympic saber fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Friedberg |
Paul Makler Sr. | Paul Todd Makler Sr. | 1920 | n/a | American | Olympic fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Makler_Sr. |
James Margolis | James Arthur Margolis | 1936 | n/a | American | Olympic épée fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Margolis |
Joel Glucksman | Joel Arthur Glucksman | 1949 | n/a | American | Olympic saber fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Glucksman |
Paul Makler Jr. | Paul Todd Makler Jr. | 1946 | n/a | American | Olympic fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Makler_Jr. |
Margit Elek | Margit Elek | 1910 | 1986 | Hungarian | Olympic foil fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margit_Elek |
Julia Jones-Pugliese | Julia Jones-Pugliese | 1909 | 1993 | American | national champion fencer and fencing coach | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Jones-Pugliese |
James Strauch | James Strauch | 1921 | 1998 | American | Olympic fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Strauch |
Elaine Cheris | Elaine Gayle Cheris | 1946 | n/a | American | Olympic fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Cheris |
Hans Halberstadt | Hans Ignaz Halberstadt | 1885 | 1966 | German | Olympic fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Halberstadt |
Alex Treves | Alessandro Emanuele "Alex" Treves | 1929 | 2020 | Italian | Olympic fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Treves |
Norman Lewis (fencer) | Norman Lewis | 1915 | 2006 | American | Olympic épée fencer, who also competed in foil | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Lewis_(fencer) |
Paul Klenerman | Paul Klenerman | 1963 | n/a | British | Olympic sabre fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Klenerman |
Simon Okker | Simon Okker | 1881 | 1944 | Dutch | Olympic epee and foil fencer, who was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Okker |
Vadym Gutzeit | Vadim Gutzeit | 1971 | n/a | Ukrainian | sabre fencer, who was team Olympic champion in 1992, and won a bronze medal in the 1991 World Fencing Championships | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadym_Gutzeit |
Salvator Cicurel | Salvator Cicurel | 1893 | 1975 | Egyptian | Olympic fencer, and later the president of Cairo's Sephardi Jewish Community Council from 1946 until 1957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvator_Cicurel |
Lion van Minden | Lion van Minden | 1880 | 1944 | Dutch | Olympic epee fencer, who was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_van_Minden |
Gilbert Eisner | Gilbert Eisner | null | null | American | former épée fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Eisner |
Ernst Königsgarten | Ernst Königsgarten | 1880 | 1942 | Austrian | businessman and fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Königsgarten |
Yulen Uralov | Yulen (or Julen) Isaakovych Uralov | 1924 | n/a | Soviet | Jewish Olympic fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulen_Uralov |
Saul Moyal | Saul Moyal | null | null | Egyptian | fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Moyal |
Alexander Bárta | Alexander Bárta | 1892 | 1945 | Slovak | fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bárta |
Péter Bakonyi (fencer, born 1938) | Péter Bakonyi (Buchwald) | 1938 | n/a | Hungarian | Olympic sabre fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Péter_Bakonyi_(fencer,_born_1938) |
Mary Meijer-van der Sluis | Mary Meijer-van der Sluis | 1917 | 1994 | Dutch | fencer and singer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Meijer-van_der_Sluis |