Catherine I of Russia
Catherine I( born, later known as Marta Samuilovna Skavronskaya; –) was the second wife of Peter the Great and Empress of Russia from 1725 until her death.
Dean Smith (engineer)
Dean Smith is a former winner of the Walter Byers Award as the National Collegiate Athletic Association's annual winner of its highest academic honor in recognition of being the nation's top scholar- athlete.
He is an engineer specializing in chemical warfare agent detection.
The University of Maine has renamed its top scholar- athlete award the M Club Dean Smith Award.
Artem Pryma
Artem Pryma( born 30 May 1987, Chernihiv, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian World Cup level biathlete.
He participated at 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics.
Verne Byers
Vincent LeRoy Beyer( March 14, 1918, Denver, Colorado – December 19, 2008 in Las Cruces, New Mexico) known professionally as Verne Byers or Vern Byers, was an American jazz bandleader, double bassist, promoter, and nightclub owner.
He brought The Beatles to Denver when they performed at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on August 26, 1964.
Alexander Fuks
Alexander Fuks( 30 May 1917 – 29 November 1978) was a German- born, later Israeli historian, archaeologist and papyrologist.
He worked with Victor Tcherikover and Menahem Stern on the standard edition of Jewish papyri.
He was a specialist in the study of Hellenistic Judaism.
Walter Byers
Walter Byers( March 13, 1922 – May 26, 2015) was the first executive director of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
He served from 1951 to 1988.
He also helped start the United States Basketball Writers Association in 1956.
The NCAA Walter Byers Scholarship is named in his honor.
Byers expanded the NCAA men's basketball tournament in 1951 from 8 to 16 teams, the first step in expanding the tournament to the spectacle it is today.
The number of teams fluctuated over the next few decades, but never went below 16 again and eventually expanded further under Byers' leadership.
WFAN New York's Mike Francesa referred to him as an" Oz- like" figure who ran the NCAA with ultimate control.
Byers went on to negotiate lucrative TV contracts that preempted individual colleges' rights on the way to building a billion- dollar business, leading to a 1984 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that freed the colleges to negotiate on their own.
Ever since players have been attempting to win the rights to their names and images, the right to be paid, etc.
In his book" Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Exploiting College Athletes"
Byers turned against the NCAA in its current form, saying it established" a nationwide money- laundering scheme."( P. 73).
Byers also revealed that the NCAA developed the term" student- athlete" in order to insulate the colleges from having to provide long term disability payments to players injured while playing their sport( and making money for their university and the NCAA).
( P. 69).
Byers concludes the book demanding that Congress," Free the Athletes," and enact a" comprehensive College Athletes' Bill of Rights."( P. 374).
He says that"[ t] his is" not" a suggestion for new government controls; on the contrary, it is an argument that the federal government should require deregulation of a monopoly business operated by not -for-profit institutions contracting together to achieve maximum financial returns."
Doing so would treat the" twin curses of exploitation and hypocrisy that have bedeviled college athletics in direct proportion to its intensified commercialization," and would prevent colleges from denying players the freedoms available to other students.
( P. 375).
Finally, he says," Collegiate amateurism is not a moral issue; it is an economic camouflage for monopoly practice...,[ one which]' operat[ es] an air- tight racket of supplying cheap athletic labor.'"( Pp. 376, 388).
On May 26, 2015, Byers died at the age of 93.
Judah Even Shemuel
Judah Even Shemuel( Ukraine, 1886- Jerusalem, 1976) was a Ukrainian born, later Israeli, lexicographer, whose English- Hebrew dictionary was known as" The Kaufman Dictionary".
He is not to be confused with another Hebrew lexicographer, Jacob Knaani, who also had the German- Yiddish surname Kaufmann.
Sarah Dance
Sarah Dance was the female winner of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's highest academic honor, the 2005 Walter Byers Award, in recognition of being the nation's top female scholar- athlete.
She was a 28- time All- American swimmer who helped lead Truman State University to four national championships.
Kim Black
Kimberly A." Kim" Black( born April 30, 1978) is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic gold medalist.
Black began her college swimming career at the University of Southern California, where she competed alongside future fellow Olympians such as Lindsay Benko, before transferring to the University of Georgia in 1999.
She graduated from UGA in 2001 and was named the NCAA Woman of the Year Award for 2001.
She is also recipient of an NCAA Post- Graduate scholarship in 2001.
She was on the U.S. Women's swimming team in the 2000 Summer Olympics where she won a gold medal in the 800 meter freestyle relay.
During her swimming career at Georgia, she was a four – time All- American and helped lead the Lady Bulldogs to three straight NCAA championships.
Black was also awarded the Today's Top VIII Award as a member of the Class of 2002.
She was the female winner of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's highest academic honor, the 2001 Walter Byers Award, in recognition of being the nation's top female scholar- athlete.
She was in the 2002 Top VIII class with Emily Bloss, André Davis, Misty Hyman, Leah Juno, Nancy Metcalf, Bryce Molder, and Ruth Riley.
The 2001 Male Walter Byers Scholar was Bradley Henderson.
W. Augustus Barratt
W. Augustus Barratt( 1873- 1947) was a Scottish- born, later American, songwriter and musician.

Question: Who was born later, Walter Byers or Artem Pryma?