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Birth Name: Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum
Date of Birth: February 2, 1905
Place of Birth: St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
Date of Death: March 6, 1982
Place of Death: New York, New York, U.S.
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
Ayn Rand was a Russian and American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter.
Ayn was born in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire, the daughter of Khana/Anna Berkovna/Borisovna (Kaplan) and Zelman/Zinovy Wolf Zakharovich Rosenbaum. Her family was Jewish. Her father was born in Brest-Litovsk, Belarus. Her mother was born in St. Petersburg.
She moved to New York City, New York, U.S., in 1926. She became a U.S. citizen in 1931.
Ayn’s maternal grandparents were Berko Itskovitch Kaplan and Rozalia Pavlovna.
Source: Genealogy of Ayn Rand – https://www.geni.com