Ayn Rand

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