At age 15, Gisela Brož got to know a circus performer of what nationality?
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Gisela Brož Gisela Antonia Brož (Brosch) (also sometimes referred to as Gisela Madigan), (4 April 1865 - 1945) was an Austrian-American circus performer, tight rope dancer, and clown. Her parents were shoemaker Joseph Brož and his wife Maria. She went to convent school in Siebenbürgen and at the age of 15 she got to know the circus family Madigans with John and Laura who at that time toured with circus Krembser in Vienna. Gisela became their foster child and got to learn tight rope dancing, this along with the couple's two year younger daughter Elvira Madigan.
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John Madigan (ringmaster) John Adalbert Madigan, (12 August 1850 - 23 August 1897) was an American circus performer and ringmaster, during the later years of his life he worked in Scandinavia. He was raised in an American circus family of Irish background. He is known for his work in U.S circus scenes between 1866 and 1869, but from 1872 he worked at Cirkus Myers in Central Europe. To this circus, the Swedish-Norwegian circus artist Eleonora Olsen, later known as Laura Madigan (mother of Elvira Madigan) came to work in 1875, the two became a couple.
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Josser A Josser is someone who was not born into a circus family, nor married into a circus family, but is in a circus nonetheless. The term is also used (rarely) to refer to a clergyman (Australia), or even more generally, a fool or a simpleton (Britain).
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Bronco McLoughlin Bronco McLoughlin is an Irish actor, stuntman and animal trainer with more than 30 years experience in Hollywood movies.
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Steve-O Stephen Gilchrist Glover (born June 13, 1974), better known by his stage name Steve-O, is a British-American actor, stunt performer, producer, comedian, author, musician, and clown. His entertainment career is mostly centered on his performance stunts on the American TV series "Jackass", its related movies, and its spin-off series "Wildboyz".
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Francis Brunn Francis Brunn (15 November 1922 in Aschaffenburg, Germany – 28 May 2004 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) was a German juggler.
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Krzysztof Soroczyński Krzysztof Soroczyński is an artist, performer, trainer, and designer who works in the circus industry.
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Circus Royale Circus Royale is an Australian circus troupe owned by Damian Syred. The performers include 35 human artists, camels, horses, llamas, and four cows. According to Taleisha Gasser, who grew up in the circus and now does trapeze, the circus also has dogs and even a guinea pig that perform; they formerly had lions, tigers, and panthers, but these were given away to zoos.
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Bussunda Cláudio Besserman Vianna (Rio de Janeiro, June 25, 1962 — Vaterstetten, June 17, 2006), commonly known as Bussunda (] ), was a Brazilian humorist and TV comedian, member of the Casseta & Planeta troupe. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, where he lived and worked, having started his career in the 1980s as a writer for satirical magazine "Casseta Popular". One of the most popular Brazilian comedians of his generation, the overweight Bussunda was famous for his impersonations of football striker Ronaldo and of Brazil's president Lula. He also did the voice of Shrek in the Brazilian Portuguese version of "Shrek" and "Shrek 2". He was of Jewish descent.
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Fedor Jeftichew Fedor Adrianovich Jeftichew (Russian: Фёдор Адрианович Евтищев, "Fyodor Yevtishchev", 1868 - January 31, 1904), better known as Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy (later "Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Man"), was a famous Russian sideshow performer who was brought to the United States of America by P.T. Barnum.
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Carla Fracci Carla Fracci (] ; born 20 August 1936, Milan) is an Italian ballet dancer and actress. Thanks to her extensive career and her acclaimed interpretation of several classical romantic ballets such as "La Sylphide", Fracci became one of the most experienced and recognized interpreters of Romantic ballets. “As Erik Bruhn once said, [Fracci] gave the world a new idea of the ballerina in 19th-century Romantic ballets.” Her career highlights include "Nijinsky", "Giselle" (American Ballet Theatre), Complete Bell Telephone Hour Performances: Erik Bruhn 1961-1967.
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Annie Fratellini Annie Fratellini (14 November 1932–30 June 1997) was a French circus artist, clown, singer and film actress.
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El Cordobés Manuel Benítez Pérez (born 4 May 1936), more commonly known as El Cordobés (The Cordovan), is a famous matador of the 1960s who brought to the bullring an unorthodox acrobatic and theatrical style.
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El Risitas Juan Joya Borja is a Spanish comedian and actor known by the stage name El Risitas. He gained widespread popularity in 2015 thanks to a series of parodies from a television interview from June 2007 on Jesús Quintero's show "Ratones Coloraos".
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Zach Warren Zach Warren (born 1981) is an American circus performer and development worker in Afghanistan. He is known for breaking world records in unicycling and juggling.
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Gery Scott Gery Scott (5 October 1923 – 14 December 2005) was a jazz and cabaret entertainer and teacher, whose performing career spanned 26 countries and over 60 years. She was noted for her powerful stage persona and engaging delivery, with material ranging from the songbooks of Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Lorenz Hart, Cy Coleman and all the "standards" as well as Noël Coward and some pop material. Whilst she was well known to British audiences during the later part of the Second World War, she achieved most of her fame outside the UK.
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Jay Gilligan Jay Gilligan is a professional juggler and performer from Arcadia, Ohio currently performing and living in Europe. Jay is a teacher of juggling and works at many circus schools overseas. He has been called one of the best living jugglers by writers at the usenet group rec.juggling. He has performed in many European countries and every state in America. Jay toured American cities in the summer 2006 and summer 2007 with the Shoebox Tour. Jay is also the main teacher of juggling and creator of the juggling program at the University of Dance and Circus in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Donya Fannizadeh Donya Fannizadeh (Persian: دنیا فنی‌زاده‎ ‎ ; November 17, 1967 – December 28, 2016) was a noted Iranian puppeteer, best known for her act with "Kolah Ghermezi", her puppet since 1995. She was known for manipulation of one of Iran’s most beloved puppets, Kolah Ghermezi. For more than two decades, Fannizadeh portrayed Kolah Qermezi, which changed to a cultural phenomenon influencing many Iranians, including children, adults and elderly people.
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Cole Bros. Circus The Cole Bros. Circus was a medium-sized American circus. It was founded in 1884 as "W.W. Cole’s New Colossal Shows", by William Washington Cole. In the 1930s, the circus employed two noted animal trainers, Clyde Beatty and Allen King, both of whom traveled in their own railroad cars. Another well-known performer with the circus was Bobo the Clown.
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Leona Dare Leona Dare (1854/55 – May 23/24, 1922) was an American trapeze artist and aerial acrobat, billed often as the "Queen of the Antilles" or the "Pride of Madrid". She was famous for her stunts on trapezes suspended from ascending balloons.
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Bruno Stutz Bruno Stutz (21 August 1938 – 11 September 2015) was a Swiss clown known for his performances with the Chickys, an act established by his cousin Eugen Altenburger.
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Chiquito de la Calzada Gregorio Esteban Sánchez Fernández (born 28 May 1932 in Málaga, Spain), known as Chiquito de la Calzada, is a Spanish flamenco singer and actor, although he is more famous as a stand-up comedian.