Yakov Shapiro (Jacques Shapiro) (1897-1972)
Adolf Yakovlevich Shapiro (Russian: Адольф Яковлевич Шапиро, Latvian: Ādolfs Šapiro, born July 4, 1939, Kharkov, USSR (now Kharkiv, Ukraine)) is a Soviet, Latvian and Russian theater director, acting teacher, playwright and author. People's Artist of the Latvian SSR (1986), Merited Master of the Arts of the Russian Federation (2019), Laureate of the State Prize of the Latvian SSR (1987).