Featured Biographies |
Cameron, Kenneth - astronaut
Benn, Nigel - (born 1964), world champion boxer
Tarrant, Chris - (born 1946), television presenter
Rafter, Patrick - tennis player
Waller, Edwin - (1800-1881), first mayor of Austin, Texas
Brand, Vance - astronaut
Jarvi, Neeme - Estonian conductor
Sargent, John Singer - (1856-1925), US painter
Berg, Moe - US spy and baseball player
Carmack, John - first person shooters Doom, Quake
Elisabeth of Austria - (1837-1898), ("Sisi")
Berry, Richard - musician
Edwards, Joe - astronaut
Bell, Madison Smartt - Waiting for the End of the World (1985), and A Soldier's Joy (1989) amongst others
Bulwer Lytton, Edward George - (1803-1873), the annual bad writing contest is named after him
Aesop - (c.620-c.560 BC, writer of the Fables
Boyington, Pappy - (died 1988), US WW2 fighter pilot
Boleslaus IV of Poland - (1146-1173), Polish ruler
Garriott, Owen - astronaut
Talleyrand, Charles Maurice - (1754-1838), French diplomat
Dearborn, Henry - (1751-1829), U.S. Congressman, Secretary of War
Darwin, Erasmus - (1731-1802), British poet and herbalist
Ward, Vincent - (born 1956), film director
Carte, Richard D'Oyly - (died 1901), impresario
Dagobert II - (died 638), king of the Franks
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