Featured Biographies |
Naismith, James - (1861-1939), Teacher, invented Basketball
Paine, Robert Treat - (1731-1814), US jurist and Congressman from Massachusetts
Patrese, Riccardo - (born 1954), racing driver
Ferrara, Domenico Maria Novara da - (died 1504), Astronomer and teacher of Nicolaus Copernicus
Lam, Wilfredo - (1902-1982), painter
Ransome, Arthur - (1884-1967), Swallows and Amazons series
Eddings, David - (born 1931), author
Saimei - (594-661), empress of Japan
Rasetti, Franco - (died 2001), physicist
Barbier, Henri Auguste - (1805-1882)
Valenzuela, Fernando - baseball player
Lacaille, Nicolas Louis de - (1713-1762), astronomer
Daubigny, Charles-Francois - (1817-1878), painter
Lannin, Joseph - US baseball team owner
Kaurismaki, Aki - (born 1957), Finnish movie director
Akhenaten - Egyptian Pharaoh and founder of a brief monotheistic religion
Nabokov, Vladimir - (1899-1977), novelist
Brown, John pioneer - (1737-1812), pioneer and statesman from North Carolina
Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius - (63 BC-12 BC) Roman statesman and general
Bell, Marilyn - first person to swim Lake Ontario
Gardner, Guy - astronaut
Buzzati, Dino - (1906-1972), Italian author
Fallaci, Oriana - (born 1929)
Ochoa, Ellen - astronaut
Benoist, Robert - (1895-1944), race car driver, war hero
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