Featured Biographies |
Yao Ming - NBA Basketball player, Houston Rockets
Electra, Carmen - (born 1972), US model & actress
Campion, Thomas - (1567-1619), composer, poet
Vassilieff, Marie - (1884 - 1957), painter
Davis, Jim - (born 1945), Garfield cartoonist
Wallace, George - (1919-1998), American politician
Ehrlich, Paul R. - (1854-1915), entomologist
Bujold, Lois McMaster - (born 1949), US science fiction writer of Vorkosigan series
Buchan, John - (1875-1940), Scottish author
Alfonso XI of Castile - (1311-1350), king of Castille and León in 1312
Epstein, Jacob - sculptor
Amigoni, Jacopo - (1685-1752), painter
Ward, Aaron Montgomery - (1844-1913), department store founder
Fisk, James - (1834-1872), entrepreneur
Underhill, John - (1609-1672), Puritan colonist and soldier in America
Fisher, Anna - astronaut
Palahniuk, Chuck - (born 1962), author of Fight Club and Choke
Lawless, Lucy - (born 1968), New Zealand actress
Walsh, George - (1868-1913), US publisher, head of Dakota Territory's Council
Butler, John - (1728-1796) Loyalist (Tory) leader in the American Revolution
Vargas, Fernando - (born 1977), world champion boxer
Ward, Artemus - (1834-1867), US humorist, a.k.a. Charles Farrar Browne
Saladin - (1137-1193), victor over Crusaders and founder of the Ayyubid dynasty of Egypt and Syria
Patrick, Lester - (died 1960), ice hockey star
Karaca, Cem - (born 1945), Turkish rock musician
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