Featured Biographies |
Boscawen, Edward - (1711-1761), naval commander
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - (1896-1940), US author
Boetie, Etienne de La - (1530-1563), French philosopher and politician
Cantoral, Itati - (born 1975), actress
Beauvoir, Simone de - (1908-1986), French author
Belli, Melvin - (1907-1996), attorney, actor
Aleksey I of Russia - (1629-1676)
Sankara, Adi - (c. 788-820), Indian composer
Brinch Hansen, Per - Dutch computer scientist (concurrency theory)
Farr, William - (1807-1883), epidemiologist
Ward, Artemus - (1834-1867), US humorist, a.k.a. Charles Farrar Browne
Bresson, Robert - (1907-1999), French film director
Laswell, Bill - (born 1950), musician and producer
Tanner, Joseph - astronaut
Ellis, Herb - musician
Jackson, Henry M. Scoop - (1912-1983), US senator
Barrie, Chris - (born 1960), (Red Dwarf, The Brittas Empire)
Tanizaki, Junichiro - (1886-1965), Some Prefer Nettles, The Makioka Sisters
Yao Ming - NBA Basketball player, Houston Rockets
Talboys, Brian - New Zealand politician
Becker, Boris - (born 1967), (Germany)
Benet, Stephen Vincent - (1898-1943), poet
Barrington, John Shute - (1678-1734)
Patrick, Saint - (circa 373-461), Welsh born Irish patron saint
Walken, Christopher - (born 1943), US actor
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