Featured Biographies |
Lascelles, George , 7th Earl of Harewood - aristocrat
Burney, Charles scholar - (1757-1817), scholar
Baker, Howard - (born 1925), former Senator from Tennessee, former White House Chief of Staff
James, Skip - (1902-1969), musician
Heyse, Paul - (1830-1914), writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1910
Bourke White, Margaret - (born 1906), US aviator
Bacon, John - (1740-1799), sculptor
Maclaurin, Colin - (1698-1746), mathematician
Paret, Benny Kid - world boxing champion who had tragic end
Barr, Roseanne - (born 1952), American actress and comedian
Bingham, George Caleb - (1811-1879), painter
Eckert, John Presper - (born 1919), computer developer
Kahn, Roger Wolfe - (1907-1962), jazz musician
MacDiarmid, Hugh - (1892-1978), poet
English, Joe - drummer for Paul McCartney & Wings
Elgar, Edward - (1857-1934), English composer
Bichsel, Peter - (born 1935), writer
Kawabata, Yasunari - (1899-1972), Japanese writer, 1968 Nobelist
Fabricius, Georg - (1516-1571), German poet, historian, archaeologist
Young, Brigham - (1801-1877), Mormon leader
MacLeod, Alistair - (born 1936), Canadian writer, novelist
Deburghgraeve, Fred - swimmer
Law, Andrew Bonar - (1858-1923), Unionist Party leader
Federer, Roger - Switzerland
De Lille, Alain - (c. 1128-1202), scholastic philosopher
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