Featured Biographies |
Rankin, Robert - author
Yao Ming - NBA Basketball player, Houston Rockets
Borgia, Cesare - (1476-1507), Renaissance politician
Payne Gaposchkin, Cecilia - (1900-1979), astronomer
Ericsson, John - (1803-1889), Swedish inventor and engineer
Bradley, Bill - (born 1943), basketball player, US Senator
Barclay, John - (1582-1621)
de Champlain, Samuel - (c. 1567-1635), 1st governor of Canada
Ocasek, Ric - (born 1949), musician ("The Cars")
Bragg, Melvyn - television presenter
Bricklin, Dan - co-creator of VisiCalc, the first personal spreadsheet program
Lavender, David - (1910-2003), Western US writer and historian
Waddle, Chris - (born 1960), athlete
Baels, Mary Lilian - (1916-2002), Princess de Rethy
Underhill, John - (1609-1672), Puritan colonist and soldier in America
Eisenstein, Sergei - (1898-1948), Soviet filmmaker
James, Jesse - (1847-1882), US outlaw
Cantinflas - (1911-1993), Mexican film comedian, appeared in Around the World in Eighty Days
Bichsel, Peter - (born 1935), writer
Boscawen, Edward - (1711-1761), naval commander
Abernathy, Ralph - (1936-1996), US civil rights leader
Watts, Charlie - (born 1941), British rock musican ("The Rolling Stones")
Bentham, Jeremy - (1748-1832), lawyer, eccentric, and philosopher
Adjani, Isabelle - (b.1955), French actress
Eleanor of Aquitaine - (died 1204), wife of Henry II of England
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