Featured Biographies |
Alexander, Denise - (born 1939), soap opera actress
Larsen, Bent - chess player
Banach, Stefan - (1892-1945), Pole
Booker, James - musician
Deligne, Pierre - mathematician
De Duve, Christian - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1974
Blatchford, Robert - (1854-1943), socialist author
Bear, Greg - (born 1951), US science fiction author
Ellington, Duke - (1899-1974), US jazz musician
Waley, Arthur - English orientalist
Botvinnik, Mikhail - (1911-1995), chess player
Buckley, Jeff - (1966-1997), singer-songwriter
Alexandra of Kent, Princess - cousin of Queen Elizabeth II
Karzai, Hamid - (born 1957), President of Afghanistan
Garfield, James - (1831-1881), US president
Farr, William - (1807-1883), epidemiologist
Gandhi, Sonia - politician, India
Wank, Roland - (1898-1970), architect
Abbe, Ernst - (1840-1905), physicist
Fabricius, David - (1564-1617), astronomer
Carter, Nell - (born 1948), singer, actress
Taylor, A. J. P. - (1906-1990), historian
Boleslaus II the Pious - (972-999), Czech ruler
O'Connell, Daniel - (1776-1847), Catholic Emancipation leader
Kapoor, Raj - Indian actor
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