Featured Biographies |
Parks, Gordon - (born 1912), film director, born and raised in Fort Scott, Kansas
Dalton, John - (1766-1844), physicist
Kipling, Rudyard - (1865-1936), British writer
Galsworthy, John - (1867-1933), dramatist
Tarbuck, Jimmy - stand-up comedian
Xenophon - (431- c. 360 BC), Athenian knight, philosopher
Sacher Masoch, Leopold von - (1836-1895), writer
Patton, Charlie - musician
Alexander, Christopher - (1822-1882), Victorian architect
DeLillo, Don - (born 1936), author of White Noise
Washington, George - (1732-1799), USA "Father of his country"
Bernays, Edward L. - (1891-1995), public-opinion engineer
Davis, Angela - (born 1944), US black author and civil rights activist
Biafra, Jello - (born 1958), musician, politician
Urquhart, Jane - (born 1949), novelist
Escalera, Alfredo - (born 1952), world champion boxer
Al Batani - (850-929), astronomer
Bradwardine, Thomas - (c. 1290-1349), philosopher, Archbishop of Canterbury
Bodmer, Karl - (1809-1893), US painter of the American West
Adams, John Couch - (1819-1892), astronomer
Baiul, Oksana - (born 1977), figure skater
Brody, Bruiser - (1946-1988), wrestler
Rademacher, Pete - (born 1929), boxer
Ignatieff, Michael - (born 1947), Canadian writer
Barbaro, Ermolao - (1454-1493)
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