Featured Biographies |
Bede - (c. 672-735 C.E.), scholastic philosopher, historian
Jarvis, Anna - (1832-1905)
Garratt, Herbert William - (1864-1913), locomotive engineer
Brassai - (1899-1984), photographer
Bingham, George Caleb - (1811-1879), painter
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - (1803-1882), US author
Laurents, Arthur - (born 1918), playwright, novelist, and director
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - (1896-1940), US author
Watson, James Dewey - (born 1928), Nobel Prize-winning biologist
Gates, Gareth - musician
Calil, Musa - (1906-1944), Tatar poet, prisoner of war
Parise, Roland - astronaut
Boye, Karin - Swedish writer
Block, Walter - economist
Cartier, George Etienne - (1814-1873), French-Canadian statesman
Baldinger, Ernst Gottfried - (1738-1804)
Egoyan, Atom - director (The Sweet Hereafter)
Bachaumont, Louis Petit de - (1690-1771)
Maclean, John - (1879-1923), socialist agitator
Lassell, William - (1799-1880), astronomer
Bell, Marilyn - first person to swim Lake Ontario
Payne Gaposchkin, Cecilia - (1900-1979), astronomer
Davis, Jefferson - (1808-1889), President of the Confederate States of America
Alfonso III of Leon - (848-910), the Great, king in 866
Advani, Pankaj - snooker player, India
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