Featured Biographies |
Yip Man - (1893-1972)
Cagney, James - (1899-1986), US actor
Bozzo, Laura - (born 1950), Peruvian talk show host
Taylor, John - (1580-1653), "The Water Poet", English poet
Akas, Cem - (born 1968), novelist
Brookes, Noel - British bookseller
Brandt, Di - (born 1952), Manitoba poet and literary critic
Vargas, Fernando - (born 1977), world champion boxer
Kawabata, Yasunari - (1899-1972), Japanese writer, 1968 Nobelist
Taniyama, Yutaka - (1927-1958), mathematician
Yonge, Charlotte M - (1823-1901), British novelist
Napier, John - (1550-1617), mathematician, inventor
Maeterlinck, Maurice - (1862-1949), Nobel Prize in Literature 1911
Vanderbilt, Amy - (born 1908), author on etiquette
Engelmann, George - (1809-1884), German-American botanist
Baader, Franz Xaver von - (1765-1841), philosopher
Eno, Brian - (born 1948), composer, musician
Beamon, Bob - (born 1946), athlete
Baade, Walter - (1893-1960), astronomer
Benjamin, Judah - (1811-1884), Secretary of State for the Confederate States of America
Gandhi, Rajiv - Prime Minister of India
Underhill, John - (1609-1672), Puritan colonist and soldier in America
Baxter, Charles - American author, novelist
Deighton, Len - (born 1929), British thriller author
Blier, Bertrand - (born 1939), French film director
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