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Great Lives from History: The 18th Century

Editor: Robert F. Gorman, Texas State
ISBN: 978-1-58765-345-2
List Price: $795

September 2008 · 10 volumes · 5,280 pages · 8"x10"

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Great Lives from History: The 20th Century
Contents by
Primary Area of Achievement

Agriculture
Borlaug, Norman
Carver, George Washington

Anthropology
Benedict, Ruth
Boas, Franz
Frazer, Sir James George
Frobenius, Leo
Heyerdahl, Thor
Leakey, L. S. B.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Mead, Margaret

Archaeology
Breuil, Henri-Édouard-Prosper
Leakey, Mary

Architecture
Aalto, Alvar
Candela, Felix
Farrand, Beatrix Jones
Freyssinet, Eugène
Fuller, R. Buckminster
Garnier, Tony
Gaudí, Antonio
Gropius, Walter
Le Corbusier
Lin, Maya Ying
Mendelsohn, Erich
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
Nervi, Pier Luigi
Niemeyer, Oscar
Oud, J. J. P.
Pei, I. M.
Perret, Auguste
Wright, Frank Lloyd

Art
Boccioni, Umberto
Bonnard, Pierre
Brancusi, Constantin
Braque, Georges
Calder, Alexander
Chagall, Marc
Chicago, Judy
Dalí, Salvador
Delaunay, Robert
Denis, Maurice
Duchamp, Marcel
Epstein, Jacob
Ernst, Max
Escher, M. C.
Frankenthaler, Helen
Fry, Roger
Geddes, Norman Bell
Giacometti, Alberto
Gris, Juan
Hockney, David
Hopper, Edward
John, Augustus
Kahlo, Frida
Kandinsky, Wassily
Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig
Klee, Paul
Klimt, Gustav
Kokoschka, Oskar
Kollwitz, Käthe
Krasner, Lee
Kupka, Frantisek
Léger, Fernand
Lichtenstein, Roy
Lipchitz, Jacques
Magritte, René
Marc, Franz
Martin, Agnes
Matisse, Henri
Miró, Joan
Modigliani, Amedeo
Mondrian, Piet
Monet, Claude
Moore, Henry
Moses, Grandma
Motherwell, Robert
Munch, Edvard
Nash, Paul
Nevelson, Louise
Nicholson, Ben
O'Keeffe, Georgia
Oldenberg, Claes
Orozco, José Clemente
Picasso, Pablo
Pollock, Jackson
Rauschenberg, Robert
Rivera, Diego
Rockwell, Norman
Rothko, Mark
Rouault, Georges
Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl
Schulz, Charles
Sendak, Maurice
Seuss, Dr.
Sutherland, Graham Vivian
Thomson, Tom
Vuillard, Édouard
Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt
Wood, Grant
Wyeth, Andrew

Astronomy
Ambartsumian, Viktor A.
Baade, Walter
Bell, Jocelyn
Cannon, Annie Jump
Danjon, André-Louis
Hale, George Ellery
Hoyle, Sir Fred
Hubble, Edwin P.
Leavitt, Henrietta Swan
Lemaître, Georges
Oort, Jan Hendrik
Russell, Henry Norris
Sagan, Carl
Schwarzschild, Karl
Tombaugh, Clyde William
Wolf, Max

Aviation and space exploration
Armstrong, Neil
Blériot, Louis
Braun, Wernher von
Byrd, Richard
Coleman, Bessie
Doolittle, Jimmy
Earhart, Amelia
Eckener, Hugo
Gagarin, Yuri
Garneau, Marc
Glenn, John
Heinkel, Ernst
Hughes, Howard
Kesselring, Albert
Lindbergh, Charles A.
Lucid, Shannon
Mitchell, William
Piccard, Auguste, and Jean-Felix
Prandtl, Ludwig
Ride, Sally
Santos-Dumont, Alberto
Shepard, Alan
Tereshkova, Valentina
Tupolev, Andrei Nikolayevich
Yeager, Chuck
Zeppelin, Frederick von

Biochemistry
Bayliss, William Maddock
Ehrlich, Paul
Fleming, Alexander
Florey, Baron
Krebs, Sir Hans Adolf
Macleod, John J. R.
Mullis, Kary B.
Pauling, Linus
Staudinger, Hermann

Biology
Burnet, Macfarlane
Calmette, Albert
Carson, Rachel
Fleming, Alexander
Florey, Baron
Gould, Stephen Jay
Jacob, François
Lorenz, Konrad
Smith, Theobald
Varmus, Harold E.
Wilson, Edward O.

Business and industry
Ash, Mary Kay
Beaverbrook, Lord
Bezos, Jeff
Buffett, Warren
Citroën, André-Gustave
Ford, Henry
Guggenheim, Daniel
Hearst, William Randolph
Kroc, Ray
Luce, Henry R.
Matsushita, Konosuke
Mellon, Andrew
Morita, Akio
Perot, H. Ross
Pirelli Family, The
Rockefeller, John D., Jr.
Rolls, Charles Stewart, and Frederick Henry Royce
Toyoda, Eiji
Turner, Ted
Walker, Madam C. J.
Walton, Sam
Watson, Thomas John, Sr., and Thomas, Jr.
Yamani, Ahmad Zaki

Chemistry
Arrhenius, Svante August
Bergius, Friedrich
Calvin, Melvin
Conant, James Bryant
Curie, Pierre, and Marie
Diels, Otto Paul Hermann
Franklin, Rosalind
Haber, Fritz
Hevesy, George von
Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot
Joliot, Frédéric, and Irène Joliot-Curie
Libby, Willard Frank
Natta, Giulio
Nernst, Walther Hermann
Ostwald, Wilhelm
Rowland, F. Sherwood
Soddy, Frederick
Urey, Harold C.
Woodward, Robert Burns

Civil rights
Abernathy, Ralph
Du Bois, W. E. B.
Edelman, Marian Wright
Garvey, Marcus
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Jackson, Jesse
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Malcolm X
Mankiller, Wilma
Parks, Rosa
Wells-Barnett, Ida B.
White, Walter

Communications
McLuhan, Marshall

Computer science
Berners-Lee, Tim
Cerf, Vinton G.
Gates, Bill
Hopper, Grace Murray
Jobs, Steve

Crime
Amin, Idi
Bin Laden, Osama
Capone, Al
Himmler, Heinrich
Hitler, Adolf
Mengistu Haile Mariam
Mussolini, Benito
Pol Pot
Qaddafi, Muammar al-
Siad Barré, Mohamed

Dance
Ailey, Alvin
Astaire, Fred
Balanchine, George
Baryshnikov, Mikhail
Cunningham, Merce
Danilova, Alexandra
De Mille, Agnes
Duncan, Isadora
Dunham, Katherine
Fokine, Michel
Fonteyn, Margot
Fuller, Loie
Graham, Martha
Kelly, Gene
Laban, Rudolf
Lifar, Serge
Markova, Dame Alicia
Massine, Léonide
Nijinsky, Vaslav
Nureyev, Rudolph
Pavlova, Anna
Robbins, Jerome
Tallchief, Maria

Diplomacy
Albright, Madeleine
Blair, Tony
Boutros-Ghali, Boutros
Bunche, Ralph
Eban, Abba
Gromyko, Andrei
Hammarskjöld, Dag
Heath, Edward
Hiss, Alger
Kirkpatrick, Jeane
Kissinger, Henry
Lie, Trygve H.
Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi
Pérez de Cuéllar, Javier
Thant, U
Thatcher, Margaret
Venizélos, Eleuthérios
Wilson, Harold

Economics
Beveridge, Lord
Erhard, Ludwig
Friedman, Milton
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Greenspan, Alan
Hayek, Friedrich
Hu Yaobang
Jiang Zemin
Keynes, John Maynard
Monnet, Jean
Myrdal, Gunnar
Veblen, Thorstein
Webb, Beatrice, and Sidney Webb

Education
Bethune, Mary McLeod
Butler, Nicholas Murray
Flexner, Abraham
Hutchins, Robert M.
Low, Juliette Gordon
Montessori, Maria
Rockne, Knute
Sullivan, Anne
Talbot, Marion

Engineering
Armstrong, Edwin H.
Goethels, George Washington
Korolev, Sergei
Rickover, Hyman G.
Taylor, Frederick Winslow
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin
Wankel, Felix
Whittle, Frank

Exploration and colonization
Amundsen, Roald
Nansen, Fridtjof
Peary, Robert Edwin
Rasmussen, Knud Johan Victor

Fashion
Chanel, Coco
Lauder, Estee

Film
Arzner, Dorothy
Bergman, Ingmar
Bergman, Ingrid
Bogart, Humphrey
Brando, Marlon
Buñuel, Luis
Chaplin, Charles
Davis, Bette
DeMille, Cecil B.
Dietrich, Marlene
Dreyer, Carl Theodor
Eisenstein, Sergei
Fellini, Federico
Fonda, Henry
Gable, Clark
Gance, Abel
Garbo, Greta
Gish, Lillian
Goldwyn, Samuel
Grant, Cary
Griffith, D. W.
Hayworth, Rita
Hepburn, Katharine
Hepburn, Audrey
Hitchcock, Alfred
Keaton, Buster
Kurosawa, Akira
Lang, Fritz
Lucas, George
Mayer, Louis B.
Monroe, Marilyn
Peck, Gregory
Poitier, Sidney
Ray, Satyajit
Renoir, Jean
Riefenstahl, Leni
Scorsese, Martin
Sellers, Peter
Sennett, Mack
Spielberg, Steven
Stewart, James
Taylor, Elizabeth
Temple, Shirley
Tracy, Spencer
Truffaut, François
Visconti, Luchino
Warner, Jack
Wayne, John
Welles, Orson
West, Mae
Zanuck, Darryl F.

Genetics
Crick, Francis
McClintock, Barbara
Morgan, Thomas Hunt
Muller, Hermann Joseph
Mullis, Kary B.
Vavilov, Nikolai Ivanovich
Watson, James D.
Wilkins, Maurice H. F.

Geography and geology
Hess, Harry Hammond
Mackinder, Sir Halford John
Richter, Charles

Government and politics
Abbas, Ferhat
Acheson, Dean
Adenauer, Konrad
Akihito
Allende, Salvador
Aquino, Corazon
Arafat, Yasir
Arias, Oscar
Aristide, Jean-Bertrand
Asquith, H. H.
Assad, Hafez al-
Astor, Nancy
Atatürk
Attlee, Clement
Aung San Suu Kyi
Aurobindo, Sri
Azikiwe, Nnamdi
Baldwin, Stanley
Balfour, Arthur
Banda, Hastings Kamuzu
Banerjea, Surendranath
Bao Dai
Begin, Menachem
Ben-Gurion, David
Benes, Edvard
Bevan, Aneurin
Bhumibol Adulyadej
Bhutto, Benazir
Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali
Blum, Léon
Borden, Robert Laird
Botha, Louis
Bourguiba, Habib
Brandt, Willy
Brezhnev, Leonid
Brundtland, Gro Harlem
Bukharin, Nikolay Ivanovich
Bülow, Bernhard von
Bush, George H. W.
Butler, R. A.
Calles, Plutarco Elías
Campbell, Kim
Cárdenas, Lázaro
Cardoso, Fernando
Carter, Jimmy
Castro, Fidel
Ceausescu, Nicolae
Chamberlain, Neville
Chen Duxiu
Chiang Kai-shek
Chisholm, Shirley
Chrétien, Jean
Churchill, Winston
Clemenceau, Georges
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary Rodham
Collins, Michael
Coolidge, Calvin
Cosgrave, William T.
Curtin, John
Curzon, George Nathaniel
Dayan, Moshe
De Gasperi, Alcide
De Valera, Eamon
De Klerk, F. W.
Deng Xiaoping
Djilas, Milovan
Dole, Bob
Dole, Elizabeth
Duarte, José Napoleón
Dubcek, Alexander
Dulles, John Foster
Duvalier, François
Éboué, Félix
Eden, Anthony
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Enver Pasa
Erzberger, Matthias
Evatt, Herbert Vere
Fahd
Faisal
Faisal I
Farouk I
Feinstein, Dianne
Ferraro, Geraldine
Ford, Gerald R.
Franco, Francisco
Fujimori, Alberto
Gandhi, Indira
Gaulle, Charles de
Gentile, Giovanni
Goebbels, Joseph
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Gore, Al
Grey, Edward
Griffith, Arthur
Habash, George
Haile Selassie I
Harding, Warren G.
Harriman, William Averell
Hassan II
Hatoyama Ichiro
Hatta, Mohammad
Havel, Václav
Hawke, Bob
Haya de la Torre, Víctor Raúl
Herriot, Édouard
Hindenburg, Paul von
Ho Chi Minh
Hobby, Oveta Culp
Hoover, Herbert
Houphouët-Boigny, Félix
Hua Guofeng
Hughes, William Morris
Hull, Cordell
Humphrey, Hubert H.
Hun Sen
Hussein I
Hussein, Saddam
Ikeda, Hayato
Ismet Pasa
Jinnah, Mohammed Ali
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Jordan, Barbara
Juan Carlos I
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, Robert F.
Kenyatta, Jomo
Kerensky, Aleksandr Fyodorovich
Khrushchev, Nikita S.
Kim Jong-il
Kim Dae-Jung
Kim Il-sung
King, William Lyon Mackenzie
Kohl, Helmut
La Follette, Robert M.
La Guardia, Fiorello Henry
Lansdowne, Lord
Lugard, Lord
Laurier, Sir Wilfrid
Laval, Pierre
Law, Bonar
Lee Kuan Yew
Lenin, Vladimir Ilich
Lévesque, René
Li Peng
Lin Biao
Litvinov, Maksim Maksimovich
Liu Shaoqi
Lloyd George, David
Lodge, Henry Cabot
Long, Huey
Ludendorff, Erich
Lumumba, Patrice
Lutuli, Albert
Lyons, Enid Muriel
Lyons, Joseph Aloysius
MacDonald, Ramsay
Machel, Samora
Macmillan, Harold
Madero, Francisco
Major, John
Malenkov, Georgi M.
Mannerheim, Carl Gustaf
Mao Zedong
Marcos, Ferdinand
Masaryk, Tomás
Massey, William Ferguson
McCarthy, Joseph
McNamara, Robert
Meir, Golda
Mendès-France, Pierre
Menzies, Robert Gordon
Mitterrand, François
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich
Mossadegh, Mohammad
Mountbatten, Louis
Mugabe, Robert
Mulroney, Brian
Naidu, Sarojini
Nasser, Gamal Abdel
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Ngo Dinh Diem
Nixon, Richard M.
Nkrumah, Kwame
Nyerere, Julius
O'Connor, Thomas Power
O'Kelly, Seán T.
O'Neill, Tip
Obote, Milton
Obregón, Álvaro
Ortega, Daniel
Ortega, Katherine Davalos
Papandreou, Andreas
Papen, Franz von
Patel, Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai
Paz Estenssoro, Victor
Pearson, Lester B.
Peng Dehuai
Perkins, Frances
Perón, Eva
Perón, Juan
Pilsudski, Jozef
Poincaré, Raymond
Pompidou, Georges
Rankin, Jeannette
Rawlings, J. J.
Rayburn, Samuel T.
Reagan, Ronald
Reza Shah Pahlavi
Rhee, Syngman
Richards, Ann
Robinson, Mary
Rockefeller, Nelson A.
Rogers, Edith Nourse
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Root, Elihu
Ross, Nellie Tayloe
Sadat, Anwar el-
Salazar, António
Sato, Eisaku
Sauvé, Jeanne
Seko, Mobutu Sese
Sihanouk, Norodom
Smith, Alfred E.
Smith, Margaret Chase
Smuts, Jan Christian
Spaak, Paul-Henri
St. Laurent, Louis
Stalin, Joseph
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Stimson, Henry L.
Stresemann, Gustav
Suharto
Sukarno
Sun Yat-sen
Taft, Robert A.
Taft, William Howard
Thatcher, Margaret
Thieu, Nguyen Van
Thomas, Norman
Tilak, Bal Gangadhar
Tito
Touré, Ahmed Sékou
Trotsky, Leon
Trudeau, Pierre
Trujillo, Rafael
Truman, Harry S.
Tshombe, Moïse
Tubman, William V. S.
Ulbricht, Walter
Villa, Pancho
Waldheim, Kurt
Walesa, Lech
Wallace, George C.
Wallace, Henry A.
Wang Jingwei
Weizmann, Chaim
William II
Wilson, Woodrow
Yeltsin, Boris
Zaghlul, Said
Zhao Ziyang
Zhou Enlai
Zia-ul-Haq, Muhammad

Historiography
Beard, Charles A.
Braudel, Fernand
Dawidowicz, Lucy S.
Harnack, Adolf von
Lewis, Bernard
Parrington, Vernon Louis
Pirenne, Henri
Toynbee, Arnold
Tuchman, Barbara W.
Turner, Frederick Jackson

Invention and technology
Carlson, Chester F.
Claude, Georges
De Forest, Lee
Eastman, George
Ferrari, Enzo
Hounsfield, Godfrey Newbold
Lanchester, Frederick William
Michelin, André and Édouard
Zworykin, Vladimir

Journalism
Bottomley, Horatio W.
Buckley, William F., Jr.
Cronkite, Walter
Graham, Katharine
Harmsworth, Alfred, and Harold
Landers, Ann
Lippmann, Walter
London, Jack
Luce, Clare Boothe
Luxemburg, Rosa
Murrow, Edward R.
Tarbell, Ida
Walters, Barbara

Labor movement
Bevin, Ernest
Debs, Eugene V.
Huerta, Dolores
Jones, Mother
Lewis, John L.
Meany, George
Randolph, A. Philip
Reuther, Walter P.

Language and linguistics
Bakhtin, Mikhail
Chomsky, Noam
Jakobson, Roman
Saussure, Ferdinand de

Law
Black, Hugo L.
Blackmun, Harry
Brandeis, Louis D.
Brennan, William
Breyer, Stephen G
Bryan, William Jennings
Burger, Warren E.
Cardozo, Benjamin N.
Cassin, René
Darrow, Clarence
Douglas, William O.
Ehrlich, Eugen
Frankfurter, Felix
Hand, Learned
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
Hoover, J. Edgar
Hughes, Charles Evans
MacKinnon, Catharine A.
Marshall, Thurgood
O'Connor, Sandra Day
Powell, Lewis F., Jr.
Rehnquist, William H.
Reno, Janet
Souter, David H.
Stone, Harlan Fiske
Thomas, Clarence
Warren, Earl
Wiesenthal, Simon

Literature
Achebe, Chinua
Akhmatova, Anna
Angelou, Maya
Apollinaire, Guillaume
Atwood, Margaret
Auden, W. H.
Baldwin, James
Barnes, Djuna
Barthes, Roland
Beckett, Samuel
Bellow, Saul
Benét, Stephen Vincent
Blok, Aleksandr
Böll, Heinrich
Borges, Jorge Luis
Breton, André
Brooks, Gwendolyn
Buck, Pearl S.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Camus, Albert
Capek, Karel
Capote, Truman
Cather, Willa
Césaire, Aimé
Christie, Agatha
Cocteau, Jean
Colette
Conrad, Joseph
Coward, Noël
Crane, Hart
Cummings, E. E.
Davies, Robertson
Dreiser, Theodore
Ehrlich, Eugen
Eliot, T. S.
Éluard, Paul
Endo, Schizaeaceae
Ephron, Nora
Erdrich, Louise
Faulkner, William
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Forester, C. S.
Forster, E. M.
Frank, Anne
Frisch, Max
Frost, Robert
Fugard, Athol
Gabriel Márquez, García
Gallant, Mavis
García Lorca, Federico
Gardner, Erle Stanley
Gide, André
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Giraudoux, Jean
Gordimer, Nadine
Gorky, Maxim
Gramsci, Antonio
Grass, Günter
Greene, Graham
Guo Moruo
H. D.
Halide Edib Adivar
Hamsun, Knut
Hansberry, Lorraine
Hellman, Lillian
Hemingway, Ernest
Hesse, Hermann
Hubbard, L. Ron
Hughes, Langston
Hurston, Zora Neale
Huxley, Aldous
Joyce, James
Kafka, Franz
Kawabata, Yasunari
Kazantzakis, Nikos
Kerouac, Jack
King, Stephen
Lagerlöf, Selma
Lawrence, D. H.
Laxness, Halldór
Lewis, Sinclair
Lewis, C. S.
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
Lowell, Amy
Lu Xun
Mahfouz, Naguib
Mailer, Norman
Malraux, André
Mann, Thomas
Mauriac, François
Mayakovsky, Vladimir
McCarthy, Mary
McCullers, Carson
Mencken, H. L.
Michener, James A.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Miller, Arthur
Milne, A. A.
Mishima, Yukio
Montale, Eugenio
Moore, Marianne
Morrison, Toni
Munro, Alice
Nabokov, Vladimir
Naipaul, V. S.
Neruda, Pablo
Nordau, Max
O'Connor, Flannery
Ondaatje, Michael
Ortega y Gasset, José
Orwell, George
Parker, Dorothy
Pasternak, Boris
Paton, Alan
Paz, Octavio
Plath, Sylvia
Porter, Katherine Anne
Potter, Beatrix
Proust, Marcel
Rand, Ayn
Remarque, Erich Maria
Richler, Mordecai
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Sachs, Nelly
Salinger, J. D.
Sandburg, Carl
Sarraute, Nathalie
Senghor, Léopold
Service, Robert W.
Sexton, Anne
Shaw, George Bernard
Sinclair, Upton
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Soyinka, Wole
Stein, Gertrude
Steinbeck, John
Tagore, Rabindranath
Tanizaki, Jun'ichiro
Teasdale, Sara
Thurber, James
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Tsvetayeva, Marina
Unamuno y Jugo, Miguel de
Valéry, Paul
Walker, Alice
Warren, Robert Penn
Wells, H. G.
Wharton, Edith
Wiesel, Elie
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Williams, Tennessee
Wilson, Edmund
Wolfe, Thomas
Woolf, Virginia
Yeats, William Butler

Mathematics
Gödel, Kurt
Mandelbrot, Benoît B.
Neumann, John von
Picard, Émile
Turing, Alan Mathison
Wiener, Norbert

Medicine
Apgar, Virginia
Banting, Frederick G.
Barnard, Christiaan
Cushing, Harvey Williams
Gesell, Arnold
Gorgas, William Crawford
Mayo, William J., and Charles H.
Mendenhall, Dorothy Reed
Picotte, Susan La Flesche
Ross, Ronald
Schweitzer, Albert
Taussig, Helen Brooke
Whipple, George Hoyt

Meteorology
Bjerknes, Vilhelm
Geiger, Rudolf
Wegener, Alfred

Military affairs
Alanbrooke, First Viscount
Allenby, Lord
Bradley, Omar Nelson
Göring, Hermann
Hallaren, Mary A.
Kitchener, Lord
MacArthur, Douglas
Marshall, George C.
Montgomery, Bernard Law
Patton, George S.
Pershing, John J.
Pétain, Philippe
Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto
Powell, Colin
Rabin, Yitzhak
Rommel, Erwin
Rundstedt, Gerd von
Torrijos, Omar
Zhu De

Monarchy
Edward VII
Elizabeth II
Francis Ferdinand
George VI
George V
Hirohito
Windsor, Duke of

Music
Anderson, Marian
Armstrong, Louis
Barber, Samuel
Bartók, Béla
Beatles, The
Berg, Alban
Berlin, Irving
Bernstein, Leonard
Boulanger, Nadia
Boulez, Pierre
Britten, Benjamin
Callas, Maria
Caruso, Enrico
Casals, Pablo
Charles, Ray
Coltrane, John
Copland, Aaron
Crosby, Bing
Cruz, Celia
Debussy, Claude
Delius, Frederick
Dylan, Bob
Elgar, Edward
Ellington, Duke
Falla, Manuel de
Fitzgerald, Ella
Franklin, Aretha
Garland, Judy
Gershwin, George
Gershwin, Ira
Gillespie, Dizzy
Goodman, Benny
Gould, Glenn
Hammerstein, Oscar, II
Handy, W. C.
Hart, Lorenz
Henze, Hans Werner
Hindemith, Paul
Holiday, Billie
Horowitz, Vladimir
Ives, Charles
Janácek, Leos
Joplin, Janis
Karajan, Herbert von
Lang, K. D.
Lloyd Webber, Andrew
Mahler, Gustav
Menotti, Gian Carlo
Messiaen, Olivier
Milhaud, Darius
Nielsen, Carl
Norman, Jessye
Parker, Charlie
Parton, Dolly
Pavarotti, Luciano
Peterson, Oscar
Piaf, Édith
Porter, Cole
Poulenc, Francis
Presley, Elvis
Price, Leontyne
Prokofiev, Sergei
Puccini, Giacomo
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
Ravel, Maurice
Rodgers, Richard
Saint-Saëns, Camille
Satie, Erik
Schoenberg, Arnold
Segovia, Andrés
Shostakovich, Dmitri
Sibelius, Jean
Sills, Beverly
Sinatra, Frank
Smith, Bessie
Sousa, John Philip
Stockhausen, Karlheinz
Strauss, Richard
Stravinsky, Igor
Streisand, Barbra
Suzuki, Shinichi
Toscanini, Arturo
Varèse, Edgard
Vaughan Williams, Ralph
Villa-Lobos, Heitor
Walton, William
Waters, Muddy
Webern, Anton von
Weill, Kurt
Xenakis, Iannis
Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe

Oceanography
Ballard, Robert D.
Cousteau, Jacques

Patronage of the arts
Diaghilev, Sergei
Gardner, Isabella Stewart

Philanthropy
Brown, Margaret Tobin
Getty, Sir John Paul
Soros, George

Philosophy
Arendt, Hannah
Beauvoir, Simone de
Benjamin, Walter
Bergson, Henri
Carnap, Rudolf
Cassirer, Ernst
Croce, Benedetto
Derrida, Jacques
Dewey, John
Eucken, Rudolf Christoph
Habermas, Jürgen
Hartmann, Nicolai
Heidegger, Martin
Husserl, Edmund
Jaspers, Karl
Langer, Susanne K.
Lukács, György
Marcel, Gabriel
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
Moore, G. E.
Nishida, Kitaro
Nozick, Robert
Rawls, John
Royce, Josiah
Russell, Bertrand
Santayana, George
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Scheler, Max
Stein, Edith
Weil, Simone
Whitehead, Alfred North
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Photography
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Bourke-White, Margaret
Cartier-Bresson, Henri
Cunningham, Imogen
Lange, Dorothea
Lumière, August and Louis
Ray, Man
Steichen, Edward
Stieglitz, Alfred

Physics
Alfvén, Hannes
Alvarez, Luis W.
Bardeen, John
Basov, Nikolay Gennadiyevich
Bethe, Hans Albrecht
Bohr, Niels
Born, Max
Bothe, Walther
Bragg, Lawrence
Bridgman, Percy Williams
Broglie, Louis de
Chadwick, James
Compton, Arthur Holly
Dirac, Paul A. M.
Einstein, Albert
Fermi, Enrico
Gamow, George
Geiger, Hans
Goddard, Robert H.
Guillaume, Charles-Édouard
Hahn, Otto
Hawking, Stephen
Heisenberg, Werner
Hertz, Gustav
Herzberg, Gerhard
Kamerlingh Onnes, Heike
Kapitsa, Pyotr Leonidovich
Kurchatov, Igor Vasilyevich
Landau, Lev Davidovich
Laue, Max von
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando
Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon
Marconi, Guglielmo
McMillan, Edwin Mattison
Meitner, Lise
Millikan, Robert Andrews
Néel, Louis-Eugène-Félix
Oberth, Hermann
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Pauli, Wolfgang
Planck, Max
Rabi, Isidor Isaac
Raman, Chandrasekhara Venkata
Rotblat, Sir Joseph
Rutherford, Ernest
Sakharov, Andrei
Schrödinger, Erwin
Seaborg, Glenn Theodore
Stark, Johannes
Teller, Edward
Thomson, Sir J. J.
Townes, Charles H.
Van Allen, James
Weinberg, Steven
Yukawa, Hideki

Physiology
Bayliss, William Maddock
Breuer, Josef
Eccles, John Carew
Egas Moniz, António
Ehrlich, Paul
Einthoven, Willem
Houssay, Bernardo Alberto
Krogh, August
Macleod, John J. R.
Rous, Peyton
Starling, Ernest Henry

Political science
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Laski, Harold J.
Morgenthau, Hans J.
Mosca, Gaetano
Zetkin, Clara

Psychiatry and psychology
Adler, Alfred
Bleuler, Eugen
Ehrenfels, Christian von
Freud, Sigmund
Fromm, Erich
Horney, Karen
Janet, Pierre
Jung, Carl
Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth
Lacan, Jacques
Le Bon, Gustave
Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich
Piaget, Jean
Rorschach, Hermann
Skinner, B. F.
Spock, Benjamin
Sullivan, Harry Stack
Thorndike, Edward L.
Wertheimer, Max
Wundt, Wilhelm

Public administration
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Johnson, Lady Bird
Lathrop, Julia C.
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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Sanger, Margaret
Wald, Lillian D.

Religion and theology
Angelica, Mother
Baeck, Leo
Barth, Karl
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
Brunner, Emil
Buber, Martin
Bultmann, Rudolf
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Eliade, Mircea
Falwell, Jerry
Gandhi, Mahatma
Gilson, Étienne
Graham, Billy
Harris, Barbara
John XXIII
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Maritain, Jacques
Merton, Thomas
Moon, Sun Myung
Mott, John R.
Niebuhr, Reinhold
Niemöller, Martin
Paul VI
Pio, Padre
Pius X
Pius XI
Pius XII
Rauschenbusch, Walter
Romero, Oscar
Sheen, Fulton J.
Söderblom, Nathan
Sunday, Billy
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
Tillich, Paul
Troeltsch, Ernst
Wach, Joachim
Wise, Stephen Samuel

Science
Schmidt, Bernhard Voldemar
Stopes, Marie
Pinchot, Gifford

Sex research
Ellis, Havelock
Kinsey, Alfred

Social reform
Addams, Jane
Angell, Norman
Balch, Emily Greene
Bondfield, Margaret
Day, Dorothy
Diana, Princess of Wales
Douglas, Helen Gahagan
Fanon, Frantz
Farrakhan, Louis
Goldman, Emma
Guevara, Che
Hayslip, Le Ly
Hernandez, Aileen Clarke
Jorgensen, Christine
Keller, Helen
La Fontaine, Henri-Marie
Menchú, Rigoberta
Nader, Ralph
Osborne, Thomas Mott
Pire, Dominique
Rukeyser, Muriel
Sacco, Nicola
Sorel, Georges
Teresa, Mother
Tutu, Desmond

Sociology
Durkheim, Émile
Hobhouse, Leonard T.
Tönnies, Ferdinand Julius
Weber, Max

Sports
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Borg, Björn
Bradman, Donald G.
Cobb, Ty
Coe, Sebastian
Constantine, Learie
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Dempsey, Jack
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Evert, Chris
Gehrig, Lou
Gibson, Althea
Gretzky, Wayne
Henie, Sonja
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Jones, Bobby
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Laver, Rod
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Messner, Reinhold
Navratilova, Martina
Nicklaus, Jack
Oh, Sadaharu
Owens, Jesse
Pelé
Perry, Fred
Player, Gary
Robeson, Paul
Robinson, Frank
Robinson, Jackie
Rose, Pete
Rozelle, Pete
Russell, Bill
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Sampras, Pete
Thorpe, Jim
Wightman, Hazel
Woods, Tiger
Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

Television and radio
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Stonehaven, First Baron Reith of
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Theater and entertainment
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Fosse, Bob
Genet, Jean
Hayes, Helen
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Houdini, Harry
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Le Gallienne, Eva
Lewis, Jerry
Loos, Anita
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O'Neill, Eugene
Olivier, Sir Laurence
Pickford, Mary
Pirandello, Luigi
Rogers, Will
Stanislavsky, Konstantin
Strindberg, August
Terry, Megan

Warfare and conquest
Guderian, Heinz
Halsey, William F.
Joffre, Joseph-Jacques-Césaire
Lawrence, T. E.
Nimitz, Chester W.
Seeckt, Hans von
Slim, First Viscount
Tirpitz, Alfred von
Zapata, Emiliano
Zhukov, Georgy

Women's rights
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Friedan, Betty
Millett, Kate
Pankhurst, Emmeline
Paul, Alice
Steinem, Gloria

Zoology
Frisch, Karl von



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