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Great Lives from History: The 18th Century

Editor: Robert F. Gorman, Texas State
ISBN: 978-1-58765-345-2
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September 2008 · 10 volumes · 5,280 pages · 8"x10"

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Maps of the Twentieth Century World

A
Aalto, Alvar
Aaron, Henry
Abbas, Ferhat
Abernathy, Ralph
Achebe, Chinua
Acheson, Dean
Addams, Jane
Adenauer, Konrad
Adler, Alfred
Ailey, Alvin
Akalaitis, JoAnne
Akhmatova, Anna
Akihito
Alanbrooke, First Viscount
Albright, Madeleine
Alfvén, Hannes
Ali, Muhammad
Allenby, Lord
Allende, Salvador
Alvarez, Luis W.
Ambartsumian, Viktor A.
Amin, Idi
Amundsen, Roald
Anderson, Marian
Angelica, Mother
Angell, Norman
Angelou, Maya
Apgar, Virginia
Apollinaire, Guillaume
Aquino, Corazon
Arafat, Yasir
Arbus, Diane
Arendt, Hannah
Arias, Oscar
Aristide, Jean-Bertrand
Armstrong, Edwin H.
Armstrong, Louis
Armstrong, Neil
Arrhenius, Svante August
Arzner, Dorothy
Ash, Mary Kay
Asquith, H. H.
Assad, Hafez al-
Astaire, Fred
Astor, Nancy
Atatürk
Attlee, Clement
Atwood, Margaret
Auden, W. H.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Aurobindo, Sri
Azikiwe, Nnamdi

B
Baade, Walter
Baeck, Leo
Bakhtin, Mikhail
Balanchine, George
Balch, Emily Greene
Baldwin, James
Baldwin, Stanley
Balfour, Arthur
Ball, Lucille
Ballard, Robert D.
Banda, Hastings Kamuzu
Banerjea, Surendranath
Banting, Frederick G.
Bao Dai
Barber, Samuel
Bardeen, John
Barnard, Christiaan
Barnes, Djuna
Barth, Karl
Barthes, Roland
Bartók, Béla
Baryshnikov, Mikhail
Basov, Nikolay Gennadiyevich
Bayliss, William Maddock
Beard, Charles A.
Beatles, The
Beauvoir, Simone de
Beaverbrook, Lord
Beckett, Samuel
Begin, Menachem
Bell, Jocelyn
Bellow, Saul
Ben-Gurion, David
Benedict, Ruth
Benes, Edvard
Benét, Stephen Vincent
Benjamin, Walter
Berg, Alban
Bergius, Friedrich
Bergman, Ingmar
Bergman, Ingrid
Bergson, Henri
Berlin, Irving
Berners-Lee, Tim
Bernstein, Eduard
Bernstein, Leonard
Bethe, Hans Albrecht
Bethune, Mary McLeod
Bevan, Aneurin
Beveridge, Lord
Bevin, Ernest
Bezos, Jeff
Bhumibol Adulyadej
Bhutto, Benazir
Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali
Bin Laden, Osama
Bjerknes, Vilhelm
Black, Hugo L.
Blackmun, Harry
Blair, Tony
Blériot, Louis
Bleuler, Eugen
Blok, Aleksandr
Blum, Léon
Boas, Franz
Boccioni, Umberto
Bogart, Humphrey
Bohr, Niels
Böll, Heinrich
Bondfield, Margaret
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
Bonnard, Pierre
Borden, Robert Laird
Borg, Björn
Borges, Jorge Luis
Borlaug, Norman
Born, Max
Botha, Louis
Bothe, Walther
Bottomley, Horatio W.
Boulanger, Nadia
Boulez, Pierre
Bourguiba, Habib
Bourke-White, Margaret
Boutros-Ghali, Boutros
Bradley, Omar Nelson
Bradman, Donald G.
Bragg, Lawrence
Brancusi, Constantin
Brandeis, Louis D.
Brando, Marlon
Brandt, Willy
Braque, Georges
Braudel, Fernand
Braun, Wernher von
Brecht, Bertolt
Brennan, William
Breton, André
Breuer, Josef
Breuil, Henri-Édouard-Prosper
Breyer, Stephen G.
Brezhnev, Leonid
Bridgman, Percy Williams
Britten, Benjamin
Broglie, Louis de
Brooks, Gwendolyn
Brown, Helen Gurley
Brown, Margaret Tobin
Brundtland, Gro Harlem
Brunner, Emil
Bryan, William Jennings
Buber, Martin
Buck, Pearl S.
Buckley, William F., Jr.
Buffett, Warren
Bukharin, Nikolay Ivanovich
Bülow, Bernhard von
Bultmann, Rudolf
Bunche, Ralph
Buñuel, Luis
Burger, Warren E.
Burnet, Macfarlane
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Bush, George H. W.
Butler, Nicholas Murray
Butler, R. A.
Byrd, Richard

C
Calder, Alexander
Callas, Maria
Calles, Plutarco Elías
Calmette, Albert
Calvin, Melvin
Campbell, Kim
Camus, Albert
Candela, Felix
Cannon, Annie Jump
Capek, Karel
Capone, Al
Capote, Truman
Cárdenas, Lázaro
Cardoso, Fernando
Cardozo, Benjamin N.
Carlson, Chester F.
Carnap, Rudolf
Carson, Rachel
Carter, Jimmy
Cartier-Bresson, Henri
Caruso, Enrico
Carver, George Washington
Casals, Pablo
Cassin, René
Cassirer, Ernst
Castro, Fidel
Cather, Willa
Catt, Carrie Chapman
Ceausescu, Nicolae
Cerf, Vinton G.
Césaire, Aimé
Chadwick, James
Chagall, Marc
Chamberlain, Neville
Chamberlain, Wilt
Chanel, Coco
Chaplin, Charles
Charles, Ray
Chen Duxiu
Chesterton, G. K.
Chiang Kai-shek
Chicago, Judy
Chisholm, Shirley
Chomsky, Noam
Chrétien, Jean
Christie, Agatha
Churchill, Winston
Citroën, André-Gustave
Claude, Georges
Clemenceau, Georges
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary Rodham
Cobb, Ty
Cocteau, Jean
Coe, Sebastian
Coleman, Bessie
Colette
Collins, Michael
Collins, Norman
Coltrane, John
Compton, Arthur Holly
Conant, James Bryant
Conrad, Joseph
Constantine, Learie
Coolidge, Calvin
Copland, Aaron
Cosby, Bill
Cosgrave, William T.
Coubertin, Pierre de
Cousteau, Jacques
Coward, Noël
Crane, Hart
Crawford, Cheryl
Crick, Francis
Croce, Benedetto
Cronkite, Walter
Crosby, Bing
Cruz, Celia
Cuéllar, Javier Pérez de
Cummings, E. E.
Cunningham, Merce
Cunningham, Imogen
Curie, Pierre and Marie
Curtin, John
Curzon, George Nathaniel
Cushing, Harvey Williams

D
Dalai Lama, Fourteenth
Dalí, Salvador
Danilova, Alexandra
Danjon, André-Louis
Darrow, Clarence
Davies, Robertson
Davis, Bette
Dawidowicz, Lucy S.
Day, Dorothy
Dayan, Moshe
De Valera, Eamon
De Gasperi, Alcide
De Forest, Lee
De Mille, Agnes
Debs, Eugene V.
Debussy, Claude
De Klerk, F. W.
Delaunay, Robert
Delius, Frederick
DeMille, Cecil B.
Dempsey, Jack
Deng Xiaoping
Denis, Maurice
Derrida, Jacques
Dewey, John
Diaghilev, Sergei
Diana, Princess of Wales
Diefenbaker, John
Diels, Otto Paul Hermann
Dietrich, Marlene
DiMaggio, Joe
Dirac, Paul A. M.
Disney, Walt
Djilas, Milovan
Dole, Bob
Dole, Elizabeth
Domagk, Gerhard
Doolittle, Jimmy
Douglas, Helen Gahagan
Douglas, William O.
Dreiser, Theodore
Dreyer, Carl Theodor
Du Bois, W. E. B.
Duarte, José Napoleón
Dubcek, Alexander
Duchamp, Marcel
Dulles, John Foster
Duncan, Isadora
Dunham, Katherine
Durkheim, Émile
Duvalier, François
Dylan, Bob

E
Earhart, Amelia
Eastman, George
Eban, Abba
Éboué, Félix
Eccles, John Carew
Eckener, Hugo
Edelman, Marian Wright
Eden, Anthony
Edward VII
Egas Moniz, António
Ehrenfels, Christian von
Ehrlich, Eugen
Ehrlich, Paul
Einstein, Albert
Einthoven, Willem
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Eisenstein, Sergei
Elgar, Edward
Eliade, Mircea
Eliot, T. S.
Elizabeth II
Ellington, Duke
Ellis, Havelock
Éluard, Paul
Endo, Shusaku
Enver Pasa
Ephron, Nora
Epstein, Jacob
Erdrich, Louise
Erhard, Ludwig
Ernst, Max
Erzberger, Matthias
Escher, M. C.
Eucken, Rudolf Christoph
Evatt, Herbert Vere
Evert, Chris

F
Fahd
Faisal
Faisal I
Falla, Manuel de
Falwell, Jerry
Fanon, Frantz
Farouk I
Farrakhan, Louis
Farrand, Beatrix Jones
Faulkner, William
Feinstein, Dianne
Fellini, Federico
Fermi, Enrico
Ferrari, Enzo
Ferraro, Geraldine
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Ella
Fleming, Alexander
Flexner, Abraham
Florey, Baron
Fokine, Michel
Fonda, Henry
Fonteyn, Margot
Ford, Betty
Ford, Gerald R.
Ford, Henry
Forester, C. S.
Forster, E. M.
Fosse, Bob
Francis Ferdinand
Franco, Francisco
Frank, Anne
Frankenthaler, Helen
Frankfurter, Felix
Franklin, Aretha
Franklin, Rosalind
Frazer, Sir James George
Freud, Sigmund
Freyssinet, Eugène
Friedan, Betty
Friedman, Milton
Frisch, Karl von
Frisch, Max
Frobenius, Leo
Fromm, Erich
Frost, Robert
Fry, Roger
Fugard, Athol
Fujimori, Alberto
Fuller, R. Buckminster
Fuller, Loie

G
Gable, Clark
Gagarin, Yuri
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Gallant, Mavis
Gamow, George
Gance, Abel
Gandhi, Indira
Gandhi, Mahatma
Garbo, Greta
García Lorca, Federico
García Márquez, Gabriel
Gardner, Erle Stanley
Gardner, Isabella Stewart
Garland, Judy
Garneau, Marc
Garnier, Tony
Garvey, Marcus
Gates, Bill
Gaudí, Antonio
Gaulle, Charles de
Geddes, Norman Bell
Gehrig, Lou
Gehry, Frank
Geiger, Hans
Geiger, Rudolf
Genet, Jean
Gentile, Giovanni
George V
George VI
Gershwin, George
Gershwin, Ira
Gesell, Arnold
Getty, Sir John Paul
Giacometti, Alberto
Giap, Vo Nguyen
Gibson, Althea
Gide, André
Gillespie, Dizzy
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Gilson, Étienne
Giraudoux, Jean
Gish, Lillian
Glenn, John
Godard, Jean-Luc
Goddard, Robert H.
Gödel, Kurt
Goebbels, Joseph
Goethels, George Washington
Goldman, Emma
Goldwyn, Samuel
Goodman, Benny
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Gordimer, Nadine
Gore, Al
Gorgas, William Crawford
Göring, Hermann
Gorky, Maxim
Gould, Glenn
Gould, Stephen Jay
Graham, Billy
Graham, Katharine
Graham, Martha
Gramsci, Antonio
Grant, Cary
Grass, Günter
Greene, Graham
Greenspan, Alan
Gretzky, Wayne
Grey, Edward
Griffith, Arthur
Griffith, D. W.
Gris, Juan
Gromyko, Andrei
Gropius, Walter
Guderian, Heinz
Guevara, Che
Guggenheim, Daniel
Guillaume, Charles-Édouard
Guo Moruo

H
H. D.
Habash, George
Haber, Fritz
Habermas, Jürgen
Hahn, Otto
Haile Selassie I
Hale, George Ellery
Halide Edib Adivar
Hallaren, Mary A.
Halsey, William F.
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Hammarskjöld, Dag
Hammerstein, Oscar, II
Hamsun, Knut
Hand, Learned
Handy, W. C.
Hansberry, Lorraine
Harding, Warren G.
Harmsworth, Alfred and Harold
Harnack, Adolf von
Harriman, William Averell
Harris, Barbara
Hart, Lorenz
Hartmann, Nicolai
Hassan II
Hatoyama Ichiro
Hatta, Mohammad
Havel, Václav
Hawke, Bob
Hawking, Stephen
Haya de la Torre, Víctor Raúl
Hayek, Friedrich
Hayes, Helen
Hayslip, Le Ly
Hayworth, Rita
Hearst, William Randolph
Heath, Edward
Heidegger, Martin
Heinkel, Ernst
Heisenberg, Werner
Hellman, Lillian
Hemingway, Ernest
Henie, Sonja
Henze, Hans Werner
Hepburn, Audrey
Hepburn, Katharine
Hernandez, Aileen Clarke
Herriot, Édouard
Hertz, Gustav
Herzberg, Gerhard
Hess, Harry Hammond
Hesse, Hermann
Hevesy, George von
Heyerdahl, Thor
Hilbert, David
Hillary, Sir Edmund
Himmler, Heinrich
Hindemith, Paul
Hindenburg, Paul von
Hirohito
Hiss, Alger
Hitchcock, Alfred
Hitler, Adolf
Ho Chi Minh
Hobby, Oveta Culp
Hobhouse, Leonard T.
Hockney, David
Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot
Holiday, Billie
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
Honda, Soichiro
Hoover, Herbert
Hoover, J. Edgar
Hope, Bob
Hopkins, Harry
Hopper, Edward
Hopper, Grace Murray
Horney, Karen
Horowitz, Vladimir
Houdini, Harry
Hounsfield, Godfrey Newbold
Houphouët-Boigny, Félix
Houssay, Bernardo Alberto
Hoyle, Sir Fred
Hu Yaobang
Hua Guofeng
Hubbard, L. Ron
Hubble, Edwin P.
Huerta, Dolores
Hughes, Charles Evans
Hughes, Howard
Hughes, Langston
Hughes, William Morris
Hull, Cordell
Humphrey, Hubert H.
Hun Sen
Hurston, Zora Neale
Hussein I
Hussein, Saddam
Husserl, Edmund
Hutchins, Robert M.
Huxley, Aldous

I
Ikeda, Hayato
Ionesco, Eugène
Ismet Pasa
Ives, Charles

J
Jackson, Jesse
Jacob, François
Jakobson, Roman
Janácek, Leos
Janet, Pierre
Jaspers, Karl
Jiang Zemin
Jinnah, Mohammed Ali
Jobs, Steve
Joffre, Joseph-Jacques-Césaire
Joffrey, Robert
John XXIII
John Paul II
John, Augustus
Johnson, Lady Bird
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Joliot, Frédéric, and Irène Joliot-Curie
Jones, Bobby
Jones, Mother
Joplin, Janis
Jordan, Barbara
Jordan, Michael J.
Jorgensen, Christine
Joyce, James
Juan Carlos I
Jung, Carl

K
Kafka, Franz
Kahlo, Frida
Kamerlingh Onnes, Heike
Kandinsky, Wassily
Kapitsa, Pyotr Leonidovich
Karajan, Herbert von
Kawabata, Yasunari
Kazantzakis, Nikos
Keaton, Buster
Keller, Helen
Kelly, Gene
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, Robert F.
Kenyatta, Jomo
Kerensky, Aleksandr Fyodorovich
Kerouac, Jack
Kesselring, Albert
Keynes, John Maynard
Khomeini, Ayatollah
Khrushchev, Nikita S.
Killy, Jean-Claude
Kim Dae-Jung
Kim Il-sung
Kim Jong-il
King, Billie Jean
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
King, Stephen
King, William Lyon Mackenzie
Kinsey, Alfred
Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig
Kirkpatrick, Jeane
Kissinger, Henry
Kitchener, Lord
Klee, Paul
Klimt, Gustav
Kohl, Helmut
Kokoschka, Oskar
Kollwitz, Käthe
Korolev, Sergei
Krasner, Lee
Krebs, Sir Hans Adolf
Kroc, Ray
Krogh, August
Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth
Kupka, Frantisek
Kurchatov, Igor Vasilyevich
Kurosawa, Akira

L
La Fontaine, Henri-Marie
La Follette, Robert M.
La Guardia, Fiorello Henry
Laban, Rudolf
Lacan, Jacques
Lagerlöf, Selma
Lanchester, Frederick William
Landau, Lev Davidovich
Landers, Ann
Landsteiner, Karl
Lang, K. D.
Lang, Fritz
Lange, Dorothea
Langer, Susanne K.
Lansdowne, Lord
Laski, Harold J.
Lathrop, Julia C.
Lauder, Estee
Laue, Max von
Laurier, Sir Wilfrid
Laval, Pierre
Laver, Rod
Law, Bonar
Lawrence, T. E.
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando
Lawrence, D. H.
Laxness, Halldór
Le Bon, Gustave
Le Corbusier
Le Gallienne, Eva
Leakey, L. S. B.
Leakey, Mary
Leavitt, Henrietta Swan
Lee Kuan Yew
Léger, Fernand
Lemaître, Georges
Lenin, Vladimir Ilich
Lévesque, René
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Lewis, Bernard
Lewis, C. S.
Lewis, Jerry
Lewis, John L.
Lewis, Sinclair
Li Peng
Libby, Willard Frank
Lichtenstein, Roy
Lie, Trygve H.
Lifar, Serge
Lin Biao
Lin, Maya Ying
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
Lindbergh, Charles A.
Lipchitz, Jacques
Lippmann, Walter
Litvinov, Maksim Maksimovich
Liu Shaoqi
Lloyd George, David
Lloyd Webber, Andrew
Lodge, Henry Cabot
London, Jack
Long, Huey
Loos, Anita
Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon
Lorenz, Konrad
Louis, Joe
Low, Juliette Gordon
Lowell, Amy
Lu Xun
Lucas, George
Luce, Clare Boothe
Luce, Henry R.
Lucid, Shannon
Ludendorff, Erich
Lugard, Lord
Lukács, György
Lumière, August and Louis
Lumumba, Patrice
Lutuli, Albert
Luxemburg, Rosa
Lyons, Enid Muriel
Lyons, Joseph Aloysius

M
MacArthur, Douglas
McCarthy, Joseph
McCarthy, Mary
McClintock, Barbara
McCullers, Carson
MacDonald, Ramsay
Machel, Samora
Mackinder, Sir Halford John
MacKinnon, Catharine A.
Macleod, John J. R.
McLuhan, Marshall
McMillan, Edwin Mattison
Macmillan, Harold
McNamara, Robert
Madero, Francisco
Magritte, René
Mahathir bin Mohamad, Datuk Seri
Mahfouz, Naguib
Mahler, Gustav
Mailer, Norman
Major, John
Malcolm X
Malenkov, Georgi M.
Malraux, André
Mandela, Nelson
Mandelbrot, Benoît B.
Mankiller, Wilma
Mann, Thomas
Mannerheim, Carl Gustaf
Mao Zedong
Marc, Franz
Marcel, Gabriel
Marciano, Rocky
Marconi, Guglielmo
Marcos, Ferdinand
Maritain, Jacques
Markova, Dame Alicia
Marshall, George C.
Marshall, Thurgood
Martin, Agnes
Masaryk, Tomás
Massey, William Ferguson
Massine, Léonide
Matisse, Henri
Matsushita, Konosuke
Mauriac, François
Mayakovsky, Vladimir
Mayer, Louis B.
Mayo, William J. and Charles H.
Mead, Margaret
Meany, George
Meir, Golda
Meitner, Lise
Mellon, Andrew
Menchú, Rigoberta
Mencken, H. L.
Mendelsohn, Erich
Mendenhall, Dorothy Reed
Mendès-France, Pierre
Mengistu Haile Mariam
Menotti, Gian Carlo
Menzies, Robert Gordon
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
Merton, Thomas
Messiaen, Olivier
Messner, Reinhold
Meyerhold, Vsevolod Yemilyevich
Michelin, André and Édouard
Michener, James A.
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
Milhaud, Darius
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Miller, Arthur
Millett, Kate
Millikan, Robert Andrews
Milne, A. A.
Milosevic, Slobodan
Miró, Joan
Mishima, Yukio
Mitchell, William
Mitterrand, François
Modigliani, Amedeo
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich
Mondrian, Piet
Monet, Claude
Monnet, Jean
Monroe, Marilyn
Montale, Eugenio
Montessori, Maria
Montgomery, Bernard Law
Moon, Sun Myung
Moore, G. E.
Moore, Henry
Moore, Marianne
Morgan, Thomas Hunt
Morgenthau, Hans J.
Morita, Akio
Morrison, Toni
Mosca, Gaetano
Moses, Grandma
Mossadegh, Mohammad
Motherwell, Robert
Mott, John R.
Mountbatten, Louis
Mugabe, Robert
Muller, Hermann Joseph
Mullis, Kary B.
Mulroney, Brian
Munch, Edvard
Munro, Alice
Murdoch, Rupert K.
Murrow, Edward R.
Museveni, Yoweri K.
Mussolini, Benito
Myrdal, Gunnar

N
Nabokov, Vladimir
Nader, Ralph
Naidu, Sarojini
Naipaul, V. S.
Naismith, James A.
Nansen, Fridtjof
Nash, Paul
Nasser, Gamal Abdel
Natta, Giulio
Navratilova, Martina
Néel, Louis-Eugène-Félix
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Nernst, Walther Hermann
Neruda, Pablo
Nervi, Pier Luigi
Neumann, John von
Nevelson, Louise
Ngo Dinh Diem
Nicholson, Ben
Nicklaus, Jack
Niebuhr, Reinhold
Nielsen, Carl
Niemeyer, Oscar
Niemöller, Martin
Nijinsky, Vaslav
Nimitz, Chester W.
Nishida, Kitaro
Nixon, Richard M.
Nkrumah, Kwame
Nordau, Max
Norman, Jessye
Nozick, Robert
Nureyev, Rudolph
Nyerere, Julius

O
Oberth, Hermann
Obote, Milton
Obregón, Álvaro
O'Connor, Flannery
O'Connor, Sandra Day
O'Connor, Thomas Power
Oh, Sadaharu
O'Keeffe, Georgia
O'Kelly, Seán T.
Oldenberg, Claes
Olivier, Sir Laurence
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy
Ondaatje, Michael
O'Neill, Eugene
O'Neill, Tip
Oort, Jan Hendrik
Oparin, Aleksandr Ivanovich
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Orozco, José Clemente
Ortega, Daniel
Ortega, Katherine Davalos
Ortega y Gasset, José
Orwell, George
Osborne, Thomas Mott
Ostwald, Wilhelm
Oud, J. J. P.
Owens, Jesse

P
Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi
Pankhurst, Emmeline
Papandreou, Andreas
Papen, Franz von
Parker, Charlie
Parker, Dorothy
Parks, Rosa
Parrington, Vernon Louis
Parton, Dolly
Pasternak, Boris
Patel, Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai
Paton, Alan
Patton, George S.
Paul, Alice
Paul VI
Pauli, Wolfgang
Pauling, Linus
Pavarotti, Luciano
Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich
Pavlova, Anna
Paz, Octavio
Paz Estenssoro, Victor
Pearson, Lester B.
Peary, Robert Edwin
Peck, Gregory
Pei, I. M.
Pelé
Peng Dehuai
Perkins, Frances
Perón, Eva
Perón, Juan
Perot, H. Ross
Perret, Auguste
Perry, Fred
Pershing, John J.
Pétain, Philippe
Peterson, Oscar
Piaf, Édith
Piaget, Jean
Picard, Émile
Picasso, Pablo
Piccard, Auguste and Jean-Felix
Pickford, Mary
Picotte, Susan La Flesche
Pilsudski, Jozef
Pinchot, Gifford
Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto
Pio, Padre
Pirandello, Luigi
Pire, Dominique
Pirelli Family, The
Pirenne, Henri
Pius X
Pius XI
Pius XII
Planck, Max
Plath, Sylvia
Player, Gary
Poincaré, Raymond
Poitier, Sidney
Pol Pot
Pollock, Jackson
Pompidou, Georges
Porter, Cole
Porter, Katherine Anne
Potter, Beatrix
Poulenc, Francis
Powell, Colin
Powell, Lewis F., Jr.
Prandtl, Ludwig
Presley, Elvis
Price, Leontyne
Prokofiev, Sergei
Proust, Marcel
Puccini, Giacomo

Q
Qaddafi, Muammar al-

R
Rabi, Isidor Isaac
Rabin, Yitzhak
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
Raman, Chandrasekhara Venkata
Rand, Ayn
Randolph, A. Philip
Rankin, Jeannette
Rasmussen, Knud Johan Victor
Rauschenberg, Robert
Rauschenbusch, Walter
Ravel, Maurice
Rawlings, J. J.
Rawls, John
Ray, Man
Ray, Satyajit
Rayburn, Samuel T.
Reagan, Ronald
Rehnquist, William H.
Remarque, Erich Maria
Reno, Janet
Renoir, Jean
Reuther, Walter P.
Reza Shah Pahlavi
Rhee, Syngman
Richards, Ann
Richler, Mordecai
Richter, Charles
Rickover, Hyman G.
Ride, Sally
Riefenstahl, Leni
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Rivera, Diego
Robbins, Jerome
Robeson, Paul
Robinson, Frank
Robinson, Jackie
Robinson, Mary
Rockefeller, John D., Jr.
Rockefeller, Nelson A.
Rockne, Knute
Rockwell, Norman
Rodgers, Richard
Rogers, Edith Nourse
Rogers, Will
Rolls, Charles Stewart, and Frederick Henry Royce
Romero, Oscar
Rommel, Erwin
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Root, Elihu
Rorschach, Hermann
Rose, Pete
Ross, Nellie Tayloe
Ross, Ronald
Rotblat, Sir Joseph
Rothko, Mark
Rouault, Georges
Rous, Peyton
Rowland, F. Sherwood
Royce, Josiah
Rozelle, Pete
Rukeyser, Muriel
Rundstedt, Gerd von
Russell, Bertrand
Russell, Bill
Russell, Henry Norris
Ruth, Babe
Rutherford, Ernest

S
Sacco, Nicola
Sachs, Nelly
Sadat, Anwar el-
Sagan, Carl
St. Denis, Ruth
St. Laurent, Louis
Saint-Saëns, Camille
Sakharov, Andrei
Salazar, António
Salinger, J. D.
Salk, Jonas
Sampras, Pete
Sandburg, Carl
Sanger, Frederick
Sanger, Margaret
Santayana, George
Santos-Dumont, Alberto
Sarraute, Nathalie
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Satie, Erik
Sato, Eisaku
Saussure, Ferdinand de
Sauvé, Jeanne
Scheler, Max
Schmidt, Bernhard Voldemar
Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl
Schoenberg, Arnold
Schrödinger, Erwin
Schulz, Charles
Schwarzschild, Karl
Schweitzer, Albert
Scorsese, Martin
Seaborg, Glenn Theodore
Seeckt, Hans von
Segovia, Andrés
Seko, Mobutu Sese
Sellers, Peter
Sendak, Maurice
Senghor, Léopold
Sennett, Mack
Service, Robert W.
Seuss, Dr.
Sexton, Anne
Shaw, George Bernard
Sheen, Fulton J.
Shepard, Alan
Shostakovich, Dmitri
Shultz, George P.
Siad Barre, Mohamed
Sibelius, Jean
Sihanouk, Norodom
Sills, Beverly
Sinatra, Frank
Sinclair, Upton
Skinner, B. F.
Slim, First Viscount
Smith, Alfred E.
Smith, Bessie
Smith, Margaret Chase
Smith, Theobald
Smuts, Jan Christian
Soddy, Frederick
Söderblom, Nathan
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Sorel, Georges
Soros, George
Sousa, John Philip
Souter, David H.
Soyinka, Wole
Spaak, Paul-Henri
Spielberg, Steven
Spock, Benjamin
Stalin, Joseph
Stanislavsky, Konstantin
Stanley, Wendell
Stark, Johannes
Starling, Ernest Henry
Staudinger, Hermann
Steichen, Edward
Stein, Edith
Stein, Gertrude
Steinbeck, John
Steinem, Gloria
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Stewart, James
Stieglitz, Alfred
Stimson, Henry L.
Stockhausen, Karlheinz
Stone, Harlan Fiske
Stonehaven, First Baron Reith of
Stopes, Marie
Strauss, Richard
Stravinsky, Igor
Streisand, Barbra
Stresemann, Gustav
Strindberg, August
Suharto
Sukarno
Sullivan, Anne
Sullivan, Harry Stack
Sun Yat-sen
Sunday, Billy
Sutherland, Graham Vivian
Suzuki, Shinichi

T
Taft, Robert A.
Taft, William Howard
Tagore, Rabindranath
Talbot, Marion
Tallchief, Maria
Tanizaki, Jun'ichiro
Tarbell, Ida
Taussig, Helen Brooke
Taylor, Elizabeth
Taylor, Frederick Winslow
Teasdale, Sara
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
Teller, Edward
Temple, Shirley
Teresa, Mother
Tereshkova, Valentina
Terry, Megan
Thant, U
Tharp, Twyla
Thatcher, Margaret
Theorell, Hugo
Thieu, Nguyen Van
Thomas, Clarence
Thomas, Norman
Thomson, Sir J. J.
Thomson, Tom
Thorndike, Edward L.
Thorpe, Jim
Thurber, James
Tilak, Bal Gangadhar
Tillich, Paul
Tirpitz, Alfred von
Tito
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Tombaugh, Clyde William
Tönnies, Ferdinand Julius
Torrijos, Omar
Toscanini, Arturo
Touré, Ahmed Sékou
Townes, Charles H.
Toynbee, Arnold
Toyoda, Eiji
Tracy, Spencer
Troeltsch, Ernst
Trotsky, Leon
Trudeau, Pierre
Truffaut, François
Trujillo, Rafael
Truman, Harry S.
Tshombe, Moïse
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin
Tsvetayeva, Marina
Tubman, William V. S.
Tuchman, Barbara W.
Tupolev, Andrei Nikolayevich
Turing, Alan Mathison
Turner, Frederick Jackson
Turner, Ted
Tutu, Desmond

U
Ulbricht, Walter
Unamuno y Jugo, Miguel de
Urey, Harold C.

V
Valéry, Paul
Van Allen, James
Varèse, Edgard
Varmus, Harold E.
Vaughan Williams, Ralph
Vavilov, Nikolai Ivanovich
Veblen, Thorstein
Venizélos, Eleuthérios
Villa, Pancho
Villa-Lobos, Heitor
Visconti, Luchino
Vuillard, Édouard

W
Wach, Joachim
Waksman, Selman Abraham
Wald, Lillian D.
Waldheim, Kurt
Walesa, Lech
Walker, Madam C. J.
Walker, Alice
Wallace, George C.
Wallace, Henry A.
Walters, Barbara
Walton, Sam
Walton, William
Wang Jingwei
Wankel, Felix
Warhol, Andy
Warner, Jack
Warren, Earl
Warren, Robert Penn
Waters, Muddy
Watson, James D.
Watson, Thomas John, Sr., and Thomas, Jr.
Wayne, John
Webb, Beatrice and Sidney
Weber, Max
Webern, Anton von
Wegener, Alfred
Weil, Simone
Weill, Kurt
Weinberg, Steven
Weizmann, Chaim
Welles, Orson
Wells, H. G.
Wells-Barnett, Ida B.
Wertheimer, Max
West, Mae
Wharton, Edith
Whipple, George Hoyt
White, Walter
Whitehead, Alfred North
Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt
Whittle, Frank
Wiener, Norbert
Wiesel, Elie
Wiesenthal, Simon
Wightman, Hazel
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Wilkins, George Hubert
Wilkins, Maurice H. F.
William II
Williams, Tennessee
Wilson, Edmund
Wilson, Edward O.
Wilson, Harold
Wilson, Woodrow
Windsor, Duke of
Winfrey, Oprah
Wise, Stephen Samuel
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Wolf, Max
Wolfe, Thomas
Wood, Grant
Woods, Tiger
Woodward, Robert Burns
Woolf, Virginia
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Wright, Orville and Wilbur
Wundt, Wilhelm
Wyeth, Andrew

XYZ
Xenakis, Iannis
Yalow, Rosalyn
Yamani, Ahmad Zaki
Yeager, Chuck
Yeats, William Butler
Yeltsin, Boris
Yukawa, Hideki
Zaghlul, Sa'd
Zaharias, Babe Didrikson
Zanuck, Darryl F.
Zapata, Emiliano
Zeppelin, Frederick von
Zetkin, Clara
Zhao Ziyang
Zhou Enlai
Zhu De
Zhukov, Georgy
Zia-ul-Haq, Muhammad
Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe
Zworykin, Vladimir

Appendixes
Rulers and Heads of State
Chronological List of Personages

Indexes
Category Index
Geographical Index
Personages Index
Subject Index


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