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United States chemist who developed methods for studying long-chain molecules (1910-1985) - Fonda, Henry Fonda
United States film actor (1905-1982) - Fonda, Jane Fonda
United States film actress and daughter of Henry Fonda (born in 1937) - Fontanne, Lynn Fontanne
United States actress (born in England) who married Alfred Lunt and performed with him in many plays (1887-1983) - Fonteyn, Dame Margot Fonteyn
English dancer who danced with Rudolf Nureyev (born in 1919) - Ford, Henry Ford
United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947) - Ford, Gerald Ford, Gerald R. Ford, Gerald Rudolph Ford, President Ford
38th President of the United States - Ford, Ford Madox Ford, Ford Hermann Hueffer
English writer and editor (1873-1939) - Ford, Edsel Bryant Ford
son of Henry Ford (1893-1943) - Ford, Henry Ford II
grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987) - Ford, John Ford
United States film maker (1896-1973) - Forester, C. S. Forester, Cecil Scott Forester
English writer of adventure novels featuring Captain Horatio Hornblower (1899-1966) - Fosbury, Dick Fosbury, Richard D. Fosbury
United States athlete who revolutionized the high jump by introducing the Fosbury flop in the 1968 Olympics (born in 1947) - Foster, Stephen Foster, Stephen Collins Foster
United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864) - Foucault, Jean Bernard Leon Foucault
French physicist who determined the speed of light and showed that it travels slower in water than in air - Fourier, Charles Fourier, Francois Marie Charles Fourier
French sociologist and reformer who hoped to achieve universal harmony by reorganizing society (1772-1837) - Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, Baron Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
French mathematician who developed Fourier analysis and studied the conduction of heat (1768-1830) - Fowler, Henry Watson Fowler
English lexicographer who wrote a well-known book on English usage (1858-1933) - Fox, George Fox
English religious leader who founded the Society of Friends (1624-1691) - Fox, Charles James Fox
English statesman who supported American independence and the French Revolution (1749-1806) - Fragonard, Jean Honore Fragonard
French artist whose rococo paintings typified the frivolity of life in the royal court of France in the 18th century (1732-1806) - France, Anatole France, Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault
French writer of sophisticated novels and short stories (1844-1924) - Francis II, Emperor Francis II
the last Holy Roman Emperor (1768-1835) - Francis Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand
archduke of Austria and heir apparent to Francis Joseph I - Francis Joseph, Franz Joseph, Francis Joseph I, Franz Josef I
emperor of Austria and king of Hungary - Saint Francis, St. Francis, Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis of Assisi, St. Francis of Assisi, Giovanni di Bernardone
(Roman Catholic Church) an Italian and the Roman Catholic monk who founded the Franciscan order of friars (1181-1226) - Franck, James Franck
United States physicist (born in Germany) who with Gustav Hertz performed an electron scattering experiment that proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Niels Bohr (1882-1964) - Franck, Cesar Franck
French composer and teacher who influenced a generation of composers (1822-1890) - Franco, Francisco Franco, El Caudillo, General Franco
Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death (1892-1975) - Franklin, Benjamin Franklin
printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics - Franklin, John Hope Franklin
United States historian noted for studies of Black American history (born in 1915) - Frazer, James George Frazer, Sir James George Frazer
English social anthropologist noted for studies of primitive religion and magic (1854-1941) - Barbarossa, Frederick I, Frederick Barbarossa
Holy Roman Emperor from 1152 to 1190 - Frederick I
son of Frederick William who in 1701 became the first king of Prussia (1657-1713) - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II
the Holy Roman Emperor who led the Sixth Crusade and crowned himself king of Jerusalem (1194-1250) - Frederick II, Frederick the Great
king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786 - Frederick William, Great Elector
the Elector of Brandenburg who rebuilt his domain after its destruction during the Thirty Years' War (1620-1688) - Frederick William I
son of Frederick I who became king of Prussia in 1713 - Frederick William II
king of Prussia who became involved in a costly war with France (1744-1797) - Frederick William III
king of Prussia who became involved in the Napoleonic Wars (1770-1840) - Frederick William IV
king of Prussia who violently suppressed democratic movements (1795-1865) - Fremont, John C. Fremont, John Charles Fremont
United States explorer who mapped much of the American west and Northwest (1813-1890) - French, Daniel Chester French
United States sculptor who created the seated marble figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. (1850-1931) - Fresnel, Augustin Jean Fresnel
French physicist who invented polarized light and invented the Fresnel lens (1788-1827) - Freud, Sigmund Freud
Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939) - Frick, Henry Clay Frick
United States industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry (1849-1919) - Friedan, Betty Friedan, Betty Naomi Friedan, Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan
United States feminist who founded a national organization for women (born in 1921) - Friedman, Milton Friedman
United States economist noted as a proponent of monetarism and for his opposition to government intervention in the economy (born in 1912) - Frisch, Karl von Frisch
Austrian zoologist noted for his studies of honeybees (1886-1982) - Frisch, Ragnar Frisch, Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch
Norwegian economist noted for his work in econometrics (1895-1973) - Frisch, Otto Frisch, Otto Robert Frisch
British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission - Frobisher, Sir Martin Frobisher
English explorer who led an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage to the orient - Froebel, Friedrich Froebel, Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel
German educator who founded the kindergarten system (1782-1852) - Frost, Robert Frost, Robert Lee Frost
United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963) - Fry, Christopher Fry
English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907) - Fry, Roger Fry, Roger Eliot Fry
English painter and art critic (1866-1934) - Frye, Northrop Frye, Herman Northrop Frye
Canadian literary critic interested in the use of myth and symbolism (1912-1991) - Fuchs, Klaus Fuchs, Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs
British physicist who was born in Germany and fled Nazi persecution - Fuentes, Carlos Fuentes
Mexican novelist (born in 1928) - Fugard, Athol Fugard
South African playwright whose plays feature the racial tensions in South Africa during apartheid (born in 1932) - Fulbright, William Fulbright, James William Fulbright
United States senator who is remembered for his creation of grants that fund exchange programs of teachers and students between the United States and other countries (1905-1995) - Fuller, Buckminster Fuller, R. Buckminster Fuller, Richard Buckminster Fuller
United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983) - Fuller, Melville W. Fuller, Melville Weston Fuller
United States jurist and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1833-1910) - Fulton, Robert Fulton
American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815) - Funk, Casimir Funk
United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967) - Furnivall, Frederick James Furnivall
English philologist who first proposed the Oxford English Dictionary (1825-1910) - Gable, Clark Gable, William Clark Gable
United States film actor (1901-1960) - Gabor, Dennis Gabor
British physicist (born in Hungary) noted for his work on holography (1900-1979) - Gaboriau, Emile Gaboriau
French writer considered by some to be a founder of the detective novel (1832-1873) - Gagarin, Yuri Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 was the first person to travel in space (1934-1968) - Gainsborough, Thomas Gainsborough
English portrait and landscape painter (1727-1788) - Galahad, Sir Galahad
(Arthurian legend) the most virtuous knight of the Round Table - Galbraith, John Galbraith, John Kenneth Galbraith
United States economist (born in Canada) who served as ambassador to India (born in 1908) - Galen
Greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance (circa 130-200) - Galileo, Galileo Galilei
Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars - Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
United States educator who established the first free school in the United States for the hearing impaired (1787-1851) - Galois, Evariste Galois
French mathematician who described the conditions for solving polynomial equations - Galsworthy, John Galsworthy
English novelist (1867-1933) - Galton, Francis Galton, Sir Francis Galton
English scientist (cousin of Charles Darwin) who explored many fields including heredity, meteorology, statistics, psychology, and anthropology - Galvani, Luigi Galvani
Italian physiologist noted for his discovery that frogs' muscles contracted in an electric field (which led to the galvanic cell) (1737-1798) - Gamow, George Gamow
United States physicist (born in Russia) who was a proponent of the big-bang theory and who did research in radioactivity and suggested the triplet code for DNA (1904-1968) - Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
political and spiritual leader during India's struggle with Great Britain for home rule - Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Indira Nehru Gandhi, Mrs. Gandhi
daughter of Nehru who served as prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977 (1917-1984) - Garbo, Greta Garbo, Greta Louisa Gustafsson
United States film actress (born in Sweden) known for her reclusiveness (1905-1990) - Garcia Lorca, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Lorca
Spanish poet and dramatist who was shot dead by Franco's soldiers soon after the start of the Spanish Civil War (1898-1936) - Gardiner, Samuel Rawson Gardiner
British historian remembered for his ten-volume history of England (1829-1902) - Gardner, Erle Stanley Gardner
writer of detective novels featuring Perry Mason (1889-1970) - Gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner
United States collector and patron of art who built a museum in Boston to house her collection and opened it to the public in 1903 (1840-1924) - Garfield, James Garfield, James A. Garfield, James Abraham Garfield, President Garfield
20th President of the United States - Garibaldi, Giuseppe Garibaldi
Italian patriot whose conquest of Sicily and Naples led to the formation of the Italian state (1807-1882) - Garland, Judy Garland
United States singer and film actress (1922-1969) - Garnier, Jean Louis Charles Garnier
French architect (1825-1898) - Garrick, David Garrick
English actor and theater manager who was the foremost Shakespearean actor of his day (1717-1779) - Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison
United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879) - Gaskell, Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson Gaskell
English writer who is remembered for her biography of Charlotte Bronte (1810-1865) - Gates, Bill Gates, William Henry Gates
United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955) - Gatling, Richard Jordan Gatling
United States inventor of the first rapid firing gun (1818-1903) - Gaudi, Antonio Gaudi, Gaudi i Cornet, Antonio Gaudi i Cornet
Spanish architect who was a leading exponent of art nouveau in Europe (1852-1926) - Gauguin, Paul Gauguin
French Post-impressionist painter who worked in the South Pacific (1848-1903) - Gauss, Karl Gauss, Karl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism and astronomy and geodesy (1777-1855) - Gawain, Sir Gawain
(Arthurian legend) a nephew of Arthur and one of the knights of the Round Table - Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
French chemist and physicist who first isolated boron and who formulated the law describing the behavior of gases under constant pressure (1778-1850) - Gehrig, Lou Gehrig, Henry Louis Gehrig
baseball player who died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (1903-1941) - Geiger, Hans Geiger
German physicist who developed the Geiger counter (1882-1945) - Geisel, Theodor Seuss Geisel, Dr. Seuss
United States writer of children's books (1904-1991) - Gell-Mann, Murray Gell-Mann
United States physicist noted for his studies of subatomic particles (born in 1929) - Genet, Jean Genet
French writer of novels and dramas for the theater of the absurd (1910-1986) - Genet, Edmund Charles Edouard Genet, Citizen Genet
French diplomat who in 1793 tried to draw the United States into the war between France and England (1763-1834) - Genghis Khan, Jinghis Khan, Jenghiz Khan, Temujin
Mongolian emperor whose empire stretched from the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean (1162-1227) - Genseric, Gaiseric
king of the Vandals who seized Roman lands and invaded North Africa and sacked Rome (428-477) - Geoffrey of Monmouth
Welsh chronicler who wrote an account of the kings of Britain which is now believed to contain little historical fact but it is a source of the Arthurian legend (circa 1100-1154) - George, George I
Elector of Hanover and the first Hanoverian King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1714 to 1727 (1660-1727) - George, George II
King of Great Britain and Elector of Hanover from 1727 to 1760 (1683-1760) - George, George III
King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820 - George, George IV
King of Great Britain and Ireland and Hanover from 1820 to 1830 - George, George V
King of Great Britain and Ireland and emperor of India from 1910 to 1936 - George, George VI
King of Great Britain and Ireland and emperor of India from 1936 to 1947 - George, Saint George, St. George
Christian martyr - Geraint, Sir Geraint
(Arthurian legend) one of the knights of the Round Table - Geronimo
Apache chieftain who raided the white settlers in the Southwest as resistance to being confined to a reservation (1829-1909) - Gershwin, George Gershwin
United States composer who incorporated jazz into classical forms and composed scores for musical comedies (1898-1937) - Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
United States lyricist who frequently collaborated with his brother George Gershwin (1896-1983) - Gesell, Arnold Gesell, Arnold Lucius Gesell
United States psychologist noted for his work in child development (1880-1961) - Gesner, Konrad von Gesner
Swiss naturalist who was one of the founders of modern zoology (1516-1565) - Giacometti, Alberto Giacometti
Swiss sculptor and painter known for his bronze sculptures of elongated figures (1901-1966) - Gibbon, Edward Gibbon
English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794) - Gibbs, Josiah Willard Gibbs
United States chemist (1839-1903) - Gibran, Kahlil Gibran
United States writer (born in Lebanon) (1883-1931) - Gibson, Althea Gibson
United States tennis player who was the first Black woman player to win all the major world singles titles (1927-2003) - Gibson, Mel Gibson, Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson
Australian actor (born in the United States in 1956) - Gibson, C. D. Gibson, Charles Dana Gibson
United States illustrator remembered for his creation of the `Gibson girl' (1867-1944) - Gide, Andre Gide, Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
French author and dramatist who is regarded as the father of modern French literature (1869-1951) - Gielgud, Sir John Gielgud, Arthur John Gielgud
English actor of Shakespearean roles who was also noted for appearances in films (1904-2000) - Gilbert, Cass Gilbert
United States architect who influenced the development of the skyscraper (1859-1934) - Gilbert, Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Humphrey Gilbert
English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583) - Gilbert, William Gilbert
English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603) - Gilbert, William Gilbert, William S. Gilbert, William Schwenk Gilbert, Sir William Gilbert
a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911) - Gilgamesh
a legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories - Gillespie, Dizzy Gillespie, John Birks Gillespie
United States jazz trumpeter and exponent of bebop (1917-1993) - Gillette, King Camp Gilette
United States inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (1855-1932) - Gilman, Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
United States feminist (1860-1935) - Gilmer, Elizabeth Merriwether Gilmer, Dorothy Dix
United States journalist who wrote a syndicated column of advice to the lovelorn (1870-1951) - Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg
United States poet of the beat generation (1926-1997) - Giotto, Giotto di Bondone
Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style - Girard, Stephen Girard
United States financier (born in France) who helped finance the War of 1812 (1750-1831) - Giraudoux, Jean Giraudoux, Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux
French novelist and dramatist whose plays were reinterpretations of Greek myths (1882-1944) - Gish, Lillian Gish
United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993) - Gjellerup, Karl Gjellerup
Danish novelist (1857-1919) - Gladstone, William Gladstone, William Ewart Gladstone
liberal British statesman who served as prime minister four times (1809-1898) - Glaser, Donald Glaser, Donald Arthur Glaser
United States physicist who invented the bubble chamber to study subatomic particles (born in 1926) - Glendower, Owen Glendower
Welsh chieftain who led a revolt against Henry IV's rule in Wales (1359-1416) - Glenn, John Glenn, John Herschel Glenn Jr.
made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962 - Glinka, Mikhail Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Russian composer (1804-1857) - Gluck, Christoph Willibald von Gluck
German composer of more than 100 operas (1714-1787) - Godard, Jean Luc Godard
French film maker influenced by surrealism - Goddard, Robert Hutchings Goddard
United States physicist who developed the first successful liquid-fueled rocket (1882-1945) - Godel, Kurt Godel
United States mathematician (born in Austria) who is remembered principally for demonstrating the limitations of axiomatic systems (1906-1978) - Godiva, Lady Godiva
according to legend she rode naked through Coventry in order to persuade her husband not to tax the townspeople so heavily - Godunov, Boris Godunov, Boris Fyodorovich Godunov
czar of Russia (1551-1605) - Goebbels, Joseph Goebbels, Paul Joseph Goebbels
German propaganda minister in Nazi Germany who persecuted the Jews (1897-1945) - Goethals, George Washington Goethals
United States army officer and engineer who supervised the construction of the Panama Canal (1858-1928) - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German poet and novelist and dramatist who lived in Weimar (1749-1832) - Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Russian writer who introduced realism to Russian literature (1809-1852) - Goldberg, Rube Goldberg, Reuben Lucius Goldberg
United States cartoonist who drew intricate diagrams of very complicated and impractical contraptions that accomplished little or nothing (1883-1970) - Golding, William Golding, Sir William Gerald Golding
English novelist (1911-1993) - Goldman, Emma Goldman
United States anarchist (born in Russia) who opposed conscription - Goldmark, Peter Goldmark, Peter Carl Goldmark
United States inventor (born in Hungary) who made the first TV broadcast in 1940 and invented the long-playing record in 1948 and pioneered videocassette recording (1906-1977) - Goldoni, Carlo Goldoni
prolific Italian dramatist (1707-1793) - Goldsmith, Oliver Goldsmith
Irish writer of novels and poetry and plays and essays (1728-1774) - Goldwyn, Sam Goldwyn, Samuel Goldwyn
United States film maker (born in Poland) who founded his own film company and later merged with Louis B. Mayer (1882-1974) - Golgi, Camillo Golgi
Italian histologist noted for work on the structure of the nervous system and for his discovery of Golgi bodies (1844-1926) - Goliath
(Old Testament) a giant Philistine warrior who was slain by David with a slingshot - Gombrowicz, Witold Gombrowicz
Polish author (1904-1969) - Gompers, Samuel Gompers
United States labor leader (born in England) who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1886 to 1924 (1850-1924) - Goncourt, Edmond de Goncourt, Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt
French writer who collaborated with his brother Jules de Goncourt on many books and who in his will established the Prix Goncourt (1822-1896) - Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt, Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt
French writer who collaborated with his brother Edmond de Goncourt on many books (1830-1870) - Gongora, Luis de Gongora y Argote
a Spanish poet whose work was characterized by an affected elegance of style (1561-1627) - Gonne, Maud Gonne
Irish patriot and a founder of the Sinn Fein (1865-1953) - Goodall, Jane Goodall
English zoologist noted for her studies of chimpanzees in the wild (born in 1934) - Goodman, Benny Goodman, Benjamin David Goodman, King of Swing
United States clarinetist who in 1934 formed a big band (including black as well as white musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (1909-1986) - Goodyear, Charles Goodyear
United States inventor of vulcanized rubber (1800-1860) - Gorbachev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms (born in 1931) - Gordimer, Nadine Gordimer
South African novelist and short-story writer whose work describes the effects of apartheid (born in 1923) - Gordius
legendary king of ancient Phrygia who was said to be responsible for the Gordian knot - Gore, Al Gore, Albert Gore Jr.
Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948) - Gorgas, William Crawford Gorgas
United States Army surgeon who suppressed yellow fever in Havana and in the Panama Canal Zone (1854-1920) - Goring, Goering, Hermann Goring, Hermann Goering, Hermann Wilhelm Goring
German politician in Nazi Germany who founded the Gestapo and mobilized Germany for war (1893-1946) - Gorki, Gorky, Maksim Gorky, Maxim Gorki, Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov, Aleksey Maximovich Peshkov
Russian writer of plays and novels and short stories - Goudy, Frederic Goudy, Frederic William Goudy
United States printer noted for designing typefaces (1865-1947) - Gould, Jay Gould
United States financier who gained control of the Erie Canal and who caused a financial panic in 1869 when he attempted to corner the gold market (1836-1892) - Gould, Stephen Jay Gould
United States paleontologist and popularizer of science (1941-2002) - Gounod, Charles Francois Gounod
French composer best remembered for his operas (1818-1893) - Goya, Goya y Lucientes, Francisco Goya, Francisco de Goya, Francisco Jose de Goya, Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes
Spanish painter well known for his portraits and for his satires (1746-1828) - Graf, Steffi Graf, Stephanie Graf
German tennis player who won seven women's singles titles at Wimbledon (born in 1969) - Graham, Martha Graham
United States dancer and choreographer whose work was noted for its austerity and technical rigor (1893-1991) - Graham, Billy Graham, William Franklin Graham
United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918) - Grahame, Kenneth Grahame
English writer (born in Scotland) of children's stories (1859-1932) - Grainger, Percy Grainger, Percy Aldridge Grainger, George Percy Aldridge Grainger
United States composer (born in Australia) who lived in London and collected English folk songs (1882-1961) - Gram, Hans C. J. Gram
Danish physician and bacteriologist who developed a method of staining bacteria to distinguish among them (1853-1938) - Grant, Ulysses Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses Simpson Grant, Hiram Ulysses Grant, President Grant
18th President of the United States