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- Grant, Cary Grant
United States actor (born in England) who was the elegant leading man in many films (1904-1986) - Grant, Duncan Grant, Duncan James Corrow Grant
Scottish painter - Granville-Barker, Harley Granville-Barker
English actor and dramatist and critic and director noted for his productions of Shakespearean plays (1877-1946) - Grappelli, Stephane Grappelli
French jazz violinist (1908-1997) - Grass, Gunter Grass, Gunter Wilhelm Grass
German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927) - Graves, Robert Graves, Robert Ranke Graves
English writer known for his interest in mythology and in the classics (1895-1985) - Gray, Asa Gray
United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888) - Gray, Robert Gray
American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806) - Gray, Thomas Gray
English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771) - Greeley, Horace Greeley
United States journalist with political ambitions (1811-1872) - Green, William Green
United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952) - Greenberg, Joseph Greenberg
United States linguist who studied the historical relations among 5,000 languages (1916-2001) - Greene, Graham Greene, Henry Graham Greene
English novelist and Catholic (1904-1991) - Gregory, Gregory I, Saint Gregory I, St. Gregory I, Gregory the Great
(Roman Catholic Church) an Italian pope distinguished for his spiritual and temporal leadership - Gregory, Gregory VII, Hildebrand
the Italian pope who fought to establish the supremacy of the pope over the Roman Catholic Church and the supremacy of the church over the state (1020-1085) - Gregory, Gregory XII, Angelo Correr
the Italian pope from 1406 to 1415 who worked to end the Great Schism and who retired to make it possible (1327-1417) - Gregory, Gregory XIII, Ugo Buoncompagni
the pope who sponsored the introduction of the modern calendar (1572-1585) - Gregory, Gregory XVI, Bartolomeo Alberto Capillari
Italian pope from 1831 to 1846 - Gregory, Gregory Nazianzen, Gregory of Nazianzen, St. Gregory of Nazianzen
(Roman Catholic Church) a church father known for his constant fight against perceived heresies - Gresham, Sir Thomas Gresham
English financier (1519-1579) - Gretzky, Wayne Gretzky
high-scoring Canadian ice-hockey player (born in 1961) - Grey, Charles Grey, Second Earl Grey
Englishman who as Prime Minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845) - Grey, Lady Jane Grey
Queen of England for nine days in 1553 - Grey, Zane Grey
United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939) - Grieg, Edvard Grieg, Edvard Hagerup Grieg
Norwegian composer whose work was often inspired by Norwegian folk music (1843-1907) - Griffith, D. W. Griffith, David Lewelyn Wark Griffith
United States film maker who was the first to use flashbacks and fade-outs (1875-1948) - Grimm, Jakob Grimm, Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm
the older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories - Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Wilhelm Karl Grimm
the younger of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories (1786-1859) - Gris, Jaun Gris
Spanish cubist painter (1887-1927) - Gromyko, Andrei Gromyko, Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko
Soviet ambassador to the United States and to the United Nations (1909-1989) - Gropius, Walter Gropius
United States architect (born in Germany) and founder of the Bauhaus school (1883-1969) - Grotius, Hugo Grotius, Huig de Groot
Dutch jurist and diplomat whose writings established the basis of modern international law (1583-1645) - Groves, Leslie Richard Groves
United States general who served as military director of the atomic bomb project (1896-1970) - Guarnerius, Guarneri, Guarnieri, Andrea Guarneri
founder of a family of Italian violin makers (1626?-1698) - Guarnerius, Guarneri, Guarnieri, Guiseppe Guarneri
Italian violin maker and grandson of Andrea Guarneri (1687?-1745) - Guevara, Ernesto Guevara, Che Guevara
an Argentine revolutionary leader who was Fidel Castro's chief lieutenant in the Cuban revolution - Guinevere, Guenevere
(Arthurian legend) wife of King Arthur - Guest, Edgar Guest, Edgar Albert Guest
United States journalist (born in England) noted for his syndicated homey verse (1881-1959) - Guggenheim, Meyer Guggenheim
United States industrialist (born in Switzerland) who with his sons established vast mining and metal processing companies (1828-1905) - Guggenheim, Solomon Guggenheim
United States philanthropist - Guinness, Alec Guinness, Sir Alec Guinness
English stage and screen actor noted for versatility (1914-2000) - Gustavus, Gustavus I
king of Sweden who established Lutheranism as the state religion (1496-1560) - Gustavus, Gustavus II, Gustavus Adolphus
king of Sweden whose victories in battle made Sweden a European power - Gustavus, Gustavus III
king of Sweden who increased the royal power and waged an unpopular war against Russia (1746-1792) - Gustavus, Gustavus IV
king of Sweden whose losses to Napoleon I led to his being deposed in 1809 (1778-1837) - Gustavus, Gustavus V
king of Sweden who kept Sweden neutral during both World War I and II (1858-1950) - Gustavus, Gustavus VI
the last king of Sweden to have any real political power (1882-1973) - Gutenberg, Johann Gutenberg, Johannes Gutenberg
German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468) - Guthrie, Woody Guthrie, Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
United States folk singer and songwriter (1912-1967) - Gwynn, Gywn, Gynne, Nell Gwynn, Nell Gywn, Nell Gwynne, Eleanor Gwynn, Eleanor Gwyn, Eleanor Gwynne
English comedienne and mistress of Charles II (1650-1687) - Habakkuk
a Hebrew minor prophet - Haber, Fritz Haber
German chemist noted for the synthetic production of ammonia from the nitrogen in air (1868-1934) - Adrian, Hadrian, Publius Aelius Hadrianus
Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan - Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Haeckel
German biologist and philosopher - Haggai, Aggeus
a Hebrew minor prophet - Haggard, Rider Haggard, Sir Henry Rider Haggard
British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925) - Hahn, Otto Hahn
German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968) - Haile Selassie, Ras Tafari Makonnen, Ras Tafari
emperor of Ethiopia - Haldane, Richard Haldane, Richard Burdon Haldane, First Viscount Haldane of Cloan
Scottish statesman and brother of Elizabeth and John Haldane (1856-1928) - Haldane, Elizabeth Haldane, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane
Scottish writer and sister of Richard Haldane and John Haldane (1862-1937) - Haldane, John Haldane, John Scott Haldane
Scottish physiologist and brother of Richard Haldane and Elizabeth Haldane - Haldane, J. B. S. Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
Scottish geneticist (son of John Haldane) who contributed to the development of population genetics - Hale, Edward Everett Hale
prolific United States writer (1822-1909) - Hale, George Ellery Hale
United States astronomer who discovered that sunspots are associated with strong magnetic fields (1868-1938) - Hale, Nathan Hale
a soldier of the American Revolution who was hanged as a spy by the British - Halevy, Fromental Halevy, Jacques Francois Fromental Elie Halevy
French operatic composer (1799-1862) - Haley, Alex Haley
United States writer and Afro-American who wrote a fictionalized account of tracing his family roots back to Africa (1921-1992) - Haley, Bill Haley, William John Clifton Haley Jr.
United States rock singer who was one of the first to popularize rock'n'roll music (1925-1981) - Hall, Asaph Hall
United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (1829-1907) - Hall, Charles Francis Hall
United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871) - Hall, Charles Martin Hall
United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (1863-1914) - Hall, G. Stanley Hall, Granville Stanley Hall
United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924) - Hall, Radclyffe Hall, Marguerite Radclyffe Hall
English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943) - Halley, Edmond Halley, Edmund Halley
English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742) - Hals, Frans Hals
Dutch portrait and genre painter who endowed his portraits with vitality and humor (1580?-1666) - Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton
United States statesman and leader of the Federalists - Hamilton, Alice Hamilton
United States toxicologist known for her work on industrial poisons (1869-1970) - Hamilton, Lady Emma Hamilton, Amy Lyon
English beauty who was the mistress of Admiral Nelson (1765-1815) - Hamilton, William Rowan Hamilton, Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Irish mathematician (1806-1865) - Hammarskjold, Dag Hammarskjold, Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold
Swedish diplomat who greatly extended the influence of the United Nations in peacekeeping matters (1905-1961) - Hammerstein, Oscar Hammerstein, Oscar Hammerstein II
United States lyricist who collaborated on many musical comedies (most successfully with Richard Rodgers) (1895-1960) - Hammett, Dashiell Hammett, Samuel Dashiell Hammett
United States writer of hard-boiled detective fiction (1894-1961) - Hammurabi, Hammurapi
Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC) - Hampton, Lionel Hampton
United States musician who was the first to use the vibraphone as a jazz instrument (1913-2002) - Hamsun, Knut Hamsun, Knut Pedersen
Norwegian writer of novels (1859-1952) - John Hancock, Hancock
American revolutionary patriot who was president of the Continental Congress - Handel, George Frideric Handel, George Frederick Handel, Georg Friedrich Handel
a prolific British baroque composer (born in Germany) remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759) - Handy, W. C. Handy, William Christopher Handy
United States blues musician who transcribed and published traditional blues music (1873-1958) - Hanks, Tom Hanks, Thomas J. Hanks
United States film actor (born in 1956) - Hannibal
general who commanded the Carthaginian army in the second Punic War - Harding, Warren Harding, Warren Gamaliel Harding, President Harding
29th President of the United States - Hardy, Thomas Hardy
English novelist and poet (1840-1928) - Hardy, Oliver Hardy
United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957) - Hargreaves, James Hargreaves
English inventor of the spinning jenny (1720-1778) - Harlow, Jean Harlow, Harlean Carpenter
United States film actress who made several films with Clark Gable (1911-1937) - Harmsworth, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe
British newspaper publisher (1865-1922) - Harold I, King Harold I, Harold Harefoot, Harefoot
illegitimate son of Canute who seized the throne of England in 1037 (died in 1040) - Harold II, King Harold II
King of England who succeeded Edward the Confessor in 1066 and was the last of the Anglo-Saxon monarchs - Harriman, E. H. Harriman, Edward Henry Harriman
United States railway tycoon (1848-1909) - Harriman, Averell Harriman, William Averell Harriman
United States financier who negotiated a treaty with the Soviet Union banning tests of nuclear weapons (1891-1986) - Harris, Benjamin Harris
publisher of the first newspaper printed in America (1673-1713) - Harris, Bomber Harris, Sir Arthur Travers Harris
British marshal of the Royal Air Force - Harris, Frank Harris, James Thomas Harris
Irish writer noted for his sexually explicit but unreliable autobiography (1856-1931) - Harris, Townsend Harris
United States diplomat who was instrumental in opening Japan to foreign trade (1804-1878) - Harris, Zellig Harris, Zellig Sabbatai Harris
United States linguist (born in Ukraine) who developed mathematical linguistics and interpreted speech and writing in a social context (1909-1992) - Harris, Joel Harris, Joel Chandler Harris
United States author who wrote the stories about Uncle Remus (1848-1908) - Harrison, William Henry Harrison, President Harrison, President William Henry Harrison
9th President of the United States - Harrison, President Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, President Benjamin Harrison
23rd President of the United States (1833-1901) - Harrison, George Harrison
English rock star - Harrison, Rex Harrison, Sir Rex Harrison, Reginald Carey Harrison
English actor on stage and in films (1908-1990) - Harrod, Charles Henry Harrod
English merchant who took over a shop in London that was expanded by his son into a prestigious department store (1800-1885) - Harrod, Charles Digby Harrod
English merchant who expanded his father's shop in London into a prestigious department store (1841-1905) - Hart, Lorenz Hart, Lorenz Milton Hart
United States lyricist who collaborated with Richard Rodgers (1895-1943) - Hart, Moss Hart
United States playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman (1904-1961) - Harte, Bret Harte
United States writer noted for his stories about life during the California gold rush (1836-1902) - Hartley, David Hartley
English philosopher who introduced the theory of the association of ideas (1705-1757) - Harvard, John Harvard
American philanthropist who left his library and half his estate to the Massachusetts college that now bears his name (1607-1638) - Harvey, William Harvey
English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood - Hasdrubal
general who commanded a Carthaginian army in Spain - Hasek, Jaroslav Hasek
Czech author of novels and short stories (1883-1923) - Hassam, Childe Hassam, Frederick Childe Hassam
United States painter noted for brilliant colors and bold brushwork (1859-1935) - Hassel, Odd Hassel
Norwegian chemist noted for his research on organic molecules (1897-1981) - Hastings, Thomas Hastings
United States architect who formed and important architectural firm with John Merven Carrere (1860-1929) - Hathaway, Anne Hathaway
wife of William Shakespeare (1556-1623) - Havel, Vaclav Havel
Czech dramatist and statesman whose plays opposed totalitarianism and who served as president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992 and president of the Czech Republic since 1993 (born in 1936) - Hawking, Stephen Hawking, Stephen William Hawking
English theoretical physicist (born in 1942) - Hawkins, Coleman Hawkins
United States jazz saxophonist (1904-1969) - Hawkins, Hawkyns, Sir John Hawkins, Sir John Hawkyns
English privateer involved in the slave trade - Haworth, Sir Walter Norman Haworth
English biochemist who was a pioneer in research on carbohydrates - Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne
United States writer of novels and short stories mostly on moral themes (1804-1864) - Haydn, Joseph Haydn, Franz Joseph Haydn
prolific Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809) - Hayek, Friedrich August von Hayek
English economist (born in Austria) noted for work on the optimum allocation of resources (1899-1992) - Hayes, Rutherford B. Hayes, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, President Hayes
19th President of the United States - Hayes, Helen Hayes
acclaimed actress of stage and screen (1900-1993) - Hays, Arthur Garfield Hays
United States lawyer involved in several famous court trials (1881-1954) - Hays, Will Hays, William Harrison Hays
United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United States films from 1930 to 1966 (1879-1954) - Haywood, Big Bill Haywood, William Dudley Haywood
United States labor leader and militant socialist who was one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (1869-1928) - Hazlitt, William Hazlitt
English essayist and literary critic (1778-1830) - Hearst, William Randolph Hearst
United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism (1863-1951) - Heaviside, Oliver Heaviside
English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications - Hebbel, Friedrich Hebbel, Christian Friedrich Hebbel
German dramatist (1813-1863) - Hecht, Ben Hecht
United States writer of stories and plays (1894-1946) - Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher whose three stage process of dialectical reasoning was adopted by Karl Marx (1770-1831) - Heidegger, Martin Heidegger
German philosopher whose views on human existence in a world of objects and on Angst influenced the existential philosophers (1889-1976) - Heinlein, Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein
United States writer of science fiction (1907-1988) - Heinz, Henry John Heinz
United States industrialist who manufactured and sold processed foods (1844-1919) - Heisenberg, Werner Karl Heisenberg
German mathematical physicist noted for stating the uncertainty principle (1901-1976) - Heller, Joseph Heller
United States novelist whose best known work was a black comedy inspired by his experiences in the Air Force during World War II (1923-1999) - Hellman, Lillian Hellman
United States playwright - Helmholtz, Hermann von Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Baron Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz
German physiologist and physicist (1821-1894) - Heloise
student and mistress and wife of Abelard (circa 1098-1164) - Heming, Hemminge, John Heming, John Hemminge
English actor who edited the first folio of Shakespeare's plays (1556-1630) - Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway
an American writer of fiction who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1954 (1899-1961) - Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix, James Marshall Hendrix
United States guitarist whose innovative style with electric guitars influenced the development of rock music (1942-1970) - Henry, Joseph Henry
United States physicist who studied electromagnetic phenomena (1791-1878) - Henry, Patrick Henry
a leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736-1799) - Henry, William Henry
English chemist who studied the quantities of gas absorbed by water at different temperatures and under different pressures (1775-1836) - Henry I, Henry Beauclerc
King of England from 1100 to 1135 - Henry II
first Plantagenet King of England - Henry II
king of France from 1547 to 1559 - Henry III
son of King John and king of England from 1216 to 1272 - Henry III
son of Henry II of France and the last Valois to be king of France (1551-1589) - Henry IV, Bolingbroke, Henry Bolingbroke
the first Lancastrian king of England from 1399 to 1413 - Henry IV
King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor (1050-1106) - Henry IV, Henry of Navarre, Henry the Great
king of France from 1589 to 1610 - Henry V
son of Henry IV and King of England from 1413 to 1422 - Henry VI
son of Henry V who as an infant succeeded his father and was King of England from 1422 to 1461 - Henry VII, Henry Tudor
first Tudor king of England from 1485 to 1509 - Henry VII
King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor (1275-1313) - Henry VIII
son of Henry VII and King of England from 1509 to 1547 - Henson, Jim Henson
United States puppeteer who created a troupe of puppet characters (1936-1990) - Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton Hepburn
United States film actress who appeared in many films with Spencer Tracy (1907-2003) - Hepworth, Barbara Hepworth, Dame Barbara Hepworth
British sculptor (1902-1975) - Heraclitus
a presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (circa 500 BC) - Herbart, Johann Friedrich Herbart
German philosopher (1776-1841) - Herbert, Victor Herbert
United States musician and composer and conductor noted for his comic operas (1859-1924) - Herder, Johann Gottfried von Herder
German philosopher who advocated intuition over reason (1744-1803) - Herman, Woody Herman, Woodrow Charles Herman
United States jazz musician and bandleader (1913-1987) - Hero, Heron, Hero of Alexandria
Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century) - Herod, Herod the Great
king of Judea who (according to the New Testament) tried to kill Jesus by ordering the death of all children under age two in Bethlehem (73-4 BC) - Herodotus
the ancient Greek known as the father of history - Herrick, Robert Herrick
English lyric poet (1591-1674) - Herschel, William Herschel, Sir William Herschel, Sir Frederick William Herschel
English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822) - Herschel, John Herschel, Sir John Herschel, Sir John Frederick William Herschel
English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871) - Hershey, Milton Snavely Hershey
United States confectioner and philanthropist who created the model industrial town of Hershey, Pennsylvania - Hertz, Gustav Hertz, Gustav Ludwig Hertz
German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975) - Hertz, Heinrich Hertz, Heinrich Rudolph Hertz
German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894) - Herzberg, Gerhard Herzberg
Canadian physicist (born in Germany) noted for contributions to understanding the structure of molecules (born in 1904) - Hesiod
Greek poet whose existing works describe rural life and the genealogies of the gods and the beginning of the world (eighth century BC) - Hess, Victor Hess, Victor Franz Hess
United States physicist (born in Austria) who was a discoverer of cosmic radiation (1883-1964) - Hess, Rudolf Hess, Walther Richard Rudolf Hess
Nazi leader who in 1941 flew a solo flight to Scotland in an apparent attempt to negotiate a peace treaty with Great Britain but was imprisoned for life (1894-1987) - Hess, Walter Hess, Walter Rudolf Hess
Swiss physiologist noted for studies of the brain (1881-1973) - Hess, Dame Myra Hess
English pianist (1890-1965) - Hesse, Hermann Hesse
Swiss writer (born in Germany) whose novels and poems express his interests in eastern spiritual values (1877-1962) - Hevesy, George Charles Hevesy de Hevesy
Hungarian chemist who studied radioisotopes and was one of the discoverers of the element hafnium (1885-1966) - Heyerdahl, Thor Hyerdahl
Norwegian anthropologist noted for his studies of cultural diffusion (1914-2002) - Heyrovsky, Joroslav Heyrovsky
Czechoslovakian chemist who developed polarography (1890-1967) - Heyse, Paul Heyse, Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse
German writer (1830-1914) - Heyward, DuBois Heyward, Edwin DuBois Hayward
United States writer (1885-1940) - Hezekiah, Ezekias
(Old Testament) king of Judah who abolished idolatry (715-687 BC)