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- Mortimer, Roger de Mortimer
English nobleman who deposed Edward II and was executed by Edward III (1287-1330) - Morton, Jelly Roll Morton, Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe Morton
United States jazz musician who moved from ragtime to New Orleans jazz (1885-1941) - Mosander, Carl Gustaf Mossander
Swedish chemist who discovered rare earth elements (1797-1858) - Moses
(Old Testament) the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites from Egypt across the Red sea on a journey known as the Exodus - Moses, Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson Moses
United States painter of colorful and primitive rural scenes (1860-1961) - Mossbauer, Rudolf Ludwig Mossbauer
German physicist (born in 1929) - Motherwell, Robert Motherwell
United States abstract expressionist painter (1915-1991) - Mott, Lucretia Coffin Mott
United States feminist and suffragist (1793-1880) - Moynihan, Daniel Patrick Moynihan
United States politician and educator (1927-2003) - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
prolific Austrian composer and child prodigy - Mubarak, Hosni Mubarak
Egyptian statesman who became president in 1981 after Sadat was assassinated (born in 1929) - Muhammad, Elijah Muhammad
leader of Black Muslims who campaigned for independence for Black Americans (1897-1975) - Muir, John Muir
United States naturalist (born in England) who advocated the creation of national parks (1838-1914) - Mullah Omar, Mullah Mohammed Omar
reclusive Afghanistani politician and leader of the Taliban who imposed a strict interpretation of shariah law on Afghanistan (born in 1960) - Muller, Hermann Joseph Muller
United States geneticist who studied the effects of X-rays on genes (1890-1967) - Muller, Max Muller, Friedrich Max Muller
British philologist (born in Germany) who specialized in Sanskrit (1823-1900) - Muller, Johann Muller, Regiomontanus
German mathematician and astronomer (1436-1476) - Muller, Johannes Peter Muller
German physiologist and anatomist (1801-1858) - Muller, Karl Alex Muller
Swiss physicist who studied superconductivity (born in 1927) - Muller, Paul Hermann Muller
Swiss chemist who synthesized DDT and discovered its use as an insecticide (1899-1965) - Munch, Edvard Munch
Norwegian painter (1863-1944) - Munchhausen, Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Munchhausen, Munchausen, Baron Munchausen
German raconteur who told preposterous stories about his adventures as a soldier and hunter - Munro, H. H. Munro, Hector Hugh Munro, Saki
British writer of short stories (1870-1916) - Murdoch, Iris Murdoch, Dame Jean Iris Murdoch
British writer (born in Ireland) known primarily for her novels (1919-1999) - Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch, Keith Rupert Murdoch
United States publisher (born in Australia in 1931) - Murray, James Murray, James Augustus Murray, James Augustus Henry Murray, Sir James Murray, Sir James Augustus Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry Murray
Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915) - Murray, Gilbert Murray, George Gilbert Aime Murphy
British classical scholar (born in Australia) who advocated the League of Nations and the United Nations (1866-1957) - Murillo, Bartolome Esteban Murillo
Spanish painter (1617-1682) - Murrow, Edward R. Murrow, Edward Roscoe Murrow
United States broadcast journalist remembered for his reports from London during World War II (1908-1965) - Musial, Stan Musial, Stanley Frank Musial, Stan the Man
United States baseball player (born in 1920) - Musset, Alfred de Musset, Louis Charles Alfred de Musset
French poet and writer (1810-1857) - Mussolini, Benito Mussolini, Il Duce
Italian fascist dictator (1883-1945) - Mussorgsky, Moussorgsky, Modest Mussorgsky, Modest Moussorgsky, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky
Russian composer of operas and orchestral works (1839-1881) - Muybridge, Eadweard Muybridge, Edward James Muggeridge
United States motion-picture pioneer remembered for his pictures of running horses taken with a series of still cameras (born in England) (1830-1904) - Myrdal, Gunnar Myrdal, Karl Gunnar Myrdal
Swedish economist (1898-1987) - Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir vladimirovich Nabokov
United States writer (born in Russia) (1899-1977) - Nahum
a Hebrew minor prophet of the 7th century BC - Naismith, James Naismith
United States educator (born in Canada) who invented the game of basketball (1861-1939) - Nanak, Guru Nanak
Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism in dissent from the caste system of Hinduism - Nansen, Fridtjof Nansen
Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930) - Naomi, Noemi
the mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament - Napier, John Napier
Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms - Napoleon, Napoleon I, Napoleon Bonaparte, Bonaparte, Little Corporal
French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821) - Napoleon III, Emperor Napoleon III, Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
nephew of Napoleon I and emperor of the French from 1852 to 1871 (1808-1873) - Nash, Ogden Nash
United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971) - Nasser, Gamal Abdel Nasser
Egyptian statesman who nationalized the Suez Canal (1918-1970) - Nast, Thomas Nast
United States political cartoonist (1840-1902) - Nation, Carry Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nation
United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911) - Natta, Giulio Natta
Italian chemist noted for work on polymers (1903-1979) - Taurus, Sanchez, Ilich Sanchez, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, Carlos, Carlos the Jackal, Salim, Andres Martinez, Glen Gebhard, Hector Hevodidbon, Michael Assat
Venezuelan master terrorist raised by a Marxist-Leninist father - Navratilova, Martina Navratilova
United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won nine Wimbledon women's singles championships (born in 1956) - Nazimova, Alla Nazimova
United States actress (born in Russia) (1879-1945) - Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar II, Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuchadrezzar II
(Old Testament) king of Chaldea who captured and destroyed Jerusalem and exiled the Israelites to Babylonia (630?-562 BC) - Nicholas V, Tomasso Parentucelli
Italian pope from 1447 to 1455 who founded the Vatican library (1397-1455) - Nimrod
(Old Testament) a famous hunter - Neel, Louis Eugene Felix Neel
French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904) - Nefertiti
queen of Egypt and wife of Akhenaton (14th century BC) - Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru
Indian statesman and leader with Gandhi in the struggle for home rule - Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson, Admiral Nelson, Lord Nelson
English admiral who defeated the French fleets of Napoleon but was mortally wounded at Trafalgar (1758-1805) - Nernst, Walther Hermann Nernst
German physicist and chemist who formulated the third law of thermodynamics (1864-1941) - Nero, Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus
Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Roman Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68) - Neruda, Pablo Neruda, Reyes, Neftali Ricardo Reyes
Chilean poet (1904-1973) - Nervi, Pier Luigi Nervi
Italian architect who pioneered in the use of reinforced concrete (1891-1979) - Nerva, Marcus Cocceius Nerva
Emperor of Rome who introduced a degree of freedom after the repressive reign of Domitian - Nestor
(Greek mythology) a wise old counselor to the Greeks at Troy - Nestorius
Syrian who was a Christian bishop and Patriarch of Constantinople in the early fifth century - Nevelson, Louise Nevelson
United States sculptor (born in Russia) known for massive shapes of painted wood (1899-1988) - Newcomb, Simon Newcomb
United States astronomer (1835-1909) - Newman, John Henry Newman, Cardinal Newman
English prelate and theologian who (with John Keble and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford movement - Newman, Paul Newman, Paul Leonard Newman
United States film actor (born in 1925) - Newton, Isaac Newton, Sir Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist - Ney, Michel Ney, Duc d'Elchingen
French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars (1769-1815) - Saint Nicholas, Nicholas, St. Nicholas
a bishop in Asia Minor who is associated with Santa Claus (4th century) - Nicholas I, Czar Nicholas I
czar of Russia from 1825 to 1855 who led Russia into the Crimean War (1796-1855) - Nicholas II
the last czar of Russia who was forced to abdicate in 1917 by the Russian Revolution - Nicklaus, Jack Nicklaus, Jack William Nicklaus
United States golfer considered by many to be the greatest golfer of all time (born in 1940) - Nicolson, Harold Nicolson, Sir Harold George Nicolson
English diplomat and author (1886-1968) - Niebuhr, Barthold George Niebuhr
German historian noted for his critical approach to sources and for his history of Rome (1776-1831) - Niebuhr, Reinhold Niebuhr
United States Protestant theologian (1892-1971) - Nielsen, Carl Nielsen, Carl August Nielsen
Danish composer (1865-1931) - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
influential German philosopher remembered for his concept of the superman and for his rejection of Christian values - Nightingale, Florence Nightingale, Lady with the Lamp
English nurse remembered for her work during the Crimean War (1820-1910) - Nijinsky, Vaslav Nijinsky, Waslaw Nijinsky
Russian dancer considered by many to be the greatest dancer of the 20th century (1890-1950) - Nilsson, Brigit Nilsson, Marta Brigit Nilsson
Swedish operatic soprano who played Wagnerian roles (born in 1918) - Nimitz, Chester Nimitz, Chester William Nimitz, Admiral Nimitz
United States admiral of the Pacific fleet during World War II who used aircraft carriers to destroy the Japanese navy (1885-1966) - Nixon, Richard Nixon, Richard M. Nixon, Richard Milhous Nixon, President Nixon
vice president under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States - Noah
the Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain - Nobel, Alfred Nobel, Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896) - Noether, Emmy Noether
German mathematician (1882-1935) - Noguchi, Hideyo Noguchi
United States bacteriologist (born in Japan) who discovered the cause of yellow fever and syphilis (1876-1928) - Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi
United States sculptor (1904-1988) - Norman, Greg Norman, Gregory John Norman
Australian golfer (born in 1955) - Norman, Jessye Norman
United States operatic soprano (born in 1945) - Norris, Frank Norris, Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr.
United States writer (1870-1902) - Norrish, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
English chemist (1897-1978) - North, Frederick North, Second Earl of Guilford
British statesman under George III whose policies led to rebellion in the American colonies (1732-1792) - Northrop, John Howard Northrop
United States biochemist (1891-1987) - Nostradamus, Michel de Notredame
French astrologer who wrote cryptic predictions whose interpretations are still being debated (1503-1566) - Noyes, Alfred Noyes
English poet (1880-1958) - Nuffield, William Richard Morris, First Viscount Nuffield
British industrialist who manufactured automobiles and created a philanthropic foundation (1877-1963) - Nureyev, Rudolf Nureyev
Russian dancer who was often the partner of Dame Margot Fonteyn and who defected to the United States in 1961 (born in 1938) - Oakley, Annie Oakley
United States sharpshooter who was featured in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (1860-1926) - Oates, Joyce Carol Oates
United States writer (born in 1938) - Oates, Titus Oates
English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705) - Obadiah, Abdias
a Hebrew minor prophet - O'Brien, Edna O'Brien
Irish writer (born in 1932) - O'Casey, Sean O'Casey
Irish playwright (1880-1964) - Occam, William of Occam, Ockham, William of Ockham
English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349) - Ochoa, Severo Ochoa
United States biochemist (born in Spain) who studied the biological synthesis of nucleic acids (1905-1993) - Ochs, Adolph Simon Ochs
United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935) - O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor, Mary Flannery O'Connor
United States writer (1925-1964) - Odets, Clifford Odets
United States playwright (1906-1963) - Odoacer, Odovacar, Odovakar
Germanic barbarian leader who ended the Western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493) - Oersted, Hans Christian Oersted
Danish physicist (1777-1851) - Offenbach, Jacques Offenbach
French composer of many operettas and an opera (1819-1880) - O'Flaherty, Liam O'Flaherty
Irish writer of short stories (1896-1984) - Ogden, C. K. Ogden, Charles Kay Ogden
English psychologist who collaborated with I. A. Richards in designing Basic English (1889-1957) - O'Hara, John Henry O'Hara
United States writer (1905-1970) - Ohm, Georg Simon Ohm
German physicist who formulated Ohm's law (1787-1854) - O'Keeffe, Georgia Okeeffe
United States painter (1887-1986) - Oken, Lorenz Oken, Okenfuss, Lorenz Okenfuss
German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851) - Olaf II, Olav II, Saint Olaf, Saint Olav, St. Olaf, St. Olav
King and patron saint of Norway (995-1030) - Oldenburg, Claes Oldenburg, Claes Thure Oldenburg
United States sculptor (born in Sweden) - Oldfield, Barney Oldfield, Berna Eli Oldfield
United States race driver who was the first to drive faster than a mile a minute (1878-1946) - Oliver, Joseph Oliver, King Oliver
United States jazz musician who influenced the style of Louis Armstrong (1885-1938) - Olivier, Laurence Olivier, Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier of Birghton
English actor best know for his Shakespearean roles (1907-1989) - Olmsted, Frederick Law Olmsted
United States landscape architect primarily responsible for the design of Central Park in New York City (1822-1903) - Omar Khayyam
Persian poet and mathematician and astronomer whose poetry was popularized by Edward Fitzgerald's translation (1050-1123) - Ondaatje, Michael Ondaatje, Philip Michael Ondaatje
Canadian writer (born in Sri Lanka in 1943) - O'Neill, Eugene O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
United States playwright (1888-1953) - Ono, Yoko Ono
United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933) - Onsager, Lars Onsager
United States chemist (born in Norway) noted for his work in thermodynamics (1903-1976) - Oort, Jan Hendrix Oort
Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992) - Opel, Wilhelm von Opel
German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948) - Oppenheimer, Robert Oppenheimer
United States physicist who directed the project at Los Alamos that developed the first atomic bomb (1904-1967) - Orbison, Roy Orbison
United States composer and rockabilly tenor popular in the 1950s (1936-1988) - Orczy, Baroness Emmusca Orczy
British writer (born in Hungary) (1865-1947) - Orff, Carl Orff
German musician who developed a widely used system for teaching music to children (1895-1982) - Origen
Greek philosopher and theologian who reinterpreted Christian doctrine through the philosophy of Neoplatonism - Ormandy, Eugene Ormandy
United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1899-1985) - Orozco, Jose Orozco, Jose Clemente Orozco
Mexican painter noted for his monumental murals (1883-1949) - Orr, Bobby Orr, Robert Orr
Canadian hockey player (born 1948) - Ortega, Daniel Ortega, Daniel Ortega Saavedra
Nicaraguan statesman (born in 1945) - Ortega y Gasset, Jose Ortega y Gasset
Spanish philosopher who advocated leadership by an intellectual elite (1883-1955) - Orwell, George Orwell, Eric Blair, Eric Arthur Blair
imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - Osborne, John Osborne, John James Osborne
English playwright (1929-1994) - Osman I, Othman I
the conqueror of Turkey who founded the Ottoman Empire and the Ottoman dynasty that ruled Turkey after the 13th century - Ostwald, Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist (1853-1932) - Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald
United States assassin of President John F. Kennedy (1939-1963) - Otis, Elisha Graves Otis
United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861) - O'Toole, Peter O'Toole, Peter Seamus O'Toole
British actor (born in Ireland in 1932) - Otto I, Otho I, Otto the Great
King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor (912-973) - Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso
Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BC - AD 17) - Owen, Sir Richard Owen
English comparative anatomist and paleontologist who was an opponent of Darwinism (1804-1892) - Owen, Robert Owen
Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858) - Owens, Jesse Owens, James Cleveland Owens
United States athlete and Black American whose success in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin outraged Hitler (1913-1980) - Ozawa, Seiji Ozawa
United States conductor (born in Japan in 1935) - Paderewski, Ignace Paderewski, Ignace Jan Paderewski
Polish pianist who in 1919 served as the first Prime Minister of independent Poland (1860-1941) - Paganini, Niccolo Paganini
Italian violinist and composer of music for the violin (1782-1840) - Page, Thomas Nelson Page
United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922) - Page, Sir Frederick Handley Page
English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962) - Paget, Sir James Paget
English pathologist who discovered the cause of trichinosis (1814-1899) - Pahlavi, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah Pahlavi, Pahlevi, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
Shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979 by Islamic fundamentalists (1919-1980) - Paige, Satchel Paige, Leroy Robert Paige
United States baseball player - Paine, Tom Paine, Thomas Paine
American Revolutionary leader and pamphleteer (born in England) who supported the American colonist's fight for independence and supported the French Revolution (1737-1809) - Paine, Robert Treat Paine
American Revolutionary leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1731-1814) - Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Italian composer (1526-1594) - Palgrave, Francis Turner Palgrave
English poet (1824-1897) - Palladio, Andrea Palladio
highly original and much imitated Italian architect (1508-1580) - Palmer, Arnold Palmer, Arnold Daniel Palmer
United States golfer (born in 1929) - Panini
Indian grammarian whose grammatical rules for Sanskrit are the first known example of descriptive linguistics (circa 400 BC) - Panofsky, Erwin Panofsky
art historian (1892-1968) - Paracelsus, Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus, Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim
Swiss physician who introduced treatments of particular illnesses based on his observation and experience - Pareto, Vilfredo Pareto
Italian sociologist and economist whose theories influenced the development of fascism in Italy (1848-1923) - Park, Mungo Park
Scottish explorer in Africa (1771-1806) - Parker, Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Rothschild Parker
United States writer noted for her sharp wit (1893-1967) - Parker, Charlie Parker, Yardbird Parker, Bird Parker, Charles Christopher Parker
United States saxophonist and leader of the bop style of jazz (1920-1955) - Parkinson, C. Northcote Parkinson, Cyril Northcote Parkinson
British historian noted for ridicule of bureaucracies (1909-1993) - Parkinson, James Parkinson
English surgeon (1755-1824) - Parks, Rosa Parks
United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913) - Parmenides
a presocratic Greek philosopher born in Italy - Parnell, Charles Stewart Parnell
Irish nationalist leader (1846-1891) - Parr, Catherine Parr
Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548) - Parrish, Maxfield Parrish, Maxfield Frederick Parrish
United States painter (1870-1966) - Parsons, Talcott Parsons
United States sociologist (1902-1979) - Pascal, Blaise Pascal
French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist - Pasternak, Boris Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Russian writer whose best known novel was banned by Soviet authorities but translated and published abroad (1890-1960) - Pasteur, Louis Pasteur
French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895) - Paterson, William Patterson
American Revolutionary leader (born in Ireland) who was a member of the Constitutional Convention (1745-1806) - Paton, Alan Paton, Alan Stewart Paton
South African writer (1903-1988) - Patrick, Saint Patrick, St. Patrick
Apostle and patron saint of Ireland - Saint Paul, St. Paul, Paul, Apostle Paul, Paul the Apostle, Apostle of the Gentiles, Saul, Saul of Tarsus
(New Testament) a Christian missionary to the Gentiles - Paul III, Alessandro Farnese
Italian pope from 1534 to 1549 who excommunicated Henry VIII of England in 1538 and initiated the Council of Trent in 1545 - Paul VI, Giovanni Battista Montini
Italian pope from 1963 to 1978 who eased restrictions on fasting and on interfaith marriages (1897-1978) - Paul, Alice Paul
United States feminist (1885-1977) - Pauli, Wolfgang Pauli
United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958) - Pauling, Linus Pauling, Linus Carl Pauling
United States chemist who studied the nature of chemical bonding (1901-1994) - Pavarotti, Luciano Pavarotti
Italian tenor (born in 1935) - Pavlov, Ivan Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
Russian physiologist who observed conditioned salivary responses in dogs (1849-1936) - Pavlova, Anna Pavlova
Russian ballerina (1882-1931)