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- Bowditch, Nathaniel Bowditch
United States mathematician and astronomer noted for his works on navigation (1773-1838) - Bowdler, Thomas Bowdler
English editor who in 1818 published an expurgated edition of the works of Shakespeare (1754-1825) - Bowie, Jim Bowie, James Bowie
United States pioneer and hero of the Texas revolt against Mexico - Boyle, Robert Boyle
Irish chemist who established that air has weight and whose definitions of chemical elements and chemical reactions helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy (1627-1691) - Boyle, Kay Boyle
United States writer (1902-1992) - Bradbury, Ray Bradbury, Ray Douglas Bradbury
United States writer of science fiction (born 1920) - Bradford, William Bradford
United States printer (born in England) whose press produced the first American prayer book and the New York City's first newspaper (1663-1752) - Bradley, Omar Bradley, Omar Nelson Bradley
United States general who played an important role in the Allied victory in World War II (1893-1981) - Bradley, Thomas Bradley, Tom Bradley
United States politician who was elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles (1917-1998) - Bradstreet, Anne Bradstreet, Anne Dudley Bradstreet
poet in colonial America (born in England) (1612-1672) - Brady, James Buchanan Brady, Diamond Jim Brady, Diamond Jim
United States financier noted for his love of diamonds and his extravagant lifestyle (1856-1917) - Brady, Mathew B. Brady
United States pioneer photographer famous for his portraits - Bragg, Braxton Bragg
Confederate general during the American Civil War who was defeated by Grant in the battle of Chattanooga (1817-1876) - Brahe, Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer whose observations of the planets provided the basis for Kepler's laws of planetary motion (1546-1601) - Brahms, Johannes Brahms
German composer who developed the romantic style of both lyrical and classical music (1833-1897) - Braille, Louis Braille
French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852) - Bramante, Donato Bramante, Donato d'Agnolo Bramante
great Italian architect of the High Renaissance in Italy (1444-1514) - Brancusi, Constantin Brancusi
Romanian sculptor noted for abstractions of animal forms (1876-1957) - Brandt, Willy Brandt
German statesman who as chancellor of West Germany worked to reduce tensions with eastern Europe (1913-1992) - Braque, Georges Braque
French painter who led the cubist movement (1882-1963) - Braun, von Braun, Wernher von Braun, Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun
United States rocket engineer (born in Germany where he designed a missile used against England) - Braun, Eva Braun
the German mistress of Adolf Hitler (1910-1945) - Brecht, Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist and poet who developed a style of epic theater (1898-1956) - Breuer, Marcel Lajos Breuer
United States architect (born in Hungary) who was associated with the Bauhaus in the 1920's (1902-1981) - Brezhnev, Leonid Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
Soviet statesman who became president of the Soviet Union (1906-1982) - Bridges, Harry Bridges
United States labor leader who organized the longshoremen (1901-1990) - Bridget, Saint Bridget, St. Bridget, Brigid, Saint Brigid, St. Brigid, Bride, Saint Bride, St. Bride
Irish abbess - Brinton, Daniel Garrison Brinton
United States anthropologist who was the first to attempt a systematic classification of Native American languages (1837-1899) - Britten, Benjamin Britten, Edward Benjamin Britten, Lord Britten of Aldeburgh
major English composer of the 20th century - Broca, Pierre-Paul Broca
French anthropologist who studied the craniums and brains of different races of people - Brockhouse, Bertram Brockhouse
Canadian physicist who bounced neutron beams off of atomic nuclei to study the structure of matter (1918-2003) - Broglie, de Broglie, Louis Victor de Broglie
French nuclear physicist who generalized the wave-particle duality by proposing that particles of matter exhibit wavelike properties (1892-1987) - Bronte, Charlotte Bronte
English novelist - Bronte, Emily Bronte, Emily Jane Bronte, Currer Bell
English novelist - Bronte, Anne Bronte
English novelist - Brooke, Rupert Brooke
English lyric poet (1887-1915) - Brooks, Van Wyck Brooks
United States literary critic and historian (1886-1963) - Brown, John Brown
abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859) - Brown, Robert Brown
Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858) - Browne, Charles Farrar Browne, Artemus Ward
United States writer of humorous tales of an itinerant showman (1834-1867) - Browne, Hablot Knight Browne, Phiz
English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882) - Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861) - Browning, Robert Browning
English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889) - Browning, John M. Browning, John Moses Browning
United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926) - Bruce, Robert the Bruce, Robert I
king of Scotland from 1306 to 1329 - Bruce, David Bruce, Sir David Bruce
Australian physician and bacteriologist who described the bacterium that causes undulant fever or brucellosis (1855-1931) - Bruch, Max Bruch
German composer (1838-1920) - Bruckner, Anton Bruckner
Austrian organist and composer of romantic music (1824-1896) - Brueghel, Breughel, Bruegel, Pieter Brueghel, Pieter Breughel, Pieter Bruegel, Breughel the Elder, Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Flemish painter of landscapes (1525-1569) - Brummell, George Bryan Brummell, Beau Brummell
English dandy who was a fashion leader during the Regency (1778-1840) - Brunelleschi, Filippo Brunelleschi
Florentine architect who was the first great architect of the Italian Renaissance (1377-1446) - Bruno, Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher who used Copernican principles to develop a pantheistic monistic philosophy - Bruno, Saint Bruno, St. Bruno
(Roman Catholic Church) a French cleric (born in Germany) who founded the Carthusian order in 1084 (1032-1101) - Brutus, Marcus Junius Brutus
statesman of ancient Rome who (with Cassius) led a conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar (85-42 BC) - Bryan, William Jennings Bryan, Great Commoner, Boy Orator of the Platte
United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925) - Buber, Martin Buber
Israeli religious philosopher (born in Austria) - Buchanan, James Buchanan, President Buchanan
15th President of the United States (1791-1868) - Buchner, Eduard Buchner
German organic chemist who studied alcoholic fermentation and discovered zymase (1860-1917) - Buck, Pearl Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973) - Budge, Don Budge, John Donald Budge
United States tennis player who in 1938 was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (1915-2000) - Bukharin, Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin
Bolshevik leader in Russia who advocated gradual collectivism of the farms - Bullfinch, Charles Bullfinch
United States architect who designed the Capitol Building in Washington which served as a model for state capitols throughout the United States (1763-1844) - Bultmann, Rudolf Bultmann, Rudolf Karl Bultmann
a Lutheran theologian in Germany (1884-1976) - Bunche, Ralph Bunche, Ralph Johnson Bunche
United States diplomat and United Nations official (1904-1971) - Bunsen, Robert Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
German chemist who with Kirchhoff pioneered spectrum analysis but is remembered mainly for his invention of the Bunsen burner (1811-1899) - Bunuel, Luis Bunuel
Spanish film director (1900-1983) - Bunyan, John Bunyan
English preacher and author of an allegorical novel, Pilgrim's Progress (1628-1688) - Burbage, Richard Burbage
English actor who was the first to play the leading role in several of Shakespeare's tragedies (1567-1619) - Burbank, Luther Burbank
United States horticulturist who developed many new varieties of fruits and vegetables and flowers (1849-1926) - Burger, Warren Burger, Warren E. Burger, Warren Earl Burger
United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court by Richard Nixon (1907-1995) - Burgess, Anthony Burgess
English writer of satirical novels (1917-1993) - Burgoyne, John Burgoyne, Gentleman Johnny
British general in the American Revolution who captured Fort Ticonderoga but lost the battle of Saratoga in 1777 (1722-1792) - Burk, Martha Jane Burk, Burke, Martha Jane Burke, Calamity Jane
United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903) - Burke, Edmund Burke
British statesman famous for his oratory - Burnett, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
United States writer (born in England) remembered for her novels for children (1849-1924) - Burnham, Daniel Hudson Burnham
United States architect who designed the first important skyscraper with a skeleton (1846-1912) - Burns, Robert Burns
celebrated Scottish poet (1759-1796) - Burns, George Burns, Nathan Birnbaum
United States comedian and film actor (1896-1996) - Burnside, A. E. Burnside, Ambrose Everett Burnside
United States general in the American Civil War who was defeated by Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Fredericksburg (1824-1881) - Burr, Aaron Burr
United States politician who served as vice president under Jefferson - Burroughs, Edgar Rice Burroughs
United States novelist and author of the Tarzan stories (1875-1950) - Burroughs, William Seward Burroughs
United States inventor who patented the first practical adding machine (1855-1898) - Burroughs, William Seward Burroughs, William Burroughs, William S. Burroughs
United States writer noted for his works portraying the life of drug addicts (1914-1997) - Burt, Cyril Burt, Cyril Lodowic Burt
English psychologist whose studies of twins were later said to have used fabricated data (1883-1971) - Burton, Richard Burton
Welsh film actor who often co-starred with Elizabeth Taylor (1925-1984) - Burton, Richard Burton, Sir Richard Burton, Sir Richard Francis Burton
English explorer who with John Speke was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika (1821-1890) - Bush, George Bush, George H.W. Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, President Bush
vice president under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (born in 1924) - Bush, Vannevar Bush
United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974) - Bush, George Bush, President Bush, George W. Bush, George Walker Bush, President George W. Bush, Dubyuh, Dubya
43rd President of the United States - Bushnell, David Bushnell, Father of the Submarine
American inventor who in 1775 designed a man-propelled submarine that was ineffectual but subsequently earned him recognition as a submarine pioneer (1742-1824) - Butler, Samuel Butler
English poet (1612-1680) - Butler, Samuel Butler
English novelist who described a fictitious land he called Erewhon (1835-1902) - Butterfield, William Butterfield
English architect who designed many churches (1814-1900) - Byrd, Richard E. Byrd, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Admiral Byrd
explorer and United States naval officer - Byrd, William Byrd
English organist and composer of church music - Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron, Sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale
English romantic poet notorious for his rebellious and unconventional lifestyle (1788-1824) - Cabell, James Branch Cabell
United States writer of satirical novels (1879-1958) - Cabot, John Cabot, Giovanni Cabato
Italian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca. 1450-1498) - Cabot, Sebastian Cabot
son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil - Caesar, Julius Caesar, Gaius Julius Caesar
conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC) - Caesar, Sid Caesar, Sidney Caesar
United States comedian who pioneered comedy television shows (born 1922) - Cage, John Cage, John Milton Cage Jr.
United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992) - Cagliostro, Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Giuseppe Balsamo
Italian who was famous as a magician and alchemist (1743-1795) - Cagney, Jimmy Cagney, James Cagney
United States film actor known for his portrayals of tough characters (1899-1986) - Calder, Alexander Calder
United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976) - Calderon, Calderon de la Barca, Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Spanish poet and dramatist considered one of the great Spanish writers (1600-1681) - Caldwell, Erskine Caldwell, Erskine Preston Caldwell
United States author remembered for novels about poverty and degeneration (1903-1987) - Caligula, Gaius, Gaius Caesar
Roman Emperor who succeeded Tiberius and whose uncontrolled passions resulted in manifest insanity - Calixtus II, Guy of Burgundy
pope who in 1122 forced the Holy Roman Emperor Henry V to sign a concordat that recognized the right of the church to choose its own leadership (died in 1124) - Borgia, Calixtus III, Alfonso Borgia
Italian pope whose nepotism put the Borgia family in power in Italy (1378-1458) - Callas, Maria Callas, Maria Meneghini Callas
Greek coloratura soprano (born in the United States) known for her dramatic intensity in operatic roles (1923-1977) - Calvin, John Calvin, Jean Cauvin, Jean Caulvin, Jean Chauvin
Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564) - Calvin, Melvin Calvin
United States chemist noted for discovering the series of chemical reactions in photosynthesis (1911-) - Calvino, Italo Calvino
Italian writer of novels and short stories (born in Cuba) (1923-1987) - Campbell, Joseph Campbell
United States mythologist (1904-1987) - Camus, Albert Camus
French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960) - Canetti, Elias Canetti
English writer born in Germany (1905-1994) - Canute, Cnut, Knut, Canute the Great
king of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him - Capek, Karel Capek
Czech writer who introduced the word `robot' into the English language (1890-1938) - Capone, Al Capone, Alphonse Capone, Scarface
United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during prohibition until arrested for tax evasion (1899-1947) - Capra, Frank Capra
United States film maker (1897-1991) - Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Italian painter noted for his realistic depiction of religious subjects and his novel use of light (1573-1610) - Carducci, Giosue Carducci
Italian poet considered the national poet of modern Italy (1835-1907) - Carew, Thomas Carew
Englishman and Cavalier poet whose lyric poetry was favored by Charles I (1595-1639) - Carl XVI Gustav, Carl XVI Gustaf
king of Sweden since 1973 (born 1946) - Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle
Scottish historian who wrote about the French Revolution (1795-1881) - Carmichael, Hoagy Carmichael, Hoagland Howard Carmichael
United States songwriter (1899-1981) - Carnegie, Andrew Carnegie
United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919) - Carnegie, Dale Carnegie
United States educator famous for writing a book about how to win friends and influence people (1888-1955) - Carnot, Sadi Carnot, Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot
French physicist who founded thermodynamics (1796-1832) - Carothers, Wallace Carothers, Wallace Hume Carothers
United States chemist who developed nylon (1896-1937) - Carrel, Alexis Carrel
French surgeon and biologist who developed a way to suture and graft blood vessels (1873-1944) - Carrere, John Merven Carrere
United States architect who with his partner Thomas Hastings designed many important public buildings (1858-1911) - Carroll, Lewis Carroll, Dodgson, Reverend Dodgson, Charles Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
English author - Carson, Kit Carson, Christopher Carson
United States frontiersman who guided Fremont's expeditions in the 1840s and served as a Union general in the American Civil War (1809-1868) - Carson, Rachel Carson, Rachel Louise Carson
United States biologist remembered for her opposition to the use of pesticides that were hazardous to wildlife (1907-1964) - Carter, Jimmy Carter, James Earl Carter, James Earl Carter Jr., President Carter
39th President of the United States (1924-) - Carter, Howard Carter
Englishman and Egyptologist who in 1922 discovered and excavated the tomb of Tutankhamen (1873-1939) - Cartier, Jacques Cartier
French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence river and laid claim to the region for France (1491-1557) - Cartwright, Edmund Cartwright
English clergyman who invented the power loom (1743-1823) - Caruso, Enrico Caruso
outstanding Italian operatic tenor (1873-1921) - Carver, George Washington Carver
United States botanist and agricultural chemist who developed many uses for peanuts and soy beans and sweet potatoes (1864-1943) - Casals, Pablo Casals
an outstanding Spanish cellist noted for his interpretation of Bach's cello suites (1876-1973) - Casanova, Giovanni Jacopo Casanova, Casanova de Seingalt, Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Seingalt
an Italian adventurer who wrote vivid accounts of his sexual encounters (1725-1798) - Cash, Johnny Cash, John Cash
United States country music singer and songwriter (1932-2003) - Caspar, Gaspar
(New Testament) one of the three sages from the east who came bearing gifts for the infant Jesus - Cassirer, Ernst Cassirer
German philosopher concerned with concept formation in the human mind and with symbolic forms in human culture generally (1874-1945) - Cassius, Cassius Longinus, Gaius Cassius Longinus
prime mover in the conspiracy against Julius Caesar (died in 42 BC) - Castro, Fidel Castro, Fidel Castro Ruz
Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927) - Cather, Willa Cather, Willa Sibert Cather
United States writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947) - Catherine I
empress of Russia who succeeded her husband Peter the Great (1684-1727) - Catherine II, Catherine, Catherine the Great
empress of Russia who greatly increased the territory of the empire (1729-1796) - Catherine, Catherine of Aragon
first wife of Henry VIII - Catherine de Medicis
queen of France as the wife of Henry II and regent during the minority of her son Charles IX (1519-1589) - Catullus, Gaius Valerius Catullus
Roman lyric poet remembered for his love poems to an aristocratic Roman woman (84-54 BC) - Cavell, Edith Cavell, Edith Louisa Cavell
English nurse who remained in Brussels after the German occupation in order to help Allied prisoners escape - Cavendish, Henry Cavendish
British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810) - Caxton, William Caxton
English printer who in 1474 printed the first book in English (1422-1491) - Cellini, Benvenuto Cellini
Italian sculptor (1500-1571) - Celsius, Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer who devised the centigrade thermometer (1701-1744) - Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes, Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Spanish writer best remembered for `Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616) - Cezanne, Paul Cezanne
French Post-impressionist painter who influenced modern art (especially cubism) by stressing the structural components latent in nature (1839-1906) - Chagall, Marc Chagall
French painter (born in Russia) noted for his imagery and brilliant colors (1887-1985) - Chamberlain, Neville Chamberlain, Arthur Neville Chamberlain
British statesman who as Prime Minister pursued a policy of appeasement toward fascist Germany (1869-1940) - Chambers, William Chambers, Sir William Chambers
English architect (1723-1796) - Champlain, Samuel de Champlain
French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec (1567-1635) - Champollion, Jean Francois Champollion
Frenchman and Egyptologist who studied the Rosetta Stone and in 1821 became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics (1790-1832) - Chandler, Raymond Chandler, Raymond Thornton Chandler
United States writer of detective thrillers featuring the character of Philip Marlowe (1888-1959) - Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin
English comedian and film maker - Chapman, John Chapman, Johnny Appleseed
United States pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (1774-1845) - Chain, Ernst Boris Chain, Sir Ernst Boris Chain
British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979) - Capet, Hugh Capet
King of France elected in 987 and founding the Capetian dynasty (940-996) - Cattell, James McKeen Cattell
American psychologist and editor (1860-1944) - Cattell, Ray Cattell, R. B. Cattell, Raymond B. Cattell, Raymond Bernard Cattell
American psychologist (born in England) who developed a broad theory of human behavior based on multivariate research (1905-1998) - Charcot, Jean Martin Charcot
French neurologist who tried to use hypnotism to cure hysteria (1825-1893) - Charles, Charlemagne, Carolus, Charles I, Charles the Great
king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor - Charles, Jacques Charles, Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles
French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823) - Charles, Prince Charles
the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948) - Charles, Charles I, Charles Stuart
son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland - Charles, Charles II
King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685) - Charles, Charles I, Charles II, Charles the Bald
as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877) - Charles, Charles VII
King of France who began his reign with most of northern France under English control - Charles, Charles IX
King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574) - Chase, Salmon P. Chase, Salmon Portland Chase
United States politician and jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1808-1873) - Chateaubriand, Francois Rene Chateaubriand, Vicomte de Chateaubriand
French statesman and writer - Chaucer, Geoffrey Chaucer
English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400) - Chavez, Cesar Chavez, Cesar Estrada Chavez
United States labor leader who organized farm workers (born 1927) - Chavez, Carlos Chavez
Mexican composer of nationalistic works using themes from Indian folk music (1899-1978) - Cheever, John Cheever
United States writer of novels and short stories (1912-1982) - Chekhov, Chekov, Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekov, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Chekov
Russian dramatist whose plays are concerned with the difficulty of communication between people (1860-1904) - Cherubini, Luigi Cherubini, Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Cherubini
Italian composer of church music and operas (1760-1842) - Chesterfield, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope
suave and witty English statesman remembered mostly for letters to his son (1694-1773) - Chesterton, G. K. Chesterton, Gilbert Keith Chesterton
conservative English writer of the Roman Catholic persuasion - Chevalier, Maurice Chevalier
French actor and cabaret singer (1888-1972) - Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Chung-cheng
Chinese military and political figure - Chippendale, Thomas Chippendale
a British cabinetmaker remembered for his graceful designs (especially of chairs) which influenced his contemporaries (1718-1779) - Chirico, Giorgio de Chirico
Italian painter (born in Greece) whose deep shadows and barren landscapes strongly influenced the surrealists (1888-1978) - Chomsky, Noam Chomsky, A. Noam Chomsky
United States linguist whose theory of generative grammar redefined the field of linguistics (born 1928) - Chopin, Frederic Francois Chopin
French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school (1810-1849) - Chopin, Kate Chopin, Kate O'Flaherty Chopin
United States writer who described Creole life in Louisiana (1851-1904)