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Mortimer J. Adler
 
American Educator and Author

(How to Read a Book, Great Books of the Western World)







Spiro T. Agnew
 
American Politician
 



 












Shmuel Yosef Agnon
 
Israeli Novelist

(The Bridal Canopy, A Guest for the Night)


















Brian Aherne
 
British Actor

(Vigil of the Night)










Eddie Albert
 
American Actor

(Roman Holiday, Green Acres)


 




Jack Albertson
 
American Actor

(The Subject was Roses, Chico and the Man)



















Robert Alda
 
American Actor

(Guys and Dolls)










 



Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin
 
American Astronaut






Roald Amundsen

Norwegian Explorer








Carl Anderson

American Physicist

(Discovered the Positron)
















 



George "Sparky" Anderson

American Sports Manager













Ian Anderson

British Rock Musician      

(Aqualung, "Bungle in the Jungle," "Living in the Past")











Maxwell Anderson

American Playwright  and Screenwriter   

(Winterset, Anne of the Thousand Days)








Jean Anouilh

French Playwright

(Antigone)
















Guillaume
Ap
ollinaire

French Poet

(Caligrammes)
















Richard Arlen

American Actor

(Wings)    










George Arliss

British Actor

(Disraeli)    





 


Desi Arnaz

American (Cuban-born) Bandleader, Television Producer and Actor

(I Love Lucy)










 





Antonin Artaud

French Drama Theorist



 









Fred Astaire
 
American Actor and Dancer

(Top Hat, Flying Down to Rio)












Clement Attlee

British Prime Minister









W. H. Auden

 American (British-born) Poet 

(Age of Anxiety)


 








Jean-Pierre Aumont

French Actor  

(Day for Night, Castle Keep)







 






J.L. Austin

British Philosopher

(Sense and Sensibilia)
 

 
 
 









Lew Ayres

American Actor

(All Quiet on the Western Front, Johnny Belinda, Young Dr. Kildare)







Robert Baden-Powell

British Military Leader

(Founded the Boy Scouts)


















Ginger Baker

British Musician

("Sunshine of Your Love," Layla")










Howard Baker

American Politician











Stanley Baldwin

British Prime Minister










Samuel Barber

American Composer

(Adagio for Strings)











John B
arrymore

American Actor

(Dinner at Eight, Grand Hotel)












Lionel Barrymore

American Actor

(Captains Courageous, Grand Hotel)
 





  Karl Barth

Swiss Theologian

(Humanity of God)
 

 





L. Frank Baum

American Author

(Wonderful World of the Wizard of Oz)

















Arnold Bax

British Composer
















Warner Baxter

American Actor

(Great Gatsby, Old Arizona)










Thomas Beecham

British Conductor









Noah Beery, Jr.
 
American Actor

(The Rockford Files)



















Harry Belafonte

American Singer and Actor

("Banana Boat Song," "Jamaica Farewell," Carmen Jones)










Alexander Graham Bell

Scottish Inventor



Ralph Bellamy

American Actor

(His Girl Friday, Sunrise at Campobello, Trading Places)







Hilaire Belloc

British (French-Born) Author











Saul Bellow

American (Canadian-born) Novelist

(Herzog, Henderson the Rain KIng, Adventures of Augie March)










 








Robert Benchley

American Humorist





 





Brook Benton

American Singer

("Rainy Night in Georgia," "Kiddio,"
"Endlessly," "It's Just a Matter of Time")








Thomas Hart Benton

American Painter















Isaiah Berlin

British (Latvian-born) Social and Political Theorist and Philosopher

("The Hedgehog and the Fox")

















Eric Berne

Canadian Psychiatrist

(The Art of Loving)






Lawrence "Yogi" Berra

American Athlete






Ernest Bloch

Swiss Composer

(Schelomo)
















Felix Bloch

Swiss Physicist


 














Humphrey Bogart

American Actor

(Maltese Falcon, Casablanca,
African Queen, Caine Mutiny
)






Niels Bohr

 Danish Physicist

 ("Bohr" Atom, Complementarity
 Principle)







Robert Bolt

British Playwright, Screenwriter    

(A Man for All Seasons)



















Ward Bond

American Actor      

(Gone With the Wind, Rio Bravo,
Wagon Train)

























Victor Borge

Danish Comedian, Pianist







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Pierre Boulle

French Novelist

(Planet of the A
pes)




David Bowie


British Singer

("Changes," "Fame," "Space Oddity")











Marlon Brando

American Actor

(A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, The Godfather
)













Willy Brandt

German Chancellor





Anthony Braxton

American Jazz Musician and Composer








Rossano Brazzi


Italian Actor

(South Pacific, Baretoot Contessa)















Jacques Brel

Belgian Singer and Songwriter




















George Brent

American (Irish-born) Actor

(Jezebel, 42nd Street)






Andre Breton

French Poet

(Surrealist Manifesto)









James Brolin


American Actor

(Marcus Welby, M.D.)














Charles Bronson

American Actor

(Maginificent Seven, Dirty Dozen, The Mechanic)
















 


Pierce Brosnan

British Actor      

(Mrs. Doubtfire, Remington Steele, James Bond 007)




Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

American Singer, Musician







Nigel Bruce

British Actor

(Hound of the Baskervilles)



 




 Yul Brynner

American (Russian-born) Actor

(The King and I)




 













Edgar Buchanan

American Actor

(Petticoat Junction)








Rudolf Bultmann

German Theologian

(Theology of the New Testament)








Arthur Burns

American Economist










Raymond Burr

American Actor

(Rear Window, Perry Mason, Ironside)








Edgar Rice Burroughs

American Novelist

(Tarzan novels)









George Butterworth

British Composer

(A Shropshire Lad)



 
 


Richard E. Byrd

American Naval Officer and Explorer















Rory Calhoun

American Actor

(The Texan)








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James Cagney

American Actor

(The Public Enemy, Yankee Doodle Dandy)










Albert Camus

French (Algerian-born) Novelist and Essayist

(The Stranger, The Plague, Myth of Sisyphus)




 


Stephen J. Cannell

American Television Producer

(Ironside, The A-Team)















Frank Capra

American (Italian-born) Film Director

(It Happened One Night, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
















 Art Carney

American Actor

(The Honeymooners, Harry and Tonto)





 


Leo G. Carroll

British Actor

(Topper)



 



Hayden Carruth

American Poet and Critic

(Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey)














Jack Carson

American Actor

(Mildred Pierce, A Star is Born)















Pablo Casals

Spanish Cellist

 








Raul Castro

Cuban Leader




 






Bennett Cerf

American Publisher














 



Neville Chamberlain

British Prime Minister





















Jeff Chandler

American Actor

(Broken Arrow, Merrill's Marauders)









Raymond Chandler

American Novelist

(The Big Sleep)








Graham Chapman
 
British Comedian

(Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian)

















Ray Charles

American Singer

("What'd I Say," "I Can't Stop Loving You," "Hit the Road Jack")
















Paddy Chayefsky

American Playwright, Screenwriter, and Director

(Marty, The Tenth Man)









Noam Chomsky

American Linguist

(Syntactic Structures)







Dane Clark

American Actor

(Bold Venture
)

















Lee J. Cobb

American Actor

(Twelve Angry Men, Come Blow Your Horn)













Leonard Cohen

Canadian Singer, Songwriter and Poet









Nat King Cole

American Singer

("Unforgettable," "Send for Me," "A Blossom Fell")







Ronald Colman

British Actor

(Lost Horizon














John Coltrane

American Jazz Musician

(My Favorite Things, A Love
Supreme
)

















Sean Connery

Scotish Actor

(Marnie, Goldfinger, Thunderball
)







Walter Connolly

British Actor

(It Happened One Night)








Paul Conrad

American Political Cartoonist












 





William Conrad

American Actor

(Gunsmoke, Cannon, Jake and the Fatman)










Gary Cooper

American Actor

(High Noon, Sergeant York)






Henry Cooper

British Athlete


 



Le Corbusier

(Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris)

French (Swiss-born) Architect and Designer


















Lou Costello

American Comedian



 








Jacques Cousteau

French Explorer and Flimmaker








Malcolm Cowley

American Literary Critic and Poet

(Exile's Return: A Narrative of Ideas)







Stephen Crane

American Novelist

(Red Badge Of Courage)















Donald Crisp

British Actor and Director

(How Green was My Valley)










Walter Cronkite

American Journalist










Hume Cronyn

American (Canadian-born) Actor

(Sunrise at Campobello, Foxfire, Cocoon) 




Bing Crosby

American Singer and Actor

("White Christmas," Going My Way, The Country Girl












Scatman Crothers

American Singer and Actor














Xavier Cugat

Spanish Bandleader









Robert Cummings

American Actor

(Bob Cummings Show)





Tony Curtis

American Actor

(Some Like it Hot, Defiant Ones, Captain Newman, M.D.)













Peter Cushing

British Actor


(Hound of the Baskervilles)




 



 
Roald Dahl

American Novelist and Screenwriter

(Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)








Salvidor Dali

Spanish Painter








John Daly

American Athlete













Bobby Darin

American Singer and Actor

("Splish, Splash," "Mack the Knife," Come September)








 







Zino Davidoff

Swiss (Ukrainian-born) Businessman







Sammy Davis, Jr.

American Actor and Singer

(Golden Boy, Oceans 11, "Love Me or Leave Me," "The Candy Man," "What Kind of Fool and I?")








Charles Dawes

American Statesman















Simone de Beauvoir

French Author and Feminist

(The Second Sex)














Giorgio de Chirico


 Italian (Greek-born) Painter






Cecil B. DeMille

American Film Director

(Ten Commandments, Greatest Show on Earth)









Reginald Denny

British Actor

(Anna Karenina)






 






Jacques Derrida

French (Algerian-born) Philosopher

(Of Grammatology)



















Vittorio de Sica

Italian Film Director

(The Bicycle Thief, Divorce Italian Style)





Billy De Wolfe

American Actor

(Perils of Pauline, Good Morning World, Doris Day Show)






Walt Disney


American Animator and Filmmaker
(Fantasia)














J. Frank Dobie

American Folklorist



















Thomas Dodd

American Politician








Eric Dolphy

American Jazz Musician








Robert Donat

British Actor

(Goodbye Mr. Chips)














Brian Donlevy

American Actor

(Beau Geste)















Kirk Douglas

American Actor

(Spartacus, Seven Days in May)



Melvyn Douglas

American Actor

(Ninotchka, Hud, I Never Sang for My Father)






Arthur Conan Doyle

British Novelist

(Sherlock Holmes Mysteries)










Marcel Duchamp

French Painter

("Nude Descending a Staircase")















Howard Duff

American Actor

(All My Sons, Felony Squad)






Roger Martin du Gard

French Novelist

(Les Thibault)









Allen Dulles

American Diplomat


 







John Foster Dulles

American Statesman









 










Alfred Dunhill

British B
usinessman









Lawrence Durrell

British (Indian-born) Novelist

(Alexandria Quartet)








Charles Eames

American Designer











Richard Eberhart

American Poet

("Fury of Aerial Bombardment")

















Buddy Ebsen

American Actor

(Beverly Hillbillies, Barnaby Jones)








Billy Eckstine

American Singer

("Prisoner of Love," "I Apologize")








Umberto Eco

Italian Novelist

(The Name of the Rose)











Herb Edelman

American Actor

(The Odd Couple)










King Edward VIII

(Duke of Windsor)

British Monarch







Blake Edwards

American Film Director

(Days of Wine and Roses, The Pink Panther)







Albert Einstein

Swiss (German-born) Physicist

(Special and General Theories of Relativity, Photoelectric Effect)









Edward Elgar

British Composer

(Enigma Variations)














T.S. Eliot

British (American-born) Poet, Playwright

(Murder in the Cathedral, "The Waste Land," "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock")



 
 Maurice Evans
British Actor

(Planet of
the Apes, Bewitched)


 




Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

American Actor

(Prisoner of Zenda)
















Charles Farrell

American Actor

(My Little Margie)












Dante Fascell

American Politician







William Faulkner

American Novelist

(The Sound and the Fury, Go Down Moses, As I Lay Dying, Light in August)




Norman Fell

American Actor

(Oceans 11, Three's Company)












Millicent Fenwick

American Politician


 





 





Lawrence
Ferlinghetti

American Poet

(A Coney Island of the Mind)







Mel Ferrer

American Actor

(Lili,The Longest Day)




Gerald Finzi

British Composer

(Intimations of Immortality)




 












Eddie Fisher

American Singer

("Oh My Papa," 'I'm Walking Behind You")










Barry Fitzgerald

Irish Actor

(Going My Way, How Green Was My Valley)





Errol Flynn

American (Australian-born) Actor

(Captain Blood, Adventures of Robin Hood)




Henry Fonda

American  Actor

(My Darling Clementine, Fali Safe, On Golden Pond)













Shelby Foote

American  Author and Historian

(The Civil War: A Narrative)












Gerald Ford

American President







Glenn Ford

American (Canadian-born) Actor

(Blackboard Jungle, Gilda)






John Ford

American Film Director

(Stagecoach, Grapes of Wrath)









Tennessee Ernie Ford

American Singer

("Sixteen Tons")


















James V. Forrestal

American Statesman





John Forsythe

American Actor

(Bachelor Father, Dynasty)








Nellie Fox

 American Athlete












Anatole France

French Novelist and Poet

(At the Sign of the Reine Pedauque
)











 






John Frankenheimer

American Film Director

(French Connection, Manchurian Candidate)




Malcolm Fraser

Australian Prime Minister





Sigmund Freud

Austrian Psychoanalyst

(Civilization and Its Discontents, the Ego and the Id, Interpretation of Dreams)










Max Frisch

Swiss Playwright and Novelist

(Andorra)















Clark Gable

American Actor

(Mutiny on the Bounty, Gone With the Wind, It Happened One Night)





Paul Gallico

American Novelist

(Poseidon Adventure)






John Galsworthy

British Novelist

(Forsyte Saga)


 








James Galway

Irish Flutist












George Gamow

American (Russian-born) Physicist




Greta Garbo

American (Swedish-born) Actress

(Grand Hotel, Anna Christie)








Earle Stanley Gardner

American Novelist

(Perry Mason novels)







 







John Gardner

American Novelist and Critic

(Grendel)
















\John Garfield

American Actor

(The Postman Always Rings Twice, Gentleman's Agreement)



 


Lou Gehrig

American Athlete









Theodor Geisel

(Dr. Seuss)

American Author and Illustrator

(Cat in the Hat, Horton Hears a Who!)















King George VI


British Monarch



 
 






George Gershwin

American Composer

("Rhapsody in Blue," Porgy and       Bess)




\

Ira Gershwin

 American Lyricist

 (Porgy and Bess)





Andre Gide

 French Novelist

 (The Counterfeiters, The Immoralist)










John Gilbert

American Actor

(The Merry Widow, Queen Christina)








 



John "Dizzy" Gillespie

American Jazz Musician






 
Ralph J. Gleason

American Music Critic







 
Jean-Luc Godard

French Film Director

(Breathless)














Arthur Godfrey

American Radio and Television Personality













Hermann Goering

German Politician and Military Leader






William Golding

British Novelist

(Lord of the Flies)








Emma Goldman

Lithuanian Anarchist










Charles Goodell

American Politician















Benny Goodman

American  Musician and Bandleader

("One O'Clock Jump," "Sing, Sing, Sing")




Paul Goodman

American Social Critic

(Growing Up Absurd)






Gale Gordon

American Actor

(Our Miss Brooks, The Lucy Show)


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 Maxim Gorky

Russian Playwright

(The Lower Depths)
 







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Louis Gossett, Jr.


American Actor

(An Officer and a Gentleman, Roots)
 




Morton Gould

American Composer and Conductor

(Pavane)






Stewart Granger

American (British-born) Actor

(King Solomon's Mines)












Cary Grant

American (British-born) Actor

(Philadelphia Story, To Catch a Thief, North by Northwest) 









Gunter Grass

German Novelist

(The Tin Drum)



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Ernesto "Che" Guevara

Cuban (Argentine-born) Revolutionary









Alec Guinness

British Actor

(Bridge on the River Kwai, Star Wars)










Edmund Gwenn

American Actor

(Miracle on 34th Street)













Alan Hale


American Actor

(The Adventures of Robin Hood, It Happened One Night)
 






Jack Haley

American Actor

(Wizard of Oz)












Dag Hammarskjold

Swedish Diplomat and UN
Secretary-General














Lionel Hampton

American Jazz Musician











Knut Hamsun

Norwegian Novelist

(Growth of the Soil, Hunger)






Richard Harris

Irish Actor and Singer

(Camelot, "MacArthur's Park")



Rex Harrison

British Actor

(My Fair Lady, Cleopatra)


 













Moss Hart

American Playwright

(The Man Who Came to Dinner
















Laurence Harvey

British (Lithuanian-born) Actor

(BUtterfield 8, Room at the Top, The Manchurian Candidate, )




Rutger Hauer

Dutch Actor

(Blade Runner)







Jack Hawkins

British Actor

(Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia)














Howard Hawks

American Film Director

(To Have and Have Not, Rio Bravo)











Friedrich Hayek

Austrian Economist

(The Road to Serfdom)




Louis Hayward

American (South African-born) Actor

(The Saint in New York, The Saint's Return, And Then There Were None)






Ben Hecht

American Screenwriter and Journalist

(Underworld, Scarface)












Hugh Hefner

American Publisher 

(Playboy)








 


Ernest
Hemingway

American Novelist

(For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea)




Nat Hentoff

American Music and Social Critic







Jean Hersholt

American (Danish-born) Actor

(Greed, Heidi)










Charlton Heston

American  Actor

(Ben-Hur, Planet of the Apes, The Ten Commandments)











Earl "Fatha" Hines

American Jazz Pianist and Bandleader




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Alfred Hitchcock

British Filmmaker

(Notorious, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho)








David Hockney

British Painter















William Holden

American Actor

(Stalag 17, Picnic, Sunset Blvd.)













Stanley Holloway

British Actor

(My Fair Lady)





Tim Holt

American Actor

(Treasure of Sierra Madre)









Lou Holtz

American Athletic Coach









Arthur Honegger

Swiss Composer

(Pacific 231)











John Lee Hooker

American Musician





Herbert Hoover

 American President






Anthony Hopkins

British Actor

(Silence of the Lambs, The Dresser)






 




Leslie Howard

British Actor

(Pygmalion, Gone With the Wind)













Moe Howard

American Comedian

(The Three Stooges)











Trevor Howard

British Actor

(The Third Man)








Howlin' Wolf

 (Chester Arthur Burnett)

American Musician and Singer







 







Edwin Hubble

American Astronomer

(Discovered Galaxies beyond Milky Way, Hubble's Law)








 






Barnard Hughes

American Actor

(Da, All in the Family, Where's Poppa?)






Richard Hughes

British Novelist

(A High Wind in Jamaica)







Jeffrey Hunter

American Actor

(King of Kings)













Chet Huntley

American Journalist
















King Hussein

Jordanian Monarch






Edmund Husserl

Austrian Philosopher

(Cartesian Meditations)







Julian Huxley

British Biologist










Lee Iococca

American Businessman













Christopher Isherwood

British Novelist and Playwright

(Berlin Stories)








Jose Iturbi

Spanish Conductor and Pianist






Burl Ives

American Singer and Actor

(Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, "Funny Way of Laughing," "Mr. In-Between")









Dean Jagger

American Actor

(Mr. Novak)













James Jeans

British Astronomer and Physicist



Robinson Jeffers

American Poet

(Thurso's Landing & Other Poems, Tamar & Other Poems)






MIchael Jordan

American Athlete














Carl Gustav Jung

Swiss Psychiatrist

(Man and His Symbols)












Curt Jurgens

German Actor

(The Longest Day)





MacKinlay Kantor

American Novelist and Journalist

(Andersonville)





Boris
Karloff

British Actor

(Frankenstein)
 












Yusinari Kawabata

Japanese Novelist

(Snow Country, Thousand Cranes)


















Danny Kaye

American Comedian, Singer and Actor

(Secret Life of Walter Mitty)







Nikos Kazantzakis

Greek Novelist

(Zorba the Greek)








Howard Keel

American Actor

(Carousel, Oklahoma)















Brian Kelly

American Actor

(Flipper)




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Gene Kelly

American Actor and Dancer

(Singing in the Rain, An American in Paris)




John F. Kennedy

American President







Jerome Kern

American Composer

(Showboat, Ol' Man River)






 




Jack Kerouac

American Novelist

(On the Road, Dharma Bums)










Hank Ketcham

American Cartoonist

("Dennis the Menace")






  


Albert King

American Singer and Musician


 
 


 
B.B. King

American Singer and Musician

("Why I Sing the Blues," "The Thrill is Gone")



 







Rudyard Kipling

British Novelist and Poet

(Jungle Book, Kim, "Gunga Dinh")













Paul Klee

Swiss Painter







Otto Klemperer

German Conductor








Alfred Knopf

American Publisher











Helmut Kohl

German Chancellor



















Andre Kostelanetz

American (Russian-born) Conductor





Paul Kruger

South African Leader





Alan Ladd

American Actor

(Boy on a Dolphin, Shane)










Fiorello LaGuardia

American Politician













Alfred M. Landon

American Politician







Fritz Lang


Austrian F
ilm Director

(Metropole)
 







Walter Lang


American F
ilm Director

(The King and I)











Philip Larkin

British Poet

("The Whitsun Weddings")









Harry Lauder

Scottish Singer and Comedian











John LeCarre

British Novelist

(The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)





Leon Lederman

American Physicist




 













Christopher Lee

Brisith Actor

(Star Wars, Lord of the Rings)






 









Michel Legrand

French Composer

(Thomas Crown Affair, Umbrellas of Cherbourg)







Herbert Lehman

American Politician









Jim Lehrer

American Journalist

















Curtis E. LeMay

American Military Leader











Jack Lemmon

American Actor

(The Apartment, The Odd Couple, Days of Wine and Roses, Some Like It Hot)





Mervyn Leroy

American Film Director

(No Time for Sergeants, Mister Roberts)





Claude Levi-Strauss

Belgian Anthropologist

(The Savage Mind, Structural
Anthropology
)









 
 C.S. Lewis

Irish Critic and Novelist

(Screwtape Letters, Chronicles of Narnia







 

  



 
Daniel Day Lewis

British Actor

(My Left Foot, Lincoln)


  






Jerry Lewis

American Actor and Comedian

(The Nutty Professor)



 

Jerry Lee Lewis

American Singer

("Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On," "Great Balls of Fire")




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Harold Lloyd

American Actor and Comedian


(Safety Last!)





Konrad Lorenz

Austrian Zoologist

(King Solomon's Ring)









Peter Lorre

American (Hungarian-born) Actor

(Casablanca, Maltese Falcon, Arsenic and Old Lace)







Malcolm Lowry

British Novelist

(Under the Volcano)















Bela Lugosi

American (Hungarian-born) Actor

(Dracula)










William Lundigan American Actor

(The Sea Hawk, Love Nest)







Rosa Luxemburg

German (Polish-born) Revolutionry






Douglas MacArthur

American Military Leader

(Allied Commander of Pacific Theatre, WWII)
 










John MacDonald

American Novelist

(The Executioners)







 

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Ramsay MacDonald

British Prime Minister




Harold MacMillan

British Prime Minister






Fred MacMurray

American Actor

(Double Indemnity, Caine Mutiny, My Three Sons)  







 


Gordon MacRae

American Actor, Singer

(Oklahoma!, Carousel)











Warren Magnuson
American Politician





Louis Malle

French Film Director

(My Dinner with Andre)




 


Henry Mancini

American Composer

("Moon River," "Pink Panther Theme")

















Marvin Mandel

American Politician
















Joseph Mankiewicz

American Film Producer and Director

(All About Eve, Philadelphia Story}







Shelly Manne

American Jazz Musician








Karl Mannheim

Hungarian Sociologist



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Mike Mansfield

American Politician




 

 








Frederic March

American Actor

(The Best Years of Our Lives, Seven Days in May)








Herbert Marcuse

American (German-born) Philosopher

(One-Dimensional Man)








Jacques Maritain

French Theologian and Philosopher

(Degrees of Knowledge)













Hugh Marlowe

American Actor

(All About Eve, Twelve O'Clock High)








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Herbert Marshall

British Actor

(Tro
uble in Paradise, Murder!)





Billy Martin

American Athlete and Sports Manager





Dean Martin

American Singer and Actor

("That's Amore," "Everybody Loves Somebody," Oceans 11, The Silencers)

















Tony Martin

American Singer

("Walk Hand in Hand")






 


Groucho Marx

(Julius Marx)
American Comedian and Actor

(Horse Feathers, A Day at the Race
s)


 


James Mason

British Actor

(Lolita, A Star is Born, The Verdict)





Raymond Massey

American (Canadian-born) Actor

(Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Dr. Kildare)













Edgar Lee Masters

American Poet

(Spoon River Anthology)








Henri Matisse

French Painter






 
Walter Matthau

American Actor

(The Odd Couple, A Face in the Crowd, A New Leaf)






W. Somerset
Maugham

British Novelist

(Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence)
















Kevin McCarthy

American Actor

(Invasion of the Body Snatchers)




 





Joel McCrae

American Actor

(The Virginian, Sullivan's Travels)


Andie McDowell

American Actress

(Ground Hog Day)







Malcolm McDowell

British Actor

(A Clockwork Orange)







 










Patrick McGoohan

British Actor

(Secret Agent)














Gardner McKay

American Actor

(Adventures in Paradise)










Steve McQueen

American Actor

(
Bullitt, Papillon, The Great Escape, Wanted-Dead or Alive)







Gerald McRaney

American Actor

(Simon and Simon, Major Dad)










H.L. Mencken

American Journalist and Essayist

(The American Language)
 










Burgess Meredith

 American Actor

 (Rocky, Advise and Consent)








Gary Merrill

 American Actor

 (All About Eve)






Toshiro Mifune

Japanese Actor

(Seven Samurai, Roshomon)






  


Arthur Miller

American Playwright

(The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, All My Sons)








C. Wright Mills

American Sociologist

(Power Elite, Sociological Imagination, White Collar)



 

John Mills

British Actor

(Great Expectations)







A.A. Milne

British Author

("Winnie the Pooh")








Martin Milner

American Actor

(Route 66, Adam 12, Sweet Smell of Success)
















Charlie Mingus

American Jazz Musician













Cameron Mitchell

American Actor

(High Chapparal, No Down Payment)







 

John Mitchell

American Attorney General

(Principal Watergate Figure)




 












Dimitri Mitropoulos

Greek Conductor and Pianist















E.J. Moeran

British Composer

(Symphony in G minor)







Piet Mondrian

Dutch Painter




 





Thelonious Monk

American Jazz Musician













Ashley Montagu

American (British-born) Anthropologist

(Statement on Race, The Elephant Man)














Ricardo Montalban

American (Mexican-born) Actor

(Fantasy Island)






Robert Montgomery

American Actor

(Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Mr. and Mrs. Smith)









G.E. Moore

British Philosopher

(Principia Ethica)










 



Roger Moore

British Actor

(Live and Let Die, The Saint) 







 




Dennis Morgan

American Actor

(Christmas in Connecticut)











Harry Morgan

American Actor

(Dragnet, M*A*S*H)









Christopher Morley

American Novelist, Poet and Essayist

(Kitty Foyle)















Chester Morris

American Actor

(Meet Boston Blackie)








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Zero Mostel

American Actor

(Fiddler on the Roof, The Producers)
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Karl Mundt

American Politician



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Paul Muni

American (Hungarian-born) Actor

(Life of Emil Zola, Story of Louis Pasteur)









Pablo Neruda

Chilean Poet

("Alturas de Machu Picchu")




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Bob Newhart

American Comedian

(Bob Newhart Show)








Reinhold Niebuhr


American Theologian

(The Nature and Destiny of Man)








Sam Niell

American (New Zealand born) Actor

(Jurassic Park, Hunt for Red October)










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Leonard Nimoy

American Actor

(Star Trek)
















Lloyd Nolan

American Actdor

(Time to Kill, Julia)






Ramon Novarro

American (Mexican-born) Actor

(Ben-Hur)







Hugh O'Brian

American Actor

(The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp)











Pat O'Brien

American Actor

(Knute Rockne, All American)









Sean O'Casey

Irish Playwright

(Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars)




Sean O'Faolain

Irish Short Story Writer

("Midsummer Night Madness")




Dan O'Herlihy

irish Actor

(Robinson Crusoe, Fail Safe)












Dennis O'Keefe

American Actor

(Dennis O'Keefe Show)










Laurence Olivier

British Actor

(Hamlet)






J. Robert Oppenheimer

American Physicist

(Headed Atomic Bomb Research at Los Alamos)



Carl Orff

German Composer

(Carmina Burana)

 






John Osborne
British Playwright

(Look Back in Anger



 



 
 






Jesse Owens

American Athlete









Jack Palance

American Actor

(Requiem for a Heavyweight, Greatest Show on Earth)





Andreas
Papandreou

Greek Prime Minister

















Gordon Parks

American Film Director, Writer and Photographer

(Shaft)










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George Patton

American Military Leader











Wolfgang Pauli

Swiss (Austrian-born) Physicist

("Pauli Exclusion Principle")






Luciano Pavarotti

Italian Singer















John Payne

American Actor

(Restless Gun)








Gregory Peck

American Actor

(Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, To
Kill a Mockingbird
, Roman Holiday)






Juan Peron

Argentine Leader

 

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John "Fred" Perry

British Athlete













Sandro Pertini
 
Italian President













Oscar Peterson

American Jazz Musician








Jean Piaget

Swiss Psychologist

(Structuralism)





 


Pablo Picasso

Spani
sh Painter

("Guernica")

















Walter Pidgeon

American (Canadian-born) Actor

(Mrs. Miniver)















Camille Pissarro

French Painter





Walter Piston

American Composer

(Symphony No. 3)







John Poindexter

American Naval Officer and National Security Advisor
















Don Porter

American Actor

(Ann Sothern Show, Gidget)








Dick Powell

American Actor

(The Bad and the Beautiful, 42nd Street)









William Powell

American Actor

(The Thin Man, Mister Roberts)








Tyrone Power

American Actor

(Witness for the Prosecution)











 
Elvis Presley

American Singer and Actor

("Don't Be Cruel," "Love Me Tender, "Jailhouse Rock")









Robert Preston

American Actor

(The Music Man, Victor Victoria)







Vincent Price

American Actor

(House of Wax)





J.B. Priestly

British Journalist and Novelist

(The Good Companions)








 




Louis Prima

American Musician, Singer

("That Old Black Magic," "Wonderland by Night")











V.S. Pritchett

British Novelist and Critic

(A Cab at the Door, Midnight Oil)







Sergei Prokofiev

Russian Composer

(Peter and the Wolf, Classical Symphony, Romeo and Juliet)









Anthony Quayle

British Actor

(Guns of Navarrone, Anne of the Thousand Days)















W.V. Quine

American Philosopher and Logician

(Word and Object, From a Logical Point of View)














Anthony Quinn

American (Mexican-born) Actor

(Zorba the Greek, La Strada, Requiem for a Heavyweight)







George Raft

American Actor

(Scarface, Some Like it Hot)








Mujibur Rahman

Bangladeshi Statesman












Prince Rainier III

Monegasque Monarch











Claude Rains

British Actor

(Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia)







Otto Rank

Austrian Psychoanalyst




John Crowe Ransom
 
American Poet and Critic

(Selected Poems)










Basil Rathbone

British Actor

(Hound of the Baskervilles)







Man Ray

(Emmanuel Radnitzky)

American Artist








Gene Raymond
American Actor

(Red Dust, Flying Down to Rio)






Ronald Reagan

American President and Actor












Robert Redford

American Actor and Director

 (The Sting, Butch Cassidy & the
Sundance Kid, Quiz Show
)















Michael Redgrave

British Actor

(The Lady Vanishes, Mourning Becomes Electra)








Wilhelm Reich

Austrian Psychoanalyst

(Function of the Orgasm)

Charles Nelson Reilly

American Actor

(How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)
 
 




 




 




Auguste Renoir


French Painter
















James Reston

American Journalist






Kenneth Rexroth

American Poet

(In Defense of the Earth)








Burt Reynolds

American Actor

(Smokey and the Bandit)














Michael Richards

American Actor and Comedian

(Seinfeld)













Ralph Richardson

British Actor

(Waltz of the Toreadors, Richard III)






Tex Ritter

American Country Singer

("Wastin' My Tears on You," "I Dreamed of a Hillbilly Heaven")








Hal Roach

American Film Producer

("Our Gang" comedies)









Edward G. Robinson

American Actor

(Little Caesar, Double Indemnity)











Norman Rockwell

American Painter







Will Rogers

American Humorist and Actor







Gilbert Roland

American (Mexican-born) Actor

(Cisco Kid Films)

















Sigmund Romberg

American Composer

(The Student Prince)












Mickey Rooney

American Actor

(National Velvet, Love Finds Andy Hardy)







Franklin Delano Roosevelt
 
American President




 




David Rose

American (British-born) Composer

("The Stripper")





 

 







Dan Rowan

American Comedian

(Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In)










Charlie Ruggles

American Actor

(Parent Trap)






Donald Rumsfeld

American Politician






Bertrand Russell

British Philosopher and Mathematician

(Why I Am Not a Christian, Principia Mathematica - co-author)








 

 

 

Babe Ruth

(George Herman Ruth)

American Athlete


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Gilbert Ryle

British Philosopher

(Concept of Mind)







Eero Saarinen

Finnish Architect and Designer










Albert Sabin

American (Polish-born) Medical Resarcher and Physician

(Developed oral polio vaccine) 







 






Anwar Sadat 

Egyptian President









Carl Sandburg

American Poet and Biographer

(Chicago Poems)






George Sanders

British Actor

(All About Eve)





Jean-Paul Sartre

French Philosopher, Novelist and Playwright

(Being and Nothingness, No Exit,
Age of Reason, Nausea
)














Siegfried Sassoon

British Poet

(Memoirs of George Sherston)


 










Van Gordon Sauter

American Television Executive








Antonin Scalia

American Jurist







Vincent Schiavelli

American Actor

(One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)










Lalo Schifrin

American (Argentine-born) Composer and Musician

(Mission Impossible Theme)

















Arthur
Schlesinger, Jr.

American Historian

(A Thousand Days)









James Schlesinger

American Statesman











Helmut Schmidt

German Chancellor















Howard Schnellenberger

American Athletic Coach

















Daniel Schorr

American Journalist






Budd Schulberg

American Novelist and Screenwriter

(On the Waterfront, What Makes Sammy Run?)




Erwin Schrodinger

Austrian Physicist

(Schrodinger Wave Equation)




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Arnold Schwarzenegger

American (Austrian-born) Actor and Politician

(Terminator)












Paul Scofield

British Actor

(A Man for All Seasons)








Hugh Scott, Jr.

American Politician




Randolph Scott

American Actor

(Last of the Mohicans, Ride the High Country)









Giorgos Seferis

Greek Poet and Diplomat











Andres Segovia

Spanish Classical Guitarist






Tom Selleck

American Actor

(Magnum P.I.)








Peter Sellers

British Actor

(Dr. Strangelove, The Pink Panther)











David O. Selznick

American Film Producer

(Gone With the Wind, Dinner at Eight, Rebecca)















Leopold Sedar Senghor

Senegalese Leader








Robert Service

Canadian (British-born) Poet

(Songs of a Sourdough)








Roger Sessions

American Composer

(First Symphony)







Ted Shackleford

American Actor

(Knott's Landing)
















Karl Shapiro

American Poet

(V-Letter & Other Poems)




   


Irwin Shaw

American Novelist

(The Young Lions)







Jean Shepherd

American Humorist












William Shirer

American Journalist and Historian

(Rise and Fall of the Third Reich)














Mikhail Sholokhov

Soviet Novelist

(And Quiet Flows the Don)









James B. Sikking

American Actor

(Hill Street Blues)




  


Georges Simenon

Belgian Novelist

(Maigret novels)










William Simon

American Politician















Frank Sinatra

American Singer and Actor

("Young at Heart," "Strangers in the Night," From Here to Eternity)





 

Walter Slezak

Austrian Actor

(Sinbad the Sailor)
 





Terry Southern

American Short Story and Screenwriter

(Candy, Dr. Strangelove)










Aaron Spelling

American Television Producer

(Dynasty, Charlie's Angels)




 












Sam Spiegel

American (Austrian-born) Film Producer

(On the Waterfront, Lawrence of Arabia)







Robert Stack

American Actor

(The Untouchables, The High and the Mighty)




Joseph Stalin


Soviet Leader










Sylvester Stallone

American Actor

(Rocky, Rambo)













John Steinbeck

American Novelist

(Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men)






George Stevens

American Film Director

(A Place in the Sun, Giant, Shane)






James Stewart

American Actor

(Rear Window, Anatomy of a Murder, it's a Wonderful Life)











Alan Stilltoe

Briish Novelist

(Loneliness of the Longdistance Runner)















Karlheinz Stockhausen

German Composer

(Klaviestucke)





Larry Storch

American Actor

(F-Troop)






Igor Stravinsky

Russian Composer

(Rite of Spring, Petrouchka, Firebird)













Barry Sullivan

American Actor

(The Bad and the Beautiful)







John Millington Synge

Irish Playwright

(Riders to the Sea, Playboy of the Western World)





Lyle Talbot

American Actor

(Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet)



Rufino Tamayo
 

Mexican Painter




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Jacques Tati

French Film Director

(Mr. Hulot's Holiday)
 









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Robert Taylor

American Actor

(Quo Vadis, The Detectives)










Rod Taylor

Australian Actor

(The Time Machine, Separate Tables)







Fred Thompson

American Politician and Actor















Hunter S. Thompson

American Journalist

(Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)














James Thurber

American Writer

(Secret Life of Walter Mitty)





Tito

(Josip Broz)

Yugoslav Leader









George Tobias

American Actor

(Yankee Doodle Dandy, Bewitched)













Mike Todd

American Film Producer

(Around the World in 80 Days)














J.R.R. Tolkien

British Novelist

(Lord of the Rings)




 


Franchot Tone

American Actor

(Mutiny on the Bounty, Advise &
Consent
)








Regis Toomey

American Actor

(The Big Sleep, Guys and Dolls)







 





Peter Tosh

Jamaican Singer and Musician

(Mama Africa)










 







Lee Tracy

American Actor

(The Best Man, Dinner at Eight)




Spencer Tracy

American Actor

(Captains Courageous, Judgment at Nuremburg, Pat and Mike, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)




Arthur Treacher

British Actor

(Heidi, Jeeves films, Merve Griffin Show)














 

Juan Trippe

American Businessman















Harry S. Truman

American President



Mark Twain

(Samuel Langhorne Clemens)

American Novelist

(Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court)
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Stuart Udall

American Politician

















Giuseppi Ungaretti

Italian Poet

(l'Allegria)












Leon Uris

American Novelist

(Exodus, QBVII)






Rudolph Valentino 

American (Italian-born) Actor

(The Sheik)






James Van Allen

American Physicist

(Discovered Van Allen Radiation Belts)


















Lee Van Cleef

American Actor

(The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)













Mark Van Doren

American Poet and Critic

(
Collected Poems 1922-1938)








 
Vincent Van Gogh

Dutch Painter




Harry Vardon

British Athlete












Ralph Vaughan Williams

British Composer

(Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
)









 



Stevie Ray Vaughan

American
Musician








Robert Vaughn

American Actor

(Man from U.
N.C.L.E.)







Conrad Veidt

German Actor

(Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Casablanca
)



















King Vidor

American Film Director

(War and Peace, Stella Dallas)










Luchino Visconti


Italian Film Director

(
Death in Venice, The Damned)






Erich Von Daniken

Swiss Author

(
Chariots of the Gods)








Lech Walesa


Polish President and Labor Leader




 











Robert Walker

American Actor

(Strangers on a Train)















Irving Wallace

American Novelist

(The Prize, The Chapman Report)


 









William Walton

British Composer

(Balshazzar's Feast)






Jack Warner

American (Canadian-born) Film Executive














Alan Watts
 
American (British-born) Philosopher

(The Way of Zen, Joyous Cosmology)









Evelyn Waugh

British Novelist

(Brideshead Revisited, The Loved One)








Kurt Weill

German Composer

(Threepenny Opera)







Orson Welles

American Actor and Film Director

(Citizen Kane, Magnificent Ambersons, The Third Man)

















William Wellman

American Film Director

(Wings, The High and the Mighty)


 







James Whitmore

American Actor

(Battleground, Asphalt Jungle)










Richard Widmark

American Actor

(Kiss of Death, Judgment at Nuremburg)






 Richard Wilbur

American Poet

(Things of this World)


















Cornell Wilde

American  (Hungarian-born) Actor

(The Greatest Show on Earth,
The Naked Prey
)



 











Kaiser Wilhelm II

German Emperor







Warren William

American Actor

(Perry Mason, Cleopatra)









Joe Williams

American Singer




















Harold Wilson

British Prime Minister

















William Windom

American Actor

(My World and Welcome to It)







W. Willard Wirtz

American Cabinet Memter






P.G. Wodehouse

British Novelist

(Jeeves Novels)













Thomas Wolfe

American Novelist

(Look Homeward, Angel; You Can't Go Home Again)

















Bobby Womack

American Singer

("Lookin' for a Love")








N.C. Wyeth

American Painter and Illustrator









Keenan Wynn

American Actor

(Annie Get Your Gun, The Great Race, Dr. Strangelove)










William Butler Yeats

Irish Poet

("Sailing to Byzantium," "Leda
and the Swan")














Cy Young

American Athlete







Robert Young

American Actor

(Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby, M.D.)










Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

American Actor

(77 Sunset Stri
p, The FBI)


















Stefan Zweig

Austrian Novelist

(Letter from an Unknown Woman)