Famous People & Personalities - Part 20

Jacqueline (Jackie) Kennedy Onassis

Robert Francis Kennedy U. S. Attorney General, New York Senator, presidential candidate,
assassinated, June 1968

Francis Scott Key - everyone knows him, right?

Sir Walter Scott, ditto.

Michael Scott Medieval thaumaturge

Michael Gary Scott, former regional manager of Dunder Mifflin Scranton, as played by Stever Carell.

Gary Trudeau (aka G. B. Trudeau)
writer, cartoonist; author of Doonesbury

Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (Pierre Trudeau) - former PM of Canada

Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (1919-2000), 15th Prime Minister of Canada

#9 Snap!

Let's try again:
Pierre Charles l'Enfant, who laid out Washington, DC

George P. Elliott*
fiction writer, critic, teacher

1918 -- 1980

*not to be confused with his more famous female near-namesake George Eliot

Charles Philip Arthur George (Windsor), Prince of Wales

Philip Mountbatten Duke of Edinurgh,
Prince Consort; father of (14) husband of
Queen Elizabth II

Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979), last Viceroy of India, Admiral of the Fleet, etc. Uncle of #15.

A quibble on 14-16:

Wasnʻt Louis . . .Mountbatten* (16) the uncle of !4, and the BROTHER of 15?

*presided for the UK over the partition of the old India into India and Pakistan, ca. 1946-7; he was assassinated (but not because of that) ca. 1983.

Playing on 16

//Francis//

Francis William Newman Victorian author on religion, Biblical History, languages;
brother of the famous Cardinal John Henry Newman

Paul Newman, actor

Wayne Knight, actor....Newman!

Ray Knight NL infielder; later manager; When
Pete Rose went to the Phillies. Knight
was his Cincinnati Reds replacement

#17 I thought so too, but quoted Wikipedia in #15.

/back to game/

Joseph Knight (1778--1855), horticulturalist, first major British grower of Proteas, published a book on the subject which has caused nomenclatural mayhem ever since.

One of the Knights who say Ni.

Errr... that counts, right?

#20: Brilliant! ;)

Gladys Knight - soul singer excellant!

"Gay Knight" Peggy Ryan's role in a
great (but I forget the name) musical
film of the 1950s

Gay Talese, American author

Marvin Gaye
Marvin Pentz Gaye, Jr. (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984)

Marvin the Paranoid Android, in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Marvin "Marvelous Marv" Throneberry
A L outfielder; brother of the somewhat lesser-known o. f. Faye Throneberry, who didnʻt acquire any nickname.

Alice Faye - wife of Phil Harris, actress, singer, comedian

Faye Gibbons U. S., Appalachian writer

On 249:

Welcome to L T, hacienda. Hope to see your book collection listed.

DO any of you member-scientists know a formula:
i t = s pa m?

Corazon Aquino, former President of the Philippines

32>34 ("Corazon...movie"> "Corazon Aquino"
would have been all right, except that
32 was supposed to play on 31, and instead "played" on -- nothing! And if I understand the rules rightly, such a post erases the subsequent ones, and the "last correct post" (now 31) has to be played on:

NEXT: Faye Gibbons > . . . . .

Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625), composer

Orlando Patterson sociologist, historian

Tony Orlando, 70's pop singer

Tony Soprano played by James Gandolfini,

//James // . . .

Henry James Sr. , William James
and Henry James* 3 major New England (originally New York) writers

*HJ the novelist is not usually called "Jr." but his father is called "Sr.".

James Taylor , American ballads singer

John Taylor of Caroline U. S. political writer of the
early National period.

Taylor Caldwell - writer (Dear and Glorious Physican)

Kirk Caldwell legislator, Hawaiʻi, Managing Director, Honolulu, briefly acting mayor of
Honolulu, 2010; candidate for mayor, 2012

Kirk Douglas (b. 1916), actor

Russell Kirk writer,
Conservative intellectual

Leon Russell - singer/song composer

Leon Wagner star o. f., Cleveland Indians

Leon Spinks - heavyweight boxer

Leon Schuster, South African comedian

Leon Edward Panetta (b. 28 June 1938) current U.S. Secretary of Defense

Edward VII, UK monarch, early 20th c.; he was the son of Victoria and Albert, named after
the latter and called "Bertie" until he took the reign-name "Edward" which his grandson David
also briefly bore. Father of George V, grandfather of George VI.

Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone (1900--1979), English artist, writer and illustrator

Dr. "Billy English" minor character in
John OʻHaraʻs novels of Eastern Pennsylvania

Scarlet O'hara, as played by Vivian Leigh in the 1939 epic, "Gone With the Wind".

Shana "Scarlett" O'Hara - female member of the GI Joe team in the comic book series

Edwin Vincent O'Hara Irish-American
Oregonian, archbishop

Lt. O'hara, played by Noriyuki "Pat" Moriita, on "OHARA"; ABC television, 1988-89

Patricia Ryan "Pat"Nixon
First Lady, 1969--1974

Nolan Ryan - "The Ryan Express" - great baseball pitcher and a Baseball Hall of Fame member.

"Philip Nolan" protagonist of
Edward Everett Haleʻs The Man without a Country

Nolan Smith - AFL football player in the 60's.

Al Smith (D, N.Y.) Governor, candidate for
president, 1928

Alfredo James "Al" Pacino (b. 1940), film actor

Al Bowlly, singer and songwriter

Al Smith
Cleveland Indians pitcher, 1940s; he and
Jim Bagby Jr. combined to end Joe DiMaggioʻs
1941 hitting streak at 56 games.

Christo Albertyn Smith, botanist. Prepared the MS of a "definitive" dictionary of common names of South African plants, which was only published after his death (1966). Institute legend has it that the editing had to be quite severe, as otherwise it would have made history as the only government publication ever to be banned by the same government, on account of the salty names of many South African plants.

John Smith Scottish politician, briefly the
UK's Labour Party leader; he died soon after
becoming leader, and was replaced by
Tony Blair

Captain John Smith (c. January 1580 – 21 June 1631) Admiral of New England. English soldier, explorer,

Roseanne Smith Carter
First Lady, 1977 -- 1981

Carter Burwell - composer for over 60 Hollywood films

John Carter, Edgar Rice Burroughs hero, and there's a new film too.

John Carter Vincent U. S. political scientist, diplomat,
real life* hero of the McCarthy Era

*See Gary Mayʻs bio. of him: China Scapegoat

Vincent Minelli, movie director

#72, I just downloaded all the John Carter books *for free* for my Kindle.

Liza* Minelli actress, dancer; daughter of (75) and the great Judy Garland.

*1st syllable rhymes with "my" not with "me".

Judy Ongg , Taiwanese actress,singer,woodcut artist

Walter Ong Jesuit scholar. linguistic
anthropolgist

Barbara Walters, journalist

Barbara Eden (b. 23 Aug 1934), "I Dream Of Jeannie" star.

Dorothy Eden
mystery and suspense novelist, 1940s--70s

Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon. British Prime Minister from 1955-1957

Anthony Hopkins, actor

Harry Hopkins aide and adviser to
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1930s--40s

Harry Houdini (born Erik Weisz, later Ehrich Weiss or Harry Weiss; 1874 – 1926), escapologist and more

For those interested in Touchstonesʻs
foibles:

In #83, Franklin D. Roosevelt at first appeared without being put in blue. I got it into blue as now, (see above) by clicking on "Edit" --doing nothing at all -- and then clicking the "edited" version onto the screen.

That could be a useful thing to know, considering how often Touchstones finds the right author and then doesn't post in blue.

Playing on 85:

// Weiss //

Peter Weiss novelist, dramatist*

*author of the once famous
. . .Marat/Sade . . .
(15-word title)

Peter Aurness (March 18, 1926 – March 14, 2010), known professionally as Peter Graves: "Mr. Phelps" on the original "Mission Impossible" T.V. show.

"Peter Rabbit" a Beatrice Potter protagonist

Eddie Rabbit, country music singer

Eddie Kamae Hawaiian singer

This is scraping the bottom of the barrel -

Roger Rabbit, movie character

>playing off 93

Jimmy Rabbit - character in the book/film The Commitments - played in the film by Robert Arkins

John Rabbitt Massachusetts politician,
1970s

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien -- need you ask?

Reuel Denney# social psychologist, author*

# Met author.

*In some editions, Denney is called the co-author, with David Riesman of the once famous non-fiction The Lonely Crowd (1953?); but in most editions
only an adviser.

Reuel Marc Gerecht, ex-CIA agent and author (who knew??)

Marc Leopold Benjamin Bloch
French medieval historian; author of Feudal Society and The Historianʻs Craft

Ernest Bloch (1880-1959), composer

"Ernest Whiteoak" supporting role in
Mazo de la Roche's Anglo-Canadian
"Jalna" novels

Ernest Borgnine (born Ermes Effron Borgnino; January 24, 1917) aka Lt. Cmdr Quint McHale, "McHale's Navy"

Kevin McHale Boston Celtics player

Kevin Crossley-Holland, author

Kevin Philips political author

Kevin Kline, actor

Kevin Katchadourian, central character in We need to talk about Kevin

// We // 6th word of 107

Michelle Wie* Hawaiʻi golfer

*pronounced "we".

Michelle Obama

Michelle Malkin wildly Right Wing columnist; author of Unhinged: Exposing Liberals (would
that include 109?) Gone Wild

Evgeni "Geno" Vladimirovich Malkin (Russian: Евге́ний Влади́мирович Ма́лкин, born July 31, 1986) is a Russian professional ice hockey center playing for the Pittsburg Penguins.

* Oh, and >110 rolandperkins:..I have to admit that a John Bircher, I'm definatly Not: but you can call me more or less apolitical as the pendulum will always swing the other way as it seeks an eternally elusive balanced stability...

On 109-111

"would that include (Michelle Obama)? (110)
" was not meant to imply that there was anything wrong, or wrong-headed about your 109, chg 1. (I didn't see how 110 evoked a disclaiimer (111) of being "a John Bircher".

Yes, you're right about the pendulum swing. In my lifetime of political observation (ca. 1940 -- present) the 'Pendulum has always swung the other way sooner or later, usually sooner.

Playing on 111:

//Eugenii //

Eugenio Pacelli, Cardinal, later Pope Pius XII* (reigned 1939--1958)

*Pope much discussed in one of the politico-religious threads of L T, where there is a member who
claims Pius XII was the last legitimate pope, and the Catholic Church has been without
a pope ever since 1958.

>112 rolandperkins:

I took it personally, a sometimes inappropriate reaction, which evoked the "Bircher" comment.

I have had my fill with politics, political discussions and most politicians of most stripes,while realizing their necessity in a political system.

continuing from 113:

Eugene O'Neil

Evgenii Onegin, hero of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkinʻs
long poem, usually translated* as "EUGENE Onegin"

*One of the translators was the almost bilingual Vladimir Nabokov. The tr. involved him in a feud with
critic Edmund Wilson, even though Russian was V Nʻs
native language and only a learned language to E W.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Alexander Campbell Evangelist, Theologian

Lloyd Alexander, author of the Prydain series and others

David Lloyd George, early 20th century British prime minister

Henry George late 19th c. economist; founder of the theory of "Single Tax".

Henry Canova Vollam (H. V.) Morton, (26 July 1892–18 June 1979); journalist and author. Does anybody else read H.V. Morton these days?

Morton Kelsey author on religion and philosophy

Joy Morton (1855-1934), namesake founder of The Morton Salt Company

"Tilmon Joy" fictional (?) 19th c. Illiinoisan
in a narrative poem by John Hay

Can't decide between

Tylman Susato, 16th-century composer, or

Tielman Johannes de Villiers Roos (1879 - 28 March 1935), right-wing South African politician.

(Deciding you decided (125) on De Villiers Roos
>
Alan Viliiers* 20th c. navigator, author,
captain of Mayflower II.

*Met author.

De Villiers "Div" Graaff, mid-20th-century South African politician

"Divvy" -- fictional owner of a gambling "dive"
in Robert Frostʻs poem "In DIvvys Dive"

*"Divvy" was no doubt intended to evoke "Dives", the Rich Man of the New Testament parable, and represented the U. S. Government of the New Deal era. (Frost wrote a rare political poem -- if only to prove that he was apolitical.)

Robert le Diable, aka Robert the Magnificent, 11th-century Duke of Normandy (also, an opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer)

Lorenzo dei Medici aka "Lorenzo the Magnificent"
15th c. ruler of Florence

Cosimo 1 de' Medici, the Great, first Grand Duke of Tuscany, collateral descendant of #130.

//Duke//

"John ʻDukeʻ Anderson" anti(?)-hero of
Sandersʻs The Anderson Tapes

John "The Duke" Wayne

"Mad" Anthony Wayne U. S. Revoloutionary War general

Antonio Rodolfo Quinn-Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 - June 3, 2001), a.k.a. Anthony Quinn.

Bob Quinn baseball executive of the 1930s--40s; Boston Braves

Bob Hope , late American TV comedian/actor

Bob Barker, early game show host, "Truth or Consequences"

Len Barker Star pitcher; one of the very few
pitchers of a perfect game (not only no hits, but no base runners).

Len Newton, botanist of Nairobi, Kenya, expert on East African succulents

John Newton author* of "Amazing Grace"

*Well, the words, anyway.

Sir Isaac Newton, physicist, alchemist and Master of the Royal Mint

// Isaac //

Yitzhak* Rabin Labor politician in Israel, defense minister, prime minister; co-winner of a Nobel Peace Prize; assassinated by an Israeli in the 1990s.

*"Yitzhak" = Engl. "Isaac"

Frank Israel Regardie (1905-1985) chiropractor, Reichian psychotherapist, psychologist, occultist.

Israel Taukolo right-wing* religious activist
in Tonga
1980s--90s

*Met subject. Just citing, not recommending him.

Israel Isidore Baline, better known as Irving Berlin, songwriter

Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) created Rip Van Winkle, Ichabod Crane and The Headless Horseman

George Washington Carver, scientist and botonist. He reputedly discovered 300 uses for peanuts; peanut butter, contrary to popular lore, was not one of his inventions.

Hal Washington Baseball manager, Texas Rangers

You could have HAL, the 'otherwise-minded' computer in 2001, but I'd rather have

Hal aka Henry of Lancaster, friend of Falstaff in Henry IV part 1 and Part 2, and Henry V.

Constance of Castile, Duchess of Lancaster, medieval claimant to throne of Castile and wife of John of Gaunt

Constance Hale author of Sin and Syntax

Shannon Hale, author of Princess Academy, a Newbery Honor book

"Abner Hale" (anti-?)hero of Michenerʻs Hawaiʻi
loosely based on real-life missionary Hiram Bingham

Mason E. Hale, sometime lichenologist at Smithsonian Institution

Mason Hammond* Classicist, expert on Roman Empire, Latin Language; adviser on art and artifacts to U. S. Army

*Knew Author

Richard Hammond author and co-presenter of BBC's Top Gear

Laurens Hammond founded the Hammond Clock Co. which was not very successful. In 1934, Hammond patented an electric organ, the name of the company was changed to the Hammond Organ Company; and the rest, as they say, is history....

Laurens Van Der Post Liberal South African writer.
(Despite the name, he wrote in English, not Afrikaans)

Lauren Bacall, actress, married to Humphrey Bogart

Aaron Bacall author on teaching

Aaron Spelling , late American TV'Movie Producer

"Aaron" (anti-?) hero of D. H.Lawrenceʻs
Aarons Rod

Rod Serling, creator of "Twilight Zone"

Edouard Rod French author

Rod Stewart , British pop singer

Elaine Stewart Film actress, 1940s--50s

Elaine Pagels, Nag Hamadi texts scholar, authoress

Wilhelm Pagel, founder and owner of a famous circus in South Africa in the first half of the 20th century.

Richard Wilhelm, co-author of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching (Bollingen series)

Richard "Dick" Lugar, (R, IN) Senator, trouble-shooter

Richard Boon, author of the new Pooley's Trees of Eastern South Africa; a friend with whom I enjoy working.

Richard I (Richard the Lionheart) - king of England

William the Lion medieval King of Scotland

Heinrich der Löwe (Henry the Lion), 1129 – 6 August 1195, Duke of Bavaria

Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Hitler's second-in-command

// Henry //

O. Henry pen name of a famous short story writer; in real life he was the not-so-famous William Sidney Porter

Henry Fonda, actor

"John Henry" U. S. legendary hero

John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil.

Nelson Rockefeller, Vice President of US under Gerald Ford

Nelson Fox
All-Star 2nd baseman, CHicago White Sox, 1950s
played in 1959 World Series, one of the few players of the decade
in a WS where the A L team was NOT the New York Yankees

Nelson Mandela

Ex-South African president and freedom
fighter

Nelson Richard DeMille - author

Richard of Gloucester, aka Richard III of England
Shakespearean villain*; 3rd, and probably last, English king w/ the name Richard

*has been played by actors as different as Barrymore, Olivier, and Pacino

Thurston Howell III . character on "Gilligan's Island" played by the late Jim Bacus

Homer Eliot "Dixie" Howell
National League catcher, Brooklyn, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, 1942 -- 1956

Homer Simpson, TV carton character

Jill SImpson religious teacher, evangelist in Tonga

Jill Scott - actress (No 1 Ladies Detective Agency) and singer.

Hazel Scott musician

Hazel -

comic strip character in a cartoon strip by Tom Key, she was a live in maid. The strip later became a tv series starring Shirley Booth.

Hazel Hutchins author of Nicholas at the Library
and other childrenʻs books

Nicholas de Vore, 1882-1960, was a President of the New York based Astrological Research Society. Author of "Encyclopedia of Astrology".

Susan Devore Williams
author on coasts and cats

Vanessa Williams , Afro-American actress,singer

Theodore Francis "Ted" Williams

Hall of Fame baseball player, Boston Red Sox

Saint Francis of Assisi - patron saint of animals

Dame Frances Amelia Yates DBE (28 November 1899 – 29 September 1981) British historian. Taught at the Warburg Institute of the University of London, wrote Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (1964), The Art of Memory (1966), and The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972)

Frances Folsom - wife of President Grover Cleveland

Marcia McClintock Folsom
author of Approaches to Teaching Austenʻs
Pride and Prejudice

Marcia Cross ,

American TV actress, Desperate Housewives' TV serial

Robert L. Cross author on social networks

Robert J. Randisi - author of the Rat Pack mysteries and many westerns

Robert Redford
veteran American movie actor,film director

"Robert of Sicily" medieval Norman(?) monarch; anti-hero of a
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem*

*rolandperkins recited this poem in a public speaking contest, 1944;
the winner was James Fitzgerald** with a recitation of a
SWilliam Saroyan passage from The Human Comedy; rfp won
2 years later with Twain's An Encounter with an Interviewer

** probably NOT the J F that Touchstones picks up.