Year 2011 Edition: Famous People & Personalities - Part 15

Al Gore ,

ex Vice President of USA ( Clinton )

Al Capone

gangster also, Al Capone Does My Shirts teehee

Al Montgomery
old time Major League* catcher

*One Montgomery was a backup to Phil Masi and Ray Berres on Casey Stengelʻs 1941 Boston Braves. The later one was the predecessor of
the great Carlton Fisk on the early 1970s Boston Red Sox. Iʻm not sure which of these was an "Al".

On 3:

I was going to warn you that the Al Montgomery that Touchstones picks up is "prob ably" not the one Iʻm mentioning in #3.

Iʻll say "he" isnʻt: On my checking this,, what is picked up isnʻt even an author; itʻs a book page: Rykenʻs Give Praise to God...

Montgomery Clift, actor.

Harlond Clift under-rated (?) old time St. Louis Browns 3b

*One historical ranker did a close comparison of
Clift with Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt and found
Clift to be far more worthy of the Hall!

Clifton Phifer "Cliff" Lee

Bazeball has been bery, bery, good to him.

Lee Van Cleef ,

American Western movie actor

Lee Majors

actor

Lee Dewyze

last season's winner of American Idol.

Lee Child author

Julia Child

Francis Child folk-lorist, musicologist

Francis Scott Key, author of the U.S. National Anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner

F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby and other books. Married Zelda

Frances Ftizgerald journalist, historian

Trivia Break
F. Scott Fitzgerald's full name was Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. I believe he was related to the lyricist.
/Trivia Break

Francis Lai ,

music composer,conductor

Francis Turner Palgrave
litterateur, anthologist

Meg Coates Palgrave, tree expert who lives in Zimbabwe.

Meg Ryan

Peggy Ryan
dancer, actress of the 1940s --50s

Peggy Lee ,

late singer

Bill "Spaceman" Lee
in the Boston Red Sox starting* rotation,
1970s

*The Red Sox manager of that time became the
most unpopular mgr. ever with Boston fans, when
he started ex-Yankee Mike Torrez instead of Bill Lee in a special AL playoff. (The Red Sox lost.)

Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee
U.S. Revolutionary war general

Sir Harry Smith, Governor of the Cape c. 1848. Harrismith in the Free State is named after him, Aliwal North (Eastern Cape) is named after a battle he won in India, and Ladismith (Western Cape) and Ladysmith (Kwazulu-Natal -- famous Boer War siege) are named after his wife.

Harry S Truman
32nd* President of the U.S.

*HST even told an interviewer (correctly) "I am the THIRTY-SeCOND PResident of the United States." -- - 33rd being the position that the mediaʻs current count would put him at. But donʻt get me started on the widely-accepted "Off-by-one" count.

Harry, The Dirty Dog

by Gene Zion

(I

Duane "Dog" Chapman
bail bondsman, author (?), film maker (?)

Tracy Chapman .

female Afro-American singer

Jim Tracy recent ML manager: Dodgers,
Pirates

Dick Tracy ,

comic strip(fictional ) detective

Sally Dick and Jane. I kid.

Dick York - television actor.

edit. Didn't like my first Dick so I changed it to Dick York.

Susannah York ,

British actress, just departed

The Duke of York, later King George VI
of the UK

Wow, Suzannah York died yeserday and you just played her name. Creepy, huh?

And I was thinking York, york, york #35 made a funny. (Yah, know, not yuck,yuck,yuck)

Then there is Alas, Poor Yorick, I knew...but I stray

York ... Captain William Clark's "manservant" on the Lewis and Clark expedition!
(final answer)

Oops, typo...all fixed

Death is a natural thing to happen. " Susannah" , the
name just "flashed" in front of me.

Next Entry:

Michael York

British actor

Rudy York old time major league 1st baseman;
played in the 1940 (Tigers) and the 1946 (Red Sox) World Series.

Rudy Hartono ,

former All-England, world badminton champion,
Indonesian

Rudy Vallee

vaudeville Crooner

Rudy Rucker
popular author, non-fiction: esp. math,. science

Darius Rucker

"You're on the feel-good side of leaving/And I'm the back-side of a mule."

Johnny Rucker old time* New York Giants o.f.

*Life magazine put him on the cover during spring training of his 1st Giants season, and he
became part of the superstition that itʻs "badluck" for an athlete to be put on the cover of Life.
He was pretty good, but a disapointment in view of all the hype that greeted his arrival in
the majors.

Johnny Depp

dreamy :S

Johnny Sain old time Boston Braves, New York yankees pitcher; one of the best hitting pitchers of his era.

Johnny Quest

*heartthrob* yes, I know he is a cartoon.

And do you know,
Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, Whoops, Johnny, Whoops, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny.

It is sort of like, This little piggy went to Market...

If you don't, then please excuse this interruption.

Johnny Weissmuller ,

late actor, the original first Tarzan in the movies

"Johnny,Johnny,Johnny ..... was more like the yellings or cries for help from Jane."

If you let me change Johnny to Johanna then I could go

Johanna Spyri author of Heidi and add a yodal into the mix.

Or

Johnny Cash

Playing on: Johnny Cash (50):

Pat Cash champion tennis player, 1980s--90s

Rosanne Cash

(the better half...as they say)

Rosanne Barr ,

TV comedy actress

Bob Barr

Politician

Bob Gibson Hall of Fame St. Louis Cardinals pitcher

Mel Gibson ,

Australian movie actor,film producer/director

Mel Brooks

Mel Torme

Mel B

Spice Girl

johnnie b good - good music by Chuck Berry

Berry Fleming novelist 1930s-- 50s

Ian Fleming ,

late British author,

a creator of fictional spy, James
Bond

Ian Stewart fascinating writer on mathematics

James Stewart,

late American actor

8639896::+ 8639896::Elaine Stewart + actress of the 1940s (A headline in the New York Times of today says that Elaine Stewart died on Jan. 13, 2011

Elaine Page ,

singer,actress

Bettye Page dancer

Patti Page ,

singer

Patti Smith

singer/songwriter

Dodie Smith, author of The 101 Dalmatians

Benjamin Smith III*
appointed to the U.S. Senate; he preceded Edward M. Kennedy as a U.S. Senator

*For some reason, this entry evokes from Touchstones: The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides !

Benjamin Spock of Baby and Child Care fame. Whatever he did to young lives, he did it by the million!

Benjamin Harrison
23rd President of the U.S., only GRANDson of a previous president to become president.

George Harrison, deceased ex-Beatle

Harrison Brown*
technologist, scientist, environmentalist; worked on the atomic bomb

*Knew Author

Nicholas Edward Brown (1849--1934), botanist at Kew, made great contributions to our knowledge of southern African plants and to succulents (succulent collectors will know how many names carry the authority 'N.E.Br.'). My favourite story of N.E. Brown concerns an 'unknown' specimen placed on a public table at Kew with the message "Resembles {whatever} but fruit wrong", to which Brown added a note "That is not a fruit. It is a spider." -- the structure in question being scarcely 3 mm across.

Edward VIII aka The Duke of Windsor briefly,King of the U K; he was pressured into abdicating and was replaced by his brother, George VI

Edward Albee

playwrite

Edward E. "Doc" Smith
science fiction writer

Edward VIII
Prince, King, Abdicator, and - according to National Geographic Channel tonight - Nazi sympathizer

Pius VIII, Pope; an enemy of
Franceʻs Bonapartists, an d once captured b y them, he became pope for a few months
in 1829-30.

King Henry VIII ,

King of England, who loved to behead several of his
unbeloved wives.

Henry Miller

author

Alice Duer Miller writer

Arthur Miller ,

late playwright

Keri Arthur

Urban Fantasy author

Bea Arthur, actress

Arthur Hailey novelist

Arthur Ashe, Tennis Champion

Arthur C Clarke

Clarke Kent

Rockwell Kent artist

Norman Rockwell
illustrator, and contemporary of Rockwell Kent. (They were frequently misidentified as each other!)

Norman Mailer

American author, playwrite...I htink he did it all.

Billy Norman old time, short term* manager of the Detroit Tigers

*On being replaced by the appropriately-named Jack Tighe (Mid-1950s), he said, "Iʻll be back, because a bad penny always shows up." He hasnʻt shown up back in the Majors so far.

Billy the Kid ,

legendary rogue cowboy

Kid Rock

rock/country musician

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Two characters of a fine movie.

"Cassidy", the bartender in Cat Ballou

David Cassidy

You know, from the Partridge Family. He sang that song...I Think I Love You...yeah, that guy.

David Duchovny

David Sedaris

author

David Cook

Singer

David "Davy" Crockett
Frontiersman, TN, TX, Whig politician

David Bowie

Rock Star

James Bowie

botanist, explorer, social misfit and porbable drunk.

James Arness (aka Matt Dillon, of Gunsmoke fame)

(just watched PBS "Pioneers of Television", and he was on it)

Etta James

James Bond

Fictional character from Ian Fleming

Edward Bond dramatist

Edward Norton

actor

Charles Eliot Norton litterateur, editor

Joshua Abraham Norton

Self-proclaimed Imperial Emperor Norton I
Eccentric 19th century San Francisco street person

Ed Norton

Character from The Honeymooners
(Sorry, couldn't help it)

Norton Juster author of the (children's?) classic The Phantom Tollbooth

William Warder Norton

of W. W. Norton, the publisher

William Collins 18th c. British poet, pre-romantic

Suzanne Collins

author of Gregor the Overlander and the Hunger Games

Joan Collins

actress (I like to think of her as a vamp)

Joan Miller Perkins

artist

Philip Miller, late 18th-century keeper of the Chelsea Physick Garden (London) and author of many scientific plant names in use today.

King Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon

legendary Celtic monarch of the early Middle Ages, in Britain. (Archeologists expected to find traces of his reign in what is now Wales, but actually found more in Somerset, West England.

Alan King

comedian and author

Edgar Allan Poe
Poet, critic,* short story writer, born in
Boston (1809 ), died in Baltimore, 1849.

*I just recently obtained at a thrift shop THe Portable Poe, ed. by Philip VanDoren Stern;
has some of his criticism --anthologies tend not to have much of that-- and a lot of his letters, as well as the Poems and stories.

#126

*Incredibly jealous of your find*
________________________

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Author of: Tarzan of the Apes as well as interplanetary romances. Maybe as wierd a character as Poe in my book.

"...your find" (127)

I had thought that "Portables" were all over the
place, and wouldnʻt be an object of jealousy. Come to think of it, I donʻt recall seeing a "Portable Poe before. But Iʻm always seeing "Portable" authors, notably Jack Kerouac who I donʻt think fit well into that format.
The "Portable Milton" wasnʻt bad; I donʻt own one any more, but did in college. I think it was
because our professor in the Milton course, Douglas Bush was the editor. Conservative, but quite a Miltonist and general 17th c. English expert. His son and I think his grandson are
also professors of Literature.

"Maybe as weird a character as Poe. . ." (127)

Hmm. I didnʻt know anything about E R Bʻs biography, and was surprised to hear that.

Edgar Cayce, spiritualist (that's the best description I can think of)

Edgar Wallace ,

late mystery/detective novelist, he was a British ?

#130 Skoob, Edgar Wallace was also founder editor of the Rand Daily Mail, which was for many years about Johannesburg's best newspaper. (I would say that, an uncle of mine was on the editorial team, and an escritoire from the early days of the newspaper stands in my living room.)

Edgar Degas

Famous French Artist

Edgar Davids ,

Dutch professional footballer (British soccer )

Lillian Davids Fazzini author, entomologist

Lillian Hellman

playwrite

(She had a lifelong relationship with Dashiell Hammett ;)

Lillian Too ,

geomancer ( "Feng Shui" expert )

Lillian Gish

Lillian Eugenia Smith

American author

María Eugenia Ignacia Augustina de Palafox-Portocarrero de Guzmán y Kirkpatrick, 16th Countess of Teba and 15th Marquise of Ardales, aka Empress Eugènie of France, wife of Napoleon III. Her son, the Prince Imperial, died at Isandhlwana. When she visited the scene of his death she stayed at a hotel in Pietermaritzburg, which remained exceptionally good and kept the name Imperial even into my yoot. (It's now the Protea Imerial; how good it is I couldn't say, but it looks as if much of the structure is still original).

Kirkpatrick Sale U.S. non-fidction Writer on economics, politics and culture

#139 should be nominated for some kind of award for longest name entered :P

Jeane Kirkpatrick

was a U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.

+ Ed Kirkpatrick + died, 2010; played
16 seasons of Major League baseball: Angels, Roayls, Pirates, Brewers.

Mr. Ed ,

TV fictional talking horse (B/W US TV comedy series0

Edward R. Murrow

American broadcast journalist

Edward Gorey

Edward the Cnnfessor
Anglo-Saxon English king, believed by some historians to have "paved the way" for the later Norman conquest.

Edward Hopper

American painter

Edward Avedisian painter, gallery owner*

*Knew artist

Edward Norton ,

American film actor,

a "hulk" in the re-make of movie, " The Incredible Hulk"

Edward Scissorhands

Fictional character played wonderfully by Johnny Depp

Edward the Second
British monarch, eventually deposed, and anti-hero
of a Christopher Marlowe tragedy,

Prince Edward , Earl of Wessex

third son, fourth child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Full Name: Prince Edward Anthony Richard Louis Windsor

Edward Francis Stuart claimant to the UK throne
called by his enemies "The Old PRetender"; father of
"The Young PRetender" aka "bonnie PRince Charlie"

Edward Cullen

Fictional character from Twilight series

(I'm sorry, I know...no respecting yatta yatta, but I thought someone would put him down. There it is over) ;P

Sean Cullen
actor/comedian

Sean Connery , suave,sexy, ladies-man

Welsh-born movie star, the first big screen, "James Bond, 007 - Licence to Kill or Be Killed

Sean Penn, actor

Sean Bean, actor

Orson Bean
Quirky character actor

Freebie and the Bean

Title of a movie and the names of two characters Freebie, and Bean, two cops.

Louis Hyman Bean
political forecaster; the only well-known political scientist to predict the 1948 election Truman (D Mo.) over Dewey (R NY) correctly. His prediction was jokingly called "The Bean Poll", though he insisted that polling was not his methodology.

(# 160, b t w, comes in the "Knew AUthor" category -- when we were both high school age. I was intwo plays with him.)

Sean Bean ,

British stage and movie actor

Mr Bean, TV character played by Rowan Atkinson

Rowan Williams, Archbishop

Dan Rowan

American Comedian from the team of Rowan and Martin

Dan Brown ,

author

Molly Brown, of Titanic fame

Marc Brown( author of Arthur series)

Eleanor Brown, author

Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of FDR.

Elliott Roosevelt, son of Eleanor & FDR and prolific writer.

Elliott Smith(musician)performed music on Good Will Hunting.One of my all time favorite movies

Elliott Yamin ,

former American Idol's finalist, singer

BOb Elliott ML 3b, Pittsburgh Pirates,
Boston Braves; played in the 1948 World Series.

Bob Feller

Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
Born in Tilden, Nebraska (about 100 miles from me)

Bob Lovett diplomat, presidential advisor of the
early Cold War era.

Lyle Lovett

Norman Lovett ,

actor,writer

Harry Norman late 19th c. U.S. poet, essayist

Harry Truman ,

late USA President

Harry Potter ... nuff said!

Beatrix Potter( Peter Rabbit)

Queen Beatrix ,

the current Queen of the Netherlands (Holland)

Queen Latifah

Queen Elizabeth

Elizabeth Taylor ,

actress

Liv Taylor, actress

Are you thinking of Liv Tyler?

Tyler Perry

actor/screenwriter

Matthew "Old Bruin" Perry U.S. naval officer; important in
Japanese and Liberian history.

Perry Mason

Fictional character

Matthew Perry - actor best known for his role as Chandler Bing on Friends.

Saint Matthew ,

one of the New Testament's writer

Matthew Macfadyen(the other Mr.Darcy)

Angus MacFadyen (actor)

Danny MacFayden old time Boston Braves pitcher;
pitched in the 1930s, and made a brief comeback during WW II.

Is this close enough? Sorry, I didn't catch that the d came before the y in 196 and 197.

Danny Kaye

old-time movie star.

Danny Thomas, another old-time actor

Danny Gardella briefly a New York Giants outfielder

Danny Ainge former player for the Boston Celtics

"Danny Deever" tragic hero of a Kiplilng narrative poem

Danny DeVito ( actor)

Danny Glover

actor

John Glover(actor)

John Updike (1932-2010) novelist

Johnny Cash, singer

John Adams

Gerry Adams Irish activist, politician

Amy Adams ,

actress

Amy Semple MacPhrson evangelist

Amy Winehouse ,

singer

Amy Sedaris

Actress, author, and yes, sister of another author David Sedaris

Amy Landecker great in A Serious Man

Amy Tan(Joy Luck Club)

Amy March, character in Little Women

Beth March

Josephine March (my favorite)

Josephine Baker
Jo was my favorite "Little Woman" too

Tom Baker

Tom Howard septigenarian host of the parody quiz program on radio "It Pays to be Ignorant."

Tom Jones

by Henry Fielding

Tom Bosley, "Mr. C" from Happy Days

Tom Hanks ,

actor,producer,director

"Tom the Tinker" bootlegger, W. Pennsylvania,
character in Carmerʻs Genesee Fever

Tinker Bell ,

a fictional fairy character, created by
J.M.Barrie ( author of character, Peter Pan

Marge Bell* better known as Marge Champion
great dancer, actress

*Bell: She appears under this name in some early credits.

Alexander Graham Bell ,

inventor of "modern telepgone "

Melville Bell Grosvenor, grandson of above, president of National Geographical Society and editor of national Geographic Magazine for what seemed like forever when I was a kid but what Wikipedia says was "only" 11 years.

Herman Melville, of Moby Dick fame

Herman Munster, a tv character

Billy Herman NL infielder, Cubs, Dodgers, Pirates; briefly an AL manager (Red Sox)

Billy Martin( Yankee player and coach)

Billy Joel

singer/songwriter

Joel Grey, actor

Sir Edward Grey British statesman

Sir George Grey, governor of South Australia, Cape Colony and New Zealand in Queen Victoria's Glorious Days. Greyton, Western Cape, Greytown (KZN), Grey College, Bloemfontein and Grey High School, Port Elizabeth are named after him. Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, is named after his wife.

George Herbert Walker Bush
40th* President of the United States

* or 41st, according to the Mediaʻs conventional, but incorrect, count of the people who have been
inaugurated U.S. president.

George Sand, author

Leonard Burke Sand, US federal judge

Leonard Bernstein

conductor

Charles Bernstein literary and cultural critic

Charles Schulz

of Peanuts fame

Ed Charles old time Kansas City 3rd basmean

Ray Charles ,

late blues singer/pianist

"Rachel Ray" title character of Trollopeʻs
Rachel Ray

Sugar Ray Robinson ,

late Afro-American greatest welterweight
professional boxer

"Richard ʻDickʻ Sugar" character married to
Nabokovʻs famous Lollita

Richard Clayderman ,

popular pianist

J. R. Richard amazing NL pitcher of the 70s

Richard Gere, actor
(who by daughter, btw, considers "a really sexy old man") :)

Richard T. Gill, opera singer

Brendan Gill writer

Brendan Fraser , actor

Antonia Fraser, historian, writer (touchstone not working)

Willa Catherʻs "My Antonia"

You played on the book title.

Willa Ford , actress

Antonia Fraser

http://www.librarything.com/author/fraserantonia

NOTE: For testing only. Game continues from

{Willa Ford , actress

Gerald Ford, President of US

Ford Madox Ford

Betty Ford First Lady, and autobiographical author

Henry Ford

Jules Henry author on Culture

Jules Gabriel Verne

Gabriel Fielding British novelist

Gabriel Giffords( US Congress woman)

Morton Gabriel White
philosopher; author of The Foundations of Historical Thought

Andrew Morton ,

British biographer on famous persons

Andrew Jackson
U.S. general, president; very favorable to White settlers (unless they were British or spanish); very unfavorable to Native Americans.

Andrew Carnegie ,

late American financier,philanthropist

Andrew Cuomo

Current Governor of New York

Andrew Sinclair historian, biographer

Sinclair Lewis ,

late American novelist

Books by Sinclair Lewis

http://www.librarything.com/author/lewissinclair

Upton Sinclair
maverick political scientist, activist, novelist

Sir Clive Sinclair ,

late British inventor in 1970s for the range of Spectrum's brand portable computer of very low
storage capacity, and a slim digital portable calculator

Clive Barker

author

Len Barker (Indians (?) ) pitcher; one of the few ever to have pitched a perect game

Len Deighton ,

British novelist

Len Goodman

British professional ballroom dancer

(Eat your heart out Fred Astaire! teehee)

Goodman Ace radio comedy*
actor of the 1930s-40s.

*Touchstones informs me that he did get into book form. Their program of Goodman and Jane Ace, a 30 min. comedy sketch was
called "Easy Aces". It was somewhat mysogynist, with lame jokes about his wifeʻs Jane Aceʻs (lack of?) intelligence, jokes about on the level of the later "blonde" jokes. She featured garbled platitudes like "Youʻre only young once IN A WHILE."

Benny Goodman ,

bandleader/musician( clarinet ? trumpet ? saxophone ?

http://www.bennygoodman.com

Ben Affleck, actor

Ben Cayetano# Governor of Hawaiʻi 1994--2002,
author of Ben: a Memoir, from Street Kid to Governor*

# Full name: Benjamin J. Cayetano

*Met author

Ben Franklin

Franklin Pierce

Franklin Graham evangelist

Billy Graham, his father, also an evangelist

Didn't Jimmy Carter have a nogoodnik brother called Billy? If so,

Billy Carter

". . .have a nogoodnik brother called Billy?..."
(290)

The short answer is "yes."

The long answer is: His nogoodnikism is debatable.
He made some Israeli enemies, and didnʻt, on the other hand, acquire many Arab friends by telling an interviewer, "Thereʻs a hell of lot more Arabians (sic) than there is Jews!"
He told anothe interviewer: My mother joined the Peace Corps at the age of Seventy! My sister
(Ruth Carter Stapleton) became an evangelist!
My brother (ca. 1975) thinks he can become president! So, Iʻm really the only sane one in the family."

(Playing on 290)

Billy Martin Infielder, New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Athletics; manager*, Yankees, Twins, Tigers, and Rangers.

*IF he were a president he would have to be counted as --I lost count-- 3 or 4 presidents, since his Yankee "Terms" were non-consecutive

Billy Bones

or Captain William Bones is a fictional character, a pirate in the first section of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island.

(I just love that name)

Billy Williams great CHicago Cubs o.f.

Venus & Serena Williams

American female tennis players/ sisters

Esther Williams, swimming actress of the '40s

"Esther Waters" title character in a once-famous Victorian earth-shaking novel by George Moore

Queen Esther

From Bible story

Queen Christina of Sweden

Christina Aguilera

singer

Christina Georgina Rosetti poet

Christina Onassis

shipping magnet daughter

Jackie Onassis

Jackie Robinson

Bill "Bojangles" Robinson

tap dancer and actor

Frank Robinson All-Star 1b in both major leagues (Reds, Orioles?); later an executive of Major League Baseball.

Robinson Crusoe

Title character, and fictional

by Daniel Defoe

Mary Robinson former president of Ireland; later
a U. N. official

Mary Shelley, author

Mary Webb novelist

Mary Poppins

Title character by P.L. Travers

Mary Wollstonecraft writer, mother of (310),
whose full name was Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley.

Mary Queen of Scots

Mary

: a novel

- by Vladimir Nabokov

Mary Tudor, Queen of England, 16th century;
daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon,
half-sister of Elizabeth I

Catherine Zeta-Jones ,

Welsh actress, wife of actor, Michael Douglas , one of the sons of retired actor, Kirk Douglas

Jack Jones Welsh novelist, who shares his name with dozens (or is it hundreds?) of other authors.

I have never seen a book by him in Hawaiʻi or the U.S. Mainland, only in Tonga, an unlikely place for discovering any little-known book.

Shirley Jones

singer

Shirley Temple

Johnny Temple
-- All Star NL shortstop

Johnny Mathis

Singer

Johnny Depp

actor

Johnny Sain All Star Boston Braves, later {New York Yankees pitcher; one of the best hitting pitc hers of his era.

Johnny Carson, of Tonight Show fame

Carson Daly

TV host

Richard Daley

Once Mayor of Chicago

Richard I aka Richard the Lion-Hearted (Coeur de Lion)
Norman warrior, King of England, crusader

Richard Milhous Nixon ,

past USA President

Patircia Ryan Nixon First Lady, married to 329

Ryan O'Neal

actor

Tatum O'Neal

daughter of 331
and
actress

Art Tatum musician

Art Garfunkel , a former singer/musician of

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel - a singing duet

Art Malik

actor.

Iakov Malik Soviet diplomat of the Cold War era

Iakov Chernikhov
architect/artist

( The end of this thread is far from "the end of the road".

Iakov Weber ,

late artist

Potsy Weber, character from "Happy Days"

Eva Weber writer on Art Deco and photography

David Weber

author

"David Balfour" hero of R. L. Stevensonʻs
Kidnapped, Catriona, and David Balfour

David Gates ,

singer, ex-member(lead) of singing group, Bread

David Crosby of Crosby, Stills & Nash fame

Sidney Crosby
hockey player

Sir Philip Sidney Elizabethan prose writer

Sidney Poitier

actor

Thomas Townshend, First Viscount Sydney
British Foreign secretary; Sydney Cove,
N.S. W. is named after him, and the city of Sydney after the Cove.

Pete Townshend

guitarist for the rock band The Who

Pete Best drummer for the Beatles, replaced
by Ringo Starr

Pete Rose, baseball player

Rose Marie

American actress, best known for her role on The Dick Van Dyke Show

Rose LaRose* burlesque star of
the 1940s--50s

*original name: Rosina DaPello

Mary Rose Byrne ,

Australian actress,starred in a movie, "28 days"

Jane Byrne* Mayor of Chicago

*1st (and, so far the only?) woman to be mayor
of Chicago

Pete Seeger

guitarist and song writer

pppaper, you have to use "Jane" or "Byrne" for your
posting.

Jane Fonda ,

actress

Jane Powell singer, dancer, actress, author

Lord Robert Baden-Powell

founder of the Boy Scouts

Enoch Powell British classicist,
Conservative politician

Enoch Light ,

musician,producer

Mike Light author

Judith Light

actress

Judith Anderson actress

Pamela Anderson ,

American sex-bomb, socialite (?)

George "Sparky" Anderson

former manager of Detroit Tigers baseball team

Anderson Cooper

TV news anchor

Paul Fenimore Cooper 1930 -- 1988
classicist, Chaucerian, physicist, traveller

Gary Cooper

actor
( and a pretty hot one for his day)

Gary Player

golfer

Gary Oldman

actor

Gary Trudeau
writer, cartoonist (aka G B Trudeau)

Pierre Trudeau, sometime Canadian premier

"Pierre Bezhukov" hero of Tolstoyʻs
War and Peace (Russian name: Pyotr Bezhukov*

*Did I force you to play on "Pierre", or what?

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer

*No, as always I played the first relevant name that came into my head. My other rule is not to waste more than a second or 2 thinking before moving on if nothing comes. But if you were hoping I would play that, then I have to admit that I was hoping that you'd play something in #371 that would allow me to mention Gary Player's brother Ian, who is very highly respected in conservation circles here.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (aka V. I. Lenin)
founder of Marxist-Leninist political science,
and a founder of the Soviet Union

Vladimír Weiss
footballer, Scottish Premier League

Peter Weiss dramatist

Stephen Weiss
hockey player

Stephen Foster
American songwriter

Stephen King

author
very scary author

Martin Luther King D. D., Ph. D.
minister, civil rights activist

Andrea Martin
aka Edith Prickley

Martin Sheen

actor

Fulton J. Sheen
radio religious comentator, author, theologian,
bishop

Michael J. Fox

actor, activist

Irwin "Pete" Fox
old time Detroit Tigers, Boston Rred Sox O.F.

Ian "Pete" Geoghegan

Australian race car driver

Pete Sampras

retired tennis champ

James "Pete" Runnels
old time Boston Red Sox infielder;
once AL batting champion

James Agee
American journalist, screenwriter (The African Queen)

Tommy Agee ML outfielder, member of the famous
World Champion NY MEts of 1969

Tommy Lee Jones

actor

James Jones novelist

James Taylor ,

American country ballad singer

James Taylor ,

American country ballad singer

Taylor Caldwell
author

Kirk Caldwell Hawaiʻi politician
legislator, interim mayor

Kirk Douglas, actor

G. S. Kirk Classicist, Mythology expert

Kirk Abella ,

late Filipino murdered actor

Captain James T. Kirk, of the Starship Enterprise

Richard Kirk fantasy novelist*

*better known as Robert Holdstock

Sir John Kirk (1832-1922), explorer, accompanied David Livingstone 1858-1862, later British Consul and Agent in Zanzibar 1873-1886.

(ETA: May I suggest that a new thread would be a good idea?)

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New thread here.

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