Famous People & Personalities - Part 17

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Last three entries:

Harold "Biggy" Chan
Charlie Chan
Charlie Muffin

Charlie Chaplin

Ben Chaplin , actor

Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve

Ben Grauer, radio. TV announcer; editor

I'm tempted to play David Ben-Gurion, sometime Prime Minister of Israel, but suspect that's against the rules.

The rules are pretty loose. So I'll play Davy Crockett.

Hmmmm,

Linda Gray, actress (best known for her role on "DALLAS")

Dorian Gray

Dorian Yates

Nancy C. Dorian* language and dialect expert,
esp. Celtic

*Some of her works have become Wish List items; have corresponded, but not met.

Nancy Drew

J. B. Drew Boston Red Sox outfielder

Drew Barrymore

>13 rolandperkins: I was acquainted with her as an undergraduate.

Ethel Rosenberg

Joel Rosenberg science fiction writer

Joel Gray, actor

Pete Gray St. Louis Browns outfielder -- only one-armed position player ever in ML Baseball

The Unsinkable Molly Brown Balderdash St Louis Browns are the team...strange game that!

Pete Townshend

Molly Malone, who pushed her wheelbarrow ....

@hfglen - sorry, messing about, as usual...

Bugsy Malone

Dorothy Malone, actress

Gerard Manley Hoplkins English poet, trilingual*

G M H is of course famous for his English poetyr; he could also write in Latin and Welsh.

Dorothy Manley

"Bunny" Manley, great candle pins bowler,
Greater Boston, 1930s-40s

Dorothy Bunny Bowen

"Bunny" Manley great candle pins bowler
of the 1930s-40s, Greater Boston*

*The Boston area is the only place where there IS any
candle pins bowling.

#32 Not for long--another alley just closed (in Natick).

Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Tudor, queen of England

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell novelist

William E. Berg religious writer

William Howe DeLancey, Colonel in British Army and Wellington's Chief of Staff at Waterloo

Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe writer, editor

Elsie De Wolfe, socialite and interior decorator

"Elsie Venner"
heroine of the older of the 2 Oliver Wendell Holmeses

Elsie Dinsmore series of books written in the late 19th and early 20th century

Christine Dinsmore psychologist, author

Jack Lemon, actor

"Jack Aubrey" protagonists in Patrick OʻBrianʻs novels

John Anderson Australian philosopher,
mentor of Oceaniaʻs great Futa Helu

Sherwood Anderson- author "Winesburg,Ohio" (I had to read that in prep school in the 60's).

Robert Sherwood dramatist, historian

Anderson Cooper, news reporter

Paul Fenimore Cooper classicist, physicist, traveller

Paul McCartney

Stella McCartney

"Stella Dallas"

Stella Stevens, actress

Frank Stella artist*

* Met artist.

Frank Muir, British humourist

Frank Capra, movie director

Anne Frank

Tenney Frank classicist, historian

Frank Yerby, author

Frank Sinatra

Nancy Sinatra

Nancy Astor, first woman to be elected and take a seat in Great Britain's House of Commons

Mary Astor, actress and author

John Jacob Astor entrepreneur

Jacob Zuma, president of South Africa

Thomas Mannʻs Jacob*

*as in Mannʻs Geschichte Jakobs / The Tales of Jacob

Sarah Polley, actress (she was amazing as Sally in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen)

Sarah Palin, presidential candidate (--or is she? anybody know?)

William Scott Ferguson classicist, historian

William Shatner :)

William of Orange aka William III*
Dutch/English ruler

*Many historians call his reign the co-reign of "William AND Mary" (she being daughter of the father in law whom he deposed,
James II. But upon Williamʻs death her sister, Anne
became a not-very-highly regarded reigning queen. Willilam presided over the anglicizing and caledonizing of what is now Northern Ireland.

William Wilbeforce

Robert Isaac Wilberforce*

* son of 82

Issac Newton

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your clock is fast

Newton D. Baker U. S. Sec. of War, during WW I

Charles H. Baker, Jr., bon vivant and writer

Eliott Ness

(I hope it was okay to change the spelling. If not, please walk around this post and continue as if it never happened.)

Loch Ness Monster ( Is this cheating? )

Neal Patrick Harris, actor

Patricia Neal , late movie actress

Patricia Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon

Richard the Lionhearted (reign-Richard 1st, England, 1189-1199)

"Poor Richard" of Franklin's Poor RIchards ALmanac

Richard Payne Knight antiquarian

The Dark Knight alias Batman ,

a comic fictional character

Ray Knight N L 3b, Reds, Mets;
he was Pete Roseʻs succdessor as 3b for the Cincinnati Reds

Pete Seger , a rock musician

James "Pete" Runnels old time Boston Red Sox
infielder

James Earl Jones, Actor

Curt Russell

Bill Russell Boston Celtics player, later coach

Lucy Ricardo (Lucile Ball characture, I LOVE LUCY)

David Ricardo economist

David Duchovney, actor

David Eisenhower

David Jones Welsh poet

Davy Jones, Monkees

Davy Johnson Major League 2b, manager

Kevin Barry Irish hero

Kevin Costner, actor

Ray Bolger dancer, actor

Ray Fiennes, actor (did I spell that last name right?)

Alice Fiennes*

*co-author (with Richard Fiennes) of The Natural History of Dogs

Alice Ghostly, actress

Alice James writer

James Dean

William James philosopher

William Demerest, actor

William Howard Taft 26th President of the U. S.

Ron Howard, actor, director, etc.

Ron Reagan dancer, writer, activist

Ronald McDonald, cholesterol clown

Ronald Wilson Reagan 39th President of the U. S.;
father of (133) and of Michael Reagan, Maureen Reagan, and Patti Davis; husband of Jane Wyman and
Nancy Davis

Brian Wilson - Beach Boys

Woodrow Wilson 27th President of the U. S.*

*Contrary to Freud and Bullittʻs title Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, he really was the 27th president, but "Thomas" was, indeed, his original forename.

Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister

Harold Robbins, author

Harold Washington (D IL)
former mayor of Chicago

George Washington Carver -- mental Rolodex says he invented peanut butter; is that so?

George Eliot novelist

original name Mary Ann Evans

Elliot Ness, of FBI fame

Elliot Spitz- disgraced former NY attorney general

Manfred Spitzer* German author on learning,
paychology

*assuming that "SpitzER" was intended in 146.

Horace Mann

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Yeah, that's who- my mind must have been on vacation!

Heinrich Mann German novelist

Pamela Sue Martin

Martin Dinning, my grandpa

Martin Van Buren, 8th president of US

Steve Martin, actor, comedian

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple

Steve McQueen, actor

Alexander McQueen ,

late fashion designer

Edward Porter Alexander Confederate Geberal

Nyree Dawn Porter, actress

Dawn Adrienne, Children's author*

*Know Author. Her next book will be under her original name,
Dawn Casey.

Dawn French, actress (Vicar of Dibley)

Marilyn Minter, American artist

Marilyn Monroe

James Monroe (D VA) 5th President of the U. S.

James Madison

Henry James, Sr. 19th c. U. S. philosopher, esotericist, religionist

Henry Fonda, actor

Jane Fonda actress, activist

Jane Austin,authoress

Jane Powell actress, dancer, author

William Tell

William Henry Harrison (W, IN)
U. S. General, War of 1812; 9th President of U. S.

Ford Prefect, from "Life, the Universe and Everything!"

Betty Davis

Curt Davis M L pitcher; in Brooklyn Dodgers
starting rotation, 1941 World Series

Kurt Russell, actor

Jane Russel, actress

Richard Blackwood, comedian

Lady Caroline Blackwood British author

Caroline Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. author, activist

Robert Holmene, Greenlandic comic strip artist and carver of bone

Robert Ellsberg,
Writer, editor, historian of Spirituality, Catholic Worker activist

Robert Penn Warren, author

Robert Frost

"Jack Frost" folkloric personification
of the beginnings of colder weather

Henry Higgins, character in My Fair Lady

Mike "Pinky" Higgins Tigers, Red Sox 3b;
Red Sox manager

Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company

Oops, cross-post.

Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs

Elton "Schoolboy" Rowe ML pitcher, Tigers, Phillies;
pitched in 1935 World Series

Mr Elton, clergyman from Jane Austen's Emma

Emma Goldman Marxist acitvist

Emma Hardinge Britten (1823- 1899), spiritualist, authoress

"Emma Inch" character in a classic Thurber short story

Emma Freud (Sigmunds wife)

Emma Bunton, Baby Spice Better answer, below!

Lucian Freud artist, former husband of
Lady Caroline Blackwood; Sigmund Freudʻs grandson

Lucian Randall author and biographist

Tony Randall, actor (Felix in TV's "Odd Couple)

James Garfield Randall historian, esp. of
Civil War and Post-Civil War

"Felix Randall" character* in a mourning poem by
Gerard Manley Hopkins

*Probably his real name; he was a local farrier where
Hopkins lived.

Felix Unger

"Felix Schimmelpraester"* the hero's uncle in
T. Mann's Felix Krull

*F. S. says, of his name, "I am the High Priest of Mold (Schimmel), andfor that reason am called Schimmelpraester. But why I am called Felix (Lucky) God only knows."

Not knowing any other named either 'Felix' or 'Schimmelpraester' (and this entry can be skipped if it is too outlandish), I respectfully submit "Felix the Cat".

Harry "The Cat" Brecheen
St. Louis Cardinals pitcher of the 1940s

Harry Houdini

Harry Connick Jr.

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chan

"Charlie Brown" protagonist of Schulz's Peanuts

James Gordon Brown, ex-UK Prime Minister

Tamar Gordon researcher, anthropologist*

*Know author

Gordon Ramsay, cranky chef!

Gordon Pew university and public librarian

G. Gordon Liddy, of Watergate noteriety

Sid Gordon NL 3b, Giants, Braves

Sid Fleishman, children's book author

Paul Perkins* author on aircraft, computer science

*no relation

Noel Paul Stookey, the Paul in the group Peter, Paul and Mary

Saint Paul* protagonist of St. Luke's Acts of the Apostles
in the New Testament

*original name: Saul of Tarsus
birthplace: Anatolia (Turkey)
Citizenship: Roman

languages: Greek, Aramaic, Hebrew and (probably) Latin; he wrote in Greek.

John Paul Jones, captain, U.S. Navy, revolutionary war.

John Paul I* pope who died after a reign of only 1 month

* he was said to have taken his name as a gesture toward peace-making between two apparently arising factions in the Church, one of which emphasized the Gospel of John and the other the Pauline Epistles.

John Paul Jones, captain, Continental (Precurser to U.S.) Navy.

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What happened to entry #240???

John Adams, second president of the United States and husband of Abigail :)

Gerry Adams Northern Irish politician, activist

Douglas Adams -- the Ultimate Answer is 42!

Douglas Fairbanks Jnr, actor

Robert Downey Jr, actor

William F. Buckley Jr. Conservative author, columnist, TV host, novelist

William (Henry) of Orange who became William lll, King of England, Scotland and Ireland

William Windom

WIlliam Carlos Williams U. S. poet

Serena Williams, tennis player

Serena Ryder

Samuel Ryder (of Ryder Cup fame)

Samuel Pepys

Sammuel F.B. Morse, Morse code fame

Endeavour Morse, Colin Dexter's detective

Earl Morse Wilbur religious historian

Earl the Pearl Monroe terrific NBA basketball player

Marilyn Monroe

Shirley Manson, singer of Garbage (not my opinion of their music but the name of the group).

Shirley MacClaine

Shirley Bassey

Shirley Baker* Religionist, Politician in Oceania

*This Shirley was male; a bio. of him is Rutherford's Shirley Baker and the King of Tonga

Tom Jones

Tom Swift

"Tom Jones" eponymous hero of Henry FIelding's most famous novel

John Luther "Cayce" Jones (1863-1900), railroad engineer killed when his passenger train collided with a stalled freight train.

Jennifer Jones great actress, 1940s-80s

Jennifer Aniston (not a great actress!!)

Jennifer Oneill, American /actress, born in Brazil, i942, starred in Summer of '42 (never saw the movie).

Jennifer O'neill, American actress, born in Brazil, 1942, starred in Summer of '42 (never saw the movie).

Captain Terence OʻNeill Northern Irish politician, reformer

Captain Morgan

Henry Morgan 1940s* low-keyed radio comedian

*Not to be confused with 277, though I think his first name was Henry, too.

Henry Green novelist

Henry Kissinger diplomat, presidential advisor

Henry, son of the Prince of Wales

Henry VII* aka "Richmond", aka Henry Tudor,
King of England

*I almost forgot that "Harry" is officially Henry.

Henry, comic strip character, a mute created in 1932 by Carl Anderson

Mr. Anderson

Connell's Mr. and Mrs. BrIdge

Wayne Bridge, English footballer

"Mad" Anthony Wayne U. S. .general

"Madge" or Madonna Louise Ciccone

Louise Brooks, silent movie star

Mel Brooks, Movie producer

Mel Tari Indonesian evangelist

Mel Torme', singer

Mel Ott New York Giants outfielder, briefly manager

Otto I counted by some historians as the first "Holy Roman Empire" monarch

James l of England (James lV of Scotland), of "authorized KJV Bible" fame.

Elizabeth I* of England, predecessor of (298); daughter (but not the immediate successor) of
Henry VIII; ruled until 1603.

*before 1952, she was called just "Elizabeth" (no number).

Elizabeth Mountgommery (Samantha- Bewitched TV show, 1960s)

Elizabeth Taylor novelist*

*"The Other" Elizabeth Taylor was in show business.

Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the U.S.

Frederick Taylor Economist, labor theoretician

Frederick Remington, American sculpter, painter and writer. artist known for his depictions of western themed subjects in the United States.

Frederick II*

*As in Abulafia's Frederick II; a medieval emperor

Fredrick Bligh Bond, English archeologist and author. Director of Excavations at Glastonbury Abby for the Somerset Archeological Society, 1908-1921.

William Bligh, navigator, martinet

William Shakespere, playwrite

William Blake, poet, artist, religionist, esotericist

William Safire, New Youk Times columnist "On Language", author

William Makepeace Thackeray English novelist

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He cross-bred species to create sturdier plants and also introduced crop rotation to restore nitrogen to the soil depleted by successive cotton plantings. There is a good entry in Wikipedia, but I read a book about him many years ago.

Thackery T. Lambshead, alleged author of "The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide To Eccentric & Discredited Diseases ",
(edited by Jeff Vandermeer & Mark Roberts; and yes, it is a real book!)

On 313:

Thanks, chg1. I sent a message about this,
but this answers it.

Ted Thackeray newspaperman of the

1940s-50s; as I remember it,, his attempted

daily would have given some credence to

the cliche' "the LIBERAL media".

Ted Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner, artist

Tina Turner (of Ike and Tina Turner). Tina went solo after divorcing Ike, due to his drug addiction and abuse of her.
(good entry on Wikipedia- I just knew the name and of her going solo.)

Tina Russell actress who died young

Tina Louise, actress, singer, "Ginger Grant" on Gilligans Island.

Louise Bagshawe, author

Louise Daphne Mensch. born Louise Daphne Bagshawe, 28 June 1971. British author and Conservative Party politician.

Daphne Dumaurier novelist

George du Maurier author of Trilby

George Simenon, author of the Maigret mystery series

George Jetson, Hanna-Barbera cartoon character from the '60's.

George Herman "Jidge"* Ruth

*so called by his team-mates; his better known nnickname was "Babe".

Herman Munster, "the munsters", tv show

Billy Herman NL infielder, Cubs(?) Dodgers, Pirates; briefly Boston Red Sox manager

Billie Jean King, tennis great

Ed King (D MA Boston College, NFL football player; later Governor of Massachusetts
(he served between the non-consecutive terms of Michael Dukakis (D MA)

Ed Sullivan, television variety show host

John L. Sullivan, boxing champ.

John Florence Sullivan aka Fred Allen
radio comedian 1930s -- 1950s

John Phillip Sousa, composer and conductor, most famously with the U.S Army Band

John Quincy Adams Sec. of state, 6th President of U. S.,
Rep. in Congress

John Addams, his father, 2nd President of the U.S.

John Calvin Coolidge better known as just
Calvin Coolidge, 29th President of U. S.

John Calvin (1509-1564) Protestant theologian.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy 34th President of the U. S.

Scott Fitzgerald

Scott Carpenter, Mercury astronaut

Karen Carpenter

Karen Perkins* Pastor, theologian, film maker in Hawaiʻi

* no relation

Marlon Perkins, TV naturalist

John Perkins* former "Economic Hit Man", author, activist

*no relation

John Wayne, actor

Patti Wayne exotic dancer, 1960s-70s

Patty Duke, actress

David Duke Right-wing politician

Duke Ellington, bandleader

"John ʻDukeʻ Anderson" anti-hero of Sandersʻs
The Anderson tapes

Anderson Hays Cooper, news anchor

Lady Diana Cooper, British socialite, actress, and author

Lady Diana Spencer later Princess of Wales

Diana Ross, singer

Dame Diana Rigg, actress

Dame May Whitty actress

Corrine May ,

Singapore-born singer/songwriter based in L A, USA

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, TR's sister

Corrinne Helene (1872-1975) author, Christian mystic, occultist

"Helena" character in Evelyn Waughʻs Helena* historical novel

*HelenA: latinization of the Greek name HelenE

Helena Bonham Carter - actress

June Carter Cash

Rosalind Smith Carter First lady, 1977--1981

Jimmy Carter

Jimy (sic) Wilson, long-time coach on the Atlanta Braves; has also managed the Toronto Blue Jays and Boston Red Sox; has a college degree in Agriculture.

"Flip" Wilson, comedian, ne: Clerow Wilson, Jr. (December 8, 1933 – November 25, 1998)

"Black Jack" Wilson, briefly an A L starting pitcher
Boston Red Sox. Detroit Tigers, 1940s

"Jack" Kerouac (Jean-Louis Kerouac, 1922-1969)), author, coined the term "beat generation"

Jack Nicholson

Harold Nicholson, British diplomat, author, and husband of Vita Sackville-West

Harold Pinter, playwright

Harold Wilson, former Prime Minister, England

Harold Washington Illinois politician; former
Mayor of Chicago

Denzel Washington, actor

George Washington, 1st U.S President

Jackie Washington singer, 1960s (and later?)

Jackie Kennedy

Robert Francis Kennedy WW II veteran, attorney general, Senator (D, NY); presidential candidate; assassinated 06/68

Sir Francis Drake (1540- 1596), English sea captain,vice-admiral, privateer,explorer.

Charlie Drake, English comedian

Charlie McCarthy, Edgar Bergen's puppet

Charlie Sheen, giant prat

Michael Sheen, Welsh actor (no relation)

Michaell G. Horowitz Dean of Atenisi University, writer

Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz (1903-1989) classical Pianist and composer

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Marxist activist; briefly boss of the Soviet Union

Ivan Ilyich, the title character in Leo Tolstoy's novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, the title character in Solzhenitsyn's "A Day in the life...."

Ivan Morris writer on Japanese subjects

Ivan the Terrible, the first Russian to call himself a Tsar; Ivan IV , Ivan Chetvyorty, Vasilyevich; 25 August 1530 – 28 March (N.S. calandar)

Ivan Olsen, main charactor and ''hero'' in Gummi-Tarzan an amazing children's book. The film version is one of the best children's movies ever made. At least I think so

Jimmy Olson, cub reporter, Superman television show.

Roger Dean, illustrator

Roger Clemens Hall of fame pitcher, Red Sox, Blue Jays Yankees*, and Astros

*Clemens was for a long time the winingest pitcher ever to wear a Red Sox uniform; in recent years he was passed, in that category,
by Tim Wakefield, who, however, is far behind R. C. in overall ML victories,

Roger Ramjet, T.V.cartoon character

"Roger" of Rogers Version,
one of John Updikeʻs lesser-known novels

Sir John Moore British hero

St . Thomas Moore

Frank "Mad Dog" Thomas*, A L outfielder, later
executive

*not to be confused with the great home run hitter,
Frank Thomas, of the Chicago White Sox, of a later era.

Thomas Taylor, Platonist.

Zachary Taylor, 12th president of the US

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