Famous People & Personalities - Part 24

//Harold//

James Herald Wilson - former British Prime Minister

Harold Godwinsson, last Saxon king of England, died of an arrow in his eye, 1066

Harold M. Sherman
author of juvenile sports novels,
1910s(?) -- 1940s

William Tecumseh Sherman, General in the Union army, U.S. Civil War, after whom the Sherman tank is named.

William Lee a pen name of
William S. Burroughs

//Burroughs//

Edgar Rice Burroughs - creator of Tarzan and author of numerous books

// Tarzan //

Ellison "Tarzan" Brown
Eastern U. S. Indian
athlete, 1930s--40s; a winner of the Boston Marathon

Rev. John Croumbie Brown (1808-1895), minster of religion and pioneer of forestry

Gates Brown
Detroit Tigers reserve player; noted for his pinch-hitting.

John Brown, Highland servant and companion to Queen Victoria

"Valentine Brown"*
British landlord in an Irish Language protest poem of the 17th century.

*What Touchstones picks up
when this name is clicked on ainʻt him.

William Brown -

structural engineer and designer of suspension bridges

William Peek 1930--1950
First soldier from Cambridge MA killed in the Korean war

William Holden, late American actor

"Holden Caulfield"
hero (or is it anti-hero?) of
Salingerʻs much-heralded* The Catcher in the Rye

*and of late much
maligned (!?),
judging from some of the comments made in LT.

James Alexander Holden, whose saddlery eventually became the Australian subsidiary of General Motors. Visiting Melbourne and seeing what one thinks of as Opels and Chevys branded Holden is somewhat disconcerting, until one remembers seeing some of the same cars in London as Vauxhalls.

Alexander Haig, Secretary of State under President Reagan

Sir Douglas Haig British Army Field Marshal in WW I;
later: Earl Haig, who also held the title Viscount of Dawick

David Haig -

English actor (My Boy Jack, Four Weddings and A Funeral, and lots more)

David Thompson, basketball star at NC State and in the NBA, cautionary tale re substance abuse.

George Thompson (1796--1889), explorer, one of several residents of the Cape of this name in the 2nd quarter of the 19th century, and 8th of about a dozen LT authors of this name.

Benjamin Thompson,
Massachusetts-born 18th century scientist and technologist;
influential on Laws of Thermodynamics;
a Loyalist (aka "Tory")
in the American Revolultion; he was made a baronet in
England, and a count in Bavaria, under the name "Count Rumford".
He chose the U. S. Town of Rumford, NH for his surname
rather than his native town (the same as mine), Woburn, MA'

William Abednego Thompson (1811 – 1880), an English bare-knuckle boxer.

William Thompson, 1st Baron Kelvin, brilliant physicist who nevertheless failed to see the advent of aeronautics and nuclear physics.

Daniel Thompson*
said to be the first soldier killed in the Revolutionary War on the American side, 04/19/75.

HIs home town was the same as*(23)ʻs (no relation), later a Loyalist, who claimed
to have been on the American side at Lexington

*The one that Touchstones turns up ainʻt him (in fact,
itʻs not even an American
or an author, but a book.)

Daniel Boone, same period, same continent, explorer and frontiersman

Ray Boone A L infielder:
Cleveland Indians and Detroit Tigers; later executive.
converted to short stop from catcher
in the late 1940s; an All Star in 1954; patriarch of a 3-generation family of major leaguers. Father of Bob Boone; grandfather of Aaron Boone and Bret Boone.

Pat Boone,singer

Pat OʻBrien
FIlm character actor,
1930--50s; a famous role
was "Knute Rockne All-American" in which Ronald Reagan co-starred as George "the Gipper" Gipp.

Richard O'Brien (Richard Timothy Smith -

writer (of The Rocky Horror Show) and actor.

Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, father of Richard III whose remains were found in Lincoln recently.

Albert George, Duke of York, later King George VI;
father of Queen Elizabeth II

Albert Pujois - (Jose Alberto Pujois Alcantara)

first baseman for the LA Angels, great ball player!

José Brito Teixeira, botanist in Angola pre-1975

"Richard Brito"
Anglo-Norman knight, the last of the "Bad Guys" speakers in T. S. Eliot's
Murder in the Cathedral

Sir Richard the Lion Heart - British knight/nobleman

King John
son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine
brother of (37); the signing of the Magna Charta at the Nobles' insistence is the most famous event of his reign, but Shakespeare's play King John (little read or produced, having to do with his wars in France)
does not mention Magna Charta!

Billie Jean King - tennis player who famously whipped Bobby Riggs in a "battle of the sexes."

Larry King
married to (39); Bobby Riggs
did manage to defeat this little-known player, his famous opponent's husband; the famous
woman he defeated (though the match wasn't much publicized) was
Margaret Court

Larry Fine (Louis Feinberg_ =

Larry of the Three Stooges.

Larry Hagman, actor of "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Dallas" fame, recently deceased

Leslie Charles "Larry" Leach (1909--1996), businessman, then botanist; specialised in succulents, mainly Euphorbia

Reginald "Reggie" Leach
hockey player, Philadelphia Flyers;* scored 665 points in some 934 NHL games.

*and, briefly BostonBruins and Detroit Red Wings

Reginald Dwight, pop musician better known as Elton John.

Dwight David Eisenhower (R, NY)
33rd President of the U. S.

Dwight Eugene "Doc" Gooden -

one the the best NL pitchers in the mid-late 1980s when he pitched for the New York Mets.

Eugene McCarthy (D, MN)
Liberal politician, 1950s--70s; senator; poet; no kin of earlier senator Joseph R.Mc Carthy (R, WI)
E.M. contended with Robert F. Kennedy and then with eventual nominee Hubert Humphrey (D MN)
for the Democratic nomination in
1968; though strong in the primaries, Gene lost in the convention,
and HHH went on to lose the election to Richard Nixon (R, CA).

Go Clean for Gene! (I wasn't quite old enough, but I remember the slogan)

Charlie McCarthy, well known puppet of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen.

Yakov Malik
Soviet diplomat; UN ambassador*
early in the{Korean War

*the reminider from (49) was that
a cold war write-up of the UN
called Malik "the Russian
Charley McCarthy (i.e.puppet)
of Stalin
in the UN".

Yakov Peters -

Latvian, one of the founders and chiefs of the Cheka.

Gary Peters
AL pitcher, Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox, 1960s--70s
one of the last of the good hitting pitchers in the AL.

Yes, that designated hitter thing is a real bummer....

//Peters//

Ellis Peters - the nom de plume of Edith Pargeter
author of the Brother Cadfael historical mystery series, awarded the OBE in 1994

On the DH (53):

Agreed!

Ellis Peters (53) >

Havelock Ellis writer, psychologist

Sir Anthony James Allan Havelock-Allen -

film producer (Ryan's Daughter among others). Nominated twice for Academy Award, once for the movie Brief Encounter.

Anthony Blunt
British art connoisseur; suspected subversive of the Cold War Era

sorry had Tony instead of Anthony and the only Anthony I can think of at the moment is

Marc Anthony...

Anthony Perkin - late American actor

Anthony James "Tony O" Esposito -

former Michigan Tech goalie and NHL goalie for the Chicago Black Hawks, member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. He's from Sault Ste Marie, Ontario.

James Taylor,American folk/ballad singer/songwriter

Zachary Taylor (W-LA) general; 12th president of the U. S.
As the 2nd and last Whig Party candidate to be elected president, though a slave owner, he disappointed the militant
Slavery Oligarchs of his era by
favoring Californiaʻs entering the Union as a free state.
Biographically, he may be the only president to be the subject of a book by a future presidentʻs son (John S. D. Eisenhower).

Taylor Swift, female pop singer

Tom Taylor
a once famous British playright; today he is known mainly as the author of the play Our American Cousin that Abraham Lincoln attended
on the night he was assassinated.

Tom Hanks, American actor/producer/director

Nancy Hanks Lincoln -

mother of Abraham Lincoln

W. Bruce Lincoln
author; expert on Russian Culture; author of Between Heaven and Hell, The Romanovs...
etc.

James Bruce (1730--1794), explorer, active in Ethiopia and traced course of Blue Nile

Henry James, Sr.
Philosopher, Swedenborgian theologian; father of Alice, Henry and William James.

Alice Pleasance Liddell aka Alice in Wonderland

John Aidan Liddell -

Captain in the Royal Flying Corp during WWI, received the Victoria Cross and the Military Cross.

John Cusack - American actor

John Barrymore
American actor

Drew Barrymore,actress,granddaughter of John Barrymore

J. D. Drew ML outfielder;
had the proverbial "!5 minutes of fame" when he was drafted #1 and refused to join the Philadelphia Phillies who had drafted him; he caught on with the St. Louis Cardinals and
later, no longer famous, was dealt to the Boston Red Sox.

Drew Allison Carey, actor, TV game host,sports executive,comedian

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