Famous Personalities, People & Fictional Characters - Part 3

//Neil//

Chris Neil -
NHL right wing player

Christopher Brickell, cultivated-plant expert, author of many RHS plant books

Christopher Buckley
U.S. novelist, author of Thank you for Smoking and others; considered as witty as, and more apolitical than, his
father William F. Buckley Jr.

Your choice: Christopher Robin or Christopher Columbus

Christopher D'Olier Reeve -

a true 'Superman' in my book

Christopher Brooke
medieval historian; author of The Saxon and Norman Kings and The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century and others

Brian Brooke, actor and impresario; founder / owner of the Brooke Theatre in Johannesburg

Brian Anthony Boitano -

American champion ice figure skater

Anthony Burgess
British novelist; author of A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Eden -

British politician and former PM

Antoni Rehmann, geographer, botanist and explorer

Ruth Rehmann
German* novelist and non-fiction writer

*German language, anyway; not sure of the nationality.

Thanks for the easy catch, Roland!

George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Jr.

the Sultan of Swat, the Bambino,

Lowell George

singer-songwriter, guitarist and vocalist of Little Feat

Henry George
radical U. S. economist;
favored a "Single Tax" economy

George Walker, George Harrison and George Honeyball, co-discoverers of the Main (gold) Reef in Johannesburg.

Harry "The Hat" Walker
National League outfielder, 1940s-50s;
later an American League manager: Seattle Pilots; one of the few in management who is commended in Jim Bouton's
book Ball Four (ca. 1970).

Harry Norman Turtledove -

writer of alternative history novels

Harry Sinclair Lewis
Yale graduate, journalist, novelist (who dropped the forename "Harry"); Nobel laureate

Damien Lewis, Actor, the Forsythe Saga, Dreamweaver.

Darren Lewis -

MLB outfielder - set a record for playing errorless games and was a great base stealer.

John Llewellyn Lewis
U. S. labor leader, UMW, CIO

Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn -

played Q in the James Bond films

William Desmond
Philosopher; author of Being and the Between and

Is there a Sabbath for Thought?

Desmond Doss -

A WWII conscientious objector who served as a corporal in the medical corp in the Pacific theater and received the Medal of Honor, Bronze Star and the Purple Heart.

James D. Doss
author of the Shaman Mysteries series

M.R James, Antiquarian, and Ghost Story Writer.

James Buchanan
Pennsylvania-born diplomat, politician, 15th President of the U.S. A Fictional "Buchanan" Appears in John Updike's "Memories of the Ford Administration"; (a segment of "Ford" was made into Updike's only play: Buchanan.

John Buchan, author of The Thirty-Nine Steps and much else.

Anna Buchan, John's sister and an author in her own right, using the pseudonym O. Douglas.

"Anna"
--Title character of Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
Unreviewed in LT, but the Leonard and Virginia Woolf Legacy Library has it, and so
do 340 other members.

Anna Leonowens -

governess in the royal court of Siam
(think "The King and I" and "Anna and the King")

"Anna Christie"
title character in a Eugene O'Neill drama

Agatha Christie
Crime Novelist.

Mabel Christie Dennision*
Harvard graduate; writer;
co-author with her husband George Dennison; ecology activist

*Knew author.

Mabel Lucie Atwell.
Children's writer and illustrator.

Baron Richard Luce -

Governor of Gibraltar and later Lord Chamberlain to HM The Queen

Richard I aka Richard Coeur de Lion/Richard the Lion-hearted
Anglo Norman King of England, Crusader; son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine; brother of King John who ruled in his place during the crusade, and was pressured into a deal favorable to the Nobles: the Magna Charta.

Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick .a.k.a Warwick the Kingmaker, Kidnapped Henry VI, also Edward IV.

Neville Chamberlain
Conservative British prime minister; he and the French
p.m. made a deal with the German and Italian Fascist
regimes in 09/38, Chamberlain declared war on Nazi Germany after Hitler's invasion of Poland in 09/39; he was replaced by a coalition government under Winston Churchill in 05/40.

Richard Chamberlain, King of the mini-series. Shogun and The Thornbirds.

Clayton Colby Richard -

left-handed pitcher for the Padres

Gardner Colby
Maine-born Baptist philanthropist; Colby
University (formerly Waterville College) is named after him in gratitude for a $50,000 donation of 1865

Ava Lavinia Gardner -

American actress, once married to Frank Sinatra

Gerald Gardner - Self Styled King of the Witches.

Gerald R. Ford
Michigan politician; Minority leader (R) of the House; Appointed Vice President; 37th President of the United States

Harrison Ford -

American actor and pilot of both fixed wing and helicopters

Versatile Rex Harrison, "The King and I," "My Fair Lady," "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" etc etc etc

Rex E. Beach*
adventure novelist, very popular in the first 3 decades of the 20th century; nearly
forgotten by the time I had
started reading.

*better known without the middle initial.

George Rex founder of Knysna, Western Cape, who was not a son of George III of England.

Rex Joseph Walheim -

NASA astronaut

Joseph Burtt Davy, botanist and agrostologist, first curator of the National Herbarium, Pretoria (where I worked for 26 years).

Sir Cyril Burtt
experimental psychologist, 1st half of the 20th c.

--"discredited", some historians of Academia say, for having "manipulated his data" on heritability of intelligence.

Cyril Fletcher, of 'Odd Odes' fame and of the BBC series 'That's Life'.

"Jessica Fletcher"
pen name of mystery novelist Donald Bain* and
name of his main character.

*Author of Martinis and Mayhem" and other "Fletcher" mysteries J.F. was also the heroine of the long-running TV series "Murder, she Wrote"

Andrew Geddes Bain, geologist, palaeontologist, ace road builder (most of the passes he built in Queen Victoria's Glorious Days are still in use, little if at all changed) and more.

Andrew Johnson (D, TN)
Jacksonian, pro-Union Southern politician of the
1850s--60s.
Representative from Tennessee; Union Army general; replaced Hannibal Hamlin (R, ME) as Vice President of the U. S., 1865. Inaugurated as president replacing Abraham Lincoln, 04/65. Impeached, and acquitted by one vote, he left office in 1869 ;and returned, briefly to Congress.

Andrew Newell Wyeth -

artist

Andrew Russell Garfield - (1983), dual"British & American citizenship actor.

The Amazing Spider Man (2012=Remake), To be released in 2013, TASM 2

James Abram Garfield
(R, O.)
Professor of Classics; Union general, Civil War; Repr. from Ohio in U.S. Congress; elected 20th President of the U. S. in
1880; shot after a few weeks in office and died
in 09/81.

Garfield, a comic strip.animated character. a name of a cat

Garfield Arthur Wood -

an easy one as I think I did him way back when -

inventor, businessman and motorboat racer -
first man to travel over 100 mph on water -
his company developed the garbage truck we all know today

Evan Rachel Wood ,

(1987-), American actress/singer, US TV serial, American Gothic

Wilbur Wood
star relief pitcher,
1950--60s,
Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox.

Natalie Wood, late American actress

Natalie Portman, current American actress

Natalie Martinez - (1984-),

American actress/model, spokewoman for Jennifer Lopez

Natalie Babbitt*
Ohio-born writer, primarily of children's and young adult books; author of Tuck Everlasting

*Full name: Natalie Zane Moore Babbitt

Zane Grey, writer of "westerns."

Anthony Grey, 1938-

British journalist,writer

Sir George Grey, Victorian Governor of South Australia, New Zealand, Cape Colony and New Zealand again; Premier of New Zealand. Founded Grey College, Port Elizabeth (prodigious source of sporting Springboks / Proteas) and Grey University College, Bloemfontein (now University of the Free State). Greytown, KZN and many places in New Zealand are named after him; Lady Grey (Eastern Cape) is named after his wife.

Christian Grey,

fictional character from the novel. Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy by E L James

Several possibilities, including
Christiaan Barnard, heart-transplant pioneer, and
Christiaan de Wet, Boer general.

Tom Christian
an elder in Pitcairn Island's
small population; died this week at age 77. He was called the island's link with
the outer world.

(I removed the brackets, because clicking on the name leads to a page that ain't him;
in fact it's a book not a person.)

Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé, Dutch Reformed Church theologian, sometime Broederbond member, later anti-apartheid activist

Christian Devi Brando,(1958-2008),

late actor,eldest son of late Marlon Brando,

General Christiaan Frederick Beyers, Boer general and leader of the Boer Rebellion of 1914

Frederick Forsyth,writer

Frederik Willem de Klerk, former State President of South Africa, co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1993.

Willem de Zwijger / William the Silent
most famous Dutch monarch

William Holden, late American actor

William Powell
U. S. actor. Major roles included "Nick" of The Thin Man and the title role of
Life with Father

Colin Luther Powell ,

ex-general, 4 stars in US Army, 65th US, Secretary of State

Colin Doran*
author of Casting Two Shadows -- his first novel, and he didnʻt quite live to the publication date.

*nephew of activists Elizabeth Doran and Mark F. Doranʻ great nephew of @rolandperkins

Colin Andrew Firth,

(1960- ),British television director, theater actor

Raymond William Firth
anthropologist; author of at least 5 books on the remote Polynesian
outlier Tikopia; also elsewhere in the Pacific;
centenarian (d. 2002)

Raymond Chandler -

late American mystery/detective writer of pulp fiction notably, The Big Sleep

"Chandler Muriel* Bing"
A main character of the TV series "Friends"; played by Matthew Perry

*Yes, "Muriel" was his middle name, Google informs me; I donʻt remember an episode that revealed it.

Bing Crosby,

late American singer/actor/comedian

Sidney Crosby
an outstanding NHL hockey player of the past few years, Pittsburgh Penguins

Sydney Hughes Greenstreet -

actor - his debut film role was as 'The Fat Man' in "The Maltese Falcon". He also played Nero Wolfe on the radio.

Sydney Margaret Stent, agrostologist. First woman civil servant in South Africa, and first woman to vote in an election in this country (in both cases, all the Powers That Be saw was 'Sydney M. Stent', from which they drew the wrong conclusion.)

Margaret (Maggie) Thatcher

,former/late Prime Minister of United Kingdom (Wales,Scotland,England)

Queen Margrethe (Alexandrine Thorhildur Ingrid) II of Denmark

Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress

Ingrid Law
Childrenʻs and YA author

Jude Law, American actor

Julian "Jude" Lennon
singer; son of Cynthia Lennon and John Lennon. Their divorce in 1968 was
the occasion of the
McCartney song "Hey Jude", originally titled "Hey Jules".

Julian Barnes,( 1946- ),

British novelist

Barnes & Noble....sometimes bookstore

Helen Noble, who was secretary of the unit I retire from tomorrow, for yonks.

Helen Hunt, American actress

Helen Thomas (d.2013)
U. S. journalist

Helen Hayes Brown -

American actress

>hfglen - congrats on the retirement, now you'll get really busy!

Gates Brown
old time baseball player, Detroit Tigers; a famous pinch hitter in the pre-1973 (pre-DH) Era.

Corey Brown
current center fielder for Syracuse Chiefs - watched him play this past weekend in Pawtucket.

Donald Webster Corey*
social psychologist, fl. 1940s--50s

*pen name of Edward Sagarin The -ey spelling of"Corey" is the one I remember; both that and
"Cory" are found in LT.

Corey Hart, Canadian singer , ( 1962-)

Hart Crane
U. S. poet, fl. 1920s-30s

Robert Edward "Bob" Crane, late American actor/disc jockey, 1928-1978

http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Crane

Stephen Craine -

author of The Red Badge of Courage.

Stephen Crane - correct spelling

sorry, didn't have my glasses on!

Stephen Dobyns, author

Leslie Stephen
British scholar, essayist; father of Virginia Woolf

Leslie Cheung,

late Hong Kong,Chinese 1956-2003

singer,songwriter,actor,film director,record producer,screenwriter

actor of Farewell, My Concubine by Lilian Lee - novel's version, co-starred with Gong Li-

Memoirs of A Geisha-Arthur Golden , Miami Vice, Hannibal Risingby Thomas Harris-movies

Play on name: Leslie Cheung only.

Leslie Charteris
crime novelist; fl. 1930s--1970s; creator of Simon Templar: "The Saint"

Leslie Ann Warren. American actress

Warren William - actor in pre-Production Code films

Warren Buffett, a multi-billioniare American investor/shareholder

Benny Warren
Old time catcher, Philadelphia Phillies, 1930s--40s

Benny Hill, late British TV comedian/actor ,1924-1992

Jack Benny - real name Benjamin Kubelsky

American entertainer, married to Mary Livingstone

Jack Palance , (1919-2006),

late American actor, western movies

Jack Spratt - (~1670 - present),

skinny husband; has corpulent wife

Good one!

Jack Lenz -
Canadian composer and musician

Jack Reacher,

a fictional character of Lee Child novel's series

Play only on : Jack Reacher

Clive Staples "Jack" Lewis
aka C. S. Lewis
scholar, novelist

Jack Kennedy
U. S. President
"the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris"

Tom Kennedy, 1960- , American musician,double-bass, electric bass player

" ʻTom Jonesʻ; a foundling" major character of 18th century English novelist Henry Fielding; its movie version became an outstanding film of the 1960s.

Larry Wayne "Chipper" Jones, Jr.

mlb shortstop, third baseman and left fielder over a 19 year period with the Atlanta Braves

Lisa Jones U. S. author; daughter of Amiri Baraka
(aka Leroy Jones)
Author of Bulletproof Diva

Grace Jones - ( 1948- )

Jamaican singer,actress,model

James Murrell "Jake" Jones

old time 1st baseman; a WW II veteran, he became a little known Chicago WHite Sox player; he later replaced
Rudy York on the defending AL champion Boston Red Sox of 1947, netting two
homeruns, including a walk-off and 7 RBIs in his first Red Sox games.

King James I of England
(formerly, King James VI of Scotland)
(and, yes, of Bible translation fame)

Responsible for the "Plantation of Ulster," the colonization of Lowland Scots into a section of Northern Ireland via a "trick," not unlike what happened to "sharecroppers" in the U.S. South., promulgated to prevent further rebellion from this fierce group.

(In fact, Hadrian s Wall, which roughly borders the south of the Lowland Scots' land, was as far as the Roman Emperor Hadrian's soldiers were able to expand the Roman Empire, owing to the fierceness and relentlessness of this people.)

But instead, two million (I think; my book is unavailable at the moment) left Northern Ireland to America in the 17th century to be free, including my McKitrick ancestors. A good number moved into the mountain ranges in the Eastern US to be left alone. In the American Revolution, they formed the most loyal of Washington's troupes; they didn't desert when the going got bad.

They also are said to have produced many of the wilderness "scouts" who were followed by families wanting to move further West.

The McKitricks and Roots of Ulster Scots by Fred L. McKitrick

James Dean, 1931-1955

American actor, a cultural icon of disenchanted American youth of the Fifties

Wanda Dean*

singer, song writer; fl. 1950s--60s

*original name: Rolande Jean

Wanda Alexandra Landowska (1879--1959), who revived the harpsichord in the 20th century.

"Wanda Skutnik" supporting role in the classic 1948 film Northside 777 directed by Henry Hathaway

Wanda Gershwitz

Female character's name in a 1988 film written by John Cleese.
Played by Jamie Lee Curtis.

Wanda Jackson, 1937- ,

country music,1950s &1960s,American singer/songwriter/guitarist/pianist

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

best-selling author of Life's Little Instruction Book 1991-4.

Wikipedia is looking for a revised bio for him, since his current one "appears to be written like an advertisement."

Rev Jesse L. Jackson,

American civil right leader

James "Cleveland "Jesse" Owens -

American track and field athlete that won four gold medals in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, much to Hitler's dismay.
His saying was, "I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible."

James "Pete" Runnels
Old time infielder, Washington Senators (I),
Boston Red Sox; said to have played all
4 infield postions; won a batting
championship in the 1950s.

James Beard, godfather of delicious recipes.

James Fenimore Cooper
Wrote The Last of the Mohicans
Grew up in the frontier village of Cooperstown, NY, founded by his then wealthy father, and where he and his brothers "roamed freely in the wilderness" and "became acquainted with the Indians of central New York State.*"

*from "The Mohican Press" http://www.mohicanpress.com/mo08002.html

Gary Cooper,

late American actor, western movies, notably, High Noon

Gary Trudeau
aka G. P. Trudeau
cartoonist; author of The Doonesbury Chronicles, Thatʻs DOCTOR Sinatra,
you little Bimbo!" and many other comic strip collections

Gary Grant, late American actor

Gen Ulysses S Grant,

18th USA President, general, Union armies during American Civil Wars

Ulysses S. Grant
Union Army officer; commanded the Army of the Potomac in the Civil War. He declined to attend the play
Our American Cousin as a guest of the Lincolns in 04/65; some historians believe he also was an assassination target. During 1869--1877, he was 18th president of the U. S.; as the first president to seek a third term, he was stopped by a "Stop Grant" coalition of
Republicans.
Friend of Mark Twain who had once served in a Confederate militia.

Ulysses,

a fictional,classical character of The Odyssey by Homer

"Ulysses": classical character in a 20th c. (1904) setting, represented by James Joyceʻs Jewish-Irish character "Leopold Bloom"* in the novel Ulysses

*original name: "Leopold Virag"

Ulysses Dove
late NYC choreographer

asked by Alvin Ailey to join his company; became Ailey's principle dancer
later was a dance director and freelance choreographer

Rita Dove
Ohio-born poet; has been U. S. Poet Laureate and
Poet Laureate of Virginia.

Rita Hayworth, late American actress/dancer

Ray Hayworth (1904-2002)
old time catcher, Detroit TIgers. RH was hired by playing manager Ty Cobb
in 1926 and retired from active baseball in the summer of 1945. Dying at age 98, he was at that time the oldest living former major leaguer.

Rita Rio, earliest of a handful of stage names used by actress, singer and dancer, Eunice Westmoreland 1914-1989

Rita Repulsa. Fictional evil sorceress, Power Rangers. (1992-1998)

Rita Coolidge, country & western singer, American

John Calvin Coolidge, 30th U.S. President

Grace Coolidge
U. S. First Lady of the
1920s. She replaced Florence Harding,
and was replaced by Lou Hoover

Grace Kelly,

late Princess of Monaco, former American actress,beautiful & stunning

Leonard Patrick "Red" Kelly -

NHL player (retired)

Patrick Stewart, American actor of Star Trek franchise movies

Patrick Roy
Star NHL and Olympic goalie

Roy Oliver Disney, (1893-1971)

American businessman,partner,co-founder,younger brother of Walt Disney,and

Walt Disney Productions, franchise - movies,merchandise

Oliver Hardy*
Georgia-born U.S. comedian, 1892-1957

Did short subjects and full-length comedy films beginning in the silent era and on into the talkies; teamed with British low-keyed comic Stan Laurel; the pair rivaled The Marx Brothers as the outstanding comedians of the 1930s--40s.

*original name Norvell Hardy; aka "Babe" Hardy, Oliver N. Hardy. For no reason I can deduce, clicking on this name leads to an edition of Treasure Island (?!)

Stan Laurel, British actor,thin,( 1890-1965) &

Laurel Hardy, American,heavyset actor ,(1892-1917) teamed as Laurel & Hardy in vintage

b/w Hollywood slapstick comedies which were popular during the heydays of 1920s - 1940s

period.

Play on Laurel Hardy

"Frank Hardy"
with his brother "Joe Hardy", hero
of Franklin W. Dixonʻs ʻThe Hardy Boys" Series.

Françoise Hardy, French singer and actress.

Was given a guitar for passing her baccalauréat, which started her career.

Francoise Sagan. 1935-2004

French novelist,screenwriter,playwright

Carl Sagan, astronomer, cosmologist, science writer and more; author and TV presenter of Cosmos among others.

Carl Sandburg -

poet.

Carl Biccard Jeppe, psychiatrist and husband of the noted botanical artist Barbara Jeppe

Carl Lewis ,former American Olympic track & field champion

John Kelly "Buddy" Lewis
old time baseball player, Washington Senators (I),
3b, o.f. 1936 -- 1949

Ned Kelly, The Man in the Iron Mask

Kelly Clarkson,

American singer,songwriter,occasional actress

Jeremy Clarkson, British TV presenter (Top Gear) and writer.

Jeremy John Irons, British actor (1948-)

Frederick Timpson I'Ons (pronounced the same as /Irons/ above), 19th century South African painter, active in Eastern Cape at the time of the later Border Wars.

Friedrich Wilhelm / Frederick William, the "Great" Elector of Brandenburg,
17th c. German chief of state

Friedrich von Breitenbach, late tree expert of Pretoria

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche, 1844-1900,

German philogist,philosopher,composer,cultural critic,poet

Frederick Miles, or rather, Freddie Miles
character in the film, "The Talented Mr. Ripley"
played by Philip Seymour Hoffman

Miles Davis,late American trumpeter

Christopher Lyn "Chris" Davis

baseball player, Texas rangers, Baltimore Orioles; currently the DH of the Orioles. In 2012 he became
the first position player to be the winning PITCHER in a major league game since
Rocky Colavito in the 1960s, beating the Red Sox
after both teams had run out of pitchers. (The losing pitcher, Darrell McDonald, was also a position player.)

Jefferson Finis Davis
1808-1889
Leader of the Confederacy.
One of many West Point graduates who took opposing sides during the American Civil War.

Clive Davis,

(1932-) American record producer, executive

Clive Owen
British actor
1964 -

Michael James Owen,

1979-. British professional footballer,ex-Liverpool. English League

Richard Owen, pioneer palaeontologist

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen -

English WWI poet

Owen Wilson, 1968-

American actor,screenwriter

Meredith Wilson
1902 -- 1984
writer, musician; author of
The Music Man (novel) and
The Music Man (musical)

Brian Wilson
1942 -
genius musical composer for The Beach boys
responsible for 20+ Top 40 hits and for "Pet Sounds"
continues a solo career today

Harold Wilson,late Prime Minister of UK

James Howard Meredith -

first African-American enrolled in the Univ. of Mississippi, in 1862

Valid entry starts from

Harold Wilson

Harold M. Sherman
fl. 1912--1935

wrote esoterica, and juvenile sports thrillers.

Allan Sherman
1924-1973
song parodist whose biggest hit was "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" (sung version of boy's letter home from summer camp)
Also comedy writer and TV producer

Sherman Adams (R, NH)
New Hampshire politician; governor, presidential adviser
to Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1950s

Richard Adams,1920-

British novelist, famous for his novel,Watership Down

Douglas Adams -- the answer is 42, of course!

John Quincy Adams (D, MA, later W, MA)
Massachusetts politician,
b. 1767; He was James Monroeʻs Secretary of State. Some historians have said
the "Monroe Doctrine" should really be named the "Adams Doctrine"
after JQA who worked it out.
With the support of Henry Clay W, KY he was elected 7th president of
the U. S. in 1824, in an election decided by the House of Representatives.
He left the presidency in 1829 and returned to
the House of Representatives. He died on the floor of the House,
his last speech being an anti-slavery plea.

Capt. John Montrésor
1736-99
"British officer who recorded firsthand the colonial disturbance occasioned by the Stamp Act."

A few diary entries appear in New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009 ed. by Teresa Carpenter.

Richard B. Carpenter
Fine Arts scholar; fl. 1950s--1990s

> 211 Isn't there supposed to be a name carried over?

210>211>212
". . .a name carried over"

I carried over "Carpenter" from 210, where it appears in
blue, even thoughit is not part of the main name that was posted; (209>210 went: John... > John .... I thought we were allowed to play on any identical name that appears in the previous, even if it is not the main name of the post.

> 213 Oh, that's right. I did include Teresa Carpenter in my entry, didn't I. Well, to quote Emily Latella, "Never Mind."

Sounds fine to me.

Poor Richard a.k.a. Richard Saunders
Best-selling almanac writer from 1732 to 1738 in the American colonies.
Up to 10,000 copies printed per year
Had Benjamin Franklin as his amanuensis

Richard Widmark, (1914-2008)

late American stage,film,television actor

Richard III
King of England;
Lancastrian historians (followed by Shakespeare) say that he murdered his way to the throne in the late 15th century. He was deposed in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth Field by Henry Tudor aka Richmond who became King Henry VII. Has been played on the screen by Laurence Olivier and Ian McKellen

Richard Steven Valenzuela, or "Ritchie Valens"
1941-59
Rock and roll pioneer
He transformed "La Bamba" from a Mexican folk song into his biggest hit.
Died at 17 (!) in a plane crash--after an eight- month career--which also killed Buddy Holly and "The Big Bopper". That day was later dubbed "The Day the Music Died."

Richard Brautigan
writer

Richard Tiffany Gere, 1949-

American actor, starred in Pretty Woman opposite Julia Roberts

played on Richard Gere only.

Richard Conte
U. S. actor; fl. 1940s--50s

Richard Feynman
"physicist, Nobel Laureate, professor, musician, raconteur, and an all-around curious character"

Little Richard,stage name

late Rock & Roll American songerwriter,musician,singer

Chicken Little, famous for issuing warnings

Little Bo-Peep, famous for being a failed young shepherd girl

Although her charming shame dates from the 19th century, Bo-Peep's name appears to have derived from the baby amusement, "peek-a-boo", as cited in King Lear (I.iv), and, also, to have traditionally been used to rhyme with the word "sheep," as in a ballad from the time:

"Halfe England ys nowght now but shepe,
In everye corner thay playe boe-pepe;"*

* Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes

Jean Little
childrenʻs and YA writer; author of Here I am!,
Little by Little and many others

Jean-Marc Ayrault,

the current Prime Minister of France,elected 2012

Jean-Pierre Rampal
1922 - 2000
late French flautist

Pierre Poivre, who introduced clove and nutmeg trees to Mauritius, but couldn't make them pay. Nevertheless, this was the first time they'd been grown outside their native Spice Islands.

Pierre Cardin,

an Italian-born French fashion designer

Lucky Pierre (who knows about him?)

I think it is "a nickname" relating to a male or female homosexual.

Next entry:

Charles "Lucky" Luciano, 1897-1962

Italian-born,American mobster,a father of modern organised crime syndicate, Mafia

Charles Aznavour
French singer and songwriter (although Brussels-born)
1924 - present

Charles Robert Darwin,

late British geologist,explorer

Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of the above, early evolutionist. Read more about this fascinating family in Period Piece by Gwen Raverat.

Peter Erasmus (1833--1931)

author of Buffalo Days and Nights in the Western Canadian Classics Series

Peter Stuyvesant
1612 - 1672
Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam (before it became New York City)
Forceful man; Had wooden leg

Peter Falk
Croatian-American actor, TV and movies; his most famous role was "Colombo" (TV series)

> 236 rolandperkins

#I was revising my entry when you submitted yours in response to mine; so yours is the second and later #236#

(Iʻm mixed up because my
Peter Falk is timed as earlier than your Peter Stuyvesant,
but yours is before it on my screen. I wouldnʻt dare try to give them numbers at this point.)
Anyway, assuming mine is "second and later" Peter Stuyvesant (currentlly numbered 236) is the one
for the next poster to play on.

No, I didn't explain myself clearly. Probably you and I both played on the same earlier entry with the name ""Peter," only it took a few minutes longer for your entry to reach the LT computer on the mainland. My original entry was #236, but it showed an earlier time than it now shows because I decided to edit mine, which didn't change the order, #236, just the time that my editing was completed.

So yours arrived in the meantime, but I thought you were playing off MY entry, although I now think it was a "simultaneous entry."

So since yours is listed later than mine, and since both contain the name Peter, why don't we just go with your entry as the later one.

(Clearly this could be argued at length--but no need to, I don't think.

". . .this could be argued at length. . ."
Not by me, because Iʻm not even sure which "side" Iʻm on!
"no need to . . ."
I agree.

Pieter Mauritz Retief, Voortrekker leader

Peter Pan -

a fictional animated character

Peter the Great, Peter I or Pyotr Alexeyevich (Russian: Пётр Алексе́евич, Пётр I, Pyotr I, or Пётр Вели́кий, Pyotr Velikiy), Tsar of Russia 1682--1725, moderniser of his country.

ETA: #243. He was a creation (nauseating IMHO, maybe because my mother insisted on ramming him down my neck long after his sell-by date) of J.M. Barrie long before he was disneyfied.

> hfglen - What a history Retief had!

Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater
1825 -
Nursery rhyme husband, trying hard to "keep" his wife.
However, written sources show him to have originated as an ogre before gentrification, as was so common the case:

From the Scots (language):

Peter, my neeper, (neighbor)
Had a wife,
And he couidna' keep her,
He pat her i' the wa', (put her in the wall)
And lat a' the mice eat her. (let all)

Previous entry: Peter (as in a limerick)

Peter Paul Cetera, (1944-),

American singer, ex-member of percussion/singing group, Chicago

Rand Paul (R KY)
elected to replace Jim Bunning (R, KY) in the U. S. Senate, 2012

Ann Rand, late American authoress,

The Fountainhead,well known for this work

Anne McCaffrey, of Pern fame

Anne Boleyn, Queen of England
1501-1536, via beheading
2nd wife of Henry VIII
about whom the English music hall song, "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm," was written

Henry VII, aka Henry Tudor
replaced Richard III in 1485. He was one of the last British monarchs to have any appreciable English ancestry. Francis Bacon wrote a short biography of him;
father-in-law of (250), but I believe they never met; father of Henry VIII, grandfather
of Elizabeth I

Elizabeth Taylor. late American actress

Mary Elizabeth Barber née Bowker; pioneer botanist, ornithologist and entomologist in the Eastern Cape.

Mary Webb
British novelist; author of The House in Dormer Forest and Precious Bane

crown princess Mary of Denmark, born Mary Elizabeth Donaldson

Mary Beaton, Mary Seaton, Mary Carmichael and {Mary Hamilton} -- the Four Marys of Scottish ballad.

> 256 What a lovely, haunting old ballad that I hadn't encountered until now. And in Scots (language) no less, which I love--but have to use a dictionary to look up the words. Thanks!

Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton
1904-80
Famed English photographer, designer, socialite, writer

Designed the costumes for Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady (1956), and to the film musicals, Gigi (1958) and My Fair Lady (1964).

>257 Diane-bpcb: My pleasure!

Cecil John Rhodes, statesman, imperialist, after whom Rhodesia was named

Lord David Cecil
British biographer; has written bios of Cowper, Austen, Melbourne, Scott et al.

David Soul, American singer,actor

David, King of Judah
in the Old Testament; he succeeded Saul and was succeeded by Solomon (son of David and Bathsheba).

David Bowie,

British musician,singer,songwriter,actor,arranger

David (Davy) Crockett
one of the best known American folk heroes, known as "King of the Wild Frontier"
frontiersman, politician, soldier
served in U.S. House of Representatives as a Tennessean.
died at the Battle of the Alamo at 49

Jacques-Louis David
French painter; neo-classical, late 18th--19th c.

Louis Pasteur, chemist and microbiologist

Louis Philippe dʻOrleans aka "The Citizen King"; French liberal politician,
a 19th c. King of France,
a cousin of the reigning branch of the Bourbon royal family; he supplanted the reigning Bourbons in 1830.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, (1961-),American TV actress,Seinfield

Alfred Dreyfus, famously framed by French anti-Semites in 1894.

Eric Alfred Havelock*
British-born, Canadian-American professor of Classics; Toronto U., Harvard, Yale; author of
Preface to Plato, the Liberal Temperament in Greek Politics, The Crucifixion of Intellectual Man (= tr. of
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus and many others.

*Knew author.

Eric Roberts

American actor, brother of Julia Roberts,actress of Pretty Woman,the movie