Famous/Infamous Personalities, People & Fictional Characters

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Tessa Virtue, 2010 Olympic gold medalist , Canadian ice skater, (1987-)

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Tessa Virtue, 2010 Olympic gold medalist , Canadian ice skater, (1987-)

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Add a bit of biological details and achievements/infamous deeds.

Tessa Paul
author of the Animal Trackers series, and many others

Paul Williams, American singer,song composer

Paul* of Tarsus, Saint
Jewish religious activist; Pharisee; later Christian evangelist. 20th century writer Aldous Huxley called him "the man who invented Christianity", but I think the Christian churches, much as they admire him, donʻt accept
that designation.

*original name: Saul

Paul Daniels, born Newton Edward Daniels, illusionist.

"You'll like it ... not a lot, but you'll like it

Paul Volcker,

an American economist, (1927-)

John D. Voelker
U. S. novelist; crime and trials writer, esp. with a Michigan setting; also wrote non-fiction, esp. on fishing.
Pen name in his fiction: Robert Traver

Another John Voelcker, secretary and later chairman of the trust fund (now named after him) that publishes the classic Roberts' Birds of South Africa and related books.

John Legend, (1978-)

Afro-American singer,songwriter,actor

John Milton
British 17th century Puritan
poet, political writer. Author of Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes etc.

Milton Friedman, Nobel-prizewinning economist

Richard Milton Ludwig#
Pennsylvania-born literary historian, bibliographer, World War II veteran; author of Annals of American Literature etc.

#Knew author.

King Ludwig II of Bavaria (Ludwig Otto Friedrich Wilhelm), castle-builder and patron of Wagner.

Ludwig van Beethoven,

German classical composer. I loved most of his compositions especially symphonies

Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Philosopher

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language

And according to the members of the Philosophy Department at the University of Wallamalloo, he was a beery swine. :p

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein

Joseph Stalin - (1878-1953)

late Russian dictator

/change of language/

Josip Broz Tito (d. 1980), Yugoslavian dictator

change of language:
Josip/Joseph>Yusuf
/
Yusuf, a medieval Moroccan king; in Spanish legend, he intervenes in one of the Cidʻs wars and is defeated and killed in battle by El Cid in El Poema de Mio Cid.

Joseph Conrad, (1857-1924)

British writer

Joseph Hergesheimer
(1880--1954)
U. S. novelist, short story writer; almost forgotten today, he was very popular 80-90 years ago. Taken pretty seriously, too, I notice from Touchstonesʻs sidebar:
the not-so-forgotten James Branch Cabell wrote an"...Essay in interpretation"
on him.

Joseph Campbell

writer and lecturer on mythology and comparative religion

Dan Campbell , (1976- )

former American football player, now coach for Maimi Dolphins

Glenn Campbell, a lineman for the county.

Donald Malcolm Campbell (1921 – 1967), British land and water speed record breaker.

Malcolm McDowell, (1943-)

British actor

Janet Malcolm
wide-ranging writer; author on Psychiatry, Literature, etc.

Ian Malcolm, Chaos theorist.

Malcolm Gladwell, (1963-)

Canadian author

"Malcolm" - - character name in British literature; used by
C. S. Lewis in religious non-fiction, and by George MacDonald in fiction.

Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge, late British journalist,( 1903-1990 )

Debbie Thomas
U. S. figure skater in international tournaments.

Debbie Reynolds , (1932-)

American actress,singer

Joshua Reynolds
English 18th century painter, essayist

Joshua David Bell , (1967-)

American violonist,conductor

Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone

Graham Sutherland, English artist.

Graham Nash,

American singer, ex-member of the group, Crosby, Nash, Stills and Young

Play on: Graham Nash

Paul Nash, British surrealist painter and war artist

Charles Williams Nash, car maker (Nash, Metropolitan, Rambler and others) -- some of us are old enough to remember these!

John Nash, British painter, wood-engraver and illustrator.

Tennessee Williams,

late American playwright

Should be playing on # 41

John Wayne, late American actor

John Williams, classical guitarist

Serena Williams,

American professional tennis player

William Williams, better known as Double Bill and Bbiillll. Fictional character first appearing in Spider Robinson's Callahan's Key.

Edited to correct title

Venus Williams, American professional tennis player

a sister of Serena Williams, also a tennis player

Saartjie (or Sarah) Baartman , the Hottentot Venus

Venus aka Aphrodite
Greek goddess of love; in Vergilʻs Aeneid she is the mother of Aeneas. This, and
most of the Roman references to the
goddess called "Venus" in Latin are from Greek stories about Aphrodite.

Venus Smith, an early associate of John Steed in The Avengers (TV series)

Bessie Smith , late American singer

Snuffy Smith, comic strip character

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Google_and_Snuffy_Smith

//smith//

Michael W Smith (1957-)

American christian musician,singer

Horace Smith

gunsmith, inventor

1/2 of Smith and Wesson

Horatio Caine ,

a fictional detective from the American TV series, C S I Miami

Note: Horatio is one of the many variations of Horace

Shifted to Group: Playing games and puzzles

See

http://www.librarything.com/topic/172907

Closed

Why?

Yeah, why would we want to move a GD topic to another group??

And who gets the option to just 'close' a thread?

>59 jbarret: >60 rastaphrog: >61 jbarret: Of course we do have the option to start our own GD names game, regardless of what razzamajazz does. Maybe we should start afresh, possibly without him.

From #56

Horatio Walpole, (also known as Horace), English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician.

Horace Greeley

newspaper editor, reformer, abolitionist, founded the New York Tribune, politician, author, etc.

Horace*
Roman poet, early Augustan age (d. 8 B.C.); author of "Odes", "Epodes", "Epistles" and "Satires"
Roman name: Quintus Horatius Flaccus

*Horace"; also the name of a French drama by Pierre Corneille; the "Horace" referred to is not the poet, but a legendary Roman hero.

Horatio Alger, Jr.

author of many juvenile novels that are really all the same

Horatio Hale
U.S. historian, proto-anthropologist; expert on the Iroquois and the real* Hiawatha.

*The real Hiawatha was an Iroquois, whereas
the Longfellowian "Hiawatha", loosely based on him, was an Ojibway.

Nathan Hale

hero of the American Revolution; executed for spying when discovered with intelligence inside enemy lines

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

"Abner Hale"
an anti-hero in James Michenerʻs Hawaii;
he may be loosely based on real life missionary Hiram Bingham

Li'l Abner Yokum

comic strip star

Abner Doubleday, United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War

Richard B. Doubleday
author on Books about Books

Richard Rodgers, American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals.

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Closed

Playing on 73

// Richard //

Richard II# aka "Richard of Bordeaux"*
Anglo-Norman monarch who was deposed in a Peasant Revolution, 14th c.

# author William Shakespeareʻs name for him;
*author Josephine Teyʻs name for him

Richard Cory
A respected gentleman who can no longer cope

title and subject of:
- a poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson
- a song by Simon & Garfunkel

Sir George Edward Cory, founder of the Cory Library at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

// Rhodes //

Claude Emmanuel Pastoret
French 18th-19th century Enlightenment
writer; expert on non-Christian, non-Buddhist
religions and philosophies, and, oddly
on the island of Rhodes

The forename, Christian's name and middle names or any other names are supposed to be used in the game, and not any other proper names.

Your entry is really not valid.

Sir George Edward Cory >>>

Maria Corazon Sumulong " Cory " Cojuangco Aquino better known as

Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, 1933-2009 ,nicknamed Cory Aquino

11th President of the Phililippines, first woman president

// "Cory" //

Donald Webster Cory
pen name of Edward Sagarin mid 20th c. writer, social psychologist

//donald//

Donald Rumsfeld,

former US Defence Secretary under The Bush Administration.

Donald C. Mullin
U. S. (?) English Literature scholar; author of
The Development of the Playhouse. . . Theatre Architecture

Donald Sutherland , a veteran American actor,
father of actor, Keifer Sutherland

David Herbert Donald
U.S. historian; author of
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War; and editor of Why the North Won the Civil War

Herbert Anderson,

a fictional character of an animated series, Family Guy

Frank Herbert
author of The Dosadi Experiment, Whipping Star, the Dune series, and many others.

Frankie Avalon , 1940- , American singer, actor

"Frankie" heroine of the folk-song "Frankie and Johnny"*

*Collectors: Carl Sandburg et al.

Frankie Valli,

a member of the singing group, The Four Seasons

Mohammed Valli Moosa, sometime South African Minister of Tourism

Mohammed Ali ,1942- real name,Cassius Marcellus Clay,American

former World Champion heavyweight boxer

Caius Cassius Longinus
Roman ultra-conservative politician; 1st c. B. C.; one of 20 or so who assassinated Julius Caesar; character in Shakespeareʻs Julius Caesar; in the classic 1953 film version he was played by John Gielgud

Cassius Dio , a Roman senator of Greek,author

(164-235 )

>>>

Johnny Dio
convicted U. S. crime figure, 1950s--1970s. Said to be loosely modeled on him
is the character "Johnny Friendly", played by Lee J.Cobb in the classic film
On the Waterfront

original name: Giovanni Dioguardi Lucchese;

aka John Dioguardi

Johnny Depp , American actor

Johnny Five ... robot who wants "MORE INPUT!" in the movie "Short Circuit"

Johnny Winter (Feb 23, 1944 - July 16, 2014)
A Master blues guitarist
multi-instrumentalist, singer, producer
recently died while on tour
RIP, Johnny

John Winter or Wynter, captain of the Elizabeth, companion to Sir Francis Drake's Golden Hind in the Pacific, first recorded user of Winter's Bark (Drimys winteri) to treat scurvy.

Carl Winter
(1906 (?)--1991)
editor, political leader; as Michigan state chairman of
the Communist
Party U. S. A., he was imprisoned early
in the Cold War era.

Carl Sandburg, American poet

Carl Kasell
former newscaster on National Public Radio

Carl Erskine
star NL pitcher, 1940s--50s;
author of "Carl Erskines Tales from the Dodgers Dugout".

Carl Perkins,(1932-1998),

late American country guitarist,singer,songwriter

ʻUmi Perkins*
Hawaiʻi Political Science scholar; author of Moolelo: a Hawaiian History

*(son of Leialoha A. Perkins (screen name: Leialoha)
and Roland F. Perkins; nephew of Peter Apo).

Anthony Perkins , (1932-1992),

late American actor and singer

John Anthony
Radio personality adviser, 1930s--40s; proto-reality show
host on radio.

Stage name: "Mister Anthony"

John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, hero of a song!
"...his name is my name too: whenever we go out the people they all shout John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, da da da dada!!"

Jacob Perkins
(ca. 1818 -- ca. 1863)
father of Three Years a Soldier author George Perkins; great-great grandfather of LT member
rolandperkins.

//Jacob//

Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, (1785-1863), famous children's fairy tales story writer, one of the two brothers, Brother Grimm

Jacob sometimes spelt as Jakob, variant - German?,

Carl Perkins (D, KY)*
Appalachian congressman
(not to be confused with #106;
they were both great in their own way.)

*no relation.

Carl Lewis, former track and field American champion

Sinclair Lewis
Nobel Prize winning U. S. novelist

Meriwether Lewis, leader of a major exploring expedition, together with William Clark, across the Louisiana Purchase to the Pacific and back.

Wendell Lewis Willkie
Indiana business exec, WW I veteran; former Democrat who became the GOP candidate for president in 1940; losing to Franklin D. Roosevelt, he later
became a valued WW II ally of FDR; already rejected by the Republicans,
as a 1944 candidate, Willkie died in 1944.
Author of One World

W. Howe Wilkie, founder of Wilkie's (later Boswell-Wilkie) Circus: part of growing up if you did so when and where I did!

// Howe //

Henry F. Howe
New England non-fiction writer;
author of Salt Rivers of the Massachuseets
Shore

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Henry de Vere Stacpoole (1863-1951) author of The Blue Lagoon

Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein, 17th-century VIP in the VOC government of the Dutch East Indies; author of Hortus Malabaricus, an important pre-Linnean account of the plants of southern India and Indonesia, commemorated in the sea-bean Entada rheedii.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Dutch-American historian, 1st half of 20th c.

Hendrik Swllengrebel, only Dutch governor of the Cape to have been born in the Colony. Together with his wife, Helena Wilhelmina ten Damme, commemorated in the name of the pretty town of Swellendam.

(Roland, you will note that I managed with this couple to play on both given names of your Personality :) )

Hendrik Meurkens,

German jazz harmonica player,
recording artist,composer,still living

Hendrik Ruitenbeek
author on psychoanalysis; translator of Freud.

Hendrik Purienne, (1977-) South African photographer,filmmaker

Changing 130 to something possibly easier to play on:
/
Hendrik Hart
author on conservative religion and philosophy

Bret Hart retired Canadian wrestler

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

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Crane

Stephen Crane author of Red Badge of Courage

Leslie Stephen
British essayist, litterateur; father
of famed novelist VIrginia Woolf

Sorry, I can't keep my games straight.

Leslie Howard of Gone with the Wind fame.

Howard Gotlieb*
Special Collections Librarian
1960s--90s, Boston University

*Knew author

Howard the Duck
Comic book character and cult movie icon.

Donald Duck

Atley Donald
old time New York Yankees pitcher;
he was in the starting rotation of a
World Champion or three.

The Donald -- Donald Trump

"Mac Donald of the Isles"

English name of a
15th c. Scottish warlord; I heard
a folksinger, in the 1970s, compare
Macʻs pro-war rationale to that
of the U. S.
Government
in the Vietnam War.

Old MacDonald

Old MacDonald had a Farm
- - book title used by at
least 30 authors

Gary Oldman

Gary Moore
comic, m.c.; longtime radio/TV
partner of Jimmy Durante.
1940s--50s.

Michael Moore

John Crichton, FarScape character played by Ben Browder

Earl Browder 1891--1973
head of U. S. Communist Party,
1930s--40s

James Earl Jones

Earl Scruggs

musician, bluegrass master of Scruggs Style banjo picking

Earl Johnson

Boston Red Sox pitcher, 1940s;
veteran of the World War II Battle
of the Bulge.

Robert Johnson blues man

Robert Mugabe

jawellnofine

Henry M. Robert III
original author of the famous
"Robertʻs Rules of Order"

John Henry
a steel drivin' man or
a phenomenal TB race horse
83 Starts, 39 Wins, 15 Places, 9 Shows
Horse Of The Year, 1981 & 1984.
Champion Turf Horse, 1981, 1983, 1984.
Champion Older Horse, 1981.
Hall Of Fame inductee, 1990.

Henry Clay old time politician

Lucius De Bignon Clay, 1879--1978
U. S. general; writer; author of
Decision in Germany, "USAF Operations
in Laos. . ."

Lucius Malfoy, or have I been (re-)reading too much Harry Potter lately?

Lucius Junius Brutus

And the other one I'd been thinking of,

Lucius Beebe, railway historian, who wrote a column in Gourmet magazine as well.

Lucius Sergius* Catilina
Roman conservative rebel, 1st c. B.C.;
his movement was crushed by consul Cicero;
he is the hero of an early Ibsen drama; also the
(anti?)-hero of a Ben Jonson drama

*o k to play on variations of these names
in not-Latin, non-English languages,
e.g. Luke, Sergio, Sergei, etc.

<>>>>

Pope Sergius III

Alexander Pope
British 18th c. poet

Alexander the Great

Alexander Constantin Watzke, Jr., believed by some to be the Alexander refered to in the Irving Berlin song "Alexanders Ragtime Band"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%27s_Ragtime_Band

Mary Adelaide Alexander Perkins*
unpublished (?) early 20th c. poet

*rolandperkins ʻs paternal grandmother

Mary Callahan Finn -- fictional character from Spider Robinsons Callahan's Saloon books.

// Mary //

Alone of all her Sex: the Myth and Cult
of the Virgin Mary
by Marina Warner

Mary Stuart

Charles Stuart Parnell
Irish politician; lived 1846--1891;
he struggled for Irish Home Rule,
and became known as the
"Uncrowned King of Ireland"

Charlie Brown

Gates Brown
old time Detroit Tigers
player; for some years he
was famed as a pinch hitter.

James Brown

John Brown

U.S. anti-slavery activist,
executed in 1859.

John Doe

Samuel Doe
Liberian Army sergeant who
became a dictator

Samuel Johnson

Raymond J. Johnson, Jr. a character created by comedian Bill Saluga, who would do a bit that could be annoying or funny depending on your mood or how many times you've heard it recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoYsfbq3vMc

Spurgeon "Spud" Chandler
New York Yankees pitcher of
the 1930s--40s who long held
the record for best W-L
percentage in a single season

Chandler Bing character from Friends

Harry "Bing" Crosby
singer, actor, 1930s--60s

David Crosby
musician

David Lloyd George
Welsh statesman; the UKʻs
last Liberal Party prime minister;
author of War Memoirs

Lowell George
musician, best known for Little Feat

Robert Lowell* (1917-1977)
U. S. poet
F
*Met author. full name: Robert Traill Spence Lowell

Lee Kuan Yiew (spelling?)
Late of Singapore

Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee
U. S. Revolutionary War general;
father of 191.

Henry Gibson laugh in comedian

Virginia Gibson

film actress, 1940s--50s

Virginia Madden

John Madden
famed football coach, NFL;

also the name of a
mystery series by
Rennie Airth

John "Johnny V" Velazquez
jockey

Johnny Berardino

ML infielder, 1940s; later
TV actor

John "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne

General Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga is considered the turning point of the American Revolution.

There is. O re-reading too much Harry Potter! Except for the desperate craving for more after closing Deathly Hallows.😢

Newbie mistake. Didn't realize reply would post at the end of thread, and delete not working. As per game rules:

John Carter of Mars Fictional character book and movie

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter
38th President of the U. S.

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
boxer
wrongly convicted of murder, eventually released

Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
historian; author of "Virginia: a
bicentennial History"

Louis Botha, first prime minister of the Union of South Africa

Louis Prima December 7, 1910 – August 24, 1978 was an American singer, actor, songwriter, and trumpeter. His "best known" song is probably his rendition of "I wanna be like you" from the animated version of "The Jungle Book".

Diane di Prima
author

<>>>>

Donna, Donna, Oh Prima Donna

author Donna Ball; aka Donna Boyd,
Donna Carlisle, and Rebeckah Flanders

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Changing #212 to
Joan Sutherland, written up in
The Autobiography of Joan Sutherland: a
Prima Donnaʻs Progress
by Joan Sutherland (1926--2010)

Joan of Arc
lady warrior

"Joan of Art"
- - Joan Mondale,
art collector and "2nd Lady"
of the U.S. 1976--1980

Joan Baez
folksinger

Joan Rivers, comedienne

"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." — Joan Rivers

Mickey Rivers
New York Yankees outfielder,
1970s and 80s

Mickey Dolenz
Singer/Actor, The Monkees

Mickey Mouse
U.S. and international animated
comedy character, 1920s--present

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Danger Mouse
UK animated comedy character, 1980s and 2015.

Mighty Mouse comic strip character

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Mouse from the Easy Rawlins mysteries. Well played by Don Cheadle in the film "Devil in a Blue Dress"

The Devil in Massachusetts
-- classic retelling of the Salem witchcraft
cases, by Marion Starkey

Marion Mitchell Morrison, better known as John Wayne

Francis Marion, "the Swamp Fox"
Patriot Carolinian
hero in the American Revolution

Frances Earnshaw, from the novel Wuthering Heights

Frances Perkins*
FDRʻs Sec. of Labor, 1930s, and
the first woman to be a presidential cabinet
member.

*said to be a distant cousin of
rolandperkinsʻs father Wallace W.
Perkins

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Marlin Perkins

zoologist; best known for for the tv show Wild Kingdom

Maxwell Perkins
famous editor

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Maxwell Smart, famous secret agent.

Charley Maxwell
old time ML ball player: Detroit Tigers

Charley Chaplin - Silent Film Actor, Icon :)

Ralph Chaplin, American writer and labor activist

"Ralph Cramden" famous comic TV role
of Jackie Gleason

I didn't want to go down the Simpsons path but....
Ralph Wiggins

Mary Kawena Wiggin Pukui
Hawaiian scholar, lexicographer

Mary Fitzgerald, aka "Pickhandle Mary", a colourful character in the early history of Johannesburg.

Mary Stuart, more commonly known as Mary Queen of Scotts, and whose death was dramatized in the radio programme in this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmMD4ij8GHk

Mary Antin novelist

< > > >

David Antin, poet

"The Radical Gypsy David"*
(anti?)-hero of one version
of a folk ballad that goes under many
titles.

*Pete Seeger said that he learned this
song from a garage mechanic in New
York State.

Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque artiste.

Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee
- - U.S. Patriot officer in Revolutionary
War; father of Robert E. Lee

Sir Harry Smith, popular governor of the Cape Colony mid-19th century. He is commemorated in the towns of Harrismith and (indirectly) Aliwal North; his wife in Ladismith (Western Cape), Ladysmith (Kwazulu-Natal) and a ridge called Juanasberg.

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

*Truman insisted that he was the
32nd, not, as in the conventional
count, the 33rd president. (The conventional
count counts Grover Cleveland as
TWO presidents. I agree with Truman.)

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Harry Harrison, author of numerous SF stories, including the Stainless Steel Rat series.

<>>>>

donʻt know why 257 (Harry Hopkins) was
hard to play on, but changing it:

Benjamin Harrison 23rd President of the U. S.
- - the only grandson of a president
(Willian Henry Harrison) to become president

Benjamin Button, fictional retro-ageist

Benjamin Franklin
- - U. S. statesman, scientist

Franklin Benjamin Pierce, 14th president

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changing 263, and playing on 262:

Patricia Pierce, author

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(Changing 262, 265, though Im not sure if this will be any easier to play on!):

Stan Benjamin old time baseball player,Phiadelphia Phillies

Changing 267; playing on 262:

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. Dem. politician, (D, NY), 1950s-60s

FDR Jr. was apparently too hard to play on. Changing it to (from 262) Benjamin Harrison
/

23rd President of the
U.S. He was replaced in 1892 by the Democrat that he had defeated in 1888, Grover Cleveland, the only U.S. president who not only had more than one term, but also became, by the conventional count, "more than one president!" Hence Donald Trump is "the 45th president",
though only 43 presidents have been inaugurated before him!

Harrison Barnes, hoopster

William Henry Harrison
Only U.S. president a GRANDson of whom became president; (see 269); U.S. general, War of 1812;
9th president of the U.S. (but he had only a one month presidency.)

William H. Harvey, professor of botany at Trinity College Dublin in the 1860s. Co-wrote the first three volumes of Flora capensis with Otto Wilhelm Sonder, and wrote books on the seaweeds of the southern oceans, that remained the standard works on the subject for well over a century.

William H. Taft 26th president of the U. S.; imperialist governor; Supreme Court justice; father of mid-20th century
senator and presidential candidate Robert A. Taft

Ron Howard, who played Opie Taylor and is now a well-known movie director.

Changing 275 (though not sure itʻll be easier to play on) to:

Ron Reagan, youngest child of President (1981-1989) Ronald Reagan

L. Ron Hubbard, sf author and founder of scientology.

ETA By the way, he lived in Johannesburg, South Africa for some years. Hidden Johannesburg thells me that the house is architecturally significant, still in the original condition and visitable by the public (by appointment I think).

Doesnʻt seem any easier to play on, but Iʻm changing 277 to":

Elbert Hubbard
author of Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, etc.

Elbert Howard, one of the founders of the Black Panthers.

(Though I donʻt know why "Tom Howard" (282) was too hard to play on, Iʻm changing it to 283:

Black Panther Movement (Leftist, Black Nationalist movement of the 1960s)

Cʻmon, you donʻt have to be my age (87) to
know that Black Panther is a movement as
well as a movie
Well, o k (playing on 281), Iʻll change it:
\
Elbert Hubbardʻs "A Message to Garcia"*
-- patriotic and critical of undecided stragglers article.

*Garcia: Cuban freedom fighter of the 1890s against their former Colonial master, Spain.
(In U. S. Schools, where it became a classic, Garcia was often pronounced "GAR-sha".)

Ressano Garcia, eminently forgettable colonial Portuguese who gave his name to the Mozambique border post opposite Lebombo (Komatipoort), South Africa.

As 286 seems to be too hard to play on, Iʻll change it:

"MAD for Decades: FORGETTABLE Humor from MAD Magazine by the Usual Gang of Idiots"
by MAD Magazine

287 is also over a month: unplayed on?!

Mad King Aerys II Targaryen
from A Game of Thrones by George R. Martin

The Bride of Abydos: a Turkish Tale: "If I do not write to Empty my
Mind, I go mad" by George Gordon Byron

Changing 200, and playing on "Mad" o f289:

Juana La Loca* / Juana the Mad

*controversial Spanish queen

Juana Maria de los Dolores de Leon, who married Sir Henry George Wakelyn Smith after the Battle of Badajoz in the Peninsular Wars. Sir Harry went on to become the most popular Governor of the Cape Colony in the 19th Century. Lady Juana is commemorated in two town names: Ladismith, Western Cape, Ladysmith, Kwazulu-Natal and the mountain peak Juanasberg, Eastern Cape. Her husband is commemorated in the town of Harrismith, Free State.

Fray Luis de Leon,* Spanish religious writer and philosopher.

*In playing on this name, the spelling "LOuis" or "Luis"
may be used.

I hate to change from a great humanist and religionist to
a maverick Communist, but:
changing 293 to
/
Leon Trotsky (d. 1940) the victim of an assassin sent by
his arch-rival Josef Stalin