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Famous
People Who Play(ed) ChessWe thought
it would be interesting to see who a few of our fellow chessplayers are. This is by no means an exhaustive list! If you know of other famous people
who play or played chess, please
write to us with their names so that we can update this list.
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Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem |
Basketball player |
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Abdullah ibn Huseain |
King
of Jordan |
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Adams, Richard |
Writer |
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Agnew, Spiro T. |
39th
US vice-president |
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Akins, Claude |
Actor |
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Albert, Prince |
Husband of Queen Victoria |
| Alda,
Alan |
Actor |
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Alfonso X |
King
of Spain |
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Allen, Woody |
Actor/director |
| Amis,
Martin |
Writer |
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Amory, Cleveland |
Writer, conservationist |
|
Anderson, Clive |
TV
host |
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Anderson, Terry |
Journalist, hostage |
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Andrews, Anthony |
Actor |
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Aquino, Corazon |
Philippine President |
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Arafat, Yasser |
PLO
leader |
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Ardiles, Ossie |
Soccer player |
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Arrington, Lavar |
NFL professional football
player |
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Ascham, Roger |
Writer, educator |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Writer |
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Atahualpa |
Last
Inca ruler of Peru |
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Attlee, Clement |
British Prime Minister |
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Auchinleck, Sir Claude |
British general, World War II hero |
| Ayer,
Alfred |
British philosopher and professor |
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Ayers, Lew |
Actor |
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Bacall, Lauren |
Actress |
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Bacon, Sir Francis |
English philosopher |
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Balfour, Arthur |
British Prime Minister |
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Ballesteros, Seve |
Golf
player |
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Balzac, Honore de |
French novelist |
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Barnett, Dick |
Basketball player |
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Barnham, Phineas. T. |
Circus owner |
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Barrymore, John |
Actor |
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Barrymore, Lionel |
Actor |
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Baryshnikov, Mikhail |
Ballet star |
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Bathory, Stephan |
King
of Poland |
| Baum,
Frank |
Writer |
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Beauharnais, Eugene |
French general & Napoleon's adopted son |
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Becker, Boris |
Tennis player |
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Becket, Thomas |
Archbishop of Canterbury |
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Beckett, Samuel |
Nobel
Prize winner in literature, 1969 |
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Beecham, Thomas |
English conductor |
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Beethoven, Ludwig van |
Composer |
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Begin, Menachem |
Israeli Prime Minister |
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Bellamy, Guy |
Writer |
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Benedictus, David |
Writer |
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Bergman, Ingmar |
Swedish film director |
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Bernhardt, Sarah |
Actress |
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Berthelot |
Charlemagne's nephew |
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Berthier, L. |
French general |
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Blackmore, R.D. |
Writer |
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Blakey, Art |
Jazz
musician |
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Bliss, Sir Arthur |
English master of the Queen's music |
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Blyton, Enid |
Author |
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Boccaccio, Giovanni |
Renaissance writer |
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Bogart, Humphrey |
Actor |
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Boleyn, Anne |
Wife
of Henry VIII and
mother of Queen Elizabeth I |
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Bomans, Godfried |
Dutch author |
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Bonaparte, Napoleon |
French emperor |
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Bondarchuk, Sergei |
Film
director |
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Bonnington, Chris |
British mountain climber |
| Bono |
Singer (U2) |
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Boone, Richard |
Actor |
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Booth, Shirley |
Actress |
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Borges, Jorge |
Argentine writer |
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Borodin, Alex |
Russian composer and chemist |
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Bouton, Jim |
Baseball player & writer |
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Bowie, David |
Musician/singer |
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Boyer, Charles |
French actor |
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Brabazon of Tara, Lord |
British statesman & aviator |
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Brando, Marlon |
Actor |
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Brandt, Willy |
West
German chancellor |
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Braque, Georges |
Artist |
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Brodsky, Adolf |
Violinist |
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Bronowski, Jacob |
Philosopher & writer |
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Brown, Clifford |
Jazz
musician |
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Bruce, Nigel |
Actor |
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Bruno, Frank |
Heavyweight boxer |
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Brzezinski, Zbigniew |
US
national security advisor |
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Buchwald, Art |
Writer |
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Buckle, Henry |
Writer, Historian |
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Bugner, Joe |
Heavyweight boxer |
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Caeser, Sid |
Comedian, actor, TV pioneer |
| Cage,
Nicolas |
Actor |
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Canetti, Elias |
Nobel
Prize winner in literature |
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Canute, King |
1st
king of England |
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Cardano, Girolamo |
Founder of probability theory |
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Carroll, Charles |
Signer of US Declaration of Independence |
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Carroll, Lewis |
Writer |
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Carter, Amy |
Daughter of President Carter |
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Carter, Jimmy |
39th
US President |
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Carter, Rosalyn |
Wife
of President Carter |
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Cartwright, Bill |
Basketball player |
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Caruso, Enrico |
Opera
singer |
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Casals, Pablo |
Cellist |
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Casanova, Giovanni |
Italian playboy |
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Casillas, Graciella |
Women's World Karate Champion |
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Castro, Fidel |
Cuban
president |
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Catherine The Great |
Empress of Russia |
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Cervantes, Miguel de |
Writer |
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Chagall, Marc |
artist |
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Chang, Michael |
Tennis player |
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Chaplin, Charlie |
Actor, comedian |
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Charlemagne |
King
of the Franks |
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Charles Borromeo |
Bishop of Milan |
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Charles I |
King
of England |
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Charles V |
King
of France |
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Charles VII |
King
of France |
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Charles XII |
King
of Sweden |
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Charles, Ray |
Musician |
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Cherkasov, Nikolai |
Soviet actor |
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Chopin, Frederic |
Composer |
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Christie, John |
Mass
murderer of the 1940s |
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Churchill, Randolph |
British statesman & father of Winston Churchill |
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Churchill,Winston |
British Prime Minister |
| Cobb,
Lee J. |
Actor |
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Coburn, Charles |
Actor |
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Conchubair |
King
of Ireland |
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Connery, Sean |
actor |
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Conrad, Joseph |
Writer |
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Cooke, Alistair |
PBS
broadcaster |
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Cornforth, John |
Nobel
Prize winner in chemistry, 1975 |
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Cosby, Bill |
Actor, comedian |
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Crane, Les |
Film,
business |
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Crowley, Aleister |
Writer & mystic |
| Cugat,
Xavier |
Bandleader |
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Culbertson, Ely |
Bridge writer & expert |
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Dabrowski, Jaroslaw |
Polish general |
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Daladier, Edouard |
French premier |
| Dali,
Salvador |
Artist |
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Danson, Ted |
actor |
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Darin, Bobby |
Singer |
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Darnell, Linda |
Actress |
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Darrow, Henry |
Actor |
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Darwin, Erasmus Sr. |
physician, poet, father of
Charles Darwin |
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Davis, Steve |
World
snooker champion |
| De
Moivre, Abraham |
Mathematician |
| De
Musset, Alfred |
French novelist |
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Debrew, Gerard |
Nobel
Prize winner in economics |
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Delpy, Julie |
actress |
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D'Estaing, Valey Giscard |
French President |
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Dewey, George |
Admiral |
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Diamond, Dustin |
Actor |
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Diamond, Neil |
Singer & songwriter |
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Dickens, Charles |
Writer |
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Diderot, Denis |
French encyclopedist |
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Dietrich, Marlene |
Actress, singer |
| Dikiy,
Alexey |
Russian actor |
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Dimitrov, Georgi |
Bulgarian revolutionary |
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Disraeli, Benjamin |
British Prime Minister |
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Dobrynin, Anataoly |
Soviet diplomat & statesman |
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Dobzynsky, Charles |
French writer |
| Dore,
Gustave |
Artist |
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor |
Writer |
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Downs, Hugh |
Actor |
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Doyle, Arthur Conan |
Writer |
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Duchamp, Marcel |
Artist |
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Duchamp, Raymond |
Artist (and brother of Marcel Duchamp) |
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Duerson, Dave |
NFL professional football
player |
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Dvorak, Antonin |
Musician |
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Dylan, Bob |
Musician |
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Eagle, Angela |
British Member of Parliament |
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Ebert, Roger |
movie critic |
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Edward III |
King
of England |
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Edward VII |
King
of England |
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Ehlman, Mischa |
Violinist |
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Einstein, Albert |
Nobel
Prize winner in Physics, 1921 |
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Einstein, Hans |
Son
of Albert Einstein |
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Eliot, George |
Writer |
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Elizabeth I |
Queen
of England |
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Elizabeth II |
Queen
of England |
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Elliot, Sean |
Basketball player |
| Eon
de Beaumont, Charles |
World's most famous transvestite |
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Erasmus, Desiderius |
Thinker |
| Erkel,
Ferenc |
Musician |
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Ernest |
Duke
of Brunswick |
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Ernst, Max |
Artist |
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Estrada, Erik |
Actor |
| Euler,
Leonard |
Mathematician and Physicist |
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Fairbanks, Douglas, Sr |
Actor |
| Falk,
Peter |
Actor |
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Farouk, King |
King
of Egypt |
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Farrell, Mike |
Actor |
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Farrow, Mia |
Actress |
| Feld,
Fritz |
Actor |
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Ferdinand, Archduke |
Emperor of Austria |
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Ferrer, Jose |
Actor |
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Field, Ted |
Film
producer |
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Flynn, Errol |
Actor |
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Fonda, Henry |
Actor |
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Forman, Milos |
Film
director |
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Forster, Edward M. |
Writer |
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Fouche, Joseph |
Head
of Napoleon's secret police |
| Fox,
Michael J. |
Actor |
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Franco, Francisco |
Spanish dictator |
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Frank, Hans |
Governor general of Poland in 1939 |
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Franklin, Benjamin |
Inventor, writer, diplomat |
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Frederick the Great |
German emperor |
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Frederick, John |
Saxon
Elector |
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Freud, Clement |
Writer, broadcaster |
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Freud, Sigmund |
Founder of psychoanalysis |
| Gabor,
Zsa Zsa |
Actress |
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Gardner, Ava |
actress |
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Gates, Bill |
Microsoft CEO |
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Gauss, Johann Karl |
Mathematician |
| Genn,
Leo |
Film
maker |
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George III |
King
of England |
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Gillespie, John 'Dizzy' |
Trumpet virtuoso |
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Gladstone, William |
British Prime Minister |
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Goebbels, Paul Joseph |
Nazi
propagandist & leader |
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Goethe, Johann |
Writer |
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Goetz, Bernard |
Subway vigilante |
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Goffin, Gerry |
Songwriter |
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Golding, William |
Nobel
Prize winner in literature in 1983 |
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Goldsmith, Oliver |
Writer |
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Gorky, Maxim |
Writer |
| Gowdy,
Curt |
Sportscaster |
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Grace, William |
Father of English cricket |
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Graham, Billy |
Evangelist |
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Grant, Ulysses S |
US President, Civil War
General |
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Gregory VI |
Pope |
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Grimm, Jakob |
Writer |
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Grouthausen |
Minister to Charles XII |
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Guevara, Che |
Political revolutionary |
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Guidry, Ron |
Baseball pitcher |
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Guillevic, Eugene |
French writer |
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Haldeman, H.R. |
Nixon
chief of staff |
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Harrison, Rex |
Actor |
| Hart,
Sir Basil |
British military historian |
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Hawking, Stephen |
Physicist |
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Heinlen, Robert |
Writer |
| Henry
V of Agincourt |
King
of England |
| Henry
VIII |
King
of England |
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Henry, O. |
Writer |
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Hepburn, Katherine |
Actress |
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Herbert, A.P. |
Writer |
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Hilton, Barron |
Founder of Hilton Hotels |
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Hinckley, John |
Attempted to assassinate Reagan |
| Ho
Chi Minh |
Vietnamese political & military leader |
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Hoffman, Kurt |
German film director |
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell |
US
Supreme court justice |
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Holmes, Priest |
NFL Pro football player |
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Holyfield, Evander |
World
heavyweight boxing champion |
| Hope,
Bob |
Comedian, actor |
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Horowitz, Vladimir |
musician |
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Houdini, Harry |
Escape artist |
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Hoyle, Fred |
Astronomer |
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Hunter, Charles |
World's fastest speaker |
| Huss,
John |
Religious reformer |
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Huston, John |
Film
director |
| Ibsen,
Henrik |
Playwright |
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Innocent III |
Pope |
|
Irzykowski |
Polish writer |
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Isabella |
Queen of Spain, sponsored
Columbus' discovery of America |
| Ivan
the Terrible |
Russian emperor |
|
Jackson, Kate |
Actress |
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Jaffe, Sam |
Actor |
|
Jefferson, Thomas |
US
founding father & 3rd president |
| Jehan,
Shah |
Indian ruler |
| John
I |
King
of England |
| John
Paul I |
Pope |
| John
Paul II |
Pope |
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Johnson, Don |
Actor |
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Jolson, Al |
Actor, singer |
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Jones, Bobby |
Golfer |
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Jones, Ernest |
Psychoanalyst |
|
Jones, James |
Writer |
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Jonson, Ben |
English playwright |
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Joseph II |
Holy
Roman emperor |
|
Jourdan, Louis |
Actor |
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Joyce, William |
WWII
traitor - Lord Haw Haw |
| Kadar,
Janos |
Hungarian communist leader |
| Kahn,
Leo |
Violinist |
|
Kapitza, A.P. |
Physicist |
|
Kastner, Tony |
Skier |
|
Kedors, Andre |
French writer |
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Kennedy, John F, Jr. |
Son
of President John F Kennedy |
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Keynes, John |
Economist |
|
Kissinger, Henry |
Diplomat & statesman, US secretary of state |
| Klee,
Paul |
Artist |
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Klitschko, Vitaly |
Heavyweight boxer |
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Klitschko, Vladimir |
Heavyweight boxer |
| Knox,
Chuck |
Pro
football coach |
|
Kochanowski, Jan |
Polish poet |
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Komack, Jimmy |
Film
producer |
|
Kostabi, Mark |
Artist |
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Kreskin |
Magician |
| Krupa,
gene |
Jazz
drummer |
|
Kubrick, Stanley |
Film
director |
| La
Fayette |
French military leader |
| La
Guardia, Fiorello |
NY
mayor |
|
Lackland, John |
King
of England |
|
Landsbergis, Vytautas |
Lithuanian president |
| Law,
Andrew Bonar |
British Prime Minister |
|
Leach, Robin |
Television host |
|
Leary, Timothy |
Professor & LSD guru |
| Lee,
Belinda |
Actress |
| Lee,
Robert E. |
US
Civil War General |
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Leibnitz, Gottfried |
Thinker |
|
Lelewel, Joachim |
Polish historian |
| Lendl,
Ivan |
Tennis player |
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Lenin, Vladimir |
First
Soviet leader |
|
Lennon, John |
Musician |
| Leo X |
Pope |
| Leo
XIII |
Pope |
|
Lermontov, Mikhail |
Writer |
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Letterman, David |
Late-night talk show host |
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Levin, Bernard |
Writer |
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Lewis, Lennox |
Heavyweight boxing champion |
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Lewis, Sinclair |
Nobel
Prize winner in literature, 1930 |
|
Liebnecht, Karl |
German socialist leader |
| Lill,
John |
Classical pianist |
|
Lincoln, Abraham |
16th
US President |
|
Lomonosov, Mikhail |
Russian chemist & linguist |
|
London, Jack |
Writer |
| Lorre,
Peter |
Actor |
| Louis
VI |
French king |
| Loy,
Myrna |
Actress |
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Luther, Martin |
Religious reformer |
|
Machiavelli, Niccolo |
Italian statesman & political theorist |
|
Madison, James |
US President |
|
Madonna |
singer, actress |
|
Magritte, Rene |
Artist |
|
Manson, Charles |
Mass
murder & cultist |
| Marat,
Jean Paul |
French revolutionary |
|
Marceau, Marcel |
Mime |
|
Marcos, Ferdinand |
Philippine president |
|
Marks, Johnny |
Music
writer |
|
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia |
Nobel
Prize winner in literature, 1982 |
|
Marshall, Mike |
Baseball player |
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Martin, Steve |
Actor, comedian |
| Marx,
Karl |
Political theorist |
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Matejko, Jan |
Polish painter |
|
Mathers, Jerry |
Actor |
|
Matthau, Walter |
Actor |
|
McClellan, George |
US
Civil War General |
|
Mcgoohan, Patrick |
Actor |
|
Melville, Hermann |
Writer |
|
Mendeleyev, Dmitri |
Russian chemist & developer
of the Periodic Table of the Elements |
|
Mendelssohn, Felix |
Composer |
|
Menuhin, Yehudi |
Violinist |
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Mickiewicz, Adam |
Polish writer |
|
Milland, Ray |
Actor |
| Milne,
Alan Alexander |
Writer |
|
Miranda, Carmen |
Actress |
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Montand, Yves |
Actor |
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Montgomery, Bernard |
British WWII general |
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Moore, Patrick |
Astronomer, author |
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