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• Nils Waltersen Aasen
  Nils Waltersen Aasen
  Nils Waltersen Aasen was a Norwegian arms inventor; he is credited with having created the modern hand grenade and land mine just prior to World War I.-Biography:...
  
  
• Claudio Abbado
  Claudio Abbado
  Claudio Abbado, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , is an Italian conductor. He has served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera,...
  
  
• Louise Abbéma
  Louise Abbéma
  Louise Abbéma was a French painter, sculptor, and designer of the Belle Époque.-Biography:...
  
  
• Isabelle Adjani
  Isabelle Adjani
  Isabelle Yasmine Adjani is a French film actress and singer. Adjani has appeared in 30 films since 1970. She holds the record for most César Awards for Best Actress with five, for Possession , One Deadly Summer , Camille Claudel , Queen Margot and Skirt Day...
  
  
• Alfred Agache (painter)
  Alfred Agache (painter)
  Alfred-Pierre Joseph Agache , also known simply as Alfred Agache, was a French academic painter....
  
  
• Akihito
  Akihito
  is the current , the 125th emperor of his line according to Japan's traditional order of succession. He acceded to the throne in 1989.-Name:In Japan, the emperor is never referred to by his given name, but rather is referred to as "His Imperial Majesty the Emperor" which may be shortened to . In...
  
  , Emperor of Japan
• Ekrem Akurgal
  Ekrem Akurgal
  Ekrem Akurgal was a Turkish archaeologist. During a career that spanned more than fifty years, he conducted definitive research in several sites along the western coast of Anatolia such as Phokaia , Pitane , Erythrai and old Smyrna Ekrem Akurgal (March 30, 1911 – November 1, 2002) was a ...
  
  
• Pierre Albaladejo
  Pierre Albaladejo
  Pierre Albaladejo is a French rugby union footballer. His usual position was at fly-half or at fullback. He played all his career for Dax. He played for the France national rugby union team....
  
  
• Jean Alesi
  Jean Alesi
  Jean Alesi is a French racing driver of Italian origin. His Formula One career included spells at Tyrrell, Benetton, Sauber, Prost, Jordan and most notably Ferrari where he proved very popular among the tifosi...
  
   French former Formula 1 driver and a racing driver
• Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
  Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
  Field Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis was a British military commander and field marshal of Anglo-Irish descent who served with distinction in both world wars and, afterwards, as Governor General of Canada, the 17th since Canadian...
  
  
• Henry Allingham
  Henry Allingham
  Henry William Allingham was a British supercentenarian, First World War veteran and, for one month, the verified oldest living man in the world...
  
  
• Auguste Jean Ameil
  Auguste Jean Ameil
  General Auguste Jean Joseph Gilbert Ameil was a French soldier who fought during the French Revolution and the First French Empire, attaining the rank of Brigade General in 1812....
  
  
• Dimitri Amilakhvari
  Dimitri Amilakhvari
  Prince Dimitri Zedguinidze-Amilakhvari, more commonly known as Dimitri Amilakhvari was a French military officer and Lieutenant Colonel of the French Foreign Legion, of Georgian origin who played an influential role in the French Resistance against Nazi occupation in World War II, and became an...
  
  
• Jacques Ancel
  Jacques Ancel
  Jacques Ancel was a French geographer and geopolitician. He is author of several books, including Peoples and Nations of Balkans: political geography and Geopolitics ....
  
  
• Władysław Anders
• Alfred Anderson
  Alfred Anderson
  Alfred Anderson was a Scottish joiner and veteran of the First World War. He was the last known holder of the 1914 Star , the last known combatant to participate in the 1914 World War I Christmas truce, Scotland's last known World War I veteran, and Scotland's oldest man for more than a year.In...
  
  
• Colonel (later Brigadier General) AT Anderson
• Constantine Andreou
  Constantine Andreou
  Constantine Andreou , was a painter and sculptor of Greek origin with a highly successful career that spanned six decades...
  
  
• Charles Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey
  Charles Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey
  Charles Henry Alexander Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey GCVO was a British peer.Paget was born in 1885, the son of Lord Alexander Paget, was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College Sandhurst and in 1905 he succeeded as Marquess of Anglesey on the demise of his childless cousin, the 5th...
  
  
• Albert Anker
  Albert Anker
  Albert Samuel Anker was a Swiss painter and illustrator who has been called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his enduringly popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life.-Life:...
  
  
• Jacques Anquetil
  Jacques Anquetil
  Jacques Anquetil was a French road racing cyclist and the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five times, in 1957 and from 1961 to 1964...
  
  
• Geoffrey Arbuthnot
  Geoffrey Arbuthnot
  Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Schomberg Arbuthnot KCB, DSO was a British Vice Admiral.-Naval career:Born in Havant in Hampshire, Arbuthnot was the son of Admiral Charles Ramsay Arbuthnot and Emily Caroline Schomberg...
  
  
• Denys Arcand
  Denys Arcand
  Georges-Henri Denys Arcand, is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004 for The Barbarian Invasions...
  
  
• Elizabeth Arden
  Elizabeth Arden
  Florence Nightingale Graham , who went by the business name Elizabeth Arden, was a Canadian-American businesswoman who built a cosmetics empire in the United States. At the peak of her career, she was one of the wealthiest women in the world.-Biography:Arden was born in 1884 at Woodbridge, Ontario,...
  
  
• Dombasle Arielle (1953–), French actress, singer, producer
• Edwin Howard Armstrong
• Szymon Askenazy
  Szymon Askenazy
  Szymon Askenazy was a Polish historian, diplomat and politician, founder of the Askenazy school....
  
  
• Olivar Asselin
  Olivar Asselin
  Olivar Asselin was a writer and journalist in Quebec, Canada. He was a prominent nationalist, pamphleteer and polemist.- Biography :Asselin was born in Saint-Hilarion, Charlevoix, Quebec...
  
  
• Celal Atik
  Celal Atik
  Celal Atik was a successful Turkish sports wrestler and trainer, who won the gold medal in the Lightweight class of Men's Freestyle Wrestling at the 1948 Olympics....
  
  
• Vera Atkins
  Vera Atkins
  Vera Atkins, CBE was a British Intelligence Officer during World War II.-Early life:...
  
  
• Richard Attenborough
  Richard Attenborough
  Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough , CBE is a British actor, director, producer and entrepreneur. As director and producer he won two Academy Awards for the 1982 film Gandhi...
  
  
• Pierre Augereau
• Jacqueline Auriol
  Jacqueline Auriol
  Jacqueline Auriol was a French aviatrix who set several world speed records.-Biography:...
  
  
• Charles Aznavour
  Charles Aznavour
  Charles Aznavour, OC is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter, actor, public activist and diplomat. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the best-known singers in the world...
  
  
• J.M.Abdul Aziz, (1905–1958) Director Generale of JM Abdul Aziz et Fils, also awarded the French Red Cross, Nichan Iftikhar
  Nichan Iftikhar
  Nichan Iftikhar or Atiq Nishan-i-Iftikhar or Nişan-i İftihar , was an Ottoman and Tunisian honorary order founded in 1835 by Al-Mustafa ibn Mahmud...
  
  , Ordre du Nichan El-Anouar
  Ordre du Nichan El-Anouar
  The Ordre du Nichan El-Anouar was established in 1887 as a colonial order of merit of the Tajurah sultanate in French Somaliland.-Notable Recipients:...
  
  , Royal Order of Sahametrei
  Royal Order of Sahametrei
  The Royal Order of Sahametrei is a medal presented by the government of the Kingdom of Cambodia by Royal Decree of the King of Cambodia. It is conferred primarily on foreigners who have rendered distinguished services to the King and to the people of Cambodia, particularly in the field of external...
  
   of Cambodia and Extreme Orient.
• Admiral Mohammad Anwar Mohammad Nor, Chief of Defence Force of Malaysia (2007)

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• Michel Bacos
  Michel Bacos
  Michel Bacos was captain of Air France Flight 139 when the plane was hijacked on June 27, 1976, by Palestinian and German terrorists...
  
  
• Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna
  Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna
  Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna is a Carnatic vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and a playback singer. He is also acclaimed as a poet, composer and respected by all Indian classical musicians for his knowledge of Carnatic Music....
  
   – India
• Behiç Erkin
  Behiç Erkin
  Behiç Erkin was a career Army officer; first director of the Turkish State Railways, nationalized under his auspices; and statesman with the Turkish government who helped save almost 20,000 of ethnic Turkish Jews in France during World War II...
  
  
• Victor Babes
  Victor Babes
  Victor Babeș was a Romanian physician, biologist, and one of the earliest bacteriologists. He made early and significant contributions to the study of rabies, leprosy, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases....
  
  
• John Tremayne Babington
• Amitabh Bachchan
  Amitabh Bachchan
  Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...
  
   – India
• Louis Bachelier
  Louis Bachelier
  -External links:** Louis Bachelier webpage at the Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon / France. Text in French.** also from Index Funds Advisors, this discussion of...
  
  
• Absalom Baird
  Absalom Baird
  Absalom Baird was a career United States Army officer who distinguished himself as a Union Army general in the American Civil War. Baird received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his military actions-Early life:...
  
  
• Josephine Baker
  Josephine Baker
  Josephine Baker was an American dancer, singer, and actress who found fame in her adopted homeland of France. She was given such nicknames as the "Bronze Venus", the "Black Pearl", and the "Créole Goddess"....
  
  
• Albert Ball
  Albert Ball
  Albert Ball VC, DSO & Two Bars, MC was an English fighter pilot of the First World War and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to members of the British or Commonwealth armed forces...
  
  
• Raffaello de Banfield
  Raffaello de Banfield
  Raffaello de Banfield , correctly Raphael Douglas, Baron von Banfield Tripcovich, was a British-born composer.- Family :...
  
  
• François Barbé-Marbois
  François Barbé-Marbois
  François Barbé-Marbois, marquis de Barbé-Marbois was a French politician.-Early career:Born in Metz, where his father was director of the local mint, Barbé-Marbois tutored the children of the Marquis de Castries. In 1779 he was made secretary of the French legation to the United States...
  
  
• Van T. Barfoot
  Van T. Barfoot
  Van Thurman Barfoot is a retired United States Army officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration — the Medal of Honor — for his actions in World War II.-Biography:...
  
  
• Karno Barkah
  Karno Barkah
  Karno Barkah is an Indonesian aviation pioneer and recipient of the prestigious French Légion d'honneur....
  
   - Indonesian aviation pioneer
• George Barnett
  George Barnett
  Major General George Barnett was the 12th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps. He was Commandant during the U.S. involvement in World War I. He was born in Lancaster, Wisconsin and grew up in the small town of Boscobel, Wisconsin.-Early career:Barnett entered the U.S...
  
  
• Denis Barois
• Théophile Barrau
  Théophile Barrau
  Théophile Barrau was a French sculptor.Barrau was born in Carcassonne. He was a student of Alexandre Falguière and started at the Salon in 1874. He received awards in 1879, 1880, 1889, and became a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1892...
  
  
• Charles Barrois
  Charles Barrois
  Charles Barrois was a French geologist and palaeontologist.Barrois was born at Lille and educated at the college in that town, where he studied geology under Professor Jules Gosselet...
  
  
• Dieudonne Bart
• Jeanne Julia Bartet
  Jeanne Julia Bartet
  Jeanne Julia Bartet , French actress, was born in Paris and trained at the Conservatoire. In 1872 she began a successful career at the Vaudeville, and in 1879 was engaged at the Comédie-Française, of which she became a sociétaire in 1880. For many years she played the chief parts both in tragedy...
  
  
• Dame Shirley Bassey
• Maryse Bastié
  Maryse Bastié
  Maryse Bastié was a French aviator. Born Marie-Louise Bombec in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, at age eleven Bastié's father died and her family struggled to survive. However, as an employee in a shoe factory, money was scarce and an early marriage that failed left her with a child and limited means...
  
  
• Pierre-Dominique Bazaine
  Pierre-Dominique Bazaine
  Pierre-Dominique Bazaine was a French scientist and engineer. He was educated at the École Polytechnique in Paris as an engineer...
  
   (1786–1838) French Mathematician and Engineer
• Pierre-Dominique (Adolphe) Bazaine (1809–1893) French Railway Engineer
• François Achille Bazaine
  François Achille Bazaine
  François Achille Bazaine was a French General and from 1864, a Marshal of France, who surrendered the last organized French army to the Prussians during the Franco-Prussian war. He was the first Marshal who had started as a legionnaire and like the great Marshals of the First Empire, he had risen...
  
   (1811–1888) Marshal of France
• George Albert Bazaine-Hayter
  George Albert Bazaine-Hayter
  George Albert Bazaine-Hayter , known as Albert, was a French General, son of Pierre-Dominique Bazaine and nephew of Marshal Bazaine, on whose General Staff he served in the French intervention in Mexico and during the Franco-Prussian War...
  
   (1843–1914) French General
• Paul Bazelaire
  Paul Bazelaire
  Paul Bazelaire was a French cellist and composer.Bazelaire was born in Sedan, Ardennes. He studied under Jules Delsart.He won many prizes for literature and poetry in France and Belgium.-External links:...
  
  
• Cecil Beaton
  Cecil Beaton
  Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, CBE was an English fashion and portrait photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre...
  
  
• Gérald Beaudoin
  Gérald Beaudoin
  Gérald A. Beaudoin, OC, OQ, MSRC was a Canadian lawyer and Senator.Born in Montreal, Quebec, he received a B.A., an LL.L and an M.A. from the Université de Montréal. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1954....
  
  
• Roger Beaufrand
  Roger Beaufrand
  Roger Beaufrand was the world's oldest Olympic gold medal winner, following the death of Pakistani Field Hockey player Feroze Khan in 2005 until his own death....
  
  
• Thomas Beecham
  Thomas Beecham
  Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet CH was an English conductor and impresario best known for his association with the London Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic orchestras. He was also closely associated with the Liverpool Philharmonic and Hallé orchestras...
  
  
• Azouz Begag
  Azouz Begag
  Azouz Begag, is a French writer, politician and researcher in economics and sociology at the CNRS. He was the delegate minister for equal opportunities of France in the government of French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin till 5 April 2007...
  
  
• Alexander Graham Bell
  Alexander Graham Bell
  Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone....
  
  
• Sir Francis Dillon Bell
  Dillon Bell
  Sir Francis Dillon Bell KCMG CB MLC was a New Zealand politician of the late 19th century. He served as New Zealand's third Minister of Finance , and later as its third Speaker of the House...
  
   New Zealand Statesman
• Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee Vice President At-Large of The Washington Post
• Jean-Louis Bélard
• Jean-Paul Belmondo
  Jean-Paul Belmondo
  Jean-Paul Belmondo is a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s.-Career:Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, west of Paris, Belmondo did not perform well in school, but developed a passion for boxing and football."Did you box professionally very long?" "Not very long...
  
  
• Guillermo B. Belt (1906–1989), Cuban diplomat.
• Józef Bem
  Józef Bem
  Józef Zachariasz Bem was a Polish general, an Ottoman Pasha and a national hero of Poland and Hungary, and a figure intertwined with other European nationalisms...
  
  
• Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant
• Jean Béraud
  Jean Béraud
  Jean Béraud was a French Impressionist painter and commercial artist noted for his paintings of Parisian life during the Belle Époque.-Biography:...
  
  
• Henri Bergson
  Henri Bergson
  Henri-Louis Bergson was a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. Bergson convinced many thinkers that immediate experience and intuition are more significant than rationalism and science for understanding reality.He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize...
  
  
• Louis Bernacchi
  Louis Bernacchi
  Louis Charles Bernacchi , a physicist and astronomer, is best known for his role in several expeditions to the Antarctic.-Early life:...
  
  
• Sarah Bernhardt
  Sarah Bernhardt
  Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage and early film actress, and has been referred to as "the most famous actress the world has ever known". Bernhardt made her fame on the stages of France in the 1870s, and was soon in demand in Europe and the Americas...
  
  
• Pier Luigi Bersani
  Pier Luigi Bersani
  Pier Luigi Bersani is an Italian politician and the current Secretary of the Democratic Party of Italy, the main center-left political party in Italy . He was Minister of Industry, Commerce and Craftmanship from 1996 to 1999, Minister of Transports from 1999 to 2001, and Minister of Economic...
  
  
• Louis Alexandre Berthier
  Louis Alexandre Berthier
  Louis Alexandre Berthier, 1st Prince de Wagram, 1st Duc de Valangin, 1st Sovereign Prince de Neuchâtel , was a Marshal of France, Vice-Constable of France beginning in 1808, and Chief of Staff under Napoleon.-Early life:Alexandre was born at Versailles to Lieutenant-Colonel Jean Baptiste Berthier ,...
  
  
• Pierre Berthier
• Roberte Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough
  Roberte Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough
  Roberte de Neuflize Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough, GCSt.J, JP , was the daughter of the Parisian Baron Jean de Neuflize, CVO.-Marriage:On 25 June 1912, she married Vere Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon Roberte de Neuflize Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough, GCSt.J, JP (18921979), was the daughter of...
  
  
• Jean-Baptiste Bessières
  Jean-Baptiste Bessières
  Jean-Baptiste Bessières, 1st Duc d' Istria was a Marshal of France of the Napoleonic Era. His younger brother, Bertrand, followed in his footsteps and eventually became a Divisional General...
  
  
• Ramón Emeterio Betances
  Ramón Emeterio Betances
  Ramón Emeterio Betances y Alacán was a Puerto Rican nationalist. He was the primary instigator of the Grito de Lares revolution, and as such, is considered to be the father of the Puerto Rican independence movement...
  
   (1827–1898), Puerto Rican
  Puerto Rico
  Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
  
   medical doctor, political leader and diplomat
• Íngrid Betancourt
  Íngrid Betancourt
  Ingrid Betancourt Pulecio is a Colombian politician, former senator and anti-corruption activist.Betancourt was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia on 23 February 2002 and was rescued by Colombian security forces six and a half years later on 2 July 2008...
  
  
• André Bettencourt
  André Bettencourt
  André Bettencourt was a French politician. He had been awarded the Croix de Guerre, and is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor...
  
  
• Jacques Claude Beugnot
  Jacques Claude Beugnot
  Jacques Claude, comte de Beugnot was a French politician before, during, and after the French Revolution. His son Auguste Arthur Beugnot was an historian and scholar.-Revolution:...
  
  
• Marthe Bibesco
  Marthe Bibesco
  Marthe, Princess Bibesco was a Romanian-French writer of the Belle Époque...
  
  
• Marcel Bigeard
  Marcel Bigeard
  Marcel "Bruno" Bigeard was a French military officer who fought in World War II, Indochina and Algeria. He was one of the commanders in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and is thought by many to have been a dominating influence on French 'unconventional' warfare thinking from that time onwards...
  
  
• Kenneth W. Bilby
  Kenneth W. Bilby
  Kenneth W. Bilby was a winner of the Legion of Honor, an executive vice president of RCA, and the author of The General, a book on David Sarnoff's role in the creation of RCA and television.-Biography:...
  
  
• Carl Bildt
  Carl Bildt
  , Honorary KCMG is a Swedish politician, diplomat and nobleman. Formerly Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994 and leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999, Bildt has served as Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs since 6 October 2006...
  
  
• Maria Ilva Biolcati
  Milva
  Maria Ilva Biolcati , known as Milva, is an Italian singer, actress and television personality. She is also known as 'La Rossa', , due to the colour of her hair, and additionally as the 'Panther of Goro', which stems from the Italian press having nicknamed the three most popular Italian female...
  
   Italian
  Italy
  Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
  
   singer and actress
• Wilfred Bion
  Wilfred Bion
  Wilfred Ruprecht Bion DSO was an influential British psychoanalyst, who became president of the British Psychoanalytical Society from 1962 to 1965....
  
  
• Sir Robert Bird, 2nd Baronet
  Sir Robert Bird, 2nd Baronet
  Sir Robert Bland Bird, 2nd Baronet KBE was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.- Biography :...
  
  
• George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood
  George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood
  Sir George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood KCIE MD , Anglo-Indian official, naturalist, and writer, son of General Christopher Birdwood, was born at Belgaum, in the Bombay presidency, on the 8th of December 1832....
  
  
• Billy Bishop
  Billy Bishop
  Air Marshal William Avery "Billy" Bishop VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DFC, ED was a Canadian First World War flying ace, officially credited with 72 victories, making him the top Canadian ace, and according to some sources, the top ace of the British Empire.-Early life:Bishop was born in Owen Sound,...
  
  
• Harry Gore Bishop
  Harry Gore Bishop
  Harry Gore Bishop was a United States Army artillery general and author.Bishop was born November 22, 1874, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.In 1893, Bishop entered the United States Military Academy at West Point....
  
  
• Monique de Bissy
  Monique de Bissy
  Monique de Bissy was a French/Belgian resistant born March 13, 1923 in Schaerbeek and died November 17, 2009 in Montpellier .- Biography :...
  
  
• George G. Blackburn
  George G. Blackburn
  George Gideon Blackburn, CM, MC was a Canadian veteran of World War II and author.Born in Wales, Ontario, Blackburn worked in the United States in railway construction as a steam shovel operator and, later, worked as a newspaper reporter for the Ottawa Journal in Pembroke, Ontario...
  
  
• Tasker H. Bliss
  Tasker H. Bliss
  Tasker Howard Bliss GCMG was Chief of Staff of the United States Army from September 22, 1917 until May 18, 1918.-Biography:...
  
  
• Denise Bloch
  Denise Bloch
  Denise Madeleine Bloch was a French secret agent working with the British Special Operations Executive in World War II.- Early life :...
  
  
• Rene Boas
• Marc Boegner
  Marc Boegner
  Marc Boegner, commonly known as pasteur Boegner , was a theologist, influential pastor, notable member of the French Resistance, and a French essayist, and a notable voice in the ecumenical movement.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jean-Bédel Bokassa
  Jean-Bédel Bokassa
  Jean-Bédel Bokassa , a military officer, was the head of state of the Central African Republic and its successor state, the Central African Empire, from his coup d'état on 1 January 1966 until 20 September 1979...
  
  
• Claude Bolling
  Claude Bolling
  Claude Bolling , is a renowned French jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and occasional actor.He was born in Cannes, studied at the Nice Conservatory, then in Paris. A child prodigy, by age 14 he was playing jazz piano professionally, with Lionel Hampton, Roy Eldridge, and Kenny Clarke...
  
  
• Bono
  Bono
  Paul David Hewson , most commonly known by his stage name Bono , is an Irish singer, musician, and humanitarian best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his...
  
  
• Jorge Luis Borges
  Jorge Luis Borges
  Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, receiving his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève in 1918. The family...
  
  
• Frank Borland
  Frank Borland
  Edward Franklin Grant Borland III, , received the French Legion of Honor in 2005 for his saving of the French town of Dieppe, Seine-Maritime from a planned Allied Command air raid...
  
  
• Władysław Bortnowski
• Alfred Bossom, Baron Bossom
• Lucien Bouchard
  Lucien Bouchard
  Lucien Bouchard, is a Canadian lawyer, diplomat, politician and former Minister of the Environment of the Canadian Federal Government. He was the Leader of Opposition in the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 1996, and the 27th Premier of Quebec from January 29, 1996 to March 8, 2001...
  
  
• Georges Ernest Boulanger
• Pierre Boulle
  Pierre Boulle
  Pierre Boulle was a French novelist largely known for two famous works, The Bridge over the River Kwai and Planet of the Apes .-Biography:...
  
  
• Antoine Bourseiller
• Frank Henry Bowater
  Frank Henry Bowater
  Major Sir Frank Henry Bowater, 1st Baronet, of Friston, TD, CStJ was Lord Mayor of London from 1938 to 1939, son of William Vansittart Bowater and his wife Eliza Jane née Davey.-Career:...
  
  
• Maurice Bowra
  Maurice Bowra
  Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra was an English classical scholar and academic, known for his wit. He was Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1938 to 1970, and served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1951 to 1954.-Birth and boyhood:...
  
  
• Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński
  Tadeusz Boy-Zelenski
  Tadeusz Kamil Marcjan Żeleński was a Polish stage writer, poet, critic above all, and translator of over 100 French literary classics into Polish...
  
  
• Charles Boyer
  Charles Boyer
  Charles Boyer was a French actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. After receiving an education in drama, Boyer started on the stage, but he found success in movies during the 1930s. His memorable performances were among the era's most highly praised romantic dramas,...
  
  
• Ali Bozer
  Ali Bozer
  Ali Husrev Bozer is a Turkish politician and academic of commercial law.-Biography:A member of the Motherland Party , he served as Deputy Prime Minister in the Turgut Özal's and Yıldırım Akbulut's cabinets and was Minister of Foreign Affairs.Additionally, he has a grand daughter named Esra...
  
  
• Olga Boznańska
  Olga Boznanska
  Olga Boznańska , was a Polish painter.Daughter of railway engineer Adam Nowina Boznański and Eugenia Mondan. Boznańska learned drawing from Józef Siedlecki and Kazimierz Pochwalski and studied at the Adrian Baraniecki School for Women. From 1886-1890 she studied in private schools of Karl...
  
  
• Lloyd Samuel Breadner
  Lloyd Samuel Breadner
  Air Chief MarshalThis rank was used during the existence of the Royal Canadian Air Force and replaced with the rank of General in 1968 with the unification of the Canadian Forces. See :Category:Canadian Forces Air Command generals for such officers. Breadner was one of only two Canadian Air Chief...
  
  
• Yves Bréchet
  Yves Bréchet
  Yves Bréchet is a physicist, specialist of materials science, professor at the Grenoble Institute of Technology, and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.- Biography :...
  
  
• Francis Charles Bridgeman Bridgeman
  Francis Charles Bridgeman Bridgeman
  Admiral Sir Francis Charles Bridgeman Bridgeman GCB, GCVO was a British sailor.-Naval career:The son of Reverend William Bridgeman Simpson and Lady Frances Laura Wentworth FitzWilliam , and descendant of the 1st Baron Bradford was Aide-de-Camp to King Edward VII between 1901 and 1903...
  
  
• Louis de Broglie
• Louis Bromfield
  Louis Bromfield
  Louis Bromfield was an American author and conservationist who gained international recognition winning the Pulitzer Prize and pioneering innovative scientific farming concepts.-Biography:...
  
  
• Robert S. Brookings
  Robert S. Brookings
  Robert Somers Brookings was an American businessman and philanthropist, known for his involvement with Washington University in St. Louis and his founding of the Brookings Institution.-Biography:Brookings grew up on the Little Elk Creek in Cecil County, near Baltimore, Maryland...
  
  
• Romaine Brooks
  Romaine Brooks
  Romaine Brooks, born Beatrice Romaine Goddard , was an American painter who worked mostly in Paris and Capri. She specialized in portraiture and used a subdued palette dominated by the color gray...
  
  
• Daniel Brottier
  Daniel Brottier
  Blessed Daniel Jules Alexis Brottier, C.S.Sp. was a French Roman Catholic priest in the Congregation of the Holy Ghost. He was awarded the Croix de guerre and the Légion d'honneur for his services as a chaplain during World War I, did missionary work in Senegal, and administered an orphanage in...
  
  
• Margaret Brown
  Margaret Brown
  Margaret Brown was an American socialite, philanthropist, and activist who became famous due to her involvement with the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic, after exhorting the crew of lifeboat 6 to return to look for survivors. It is unclear whether any survivors were found after life boat 6...
  
  
• Josip Broz Tito
  Josip Broz Tito
  Marshal Josip Broz Tito – 4 May 1980) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian, Tito was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad, viewed as a unifying symbol for the nations of the Yugoslav federation...
  
  
• John Bruce-Lockhart
  John Bruce-Lockhart
  John Harold Bruce-Lockhart was a Scottish cricketer and schoolmaster from the famous Bruce-Lockhart family. His son Logie played Rugby Union for Scotland, while his brother Robert was a footballer. He was also the grandfather of Sandy and great-grandfather of Dugald Bruce Lockhart.-Early life:A...
  
  
• Angelique Brulon
  Angelique Brulon
  Angelique Brulon, or Marie Angélique Duchemin , was a French soldier.Brulon served from 1792–1799 in the defence of Corsica. She initially fought disguised as a man, but was eventually discovered to be a woman. Despite this, she had shown such valour in battle that she was allowed to remain in...
  
  
• Gabriel Brunet de Sairigné
  Gabriel Brunet de Sairigné
  Gabriel Brunet de Sairigné was an French Army officer of the French Foreign Legion. He was born on in Paris, and was killed in the line of duty close to Lagnia Bien Hoa .-Education:...
  
  
• Henri Brunier
• Michael Bruxner
  Michael Bruxner
  Lieutenant Colonel Sir Michael Frederick Bruxner KBE, DSO, JP was an Australian politician and soldier, serving for many years as Leader of the Country Party and its predecessors...
  
  
• Théophile Marie Brébant
  Théophile Marie Brébant
  Théophile Marie Brébant was a French Army officer during World War I and World War II. He ended his career in 1946 with the rank of Colonel.-Career:Served from 23 July 1908 to 14 June 1946 in the French Army....
  
  
• Frank Buckles
  Frank Buckles
  Frank Woodruff Buckles was the last surviving American veteran of World War I. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1917 and served with a detachment from Fort Riley, driving ambulances and motorcycles near the front lines in Europe.During World War II, he was captured by Japanese forces...
  
  
• Eugene Bullard
  Eugene Bullard
  Eugene Jacques Bullard was the first black military pilot and the only black pilot in World War I along with Ahmet Ali .-Early life:...
  
  
• Omar Bundy
  Omar Bundy
  Omar Bundy was a U.S. Army general who participated in the Indian Wars and the Spanish-American War in Cuba, fought in the Philippine Insurrection and the Moro Expedition, and commanded a regiment on the Mexican border...
  
  
• Robert Busnel
  Robert Busnel
  Robert Busnel was a French basketball player, coach and administrator.-Career:...
  
  
• Stephen Butcher
• Myles Byrne
  Myles Byrne
  Myles Byrne was a leader in the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and chef de bataillon in Napoleon’s Irish Legion.-Early life:Myles Byrne was born in the townland of Ballylusk near Monaseed, County Wexford, Ireland, 20 March 1780, into a Catholic family.-1798 Rebellion & Aftermath:Byrne participated in...
  
  

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• Alphonse de Cailleux
  Alphonse de Cailleux
  Alphonse de Cailleux, in full Alexandre-Alphonse-Achille, vicomte de Cailloux was a painter, connoisseur and arts administrator who became director of the Musée du Louvre and all the royal museums of France. Under the Bourbon Restoration he was attached to the reconstituted royal household...
  
  
• René Caillié, explorateur français.
• Italo Calvino
  Italo Calvino
  Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy , the Cosmicomics collection of short stories , and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler .Lionised in Britain and the United States,...
  
   (1923–1985), italien auteur.
• Patrick de Cambourg
  Patrick de Cambourg
  Patrick de Cambourg is the chairman and CEO of Mazars since 1983.-Biography:Graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies in 1971, with degrees in literature, government and civil law, a chartered accountant and auditor, Patrick began his career with Mazars in 1974 at the age of 24.He...
  
  
• Francis Cammaerts
  Francis Cammaerts
  Francis Charles Albert Cammaerts DSO was an outstanding Special Operations Executive agent who organised French Resistance groups to sabotage German communications in occupied France.-Early life:...
  
   (1916–2006), en Colombie SOE
  Special Operations Executive
  The Special Operations Executive was a World War II organisation of the United Kingdom. It was officially formed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton on 22 July 1940, to conduct guerrilla warfare against the Axis powers and to instruct and aid local...
  
   pour fonctionner Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
• Jacques Camou (1792–1868), français général
  Général
  Général is the French word for General.In France, Army generals are named after the type of unit they command. In ascending order there are two ranks :* Général de brigade : Brigade General.* Général de division : Divisional General....
  
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• Maxime Du Camp
  Maxime Du Camp
  Maxime Du Camp was a French writer and photographer.-Life:Born in Paris, Du Camp was the son of a successful surgeon. After finishing college, he indulged in his strong desire for travel, thanks to his father's assets...
  
   (1822–1894), écrivain et photographe français.
• Gordon Campbell (1886–1953), l'amiral britannique.
• James Brudenell, 7e comte de Cardigan
• Carl XVI Gustaf de Suède
• Erskine Nicolson, 3e Baron Carnock
• Alexis Carrel
  Alexis Carrel
  Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques. He invented the first perfusion pump with Charles A. Lindbergh opening the way to organ transplantation...
  
  
• Madeleine Carroll
  Madeleine Carroll
  Edith Madeleine Carroll was an English actress, popular in the 1930s and 1940s.-Early life:Carroll was born at 32 Herbert Street in West Bromwich, England. She graduated from the University of Birmingham, England with a B.A. degree...
  
  
• George Carter-Campbell
  George Carter-Campbell
  Major-General George Tupper Campbell Carter-Campbell CB, DSO , was commissioned in October 1889 as second-lieutenant in the Cameronians 2nd Scottish Rifles and served in the Second Boer War as adjutant of that battalion, being promoted Brevet Major and twice mentioned in despatches.On the outbreak...
  
  
• Henry H. Carter
  Henry H. Carter
  Henry Hare Carter was an American linguistics professor,commander in the US Naval Reserve, translator, and a Spanish or Portuguese writer of textbooksand research.- Life and career :...
  
  
• Mary Cassatt
  Mary Cassatt
  Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists...
  
  
• Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau
  Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau
  Noël Marie Joseph Édouard, Vicomte de Curières de Castelnau was a French general in World War I, one of the leading proponents of the philosophy of attaque à outrance that dominated French military thinking in the early part of the war.Born in Gascony to a family with a long history of military...
  
  
• Jacques Jean Félix Casties, a former airline pilot in an airline; 43 years of professional and military services.
• Frédéric Walker Castle
• Clifton B. Cates
  Clifton B. Cates
  General Clifton Bledsoe Cates , USMC, was the 19th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps...
  
  
• Albertus W. Catlin
  Albertus W. Catlin
  Brigadier General Albertus Wright Catlin of the United States Marine Corps after commanding the 3rd Regiment at Veracruz, Mexico, in 1914, was issued a commendatory letter by the Secretary of the Navy for courage and skill in leading his command...
  
  
• Marcel Caux
  Marcel Caux
  Marcel Caux, born Harold Katte , was an Australian First World War veteran and the last known survivor of the Battle of Pozières....
  
  
• Nicolae Ceausescu
  Nicolae Ceausescu
  Nicolae Ceaușescu was a Romanian Communist politician. He was General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and as such was the country's second and last Communist leader...
  
  
• Cedric Prakash
  Cedric Prakash
  Fr. Cedric Prakash Lobo is a human rights activist and a Jesuit priest based in the city of Ahmedabad in western India. He is the director of Prashant, the Ahmedabad-based Jesuit Centre for Human Rights, Justice and Peace...
  
  
• Ivan Ceresnjes
• Clifford Chadderton
  Clifford Chadderton
  Hugh Clifford "Cliff" Chadderton, is a Canadian World War II veteran and Chief Executive Officer of The War Amps.Born in Fort William, Ontario, he worked as a news editor for Canadian Press and a reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press and he attended the University of Manitoba...
  
  
• Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois
  Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois
  Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois was a French geologist and mineralogist who was the first to arrange the chemical elements in order of atomic weights, doing so in 1862. De Chancourtois only published his paper, but did not publish his actual graph with the proposed arrangement...
  
  
• Jean-Antoine Chaptal
  Jean-Antoine Chaptal
  Jean-Antoine Claude, comte Chaptal de Chanteloup was a French chemist and statesman. He established chemical works for the manufacture of the mineral acids, soda and other substances...
  
  
• Jean Charest
  Jean Charest
  John James "Jean" Charest, PC, MNA is a Canadian politician who has been the 29th Premier of Quebec since 2003. He was leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1993 to 1998 and has been leader of the Quebec Liberal Party since 1998....
  
  
• Martin Charteris, le baron de Charteris Amisfield
• Alexander Chavchavadze
  Alexander Chavchavadze
  Prince Alexander Chavchavadze was a notable Georgian poet, public benefactor and military figure. Regarded as the "father of Georgian romanticism," he was also known as a preeminent aristocrat of Georgia and a talented general in the Imperial Russian service.-Early life:Alexander Chavchavadze was...
  
  
• Jean Cherqui
• Ferdinand J. Chesarek
  Ferdinand J. Chesarek
  Ferdinand Joseph Chesarek was an American army general.He graduated from the United States Military Academy and was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in the field artillery in 1938...
  
  
• Louis Chevalier
  Louis Chevalier
  Louis Chevalier was an eminent French historian with interests in geography, demography and sociology. Much of his work was devoted to the history of French culture and Paris.-Early life and education:...
  
   (1911–2001), French historian
• Gabriel Chevallier
  Gabriel Chevallier
  Gabriel Chevallier was a French novelist widely known as the author of the satire Clochemerle.Born in Lyon in 1895, Gabriel Chevallier was educated in various schools before entering Lyon École des Beaux-Arts in 1911...
  
  
• Julia Child
  Julia Child
  Julia Child was an American chef, author, and television personality. She is recognized for introducing French cuisine to the American public with her debut cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her subsequent television programs, the most notable of which was The French Chef, which...
  
  
• Dezydery Chlapowski
  Dezydery Chlapowski
  Baron Dezydery Chłapowski was a Polish general, businessman and political activist.-References:* Witold Jakóbczyk, Przetrwać na Wartą 1815-1914, Dzieje narodu i państwa polskiego, vol. III-55, Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, Warszawa 1989- External links :**...
  
  
• Józef Chlopicki
  Józef Chlopicki
  Józef Chłopicki was a Polish general who was involved in fighting in Europe at the time of Napoleon and later.He was born in Kapustynie in Volhynia and was educated at the school of the Basilians at Szarogrod, from which in 1785 he ran away in order to enlist as a volunteer in the Polish army....
  
  
• Michel Ciment
  Michel Ciment
  Michel Ciment is a French film critic and the editor of the cinema magazine Positif. Ciment is a Chevalier of the Order of Merit, Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters, and the president of FIPRESCI...
  
  
• Wesley Clark
  Wesley Clark
  Wesley Kanne Clark, Sr., is a retired general of the United States Army. Graduating as valedictorian of the class of 1966 at West Point, he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford where he obtained a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and later graduated from the...
  
  
• Eugent Clarke Jamaican British West Indies Regiment veteran of WWI
• Adolphe Clément-Bayard
  Adolphe Clément
  Gustave Adolphe Clément-Bayard was a French entrepreneur...
  
   – industrialist – 1912
• Pierre Clostermann
  Pierre Clostermann
  Pierre Clostermann was a French flying ace, author, engineer, politician and sporting fisherman. Over his flying career he was awarded the Grand-Croix of the French Légion d'Honneur, French Croix de Guerre, British DFC and bar, Distinguished Service Cross , Silver Star , and the Air Medal .-Early...
  
  
• Jacqueline Cochran
  Jacqueline Cochran
  Jacqueline Cochran was a pioneer American aviator, considered to be one of the most gifted racing pilots of her generation...
  
  
• Jean Cocteau
  Jean Cocteau
  Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María...
  
  
• Colette
  Colette
  Colette was the surname of the French novelist and performer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette . She is best known for her novel Gigi, upon which Lerner and Loewe based the stage and film musical comedies of the same title.-Early life and marriage:Colette was born to retired military officer Jules-Joseph...
  
  
• Isidore Noel Cohard
• Jean-Philippe Collard
  Jean-Philippe Collard
  Jean-Philippe Collard is a renowned French pianist who is known for his interpretations of the works of Gabriel Fauré and Camille Saint-Saëns.Born into a musical family, he started playing the piano at age five...
  
  
• Eileen Collins
  Eileen Collins
  Eileen Marie Collins is a retired American astronaut and a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel. A former military instructor and test pilot, Collins was the first female pilot and first female commander of a Space Shuttle. She was awarded several medals for her work. Col. Collins has logged 38 days 8...
  
  
• J. Lawton Collins
  J. Lawton Collins
  Joseph "Lightning Joe" Lawton Collins was a General in the United States Army. During World War II, he served in both the Pacific and European Theaters of Operations. His elder brother, James Lawton Collins, was also in the army as a Major General...
  
  
• Sean Connery
  Sean Connery
  Sir Thomas Sean Connery , better known as Sean Connery, is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globes Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930), better known as Sean Connery, is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy...
  
  
• Cyril Connolly
  Cyril Connolly
  Cyril Vernon Connolly was an English intellectual, literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon and wrote Enemies of Promise , which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful author of...
  
  
• Charles H. Coolidge
  Charles H. Coolidge
  Charles Henry Coolidge is a former United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.-Biography:...
  
  
• Julian Coolidge
  Julian Coolidge
  Julian Lowell Coolidge was an American mathematician and a professor and chairman of the Harvard University Mathematics Department.-Biography:...
  
  
• Corneliu Coposu
  Corneliu Coposu
  -Early life:Coposu was born in Bobota, Sălaj County to the Romanian Greek-Catholic archpriest Valentin Coposu and his wife Aurelia Coposu...
  
  
• William Corbet
  William Corbet
  William Corbet was an Irish soldier.He was born in Ballythomas, County Cork. In 1798, as a member of the United Irishmen, he was expelled from Trinity College Dublin with Robert Emmet and others for treasonable activities, and went instead to Paris...
  
  
• Charles H. Corlett
  Charles H. Corlett
  Charles H. Corlett , nicknamed “Cowboy Pete,” was a major general in the U.S. Army who commanded troops in both the Pacific and European Theaters during World War II. He led the attack on Kiska in 1943 and commanded the 7th Infantry Division in the taking of Kwajalein in 1944...
  
  
• Doina Cornea
  Doina Cornea
  Doina Cornea is a Romanian human rights activist and French professor. She was notable as a dissident during the communist regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu.-Dissidence under communism:...
  
  
• Gérard Coste
  Gerard Coste
  Gérard Coste , is a painter and diplomat, born in Marseille. A graduate of the [SciencesPo Paris ], HEC Paris and the École nationale d'administration , he began his diplomatic career in Laos in 1964, later serving in Japan...
  
  
• Pierre Auguste Cot
  Pierre Auguste Cot
  Pierre Auguste Cot was a French painter of the Academic Classicism school.-Biography:He was born in Bédarieux, Hérault and initially studied at l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse before going to Paris. He studied under Leon Cogniet, Alexandre Cabanel and William-Adolphe Bouguereau...
  
  
• Georges Courteline
  Georges Courteline
  Georges Courteline was a French dramatist and novelist.Born Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux, in Tours in the Indre-et-Loire département, his family moved to Paris shortly after his birth...
  
  
• Jacques-Yves Cousteau
  Jacques-Yves Cousteau
  Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water...
  
  
• Edgar William Cox
  Edgar William Cox
  Brigadier-General Edgar William Cox, DSO, FRGS was a senior intelligence officer on the British General Staff throughout most of the First World War who drowned in suspicious circumstances whilst swimming in August 1918 shortly after the German successes in the Spring Offensive which drove the...
  
  
• Paul Coze
  Paul Coze
  Paul Coze was a French-American anthropologist, artist, and writer, most notable as a French authority on Native Americans, and for his public art in the 1960s....
  
  
• Artisanat James
• Austen Crehore
  Austen Crehore
  Sergeant Austen Ballard Crehore was a World War I pilot in the Armée de l'Air and the recipient of the Legion of Honor and Croix de guerre with two palms.-Early life:...
  
  
• David Cronenberg
  David Cronenberg
  David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...
  
  , Canadian film director.
• Kenneth Cummins
  Kenneth Cummins
  Captain Kenneth Alfred Hugo Cummins was, at age 106, one of the last surviving British veterans of the First World War. He served in the Royal Naval Reserve in the First World War,as a Midshipman, and then in the Merchant Navy in the Second World War.Kenneth Cummins was born in Richmond, London...
  
  
• Andrew Cunningham, 1er vicomte Cunningham de Hyndhope
• Ivan Curkovic
  Ivan Curkovic
  Ivan Ćurković had a professional goalkeeping career and was the president of the FK Partizan and of the Serbian Olympic Committee...
  
  
• Arthur Currie
  Arthur Currie
  Sir Arthur William Currie GCMG, KCB , was a Canadian general during World War I. He had the unique distinction of starting his military career on the very bottom rung as a pre-war militia gunner before rising through the ranks to become the first Canadian commander of the four divisions of the...
  
  
• Walerian Czuma
  Walerian Czuma
  Walerian Czuma was a Polish general and military commander. He is notable for his command over a Polish unit in Siberia during the Russian Civil War and the commander of the defence of Warsaw during the siege of that city in 1939.-Biography:...
  
  

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• Stefan Dąb-Biernacki
  Stefan Dab-Biernacki
  Stefan Dąb-Biernacki was a Polish general.Members of the Polish Legions in World War I, fought in the Polish-Soviet War commanding regiments and later 1DPLeg...
  
  
• Jan Henryk Dąbrowski
  Jan Henryk Dabrowski
  -Biography:Dąbrowski was born to Jan Michal Dąbrowski and Sophie née von Lettow in Pierzchów, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth He grew up in Hoyerswerda, Electorate of Saxony, where his father served as a Colonel in the Saxon army...
  
  
• Salvador Dalí
  Salvador Dalí
  Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis de Púbol , commonly known as Salvador Dalí , was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres,Spain....
  
  
• Ahmad Hasan Dani
  Ahmad Hasan Dani
  Professor Ahmad Hasan Dani FRAS, SI, HI , was a Pakistani intellectual, archaeologist, historian, and linguist. He was among the foremost authorities on Central Asian and South Asian archaeology and history. He introduced archaeology as a discipline in higher education in Pakistan and Bangladesh...
  
   (1920–) – Pakistani archaeologist
• Barney Danson
  Barney Danson
  Barnett Jerome Danson, was a Canadian politician and Cabinet minister.Barney Danson was born to a Jewish family in Toronto's Parkdale neighbourhood...
  
  
• Robert Darnton
  Robert Darnton
  Robert Darnton is an American cultural historian, recognized as a leading expert on 18th-century France.-Life:He graduated from Harvard University in 1960, attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, and earned a Ph.D. in history from Oxford in 1964, where he studied with Richard Cobb,...
  
   (1939–) – American cultural historian
• Raymond Daudel
  Raymond Daudel
  Raymond Daudel was a French theoretical and quantum chemist.Trained as a physicist, he was an assistant to Irène Joliot-Curie at the Radium Institute. Daudel spent almost the entirety of his career as professor at the Sorbonne and director of a laboratory of the Centre National de la Recherche...
  
  
• Paul Davenport
  Paul Davenport
  Paul Theodore Davenport, was the ninth president of the University of Western Ontario.Born and raised in Summit, New Jersey, he graduated magna cum laude from Stanford University in 1969 with a BA in economics...
  
  
• Walter J. Davey (1897–2001) British World War I Veteran for service in France
• Athanase David
  Athanase David
  Louis Athanase David was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and businessman. He is son of Laurent-Olivier David, also a Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician....
  
  
• Michel David-Weill
  Michel David-Weill
  Michel David-Weill is a French investment banker and former Chairman of New York City based Lazard Frères.He is the son of Berthe Haardt and Lazard Frères chairman Pierre David-Weill...
  
  
• Miles Davis
  Miles Davis
  Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...
  
  
• Michael S. Davison
  Michael S. Davison
  Michael Shannon Davison was a United States Army four star general who served as Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe/Commander, Central Army Group from 1971 to 1975.-Military career:...
  
  
• Louis-Nicolas Davout
• Alma de Bretteville Spreckels
  Alma de Bretteville Spreckels
  Alma de Bretteville Spreckels , known both as "Big Alma" and "The Great Grandmother of San Francisco", was a wealthy socialite and philanthropist who, among her many accomplishments, persuaded her first husband, sugar magnate Adolph B...
  
  
• Clara Longworth de Chambrun
  Clara Longworth de Chambrun
  Clara Eleanor Longworth de Chambrun, Comtesse de Chambrun was an American patron of the arts and scholar of Shakespeare.- Life :...
  
  
• George W. Deckard (1896–2001) USA World War I Veteran for service in France
• André Debry
  André Debry
  André Léon Alphonse Debry was, at age 107, one of the last surviving French veterans of the First World War. He was later created an officer of the Legion d'Honneur, both for his war record, and for his work as principal of a school.Debry was born in Rosières-en-Santerre . He was a soldier in the...
  
  
• Reza Deghati
  Reza Deghati
  Reza Deghati, born 1952 in Tabriz, Iran is an Iranian-French photojournalist, who works under the name Reza .-Biography:Reza has covered much of the globe for National Geographic Magazine. Several films about Reza's work have been produced by National Geographic Television, most notably Frontline...
  
   (1952–), Iranian photojournalist
  Photojournalism
  Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism that creates images in order to tell a news story. It is now usually understood to refer only to still images, but in some cases the term also refers to video used in broadcast journalism...
  
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• Simone Del Duca
  Simone Del Duca
  Simone Del Duca was a French businesswoman, a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, and major philanthropist. Married to French publishing magnate Cino Del Duca, on his death in 1967 she was left with a considerable fortune...
  
  
• Cino Del Duca
  Cino Del Duca
  Cino Del Duca was an Italian-born businessman film producer and philanthropist who moved to France in 1923 where he made a fortune in the French publishing business.-Biography:...
  
  
• Léon Delagrange
  Léon Delagrange
  Léon Delagrange Léon Delagrange Léon Delagrange (Ferdinand Léon Delagrange; March 13, 1873 was a pioneer French aviator and also a sculptor .He was born at Orléans and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris...
  
  
• Sonia Delaunay
  Sonia Delaunay
  Sonia Delaunay was a Jewish-French artist who, with her husband Robert Delaunay and others, cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. Her work extends to painting, textile design and stage set design...
  
  
• Eugène Deloncle
  Eugène Deloncle
  Eugène Deloncle was a French engineer and Fascist leader, and the adoptive father of Jacques Corrèze....
  
  
• Mimi Denisi (Μιμή Ντενίση), Greek actress
• Gérard Depardieu
  Gérard Depardieu
  Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu is a French actor and filmmaker. He is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite and has twice won the César Award for Best Actor...
  
  
• William E. DePuy
  William E. DePuy
  William Eugene DePuy was a U.S. Army general and the first commander of the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command. He is widely regarded as one of the principal architects of the restructuring of U.S. Army doctrine after the American withdrawal from Vietnam.-Early life and career:DePuy...
  
  
• Louis Dewis
  Louis Dewis
  Louis Dewis was a Belgian Post-Impressionist painter, who lived most of his adult life in France.-Early life:Dewis was born Isidore Louis Dewachter in Mons, Belgium, the son of Isidore Louis Dewachter and Eloise Desmaret Dewachter...
  
  
• Harry DeWolf
  Harry DeWolf
  Vice Admiral Henry George "Harry" DeWolf was a Canadian naval officer who was made famous as the first commander of during World War II....
  
  
• Joseph T. Dickman
  Joseph T. Dickman
  Joseph Theodore Dickman was born in Dayton, Ohio. He attended the University of Dayton and graduated in the class of 1871. In 1881 he graduated from the U.S...
  
  
• Laure Diebold
  Laure Diebold
  Laure Diebold, sometimes written Laure Diebolt was a high-profile female member of the French Resistance during World War II. She was also the private secretary of Jean Moulin before being arrested then deported from 1943 to 1945 to the Nazi camp of Auschwitz, Ravensbrück and finally Buchenwald...
  
  
• Marlene Dietrich
  Marlene Dietrich
  Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the 1920s, she acted on the stage and in silent films...
  
  
• Céline Dion
  Celine Dion
  Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...
  
  
• Jacques Diouf
  Jacques Diouf
  Jacques Diouf is a Senegalese diplomat with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. He has been serving as Director-General of FAO since January 1994...
  
  
• Do Cao Tri
  Do Cao Tri
  Lieutenant General Đỗ Cao Trí was a general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam known for his fighting prowess and flamboyant style. Tri started out in the French Army before transferring to the Vietnamese National Army and the ARVN...
  
  
• Douglas Dodds-Parker
  Douglas Dodds-Parker
  Sir Arthur Douglas Dodds-Parker was a member of the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War, and later a British Conservative Party politician....
  
  
• Arnold Dolmetsch
  Arnold Dolmetsch
  Arnold Dolmetsch , was a French-born musician and instrument maker who spent much of his working life in England and established an instrument-making workshop in Haslemere, Surrey...
  
  
• Kees van Dongen
  Kees van Dongen
  Cornelis Theodorus Maria van Dongen , usually known as Kees van Dongen or just Van Dongen, was a Dutch painter and one of the Fauves. He gained a reputation for his sensuous, at times garish, portraits....
  
  
• William Joseph Donovan
  William Joseph Donovan
  William Joseph Donovan was a United States soldier, lawyer and intelligence officer, best remembered as the wartime head of the Office of Strategic Services...
  
   (1883–1959) USA World War I for service in France
• Gustave Doret
  Gustave Doret
  Gustave Doret was a Swiss composer and conductor.Doret was born in 1866 in Aigle, Switzerland. He studied at the Berlin Academy of Music with Joseph Joachim, and then at the Paris Conservatory with Théodore Dubois and Jules Massenet...
  
  
• Kirk Douglas
  Kirk Douglas
  Kirk Douglas is an American stage and film actor, film producer and author. His popular films include Out of the Past , Champion , Ace in the Hole , The Bad and the Beautiful , Lust for Life , Paths of Glory , Gunfight at the O.K...
  
  
• Henry Doulton
  Henry Doulton
  Sir Henry Doulton was an English businessman, inventor and manufacturer of pottery, instrumental in developing the firm of Royal Doulton....
  
  
• Wayne A. Downing
  Wayne A. Downing
  Wayne Allan Downing was a retired four-star United States Army general born in Peoria, Illinois. He graduated from the United States Military Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1962 and holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Tulane University.-Military career:*Sep 62 - Feb...
  
  
• Alfred Dreyfus
  Alfred Dreyfus
  Alfred Dreyfus was a French artillery officer of Jewish background whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most tense political dramas in modern French and European history...
  
  
• Gustave Duchesne de Bellecourt
  Gustave Duchesne de Bellecourt
  Gustave Duchesne, Prince de Bellecourt was a 19th-century French diplomat who was active in Asia, and especially in Japan. He was the first French official representative in Japan from 1859 to 1864, following the signature of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between France and Japan in...
  
  
• Francis P. Duffy
  Francis P. Duffy
  Francis Patrick Duffy was an American soldier, Roman Catholic priest and chaplain. As the chaplain for the "Fighting 69th", he became the most highly decorated cleric in the history of the U.S. Army. Duffy Square, the northern half of Times Square, is named after him.-Early life and...
  
  
• Alexandre Dumas, fils
  Alexandre Dumas, fils
  Alexandre Dumas, fils was a French author and dramatist. He was the son of Alexandre Dumas, père, also a writer and playwright.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jules Dumont d'Urville
  Jules Dumont d'Urville
  Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville was a French explorer, naval officer and rear admiral, who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica.-Childhood:Dumont was born at Condé-sur-Noireau...
  
  
• Richard Saunders Dundas
  Richard Saunders Dundas
  Vice Admiral The Hon. Sir Richard Saunders Dundas, KCB was a British naval officer and was the British First Sea Lord from 1857 to 1858 and again from 1859 until his death in 1861.-Early life:...
  
  
• John Dunmore
  John Dunmore
  John Dunmore CMNZ is a prominent New Zealand academic, historian, author, playwright, and publisher.Dunmore was born in Trouville-sur-Mer, France, lived in Jersey under German Occupation during World War II, and then in England, where he received a BA from the University of London. He emigrated to...
  
   (1923–) – New Zealand historian
• Anny Duperey
  Anny Duperey
  -External links:*...
  
  
• Charles François Dupuis
  Charles François Dupuis
  Charles François Dupuis was a French savant, a professor of rhetoric at the Collège de Lisieux, Paris, who studied for the law in his spare time and was received as avocat in 1770...
  
  
• Marcel Déat
  Marcel Déat
  Marcel Déat was a French Socialist until 1933, when he initiated a spin-off from the French Section of the Workers' International along with other right-wing 'Neosocialists'. He then founded the collaborationist National Popular Rally during the Vichy regime...
  
  
• Durga Charan Rakshit – India

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• Ira C. Eaker
• Clint Eastwood
  Clint Eastwood
  Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...
  
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• Shirin Ebadi
  Shirin Ebadi
  Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer, a former judge and human rights activist and founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. On 10 October 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially women's,...
  
  
• Félix Éboué
  Félix Éboué
  Félix Adolphe Éboué was a Black French colonial administrator and Free French leader. He was the first black French man appointed to high post in the French colonies, when appointed as Governor of Guadeloupe in 1936...
  
  
• Albert Edelfelt
  Albert Edelfelt
  Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt was a Swedish-speaking Finnish painter.Albert Edelfelt was born in Porvoo, Finland. His father Carl Albert was an architect. Edelfelt admired the poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg, who was a friend of the family...
  
  
• Clarence Ransom Edwards
  Clarence Ransom Edwards
  Clarence Ransom Edwards was an American general, known as the first Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, and for commanding the 26th Division in World War I....
  
  
• Frank Steven Edwards
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...
  
  
• Duke Ellington
  Duke Ellington
  Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...
  
  
• John R. Emmert Sr.
• Birger Eriksen
• Thomas W. Evans
  Thomas W. Evans
  Thomas Wiltberger Evans was a dentist. He performed dental procedures on many heads of state, including Napoleon III, and received numerous medals for his dentistry, including the Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur...
  
  
• Rémi Joseph Isidore Exelmans
  Rémi Joseph Isidore Exelmans
  Rémi Joseph Isidore Exelmans, 1st Comte Exelmans was a distinguished French soldier of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, as well as a political figure of the following period.-Early career:...
  
  
• Léopold Eyharts
  Léopold Eyharts
  Léopold Eyharts is a Brigadier General in the French Air Force and an ESA astronaut.-Background:Eyharts was born April 28, 1957, in Biarritz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France...
  
  

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• Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
  Douglas Elton Fairbanks, Jr. KBE was an American actor and a highly decorated naval officer of World War II.-Early life:...
  
  
• František Fajtl
  František Fajtl
  Lieutenant General František Fajtl was a Czech fighter pilot of World War II. He was a RAF squadron and wing commander and led a group of Czechoslovak fighter pilots who formed an air regiment under Soviet Air Force command, supporting the Slovak National Uprising in 1944...
  
  
• Henry Farman
  Henry Farman
  Henri Farman Henri Farman Henri Farman (26 May 1874 – 17 July 1958 was a French pilot, aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer with his brother Maurice Farman. His family was British and he took French nationality in 1937.-Biography:...
  
  
• Horace Farquhar, 1st Earl Farquhar
  Horace Farquhar, 1st Earl Farquhar
  Horace Brand Farquhar, 1st Earl Farquhar GCB, GCVO, PC , was a British financier, courtier and Conservative politician.-Background:...
  
  
• Charles S. Farnsworth
  Charles S. Farnsworth
  Charles Stewart Farnsworth was an American general and civic leader.-Early life:Farnsworth was born in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania and attended local public schools...
  
  
• Faucher de Saint-Maurice
  Faucher de Saint-Maurice
  Narcisse Henri Édouard Faucher was a Canadian author, journalist, army officer, and politician who published books under the name Faucher de Saint-Maurice.-Life:...
  
  
• Logan Feland
  Logan Feland
  Major General Logan Feland was a United States Marine Corps general who last served as Commanding General of the Department of the Pacific...
  
  
• Francis Worgan Festing
  Francis Worgan Festing
  Colonel Francis Worgan Festing was a British Royal Marines officer.Festing, second son of Captain Benjamin Morton Festing, R.N., K.H., by Caroline Jane, only daughter of F. B. Wright of Hinton Blewett, Somersetshire, was born at High Littleton, Somerset, 24 July 1833...
  
  
• David Feuerwerker
  David Feuerwerker
  - Born in Geneva :He was born on October 2, 1912, at 11 Rue du Mont-Blanc, in Geneva, Switzerland. He was the seventh of eleven children. His father Jacob Feuerwerker was born in Sighet, now Sighetu Marmatiei, Maramureş, then Hungary, now Rumania...
  
  
• Art Fiala
  Art Fiala
  Arthur Fiala was, at age 106, one of the last surviving American World War I veterans, and the very last in Wisconsin.-Biography:...
  
  
• Eugen Filotti
  Eugen Filotti
  Eugen Filotti was a Romanian diplomat, journalist and writer. As a diplomat he worked at the League of Nations in Geneva and then as minister plenipotentiary in Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria and Hungary. As minister plenipotentiary to Budapest he issued transit visas for Jews during the Holocaust...
  
  
• Alfred Finnigan
  Alfred Finnigan
  Alfred Benjamin Finnigan was a British soldier who fought in World War I and gained fame because of his longevity...
  
  
• Hicri Fişek
  Hicri Fişek
  Prof. Dr. Hicri Fişek was a professor of international law.Founded the "Tevfik Fikret" high-school in Ankara . He received the French Légion d'Honneur . Doctor honoris causa, University of Strasbourg 1974.- External links :*...
  
  
• Şadan Fişek
  Şadan Fişek
  Şadan Fişek was President of the Association Culturelle Turquie France, a cultural association between France and Turkey and founding member of the Association for Development of Early Childhood Education in Turkey. She received the French Légion d'Honneur in 1989.-References:...
  
  
• Eugène Fiset
  Eugène Fiset
  Sir Marie-Joseph-Eugène Fiset, KCMG was a Canadian physician, military officer, Member of Parliament and the 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec....
  
  
• Hamilton Fish III
  Hamilton Fish III
  Hamilton Fish III was a soldier and politician from New York State...
  
  
• Renée Fleming
  Renée Fleming
  Renée Fleming is an American soprano specializing in opera and lieder. Fleming has a full lyric soprano voice.Fleming has performed coloratura, lyric, and lighter spinto soprano repertoires. She has sung roles in Italian, German, French, Czech, and Russian, aside from her native English. She also...
  
  
• Robert John Fleming
  Robert John Fleming
  Robert John Fleming was Governor of the Panama Canal Zone from 1962 to 1967 although his largely successful tenure was marred in 1964 by the issue over whether the Panamanian Flag should be flown alongside the Panama Canal Zone Flag on public buildings...
  
  
• Maurice Floquet
  Maurice Floquet
  Maurice Noël Floquet was, at age 111, France's oldest man on record and was one of the last surviving French veterans of World War I. He was, at the age of 111 years and 320 days, France's longest-lived soldier ever. Moreover, Maurice was France's oldest living man for more than four years...
  
  
• Brian Flowers, Baron Flowers
  Brian Flowers, Baron Flowers
  Brian Hilton Flowers, Baron Flowers FRS was a British physicist and academican.-Early life and studies:The son of Reverend Harold Joseph Flowers, he was educated at the Bishop Gore School in Swansea and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Master of Arts...
  
  
• Ferdinand Foch
  Ferdinand Foch
  Ferdinand Foch , GCB, OM, DSO was a French soldier, war hero, military theorist, and writer credited with possessing "the most original and subtle mind in the French army" in the early 20th century. He served as general in the French army during World War I and was made Marshal of France in its...
  
  
• René Fonck
  René Fonck
  René Paul Fonck was a French aviator who ended the First World War as the top Allied fighter ace, and when all succeeding aerial conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries are also considered, Fonck still holds the title of "all-time Allied Ace of Aces". He received confirmation for 75 victories ...
  
  
• Just Fontaine
  Just Fontaine
  Just "Justo" Fontaine is a former French football player.-Football career:He holds the record for most goals scored in a single FIFA World Cup finals tournament, with 13 in 1958...
  
  
• George Forbes (scientist)
  George Forbes (scientist)
  George Forbes FRS was an electrical engineer, astronomer, explorer, author and inventor, some of whose inventions are still in use.-Early life:...
  
  
• Glenn Ford
  Glenn Ford
  Glenn Ford was a Canadian-born American actor from Hollywood's Golden Era with a career that spanned seven decades...
  
  
• Victor Fortune
  Victor Fortune
  Major-General Sir Victor Morven Fortune KBE, CB, DSO was a British Army officer. He saw service in both World Wars...
  
  
• Tsuguharu Foujita
  Tsuguharu Foujita
  was a painter and printmaker born in Tokyo, Japan who applied Japanese ink techniques to Western style paintings.- Education :In 1910 when he was twenty-four years old Foujita graduated from what is now the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music....
  
  
• Maximilien Sebastien Foy
  Maximilien Sebastien Foy
  Maximilien Sébastien Foy was a French military leader, statesman and writer.-Revolution:He was born in Ham, Somme, and educated in the military school of La Fere, and made sub-lieutenant of artillery in 1792. He was present at the battles of Valmy and Jemappes, and in 1793 obtained a company, as...
  
  
• Abraham Foxman
  Abraham Foxman
  Abraham H. Foxman is the National Director of the Anti-Defamation League.-Early life:Foxman, an only son, was born in Baranovichi, just months after the USSR took the town from Poland in the Nazi-Soviet Pact and incorporated it into the BSSR. The town is now in Belarus...
  
  
• Français of Nantes
  Français of Nantes
  Antoine, comte Français of Nantes , better known as Français of Nantes, was a French politician and author active during the French Revolution and Empire.-Revolution:...
  
  
• Auguste Franchomme
  Auguste Franchomme
  Auguste-Joseph Franchomme was a French cellist and composer.Born in Lille, Franchomme studied at the local conservatoire with M...
  
  
• Aleksander Fredro
  Aleksander Fredro
  Aleksander Fredro was a Polish poet, playwright and author.-Life:Count Aleksander Fredro, of the Bończa coat of arms, was born in the village of Surochów near Jarosław, then a crown territory of Austria. A landowner's son, he was educated at home. He entered the Polish army at age 16 and saw...
  
  
• Paul L. Freeman, Jr.
  Paul L. Freeman, Jr.
  Paul LaMarch Freeman, Jr. was a United States Army four star general who served as Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe/Commander, Central Army Group from 1962 to 1965 and Commanding General, U.S...
  
  
• Frederick Carl Frieseke
  Frederick Carl Frieseke
  Frederick Carl Frieseke was an American Impressionist painter who spent most of his life as an expatriate in France. An influential member of the Giverny art colony, his paintings often concentrated on various effects of dappled sunlight...
  
  
• Varian Fry
  Varian Fry
  Varian Mackey Fry was an American journalist. Fry ran a rescue network in Vichy France that helped approximately 2,000 to 4,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to escape Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.-Early life:...
  
  

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• Gabby Gabreski
  Gabby Gabreski
  Francis Stanley "Gabby" Gabreski was the top American fighter ace in Europe during World War II, a jet fighter ace in Korea, and a career officer in the United States Air Force with more than 26 years service.Although best known for his credited destruction of 34½ aircraft in aerial combat and...
  
  
• Akseli Gallen-Kallela
  Akseli Gallen-Kallela
  Akseli Gallen-Kallela was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic . His work was considered very important for the Finnish national identity...
  
  
• Valentino Garavani
• Gabriel García Márquez
  Gabriel García Márquez
  Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. He is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in...
  
  
• Timothy Garden, Baron Garden
  Timothy Garden, Baron Garden
  Air Marshal Timothy Garden, Baron Garden, KCB, FRAeS, FRUSI, FCGI was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force and later became a university professor and a Liberal Democrat politician....
  
  
• Jean-Claude Gaudin
  Jean-Claude Gaudin
  Jean-Claude Gaudin is a French politician. He has been Mayor of Marseille since 1995 and Vice-President of the Senate since 1998; additionally, he has been Vice-President of the Union for a Popular Movement since 2002.-Early life:...
  
  
• James M. Gavin
  James M. Gavin
  James Maurice "Jumpin' Jim" Gavin was a prominent Lieutenant General in the United States Army during World War II...
  
  
• Hobart R. Gay
  Hobart R. Gay
  Lieutenant General Hobart Raymond Gay , nicknamed "Hap", was a United States Army general.-Early military career:...
  
  
• George Reginald Geary
  George Reginald Geary
  George Reginald Geary, PC, OBE, MC, KC was Mayor of Toronto, Ontario from 1910 to 1912.During his term in office he announced plans for a new Harbor board. Geary said, "We have a magnificent harbor but we have failed miserably to avail ourselves of nature's generosity...
  
  
• Jacob Casson Geiger
  Jacob Casson Geiger
  A native of Alexandria, Rapides Parish, in the U.S. state of Louisiana, Jacob Casson Geiger was a graduate of Tulane University and for many years in San Francisco and Oakland, California, city director of public health and the 1935 president of the San Francisco Medical Society...
  
  
• Étienne Maurice Gérard
  Étienne Maurice Gérard
  Étienne Maurice Gérard, comte Gérard was a French general and statesman. He served under a succession of French governments including the ancien regime monarchy, the Revolutionary governments, the Restorations, the July Monarchy, the First and Second Republics, and the First Empire , becoming...
  
  
• Alain Gerbault
  Alain Gerbault
  Alain J. Gerbault was a French aviator and tennis champion, who made a circumnavigation of the world as a single-handed sailor. He eventually settled in the islands of south Pacific Ocean, where he wrote several books about the islanders' way of life.- Early life :Alain Gerbault was born on...
  
  
• Paul Gérin-Lajoie
  Paul Gérin-Lajoie
  Paul Gérin-Lajoie, is a Canadian lawyer, philanthropist, and a former member of the National Assembly of Quebec and Cabinet Minister....
  
  
• Leonard T. Gerow
  Leonard T. Gerow
  Leonard Townsend Gerow was a United States Army general.-Early life:Gerow was born in Petersburg, Virginia. The name Gerow is derived from the French name "Giraud". Gerow attended high school in Petersburg and then attended the Virginia Military Institute. He was three times elected class...
  
  
• Josephine deGersdorff
• Colonel Walter Giblin World War II Deputy Director O.S.S. Paris
• Henri Giffard
  Henri Giffard
  Henri Giffard was a French engineer. In 1852 he invented the steam injector and the powered airship.-Career:Baptiste Henri Jacques Giffard was born in Paris in 1825...
  
  
• Pierre Giffard
  Pierre Giffard
  Pierre Giffard was a French journalist, a pioneer of modern political reporting, a newspaper publisher and a prolific sports organiser...
  
  
• Gilberto Gil
  Gilberto Gil
  Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira , better known as Gilberto Gil or , is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and political commitment...
  
  
• Guy Gilbert
  Guy Gilbert
  Father Guy Gilbert is a French Roman Catholic priest and educator.Born in Rochefort, Gilbert was educated at a seminary in Algeria and ministered in Algiers until 1970. He returned to France, to Paris, where he specialised in working with juvenile delinquents in the working-class XIXe...
  
  
• Virginia Gildersleeve
  Virginia Gildersleeve
  Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve was an American academic, the long-time Dean of Barnard College, and the sole female US delegate to the April 1945 San Francisco United Nations Conference on International Organization, which negotiated the UN Charter and created the United...
  
  
• Françoise Gilot
• Pierre Gilliard
  Pierre Gilliard
  Pierre Gilliard was a Swiss academic, who was French language tutor to the five children of Tsar Nicholas II from 1905 to 1918. Years after the Imperial Family was assassinated by the Bolsheviks in July 1918, Gilliard wrote a book Thirteen Years at the Russian Court, about his time with the family...
  
  
• Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn
  Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn
  Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn, GCMG, GCVO, CB, known as Gladwyn Jebb , was a prominent British civil servant, diplomat and politician as well as the Acting Secretary-General of the United Nations....
  
  
• Lady Feodora Gleichen
  Lady Feodora Gleichen
  Lady Feodora Georgina Maud Gleichen was a British sculptress of figures and portrait busts and designer of decorative objects....
  
  
• Jane Goodall
  Jane Goodall
  Dame Jane Morris Goodall, DBE , is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 45-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National...
  
  
• Allan Goodman
• Adoor Gopalakrishnan
  Adoor Gopalakrishnan
  Moutatthu "Adoor" Gopalakrishnan Unnithan is an Indian film director, script writer, and producer. Adoor Gopalakrishnan had a major role in revolutionizing Malayalam cinema and is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of India.. Adoor's first film Swayamvaram pioneered the new wave cinema...
  
  , India
• Nadine Gordimer
  Nadine Gordimer
  Nadine Gordimer is a South African writer and political activist. She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature when she was recognised as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".Her writing has long dealt...
  
   (1923–), South African novelist and writer
• Amédée Gordini
  Amédée Gordini
  Amédée Gordini was an Italian-born race car driver and sports car manufacturer in France.Gordini was born in Bazzano, Province of Bologna in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. He was a young boy when he became fascinated with automobiles and racing. In his early teens, he worked as a...
  
  
• Pete Goss
  Pete Goss
  Pete Goss, MBE is a British yachtsman who has clocked up at sea.A former Royal Marine, he is famous for his pioneering project Team Philips. He received a Legion d'Honneur for saving fellow sailor Raphaël Dinelli in the 1996 Vendée Globe solo around the world yacht race...
  
  
• Derrick Gosselin
  Derrick Gosselin
  Derrick Philippe Boduin Gosselin is a Flemish - Belgian engineer and economist. Currently Head of Cabinet of the Minister President of the Flemish Government. He is a specialist in energy and in international strategy and marketing....
  
  
• Théodore Gosselin
  Théodore Gosselin
  Louis Léon Théodore Gosselin was a French historian and playwright who wrote under the pen name G. Lenotre. He wrote articles in publications such as Le Figaro, Revue des deux mondes, Le Monde illustré and Le Temps...
  
  
• Henri Gouhier
  Henri Gouhier
  Henri Gouhier was a French philosopher, a historian of philosophy, and a literary critic.Born in Auxerre, Yonne, his educational studies led to a doctorate in 1926...
  
  
• Bill Graham
  Bill Graham
  William Carvel "Bill" Graham, PC QC is a former Canadian politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of National Defence, and Leader of the Opposition and interim Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Arthur Forbes, 9th Earl of Granard
  Arthur Forbes, 9th Earl of Granard
  Arthur Forbes, 9th Earl of Granard, AFC, He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He received a BA from Cambridge University in 1937....
  
  
• David E. Grange, Jr.
• Ulysses S. Grant III
  Ulysses S. Grant III
  Ulysses Simpson Grant III was the son of Frederick Dent Grant, and the grandson of General of the Army and President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant. He was an American soldier and planner...
  
  
• Jules Gravereaux
  Jules Gravereaux
  Jules Gravereaux was a French rosarian. He was a top executive at the department store Le Bon Marché and in 1892 purchased land at the village of L'Haÿ about 8 km south of Paris. There, he built the first ever complete garden devoted exclusively to roses...
  
  
• Cary Travers Grayson
  Cary Travers Grayson
  Admiral Cary Travers Grayson was a surgeon in the United States Navy who served a variety of roles from personal aide to President Woodrow Wilson to chairman of the American Red Cross.-Career:Grayson was born to Dr...
  
  
• John Campbell Greenway
  John Campbell Greenway
  John Campbell Greenway was an American mining, steel and railroad executive: a man of many trades in many states...
  
  
• Henri Grégoire
  Henri Grégoire
  Henri Grégoire , often referred to as Abbé Grégoire, was a French Roman Catholic priest, constitutional bishop of Blois and a revolutionary leader...
  
  
• Joseph-Ernest Grégoire
  Joseph-Ernest Grégoire
  Joseph-Ernest Grégoire was a French Canadian politician.-Background:He was born in Disraeli, Quebec on July 31, 1886. He was an attorney and a professor. He also was the father of Gilles Grégoire, a co-founder of the Parti Québécois....
  
  
• Earle Davis Gregory
• Robert Gregory
• Jean Grelaud
  Jean Grelaud
  Jean Grelaud was, at age 108, one of the last three "poilus" or official French veterans of the First World War. He died at the age of 108 years and 122 days.-Life:...
  
  
• James Grierson
  James Grierson
  Lieutenant General Sir James Moncrieff Grierson KCB, CMG, CVO, ADC was a British soldier.- Military career :Grierson was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1877....
  
  
• Stanislaw Grzmot-Skotnicki
  Stanislaw Grzmot-Skotnicki
  Stanisław Grzmot-Skotnicki was a Polish military commander and a general of the Polish Army. During the Invasion of Poland of 1939 he commanded the Czersk Operational Group and was among the highest ranking Polish officers to be killed in action in that war....
  
  
• Jean-Marie Guéhenno
  Jean-Marie Guéhenno
  Jean-Marie Guéhenno is a former French diplomat. He served as the United Nations' Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations. Guéhenno was appointed to the position in 2000 and retired in August 2008. He is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and the NYU Center on International...
  
  
• Michel Guérard
  Michel Guérard
  Michel Guérard is a French chef, author, one of the founders of nouvelle cuisine, and the inventor of cuisine minceur.- Biography :...
  
  
• Jose Gustavo Guerrero (1876–1958), Salvadoran lawyer, First President of The International Court of Justice in Holland
• Gordon Guggisberg
  Gordon Guggisberg
  Brigadier-General Sir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg, KCMG, DSO, , soldier and administrator, was born in Galt, Ontario, Canada, a second-generation descendant of an immigrant from Uetendorf, Canton Bern, Switzerland, the eldest son of Frederick Guggisberg, retail-goods merchant, of Galt, by his wife,...
  
  
• Sacha Guitry
  Sacha Guitry
  Alexandre-Pierre Georges Guitry was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the Boulevard theatre.- Biography :...
  
  
• Ara Güler
  Ara Güler
  Ara Güler is a Turkish photojournalist of Armenian descent, nicknamed "the Eye of Istanbul" or "the Photographer of Istanbul".- Early life :...
  
  
• Björn Gunnlaugsson
  Björn Gunnlaugsson
  Björn Gunnlaugsson was an Icelandic mathematician and cartographer. For the Icelandic Literary Society, he surveyed the country from 1831 to 1843. The results of his work were published in a topographic map of Iceland at a scale of 1:480,000 on four sheets...
  
  

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• Haakon VII of Norway
  Haakon VII of Norway
  Haakon VII , known as Prince Carl of Denmark until 1905, was the first king of Norway after the 1905 dissolution of the personal union with Sweden. He was a member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg...
  
  
• Otto von Habsburg
  Otto von Habsburg
  Otto von Habsburg , also known by his royal name as Archduke Otto of Austria, was the last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary from 1916 until the dissolution of the empire in 1918, a realm which comprised modern-day Austria, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia,...
  
  
• Oskar Halecki
  Oskar Halecki
  Oskar Halecki was a Polish historian, social and Catholic activist.As a historian, Halecki was an expert on medieval history of Poland and Lithuania, and history of Byzantine Empire....
  
  
• Arthur Halestrap
  Arthur Halestrap
  Arthur Halestrap MBE was one of the last surviving British soldiers of the First World War.Arthur Halestrap was born in Southampton, Hampshire. He tried to enlist in the British armed forces shortly after the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. His request was refused on account of his youth...
  
  
• Alphonse Halimi
  Alphonse Halimi
  Alphonse Halimi was a French boxer. He was nicknamed "la Petite Terreur."Time wrote of him: "Alphonse went to work with a street fighter's will. A grown-up guttersnipe from the back alleys of Algeria...
  
  
• Józef Haller de Hallenburg
  Józef Haller de Hallenburg
  Józef Haller de Hallenburg was a Lieutenant General of the Polish Army, legionary in Polish Legions, harcmistrz , the President of The Polish Scouting and Guiding Association , political and social activist, Stanisław Haller de Hallenburg's cousin.Haller was born in Jurczyce...
  
  
• Lionel Halsey
  Lionel Halsey
  Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey GCMG GCVO KCIE CB ADC was a British Royal Navy officer and courtier.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Edward Hamilton (officer)
  Edward Hamilton (officer)
  Edward Smith Hamilton was an American army officer during World War II, and later a Central Intelligence Agency operative in China, East Germany and Turkey....
  
  
• Alexander Hamilton-Gordon (1859-1939)
  Alexander Hamilton-Gordon (1859-1939)
  Lieutenant General Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon KCB was a British general during World War I.-Military career:Hamilton-Gordon was one of ten children of General Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon, K.C.B. and Caroline Herschel...
  
  
• Thomas T. Handy
  Thomas T. Handy
  Thomas Troy Handy was a United States Army four-star general who served as Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Army from 1944 to 1947; Commanding General, Fourth United States Army from 1947 to 1949; Commander in Chief, United States European Command from 1949 to 1952; Commander in Chief, U.S...
  
  
• Hector Hanoteau
  Hector Hanoteau
  Hector Hanoteau or Hector Charles Auguste Octave Constance Hanoteau was a French landscape painter, born at Decize in Nièvre. At the École des Beaux-Arts, he was a pupil of Gignoux, and devoted himself chiefly to landscapes, characterized by sturdy realism and skillful color...
  
  
• Moses Hardy
  Moses Hardy
  Moses Hardy was, at age 112 or 113, the last black veteran of World War I and one of the last surviving American veterans of that war. The son of former slaves, Hardy was born in either 1893 or 1894 and lived a religious and farming life until he signed up to serve overseas in World War I in July...
  
  
• David A. Harris
  David A. Harris
  - References :...
  
  
• Arthur A. Hartman
  Arthur A. Hartman
  Arthur Adair Hartman is a retired American career diplomat who served as Ambassador to France under Jimmy Carter and Ambassador to the Soviet Union under Ronald Reagan.-Career:...
  
  
• John F. "Jack" Hasey
• Ahmad Y Hassan
  Ahmad Y Hassan
  Ahmad Yusuf Al-Hassan is a historian of Arabic and Islamic science and technology, educated in Jerusalem, Cairo and London with a Ph.D. in Mechanical engineering from University College London. He was Dean of Engineering and later President of the University of Aleppo where he founded the...
  
  
• Baron Haussmann
  Baron Haussmann
  Georges-Eugène Haussmann, commonly known as Baron Haussmann , was a French civic planner whose name is associated with the rebuilding of Paris...
  
  
• Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul
  Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul
  Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul was a French cavalry general of the Napoleonic wars. He came from an old noble family of France whose military tradition extended for several centuries....
  
  
• Michael Heidelberger
  Michael Heidelberger
  Michael Heidelberger was an American immunologist who is regarded as the father of modern immunology. He and Oswald Avery showed that the polysaccharides of pneumococcus are antigens, enabling him to show that antibodies are proteins...
  
  
• Paul César Helleu
  Paul César Helleu
  Paul César Helleu was a French artist best known for his portraits of many of the most famous and beautiful women of his time including the Duchess of Marlborough, the Countess of Greffulhe, the Marchesa Casati and Belle da Costa Greene.-Biography:He was born in Vannes, Brittany, France...
  
  
• Ray Henault
  Ray Henault
  General Raymond Roland Joseph Henault, CMM, MSC, CD is a retired Canadian Air Force officer. He was the Chief of the Defence Staff of Canada from June 28, 2001...
  
  
• Edward Henry
  Edward Henry
  Sir Edward Richard Henry, 1st Baronet GCVO KCB CSI KPM was the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 1903 to 1918....
  
  
• Daniel Hernández (painter)
  Daniel Hernández (painter)
  Daniel Hernández Morillo was a Peruvian painter.Hernández was born in Hurpay, Huancavelica. He studied under Leonardo Barbieri, and in 1875, after attaining a scholarship from the Peruvian government, he travelled to Europe...
  
  
• H. Kent Hewitt
• Gustave-Adolphe Hirn
  Gustave-Adolphe Hirn
  Gustave-Adolphe Hirn was a French physicist, astronomer. mathematician and engineer who made important measurements of the mechanical equivalent of heat and contributions to the early development of thermodynamics...
  
  
• Lewis Hodges
  Lewis Hodges
  Air Chief Marshal Sir Lewis Macdonald Hodges KCB, CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar, DL was a pilot for Special Operations Executive in the Second World War, and later achieved high command in the Royal Air Force and NATO....
  
  
• Frans van der Hoff
  Frans van der Hoff
  Frans van der Hoff , or Francisco VanderHoff Boersma as he is called in Latin America, is a Dutch missionary who, in collaboration with Nico Roozen and ecumenical development agency Solidaridad, launched Max Havelaar, the first Fairtrade label in 1988...
  
  
• Boris Holban
• Lucius Roy Holbrook
  Lucius Roy Holbrook
  Lucius Roy Holbrook was a Major General who commanded of the United States Army's Philippine Department from 1936 to 1938....
  
  
• Wilhelmina Holladay
  Wilhelmina Holladay
  Wilhelmina Cole Holladay is an American art collector and patron, and co-founder of the National Museum of Women in the Arts....
  
  
• Bruce K. Holloway
  Bruce K. Holloway
  General Bruce Keener Holloway was an American Air Force general. A West Point graduate, he was a World War II fighter ace and later the commander in chief of the Strategic Air Command .-Early life and career:...
  
  
• James L. Holloway III
  James L. Holloway III
  James Lemuel Holloway III is a retired United States Navy admiral and naval aviator who was highly decorated for his actions during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. After the Vietnam War, he was posted to The Pentagon, where he established the Navy's Nuclear Powered Carrier...
  
  
• Robert R Holmes (1916–) for service in France during Word War II
• Hans Reidar Holtermann
  Hans Reidar Holtermann
  Hans Reidar Holtermann was a Norwegian military officer. Holtermann is best known as the commander of Hegra Fortress during the Battle of Hegra Fortress in the Norwegian Campaign of 1940....
  
  
• Angus Houston
  Angus Houston
  Air Chief Marshal Allan Grant "Angus" Houston AC, AFC is a retired senior commander of the Royal Australian Air Force and was the Chief of the Defence Force from 4 July 2005 until his retirement on 3 July 2011...
  
  
• Clark Howell
  Clark Howell
  Clark Howell was a Pulitzer Prize winning American newspaper man and politician from the state of Georgia.-Biography:Howell was born on September 21, 1863 in Atlanta, Georgia...
  
  
• Clarence R. Huebner
  Clarence R. Huebner
  Clarence Ralph Huebner was a Lieutenant General of the United States Army.-World War I:A farm boy from Bushton, Kansas who spent almost seven years serving from private to sergeant in the 18th Infantry, Huebner received a regular commission in November 1916...
  
  
• Tom Hughes
• Victor Hugo
  Victor Hugo
  Victor-Marie Hugo was a Frenchpoet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France....
  
  
• Husain Bey, Crown Prince of Tunisia
  Husain Bey, Crown Prince of Tunisia
  Husain Bey Gouta, Crown Prince of Tunisia was the titular head of the Husainid Dynasty. He was the third son of Muhammad V an-Nasir, Bey of Tunis, by his second wife, Lalla Husn ul-Ujud, from 1906 until 1922.-Biography:...
  
  
• James Hutchison (British politician)
• Robert Hutchison, 1st Baron Hutchison of Montrose
  Robert Hutchison, 1st Baron Hutchison of Montrose
  Major-General Robert Hutchison, 1st Baron Hutchison of Montrose KCMG, CB, DSO, PC was a Scottish soldier and Liberal politician.-Background:Hutchison was the son of Alexander Hutchison, of Braehead, Kirkcaldy, Fife...
  
  
• Joris-Karl Huysmans
  Joris-Karl Huysmans
  Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans was a French novelist who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans . He is most famous for the novel À rebours...
  
  

I

• Khalil Ibrahim
  Khalil Ibrahim
  Dr. Khalil Ibrahim is the leader of the Zaghawa-dominated Darfurian rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement . -History:Ibrahim is from the Koba branch of the Zaghawa ethnic group, which is located mainly in Sudan, with a minority on the Chad side of the border...
  
   Pasha
• Jean Ichbiah
  Jean Ichbiah
  Jean David Ichbiah was a French-born computer scientist and the chief designer of Ada, a general-purpose, strongly typed programming language with certified validated compilers....
  
  
• René Iché
  René Iché
  For the town in Morocco see Iche, MoroccoRené Iché was a 20th century French sculptor.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Im Kwon-taek
  Im Kwon-taek
  Im Kwon-taek is one of South Korea's most renowned film directors. In an active and prolific career, his films have won many domestic and international film festival awards as well as considerable box-office success, and helped bring international attention to the Korean film industry.- Early life...
  
  
• Toomas Hendrik Ilves
  Toomas Hendrik Ilves
  Toomas Hendrik Ilves is the fourth and current President of Estonia. He is a former diplomat and journalist, was the leader of the Social Democratic Party in the 1990s and later a member of the European Parliament...
  
  
• Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside
  Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside
  Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside GCB, CMG, CBE, DSO, was a British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the first year of the Second World War....
  
  
• Saad Hariri
  Saad Hariri
  Saad-eddine Rafiq Al-Hariri is a Saudi-Lebanese billionaire who served as the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 2009 until 2011. He is the second son of Rafiq Hariri, the former Lebanese Prime Minister who was assassinated in 2005...
  
  

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• Jean Michel Jarre
  Jean Michel Jarre
  Jean Michel André Jarre is a French composer, performer and music producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient and New Age genres, and known as an organiser of outdoor spectacles of his music featuring lights, laser displays, and fireworks.Jarre was raised in Lyon by his mother and...
  
  
• Jean-Paul Jauffret
• George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe
  George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe
  George Patrick John Rushworth Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, KBE, DSO, MC, PC, FRS was a British politician and statesman, diplomat and businessman....
  
  
• Jean Jérome
  Jean Jérome
  Jean Jérome was a Polish Jew-French communist activist and Resistance member.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jin Yong
• Joseph Joffre
  Joseph Joffre
  Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre OM was a French general during World War I. He is most known for regrouping the retreating allied armies to defeat the Germans at the strategically decisive First Battle of the Marne in 1914. His popularity led to his nickname Papa Joffre.-Biography:Joffre was born in...
  
  
• Johnnie Johnson (RAF officer)
• Leon W. Johnson
  Leon W. Johnson
  General Leon William Johnson was a United States Air Force 4-star general and World War II Medal of Honor recipient.-Early life:...
  
  
• Johnson, Percy Victor (1899–2003) for service in France during WW1
• Pierre Joliot
  Pierre Joliot
  Pierre Joliot is a noted French biologist and researcher for the CNRS. A researcher there since 1956, he became a Director of Research in 1974 and a member of their scientific council in 1992. He was a scientific advisor to the French Prime Minister from 1985 to 1986 and is a member of Academia...
  
  
• Louis Jourdan, French actor
• Serge Joyal
  Serge Joyal
  Serge Joyal, PC, OC, OQ is a Canadian Senator. A lawyer by profession, Joyal served as vice-president of the Quebec wing of the Liberal Party of Canada...
  
  
• Mychal F. Judge
  Mychal F. Judge
  Mychal F. Judge, OFM was a Roman Catholic priest of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor, Chaplain of the Fire Department of New York and the first certified fatality of the September 11, 2001 attacks.-Early years:Robert Emmet Judge was the son of Irish Catholic immigrants from County Leitrim and...
  
  

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• Jan Kaczmarek
• Jean-Pierre Kahane
  Jean-Pierre Kahane
  Jean-Pierre Kahane is a French mathematician.Kahane attended the École normale supérieure and obtained the agrégation of mathematics in 1949. He then worked for the CNRS from 1949 to 1954, first as an intern and then as a research assistant...
  
  
• Feridun Karakaya
  Feridun Karakaya
  Feridun Karakaya was a well known Turkish comedy actor.-Biography:Karakaya educated in Kabataş Erkek Lisesi. He took part in several stage and film productions between years 1955 and 2002. He is best remembered with his famous character "Cilalı İbo" . He died of heart failure at the age of 76...
  
  
• Juhani Kaskeala
  Juhani Kaskeala
  Admiral Pauli Juhani Kaskeala is a senior Finnish admiral and was Chief of Defence of the Finnish Defence Forces from 2001 to August 1, 2009....
  
  
• Bentley Kassal
  Bentley Kassal
  Bentley Kassal an attorney, is a litigation counsel with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York City. He is a retired New York State Assemblyman, a retired judge of the New York State Courts, at every level, and a World War II veteran...
  
  
• Harry B. Kates, Jr  WW2 Veteran (1923–)
• Aki Kaurismäki
  Aki Kaurismäki
  -Career:After studying Media Studies at the University of Tampere, Aki Kaurismäki started his career as a co-director in the films of his elder brother Mika Kaurismäki. His debut as an independent director was Crime and Punishment , Dostoyevsky's famous crime story set in modern-day Helsinki...
  
  
• Danny Kaye
  Danny Kaye
  Danny Kaye was a celebrated American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian...
  
  
• Tevfik Remzi Kazancıgil, Turkish physician
  Physician
  A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
  
   and Professor
  Professor
  A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
  
   in Medicine
  Medicine
  Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
  
  , received the Légion d'honneur on September 14, 1954
• Frank B. Kellogg
  Frank B. Kellogg
  Frank Billings Kellogg was an American lawyer, politician and statesman who served in the U.S. Senate and as U.S. Secretary of State. He co-authored the Kellogg-Briand Pact, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1929..- Biography :Kellogg was born in Potsdam, New York, and his family...
  
  
• Gene Kelly
  Gene Kelly
  Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer...
  
  
• Raymond W. Kelly
  Raymond W. Kelly
  Raymond Walter Kelly is the current Commissioner of the New York City Police Department and the first person to hold the post for two non-consecutive tenures. A lifelong New Yorker, Kelly has spent 31 years in the NYPD, serving in 25 different commands and as Police Commissioner from 1992 to 1994...
  
  
• Yasar Kemal
  Yasar Kemal
  Yaşar Kemal, is a Turkish writer. He is one of Turkey's leading writers. He has long been a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, on the strength of Memed, My Hawk....
  
  
• Raymond Kendall
  Raymond Kendall
  Raymond Edward Kendall , QPM is a British law enforcement officer and former Interpol Secretary-General.-Biography:Kendall commenced military service in the Royal Air Force in 1951, serving in Malaya . He joined the Metropolitan Police in 1962, spending most of his service in Special Branch and...
  
  
• Mohamad Keyvan, Iranian civil engineer
  Civil engineer
  A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering; the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.Originally, a...
  
  , poet, scholar – Père Lachaise Cemetery
  Père Lachaise Cemetery
  Père Lachaise Cemetery is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris, France , though there are larger cemeteries in the city's suburbs.Père Lachaise is in the 20th arrondissement, and is reputed to be the world's most-visited cemetery, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors annually to the...
  
  
• Abbas Kiarostami
  Abbas Kiarostami
  Abbas Kiarostami is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries...
  
   (1940–), Iranian film director
  Film director
  A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
  
  , screenwriter
  Screenwriter
  Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
  
  , and film producer
  Film producer
  A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...
  
  
• Dame Carol Kidu
  Carol Kidu
  Dame Carol Kidu, Lady Kidu, DBE is an Australian-born Papua New Guinean politician. She is the only current female member of Parliament, and served as Minister for Community Development under Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare from 2002 to 2011...
  
   (1948–), Papua New Guinea
  Papua New Guinea
  Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...
  
  n politician and human rights campaigner
• Philippe Kieffer
  Philippe Kieffer
  Philippe Kieffer , capitaine de frégate in the French Navy, was a French officer and political personality, and a hero of the Free French Forces.- Life and career :...
  
  
• Jean-Claude Killy
  Jean-Claude Killy
  Jean-Claude Killy was an alpine ski racer, who dominated the sport in the late 1960s. He was a triple Olympic champion, winning the three alpine events at the 1968 Winter Olympics, becoming the most successful athlete there...
  
  
• Ernest King
  Ernest King
  Fleet Admiral Ernest Joseph King was Commander in Chief, United States Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations during World War II. As COMINCH, he directed the United States Navy's operations, planning, and administration and was a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was the U.S...
  
  
• Julian Klaczko
  Julian Klaczko
  Julian Klaczko was a Polish author.Born Jehuda Lejb into a wealthy Jewish family, he studied in Vilna and Königsberg. In 1847, he took PhD title...
  
  
• Franciszek Kleeberg
  Franciszek Kleeberg
  Franciszek Kleeberg was a Polish general. He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army before joining the Polish Legions in World War I and later the Polish Army. During the German Invasion of Poland he commanded Independent Operational Group Polesie...
  
  
• Matti Klinge
  Matti Klinge
  Matti Klinge is a Finnish historian.He studied at the University of Helsinki and gained his Ph.D. in 1969. Later, he was Visiting Professor at the University of Paris 1970–1972, and held the Swedish Professorship of History at the University of Helsinki between 1975 and 2001. Klinge is one...
  
  
• Dorothea Klumpke
  Dorothea Klumpke
  Dorothea Klumpke Roberts was an astronomer.-Biography:Her father, John Gerard Klumpke , was a German immigrant who had come to California in 1850 with the Gold Rush and had later become a successful realtor in San Francisco...
  
  
• Karol Kniaziewicz
  Karol Kniaziewicz
  Baron Karol Otto Kniaziewicz was a Polish general and political activist....
  
  
• Edmund Knoll-Kownacki
  Edmund Knoll-Kownacki
  Gen.bryg. Edmund Stanisław Knoll-Kownacki was a Polish military officer and a high-ranking commander of the Polish Army.-Youth:...
  
  
• Blanche Knopf
  Blanche Knopf
  Blanche Wolf Knopf was the president of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. and wife of publisher Alfred Knopf, with whom she established the firm in 1915. Blanche and Alfred traveled the world seeking new authors. Blanche was especially influential in having European and Latin American literature translated...
  
  , American publisher, was made Officier of the Légion d'honneur 1960 in recognition of her work publishing French literature.
• William A. Knowlton
  William A. Knowlton
  General William Allen Knowlton was a United States Army four star general, and a former Superintendent of the United States Military Academy...
  
  
• Maurice Koechlin
  Maurice Koechlin
  Maurice Koechlin was a French-Swiss structural engineer.-Life:Born in Buhl, Haut-Rhin, he studied at the lycée in Mulhouse then at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology under Carl Culmann....
  
  
• Wladyslaw Konopczynski
  Wladyslaw Konopczynski
  Władysław Konopczyński was a leading Polish historian and publisher of primary-source materials.-Life:Konopczyński was a student of Polish historian Szymon Askenazy...
  
  
• Raymond Kopa
  Raymond Kopa
  Raymond Kopa , is a former French football offensive midfielder, integral to the French national team of the 1950s....
  
  
• Wojciech Kossak
  Wojciech Kossak
  Wojciech Kossak was a Polish painter and member of the celebrated Kossak family of painters and writers...
  
  
• Lansana Kouyaté
  Lansana Kouyate
  Lansana Kouyaté is a Guinean diplomat and political figure who served as Prime Minister of Guinea from 2007 to 2008.-Background and earlier career:...
  
  
• Jan Kozietulski
  Jan Kozietulski
  Baron Jan Leon Hipolit Kozietulski was a Polish noble, military commander and an officer of the armed forces of the Duchy of Warsaw during the Napoleonic Wars. He is best remembered as the heroic commander of the Polish cavalry charge at the Battle of Somosierra.Jan Leon Hipolit Kozietulski was...
  
  
• Jacek Kuroń
  Jacek Kuron
  Jacek Jan Kuroń was one of the democratic leaders of opposition in the People's Republic of Poland. Kuroń was a prominent Polish social and political figure; educator and historian; an activist of the Polish Scouting Association; co-founder of the Workers' Defence Committee; twice a Minister of...
  
   (1934–2004), Polish historian
• Akira Kurosawa
  Akira Kurosawa
  was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 filmsIn 1946, Kurosawa co-directed, with Hideo Sekigawa and Kajiro Yamamoto, the feature Those Who Make Tomorrow ;...
  
   (1910–1998) Japanese film director, producer & screenwriter
• Yevhen Kushnaryov
  Yevhen Kushnaryov
  Yevhen Petrovych Kushnaryov was a prominent Ukrainian politician of the post-Soviet era. Kushnaryov was considered one of the chief ideologues of the Party of Regions and a key ally of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych....
  
  
• Stanislaw Kutrzeba
  Stanislaw Kutrzeba
  Stanisław Marian Kutrzeba was a Polish historian and politician who was Professor of the Jagiellonian University from 1908, and then until the end of his life the Chair of Studies in Polish law. He was chair of the Law Department , university's rector , General Secretary of Polish Academy of...
  
  

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• Marcel L'Herbier
  Marcel L'Herbier
  Marcel L'Herbier, Légion d'honneur, was a French film-maker, who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued until the 1950s and he made more than 40 feature films in total...
  
  
• Jean-Marc de La Sablière
  Jean-Marc de La Sablière
  Jean-Marc de La Sablière has been the Ambassador of France in Italy since 7 September 2007. Prior to this, he was the Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations from 2002 to 2007....
  
  
• John LaFarge
  John LaFarge
  John La Farge was an American painter, muralist, stained glass window maker, decorator, and writer.-Biography:...
  
  
• René Lacoste
  René Lacoste
  Jean René Lacoste was a French tennis player and businessman. He was nicknamed "the Crocodile" by fans because of his tenacity on the court; he is also known worldwide as the namesake of the Lacoste tennis shirt, which he introduced in 1929.Lacoste was one of The Four Musketeers, French tennis...
  
  
• Joseph-Clovis-Kemner Laflamme
  Joseph-Clovis-Kemner Laflamme
  Joseph-Clovis-Kemner Laflamme was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, academic, and writer.Born in Saint-Anselme, Lower Canada, the son of David Kemner dit Laflamme and Josephte Jamme, Laflamme received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1868 from the Petit Séminaire de Québec...
  
  
• Léo Richer Laflèche
  Léo Richer Laflèche
  Léo Richer La Flèche, PC, DSO was a Canadian general, civil servant, diplomat, and politician.Born in Concordia, Kansas, he served with the 22nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I as a captain and major. In 1917, he was awarded the D.S.O. and the Légion d'honneur of France...
  
  
• Frank Purdy Lahm
• Johan Laidoner
  Johan Laidoner
  Johan Laidoner was a seminal figure of Estonian history between the world wars. His highest position was Commander-in-chief of the Estonian Army in 1918–1920, 1924–1925, and 1934–1940.-Education:Laidoner was born in Viiratsi , Governorate of Livonia, then part of the Russian Empire...
  
  
• Charles Laking
  Charles Laking
  Charles Clarence "Clare" Laking was, at age 106, one of the last surviving Canadian veterans of the First World War...
  
  
• Charles Lallemand
  Charles Lallemand
  François Antoine "Charles" Lallemand was a French general who served Napoleon I of France, tried to found a colony in what is now Texas, and finally returned to France to serve as governor of Corsica.-Early years:...
  
  
• Gustave Lanctot
  Gustave Lanctot
  Gustave Lanctot, OC, FRSC, also spelled Gustave Lanctôt, was a Canadian historian and archivist.Born in Saint-Constant, Quebec, he studied law at Université de Montréal and was called to the Quebec Bar in 1907. A Rhodes Scholar, he studied political science and history from 1909 to 1911 while at...
  
  
• Bernard Landry
  Bernard Landry
  Bernard Landry, is a Quebec lawyer, teacher, politician, who served as the 28th Premier of Quebec , leader of the Opposition and leader of the Parti Québécois .-Personal:...
  
  
• Edgard de Larminat
  Edgard de Larminat
  Edgard de Larminat was a French general, who fought in two World Wars. He was one of the most important military figures who rejoined the Free French forces in 1940...
  
  
• T. E. Lawrence
  T. E. Lawrence
  Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO , known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916–18...
  
  
• Harold Lawton
  Harold Lawton
  Professor Harold Lawton was a scholar of French literature and, prior to his death, one of the last surviving veterans of World War I in Britain....
  
  
• Henrik Lax
  Henrik Lax
  Henrik Lax is a Finnish politician and formerMember of the European Parliament with the Swedish People's Party, Member of the Bureau of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.Lax was a substitute...
  
  
• Félix Leclerc
  Félix Leclerc
  Félix Leclerc, was a French-Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, writer, actor and Québécois political activist. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on December 20, 1968...
  
  
• Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
  Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
  Philippe François Marie, comte de Hauteclocque, then Leclerc de Hauteclocque, by a 1945 decree that incorporated his French Resistance alias Jacques-Philippe Leclerc to his name, , was a French general during World War II...
  
  
• Paul Legentilhomme
  Paul Legentilhomme
  Paul Legentilhomme was an officer in the French Army during World War I and World War II. After the fall of France in 1940, he joined the forces of the Free French...
  
  
• James Gordon Legge
  James Gordon Legge
  Lieutenant General James Gordon Legge CB, CMG was an Australian Army Lieutenant General who served in World War I. His son Stanley Ferguson Legge reached the rank of Major General.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Jean-Marie Lehn
  Jean-Marie Lehn
  Jean-Marie Lehn is a French chemist. He received the Nobel Prize together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen in 1987 for his work in Chemistry, particularly his synthesis of the cryptands...
  
  
• Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton
  Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton
  Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton PRA , known as Sir Frederic Leighton, Bt, between 1886 and 1896, was an English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical and classical subject matter...
  
  
• John A. Lejeune
  John A. Lejeune
  Lieutenant General John Archer Lejeune, was the 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps. Known as the "greatest of all Leathernecks" and the "Marine's Marine", he served for nearly 40 years. His service included commanding the U.S...
  
  
• Curtis LeMay
  Curtis LeMay
  Curtis Emerson LeMay was a general in the United States Air Force and the vice presidential running mate of American Independent Party candidate George Wallace in 1968....
  
  
• Lyman Lemnitzer
  Lyman Lemnitzer
  Lyman Louis Lemnitzer was a United States Army General, who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1960 to 1962. He then served as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO from 1963 to 1969.-Biography:...
  
  
• Janez Lenarčič
  Janez Lenarčič
  Janez Lenarčič is a Slovenian diplomat and the current Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.He began his diplomatic career in 1992 with the Foreign Ministry...
  
  , Slovene diplomat
• Charles-Amable Lenoir
  Charles-Amable Lenoir
  Charles-Amable Lenoir was a French painter. Like his mentor, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, he was an academic painter and painted realistic portraits as well as mythological and religious scenes...
  
  
• Aimé Lepercq
  Aimé Lepercq
  Aimé Marie Antoine Lepercq was a French soldier, industrialist and political figure.Born in Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or, Rhône, as the eldest of nine children, he graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1911, and then the École des Mines.Lepercq fought in World War I, in which he was wounded three...
  
  
• Jean François LeSueur,French Composer
• Victor Levasseur
• René Lévesque
  René Lévesque
  René Lévesque was a reporter, a minister of the government of Quebec, , the founder of the Parti Québécois political party and the 23rd Premier of Quebec...
  
  
• Claude Lévi-Strauss
  Claude Lévi-Strauss
  Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called, along with James George Frazer, the "father of modern anthropology"....
  
  
• Levon Sayan
  Levon Sayan
  Levon Sayan or Levon Sanosyan is a French-Armenian impresario and producer, as well as an operatic tenor.Levon Sayan was born in Aix-en-Provence, France. He served in the French army in Indochina. He started a career as a classical singer in 1966. Sayan recorded his first disc with Renée Doria...
  
  
• Jerry Lewis
  Jerry Lewis
  Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage and radio. He was originally paired up with Dean Martin in 1946, forming the famed comedy team of Martin and Lewis...
  
  
• William Leymergie
  William Leymergie
  William Leymergie is a journalist television producer and host, best known for the French breakfast television news show Télématin, broadcast on public broadcaster France 2.- Biography :...
  
  
• Hunter Liggett
  Hunter Liggett
  Hunter Liggett was a lieutenant general of the United States Army. His forty-two years of service spanned the period from the Indian campaigns to trench warfare.-Biography:...
  
  
• Charles Lindbergh
  Charles Lindbergh
  Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist.Lindbergh, a 25-year-old U.S...
  
  
• Paavo Lipponen
  Paavo Lipponen
  Paavo Tapio Lipponen is a Finnish politician and former reporter. He was Prime Minister of Finland from 1995 to 2003, and Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland from 1993 to 2005...
  
  
• Jack Lockett
  Jack Lockett
  John Henry "Jack" Lockett OAM , was a farmer and an Australian veteran of the First World War. At the time of his death, aged 111 years, 123 days, he was the oldest man in Australia...
  
  
• William Edmond Logan
  William Edmond Logan
  Sir William Edmond Logan was a Scottish-Canadian geologist.Logan was born in Montreal, Quebec, and educated at the High School in Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh . He started teaching himself geology in 1831, when he took over the running of a copper works in Swansea. He produced a...
  
  
• Leonard Lomell
  Leonard Lomell
  Leonard G. “Bud” Lomell was a highly decorated former United States Army Ranger who served in World War II. He is best known for his actions in the first hours of D-Day at Pointe du Hoc on the coast of Normandy, France...
  
  
• Pierre Lorillard IV
  Pierre Lorillard IV
  Pierre Lorillard IV was an American tobacco manufacturer and thoroughbred race horse owner.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jim Lovell
  Jim Lovell
  James "Jim" Arthur Lovell, Jr., is a former NASA astronaut and a retired captain in the United States Navy, most famous as the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, which suffered a critical failure en route to the Moon but was brought back safely to Earth by the efforts of the crew and mission...
  
  
• Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat
  Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat
  Brigadier Simon Christopher Joseph Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat and 4th Baron Lovat DSO, MC, TD was the 25th Chief of the Clan Fraser and a prominent British Commando during the Second World War...
  
  
• Cecil Lowther
  Cecil Lowther
  Major-General Sir Cecil Lowther, KCMG, CB, CVO, DSO, FRGS was a British general and Conservative politician, the fourth son of William Lowther....
  
  
• David Lynch
  David Lynch
  David Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound...
  
  
• Léonard-Léopold Forgemol de Bostquénard
  Léonard-Léopold Forgemol de Bostquénard
  Léonard-Léopold Forgemol de Bostquénard was a general in the French Army.He was born on the 17th September 1821 at Azerables, in the Creuse départment and died on the 28th November 1897 at Versailles....
  
  

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• Aníbal Milhais
  Aníbal Milhais
  Aníbal Augusto Milhais was the most decorated Portuguese soldier of World War I and the only Portuguese soldier awarded with the highest national honour, the Ordem de Torre e Espada do Valor, Lealdade e Mérito on the battlefield instead of the...
  
   Portuguese soldier in Battle of La Lys
• Mashhour Ahmed Mashhour
  Mashhour Ahmed Mashhour
  Engineer Mashhour Ahmed Mashhour was the Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority - Birth :...
  
  , The president of Suez Canal Authority in Egypt 1965–1983
• Douglas MacArthur
  Douglas MacArthur
  General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the...
  
  , American general
• Ian MacGregor
  Ian MacGregor
  Sir Ian Kinloch MacGregor, KBE was a Scottish-American metallurgist and industrialist, most famous in the UK for his controversial tenure at British Steel and his conduct during the 1984-1985 miner's strike while managing the National Coal Board.-Early life:Born in Kinlochleven, Scotland, his...
  
   (1912–1998), Scottish-American metallurgist and industrialist
• Frederick William MacMonnies
  Frederick William MacMonnies
  Frederick William MacMonnies was the best known expatriate American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts school, as successful and lauded in France as he was in the United States...
  
  
• Franciszek Macharski
• Nevil Macready
  Nevil Macready
  General Sir Cecil Frederick Nevil Macready, 1st Baronet, GCMG, KCB, PC , known as Sir Nevil Macready and affectionately as Make-Ready , was a British Army officer...
  
  
• Stanisław Maczek
• Auguste Antoine Maestracci For military and civil service – awarded in 1913
• Norman Mailer
  Norman Mailer
  Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and film director.Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S...
  
  , American author
• Claude François de Malet
  Claude François de Malet
  Claude François de Malet was born in Dôle to an aristocratic family on June 28, 1754. Malet was executed by a firing squad on October 29, 1812, six days after Malet staged a failed republican coup d'état as Napoléon Bonaparte returned from the disastrous Russian campaign.-Before and during the...
  
  
• Laure Manaudou
  Laure Manaudou
  Laure Manaudou |Rhône]]) is a French Olympic, world and European champion swimmer. She is the daughter of a French father and a Dutch mother.- 2004 Olympics :...
  
  
• Benoît Mandelbrot
  Benoît Mandelbrot
  Benoît B. Mandelbrot was a French American mathematician. Born in Poland, he moved to France with his family when he was a child...
  
  
• Édouard Manet
  Édouard Manet
  Édouard Manet was a French painter. One of the first 19th-century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism....
  
   (1832–1883), French painter awarded the Legion in 1881.
• Lata Mangeshkar
  Lata Mangeshkar
  Lata Mangeshkar is a singer from India. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over six and a half decades. She has recorded songs for over a thousand Hindi films and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional...
  
  , India
• Mangkra Souvannaphouma
  Mangkra Souvannaphouma
  Prince Mangkra Souvannaphouma of the Kingdom of Laos is the son of Prince Khampeng Souvannaphouma.-Biography:Since 1975, he has been living in exile in Paris, France...
  
  
• Charles Mangin
  Charles Mangin
  Charles Emmanuel Marie Mangin was a French general during World War I.-Early career:...
  
  
• Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
  Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
  Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War, Commander-in-Chief of Finland's Defence Forces during World War II, Marshal of Finland, and a Finnish statesman. He was Regent of Finland and the sixth President of Finland...
  
  
• Alexander Mantashev
  Alexander Mantashev
  Alexander Mantashev was a prominent Armenian oil magnate, industrialist, financier, and a philanthropist. By the end of his life he had become one of the world's wealthiest individuals.-Early life:...
  
  
• Sir Frederick Mappin, 1st Baronet
  Sir Frederick Mappin, 1st Baronet
  Sir Frederick Thorpe Mappin, 1st Baronet, known as Frederick Mappin was an English factory owner and Liberal politician....
  
  
• Marcel Marceau
  Marcel Marceau
  Marcel Marceau was an internationally acclaimed French actor and mime most famous for his persona as Bip the Clown.-Early years:...
  
  
• Peyton C. March
  Peyton C. March
  Peyton Conway March was an American soldier and Army Chief of Staff.March was the son of Francis Andrew March, considered the principal founder of modern comparative linguistics in Anglo-Saxon and one of the first professors to advocate and teach English in colleges and universities...
  
  
• André Marchal
  André Marchal
  André Marchal was a French organist and organ teacher. He was one of the great initiators of the twentieth-century organ revival in France.Marchal was born blind...
  
  
• Anna Marly
  Anna Marly
  Anna Marly , , was a Russian born French singer-songwriter. She is best remembered as the composer of the Chant des Partisans, a protest song that was used as the ersatz anthem of the Free French Forces during World War II; the popularity of the Chant des Partisans was such that it was proposed as...
  
  
• Auguste de Marmont
• Jacques Maroger
  Jacques Maroger
  Jacques Maroger was a painter and the technical director of the Louvre Museum's laboratory in Paris. He devoted his life to understanding the oil-based media of the Old Masters....
  
  
• Wynton Marsalis
  Wynton Marsalis
  Wynton Learson Marsalis is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences...
  
  
• Albert Marshall
  Albert Marshall
  Albert Elliot "Smiler" Marshall was a British veteran of the First World War and the last surviving British cavalryman to have seen battle on the Western Front....
  
  
• George Marshall
  George Marshall
  George Catlett Marshall was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense...
  
  
• Richard Marshall (American general)
• Gregory S. Martin
  Gregory S. Martin
  General Gregory S. Martin was a U.S. Air Force general and Commander, Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Martin was a command pilot with more than 4,600 flying hours in various aircraft, including the F-4, F-15, C-20 and C-21...
  
  
• Charles Marx
  Charles Marx
  Louis Charles Marx was a Luxembourgian politician for the Communist Party of Luxembourg. He was a physician by profession, and fought for the French Resistance during the Second World War....
  
  
• Henri Gratte Maskens (Captain in the Service of Napoleon 1) 1787–1871
• André Masséna
  André Masséna
  André Masséna 1st Duc de Rivoli, 1st Prince d'Essling was a French military commander during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars....
  
  
• William Massey
  William Massey
  William Ferguson Massey, often known as Bill Massey or "Farmer Bill" served as the 19th Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1912 to 1925, and was the founder of the Reform Party. He is widely considered to have been one of the more skilled politicians of his time, and was known for the particular...
  
   (Prime Minister of New Zealand 1912–1925)
• Mateja Matevski
  Mateja Matevski
  Mateja Matevski is a renowned Macedonian poet, literary and theatre critic, essayist, and translator.-Career:Mateja Matevski graduated from the Faculty of Philology in Skopje...
  
  
• Jan Matejko
  Jan Matejko
  Jan Matejko was a Polish painter known for paintings of notable historical Polish political and military events. His most famous works include oil on canvas paintings like Battle of Grunwald, paintings of numerous other battles and court scenes, and a gallery of Polish kings...
  
  
• Mireille Mathieu
  Mireille Mathieu
  Mireille Mathieu is a French chanteuse, and pop singer. Hailed in the French press as the successor to Édith Piaf, she has achieved great commercial success, recording over 1200 songs in nine different languages, with more than 120 million records sold worldwide.-Childhood to early...
  
  
• Olivier Elzéar Mathieu
  Olivier Elzéar Mathieu
  Olivier Elzéar Mathieu was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, academic, and Archbishop of Regina.-Biography:...
  
  
• Ginette Mathiot
  Ginette Mathiot
  Ginette Mathiot, Officier de la Légion d'Honneur, was a French food writerMathiot wrote over 30 books including the famous Je sais Cuisiner which sold over 6 million copies....
  
  
• Amélie Mauresmo
  Amélie Mauresmo
  Amélie Simone Mauresmo ; is a French former professional tennis player, and a former World No. 1. Mauresmo won two Grand Slam singles titles at the Australian Open and at Wimbledon....
  
  , French tennis champion
• François Mauriac
  François Mauriac
  François Mauriac was a French author; member of the Académie française ; laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature . He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur .-Biography:...
  
  
• Daniel Maximin
  Daniel Maximin
  Daniel Maximin is a Guadeloupean novelist, poet, and essayist. Born in Saint-Claude, his family moved to France when he was thirteen. He studied at the Sorbonne and from 1980 to 1989 served as literary director of the journal Présence africaine. He returned to Guadeloupe in 1989 as Regional...
  
  
• Peter Mayle
  Peter Mayle
  Peter Mayle is a British author famous for his series of books detailing life in Provence, France. He spent fifteen years in the advertising industry before leaving the business in 1975 to write educational books, including a series on sex education for children and young people...
  
  
• Paddy Mayne
  Paddy Mayne
  Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair "Paddy" Mayne DSO & Three Bars was a Northern Irish soldier, solicitor, Ireland rugby union international, amateur boxer, polar explorer and a founding member of the Special Air Service .-Early life and sporting achievements:Robert Blair "Paddy" Mayne was born in...
  
  
• John P. McConnell
  John P. McConnell
  General John Paul McConnell was the sixth Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force. As chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, General McConnell served in a dual capacity...
  
  
• Cyrus McCormick
  Cyrus McCormick
  Cyrus Hall McCormick, Sr. was an American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of International Harvester Company in 1902.He and many members of the McCormick family became prominent Chicagoans....
  
  
• James "Earthquake McGoon" McGovern Jr.
• Leonard William McKiel
• Lesley J. McNair
  Lesley J. McNair
  General Lesley James McNair was an American Army officer who served during World War I and World War II. He was killed by friendly fire when a USAAF Eighth Air Force bomb landed in his foxhole near Saint-Lô during Operation Cobra as part of the Battle of Normandy.McNair, Frank Maxwell Andrews and...
  
  
• Joseph T. McNarney
  Joseph T. McNarney
  Joseph Taggart McNarney was a United States Army Air Forces general officer who served as Military Governor of occupied Germany.-Early years:...
  
  
• Étienne Méhul
  Étienne Méhul
  Etienne Nicolas Méhul was a French composer, "the most important opera composer in France during the Revolution." He was also the first composer to be called a "Romantic".-Life:...
  
  
• Georges Méliès
  Georges Méliès
  Georges Méliès , full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest cinema. He was very innovative in the use of special effects...
  
  
• Antoine Brutus Menier
  Antoine Brutus Menier
  Jean-Antoine Brutus Menier was a French entrepreneur and founder of the Menier family of chocolatiers. Born in Germain-de-Bourgeuil, Indre-et-Loire, he was the third child in a family of merchants. In 1811 Antoine Brutus Menier was enrolled in the La Flèche Military Academy where he studied the...
  
  
• Henri Menier
  Henri Menier
  Henri Emile Anatole Menier was a French businessman and adventurer and a member of the Menier family of chocolatiers. Born in Paris, he was the son of Emile-Justin Menier and grandson to Antoine Brutus Menier who founded the Menier Chocolate company...
  
  
• Emile-Justin Menier
  Emile-Justin Menier
  Émile-Justin Menier French pharmaceutical manufacturer, chocolatier, and politician, was born in Paris. In 1853, on the death of his father, Antoine, Émile-Justin Menier inherited a large and successful Parisian company that manufactured a range of medicinal powders.His father's company also...
  
  
• Honoré Mercier
  Honoré Mercier
  Honoré Mercier was a lawyer, journalist and politician in Quebec, Canada. He was the ninth Premier of Quebec from January 27, 1887 to December 21, 1891, as leader of the Parti National or Quebec Liberal Party ....
  
  
• Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai
  Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai
  Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai was a French politician and lawyer.-Early years:Merlin de Douai was born at Arleux, Nord, and was called to the Flemish bar association in 1775...
  
  
• Luc-Olivier Merson
  Luc-Olivier Merson
  Luc-Olivier Merson was a French academic painter and illustrator also known for his postage stamp and currency designs....
  
  
• Olivier Messiaen
  Olivier Messiaen
  Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...
  
  
• Paul Métivier
  Paul Métivier
  Paul Antonio Métivier was one of last surviving Canadian veterans of the First World War. He was born in Montreal, Quebec.-Service:...
  
  
• André Meyer
  André Meyer
  André Benoit Mathieu Meyer was a French-born American Wall Street investment banker.Meyer was born in Paris to a low-income family. As a boy, he began following the workings of the stock market and out of necessity left school at age sixteen to work as a messenger at the Paris Bourse...
  
  
• Joseph François Michaud
  Joseph François Michaud
  Joseph François Michaud was a French historian and publicist.He was born at Albens, Savoie, educated at Bourg-en-Bresse, and afterwards engaged in literary work at Lyon, where the French Revolution first aroused the strong dislike of revolutionary principles which manifested itself throughout the...
  
  
• Édouard Jean Baptiste Milhaud
  Édouard Jean Baptiste Milhaud
  Édouard Jean-Baptiste Milhaud was a French politician, Général de Division, and comte d'Empire.-French Revolutionary wars:...
  
  
• Niko Miljanić
  Niko Miljanic
  Dr. Niko Miljanić a Serbian anatomist and surgeon, was one of the founders of the Belgrade Medical School, which is today part of the University of Belgrade, and has held the first lecture on the newly formed school on December 12, 1920...
  
  
• George Millar
• Syd Millar
  Syd Millar
  Sydney "Syd" Millar, CBE, is the outgoing chairman of the International Rugby Board. He was born in Ballymena and previously played for Ballymena RFC and represented Ireland in the pack, winning 37 caps as a prop. In addition, he played 9 times for the British and Irish Lions...
  
  
• Franklin Miller
  Franklin Miller
  Franklin C. Miller KBE is a retired senior U.S. government official who is now an independent defense consultant and a Principal at the Washington-based international business advisory firm The Scowcroft Group. He also holds positions with the Center for Strategic and International Studies and...
  
  
• Nancy Mitford
  Nancy Mitford
  Nancy Freeman-Mitford, CBE , styled The Hon. Nancy Mitford before her marriage and The Hon. Mrs Peter Rodd thereafter, was an English novelist and biographer, one of the Bright Young People on the London social scene in the inter-war years...
  
  
• Mizan Zainal Abidin, Sultan of Terengganu
  Terengganu
  Terengganu is a sultanate and constitutive state of federal Malaysia. The state is also known by its Arabic honorific, Darul Iman...
  
   and current Yang Di-Pertuan Agong
  Yang di-Pertuan Agong
  The Yang di-Pertuan Agong is the head of state of Malaysia. The office was established in 1957 when the Federation of Malaya gained independence....
  
   of Malaysia
• Luc Montagnier
  Luc Montagnier
  Luc Antoine Montagnier is a French virologist and joint recipient with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus...
  
  
• Prosper Montagné
  Prosper Montagné
  Prosper Montagné was a French chef and author of many books and articles on food, cooking, and gastronomy, notably the Larousse Gastronomique....
  
  
• Jean-Pierre, Count of Montalivet
• Philippe de Montebello
  Philippe de Montebello
  Philippe de Montebello served from 1977 to 2008 as the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. On his retirement, he was both the longest-serving director in the institution's history, and the longest-serving director of any major art museum in the world...
  
  
• Raymond Monvoisin
  Raymond Monvoisin
  thumb|200px|right|[[Andrés Bello]], painting by Raymond Monvoisin.Raymond Auguste Quinsac Monvoisin , was a French artist and painter.-Biography:Monvoisin was born in Bordeaux....
  
  
• James Moore (cyclist)
  James Moore (cyclist)
  James Moore was a bicycle racer. He is popularly regarded as the winner of the first official cycle race in the world in 1868 at St-Cloud, Paris, although there appears to be no verifiable contemporary evidence for this...
  
  
• Charles Antoine Morand
  Charles Antoine Morand
  Charles Antoine Louis Alexis Morand Comte de l'Empire, was a general of the French army army during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars...
  
  
• Justin Bonaventure Morard de Galles
  Justin Bonaventure Morard de Galles
  Justin-Bonaventure Morard de Galles was a French admiral.-Family:de Galles was the issue of a noble family from Dauphiné whose origins stretched right back to the end of the 11th century...
  
  
• Émilienne Moreau-Evrard
  Émilienne Moreau-Evrard
  Émilienne Moreau-Evrard was a French heroine of World War I, a high-profile female member of the “Brutus” Resistance network during World War II and later, a member of the “Assemblée consultative provisoire”...
  
  
• Daniel Morelon
  Daniel Morelon
  Daniel Morelon is a French former racing cyclist, eight times world champion and triple Olympic champion and a knight of the Legion d'Honneur. Morelon was a police officer before becoming a cycling coach....
  
  
• Michèle Morgan
  Michèle Morgan
  Michèle Morgan is a French film actress, who was a leading lady for three decades.- Career :Morgan was born Simone Renée Roussel in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, a western suburb of Paris....
  
  
• Akio Morita
  Akio Morita
  Akio Morita KBE was a Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony Corporation along with Masaru Ibuka.-Early life:...
  
  
• Vincent de Moro-Giafferi
  Vincent de Moro-Giafferi
  Vincent de Moro-Giafferi was a French criminal attorney.Moro-Giafferi was the youngest person ever appointed to the Paris bar at the age of 24. Also active in politics, he was made a Deputy to the French National Assembly from Corsica at the age of 31 in 1919...
  
  
• Leslie Morshead
  Leslie Morshead
  Lieutenant General Sir Leslie James Morshead KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO, ED was an Australian soldier, teacher, businessman, and farmer, with a distinguished military career that spanned both world wars...
  
  
• John Murray (soldier)
  John Murray (soldier)
  Major General John Joseph Murray DSO & Bar, MC, VD was an Australian Army Officer and businessman with a distinguished career in both world wars...
  
  
• Ennio Morricone
  Ennio Morricone
  Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...
  
  
• James Mortimer
  James Mortimer
  James Mortimer was an American chess player, journalist, and playwright who spent the last 40 years of his life in Britain.-Life:...
  
  
• Serge Moscovici
  Serge Moscovici
  Serge Moscovici is a Romanian-born French social psychologist, currently the director of the Laboratoire Européen de Psychologie Sociale , which he co-founded in 1974 at the Maison des sciences de l'homme in Paris...
  
  
• Paul Mounet
  Paul Mounet
  Paul Mounet , born Jean-Paul Sully, was a French actor.- Biography :The younger brother of actor Jean Mounet-Sully, Paul was born in Bergerac, Dordogne, and studied to become a medical doctor prior to his career in acting, only making his debut in 1880 in Paris Odéon's production of Horace...
  
  
• Gerard Muirhead-Gould
  Gerard Muirhead-Gould
  Rear Admiral Gerard Charles Muirhead-Gould DSC was an officer of the Royal Navy.Muirhead-Gould was born in London. He was the son of Arthur Lewis Gould and Emily Gertrude Lilias Muirhead. He joined the Royal Naval Cadets in January 1904...
  
  
• Audie Murphy
  Audie Murphy
  Audie Leon Murphy was a highly decorated and famous soldier. Through LIFE magazine's July 16, 1945 issue , he became one the most famous soldiers of World War II and widely regarded as the most decorated American soldier of the war...
  
   (1925–1971), American war hero, actor, songwriter
• Alfred de Musset
  Alfred de Musset
  Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.Along with his poetry, he is known for writing La Confession d'un enfant du siècle from 1836.-Biography:Musset was born on 11 December 1810 in Paris...
  
   (1810–1857), French dramatist, poet, novelist
• Riccardo Muti
  Riccardo Muti
  Riccardo Muti, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian conductor and music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.-Childhood and education:...
  
  
• Mamadou Moustapha Sall Secretary General of Cams

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• Zdzislaw Najder
  Zdzislaw Najder
  Zdzisław Najder is a Polish literary historian, critic and political activist. He is primarily known as a pre-eminent scholar on the work of author Joseph Conrad and for his positions as adviser to Lech Wałęsa and Jan Olszewski as well as for serving as chief of the Polish language section of...
  
  
• Juan-David Nasio
  Juan-David Nasio
  Juan-David Nasio was born in 1942 in Rosario, Argentina and is a psychoanalyst.-Biography:Nasio emigrated from South America to France in 1969 where he worked with Jacques Lacan. He was a professor at the University of Paris VII Sorbonne and is considered one of the foremost commentators on...
  
  
• Martin Dunbar-Nasmith
• Klaus Naumann
  Klaus Naumann
  Klaus Naumann is a retired German General, who served as Chief of Staff of the Bundeswehr, the German armed fources, from 1991 to 1996, and as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 1996 to 1999, succeeding the British general Richard Frederick Vincent, Baron Vincent of Coleshill...
  
  
• Shahram Nazeri
  Shahram Nazeri
  Shahram Nazeri is a contemporary Iranian tenor of Kurdish ancestry who sings classical Persian music from Kermanshah. He is one of Iran's most respected vocalists...
  
   (1950–), Iranian musician and singer awarded the Legion in 2007.
• Philip Neame
  Philip Neame
  Lieutenant General Sir Philip Neame VC, KBE, CB, DSO, KStJ was a British Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces...
  
  
• Wendell Cushing Neville
  Wendell Cushing Neville
  Wendell Cushing Neville was a major general of the United States Marine Corps. He was a Medal of Honor recipient and 14th Commandant of the Marine Corps between 1929 and 1930.-Biography:...
  
  
• Simon Newcomb
  Simon Newcomb
  Simon Newcomb was a Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician. Though he had little conventional schooling, he made important contributions to timekeeping as well as writing on economics and statistics and authoring a science fiction novel.-Early life:Simon Newcomb was born in the town of...
  
  
• Michel Ney
  Michel Ney
  Michel Ney , 1st Duc d'Elchingen, 1st Prince de la Moskowa was a French soldier and military commander during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was one of the original 18 Marshals of France created by Napoleon I...
  
  
• Prince Nicholas of Romania
  Prince Nicholas of Romania
  | style="float:right;"|Prince Nicholas of Romania was the second son of King Ferdinand I and Queen Marie of Romania.- Biography :Born in Peleş Castle, Sinaia, Nicholas was the younger brother of Carol, heir apparent, who renounced his rights of succession on 12 December 1925...
  
  
• Anna de Noailles
• Philippe Noiret
  Philippe Noiret
  Philippe Noiret was a French film actor.-Biography:Noiret's father was in the clothes trade. Philippe was an indifferent scholar and attended several prestigious Paris schools, including the Lycée Janson de Sailly. He failed several times to pass his baccalauréat exams, so he decided to study...
  
  
• Lauris Norstad
  Lauris Norstad
  Lauris Norstad was an American General in the United States Army Air Forces and United States Air Force.-Early life and military career:...
  
  
• Richard Norton
  Richard Norton
  Richard Norton is a martial artist, action film star, and stuntman. Norton worked as a bodyguard in the entertainment business before pursuing an acting career...
  
  
• Pierre Notting
  Pierre Notting
  Pierre Notting was a Luxembourgian rosarian known for his breeding of rose cultivars.In 1855, in association with his friend Jean Soupert, he established the "Soupert & Notting" company specializing in growing roses in Limpertsberg...
  
  
• Claude Nahon
• William Nutley

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• Georges Ouégnin,directeur du protocole d'Etat ivoiriens.
• Müşir (Mareşal) Ömer Fevzi Paşa
• Brian O'Connell
  Brian O'Connell
  Brian O'Connell is an Irish sportsman. He plays hurling with his local club Wolfe Tones na Sionna and represented the Clare senior hurling team from 2003 to 2010. O'Connell captained this team for three years including a Munster final appearance against Tipperary in 2008. O'Connell is better known...
  
  
• Richard O'Connor
  Richard O'Connor
  General Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor KT, GCB, DSO & Bar, MC, ADC was a British Army general who commanded the Western Desert Force in the early years of World War II...
  
  
• Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf
  Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf
  Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf was a French naturalized German industrialist. He became famous for founding the royal manufacture of printed cottons of Jouy-en-Josas where the toile de Jouy was manufactured....
  
  
• François-Joseph d'Offenstein
  François-Joseph d'Offenstein
  François-Joseph d'Offenstein , Baron of the Ist Empire, was a French general and military commander during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.-Biography:...
  
  
• Olav V of Norway
  Olav V of Norway
  Olav V was the king of Norway from 1957 until his death. A member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Olav was born in the United Kingdom as the son of King Haakon VII of Norway and Queen Maud of Norway...
  
  
• Joseph Francis Olliffe
  Joseph Francis Olliffe
  Sir Joseph Francis Olliffe, MA, MD, FRCP was an Irish-born British physician.-Early life:Sir Joseph Olliffe was born in 1808 in Cork, Ireland. His father was Joseph Francis Olliffe , a merchant of Cork...
  
  
• Mathieu Orfila
  Mathieu Orfila
  Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila was a Spanish-born French toxicologist and chemist, the founder of the science of toxicology.- Role in Forensic Toxicology :...
  
  
• Philippe Antoine d'Ornano
  Philippe Antoine d'Ornano
  Philippe Antoine d'Ornano, 1st Comte d'Ornano was a French soldier and political figure who rose to the rank of Marshal of France. He was made Count d'Ornano of the French Empire in 1808...
  
  
• Sherard Osborn
  Sherard Osborn
  Sherard Osborn , was a Royal Navy admiral and Arctic explorer.-Early life:Born in Madras, he was the son of an Indian army officer...
  
  
• Władysław Ostrowski
• Terence Otway
  Terence Otway
  Lieutenant-Colonel Terence Brandram Hastings Otway DSO, was a British soldier, best known for his role as commander of the paratroop assault on the Merville Battery on D-Day.-Early life:...
  
  
• Seiji Ozawa
  Seiji Ozawa
  is a Japanese conductor, particularly noted for his interpretations of large-scale late Romantic works. He is most known for his work as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor of the Vienna State Opera.-Early years:...
  
  

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• John Painter
  John Painter
  John George Painter was posthumously recognized as the world's oldest man and oldest American veteran, as a result of the United States's SSA supercentenarian study. Painter was also the last surviving American veteran of the First World War to be born in the 1880s. Only recently he was also...
  
  
• Boris Pahor
  Boris Pahor
  Boris Pahor is a Slovene writer from Italy. He is considered to be one of the most influential living authors in the Slovene language and has been nominated for the Nobel prize for literature by the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts...
  
  
• Euzhan Palcy
  Euzhan Palcy
  Euzhan Palcy is a film director writer and producer from Martinique, French West Indies. She is notable for being the first black female director produced by a major Hollywood studio , for A Dry White Season; as well as being the only female filmmaker who directed Marlon Brando .- Early life and...
  
  
• Maurice Papon
  Maurice Papon
  Maurice Papon was a French civil servant, industrial leader and Gaullist politician, who was convicted for crimes against humanity for his participation in the deportation of over 1600 Jews during World War II when he was secretary general for police of the Prefecture of Bordeaux.Papon also...
  
   (1910–2007), awarded the Legion in 1961, convicted for crimes against humanity in 1998–99 for his role during Vichy and consequently dismissed from the order on November 18, 1999
• Asha Pandey
• Jacques Parizeau
  Jacques Parizeau
  Jacques Parizeau, is an economist and noted Quebec sovereignist who was the 26th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec from September 26, 1994 to January 29, 1996.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Robert M. Parker, Jr.
  Robert M. Parker, Jr.
  Robert M. Parker, Jr. is a leading U.S. wine critic with an international influence. His wine ratings on a 100-point scale and his newsletter The Wine Advocate, with his particular stylistic preferences and notetaking vocabulary, have become very influential in American wine buying and are...
  
  
• Arvo Pärt
  Arvo Pärt
  Arvo Pärt is an Estonian classical composer and one of the most prominent living composers of sacred music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-made compositional technique, tintinnabuli. His music also finds its inspiration and influence from...
  
  
• Earle E. Partridge
  Earle E. Partridge
  Earle Everard "Pat" Partridge was an United States Air Force general.Partridge enlisted in the United States Army in July 1918 at Fort Slocum, New York, and was assigned to the 5th Engineer Training Regiment...
  
  
• Louis Pasteur
  Louis Pasteur
  Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist born in Dole. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases. His discoveries reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and he created the first vaccine for rabies and anthrax. His experiments...
  
  
• Harry Patch
  Harry Patch
  Henry John "Harry" Patch , known in his latter years as "the Last Fighting Tommy", was a British supercentenarian, briefly the oldest man in Europe, and the last surviving soldier to have fought in the trenches of the First World War...
  
  
• George S. Patton
  George S. Patton
  George Smith Patton, Jr. was a United States Army officer best known for his leadership while commanding corps and armies as a general during World War II. He was also well known for his eccentricity and controversial outspokenness.Patton was commissioned in the U.S. Army after his graduation from...
  
  
• Luciano Pavarotti
  Luciano Pavarotti
  right|thumb|Luciano Pavarotti performing at the opening of the Constantine Palace in [[Strelna]], 31 May 2003. The concert was part of the celebrations for the 300th anniversary of [[St...
  
  
• George Pearce
  George Pearce
  Sir George Foster Pearce KCVO was an Australian politician who was instrumental in founding the Australian Labor Party in Western Australia....
  
  
• Barthélémy Pedinielli, a appartenu au 3e régiment de tirailleurs algériens et fut élevé au rang de Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur Décoré au Péril de la Vie pour son engagement lors de la seconde guerre mondiale aux côtés des forces françaises libres.
• Malik Peiris
  Malik Peiris
  Joseph Malik Sriyal Peiris , FRS, Légion d'Honneur was born in Sri Lanka , a distinguished old boy of St. Anthony's College, Kandy and later studied medicine at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka...
  
  , Hong Kong doctor/professor
• John Lysaght Pennefather
  John Lysaght Pennefather
  General Sir John Lysaght Pennefather GCB was a British soldier who won two very remarkable victories. Firstly, at Meanee, India, where it was said that 500 Irishmen defeated 35,000 Indians...
  
  
• Jacques Perfettini
• Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon
  Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon
  Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon, 1st Marquis de Grenade was Marshal of France.-Early life:He was born to a family of small nobility in Grenade-sur-Garonne, département of the Haute-Garonne. After a roturier appointment in the grenadier corps of Aquitaine, he retired to his estate...
  
  
• František Peřina
  František Perina
  Wing Commander General František Peřina was a Czech fighter pilot, an ace during World War II with the French Armee de l'Air, who also served twice with Britain's Royal Air Force.-Biography:...
  
  
• Joseph-Xavier Perrault
  Joseph-Xavier Perrault
  Joseph-Xavier Perrault was a Quebec educator and political figure.-Biography:He was born in Quebec City in 1836, the grandson of Joseph-François Perrault. He studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec, then the University of Durham and Royal Agricultural College in England and the École de Grignon...
  
  
• Jean Baptiste Perrin
  Jean Baptiste Perrin
  Jean Baptiste Perrin was a French physicist and Nobel laureate.-Early years:Born in Lille, France, Perrin attended the École Normale Supérieure, the elite grande école in Paris. He became an assistant at the school during the period of 1894-97 when he began the study of cathode rays and X-rays...
  
  
• Philippe Perrin
  Philippe Perrin
  Philippe Perrin is a French test pilot and former CNES and European Space Agency astronaut.-Background:Perrin was born 6 January 1963, in Meknes, Morocco, but considers Avignon, Provence, to be his hometown. He entered the French École polytechnique in 1982 and graduated as "Ingénieur...
  
  
• John J. Pershing
  John J. Pershing
  John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing, GCB , was a general officer in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I...
  
  
• Zinovy Peshkov
  Zinovy Peshkov
  Zinovy Alekseyevich Peshkov was a Russian-born French general and diplomat.-Early life:Born Yeshua Zalman Sverdlov to a Jewish engraver in Nizhny Novgorod, he was an older brother of Yakov Sverdlov...
  
  

• Frank Pickersgill
  Frank Pickersgill
  Frank Herbert Dedrick Pickersgill is a Canadian hero of World War II....
  
  
• François-Édouard Picot
  François-Édouard Picot
  François-Edouard Picot was a French painter during the July Monarchy, painting mythological, religious and historical subjects.-Life:Born in Paris, Picot won the Prix de Rome painting scholarship in 1813...
  
  
• Abbé Pierre
  Abbé Pierre
  LAbbé Pierre, was a French Catholic priest, member of the Resistance during World War II, and deputy of the Popular Republican Movement . He founded in 1949 the Emmaus movement, which has the goal of helping poor and homeless people and refugees...
  
  
• Desmond Piers
  Desmond Piers
  Rear Admiral Desmond William Piers, CM, DSC was a rear-admiral in the Royal Canadian Navy. Born in Halifax and long-time resident of Chester, Nova Scotia, Piers served in the RCN from 1932 to 1967. In 1930, he was the first graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada to join the RCN...
  
  
• Józef Pilsudski
  Józef Pilsudski
  Józef Klemens Piłsudski was a Polish statesman—Chief of State , "First Marshal" , and authoritarian leader of the Second Polish Republic. From mid-World War I he had a major influence in Poland's politics, and was an important figure on the European political scene...
  
  
• Max L. Pilliard
• Harold Pinter
  Harold Pinter
  Harold Pinter, CH, CBE was a Nobel Prize–winning English playwright and screenwriter. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party , The Homecoming , and Betrayal , each of which he adapted to...
  
  
• Tadeusz Piskor
  Tadeusz Piskor
  Tadeusz Piskor was a Polish Army general.Before World War I, he was a member of Polish pro-independence organizations. During World War I he served in the Polish Legions, and subsequently fought in the 1919–21 Polish-Soviet War....
  
  
• Michel Platini
  Michel Platini
  Michel François Platini is a former French football player, manager and current president of UEFA. Platini was a member of the French national team that won the 1984 European Championship, a tournament in which he was the top goalscorer and voted the best player. He participated in the 1978, 1982...
  
  
• Georges René Le Peley de Pléville
  Georges René Le Peley de Pléville
  Georges-René Le Pelley de Pléville was the governor of the port of Marseilles, a French admiral, minister for the navy and the colonies from 15 July 1797 to 27 April 1798, a senator, a knight of the Order of St Louis and the Order of Cincinnatus, and one of the very first Grand officiers of the...
  
  
• James H. Polk
  James H. Polk
  James Hilliard Polk was a United States Army four star general who served as Commander in Chief, United States Army Europe from 1967 to 1971...
  
  
• Elena Poniatowska
  Elena Poniatowska
  Elena Poniatowska is a Mexican journalist and author. Her generation of writers include Carlos Fuentes‎, José Emilio Pacheco and Carlos Monsiváis.-Life:Poniatowska was born in Paris to Prince Jean Joseph Evremont Sperry Poniatowski and Paula Amor Yturbe...
  
  
• Józef Antoni Poniatowski
  Józef Antoni Poniatowski
  Prince Józef Antoni Poniatowski was a Polish leader, general, minister of war and army chief, who became a Marshal of France.-Early Austrian years and war with Turkey:...
  
  
• Lily Pons
  Lily Pons
  Lily Pons was a French-American operatic soprano and actress who had an active career from the late 1920s through the early 1970s. As an opera singer she specialized in the coloratura soprano repertoire and was particularly associated with the title roles in Léo Delibes' Lakmé and Gaetano...
  
  
• Elvira Popescu
  Elvira Popescu
  Elvira Popescu was a Romanian-born French stage and movie actress and theatre director.-Life and career:Born in Bucharest, Popescu studied drama at the Conservatorul de Artă Dramatică, under the guidance of Constantin Nottara and Aristizza Romanescu. She made her debut at the National Theatre...
  
   (1894–1993), Romanian-born French actress
• Paolo Portoghesi
  Paolo Portoghesi
  Paolo Portoghesi is an Italian architect, theorist, historian and professor of architecture at the University La Sapienza in Rome...
  
  
• Marjorie Merriweather Post
  Marjorie Merriweather Post
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• Stanisław Kostka Potocki
• Colin Powell
  Colin Powell
  Colin Luther Powell is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. He was the first African American to serve in that position. During his military...
  
  
• Ignacy Pradzynski
  Ignacy Pradzynski
  Ignacy Prądzyński was a Polish military commander and a general of the Polish Army. A veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, he was one of the most successful Polish commanders of the November Uprising against Russia....
  
  
• Alain Prost
  Alain Prost
  Alain Marie Pascal Prost, OBE, Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur is a French racing driver. A four-time Formula One Drivers' Champion, Prost has won more titles than any driver except for Juan Manuel Fangio , and Michael Schumacher . From 1987 until 2001 Prost held the record for most Grand Prix...
  
  
• Gilbert Pritzel
• Denys Puech
  Denys Puech
  Denys Puech was a French sculptor.-Life:From a family of farmers , he began as an apprentice in the marble workshop of François Mahoux in Rodez...
  
  

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• Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar, King of Persia
• Edgar Quinet
  Edgar Quinet
  Edgar Quinet was a French historian and intellectual.-Early years:Born at Bourg-en-Bresse, in the département of Ain. His father, Jérôme Quinet, had been a commissary in the army, but being a strong republican and disgusted with Napoleon's 18 Brumaire coup, he gave up his post and devoted himself...
  
  
• Lt. Gen. William Wilson "Buffalo Bill" Quinn, American General

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• Edson Raff
  Edson Raff
  Edson Duncan Raff was an officer in the US Army and author of a book on paratroopers. He served as commanding officer of the first American paratroop unit to jump into combat, the 2nd Battalion 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, near Oran as part of Operation Torch...
  
  
• Rainier III, Prince of Monaco
  Rainier III, Prince of Monaco
  Rainier III, Prince of Monaco , styled His Serene Highness The Sovereign Prince of Monaco, ruled the Principality of Monaco for almost 56 years, making him one of the longest ruling monarchs of the 20th century.Though he was best known outside of Europe for having married American...
  
  
• Joseph Ralston
  Joseph Ralston
  Joseph W. Ralston is currently the United States Special Envoy for Countering the Kurdistan Workers Party and holds senior positions in various defense related corporations. He was the former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.-Military career:Ralston has served in the military since 1965...
  
  
• Fidel V. Ramos
  Fidel V. Ramos
  Fidel "Eddie" Valdez Ramos , popularly known as FVR, was the 12th President of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998. During his six years in office, Ramos was widely credited and admired by many for revitalizing and renewing international confidence in the Philippine economy.Prior to his election as...
  
  
• Charlotte Rampling
  Charlotte Rampling
  Charlotte Rampling, OBE is an English actress. Her career spans four decades in English-language as well as French and Italian cinema.- Early life :...
  
  
• Bertram Ramsay
  Bertram Ramsay
  Admiral Sir Bertram Home Ramsay KCB, KBE, MVO was a British admiral during World War II. He was an important contributor in the field of amphibious warfare.-Early life:...
  
  
• Axel Rappe (born 1838)
  Axel Rappe (born 1838)
  Axel Rappe was a Swedish free lord and military officer. Rappe was born in Kristinelund, Kalmar County...
  
  
• Satyajit Ray
  Satyajit Ray
  Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema. Ray was born in the city of Kolkata into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature...
  
  , prominent film maker and artist from India. Mr. Ray was also awarded the Oscar as a Life Time Achievement Award by the Academy of Motion Pictures, USA.
• William Hoey Kearney Redmond
  William Hoey Kearney Redmond
  William Hoey Kearney Redmond was an Irish nationalist politician. He was a Member of Parliament in the Irish Parliamentary Party for 34 years, a land reform agitator imprisoned three times, a determined advocate of Irish Home Rule, a barrister and a First World War fatality.-Family background:He...
  
  
• Pierre-Joseph Redouté
  Pierre-Joseph Redouté
  Pierre-Joseph Redouté , was a Belgian painter and botanist, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison. He was nicknamed "The Raphael of flowers"....
  
  
• Gordon Michael Reeves
• William Edward Moyses Reilly
  William Edward Moyses Reilly
  Major General William Edward Moyses Reilly , born Scarragh, County Down, on 13 January 1827, was fourth son of James Miles Reilly of Cloon Eavin, Co. Down, by Emilia, second daughter of the Rev Hugh Montgomery of Grey Abbey...
  
  
• Jean Rémy
  Jean Rémy
  Jean Stanislas Rémy, commonly known as Jean Rémy, was a French colonel, a member of the Free French, and a Companion of the Liberation.- Biography :...
  
  
• Ernest Renan
  Ernest Renan
  Ernest Renan was a French expert of Middle East ancient languages and civilizations, philosopher and writer, devoted to his native province of Brittany...
  
  
• Rosalie Rendu
  Rosalie Rendu
  Blessed Rosalie Rendu, D.C. . She was the eldest of four girls. Her parents, simple living mountain people and small property owners, enjoyed a certain affluence and true respect throughout the area. Baptized the day she was born in the parish church of Lancrans, she was given the name Jeanne-Marie...
  
  
• Géraud Réveilhac
  Géraud Réveilhac
  Géraud François Gustave Réveilhac was a French career officer, raised to the rank of Général de brigade on 21 December 1909, commanding officer of the 42nd Infantry Brigade; he was then Commandeur of the Légion d'honneur.-World War I:At the beginning of World War I, Réveilhac was commanding the...
  
   (1851–1937), Général de division of World War I, Grand Officier of the Légion d'honneur
• Jacqueline de Ribes
  Jacqueline de Ribes
  Comtesse Jacqueline de Ribes is a French socialite and fashion designer. She is also a member of the International Best Dressed List since 1962.-Early life:...
  
  
• Robert C. Richardson, Jr.
  Robert C. Richardson, Jr.
  Robert Charlwood Richardson, Jr., born in Charleston, South Carolina on October 27, 1882, and was admitted as a cadet at the United States Military Academy, from that state, on 19 June 1900. His military career spanned the first half of the 20th Century. He was a veteran of the 1904 Philippine...
  
  
• René Riffaud
  René Riffaud
  René Félix Louis Joseph Riffaud was one of the last four 'official' French veterans of the Great War when he died at age 108 in Tosny, France....
  
   (1898–2007), Tunisian veteran
  Tirailleur
  Tirailleur literally means a shooting skirmisher in French from tir—shot. The term dates back to the Napoleonic period where it was used to designate light infantry trained to skirmish ahead of the main columns...
  
   of World War I
• Antoine Rigaudeau
  Antoine Rigaudeau
  Antoine Roger Rigaudeau nicknamed Le Roi , is a retired French professional basketball player....
  
  
• Eric Ripert
• William Roberts (veteran)
  William Roberts (veteran)
  William Roberts was, one of the final surviving British veterans of the First World War.As a fourteen-year-old boy Roberts was present in Hartlepool during the Imperial German Navy's bombardment....
  
  
• Thomas B. Robinson
  Thomas B. Robinson
  Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Thomas Bilbe Robinson GBE KCMG was an English-born Australian businessman and public servant....
  
  
• Yves Rocard
  Yves Rocard
  Yves-André Rocard was a French physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb for France.After obtaining a double doctorate in mathematics and physics he was awarded the professorship in electronic physics at the École normale supérieure in Paris.As a member of a Resistance group during the Second...
  
  
• David Rockefeller
  David Rockefeller
  David Rockefeller, Sr. is the current patriarch of the Rockefeller family. He is the youngest and only surviving child of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and the only surviving grandchild of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil. His five siblings were...
  
  
• John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
  John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
  John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. was a major philanthropist and a pivotal member of the prominent Rockefeller family. He was the sole son among the five children of businessman and Standard Oil industrialist John D. Rockefeller and the father of the five famous Rockefeller brothers...
  
  
• Henryk Rodakowski
  Henryk Rodakowski
  Henryk Rodakowski was a Polish painter.He was befriended by the painter and activist Leon Kaplinski.-External links:**...
  
  
• Auguste Rodin
  Auguste Rodin
  François-Auguste-René Rodin , known as Auguste Rodin , was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past...
  
  
• George Rodocanachi
  George Rodocanachi
  George Rodocanachi was a British-born physician of Greek descent who helped Allied escapees and Jewish refugees in Vichy France.George Rodocanachi was born February 27 1875 in Liverpool, England, to a Greek family. He studied in Marseille, received his medical degree in Paris in 1903 and opened...
  
  
• Pierre Louis Roederer
  Pierre Louis Roederer
  Comte Pierre Louis Roederer was a French politician, economist, and historian, politically active in the era of the French Revolution and First French Republic...
  
  
• Felix Rohatyn
  Felix Rohatyn
  Felix George Rohatyn is an American investment banker known for his role in preventing the bankruptcy of New York City in the 1970s, who also served as United States Ambassador to France. He was a long term advisor to the U.S...
  
  
• Paul Rohmer
  Paul Rohmer
  Paul Rohmer was an Alsacian physician considered the father of modern pædiatrics in eastern France after World War I.-Life:...
  
  
• Manfred Rommel
  Manfred Rommel
  Manfred Rommel, Hon. CBE is a German politician , who served as Lord Mayor of Stuttgart from 1974 until 1996. He is one of the most popular local politicians of the CDU....
  
   (1928–), German politician
• Maurice Rose
  Maurice Rose
  General Maurice Rose was a United States Army general during World War II and World War I veteran. The son and grandson of rabbis, General Rose was at the time the highest ranking Jew in the U.S. Army...
  
  
• Charles Rosenthal
  Charles Rosenthal
  Major General Sir Charles Rosenthal KCB, CMG, DSO, VD was an Australian Major General of World War I, and later a politician elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.- Early life :...
  
  
• Marie-Thérèse Rossel
  Marie-Thérèse Rossel
  Marie-Thérèse Rossel was a Belgian newspaper editor and businesswoman who headed the Rossel publishing company for fifty years....
  
  
• Gioachino Rossini
• Claudia Roth
  Claudia Roth
  Claudia Benedikta Roth is a German Green Party politician and one of the two current party chairs, together with Cem Özdemir.- Biography :...
  
  
• Alphonse James de Rothschild
  Alphonse James de Rothschild
  Mayer Alphonse James Rothschild , was a French, financier, vineyard owner, art collector, philanthropist, racehorse owner/breeder and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France.-Biography:...
  
  
• Alfred de Rothschild
  Alfred de Rothschild
  Alfred Charles de Rothschild was the second son of Lionel de Rothschild and Baroness Charlotte von Rothschild of the prominent Rothschild family....
  
  
• James Mayer de Rothschild
  James Mayer de Rothschild
  James Mayer de Rothschild was a French banker and the original founder of the French branch of the Rothschild family.-Biography:...
  
  
• Marie-Hélène de Rothschild
  Marie-Hélène de Rothschild
  Marie-Hélène de Rothschild was a French socialite who became a doyenne of Parisian high-society and was a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France....
  
  
• Joseph Rovan
  Joseph Rovan
  Joseph Adolph Rovan , was a French philosopher and politician, and is considered a spiritual father of post-war Europe...
  
  
• Stefan Rowecki
  Stefan Rowecki
  Stefan Paweł Rowecki was a Polish general, journalist and the leader of the Armia Krajowa. He was murdered by the Gestapo in prison, probably on the direct order of Heinrich Himmler.-Life:Rowecki was born in Piotrków Trybunalski...
  
  
• James Earl Rudder
  James Earl Rudder
  James Earl Rudder was a United States Army Major General, Texas Land Commissioner, and President of Texas A&M University.-Early life:...
  
  
• Sir Edward Ruggles-Brise, 1st Baronet
• Bruce Ruxton
  Bruce Ruxton
  Bruce Caryle Ruxton AM, OBE is an Australian ex-serviceman and former President of the Victorian Returned and Services League.-Early life:Ruxton grew up in Kew, Victoria...
  
  
• Edward Rydz-Śmigły
• Louis Renault
  Louis Renault (industrialist)
  Louis Renault was a French industrialist, one of the founders of Renault and a pioneer of the automobile industry....
  
  

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• Anne Cécile Schmitt 1917-2011, Awarded for actions in World War Two.
• Sakip Sabanci
  Sakip Sabanci
  Sakıp Sabancı was a prominent Turkish business tycoon and philanthropist.Born as the second son of a cotton trader, he worked in all the ranks of his father's business without completing high school. He was the head of Turkey's largest business conglomerate and 147th richest man on the Forbes list...
  
  
• Pari Saberi
  Pari Saberi
  Pari Saberi is an Iranian drama and theatre director and winner of the French Literature and Art Cavalier Badge by French President Jacques Chirac....
  
   (1932–), Iran
  Iran
  Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
  
  ian drama
  Drama
  Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
  
   and theatre director, awarded this in 2004.
• Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo
  Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo
  Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 8 September 1942. He was ordained a priest on 7 December 1968 in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Buenos Aires. At the St. Thomas Aquinas University of Rome he was awarded a Ph.D...
  
  
• Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko
  Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko
  Prince Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko - Polish general and politician.He was a deputy in the Great Sejm, the parliament that deliberated 1788–1792 and produced the 3 May Constitution. Sanguszko then participated in the Polish-Russian War of 1792 as a national cavalry brigadier, where he fought at...
  
  
• Pura Santillan-Castrence
  Pura Santillan-Castrence
  Pura Santillan-Castrence was a Filipino writer and diplomat. Of Filipino women writers, she was among the first to gain prominence writing in the English language. She was named a Chevalier de Légion d'honneur by the French government.-Early life:She was born in Manila in March 1905...
  
  
• Karine Saporta
  Karine Saporta
  Karine Saporta is a French choreographer, dancer, photographer, and short film director. She is one of the most prominent figures in French dance....
  
  
• Nicolas Sarkozy
  Nicolas Sarkozy
  Nicolas Sarkozy is the 23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. He assumed the office on 16 May 2007 after defeating the Socialist Party candidate Ségolène Royal 10 days earlier....
  
  
• Jalal Sattari
  Jalal Sattari
  Jalal Sattari is a Iranologist, mythologist, writer and translator.Noted Iranian mythologist Jalal Sattari has been awarded the emblem of Officier of France for his dedication to cause of the culture during his 50-year career as cultural activist. He has written some 71 books on anthropology,...
  
   (?-), Iranian Iranologist, mythologist, writer and translator.
• Jérôme Savary
  Jérôme Savary
  Jérôme Savary is a French theater director and actor. His work has democratized and widened the appeal of musical theater in France, drawing together and blending such genres as opera, operetta, and musical comedy.- Biography :...
  
  
• Paolo Scaroni
  Paolo Scaroni
  Paolo Scaroni, born on 28 November 1946 in Vicenza, Italy, is chief executive officer of Italian energy company Eni SpA.-Education:In 1969, Scaroni graduated from Bocconi University of Milan in the field of economics. In 1973 he obtained an MBA from Columbia Business School.-Career:In 1969, Scaroni...
  
  
• Ary Scheffer
  Ary Scheffer
  Ary Scheffer , French painter of Dutch and German extraction, was born in Dordrecht.-Life:After the early death of his father Johann Baptist, a poor painter, Ary's mother Cornelia, herself a painter and daughter of landscapist Arie Lamme, took him to Paris and placed him in the studio of...
  
  
• Dominique Schnapper
  Dominique Schnapper
  Dominique Schnapper was a member of the Constitutional Council of France from 2001 to 2010. She is also a scholar and professor of sociology. She has been named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and an Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.She is the daughter of the French intellectual...
  
  
• Eugène Schneider
  Eugène Schneider
  Joseph Eugène Schneider was a French industrialist who in 1836 co-founded the Schneider company with his brother Adolphe.-Biography:...
  
  
• Pierre Schneiter
  Pierre Schneiter
  François Charles Pierre Schneiter was a French politician.Pierre Schneiter was born in Reims, elder son of Charles Albert Schneiter, a vintner, and Jeanne Marie Alice Sart. Charles Schneiter's father was a watchmaker from Bern, whose ancestors had come from Bavaria. Pierre's only sibling François ...
  
  
• Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
  Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
  General Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf KCB , also known as "Stormin' Norman" and "The Bear", is a retired United States Army General who, while he served as Commander of U.S. Central Command, was commander of the Coalition Forces in the Gulf War of 1991.-Early life:Schwarzkopf was born in Trenton, New...
  
  , US General
• Martin Scorsese
  Martin Scorsese
  Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation...
  
  
• Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta
• Edgar Sengier
  Edgar Sengier
  Edgar Sengier was the director of the Belgian Union Minière du Haut Katanga during World War II. Sengier is credited with giving the American government access to much of the uranium necessary for the Manhattan Project...
  
  
• Mohammad-Ali Sepanlou
  Mohammad-Ali Sepanlou
  Mohammad Ali Sepanlou is an Iranian poet and literary critic. He has been a co-founder, a member of the executive board, and editor of the journal of the Writers Association of Iran, in which capacity has opposed both the former regime of Shah Mohammad-Rezā Shāh Pahlavi and the government of the...
  
   (1941–), Iranian writer and literary figure.
• Andrzej Seweryn
  Andrzej Seweryn
  Andrzej Seweryn is a Polish and French actor and director. One of the most successful Polish theatre actors, he starred in over 50 films, mostly in Poland, France and Germany. He is also one of only three non-French actors to be hired by the Paris-based Comédie-Française.- Biography :Andrzej...
  
  
• Ravi Shankar
  Ravi Shankar
  Ravi Shankar , often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent...
  
  , India
• Henryk Siemiradzki
  Henryk Siemiradzki
  Henryk Siemiradzki was a Polish 19th century painter active in the period of foreign Partitions of Poland, and best remembered for his monumental Academic art...
  
  
• Henryk Sienkiewicz
  Henryk Sienkiewicz
  Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz was a Polish journalist and Nobel Prize-winning novelist. A Polish szlachcic of the Oszyk coat of arms, he was one of the most popular Polish writers at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905 for his...
  
  
• Władysław Sikorski
• Rodrigo Augusto da Silva
  Rodrigo Augusto da Silva
  Rodrigo Augusto da Silva a Brazilian senator for life, minister and a privy counsellor of Emperor Peter II of Brazil. He was a member of the Silva de Carvalho family from São Paulo, the son of José Manuel da Silva and nephew of financier Benedito Antonio da Silva...
  
   Brazilian foreign minister and Senator in 1889, Grand Cross.
• Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki
  Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki
  Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki was a Polish general, Commander-in-Chief of the November Uprising .He was born in Żebrak, Siedlce County in 1787. After completing his education at the Lwów University, he entered the Polish Legion formed in the Duchy of Warsaw, as a common soldier and won his lieutenancy at...
  
  
• Edward David Smout
  Edward David Smout
  Sgt Edward David 'Ted' Smout OAM was an Australian soldier, a veteran of the First World War.-Biography:Born in Brisbane, Queensland, he joined the AAMC at the age of 17, lying about his age to enlist...
  
  
• Jan Smuts
  Jan Smuts
  Jan Christiaan Smuts, OM, CH, ED, KC, FRS, PC was a prominent South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader and philosopher. In addition to holding various cabinet posts, he served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 until 1924 and from 1939 until 1948...
  
  
• Thomas D'Oyly Snow
  Thomas D'Oyly Snow
  Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas D’Oyly Snow KCB, KCMG was a British General in the First World War who commanded during some of the major battles of the Western Front. He had two nicknames, ‘Slush’ and ‘Snowball’, both plays on 'Snow'.-Education and early military career:Snow was born on 5 May 1858...
  
  
• Jacob Söderman
  Jacob Söderman
  Jacob-Magnus Söderman is a Finnish Member of Parliament since September 2007 until 2011...
  
  
• Michał Sokolnicki (1760–1816), Polish general
• Józef Sowinski
  Józef Sowinski
  Józef Sowiński was a Polish artillery general and one of the heroes of Poland's November 1830 Uprising.-Biography:Józef Longin Sowiński was born March 15, 1777 Warsaw, after graduating from the famous Corps of Cadets in Warsaw, he joined the Polish Army as a lieutenant during the Kościuszko Uprising...
  
  
• Carl Andrew Spaatz
• John Strange Spencer-Churchill
  John Strange Spencer-Churchill
  Major John Strange "Jack" Spencer-Churchill, DSO, TD was the younger son of Lord Randolph Churchill and Lady Randolph Churchill , and brother of World War II Prime Minster, Sir Winston Churchill....
  
  
• Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill
  Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill
  The Lord Ivor Charles Spencer-Churchill was the younger son of the 9th Duke of Marlborough and his first wife, the former Consuelo Vanderbilt, an American railroad heiress....
  
  
• Steven Spielberg
  Steven Spielberg
  Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...
  
  , American film director/producer
• Waclaw Stachiewicz
  Waclaw Stachiewicz
  Brigadier General Wacław Stachiewicz was an officer of the Polish Army, geologist and a Polish writer. Brother to General Julian Stachiewicz and husband to Gen...
  
  
• Milan Rastislav Štefánik
  Milan Rastislav Štefánik
  Milan Rastislav Štefánik , Kingdom of Hungary – May 4, 1919 in Ivanka pri Dunaji, Czechoslovakia) was a Slovak politician, diplomat, and astronomer. During World War I, he was General of the French Army, at the same time the Czechoslovak Minister of War, one of the leading members of the...
  
  
• Johannes Steinhoff
  Johannes Steinhoff
  Johannes Steinhoff was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace of World War II, and later a senior West German air force officer and military commander of NATO. Steinhoff was one of very few Luftwaffe pilots who survived to fly operationally through the whole of the war period 1939-45...
  
  
• Ninian Stephen
  Ninian Stephen
  Sir Ninian Martin Stephen, is a retired politician and judge, who served as the 20th Governor-General of Australia and as a Justice in the High Court of Australia.-Early life:...
  
  
• Anthony Coningham Sterling
  Anthony Coningham Sterling
  Colonel Sir Anthony Coningham Sterling KCB was a British Army officer and historian, author of The Highland Brigade in the Crimea....
  
  
• Joseph Stilwell
  Joseph Stilwell
  General Joseph Warren Stilwell was a United States Army four-star General known for service in the China Burma India Theater. His caustic personality was reflected in the nickname "Vinegar Joe"...
  
  
• Sharon Stone
  Sharon Stone
  Sharon Vonne Stone is an American actress, film producer, and former fashion model. She achieved international recognition for her role in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct...
  
  , American actress
• Bill Stone
• Julius Streicher
  Julius Streicher
  Julius Streicher was a prominent Nazi prior to World War II. He was the founder and publisher of Der Stürmer newspaper, which became a central element of the Nazi propaganda machine...
  
  , German National Socialist, publisher of the Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer
  Der Stürmer
  Der Stürmer was a weekly tabloid-format Nazi newspaper published by Julius Streicher from 1923 to the end of World War II in 1945, with brief suspensions in publication due to legal difficulties. It was a significant part of the Nazi propaganda machinery and was vehemently anti-Semitic...
  
  . He received the award 1939 before the war started.
• Barbra Streisand
  Barbra Streisand
  Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy,...
  
  
• Doveton Sturdee
  Doveton Sturdee
  Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, 1st Baronet, GCB, KCMG, CVO was a British admiral.-Naval career:...
  
  
• Jacques Gervais, baron Subervie
  Jacques Gervais, baron Subervie
  Jacques Gervais, baron Subervie was a French general and politician.-Under Napoleon I:...
  
  
• Evelyne Sullerot
  Evelyne Sullerot
  Évelyne Sullerot, née Hammel, is a French feminist. She was awarded Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur and Grand-Officier de l'ordre national du Mérite for her feminist combat....
  
  
• Bruce Sundlun
  Bruce Sundlun
  Bruce Sundlun was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as 71st Governor of Rhode Island from 1991 to 1995. He was Rhode Island's second Jewish governor, and the only Jewish governor in the United States during his two terms...
  
  
• Stevan Šupljikac
  Stevan Šupljikac
  Stevan Šupljikac, known simply as Vojvoda Šupljikac was a voivode and the first Duke of the Serbian Vojvodina, in 1848.-Life:...
  
  
• Léopold Survage
  Léopold Survage
  Léopold Survage was an important French painter of Russian-Danish-Finnish descent born in Vilmanstrand, Finland .-Biography:At a young age, Survage was...
  
  
• Nikolai Sverchkov
  Nikolai Sverchkov
  Nikolai Yegorovich Sverchkov was a Russian painter and engraver. His works begun to be exposed from 1844. Sverchkov's Return from the bear hunt, exhibited in 1863, was bought by Napoleon III. For this and two other paintings Sverchkov was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor...
  
  
• Stefan Szlaszewski
  Stefan Szlaszewski
  Stefan Szlaszewski was a Polish military officer and a notable commander of mountain troops of the Polish Army in the period preceding the World War II. Serving in the rank of Colonel, among other posts, he was the commanding officer of the Polish 2nd Podhale Rifles Regiment in Sanok, a...
  
  

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• Éric Tabarly
  Éric Tabarly
  Éric Tabarly was a notable French yachtsman.A former officer in the French navy who is often considered the father of French yachting....
  
  
• Tapani Erling
  Tapani Erling
  Tapani Erling , is a Finnish economist. He is the Director-General of Finnish Customs. In July 2006 he was elected chairman of the Council of the World Customs Organization....
  
  
• Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
  Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
  Louis-Alexandre Taschereau was a the 14th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec from 1920 to 1936. He was elected four times, the first in 1900, in the riding of Montmorency. He was also a member of the Parti libéral du Québec...
  
  
• François Tavenas
  François Tavenas
  François Tavenas, was a Canadian engineer and academic.Born in Bourg-de-Péage, Drôme, France, he received an engineering degree in civil engineering from Institut national des sciences appliquées de Lyon in 1963 and a Doctorate with specialization in soil mechanics in 1965 from the Université de...
  
  
• Elizabeth Taylor
  Elizabeth Taylor
  Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE was a British-American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age...
  
  
• Maxwell D. Taylor
  Maxwell D. Taylor
  General Maxwell Davenport "Max" Taylor was an United States Army four star general and diplomat of the mid-20th century, who served as the fifth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after having been appointed by the President of the United States John F...
  
  
• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ was a French philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of both Piltdown Man and Peking Man. Teilhard conceived the idea of the Omega Point and developed Vladimir Vernadsky's concept of Noosphere...
  
  
• Nüvit Tekül, Prof. Dr. (1921–2005), Turkish Professor of Medicine, awarded the Legion (Insigne du Chevalier) in 1982
• Charles Tellier
  Charles Tellier
  Charles Tellier was a French engineer, born in Amiens. He early made a study of motors and compressed air. In 1868 he began experiments in refrigeration, which resulted ultimately in the refrigerating plant as used on ocean vessels, to preserve meats and other perishable food...
  
  
• Iran Teymourtash
  Iran Teymourtash
  Iran Teymourtāsh , the eldest daughter of Abdolhossein Teymourtāsh, is considered a pioneer among women activists in 20th century Iran...
  
  
• Maurice Thevenet
• Kristin Scott Thomas
  Kristin Scott Thomas
  Kristin A. Scott Thomas, OBE is an English actress who has also acquired French nationality. She gained international recognition in the 1990s for her roles in Bitter Moon, Four Weddings and a Funeral and The English Patient....
  
  
• Harold Warris Thompson
  Harold Warris Thompson
  Sir Harold Warris Thompson was an English physical chemist.He was born in Wombwell, Yorkshire, the son of William Thompson, a colliery executive, and Charlotte Emily. He was educated at King Edward VII School in Sheffield, then at Trinity College, Oxford, where he was tutored by Cyril Norman...
  
  
• Sir Henry Worth Thornton, also awarded Distinguished Service Medal and Order of Leopold (Belgium)
• Germaine Tillion
  Germaine Tillion
  Germaine Tillion born in Allègre in Haute-Loire on May 30, 1907 – April 18, 2008) was a French anthropologist, best known for her work in Algeria in the 1950s on behalf of the French government.- Anthropology of the Chaoui :...
  
  
• Alexis de Tocqueville
  Alexis de Tocqueville
  Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville was a French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution . In both of these works, he explored the effects of the rising equality of social conditions on the individual and the state in...
  
  
• Jean Todt
  Jean Todt
  Jean Todt was born on February 25, 1946, in Pierrefort, Cantal, France. After a successful career as a rally co-driver he made his reputation in motor sport management, first with Peugeot Talbot Sport, then with Scuderia Ferrari, before being appointed Chief Executive Officer of Ferrari from 2004...
  
  
• J. R. D. Tata
  J. R. D. Tata
  Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata was a pioneer aviator and important businessman of India. He was awarded India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna in 1992 and the Legion of Honour from the French government in 1954.-Early life and education:J. R. D...
  
  
• Edward Tomkins
  Edward Tomkins
  Sir Edward Emile Tomkins, GCMG, CVO was a British diplomat. He was British Ambassador to the Netherlands from 1970 to 1972, and British Ambassador to France from 1972 to 1975. He owned Winslow Hall in Winslow, Buckinghamshire, often attributed to Christopher Wren, from 1959.Tomkins was the son of...
  
  
• Mira Trailovic
  Mira Trailovic
  Mira Trailović was a Serbian dramaturg, theatre director and founder of Atelje 212 Theatre....
  
  
• Catherine Trautmann
  Catherine Trautmann
  Catherine Trautmann is a former Minister of Culture of France and now Member of the European Parliament for the East of France.She was elected as mayor of Strasbourg in 1989, re-elected in 1995, then defeated in 2001....
  
  
• Constant Troyon
  Constant Troyon
  Constant Troyon , French painter, was born in Sèvres, near Paris, where his father was connected with the famous manufactory of porcelain....
  
  
• Louis W. Truman
  Louis W. Truman
  Lieutenant General Louis W. Truman was the former Commanding General of Third U.S. Army. General Truman was cousin to 33rd President, Harry S. Truman, and served as his Aide-de-Camp during President Truman’s inauguration in 1948.-Military service:In 1926, General Truman enlisted in Company E,...
  
  
• Lap-Chee Tsui
  Lap-Chee Tsui
  Professor Lap-chee Tsui, OC, O.Ont is a Chinese-Canadian geneticist and currently the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Hong Kong.-Personal life:Tsui was born in Shanghai...
  
  
• André Tulard
  André Tulard
  André Tulard was a French civil administrator and police inspector. He is known for having created the "Tulard files," which censused Jewish people during Vichy...
  
  
• Adélard Turgeon
  Adélard Turgeon
  Adélard Turgeon, was a Canadian lawyer and politician.Born in Saint-Étienne-de-Beaumont , Lower Canada, Turgeon attended the Collège de Lévis before receiving a Bachelor of Laws degree from Université Laval at Quebec. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1887 and started a law career...
  
  
• Desmond Tutu
  Desmond Tutu
  Desmond Mpilo Tutu is a South African activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid...
  
  
• Nathan Farragut Twining
  Nathan Farragut Twining
  Nathan Farragut Twining, KBE was a United States Air Force General, born in Monroe, Wisconsin. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from 1953 until 1957...
  
  

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• Tony Vaccaro
  Tony Vaccaro
  Tony Vaccaro , also known as Michael A. Vaccaro, is an American photographer who is best known for his photos taken in Europe during 1944 and 1945 and in Germany immediately after World War II. After the war, he became a renowned fashion and lifestyle photographer for U.S...
  
  , U.S. war photographer
  War photography
  War photography captures photographs of armed conflict and life in war-torn areas.Although photographs can provide a more direct representation than paintings or drawings, they are sometimes manipulated, creating an image that is not objectively journalistic.-History:Photography, presented to the...
  
  , in 1994.
• Rose Valland
  Rose Valland
  Rose Antonia Maria Valland was a French art historian, a member of the French Resistance, a captain in the French military, and one of the most decorated women in French history...
  
  
• Alexander Vallaury
  Alexander Vallaury
  Alexander Vallaury was a French-Ottoman architect, who founded architectural education and lectured in the School of Fine Arts in Constantinople , Ottoman Empire....
  
  
• Ninette de Valois
  Ninette de Valois
  Dame Ninette de Valois, OM, CH, DBE, FRAD, FISTD was an Irish-born British dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet...
  
  
• Joost van Vollenhoven
  Joost van Vollenhoven
  Joost van Vollenhoven was a Dutch-born French soldier and colonial administrator. Van Vollenhoven died in the Second Battle of the Marne.-Early life:...
  
  
• Hoyt Vandenberg
  Hoyt Vandenberg
  Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg was a U.S. Air Force general, its second Chief of Staff, and second Director of Central Intelligence....
  
  
• Cornelius Vanderbilt III
  Cornelius Vanderbilt III
  Cornelius Vanderbilt III was a distinguished American military officer, inventor, engineer, and yachtsman, and a member of the prominent American Vanderbilt family.-Biography:...
  
  
• George Vari
  George Vari
  George William Vari, PC, CM was a Canadian based developer and philanthropist. A civil engineer and economist, Vari emigrated to Canada following the 1956 Hungarian Revolution....
  
  
• Vincent-Marie Viénot, comte de Vaublanc
• Jan G.F. Veldhuis
  Jan G.F. Veldhuis
  Johannes Gerardus Franciscus Veldhuis is a Dutch administrator/ governor in the fields of scientific education and research, healthcare and culture, nationally and internationally. His latest function was president of Utrecht University, from 1986 until 2003...
  
  
• Violette Verdy
  Violette Verdy
  Violette Verdy is a French ballerina who has worked as a director of dance companies and in other related capacities since her retirement from performing in the late 1970s. Verdy began dance training as a small child and performed with Les Ballets des Champs-Elysées beginning in 1945...
  
  
• Jules Verne
  Jules Verne
  Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , A Journey to the Center of the Earth , and Around the World in Eighty Days...
  
  
• Ben Verwaayen
  Ben Verwaayen
  Bernardus Johannes Maria "Ben" Verwaayen is a Dutch businessman. On September 2, 2008 the Alcatel-Lucent board of directors appointed Verwaayen as the company’s Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Patricia Russo.-Early life:...
  
  
• Jehan Georges Vibert
  Jehan Georges Vibert
  Jehan Georges Vibert was a French academic painter.-Biography:He was born in Paris. He began his artistic training at a young age under the instruction of his maternal grandfather, engraver Jean-Pierre-Marie Jazet...
  
  
• Galina Vishnevskaya
  Galina Vishnevskaya
  Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya is a Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1966.-Biography:...
  
  

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• James Waddell (French Foreign Legion)
  James Waddell (French Foreign Legion)
  James Waddell was one of New Zealand’s most highly decorated soldiers of the First World War. Born in Dunedin he attended Canterbury College in the evening to prepare for, and win, the first New Zealand government military scholarship...
  
  
• Youssef Wahba
  Youssef Wahba
  Youssef Wahba Pasha Egypt ian Prime Minister and jurist.Youssef Wahba was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1852 of a prominent Coptic family. His father, Wahba Bey had been a founder of the first Coptic charitable society that included Muslim scholars such as Abdallah Nadim and Sheikh Muhammed Abduh...
  
   Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt
• Mourad Wahba
  Mourad Wahba
  Mourad Wahba Pasha was an Egyptian high court judge and cabinet minister.Mourad Wahba was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1879, the son of Youssef Wahba Pasha former Prime Minister of Egypt and grandson of Wahba Bey Youssef a founder of the first Coptic charitable society...
  
   Pasha
• Sadek Wahba Pasha
• Magdi Wahba
  Magdi Wahba
  Magdi Wahba was an Egyptian university professor, Johnsonian scholar, and lexicographer.He was born in Alexandria in 1925 the son of a high court judge and later cabinet minister. His mother had been educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and Oxford University...
  
  
• Nancy Wake
  Nancy Wake
  Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, AC, GM , served as a British agent during the later part of World War II. She became a leading figure in the maquis groups of the French Resistance and was one of the Allies' most decorated servicewomen of the war.-Early life:Born in Roseneath, Wellington, New Zealand in...
  
  
• Mark Wainberg
  Mark Wainberg
  Mark A. Wainberg, is a Canadian AIDS researcher and activist. He is the Director of the McGill University AIDS Centre at the Montreal Jewish General Hospital and Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology at McGill University. His laboratory primarily studies HIV reverse transcriptase, and the...
  
  , Leading Canadian AIDS Researcher
• Rose Warfman
  Rose Warfman
  Rose Warfman is a French survivor of Auschwitz and heroine of the French Resistance.-Born in Zürich:Rose Gluck was born on October 4, 1916, in Zürich, Switzerland, the daughter of Paul Gluck-Friedman and Henia Shipper .Her father was a direct descendant of Hasidic Masters, going back to the...
  
  
• Oswald Watt
  Oswald Watt
  Walter Oswald Watt OBE was an Australian aviator and businessman. The son of a Scottish-Australian merchant and politician, he was born in England and came to Sydney when he was a year old. He returned to Britain at the age of eleven for education at Bristol and Cambridge...
  
  
• Ben Weider
  Ben Weider
  Benjamin "Ben" Weider, was the co-founder of the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness along with brother Joe Weider...
  
  
• Léon Weil
  Léon Weil
  Léon Roger Weil was one of the last two surviving veterans of the battle of Val-de-Marne in the First World War...
  
  
• Arnold Weinstock
  Arnold Weinstock
  Arnold Weinstock, Baron Weinstock was an English businessman whom The Guardian newspaper called "Britain's premier post-second-world-war industrialist."...
  
  
• David Weisstub
  David Weisstub
  David N. Weisstub is the Philippe Pinel professor of legal psychiatry and biomedical ethics at the Université de Montréal. He is the honorary life president of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health, and the editor-in-chief both of its International Journal of Law and Psychiatry and of...
  
  
• Wladyslaw Wejtko
  Wladyslaw Wejtko
  Władysław Wejtko was an Imperial Russian Army general of Polish descent. He fought on the side of the Second Polish Republic as a major-general in Józef Piłsudski's forces during the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1921.-Biography:...
  
  
• Arsène Wenger
  Arsène Wenger
  Arsène Wenger, OBE is a French association football manager and former player, who has managed English Premier League side Arsenal since 1996...
  
  , Arsenal Football Club Manager (2002)
• William Westmoreland
  William Westmoreland
  William Childs Westmoreland was a United States Army General, who commanded US military operations in the Vietnam War at its peak , during the Tet Offensive. He adopted a strategy of attrition against the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam and the North Vietnamese Army. He later served as...
  
  
• Maxime Weygand
  Maxime Weygand
  Maxime Weygand was a French military commander in World War I and World War II.Weygand initially fought against the Germans during the invasion of France in 1940, but then surrendered to and collaborated with the Germans as part of the Vichy France regime.-Early years:Weygand was born in Brussels...
  
  
• Joseph Weyland
  Joseph Weyland
  Joseph Weyland is a Luxembourgian diplomat and was Luxembourg's Ambassador to the United States from 2 March 2005 to 2008. In addition, he is concurrently accredited to Canada, Mexico, and the Organization of American States...
  
  
• Edith Wharton
  Edith Wharton
  Edith Wharton , was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer.- Early life and marriage:...
  
  
• Earle Wheeler
  Earle Wheeler
  Earle Gilmore "Bus" Wheeler, was a United States Army General who served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army and then as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , holding the latter position during the Vietnam War.-Biography:Earle Gilmore Wheeler was born on January 13, 1908 in Washington,...
  
  
• Boleslaw Wieniawa-Dlugoszowski
  Boleslaw Wieniawa-Dlugoszowski
  Bolesław Ignacy Florian Wieniawa-Długoszowski was a Polish general, politician, poet and diplomat, as well as formally President of the Republic of Poland for one day.- Before World War I :....
  
  
• Elie Wiesel
  Elie Wiesel
  Sir Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE; born September 30, 1928) is a Hungarian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and...
  
  , Holocaust survivor and author, Nobel Laureate (2000)
• Simon Wiesenthal
  Simon Wiesenthal
  Simon Wiesenthal KBE was an Austrian Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter....
  
  
• Arthur Knyvet Wilson
  Arthur Knyvet Wilson
  Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson VC, GCB, OM, GCVO was an English Admiral and briefly First Sea Lord who was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry during the war in Sudan...
  
  
• Henry Hughes Wilson
• Jean-Pierre Wimille
  Jean-Pierre Wimille
  Jean-Pierre Wimille was a Grand Prix motor racing driver and a member of the French Resistance during World War II.-Biography:...
  
  
• Edwin B. Winans (U.S. Army general)
  Edwin B. Winans (U.S. Army general)
  Edwin Baruch Winans was an American general- Early life :Winans was born in Hamburg, Michigan as the son of the Hon. Edwin B. Winans, Governor of Michigan...
  
  
• Evelyn Wood (British Army officer)
• Klaus Wowereit
  Klaus Wowereit
  Klaus Wowereit is a German politician, member of the SPD , and has been the Mayor of Berlin since the 2001 state elections, where his party won a plurality of the votes, 29.7%. He served as President of the Bundesrat in 2001/02. His SPD-led coalition was re-elected in the 2006 elections...
  
  
• Severin Wunderman
• Reinhold Würth
  Reinhold Würth
  Reinhold Würth is a German businessman. He took over his father's tiny wholesale screw business at 19 and built it into the Adolf Würth Group, which posted record $8.2 billion in sales in 2004.- Honors and awards :...
  
  

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• Michelle Yeoh
  Michelle Yeoh
  Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng is a Hong Kong-based Malaysian Chinese actress, well known for performing her own stunts in the action films that brought her to fame in the early 1990s....
  
  
• Alvin York
  Alvin York
  Alvin Cullum York was one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I. He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, taking 32 machine guns, killing 28 German soldiers and capturing 132 others...
  
  
• Mark Young
  Mark Young
  Mark Young may refer to:*Mark Aitchison Young , British administrator, Governor of Hong Kong just before and after World War II*Mark John Young , Welsh Liberal Democrat candidate for the Vale of Clwyd in the National Assembly for Wales election, 2007*Mark Young , motorcycle racer who died at the...
  
   (British revolutionary)
• William Young (veteran)
  William Young (veteran)
  William Alexander Smillie Young, also known as Sandy Young, was, at age 107, one of the last surviving British veterans of the First World War...
  
  
• Yash Chopra
  Yash Chopra
  Yash Raj Chopra is an Indian filmmaker, film director, screenwriter, and a highly successful Bollywood producer. Waqt, Deewar, Kabhi Kabhie, Silsila, Lamhe, Chandni, Darr, Dil To Pagal Hai, and Veer-Zaara are some of his highly popular movies...
  
  

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• Giuliano Zaccardelli
  Giuliano Zaccardelli
  Giuliano Zaccardelli, COM is a former Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer who was the Commissioner of the RCMP from 2 September 2000 to 15 December 2006. Zaccardelli's departure from the RCMP was linked to the force's involvement in the Maher Arar Affair...
  
  
• Józef Zajączek
  Józef Zajaczek
  Prince Józef Zajączek , was a Polish general and politician.His first important military post was that of an aide-de-camp to hetman Franciszek Ksawery Branicki...
  
  
• Zygmunt Zaleski
  Zygmunt Zaleski
  Zygmunt Zaleski of Lubicz coat of arms , pseudonymes R. de Bron, R. Debron, was a Polish literature historian, literary critic, poet, publicist, translator. Awarded the Légion d'honneur.Zaleski was an editor of Polak, magazine of Polish Army in France...
  
  
• Lucjan Zeligowski
  Lucjan Zeligowski
  Lucjan Żeligowski , was a Polish general, and veteran of World War I, the Polish-Soviet War and World War II. He is mostly remembered for his role in Żeligowski's Mutiny and as head of a short-lived Republic of Central Lithuania.-Biography:...
  
  
• Zinedine Zidane
  Zinedine Zidane
  Zinedine Yazid Zidane is a retired French footballer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. Zidane was a leading figure of a generation of French players that won the 1998 World Cup and 2000 European Championship...
  
  
• Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.
  Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.
  Elmo Russell Zumwalt, Jr. was an American naval officer and the youngest man to serve as Chief of Naval Operations. As an admiral and later the 19th Chief of Naval Operations, Zumwalt played a major role in U.S. military history, especially during the Vietnam War. A highly-decorated war veteran,...