List of people by name: Aa - Ak...

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  • Abancourt, Charles d', (1758-1792), French statesman
  • Abaris, priest of Apollo
  • Abati (Niccolo Dell'Abbato), (1512-1571) artist
  • Abba Mari (Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph), 14th century French rabbi
  • Abbandando, Frank, (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
  • Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert, (1848-1881), author
  • Abbadie, Antoine Thomson d', (1810-1897), traveler
  • Abbadie, Jakob, (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher
  • Abbas I, (1813-1854), pasha of Egypt
  • Abbas I, (e. 1557-1628 or 1629), shah of Persia
  • Abbas II, (1874- ), khedive of Egypt
  • Abauzit, Firmin, (1679-1767), French scientist

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  • Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad, (1914-1987), film director
  • Abbe, Ernst, (1840-1905), physicist
  • Abbey, Edwin Austin, (1852-1911)
  • Abbey, Lynn, author
  • Abbot, Archbishop George, (1562-1633), Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Abbott, Diane Julie, (born September 27, 1953) British Labour MP
  • Abbot, Ezra, (1819-1884), American biblical scholar
  • Abbot, George, (1603-1648), English writer
  • Abbot, Robert, (1588?-1662?), English Puritan divine
  • Abbot, William, (1798-1843), English actor
  • Abbott, Bud, (1895-1974), actor
  • Abbott, Edwin Abbott, (1838-1926), English schoolmaster & theologian
  • Abbott, Emma, (1849-1891), American singer
  • Abbott, Jacob, (1803-1879), American writer
  • Abbott, John Stevens Cabot, (1805-1877), American writer
  • Abbott, Lyman, (1835- ), American divine and author
  • Abbott, Russ, British comedian

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  • Abd-ar-rahman I, (756-788), Muslim Spain ruler
  • Abd-ar-rahman II, (822-852), Spanish Umayyad
  • Abd-ar-rahman III, (912-961), prince of the Ummayad dynasty in Spain
  • Abd-ar-rahman IV, (1017), Muslim Spain ruler
  • Abd-ar-rahman V, (1023-1024), Muslim Spain ruler
  • Abd-el-Aziz IV, (1880- ), sultan of Morocco
  • Abd-el-Kader, (c. 1807-1883), Emir of Mascara
  • Abd-el-latif, (1162-1231), physician and traveller
  • Abdul, Paula, (born 1962), musician
  • Abdul-Baha
  • Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, (born 1947)
  • Abdulkhaleq, Rosa Mustafa, (b. 1976), Yemeni pilot
  • Abe, Kobo, (1924-1993), The Woman In the Dunes, The Magic Chalk
  • Abeken, Heinrich, (1809-1872)
  • Abel, Karl Friedrich, (1723-1787), German composer
  • Abel, Niels Henrik, (1802-1829), Norwegian mathematician
  • Abel, Thomas, (c. 1497-1540), an English priest
  • Abelard, Peter, (1079-1142), philosopher, scholastic philosopher
  • Abell, George Ogden, (USA, 1927-1983), astronomer
  • Abercrombie, John, (1780-1844), musician
  • Aberhart, William, (1878-1943), 1935-09-03 to 1943-05-23
  • Abernathy, Ralph, (1936-1996), civil rights leader

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  • Abgar, (29 BC-26 BC)
  • Abich, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von, (1806-1886), mineralogist, geologist
  • Abington, Frances, (1737-1815), actor
  • Abraham, (ca. 1800 BC), Biblical figure
  • Abraham of Alexandria, (975-978), Coptic Pope
  • Abraham, F. Murray, (born 1939), actor
  • Abraham, Ralph, mathematician
  • Abram, Joze, (1875-1938), poet
  • Abrams, Albert fraudulent doctor
  • Abrams, Pete, : Sluggy Freelance
  • Abreu, Luis, actor
  • Absalom, (ca. 1000 BC), Biblical figure, third son of David
  • Absalon, (c. 1128-1201)
  • Abse, Dannie, (born 1923), (White Coat Purple Coat)
  • Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi, (864*-930 AD)
  • Abu Nidal, (1937-2002), terrorist
  • Abu-Jamal, Mumia, (Wesley Cook, b. 1954), journalist & activist
  • Abulfeda, (1273-1331), geographer

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  • Acacius, (died 303), patriarch of Constantinople
  • Acacius, Patriarch, patriarch of Constantinople
  • Acaries, Louis, boxer, former world title challenger, now promoter
  • Achard, Marcel, (1899-1974), playwright and scriptwriter
  • Achebe, Chinua, (born 1930), Things Fall Apart, stories about the dissolution of traditional African society.
  • Acheson, Dean, (1893-1971)
  • Achillas of Alexandria, (312-313), Coptic Pope, Patriarch of Alexandria
  • Acker, Kathy, (died 1997), author
  • Ackerman, Forrest J., author
  • Ackermann, Wilhelm, (1896-1962), mathematician
  • Ackroyd, Peter, (born 1949), English author, novelist
  • Aconcagua (musician)
  • Acorn, Milton, (1923-1986), poet, has published 18 volumes of poetry
  • Acosta, Uriel, (1585-1640), (philosopher)
  • Acton, Loren, (born 1936), astronaut
  • Acuff, Roy, musician

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  • Adachi, Hatazo, Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in New Guinea
  • Adalbert of Prague, (~956- 997), saint

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  • Adam of Chillenden, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Adam, Adolphe-Charles, (1803-1856), composer
  • Adam, Robert, (1728-1792), architect

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  • Adamic, Bojan, (born 1912), composer and conductor.
  • Adamnan, (625-704), Irish religious
  • Adamo, musician

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  • Adams, Abigail, (1744-1818)
  • Adams, Ansel, (1902-1984), photographer
  • Adams, Bryan, singer
  • Adams, Clifford, author of the UseModWiki wiki software
  • Adams, Douglas, (1952-2001), British author of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • Adams, Evangeline, astrologer
  • Adams, Franklin, painter
  • Adams, Gerry, (b.1948) Irish politician & Sinn Féin leader
  • Adams, Harold, author
  • Adams, Henry, (1838-1918), Democracy: An American Novel
  • Adams, John, (1735-1826), second President of the United States
  • Adams, John (composer), (born 1947)
  • Adams, John Couch, (1819-1892), astronomer
  • Adams, John Quincy, (1767-1848) sixth US President
  • Adams, Leonie, poet
  • Adams, Michael, chess player
  • Adams, Milivi, (1997-November 17, 2002), young cancer patient
  • Adams, Richard, (born 1920), British novelist
  • Adams, Ryan, singer-songwriter, musician
  • Adams, Scott, (born June 8, 1957), creator of the Dilbert comic strip
  • Adams, Tony, (born 1966), athlete
  • Adams, Walter, (USA, 1876-1956), astronomer
  • Adams, Yolanda, musician
  • Adamski, Georges, UFO "traveler"
  • Adamson, James, astronaut

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  • Adcock, Fleur, (born 1934), poet
  • Addams, Jane, (1860-1935)
  • Adderley, Cannonball, (alto)
  • Adderley, Julian Cannonball, (alto)
  • Addis, Filippo
  • Addison, Joseph, (1672-1719), English poet
  • Ade, George, The Slim Princess
  • Adelard of Bath, scholastic philosopher
  • Adenauer, Konrad, (1876-1967), West German chancellor
  • Adeodatus, Pope, (672-676)
  • Ader, Clément, (1841-1925)
  • Adjani, Isabelle, (born 1955), French actor

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  • Adler, Ada, (1878-1946)
  • Adler, Alfred, (1870-1937), father of Individual Psychology
  • Adler, Dankmar, (1844-1900), architect
  • Adler, David, (1882-1949), architect
  • Adler, Friedrich, psychologist
  • Adler, Mortimer, (1902-2001), USA philosopher & author
  • Adler, Victor, Austrian Social Democratic leader
  • Adoin, Armad, musician
  • Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg, king 1292-1298
  • Adolphus, Gustavus
  • Adoree, Renee, (1898-1933), French actor
  • Adorno, Theodor, (1903-1969), philosopher

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  • Adrian I, Pope, (772-795)
  • Adrian II, Pope, (867-872)
  • Adrian of Nicomedia, (died Nicomedia 303 or 304), Christian saint
  • Adrian III, (died 885), pope from 884 to 885
  • Adrian III, Pope, (884-885), pope from 884 to 885
  • Adrian IV, (c. 1100-1159), pope from 1154 to 1159
  • Adrian IV, Pope, (1154-1159), pope from 1154 to 1159
  • Adrian V, Pope
  • Adrian VI, (1459-1523), pope from 1522 to 1523
  • Adrian VI, Pope, (1522-1523), pope from 1522 to 1523
  • Adrian, Patriarch, (1690-1700), Metropolitan of Moscow

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  • Aedesius, (died A. D. 355), Neoplatonist philosopher
  • Aegineta, Paulus, (born c. 4th century AD), surgeon of the island of Aegina
  • Aefric, (c. 955-1020?), the Grammarian, English abbot
  • Aelfsige, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Aemilianus, Roman Emperor
  • Aelianus, Claudius, (d. 222), Roman author and teacher of rhetoric
  • Aelle of Sussex, Bretwalda, king of the South Saxons
  • Aeschylus, (525 BC-456 BC), Greek dramatist
  • Aesop, Fables
  • Aethelhard, (St.) 793
  • Aethelnoth, (died 1038), Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Aethelred, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Aetion, (4th century BC)
  • Afanasyev, Viktor, astronaut
  • Affan, Uthman ibn, caliph
  • Affif, Ron, musician
  • Affleck, Ben, actor
  • Alphege (or Aelfheah), (954-1023), Archbishop of Canterbury, Saint
  • Affre, Denis Auguste, (1793-1848), archbishop of Paris
  • Afranius, Lucius, Roman comic poet, flourished about 94 BC


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  • Agapetus I, Pope, (535-536)
  • Agapetus II, Pope, (946-955)
  • Agapetus, John, patriarch of Constantinople
  • Agasias, Greek sculptor
  • Agassi, Andre, (born 1970), (United States)
  • Agassiz, Alexander, (1835-1910), American man of science
  • Agassiz, Louis, (1807-December 14, 1873), work on ice ages, glaciers.
  • Agathangelus I, patriarch of Constantinople
  • Agatho of Alexandria, (665-681), Coptic Pope
  • Agatho, Pope, (678-681)
  • Agca, Mehmet Ali, (born 1958), failed assassin of Pope John Paul II
  • Agnelli, Gianni, (1921-2003) Italian industrialist
  • Agnes, Empress, regent 1056-1068
  • Agnesi, Maria Gaetana, (1718-1799), Italian polymath
  • Agnew, Spiro, (1918-1996), Vice President of the United States
  • Agnew, David Hayes, (November 24, 1818-1892), American surgeon

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  • Agostinho, Joaquim, (cyclist)
  • Agree, James, poet
  • Agrelot, Jose Miguel, (b. 1927), Puerto Rican entertainer
  • Agricola, Mikael, (1510-1557) Finnish theologian & scholar
  • Agostino, Paolo, (1593-1629), Italian musician
  • Agricola, Johannes, (1494-1566), Protestant reformer
  • Agricola, Martin, (1466-1506), German composer
  • Agricola, Rodolphus, (1443-1485)
  • Agrippa, architect, civil engineer
  • Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius, (63 BC-12 BC) Roman statesman &general
  • Agrippinus of Alexandria, (167-178), Coptic Pope, Patriarch of Alexandria
  • Agt, Dries van, (born 1931), prime minister
  • Aguilar, Antonio, songwriter
  • Aguilera, Christina, (born 1980), musician
  • Aguinaldo, Emilio, (1869-1964), Philippines independence fighter
  • Agus, Gianni

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  • Ah-Kin, musician
  • Ahern, Bertie, (born 1951), prime minister (the Taoiseach) and leader of Fianna Fáil
  • Ahern, Jerry, author
  • Ahlberg, Alf, Swedish writer
  • Ahlefeldt, Karl Gustav, (1910-1985), Danish film actor
  • Ahlfors, Lars, (1907-1996), Finnish mathematician
  • Ahlfors, Lars Valerian, (1907-1996), mathematician
  • Ahmadullah, Qari
  • Aho, Esko, (born 1954), Finnish statesman
  • Ahtisaari, Martti, (1937- ) UN diplomat & president of Finland

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  • Ai, Sin, poet
  • Aichel, Johann Santin, (ca. 1670-1723), architect
  • Aichinger, Gregor, (c. 1565-1628), German composer
  • Aidan, Saint, of Lindisfarne
  • Aidid, Mohammed Farah, (1934-1996), Somali politician and clan leader
  • Aiken, Conrad, poet
  • Aimée, Anouk, (born 1932), French actor
  • Ainger, Nicholas Richard, (born October 24, 1949) British Labour MP
  • Ainsworth, Henry, (1571-1622), English Nonconformist clergyman and scholar
  • Airo, Aksel, (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist
  • Airy, George, (1801-1892), astronomer
  • Aiuppa, Joseph, Chicago mafia boss

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  • Ajax the Greater, hero from Homer's Iliad
  • Ajdukiewicz, Tadeusz, Polish painter
  • Akari, Moussa, Maronite Patriarch
  • Akas, Cem, (born 1968), novelist
  • Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, (1542-1605), ruler of the Mughal Empire
  • Akbar, Saad, assassin of Liaquat Ali Khan, president of Pakistan
  • Akenside, Mark, (1721-1770), poet
  • Akers, Thomas, astronaut
  • Akhenaton, Egyptian Pharaoh and founder of a brief monotheistic religion
  • Akhmadulina, Bella, (born 1957), poet
  • Akhmatova, Anna, (1889-1966), poet
  • Akihito, (born December 23, 1933), emperor of Japan
  • Akins, Claude, actor
  • Akiva, Rabbi, (Mishnah sage of the third generation, famous Jewish martyr
  • Akiyama, Toyohiro, astronaut
  • Akkad, Moustapha, (born on 1935, in Syria), producer, director and actor
  • Aksenov, Vladimir, astronaut
  • Aksomitis, Linda, novels, travel, poetry under pseudonym Sunflower Sue, manual for use of serger.
  • Akyroyd, Dan, comedian