Authors
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A
- Alexander Jackson Davis
- Annette Lu
- Albert Hofmann
- Andrew Fastow
- Al Campanis
- Anne Archer
- Alois Brunner
- Alexandre Vinet
- Alanis Morisette
- Amy Hatvany
- Arthur Brisbane
- Anthony Perkins
- Antoine Bourdelle
- Amy Levy
- Ammon Hennacy
- Athene Seyler
- Andrew Brown
- Andre Dubus
- Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
- Arthur Hoppe
- Arsenio Hall
- Apuleius
- Annie Gottlier
- Alvah Bessie
- Alfred Schnittke
- Anne Weismann
- Andrew Fletcher
- Arthur Sheekman
- Albert Guinon
- Al Leiter
- Anna Sewell
- Amber Valletta
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy
- Anne Smedley
- Arthur Ponsonby
- Adam Hochschild
- Andrew Law
- Agnes C. Laut
- Art Carney
- Allan Ray
- Adrienne E. Gusof
- Alan Krueger
- Alfonso Cuarón
- Alan Corenk
- Alan Colmes
- Alexander Meiklejohn
- Alan Lewis
- Alan Cumming
- Amisha Patel
- Ann Sothern
B
- Brené Brown
- Bert Leston Taylor
- Benjamin Dover
- Bill McGlashen
- Brian Norgard
- Brian Wansink
- Bill Eckstrom
- Boonaa Mohammed
- Ben Bagdikian
- Bob Rubin
- Benito Juarez
- Bob Hoskins
- Burke Marshall
- Billy Mitchell
- Barbara Terwilliger
- Burton Richardson
- Bruce Brown
- Bill Goldberg
- Bill Mollison
- Benjamin Henry Day
- Bobby Sheehan
- Britt Ekland
- Berthe Morisot
- Bobby Bragan
- Bradley A. Smith
- Bert Lahr
- Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands
- Bernard Dowiyogo
- Bob Rae
- Bertha von Suttner
- Bert Hardy
- Brad Gilbert
- Bridget Moynahan
- Barbara F. Meltz
- Bryce Courtenay
- Bernie Madoff
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
- Brian Bosworth
- Brooke Burns
- Bob Guccione
- Ben Maddow
- Baal Shem Tov
- Betty Rollin
- Bob Etheridge
- Benjamin P. Hardy
- Bob Corker
- Bruce Oldfield
- Beatrice Potter Webb
- Barbara Kolb
- Burton Rascoe
C
- Claude McDonald
- Claudius Claudianus
- Colin McRudden
- Cosimo de' Medici
- Claiborne Fox Jackson
- Charles R. Schwab
- Charles Richet
- Christine Taylor
- Charles A. Lockwood
- Cass Gilbert
- Charles Platt
- Charles Samuel Addams
- Clayton Rawson
- Charles O. Finley
- Cotton Fitzsimmons
- Charles Du Bos
- Chris Evans
- Charles James Fox
- Charlotte Saunders Cushman
- Creighton Abrams
- Carl Albert
- Carl von Clausewitz
- Cesare Beccaria
- Carlos Slim
- Claude Bristol
- Chris Kattan
- Carlos Wilcox
- Charles Fourier
- Catherine Charlotte de Gramont
- Charles Dederich
- Claude Berri
- Christopher Myers
- Chelsea Clinton
- Chuck Nice
- Cliff Asness
- Carl Davis
- Cheryl James
- Colin Hanks
- Charles Davenport
- Charles Sedley
- Carolyn Murphy
- Christopher Anstey
- Charles Simon Favart
- Carl Richards
- C. J. Van Vliet
- Charlotte Davis Kasl
- Charlie Bell
- Chazz Palminteri
- Charles McCabe
- Clement Atlee
D
- Donald R. Gannon
- Doug Carlston
- David Rubenstein
- Dorothy Bernard
- David Keirsey
- Donald O. Hebb
- Drew Eric Whitman
- Davey Anderson
- Diana Scharf Hunt
- David Wu
- David Hawkins
- Daniel Schmachtenberger
- David A. Sinclair
- David Allen
- Denise McCluggage
- David Bly
- David M. Kelley
- Daniel H. Burnham
- Doug Collins
- Dennis Crosby
- David A. Stockman
- Debbie Millman
- Dave Allison
- David Assael
- Daniel Negreanu
- Dada Gunamuktananda
- David D. Friedman
- Doug Wilder
- Donny Most
- Daniel Kahneman
- David Dimbleby
- Dornford Yates
- David Brent
- Didi Conn
- Doug Harvey
- David Remnick
- Denzil Douglas
- Donald J. Carty
- David Burns
- Donna A. Lopiano
- Dimitri Shostakovich
- David Holmgren
- Diane Frolov
- David Koresh
- David Mixner
- David Halpern
- David Eagleman
- Dan Duryea
- Dolores Huerta
- Don Byas
E
- Ernst F. Schumacher
- Ethan Nichtern
- Elmore Leonard
- Ed Seykota
- Ernie J. Zelinski
- Eva Zeisel
- Edna Buchanan
- Edward Zander
- Eugene Forsey
- Eric Weiner
- Etienne Vermeersch
- Elizabeth Carter
- Edgar Z. Friedenberg
- Erich Segal
- Eddie Foy
- Eddie House
- Eric Liu
- Elmer Rice
- Eddie Barclay
- Earl of Chesterfield
- Eddie Guerrero
- Ellen Malcolm
- Ernst Thalmann
- Edith Wilson
- Elizabeth Andrews
- Edwin Landseer
- Edwin Armstrong
- Erwin Griswold
- Eugene Field
- Eric Ambler
- Edward Gordon Craig
- Edward O. Wilson
- Elizabeth Harrison
- Ed Asner
- Eddie Arcaro
- Enrico Caruso
- Eileen Davidson
- Eddy Grant
- Ed Wynn
- Elizabeth Vargas
- Elian Gonzalez
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner
- Eric Taylor
- Edward Wadsworth
- E. L. Konigsburg
- Edward Lazear
- Edward Marsh
- Estelle Getty
- Edward Moore
- Eliot Porter
F
- Ferruccio Lamborghini
- Fatboy Slim
- Friedrich Koenig
- Fats Domino
- F. Matthias Alexander
- France Gall
- Ferdinand I
- Franz Clemens Brentano
- Florent Schmitt
- Fatty Arbuckle
- Franklin Pierce Adams
- Fran Tarkenton
- Frank Adams
- Friedrich von Schelling
- Ferdinand Christian Baur
- Feyisara Aladese
- Francis X. Clines
- Frederick Albert Cook
- Frank Gorshin
- Fats Waller
- Felicity Huffman
- Frank Snepp
- Francois Quesnay
- Fernando Lamas
- Fred Brooks
- Fuzzy Zoeller
- Frank O'Connor
- Frank Deford
- Fred Shero
- Frank A. Clark
- Francis J. Braceland
- Francois de Malherbe
- Frank King
- Fritz Scholder
- Frank Keating
- Foxy Brown
- Fernando Wood
- Frances Goodrich
- Francis Lee
- Frederick M. Vinson
- Frank Jordan
- Freddie Prinze
- Frank Field
- Franz Lehar
- Francine Busby
- Friedrich Ebert
- Ferdinand Piech
- Francesco Crispi
- Francis Galton
- Frank Chodorov
G
- Gaius Petronius Arbiter
- Gerd Gigerenzer
- George Denison Prentice
- George Addair
- George Wallace
- Georg Feuerstein
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- Geoff Colvin
- Geoff Blades
- Gordon Richards
- Gary Lineker
- Gig Young
- George Reeves
- George Townshend
- George Wendt
- George Humphrey
- George Kenney
- Georges Courteline
- George Gerbner
- George M. Humphrey
- Georges Pompidou
- Gabriel Wyner
- Gerald Gould
- Gertrude Himmelfarb
- Gary Vaynerchuk
- Gary McCord
- Grant Wood
- George V. Higgins
- Geoffrey Holder
- Greg Knight
- Greg King
- Gary Glitter
- Gayle Gardner
- George Sewell
- George McClellan
- George Montagu
- Gil Doud
- George Westinghouse
- Greg Giraldo
- George Roy Hill
- Gabriela Mistral
- George Szell
- Gary Locke
- George Cadbury
- Gabriele D'Annunzio
- Giuseppe Zangara
- Gunter Grass
- George Blanda
- George Robert Sims
H
- Herbert J. Muller
- Henry Kissinger
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Henrik Tikkanen
- Hobart Brown
- Hugh Allen
- Herm Albright
- Hecato of Rhodes
- Henry Clay Trumbull
- Henry Mintzberg
- Herbert A. Otto
- Henry Bliss
- Harold L. Ickes
- Harry Markowitz
- Hollis Stacy
- Harry Segall
- Herbert Marshall
- Happy Chandler
- Henry van Dyke Jr.
- Hyman Minsky
- Henry Spencer
- Henry Harland
- Hu Jintao
- Harold Robbins
- Howard H. Baker, Jr.
- Henri Lefebvre
- Herman J. Mankiewicz
- Howard Bailey
- Helen B. Taussig
- Harry Bertoia
- Horatius
- Howard Sasportas
- Holly Lisle
- Hubert Reeves
- Hoot Gibson
- Hiram Powers
- Hideo Nomo
- Henri Benjamin Constant De Rebecque
- Helen Fielding
- Harmony Korine
- Hanns Eisler
- Hans Bethe
- H. R. Haldeman
- Hank Brown
- Halston
- Honore Gabriel Riquet
- Hank Jones
- Henry Cantwell Wallace
- Hector Garcia Puigcerver
- Harold Hillman
I
- Ignaz Bernstein
- Ian Tuhovsky
- Ivy Baker Priest
- Ian Cassel
- Imi Lichtenfeld
- Isamu Noguchi
- Irwin Corey
- Ian Gilmour
- Ian Wright
- Isabella Beeton
- Ian Paisley
- Isambard K. Brunel
- Ian Curtis
- Iris Sawyer
- Irv Kupcinet
- Ingrid Newkirk
- Ivan Goncharov
- Ian Holm
- Isabella I
- Immanuel Velikovsky
- Irving Mills
- Igor Sikorsky
- Ivan Chermayeff
- Ida A. Harper
- Isocrates
- Isaac Albeniz
- Ilie Nastase
- Ilya Ehrenburg
- Italo Svevo
- Ilya Prigogine
- Ismail Haniyeh
- Isabella Bird
- Ida Tarbell
- Ingrid Thulin
- Irving Brecher
- Irving Fisher
- Ione Skye
- Irving Howe
- Isabel Paterson
- Imogene Coca
- Irvin D. Yalom
- Isaac de Benserade
- Iskander Mirza
- Ian Hay
- Ivanka Trump
- Idries Shah
- Isaac Low
- Ichiro Suzuki
- Isoroku Yamamoto
- Isaac Goldberg
J
- Jodi Picoult
- Jessica Hische
- Jeffery Amherst
- Joel Greenblatt
- Justin Trudeau
- Jaak Panksepp
- Justus Lipsius
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
- Janet Evanovich
- J. William Schopf
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- John Kord Lagemann
- Jules de Gaultier
- James Altucher
- Jacob Lund Fisker
- James P. Carse
- John Morrill
- Jim Goodwin
- James Rickards
- John William Lloyd
- Jean-Pierre Van Rossem
- Jonathan Mead
- James W. Newman
- Jay Papasan
- Jonathan Gilbert
- Jimmy Iovine
- Joe Ancis
- Jason Fladlien
- John Randolph Price
- Jay Abraham
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
- James R. Cook
- Jack Dixon
- Julien Smith
- John R. Wooden
- Joyce Carey
- Jeff Mallett
- Jarod Kintz
- Jonathan Haidt
- Jacob Liberman
- James Gleason
- Jack T. Chick
- Jim Croce
- James Ensor
- Jose Simon
- James Oppenheim
- Jim Goodnight
- Jennifer Hudson
- Jason Hairston
- James Montgomery Boice
K
- Karl Bowman
- Kurt Gödel
- Kevin Systrom
- Konstantin Stanislavski
- Kathy Gates
- Kenneth L. Fisher
- Kelly Brook
- Keith Moon
- Karin Boye
- Kenneth Kolb
- Kim Beazley
- Kim Philby
- Keith Preston
- Kurt Weill
- Kamal Ravikant
- Kyle Johnson
- Kenneth Tomlinson
- Kirsty Gallacher
- Kay Thompson
- Kim Alexis
- Kurt Schwitters
- Kirk Gibson
- Kazimir Malevich
- Kate D. Wiggins
- Karl Malden
- Kit Carson
- Kate Greenaway
- Klaus Kinkel
- Kurt Eisner
- Kim Clijsters
- Kim Carnes
- Kevin Madden
- Ken MacLeod
- Kool Keith
- Kenko Yoshida
- Kiichi Miyazawa
- Kevin Brady
- Katharine Lee Bates
- Konrad Zuse
- Karl Abraham
- Kathryn Anastos
- Keith Lehrer
- Konrad von Gesner
- Kathleen Raine
- Ken Robinson
- Ken Dodd
- Kamal Ahmed
- Kevin E. Kruse
- Ken Russell
- Kurt Lewin
L
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
- Lynda Montgomery
- Larry Eisenberg
- Louis Zamperini
- Lester J. Pourciau
- Lane Olinghouse
- Lawana Blackwell
- Lillie Devereux Blake
- Lynne Deal
- Larry Burkett
- Lily Leung
- Langston Coleman
- Luke Slater
- Lady Diana
- Linda Goodman
- Laura Moriarty
- Linda Cardellini
- Leo J. Burke
- Leon N. Cooper
- Leon Jaworski
- Leon Tec
- Louis de Bernieres
- Lindsay Anderson
- Lynn Hall
- Laura Ashley
- Lord Edward Cecil
- Larry Bossidy
- Lana Wood
- Lester Maddox
- Landon Ronald
- Lesley Ann Warren
- Lisa Brooks
- Llewelyn Powys
- Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
- Leon Theremin
- Lillian Russell
- Leonard Chess
- LaWanda Page
- Leonard Peikoff
- Louie Gohmert
- Ludwig Tieck
- Lynn Anderson
- Laura Riding
- Leonard Warren
- Lewis Cass
- Louis E. Boone
- Luke Burgis
- Larry Csonka
- Leonard Woolley
- Luther H. Hodges
M
- Morris Mandel
- Mandy Hale
- Mary Pettibone Poole
- Michael Tsarion
- Martin S. Schwartz
- Matthieu Ricard
- Meredith Willson
- Matt Theriault
- Margaret Peters
- Mary Hirsch
- Melanie Benjamin
- Michelle Malkin
- Marliece Andrada
- Michael Friedman
- Millard Fuller
- Margaux Hemingway
- Michael Dukakis
- Mary McKillop
- Mikhail Botvinnik
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Matina Horner
- Melissa Harris-Lacewell
- Marilyn Moats Kennedy
- Medgar Evers
- Marie Lloyd
- Mick Miller
- Michael J. Owen
- Mel Blanc
- Martin Keirsey
- Mwanandeke Kindembo
- Michael Laws
- Mayer Hillman
- Maurice Bishop
- Miss Piggy
- Michael Lesy
- Maureen Murphy
- Maryon Pearson
- Mary Beth Whitehead
- Michael Clarke Duncan
- Moses Malone
- Meyer Levin
- Michael Malone
- Myrtle Reed
- Max Wright
- Marcus Minucius Felix
- Michael Burry
- Michael Adams
- Matt Welsh
- Ma Rainey
- Mike Melville
N
- Nick Krauser
- Nicolas Winding Refn
- Nicholas Epley
- Nicola Abbagnano
- Noah Kagan
- Nicholas Ray
- Nike, Inc.
- Natalie Massenet
- Nicolas Darvas
- Nicholas Rossiter
- Niccolo Paganini
- Nipsey Russell
- Nigel Rees
- Newton N. Minow
- Nicholas Drapela
- Nita Lowey
- Norman Cota
- Norman Tebbit
- Nigel Farage
- Nicole Eggert
- Niels Diffrient
- Norman Cook
- Nathan Bailey
- Nan Fairbrother
- Naomi Weisstein
- Nathan Meyer Rothschild
- Norman Macleod
- Niki Taylor
- Nancy O'Dell
- Nicolai A. Berdyaev
- Niall Ferguson
- Nelson Bunker Hunt
- Nicole Richie
- Nelson Gidding
- Nathan F. Twining
- Nina Totenberg
- Naomi R. Goldenberg
- Nicole Brown Simpson
- Norman Sherry
- Nolan Bushnell
- Nelson Eddy
- Nancy Travis
- Nicholas Pileggi
- Nancy Duarte
- Neil Bogart
- Nicolas Bentley
- Nicholas M. Butler
- Nadia Boulanger
- Nahum Tate
- Neil Finn
O
- O. Wayne Rollins
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- Oliver Reiser
- Oliver Markus Malloy
- Olavo de Carvalho
- Otto Preminger
- Oswald Avery
- Ovidius
- Orel Hershiser
- Otto Lilienthal
- Oliver Franks
- Oliver Hardy
- Olivia Goldsmith
- Oliver Evans
- Oral Roberts
- Okazaki Ushio
- Okajima Rokuro
- Otto Friedrich
- Ofra Haza
- Otis Criblecoblis
- Owen Wister
- Oleksandr Zhuravliov
- Olafur Eliasson
- Oliver St. John
- Odilon Redon
- Ovadia Yosef
- Orlando Gibbons
- Owen Feltham
- Omar Torrijos Herrera
- Oscar Goodman
- Oskar Werner
- Oerba Dia Vanille
- Oscar Hammerstein
- Odagiri Nene
- Orlando Cepeda
- Oryou Rikako
- Owen Glendower
- Ozzie Smith
- Oscar Arias Sanchez
- Okita Sougo
- Osbert Lancaster
- Otto Rank
- Owen Chamberlain
- Otto Hahn
- Okazaki Tomoya
- Oswald Spengler
- Ossie Davis
- Oren Lyons, Jr.
- Orrin Hatch
- Olympia Brown
P
- Philip Dormer Stanhope
- Philip G. Zimbardo
- Philip A. Fisher
- Peter Altenberg
- Paul H. O’Neill
- Patricia Moyes
- Peter Diamandis
- Philips Brooks
- Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis
- Publius Papinius Statius
- Philippe Quinault
- Piet Mondriaan
- Phyllis Gotlieb
- Paul Boese
- Pancho Villa
- Pinchas Stolper
- Paavo Nurmi
- Peter Erskine
- Phil Hellmuth
- Paul Butterfield
- Phil Rosenthal
- Piet Hein
- Philippe Sollers
- Pierre Auguste Renoir
- Princess Masako
- Pamela Harriman
- Peter Frederick Strawson
- Peter A. McCullough
- Paul Winfield
- Peter Goldman
- Phil Katz
- Philip Armour
- Padraic Pearse
- Paul Morand
- Paula Jones
- Philip J. Davis
- Paul E. Tsongas
- Philip Henry
- Penny Marshall
- Paul Moody
- Pablo de Sarasate
- Phoebe Cary
- Peter Bregman
- Paulo Freire
- Philip Elmer-DeWitt
- Pierre Laplace
- Phil Spector
- Paul Bert
- Peter York
- Philip Hone
Q
- Quintilianus
- Queen Marie of Romania
- Queen Juliana
- Quentin Crewe
- Quon Kisaragi
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
- Queen Latifah
- Queen Christina
- Queen Mary
- Qin Shi Huangdi
- Quintus Ennius
- Quintilian
- Queen Victoria
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Quincy Jones
- Quentin Crisp
- Quentin Tarantino
R
- Ralph Washington Sockman
- Richard P. Adler
- Romy Schneider
- Richard Wyckoff
- Robert R. Coveyou
- Richard Greenberg
- Roy Niederhoffer
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Robert A. F. Thurman
- Rosemary Morrow
- Rada Krivokapic Radonjic
- Robert Kurson
- Robert A. Russell
- Raymond Loewy
- Robin Sharma
- Ruud Gullit
- Robert Winston
- Reginald Berkeley
- Roman Krznaric
- Renzo Piano
- Rodney Robert Porter
- Rushi Prabhakar
- Robert Schuller
- Rita Emmett
- Ray Stevens
- Robert Herjavec
- Russell Conwell
- Romario
- Russell Blackford
- Reggie Lewis
- Raymond Carver
- Rutger Bregman
- Richard Davidson
- Ralph Charell
- Robert Pozen
- Robert Loggia
- Rosie Ruiz
- Ronnie Coleman
- Robert G. Ingersoll
- Roy O. Disney
- Robin Givens
- Randolph Churchill
- Rollo Armstrong
- Robert Tusker
- Ruth Bader Ginsberg
- Rhonda Cator
- Ronald Colman
- Ryan Daniel Moran
- Rolf Dobelli
- Ray Knight
S
- Stanisław Jerzy Lec
- Sahil Lavingia
- Susanna Halonen
- Sonja Lyubomirsky
- Sirhan Sirhan
- Steve Frank
- Sarah Brown
- Seymour Papert
- Stephenie Meyer
- Sam Brown
- Sheila B. Kamerman
- Stuart Bowen
- Steve Mitchell
- Steve Shallenberger
- Steven Pearl
- Seann William Scott
- Sandy Scholl
- Sally Stanford
- Salman Khan
- Stephen Tobolowsky
- Stephen Merchant
- Stuart Varney
- Sammy Baugh
- Susan Molinari
- Spencer Perceval
- Stephen Decatur
- Sidney Webb
- Stefan Wyszynski
- Shirley Hufstedler
- Sogyal Rinpoche
- Steve Purcell
- Shirley Conran
- Steve Almond
- Steven Bauer
- Steven Runciman
- Sarah Miles
- Susan Blackmore
- Stephen Guise
- Stephen Lawrence
- Stanley Shapiro
- Scott Dixon
- Sean Elliott
- Sheri Lewis
- Sal Mineo
- Simeon Poisson
- Stuart Townsend
- Sammy Cahn
- Sophie Arnould
- Sean Rad
- Suzanne Collins
T
- Thomas Piketty
- Thomas Olde Heuvelt
- Thomas Bangalter
- Terry Paulson
- Ted Kennedy
- Thomas J. Stanley
- Tom Goldenberg
- Todd Burpo
- Ted Leonsis
- Toby Hemenway
- Tom Lanoye
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Tom Hierck
- Trini Lopez
- Theodore F. Green
- Tim Sample
- Thomas Gibbons
- Thomas Robert Malthus
- Tom Korologos
- Tom Callahan
- Twiggy
- Tina Modotti
- Tim Hutchinson
- Terry Hands
- Thomas Heywood
- Terence Rattigan
- Tony Orlando
- Tom Petri
- Thomas Holcroft
- Tench Coxe
- Thomas Haynes Bayly
- Tony Kornheiser
- Tiësto
- Thomas R. Marshall
- Theodore Martin
- Thomas Kaplan
- Ted McGinley
- Tove Jansson
- Thomas Ravenscroft
- Thomas Hewitt Key
- Tatyana Tolstaya
- Tom Conti
- Thomas Blood
- Trevor Howard
- Tom Keith
- Tony Buzan
- Ty Pennington
- Tim Ferriss
- Tammy Duckworth
- Ted Strickland
U
- Uday Kotak
- Umberto Giordano
- Ushiromiya Kyrie
- Uday Hussein
- Usagi Tsukino
- Ulrich Walter
- Ulrike Meinhof
- UNESCO Director
- Uka-no-Mitama-no-Kami
- Usain Bolt
- Uryuu Minene
- Usui Haruaki
- U. Thant
- Undertaker
- Ushiromiya Ange
- Uberto Crescenti
- Ulquiorra Schiffer
- Uryuu Ishida
- Uno
- Urahara Kisuke
- Ugo Betti
- Usher Raymond
- Uri Geller
- Ursula K. LeGuin
- Utada Hikaru
- Ukitake Jyuushirou
- Uma Thurman
- Upton Sinclair
- Ursula Andress
- Umberto Guidoni
- Uwe Boll
- Umar ibn Al-Khattab
- Umberto Eco
- Uta Hagen
- Ulrich Beck
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Ulysses S. Grant
V
- Vidal Sassoon
- Vasily Tatishchev
- Violet Haberdasher
- Virgilius
- Venkatesh Rao
- Victor Robinson
- Violeta Parra
- Verner Panton
- Vivian Komori
- Vadim Zeland
- Vasco da Gama
- Vinay Gupta
- Victoria Wood
- Virginie LeDoyen
- Victoria Gotti
- Virginia Hamilton
- Vicente Aleixandre
- Vanessa Williams
- Vanessa Brown
- Victor Vasarely
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson
- Vartan Gregorian
- Victor Navasky
- Van Cliburn
- Vaslav Nijinsky
- Virginia Johnson
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
- Van Heflin
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Vittorio Gassman
- Victoria Toensing
- Victor Cherbuliez
- Vince Cable
- Vicki Lawrence
- Veronica Lake
- Vernon Law
- Vida Blue
- Vine Deloria, Jr.
- Vinny Testaverde
- Virginia Gildersleeve
- Vash Young
- Voltairine de Cleyre
- Vissarion Belinsky
- Victor Salva
- Vanessa Mae
- Victoria Secunda
- Vijay Singh
- Vera Miles
- Vannevar Bush
- Vincent Gallo
W
- William H. Sheldon
- William Winans
- William Gibbs McAdoo
- William H. Danforth
- William Mather Lewis
- William J. Bernstein
- Walter Sisulu
- William Cecil Burleigh
- William Randolph
- Wilhelm Backhaus
- Warren Mosler
- Wally Herger
- Wendy Hiller
- William M. Thomas
- William Beebe
- William of Ockham
- William Hurlbut
- Wess Stafford
- William Kapell
- Ward Cunningham
- William Lowndes
- William J. O'Neil
- William Winwood Reade
- William Windham
- Wendy Craig
- William Prescott
- William Thomas Stead
- William Jones
- Wolf Reik
- Walter Washington
- Willie Green
- Werner Finck
- William Eardley IV
- William Leith
- Willis Lamb
- William S. Cohen
- Wojciech Jaruzelski
- Wesley Ruggles
- William Pennington
- Will Eisner
- Walter Reuther
- Walter Map
- William Christopher
- William Walker Atkinson
- Will Sergeant
- Walter Wriston
- William Hepworth Thompson
- Weedon Grossmith
- Willie Tyler
- Waldemar Young
Y
- Yaneer Bar-Yam
- Yoda
- Yaphet Kotto
- Youlia Maleeva
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Yamila Diaz
- Yukio Mishima
- Yoshiro Mori
- Yves Tanguy
- Yao Ming
- Yuu Tobita
- Yozora Mikazuki
- Yahya Jammeh
- Yahiro Samukawa
- Yuan Shikai
- Yao Ro Ducy
- Yusef Lateef
- Yang Wenli
- Yuri Nakamura
- Yuri Andropov
- Yehudi Menuhin
- Yann Arthus-Bertrand
- Yoshimura
- Yvon Chouinard
- Yoshida Haru
- Yoshii Akihisa
- Yuzuru Otonashi
- Yzak Joule
- Yasaburou Shimogamo
- Yu Kanda
- Yuzu Hiiragi
- Yoshino Yūsuke
- Yvonne Craig
- Yu Fujikura
- Yasunari Kawabata
- Yuu Otosaka
- Yul Brynner
- Yitzhak Shamir
- Yami Yugi
- Yousef Munayyer
- Yuri Gagarin
- Yuval Noah Harari
- Yoki
- Yvonne Strahovski
- Yasmine Bleeth
- Yeardley Smith
- Yves Saint-Laurent
- Yoake Ryou
- Yuusuke Urameshi
- Yunus Emre
Z
- Zeuxis
- Zlatan Ibrahimović
- Zoroaster
- Zhuang Zhou
- Zhao Ziyang
- Zev Yaroslavsky
- Zach Four Pillar Freedom
- Zhou Enlai
- Zona Gale
- Ziaur Rahman
- Zack Fair
- Zeno of Citium
- Zed O'Brien
- Zalmay Khalilzad
- Zhuang Zi
- Zachary Taylor
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