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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
14: ==== People named Adam ====
32: ===== People named Adams =====
61: *[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player
69: ...architect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
11: About 125 million people live in the countries of which she is Head of St...
23: ...e King won't leave under any circumstances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, ad...
29: ...dging to devote her life to the service of the people of the Commonwealth and Empire.
33: ...s claim to the [[Greece|Greek]] throne and was simply referred to as Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten bef...
55: ...ronation of the British monarch|coronation]] took place in [[Westminster Abbey]] on [[2 June]] [[1953]... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
8: ...or [[Plymouth Sutton (UK Parliament constituency)|Plymouth Sutton]]. Nancy Astor then became the [[Con...
10: ...sign and supported [[Winston Churchill]] as his replacement. Her son [[David Astor]], who became edito...
12: ...an campaign]] as the ''[[D-Day Dodgers]]''. Her implication that they had it easy because they were av... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ... States|American]] [[human rights]] activist, [[diplomat]] and as the wife of [[President of the Unite...
9: ...However their marriage almost split over sexual explorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin D...
15: ...ved in the White House with the first family in [[1940]].
33: ...eful action based on sensitive discourse among people of diverse perspectives focusing on the varied n...
43: ...), for many years graced the mantle above the fireplace in her husband Franklin's presidential library... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...enate]]. She was the first woman to have her name placed in nomination at her party's convention (1964...
5: ... to the House of Representatives on [[June 3]], [[1940]] to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her ...
11: ...y firsts as a woman, but also for her early principled opposition to the tactics of Senator [[Joseph M... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...n iconic "rebel woman" feminist. However, Goldman played a pivotal role in the development of anarchis...
6: ...n a factory as a corset maker. It was in that workplace that Goldman was introduced to revolutionary i...
18: ...read."'' (The statement is a summary of the principle of [[Eminent domain|expropriation]] advocated by...
21: ...r several weeks, they were released due to the complete lack of evidence to connect her and the others...
32: ...upport the [[Bolshevism|Bolshevik]]s despite the split between anarchists and statist communists at th... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
5: ... years in the affluent New York suburb of [[White Plains]]. In [[1902]], she married William Sanger. A...
9: ...m William Sanger. In 1916, Sanger opened a family planning and birth control clinic in the Brownsville...
13: ...d Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in her honor in 1940). That year, she also formed the National Committ...
15: ...he time, the largest private international family planning organization.
19: ...ion, which legalized birth control for married couples in the US. It was the apex of her fifty-year st... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
11: ...n 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 196... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...he [[Bloomsbury group]]. While nowhere near a simple recapitulation of the coterie's ideals, Woolf's ...
9: ...[[1905]], initially for the ''[[Times Literary Supplement]]''. In [[1912]] she married [[Leonard Woolf...
13: ...e atmosphere closer to the prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work...
52: *''Roger Fry: A Biography'' ([[1940]]) - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
5: ...g the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
21: ...ly binding), French sugar magnate Jean Lion (1937-1940, divorced), French orchestra leader Jo Bouillon (... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ... Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
20: ...econd husband was the famous [[double bass|bass]] player [[Ray Brown]]. Together they adopted a child,...
68: *1965 ''[[Ella at Duke's Place]]''
111: ==Samples==
112: *[[Media:How High The Moon.ogg|Download sample]] of "How High the Moon" - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ... [[Clarence Holiday]], a jazz guitarist who would play for [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie...
20: ...dy Day with the white gardenia in her hair. She explained the sense of overpowering drama that feature...
24: ... that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]].
26: ...anis Joplin]] and [[Nina Simone]]. [[Diana Ross]] played her in a [[film|movie]] version of her [[auto...
28: .... She finally divorced Monroe in [[1957]] as she split with Guy. That [[March 28]], Billie married Lo... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ... Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefulness and success have been cr...
7: ...zy Giżycki]] {[[1899]]-[[1970]]), and the couple soon moved to [[British East Africa]].
9: ... into Poland. Arriving in [[Warsaw]], she vainly pleaded with her [[Jew]]ish mother to leave a [[Pola...
26: ...ents that would lead to some of her most famous exploits.
30: Krystyna was chosen to replace SOE agent [[Cecily Lefort]], who had been capt... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
7: In [[1940]], Violette married Etienne Szabo, a French offic... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...de]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
6: In the early 1940s, Deren used some of the inheritance from her fat...
10: During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Deren became heavily involved i...
14: ...ndover]]'' (1982). James Merrill paid for the completion of several of Deren's films. - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
2: ... Love Lucy]]. A 'B-grade' [[movie star]] of the [[1940s]], she became one of the best and most popular s...
7: ...to [[MGM]] (after little success at RKO) in the [[1940s]], but never achieved great success in films. Sh...
9: In [[1940]], Ball met Cuban bandleader [[Desi Arnaz]] while...
11: ...pressed with the pilot episode produced by the couple's [[Desilu]] production company, so the Arnazes ...
24: ... comedy in front of a live audience demanded discipline, technique, and close choreography. Among oth... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[1936]]-[[1940]]), niece of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[J...
10: ...]] stage, where she was to appear in over a dozen plays in the next eight years. Famous as an actress,...
14: ...her the "first choice among established stars" to play [[Scarlett O'Hara]].
16: ...e also wonders if the cynical Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything appro...
18: ...h's career stalled in unmemorable plays until she played Regina in [[Lillian Hellman]]'s [[The Little ... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
5: After completing a few pictures in Sweden and appearing in th...
9: ...e Orient Express]]'' ([[1975]]). In [[1978]] she played in [[Ingmar Bergman]]'s ''[[Autumn Sonata]]''...
13: ...art kept to be interred in the [[Norra begravningsplatsen]] in [[Stockholm]].
33: * [[June Night]] (1940) - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
7: .... Her first starring role was in ''[[The Man Who Played God]]'', and she became a star in ''[[Of Huma...
9: ...gned. Her career began to stagnate through the [[1940s]], but her performance in ''[[All About Eve]]'' ...
11: ...hat Ever Happened to Baby Jane?]]'', in which she played a parody of herself opposite her long-time ri...
13: ...d [[box-office]] potential in his former contract player, [[Jack Warner]] signed Davis for another ven...
21: ...s. This was to protect an Oscar from commercial exploitation. - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
5: ...], helped to found the organization that became [[Planned Parenthood]]. Hepburn's father was a staunc...
7: ...nging Up Baby]]'', which is now held up as an exemplar of [[screwball comedy]].
12: ...ed. They decided to carry on their marriage in a platonic fashion, and the two would remain lifelong ...
17: Hepburn cut her acting teeth in plays staged at Bryn Mawr and later in revues staged...
19: ... almost incomprehensible. She was fired from the play, but continued to work in small stock company r...
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