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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minis...
41: ...s Francis, Jr.]] (1835-1915), son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Rai...
45: ...ams Cotto, Edwin]], (1978-2005), Puerto Rican who was convicted of drug dealing in the Laura Hernandez... - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
11: ...ent]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
15: ...e]] and his wife, the Countess of Strathmore. She was named after her mother, while her two middle nam...
17: ... United Kingdom|The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII]].
20: ...ion by the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] and has always been a strong believer in the [[Church of Engla...
23: ...e King won't leave under any circumstances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, ad... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: ...[[May 19]], [[1879]] – [[May 2]], [[1964]]) was a socialite politician and a member of the promi...
4: ...son Girl]]. One of her nieces, [[Joyce Grenfell]] was a noted British monologuist and actress, while a...
6: ... Viscount Astor|Waldorf Astor]], son of [[William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor]] and grandson of ...
8: ...g until 1945. She attracted much attention as she was the first woman member to actually take her seat...
10: ...to Hitler about his treatment of the [[Jew]]s. In 1940 she urged Prime Minister [[Neville Chamberlain]] ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...d War II]]. She was a [[First-wave feminism|first-wave]] [[Feminism|Feminist]] and an active supporter...
5: Mrs. Roosevelt was active in the formations of numerous institution...
9: ...eanor's hand to her husband to be. Their marriage was blessed with six childeren, of which five surviv...
13: ...ldest daughter, [[Alice Roosevelt Longworth]] who was enraged that the homely Eleanor not only snagged...
15: ...ved in the White House with the first family in [[1940]]. - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...e]] and the [[United States Senate| Senate]]. She was the first woman to have her name placed in nomin...
5: ...rapidly establishing bases across the nation, she was instrumental in resolving conflicts between stat...
7: ... (Hathaway only served one term in the Senate; he was defeated in 1978 by Republican [[William Cohen|B...
9: ...edal of Freedom]] from President [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] in [[1989]].
11: ...r seat, the Maine voters rejected the effort. She was the first (and as yet only) woman chair of the [... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ... works, before taking part in the [[Spanish Civil War]] in [[1936]] as the English language representa...
6: ...rset maker. It was in that workplace that Goldman was introduced to revolutionary ideas; she obtained ...
13: ... Berkman (or Sasha as she fondly referred to him) was jailed for fourteen years.
18: ...archist communists like [[Peter Kropotkin]].) She was charged with "inciting a riot" by the criminal c...
21: ...ourse of study in anarchist ideas. Leon Czolgosz was found guilty of murder and executed. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...the way to universal access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]].
5: ...ing, New York|Corning]], [[New York]]. Her mother was a devout [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]...
9: ...ed States. It was raided by the police and Sanger was arrested for violating the post office's obsceni...
11: ...hat Every Mother Should Know''. That year, Sanger was sent to the workhouse for "creating a [[public n...
13: ...937 after birth control under medical supervision was legalized in many states. In 1927, Sanger helped... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...also [[St. John's Eve]]) - [[March 5]], [[1966]]) was the [[pen name]] of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, one ...
5: Akhmatova was born in [[Bolshoy Fontan]] near [[Odessa]]. Her ...
7: ...ilyov]] in [[1910]]. Their son, born in [[1912]], was the historian [[Lev Gumilyov]].
11: ...n 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 196... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...d [[feminist]]. Between the [[world war]]s, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society ...
7: ...ency (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
9: ...th critical and popular success. Much of her work was self-published through the [[Hogarth Press]]. Sh...
13: ... than to the interior monologues proper) create a wave-like atmosphere closer to the prose poem than t...
20: ...o studied for its insight into [[shell shock]], [[war]], [[social class|class]], and modern British so... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ... [[1975]]), born '''Freda Josephine McDonald''', was an [[African American]] dancer, actress and sing...
5: ...red [[vaudeville]] as a teen, gradually heading toward [[New York City]] during the [[Harlem Renaissan...
7: ...accompanied by her pet [[leopard]], Chiquita, who was adorned with a [[diamond]] collar. The leopard f...
9: ...ices common to the era. The writer [[Ernest Hemingway]] called her "the most sensational woman anyone ...
11: ...to a sophisticated cultural figure. (The marriage was reportedly a publicity stunt and not legally bin... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ... Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
2: ...[[singer]]s, and the winner of thirteen [[Grammy Award]]s. Gifted with a three-octave vocal range, she...
4: ...s|USA]] and raised in [[Yonkers, New York]]. She was left on her own as an orphan at age 14.
6: ... Can't Sing It), You'll Have to Swing It", but it was her version of the [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Tiske...
10: ...s imitations of other singers: in particular, she was able to render quite perfectly [[Marilyn Monroe]... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ...ifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she was three, but they soon divorced, leaving her to be...
9: ...eatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
14: ... with [[Benny Goodman]]; her first-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ([[1933]]).
16: It was around this time that Holiday had her first succ...
20: ...aying "I've lived songs like that". Even when she was young and singing trivial pop songs, her unique ... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ... Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefulness and success have been cr...
7: ...ek grew up in comfort until her father frittered away the proceeds from his wife's dowry with lavish e...
9: ...nti-tank]] [[rifle]] which was fated never to see wartime service.
11: ... lost part of a leg in a prewar hunting accident, was exfiltrating Polish and other Allied military pe...
15: ...source of suspicion against Krystyna and Kowerski was the ease — which her accusers might have u... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
3: ... – [[February 5]]?, [[1945]]) was a [[World War II]] secret agent.
5: ...er what is now thought of as the definitive World War II [[Poem code|code-poem]] ''[[Yours (poem)|Your...
7: ...ts to SOE headquarters on the factories producing war materials for the Germans were extremely importa...
9: ...n sent to [[Ravensbr?ncentration camp]] where she was forced into hard labour and suffered terribly fr...
11: Violette Szabo was executed by the Germans on or about [[February 5... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...de]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
4: ...became a [[naturalized citizen]]. By [[1935]] she was very active in various [[socialist]] causes in t...
6: ...nized as a seminal American avant-garde film. It was in 1943 that she adopted the name Maya Deren.
8: ...horeography for Camera" (1945). In 1946 she was awarded a [[Guggenheim]] Foundation Fellowship for "C...
10: ... definitive source. The accompanying documentary was edited and produced after her death. - 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...
4: ... [[Celoron, New York]] and after her father died, was raised by her working mother and grandparents. I...
5: ...th. Her grandfather who she considered her father was sued once for money, then again for prison sente...
7: ...the "royalty" honor with [[Macdonald Carey]], who was designated as her "king".
9: ... he was drafted to the [[Army]] in [[1942]], Ball was crushed (He sustained a knee injury and performe... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: ...nuary 31]], [[1902]] - [[December 12]], [[1968]]) was a [[United States]] [[actor|actress]], talk-show...
4: ...Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[1936]]-[[1940]]), niece of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[J...
8: ...oos]], another minor Roundtable member said: "She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid."
10: ...with men and women. By the end of the decade, she was one of the [[West End (of London)|West End]]'s -...
12: ...was unable to dominate the camera -- and that she was generally outclassed by Dietrich, [[Carole Lomba... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
1: ...ndash; [[August 29]], [[1982]]) was an [[Academy Award]]-winning [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[Actor|actress]].
3: ...zo (1939 movie)|Intermezzo]] ([[1939]]). The film was an enormous success and "Sweden's illustrious gi...
5: ...her first Academy Award nomination for [[Academy_Award_for_Best Actress|Best Actress]] for the film, '...
7: ...al in both Hollywood and with the public; Bergman was branded as "Hollywood's apostle of degradation."...
9: ...en'') for which she received her seventh Academy Award nomination and made her final performance on th... - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
3: ...ter known as '''Bette Davis''', was an [[Academy Award]] winning [[United States|American]] [[actor|ac...
5: ...t her classmate [[Lucille Ball]] home because she was "too shy"), and became a star.
7: ...minate Davis for this ''tour de force'', and such was the outrage that she received many write-in vote...
9: ...gned. Her career began to stagnate through the [[1940s]], but her performance in ''[[All About Eve]]'' ...
11: ...ked together onscreen in either of their careers, was a smash hit and a top-grosser that year. - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...as nominated for four other Emmys and two [[Tony Award]]s during the course of her more than 70-year a...
5: ... became [[Planned Parenthood]]. Hepburn's father was a staunch proponent of publicizing the dangers o...
10: ...in drama -->, the same year she debuted on [[Broadway]] after landing a bit part in ''[[Night Hostess]...
12: ...friends. They divorced in [[1934]] after Hepburn was established as a film star.
19: ...apidly that she was almost incomprehensible. She was fired from the play, but continued to work in sm...
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