Famous People 2
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- George Eastman
- Invented roll film
- Wernher von Braun
- German rocket scientist, worked on US space program
- Archimedes
- Greek mathemitician
- Robert Fulton
- Invented first steamboat engine
- Galileo Galilei
- popularized the telescope, developed first law of motion, supporter of copernicanism
- Robert Goddard
- Invented liquid fuel rocket
- Johann Gutenberg
- Invented printing press
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Invented the radio
- Alfred Nobel
- Invented dynamite
- Edward Teller
- Invented hydrogen bomb
- Vlad the Impaler
- Transylvanian prince, Dracula based on him
- Oscar Wilde
- Gay playwright
- Machiavelli
- Wrote The Prince, political philosopher
- Brian Epstein
- Beatles manager
- Mata Hari
- Female german spy in WWI
- Pol Pot
- Prime Minister of Cambodia, killed 2 million of his people
- Emperor Hirohito
- Emperor of Japan during WWII
- Augusto Pinochet
- Chilean general who staged a coup with the help of the US
- Slobodan Milosevic
- Dictator of yugoslavia
- Heinrich Himmler
- Commander of the SS
- Rudolf Hess
- Edited Mein Kampf, Hitler's deputy
- Dr. Mengele
- the "angel of death", decided who lived and died in the concentration camps
- Hermann Goring
- Founded the Gestapo, headed the Luftwaffe, Hitler's second in command, committed suicide before he could be executed at Nuremburg
- Joseph Goebbels
- Nazi propoganda minister
- Horatio Nelson
- British admiral, died at the Battle of Trafalgar. Won the battles there and at the Nile.
- Plutarch
- Greek biographer
- Cicero
- Roman orator, opponent of Julius Ceaser and was executed after the assassination.
- Demosthenes
- Greek orator
- Plato
- Student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle. Wrote lots of dialogues, wrote The Republic
- Sophocles
- Greek playwright and poet, wrote Oedipus and Antigone
- Euripides
- Greek poet
- Herodotus
- Greek "father of history", wrote "The Histories", about the persian invasion of greece
- Hippocrates
- Greek, early expert on medicine
- Otto von Bismark
- Unified Germany, first chancellor of the German Empire, started the Second Reich.
- Joseph Smith
- Founder of the Mormans
- Erwin Rommel
- Germany army commander on the African front, forced to commit suicide by Hitler for being suspected of a plot against the fuhrer
- John Milton
- English poet, wrote Paradise Lost
- Ivan the Terrible
- The first tsar of Russia.
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Prime Minister of Britain in the late 19th century, and author
- David Lloyd George
- Prime Minister of England during WWI.
- William the Conqueror/William of Normandy
- Born in Normandy, France, he became the king of England by winning the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
- William Gladstone
- British Prime Minister during the same period as Benjamin Disraeli, and his rival.
- Julius Caeser
- Roman military leader who began the extension of the empire. Was assassinated on the Ides of March.
- Caeser Augustus
- Called Octavian before assuming the new name, he is considered the greatest of the Roman emperors. Adopted son of Julius Caeser. Brought an end to civil war in Rome.
- Francis Drake
- English sailor; first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. Second in command at the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
- Francis Bacon
- English philosopher during 16 and 17th centuries. Developed the forerunner of the scientific method.
- Walter Raleigh
- Crazy English guy; writer, poet, spy, explorer. Story that he took off his coat and put it in a mud puddle so Queen Elizabeth could walk over it. Started the Roanoke Colony.
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Last tudor monarch. Also called the virgin queen for never marrying. Her reign is called the Elizabethan Era.
- Queen Mary I
- Queen before Elizabeth, she is known as Bloody Mary for killing dissenters to the throne and for attempting to return England to Catholicism.
- Karl Popper
- British philosopher of science in the 20th century. Said that a hypothesis must be falsifiable.
- James Levine
- Conductor with crazy hair; music director of the BSO
- General Hideki Tojo
- Military dictator and prime minister of Japan during most of WWII. Forced to resign after a series of military losses.
- Kaiser Wilhelm
- Kaiser of Germany during WWI.
- Robert Oppenheimer
- Head of Los Alamos during the Manhatten Project
- Enrico Fermi
- Italian scientist who discovered the radioactivity of uranium and achieved the first controleld fission chain reaction in the US.
- Gaius Cassius
- The leading conspirator of the cabal against Julius Caeser
- Marcus Brutus
- May have been Julius Caeser's illigitimate son, was part of the cabal against the emperor.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- German theologian and one of the leaders of the resistence movement in Nazi Germany. Executed in 1944.
- Leon Trotsky
- Bolshevik leader and head of the Red Army. Exile after a power struggle with Stain. Believed in a state of "constant revolution", now called Trotskyism.
- Lord Byron
- The most famous English poet of his day (early 19th century). Famous for writing Child Harold's Pilgramage and Don Juan
- Margaret Mitchell
- Wrote Gone With the Wind, published in 1936.
- Adolf Eichmann
- Organized the holocaust
- Reinhard Heydrich
- Became head of the Gestapo. Killed over a million Jews in Nazi occupied Russia. Assassinated in 1942.
- Rudolf Hoess
- Commander of Auschwitz.
- Emanuel Swedenborg
- Swedish scienctist, philosopher, and mystic. Experienced a revelation whereafter he could supposedly speak to angels and spirits, who told him the true meanings of the scriptures.
- Auguste Rodin
- French sculptor of The Thinker
- Hieronymus Bosch
- Dutch painter in 15 and 16th centuries. Painted the Garden of Earthly Delights
- Carl Jung
- Swiss psychiatrist in the first half of the 20th century.
- Allen Ginsberg
- Beat Poet of the 50s and 60s. Wrote "Howl".
- William S. Burroughs
- Beat Generation novelist, most famous work was "Naked Lunch"
- Sisyphus
- In Greek mythology, he was resigned to push a boulder up a hill only to have it fall down again, in Hades.
- Persephone
- Queen of the Underworld, daughter of Demeter. Her time up and below earth determine the seasons.
- Helios
- The sun, drove a flaming chariot across the sky.
- Minos
- King of Crete
- Charon
- Ferryman of Hades.
- Cerberus
- Three headed dog who defended the underworld.
- Orpheus
- Representative of the arts and music.
- Artemis
- Goddess of the hunt
- Selene
- Goddess of the moon
- Aphrodite
- Goddess of love and beauty
- Athena
- Goddess of wisdom and war
- Hephaestus
- God of fire and the forge, for smiths and artisans
- Francis Gary Powers
- U2 pilot.