Cleopatra (69-30 B.C): Egyptian queen. Became joint ruler, with brother Ptolemy XII, at age of 17; was wife of Julius Caesar and later mistress of Mark Antony. Committed suicide.

Clinton, William Jefferson (b.1946): Dynamic democrat leader who became 42nd U.S. president (Jan.’93(. Re-elected Nov. ’96. Autobiography my life a best seller.

Clijsters, Kim (b.1983): Belgian world No.2 tennis star. Retired in 2007.

Cockerell, Christopher (1910-1999): English inventor of the hovercraft.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834): English poem critic and philosopher,

Colette (1873-1954): French novelist whose early works were published under her first husband’s pseudonym, Willy.

Collins, Lt. Col. Eileen (.1956): The first female to take over the controls of a NASA spaceship.

Collin, Wilkie (1824-’89): British novelist, who collaborated with Charles Dickens. The woman in white, the moonstone.

Columbus, Christopher (c.1451-1506): Italian explorer known as the discoverer of the Americas. In 1492 discovered the Bahamas, Cuba, and other West Indian Islands.

Comenius, John Amos (1592-1670): Czech religious leader and educational reformer who wrote The Visible World in Pictures.