Who is Who

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Carver, George Washington (1864-1943): American agricultural chemist

Castro, Fidel (b.1927): Cuban revolutionary and political leader. President of Cuba. In 1959 overthrew a police state. In power for the longest period. Convalescing after a surgery in 2006, Castro handed over power to brother Raul on July 31, 2006.

Catherine de Medicis (1519-89): Of France; Queen consort of Henry II, regent of France.

CatheruneII (The Great) (1729-’96): Tsarina of Russia, a monarch of the enlightenment.

Cave, Edward (1691-1754): English publisher, founded the gentleman’s magazine.

Caxton, William (1422-’91): the first English printer and publisher.

Celcius, Anders(1701-’44): Swedish inventor, astronomer. Devised (1742) Celcius or centigrade temperature scale.

Cervantes, Saavedra Miguel de (1547-1616): Spanish novelist and dramatist. Don Quixote.

Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906): French post-impressionist painter.

Chakravarty, Nikhil (1913-’98): Indian journalist, first Chairman of Prasar Bharati Board.

Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940): English statesman, prime minister 1937-40.

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Chan, Jackie (b.1954): Movie star from Hong Kong. Made 40 films since ’76, when he was touted as the new Bruce Lee.

Chanakya (also known as Kautilya) (4th century B.C): Author of Artha Shastra, a authentic book on statecraft. Prime minister to Chandragupta Maurya.

Chandler, Raymond Thornton (1888-1959): American detective story writer. Created synical private detective Philip Marlowe.

Chandrasekhar (1927-2007): Indian politician, parliamentarian, socialist. President, socialist janata party from 1977. Prime minister, Nov. ’90 to June ’91.

Chandrasekhar, Subramanyan (1910-’95): Born at Lahore, an American citizen; nephew of nobel laureate C.V. Raman. Won the nobel prize for Physics in 1983.

Chaplin, Charles Spencer (Charles) (1889-1977): Film star comedian, first international screen star, with more than 50 years achievement. Born in London, he went to the United States in 1916. The kid, The Gold Rush, limelight, The Tramp.

Charlemagne (724-814): (Charles the Great). King of the Franks and Lombards, he founded a new Roman Empire comprising Gaul, Italy, and large parts of Spain and Germany; crowned emperor.

Charles (Philip Arthur George) b.1948): Prince of wales, eldest son of Qn. Elizabeth II; married Diana Spencer (’81) divorced (’96), married Camilla Parker Bowles (2005).

Charles I (1600-’49): King of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1625. Attempted to rule without parliament; Beheaded.

Chatterji, Bankim Chandra (1838-’98): Poet, novelist and a great patriot of India (Bengal). Vande Mataram (Anand math).

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Chattopadhyay, Kamaladevi (1903-’88): The high priestess if Indian culture, arts, theatre and literature. Magsaysay award, 1966.

Chaucer, Geofrey (1340-1400): English poet. The Canterbury tales.

Chaudhuri, Nirad C. (1897-1999): Indian writer, and social critic, wrote in English and live in England. Autobiography of an unknown Indian, A passage to England.

Chawla, Kalpana (b.1961-2003): The first Indian American space woman. Travelled aboard space shuttle Columbia in Nov/ ’97. Died I her second space mission aboard Columbia.

Chekhov, Anton (1860-1904: Russian dramatist and short story writer. Uncle Vanya.

Chembai Vaidya-natha Bhagavathar (1889-1974): Great (Carnatic) musician of India.

Cherenkov, Pavel Alekseyich (1904-1990): Soviet physicist. Discovered Cherenkov effect. Shared Nobel Prize(1958)

Cherenko, Konstantian Ustinovich (1911-’85): Soviet politician, Succeed Andropov as general secretary of the communist party.

Cheshire, Leonard (1918-’92): The world war II hero who set up a global network of houses for the disabled.

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1874-1936): English essayist, novelist and poet.

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Chevalier, Maurice (1888-1972): French film actor, singer who became an international film star. Love Me Tonight, Gigi.

Chiang Kai-Shek (1887-1975): Chinese general. After Sun Yat-sen’s death (1925), as commander of the Kuomintang army, he attempted to unite China; in 1949 retired to Formosa (Taiwan) after the victory of the communists.

Chichester, Sir Francis (1901-’72): English yachtsman, aviator, sailed around world single-handed in Gipsy Moth IV, (1966-’67)

Chidambaram, Rajagopala (b.1936): Chief scientific advisor to Govt. of India, commentator on global politics and one of world’s most distinguished linguists.

Chopin, Fre’de’ric Francois (1810-’49): Polish pianist, composer; ‘the poet of the piano.

Choudhary, Sarbari Roy (b.1933): Indian sculptor. Works include portraits and abstract bronzes.

Christie, Agatha (1890-1976): English writer of detective fiction. Her two detective are Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. Play Mousetrap has run in London for over four decades.

Churchill, Sir Winston (1874-1965): 1874-1965): British statesman, soldier and author. Prime minister and minister of defense 1940-45; Prime minister., 1951-55. Nobel prize for literature.

Cicero, Marcus Tullis (106-43 B.C): Roman orator, statesman, executed by Antony.

Clemenceau, Georges (1841-1929): French statesman who was premier twice. Led the French delegation at the versailles peace conference.

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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.

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Comte, Auguste (1798-1857): French philosopher. Founder of Positivism.

Confucius of K’ung Fu-Tse (c.551-478 B.C): Chinese philosopher, founder of the system of cosmology, politics, and ethics known as Confucianism.

Connery, Sean (b.1930): Scottish actor who won acclaim as screen’s secret agent James Bond.

Conard, Joseph (1857-1924): British novelist and short story writer born in Poland. Was a ship’s officer before. Heart of darkness, Nostromo, The secret Agent.

Constantine I (285-337): Roman emperor who founded the Christian empire known as Constantine the Great. Rebuilt Byzantium as his capital and renamed it Constantinople.

Cook, Captain James (1728-’79): English navigator. Discovered the Sandwich Is. (Hawaiian).

Cook, Thomas (1908-’82): British Baptist priest turned tour operator, established Thomas Cook. Father pf modern tourism.

Copernicus, Nicolas (1473-1543): Polish astronomer; considered founder of modern astronomy. Put forward the novel theory that the planets, including the Earth, revolve round the sun.

Cornwallis, Lord (1738-1805): Governor general of India, 1786. Laid the foundation of the Indian Civil Service.

Correa, Charles (b.1930): India’s eminent architect, educated at Michigan and MIT.

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Cushing, Harvey (1869-1939): American surgeon whose pioneering techniques for brain surgery improved neuro-surgery tremendously. Cushing’s syndrome, named after him.

Daimler, Gottlieb (1834-1900): German engineer, inventor. He improved internal combustion engine, furthering car industry.

Dalai Lama (b.1935): (Tenzing Gyatso) Spiritual leader of Tibet. Fled to India after Tibetan uprising, and established Govt-in0exile at Dharamasala in Himachal Pradesh, India (1959). Nobel peace prize (1989).

Dam, Henrik (1895-1976): Danish biochemist who discovered vitamin K. Nobel Prize.

Damien, Father Joseph (1840-’89): Originally Joseph de Veuster. Belgian Catholic missionary. Worked until his death from leprosy in leper colony on Molokai, Hawaii.

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321): Italian poet. The Divine Comedy.

Dange, Shripat Amrit (1899-1994): Leader of communist party of India, parliamentarian.

Darius I (548-486 B.C): Persian king and founder of Persepolis.

Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-’82): English naturalist who argued that the evolution of present-day morphology had been built up by he gradual and opportunistic mechanism of natural selection. On the Origin of Species.

Daudet, Alphonse (1840-1897): French short-story writer and novelist whose first novel was written at age 14. Monday Tales, The Nabob.