Who is Who

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Dickinson, Emily (183-’86): American poet, Published almost nothing in her lifetime.

Diesel, Rudolf (1858-1913): German engineer, inventor of an internal combustion engine which he patented in 1983.

Dietrich, Marlene (1901-’93): Actress and singer, native Berlin who flourished in the USA. Blue angel.

Dior, Christian (1905-’57): French fashion designer.

Disney, Walter Elias (‘Walt’) (1901-’66): American film cartoonist famous for animated cartoons. Creator of characters Mickey Mouse (192 and Donald Duck (1936).

Disraeli, Benjamin (1804-’81): British statesman and novelist. Prime minister, 1868 and 1874-’80.

Dix, Otto (1891-1969): German painter and engraver. Jailed in 1939 for an alleged plot to kill Hitler. Post-war themes included religion.

Donahue, Phil (b.1936: The man who virtually invented the single topic TV talk.

Donatello (1386-1466): Florentine Sculptor, a pioneer of the Renaissance style, born Donato di Betto Bardi. Famous for the marble sculptures of St. Mark and St. George.

Donne, John (1572-1631): One of the great Metaphysical poets. He was chaplain to king James of England, and later Dean of St Paul’s.

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Dostoevsky, Feodor Mukhailovich (1821-’81): Russian novelist. Sent to hard labour in Siberia for revolutionary activity. Crime and punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930): British writer of detective stories. Creator of detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.

Drake, Sir Francis (c.1540-;96: English seaman; in 1577-’80 he sailed round the world in the ‘Golden Hind”.

Drucker, Peter F. (1909-2005): Management expert and author of international fame.

Dryden, John (1631-1700): Poet laureate and dramatist. The Indian emperor, heroic stanzas, all for love.

Du Pont, Eleuth-Ere Irenee (17772-1834): American chemicals manufacturer, b.France.

Dulles, John Foster (1888-1959): US secretary of stare 1953-9, opposed negotiation with Russia.

Dumas, Alexandre (1802-’70): French romantic novelist. The Three Musketers.

Dunant, Jean Henri (1828-1910): Swiss philanthropist. Promoted the establishment of the international Red Cross (1863). Shares the first Nobel Prize(1901)

Duncan Isadora (1877-1927): American expressive dancer who united free movement with serious music; one of the founders of modern dance.

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Dunlop, John Boyd (1840-1921): Scottish veterinary surgeon. Patented (188 Dunlop version of pneumatic tyre.

Dupleix, Joseph Francois (1697-1763): French governor in India.

Durant Will (1885-1981): American historian. The Story of Civilization The story if philosophy.

Dutt, Nargis (1929-’81): The greatest film actress of her time. Paired in several immortal film with Raj Kapoor, Married actor Sunil Dutt, who later became a union minister until death in 2005. Best actress award. Padmashri. Nominated to Rajya Sabha. Son Sanjay Dutt, A leading Hindi film actor.

Duvalier, Francois (‘Papa Doc’) (1907-’71): Dictator of Haiti (1957-’71. Used personal police force (Tonton Macoutes).

Dylan, Bob (1941-): US singer and composer, born Robert Allen Zimmerman. Blood in the tracks.

Eastman, George (1854-1932): American inventor; manufacturer of photographic equipment.

Eckermann, Johnn Peter (1792-1854): German writer who was an assistant to Goethe. Conversations with Goethe.

Eckert, John Presper (1919-’95): Co-inventor of the computer. Developed world’s first electronic digital computer with John W.Mauchly.

Eco, Umberto (b.1932): Italian novelist who authored the historical thriller The Name of the Rose, and the novel Foucault’s Pendulum. Also wrote a Theory of Semiotics.

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Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931): American inventor who held more than 1300 U.S and foreign patents for his inventions: the photograph, the incandescent lamp, etc.

Ehrenburg, Liya Grigoryevich (1891-1967): Russian writer whose novel The Thaw gave the name to post Stalin relaxation.

Ehrlich, Paul (1854-1915): German scientist, one of the pioneers of bacteriology.

Eiffel, Alexandro Gustave (1832-1923: French engineer, remembered for Eiffel tower, Paris and Panama Canal locks.

Einstein, Albert (1879-1955): Mathematical Physicist whose theory of relatively superseded Newton’s theory of gravitation. His work led on to the making of the nuclear bomb. Nobel prize, 1921.

Einthoven, Willem (1860-1927): Dutch physiologist, invented the electrocardiogram. Nobel prize.

Eisenhower, Gen. Dwight (1890-1969): American general and statesman. He was C-in-C, Allied forces, N.Africa 1942-3, and in the European theatre of operations, 1943-5; Republican president, 1953-61.

Eliot, George (1819-’80): Pen-name of English woman novelist Mary Anne) later Marion) Evans. Middlemarch.

Eliot, Thomas Sterns(1888-1965): English poet and critic, born in U.S. The Waste Land, murder in the cathedral Nobel prize.

Elizabeth II(b.1926): Queen of Gt. Britain and N.Ireland; ascended the throne, 1952.

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Ellington, Edward Kennedy (‘Duke’) (1899-1974): American pianist, composer.

Ellis, Havelock (1859-1939): English psychologist and writer. Studies in the Psychology of sex (7 cols; 1898-1928).

Ellsworth, Lincoln (1880-1951): American engineer , the first to fly over Antarctica (1935)

Emeneau, Prof. Murray Branson (194-2005): Western indologist.

Empedocles (c.490-430 B.C): Greek philosopher who held that all matter was composed of four ingredients – fire, air, water and earth. Only 500 lines from two of his poems remain of his writing.

Engels, Friedrich (1820-’95): German socialist, lifelong friend of Karl Marx, with whom he wrote the Communist Manifesto.

Erasmus, Desiderius (1466-1536): The greatest humanist and scholar of Dutch Renaissance. Praise of Folly.

Euripides (480-406): The greatest of the Greek dramatists, who wrote about 80 plays. Trojan, Alcestis, Medea.

Evert, Chris(b.1954): of USA. One of the all-time greats in tennis. Won 20 championships from 1974 to 1986, and 157 tournament titles.

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Fahrenheit, Gabriel Daniel (1686-1736): German physicist who introduced the mercury thermometer and fixed thermometric standards.

Falk, Lee (1912-’99): Creator o the popular cartoon characters Mandrake the Magician and Phantom.

Fallopio, Gabriele (1523-’62): Italian anatomist, discovered Fallopian tubes, leading from ovaries to the uterus, in which fertilisation takes place.

Faraday, Michael (1791-1867): English physicist who founded the science of electro-magnetism.

Farah, Nuruddin (b.1945): Somali novelist, and a major writer of Africa.

Faulkner, William (1987-1962): American novelist, whose series of novels (The Sound and the Fury, etc.) depict the American South. Nobel prize, 1949.

Fawkes, Guy (1570-1606): English conspirator. Served with Spanish armies in Netherlands. Involved in Gunpowder Plot (Nov.5, 11605) to blow up houses of parl. Executed.

Fazal, Abul (1561-1602): Prime minister of Akbar the reat. Scholar, wrote Ain-i-Akbari and Akbarnama.

Federer, Roger (b.1832): Switzerland, Tennis champion at 24. Won fourth successive wimbeldon in 2006. 12 Grand slam single titles, 55 career titles.

Fellini, Federico (1920-’93): Great Italian film maker. Five-time academy award winner. La Strada(1954), La Dolce Vita (1959), 81/2 (1963).

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Fermi, Enrico (1901-’54)): Pionieering scientist who discovered over 400 radio isotopes. Element number 100 is named fermium after him.

Fielding, Henry (1707-’54): English author known for Tom Jones (1749).

Fischer, Bobby (b.1943): World Chess champion, 1972-75.

Fitzgerals, Edward (1809-’83): English poet and translator. Translated The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859).

Flaubert, Gustave (1821-80): French novelist, leading exponent of French realism. Madame Bavar.

Fleming, Sir Alexander (1881-1955): British bacteriologist and discovered of penicillin (192. Nobel prize (1945).

Flinders, Mathew (1774-1814): English explorer who charted large parts of the land he names Australia. Flinders river, Flinders Island named after him.

Fonda, Henry (1905-;82): US actor who became a Hollywood star. Won academy award in ’82 for on golden pond. Daughter Jane and son Peter joined films.

Ford, Gerald R (b.1913); American republican president, (1974-77)

Ford, Henry (1863-1947): Pioneer (American) motor car manufacturer and industrialist. Founder of Ford motor company and Ford foundation.