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| Aadland | Beverly | Beverly Aadland (1942 – 2010) was an American actress, dancer and writer. | Applied | Set | Added | Few | Connected |
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| Aalto | Alvar | Alvar Aalto (1898 – 1976) was an Finnish architect and designer. | Applied | Set | Added | Few | Not Connected |
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| Aalto | Marja-Sisko | Marja-Sisko Aalto (1954 – living) was a former Finnish transgender vicar. | Applied | Set | Not Added | Few | Wikidata needs adding, Not Connected |
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| Aas | Roald | Roald Aas (1928 – 2012) was a gold medal Olympic speed skater and cyclist for Norway. | Applied | Set | Added | Few | Not Connected |
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| Abalakov | Vitaly | Vitaly Abalakov (1906 – 1986) was a Soviet chemical engineer, mountaineer and inventor. | Applied | Set | Added | Few | Not Connected |
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| Abbatt | Agnes Dean | Agnes Dean Abbatt (1847 – 1917) was a painter of floral still lifes, landscapes, and coastal scenes. | Applied | Set | Added | Few | Not Connected |
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| Abbe | Ernst Karl | Ernst Abbe (1840 – 1905) was a German physicist, optical scientist, entrepreneur, and social reformer. | Applied | Set | Added | Few | Not Connected |
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| Abbott | Robert Sengstacke | Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870 – 1940) was the founder and publisher of The Chicago Defender. | Applied | Set | Added | Few | Not Connected |
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| Abbott | Cleveland Leigh | Cleveland Abbott (1892 – 1915) was an American football player, coach, and educator. | Applied | Set | Not Added | Few | Not Connected |
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| Abbott | Tony | Tony Abbott (1957 – living) is an Australian former politician. | Applied | Set | Not Added | Yes | Not Connected, Needs Wikipedia |
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| Abbott | Mara | Mara Abbott (1985 – living) is a U.S. professional women's bicycle racer. | Applied | Set | Not Added | No | Not Connected, Needs Wikidata |
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| Abbott | Eleanor | Eleanor Abbott (1910 – 1988) was the Inventor of a board game called Candy Land. | Applied | Set | Not Added | No | Not Connected, Needs Wikidata |
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| Abel | Jacob Friedrich | Jacob Friedrich von Abel (1751 – 1829) was a German philosopher. | Applied | Set | Not Added | No | Not Connected, Needs Wikipedia |
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| Abeles | Peter | Peter Abeles (1924 – 1999) was an Australian transportation magnate. | Applied | Set | Not Added | No | Not Connected, Needs Wikidata |
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| Abenaki | Grey Lock | Gray Lock (1670 – after 1727) was a war chief of the Abenaki people. | Applied | Set | Added | No | Not Connected |
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| Abercrombie | Ralph | Ralph Abercrombie (1881 – 1957) was an Australian public servant who was Commonwealth Auditor-General from 1938 to 1946 | Applied | Set | Not Added | No | Not Connected, Needs Wikidata |
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| Abernethy | John | John Abernethy (1764 – 1831) was the Chief of Surgery at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. | Applied | Set | Not Added | No | Not Connected, Needs Wikidata |
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| Aberson | Helen | Helen Aberson-Mayer (1907 – 1999) was an American children's book author. | Applied | Set | Not Added | No | Not Connected, Needs Wikidata |
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| Abert | James William | James William Abert (1820 – 1897) was an American soldier, explorer, bird collector and topographical artist. | Applied | Set | Not Added | No | Not Connected, Needs Wikidata |
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| Abert | John James | John James Abert (1788 – 1863) was a United States soldier. | Applied | Set | Not Added | No | Not Connected, Needs Wikidata |
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| Abner | David | David Abner Jr. (1860 – 1928) was an educator and a journalist. | Applied | Set | Added | No | Not Connected |
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| Abner | Ewart Gladstone | Ewart Abner (1923 – 1997) was an African-American record company executive. | Applied | Set | Added | No | Not Connected |
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| Abner | David | David Abner (1826 – 1902) was an American politician who served in the Texas House of Representatives. | Applied | Set | Added | No | Not Connected |
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| Anderson | Gerry | Gerry Anderson (1929 – 2012) was an English television and film producer, director, writer and occasional voice artist. | Applied | Set | Not Added | No | Not Connected, Needs Wikidata |
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| Abrahamson | Max | Max Abrahamson (1932 – 2012) was a famous solicitor and internationally known as an expert in construction law. | Applied | Set | Not Added | No | Not Connected, Needs Wikidata |
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| Abrahamson | Leonard Eliezer | Leonard Abrahamson (1896 – 1961) was famous Irish cardiac surgeon. | Applied | Set | Not Added | No | Not Connected, Needs Wikidata |
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| Abrahamson | Leonard Ian | Lenny Abrahamson (1966 – living) is an Irish film and television director. | Applied | Set | Not Added | Yes | Not Connected, Needs Wikidata |
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| Abrams | Stacey | Stacey Abrams (1973 – living) is an American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author. | Applied | Set | Not Added | Yes | Not Connected, Needs Wikidata |
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| Allen | Rae | Rae Allen (1926 – 2002) was an American actress of stage, film, and television, director, and singer. | Applied | Set | Not Added | Yes | Not Connected, Needs Wikidata |
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| Abshire | Nathan | Nathan Abshire (1913 – 1981) was a noted Cajun musician. | Applied | Set | Not Added | Yes | Not Connected, Needs Wikidata |
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| Abyngdon | Henry | Henry Abyngdon (1418 – 1497) was an English ecclesiastic and musician. | Applied | Set | Not Added | Few | Not Connected, Needs Wikidata |
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| Accardo | Antonino | Tony Accardo (1906 – 1992) was an American longtime mobster. | Applied | Set | Not Added | Few | Not Connected, Needs Wikidata |
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| Accum | Friedrich Christian | Friedrich Accum (1769 – 1838) was a German chemist. | Applied | Set | Not Added | Few | Not Connected, Needs Wikidata |
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| Aceros_Buenos | Germán | Germán Aceros (1938 – 2018) was a Colombian footballer. | Applied | Set | Not Added | Few | Not Connected, Needs Wikidata |
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| Acevedo | Sylvia | Sylvia Acevedo (1956 – living) is an American engineer and businesswoman. | Applied | Set | Not Added | Few | Not Connected, Needs Wikidata |
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| Achebe | Chinua | Chinua Achebe (1930 – 2013) was A Nigerian novelist and poet. | Applied | Set | Not Added | Yes | Not Connected, Needs Wikidata |
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| Achong | Ellis Edgar | Ellis Achong (1904 – 1986) was a sportsman from Trinidad and Tobago in the West Indies. | Applied | Set | Added | Few | Not Connected |
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| Gyllenhaal | Naomi | Naomi Gyllenhaal (1946 – living) is an American screenwriter and director. | Applied | Set | Added | Few | Not Connected |
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| Acosta_Fierro | Oscar Zeta | Oscar Zeta Acosta (1935 – 1974) was a Mexican-American attorney, politician, novelist and activist in the Chicano Movement. | Applied | Set | Not Added | Few | Not Connected, Needs Wikidata |
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| Acutis | Carlo | Carlo Acutis (1991 – 2006) was an English-born Italian Catholic youth and amateur computer programmer. | Applied | Set | Added | Few | Not Connected |
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| Wahid | Abdurrahman | Abdurrahman Wahid (1940 – 2009) was an Indonesian politician and Islamic religious leader who served as the 4th President of Indonesia. | Applied | Set | Added | Yes | Not Connected |
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| Adachi | Jeffrey Gordon | Jeff Adachi (1959 – 2019) was an American attorney, pension reform advocate, and politician. | Applied | Set | Added | Few | Not Connected |
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| Adair | Paul Neal | Paul "Red" Adair (1915 – 2004) was an American oil well firefighter. | Applied | Set | Not Added | Few | Not Connected, Needs Wikipedia, Wikidata |
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| Adams | Stanley | Stanley Adams (1915 – 1977) was an American actor and screenwriter. | Applied | Set | Added | Few | Not Connected |
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| Barrett | Majel | Majel Barrett, born Hudec (1932 – 2008) was an American actress and producer. She became the second wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. | Applied | Set | Not Added | Few | Wikidata needs adding |
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| Belyayev | Pavel | Pavel Belyayev (1925 – 1970) was a Soviet fighter pilot, the first commander of the cosmonaut corps and the commander of the Voskhod 2 mission which included the world's first spacewalk in 1965. | Applied | Set | Added | Yes | Have added parents, siblings and some additional details more to do thoughBrowning-5288
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| Bogarde | Dirk | Dirk Bogarde (1921 – 1999), born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde, was an English actor and writer. | Applied | Set | Added | Yes | correct name, (formatting) added some sources, and corrected parents information, added sources. Nass-24
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| Boeing | William Edward | William Edward Boeing (1881 – 1956) was an American aviation pioneer who founded The Boeing Company. | Applied | Set | Added | Yes |
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| Brik | Lilya | Jewish Russian supporter of the arts, influential and married to influence. | Applied | Set | Added | Yes |
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| Brik | Osip | Jewish Russian, supporter of the arts, influential and married to influence. | Applied | Set | Added | Yes |
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| Butler | Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Butler (1818 – 1893) was a major general of the Union Army, politician, lawyer and businessman from Massachusetts. | Applied | Set | Added | Yes |
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| Carpenter | Karen | Karen Carpenter (1950 – 1983) was an American singer and drummer. She and her brother, Richard, formed the 1970s duo The Carpenters. | Applied | Set | Added | Yes |
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| Cavell | Edith Louisa | Edith Cavell (1865 – 1915) was a British nurse. She is celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from both sides without discrimination and in helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium during the First World War. | Applied | Set | Added | Yes |
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| Crisp | Donald | Donald Crisp (1882 – 1974), born George William Crisp, was an English film actor. | Applied | Set | Added | Yes |
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| Dawson | William Harbutt | William Harbutt Dawson was a British journalist, civil servant and author, and acknowledged expert on German politics and society. | Applied | Set | Added | Yes |
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| de Mille | Agnes George | Agnes de Mille (1905 – 1993) was an American dancer and choreographer. | Applied | Set | Added | Few | Needs categories for birthplace, place of death, and schools
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| Forster | Margaret | Margaret Forster (1938 – 2016) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and literary critic. She is best known for her 1965 novel Georgy Girl, which was made into a successful film of the same name. | Applied | Set | Added | Added |
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| Glass | Ron | Ronald Earle "Ron" Glass (1945 – 2016) was an American actor. He was known for his roles as literary Det. Ron Harris in the television sitcom Barney Miller, and as Shepherd Derrial Book in the 2002 science fiction series Firefly and its sequel film Serenity. | Applied | Set | Added | Few |
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| Goddard | Paulette | Paulette Goddard (1910 – 1990) was an American actress, Ziegfeld Girl, and 2nd wife of Charlie Chaplin. | Applied | Set | Added | Few |
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| Goddard | Robert | Robert H. Goddard (1882 – 1945) was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. | Applied | Set | Added | Two |
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| Grace | William Gilbert | W.G. Grace English amateur cricketer. | Applied | Set | Added | Added |
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| Gresley | Nigel | Sir Nigel Gresley (1876 – 1941) was one of Britain's most famous steam locomotive engineers, who rose to become Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). | Applied | Set | Added | Added | Needs CME box added as on the bottom of Wikipedia page Nass-24
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| Gruber | Franz | Franz Gruber (1787 – 1863) was an Austrian teacher, church organist and composer who is best known for composing the music to "Stille Nacht" ("Silent Night"). | Applied | Set | Added | Not Added |
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| Haggard | Henry Rider | Henry Rider Haggard (1856 – 1925) was an English writer of adventure novels. | Applied | Set | Added | Not Added |
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| Haig | Douglas | Douglas Haig (1861 – 1928) was a British senior officer during the First World War. | Applied | Set | Added | Added |
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| Hanff | Helene | Helene Hanff was an American author and screenwriter. | Applied | Set | Added | Added |
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| Harrison | Richard Benjamin | Rick's Old Man Harrison (1941-2018) on "Pawn Stars"] | Applied | Set | Added | Few |
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| Haydn | Franz Joseph | (31 March 1732 – 31 May 1809) Austrian composer. Joseph Haydn | Applied | Set | Added | Not Added |
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| Hayworth | Rita | Rita Hayworth (1918 – 1987), born Margarita Carmen Cansino, was an American actress and dancer. | Applied | Set | Added | Few |
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| Hopper | Admiral Grace | Grace Hopper (1906 – 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. | Applied | Set | Added | Added
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| Hudson | Rock | Rock Hudson (1925 – 1985), born Roy Harold Scherer, Jr., was an American actor, generally known for his turns as a leading man during the 1950s and 1960s. | Applied | Set | Added | Few |
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| Ives | Burl | Burl Ives Singer-Songwriter-Actor | Applied | Set | Added | Added |
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| Jackson | Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" | Stonewall_Jackson (1824 – 1863) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War. | Applied | Set | Added | Added |
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| Marat | Jean-Paul | Jean-Paul Marat (1743 - 1793) was an eighteenth century physician, political theorist and scientist. He is best known for his career in France as a radical journalist and politician during the French Revolution. | Added | Set | Added | Some Added |
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| March | Frederic | Frederic March (1897-1975) was an American stage and film actor and winner of the 1932 and 1947 Academy Awards for Best Actor. | Added | Set | Added | Added |
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| Marconi | Guglielmo | Guglielmo Marconi (1874 – 1937) was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission. | Added | Set | Added | Added |
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| Marshall | John | John Marshall (1755 – 1835) was the 4th and longest-serving Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. | Added | Set | Added | Few |
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| Marx | Chico | Leonard Marx (1887 – 1961) known professionally as Chico Marx, was an American comedian, musician, bandleader, actor and film star as part of the Marx Brothers. | Added | Set | Added | One |
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| Masekela | Hugh | Hugh Masekela (1939 – 2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and Singer. | Added | Set | Added | Not Added |
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| Maxwell | James Clerk | James Clerk Maxwell (1831 – 1879) was a Scottish scientist in the field of mathematical physics. His most notable achievement was to formulate the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation. | Added | Set | Added | Few |
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| Mendenhall | Walter Curran | Walter Curran Mendenhall (1871 – 1957) was the fifth director of the US Geological Survey. | Added | Set | Added | Not Added |
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| Miller | Max | Max Miller (1894 – 1963), born Thomas Henry Sargent, was a British comedian. | Added | Set | Added | Few |
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| Monroe | Marilyn | Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962), born Norma Jeane Mortenson, was an American actress and model. | Applied | Set | Added | Few |
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| Montcalm-Gozon | Louis | Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon (1712 – 1759) was a French soldier best known as the commander of the forces in North America during the Seven Years' War (whose North American theatre is called the French and Indian War in the United States). | Applied | Set | Added | Few |
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| Montgomery | Bernard | Bernard Law Montgomery (1887 – 1976) was a senior officer of the British Army. | Applied | Set | Added | Few |
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| Moorer | Thomas Hinman | Thomas Hinman Moorer (1912 – 2004) was an admiral and naval aviator in the United States Navy who served as Chief of Naval Operations from 1967 to 1970, and as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1970 to 1974. | Applied | Set | Added | One |
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| Morrison | Jim | James Douglas "Jim" Morrison (1943 – 1971) was an American singer, songwriter and poet best remembered as the lead singer of The Doors. | Applied | Set | Added | Added |
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| Morse | Samuel | Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791 – 1872) was an American painter and inventor. He was a co-developer of the Morse code. | Applied | Set | Added | Few |
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| Murrell | John | John Murrell (1806 – 1844) was a bandit and criminal operating in the United States, along the Mississippi River, in the 19th century. | Applied | Set | Added | Few |
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| Nelson | Horatio | Horatio Nelson (1758 – 1805) was a British flag officer in the Royal Navy. | Applied | Set | Added | Added |
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| Nightingale | Florence | Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910) was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. | Applied | Set | Added | Added |
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| Niven | David | James David Graham Niven (1910 – 1983) was an English actor and novelist, 1959 Academy Award Winner. | Applied | Set | Added | Few |
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| Nobel | Alfred | Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833 – 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. He was the inventor of dynamite. His fortune was used posthumously to institute the Nobel Prizes. | Applied | Set | Added | Few |
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| Salinger | J.D. | Jerome David Salinger (1919 – 2010) was an American writer. | Applied | Set | Added | Few |
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| Sassoon | Siegfried | Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (1886 – 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. He became one of the leading poets of the First World War. | Added | Set | Added | Not Added |
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| Satterwhite | John | John Satterwhite (1943 – 2014) was an American Olympic shooter and World Championship skeet shooter. | Not Added | Set | Added | Not Added |
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| Sayers | Dorothy L | Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893 – 1957) was a English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator, and Christian humanist. | Applied | Set | Added | Few |
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| Schlesinger Sr. | Arthur | Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. was an American historian. | Applied | Set | Added | Not Added |
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| Schesinger Jr. | Arthur | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. was an American historian. | Applied | Set | Added | Few |
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| Schulz | Charles | Charles Monroe Schulz (1922 – 2000) was an American cartoonist, best known for the comic strip Peanuts (which featured the characters Snoopy and Charlie Brown, among others). | Applied | Set | Added | Added |
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| Scott | Robert | Robert Falcon Scott (1868 – 1912) was an English Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions. | Applied | Set | Added | Few |
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| Scott | Walter | Walter Scott (1771 – 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet. | Added | Set | Added | Few |
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| Shaw | George Bernard | George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) was a Nobel-Prize and Oscar-winning Irish playwright, critic and socialist. | Applied | Set | Added | Added |
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| Shelley | Mary | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 – 1851), née Godwin, was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein. | Applied | Set | Added | Not Added |
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| Sills | Beverly | Beverly Sills (1929 - 2007), born Belle Miriam Silverman, was an American operatic soprano. | Applied | Set | Added | Not Added |
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| Simcoe | Elizabeth | Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe (1762 - 1850), born Elizabeth Gwillim, was a British artist and diarist in colonial Canada. She was the wife of John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. | Applied | Set | Added | Not Added |
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| Simcoe | John | John Graves Simcoe (1752 - 1806) was a British Army general and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791 until 1796. | Applied | Set | Added | Few |
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| Sloane | Eric | Eric Sloane (1905 – 1985), born Everard Jean Hinrichs, was an American landscape painter and author of illustrated works of cultural history and folklore. | Applied | Set | Added | Not Added | Needs categories
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| Smith | Edward | Edward John Smith (1850 – 1912) was an English naval reserve officer. He is best known as the captain of the RMS Titanic, perishing when the ship sank on its maiden voyage. | Added | Set | Added | Few |
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| Stanley | Henry Morton | Henry Morton Stanley (1841 – 1904), born John Rowlands, was a Welsh journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone. | Applied | Set | Added | Not Added |
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| Steinbeck | John | John Ernst Steinbeck (1902 – 1968) was an American author. | Applied | Set | Added | Few |
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| Stephenson | Robert | Robert Stephenson (1803 – 1859) was an early railway engineer. The only son of George Stephenson, the "Father of Railways". | Applied | Set | Added | Few |
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| Stevenson | Robert Louis | Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850 – 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. | Applied | Set | Added | Few |
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| Stopes | Marie | Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1880 – 1958) was a British author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights. | Added | Set | Added | Not Added |
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| Sullivan | Arthur | Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO (1842 – 1900) was an English composer. He is best known for his series of 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. | Added | Set | Added | Not Added |
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| Sykes | Eric | Eric Anthony Sykes (1883 – 1945), born Eric Anthony Schwabe, was an English soldier and firearms expert. He is most famous for his work with William E. Fairbairn in the development of the eponymous Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife. | Added | Set | Added | Not Added |
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| Teitelbaum | Ruth | Ruth Teitelbaum (née Lichterman) (1924 – 1986) was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer. | Applied | Set | Added | Few |
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| Tennyson | Alfred | Alfred Tennyson (1809 – 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. | Applied | Set | Added | Not Added |
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| Thomas | Dylan | Dylan Thomas (1914 – 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer. | Added | Set | Added | Added |
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| Turing | Alan | Alan Turing (1912 – 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. He is considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. | Added | Set | Added | Few |
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| Twain | Mark | Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) who used the pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. | Applied | Set | Added | Not Added |
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| Watt | James | James Watt (1736 – 1819) was a Scottish, inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist whose Watt steam engine, an improvement of the Newcomen steam engine, was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world. | Applied | Set | Added | Few |
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| Wells | H.G. | Herbert George “H.G.” Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and even textbooks and rules for war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. | Applied | Set | Added | Added |
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| Winton | Nicholas | Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE (1909 – 2015), born Wertheim, was a British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport (German for "children transportation"). | Applied | Set | Added | Few |
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| Wesley | John | John Wesley (1703 – 1791) was an Anglican minister and theologian who, with his brother Charles Wesley and fellow cleric George Whitefield, is credited with the foundation of the evangelical movement known as Methodism. | Applied | Set | Added | Added |
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| Wilberforce | William | William Wilberforce (1759 – 1833) was an English politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. | Applied | Set | Added | Few |
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| Wolfe | James | James Wolfe (1727 – 1759) was a British Army officer, known for his training reforms and remembered chiefly for his victory in 1759 over the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec as a major general. | Applied | Set | Added | Some | Needs categories for birthplace and place of death
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| Wollstonecraft | Mary | Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 – 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. | Applied | Set | Added | Added |
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| Wordsworth | William | William_Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature. | Applied | Set | Added | Added | Needs Wikidata.
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| Wright | Orville | Orville Wright (1871 – 1948) and his brother Wilbur (1867 – 1912) were American inventors and aviation pioneers who are credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight. | Applied | Set | Added | Added |
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| Wright | Wilbur | Wilbur Wright (1867 – 1912) and his brother Orville (1871 – 1948) were American inventors and aviation pioneers who are credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight. | Applied | Set | Added | Added |
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Even once a profile has the appropriate markers, it often needs further improvement to add:
Please review the list below and see if you can assist by improving upon one or more of the profiles. If you do manage to connect an unconnected profile to the tree, please contact one of the leaders of the Notables Project, or else post an answer on the latest monthly Notables thread on the G2G Forum so that you and your accomplishment can be recognized.
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| Ahearn | T. Franklin | T Franklin Ahearn - Canadian businessman and politician. Former owner of the NHL Ottawa Senators team. | Yes | Added | Added | Yes | Edited 12/07/2020 by Nass-24
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| Alexander | Katherine | Katharine Alexander was an American actress of stage and screen. She appeared in 44 films between 1930 and 1951. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes
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| Allenby | Edmund | Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby (1861 – 1936) was an English soldier and British Imperial Governor. He fought in the Second Boer War, and also in World War I in which he led the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force. | Added | Added | Added | Yes
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| Amundsen | Roald | Roald Amundsen (1872 – 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the Antarctic expedition which was the first to reach the South Pole. | Sparse | Primary added 12/07/2020 by Nass-24|u|Added | Yes | Yes
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| Anderson | Michael P | Michael P. Anderson (1959 – 2003) was a United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut. Anderson and his six fellow crew members were killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster when the craft disintegrated during its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. | Sparse | None Primary | Added | No
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| Artyukhin | Yury | Yury Artyukhin (1930 – 1998) was a Soviet Russian cosmonaut and engineer who was involved in the development of the Soviet space shuttle Buran and in cosmonaut training. | Yes | None Primary | Added | No | parents and additional info added Browning-5288
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| Bader | Sir Douglas Roberts Steuart | Sir Douglas Bader (1910 – 1982) was a Royal Air Force flying ace during the Second World War. He was credited with 22 aerial victories, four shared victories, six probables, one shared probable and 11 enemy aircraft damaged. | No | Primary added 12/07/2020 by Nass-24 | Yes | No
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| Ballou | Sullivan | Sullivan Ballou (1829 – 1861) was a lawyer and politician from Rhode Island, and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. | Yes | Primary added 12/07/2020 by Nass-24 | Added | Yes |
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| Baker | Josephine | Josephine Baker (3 June 1906 – 12 April 1975) was an entertainer, activist, and French Resistance agent. | Yes | Some | Added | No
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| Banks | Ernie "Mr. Cub" | Ernie Banks 1931 – January 23, 2015), nicknamed "Mr. Cub" and "Mr. Sunshine", was an American professional baseball player who starred in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a shortstop and first baseman for the Chicago Cubs between 1953 and 1971. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977, and was named to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999. | No | Few | Yes | No
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| Barnardo | Thomas | Thomas John Barnardo (1845 – 1905) was an Irish philanthropist and founder and director of homes for poor children. ORPHANED PROFILE | Yes; but about his orphanages, and not him | Yes | Yes | No
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| Bazalgette | Joseph William | Joseph Bazalgette (1819 – 1891) was a 19th-century English civil engineer who created a sewer network for central London which was instrumental in relieving the city from cholera epidemics. ORPHANED PROFILE | Sparse | Yes | Yes | Yes
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| van Beethoven | Ludwig | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) German composer and pianist. | 1 Paragraph from Wikipedia | Some | Yes | No
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| Berlin | Irving | Irving Berlin (1888 – 1989) was an American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history. | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | added sources for this profile and added primary sources, bio & photo for 2nd wife 12/07/2020 by Nass-24
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| Berlin | Dorothy (Goetz) | Dorothy Goetz (1892 – 1912) was the first wife of the famous songwriter Irving Berlin. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | added sources for this profile and added primary sources, bio 12/07/2020 by Nass-24
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| Bhanot | Neerja | Neerja Bhanot 1963 – 1986 Head Stewardess on a hijacked plane, died saving the passengers, she was mortally wounded shielding 3 children from gunfire, died of her wounds after getting them to safety | One sentence | Some | No | No
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| Blue | Lionel | Lionel Blue (1930 - 2016) Rabbi and radio broadcaster known as "Rabbi Lionel Blue". | Yes | Some | Yes | No | added bio 12/07/2020 by Nass-24
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| Booth | John Wilkes | John Wilkes Booth An American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C. PROTECTED PROJECT | Slight | Primary added 12/07/2020 by Nass-24|Yes | Yes | Yes
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| Boynton Robinson | Amelia | Amelia Boynton Robinson Civil Rights Activist and author. Awarded the Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom Medal in 1990' | Sparse | Yes | Yes | No | added added primary sources, 12/07/2020 by Nass-24
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| Brady | Charles E | Charles E. Brady Jr. (1951 – 2006) was an American physician, a Captain in the United States Navy and a NASA astronaut. | Sparse | Added | Added | Yes | added added primary sources, 12/07/2020 by Nass-24
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| Brennan | Walter | Walter Brennan Actor - Winner of Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1936, 1938 and 1940. | Sparse | Added | Added | Yes
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| Brooke | Rupert Chawner | Rupert Chawner Brooke Poet - (1887 – 1915) known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War. | Sparse | Primary added 12/07/2020 by Nass-24 | Added | Yes
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| Brynner | Yul | Yul Brynner (1920 – 1985), born Yuly Borisovich Briner, was a Russian-born United States-based film and stage actor. | Yes | Primary added 12/07/2020 by Nass-24 | Added | Yes
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| Burr | Raymond | Raymond Burr (1917 – 1993), was a Canadian-American actor, primarily known for his title roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside. | Yes | Added 12/07/2020 by Nass-24 | Added | Yes
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| Cabut | Emmanuel | Mano Solo (1965 - 2010) was a French musician and son of Jean, Cabu. | No | scant available Nass-24 | Yes | No
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| Cabut | Jean "Cabu" | Cabu French journalist who wrote for the Charlie Hebdo weekly paper. | No | scant available Nass-24 | Yes | No
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| Capote | Truman | Truman Streckfus Persons (1924 – 1984), known as Truman Capote, was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. | No | Primary added 12/07/2020 by Nass-24 | Yes | Yes
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| Cary | John | John Cary (c. 1754 – 1835) was an English cartographer. | Yes | No | Yes | Yes
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| Cassidy | Eva | Eva Marie Cassidy (1963 – 1996) was an American vocalist and guitarist known for her interpretations of jazz, blues, folk, gospel, country, rock and pop classics. | No | 2 | Yes | No
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| Christie | John Reginald Halliday | John Reginald Halliday Christie (1899 – 1953) was an English serial killer who murdered at least eight women in his flat at 10 Rillington Place, London. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (immediate family group only)
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| Churchward | George Jackson | George Jackson Churchward (1857 – 1933) was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway (UK). | Yes added 13/07/2020 by Nass-24 | Yes | Yes | Yes
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| Cochrane | Thomas | Thomas John Cochrane, GCB (1789 – 1872) was a Royal Navy officer famous for capturing French war ships and also taking part in the burning of Washington and the attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812. | Yes added 13/07/2020 by Nass-24 please review | Yes added 13/07/2020 by Nass-24 | Yes | Yes
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| Coleman | Ornette | Jazz Composer and Musician who created new depth to Jazz as a genre. | No | Some | Yes | No | wife also needs bio, etc
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| Conrad | Joseph | Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924), born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, was a Polish-British writer. | Sparce | Yes | Yes | Yes
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| Crane | Lucy | Lucy Crane(1841-1882), was a writer and translator who translated the Brothers Grimm's "Fairy Tales” from German to English. | Yes | Some | Added | No
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| Crane | Walter | WalterCrane(1845-1919), was a illustrator who illustrated the Brothers Grimm's "Fairy Tales” which had been translated by his sister German to English, artist, contemporary of William Morris and the Arts and Cfafts movement. | Yes | Some | Added | No
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| Crick | Francis | Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916 – 2004) was a British molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, most noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule. | Sparce | Sparce | Yes | No
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| Crippen | Hawley Harvey | Hawley Harvey Crippen (1862 – 1910), usually known as Dr. Crippen, was an American homeopath, ear and eye specialist and medicine dispenser. He was hanged for the murder of his wife, and was the first suspect to be captured with the aid of wireless telegraphy. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes
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| Curtis | James | James Curtis (1907 – 1977) was an English author, born Geoffrey Basil Maiden | No | Yes | Yes |
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| David | Hal | Harold Lane "Hal" David (May 25, 1921 – September 1, 2012) was an American lyricist. He was best known for his collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach and his association with Dionne Warwick.ORPHANED PROFILE | No | Sparse | Yes | No
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| Davy | Humphry | Humphry Davy (1778 – 1829) was a Cornish (UK) chemist and inventor. | Outlined Needs work | Yes | Yes | Yes
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| Dawkins | Darryl | NBA player known as "Chocolate Thunder" ORPHANED PROFILE | No | No | Yes | No
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| DeMille | Cecil B. | Cecil B. DeMille (1881 – 1959) was an American filmmaker. | Brief | Some | Yes | Yes | Needs source for marriage, census records
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| Dempsey | Jack | (June 24, 1895 – May 31, 1983) American boxer. heavyweight boxing champion 1919 - 1926. | Yes BUT needs major reformatting, needs sibling profiles created and list removed from bio | Yes | Yes | Yes
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| Disney | Walt | Walt Disney (1901 – 1966) was an American entrepreneur, cartoonist, animator, voice actor, and film producer. | Sparse | Some | Added | Yes
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| Dolby | Ray | Ray Milton Dolby (1933 – 2013) was an American engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR. | No | 1940 Census | Yes | No | Hinshaw-676 01:36, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
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| Donner | George | George Donner (1784 – 1847) was the leader of the Donner Party, a group of California-bound American settlers who became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada of Alta California, Mexico in the winter of 1846–1847. Nearly half of the party starved to death, and some of the emigrants resorted to cannibalism. | Yes All about incident and not about Donner | Yes | Yes | Yes
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| Earp | Wyatt | Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (1848 – 1929) was an American gambler, Pima County, Arizona, deputy sheriff, and deputy town marshal in Tombstone, Arizona, who took part in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. | Yes but only about 1st wife | Yes | Yes | Yes
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| Edison | Thomas | Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. | Yes BUT is a mess in the ged refs & sources | Yes | Yes | Yes
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| Eichmann | Otto Adolf | Adolf Eichmann (1906 - 1962) Nazi war criminal, was hanged 1962 in Israel. | Only Wikipedia | Yes | Yes | No
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| Eldering | Dr. Grace | Research doctor who helped create the first Whooping Cough vaccine. | No | Yes | Yes | No | Hinshaw-676 01:36, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
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| Elgar | Edward | Edward William Elgar (1857 – 1934) was an English composer. | No | Yes | Yes | Yes
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| Fairbairn | William E | William Ewart Fairbairn (1885 – 1960) was a British soldier and police officer. He created his own fighting system, and co-developed the Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife. | Yes | Yes | Yes | No
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| Fisher | John Arbuthnot | John Arbuthnot "Jackie" Fisher (1841 – 1920) was a British admiral of the Fleet known for his efforts at naval reform. | Sparse | No | Yes | Yes
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| Ford | Henry | Henry Ford was an American industrialist and the founder of the Ford Motor Company. | Sparse | Yes | Yes | Yes
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| Ford | John | John Ford (1894 – 1973) was an American film director. | No | Yes | Yes | Yes
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| French | Daniel | Daniel French (1770 – 1853) was an American inventor. His most significant invention was the horizontally mounted, high-pressure, non-condensing, directly connected steam engine. | Sparse | Yes | No | No
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| Forester | C.S. | Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (1899 – 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare such as the Horatio Hornblower series. | Slight | Yes | Yes | Yes
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| Franklin | Aretha | Aretha Louise Franklin (1942 – 2018) was an American singer and pianist called "The Queen of Soul". | Yes | Yes | Yes | No
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| Gable | Clark | Clark Gable (1901 – 1960) was an American film actor and military officer, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood". | Added | Not Added | Added | Yes | Needs links to sources.
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| Gagarin | Yuri | Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (1934 – 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who was the first human to journey into outer space. | Short | None primary | Yes | No | Cyrillic Question: Primary in Cyrillic & Roman in Parentheses. Should this be reversed? Answer: No, leave the primary in Cyrillic. WikiTree is worldwide, so we're not going to impose English on profiles for speakers of other languages, but we can always add English translations below the biographies in other languages.
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| Galsworthy | John | John Galsworthy (1867 – 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. | Sparse | Few | Yes | No
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| Garland | Judy | Judy Garland (1922 – 1969), born Frances Ethel Gumm, was an American singer, actress and vaudevillian. | Added | Some | Added | Yes
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| Getty | Jean Paul | Jean Paul Getty (1892 – 1976) was an American industrialist. He founded the Getty Oil Company, and in 1957 Fortune magazine named him the richest living American. | Yes List of wives, children counters with evidence. Needs deeper research | Few | Yes | Yes
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| Gibson | Guy | Wing Cmdr Guy Penrose Gibson, VC, DSO, DFC (1918-1944 ) is chiefly remembered for having led "The Dambusters" raid. | Needed | None primary | Yes | No
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| Gielgud | John | Arthur John Gielgud (1904 – 2000) was an English actor and theatre director. | Needed | None primary | Yes | Yes
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| Gilbert | William | William Gilbert (1804 – 1890) was a British writer and Royal Navy surgeon, and father of W. S. Gilbert. | Needs to be rewritten (copied from Wikipedia) | None primary | No | No
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| Goldwyn | Samuel | Samuel Goldwyn (1879 – 1974), born Szmuel Gelbfisz, was a Jewish Polish American film producer. | Sparse | None primary | Yes | No
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| Gordon | Loney | Loney Gordon (1915 - 1999) Researcher who helped identify virulent strains of Whooping Cough and develop the vaccine. | Added | Added | Yes | No |
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| Graves | Samuel | Samuel Graves (1713 – 1787) was a British Royal Navy admiral who is probably best known for his role early in the American War of Independence. | Sparse | Some | Added | Yes
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| Graves | Thomas | Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves (1725 – 1802) was a British Admiral and colonial official. | Sparse | Some | Added | Yes
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| Hemingway | Ernest Miller | American Author, War Correspondent | (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) American Author and Foreign Correspondent Ernest Miller Hemingway | Added | None Primary | Added | Yes
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| Hendrix | Jimi | (Born Johnny Allen Hendrix, November 27, 1942 - September 18, 1970) Rock musician/singer/songwriter, released the album "Electric Ladyland" in 1968. James Marshall Jimi' Hendrix | | | Added | No
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| Henfrey | Arthur | Arthur Henfrey (1819 – 1859) was an English surgeon and botanist. | Short | | Yes |
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| Henfrey | Henry William | Henry William Henfrey (1852 – 1881) was an English numismatist. | Short | | No |
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| Hepburn | Katharine Houghton | American Actress Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1907 – 2003) | | Few - Needs vital records | Added | Yes
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| Herschel | William | Frederick William Herschel (1738 – 1822) was a German-born British Astronomer, Composer. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes
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| Hertz | Heinrich | Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857 – 1894) was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of electromagnetic waves theorized by James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light. | | | Added | Yes
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| Herz-Sommer | Alice | Czech Holocaust Survivor (1903-2014) | | | Added | No
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| Hickok | Bill | James Butler Hickok (1837 – 1876), known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West, known for his work across the frontier as a drover, wagon master, soldier, spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, showman, and actor. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes
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| Hillary | Edmund | Edmund Percival Hillary (1919 – 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist. Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest. | | | Added | Yes
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| Hitler | Adolf | Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer ("leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. | | | Added | No
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| Hook | Alfred Henry | Alfred Henry "Harry" Hook (1850 – 1905) Soldier - an English recipient of the Victoria Cross for his actions at the Battle of Rorke's Drift. | | | Added | No
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| Howard | Leslie | Leslie Howard (1893 – 1943), born Leslie Howard Steiner, was an English Stage and Film Actor, director, and producer. Probably best remembered for playing Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939). | | | Added | No
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| Huerta | Victoriano | Victoriano Huerta was one of the dictators of Mexico who ruled briefly during the Mexican revolution | Sparse | Yes | Yes | Yes
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| Hughes | Howard | Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (1905 – 1976) was an American Businessman, entrepreneur, investor, aviator, aerospace engineer, inventor, filmmaker and philanthropist. | | | Added | No
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| Hughes | Ted | Edward James "Ted" Hughes (1930 – 1998) was an English poet and children's Author. He served as Poet Laureate. | | | Added | Yes
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| Jannings | Emil | Emil Jannings (1884-1950) was a Swiss born actor, winner of the First Academy Award for Best Actor. He lost his career when he sided with the Nazi party during WWII, essentially making him unemployable in the US. | | | Added | No
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| Jobs | Steve | Founder of Apple Steve Jobs | | | Added | No
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| Jones | Bobby | Championship Golfer Bobby Jones (golfer) (1902-1971) | | | Added | Yes
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| Kendrick | Dr. Pearl | Research doctor who helped create the first Whooping Cough vaccine. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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| Keaton | Buster | Buster Keaton was a silent film and Vaudeville star. | Yes | Needs vitals | Yes | Yes
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| Kessler | Josef | Last archbishop of the Diocese of Tiraspol, resisted Bolsheviks during the October Revolution | | some | yes | No
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| Kipling | Rudyard | Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. | Sparse Biography - | Needs vitals | Yes | Yes
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| Knichel | Josef | German Priest, Dachau concentration camp survivor, part of the German Resistance against the Nazi Regime. Josef Knichel | | Only one | Yes | No
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| Komarov | Vladimir | Vladimir Komarov (1927 – 1967) was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer and cosmonaut, and the first human to die in a space flight. | Sparse Biography | Needs Primary Sources | Yes | No
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| Kuroki | Ben | (1917-2015) Only Japanese-American to serve in a combat zone for the US Air Corps/Force (Pacific Theatre) | Sparse Biography | Needs vitals | Yes | No
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| Latimer | Hugh | Hugh Latimer (c.1487 – 1555) was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and Bishop of Worcester before the Reformation, and later Church of England chaplain to King Edward VI. In 1555 under Queen Mary he was burned at the stake, becoming one of the three Oxford Martyrs of Anglicanism. | Sparse Biography (Pre-1500) | Needs vitals | No | No |
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| Laughton | Charles | Charles Laughton English stage and film actor active from 1926-1961. Won an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1934. | | | Yes | Yes
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| Lawrence | Thomas Edward | Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888 – 1935) was a British archaeologist, military officer, and diplomat. He was renowned for his liaison role during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, and the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916–18. | | | Yes | No
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| Le Mesurier | John | Guernsey actor John Le Mesurier (1912-1983) | Needs additional biography | Needs additional sources | Yes | Yes
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| Lehmann | Inge | Seismologist --Earth's Core Inge Lehmann (1888-1993) | Needs Biography | Needed | Yes | No
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| Lessing | Doris | (née Tayler; 1919 – 2013). British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Doris May Lessing CH | | Needs additional sources | Yes | No
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| LeSueur | Arthur | Famous Socialist | Needs Biography | Needed | Yes | No
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| LeSueur | Meridel | Author. Famous Socialist | Needs Biography | Needs additional sources | Yes | No
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| Leutze | Emanuel | (1816 - 1868). US, painter (Washington Crossing the Delaware). Emanuel Leutze | | Needs additional sources | Yes | No
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| Lewis | Clive Staples | Clive Staples Lewis (1898 – 1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. | | | Yes | Yes
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| Lewis | Jerry | Jerry Lewis (born Joseph or Jerome Levitch, depending on the source; 1926 – 2017) was an American actor, comedian, singer, film producer, film director, screenwriter, and humanitarian. | Needs Biography | | Yes | Yes
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| Lindbergh | Charles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh Charles Augustus Lindbergh] (1902 – 1974) was an American aviator, author, inventor, military officer, explorer, and social activist. | | Needed | Yes | No
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| Lindgren | Astrid | Biography needs work - Best known for her children's book series featuring Pippi Longstocking, Emil i Lönneberga, Karlsson-on-the-Roof, and the Children of Noisy Village Astrid Lindgren | | | Yes | No
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| Little | Cleavon | Cleavon Little (1939-1992) Actor and singer (Purlie, Blazing Saddles). | Sparse | Yes | Yes | No
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| Livingstone | David | David Livingstone (1813 – 1873) was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa. His meeting with H. M. Stanley on 10 November 1871 gave rise to the popular quotation "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" | | | Yes | Yes
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| Logan | Harvey | Harvey Andrew Logan (abt. 1867 - 1904) "Kid Curry" the wildest of the wild bunch. | | Needs vitals | Yes | Yes
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| Lombardo | Guy | Band Leader [1] | Sparse Biography | | Yes | No
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| Lovelace | Ada | Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1815 – 1852), née Byron, was a British mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Her notes on the engine include what is recognised as the first algorithm; she is often regarded as the first computer programmer. | | | Yes | Yes
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| Lowe | Arthur | English actor known for Dads' Army Arthur Lowe | Sparse Biography | | No | No
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| Ludlum | Robert | Robert Ludlum (born May 25 1927). novelist (Bourne Identity). | Sparse Biography | Sparse | Yes | No
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| Lutyens | Edwin | Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869 – 1944) was a British architect who designed many English country houses. | Needs Biography | Needed | Yes | Yes
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| MacArthur | Douglas | Douglas MacArthur (1880 – 1964) was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II.General | Brief | Few | Yes | Yes
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| Marquez | Gabriel Garcia | Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) Was the author of "Love in the Time of Cholera", and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. | Needed | None primary | Yes | No
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| Marx | Groucho | Entertainer | Julius Henry Marx (1890 – 1977) known professionally as Groucho Marx, was an American writer, comedian, stage, film and television star as part of the Marx brothers. | Connected |
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| Marx | Harpo | Entertainer | Arthur Marx (born Adolph Marx; (1888–1964), known professionally as Harpo Marx, was an American comedian, actor, mime artist, and musician, and the second-oldest of the Marx Brothers. | Connected |
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| Marx | Karl | Philosopher | Karl Marx (1818 – 1883) was a philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist. | Connected |
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| Mason | Charles | English Astronomer | Charles Mason (1728 – 1786) was an English astronomer who made significant contributions to 18th-century science and American history, particularly through his involvement with the survey of the Mason-Dixon line. | Unconnected | Needs connection to the global tree
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| Maunsell | Richard Edward Lloyd | English Engineer | Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell (1868 - 1944) held the post of Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway until the 1923 Grouping and then the post of CME of the Southern Railway (England). | Unconnected | Needs connection to the global tree
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| McLaglen | Victor | Entertainer | Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen (1886–1959) was a British-American film actor. He was known as a character actor, particularly in Westerns, and made seven films with John Ford and John Wayne. McLaglen won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1935 for his role in The Informer. | Connected |
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| McQueen | Steve | Entertainer | Terence Steven "Steve" McQueen (1930–1980) was an American actor. Called "The King of Cool," his "anti-hero" persona developed at the height of the counterculture of the 1960s and made him a top box-office draw of the 1960s and 1970s. | Connected |
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| Mendenhall | John | US Army Officer | John Mendenhall (July 12, 1829 – July 1, 1892) was an officer in the United States Army. John Mendenhall | Connected | Need bio written
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| Mercury | Freddie | Entertainer | Freddie Mercury (1946 – 1991) was a British singer, songwriter and producer, best known as the lead vocalist and songwriter of the rock band Queen. | Unconnected |
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| Montagu | John | John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718 – 1792) was a British statesman, but is perhaps best known for the claim that he was the inventor of the sandwich. | Yes | None primary | No | Yes
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| Morgan | Frank | Actor-Singer | (1890 - 1949) Actor and singer who appeared in The Wizard of Oz. Frank Morgan | Unconnected | Needs family members added to connect him to the global tree
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| Morgenbesser | Sidney | Jewish Philosopher | Jewish Philosopher Socrates with a Yiddish accent Sidney Morgenbesser | Unconnected | Needs family members added to connect him to the global tree
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| Morris | William Richard | British philanthropist | British motor manufacturer and philanthropist William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield (1877 – 1963) | Connected | Needs bio and image
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| Mosche | Christian Julius Wilhelm | German educator | Christian Julius Wilhelm Mosche (1768-1815), German educator at Frankfurt Main and Lübeck, on German Wikipedia | Unconnected | Needs image, and connection to global tree
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| Munro | Les | Royal New Zealand Air Force Pilot | Royal New Zealand Air Force. Pilot in the RAF's 617 Squadron that famously conducted a series of strikes against Germany’s Ruhr dams in Operation Chastise, known as the Dambusters raids. | Connected |
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| Murray | Dr. Pauli | Civil Rights Activist | Civil Rights Activist NOW | Unconnected | Needs family members added to connect her to the global tree
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| Panayiotou | Georgios | British pop star | Stage name George Michael (1963 – 2016) | Unconnected | Needs family members added to connect him to the global tree
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| Parker Fraley | Naomi | Naomi Parker Fraley (1921 – 2018), née Parker, was an American war worker and waitress, and considered the likely model for the iconic "We Can Do It!" poster. | Yes | Added | No | Connected
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| Pasteur | Louis | French Microbiologist | Louis Pasteur (1822 – 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist. | Unconnected | Wife, children, wife's family added; sources not available for his ancestors (Jura)
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| Patton | George Smith | US Army General | George Smith Patton (1885 – 1945) was a United States Army general, best known for his leadership of the Third United States Army in France and Germany following the Allied invasion of Normandy. | Connected | Connected and Biography Written!
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| Peale | Norman Vincent | American minister | (May 31, 1898 – December 24, 1993) American minister and author of The Power of Positive Thinking Norman Vincent Peale | Connected | Need sources added
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| Peel | Robert | British Prime Minister | Robert Peel (1788 – 1850) was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and as Home Secretary. He is regarded as the father of the modern British police. | Connected | Needs family members added to connect him to the global tree
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| Petersen | Gen. Frank E | US Military Officer | 1st black general in the U.S. Marine Corps. Pilot. | Unconnected | Needs family members added to connect him to the global tree
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| Petrie | William Matthew Flinders | Egyptologist | William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 – 1942) was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology. | Unconnected |
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| Pickford | Mary | Mary Pickford (1892 – 1979), born Gladys Louise Smith, was a Canadian-born film actress and producer. | Added | None Primary | Added | Yes |
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| Pius XI | Pope | Pope Pius XI (1857 – 1939), born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, was the first sovereign of Vatican City. | Unconnected | Needs family members added to connect him to the global tree
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| Ressel | Josef | Inventor | Josef Ressel (1793-1857) was a austrian/bohemian forestry official and inventor. He became famous for inventing the ship's propeller. | Unconnected | Needs family members added to connect him to the global tree
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| Popova | Nadezhda | Russian Pilot | Russian "Night Witch" World War II Pilots | Unconnected | Needs family members added to connect him to the global tree
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| Raitt | John Emmett | Entertainer | Actor-singer John Emmett Raitt | Connected | Needs sources added
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| Ransome | Arthur Michell | Author | Author Arthur Michell Ransome | Connected | Needs Biography Written
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| Richardson | Ralph | Entertainer | Ralph David Richardson (1902 – 1983) was an English actor. | Unconnected |
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| Rogers | Will | William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (1879 – 1935) American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, social commentator and motion picture actor. | Connected |
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| Saint_Laurent | Yves | French fashion designer | No | More needed | No | Yes
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| Schiller | Franz | Soviet literature professor | Franz Schiller was a Volga German literature professor who significantly contributed to the compilation of Volga German history, translated manuscripts of Marx and Engels and published several books about Western literature, especially focussing on Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. | Unconnected | Needs family members added to connect him to the global tree.
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| Scholl | Sophie | Member of the "White Rose" | Sophie Scholl was executed for actively resisting the NS regime. | Unconnected | Needs sources and family members added to connect her to the global tree.
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| Sendler | Irena | Polish Underground | Irena Sendler was a Polish nurse and social worker who served in the Polish Underground in German-occupied Warsaw during World War II, who helped save Jewish Children. | Unconnected | Needs family members added to connect her to the global tree
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| Sikorsky | Igor | Aviation Pioneer | (May 25 1889 - October 26, 1972). Russian-American pioneer of aviation in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. Igor Sikorsky | Unconnected | Needs family members added to connect him to the global tree
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| Sinatra | Frank Sinatra | Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (1915 – 1998) was an American jazz and traditional pop singer, actor, and producer. | Added | Some Added | Added | Connected
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| Stapleton | Jean | Actress | (born Jeanne Murray January 19, 1923 – May 31, 2013) Broadway/TV actress and singer (All in the Family Emmy and Golden Globes). Jean Stapleton | Unconnected | Needs family members added to connect her to the global tree
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| Steward Jr. | Lowell | Tuskegee Airman | Tuskegee Airman | Unconnected | Needs family members added to connect him to the global tree
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| Sukodrev | Viktor | Translator | Russian-English Translator during the Cold War.(1932-2014) | Unconnected | Needs family members added to connect him to the global tree
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| Sullivan | Johanna "Anne" Mansfield | Teacher | (born April 14, 1866 - October 20, 1936). Teacher and lifelong companion of Helen Keller | Unconnected | Needs family members added to connect her to the global tree
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| Thompson | John Taliaferro | Inventor | John Taliaferro Thompson (1860 - 1940), was a United States Army officer best remembered as the inventor of the Thompson submachine gun. | Yes | Yes | No
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| Tin | Win | Journalist | Journalist in Burma.(1930-2014) Political prisoner | Unconnected | Needs family members added to connect him to the global tree
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| Toplis | Francis Percy | | Francis Percy Toplis (1896 - 1920) was a British criminal and imposter active during and after the First World War. | Some | | |
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| Toulouse-Lautrec | Henri | Artist | Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), also known as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, is among the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period. | Some | Yes | Yes
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| Triolet | Elsa | French Resistance | French Resistance Awarded Prix Goncourt. | Some | Yes | Yes
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| Tunney | Gene | Boxing Champion | (May 25 1898 - November 7, 1978) World heavyweight boxing champion (1926-30). Gene Tunney | Unconnected | Needs family members added to connect him to the global tree
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| Tryon | George | Vice-Admiral British Navy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tryon | Yes | Yes | Connected
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| Tryon | William | Colonial Governor, North Carolina and New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tryon | Connected on Matrilineal line. | Needs biography improved. Patrilineal line
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| Turner | William Thomas | Military | William Thomas Turner, OBE, RNR (1856 – 1933) was the Captain of RMS Lusitania when it was sunk by a German torpedo in May 1915. | Not Added | Not Added | No
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| Van Kirk | Dutch | Navigator of the Enola Gay | Enola Gay(1921-2014) | Unconnected | Needs family members added to connect him to the global tree
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| Veil | Simone | Politician | Simone Annie Liline Veil (13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017) was a French lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Health under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of the European Parliament and member of the Constitutional Council of France. | Unconnected | Needs family members added to connect her to the global tree.
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| von Bismarck-Schönhausen | Otto | German politician & statesman | Otto von Bismarck (1815 -1898) was the founder and first chancellor of the German empire. | Unconnected | Needs family members added to connect him to the global tree. |
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| Vraciu | Alex | WWII Ace | World War II Ace | Unconnected | Needs family members added to connect him to the global tree
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| Wellesley | Arthur | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, and one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain. | Brief | Some Primary | Yes | Yes | Needs primary sources (baptism if available, 1841 census record).
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| Wesley | John | Methodist Pastor | Anglican minister and theologian who co-founded the evangelical movement known as Methodism John Wesley | Yes | Yes | Yes | Biography written
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| Whittle | Frank | Engineer | An English Royal Air Force engineer air officer. He is credited with single-handedly inventing the turbojet engine. Frank_Whittle | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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| Wills | William John | Surveyor | Achieved fame as the second-in-command of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north William John Wills | Connected | No | Yes | Needs connection to the global tree
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| Wilde | Oscar | Writer | Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet and one of the great wits of the Victorian era Oscar Wilde | Connected | No | Yes | Needs connection to the global tree
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| Wilson | Harold | Politician | A British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and 1974 to 1976 Harold Wilson | Connected | Yes | Yes |
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| Wingate | Orde | Army Officer | A senior British Army officer, known for his creation of the Chindits deep-penetration missions in Japanese held territory during the Burma Campaign of World War II Orde Charles Wingate | Connected | Yes | Yes |
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| Wojtyla | Karol | Pope | Served as Pope from 1978 to 2005. Referred to by Catholics as St. John Paul the Great Pope John Paul II | Connected | Yes | Yes |
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| Zinn | Howard | Howard Zinn (1922 – 2010) was an American historian, playwright, and social activist. | Brief | Added | Yes | No |
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| Zschokke | Heinrich | Heinrich Zschokke (1771 – 1848)was a German, later Swiss, author and reformer. He had an extensive civil service career, and wrote histories, fiction and other works which were widely known. | Brief, one line | Yes, others may exist | Yes | Probably yes | Needs a narrative biography, could be in multiple languages (German, English abstract, for instance) |
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