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No or probably not


As of early July 2006.

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Yes or probably edit

Arts and entertainment (14) edit

FA Actors and related (1) edit

Yes or probably
  1. Humphrey Bogart FA

FA Art, architecture, and archaeology (1) edit

Yes or probably
  1. Diego Velázquez FA

Athletes (5) edit

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  1. Fanny Blankers-Koen FA
  2. A. E. J. Collins FA
  3. Wayne Gretzky FA
  4. Jim Thorpe FA
  5. Ruth, Babe GA

FA Musicians (2) edit

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  1. Johann Sebastian Bach GA
  2. The Beatles FA

FA Writers (5) edit

Yes or probably
  1. Du Fu FA
  2. Shakespeare, William GA
  3. Hemingway, Ernest GA
  4. Rowling, J. K. GA
  5. Wilde, Oscar GA


History and government (23) edit

GA Businesspeople (2) edit

Yes or probably
  1. Carnegie, Andrew GA
  2. Gates, Bill GA

Historical figures (5) edit

Yes or probably
  1. Attila the Hun FA
  2. Charlemagne GA
  3. Julius Caesar GA
  4. Mahatma Gandhi FA
  5. Joan of Arc FA

Politicians (5) edit

Yes or probably
  1. Tony Blair FA
  2. Churchill, Winston GA
  3. Jefferson, Thomas GA
  4. Abraham Lincoln FA
  5. George Washington GA

Philosophers and social scientists (4) edit

Yes or probably
  1. Aristotle GA
  2. Freud, Sigmund GA
  3. Thucydides GA
  4. Max Weber FA

GA Religious figures and leaders (1) edit

Yes or probably
  1. Jesus GA

Royalty and nobility (2) edit

Yes or probably
  1. Henry VIII of England FA
  2. Hirohito GA

Military people (3) edit

Yes or probably
  1. MacArthur, Douglas GA
  2. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson FA
  3. Rommel, Erwin GA

Math, science and technology (10) edit

Biologists and medical scientists (1) edit

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  1. Darwin, Charles GA

Engineers and inventors (3) edit

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  1. Leonardo da Vinci GA
  2. Thomas Edison GA
  3. Wernher von Braun GA

Mathematicians (2) edit

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  1. Carl Friedrich Gauss FA
  2. Blaise Pascal FA

Physicists and astronomers (4) edit

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  1. Albert Einstein FA
  2. Galileo Galilei FA
  3. Isaac Newton FA
  4. Robert Oppenheimer FA

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Featured biographies edit

FA Arts and entertainment (78) edit

FA Actors and related (15) edit

Maybe

• #Henry Fonda • #Jim Henson • #Diane Keaton • #Vivien Leigh • #Sharon Tate

No or probably not

• #James T. Aubrey, Jr. • #George Washington Dixon • #Karen Dotrice • #Katie Holmes • #Lindsay Lohan • #Sydney Newman • #Julia Stiles • #KaDee Strickland • #Uma Thurman

FA Art, architecture, and archaeology (13) edit

Maybe
No or probably not

• #Felice Beato • #Matthew Brettingham • #Paul Kane • #Robert Lawson (architect) • #El Lissitzky • #Henry Moore • #Sylvanus Morley • #Benjamin Mountfort • #Francis Petre • #John Vanbrugh • #Roman Vishniac

FA Athletes (17) edit

Maybe
No or probably not

• #Moe Berg • #Simon Byrne • #Brian Close • #Steve Dalkowski • #Lottie Dod • #Damon Hill • #Nellie Kim • #Sandy Koufax • #Cynna Kydd • #Denis Law • #Suzanne Lenglen • #Ted Radcliffe • #Seabiscuit

FA Musicians (14) edit

Maybe
  1. Louis Armstrong

• #Mariah Carey • #Bob Dylan • #Dmitri Shostakovich • #Igor Stravinsky

No or probably not

• #Phil Collins • #Rebecca Helferich Clarke • #Miles Davis • #Celine Dion • #Charles Ives • #Witold Lutosławski • #Olivier Messiaen • #Kylie Minogue

FA Writers (19) edit

Maybe

• #Isaac Asimov • #Robert A. Heinlein • #Henry James • #James Joyce • #J. R. R. Tolkien • #Rudyard Kipling • #William Butler Yeats

No or probably not
  1. Douglas Adams

• #Mário de Andrade • #Augusta, Lady Gregory • #Cædmon • #John Day (printer) • #H.D. • #Muhammad Iqbal • #George Moore • #Chuck Palahniuk • #Thomas Pynchon • #John Millington Synge

FA Government, history and society (101) edit

FA Culture and society (3) edit

Maybe
No or probably not

• #David Helvarg • #James Bulger

FA History (36) edit

Maybe

• #Mark Antony • #Che Guevara • #Claudius • #Rosa Parks

No or probably not
  1. Ike Altgens

• #Anschluss • #Elias Ashmole • #Attalus I • #Athanasius Kircher • #Isaac Brock • #John Dee • #Adriaen van der Donck • #Elagabalus • #Epaminondas • #W. Mark Felt • #Carl G. Fisher • #George Fox • #Anne Frank • #Helen Gandy • #Franklin B. Gowen • #Muhammad Ali Jinnah • #Stanisław Koniecpolski • #Laika • #Manuel I Komnenos • #William N. Page • #Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel • #Penda of Mercia • #Witold Pilecki • #Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu • #Samantha Smith • #Jonathan Wild • #Yagan • #Ziad Jarrah

FA Philosophy (5) edit

Yes or probably
Maybe

• #Søren Kierkegaard • #Ludwig Wittgenstein

No or probably not
  1. Michel Foucault

• #Eric A. Havelock • #Bernard Williams

FA Politics and government (22) edit

Maybe

• #Franklin D. Roosevelt • #Theodore Roosevelt • #Margaret Thatcher

No or probably not

• #Tom Brinkman • #George Brown, Baron George-Brown • #Gerald Ford • #Bruce Johnson • #George F. Kennan • #John Major • #Sid McMath • #Reginald Maudling • #Bob McEwen • #Yoweri Museveni • #Barack Obama • #James K. Polk • #Louis Riel • #Władysław Sikorski • #Jean Schmidt • #Mordechai Vanunu

FA Religion and mysticism (3) edit

Yes or probably
Maybe
No or probably not

• #Father Damien • #Fred Phelps • #Pope Pius XII

FA Royalty and nobility (24) edit

Maybe
  1. Anne of Great Britain

• #Charles I of England • #Charles II of England • #Edward VI of England • #Elizabeth I of England • #George I of Great Britain • #George II of Great Britain • #George III of the United Kingdom • #George IV of the United Kingdom • #Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava • #James I of England • #James II of England • #Joshua A. Norton • #Louis XIV of France • #Mary I of England • #Mary II of England • #Sverre of Norway • #Victoria of the United Kingdom • #William I of Orange (William the Silent) • #William III of England • #William IV of the United Kingdom

No or probably not

FA War (8) edit

Maybe

• #William Tecumseh Sherman

No or probably not

• #Karl Dönitz • #Husein Gradaščević • #Richard O'Connor • #Arthur Ernest Percival • #Thrasybulus

FA Science, mathematics and technology (13) edit

==== FA Biology and medicine (3)

Yes or probably
Maybe

• #Norman Borlaug

No or probably not

• #Georg Forster • #Barbara McClintock

FA Mathematics (3) edit

Maybe
No or probably not

• #Marian Rejewski



FA Physics and astronomy (6) edit

Maybe

• #Carl Sagan • #Edward Teller

No or probably not

FA Transportation (1) edit

Yes or probably
Maybe

• #Isambard Kingdom Brunel

No or probably not

Good biographies edit

Miscellaneous
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Maybe
No or probably not
  1. Computer-related businesspeople: #Jeffrey Vernon Merkey
  2. Journalism: #Seigenthaler Sr., John


GA Arts and entertainment (100) edit

GA Actors, models and celebrities edit

Yes or probably
Maybe
  1. Fonda, Jane
  2. Garland, Judy
  3. Schwarzenegger, Arnold
No or probably not
  1. Adler, Jacob Pavlovitch
  2. Bale, Christian
  3. Bana, Eric
  4. Bynes, Amanda
  5. Clark, Robert
  6. Cuthbert, Elisha
  7. Jovovich, Milla
  8. Knightley, Keira
  9. Oleynik, Larisa
  10. Otto, Miranda
  11. Page, Bettie
  12. Portman, Natalie
  13. Roberts, Emma
  14. Robinson, Andrew
  15. Sprouse, Dylan and Cole

— (18 articles)

GA Artists edit

Yes or probably
Maybe
  1. Caravaggio
No or probably not
  1. Canaletto
  2. Hiroh Kikai
  3. Jacques-Louis David
  4. Alan Moore
  5. Piet Mondrian
  6. Anton Alexander von Werner

— (7 articles)

GA Athletes edit

Maybe
  1. Beckham, David
  2. Fischer, Bobby
  3. Mantle, Mickey
No or probably not
  1. Allen, Marcus
  2. Bradshaw, Terry
  3. Brady, Tom
  4. Cousineau, Tom
  5. Foli, Tim
  6. Konnan
  7. Mayweather Jr., Floyd
  8. Pugh, Marc
  9. Tatum, Jack
  10. Webber, Mark
  11. Young, Vince

— (15 articles)

GA Musicians and composers edit

Maybe
  1. Bruce Springsteen
  2. Kurt Cobain
  3. Selena
  4. Tupac Shakur
No or probably not
  1. Alison Krauss
  2. Alizée
  3. Ashlee Simpson
  4. Billie Holiday
  5. Bob Marley
  6. Brand New
  7. Britney Spears
  8. Cat Stevens
  9. Christina Aguilera
  10. Dru Hill
  11. Elliott Smith
  12. Henry Rollins
  13. Howie Day
  14. Hugo Wolf
  15. Jack White (musician)
  16. JoJo
  17. Kelly Clarkson
  18. Louis Jordan
  19. Mandy Moore
  20. Marvin Gaye
  21. Neil Young
  22. Nelly Furtado
  23. Sonny Rollins
  24. Syd Barrett

— (40 articles)

GA Writers and critics edit

Maybe
  1. Borges, Jorge Luis
  2. Campbell, John W.
  3. Cummings, E. E.
  4. Dickinson, Emily
  5. Hugo, Victor
  6. Lem, Stanisław
  7. Pushkin, Aleksandr
No or probably not
  1. Goldfaden, Abraham
  2. Upfield, Arthur

— (13 articles)

GA Society and government (101) edit

GA Businesspeople edit

Maybe
No or probably not
  1. Branson, Richard
  2. Cranston, Catherine
  3. Flagler, Henry Morrison
  4. Rogers, Henry H.
  5. Sculley, John
  6. Swift, Gustavus Franklin
  7. Wales, Jimmy

— (9 articles)

GA Educators edit

Yes or probably
Maybe
No or probably not
  1. Churchill, Ward
  2. White, Andrew Dickson

— (2 articles)

GA Geographers and explorers edit

Yes or probably
Maybe
No or probably not
  1. Benjamin of Tudela
  2. Ibn Battuta

— (2 articles)

GA Historians edit

Maybe
No or probably not
  1. Hydatius
  2. Josephus

— (3 articles)

Historical figures edit

Maybe
  1. Babur
  2. Ramesses II
No or probably not
  1. Abdi-Heba
  2. Akhenaten
  3. al-Ghamdi, Saeed
  4. al-Hazmi, Salem
  5. al-Mihdhar, Khalid
  6. al-Sayed, Mohamed Atta
  7. al-Shehhi, Marwan
  8. Baden-Powell, Robert
  9. Baldwin I of Jerusalem
  10. Banihammad, Fayez
  11. Constantine II of Scotland
  12. Eufémia, Catarina
  13. Godwin, Earl of Wessex
  14. Hanjour, Hani
  15. Hatshepsut
  16. Labaya
  17. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon
  18. Macbeth of Scotland
  19. Malcolm II of Scotland
  20. Malcolm III of Scotland
  21. Malcolm X
  22. Musashi, Miyamoto
  23. Oleg of Novgorod
  24. Richard Francis Burton
  25. Tiridates I of Armenia
  26. White, Andrew Dickson
  27. Zara Yaqob
  28. Óengus I of the Picts

— (33 articles)

GA Lawyers, judges and legal academics edit

Yes or probably
Maybe
No or probably not
  1. Freeh, Louis
  2. Harlan II, John Marshall

— (2 articles)

GA Philosophers edit

Maybe
  1. Hume, David
  2. Popper, Karl
  3. Russell, Bertrand
No or probably not
  1. Fodor, Jerry

— (5 articles)

GA Politically significant people edit

Maybe
No or probably not
  1. Brown, Gordon
  2. Carter, Jimmy
  3. Clinton, Bill
  4. Hackett, Paul
  5. Houston, Sam
  6. Jackson, Andrew
  7. Khan, Wali Kh.
  8. Mahone, William
  9. Marshall, John
  10. Nader, Ralph
  11. Piłsudski, Józef
  12. Reagan, John Henninger
  13. Rice, Condoleezza
  14. Schwarzenegger, Arnold
  15. Seigenthaler Sr., John
  16. Sharon, Ariel
  17. Sumner, Charles
  18. Truman, Harry S.

— (20 articles)

GA Psychologists edit

Maybe
No or probably not
  1. Caperton, Idit Harel
  2. Skinner, Burrhus Frederic

— (3 articles)

GA Religious figures and leaders edit

Maybe
  1. Bede
  2. Pope John Paul II
No or probably not
  1. Biblical Magi
  2. Farrar, Janet
  3. Rama
  4. Ramana Maharshi

— (8 articles)

Royalty and nobility edit

Maybe
No or probably not
  1. Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
  2. Brooke-Little, John
  3. Władysław IV Vasa

— (4 articles)

GA Military people edit

Maybe
No or probably not
  1. Butler, Smedley
  2. Coker, George Thomas
  3. Ellsberg, Daniel
  4. Morant, Breaker
  5. Pershing, John
  6. von Boeselager, Georg

— (8 articles)

GA Spies edit

Yes or probably
Maybe
  1. Rosenberg, Julius & Ethel
No or probably not

GA Science, mathematics and technology (17) edit

GA Biologists and medical scientists edit

Maybe
No or probably not
  1. Dawkins, Richard
  2. Gage, Phineas
  3. Jenner, Edward
  4. Kelsey, Frances Oldham
  5. Swedenborg, Emanuel

— (6 articles)

GA Chemists and materials scientists edit

No or probably not
  1. Lavoisier, Antoine

GA Engineers and inventors edit

Maybe
No or probably not
  1. Eilmer of Malmesbury

— (4 articles)

GA Mathematicians edit

Yes or probably
Maybe
  1. Turing, Alan
No or probably not
  1. Cantor, Georg
  2. Hilbert, David

— (3 articles)

GA Physicists and astronomers edit

Yes or probably
Maybe
  1. Feynman, Richard
  2. Hawking, Stephen
No or probably not
  1. Flamsteed, John

— (3 articles)