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112 famous people found

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  General Tom Thumb

  American with dwarfism who achieved great fame as a performer under circus pioneer P. T. Barnum

  1838 - 1883
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  Edgar Allan POE

  American author, poet, editor and literary critic

  1809 - 1849
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  Maurice BARRYMORE

  Patriarch of the Barrymore acting family

  1847 - 1905
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  Mark TWAIN

  American author and humorist

  1835 - 1910
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  Horace Greeley

  American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune

  1811 - 1872
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  John MUIR

  Scottish-American:42 naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States of America

  1838 - 1914
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  Susan WALLACE

  American author and poet

  1830 - 1907
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  Lew WALLACE

  American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author

  1827 - 1905
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  Julia WARD HOWE

  American abolitionist, social activist, poet, and the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"

  1819 - 1910
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  Emily DICKINSON

  American poet

  1830 - 1886
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  Lavinia Warren

  American proportionate dwarf, who was a circus performer and the wife of Charles Sherwood Stratton, known as General Tom Thumb

  1841 - 1919
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  Paul REVERE

  American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and a Patriot in the American Revolution

  1734 - 1818
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  Sidney Lanier

  American musician, poet and author

  1842 - 1881
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  Ambrose Bierce

  American short story writer, journalist, poet, and Civil War veteran

  1842
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  Ina COOLBRITH

  American poet, writer, librarian, and a prominent figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary community

  1841 - 1928
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  Edward Everett HALE

  American author, historian, and Unitarian minister

  1822 - 1909
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  John William DE FOREST

  American soldier and writer of realistic fiction

  1826 - 1906
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  Bruce PRICE

  American architect and an innovator in the Shingle Style

  1845 - 1903
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  Francis PARKMAN

  American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America

  1823 - 1893
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  Henry Harris JESSUP

  American Presbyterian missionary, author, and a founder of the American University of Beirut

  1832 - 1910