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342 famous people found
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Fred ASTAIRE
American actor, dancer, singer, choreographer, and television presenter
1899 - 1987 -
Nellie BLY
American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days
1864 - 1922 -
Jack LONDON
American novelist, journalist, and social activist
1876 - 1916 -
F. Scott FITZGERALD
American author of novels and short stories
1896 - 1940 -
William FAULKNER
American writer and Nobel Prize laureate
1897 - 1962 -
Douglas FAIRBANKS
American actor, screenwriter, director and producer
1883 - 1939 -
Cecil B. DE MILLE
American film director and film producer
1881 - 1959 -
Groucho MARX
American comedian and film and television star
1890 - 1977 -
General Tom Thumb
American with dwarfism who achieved great fame as a performer under circus pioneer P. T. Barnum
1838 - 1883 -
Ernest Hemingway
American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist
1899 - 1961 -
Humphrey BOGART
American actor
1899 - 1957 -
W. C. Fields
American comedian, actor, juggler, and writer
1880 - 1946 -
Margaret MITCHELL
American author and journalist
1900 - 1949 -
Jack PICKFORD
Canadian-born American actor
1896 - 1933 -
Howard HAWKS
American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era
1896 - 1977 -
H. P. LOVECRAFT
American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction
1890 - 1937 -
Buster KEATON
American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer
1895 - 1966 -
Oliver HARDY
American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy
1892 - 1957 -
Spencer TRACY
American theatrical and film actor
1900 - 1967 -
Laura INGALLS WILDER
American author who wrote the Little House series of books based on her childhood in a pioneer family
1867 - 1957