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320 famous people found
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E. E. CUMMINGS
American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright
1894 - 1962 -
Charles BUTTERWORTH
American actor
1896 - 1946 -
Walter BRENNAN
American actor
1894 - 1974 -
Emily POST
American author famous for writing about etiquette
1872 - 1960 -
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 -
Jane ADDAMS
Pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace
1860 - 1935 -
John Philip SOUSA
American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era
1854 - 1932 -
Stephen FOSTER
American songwriter primarily known for his parlor and minstrel music, known as "the father of American music"
1826 - 1864 -
John Jacob ASTOR IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War, and a prominent member of the Astor family
1864 - 1912 -
William Allen WHITE
American newspaper editor, politician, author, and leader of the Progressive movement
1868 - 1944 -
Willa CATHER
American author
1873 - 1947 -
Henry David THOREAU
American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist
1817 - 1862 -
Edith WHARTON
Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer
1862 - 1937 -
Edna ST. VINCENT MILLAY
American lyrical poet and playwright, she received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923
1892 - 1950 -
Booker T. WASHINGTON
African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States
1856 - 1915 -
John Greenleaf WHITTIER
Influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States
1807 - 1892 -
Fairfax HARRISON
American lawyer, businessman, and writer
1869 - 1938 -
Samuel Cutler WARD
American poet, author, and gourmet
1814 - 1884 -
Robert Winthrop CHANLER
American artist
1872 - 1930 -
Leo CARRILLO
American actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist
1881 - 1961