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456 famous people found
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Thomas Handasyd PERKINS
Wealthy Boston merchant and an archetypical Boston Brahmin
1764 - 1854 -
John A. QUITMAN
American politician and soldier, 10th Governor of Mississippi
1798 - 1858 -
John VINING
American lawyer and politician
1758 - 1802 -
Charles WILKES
American naval officer and explorer
1798 - 1877 -
Daniel ROBERDEAU
American merchant, member of the Continental Congress, and a signer of the Articles of Confederation
1727 - 1795 -
Cadwallader D. COLDEN
American politician, 54th Mayor of New York City
1769 - 1834 -
Ralph IZARD
President pro tempore of the United States Senate in 1794
1742 - 1804 -
Timothy MATLACK
American brewer and beer bottler who emerged as a popular revolutionary leader and powerful official in the War of Independence
1736 - 1829 -
Anna Claypoole PEALE
American painter, specializing in portrait miniatures and still lifes
1791 - 1878 -
Sarah Miriam PEALE
American portrait painter
1800 - 1885 -
Charles Willson PEALE
American painter, soldier and naturalist
1741 - 1827 -
Nathaniel RAMSEY
American lawyer and soldier
1741 - 1817 -
David RAMSAY
American physician, public official, and historian
1749 - 1815 -
George CLIFFORD
English peer, as well as a naval commander and courtier in the court of Queen Elizabeth I
1558 - 1605 -
John Palmer PARKER
Founder of the Parker Ranch on the island of Hawaiʻi in Hawaii
1790 - 1868 -
KAMEHAMEHA II
Second king of the Kingdom of Hawaii
1797 - 1824 -
Gideon Peleioholani LAANUI
Hawaiian chief
1797 - 1849 -
Charles BULLFINCH
Early American architect, he has been regarded by many as the first native-born American to practice architecture as a profession
1763 - 1844 -
Gurdon SALTONSTALL
25th colonial governors of Connecticut
1666 - 1724 -
Deborah SAMPSON
American woman who disguised as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
1760 - 1827