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1,367 famous people found
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Calamity Jane
American frontierswoman, sharpshooter, and storyteller
1852 - 1903 -
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 -
Wallis SIMPSON
American socialite and wife of the Duke of Windsor, the former British king Edward VIII
1896 - 1986 -
Jack LONDON
American novelist, journalist, and social activist
1876 - 1916 -
Nikola TESLA
Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist
1856 - 1943 -
John BROWNING
American firearms designer
1855 - 1926 -
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 -
Isaac SINGER
American inventor, actor, and entrepreneur, founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company
1811 - 1875 -
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 -
Jesse JAMES
American outlaw, gang leader, bank and train robber and murderer
1847 - 1882 -
George S. PATTON
United States Army officer
1885 - 1945 -
Samuel MORSE
American contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs, and co-inventor of the Morse code
1791 - 1872 -
Harry S. TRUMAN
33rd President of the United States
1884 - 1972 -
Franklin D. ROOSEVELT
32nd President of the United States
1882 - 1945 -
Ernest Hemingway
American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist
1899 - 1961