Portal:Biography/Did you know/12


 * ... that child actress Nozomi Ōhashi (pictured), who sang the theme song for the 2008 film Ponyo, started acting when she was just three years old?
 * ... that pioneering ecologist William Gardner Smith only became active in the field after the sudden death of his brother Robert, who had left an unfinished manuscript that William completed?
 * ... that Florence Violet McKenzie, Australia's first female electrical engineer, taught Morse code to thousands of sailors free of charge?
 * ... that Hieronim Ossoliński, a 16th-century Polish politician who helped to unite Poland and Lithuania, also wanted to establish a Protestant national church?
 * ... that part of the financing for the first published work by Romanian communist activist Mihail Roller reportedly came from Baptists?
 * ... that Amanda Clement was the first woman paid to umpire a baseball game?
 * ... that John Knox journals provide one of the most complete accounts of the British Army's campaigns in North America from 1757 to 1760?