User:Maurreen/Biographies


 * Yes or probably
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not

As of early July 2006.

See also:
 * Portal:Biography
 * Lists of people
 * WikiProject Biography

FA Actors and related (1)

 * Yes or probably
 * 1) Humphrey Bogart FA

FA Art, architecture, and archaeology (1)

 * Yes or probably
 * 1) Diego Velázquez FA

Athletes (5)

 * Yes or probably
 * 1) Fanny Blankers-Koen FA
 * 2) A. E. J. Collins FA
 * 3) Wayne Gretzky FA
 * 4) Jim Thorpe FA
 * 5) Ruth, Babe GA

FA Musicians (2)

 * Yes or probably
 * 1) Johann Sebastian Bach GA
 * 2) The Beatles FA

FA Writers (5)

 * Yes or probably
 * 1) Du Fu FA
 * 2) Shakespeare, William GA
 * 3) Hemingway, Ernest GA
 * 4) Rowling, J. K. GA
 * 5) Wilde, Oscar GA

GA Businesspeople (2)

 * Yes or probably
 * 1) Carnegie, Andrew GA
 * 2) Gates, Bill GA

Historical figures (5)

 * Yes or probably
 * 1) Attila the Hun FA
 * 2) Charlemagne GA
 * 3) Julius Caesar GA
 * 4) Mahatma Gandhi FA
 * 5) Joan of Arc FA

Politicians (5)

 * Yes or probably
 * 1) Tony Blair FA
 * 2) Churchill, Winston GA
 * 3) Jefferson, Thomas GA
 * 4) Abraham Lincoln FA
 * 5) George Washington GA

Philosophers and social scientists (4)

 * Yes or probably
 * 1) Aristotle GA
 * 2) Freud, Sigmund GA
 * 3) Thucydides GA
 * 4) Max Weber FA

GA Religious figures and leaders (1)

 * Yes or probably
 * 1) Jesus GA

Royalty and nobility (2)

 * Yes or probably
 * 1) Henry VIII of England FA
 * 2) Hirohito GA

Military people (3)

 * Yes or probably
 * 1) MacArthur, Douglas GA
 * 2) Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson FA
 * 3) Rommel, Erwin GA

Biologists and medical scientists (1)

 * Yes or probably
 * 1) Darwin, Charles GA

Engineers and inventors (3)

 * Yes or probably
 * 1) Leonardo da Vinci GA
 * 2) Thomas Edison GA
 * 3) Wernher von Braun GA

Mathematicians (2)

 * Yes or probably
 * 1) Carl Friedrich Gauss FA
 * 2) Blaise Pascal FA

Physicists and astronomers (4)

 * Yes or probably
 * 1) Albert Einstein FA
 * 2) Galileo Galilei FA
 * 3) Isaac Newton FA
 * 4) Robert Oppenheimer FA

FA Actors and related (15)
• #Henry Fonda • #Jim Henson • #Diane Keaton • #Vivien Leigh • #Sharon Tate • #James T. Aubrey, Jr. • #George Washington Dixon • #Karen Dotrice • #Katie Holmes • #Lindsay Lohan • #Sydney Newman • #Julia Stiles • #KaDee Strickland • #Uma Thurman
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not

FA Art, architecture, and archaeology (13)
• #Felice Beato • #Matthew Brettingham • #Paul Kane • #Robert Lawson (architect) • #El Lissitzky • #Henry Moore • #Sylvanus Morley • #Benjamin Mountfort • #Francis Petre • #John Vanbrugh • #Roman Vishniac
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not

FA Athletes (17)
• #Moe Berg • #Simon Byrne • #Brian Close • #Steve Dalkowski • #Lottie Dod • #Damon Hill • #Nellie Kim • #Sandy Koufax • #Cynna Kydd • #Denis Law • #Suzanne Lenglen • #Ted Radcliffe • #Seabiscuit
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not

FA Musicians (14)
• #Mariah Carey • #Bob Dylan • #Dmitri Shostakovich • #Igor Stravinsky • #Phil Collins • #Rebecca Helferich Clarke • #Miles Davis • #Celine Dion • #Charles Ives • #Witold Lutosławski • #Olivier Messiaen • #Kylie Minogue
 * Maybe
 * 1) Louis Armstrong
 * No or probably not

FA Writers (19)
• #Isaac Asimov • #Robert A. Heinlein • #Henry James • #James Joyce • #J. R. R. Tolkien • #Rudyard Kipling • #William Butler Yeats • #Mário de Andrade • #Augusta, Lady Gregory • #Cædmon • #John Day (printer) • #H.D. • #Muhammad Iqbal • #George Moore • #Chuck Palahniuk • #Thomas Pynchon • #John Millington Synge
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not
 * 1) Douglas Adams

FA Culture and society (3)
• #David Helvarg • #James Bulger
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not

FA History (36)
• #Mark Antony • #Che Guevara • #Claudius • #Rosa Parks • #Anschluss • #Elias Ashmole • #Attalus I • #Athanasius Kircher • #Isaac Brock • #John Dee • #Adriaen van der Donck • #Elagabalus • #Epaminondas • #W. Mark Felt • #Carl G. Fisher • #George Fox • #Anne Frank • #Helen Gandy • #Franklin B. Gowen • #Muhammad Ali Jinnah • #Stanisław Koniecpolski • #Laika • #Manuel I Komnenos • #William N. Page • #Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel • #Penda of Mercia • #Witold Pilecki • #Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu • #Samantha Smith • #Jonathan Wild • #Yagan • #Ziad Jarrah
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not
 * 1) Ike Altgens

FA Philosophy (5)
• #Søren Kierkegaard • #Ludwig Wittgenstein • #Eric A. Havelock • #Bernard Williams
 * Yes or probably
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not
 * 1) Michel Foucault

FA Politics and government (22)
• #Franklin D. Roosevelt • #Theodore Roosevelt • #Margaret Thatcher • #Tom Brinkman • #George Brown, Baron George-Brown • #Gerald Ford • #Bruce Johnson • #George F. Kennan • #John Major • #Sid McMath • #Reginald Maudling • #Bob McEwen • #Yoweri Museveni • #Barack Obama • #James K. Polk • #Louis Riel • #Władysław Sikorski • #Jean Schmidt • #Mordechai Vanunu
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not

FA Religion and mysticism (3)
• #Father Damien • #Fred Phelps • #Pope Pius XII
 * Yes or probably
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not

FA Royalty and nobility (24)
• #Charles I of England • #Charles II of England • #Edward VI of England • #Elizabeth I of England • #George I of Great Britain • #George II of Great Britain • #George III of the United Kingdom • #George IV of the United Kingdom • #Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava • #James I of England • #James II of England • #Joshua A. Norton • #Louis XIV of France • #Mary I of England • #Mary II of England • #Sverre of Norway • #Victoria of the United Kingdom • #William I of Orange (William the Silent) • #William III of England • #William IV of the United Kingdom
 * Maybe
 * 1) Anne of Great Britain
 * No or probably not

FA War (8)
• #William Tecumseh Sherman • #Karl Dönitz • #Husein Gradaščević • #Richard O'Connor • #Arthur Ernest Percival • #Thrasybulus
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not

FA Science, mathematics and technology (13)
==== FA Biology and medicine (3) • #Norman Borlaug • #Georg Forster • #Barbara McClintock
 * Yes or probably
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not

FA Mathematics (3)
• #Marian Rejewski
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not

FA Physics and astronomy (6)
• #Carl Sagan • #Edward Teller
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not

FA Transportation (1)
• #Isambard Kingdom Brunel
 * Yes or probably
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not

Good biographies

 * Miscellaneous
 * Yes or probably
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not
 * 1) Computer-related businesspeople: #Jeffrey Vernon Merkey
 * 2) Journalism: #Seigenthaler Sr., John

GA Actors, models and celebrities
— (18 articles)
 * Yes or probably
 * Maybe
 * 1) Fonda, Jane &mdash;
 * 2) Garland, Judy &mdash;
 * 3) Schwarzenegger, Arnold &mdash;
 * No or probably not
 * 1) Adler, Jacob Pavlovitch &mdash;
 * 2) Bale, Christian &mdash;
 * 3) Bana, Eric &mdash;
 * 4) Bynes, Amanda &mdash;
 * 5) Clark, Robert &mdash;
 * 6) Cuthbert, Elisha &mdash;
 * 7) Jovovich, Milla &mdash;
 * 8) Knightley, Keira &mdash;
 * 9) Oleynik, Larisa &mdash;
 * 10) Otto, Miranda &mdash;
 * 11) Page, Bettie &mdash;
 * 12) Portman, Natalie &mdash;
 * 13) Roberts, Emma &mdash;
 * 14) Robinson, Andrew &mdash;
 * 15) Sprouse, Dylan and Cole

GA Artists
— (7 articles)
 * Yes or probably
 * Maybe
 * 1) Caravaggio &mdash;
 * No or probably not
 * 1) Canaletto &mdash;
 * 2) Hiroh Kikai &mdash;
 * 3) Jacques-Louis David &mdash;
 * 4) Alan Moore &mdash;
 * 5) Piet Mondrian &mdash;
 * 6) Anton Alexander von Werner

GA Athletes
— (15 articles)
 * Maybe
 * 1) Beckham, David &mdash;
 * 2) Fischer, Bobby &mdash;
 * 3) Mantle, Mickey &mdash;
 * No or probably not
 * 1) Allen, Marcus &mdash;
 * 2) Bradshaw, Terry &mdash;
 * 3) Brady, Tom &mdash;
 * 4) Cousineau, Tom &mdash;
 * 5) Foli, Tim &mdash;
 * 6) Konnan &mdash;
 * 7) Mayweather Jr., Floyd &mdash;
 * 8) Pugh, Marc &mdash;
 * 9) Tatum, Jack &mdash;
 * 10) Webber, Mark &mdash;
 * 11) Young, Vince

GA Musicians and composers
— (40 articles)
 * Maybe
 * 1) Bruce Springsteen &mdash;
 * 2) Kurt Cobain &mdash;
 * 3) Selena &mdash;
 * 4) Tupac Shakur &mdash;
 * No or probably not
 * 1) Alison Krauss &mdash;
 * 2) Alizée &mdash;
 * 3) Ashlee Simpson &mdash;
 * 4) Billie Holiday &mdash;
 * 5) Bob Marley &mdash;
 * 6) Brand New &mdash;
 * 7) Britney Spears &mdash;
 * 8) Cat Stevens &mdash;
 * 9) Christina Aguilera &mdash;
 * 10) Dru Hill &mdash;
 * 11) Elliott Smith &mdash;
 * 12) Henry Rollins &mdash;
 * 13) Howie Day &mdash;
 * 14) Hugo Wolf &mdash;
 * 15) Jack White (musician) &mdash;
 * 16) JoJo &mdash;
 * 17) Kelly Clarkson &mdash;
 * 18) Louis Jordan &mdash;
 * 19) Mandy Moore &mdash;
 * 20) Marvin Gaye &mdash;
 * 21) Neil Young &mdash;
 * 22) Nelly Furtado &mdash;
 * 23) Sonny Rollins &mdash;
 * 24) Syd Barrett &mdash;

GA Writers and critics
— (13 articles)
 * Maybe
 * 1) Borges, Jorge Luis &mdash;
 * 2) Campbell, John W. &mdash;
 * 3) Cummings, E. E. &mdash;
 * 4) Dickinson, Emily &mdash;
 * 5) Hugo, Victor &mdash;
 * 6) Lem, Stanisław &mdash;
 * 7) Pushkin, Aleksandr &mdash;
 * No or probably not
 * 1) Goldfaden, Abraham &mdash;
 * 2) Upfield, Arthur &mdash;

GA Businesspeople
— (9 articles)
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not
 * 1) Branson, Richard &mdash;
 * 2) Cranston, Catherine &mdash;
 * 3) Flagler, Henry Morrison &mdash;
 * 4) Rogers, Henry H. &mdash;
 * 5) Sculley, John &mdash;
 * 6) Swift, Gustavus Franklin &mdash;
 * 7) Wales, Jimmy

GA Educators
— (2 articles)
 * Yes or probably
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not
 * 1) Churchill, Ward &mdash;
 * 2) White, Andrew Dickson

GA Geographers and explorers
— (2 articles)
 * Yes or probably
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not
 * 1) Benjamin of Tudela &mdash;
 * 2) Ibn Battuta

GA Historians
— (3 articles)
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not
 * 1) Hydatius &mdash;
 * 2) Josephus &mdash;

Historical figures
— (33 articles)
 * Maybe
 * 1) Babur &mdash;
 * 2) Ramesses II &mdash;
 * No or probably not
 * 1) Abdi-Heba &mdash;
 * 2) Akhenaten &mdash;
 * 3) al-Ghamdi, Saeed &mdash;
 * 4) al-Hazmi, Salem &mdash;
 * 5) al-Mihdhar, Khalid &mdash;
 * 6) al-Sayed, Mohamed Atta &mdash;
 * 7) al-Shehhi, Marwan &mdash;
 * 8) Baden-Powell, Robert &mdash;
 * 9) Baldwin I of Jerusalem &mdash;
 * 10) Banihammad, Fayez &mdash;
 * 11) Constantine II of Scotland &mdash;
 * 12) Eufémia, Catarina &mdash;
 * 13) Godwin, Earl of Wessex &mdash;
 * 14) Hanjour, Hani &mdash;
 * 15) Hatshepsut &mdash;
 * 16) Labaya &mdash;
 * 17) Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon &mdash;
 * 18) Macbeth of Scotland &mdash;
 * 19) Malcolm II of Scotland &mdash;
 * 20) Malcolm III of Scotland &mdash;
 * 21) Malcolm X &mdash;
 * 22) Musashi, Miyamoto &mdash;
 * 23) Oleg of Novgorod &mdash;
 * 24) Richard Francis Burton &mdash;
 * 25) Tiridates I of Armenia &mdash;
 * 26) White, Andrew Dickson &mdash;
 * 27) Zara Yaqob &mdash;
 * 28) Óengus I of the Picts

GA Lawyers, judges and legal academics
— (2 articles)
 * Yes or probably
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not
 * 1) Freeh, Louis &mdash;
 * 2) Harlan II, John Marshall

GA Philosophers
— (5 articles)
 * Maybe
 * 1) Hume, David &mdash;
 * 2) Popper, Karl &mdash;
 * 3) Russell, Bertrand
 * No or probably not
 * 1) Fodor, Jerry &mdash;

GA Politically significant people
— (20 articles)
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not
 * 1) Brown, Gordon &mdash;
 * 2) Carter, Jimmy &mdash;
 * 3) Clinton, Bill &mdash;
 * 4) Hackett, Paul &mdash;
 * 5) Houston, Sam &mdash;
 * 6) Jackson, Andrew &mdash;
 * 7) Khan, Wali Kh. &mdash;
 * 8) Mahone, William &mdash;
 * 9) Marshall, John &mdash;
 * 10) Nader, Ralph &mdash;
 * 11) Piłsudski, Józef &mdash;
 * 12) Reagan, John Henninger &mdash;
 * 13) Rice, Condoleezza &mdash;
 * 14) Schwarzenegger, Arnold &mdash;
 * 15) Seigenthaler Sr., John &mdash;
 * 16) Sharon, Ariel &mdash;
 * 17) Sumner, Charles &mdash;
 * 18) Truman, Harry S.

GA Psychologists
— (3 articles)
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not
 * 1) Caperton, Idit Harel &mdash;
 * 2) Skinner, Burrhus Frederic

GA Religious figures and leaders
— (8 articles)
 * Maybe
 * 1) Bede &mdash;
 * 2) Pope John Paul II &mdash;
 * No or probably not
 * 1) Biblical Magi &mdash;
 * 2) Farrar, Janet &mdash;
 * 3) Rama &mdash;
 * 4) Ramana Maharshi

Royalty and nobility
— (4 articles)
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not
 * 1) Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke &mdash;
 * 2) Brooke-Little, John &mdash;
 * 3) Władysław IV Vasa

GA Military people
— (8 articles)
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not
 * 1) Butler, Smedley &mdash;
 * 2) Coker, George Thomas &mdash;
 * 3) Ellsberg, Daniel &mdash;
 * 4) Morant, Breaker &mdash;
 * 5) Pershing, John &mdash;
 * 6) von Boeselager, Georg

GA Spies

 * Yes or probably
 * Maybe
 * 1) Rosenberg, Julius & Ethel &mdash;
 * No or probably not

GA Biologists and medical scientists
— (6 articles)
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not
 * 1) Dawkins, Richard &mdash;
 * 2) Gage, Phineas &mdash;
 * 3) Jenner, Edward &mdash;
 * 4) Kelsey, Frances Oldham &mdash;
 * 5) Swedenborg, Emanuel

GA Chemists and materials scientists

 * No or probably not
 * 1) Lavoisier, Antoine

GA Engineers and inventors
— (4 articles)
 * Maybe
 * No or probably not
 * 1) Eilmer of Malmesbury &mdash;

GA Mathematicians
— (3 articles)
 * Yes or probably
 * Maybe
 * 1) Turing, Alan
 * No or probably not
 * 1) Cantor, Georg &mdash;
 * 2) Hilbert, David &mdash;

GA Physicists and astronomers
— (3 articles)
 * Yes or probably
 * Maybe
 * 1) Feynman, Richard &mdash;
 * 2) Hawking, Stephen
 * No or probably not
 * 1) Flamsteed, John &mdash;