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Great Lives from History: The Twentieth Century

Table of Contents

Asia and Australasia, 1993




Asia and Australasia, 1914




South America, 1914




Europe, 1914




North and Central America, 1993




North and Central America, 1914




Europe, 1993




Africa, 1993




South America, 1993




Hank Aaron




Alvin Ailey




Hannes Alfvén




Salvador Allende




Luis W. Alvarez




Idi Amin




Mother Angelica




Virginia Apgar




Oscar Arias Sánchez




Jean-Bertrand Aristide




Mary Kay Ash




Hafez al-Assad




Margaret Atwood




W. H. Auden




Aung San Suu Kyi




Walter Baade




Hastings Kamuzu Banda




Bao Dai




John Bardeen




Mikhail Baryshnikov




Ingrid Bergman




Tim Berners-Lee




Mary McLeod Bethune




Jeff Bezos




Bhumibol Adulyadej




Benazir Bhutto




Zulfikar Ali Bhutto




Osama Bin Laden




Harry A. Blackmun




Tony Blair




Humphrey Bogart




Norman Borlaug




Max Born




Nadia Boulanger




William J. Brennan




Stephen G. Breyer




Gwendolyn Brooks




Helen Gurley Brown




Molly Brown




Gro Harlem Brundtland




William F. Buckley, Jr.




Warren Buffett




Jocelyn Burnell




George H. W. Bush




Maria Callas




Melvin Calvin




Annie Jump Cannon




Fernando Henrique Cardoso




Nicolae Ceauşescu




Vinton Gray Cerf




Wilt Chamberlain




César Chávez




G. K. Chesterton




Judy Chicago




Hillary Rodham Clinton




Bessie Coleman




Bill Cosby




Walter Cronkite




Bing Crosby




Celia Cruz




Merce Cunningham




Dalai Lama




Robertson Davies




F. W. de Klerk




John G. Diefenbaker




Paul A. M. Dirac




Elizabeth Dole




Jimmy Doolittle




Helen Gahagan Douglas




William O. Douglas




José Napoleon Duarte




François Duvalier




Bob Dylan




Marian Wright Edelman




Eugen Ehrlich




Elizabeth II




Shūsaku Endō




M. C. Escher




Jerry Falwell




Frantz Fanon




Farouk I




Louis Farrakhan




Michel Fokine




Henry Fonda




Betty Ford




Francesco Forgione




Bob Fosse




Rosalind Franklin




Milton Friedman




Alberto Fujimori




Clark Gable




John Kenneth Galbraith




Mavis Gallant




George Gamow




Marc Garneau




Bill Gates




Frank Gehry




Hans Geiger




Sir John Paul Getty




Charlotte Perkins Gilman




Kurt Gödel




Al Gore




Glenn Gould




Stephen Jay Gould




Billy Graham




Cary Grant




Wayne Gretzky




Arthur Griffith




Andrei Gromyko




George Habash




Jürgen Habermas




George Ellery Hale




Mary A. Hallaren




Fannie Lou Hamer




W. C. Handy




Barbara Harris




Hassan II




Václav Havel




Robert Hawke




F. A. Hayek




Audrey Hepburn




Gerhard Herzberg




Harry Hammond Hess




David Hilbert




Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin




Bob Hope




Grace Murray Hopper




Harry Houdini




Sir Fred Hoyle




Hu Yaobang




Hua Guofeng




L. Ron Hubbard




Edwin Powell Hubble




Howard Hughes




Hun Sen




Saddam Hussein




Jiang Zemin




Steve Jobs




Robert Joffrey




Lady Bird Johnson




Michael Jordan




Christine Jorgensen




Juan Carlos I




Frida Kahlo




Heike Kamerlingh Onnes




Buster Keaton




Gene Kelly




Kim Dae Jung




Kim Il Sung




Kim Jong Il




Henry Kissinger




Gustav Klimt




Helmut Kohl




Sir Hans Adolf Krebs




Ray Kroc




Ann Landers




Karl Landsteiner




Estée Lauder




Max von Laue




Mary Leakey




Henrietta Swan Leavitt




René Lévesque




Bernard Lewis




Jerry Lewis




Willard F. Libby




Roy Lichtenstein




Trygve Lie




Anne Morrow Lindbergh




Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber




George Lucas




Shannon W. Lucid




Patrice Lumumba




Barbara McClintock




Robert McNamara




Datuk Seri Mahathir bin Mohamad




John Major




Man Ray




Benoit B. Mandelbrot




Dame Alicia Markova




François Mauriac




Louis B. Mayer




George Meany




Rigoberta Menchú




Dorothy Reed Mendenhall




Mengistu Haile Mariam




Thomas Merton




Slobodan Milošević




Amedeo Modigliani




Sun Myung Moon




Hans Joachim Morgenthau




Mohammad Mossadegh




Robert Motherwell




Robert Mugabe




Kary B. Mullis




Alice Munro




Rupert Murdoch




Yoweri Kaguta Museveni




Ralph Nader




Sir V. S. Naipaul




James Naismith




Ngo Dinh Diem




Nguyen Van Thieu




Jack Nicklaus




Carl Nielsen




Robert Nozick




Rudolf Nureyev




Milton Obote




Claes Oldenburg




Michael Ondaatje




Daniel Ortega




Andreas Papandreou




Octavio Paz




Víctor Paz Estenssoro




Lester B. Pearson




Gregory Peck




Oscar Peterson




Edith Piaf




Józef Piłsudski




Gifford Pinchot




Augusto Pinochet Ugarte




Pius X




Sidney Poitier




Pol Pot




Lewis F. Powell, Jr.




Yitzhak Rabin




Ayn Rand




Robert Rauschenberg




Jerry John Rawlings




John Rawls




Sam Rayburn




Janet Reno




Reza Shah Pahlavi




Mordecai Richler




Charles Richter




Leni Riefenstahl




Jerome Robbins




Frank Robinson




Mary Robinson




John D. Rockefeller, Jr.




Nelson A. Rockefeller




Knute Rockne




Edith Nourse Rogers




Oscar Romero




Sir Joseph Rotblat




Mark Rothko




Peyton Rous




F. Sherwood Rowland




Pete Rozelle




Henry Norris Russell




Ruth St. Denis




Louis St. Laurent




Camille Saint-Saëns




António de Oliveira Salazar




Pete Sampras




Frederick Sanger




Charles M. Schulz




Martin Scorsese




Peter Sellers




Mack Sennett




Robert W. Service




Fulton J. Sheen




George P. Shultz




Muhammad Siad Barre




Beverly Sills




Frederick Soddy




Susan Sontag




George Soros




David H. Souter




Steven Spielberg




Wendell Stanley




Barbra Streisand




Suharto




Anne Sullivan




Shinichi Suzuki




Helen Brooke Taussig




Dame Elizabeth Taylor




Shirley Temple




Twyla Tharp




Clarence Thomas




Sir Joseph John Thomson




Omar Torrijos




Charles Hard Townes




Spencer Tracy




Pierre Trudeau




Rafael Trujillo




Ted Turner




Desmond Tutu




James Van Allen




Harold E. Varmus




Barbara Walters




Sam Walton




Jack Warner




Muddy Waters




Thomas J. Watson, Sr., and Thomas J. Watson, Jr.




Steven Weinberg




Edward O. Wilson




Rosalyn Yalow




Chuck Yeager




Zhao Ziyang




Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq




Rulers and Heads of State




Alvar Aalto




Ferhat Abbas




Ralph Abernathy




Chinua Achebe




Dean Acheson




Jane Addams




Konrad Adenauer




Alfred Adler




JoAnne Akalaitis




Anna Akhmatova




Akihito




First Viscount Alanbrooke




Madeleine Albright




Muhammad Ali




Lord Allenby




Viktor A. Ambartsumian




Roald Amundsen




Marian Anderson




Sir Norman Angell




Maya Angelou




Guillaume Apollinaire




Corazon Aquino




Yasir Arafat




Diane Arbus




Hannah Arendt




Edwin H. Armstrong




Louis Armstrong




Neil Armstrong




Svante August Arrhenius




Dorothy Arzner




H. H. Asquith




Fred Astaire




Nancy Astor




Atatürk




Clement Attlee




Sri Aurobindo




Nnamdi Azikiwe




Leo Baeck




Mikhail Bakhtin




George Balanchine




Emily Greene Balch




James Baldwin




Stanley Baldwin




Arthur Balfour




Lucille Ball




Robert D. Ballard




Sir Surendranath Banerjea




Sir Frederick G. Banting




Samuel Barber




Christiaan Barnard




Djuna Barnes




Karl Barth




Roland Barthes




Béla Bartók




Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov




Sir William Maddock Bayliss




Charles A. Beard




The Beatles




Simone de Beauvoir




Lord Beaverbrook




Samuel Beckett




Menachem Begin




Saul Bellow




Ruth Benedict




Edvard Beneš




Stephen Vincent Benét




David Ben-Gurion




Walter Benjamin




Alban Berg




Friedrich Bergius




Ingmar Bergman




Henri Bergson




Irving Berlin




Eduard Bernstein




Leonard Bernstein




Hans Albrecht Bethe




Aneurin Bevan




Lord Beveridge




Ernest Bevin




Vilhelm Bjerknes




Hugo L. Black




Louis Blériot




Eugen Bleuler




Aleksandr Blok




Léon Blum




Franz Boas




Umberto Boccioni




Niels Bohr




Heinrich Böll




Margaret Bondfield




Dietrich Bonhoeffer




Pierre Bonnard




Sir Robert Laird Borden




Björn Borg




Jorge Luis Borges




Louis Botha




Walther Bothe




Horatio W. Bottomley




Pierre Boulez




Habib Bourguiba




Margaret Bourke-White




Boutros Boutros-Ghali




Omar Nelson Bradley




Sir Donald G. Bradman




Sir Lawrence Bragg




Constantin Brancusi




Louis D. Brandeis




Marlon Brando




Willy Brandt




Georges Braque




Fernand Braudel




Wernher von Braun




Bertolt Brecht




André Breton




Josef Breuer




Henri-Édouard-Prosper Breuil




Leonid Brezhnev




Percy Williams Bridgman




Benjamin Britten




Louis de Broglie




Emil Brunner




William Jennings Bryan




Martin Buber




Pearl S. Buck




Nikolay Ivanovich Bukharin




Bernhard von Bülow




Rudolf Bultmann




Ralph Bunche




Luis Buñuel




Warren E. Burger




Sir Macfarlane Burnet




Edgar Rice Burroughs




Nicholas Murray Butler




R. A. Butler




Richard Byrd




Alexander Calder




Plutarco Elías Calles




Albert Calmette




Kim Campbell




Albert Camus




Felix Candela




Karel Čapek




Al Capone




Truman Capote




Lázaro Cárdenas




Benjamin N. Cardozo




Chester F. Carlson




Rudolf Carnap




Rachel Carson




Jimmy Carter




Henri Cartier-Bresson




Enrico Caruso




George Washington Carver




Pablo Casals




René Cassin




Ernst Cassirer




Fidel Castro




Willa Cather




Carrie Chapman Catt




Aimé Césaire




Sir James Chadwick




Marc Chagall




Neville Chamberlain




Coco Chanel




Charles Chaplin




Ray Charles




Chen Duxiu




Chiang Kai-shek




Shirley Chisholm




Noam Chomsky




Zhou Enlai




Jean Chrétien




Dame Agatha Christie




Zhu De




Sir Winston Churchill




André-Gustave Citroën




Georges Claude




Georges Clemenceau




Bill Clinton




Ty Cobb




Jean Cocteau




Sebastian Coe




Colette




Michael Collins




Norman Collins




John Coltrane




Arthur Holly Compton




James Bryant Conant




Joseph Conrad




Learie Constantine




Calvin Coolidge




Aaron Copland




William T. Cosgrave




Pierre de Coubertin




Jacques Cousteau




Sir Noël Coward




Hart Crane




Cheryl Crawford




Francis Crick




Benedetto Croce




E. E. Cummings




Imogen Cunningham




Marie and Pierre Curie




John Curtin




George Nathaniel Curzon




Harvey Williams Cushing




Salvador Dalí




Alexandra Danilova




André-Louis Danjon




Clarence Darrow




Bette Davis




Lucy S. Dawidowicz




Dorothy Day




Moshe Dayan




Eugene V. Debs




Claude Debussy




Lee de Forest




Alcide De Gasperi




Robert Delaunay




Frederick Delius




Agnes de Mille




Cecil B. DeMille




Jack Dempsey




Deng Xiaoping




Maurice Denis




Jacques Derrida




Eamon de Valera




John Dewey




Sergei Diaghilev




Diana, Princess of Wales




Otto Paul Hermann Diels




Marlene Dietrich




Joe DiMaggio




Walt Disney




Milovan Djilas




Bob Dole




Gerhard Domagk




Theodore Dreiser




Carl Theodor Dreyer




Alexander Dubček




W. E. B. Du Bois




Marcel Duchamp




John Foster Dulles




Isadora Duncan




Katherine Dunham




Émile Durkheim




Amelia Earhart




George Eastman




Abba Eban




Félix Éboué




Sir John Carew Eccles




Hugo Eckener




Sir Anthony Eden




Edward VII




António Egas Moniz




Christian von Ehrenfels




Paul Ehrlich




Albert Einstein




Willem Einthoven




Dwight D. Eisenhower




Sergei Eisenstein




Sir Edward Elgar




Mircea Eliade




T. S. Eliot




Duke Ellington




Havelock Ellis




Paul Éluard




Enver Paşa




Nora Ephron




Sir Jacob Epstein




Louise Erdrich




Ludwig Erhard




Max Ernst




Matthias Erzberger




Rudolf Christoph Eucken




Herbert Vere Evatt




Chris Evert




Fahd




Faisal




Faisal I




Manuel de Falla




Beatrix Jones Farrand




William Faulkner




Dianne Feinstein




Federico Fellini




Enrico Fermi




Enzo Ferrari




Geraldine Ferraro




Ella Fitzgerald




F. Scott Fitzgerald




Sir Alexander Fleming




Abraham Flexner




Baron Florey




Dame Margot Fonteyn




Gerald R. Ford




Henry Ford




C. S. Forester




E. M. Forster




Francis Ferdinand




Francisco Franco




Anne Frank




Helen Frankenthaler




Felix Frankfurter




Aretha Franklin




Sir James George Frazer




Sigmund Freud




Eugène Freyssinet




Betty Friedan




Karl von Frisch




Max Frisch




Leo Frobenius




Erich Fromm




Robert Frost




Roger Fry




Athol Fugard




Loie Fuller




R. Buckminster Fuller




Yuri Gagarin




Abel Gance




Indira Gandhi




Mahatma Gandhi




Greta Garbo




Federico García Lorca




Gabriel García Márquez




Isabella Stewart Gardner




Erle Stanley Gardner




Judy Garland




Tony Garnier




Marcus Garvey




Antonio Gaudí




Charles de Gaulle




Norman Bel Geddes




Lou Gehrig




Rudolf Geiger




Dr. Seuss




Jean Genet




Giovanni Gentile




George V




George VI




George Gershwin




Ira Gershwin




Arnold Gesell




Alberto Giacometti




Althea Gibson




André Gide




Dizzy Gillespie




Étienne Gilson




Jean Giraudoux




Lillian Gish




John Glenn




Jean-Luc Godard




Robert H. Goddard




Joseph Goebbels




George Washington Goethals




Emma Goldman




Samuel Goldwyn




Benny Goodman




Mikhail Gorbachev




Nadine Gordimer




William Crawford Gorgas




Hermann Göring




Maxim Gorky




Katharine Graham




Martha Graham




Antonio Gramsci




Günter Grass




Graham Greene




Alan Greenspan




Sir Edward Grey




D. W. Griffith




Juan Gris




Walter Gropius




Heinz Guderian




Che Guevara




Daniel Guggenheim




Charles-Édouard Guillaume




H. D.




Fritz Haber




Otto Hahn




Haile Selassie I




Halide Edib Adıvar




William F. Halsey




Dag Hammarskjöld




Oscar Hammerstein II




Knut Hamsun




Learned Hand




Lorraine Hansberry




Warren G. Harding




Alfred and Harold Harmsworth




Adolf von Harnack




William Averell Harriman




Lorenz Hart




Nicolai Hartmann




Ichirō Hatoyama




Mohammad Hatta




Stephen Hawking




Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre




Helen Hayes




Le Ly Hayslip




Rita Hayworth




William Randolph Hearst




Sir Edward Heath




Martin Heidegger




Ernst Heinkel




Werner Heisenberg




Lillian Hellman




Ernest Hemingway




Sonja Henie




Hans Werner Henze




Katharine Hepburn




Aileen Clarke Hernandez




Édouard Herriot




Gustav Hertz




Hermann Hesse




Georg von Hevesy




Thor Heyerdahl




Sir Edmund Hillary




Heinrich Himmler




Paul Hindemith




Paul von Hindenburg




Hirohito




Alger Hiss




Alfred Hitchcock




Adolf Hitler




Ho Chi Minh




Oveta Culp Hobby




Leonard T. Hobhouse




David Hockney




Billie Holiday




Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.




Soichiro Honda




Herbert Hoover




J. Edgar Hoover




Harry Hopkins




Edward Hopper




Karen Horney




Vladimir Horowitz




Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield




Félix Houphouët-Boigny




Bernardo Alberto Houssay




Dolores Huerta




Langston Hughes




Charles Evans Hughes




William Morris Hughes




Cordell Hull




Hubert H. Humphrey




Zora Neale Hurston




Hussein I




Edmund Husserl




Robert M. Hutchins




Aldous Huxley




Hayato Ikeda




İsmet Paşa




Eugène Ionesco




Charles Ives




Jesse Jackson




François Jacob




Roman Jakobson




Leoš Janáček




Pierre Janet




Karl Jaspers




Mohammed Ali Jinnah




Joseph-Jacques-Césaire Joffre




John XXIII




Augustus John




John Paul II




Lyndon B. Johnson




Frédéric Joliot and Irène Joliot-Curie




Bobby Jones




Mother Jones




Janis Joplin




Barbara Jordan




James Joyce




Carl Jung




Franz Kafka




Wassily Kandinsky




Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa




Herbert von Karajan




Yasunari Kawabata




Nikos Kazantzakis




Helen Keller




John F. Kennedy




Robert F. Kennedy




Jomo Kenyatta




Aleksandr Fyodorovich Kerensky




Jack Kerouac




Albert Kesselring




John Maynard Keynes




Ayatollah Khomeini




Nikita S. Khrushchev




Jean-Claude Killy




Billie Jean King




Martin Luther King, Jr.




Stephen King




William Lyon Mackenzie King




Alfred Kinsey




Ernst Ludwig Kirchner




Jeane Kirkpatrick




Lord Kitchener




Paul Klee




Oskar Kokoschka




Käthe Kollwitz




Sergei Korolev




Lee Krasner




August Krogh




Elisabeth Kübler-Ross




Guo Moruo




František Kupka




Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov




Akira Kurosawa




Rudolf Laban




Jacques Lacan




Robert M. La Follette




Henri-Marie La Fontaine




Selma Lagerlöf




Fiorello Henry La Guardia




Frederick William Lanchester




Lev Davidovich Landau




Fritz Lang




K. D. Lang




Dorothea Lange




Susanne K. Langer




Lord Lansdowne




Harold J. Laski




Julia C. Lathrop




Sir Wilfrid Laurier




Pierre Laval




Rod Laver




Bonar Law




D. H. Lawrence




Ernest Orlando Lawrence




T. E. Lawrence




Halldór Laxness




L. S. B. Leakey




Gustave Le Bon




Le Corbusier




Lee Kuan Yew




Eva Le Gallienne




Fernand Léger




Georges Lemaître




Vladimir Ilich Lenin




Claude Lévi-Strauss




C. S. Lewis




John L. Lewis




Sinclair Lewis




Serge Lifar




Maya Ying Lin




Lin Biao




Charles A. Lindbergh




Jacques Lipchitz




Li Peng




Walter Lippmann




Maksim Maksimovich Litvinov




Liu Shaoqi




David Lloyd George




Henry Cabot Lodge




Jack London




Huey Long




Anita Loos




Hendrik Antoon Lorentz




Konrad Lorenz




Joe Louis




Juliette Gordon Low




Amy Lowell




Lu Xun




Clare Boothe Luce




Henry R. Luce




Erich Ludendorff




Lord Lugard




György Lukács




Auguste and Louis Lumière




Albert Lutuli




Rosa Luxemburg




Dame Enid Muriel Lyons




Joseph Aloysius Lyons




Douglas MacArthur




Joseph McCarthy




Mary McCarthy




Carson McCullers




Ramsay MacDonald




Samora Machel




Sir Halford John Mackinder




Catharine A. MacKinnon




John J. R. Macleod




Marshall McLuhan




Edwin Mattison McMillan




Harold Macmillan




Francisco Madero




René Magritte




Naguib Mahfouz




Gustav Mahler




Norman Mailer




Malcolm X




Georgi M. Malenkov




André Malraux




Nelson Mandela




Wilma Mankiller




Thomas Mann




Carl Gustaf Mannerheim




Mao Zedong




Franz Marc




Gabriel Marcel




Rocky Marciano




Guglielmo Marconi




Ferdinand Marcos




Jacques Maritain




George C. Marshall




Thurgood Marshall




Agnes Martin




Tomáš Masaryk




William Ferguson Massey




Léonide Massine




Henri Matisse




Konosuke Matsushita




Vladimir Mayakovsky




William J. and Charles H. Mayo




Margaret Mead




Golda Meir




Lise Meitner




Andrew Mellon




H. L. Mencken




Erich Mendelsohn




Pierre Mendès-France




Gian Carlo Menotti




Sir Robert Gordon Menzies




Maurice Merleau-Ponty




Olivier Messiaen




Reinhold Messner




Vsevolod Yemilyevich Meyerhold




André and Édouard Michelin




James A. Michener




Ludwig Mies van der Rohe




Darius Milhaud




Edna St. Vincent Millay




Arthur Miller




Kate Millett




Robert Andrews Millikan




A. A. Milne




Joan Miró




Yukio Mishima




William Mitchell




François Mitterrand




Mobutu Sese Seko




Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi




Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov




Piet Mondrian




Claude Monet




Jean Monnet




Marilyn Monroe




Eugenio Montale




Maria Montessori




Bernard Law Montgomery




G. E. Moore




Henry Moore




Marianne Moore




Thomas Hunt Morgan




Akio Morita




Toni Morrison




Gaetano Mosca




Grandma Moses




John R. Mott




Louis Mountbatten




Hermann Joseph Muller




Brian Mulroney




Edvard Munch




Edward R. Murrow




Benito Mussolini




Gunnar Myrdal




Vladimir Nabokov




Sarojini Naidu




Fridtjof Nansen




Paul Nash




Gamal Abdel Nasser




Giulio Natta




Martina Navratilova




Louis-Eugène-Félix Néel




Jawaharlal Nehru




Walther Hermann Nernst




Pablo Neruda




Pier Luigi Nervi




John von Neumann




Louise Nevelson




Ben Nicholson




Reinhold Niebuhr




Oscar Niemeyer




Martin Niemöller




Vaslav Nijinsky




Chester W. Nimitz




Kitarō Nishida




Richard Nixon




Kwame Nkrumah




Max Nordau




Jessye Norman




Julius Nyerere




Hermann Oberth




Álvaro Obregón




Thomas Power O’Connor




Flannery O’Connor




Sandra Day O’Connor




Sadaharu Oh




Georgia O’Keeffe




Seán T. O’Kelly




Sir Laurence Olivier




Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis




Tip O’Neill




Eugene O’Neill




Jan Hendrik Oort




Aleksandr Ivanovich Oparin




J. Robert Oppenheimer




José Clemente Orozco




Katherine Davalos Ortega




José Ortega y Gasset




George Orwell




Thomas Mott Osborne




Wilhelm Ostwald




J. J. P. Oud




Jesse Owens




Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit




Emmeline Pankhurst




Franz von Papen




Charlie Parker




Dorothy Parker




Rosa Parks




Vernon Louis Parrington




Dolly Parton




Boris Pasternak




Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel




Alan Paton




George S. Patton




Paul VI




Alice Paul




Wolfgang Pauli




Linus Pauling




Luciano Pavarotti




Ivan Petrovich Pavlov




Anna Pavlova




Robert Edwin Peary




I. M. Pei




Pelé




Peng Dehuai




Javier Pérez de Cuéllar




Frances Perkins




Juan Perón




Eva Perón




H. Ross Perot




Auguste Perret




Fred Perry




John J. Pershing




Philippe Pétain




Jean Piaget




Émile Picard




Pablo Picasso




Auguste and Jean-Felix Piccard




Mary Pickford




Susan La Flesche Picotte




Luigi Pirandello




Dominique Pire




The Pirelli Family




Henri Pirenne




Pius XI




Pius XII




Max Planck




Sylvia Plath




Gary Player




Raymond Poincaré




Jackson Pollock




Georges Pompidou




Cole Porter




Katherine Anne Porter




Beatrix Potter




Francis Poulenc




Colin Powell




Ludwig Prandtl




Elvis Presley




Leontyne Price




Sergei Prokofiev




Marcel Proust




Giacomo Puccini




Muammar al-Qaddafi




Isidor Isaac Rabi




Sergei Rachmaninoff




Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman




A. Philip Randolph




Jeannette Rankin




Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen




Walter Rauschenbusch




Maurice Ravel




Satyajit Ray




Ronald Reagan




William H. Rehnquist




Erich Maria Remarque




Jean Renoir




Walter P. Reuther




Syngman Rhee




Ann Richards




Hyman G. Rickover




Sally Ride




Rainer Maria Rilke




Diego Rivera




Paul Robeson




Jackie Robinson




Norman Rockwell




Richard Rodgers




Will Rogers




Charles Stewart Rolls and Sir Frederick Henry Royce




Erwin Rommel




Eleanor Roosevelt




Franklin D. Roosevelt




Theodore Roosevelt




Elihu Root




Hermann Rorschach




Pete Rose




Nellie Tayloe Ross




Sir Ronald Ross




Georges Rouault




Josiah Royce




Muriel Rukeyser




Gerd von Rundstedt




Bertrand Russell




Bill Russell




Babe Ruth




Ernest Rutherford




Nicola Sacco




Nelly Sachs




Anwar el-Sadat




Carl Sagan




Andrei Sakharov




J. D. Salinger




Jonas Salk




Carl Sandburg




Margaret Sanger




George Santayana




Alberto Santos-Dumont




Nathalie Sarraute




Jean-Paul Sartre




Erik Satie




Eisaku Satō




Ferdinand de Saussure




Jeanne Sauvé




Max Scheler




Bernhard Voldemar Schmidt




Karl Schmidt-Rottluff




Arnold Schoenberg




Erwin Schrödinger




Karl Schwarzschild




Albert Schweitzer




Glenn Theodore Seaborg




Hans von Seeckt




Andrés Segovia




Maurice Sendak




Léopold Senghor




Anne Sexton




George Bernard Shaw




Alan Shepard




Dmitri Shostakovich




Jean Sibelius




Norodom Sihanouk




Frank Sinatra




Upton Sinclair




B. F. Skinner




First Viscount Slim




Alfred E. Smith




Bessie Smith




Margaret Chase Smith




Theobald Smith




Jan Christian Smuts




Nathan Söderblom




Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn




Georges Sorel




John Philip Sousa




Wole Soyinka




Paul-Henri Spaak




Benjamin Spock




Joseph Stalin




Konstantin Stanislavsky




Johannes Stark




Ernest Henry Starling




Hermann Staudinger




Edward Steichen




Edith Stein




Gertrude Stein




John Steinbeck




Gloria Steinem




Adlai E. Stevenson




James Stewart




Alfred Stieglitz




Henry L. Stimson




Karlheinz Stockhausen




Harlan Fiske Stone




First Baron Reith of Stonehaven




Marie Stopes




Richard Strauss




Igor Stravinsky




Gustav Stresemann




August Strindberg




Sukarno




Harry Stack Sullivan




Sun Yat-sen




Billy Sunday




Graham Vivian Sutherland




Robert A. Taft




William Howard Taft




Rabindranath Tagore




Marion Talbot




Maria Tallchief




Jun’ichirō Tanizaki




Ida Tarbell




Frederick Winslow Taylor




Sara Teasdale




Pierre Teilhard de Chardin




Edward Teller




Mother Teresa




Valentina Tereshkova




Megan Terry




U Thant




Margaret Thatcher




Hugo Theorell




Norman Thomas




Tom Thomson




Edward L. Thorndike




Jim Thorpe




James Thurber




Bal Gangadhar Tilak




Paul Tillich




Alfred von Tirpitz




Tito




J. R. R. Tolkien




Clyde William Tombaugh




Ferdinand Julius Tönnies




Arturo Toscanini




Ahmed Sékou Touré




Arnold Toynbee




Eiji Toyoda




Ernst Troeltsch




Leon Trotsky




François Truffaut




Harry S. Truman




Moïse Tshombe




Konstantin Tsiolkovsky




Marina Tsvetayeva




William V. S. Tubman




Barbara W. Tuchman




Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev




Alan Mathison Turing




Frederick Jackson Turner




Walter Ulbricht




Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo




Harold C. Urey




Paul Valéry




Edgard Varèse




Ralph Vaughan Williams




Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov




Thorstein Veblen




Eleuthérios Venizélos




Pancho Villa




Heitor Villa-Lobos




Luchino Visconti




Édouard Vuillard




Vo Nguyen Giap




Joachim Wach




Selman Abraham Waksman




Lillian D. Wald




Kurt Waldheim




Lech Wałesa




Madam C. J. Walker




Alice Walker




Henry A. Wallace




George C. Wallace




Sir William Walton




Wang Jingwei




Felix Wankel




Andy Warhol




Robert Penn Warren




Earl Warren




James D. Watson




John Wayne




Beatrice and Sidney Webb




Max Weber




Anton von Webern




Alfred Wegener




Simone Weil




Kurt Weill




Chaim Weizmann




Orson Welles




H. G. Wells




Ida B. Wells-Barnett




Max Wertheimer




Mae West




Edith Wharton




George Hoyt Whipple




Walter White




Alfred North Whitehead




Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney




Sir Frank Whittle




Norbert Wiener




Elie Wiesel




Simon Wiesenthal




Hazel Wightman




Laura Ingalls Wilder




Sir George Hubert Wilkins




Maurice Wilkins




William II




Tennessee Williams




Edmund Wilson




Sir Harold Wilson




Woodrow Wilson




Duke of Windsor




Oprah Winfrey




Stephen Samuel Wise




Ludwig Wittgenstein




Max Wolf




Thomas Wolfe




Grant Wood




Tiger Woods




Robert Burns Woodward




Virginia Woolf




Frank Lloyd Wright




Orville and Wilbur Wright




Wilhelm Wundt




Andrew Wyeth




Iannis Xenakis




Ahmad Zaki Yamani




William Butler Yeats




Boris Yeltsin




Hideki Yukawa




Sa‘d Zaghlūl




Babe Didrikson Zaharias




Darryl F. Zanuck




Emiliano Zapata




Ferdinand von Zeppelin




Clara Zetkin




Georgy Zhukov




Ellen Taaffe Zwilich




Vladimir Zworykin




Chronological List of Entries in Great Lives from History: The 20th Century, 1901-2000




Geographical Index for Great Lives from History: The 20th Century, 1901-2000




Category Index for Great Lives from History: The 20th Century, 1901-2000