Famous People & Personalities - Part 20

Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) America's Eighth Secretary of Defense (Kennedy&Johnson eras)

"Tank* McNamara" comic strip character by Jeff Millar; illus. by Bill Hinds

*I was going to put "Tank" in single quotes, but Wikidia says itʻs "unclear whether "Tank" is a nickname or his
given name.

(I played by mistake on the one before this,
which is still the most noticeeable in the menu,
and is also numbered "Part 20).

>3 rolandperkins:

(The previous part just had the continue arrow on it and wouldn't hold any more entries, so I wound up with the first entry,but neglected to renumber the thread. In the case of duplicate numbers, you could always go by entry date/time)

Thanks, chgl.

Robert McNamara ,

late US Secretary of Defence during Nixon and Johnson's Adminstrations

// Robert // (Accepting #6, even though it = #1, in view of the recent mixup in what to play on, which was partly my fault.)

Henry M Robert III
compiler of the famous
Robertʻs Rules of order; (no s
i n his surname,
except when put into the posessive case.)

Henry Hudson, Navigator and explorer who, in 1609, was the first Englishman to sail up the eponymous New York river.

William Henry Hudson British author

Henry Charles Albert David - Prince Harry

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet

Wadsworth Harris (1864-1942), silent film actor

Wallace Wadsworth
folklorist, children's author

Mike Wallace (RIP & thanks...)

Lew Wallace Civil war general, author, politician*

*relative (but not ancestor) of rolandperkins

Inspector Lewis Erskine of the FBI, a role played by Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in the early 1960's.

John Erskine off beat* historical novelist

*wrote fictions about, among others, Helen of Troy
and the arthurian Sir Galahad

John Hershey - author, A Single Pebble

John Hay politician, poet*

*numbered as John Hay (2) in LT disambiguation;
(1) is a 20th c. nature writer

William Dee Calhoun was a professional wrestler, who used the professional name "Haystack" or "Haystacks" Calhoun. At six foot four and over six hundred pounds, he sported a black bushy beard, wore bib overalls and had a horseshoe hanging from his neck to personify a farm boy image. He was raised on a farm in Arkansas. One of the most popular wrestlers in the 1960s, he died of diabetes at the age of 55. (bio by: Charlie Jamison)

(I used to watch pro wrestling on TV; He was one of my favorites).

John Calhoun (D, SC) nationalist politician of the early U. S. National Era; he became more and more regional;
died about a decade before the Civil war, but had a lot
to do with the makings of it.

John Calvin , late German theologian

Calvin Coolidge, American president

Rita Coolidge , singer

Grace Coolidge First Lady, when (23) was president

Grace Kelly , late Princess of Monaco, ex-actress

Leonard Patrick "Red" Kelly -

hockey player in Hockey Hall of Fame. Played for Detroit and Toronto in the 50's and early 60's.

Patrick Stewart, who played Captain Jean-Luc Picard on "Star Trek: The Next Generation"

(I could have put Leonard Nemoy who played Mr. Spock in the original series, or DeForest Kelly, who played 'Bones")

"Alan Breck Stewart" mentor of "David Balfour", hero
of Robert Louis Stevensonʻs "Kidnapped"

Alan Sherman, my favorite Parodist

(Most would remember "A Letter From Camp", 'Hello Muddah, Hello Fadda", but he eventually did eight LPs in the 1960's)

John "The Ohio Icicle" Sherman (R, O.)
U. S. representative, senator,
Sec. of Treasury, Sec. of State;
he lost the GOP nomination to
James Garfield (R, O.) in 1880, replaced the later assassinated Garfield in the U. S. House, was a senator,
and was a witness in the Guiteau assassination trial.

James Earle Jones, actor- many would remember him as Darth Vader.

James Murrell "Jake" Jones (1920 -- 2000)
World War II hero; briefly an AL 1b, Chicago WHite Sox, Boston Red Sox, 1940s

James Arness (1923-2011)aka Marshall Matt Dillon on GUNSMOKE

"Dillon"* -- crime figure, bar owner in
two of George V. Higginsʻs Boston crime** novels:
The Friends of Eddie Coyle and Coganʻs Trade

* no first name given by Higgins; the role of "Dillon" was played in the movie version of "Eddie Coyle" by Peter Boyle.

** I can hardly call them "mystery" of "detective" stories, because there is no mystery about who is committing the crimes; and, as for "Detective", they are told from the criminalsʻ point of view, and Higgins has little respect for the abilities of Law Enforcement.

John Dillon (4 September 1851 – 4 August 1927) was an Irish politician from Dublin, who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for over 35 years and was the last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party.

John Bellotti
Massachusetts politician, 1960s-90s;
State Atty. Gen.; one of the several atty. gens. that
Massachusetts Democrats touted for Governor. He lost
the nomination to amateur politician John Silber, who in turn lost the November election to WIlliam Weld.

John Dillinger, late American infamous gangster

Bob Dillinger
AL, NL and Pacific Coast League
infielder; Among the base-stealing leaders; one of the few St. Louis Browns in their last years ever to be an All Star.

Robert James "Bob" Keeshan (June 27, 1927 – January 23, 2004) aka 'Captain Kangaroo'

James "Pete" Runnels AL infielder, Senators I, Red Sox;
won an AL batting championship in
the 1950s

E. L.James ,real name Erika Leonard,

female writer of " 50 Shades " trilogy

Henry James, Sr. Philosopher, writer on Religion;
father of writers Alice James, Henry James*, and William James

*The younger H J (1843--1916) does not usually have "Jr." put with his name, despite the "Sr." in his fatherʻs name.

Sir Edward Henry - developed the method of finger printing for use in criminal investigations

Henry VII aka Richmond aka Henry Tudor
Welsh/English politician, King of England; father of Henry VIII grandfather of Elizabeth I

Elizabeth Taylor!

Zachary Taylor general;* liberal Southern politician; 12th president of the U. S.

*The only president whose biography has been written by the son of another president (?)
See: Zachary Taylor by John S. D. Eisenhower

Zachary Scott - actor

Dr. Zachary Smith- character in the 1960's television show "Lost in Space"

Maggie Smith actress, childrenʻs author

Bessie Smith - blues singer

Bess Wallace Truman
First Lady, 1945-1953

Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman

- the first African-American woman pilot. (1921). I truly hope she would not be offended that my wonderful wonderful dog is named Bessie - in her memory.

Bob Coleman
old time NL baseball manager; Boston Braves of the WW II years. He succeeded the great (later) Casey Stengel and was succeeded by the great
Billy Southworth.

William Coffin Coleman - coleman lanterms and camp stoves

Tristram Potter Coffin, writer, folklorist

William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (1924-2006) former chaplain, Yale University, anti-war (Vietnam) and civil rights activist.

Patricia Sloane author on colors, etc.

Alfred P Sloan - chairman of GM and philanthropist

Sorry! Missed the 'e' on Sloan.

Will make it - Sloane Stephens, tennis player

Vern Stephens great hitting shortstop of th 1940s,
St. Louis Browns, Boston Red Sox

Stella Stevens, actress

Frank Stella artist , sculptor*

*Knew artist

Frank Sinatra - member of the Rat Pack

Nancy "These Boots are Made for Walkin' " Sinatra- his daughter. They did a duo, "Something Stupid".

Nancy Davis Reagan actress* First Lady, 1981-1989

*before marriage to Ronald Reagan, she acted under her legal name Nancy Davis, Davis being her step-fatherʻs surname.

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

Tommy Davis NL outfielder; author of oneof the Tales from
the Dodger Dugout series

Tommy Douglas - Canadian politican - while Premier of Saskatchewan introduced the first North American universal health care system, giving free hospital benefits to all citizens of the province.

Tommy Holmes
Boston Braves outfielder;
briefly their manager;
for about two decades, after 1945, he held the NATIONAL
League record for hitting in most
consecutive games (38),
until finally surpassed by Pete Rose

Thomas Charles(Tommy) Lasorda (born September 22, 1927 in Norristown, Pennsylvania) is a former Major League baseball player and manager. 2009 marked his sixth decade in one capacity or another with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers organization

Ed Charles old time 3b, Kansas City Athletics*

*The franchise that had been the Philadelphia Athletics, and is now the Oakland Aʻs

Charles Duffee

mlb player in 1889 and member of Baseball Hall of Fame

Ezzard Charles heavyweight boxer;
briefly World Champion in the early 1950s

Charles Bolton - scientist that proved the existence of black holes

Robert Bolton* Author on Human Relations, Social Psychology, Employment

*Knew author (or was that another Robert Bolton that
was in school with me?)

Charles Robert Redford, Jr. (born August 18, 1936), better known as Robert Redford

Robert Heinlein - sci-fi writer

Spangler Arlington Brugh better known
as Robert Taylor actor

Pieter Van Brugh (1666 – July 1740) Mayor of Albany, New York: 1699 to 1700;1721 to 1723.

W. Brugh Joy, M. D.: author on energies, esoterica

Joy Adamson, writer

Murdered in Kenya.

Joy Morton (September 27, 1855 – May 10, 1934) founded the Morton Salt Company

Commander Dudley "Mush" Morton USN (1907–1943); commanding officer of USS Wahoo (SS-238) during World War II.

Levi Parsons Morton
Financier, diplomat, Republican Congressman, 22nd Vice President of the U. S.
(The Harrison/Morton ticket lost the popular vote
in 1888, but won the Electoral College.)

Alan Parsons (born 20 December 1948) is a British audio engineer, musician, and record producer. The Alan Parsons Project was a favorite during my teen years...

Alan Dershowitz lawyer, radical ethicist
philosopher of law

Allan Sherman (November 30, 1924 – November 20, 1973) comedy writer, television producer, song parodist (e.g. "A Letter From Camp (aka"Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah")

Harold M. Sherman author of juvenile sports fiction, and some esoterica;

(Curiously the book that this name evokes in Touchstones is Melvilleʻs Moby Dick. I thought that the evocation must have been a whale of a job. I donʻt know how Touchstones operates, but, on second thought, Shermanʻs surname is within one letter of Melvilleʻs forename . . . so . . . well I still donʻt know!

Colonel Sherman T. Potter - played by Harry Morgan in MASH

Sherman Adams (R, NH)
Governor; adviser to Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Richard Adams - author of Plague Dogs and Watership Down

Abigail Adams writer, First Lady, 1797-1801

Abigail Folger -

campaign worker for Robert Kennedy, civil rights worker, murdered by the Manson family

James Athearn ("J.A.") Folger (June 17, 1835 – June 26, 1889), founder- Folgers Coffee Company. (Abigail's great grandfather)

James Garner , actor

David McNiven Garner (born 26 November 1928, in Wanganui, New Zealand) is notable as a published research physicist, with a focus in physical oceanography and ocean circulation.

James Garner (born James Scott Bumgarner; April 7, 1928) is an American film and television actor. He is probably best known, at least to me, as Bret Maverick of "Maverock" (1958-1962, ABC, and sequals)

Phil Garner NL shortstop; later
manger, Pirates, Tigers

Philip Morris, in 1847, opened a tobacco shop on Bond Street in London. By 1854, he started making his own cigarettes. In 1870, Morris began to produce Philip Morris Cambridge and Philip Morris Oxford Blues (later called Oxford Ovals and Philip Morris Blues). Morris died in 1873 while his widow Margaret and brother Leopold Morris carried on his cigarette trade.
The business became the Phillip Morris tobacco company in 1902.

Wonga Philip Harris - from the great days of radio to voice roles in Disney films (my fav - Baloo in Jungle Book) and one of my favorite old songs - The Thing -

Philip K. Dick speculative and fantasy author

Dick Tracy ,
fictional detective

John A. Tracy
writer on finance and accounting

Spencer Tracy - fantastic actor

John Wallace Spencer
author of Limbo of the Lost

Wallace Stevens, poet.

Ian Wallace science fiction writer

"Lew Archer" Ross MacDonaldʻs PI
protagonist

John D. MacDonald - another mystery writer

George MacDonald
Scottish religious writer and novelist
(Children's and adultsʻ)

George Takei -

Lt Sulu in the original Star Trek series

George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876)
The youngest general (he was demoted to colonel at some point, but I don't remember why) ever in the US Army. Most well known for losing, getting wiped out, the Battle of the Little Bighorn (the Government name, or The battle of Greasy Grass (Native American name).

Karen Armstrong
writer on religion; including introductory books on
Buddha, Muhammad and St. Paul

Louis Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans.

Joe Louis* heavyweight boxing champion,
mid-1930s--early 1950s

*original name: Joseph Louis Barrow

Clyde Barrow: Clyde Champion Barrow (actually his middle name was "Chestnut"), aliases Roy Bailey, Jack Hale, Eldin Williams, Elvin Williams. March 24, 1909-may 23, 1934. The male half of "Bonnie & Clyde".

Marge Champion* dancer, actress

*her earliest credits are under her original name Marge Bell

Jane Champion , film director

Harley Jane Kozak actress, author

Harley Davidson , American motor cycle manufacturer

Harley Payne -

pitched major league baseball back in the late 1800s

Robert Payne popular historian, biographer*

*Among his not-so-well-known titles is
By Me, William Shakespeare

Travis Payne, American choreographer and producer

Cecil Travis old time hard-hitting*
Washington Senators infielder

* He is the answer to the trivia question: Who had the 2nd-highest BA in the AL, in 1941, when Ted Williams was highest with .406?

Travis Bickle, Taxi driver.

Merle Travis Guitarist, Country & Western singer

William Travis -

leader of the Texas forces in the Battle of the Alamo.

William Hill - UK bookmaker

William Henry Harrison (W, IN)
12th U. S. President

Henry Thomas Harrison

- spy for the Confederate forces during the US Civil War.

Benjamin Harrison (R, O.) 23rd President
of the U. S.; Civil War general; grandson of (131).
--the last president to be numbered correctly in
the conventional numbering of presidents. His
successor Grover Cleveland, who was also his predecesssor and 22nd president, has been conventionally counted as TWO presidents (22nd AND 24th)-- (not just one two-term president).

Harrison Ford, actor

Ed "Whitey" Ford
Hall of Fame pitcher, New York Yankees

Henry Ford -

founder of the Ford Motor Co.

Henry Agard Wallace D, later P, IA)

Liberal* politician, FDRʻs Sec. of Agriculture,
Vice-President (1941-1945); formed a Progressive Party (later: Peace Progressive# ) to oppose
Tom Dewey (R, NY) Harry S. Truman** (D, MO) and Strom Thurmond (D, SC) for president in
1948.

*Some critics said "Radical".

# Oddly the title that Touchstones picks up for "Peace Progressive" is Thackerayʻs
Vanity Fair (!?)

** HST had replaced Wallace as Vice President in 1945.

John Agard - British poet - from British Guyana

John Jacob Astor IV (July 13, 1864 – April 15, 1912) was an American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War. He is probably better known for having gone down with the TITANIC in 1912.

John Nance Garner (D, TX)
1st of 3 FDR vice presidents; inaugurated in 1933 and 1937; replaced by (137) in 1941.

Jennifer Garner

,actress, wife of actor , Ben Affleck

Philip Mason Garner -

manager of the Astro's major league baseball team

James Garner, actor

Peggy Ann Garner chid actress, 1940s

Peggy Gail Fleming (born July 27, 1948) 1968 Olympic Champion in Ladies' singles figure skating and a three-time World Champion (1966–1968).

Peggy Lee, singer

Peggy Noonan, columnist

Peggy Ryan
dancer, actress of the 1940s -- 60s

Lynn Nolan Ryan, Jr. - The Ryan Express

great major league pitcher
present owner of the Texas Rangers

(Roland, I am surprised you didn't go with Nolan!!)

"surprised you didnʻt go with Nolan (Ryan)

148 had to go with "Peggy" or "NOOnan" (not "NOLAN") (from 147). I used to be (irrationally) more irked by Ryan than by other pitchers who could beat the Red Sox by the proverbial "just tossing a glove onto the mound".
At one time in the sixties White Sox pitcher John Buzhardt used to do that, but I never especially hated him. I did hate the Red Sox front office when they declined a chance to acquire Buzhardt by giving up a backup catcher. (Catchers were really scarce in those days, and the Red Sox management was even patting themselves on the back that "the White Sox couldnʻt fool them"!) And I was groaning that they could have saved 4 or 5 defeats
by not using Buzhardt at all -- just depriving the other guys from having him.

Lynn Anderson ,

late American country singer of Rose Garden fame

John Anderson (R, later I, IN)
U.S. politician of the 60s -- 80s; he ran for president in 1980 against incumbent Jimmy Carter (D, GA) and Ronald Reagan. Like most Third Party and Independent candidates*, he carried no states, while Reagan carried 44 and Carter 6 --inc luding my native state and state of residence (Yea! yea! --
but I voted for Anderson, the only Republican presidential cnadidate I have ever voted for.)

*George C. Wallace and Strom Thurmond were exceptions to this rule.

( >152 rolandperkins: which reminds me that John Anderson- who a girl I liked, liked...- actually achieved matching funds myself? I didn't particularly care )

James Francis "Jimmy" Durante (February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980) singer, pianist, comedian and actor.

The opening of "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World"- a 60's comedy which had at least a cameo of practically every big comedy name at the time- had a scene where Durante literally-and figuratively- " kicked the bucket".

I don't think 153 applies, does it?

Loni Anderson -- actress, receptionist at WKRP

>154 barney67:

The rules are quite liberal for this game; it can be any name in the post.
Nevertheless, I'll go with the post & play:

Anderson Cooper, CNN news anchor

Paul Fenimore Cooper*
classicist, physicist, traveller

*Knew Author.

John Cooper -

designer of Formula One racing cars and the man that brought the MINI into the racing world. Thanks John for my great car...

Gordon Cooper, astronaut

Gale Gordon -

radio and television character actor. Dearly remembered for his roles on Our Miss Brooks and The Lucy Show

Sid Gordon NL 3b, New York Giants, Boston Braves

Gordon Lightfoot -

Canadian singer/song writer

Flash Gordon- comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond. First published January 7, 1934

Tamar Gordon* anthropologist

*Know author.

Gordon "Gordie" Howe -

Canadian hockey player

Steve Howe, guitar player for Yes

Steve OʻNeill AL manager: Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox
His Tigers won the 1945 World Series

Michael O'Neill -

former editor of the New York Daily News

Eugene OʻNeill U. S. dramatist

Eugene Andrew Cernan (born March 14, 1934)U.S. Navy officer (RET.), former NASA astronaut and engineer

John A. Andrew
Massachusetts governor during Civil War

John Mayer ,guitarist,singer

Louis Burt Mayer (born Lazar Meir) -

the Mayer part of MGM (Metro Goldwyn Mayer)

Sir Cyril Burt physical psychologist; author of Factors of the Mind;
discredited (?) in a controversy about research methodology

Cyril Leo Heraclius, Prince Toumanoff (born Toumanishvili) (1913–1997), Russian-born historian and genealogist who was a Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University

"Dr. Heraclius Gloss"
(anti?)-hero of a Guy De Maupassant
short story in Le Docteur Herclius Gloss et autres Histoires de Fous / Dr. Herclius Gloss and other stories of Madmen*

*Not guaranteeing that there is a published translation of this title.

Flavius Heraclius Augustus -

emperor of the Byzantine Empire in the 600's.

Molly Gloss (born 20 November 1944) is an American writer currently best known for historical fiction and science fiction.

and/or

Augustus De Morgan (27 June 1806 – 18 March 1871) was a British mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan's laws and introduced the term mathematical induction, making its idea rigorous. The crater De Morgan on the Moon is named after him.

Playing on 178ʻs name Molly Gloss which is not played on yet.

// Molly //

"Lady Molly" a title character in Anthony Powellʻs
A Dance to the Music of Time Series: At Lady Mollyʻs

Molly -

a cloned sheep!

Molly Brown, "unsinkable" -- she survived the Titanic

Charlie Brown -

of the Peanuts cartoon strip - as in "You're a good man, Charlie Brown."

Robert Brown, Jr. scholar of Classics, Semitic Studies

Robert Browning, poet

Robert B Parker -

mystery writer of the Jessie Stone and Spencer series

The Parker Brothers Game company (from Wikipedia):

George Parker founded his game company, initially called the George S. Parker Company, in his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts in 1883. When George's brother Charles joined the business in 1888, the company's name was changed to its more familiar form. In 1898 a third brother, Edward H. Parker, joined the company. For many years, George designed most of the games himself, and wrote all the rules. Many games were based on important events of the day: Klondike was based on the Alaskan gold rush, and War in Cuba was based on the impending Spanish-American War.

"Parker Pyne" 3rd* best known of
Agatha Christieʻs detectives

* Or was he only 6th, behind "Tuppence and Tommy"?

Peter Parker, the secret identity of Spiderman in the origonal Stan Lee comics.

St. Peter aka Shimon Kephas. aka Petros
disciple, 1st Pope; Catholic history says he was
appointed by Jesus, succeeded by St. Linus

Linus Pauling -

winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and
the Nobel Peace Prize

Nancy Pauling Bruning
author of The Real Vitamin and Mineral Book

Nancy Drew -

culprit responsible for most of us becoming mystery addicts

A. J. Drew M L outfielder:
St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox
As a rookie, he was the center of a controversy when, as a high Draft pick, he refused to
join the team that drafted him, the (at that time lowly) Philadelphia Phillies

Drew Barrymore, actress

Stephen Drew - major league baseball short stop

Stephen Duck English dialect poet

Stephen Colbert-TV personality

Leslie Stephen British writer, critic;
father of Virginia Woolf

Leslie Nielsen, actor

Leslie C. Allen Biblical author

Gracie Allen, half of the 1950-56 "George Burns and Gracie Allen" show (also, his wife).

Ira and Ethan Allen -

leaders of the Green Mountain Boys, founders of Vermont

Steve Allen
TV host, writer

Steve McQueen - actor

Steve Garrigues U. S. born sociology scholar
in Tonga and South Korea

Steve Yeager -

catcher for the LA Dodgers.

Chuck Yeager, test pilot

Chuck Jones
author of Chuck Reducks and Whatʻs Opera, Doc?

Casey Jones -

Railroad engineer of the Cannonball Express immortalized in song. Sole fatality when his train collided with a stalled freight train in the fog.

George Cecil Jones (born 1870 or 1873, Croydon) was a British chemist, occultist, one time member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and co-founder of the magical order A∴A∴.Little else is known of him.

>208 rolandperkins:

He did many Warner cartoons (called 'shorts"). Some history of his undertakings that supplements the 'Reducks' book, and footage of him both narrating and drawing, is on several of the six "Looney Tunes Golden Collection" volumes; For example, he invented the Roadrunner and Wyle E. Cyote.

Playing on 210

// Cecil //

David Cecil British biographer

Cecil Blount DeMille -

big screen epic movie director

Winston "Red" Blount (R, AL)
Postmaster General, Nixon Administration; the last
postmaster general to have cabinet rank.

Paul Neal "Red" Adair -

oil rig fire-fighter

Red Buttons (born Aaron Chwatt, February 5, 1919 – July 13, 2006) was an Academy Award-winning American comedian and actor.

Dick Button, 2-time Olympian champion figure skater. He is credited with being the first to land the double axel, the triple loop, and invented the camel spin.

Dick Martin, 2nd half of the 1960's TV show "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In"

Steve Martin ,American movie star,comedian

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther, theolgian

Billy Martin New York Yankees infielder; later manager
of Yankees, Detroit Tigers, and several other teams.
original name: Alfred Pesano

William H. Bonney

better known as "Billy the Kid".

William Perkins* 17th c. English Puritan theolgian

*no relation (I hope)

William Thomas Perkins -

combat photographer in the Vietnam War who received the Medal of Honor for throwing himself on a grenade and saving the life of three fellow Marines. He was from Rochester NY and died on October 12th, 1967

ʻUmi Perkins* teacher, historian, political writer

*son of rolandperkins; full name: Mark ʻUmi Pekrins

Ah, Roland, that was toooo easy!

Anthony Perkins -

American stage and screen actor. Played Norman Bates in Hitchcock's film Psycho. His widow died on American Airlines Flight 11 when it crashed into the North Tower on Sept 11th.

Anthony West novelist; son of writers
Rebecca West and H. G. Wells

Henry Wells -

the Wells in Wells Fargo

// Fargo //

Louise Fargo Brown cultural historian

Lady Louise Windsor -

granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II (her father is Prince Edward, Elizabeth's youngest son)

Lake Louise in Canada is named in her honor..

// Windsor //*

David Edward Patrick The Duke of Windsor
aka The Prince of Wales, aka (briefly) King Edward VIII
British Royal

*I'm told that, although WIndsor has been the dynasty's name
since the time of World War I, it is not officially a surname
of individual royal family members. They sign their first
names, with the applicable title after it, e.g. "Elizabeth, R."**

** R for "Regina"

Edward Teach -

pirate! aka Blackbeard

Edward Robert "Eddie" Miller
NL infielder 1936--1950, Boston Braves,
Cincinnati Reds

Roger Miller ,

pianist

Roger Bannister
miler

William Roger "The Rocket" Clemens -

major league baseball pitcher, winner of seven Cy Young awards

Roger McGough, poet

"Roger Lambert" protagonist of Rogerʻs Version by John Updike -- a Divinity scholar, he is asked to make a computer program that proves the existence of God.

Fred McFeely Rodgers -

"Mr. Rodgers" of "Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood" one of my children's favorite tv shows (when they were little)

Roger Daltrey, of lead singer of The Who

Nanci Griffith Daltrey
co-author, with (241) of The Chieftains: an Irish Evening

Griffith Brewer -

Englishman, balloonist, early aviator, friend of the Wright Brothers. First Englishman to fly as a passenger with the Wrights. Would make a wonderful character in a steampunk novel!

Andy Samuel Griffith (born June 1, 1926) actor, director, producer, Grammy Award-winning Southern-gospel singer, and writer.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
poet, philosopher

Roger Taylor, fantasy author

Hugh Griffith actor
his most famous rule was "The Sheik" in Ben Hur (1959)

Emile Griffith -

Welterweight boxing champion.
In a televised title match (1962) against Benny Paret the fight was stopped in the 12th round. Afterwards Paret went into a coma and died.

// Benny //

Benny Morris Israeli historian, 1980s -- 2000s

Sir William Richard Morris -

Morris motorcycles and automobiles

Richard Burton, actor; One of Elizabeth Taylor's many husbands.

Burton Holmes traveller, impresario, author

Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle's character detective

Philip Manderson Sherlock
Jamaican author

Sherlock Hemlock -

one of the Muppets (TV show)

Adam C.Hemlock ,



a parner in a US lawyer specialised in anti-trust
ligitation cases

Adam Dunn ML infielder: Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox

Douglas Dunn, modern Scottish poet

Stephen Douglas (D, IL) Vermont-born Illinois
politician of the 1850s. Abraham Lincoln (R, IL) defeated him and rival Democrat Breckenridge in the momentous 1860 election.

Tommy Douglas - sorry, did him once before

Group Captain Douglas Bader - RAF flying ace in WWII

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. actor, 1930s--40s

Donald Wills Douglas (Sr.) -

founder of Douglas Aircraft

Gary Wills
co-author of (to mention only the one Iʻm reading now) Jack Ruby* by Ovid DeMaris and Gary Wills

*An odd combination of authors; itʻs early Wills and not
so easy as one might think to distinguish which parts are the very earnest-minded Wills, and which the very slick DeMaris.

Elliott Taylor "Bump" Wills -

second baseman for the Texas Rangers and the Chicago Cubs. Was responsible for one of the two times that back-to-back inside-the-park home runs while playing for the Rangers.

He also holds the Rangers single-season record for stolen bases.

Irving "Bump" Hadley
A graduate of Swampscott, MA High School and Brown University, briefly in the starting rotation of New York Yankees and Philadelphia Athletics; later a
radio sports commentator

Nate Bump -

currently pitching in AAA ball for the Phillies organization

(that's all the baseball 'Bumps' I know, Roland!)

At first I thought you were evoking Cooperʻs "Natty Bumpo" (aka Hawkeye, aka Deerslayer, mysterymax. (266). Nate Bump is one more "Bump" than I know -- of contemporary players. (b t w, what IS the Phillies AAA team?)

// Nate //
Nate Andrews short-term Boston Braves pitcher,
WW II Era

I think he is still pitching for the Lehigh Valley IronPigs.

Nate McLouth - center fielder for the Orioles

". . .the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs" (I assume you mean N. Bump, not N. Andrews!)

Thanks, max

Yes, Nate Bump - you asked who he was playing for. I am hoping that this summer we'll be able to catch one of their games.

Donald B. McLouth -

founder of McLouth Steel, that operated for 56 years.

Donald T. Regan
attorney, financier; held 2 cabinet posts during the Ronald Reagan administrations;
missed having the same name as his boss by only 2 letters

Donald McNichol Sutherland -

outstanding actor that has never won an Oscar

Atley Donald
Overshadowed by other Yankees, he was
in the starting rotation of some of the great
New York Yankees teams
of the 1940s

Donald Flauntleroy Duck -

Disney cartoon character

Donald "Donny" Dubrow, anti-hero of David Mametʻs American Buffalo

Donald Clark "Donny" Osmond (born December 9, 1957)

"Gilbert Osmond" Bad guy in Henry Jamesʻs Portrait of a Lady , the title character "Ellizabeth Archerʻs husband

Sir Humphrey Gilbert (c. 1539 – 9 September 1583) of Devon in England was a half-brother (through his mother) of Sir Walter Raleigh. Adventurer, explorer, member of parliament, and soldier, he served during the reign of Queen Elizabeth and was a pioneer of English colonization in North America and the Plantations of Ireland.

"Gilbert ʻGilʻ Walker" hero of the 1950s thriller movie "Tangier"ʻ played by Jack Palance

Gilbert O'Sullivan, singer

William Schwenck Gilbert, who wrote the words of the Savoy operas; Sir Arthur Sullivan wrote the music

William Marcy Tweed New York City politician, political "boss", late 19th c.
He is (in?)famous for saying about Thomas Nastʻs cartoons : "I donʻt mind when anyone WRITES against me: my constituents canʻt* read. But those damned cartoons...!!";
and for filling out a form that gave his "Occupation" as "Statesman"; his "Religion" as: "None".

*Or, in some versions: "DONʻT read."

Shannon Tweed, a porno actress

Harrison Tweed - lawyer

president of the Legal Aid Society of NY and of the NY City Bar Association, trustee of Sarah Lawrence College, overseer of Harvard University, and other stuff.

Changing 285 to another Harrison; so 286 is still valid. (I used Pres. W H Harrison as recently as 05/30.)

Harry Harrison writer
author of "The Stainless Steel Rat" novels.

Sir Rex Harrison -

British actor of many roles, but will always remain Prof. Henry Higgins (My Fair Lady) or Dr. Doolittle.

Rex Warner, classicist, translator

Harry, Albert & Sam Warner -

founders Warner Bros. film studio

Samuel Longhorn Clemmens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910) a.k.a."Mark Twain"

Samuel Rogers British poet, once well-known, now
overshadowed by others of the Romantic Era

Roy Rogers - cowboy actor

born Leonard Franklin Slye

Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside, British architect responsible for the Millennium Dome, among other things

George V UK monarch during WW I, and until his d eath ca. 1935; son of Edward VII, grandson of
Queen Victoria; first cousin of his WW I enemy, Kaiser Wilhelm II; father of Kings Edward VIII
and George VI

George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937), composer and pianist

George Robert Stephanopoulos (born February 10, 1961) American television journalist and a former political advisor.

// Robert //

Robert Lowell (1917--1977) U. S. poet, critic, translator;
author of For the Union Dead, Lord Wearys Castle, and Life Studies

Lowell Johnson -

friend, radio broadcaster in South Africa, author of The Spiritual Side of Dizzy, a book on Dizzy Gillispie

Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981)writer, broadcaster, and traveler.

Reggie Jackson ML outfielder,
New York yankees et al..
1960s-1980s

Clyde Jackson Browne -

rock song writer/performer/environmental activist/inductee in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Rev Jesse Louis Jackson, Snr ,civil right activist

Louis Braille -

adapted Captain Barbier's system of 'night writing' for military use into the Braille system.

Louis Botha, first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa

Louis Riel -

leader of the Metis and founder of Manitoba, Canada

Louis Prima – singer, actor, songwriter, and trumpeter

Louis "Buck" Newsom aka "Bobo" Newsom
Long-term ML pitcher, RedSox, Tigers
Senators (I)and many others

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck - Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning writer.

Hoyt H. Buck.
He and his son Al founded "H.H. Buck & Son" in 1947.
A good history of Buck knives is on wvoutpost.com

James Hoyt Wilhelm -

great knuckleball pitcher, Hall of Fame member

John Hoyt great* Hollywood character actor. His outstanding roles were The Principal in The Blackboard Jungle (1954) and " ʻDeciusʻ** Brutus" in Julius Caesar (1953)

*No Oscars that I know of, but "great" was what Iʻve always thought him.

**The historical character on whom "Decius" was based was actually named DECIMUS Junius Brutus, an ally of Caesar, who had gone over to the side of his cousin, the more famous
Marcus Junius Brutus, the Plutarchian and Shakespearean hero

John Fitzgerald Kennedy -

35th President of the United States

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
novelist, flourished in the 1920s,
better known as
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key -

writer of the words to our national anthem

Robert Falcon Scott of the Antarctic

"Robert Rabbits" (formerly "Robert Sailor"), character in Caradoc Evansʻs Nothing to Pay

Beatrix Potter's story book characters,

Rabbits -

Emma Rabbit & Peter Rabbit

Catherine Marshall
biographer, author of the book on which a once-famous film was based: A Man Called Peter

George Catlett Marshall -

American Secretary of State known for the Marshall Plan, to rebuild Europe after WWII, for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

George Segal , actor

George Takei -

played Hikaru Sulu on the the original Star Trek

George Kirby, the male ghost of the 1953-55 TV show "Topper"; starring Anne Jeffreys as Marion Kirby, Robert Sterling as George Kirby and Leo G. Carroll (who later starred in the 1960's"Man from U.N.C.L.E.) as Cosmo Topper.

Percival R. Kirby, founding head of the Music department at University of the Witwatersrand

Percival Lawrence Lowell (March 13, 1855 – November 12, 1916) American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death. The choice of the name Pluto and its symbol were partly influenced by his initials PL.

Lawrence George Durrell (February 27, 1912—November 7, 1990), novelist and elder brother of Gerald Durrell

(Touchstone display for Lawrence Durrell is bizarre)

Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO (1888 – 1935), T. E. Lawrence , Lawrence of Arabia

Ernest Lawrence
scientist; worked with
J. Robert Oppenheimer and others on the first nuclear weapons. See the excellent
double-bio Lawrence and Oppenheimer by Nuel Pharr Davis.

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) author

Walter Miller
Science Fiction author, fl. mid-20th c.

Walter Matthau ,actor

Barbara Walters, news anchor, interviewer

Barbara Nathan Hardy*
scholar, critic

*Knew author.

Barbara Bain (born September 13, 1931) an American actress who played Cinnemon Carter from 1966-1969 on CBS's Mission Impossible.

Nathan Hale -

spy during the American Revolutionary War
"I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country."

OK, I'll play on 334 (despite my entry in 333, it was probably a matter of seconds between the two).

Polish immigrant, Nathan Handwerker, who founded Nathan’s Famous (Hot Dogs) in 1916 with a small hot dog stand in Coney Island. His son expanded it to what it is today.

Robert Nathan
U. S. novelist, 1940s

Anne-Jean and Nicolas-Louis Robert -

two brothers who worked with Jacques Charles and engineered the first hydrogen balloon. Nicolas-Louis flew with Jacques Charles in the first manned balloon flight.

Charles III, aka "Bonny Prince Charlie",
Stuart Dynasty claimant to the throne of England, Ireland, and Scotland. His forces were defeated by those of
the Hanover (now Windsor) Dynastyʻs George II in 1745, in the last land battle fought in the U. K.

Gilbert Stuart -

American portrait painter - (the head of George Washington seen on the US one dollar bill)

Alfred Charlton Gilbert, founder of the long defunct A.C. Gilbert company in New Haven ,Connecticut. The company was most noted for Erector sets and model trains but switched to wartime production during WWII and among other things invented delayed fuses.

Alfred Landon
Kansas Republican politician, G O P presidential candidate in 1936, he carried only 2 states, neither of them his own, in losing to
incumbent F. D. Roosevelt, becoming, at that time, the most overwhelmingly defeated ever of major party candidates. He has since had his"record broken" by Walter Mondale (D, MN) and George McGovern (D, SD)
Father of future Kansas
G O P senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker

Alfred E. Neuman -

cover mascot (fictional) of MAD Magazine

Alfred Eisenstaedt (December 6, 1898 – August 24,1995) German-born American photographer and photojournalist.

Harry Eisenstadt
Briefly in the Cleveland Indiansʻ starting rotation, 1940s;
not outstanding, but he had to compete with such great
names as Bob Feller and
Bob Lemon.

Harry Truman,late President of United States

Margaret Truman
mystery novelist, singer; daughter of Bess Wallace Truman and 345.

Princess Margaret,

late sister of Queen Elizabeth The Second

Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan -

MASH character (novel, movie and tv series)

Kathleen the Daughter of Houlihan / Kathleen Ni Houlihan
legendary W. B. Yeats heroine

Kathleen Jessie Raine CBE (14 June 1908 – 6 July 2003) was a British poet, critic, and scholar writing in particular on William Blake, W. B. Yeats and Thomas Taylor.

Jessie L. Weston

Literary critic and folklorist

Jessie James, infamous legendary bank robber

Etta James -

legendary r & b singer

Harry James musician, night clubs, radio, film
1930s--40s

Harold George "Harry" Belafonte, Jr. (born March 1, 1927) singer, songwriter, actor,social activist, also called the "King of Calypso".

Harold Washington
Illinois politician; former mayor of CHicago

Claudell Washington -

mlb right fielder, hit three home runs in one game for both the Chicago White Sox and the NY Mets. He was also the hitter in the baseball footage when Ferris Bueller takes his friends to the ball game and catches a foul ball.

Washington Gladden
19th c. writer on religion

Dan Gladden -

mlb outfielder. Scored the winning run in the 10th inning of the 1991 World Series final 7th game.

Dan Brown,author

Dan Morgan U S. commander of Kentucky
rifle men in Revolutionary War; winning commander at
Battle of Cowpens

Morgan le Fay -

sorceress in King Arthur's legend

"Bernie Morgan"
protagonist of a George V. Higgins novel; probably based on John "The Iron Duke"
Thompson a powerful late 20th c. politician in) Western Massachusetts

Bernard "Bernie" Sanders -

our "jr." Senator!

Sir George Bernard Shaw- British playwright

Bernard Goldberg
author, right-wing economist, politcal scientist

Rube Goldberg -

cartoonist with fantastical machines

Rube Melton New York Giants pitcher,
1940s

Sid Melton -

film comedian (carpenter in Green Acres, Sophies husband in Golden Girls)

Sid James, comedian, part of Hancock's Half Hour and Take It from Here, among others

"Sid Sawyer" the obnoxious brother of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer*

*As for how real were Tom and Huck, it was Huck who
became more famous among critics, but some bigoraphers have said that Samuel L. Clemens poured more of himself into Tom's character than into Huck's.

Joe Sawyer

Canadian actor who appeared in both movies and tv series. He was born in Guelph, Ontario - a place you wouldn't know how to pronounce unless you'd been there....

Diane Sawyer, reporter

Raymond Sawyer (R, NH)*
controversial department (not cabinet) head in the 1st
administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower (R, NY)

*distantly related to life-long Democrat rolandperkins

Edward Burleson "E. B." Raymond -

foreman of the King Ranch (Texas) for 37 years.

Rick Burleson for several years, the Boston Red Sox shortstop; played in the 1975 World Series.

Nathaniel "Nate" Burleson -

wide receiver for the Detroit Lions

Clyde W. Burleson
non-fiction writer; author of The Day the Bomb Fell

Clyde Barrow, 1930s criminal, along with Bonnie Parker

Joseph Louis Barrow -

heavy weight champion boxer best known as Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber

Louis-Ferdinand Celine
French novelist, Right Wing, but anti-Nazi
mid-20th century. Some of his fiction takes
place in Detroit and other U. S. sites.

Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin -

founder of the Zeppelin Airship Company
His first ascent in a balloon was actually made in St. Paul, MN

Munro Leafʻs Ferdinandus Taurus / Ferdinand the Bull
by Munro Leaf*

*Some decades ago, it joined Winnie Ille Pu (Milne) and Alicia in Terra Mirabili (Carroll) in that elite greoup of works that have been translated FROM Modern Languages INTO Latin.

Taurus Jabbar Sykes -

heavy weight boxer

"Bill Sykes" character in Dickensʻs Oliver Twist not one of the Establishment but still a "bad guy",*

*I see from Touchstones that a Bill Sykes whom Iʻm hearing of for the first time is the author of Your Pursuit of Profit. The
one Iʻm noting, above, probably couldnʻt write, but was something of an authority on short cuts to profit.

Billie Holliday, blues singer

Judy Holliday actress, 1940s--50s

John Henry "Doc" Holliday gambler, gunfighter and dentist; friend of Wyatt Earp

Roger "Doc" Cramer
Boston Red Sox outfielder, late 1930s;
he was traded to Detroit and succeeded
by the great Dom DiMaggio.

Harry Leroy "Doc" Halladay -

Right-handed major league pitcher, played for the Toronto Blue Jays and then for the Philadelphia Phillies. On May 19th, 2010 he pitched the 20th perfect game in MLB history against the Florida Marlins. He is a two time Cy Young award winner.

Leroy Jones original name of author/activist
Amiri Baraka, author of Tales, Dutchman
The Slave, etc.;
father of author Lisa Jones,

Bad, bad Leroy Brown...

character in Jim Croce song.

"Bad Bascom" fictional "bad guy with a heart of gold", portrayed by Wallace Beery
in the 1940s "western"movie of that name.

Wilbur "Bad" Bascom -

jazz bass player, played with B.B. King and James Brown

Wilbur Wright, inventor of the first successful airplane, along with his brother Orville

Earl Morse Wilbur
Unitarian scholar

Eric Wright -

Canadian mystery writer, best known for his Charlie Salter series.

// Charlie //*

James Baldwinʻs Blues for Mr. Charlie
very under-rated play of the 1960s

*assuming that the connection Earl Wilbur > Eric Wright 396-7 is ok. since both are initials E. W.

Sorry Roland, I missed your 396. Don't know if it is my eyes or my mind ....

Charlie Chan -
fictional detective created by Earl Derr Biggers

The grand Chan: Poetic, non-Asian, 18th--20th centuries designation of
the Emperor of China, 18th--20th centuries*

*e.g. William Rose Benetʻs line:
"Hereʻs a catch and a carol / To the Great Grand Chan. . ."

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy -

mother of President John F Kennedy

Patrick Kennedy (D, RI)
U. S. Representative; grandson of (401); temporarily (?) retired from politics

Patrick Lewis Wai-Kuan Chan (in Chinese Chan Wai-Kuan)

Canadian world champion ice figure skater

John L. Lewis U. S. labor leader

Meriwether Lewis -

the 'Lewis' in the Lewis & Clark exploring duo

Lee Meriwether, actress and former Miss America

William Lee early pseudonym used by the author better known as William Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs -

creater of Tarzan and other adventure tales, one of the oldest war correspondents during WWII

Harold "Freddy" Rice Hawai'i* activist, 1990s-2000s

*Note the adjective is Hawai'I, not HawaiAN; dealt a
devastating blow to Hawaiian Sovereignty movements,
as the plaintiff in Rice v. Cayetano (02/2000). Rice's
lawyer, Ted Olson** defeated a fellow-conservative
named John G.Roberts (!) in a 7-2 Supreme Court
decision.

**Later, like Roberts, he received a high judiciary
appointment by the George W. Bush
administration: Solicitor General. The Clinton appointee who was his predecessor, submitted an amicus curiae brief against
him in Rice v. Cayetano.

James Edward Rice - "Jim Ed" -

left fielder for the Boston Red Sox, inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, 2009

Edward Avedisian* artist, gallery owner

*Knew artist.

Ed Sullivan, tv host

Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan -

first American woman to walk in space

"John Sullivan Reek" (R, VT)
an ill-fated, minor character in Lewisʻs It Canʻt Happen Here; he is given high office by the U. S.ʻs Fascist dictator, but his career ends abruptly (executed or imprisoned, I forget which)
when a new Fascist boss comes to power.

Thomas Edward John, Jr. "Tommy John"

mlb pitcher who had surgery for a ligament in his pitching arm - now known as "Tommy John surgery"

Edward VII King of the UK. Pre-reign name: Albert
or "Bertie", which his grandson, George VI was also called in the family.
Father of George V; grandfather of Edward VIII and George VI; great-grandfather of Elizabeth II

Sir Edward William Elgar =

British composer of the Pomp & Circumstance march among other things

Edward "Ted" Field
almost forgotten novelist of the 20th c.

As a political novel, his "McDonough" (1951), on mid-century New Jersey politics is one of the
greatest of the 20th c.

Edmund André Charles Louis Eloi "Ted" Schelpe
fern expert, orchidologist, curator of Bolus Herbarium, University of Cape Town c. 1955--1980.
My Ph.D. supervisor

Andre Dawson -

mlb outfielder and winner of eight Golden Glove Awards.

Peter Dawson

baritone, recorded hundreds of songs and opera-arias-in-English on plum-label HMV in the 1910s--1930s; also pseudonymously on cheap-series labels

Peter Keali'imakekau Apo*
Musician; Board member, Office of Hawaiian Affairs; former state representative, Hawai'i

*under the name Peter Apo: contributor to
"Hawai'i's Historic Corridors"

Haven't checked in for a while - visiting kids were here.

Peter Parker - the identity of Spiderman

Robert B. Parker
detective novelist, late 1960s --2010; creator of 3 P I s, of
whom the most famous is " Spenser" *

*I never was sure if that was
his first name, last name, or
only name. Anyone know?

Dorothy Parker -

wit of the Algonquin Round Table.

PS Roland,

I think Spenser was his last name, but is the only name he is ever known by.

{. . .Spenser was his last
name" (426)

Thanks, mysterymax. I thought probably "first" OR "last"
not "only": In one of the later books, he gets asked for his "full name". You'd expect him to say "JUST Spenser" or "none of your business",
but instead he tells the reader: I told him (my full name). But Parker wasn't telling the full name.

//Dorothy// (425)

Dorothy Thompson
journalist, non fiction writer,
1st half of the 20th c.

Dorothy Gale -

a young girl that went to the Land of Oz and had a difficult time getting home to Kansas.

Dorothy L. Sayers
novelist, essayist, translator;
creator of the fictional detective Lord Peter Wimsey

Joseph Sayers -

male fashion model best know for Polo underwear ads and a centerfold where he appeared without fashions in the Abercrombie & Fitch quarterly.

Joseph, son of Jacob
Hebrew politician, agronomist, who became the de facto ruler of Egypt, according to the later chapters of Genesis.

Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa

Jacob Randolph Perkins*
author of The Emperorʻs Phyician, etc.

*no relation to rolandperkins, but a Jacob Perkins ( no middle name,ca. 1811--ca.1864) is the great-great grandfather of rolandperkins, and the father of George Perkins author of
the Civil War writings: Three Years a Soldier.

Joseph William "Pinetop" Perkins - (1913 - 2011)

blues musician, piano player -
you can spot him having an argument with John Lee Hooker outside Aretha Franklin's cafe in the movie The Blues Brothers.

Gwen Perkins Murphy*
sculptor, Yoga instructor

*daughter of rolandperkins
and the artist Joan Miller Perkins

Gwen John

Artist, artist's model for (and the lover of) Auguste Rodin.
Sister of Augustus John

Gwenyth Evelyn “Gwen” Verdon

great Broadway and movie dancer, most famous for her portrayal of Lola in Damm Yankees

wife of Bob Fosse

owner of a great pair of legs - amazing since she had rickets as a child.

// Fosse //

Ray Fosse All-Star catcher, Cleveland Indians*

Fosse and Ted Williams may have been the only players ever seriously injured in an All-Star
game, Fosseʻs resulting from a Cobbian slide
by Pete Rose.

Ray Charles Robinson (Ray Charles)

wonderful musician - blues, r & b, soul

passed through this life in 2004

Ed Robinson A L infielder, Washington Senators (I) and Cleveland Indians As an Indian, though less touted than his infield-mates, he formed 1/4 of the highlyest -regarded ML infield of the era: 1b Robinson; 2b Joe Gordon 3b Ken Keltner;
ss (player-manager)
Lou Boudreau

Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson -

major league ball player -

in university lettered in four sports: baseball, football, basketball and track
1940 NCAA Champion in the Long Jump

played in six World Series games, (once on the winning team)
played in six All-Star games
1947 MLB Rookie of the Year
1949 National League Most Valuable Player
1962 inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Congressional Gold Medal

Frank Robinson
Hall of Fame First baseman, Cincinnati Reds, Baltimore Orioles, briefly manager, Cleveland Indians; Major League Baseball executive

Frank Thomas

American League mlb designated hitter
5 time All-Star player
2 time AL Most Valuable Player
and a whole bunch more great stuff

Frank Sullivan essayist, humorist, flourished in the 1940s--50s.*

a Red Sox pitcher of the same name was, briefly, one of the outstanding AL pitchers of the 50s.