Famous People & Personalities - Part 21/22

//Sullivan//

Edward Vincent "Ed" Sullivan

brought us The Beatles, eh what...

"Monsieur Vincent" classic French film:
the career of St. Vincent de Paul

Vincent van Gogh -

Dutch painter!

Vicente (sic)* Fox
1st non- PRI president of Mexico since the Revolution

*outside of Mexico his fore name was often misspelled as "VINcente"

Charles "Charlie" William Fox -

another Guelph - ite. Pilot in the RCAF, awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Wounded Rommel in an attack on a convoy.

William Henry Fox Talbot, co-inventor of photography

"Electric Charlie" and "Motor Charlie"
Execs of General Electric
and of General Motors who had identical names: Charles Wilson in the 1st Eisenhower cabinet 1953, e q s. One
of them, (I think it was ?Motor?) in a controversy about stock divestments, evoked the headline: "IKE INSISTS WILSON SELL."

#7 appears to play from #5

From #6 and #7:

Charles James Fox - prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned thirty-eight years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries

Yes, "the 2 Charles Wilsons" were played on Charles William Fox.
W. H. Fox Talbot wasnʻt on my screen yet.

// Whig // (8)

Whig Party (U.K.) which was "dished" by Benjamin Disraeli
and the "Tories" (Conservatives), mid-19th c.; and Whig Party
(U. S.) which was briefly a "major" party; the Whigs "dished"
Martin Van Buren in 1840 in a famous campaign, and Lewis Cass, the would-be successor of James K. Polk in 1848. The Whigs were then dished by Franklin Pierce, conservative Democrat in 1852, and went out of business.

//Benjamin//

Benjamin Franklin -

newspaper publisher, author, scientist, politician, diplomat, etc.

Franklin W. Dixon
author of the Hardy Boy Series
(later continued by other authors under
the Dixon name), and the Ted Scott
(aviation Series, seldom* seen now.

*although John Axeʻs All about Collecting Boys
Series Books, cited by Touchstones,
seems to make mention of it.

Henry Hall Dixon - 19th cent. English sporting writer known as "The Druid".

Jack Hall Labor Union leader, Hawaʻi,
1930s -- 50s

Marguerite Higgins Hall -

female war correspondent in WWII, Korea & Vietnam

George V. Higgins great, under-rated Bostonian crime* novelist 1970s -- 1990s

Full name: George Vliet Higgins, but even the Library of Congress doesnʻt use the middle name.

*definitely not "Detective" or "Mystery" novels, since there is a dearth of P I s, and Law Enforcement is not very highly regarded. And there is usually no mystery about who committed the crimes. His main topic is the everyday life of professional criminals, inside and outside of crime.

George V (1865 – 1936) - King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India from 1910 to 1936.

George Rex of Knysna, most notable 19th-century resident of this small southern Cape town, almost certainly not descended from George III of Britain, as is often claimed.

Robley Henry Rex -

WWI veteran who died in 2009 at the age of 107.

Rex Whistler (1905 – 1944) - British artist, glass engraver, designer and illustrator.

Rex Beach (1877-1949)
once a best-selling author, 2nd and 3rd decades of the 20th c.

Edward L Beach, Jr.

- USN submarine officer, awarded the Navy Cross
- commanded the first underwater circumnavigation
- wrote the novel, Run Silent Run Deep

John Edward
-- religious and esoteric author

Edward "Tap" Gordon Jones -

RAF pilot in WWII
flew the Gladiator, Hurricane and Typhoon aircraft

awarded: CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
DSO (Distinguished Service Order)
DFC (Distinguished Flying Cross

Gordon "Flash" Hollett
Boston Bruins hockey player, 1930s--40s

Gordon "Gordie" Howe
Detroit Red Wings hockey player from 1946 to 1971

Gordon Brown Labour party leader, briefly, and prime minister
of UK, following Tony Blair

Isaac "Ike" Brown -

utility baseball player
played for the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro League and
the Detroit Tigers in the American League

in one game he played all nine positions.

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902 – 1991) : Polish-born, Jewish-American author.

Isaac Merritt Singer -

founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company

Isaac "Mink" Snopes character in William Faulknerʻs
Snopes Trilogy; mentally "challenged", he left out the final letter of "Snopes" and changed the 1st letters to H-M,
giving his name as "Ike Hmope".

Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr.

musician and composer
well known for his album Hot Buttered Soul
won the Academy Award for his theme music for the film Shaft.

Bill "Spaceman" Lee
author; Boston Red Sox pitcher, 1970s

Annabelle Lee Harmon -

left-handed female pitcher in the All-American Girls Professional League from 1944 to 1950

In 1944 she pitched the first perfect game in league history and in 1945 she pitched a no-hitter.

Tom Harmon Green Bay Packers star player, 1930s--40s*

*Iʻm old enough to remember him, but heʻs of the era just before I started seriously folloiwng pro football. They played offense AND defense in those days, but he was a star on offense. I donʻt remember his position --maybe running back.

Harmon Clayton Killebrew -

played for Washington Senators and the Kansas City Royals

played first base, third base and left field

entered the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984

// Senators //

Iagoʻs topping of Venetian fat cat senator Brabantioʻs insult
in Othello:
Bra.: "Thou art a villain!"
Iago: YOU are a -- senator!"

I'm stumped.

Iago ap Beli...according to Wikipedia, he was king of Gwynedd from 599-c616.

Melvin Belli lawyer; author of My Life on Trial. He defended assassin Jack Ruby in 1964

Melvin Ellis Calvin, Nobel prizewinning (1961) co-discoverer of the C3 pathway of carbon fixation in plants. (I feel old when I realize that CAM was still being elucidated -- partly by the head of our department -- and C4 was unknown, when I was an undergraduate.)

John Calvin* French-Swiss Protestant, conservative theologian

*original name: Jean Cauvin

John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. -

30th President of the USA and from the great green State of Vermont!

John Paul I
pope for one month during 1978; he took his papal name from his 2 predecessors,
John XXIII and Paul VI; his more famous successor, John Paul II took the same name.

John Paul Jones, naval commander in the American Revolution

Jack Jones Welsh author*

*Of the 6 Jack Joneses listed
in L T, he is apparently the one designated
as "Jack Jones (3)" , but his only book that I knew of, "Come Night End Day" is not listed. He is apparently either bilingual, or has been translated into Welsh.

James Earl Jones -

American actor stage and screen

Earl Carter father of Jimmy*Carter, Georgia Governor, U. S. President, 1970s

*Jimmy Carter: he was inaugurated under this name, but his full name is James Earl Carter

Earl Derr Biggers -

brought us Charlie Chan

Harold "Biggy" Chan
was what the media used to call a "reputed crime figure", Honolulu, 1960s

Jackie Chan (Chan Kong-sang) -

martial artist, actor, stunt choreographer

"Jackie Brown" young Bostonian criminal, supporting role*
in George V. Higgins's The Friends of Eddie Coyle

*He was male, and has no connection with the cinematic heroine "Jackie Brown" of later decades, although there was a movie version of "Eddie Coyle" --and of no other Higgins novel that I know of.

Margaret "Molly" Brown -

the "Unsinkable Molly Brown", survivor of the Titanic, activist, awarded the French Legion of Honor

Molly Ringwald, actress

"Molly Farren" supporting role in Eliotʻs Silas Marner

John Michael Farren -

White House Counsel to President George W. Bush
Deputy Campaign Manager for Bush-Quayle Re-Election Comm.
Arrested in 2010 and charged with the attempted murder of his wife.

James Michael Curley
Massachusetts politician, mayor of Boston,
governor; subject of The Rascal King (Beatty) and other biographies.

Thomas "Tom" Curley -

1991 - 2003 President & Publisher of USA Today
2003 - 2012 President of Associated Press
retired in 2012

Daniel Curley novelist; fl. in the 1960s and had the Warholian "15 Minutes" of being, at least among critics, "World Famous" for a short time. Havenʻt heard of him in the past few decades.

Daniel Thomas Murphy -

infielder for the New York Mets

Daniel Webster (W, NH), New Hampshire politician, orator; Stephen Vincent Benetʻs ʻThe Devil and Daniel Webster" was based on a legend about him.

Donovan Webster -

-author, journalist
-co-founder of Physicans Against Landmines/Center of International Rehabilitation
-co-founder of 'Running the Sahara' - an on foot crossing
-documented "Amazon Gold" a film about the destruction of the upper Amazon basin by gold mining

Dick Donovan
A. L. pitcher, Chicago White Sox, 1950s.
Asked "what were you throwing?" once, after an All Star game played in a N. L. park, he replied, "National League baseballs."

Hedley Donovan -

editor-in-chief of Time Inc.

William "Wild Bill" Donovan
Founder of the U. S. Government's O S S
(later C I A )

James Britt Donovan - lawyer

-helped draft legislation to establish the CIA
-negotiated with Russia to get a captured U-2 pilot back
-assistant trial counsel at Nuremberg

Jim Britt Iowa-born Boston sports radio broadcaster;
later TV candlepins bowling broadcaster

Britt Ekland -

Swedish actress
the Bond girl in Man With A Golden Gun
married actor Peter Sellers (divorced four years later)

//Bond //

Edward Bond dramatist
author of A Fool and We come to the River

Edward de Bono (born 19 May 1933) - Maltese physician, author, inventor and consultant.
He originated the term lateral thinking, and is a proponent of the deliberate teaching of thinking as a subject in schools.

Edward Teach -

pirate know as Blackbeard.

Edward II Norman king of England protagonist of a
Cnristopher Marlowe tragedy.

Edward G. Robinson, 1893 – 1973, Romanian-born American actor, best remembered for his roles as gangsters.

Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson" -

"#42", second baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Daniel Defoeʻs "Robinson Crusoe" 17th or
18th c. British castaway; fictional, but said to be based on an Alexander Selkirk of real life. He also is a main character in Coetzeeʻs
Foe, in which his "creator" is the title character.

Alexander Pushkin -

Russian poet and author

Adelaide Alexander Perkins
Wellesley-educated poet*

*paternal grandmother of rolandperkins

Anthony Perkins, actor

George Perkins
teacher, Civil War veteran;
author of Three Years a Soldier
father-in-law of 76

Gilbert & George (Gilbert Proesch and George Passmore) collaborative artists.

George Herman "Babe"*
Ruth Boston Red Sox
pitcher, who became, as a
New York Yankee the outstanding hitter of his era.

*aka "Jidge" Ruth

Herman Melville -

of white whale fame.

Billy Herman
NL infielder, Brooklyn Dodgers, Boston Braves,
Pittsburgh Pirates, 1940s;
manager, Boston Red Sox, 1960s

Herman Wouk -

author of The Caine Mutiny, Marjorie Morningstar and The Winds of War

Herman P. Peterson
legislator, Massachusetts, 1930s--40s

Herman Munster, TV character

Munster, Indiana

Indiana Jones, movie archaelogist

"Indiana" eponymous heroine of an early novel by
Amandine Dupin, better known as George Sand

IF anyone is going to say "#85
was last correct post,* because
Munster, Indiana (86) is a place not
a person", I'm accepting it as
a personification, as theexiled librarian (87) has apparently done. I was just about to post the same for 87, but I was 2 or 3 minutes late.

*probably about 20 posts from now!

George Dewey -

Vermonter, Admiral of the Navy

Melville Louis Kossuth (Melvil) Dewey (1851 – 1931), of decimal (book) classification fame

Louis Armstrong, musician

Karen Armstrong
writer on religion; author of Buddha, Islam, etc.

Neil Armstrong, RIP

Kelley Armstrong -

Canadian author of fantasy novels

Gene Kelly, actor/dancer/choreographer

Gene Moore*
outfielder, briefly in the
starting lineup of manager Casey Stengel's Boston Braves,
1930s--40s

*the artist Gene Moore picked up by Touchstones ain't him.

Christopher Moore -

author of absurd and usually very funny novels, my favorite being Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal.

Christopher Marlowe -- another of the Elizabethans who didn't write the works of Shakespeare

Philip Marlowe -

Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled detective

"Philip" character* in Philip's Skull
by Andy Warhol

*I haven't seen a copy of the
Warhol work, and know of it
only through L T. I'm assuming it has a character named Philip.

Philip Pullman, author

Andy Phillip Marine Corps veteran of Iwo Jima, WW II; U. of Illinois and NBA basketball player, 1940s--50s, Chicago, (Stags, not Bulls), Philadephia (Warriors, not 76ers), Fort Wayne, Boston; 5 times an All-Star.

Andrew "Andy" Eugene Pettitte -

left handed pitcher for the New York Yankees

"Eugene Onegin"* classic Russian long poem
by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
(some would say epic). Vladimir Nabokov's
English version of it led to a classic lilterary
feud with
critic Edmund Wilson

original title: Yevgenii Onyegin

Charlie Wilson -

member of the gang that pulled off The Great Train Robbery in England in 1963. Captured, sentenced to 30 years, escaped, recaptured, paroled, killed in Spain.

Wilson, Keppel and Betty - Sand dancers extraordinaire

(Jack Wilson, Joe Keppel, Betty Knox)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxAr66vtUoQ

// Knox //

Henry Knox
Secretary of War* in the 1st U. S. government's cabinet under George Washington

*department's name was, long afterwards, changed to "Defense".

Robert Knox - 19th C. Edinburgh surgeon, anatomist and zoologist. For the purposes of research, bought bodies from the body-snatchers Burke and Hare.

James Knox Polk (D, TN)
11th President of the U. S.

Harry James - trumpeter, band leader

James Buchanan (D, PA)
15th* President of the U. S.
and (anti-?)hero of John Updike's only play.

*and, "worst" some historians, including some in L T threads, have said.

Jack Buchanan - (Walter John "Jack" Buchanan, 1891 – 1957), Scottish theatre and film actor, singer, producer and director.

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (D, MA)
34th President of the U. S.

elected in Nov. 1960; assassinated in Nov. 1963

Rev. John Buchanan
(1) 1821--1903, Presbyterian minister and plant collector in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
(2) 1855--1896, Presbyterian minister, plant collector, farmer and British Vice-Consul in what is now Malawi.

AFAIK these two gentlemen were not related, but the homonymy causes endless confusion.

Patrick Joseph "Pat"Buchanan
Nixonian speech writer;
later Right Wing political activist, 3rd party candidate for president

Joseph Stalin , Bolshevik

Vassily Iosefevich "Vaska Durak" Stalin
Soviet Air Force officer, son of (118); he was assigned to Iraq in the 1930s*;
in the 1990s a rumor arose that V.I. Stalin became, in the 30s, the father of Sadam Hussein, making Joseph Stalin Sadam's grandfather.

*Historians believe that the applicable
chronology does not support the rumor.

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky - influential Russian painter

Wassily Leontief
economist; author of The Future of the World Economy

Wassily Sapellnikoff, (or more accurately, Vasily Lvovich Sapelnikov), 1867 – 1941, Russian pianist.

Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov -

Russian Grand Master Chess Champion

(can we get off the Russians yet?!?!)

A chance of getting off the Russians with:

Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, (known as Sacha) 1883 — 1946, a Russian Soviet composer.

Thank you!

Alexander Graham Bell -

major inventor (1st practical telephone among other things) and one of the founders of the National Geographic Society.

Reverend Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker

"Reverend Ike"
Hedonistic-leaning evangelist;
original name: Frederick Eikerenkoetter II

Isaac Benjamin "Ike" Davis -

New York Mets first baseman

Ossie Davis, a fine actor.

Gina Davis a fine actress

Gina Lollobrigida -

actress, sex symbol, photojournalist, sculptress, received the Legion d'honneur.

Gina Davis is incorrect. She is Geena Davis.

Sammy Davis , Junior - late Afro-American singer, actor

Charles Theodore "Chili" Davis -

mlb outfielder, switch-hitter, DH, now hitting coach for Oakland.

Welcome back, Skoobdo (133)

"'Gina' is incorrect . . ."

RIght, but this game hasn't been holding the posts to
a duplication of the exact
spelling of the previous. ANd I think in Geena/Gina the pronunciation is the same.

// Theodore // (135)

Theodore Samuel "Ted" Williams 1918--2002

Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame outfielder, 1939--1942,
1946--1951 and 1953--1960.
Batted .406 in 1941, a BA unsurpassed in the years since.

Theodore Roosevelt - 26th President of the US

the youngest President when assuming office (age 42)
one of only three Presidents to win the Nobel Peace Prize

Eleanor Roosevelt,
columnist; activist, FIrst Lady, 1933--1945.

Name before marriage: Eleanor Roosevelt; niece of 138.

Eleanor Francis "Glo" Helin -

US astronomer, specialized in the discovery of asteroids and comets, received NASA's Exceptional Service Medal, died in 2009

Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star Spangled Banner"

Sir Walter Scott, who should need no introduction

Walter "Walt"* Dropo
3-sport college athlete, U. of Connecticut; WW II veteran, major league first baseman: Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, etc.

*aka "Moose" Dropo

Walt Disney, who again needs no introduction ... is that a mouse in the corner?

"Mickey Mouse"* / Miguelito el Raton / Michel Souris
animation and comic strip character.

*The rumor prevalent in the 1970s has not been confirmed: To the effect that Mickey was a vocational adviser and used to advise against accepting "Spiro Agnew jobs".

Mickey Spillane -

creator of hard-boiled detective Mike Hammer

// Mike //

Pat and Mike classic Hepburn / Tracy comedy

Chad Austin Tracy -

infielder for the Washington Nationals

Jim Tracy
(former?)* NL manager: Dodgers, Pirates

*Or is he still managing the Pirates? I'm not as up on
this topic as I used ot be.

I THINK he is with the Rockies now...

Spencer Bonaventure Tracy - American actor

winner of 2 Oscars, nominated for 9.

" (Tracy) is with the
Rockies now . . ."

Thanks, mysterymax.

// Spencer// (150)

Herbert Spencer British philosopher,
sociologist; the "Social Darwinism"
of late 19th, earlier 20th centuries is
said to be more properly called a
"Spencerianism"

Herbert Lom, late actor, just passed away,starred in the film series, Pink Panther

Herbert George Wells (H. G. Wells), 1866 – 1946, an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre.

Franklin "Frank" Patrick Herbert, Jr. -

also a science fiction writer; author of DUNE

David Herbert Richards Lawrence, 1885 – 1930, English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence.

Author of Lady Chatterley's Lover. This 'pictorial account of the day-to-day life of an English gamekeeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor minded readers, as it contains many passages on pheasant-raising, the apprehending of poachers, ways to control vermin, and other chores and duties of the professional gamekeeper. Unfortunately, one is obliged to wade through many pages of extraneous material in order to discover and savour those sidelights on the management of a midland shooting estate, and in this reviewer's opinion the book cannot take the place of J. R. Miller's ''Practical Gamekeeping".'

ETA: Not a book I would want my wife or my servants to read.

George Herbert Perkins
mathematician; Don't know that he got anything published outside of newspapers; grandfather of rolandperkins; son of
George Perkins the author* of Three Years a Soldier

*editor Richard N.Griffin
another great-grandson of the author is placed in the authokr's slot in L t.

Anthony Perkins, played Norman Bates in Psycho.

Kathy Bates, actress
a strong supporting role in
the movie version of
Joe Klein's Primary Colors

Kathy Baker, actress from Picket Fences and the Jesse Stone TV movies

Captain Valentine Henry Baker MC AFC (1888 – 1942) served in all three of the British Armed Forces during the First World War. After the war he became a civilian flight instructor, and co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company, manufacturers of ejection seats.

Bobby Valentine N.L. manager, --New York Mets;
later mgr. in Japanese Major Leagues, and( in A.L.)
Boston Red Sox with whom
he is now finishing his 1st (and only??) season.

Robert Henry "Bobby" Timmons, 1935 – 1974, African American jazz pianist and composer of several favourites, including "Dat Dere".

Timothy "Tim" Forbes Timmons =

Major league baseball umpire

John Forbes Kerry (D, MA)
senior U., S. Senator from Massachusetts; candidate for President in 2004. He lost a close* election to incumbent George W. Bush (R, TX).

*But not as close as the 2000 election in which the challenger won the popular vote, but lost the electoral college.

Kathryn Forbes - pen name of Kathryn Anderson McLean

American writer. Her novel "Mama's Bank Account" was the inspiration for the play/film/musical/tv show 'I Remember Mama"

Esther Hoskins Forbes
author of a famous YA novel: Johnny Tremain and
a famous non-fiction: Paul Revere and the World he Lived in

Esther Brandeau -

first Jewish person to set foot in Canada (1738) - had arrived pretending to be a Catholic boy. When her identity was discovered she was deported back to France. (Canada at that time being legally Catholic)

"Esther Waters" title character and heroine of a
George Moore novel.

Esther Sumner Damon -

another Vermonter! The last widow from the Revolutionary War, she died in 1906 and is buried in the same cemetery as
President Calvin Coolidge.

Damon Runyon – American newspaperman and author, best known for his humerous short stories set in New York. "Guys and Dolls" was based on two of his stories.

Samuel Chenery Damon
New England genealogist, historian

Helen Bates "Penny" Chenery Tweedy -

owner and breeder of the race horse Secretariat who won the Triple Crown in 1973. She was a 'doughnut girl' in France during WWII and the first female member of The Jockey Club.

"Molly Tweedy Bloom" heroine of Joyce's
Ulysses; Critics believe she is
modelled on Joyce's wife, Nora Barnacle Joyce;
"Molly"'s father, Brian Cooper Tweedy,
apparently an Anglo-Irishman, is mentioned,
but does not appear, in Ulysses.

Pierre Nora - French historian

Pierre Poivre (1719-1786), founder of Pampelmousses Botanical Garden, Mauritius, and introducer of cloves and nutmeg to French tropical possessions outside the Spice Islands

Patrick Poivre d'Arvor
Author of Roland Garros 87 and Dom (sic) Juan'
and others

Pierre Poivre -

Introduced clove and nutmeg to Mauritius and Reunion Island.
Built the Botanical Garden of Pamplemousses on Mauritius

" 'Pierre' Bezhukov"
full Russian name: Pyotr Kirilovich Bezhukov, hero of
Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace

Joseph Phillippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau -

former Prime Minister of Canada

Elliot Gould, actor and sometime audiobook narrator.

Stephen Jay Gould, zoologist extraordinaire

Stephen Grover Cleveland
president extraordinaire*

*extraordinary in that the opposed the (predominantly AMerican) U.S. planters' overthrow of the HawaiianMonarchy, while most of the Establishment wasindifferent or favorable to it.
A minor point is that he seems to have been extrordinarily self-cloning, and is counted as
TWO presidents in conventional counting! (because of having had non-consecutive terms.)

Frances Folsom Cleveland -

the youngest First Lady and also the only First Lady to have been married IN the White House

Frances Perkins
New Deal Sec. of Labor
during Franklin D. Roosevelt's
administrations; 1st woman to
be Sec. of Labor, (and first woman
ever in a presidential cabinet?)

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett -

English author of The Secret Garden

John Burnett
author on Greek Philosophy; a favorite
of the great Futa Helu
who brought Greek Philosophy to the South Pacific

= John Burnett (3) in LT listing;
surname has also been spelled with ONE t.

Leo Burnett -

Named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influentcial people of the 20th century. Advertising executive that helped bring us The Jolly Green Giant and Tony the Tiger.

// Tiger //

"'Tiger' Wilson"
song character in a song of ca. 1900, the boxing opponent of the song's hero "Kid" McCoy.

Wilson Antonio Valdez -

Major league ball player just traded to the Cincinnati Reds, the first player since Babe Ruth to start a game in the infield and end up the winning pitcher.

He was playing for Philadelphia Phillies and wound up pitching in the 19th inning of a game against Cincinnati. He pitched one inning and allowed no runs.

António de Figuereido Gomes e Sousa, noted ecologist in Mozambique c. 1948-1975, died in Lisbon 1984.

John Philip Sousa
band leader, composer

Philip Seymour Hoffman -

Academy Award winner actor (for Capote) and actor in numerous other films

Freddie Hoffman
old time ML catcher; later
a coach with the St. Louis Browns.

Trevor William Hoffman -

former mlb relief pitcher for 18 years, on the All-Star team 7 times, had 15 - 20 save seasons, 14 - 30 save seasons and 9 - 40 save seasons, plus the highest strikeout rate of any reliever when he retired.

Played for Marlins, Padres and Brewers.

William Henry Harrison
(W, O.) General; 9th President of U.S.
The first (and one of only two Whig Party) candidates who were elected president.
As it turned out, all but about 1/48th of his term was served by Vice PResident John Tyler who was a Whig in name only.

Henry Charles Albert David -

otherwise known as
His Royal Highness Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales

aka: Prince Harry

Alberto Fujimori Peruvian
politician; president for a few years; popular, but the Establishment forced him to
leave Peru (fleeing to Japan?)

Alberto Santos-Dumont -

early aviation pionner, designed, built and fly the first dirigible that was practical. He also designed, built and flew fixed wing, heavier than air planes and helicopters. Unlike the Wright flyers Dumont's fixed wing aircraft took off under their own power with wheels. He was from Bazil, but lived and worked in France.

"Fishy" Dumont
Quebecois-American pro* hockey player ,
1940s--50s, Boston Olympics}
and (briefly) one of a
very few Americans
in the NHL (Boston Bruins).

*The Olympics were strictly
speaking in an "Amateur"
league, but were the de facto
minor league team of the Bruins.
I don't remember his real
forename.

Gabriel Dumont -

leader of the Metis people in Saskatchewan, in the late 1880s he was part of Buffalo Bills Wild West Show

Gabriel Fielding
British novelist

Helen Fielding

British novelist - author of Bridget Jones Diary

(Playing on 202: the last*correct post)
Helen Keller
multiply challenged writer

*203 is plagiarized from my #4 (way back in 08/12!) Why from ME?!

Don't know, Roland, but it sounds like spam to me.

Helen Hayes Brown - actress

Winner of: 2 Oscars - one for Best Actress and one for Best Supporting Actress, 5 Emmy awards, 2 Tony awards, a Grammy, the National Medal of Arts, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Frank Hayes* catcher,
Philadelphia Athletics,
1930s--40s

*The team that Touchstones picks up for this one is the one I mean;
the 'Frank Hayes" isn't

George Francis "Gabby" Hayes -

film star of Westerns

Dick Francis
British former jockey; novelist

Sir Francis Drake -

seaman (second in command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada)
explorer (second circumnavigation of the globe)

Dr. Frances Horwich, host of 1950's tv show "Ding Dong School".

I have no idea why I know about her, as the show aired several years before I was born, and to my knowledge I've never seen it.

Frances Parkinson Keyes
novelist

James Parkinson - surgeon, geologist

first to describe the disease which came to bear his name,
first to describe perforated appendicitis as a cause of death
illustrated and published geological volumes giving order to fossils
one of the founding members of the Geological Society of London

William James U. S. philosopher; author of Psychology, The varieties of Religious Experience, and many other non-fictions; son of philosopher Henry James Sr., brother of novelist Henry James

Benjamin Tyler Henry -

inventor of the Henry rifle, the first reliable repeating rifle made by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company

Benjamin J. Cayetano
author of Ben:
a Memoir* . . .; Governor of Hawai'i 1994-2002; candidate for Mayor of Honolulu, 2012; first former governor to run for a 'Lower" office in retirement.

*Met author.

Marcelo José das Neves Alves Caetano, Prime Minister of Portugal 1968--1974, successor to António de Oliveira Salazar.

Jose' Saramago
Portuguese novelist; Nobel Prize laureate

Jose' Maria Carreras -

one of the "three tenors"

Jose' Maria Regidor
Filipino freedom fighter;
considered the "Father of Filipino Education"

Angelo Maria Bandini -

18th century librarian for over 40 years
library of the Vatican, library at Florence, Laurentian Library,

Angelo Roncalli, North Italian Cardinal, Vatican diplomat;
> later Pope John XXIII

Michel Angelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475 – 1564), as in the Sistine Chapel ceiling, etc.

Michel Therrien -

head hockey coach of the Montreal Canadiens

Michel Souris / Mickey Mouse French and original English names of a famous Walt Disney*
comic strip and animation
character

*the drawing up of the original animation
character is said to have been done by Ib Iwerks

George Souris -

Australian politican

George Thorncroft (1857-1934), hotel keeper in Barberton (Mpumalanga, South Africa) and plant collector; commemorated in Thorncroftia, Aloe thorncroftii, Zanthoxylum thorncroftii, Crassula thorncroftii, Scolopia thorncroftii

George Kell
hard hitting AL 3b: Philadelphia Athletics, Detroit Tigers,* Boston Red Sox

*The multi-player trade (early 1950s?) which
brought the late Johnny Pesky to the Tigers, brought
Kell to the Red Sox.

George Howard Brett -

former Kansas City Royals third base player:

- one of four to have 3,000 career hits, 300 home runs, and a career .300 batting average (with Willie Mays, Hank Aaron and Stan Musial
- inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame

Tom Howard radio mc;
his best known role was as the
exasperated question-poser in
'"It Pays to be Ignorant"
By the 1940s Howard (b. ca. 1874) was one
of the oldest regulars in radio broadcasting.

Howard Carter - archaeologist

-discovered King Tut's tomb

Beatrice Orchard Carter, botanical artist of Cape Town, some of whose work was published in The Genera of the Mesembryanthemaceae, text by Hans Herre.

Julian Dean Orchard - English comedy actor

appeared in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother and Revenge of the Pink Panter, to name just a couple

Jimmy Dean
TV host, singer; fl. in 1960s-70s;
d. ca. 2011.

Jimmy Hoffa, missing Teamsters Union leader. Declared legally dead in 1982.

Jimmy Foxx 3b>1b (and briefly c and p) Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Sox,
and briefly Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies
greatest right-hand batter of all time, some believe.

James Francis "Jimmy" Durante -

wonderful comedian, "Good Night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are."

Frank Francis Fasi*
(D, later R; Later I)
Hawaiʻi politician 1950s--1990s; 4 times elected
Mayor of Honolulu

*Met subject.

Saint Francis of Assisi

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