Famous People & Personalities - Part 23

//Frank//

Frank Clifton Bossard -

British SIS officer who spied for Russia, arrested by MI5 in 1965

Clifton P. "Kip" Fadiman
polymath, editor, radio m c

Dorothy Fadiman -

American award-winning documentary film maker:

Stealing America: Vote by Vote
Seeds of Hope: HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia
When Abortion Was Illegial: Untold Stories

etc.

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893 – 1957), of Lord Peter Wimsey fame

Leigh Hunt British poet, litterateur
of the Romantic Era

John David (Jack) Leigh -

photographer. Took the photo on the cover of the book "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"

Vivian Leigh Anglo-Indian
actress; her most famous role was "Scarlet OʻHara"
(1939)

Vivian Vance (Vivian Roberta Jones) - American actress

Best know for her role as Ethel Mertz, Lucille Ball's sidekick in the I Love Lucy show.

Jennifer Jones -- American actress
He roles were as varied as
"Madame Bovary" and
Saint Bernadette

John Paul Jones -

Revolutionary War naval captain - "I have not yet begun to fight".

John Forbes Kerry (D, MA)

senior senator of Massachusetts; his colleague was, briefly, Tea Partyer Scott Brown (R, MA), who gave MA it first G O P senator in decades, but who lost on Nov. 6 to Elizabeth Warren (D, MA)

Kerry Lee Wood - mlb pitcher for the Chicago Cubs

Joan Audrey Kerry,* 1929-- ca.1997
painter

*Knew artist.

Audrey Kathleen Ruston - Audrey Hepburn

Actress and humanitarian

Kathleen Norris
author; fl. beginning in the 1990s

Joanne Kathleen Rowling (J. K. Rowling) -

British author of Harry Potter fame

Kathleen Annie Lansdell, botanical artist of Durban; major contributor to the first few volumes of the series Flowering Plants of South Africa, which are now rare and sought-after Africana.

Kathleen Norris*
---non-fictionwriter in religion
and other topics, fl.:1990s

*also the name of a popular
novelist, 1930s-40s

Norris Dewar McWhirter -

Scottish, sports journalist, timekeeper and announcer when Roger Bannister broke the four minute mile and co-editor with his twin brother of the Guiness Book of Records. His brother, Ross, was assassinated by the IRA.

"Norris ʻNorbyʻ Webster"
missing person in a
Franklin M.Dixon "Hardy Brothers" plot*; he
is found by the heroes Joe
and Frank Hardy

*Iʻve forgotten which Dixon title.

Noah Webster, Jr.

Author, publisher. The Blue Backed Speller, worked for early copyright laws, Webster's Dictionary, helped found Amherst College.

Daniel Webster (W, NH)
19th c. U. S. statesman and diplomat; strong Unionist in the pre-Civil War era. Folklore about him appears in S. Benetʻs
"The Devil and Daniel Webster"

Daniel Wroughton Craig - the best 007 yet!

Happy Thanksgiving, Roland!

Happy Thanksgiving,
mysterymax!

Craig Brown*
Bostonian librarian; book collector WW II artefacts
collector


(Clicking on this name for
"Search" yields an edition
of Macbeth which I doubt
that this Craig Brown had anything
to do with.)

*Know subject.

Craig Alan Biggio

- played catcher and second base and outfield for the Houston Astros for 20 years. Holds the record for the modern day player most hit by a baseball.

Major William Craig
Northern Irish prime minister; I think the penultimate one before the
change to direct rule from London in the early 1970s. His predecessor (and relative?) was Captain Terence OʻNeill, (much more of a statesman), and his successor was Brian Faulkner.

//Faulkner//

William Cuthbert Faulkner -

American author, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize in Literature

William IV
of the Hanoverian
(later Windsor) Dynasty, King of the UK; he succeeded George IV and was succeeded by his niece, Victoria

Victoria Nuland -

spokesperson for the US Dept of State

Sherwin B. Nuland
author of The Art of Aging,
The mysteries within,
How we Die and many others.

Derrick Sherwin

British television producer, writer, and actor

story editor (1968–69)/producer (1969–70) of Doctor Who

Tom Derrick
A L infielder, who had the proverbial "cup of coffee" as
a Boston Red Sox reserve;
some sports writers took a dislike to him, and started
blaming everything that was wrong with the Sox on him and one other reserve ---even though they both seldom got to play!

Welcome to the game heatherlove!

Derrick Brant May -

mlb outfielder and currant batting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals

James May, the 'Captain Slow' of BBC's Top Gear

Henry James III
aka "Harry" James

critic, editor; nephew of novelist Henry James (1843-1916), and an editor of his correspondence.

Jesse Woodson James -

outlaw, bank robber, leader, with his brother Frank, of the James-Younger Gang.

Jesse, Bethlehemite of the Tribe of Judah; son of Obed
grandson of Ruth*,
father of King David,
grandfather of King Solomon; reputed ancestor of Jesus

*Ruth: One of the few maternal ancestors mentioned in the Bible.

Dr. Ruth Westheimer -

author, therapist...ok do I really have to explain further?..lol :-)

**edited for question mark**

Ruth Benedict
anthropologist; author of Patterns of Culture

Bruce Benedict -

former catcher for the Atlanta Braves

W. Bruce Lincoln
historian; highly regarded author on
Russian and Soviet subjects

Abraham Lincoln - past President of USA

Bill Lincoln
Hawaiian singer

Bill Clinton - past USA's president

DeWitt Clinton (D,* NY)
losing candidate in the presidential election of 1812

*One Wikipedia post calls Clinton a Federalist. He had the support of most of the
dwindling Fed. Party in 1812, but
was a Dem-Repub. rival of incumbent James Madison (D, VA)
who defeated him

William Roy DeWitt Wallaceco -

co-founder of Readers Digest magazine

Rob Roy
Scottish hero; title chaaracter of
a Walter Scott novel.

Roy Rogers, singing cowboy/actor

Patrick Roy* goalie, NHL and Olympic
hockey star

*pronounced: Rwa

Sir Patrick Moore, BBC radio and TV astronomer of many years' standing

Patrick Duffy, American TV star of TV series, Dallas

Martha Murphy Duffy*
a senior editor at Time Magazine,
1970s (?) -- 2000s

*Knew author.

rolandperkins: Your entry do not appeared.

"...Your entry do not appeared" (55)

It does appear on
my screen (!?) (54)

It is true, though that my name is almost deleted on my screen, which is the case with
most of the posts now --ON my screen. I was assuming (and hoping) that this problem is not throughout
L T. My name (in 54 e.g.) is
deleted (written-over) from
the -d of "roland" on.

Roland, your name appears fine on my screen -

//Martha//

Martha Graham - American dancer and choreographer

. . ."your name appears fine..." (57)

Thanks for checking it.
The once cancelled name in 54 has been restored (?!), and it looks like
all the names in this thread are okay. I guess what I described is happening only in certain threads.

Graham Greene
British, liberal Catholic novelist; perhaps Britain's greatest of the 20th century; world traveller

Billy Graham, American evangelist

Billy Sol Estes wheeler-dealer; friend of Pres, Lyndon B. Johnson

Billy Joel - American singer,pianist,composer

Joel, son of Pethuel,
prophet; 29th book of the Old Testament

Lawrence Joel -

US Army Sargeant First Class, served in Korea and Vietnam.
First medic to win the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War.

Abbott Lawrence Lowell
political scientist; university executive; President of Harvard, retiring in the mid-1930s; brother of poet Amy Lowell

Lawrence Durrell, late British author

Gerald Durrell, his brother; noted conservationist

Gerald Anderson- Filipino American actor

Dominis Garrida "Andy"
Anderson
Hawai'i Republican legislator, mayoral candidate

Andy Gibb , late British singer, youngest brother of the music group, Bee Gees, brother of Barry Gibb,late Maurice Gibb and late Robin Gibb

Andrew "Andy" Eugene Pettitte -

pitcher with the New York Yankees.

Andrew Morton, British biographer

Philip Morton Shand (1895--1960), English architect, critic and wine writer; more obscurely, grandfather of Camilla Parker Bowles.

Henry Morton Stanley
U.S. journalist, explorer; most noted for his (correctly) "presuming" to have found the (temporarily) lost explorer David Livingstone

Julius Sterling Morton -

agriculturalist and found of Arbor Day

Sterling Dow*
archaeologist, professor of
Greek language and history.

*Knew author.

Charles Dow - one of the three founding members/journalist of stock & shares index, Dow Jones

Elizabeth H. Dow
Library and Information Science professor, Louisiana State U.; writer on archival subjects

Tony Dow, who played Wally Cleaver on "Leave It To Beaver"

Tony Conigliaro
ill fated outfielder who started in the
major leagues (Boston Red Sox) not far beyond high school and with no Triple-A experience. (His h.s. was Swampscott, MA. He came back to play in the late 60s and early 70s, after a severe beaning by Jack Hamilton in the pennant-winning season, 1967, but never fulfilled his
early promise of being a super-star.

Tony Curtis - late American actor

Anthony Keith "Tony" Gwynn -

retired mlb player, played 20 seasons with the Padres
tied for second most batting titles
15 times an All Star
had a .338 batting average

Keith Kaneshiro

City & County of HonoluluProsecuting attorney (usually called "District Attorney) in Mainland counties; he is now in a 2nd and non-consecutive term in that office. I don't know why "non-consecutive" is important. But it made Grover Cleveland
the only president who is counted (in conventional, though incorrect, count) as
TWO presidents!

Grover aka Grover Monster, a Sesame Street's character

Max Grover
children's non-fiction writer

Max Mosley, Formula One (F1A) president

too easy!!!

Walter Ellis Mosley -
author of crime/mystery books (among others)

Robert Walter , American musician

click:
http://www.robertwalter.com

Walter Bruce Willis -

American actor appearing in over 60 films, made it into the "big time" with the movie Die Hard.

Bruce Lee, late Hongkong Chinese kung fu actor

Bruce Wayne, Batman's alter ego

Wayne Terwilliger
reserve infielder;
"super-sub" of the 1950s on several MLB baseball teams; and, I learn from Touchstones, author of at least one book.

John Wayne Gacy , infamous American serial killer

John XXIII, Vatican diplomat, cardinal, Pope;
greatest (?) of the 20th century popes. pre-papal name: Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli

John Lennon, late singer/song composer, ex-member
of the famous British pop group, The Beatles

John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil -

first baseman and later manager in the American Negro League
became a scout for the Chicago Cubs and signed Lou Brock to his first contract
helped establish the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
received the Presidential Medal of Freedom award posthumously.

Jo Jordan Hawai'i; State Representative, Leeward O'ahu, in the Legislature

Micheal Jordan. famous American basketball player

Brian O'Neal Jordon -

played outfielder for the Cardinals, Braves, Dodgers and Rangers
played safety for the Atlanta Falcoms

Brian Aherne stage and film
actor, 1930s-40s;
he played the role of Robert Browning opposite Katherine Cornell as Elizabeth Barrett Browning in The Barretts of Wimpole Street*

*saw production, Autumn, 1944

Brian Hyland, singer

Lawrence A. "Pat" Hyland -

American electrical engineer, one of several people largely responsible for the invention of radar. Became President and CEO of Hughes Aircraft after the death of Howard Hughes.

Lawrence G. Green, Cape Town journalist and prolific writer on South Africa.

ETA from Wikipedia: Lawrence George Green (1900 – 1972)

Thomas Edward Lawrence,

known as " Lawrence of Arabia'' (1888-1935)British soldier/author

John Thomas Baines (1820 – 1875) artist and explorer; accompanied David Livingstone to the Zambezi, also explored in Australia

Leighton John Baines,

(11 Dec 1984- ), English footballer played for Everton and England's national
soccer team

Michael "Mike" Leighton -

NHL goalie for the Philadelphia Flyers

Frances Mary Leighton, botanist of Cape Town, later emigrated to Australia with her husband, (Prof.) William Edwyn Isaac

Mary Tyler Moore. American TV actress

Guess you've never seen the original James Cond, Sean Connery. The best ever was/ever will be.

Oops! My first time checking out stuff. Didn't see what's happening until I'd posted this.

gwenraab: It is alright. You meant

Roger Moore, British actor who act as James Bond in film besides Sean Connery, the original James Bond in the first film, Doctor No .

Roger Clemens Ohio-born All-Star baseball pitcher: U. of Texas,
Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Houston Astros

Koby Aaron Clemens -

son of Roger Clemens, currently playing in the minors for the Toronto organization.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 – 1910) aka Mark Twain

Samuel Jackson, Afro-American actor

Samuel Johnson, of Dictionary fame

Earvin "Magic" Johnson -

point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers
member of the basketball Hall of Fame

Shawn Machel Johnson, retired American artistic gymnast

Earl Johnson ML pitcher, Boston Red Sox 1940s
WW II veteran: Battle of the Bulge

Kelly Andrew Johnson ML second baseman

currently a free agent, played for Atlanta Braves, Arizona Diamondbacks and the Toronto Blue Jays.

Jeremiah Johnson

Famous mountain man and a Robert Redford movie role.

Andrew Johnson*
Anti-secession Southern politician; Union general
Vice President 1865; President 1865-1869. Impeached, but conviction failed by one vote.

*no middle name; the last
of a sequence of presidents
who were (with 2 exceptions)
without middle names. The next president U. S. Grant
was the 1st of a sequence
who (with 2 exceptions) DID
have a middle name.

Andrew "Rube" Foster -

pitcher for 15 years and prganizer pf tje Negro National League, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

William Foster, leader of the Foster Gang, who were the Johannesburg crime sensation of 1914. The cave where they died is still pointed out to visitors.

John Foster Dulles
diplomat; though G O P, he worked for the Truman Administration on the Japanese Peace Treaty (1951); was Eisenhower's Sec. of State until his death during the 2nd Ike Admin.

John Xavier Merriman, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony 1908-1910, among other things

John Edward Kennedy -

mlb infielder, played 12 seasons (from 1962 - 1974). Hit a home run in his first major league at bat. Played for the Washington Senators and others.

Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (D, MA)
entered the Senate in 1963,
and was there until death
(2011).

Demi Moore- actress

Richard William "Dickie" Moore -

NKL left wing - played for the Montreal Canadiens from 1951 to 1963, and later for Toronto and St. Louis. Member of the Hockey Hall of FAme

"Dickie" Johnson
Hawai'i G O P politician

William Malcolm Dickey -

catcher for the New York Yankees from 1928 to 1943, served in the Navy during WWII and then returned to the Yankees as a player/manager.

During his playing years the Yankees went to the World Series nine times, winning eight. As manager they won another six.

He wore number 8 and after training Yogi Berra as a catcher, Berra wore number 8, and the Yankees retired the number.

Dickey was also a great hitter, with a lifetime average of .313, and a high season of .362 in 1936. He is in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

PS Happy New Year, Roland!

Máel Coluim mac Donnchada (d. 1093) aka Malcolm III Canmore, the historical prototype of the Malcolm in Macbeth.

Happy New Year, mysterymax!

//Malcolm //

Janet Malcolm
writer on psychiatry and on
various celebrities -- as different as Gertrude (Stein) and Alice (B. Toklas); the Plath/Hughes marriage, and, on Sigmund Freud: one of the most conroversial works on
psychiatry of the 20th century.

Malcom Loughead -

inventor of hydraulic brakes,
formed (with his brother) Alco Hydro-aeroplane Company which became Lockheed Corporation

Malcom Gladwell,

British-Canadian author/journalsit/speaker

Adele Olivia Gladwell
author of Blood and Roses: Vampires in 19th century Literature

Adele Wiseman -

Canadian author, she won the Governor General's Award in 1956 for her first novel, The Sacrifice

James Wiseman
archaeologisst, professor of Classics; writer

James Gardner , American actor

Erle Stanley Gardner
U.S. law & crime novelist; his main hero is "Perry Mason" a courageous and wily defense lawyer.

Henry Morton Stanley, explorer

George Frances Gillman Stanley -

Canadian historian and designer of the Canadian flag

George Christopher Cato (1814-1890), first mayor of Durban

Marcus Cato
Conservative Roman politician of the
last years of the Roman Republic. Descendant
of Cato "Carthage Must be Destroyed" The
Elder.
Cato Jr. died ca. 48 B. C. , by sucide after
losing to the forces of Julius Caesar in
the civil wars.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (121 AD – 180 AD), 16th Roman Emperor, Stoic philosopher

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman politician, lawyer, orator, philosopher

Marcus Antonius Marci filius Marci nepos, Roman politician and general, as in Antony and Cleopatra

George Antonius
historian; author of The Arab Awakening

Georgios (George) Papadopoulos, Greek dictator 1967-1973.

George Herman "Babe" Ruth
aka 'Jidge"* Ruth Home run king for many decades

*He came to the New York Yankees from the Boston Red Sox, and his team mates called hin
"Jidge", a pseudo-
Bostonian pronunciation of
"George". (The actual Bostonian pronunciation is just "George" minus the R.
something like "Ge'odge" (mono-syllable;
(rhymes with "lodge" )

Ruth Ann Buzzi - American comedian, well known for her role on Laugh-In

Ruth Roman
Film actress of the
1940s--50s

Roman Polanski, film director

Roman Yurievich Romanenko -

Russian cosmonaut - served two long duration missions on the International Space Station.
In 2010 he was awarded the "Hero of the Russian Revolution" medal by President Medvedev.

Mikhail Yurevich* Lermontov
Russian 19th c. writer; author of A Hero of Our Time and The Demon

*YurEvich: an alternate and more usual transliteration of "YurIEvich" (as in 157), meaning
"son of Yurii".

I hate it when we get into Russian namesand this time I did it to myself!

Mikhail Baryshinikov, ballet dancer

Still Russian, sorry...

Mikhail Lermontov- Russian writer (1814-1841)

Still Russian, too bad..

Mikhail Glinka -

father of Russian classical music - and I think we can get off of Russian names from there....

It's a little bit of a stretch, but how about...

Mick Jagger, rocker

Brenda Jagger

author of Days of Grace,
Distant Choices, etc.
Listed as a favorite author by LT member BrenJag

Joseph Jagger -

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (in 1873)

a British mechanical engineer, he applied engineering mechanics to the roulette wheels and went to Monte Carlo where he won (in todays value) 3 1/4 Million Pounds.

Joseph Burtt Davy, agrostologist and founder of what grew into the South African National Herbarium

Joseph Roosevelt
father of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier -

NFL defensive tackle for the Giants and the Rams, where he was a member of the "Fearsome Foursome" one of the best defensive lines.

After football he was a bodyguard for Robert & Ethel Kennedy. He was guarding Ethel at the time of the assassination but was the person that subdued Sirhan Sirhan.

Roosevelt Brown
less celebrated team mate of 168,
New York Giants, 1950s

Nicholas Edward Brown (1849--1934), botanist of Kew.

My favourite story of N.E. Brown concerns a certain "unknown" plant specimen, placed near the entrance of Kew herbarium for comment by the Great and the Good. One eminent botanist examined it, noting a minute structure apparently attached where a flower should be, and added a note 'Looks like (whatever-it-was) but the fruit is wrong'. Brown came along sometime later, gave it a naked-eye once-over and added another note: 'That is not a fruit. It is a spider.'

Saint Nicholas of Myra
Bishop and philanthropist in Lycia, Anatolia (present day Turkey)
believed to be the inspiration for
SinterKlaas" / "Santa Claus"

Dame Myra Hess, pianist

Almira "Myra" Wyman Perkins
wife of George Perkins* the author
of Three Years a Soldier

great-grandmother of rolandperkins

*Union veteran of the Civil War. HIs wife, however, didnʻt know she was married to an author, as his writings
were not published until the next century, edited by Richard N. Griffin, who, like rolandperkins, is a great-grandson.

Ken Wyman, curator of Durban Botanic Garden in the 1990s

Ken Whittaker
politician,
Northern Ireland, late 20th c.

Roger Whittaker -

singer and songwriter, born in Nairobi, Kenya

Roger Polhill, Kew legume expert; was stationed for some time at East African Herbarium, Nairobi

Edward Polhill English Protestant theologian, 17th c.

Edward Lear of nonsense and limerick fame

William Powell Lear of Learjet fame -

re Mr. Edward Lear, the Brazilian blue parrot is named Lear's Macaw in his honor.

Lewis Powell aka Lewis Paine
Virginian, Confederate veteran;
attacked and wounded U. S. Sec. of State William Seward;

convicted by a military tribunal of
conspiracy with John Wilkes Booth and others, to kill Abraham Lincoln.
1865; executed.

Lewis Alonzo Yancey -

American early aviator and navigator

Lewis Carroll, pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

Sinclair Lewis
novelist, Nobel laureate; author of Arrowsmith, It Cant Happen Here and many other novels. (original name: Harry Sinclair Lewis).

Sir Clive Sinclair, maker of ultracompact electronics (some of which almost worked) in the 1970s and '80s.

Clive* Doran
father of novelist Colin Doran; nephew of rolandperkins; great-great grandson of Civil War diarist George Perkins

*pronounced: Cleev

Clive Staples Lewis (C. S. Lewis) -

Irish author of The Chronicles of Naria among others.

Meriwether Lewis, explorer of the Louisiana Purchase Expedition

Clea Lewis
TV actress

Gwendolyn Joyce Lewis (1909-1967), botanist, expert on Gladiolus

James "Jim" Alfred Joyce III -

mlb umpire

Alfred, Lord Tennyson. nuff said.

Alfred Lewis
U. S. novelist; once almost as well known as (192). Though now almost forgotten, he was once as
famous as "Sinclair" (no kin)
and "C. S. ʻJackʻ " ) (also no kin).

Jack Straw, aka John Rakestraw or Rackstraw, co-leader with John Ball and Wat Tyler of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt in England.

Larry Clyde Rakestraw -

starting quarterback for the Chicago Bears for three years in the 60s

Clyde Barrow, Depression era criminal (as in Bonnie and Clyde--her name was Bonnie Parker)

Joseph Louis Barrow
--better known as Joe Louis heavyweight boxing champion, 1930s--40s; he lost only to Max Schmeling whom he later beat, and (coming out of retirement) to Rocky Marciano.

Edward Grant Barrow -

manager of the 1918 World Series Champions the Boston Red Sox
president of the New York Yankees

- first to put numbers on the payers uniforms
- first to retire a player's number
- first to play the National Anthem before every game

"Edward"
--has been the reign name of 8 UK monarchs,* but (curiously for such a common name) never of
a U. S. president.

*The last of these reigned very briefly, and then abdicated. He seems to have liked, better than his father George V his grandfather, Edward VII (original first name: Albert, which was also the original name of "Berty/Edward"ʻs grandson
George VI).

Edward Teller, physicist

Egbert Roscoe Murrow

changed his name in college to Edward

CBS newsman - "Good Night and Good Luck"

Egbert Douwes, founder of Douwe Egberts coffee company

Eduard Douwes Dekker
(aka "Multatuli")
Dutch novelist,
author of Max Havelaar

Thomas Dekker, dramatist, contemporary of William Shakespeare

Thomas Grey
English poet; pre-romantic

hfglen re #202 - absolutely the most wonderful coffee!!

Lady Jane Grey -

for nine days, the Queen of England

Jane Powell
U. S. singer, dancer, actress,
1940s--60s

Jane Austen
Famous English Author

Austen Lake*
Pennsylvanian>Bostonian
sports writer, 1930--50s

*From memory. Not sure if his forename ends in -en or -in. Clicking on his name in LT doesnʻt lead to the one Iʻm thinking of, but to another charcter who was somewhat Germanic, but he and A. L. had little else in common: Shakespeareʻs Hamlet!

Austin Roberts, ornithologist.

#206 mysterymax - Among the best. There are two coffee farms within a couple of hours of here that you'd love.

Austen Chamberlain
British politician, late 19th, early 20th c.
Authored his diaries (pre-WWI) and a couple of political
books.

Arthur Neville Chamberlain, half-brother of the above, infamous for appeasement and the Munich "peace in our time".

Neville Frederick Duke -

WWII flying ace (RAF), test pilot (RAF & Hawker), awarded DFC, DSO, OBE, flew until his death at age 85

Duke Ellington, jazz musician

John "Duke" Anderson
anti-hero of a very depressing Lawrence Sanders novel: The Anderson Tapes

Edwin Alexander Anderson, Jr. (Rear Admiral)

commander during the Spanish-American War and the Mexican Revolution
the USS Anderson, a destroyer, was named in honor of him
the Anderson took part in most of the major naval battles in the Pacific and was sunk at 01 July 1946 at Bikini during atomic bomb testing

John Bayard Anderson (R, IL; later I, IL)

World War II veteran, Occupation governmental economic adviser, U.S. Representative, Independent presidential candidate.

Too busy typing with #218! So instead:

Heidi Anderson, palaeobotanist (If I'm allowes a twofer, then add her ex-husband John Anderson, another palaeobotanist)

ʻHeidi" classic Johanna Spyri character* in a Swiss childrenʻs novel.

*famous, but she became infamous in the minds of football fans when a TV broadcast version of her story was shown at its scheduled time, interrupting
the 4th quarter of a late season NFL football game.

Emilie Kempin-Spyri

niece of Johanna, first woman in Switzerland with a law degree, unable to practice law as women were not 'citizens'.

Frederick G. Kempin
ca. 1922 -- 2008
Professor of Law; author of
Historical Introduction to Anglo-American Law in a Nut-Shell

Frederick Forsyth- author

Harold Frederic
U. S. novelist

Moving this thread over to Part 24....