,me mettrai
v. put oneself, set to, set up, take to

,me permettrai
v. presume

,me remettrai
v. get on one's feet, recover, recuperate, pick oneself up, get over, get back, place, convalesce

,me soumettrai
v. submit, give in, bow, comply, knuckle under

,me transmettrai
v. devolve, be transmitted

/Aba /Eban
n. Aba Eban (1915-2002, born as Aubrey Solomon Eban), prominent Israeli diplomat and writer, former Israeli ambassador to the USA and the United Nations

/Abbie /Hoffman
n. Abbie Hoffman (1936-89), leading member of the 1960s counterculture in the USA, founder of the Yippie anti-war political movement

/Abdullah Ocalan
n. Abdullah Ocalan (born 1948), Kurdish rebel, founder and leader of the Kurdish Worker's Party who was sentenced to death in 1999 for treason against Turkey

/Abdus Salam
n. Abdus Salam (1926-1996), Pakistani physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979, together with Steven Weinberg and Lee Glashow

/Abel Janszoon /Tasman
n. Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603-1659), Dutch navigator and explorer who was the first European to reach Tasmania and New Zealand

/Abou /Mazen
n. Abu Mazen, Mahmoud Abbas (born 1935), deputy chairman of the Palestinian Authority, one of the founders of the Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization

/Abraham /Harold /Maslow
n. Abraham Harold Maslow (1908-1970), American psychologist who is best known for his theory of human motivation

/Abraham /Lincoln
n. Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), sixteenth president of the United States

/Académie /français
n. French Academy

/Ada /Byron
n. Ada Byron (1815-1851), Countess of Lovelace, daughter of poet Lord Byron, mathematician who collaborated with Charles Babbage to create the first calculating machine

/Adam /et /Eve
n. Adam and Eve, first man and woman created by God (Biblical)

/Adam Smith
n. Adam Smith (1723-1790), Scottish philosopher and political economist (advocator of free market economy)

/Afrique /de l'Est
n. East Africa

/Afrique /du /Nord
n. North Africa

/Afrique /du /Sud
n. South-Africa

/Afrique /oriental
n. East Africa

/Agatha /Christie
n. Agatha Christie (1891-1976), British novelist, author of many detective novels

/Ahmed /Tibi
n. Ahmed Tibi

/Aimée Semple /McPherson
n. Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944), founder of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel

/Akio /Morita
n. Akio Morita (1921-1999), Japanese business executive, founder and Chairman of Sony Corporation

/Akira /Kurosawa
n. Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), Japanese film director and producer

/Al /Gore
n. Al Gore (born 1948), vice president of the United States during the Clinton administration, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate

/Alain /Juppe
n. Alain Juppe, (born 1945) French politician, former foreign minister of France

/Alain /Locke
n. Alain Locke (1886-1954), American educator and philospher who wrote "The New Negro" and who was influential in the Harlem Renaissance

/Alain Delon
n. Alain Delon, French movie actor (born in 1935)

/Alan /Bartlett /Shepard
n. Alan Bartlett Shepard (1923-1998), American astronaut, first American in space

/Alan /Greenspan
n. Alan Greenspan (born 1926), American economist, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1987-2006)

/Alan /MacDiarmid
n. Alan MacDiarmid (born in 1927), New Zealander Nobel prize winner in Chemistry for 2000 for his work in plastic conductivity

/Alan Jay Lerner
n. Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986), U.S. lyricist playwright and librettist

/Alban Berg
n. Alban Berg (1885-1935), Austrian composer known for his use of atonic and 12-tone styles, student and friend of Arnold Schoenberg

/Albert /Camus
n. Albert Camus (1918-60), French author and playwright, Nobel prize winner

/Albert /Sabin
n. Albert Sabin (1906-1992), United States microbiologist and pioneer researcher on viruses and viral diseases, who developped the Sabin against polio that is taken orally

/Albert /Schweitzer
n. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), Alsatian musician philosopher and doctor, winner of the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize

/Aldo /Moro
n. Aldo Moro (1916-1978), Italian statesman and prime minister 1963-68

/Alessandro /Manzoni
n. Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873), Italian writer and poet

/Alessandro /Volta
n. Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), Italian scientist, inventor of the voltaic pile, man after whom the volt is named

/Alexandre /Crummel
n. Alexander Crummell (1819-1898), black American clergyman and author, founder of the American Negro Academy

/Alexandre /Dumas
n. Alexandre Dumas (1802-70), French novelist, author of "The Three Musketeers"

/Alexandre /Gustave Eiffel
n. Eiffel, Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923), French engineer, designer of the Eiffel Tower

/Alexandre /Pouchkine
n. Pushkin, Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), Russian poet and writer of short stories

/Alexandre /Yannaï
n. Alexander Yannai (126-76 BC), king of Judea from the Hasmonean dynasty

/Alexandre Soljenitsyne
n. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, (born 1918) Russian writer and historian, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in literature, he was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and moved to Switzerland and then to the USA

/Alfons Jakob
n. Alfons Jakob (1884-1931), neuropsychiatrist after whom CJD was named

/Alfonse d'Amato
n. Alfonse D'Amato (born 1937), Republican Senator from New York (USA)

/Alfonso /Corti
n. Alfonso Corti (1822-76), Italian anatomist

/Alfred /Adler
n. Alfred Adler (1870-1937), Austrian psychiatrist who developed the concept of the inferiority complex

/Alfred /Bernhard /Nobel
n. Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-1896), Swedish scientist and industrialist, who established the Nobel Prize, inventor of dynamite

/Alfred /Binet
n. Alfred Binet (1857-1911), French psychologist and researcher, co-developer of one of the first standard intelligence tests

/Alfred /Dreyfus
n. Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), Jewish French army officer who was convicted of treason in 1894 and acquitted in 1906

/Alfred /Nobel
n. Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), Swedish scientist and industrialist who established the Nobel Prize, inventor of dynamite

/Alfred /Tennyson
n. Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), English poet of the Victorian era, author of "The Charge of the Light Brigade", and "Maud"

/Alfred /le /Grand
n. Alfred the Great (849-899), king of Wessex (England) from 871 to 899

/Alfred North /Whitehead
n. Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), British philosopher and mathematician, author of "The Concept of Nature"

/Alfred Russel /Wallace
n. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), British naturalist, developer of a theory of evolution (independent of Charles Darwin)

/Alfred Tennyson
n. Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), English poet of the Victorian era, author of "The Charge of the Light Brigade"

/Alice /Munro
n. Alice Munro (born 1931), Canadian short story author

/Allen /Ginsberg
n. Allen Ginsberg (1926-97), American poet and leader of the 1960s Beat Generation, author of the poetry collections "Howl" and "Kaddish"

/Alois /Alzheimer
n. Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915), German neurologist who identified a degenerative disease, of the central nervous system now known as Alzheimer's disease

/Alphonse /Mucha
n. Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), Czech painter of Art Nouveau

/Alvin /Ailey
n. Alvin Ailey (1931-1989), African-American dancer and choreographer, founder of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

/Amram Mitzna
n. Amram Mitzna (born 1945), Israeli politician, former mayor of Haifa, reserve general in the Israeli Defense Forces

/Amérique /du /Nord
n. North America

/Amérique /du /Sud
n. South America

/Amérique /latin
n. Latin America, countries in the Western Hemisphere south of the United States were Romance languages are spoken (i.e. Spanish, Portuguese and French)

/Anders /Celsius
n. Anders Celsius (1701-1744), Swedish astronomer who invented the Centigrade temperature scale

/Andrew /Jackson
n. Andrew Jackson (1767-1848) 7th president of the United States (1829-1837)

/Andrew /Johnson
n. Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), 17th president of the United States (1865-69)

/Andrew /Lloyd /Webber
n. Andrew Lloyd Webber (born 1948), British composer of music

/Andrew /Mellon
n. Andrew Mellon (1855-1937), American financier and philanthropist, American Secretary of the Treasury from 1921-19

/Andrew /Volstead
n. Andrew Volstead (1860-1947), American legislator and Prohibitionist, author of the Volstead Act

/André /Malraux
n. Andre Malraux (1901-1976), French author and adventurer who was a political figure

/André /Marie /Ampère
n. André Marie Ampère (1775-1836), French physicist who is one of the chief discoverers of electromagnetism

/Andy /Garcia
n. Andy Garcia, American film actor

/Andy /Warhol
n. Andy Warhol (1928-1987), 20th century American pop art artist, filmaker and director

/Angelina /joli /Voight
n. Angelina Jolie, Angelina Jolie Voight (born 1975), American award-winning actress, daughter of John Voight

/Anna Karina
n. Anna Karina, French movie actress (born in 1940)

/Anne /Bancroft
n. Anne Bancroft (1931-2005, born as Anna Maria Italiano), United States actress who starred in the 1967 movie "The Graduate" (wife of Mel Brooks)

/Anne /Bronte
n. Anne Bronte (1820-1849), English author

/Anne /Hathaway
n. Anne Hathaway (1557-1623), wife of William Shakespeare

/Anne Boleyn
n. Anne Boleyn (1507-1536), second wife of Henry VIII, mother of Queen Elizabeth I

/Anne Franck
n. Anne Franck (1929-1945), young German Jewish girl who kept a diary while she and her family were hiding from the Nazis, in Holland (she was eventually captured and died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp)

/Anne Frank
n. Anne Frank (1929-45), young German Jewish girl who kept a diary while she and her family were hiding from the Nazis in Holland (she was eventually captured and died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp)

/Anne Hutchinson
n. Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643), USA settler and religious leader, Puritan settler in the New World, who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for promoting religious heresy

/Annette Bening
n. Annette Bening (born 1958), United States actress who starred in the 1991film "Bugsy" together with her husband Warren Beatty

/Annie Girardot
n. Annie Girardot (born in 1931), French movie actress

/Anthony /Herman Gerard Fokker
n. Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker (1890-1939), Dutch-American airplane manufacturer who established the Fokker Aircraft Corporation of America

/Anthony /Hopkins
n. Anthony Hopkins (born 1937), Welsh-British stage and movie actor, winner of the 1992 Academy Award for Best Leading Actor for his role in "Silence of the Lambs"

/Anthony /Ray
n. Sir Mix A Lot, Anthony Ray (born 1963), American rap musician

/Anthony Burgess
n. Anthony Burgess (1917-1993), English writer who wrote the novel "A Clockwork Orange"

/Anthony Perkins
n. Anthony Perkins (1932-1992), American actor famous for his role as Norman Bates, in Alfred Hitchcock's movie "Psycho"

/Anthony Vandyck
n. Sir Anthony Vandyck (1599-1641), Flemish portrait and religious painter and etcher

/Antoine /Henri /Becquerel
n. Antoine Henri Becquerel (1852-1908), French physicist, winner of the Nobel prize (discovered radioactivity in uranium)

/Antoine /Watteau
n. Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), French painter known for his Rococo style

/Anton /Bruckner
n. Anton Bruckner (1824-96), Austrian composer and organist known for his nine symphonies and chamber music

/Anton Chekhov
n. Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian playwright and author

/Anton von Webern
n. Anton von Webern (1883-1945), Austrian composer and conductor, student of Schoenberg who adopted the 12-tone style in his compositions

/Antonio /Banderas
n. Antonio Banderas (born 1960), Spanish-born American movie actor (known for his roles in "The Mambo Kings" and "Evita")

/Antonio /Gaudi
n. Antonio Gaudi, famous Spanish architect (1852-1926), worked exclusively in Barcelona

/Antonio /José /de /Sucre
n. Antonio José de Sucre (1793-1830), Venezuelan general and South American independence leader, who was the first president of Bolivia (1826-1828)

/Arabie Saoudite
n. Saudi Arabia

/Ariel /Sharon
n. Ariel Sharon (born 1928), Israeli politician, former general in the Israeli Defense Forces, prime minister of Israel from 2001

/Arlette Laguiller
n. Arlette Laguiller, leader of Lutte ouvriere, French politician

/Arnold /Schoenberg
n. Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Austrian composer, creator of the twelve-tone composition technique

/Arnold /Zweig
n. Arnold Zweig (1887-1968) German writer

/Arthur /Conan /Doyle
n. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), British writer, author of the Sherlock Holmes novels

/Arthur /James /Balfour
n. Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930), British statesman and writer, prime minister (1957-66)

/Arthur /Miller
n. Arthur Miller (1915-2005), American playwright, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award (his plays include "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible")

/Arthur /Rock
n. Arthur Rock, American venture capitalist, co-founder of the Intel Corporation

/Arthur /Rubinstein
n. Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1983), Polish-born American pianist

/Arthur /Schopenhauer
n. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher who viewed the will to live as a central factor in human experience and the renunciation of desire as the key to achieving happiness

/Arthur Holly /Compton
n. Arthur Holly Compton (1892-1962), American physicist, winner of the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics

/Asie /mineur
n. Asia Minor, peninsula in western Asia which includes much of Turkey

/Assemblée /national
n. Assemblée Nationale, monument of Paris; lower house of the French Parliament

/Assemblée /national
n. Assemblée Nationale, lower house of the French Parliament; monument of Paris

/Assemblée Nationale
n. Assemblée Nationale, lower house of the French Parliament; monument of Paris

/Astor /Piazzola
n. Astor Piazzola (1921-92), Argentinean composer and musician famous for his tango music

/Aubrey /Vincent /Beardsley
n. Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872-1898), British illustrator who was famous for his outstanding original black and white

/Augusta /Ada /Byron
n. Augusta Ada Byron (1815-1852), Countess of Lovelace, daughter of poet Lord Byron (the programming language "Ada" is named after her)

/Auguste /Comte
n. Auguste Comte (1798-1857), French philosopher, founder of positivism

/Auguste /Rodin
n. Auguste Rodin, (1840-1917) French sculptor (well-known for his work "The Thinker")

/Autant /en /emporter /le /Vent
n. Gone With the Wind, Pulitzer Prize winning novel about the Civil War written by Margaret Mitchell in 1936; Academy Award winning movie which starred Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh (based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell)

/Avraham /Shlonsky
n. Avraham Shlonsky (1812-1858) poet editor and Hebrew translator, one of the early Israeli settlers

/Avraham Shohat
n. Avraham Shohat (born 1936), Israeli politician

/Avraham Stern
n. Avraham Stern, founder of Fighters for the Freedom of Israel

/Avshalom /Feinberg
n. Avshalom Feinberg, (1889-1917) founder of Nili, Jewish spy group formed in Palestine during World War I, to help the British defeat the Turks and Germans

/Bade Wurttemberg
n. Baden Wurttemberg, region located in the southwestern part of Germany

/Baden /Baden
n. Baden Baden, resort town in the northwestern corner of the Black Forest (Germany)

/Baden Wurttemberg
n. Baden Wurttemberg, region located in the southwestern part of Germany

/Bahia Blanca
n. Bahia Blanca, city in eastern Argentina

/Bande /de /Gaza
n. Gaza Strip, section of land on the Israeli-Egyptian border which is part of the Palestinian autonomous zone

/Barbara /Kingsolver
n. Barbara Kingsolver (born 1955) American novelist and short story writer who wrote "The Bean Trees" (1988)

/Barbara /Lewis
n. Barbara Lewis (born 1943), American pop and soul singer

/Barbara /Streisand
n. Barbara Streisand (born 1942), American singer and actress

/Barbara Stanwyck
n. Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990), United States movie and television actress

/Barry Levinson
n. Barry Levinson (born 1942), American screenwriter and movie director, winner of the 1988 Academy Award for Best Director for his work on the film "Rain Man"

/Bart /Simpson
n. Bart Simpson, main character in the popular animated television series "The Simpsons"

/Basse /Ecosse
n. lowland

/Belle /au /bois /dormant
Sleeping Beauty, fairy tale of a girl who slept for 100 years and was awakened by a kiss from a prince; company that has hidden asset potential making it a target for takeover (Finance)

/Ben /Affleck
n. Ben Affleck (1972), American screenwriter and actor

/Ben /Crenshaw
n. Ben Crenshaw (born 1952), American golfer

/Ben /Hecht
n. Ben Hecht (1894-1964), American scriptwriter and journalist who wrote the script for "Gone With the Wind"

/Ben /Jonson
n. Ben Jonson (1572-1637), English playwright and poet

/Ben Gourion
n. David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973) Israeli statesman, first prime minister of the modern state of Israel

/Benito /Mussolini
n. Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) Italian Fascist leader, dictator of Italy (1922-1943)

/Benjamin /Banneker
n. Benjamin Banneker, (1731-1806) African American astronomer and mathematician, member of the planning committee which designed the city of Washington DC, writer and publisher of an annual farmer's almanac

/Benjamin /Britten
n. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), English composer and pianist

/Benjamin /Disraeli
n. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81), British statesman, prime minister

/Benjamin /Edmond Rothschild
n. Benjamin Edmond Rothschild, member of a family of European Jewish bankers and philanthropists

/Benjamin /Franklin
n. Benjamin Franklin (1706-90), American statesman scientist and author, signer of the Declaration of Independence, publisher of "Poor Richard's Almanack"

/Benjamin /Harrison
n. Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), 23rd president of the United States (1889-93)

/Benjamin /Peirce
n. Benjamin Peirce (1809-80), American mathematician and astronomer

/Benjamin /Zeev /Herzl
n. Benjamin Zeev Herzl (1860-1904), Hungarian born Jewish leader and journalist, founder of modern Zionism

/Benjamin /de /Tudèle
n. Benjamin of Tudella, medieval Jewish traveler and writer (author of the "Book of Travels")

/Benjamin D'Israëli
n. Benjamin D'Israëli (1804-1881), English statesman and former Prime Minister

/Berl /Katzenelson
n. Berl Katzenelson, Israeli labor leader (1887-1944)

/Bernard /Malamud
n. Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), United States writer and playwright

/Bernard Giraudau
n. Bernard Giraudau, French actor (born in 1947)

/Bernard Law /Montgomery
n. Bernard Law Montgomery (1887-1976), 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, renowned British field Marshall of World War II

/Bernard Shaw
n. Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), British dramatist and critic, author of the play "Pygmalion"

/Bernard l'ermite
n. hermit crab

/Bertolt /Brecht
n. Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), German playwright, founder of the Berliner Ensemble Company

/Bertrand /Russell
n. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher and mathematician, winner of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize

/Beth El
n. Bethel, town of ancient Palestine and archeological site located north of Jerusalem; female first name

/Betsy Ross
n. Betsy Ross (1752-1836), woman who sewed the first flag of the United States

/Betty /Grable
n. Betty Grable (1919-73), popular American movie actress and pin-up girl

/Betty Currie
n. Betty Currie, personal secretary of U.S. President Bill Clinton (served as the liaison between Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton and was investigated during the Lewsinky/Clinton scandal)

/Beverly Hills
n. Beverly Hills, suburb located west of Los Angeles which borders with Hollywood and is well-known, as a wealthy residential area for actors and other show business personalities

/Bibliothèque /national /de /France
n. national library of France

/Bill /Gates
n. Bill Gates, William Henry Gates III (born 1955), Chairman and founder of Microsoft Inc.

/Bill /Paxton
n. Bill Paxton (born 1955), U.S. actor who starred in the 1996 movie "Twister" opposite Helen Hunt

/Bill Cosby
n. Bill Cosby (born 1939 as William Henry Cosby Jr.), African-American comedian and writer, best known for his long running television comedy show "The Cosby Show"

/Billie Holiday
n. Billie Holiday (1915-1959, born Eleanor Harris), African-American female jazz singer who performed with many famous musicians (such as Count Basie and Benny Goodman)

/Blaise /Pascal
n. Pascal, (1623-62) French philosopher and mathematician, founder of modern probability theory

/Bo /Diddley
n. Bo Diddley, (born 1928 as Elias McDaniel) African-American guitar player and singer who influenced later rock musicians

/Bob /Dylan
n. Bob Dylan (born 1941 as Robert Zimmerman), American songwriter and folk singer

/Bob /Marley
n. Bob Marley, Robert "Bob" Marley (1945-1981), Jamaican born songwriter and singer of Reggae music

/Boris /Eltsine
n. Boris Yeltsin (born 1931), Russian politician, first president of Russia following the breakup of the Communist bloc (1991-99)

/Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
n. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960), Russian writer and translator who is famous for his novel Doctor Zhivago (1957), that was banned by the Soviet authorities but was translated and published in other countries

/Brahe /Tycho
n. Brahe Tycho (1546-1601), Danish astronomer

/Branford /Marsalis
n. Branford Marsalis (born 1960), American jazz saxophonist and bandleader, brother of jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis

/Brian /Mulroney
n. Brian Mulroney (born 1939), former prime minister of Canada (1984-1993)

/Brigitte Bardot
n. Brigitte Bardot, French movie actress (born in 1934)

/Brigitte Fossey
n. Brigitte Fossey, French Actress (born in 1946)

/Brigitte Girardin
n. Brigitte Girardin (born in 1953), French Minister for the Overseas Territories

/Britney Spears
n. Britney Spears, (born 1981) American pop singer

/Bruce /Willis
n. Bruce Willis (born 1955 as Walter Willison), famous American movie actor

/Bruce Lee
n. Bruce Lee (1941-1973), U.S. actor born in San Francisco (California) and grew up in Hong Kong, who was an expert in kung fu, considered to be the greatest martial arts movie actor of the 20th century

/Bruno /Kreisky
n. Bruno Kreisky (1911-90), Austrian political leader, chancellor of Austria (1970-1983)

/Bruno /Walter
n. Bruno Walter (1876-1972, born Bruno Walter Schlesinger), German-born American conductor

/Bull /Durham
n. Bull Durham, 1988 baseball film starring Kevin Costner (directed by Ron Shelton)

/Béatrice /Dalle
n. Béatrice Dalle, French Actress (born in 1963)

/Cabernet /Sauvignon
n. Cabernet Sauvingion, dry red wine prepared from a variety of black grapes; variety of black grape

/Calista /Flockhart
n. Calista Flockhart (born 1964), American actress who stars in the television series "Ally McBeal"

/Calvin /Coolidge
n. Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), 30th president of the United States (1923-29)

/Calvin /Klein
n. Calvin Klein (born 1942), American fashion designer

/Cameron /Diaz
n. Cameron Diaz (born 1972), famous American model and movie actress

/Camille /Jacob /Pissarro
n. Camille Jacob Pissarro (1830-1903), French Impressionist painter, teacher and friend of Paul Gauguin and Paul Cezanne, creator of "Bather in the Woods"

/Camille /Pissaro
n. Camille Pissaro (1830-1903) French Impressionist painter, teacher and friend of Paul Gauguin and Paul Cezanne, creator of "Bather in the Woods"

/Camille /Pissarro
n. Camille Pissarro, (1830-1903) French Impressionist painter, teacher and friend of Paul Gauguin and Paul Cezanne, creator of "Bather in the Woods"

/Camillo /Golgi
n. Camillo Golgi (1843-1926), Italian physician and histologist, winner of the 1906 Nobel Prize in Medicine

/Camp /Pendleton
n. Camp Pendleton, military base of the U.S. Marine Corps in southwest California (USA)

/Canal /de /Suez
n. Suez Canal, waterway which runs through the Isthmus of Suez and links the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea and the Gulf of Suez

/Cap /Vert
n. Cape Verde, Republic of Cape Verde, island country off the coast of Senegal on the western coast of Africa, Cape Verde Islands, country comprised of group of islands located west of Senegal on the western coast of Africa

/Cap Canaveral
n. Canaveral (Cape Canaveral), cape in Florida (USA), site of John F. Kennedy Space Center (from 1963 to 1973 was called Cape Kennedy)

/Carl /Friedrich /Gauss
n. Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), German mathematician and scientist, major contributor to number theory and electromagnetic theory

/Carl /Jung
n. Carl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist, studied with Sigmund Freud, and later developed his own psychological theories

/Carl August /Nielsen
n. Carl August Nielsen (1865-1931), Danish composer

/Carl Friedlander
n. Carl Friedlander (1847-1887), German pathologist

/Carl Gustaf /Mosander
n. Carl-Gustaf Mosander (1797-1858), physicist from Sweden who discovered many earth-elements that have similar characteristics

/Carlos /Menem
n. Carlos Menem (born 1931), Argentinean politician, president of Argentina since 1989

/Carlos /Santana
n. Carlos Santana (born 1947), Mexican-born American musician, leader of the rock group "Santana", winner of many Grammy Awards

/Carole Lombard
n. Carole Lombard (1908-1942, born Janice Alice Peters), popular American film actress from the 1930s

/Caroline /du /Nord
n. North Carolina, state in the southeastern United States

/Caroline /du /Sud
n. South Carolina, SC, state in the southeastern United States

/Carson /McCullers
n. Carson McCullers (1917-1967, born Lula Carson Smith), U.S. novelist

/Cary Grant
n. Cary Grant (1904-86, born Archibald Alexander Leach), British-born American movie actor who starred in such movies as "North by Northwest" and "The Philadelphia Story"

/Cassius /Clay
n. Cassius Clay (born 1942, known as Muhammad Ali), American boxer

/Catherine /Hepburn
n. Katherine Hepburn (1907-2003), famous American actress

/Catherine /Scorsese
n. Catherine Scorsese (1912-1997) American actress and author, mother of the film director Martin Scorsese

/Catherine /Zeta /Jones
n. Catherine Zeta-Jones (born 1969) English born U.S. movie actress, won an Oscar as best supporting actress for her role in the 2002 movie "Chicago", wife of movie actor Michael Douglas

/Catherine Deneuve
n. Catherine Deneuve, French movie actress (born in 1943)

/Cecil /B DeMille
n. Cecil B DeMille (1881-1959) Academy Award-winning American film director and producer, co-creator of the first feature film, director of "The Ten Commandments" (1956)

/Cecil Blount DeMille
n. Cecil B DeMille (1881-1959) Academy Award-winning American film director and producer, co-creator of the first feature film, director of "The Ten Commandments" (1956)

/Charles /Aznavour
n. Charles Aznavour, (born 1924) French singer and songwriter

/Charles /Baudelaire
n. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet known for gruesome imagery and evocative language, first translator of Edgar Allan Poe

/Charles /Darwin
n. Charles Darwin (1809-82), British scientist, originator of the theory of evolution through natural selection, author of "The Descent of Man" and "Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection"

/Charles /De /Gaulle
n. Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970) French statesman and military general, first president of the Fifth Republic of France (1959-1969)

/Charles /Dickens
n. Charles Dickens (1812-70), English author

/Charles /Edouard Jeanneret
n. Le Corbusier, pseudonym of Charles Edouard Jeanneret (1831-1912), famous French architect, pioneer of modern urban architecture

/Charles /Goodyear
n. Charles Goodyear (1800-60), American inventor, developer of the process for vulcanizing rubber

/Charles /Hermite
n. Charles Hermite (1822-1901), French Mathematician, discoverer of the first transcendental number

/Charles /Lewis /Tiffany
n. Charles Lewis Tiffany (1812-1902), American merchant and jeweler, founder of the luxury jewelry store "Tiffany and Company", man who introduced sterling silver as the standard in jewelry making

/Charles /Lindbergh
n. Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974), American pilot, first person to fly non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean from NY to Paris (in 1927)

/Charles /Manson
n. Charles Manson (born 1934), American cult leader sentenced to life imprisonment for murders which he and his followers committed

/Charles /Mantoux
n. Charles Mantoux (1877-1947), French physician after whom the Mantoux test was named

/Charles /Mingus
n. Charles Mingus (1922-1979), U.S. jazz composer and bass player

/Charles /Robert /Darwin
n. Charles Robert Darwin (1809-82), British naturalist and author, developer of the theory of evolution by natural selection

/Charles /Sanders /Peirce
n. Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), American logician and philosopher, developer of pragmatism

/Charles /Wesley
n. Charles Wesley (1707-1788), English Methodist preacher and hymn writer

/Charles Bulfinch
n. Charles Bulfinch (1763-1844), American architect, designer of several state government buildings, one of the designers of the United States Capitol

/Charlie /Parker
n. Charlie Parker (1920-1955), American jazz musician

/Charlie Chaplin
n. Charlie Chaplin, Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin (1889-1977) English comedy and film star

/Charlotte /Bronte
n. Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855), English author

/Chevalier /de Lamarck
n. Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck, Chevalier de Lamarck (1744-1829), French naturalist who was the the first to use the term "biology" in its modern meaning

/Christian /Dior
n. Dior, Christian Dior (1905-1957), French fashion designer

/Christian /Eijkman
n. Christian Eijkman (1858-1930), Dutch physician, Nobel prize winner (1929)

/Christian /Huygens
n. Christian Huygens (1629-1695), Dutch mathematician physicist and astronomer

/Christian /Louis /Lange
n. Christian Louis Lange (1869-1938), Norwegian historian and pacifist, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

/Christophe /Colomb
n. Christopher Columbus (1446?-1506), Italian explorer and navigator who discovered America in 1492

/Christophe Lambert
n. Christophe Lambert, French movie actor (born in 1957)

/Christophe Malavoy
n. Christophe Malavoy, French actor (born in 1952)

/Clara /Barton
n. Clara Barton (1821-1912), American nurse, volunteer for the Union during the American Civil War, founder of the American Red Cross

/Clarence /Birdseye
n. Clarence Birdseye (1886-1956), U.S. inventor and founder of the frozen food industry

/Claude /Brasseur
n. Claude Brasseur, French movie actor (born in 1936)

/Claude /Debussy
n. Claude Debussy (1862-1918), French composer

/Claude /Monet
n. Claude Monet (1840-1926), French impressionist painter

/Claude /Ptolémée
n. Claudius Ptolemaeus, 2nd century Egyptian astronomer geographer and mathematician who claimed that the earth was the center of the universe

/Claudia /Schiffer
n. Claudia Schiffer (born 1970), German supermodel

/Claudio /Monteverdi
n. Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), Italian composer belonging to the Renaissance time period (known for his advancement of the opera)

/Coca /Cola
n. Coca-Cola, brand name of a popular carbonated soft drink which was first invented in 1886 in Atlanta (Georgia, USA), by a pharmacist named Dr. John Stith Pemberton

/Coco /Chanel
n. Coco Chanel, Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel (1883-1971), famous French fashion designer who also had her own line of perfumes

/Colin Powell
n. Colin Powell (born 1937), retired United States General, United States Secretary of State (2001- )

/Commandant Cousteau
n. Jacques Yves Cousteau (1910-1997), French filmmaker author and underwater explorer, co-inventor of the Aqualung (form of scuba equipment)

/Commissariat /à l'énergie /atomique
Atomic Energy Commission; Atomic Energy Authority&Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (m)

/Commune /de /Paris
n. commune of paris, brief socialist and reformist government formed in Paris (1792-1794)

/Conférence /de /Téhéran
n. Teheran Conference, conference held between Roosevelt Stalin and Churchill in December of 1943 during World War II in order to coordinate battle strategies

/Conseil /de Yesha
n. Yesha Council, umbrella group of settler organizations in the occupied territories of Israel (Judea, Samaria, and Gaza)

/Conservatoire /des /art /et /métier
n. museum and college of Arts aand Crafts

/Corée /du /Nord
n. North Korea

/Corée /du /Sud
n. South Korea, country in eastern Asia

/Cour d'appel
n. court of appeal, court that rehears a legal case

/Courtney /lover
n. Courtney Love (born 1964), American rock and roll singer (was the wife of Kurt Cobain, deceased singer of the rock group "Nirvana")

/Crispin /Glover
n. Crispin Glover (born 1964), American television and movie actor best known for his role in "Back to the Future"

/Croix /Rouge
n. Red Cross, international relief organization which provides medical aid and materials to war victims or victims of natural disasters

/Croix /Rouge
n. Red Cross, international relief organization which provides medical aid and materials to war victims or victims of natural disasters

/Céline Dion
n. Celine Dion (born 1968), Canadian female vocalist

/César Milstein
n. Cesar Milstein (1927-2002), Anglo-Argentinian immunologist, who shared a 1984 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (for developing a technique of producing monoclonal antibodies)

/Côte d'Azur
n. French Riviera, French coastline from Marseilles to the Italian border

/Côte d'Ivoire
n. Ivory Coast, country in western Africa

/Dail Eireann
n. Dail Eireann, lower house of the Iris parliament

/Dakota /du /Sud
n. South Dakota, state in the north-central United States

/Dame Myra /Hess
n. Dame Myra Hess (1890-1965), British pianist

/Dan /Aykroyd
n. Dan Aykroyd (born 1975), Canadian comedian and film actor, co-star in the comedy film "The Blues Brothers"

/Daniel /Auteuil
n. Daniel Auteuil (born in 1950), French movie actor

/Daniel /Boone
n. Daniel Boone (1734-1820), legendary American pioneer, one of the first settlers of the American West

/Daniel /Ellsberg
n. Daniel Ellsberg (born 1931), former member of the Johnson administration who leaked secret government documents about the Vietnam War to the New York Times

/Daniel /Patrick Moynihan
n. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003), U.S. sociologist and politician who was a prominent member of the United States Senate (Democrat from NY)

/Daniel /Tsui
n. Daniel Tsui (born 1939), Princeton University Physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1998

/Daniel /Webster
n. Daniel Webster (1782-1852), American politician

/Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
n. Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (born 1923), US virologist who worked in the United States Iran and Australia studying infectious diseases, winner of 1976 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology together, with Baruch Samuel Blumberg

/Daniel Chester French
n. Daniel Chester French (1850-1931), U.S.A. sculptor who created the seated marble statue of Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln Memorial, in Washington D.C. (USA)

/Daniel Day /Lewis
n. Daniel Day-Lewis (born 1958), British movie actor, winner of the 1989 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in "My left Foot"

/Daniel Defoe
n. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), English writer and journalist, author of "Robinson Crusoe"

/Daniel Gélin
n. Daniel Gélin (born in 1921), French actor

/Daniel Sanches
n. Daniel Sanches, French Minister of the Interior and Domestic security

/Daniela Hantuchova
n. Daniela Hantuchova

/Danielle Darrieux
n. Danielle Darrieux, French Actress (born in 1917)

/Danny /De Vito
n. Danny De Vito (born 1944) famous U.S. film and television actor

/Danny /Kaye
n. Danny Kaye (1913-1987, born David Daniel Kominsky), U.S. entertainer and movie actor

/Danny Kaye
n. Danny Kaye (1913-87, born David Daniel Kominsky), American entertainer and movie actor

/Dante Alighieri
n. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet, author of the "Divine Comedy"

/David /Beckham
n. David Beckham (born 1975 as David Robert Joseph Beckham), English soccer player and former star of the famous team Manchester United (he is married to Spice Girls star Victoria Adams)

/David /Ben Gourion
n. David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973) Israeli statesman, first prime minister of the modern state of Israel

/David /Copperfield
n. David Copperfield, (born 1956 as David Seth Kotkin) American magician famous for his acts of grand illusion

/David /Cronenberg
n. David Cronenberg (born 1943 as David Paul Cronenberg), Canadian horror and science fiction movie director

/David /Daniel /Kominsky
n. David Daniel Kominsky (1913-87, known as Dani Kaye), American entertainer and movie actor

/David /Herbert /Lawrence
n. David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930), English novelist, author of "Lady Chatterly's Lover"

/David /Koresh
n. David Koresh (1959-93), leader of the cult known as the Branch Davidians and died along with his followers in a confrontation with U.S. government officials

/David /Lloyd /George
n. Lloyd George, David Lloyd George (1863-1945), British statesman, prime minister (1916-22)

/David /Mamet
n. David Mamet (born 1947), U.S. playwright and movie director

/David /Ricardo
n. David Ricardo (1772-1823), English economist

/David /Schluss
n. David Schluss (born 1943), Israeli born Unites States artist and sculptor, whose paintings and works are displayed in museums and art galleries

/David /Trimble
n. David Trimble (born 1944), leader of Northern Ireland, winner of the 1988 Nobel Peace Prize

/David /Wechsler
n. David Wechsler (1896-1981), American psychologist

/David /Wolfson
n. David Wolfson (1856-1914), Zionist leader, second president of the World Zionist Organization

/David Sarnoff
n. David Sarnoff, (17891-1971) U.S. pioneer of radio broadcasting (founder of RCA and NBC networks)

/Davy /Jones
n. Davy Jones (born 1945 as David Jones) English actor and singer

/De /Gaulle
n. De Gaulle, Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970), French statesman and military general, first president of the Fifth Republic of France (1959-69)

/De Gaulle
n. Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970) French statesman and military general, first president of the Fifth Republic of France (1959-1969)

/Denis /Diderot
n. Denis Diderot (1713-1784), French writer and philosopher (editor of the French "Encyclopedie")

/Denzel /Washington
n. Denzel Washington (born 1954), American television and film actor, winner of the 1990 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film "Glory"

/Diane /Keaton
n. Diane Keaton (born 1946), United States film actress and director

/Dick Cheney
n. Richard "Dick" Cheney (born 1941), American statesman and politician, vice-president to George W. Bush

/Diego /Maradona
n. Diego Maradona (born 1960), one of the greatest Argentinean football player

/Diego /Rivera
n. Diego Rivera (1886-1957), Mexican painter who designed many murals for educational and public buildings

/Diego Velasquez
n. Diego Velasquez (c1460-c1524), Spanish conquistador and first governor of Cuba; Spanish master painter (1599-1660), court painter for Philip IV

/Dieu /est /un
God is one, there is only one God (often said as part of a prayer)

/Dieu /lui /vienne /en /aide
interj. God help him

/Dieu /seul /le /savoir$1$
interj. God knows, only God knows, goodness knows

/Dieu /soit /loué
interj. praise be to God

/Dieu /vous /bénir
interj. God bless you

/Disneyland Paris
n. Euro Disney, amusement park owned by Walt Disney Studios and located in Europe

/Docteur /en /Philosophie
n. PH.D., doctor of philosophy

/Dominique /de Villepin
n. Dominique de Villepin (born in 1953), French Minister of Foreign Affairs

/Dominique Perben
n. Dominique Perben (born in 1945), French Minister of the Justice, government department which oversees a nation's legal affairs; lawmaker from the RPR

/Don /Juan
n. Don Juan, philanderer

/Don Quichotte
n. Don Quixote

/Donald Duart /Maclean
n. Donald Duart Maclean (1913-1983) British who acted as spy for Russia

/Douglas /MacArthur
n. Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), American military leader, commander of Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II, commander of UN forces in the Korean War

/Dustin /Hoffman
n. Dustin Hoffman (born 1937), American film actor who starred in "The Graduate" (1967) and won his first Oscar for best actor for his performance in "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979)

/Dwight /Eisenhower
n. Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969), 34th president of the United States (1953-61), chief military commander of the Allied forces in western Europe during World War II

/Désert /de Sonoran
n. Sonoran Desert, desert in the southwestern part of the United States

/Earl /Warren
n. Earl Warren (1891-1974), American Supreme Court chief justice in 1953

/Eckhard /Pfeiffer
n. Eckhard Pfeiffer (born 1941), former President and General Manager of the Compaq computer company (headquarters in Texas, USA)

/Edgar /Allan /Poe
n. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49), American poet and writer of short stories

/Edgar /D /Tillyer
n. Edgar D Tillyer (1881-1973), American optical scientist and inventor who held more than 150 patents on lenses and optical devices

/Edgar /Degas
n. Edgar Degas, (1834-1917) French Impressionist painter

/Edgar /de Wahl
n. Edgar von Wahl (1867-1948 ), Estonian, teacher who invented the Interlingue (Occidental language)

/Edith /Piaf
n. Edith Piaf (1915-63), French cabaret singer

/Edith Stein
n. Edith Stein, Catholic nun who was born a Jew and later converted to Christianity and was executed in Auschwitz in 1942, canonized as Teresa Benedicta by the Pope

/Edmond Hoyle
n. Edmond Hoyle (1672-1769), expert on card games, author of several card game manuals

/Edmund /Halley
n. Edmund Halley (1656-1742), English Astronomer who predicted the return of Halley's Comet

/Edmund Hillary
n. Edmund Hillary (born 1919), New Zealand explorer and mountaineer, member of the first team to reach the peak of Mt. Everest (in 1953 with Tenzing Norgay), member of an Antarctic expedition in 1958-59

/Edmund Husserl
n. Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) German philosopher who was Heidegger's teacher

/Edouard /Manet
n. Edward Manet (1832-83), French painter

/Edouard /Morgan /Foster
n. Edward Morgan Foster (1879-1970), English author

/Edouard Balladur
n. Edouard Balladur, French politician

/Edouard VI
n. Edward VI (1537-1553) King of England and Ireland (1547-1553), son of king Henry VIII and Jane Seymour

/Eduardo Camano
n. Eduardo Camano (born 1946), Argentinian Peronist politician who was an interim president of the country for two days (between December 31st 2001 and January 1st 2002)

/Eduardo Duhalde
n. Eduardo Duhalde (born 1941as Eduardo Alberto Duhalde Maldonado), former president of Argentina

/Edvard /Munch
n. Edvard Munch (1863-1944), Norwegian painter and printer, one of the early expressionists

/Edward /Austin /Sheldon
n. Edward Austin Sheldon, Edward Sheldon (1823-97), American educator and educational reformer

/Edward /Jenner
n. Edward Jenner (1749-1823), English physician, discoverer of the smallpox vaccine

/Edward /Kennedy
n. Edward Kennedy, "Ted" Kennedy (born 1932), American politician, member of the U.S. Senate from the Democratic Party, youngest brother of President John F. Kennedy

/Edward /Kennedy /Ellington
n. Duke Ellington (1899-1974, born as Edward Kennedy Ellington), U.S. jazz composer and pianist and orchestrator

/Edward /Kennedy Ellington
n. Duke Ellington (1899-1974, born as Edward Kennedy Ellington), U.S. jazz composer and pianist and orchestrator

/Edward /Morgan Forster
n. Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970), English author (famous for his novels "Passage to India, " "Howard's End, " and "A Room with a View")

/Edward /Williams /Morley
n. Edward Williams Morley (1838-1923), U.S. chemist who researched the relative motion of the Earth

/Edward /Winslow
n. Edward Winslow (1595-1655), English colonist and author, three-time governor of Plymouth

/Edward Hopper
n. Edward Hopper (1882-1967) American painter and engraver, creator of "Early Sunday Morning" and "Night Shadows"

/Edward Lear
n. Edward Lear, British poet and artist (1812-1888), author of books containing nonsense verse and limericks

/Edwige Feuillère
n. Edwige Feuillère, French movie actress (1907-1998)

/Edwin /Muir
n. Edwin Muir (1887-1959), Scottish poet and linguist

/Ehud /Olmert
n. Ehud Olmert (born 1945) Israeli politician, 12th prime Minister of Israel, who became Prime Minister on April 2006, former mayor of Jerusalem

/Eli /Whitney
n. Eli Whitney (1765-1825) American inventor who invented the cotton gin; male or female first name

/Elias /McDaniel
n. Elias McDaniel (born 1928), African-American guitar player and singer who recorded under the name of Bo Diddley

/Elisha /Graves Otis
n. Elisha Graves Otis (1811-1861) American inventor, designer of the first elevator

/Ella /Fitzgerald
n. Ella Fitzgerald (1918-96), African-American Jazz singer famous for her improvisational singing style (known as the "First Lady of Song")

/Elle /Macpherson
n. Elle Macpherson (born 1964), Australian fashion model and actress

/Elle /McPherson
n. Elle McPherson (born 1964 as Eleanor Gow), Australian-born Super Model and actor

/Emil /Zatopek
n. Emil Zatopek (born 1922), Czech athlete, winner of four Olympic distance medals

/Emile /Bernard
n. Emile Bernard, (1868-1941) French Post-Impressionist painter, member of the Pont-Aven school of painting, developer of the painting style known as "cloisonism"

/Emile /Lahoud
n. Emile Lahoud (born 1936), President of Lebanon since 1998, former commander of the Lebanese army (1989-98)

/Emile /Zola
n. Emile Zola (1840-1902), French writer and critic

/Emilie Romagne
n. Emilia-Romagna, region in northern Italy (its capital is Bologna)

/Emilio /Aguinaldo
n. Emilio Aguinaldo (1869-1964), head of the provisional government in the Philippines from 1897-99, leader of the rebellion against U.S. rule in Manila in 1899

/Emilio /Estevez
n. Emilio Estevez (born 1962), American film actor and director and screenwriter

/Emmanuel /Kant
n. Immanuel Kant, (1724-1804) German metaphysician and philosopher, author of "Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone" and "Critique of Judgement"

/Emmanuel Ungaro
n. Ungaro Emmanuel, French fashion designer

/Enrico Macias
n. Enrico Macias

/Eric /Clapton
n. Eric Clapton (born 1945), award-winning British singer and guitarist

/Erich /Kastner
n. Erich Kastner (1899-1974), German author

/Ernest /Miller /Hemingway
n. Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961), American novelist and journalist (winner of the Nobel prize)

/Ernest Hemingway
n. Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961), American novelist and journalist (winner of the Nobel prize)

/Ernesto /Teodoro /Moneta
n. Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (1833-1918), Italian journalist, Nobel Peace Prize winner of 1907

/Ernst /Gräfenberg
n. Ernst Gräfenberg (1881-1957), medical doctor famous for his studies of the female sex

/Ernst /Mach
n. Ernst Mach (1838-1916), Austrian physicist and philosopher who presented the Mach number for the first time

/Est /de l'Afrique
n. East Africa

/Estée Lauder
n. Estee Lauder (1908-2004, born as Josephine Esther Mentzer), founder of the worldwide cosmetics company of the same name

/Etienne /Louis /Malus
n. Etienne Louis Malus (1775-1812), French artillery officer and physicist who discovered the polarization of light by reflection

/Eugène /Delacroix
n. Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863), French Romantic painter and lithographer, creator of "The Bark of Dante" and "Women of Algiers"

/Euro /Disney
n. Euro Disney, amusement park owned by Walt Disney Studios and located in Europe

/Europe /oriental
n. Eastern Europe

/Examen /de l'anglais /comme /langue /étranger
TOEFL, Test of English as a foreign languageSExamen de l'anglais comme langue étrangère (Test of English as a foreign language)

/Extrême /Orient
n. Far East, region which includes the countries of eastern Asia (such as China, Japan, Korea, etc.)

/Ezer /Weizman
n. Ezer Weizman (1924-2005), seventh president of Israel

/Ferdinand /Magellan
n. Ferdinand Magellan (c.1480-1521), Portuguese explorer and navigator

/Ferdinand /VII
n. Ferdinand VII (1784-1833), king of Spain (1808, 1814-33)

/Ferdinand /de /Saussure
n. Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), Swiss linguist, founder of structural linguistics

/Ferdinand VI
n. Ferdinand VI (1713-1759), king of Spain (1746-1759)

/Ferdinand von /Zeppelin
n. Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917), German army officer, developer of the first rigid airship in 1900

/Fernand /Lamaze
n. Fernand Lamaze (1890-1957), French obstetrician who developed the Lamaze Method

/Fidel /Castro
n. Fidel Castro (born 1927), Cuban revolutionary leader who established a socialist state in 1957, prime minister of Cuba (1957-79) and president since 1979

/Florence /Griffith /Joyner
n. Florence Griffith Joyner (1959-1998), American female track and field athlete who held several world records for races of various lengths (died suddenly at the age of 39)

/Fondation /de /la /frontière /électronique
n. EFF, Electronic Frontier Fondation (Computers)

/Fontaine /de /Jouvence
n. fountain of youth, mythical spring whose water was believed to cure ills and renew youth

/France Gall
n. France Gall, french female singer, chanteuse

/Frances /Elizabeth /Caroline /Willard
n. Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (1839-1898), American educator and author

/Frances Drake
n. Sir Frances Drake, (1540-96) English explorer and navigator who plundered Spanish merchant vessels in South America, first Englishman to sail around the world

/Francis /Crick
n. Francis Crick (1916-2004), British biophysicist, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology for his discovery of the double helical structure of, the double helical structure of DNA (together with James Watson)

/Francis /Mer
n. Francis Mer (born in 1939), French Minister of Finance; Minister of Finance, government official in charge of the government office that is responsible for planning and implementing national economic policy

/Francis /William /Aston
n. Francis William Aston (1877-1945), British chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize winner for chemistry in 1922

/Francis Ford /Coppola
n. Francis Ford Coppola (born 1939), American movie director producer and scriptwriter, his well known movies include "The Conversation" (1974), "The Godfather, Part II", "Apocalypse Now" (1979), Part III" (1990)

/Franco Moschino
n. Franco Moschino (1950-1994), Italian clothing designer

/Franklin /Pierce
n. Franklin Pierce (1804-69), 14th president of the United States (1853-57)

/Franklin /Roosevelt
n. Franklin Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd president of the United States (1933-45)

/Franklin Delano /Roosevelt
n. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd president of the United States (1933-45)

/François /Rabelais
n. Francois Rabelais (c.1490-1553), French writer, author of "Gargantua" and "Pantagruel"

/François /Truffaut
n. François Truffaut (1932-1984), French director and film critic

/François /de /Malherbe
n. François de Malherbe (1555-1628) French classical poet and translator

/François Fillon
n. François Fillon (born in 1954), French Minister of Labor and social affairs

/François Miterrand
n. François Miterrand, French politician, President of France in 1981 (1916-1996)

/François d'Assise
n. Saint Francis of Assisi (c.1182-c.1226, born Giovanni di Bernardone), Italian monk who preached simplicity and poverty and humility before God, founder of the Franciscan order

/Françoise /Fabian
n. Françoise Fabian (born in 1933), French Actress

/Françoise Rosay
n. Françoise Rosay, French movie actress (1891-1974)

/Françoise Sagan
n. Françoise Sagan, french novelist, novel writer

/Fred /Astaire
n. Fred Astaire (1899-1987), American singer dancer and actor who acted in "Silk Stockings" and "Top Hat"

/Frederick /Douglass
n. Frederick Douglass (1817-1895), former slave and black American writer, author and publisher of an autobiographical narrative

/Frederick /Louis /MacNeice
n. Frederick Louis MacNeice (1907-1963), Irish born English poet

/Frederick Grant Banting
n. Sir Frederick Grant Banting (1891-1941), Canadian physiologist who shared the 1923 Nobel prize for medicine and physiology, with John James Macleod for the discovery of insulin

/Frida /Kahlo
n. Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), Mexican artist known for her many self-portraits, wife of muralist Diego Rivera

/Friedrich /Engels
n. Friedrich Engels (1820-1895, German philosopher and socialist, co-authored the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx)

/Friedrich von /Schiller
n. Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), German playwright and poet

/Fédération /syndical /mondial
WFTU (World Federation of Trade Unions), association comprised of associated and affiliated trade unions representing the common interests, of about 130 million workers from 120 countries throughout the world$Fédération Syndicale Mondiale (FSM)

/Gabriel /Miro
n. Gabriel Miro (1879-1930), Spanish writer

/Gabriel /Tarde
n. Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904), French sociologist

/Gaius /Maecenas
n. Gaius Maecenas (70?-8 B.C.), Roman statesman and patron of the arts

/Gamal /Abdel /Nasser
n. Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970), Egyptian army officer and political leader, second president of Egypt (1956-1970)

/Gary /Cooper
n. Gary Cooper (1901-1961), American movie star

/Gary /Kasparov
n. Gary Kasparov (born 1963), chess player from Azerbaijan, World Chess Champion since 1985

/Gary Coleman
n. Gary Coleman (born 1968), American television actor who acted in the sitcom "Different Strokes"

/Genghis /Khan
n. Genghis Khan (c.1162-1227), founder of the Mongolian empire

/Georg /Friedrich /Bernhard Riemann
n. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-66), German mathematician, founder of non-Euclidean geometry

/Georg /Friedrich Hegel
n. Georg Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), influential German philosopher

/George /Ade
n. George Ade (1866-1944), American humorist and playwright

/George /Bancroft
n. George Bancroft (1800-1891), U.S. historian and stateman, published the ten-volume History of the United States (1834-1874), was the secretary of the navy from 1845 to 1846

/George /Berkeley
n. George Berkeley (1685-1753), Irish philosopher and bishop

/George /Bernard Shaw
n. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish-born author playwright and social reformer who spent most of his career

/George /Byron
n. George Byron (1788-1824), English lord and poet

/George /Catlett /Marshall
n. George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959), American military man and statesman, one who conceived the Marshall Plan, Nobel peace prize winne

/George /Clooney
n. George Clooney (born 1961), American television and film actor (known for his roles in the TV series "ER" and the film "Batman and Robin")

/George /Eliot
n. George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880, British writer, author of "Silas Marner")

/George /Frederick /Handel
n. George Frederick Handel (1685-1759), German-born composer of Baroque music, composer of the oratorio "Messiah"

/George /Gershwin
n. George Gershwin (1898-1937), American musical composer

/George /Herbert Walker /Bush
n. George Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush (born 1924), 41st president of the United States (1989-93)

/George /Lucas
n. George Lucas (born 1944), American film director and producer of fantasy and special effect movies including the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" movies

/George /Marshall
n. George Marshall (1880-1959), American soldier and statesman, architect of the Marshall plan, winner of the Nobel Price for peace

/George /Orwell
n. George Orwell (1903-1950, born Eric Arthur Blair), English author who is best known for his works "Animal Farm" and "1984"

/George /Patton
n. George Patton (1885-1945), American general who led American troops into Normandy

/George /Pitt
n. George Pitt (1799-1855), British playwright, creator of the fictional character Todd

/George /Robertson
n. George Robertson, British Minister of Defense in Tony Blair's government

/George /Simon Kaufman
n. George Simon Kaufman (1889-1961), U.S. playwright

/George /Vancouver
n. George Vancouver (1757-1798), English explorer who rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1791

/George /Wallace
n. George Wallace (1919-1998), governor of Alabama (USA) who opposed racial integration in Alabama schools in 1963

/George /Washington
n. George Washington (1732-99), American statesman and general, first president of the United States (1789-97)

/George /Washington Carver
n. George Washington Carver (1864-1943), black American scientist, former slave who received an education and developed methods for increasing farming profitability, in the South

/George /Westinghouse
n. George Westinghouse (1846-1914), American inventor and manufacturer

/George Boole
n. George Boole (1815-1864), English mathematician and logician who developed the Boolean algebra

/George Bush
n. George Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush (born 1924), 41st president of the United States (1989-93)

/George Clinton
n. George Clinton (born 1941), funk musician and performer, co-founder of the band "Parliament/Funkadelic"

/George Dewey
n. George Dewey (1837-1917), admiral in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War

/George Walker /Bush
n. George W. Bush, George Walker Bush (born 1946), 43rd president of the United States, former governor of Texas

/Georges /Bizet
n. Georges Bizet or Alexandre Cesar Leopold Bizet (1838-1875), French composer known for for his famous opera "Carmen"

/Georges /Braque
n. Georges Braque (1882-1963), French painter, one of the developers of cubism, leader of the Fauvist movement

/Georges /Brassens
n. Georges Brassens, French Singer

/Georges /Catlett /Marshall
n. George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959), American military man and statesman, one who conceived of the Marshall Plan, Nobel peace prize winner in 1953

/Georges /Gilles /de /la /Tourette
n. Georges Gilles de la Tourette (1857-1904), French neurologist

/Georges /Seurat
n. Georges Seurat (1859-1891), French neoimpressionist painter, developer of pointillism

/Gerhard /Groete
n. Gerhard Groete (1340-1384), Dutch author and religious leader, founder of the religious order of Brethren of the Common Life

/Gerhard Henrick Armauer /Hansen
n. Gerhard A. Hansen (1841-1912), Norwegian physician who first identified the leprosy microbe, in 1873

/Gerhard Schroeder
n. Gerhard Schroeder (born 1944), former Chancellor of Germany (elected in September 1998 and ended 16 years of governing by Helmut Kohl)

/Gerhard Schröder
n. Gerhard Schroeder (born 1944), former Chancellor of Germany (elected in September 1998 and ended 16 years of governing by Helmut Kohl)

/Germaine /Greer
n. Germaine Greer (born 1939), Australian-born British feminist, writer of "The Female Eunuch"

/Giambattista /Marino
n. Giambattista Marino (1569-1625), Italian poet recognised for his highly elaborated style, author of "Adone"

/Gilbert /Sheldon
n. Gilbert Sheldon (1598-1677), English archbishop, advisor to Charles II

/Gilles /de Robien
n. Gilles de Robien (born in 1941), French Minister for Capital Works Transportation Housing Tourism and Maritime Affairs, head of the government office responsible for developing and promoting the tourist industry

/Gioacchino /Antonio /Rossini
n. Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868), Italian composer who wrote many famous operas including "The Barber of Seville"

/Giovanni /Bellini
n. Giovanni Bellini (c1430-1516), Venetian Renaissance painter, teacher of Titian and Giorgione

/Giovanni /da Verrazzano
n. Giovanni da Verrazzano, (c1480-1527) Italian explorer, first European to arrive at New York Bay

/Giovanni Pierluigi /da /Palestrina
n. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594), Italian composer

/Giuseppe /Garibaldi
n. Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-82), Italian patriot and general

/Giuseppe /Mazzini
n. Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872), Italian patriot and revolutionist

/Giuseppe /Verdi
n. Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Italian composer

/Glenn /Seaborg
n. Glenn Seaborg (1912-1999), United States chemist and co-discoverer of plutonium who was the chairman, of the Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971, co- winner of the 1951 Nobel prize, in Chemistry

/Gloria /Steinem
n. Gloria Steinem (born 1934), American feminist and author, founder and editor of "Ms." magazine

/Golda Meir
n. Golda Meir (1898-1978), Israeli political leader, 4th prime minister of Israel (1969-1974)

/Graham /Greene
n. Graham Greene (1904-91), British novelist

/Grand /Duché /de /Luxembourg
n. Grand duchy of Luxembourg, Luxembourg country in northwestern Europe

/Grand /Palais
n. Grand Palais

/Greta /Garbo
n. Greta Garbo, Swedish-born American movie actress

/Groucho /Marx
n. Groucho Marx (1895-1977, born Julius Henry Marx), American actor and comedian, one of the comedy troupe "The Marx Brothers"

/Grover Cleveland
n. Grover Cleveland (1837-1908), 22nd and 24th president of the United States (1885-89, 1893-97)

/Guerre /américano /mexicain
n. Mexican-American War, war fought during the years of 1846-48 between Mexico and the United States over the U.S. annexation of Texas (resulted in victory and great territorial for the United States)

/Guglielmo /Marconi
n. Guglielmo Marconi, Italian engineer and physicist (1874-1937), inventor of radio communication, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909

/Gunter /Grass
n. Gunter Grass (born 1927), German author and playwright

/Gustav /Klimt
n. Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), Austrian painter and member of the art nouveau movement, co-founder of the Vienna Secession group

/Gustav /Malher
n. Gustav Malher (1860-1911), Austrian composer and conductor

/Gustav Theodore /Holst
n. Gustav Theodore Holst (1874-1934), English composer known for his work "The Planets"

/Gustave /Eiffel
n. Eiffel, Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923), French engineer, designer of the Eiffel Tower

/Gustave /Flaubert
n. Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French novelist, author of "Madame Bovary"

/Gustave /Moreau
n. Gustave Moreau (1826-98), French painter known for his mystical themes, teacher of Matisse and Rouault at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts

/Gustave /Theodor /Fechner
n. Gustave Theodor Fechner (1801-87), German physicist and philosopher

/Guy /de /Maupassant
n. Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), French novelist and short story writer

/Gérard /Depardieu
n. Depardieu, Gerard Depardieu (born 1948), French award-winning movie actor who starred in "Green Card "

/Gérard /Philippe
n. Gérard Philippe, French actor (1922-1959)

/Gérard Jugnot
n. Gérard Jugnot, French actor (born in 1951)

/Gérard Lanvin
n. Gérard Lanvin, French actor (born in 1950)

/Hans /Asperger
n. Hans Asperger (1906-1980), Austrian pediatrician (Asperger's Syndrome named after him)

/Hans /Molisch
n. Hans Molisch (1856-1937), Austrian chemist and botanist who coined the term "allelopathy"

/Hans Adolf /Krebs
n. Hans Adolf Krebs (1900-1981), German-born English biochemist after whom the Krebs cycle was named, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize

/Harold /Macmillan
n. Harold Macmillan (1894-1986), former prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963

/Harrison Ford
n. Harrison Ford (born 1942), American movie actor who acted in "Star Wars" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark"

/Haïm Topol
n. Chaim Topol (born in Tel-Aviv in 1935), Israeli stage and international movie actor, known for his starring role in Fiddler on the Roof, which earned him an Academy Award

/Hector /Berlioz
n. Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), French composer known for his melodic and orchestral changes

/Hector Hugh /Munro
n. Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), British short story author who used the pen name "Saki"

/Heine /Heinrich
n. Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German poet and journalist

/Heinrich /Heine
n. Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German poet and journalist

/Heinrich /Hertz
n. Heinrich Hertz, Heinrich Rudolph Hertz (1857-1894), German physicist, first person who produced electromagnetic waves in an artificial manner

/Heinrich Himmler
n. Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Nazi leader of the SS, Adolf Hitler's second-in-command who established the Nazi concentration camps

/Heinrich Rudoph /Hertz
n. Heinrich Rudolph Hertz (1857-1894), German physicist, first person who produced electromagnetic waves in an artificial manner

/Helen /Keller
n. Helen Keller (1880-1968), American writer and lecturer who was blind and deaf from the age of two

/Helen Hunt
n. Helen Hunt, American film and television actress (stars in the TV series "Mad About You" and the film "As Good As It Gets")

/Helmut /Kohl
n. Helmut Kohl (born 1930), German chancellor (1982-1998)

/Henri /Bergson
n. Henri Bergson (1859-1941), French philosopher and writer, winner of the 1927 Nobel prize for literature

/Henri /Kissinger
n. Henri Kissinger (born 1923), German-born American politician, Nobel prize winner

/Henri /La /Fontaine
n. Henri La Fontaine (1854-1943), Belgian statesman and the 1913 Nobel peace prize winner

/Henri /Louis /Bergson
n. Henri Louis Bergson (1859-1941), French philosopher and writer, winner of the 1927 Nobel prize for literature

/Henri /Matisse
n. Henri Matisse (1869-1954), French painter and sculptor, leader of the Fauvist movement; family name

/Henri /Moissan
n. Henri Moissan (1852-1907), French chemist and Nobel Prize winner for his work in the field of Chemistry

/Henri /de /Toulouse /Lautrec
n. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), prolific French painter and lithographer known for his portrayal of Parisian nightlife, creator of "At the Moulin de la Galette"

/Henri Frankfort
n. Henri Frankfort (1897-1954), American archaeologist who was born in the Netherlands and was famous, for hisexcavations and expeditions

/Henrietta /Szold
n. Henrietta Szold (1860-1945), American zionist, founder of "Hadassah", head of "the Youth Aliyah Movement"

/Henrik /Ibsen
n. Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian playwright

/Henry /David /Thoreau
n. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), American naturalist and transcendentalist philosopher, author of "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience"

/Henry /Fonda
n. Henry Fonda (1905-1982), American actor

/Henry /James
n. Henry James, (1843-1916) American novelist, author of "The Ambassadors" and "The Bostonians"

/Henry /Kissinger
n. Henry Kissinger (born 1923), German-born American politician, Nobel prize winner

/Henry /Laurence /Gantt
n. Henry Laurence Gantt, (1861-1919) U.S. mechanical engineer who developed the Gantt chart in 1910

/Henry /Louis /Gehrig
n. Henry Louis Gehrig (1903-41), American baseball player, four-time winner of the Most Valuable Player award

/Henry /Luce
n. Henry Luce, (1898–1967) American journalist and publisher, founder of the magazines "Time" "Life" "Fortune" and "Sports Illustrated"

/Henry /Mancini
n. Henry Mancini (1924-94), American musician and composer of film and television soundtracks, winner of the 1963 Grammy Award for Best Record for his album "Moon River"

/Henry /Moore
n. Henry Moore, (1898-1986) English sculptor and artist

/Henry /Purcell
n. Henry Purcell, (1659-95) English composer and organist, composer of the opera "Dido and Aeneas"

/Henry /Steinway
n. Henry Steinway (1797-1871, born Heinrich Steinweg), German-born American piano manufacturer, founder of the Steinway and Sons piano company

/Henry /VIII
n. Henry VIII, 16th century king of England

/Henry Gwyn Jeffreys /Moseley
n. Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (1887-1915), British physicist who deduced that the atomic number, of an element can be determined from the element's x-ray spectrum

/Henry Wadsworth /Longfellow
n. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), United States poet

/Herbert /Clark /Hoover
n. Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964), 31st president of the United States (1929-33)

/Herbert /Henry Asquith
n. Herbert Henry Asquith (1852-1928), British politician, 36th prime minister of Great Britain, Viscount Asquith of Morley

/Herbert /Hoover
n. Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), 31st president of the United States (1929-33)

/Herbert /Marcuse
n. Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), United States political philosopher (born in Germany), concerned about the dehumanizing effects of capitalism and modern technology

/Herbert /Samuel
n. Herbert Samuel (1870-1963), British politician, first High Commissioner of Palestine during the British mandate

/Herman /Melville
n. Herman Melville (1819-1891), American author of "Moby Dick"

/Hermann /Hesse
n. Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), German novelist and poet, winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature

/Hermann /Minkowski
n. Hermann Minkowski, (1864-1909) German mathematician (born in Russia) who developed the concept of four-dimensional space-time

/Hermann /Rorschach
n. Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922), Swiss psychiatrist, developer of the Rorschach personality test

/Hermann Eduard von /Holst
n. Hermann Eduard von Holst (1841-1904), American historian

/Hernando /Cortez
n. Hernando Cortez (1485-1547), Spanish explorer and conqueror who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (also Hernan Cortes)

/Hernando /de /Soto
n. Hernando de Soto, (1496-1542) North and South American explorer and conqueror, first European to reach the Mississippi River (USA)

/Hervé Gaymard
n. Hervé Gaymard (born in 1960), French Minister for Agriculture Food Fisheries and Rural affairs; Vice-Chairman of the RPR group in the National Assembly

/Honoré /de /Balzac
n. Balzac, Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist, author of "The Human Comedy"

/Horatio /Herbert Kitchener
n. Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916), British field marshal and statesman

/Horatio /Nelson
n. Admiral Nelson (1758-1805), Viscount Horatio Nelson, British Admiral, British naval admiral who defeated the Napoleon's French fleets, and was fatally wounded at the battle of Trafalgar

/Horst Stromer
n. Horst Stromer (born 1949), Physicist from Columbia University (in the USA), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1998

/Humphrey /Bogart
n. Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957), Academy-Award winning movie actor

/Hélène /Cixous
n. Helene Cixous (born 1937), Algerian-born French feminist novelist and literary critic

/Ibn /Ezra
n. Ibn-Ezra, famous medieval Jewish scholar and biblical commentator, poet, astronomer, mathematician

/Ilan /Ramon
n. Ilan Ramon, (1954-2003) Israeli Air Force pilot and first Israeli astronaut who died on the Space Shuttle, "Columbia" disaster on February 1st 2003 when it disintegrated during atmospheric re-entry

/Imogen Cunningham
n. Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976), American photographer of plants and portraits

/Indes /oriental
n. East Indies, Southeast Asia

/Ingmar /Bergman
n. Ingmar Bergman (born 1918), Swedish film and theater director

/Ingrid /Bergman
n. Ingrid Bergman (1915-82), Swedish film actress, winner of the 1974 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in "Murder on the Orient Express"

/Internet /café
n. cybercafe, cafe that provides customers with Internet access (through several computers located in the restaurant) along with the service of food or drink

/Internet /mobile
n. wireless Internet, unwired Web

/Internet /rose
n. net sex, cybersex, virtual sex (everything related to sex on the Internet: discussion groups, pictures, pornographic films, and more)

/Internet /sans /fil
n. wireless Internet, unwired Web

/Irving /Berlin
n. Irving Berlin (1888-1989), U.S. composer and songwriter best known for his work "Alexander's Ragtime Band"

/Irwin Shaw
n. Irwin Shaw (1913-84), American novelist and playwright

/Isaac /Newton
n. Isaac Newton, (1642-1727) English mathematician and physicist who formulated the law of universal gravitation

/Isabelle Adjani
n. Isabelle Adjani, french actress, born in 1955, a César for Best Actress in Camille Claudel

/Isabelle Huppert
n. Isabelle Huppert, French movie actress (born in 1953)

/Itamar Rabinovich
n. Itamar Rabinovich, Israeli ambassador to the United States (1995)

/Itzhak /Perlman
n. Itzhak Perlman (born 1945), Israeli-born U.S. violinist who is considered as one of the great violinists, violinists of the late 20th century (he is famous for his technical cleverness)

/Ivan /Krylov
n. Ivan Krylov (1769-1844), Russian writer of fables

/Ivan /Lendl
n. Ivan Lendl (born 1960), Czech tennis player, winner of 94 singles titles

/Ivan /Pavlov
n. Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936), Russian physiologist and Nobel Prize winner (famous for his experiments on classical conditioning)

/Jack /Lemmon
n. Jack Lemmon (1925-2001), American film actor, winner of the 1955 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in "Mister Roberts"

/Jack /London
n. Jack London (1876-1916), United States writer

/Jack /Nicklaus
n. Jack Nicklaus, famous American golf player

/Jack /Teagarden
n. Jack Teagarden, Weldon John Teagarden (1905-1964), U.S. jazz trombonist and singer

/Jack Kerouac
n. Jack Kerouac (1922-69), American novelist and member of the Beat Generation, author of "On the Road"

/Jack Lang
n. political figure, politician

/Jackson Pollock
n. Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), U.S. abstract-expressionist painter

/Jacob /Grimm
n. Jakob Grimm (1785-1863), German philologists and folklorists (published a collection of German folk tales titled "Grimm's Fairy Tales")

/Jacqueline /Bisset
n. Jacqueline Bisset (born 1944), renowned international British actress who starred in many movies amongst them the 1990 American, movie "Wild Orchid" and the 1977 movie "The Deep"

/Jacques /Brel
n. Jacques Brel (1929-1978), Belgian-born French singer and songwriter

/Jacques /Etienne /Montgolfier
n. Jacques Etienne Montgolfier (1745-1799), French aeronautic inventor who (together with his brother Joseph Michel), invented the first practical hot-air balloon

/Jacques /Lacan
n. Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), influential French psychoanalyst who modified Freud's theory of human sexuality

/Jacques /Yves /Cousteau
n. Jacques Yves Cousteau (1910-1997), French filmmaker author and underwater explorer, co-inventor of the Aqualung (form of scuba equipment)

/Jacques Chirac
n. Jacques Chirac (born 1932), French politician, prime minister of France (1986-88); president of France (1995-present)

/Jacques Derrida
n. Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), Algerian born French philosopher, leader of the Deconstructionist movement, which advocates subjective interpretation of literary texts

/Jacques Dubois
n. Jacobus Sylvius (1478-1555), French physician who made discoveries about the brain

/Jacques Myard
n. Jacques Myard

/Jacques Offenbach
n. Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880, birth name: Jakob Eberst), French cellist and composer of operettas and the opera "Tales of Hoffman"

/Jacques Villeret
n. Jacques Villeret, French movie actor (born in 1951)

/James /Abbott /McNeill /Whistler
n. James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), United States writer and artist, creator of the etchings "The Bridge", author of "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies"

/James /Baker
n. James Baker (born 1930), American Secretary of State (1989-1992)

/James /Boswell
n. James Boswell (1740-1795), Scottish author and biographer of Samuel Johnson

/James /Cagney
n. James Cagney (1899-1986), American movie actor, winner of the 1942 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in "Yankee Doodle Dandy"

/James /Dean
n. James Dean (1931-1955), American film actor, who was killed in a crash in his racing car (starred in "East of Eden" and "Giant")

/James /Earl /Ray
n. James Earl Ray (1928-1998), alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr.

/James /Gillespie /Blaine
n. James Gillespie Blaine (1830-1893), United States statesman and politician

/James /Madison
n. James Madison (1751-1836), American statesman, participant in the Constitutional Convention (1787), 4th president of the United States (1809-1817)

/James /Marshall
n. James Marshall (1815-85), American pioneer who discovered gold in California thereby starting the gold rush

/James /Parkinson
n. James Parkinson (1755-1824), English physician who documented the symptoms of a "shaking palsy" disease (now called Parkinson's disease)

/James /Tunney
n. James Tunney (1897-1978), U.S. boxer and world heavyweight champion 1926-1928

/James /Watt
n. James Watt (1736-1819), Scottish inventor who improved the steam engine and coined the term horsepower

/James Abram /Garfield
n. James Abram Garfield (1831-81), 20th president of the United States (1881)

/James Agee
n. James Agee (1909-1955), American author who wrote the novel "A Death in the Family"

/James Dewey /Watson
n. James Dewey Watson (born 1928), American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1962

/James Smithson
n. James Smithson (1765-1829), British scientist who contributed his inheritance to help establish the Smithsonian Institute in 1846 in Washington D.C.

/Jamie Lee /Curtis
n. Jamie Lee Curtis (born 1958), American film actress who starred in "A Fish Called Wanda"

/Jane /Fonda
n. Jane Fonda (born 1937), American actress, Academy Award-winning U.S. film actress, daughter of Henry Fonda

/Jane /Seymour
n. Jane Seymour (born 1951), English born U.S. movie and television actress; Queen of England (1509?-1537)

/Janis /Joplin
n. Janis Joplin (1943-70), American blues and rock singer, member of several 1960s psychedelic rock bands including "Big Brother and the Holding Company" and "The Full Tilt Boogie Band"

/Jean /Baptiste /Joseph /Fourier
n. Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), French mathematician and physicist

/Jean /Baptiste /Racine
n. Jean Baptiste Racine (1639-99), French dramatist and satirist (well-known for "Brittanicus" and "Les Plaideurs")

/Jean /Baptiste /de /Monet /de /Lamarck
n. Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck, Chevalier de Lamarck (1744-1829), French naturalist who was the the first to use the term "biology" in its modern meaning

/Jean /Claude Brialy
n. Jean-Claude Brialy, French movie actor (born in 1933)

/Jean /François Lamour
n. Jean-François Lamour (born in 1956), French Minister of Sport; Degree in chemistry, Diploma in physiotherapy

/Jean /Gabin
n. Jean Gabin, French movie actor (1904-1976)

/Jean /Jacques /Rousseau
n. Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-78), French philosopher, author of the novel "Emile"

/Jean /Jacques Aillagon
n. Jean-Jacques Aillagon (born in 1946), French Minister of Culture and Communications; government official responsible for cultural matters, head of the government office responsible for telecommunications policy and regulations

/Jean /Louis Scherrer
n. Jean-Louis Scherrer, French fashion designer

/Jean /Louis Trintignant
n. Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor (born in 1930)

/Jean /Luc /Godard
n. Jean Luc Godard (born 1930) avant-garde French film director and scriptwriter, member of the New Wave, director of "Breathless"

/Jean /Marais
n. Jean Marais, French actor (1913-1998)

/Jean /Marie /Le Pen
n. Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the far-right - Front National, French politician

/Jean /Maurice Émile /Baudot
n. J.M.E. Baudot, Jean Maurice Emile Baudot (1845-1903), French engineer who devised the Baudot telegraph code

/Jean /Paul /II
n. John Paul II (1920-2005, born as: Karol Jozef Wojtyla), Pope of the Catholic Church since 1978, from 1978 to 2005, first Pope born in Poland

/Jean /Paul /Sartre
n. Jean Paul Sartre (1905-80), French existential writer and philosopher, author of the novel "Nausea" (refused to accept the 1964 Nobel Prize in literature)

/Jean /Paul /Sartre
n. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80), French existential writer and philosopher, author of the novel "Nausea" (refused to accept the 1964 Nobel Prize in literature)

/Jean /Paul Belmondo
n. Jean-Paul Belmondo, French movie actor (born in 1933)

/Jean /Piaget
n. Jean Piaget (1896-1980), Swiss psychologist and researcher on child development (best known for his theory about the four stages of cognitive development in children)

/Jean /Pierre Cassel
n. Jean-Pierre Cassel (born in 1932), French actor

/Jean /Pierre Léaud
n. Jean-Pierre Léaud, French actor (born in 1944)

/Jean /Pierre Marielle
n. Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor (born in 1932)

/Jean /Pierre Raffarin
n. Jean Pierre Raffarin, French Prime Minister (born in 1948), Prime Minister of France

/Jean /Reno
n. Jean Reno, French movie actor (born in 1948)

/Jean /Rochefort
n. Jean Rochefort, French movie actor (born in 1930)

/Jean /Sébastien /Bach
n. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), German composer of classical music

/Jean /de /La /Fontaine
n. Jean de La Fontaine (1621-95), French poet, author of "Fables"

/Jean /de Mabuse
n. Jan Gossaert, Jan de Mabuse (1478-1532), Flemish painter

/Jean Carmet
n. Jean Carmet (1921-1994), French actor

/Jean Danyz
n. Jean Danyz (1860-1928), Polish-born French pathologist

/Jean Descemet
n. Jean Descemet (1732-1810), French physician and anatomist

/Jean Edern /Hallier
n. Jean Edern Hallier (1936-1997), French journalist and writer who was the friend, and confidant of the former French president the late Francois Mitterrand

/Jean Gossart
n. Jan Gossaert, Jan de Mabuse (1478-1532), Flemish painter

/Jean Monnet
n. Jean Monnet (1888-1979), french economist and diplomat

/Jean Yanne
n. Jean Yanne, French actor (born in 1933)

/Jeanne /Moreau
n. Jeanne Moreau, French movie actress (born in 1928)

/Jeanne d'Arc
n. Joan of Arc, Jeanne d'Arc (c.1412-1431), French national hero and canonized saint

/Jeb /Bush
n. Jeb Bush, Governor of the state of Florida (USA), one of the sons of former U.S. President George Bush

/Jeff /Bezos
n. Jeff Bezos (born 1964), founder and General Manager of the Amazon company (Internet on-line bookstore)

/Jeff Goldblum
n. Jeff Goldblum, (born 1952) American movie actor who acted in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and "Jurassic Park"

/Jeff Papows
n. Jeff Papows, President of the Lotus software company (subsidiary company of IBM)

/Jerry /Rubin
n. Jerry Rubin (1938-94), American financier and former radical political activist, co-founder of the "Yippie political movement and member of the Chicago Seven

/Jerry /Yang
n. Jerry Yang, one of the founders of the Yahoo company (popular Internet search engine)

/Jerry Ross
n. Jerry Ross (born 1948), American astronaut (crew member on the space shuttle Endeavor)

/Jess /Willard
n. Jess Willard (1883-1968), American boxer

/Jesse Owens
n. Jesse Owens (1913-1980), African-American track and field athlete, winner of multiple Olympic gold medals and former world record holder

/Jim /Barksdale
n. Jim Barksdale (born 1943), former president and CEO of the American software company "Netscape" (manufacturer of the WWW browser Navigator)

/Jimmy /Carter
n. Jimmy Carter, James "Jimmy" Earl Carter Jr. (born 1924), 39th president of the United States (1977-81)

/Jimmy /Connors
n. Jimmy Connors, James Scott "Jimmy" Connors (born 1952), U.S. tennis player

/Joan /Crawford
n. Joan Crawford (1908-1977, Lucille Fay Le Sueur), American actress and businesswoman, Academy Award winner

/Joan /Miro
n. Joan Miro (1893-1983), Spanish surrealist painter

/Joanne /Kathleen Rowling
n. Joanne Kathleen Rowling (born 1965), British fiction author who wrote the "Harry Potter" fantasy series

/Joe /Cocker
n. Joe Cocker (born 1944), British rock and blues singer, performer at the Woodstock music festival in 1969

/Joe /DiMaggio
n. Joe DiMaggio (1914-1999), famous professional baseball player who played in the mid-1900s

/Joe /Dimaggio
n. Joe Dimaggio (1914-1999), American baseball player (Hall of Fame member, member of the NY Yankees during the 1940's)

/Joe /Haldeman
n. Joe Haldeman (born 1943), famous U.S. science fiction writer

/Johannes /Brahms
n. Johannes Brahms (1833-97), German composer

/Johannes /Gutenberg
n. Johannes Gutenberg (c1400-1468), German printer, inventor of printing with movable type

/Johannes /Kepler
n. Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), German mathematician and astronomer, father of modern astronomy (developed three laws which proved that the planets revolve around the sun)

/Johannes Diderik /van der /Waals
n. Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837-1923), Dutch physicist, winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physics

/Johanns /Kepler
n. Johanns Kepler (1571-1630), German mathematician and astronomer, father of modern astronomy (developed three laws which proved that the planets revolve around the sun)

/John /Adams
n. John Adams (1735-1826), 2nd president of the United States

/John /Calvin
n. John Calvin (1509-1564), French theologian and reformer, leader of the Protestant Reformation

/John /Coltrane
n. John Coltrane (1926-67), American Jazz saxophonist, member of the Miles Davis Quintet

/John /Cusack
n. John Cusack (born 1966), American movie actor who acted in "Say Anything"

/John /Dalton
n. John Dalton (1766-1844), famous English physicist and chemist (namesake for the Dalton law of partial pressure)

/John /Davidson /Rockefeller
n. John Davidson Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller (1839- 1937), American industrialist and philanthropist, founder of the Standard Oil company (also founded the University of Chicago and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research)

/John /Dee
n. John Dee (1527-1608), British mathematician and astrologer

/John /Deere
n. John Deere (1804-1886), United States journeyman blacksmith who developed and manufactured the world's first commercially; American corporation headquartered in Illinois, manufacturer of industrial and agricultural equipm

/John /Dowland
n. John Dowland (1563-1626), English composer and lutist

/John /Fitzgerald Kennedy
n. John F. Kennedy, (1917-63) 35th president of the United States (1961-63), founder of many post-World War II economic and social reforms, president who gave final approval for the Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba, assassinated in Dallas (Texas)

/John /Fogerty
n. John Fogerty (born 1945), American rock singer and guitarist, member of the rock and roll band "Creedence Clearwater Revival"

/John /Glenn
n. John Glenn (born 1921), U.S. astronaut and US Senator from Ohio, first American to orbit the Earth (in 1962), oldest man to travel in space (in 1998)

/John /Gower
n. John Gower (1325-1408), English poet

/John /Hancock
n. John Hancock (1737-93), American statesman, first signer of the Declaration of Independence

/John /Hume
n. John Hume, leader in Northern Ireland, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998

/John /Jacob /Astor
n. John Jacob Astor (1763-1848), German-born financier and fur-trader

/John /James /Audubon
n. John James Audubon (1785-1851), U.S.A naturalist who studied and wrote about the birds of North America

/John /James /Macleod
n. John James Macleod (1876-1935), physiologist from Scotland who guided the research which led to the discovery of insulin, winner of the 1923 Nobel prize for medicine and physiology together with Sir Frederick G. Banting

/John /Keats
n. John Keats (1795-1821), English poet

/John /Kerry
n. John Kerry (born 1943), in 2004 he ran for the presidency as the Democratic nominee, United States Senator from Massachusetts, and lost to incumbent president George W. Bush

/John /Landau
n. John Landau (born 1960), producer of the blockbuster film "Titanic"

/John /Lennon
n. John Lennon (1940-1980), British singer songwriter and composer, member of the rock group "The Beatles", who was fatally shot by Mark David Chapman just outside his apartment building in New York, on December 8th 1980

/John /Locke
n. John Locke (1632-1704), English philosopher and political theorist (author of "Essay Concerning Human Understanding")

/John /Lubbock
n. John Lubbock, Sir John Lubbock (1834-1913), English author and politician and natural scientist

/John /Malkovich
n. John Malkovich (born 1953), American film stage and television actor who acted in "Dangerous Liaisons", and "In the Line of Fire"

/John /Masefield
n. John Masefield (1878-1967), English poet

/John /Mauchly
n. John Mauchly (1907-80), American electrical engineer and co-builder of the first electronic computer (known as EINAC)

/John /McCain
n. John McCain (born 1936), United States Senator and veteran of the Vietnam War, candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000

/John /McEnroe
n. John McEnroe, John Patrick McEnroe Jr. (born 1959), United States professional tennis player, four-time winner of the US Open, three-time winner of the Wimbledon championship

/John /Milton
n. John Milton (1608-1674), renowned English poet, author of "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained"

/John /Muir
n. John Muir (1838-1914), United State conservationist traveler and scientist

/John /Paul /Jones
n. John Paul Jones (1747-1792), United States Naval commander in the Revolutionary War; stage name of John Baldwin (born 1946), bassist and keyboard player for Led Zeppelin

/John /Philip Sousa
n. John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), American composer and musical conductor (famous for his many marches, such as "Stars and Stripes Forever")

/John /Podesta
n. John Podesta (born 1949), fourth and final Chief of Staff at the White House in Washington DC under President Bill Clinton (from 1998 until 2001)

/John /Quincy /Adams
n. John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), 6th president of the United States (1825-29), Secretary of State during the Monroe administration, author of the Monroe Doctrine

/John /Ronald /Reuel Tolkien
n. J.R.R. Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973), South African-born professor of English literature, author of numerous fantasy stories including "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings"

/John /Ronald /Reuel Tolkien
n. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), South African-born professor of English literature, author of numerous fantasy stories including "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings"

/John /Sidgmore
n. John Sidgmore (1951-2003), former CEO of the worldwide Internet provider UUNET

/John /Steinbeck
n. John Steinbeck (1902-1968), United States novelist and short-story writer, author of "The Grapes of Wrath, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature

/John /Stockton
n. John Stockton (born 1962), famous NBA player who holds the record for steals and assists, one of the players on the Olympic basketball Dream Team in 1992 and 1996

/John /Stuart Mill
n. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), English philosopher and economist

/John /Travolta
n. John Travolta (born 1954), United States movie actor (famous for his role in "Pulp Fiction" and his 1970s performance in "Saturday Night Fever")

/John /Tyler
n. John Tyler (1790-1862), 10th president of the United States (1841-1845)

/John /Wayne
n. John Wayne (1907-1979), United States movie actor, who was famous for his roles in western films and was known as "Duke"

/John /Webster
n. John Webster (1580-~1625), English playwright

/John /Wilkes Booth
n. John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865), assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, member of the Confederate Army

/John /William /Strutt /Rayleigh
n. John William Strutt Rayleigh, Lord Rayleigh (1842-1919), English physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the element argon

/John Alexander Macdonald
n. Sir John Alexander Macdonald (1815-1891), Scotish born Canadian statesman, first prime minister of Canada (1867-1873, 1878-1891)

/John Ashcroft
n. John Ashcroft (born 1943), attorney and politician, President Bush's nominee for U.S. Attorney General

/John Baldwin
n. John Baldwin (born 1946), bassist and keyboard player for Led Zeppelin who uses the stage name "John Paul Jones"

/John Braxton Hicks
n. John Braxton Hicks (1823-1897), English gynecologist who in 1872 first described painless contractions of the uterus, that occur towards the middle of pregnancy or even earlier

/John Dalto
n. John Dalto (1766-1844), famous English physicist and chemist who revived the atomic theory

/John Doerr
n. John Doerr, one of the leaders of the computer industry in Silicon Valley, investor in start-up companies and holder of many computer patents

/John Ford
n. John Ford (1895-1973), U.S.A. film director (directed: "Rio Grande, " "Grapes of Wrath " and many others)

/John Grisham
n. John Grisham (born 1955), American novelist, author of "The Firm" and "The Pelican Brief"

/John Huston
n. John Huston (1906-1987), American film director and writer

/John Landis
n. John Landis (born 1950), U.S. movie director producer and actor (directed the comedy film "Blues Brothers")

/John Pemberton
n. John Pemberton (1831-1888), United States pharmacist who invented Coca-Cola

/John Pople
n. John Pople (1925-2004), Chemist from Northwestern University (in the USA), winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1998

/John Presper /Eckert
n. John Presper Eckert (1919-1995), American electrical engineer and co-builder of the first electronic computer (known as EINAC)

/John Savage
n. John Savage (born 1950), American film actor (known for his role in "The Deer Hunter")

/John Seely /Brown
n. John Seely Brown, former head scientist in the worldwide photocopier company Xerox

/John Sparrow /David /Thompson
n. John Sparrow David Thompson (1844-1894), Canadian politician, prime minister of Canada from 1892 to 1894

/John Tenniel
n. Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914), English political cartoonist and illustrator

/John von /Neumann
n. John von Neumann (1903-1957), United States mathematician who was born in Hungary (laid the foundation for game theory and for the development of computers)

/Johnny /Carson
n. Johnny Carson (1925-2005), U.S. comedian and TV host

/Johnny /Weissmuller
n. Johnny Weissmuller, Peter John "Johnny" Weissmuller (1904-1984) American swimmer who broke 24 world records and starred in several Tarzan movies

/Johnny Appleseed
n. Johnny Appleseed (1774-1845, born John Chapman) legendary pioneer who traveled through the American wilderness and planted apple orchards (famous for his peaceful character and simple lifestyle)

/Johnny Depp
n. Johnny Depp (born 1963), American film and television actor who acted in "Edward Scissorhands"

/Johnny Hallyday
n. Johnny Hallyday, French Singer

/Jonas /Edward /Salk
n. Jonas Edward Salk (1914-1995), American virologist who developed the first successful polio vaccine against polio

/Jonas /Edward Salk
n. Jonah Salk (1914-95), American virologist who developed the first successful polio vaccine against polio

/Jonas /Salk
n. Jonah Salk (1914-95), American virologist who developed the first successful polio vaccine against polio

/Jonathan /Demme
n. Jonathan Demme (born 1944), American screenwriter and producer who directed "Silence of the Lambs" and "Philadelphia" (for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director)

/Jonathan /Netanyahou
n. Jonathan Netanyahu (1942-1976), Israeli military officer (commanded the Israeli hostage rescue operation in Entebbe and was killed during the mission)

/Jonathan /Pollard
n. Jonathan Pollard (born 1945), former intelligence officer of the United States Navy who was arrested in 1985, and convicted of spying for Israel and sentenced to life in prison in 1987

/Jonathan /Swift
n. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Irish-born English author, author of the sociopolitical satire "Gulliver's Travels"

/Jonathan Worth /Daniels
n. Jonathan Worth Daniels (1902-1981), American writer and editor (son of Josephus)

/Jorma Ollila
n. Jorma Ollila (born 1950), Chairman of the Finnish cellular telephone company Nokia

/Joseph /Cornell
n. Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), U.S. artist who primarily created shadow boxes using fragments of precious items

/Joseph /McCarthy
n. Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957), Republican U.S. Senator, leader of Senate anti-Communist hearings during the Cold War (his Communist "witch hunt" came to be known as McCarthyism)

/Joseph /Michel /Montgolfier
n. Joseph Michel Montgolfier (1740-1810), French aeronautic inventor who, invented the first practical hot-air balloon (together with his brother Jacques Etienne)

/Joseph /Pilates
n. Joseph Pilates (1880-1967), German born U.S. dancer who created the Pilates method

/Joseph /Staline
n. Joseph Stalin (1879-1953, born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili), Soviet politician, leader of the U.S.S.R (1924-53)

/Joseph /Trumpeldor
n. Joseph Trumpeldor (1880-1920), Russian born Zionist leader

/Joseph /Warren
n. Joseph Warren (1741-1775), American physician and statesman

/Joseph Conrad
n. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Polish-born English novelist, author of "Lord Jim" and "Heart of Darkness"

/Joseph Estrada
n. Joseph Estrada (born 1937 as Joseph Marcelo Ejercito), former Philippine president, from 1998 to January 2001 famously known as "Erap"

/Joseph Flavius
n. Josephus Flavius (AD 37-100?, born as Joseph Ben Matthias), Jewish historian and military man who participated in the Jewish rebellion against Rome, author of "History of the Jewish War"

/Joseph Fourier
n. Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), French mathematician and physicist

/Joseph Heller
n. Joseph Heller (1923-1999), surreal novelist who wrote "Catch-22" (1961)

/Joseph Joachim
n. Joseph Joachim (1831-1907), Hungarian composer and violinist

/Joseph Wheeler
n. Joseph Wheeler (1836-1906), Confederate officer during the American Civil War, general of the U.S. volunteer forces during the Spanish-American War

/Josiah /Quincy
n. Josiah Quincy (1772-1864), United States statesman and orator, denouncer of slavery

/Josiah Wedgwood
n. Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795), English potter who enhanced the materials and processes of pottery

/José /Saramago
n. Jose Saramago (born 1922), Portuguese writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998

/Joséphine /Baker
n. Josephine Baker (1906-75), African-American Jazz singer and dancer, member of the Parisian dance troupe "La Revue Negre"

/Joé /Montana
n. Joe Montana (born 1956), U.S.A. professional football player

/Juan /Miguel /Gonzalez
n. Juan Miguel Gonzalez, father of Elian Gonzalez (six-year old Cuban boy over whom an international custody battle was fought)

/Juan /Peron
n. Juan Peron (1895-1974), president of Argentina (1946-55, 1973-74), leader of the 1943 military coup

/Judy /Garland
n. Judy Garland (1922-1969, born Frances Gumm), American award-winning actress and singer who is most remembered for her role in "The Wizard of Oz

/Judée /et /Samarie
n. Judea and Samaria, area of eastern Israel

/Jules /Bordet
n. Jules Bordet (1870-1961), Belgian physiologist and bacteriologist, Nobel prize winner

/Jules /César
n. Caesar, Julius Caesar (100? BC-44 BC), Roman statesman and general, Roman emperor

/Jules /Verne
n. Jules Verne (1828-1905), French writer who wrote "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1864) and "Around the World in Eight

/Julia /Marlowe
n. Julia Marlowe (1866-1950), British-born United States actress

/Julie /Christie
n. Julie Christie (born 1941), British movie actress who starred in "Doctor Zhivago"

/Julien /Clerc
n. Julien Clerc, French Singer

/Juliette /Binoche
n. Juliette Binoche, French Actress (born in 1964)

/Julius Erving
n. Julius Erving (born 1950), famous former professional basketball player, one of the leading all-time scorers in the NBA

/Jésus /Christ
n. Jesus Christ

/Karl /Marx
n. Karl Marx (1818-1883) German socialist, author of the "Communist Manifesto, " father of Marxism

/Karl /Taylor /Compton
n. Karl Taylor Compton (1887-1954), American physicist

/Karl /Wilhelm /Theodor /Weierstrass
n. Karl Wilhelm Theodor Weierstrass (1815-97), German Mathematician, developer of the Weierstrass approximation theorem

/Kate /Winslet
n. Kate Winslet (born 1975), English film actress who starred in "Titanic"

/Ken /Kesey
n. Ken Kesey (1935-2001), U.S. author who wrote "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

/Kenneth /Branagh
n. Kenneth Branagh (born in 1960) (British actor and film director, famous for his film renditions of Shakespearean dramas)

/Kenneth /Kaunda
n. Kenneth Kaunda (born 1924), African political leader and anti-colonialist, first president of independent Zambia (1964-1991)

/Kenneth /Starr
n. Kenneth Starr, Special Investigator appointed by the U.S. Attorney General to investigate, President Bill and Hillary Clinton on alleged crimes (also investigated the Monica Lewinsky case)

/Kenneth MacAlpin
n. Kenneth MacAlpin (841-858 AD), first king of the united Scots of Dal Riata and the Picts (who ruled over the kingdom of Alba in Southwest Scotland where the Irish Scots lived)

/Kim /Basinger
n. Kim Basinger (born 1953), American movie actress and former model, winner of the 1997 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in "L.A. Confidential"

/Kirk /Douglas
n. Kirk Douglas (born 1916 as Issur Danielovitch), American stage and film actor, winner of an honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement

/Ko Phangan
n. Ko Phangan, resort island off the coast of Thailand

/Ko Samui
n. Ko Samui, resort island in Thailand bay

/Kobe /Bryant
n. Kobe Bryant (born 1978), professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers, youngest player ever voted into the NBA All-Star team (at age 19)

/Kofi Annan
n. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations since 1997 (born in Ghana, held many key positions in the UN)

/Kurt /Goedel
n. Kurt Goedel (1906-1978), Czech mathematician and logician

/Kurt /Vonnegut
n. Kurt Vonnegut (born 1922), American author

/Kurt /Waldheim
n. Kurt Waldheim, Austrian statesman and diplomat

/La /Fontaine
n. La Fontaine, family name; town in Indiana (USA); Jean de La Fontaine (1621-95), French poet, author of "Fables"

/La /Pampa
n. La Pampa, region in central Argentina

/La Guardia
n. La Guardia, family name; major airport in New York City; Fiorello La Guardia (1882-1947), American lawyer, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, mayor of New York City (1933-45)

/La Paz
n. La Paz, city in the western part of Bolivia

/La Plata
n. La Plata, city in the eastern part of Argentina

/La Scala
n. La Scala, Italy's leading opera house (located in Milan)

/Lac /de /Tibériade
n. Kinneret, Sea of Galilee, large lake in northeastern Israel

/Lady /Godiva
n. Godiva (c. 1040-1080), English noblewoman who (according to legend) rode naked through the streets of Coventry (England), to spare its citizens from a tax to be imposed by her husband

/Lance /Armstrong
n. Lance Armstrong (born 1971), United States professional road racing cyclist who is the first and most famous, for winning the "Tour de France" for a record of 7 consecutive times from 1999 to 2005

/Langston Hughes
n. Langston Hughes (1902-1967) black American poet, author of many of the most famous books from the Harlem Renaissance period (including "The Weary Blues")

/Lauren /Bacall
n. Lauren Bacall (born 1924 as Betty Joan Perske), American actress who acted opposite Humphrey Bogart in numerous movies (becoming his wife after their first movie together)

/Laurence /Olivier
n. Lawrence Olivier (1907-1989), British actor and director

/Laurence Oliphant
n. Laurence Oliphant (1829-1888), British author, journalist and mystic who was born in Capetown in South Africa

/Laurence Olivier
n. Sir Laurence Olivier (1907-1989) eminent English actor producer and director

/Laurent /Fabius
n. Laurent Fabius, French politician

/Lawrence /Kasdan
n. Lawrence Kasdan (born 1949), United States movie producer and director who directed the 1981 film, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and the 1983 film "The Big Chill"

/Lawrence d'Arabie
n. Lawrence of Arabia, T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935), British soldier and writer who worked to promote the creation of independent Arab states

/Le /Centre /Simon Wiesenthal
n. Simon Wiesenthal Center, Holocaust research center and museum located in Los Angeles (USA)

/Le /Havre
n. Le Havre, port city in northwest France

/Le /Mans
n. Le Mans, city in central France

/Le /Monde
n. Le Monde, leading daily newspaper in France

/Le /Pentagone
n. Pentagon, five-sided building that is located in Washington D.C. (USA) and serves as United States Department of Defense headquarters

/Le /Petit /Prince
n. le Petit Prince, children's story of Saint-Exupery that became popular among adults

/Le /Pirée
n. Piraeus, city and seaport in Greece

/Le /Tigre /et l'Euphrate
n. Tigris and Euphrates, two great rivers of ancient Mesopotamia which join together in Iraq to form the Shatt-al-Arab

/Le /patient /anglais
n. The English Patient, novel by Michael Ondaatje; 1996 film directed by Anthony Minghella (starring Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Juliette Binoche, and Willem Dafoe)

/Le /silence /des /agneau
n. Silence of the Lambs, 1991 film starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins (directed by Jonathan Demme)

/Le Caravage
n. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610), Italian baroque painter, creator of "Supper at Emmaus"

/Le Corbusier
n. Le Corbusier, pseudonym of Charles Edouard Jeanneret (1831-1912), famous French architect, pioneer of modern urban architecture

/Lech /Walesa
n. Lech Walesa (born 1943), winner of the Nobel peace prize in 1983, president of Poland after the fall of communism until 1995, Polish labor leader

/Leonid /Brejnev
n. Leonid Brejnev (1906-82), Soviet leader and statesman, president of the Soviet Union

/Leonid Brejnev
n. Leonid Brezhnev (1906-82), Soviet leader and statesman, president of the Soviet Union (1960-64, 1977-82), first secretary of the Communist Party

/Les /Alpes
n. the Alps, group of mountains in Southern Europe

/Les /Balkans
n. Balkans, countries located on the Balkan Peninsula (Yugoslavia, Serbia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece and the European part of Turkey)

/Les /salle /obscur
n. cinemas, movies theaters

/Lewis /Madison /Terman
n. Lewis Madison Terman (1877-1956), American psychologist, publisher of the first IQ test widely used in the United States (the Stanford revision of Binet-Simon tests)

/Lewis /Sinclair
n. Lewis Sinclair (1885-1951), USA novelist and playwright

/Liam /Neeson
n. Liam Neeson (born 1952), Irish-born movie actor who starred in the 1993 movie Schindler's List (as Oskar Schindler)

/Linda /Hamilton
n. Linda Hamilton (born 1956), United States film actress (starred in "Terminator 2" and "Dante's Peak")

/Linda /Tripp
n. Linda Tripp, woman who secretly recorded Monica Lewinsky's confessions about her affair with U.S. President Bill Clinton and delivered the tapes to the Department of Justice

/Lino Ventura
n. Lino Ventura, French actor (1918-1987)

/Lionel Jospin
n. Lionel Jospin, leader of the socialist party, prime minister of France

/Livre /Rouge
n. red book, standard for playing digital sound from compact discs in a computer

/Lloyd George
n. Lloyd George, David Lloyd George (1863-1945), British statesman, prime minister (1916-22)

/Lord /Alfred /Tennyson
n. Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), English poet of the Victorian era, author of "The Charge of the Light Brigade"

/Lord /Protecteur
n. lord protector, title given to the head of state during the Commonwealth period in England Scotland and Ireland

/Lord Rayleigh
n. John William Strutt Rayleigh, Lord Rayleigh (1842-1919), English physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the element argon

/Louis /Armstrong
n. Louis Armstrong (1900-1971), eminent American jazz trumpet player and singer

/Louis /Braille
n. Louis Braille (1809-1852), French educator (who became blind at the age of three), and inventor of the Braille system for the blind

/Louis /Brandeis
n. Louis Brandeis (1916-39), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Zionist activist; private university in Waltham Massachusetts (USA)

/Louis /Gerstner
n. Louis Gerstner, Chairman and General Manager of the worldwide computer company IBM

/Louis /Ignaro
n. Louis Ignaro, Doctor and pharmacologist from Los Angeles, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1998

/Louis /Jacques Mande /Daguerre
n. Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (1789-1851), French painter and physicist, inventor of the daguerreotype

/Louis /Joseph /de /Montcalm
n. Louis-Joseph de Montcalm (1756-59), general of French armed forces in Canada

/Louis /Lazare Zamenhoff
n. Lazzaro Zamenhof (1859-1917, father of the international language Esperanto)

/Louis /Leakey
n. Louis Leakey (1903-1972), British archaeologist and paleontologist, husband of Mary Leakey, father of Richard Leakey

/Louis /Malle
n. Louis Malle (1932-1995), French film director whose works include, Murmur of the Heart (1971), and Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)

/Louis /Pasteur
n. Louis Pasteur (1822-55), nineteenth century French biologist and chemist, pioneer in bacteriology, creator of the Pasteur method for killing bacteria

/Louis /de Funès
n. Louis de Funès, French movie actor (1914-1983)

/Louis Comfort /Tiffany
n. Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933), American painter and interior decorator known for his lamps and vases of Favrile glass, son of jeweler Charles Lewis Tiffany

/Louis Farrakhan
n. Louis Farrakhan (born 1933), United States black nationalist and controversial leader of the Nation of Islam

/Louis Jouvet
n. Louis Jouvet, French actor (1887-1951)

/Louis XIV
n. Louis the fourteenth, 18th-19th century King of France

/Louis XV
n. Louis XV (1710-1774), king of France from 1715 to 1774 who led France into the Seven Years' War (great-grandson of Louis the fourteenth)

/Louis XVI
n. Louis the sixteenth, king of France from 1774, deposed in 1792, last king of France before the French Revolution

/Luc /Ferry
n. Luc Ferry (born in 1951), French Minister of Education and Youth; academic philosopher

/Luciano /Pavarotti
n. Luciano Pavarotti (born 1935), Italian tenor, famous opera singer

/Luciano Berio
n. Luciano Berio (born 1925), Italian composer known for his avant-garde style and use of unusual techniques

/Ludwig /Wittgenstein
n. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Austrian philosopher who studied and taught at Cambridge University, author of "Philosophical Investigations"

/Luis /Molina
n. Luis Molina (1535-1600), Spanish Jesuit theologian who founded the Molinism

/Lyndon /Baines Johnson
n. Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-73), American politician, 36th president of the United States from 1963-69

/Légion d'honneur
n. Legion of Honour, honor, award, tribute; privilege; pride, dignity

/Léonard /De /Vinci
n. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian painter, sculptor, inventor, engineer, scientist, painter of the "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper"

/Léonard /de /Vinci
n. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian renowned in the fields of art and science

/Léonid /Brejnev
n. Leonid Brezhnev (1906-82), Soviet leader and statesman, president of the Soviet Union (1960-64, 1977-82), first secretary of the Communist Party

/Macaulay Culkin
n. Macaulay Culkin (born 1980), American film actor who acted in "Home Alone"

/Madame /Bovary
n. Madame Bovary, French novel written in the 1800's by Flaubert

/Madame Curie
n. Marie Curie (1867-1934), Polish physicist and chemist, co-discoverer of radium, Nobel prize winner (wife of Pierre Curie)

/Madeleine Albright
n. Madeleine Albright, (born 1937 as Maria Jana Koerbel) American government official, 64th U.S. Secretary of State and first female to serve in this office, former U.S. delegate to the United Nations

/Mae /West
n. Mae West (1892-1980), American superstar actress and sex symbol

/Maison /Blanche
n. White House, dwelling of the president of the United States of America

/Maksim /Gorki
n. Maksim Gorki, pen name of Aleksey Maximovich Pyeshkov (1868-1936), Russian author, father of Soviet literature and founder of soviet realism

/Man /Ray
n. Man Ray, (1890-1976, born Emmanuel Rudnitsky) American photographer sculptor and painter, co-founder of the Dada movement in New York and Paris, inventor of the rayograph

/Manuel /Belgrano
n. (1770-1820) Manuel Belgrano, Argentinian revolutionist and politician and military leader

/Marc /Antoine
n. Mark Antony (83-30 B.C., Marcus Antonius in Latin), Roman politician and general and friend of Julius Caesar, who defeated Julius Caesar's assassins, member of the second triumvirate

/Marc /Chagall
n. Marc Chagall (1887-1985), Russian born painter who lived in France, one of the great painters of the 20th century

/Marcel /Duchamp
n. Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), French artist, developer of the "readymade" art form, co-founder of Dadaism in New York and Paris

/Marcel /Marceau
n. Marcel Marceau (born 1923), famous French pantomimist and actor

/Marcel /Proust
n. Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French writer, author of "Remembrance of Things Past"

/Marcel Grateau
n. Marcel Grateau (1852-1936), French hairdresser who in 1872 created a new natural looking wave, by turning the curling iron upside down

/Marcello /Malpighi
n. Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), Italian anatomist who best known for discovering the Malpighian corpuscle and the Malpighian tubule

/Marcello /Mastroianni
n. Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996), Italian movie actor who is often best remembered for the number of roles, he played with Sophia Loren

/Marco /Polo
n. Marco Polo (1254-1324), Italian merchant and explorer from Venice, one of the first European explorers to travel across Asia

/Marcus /Garvey
n. Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), United States black nationalist and leader, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association

/Marcus Aurélius
n. Marcus Aurelius (c. AD 121-180), Roman emperor, author of the philosophical work "The Meditations"

/Maria Callas
n. Maria Callas (1923-1977, born as Maria Kalogeropoulos), American opera singer

/Maria Thérésa
n. Maria Theresa, 18th century archduchess of Austria, queen of Hungary and Bohemia

/Mariah /Carey
n. Mariah Carey (born 1970), American singer and songwriter

/Marie /Antoinette
n. Marie Antoinette (1755-93), queen of France and wife of King Louis XVI (guillotined in the French Revolution)

/Marie /Claire
n. Marie Claire, monthly American magazine for women that covers topics of general interest (health, beauty, fashion, career, finance, etc.)

/Marie /Curie
n. Marie Curie (1867-1934), Polish physicist and chemist, co-discoverer of radium, Nobel prize winner (wife of Pierre Curie)

/Marilyn /Monroe
n. Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962, born Norma Jean Mortenson or Baker), Hollywood actress and sex symbol famous for her roles as the sexy "dumb blond"

/Mark /McGwire
n. Mark McGwire (born 1963), American baseball player from the St. Louis Cardinals who holds the all-time record for the most home runs hit in one season

/Mark /Twain
n. Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Clemens (1835-1910, American writer, author of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn")

/Marlon /Brando
n. Marlon Brando (1924-2004) American movie actor, United States movie actor known for his performance in "The Godfather", and the controversial "Last Tango in Paris"

/Marlène /Dietrich
n. Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992), German-born American movie actress and singer

/Marlène Jobert
n. Marlène Jobert, French movie actress (born in 1943)

/Marquis /de /Lafayette
n. Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834), French soldier and politician who served in the American Revolutionary Army and in the French revolutions of 1789 and 1830

/Marshal Tito
n. Marshal Tito (1892-1980), birth name Josip Broz, Yugoslavian politician who was the resistance leader against Nazi occupation during World War II, and established independence from the USSR in 1948, president of Yugoslavia from 1953 to 1980

/Marshall /McLuhan
n. Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980), Canadian educator and professor of English literature, writer and analyzer of mass media

/Martha /Graham
n. Martha Graham (1893-1991), American dancer and choreographer, one of the founders of modern dance

/Martha Vineyard
n. Martha's Vineyard, island off the southern coast of Cape Cod (Massachusetts, USA)

/Martin /Buber
n. Martin Buber (1878-1965), Jewish philosopher, Zionist leader, translator of the Old Testament into German

/Martin /Heidegger
n. Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), influential German philosopher

/Martin /Indyk
n. Martin Indyk, American ambassador to Israel (1995)

/Martin /Luther
n. Martin Luther (1483-1546), German theologian and writer, one of the leaders of the Reformation, founder of Lutheranism

/Martin /Luther /King
n. Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), black American clergyman and civil rights leader, winner of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, outspoken advocate of nonviolent protest (assassinated by James Earl Ray)

/Martin /Scorsese
n. Martin Scorsese (born 1942), American film director who directed "Taxi Driver " and "Raging Bull"

/Martin /Van Buren
n. Martin Van Buren (1782-1862), 8th president of the United States (1837-41)

/Martina /Navratilova
n. Martina Navratilova (born 1956), Czechoslovakian tennis player who defected to America

/Marvin Gaye
n. Marvin Gaye (1939-1984), United States singer and recording artist for Motown Records

/Marx /Brothers
n. Marx brothers, American family of comic movie actors

/Mary /Jane
n. Mary Jane, female first name

/Mary /Leakey
n. Mary Leakey (1913-1996), British paleontologist and wife of Louis Leakey, mother of Richard Leakey

/Mary /McAleese
n. Mary McAleese (born 1951), president of Ireland (1997-)

/Mary /McCleod /Bethune
n. Mary McCleod Bethune (1875-1955), black American civil rights activist, founder of many institutions for the black community (a school, a hospital, and social organizations)

/Mary /Moorman
n. Mary Moorman (born 1932), woman who was a witness to President John F. Kennedy's assassination on November 22nd 1963

/Mary /Shelley
n. Mary Shelley (1797-1851), English writer, author of the classic gothic tale "Frankenstein"

/Mary Mallon
n. Mary Mallon (1869-1938), Irish-born U.S. cook who was the first known healthy immune carrier of typhoid fever, fever in the United States who infected more than 50 people with the disease, nicknamed "Typhoid Mary"

/Maréchal Pétain
n. Henri Phillipe Petain (1856-1951), leader of France during World War II, Nazi collaborator who was tried and sentenced for treason in 1945

/Massimo D'Alema
n. Massimo D'Alema (born 1949), Italian politician, Prime Minister of Italy

/Matt /Damon
n. Matt Damon (born 1970), American film actor who starred in "Good Will Hunting"

/Matthias /Grunewald
n. Matthias Grunewald (c1475-1528, born Mathis Gothart Neithart), German Renaissance painter known for his religious paintings

/Maurice /Maeterlinck
n. Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949), Belgium playwright and poet and winner of the 1911 Nobel prize for literature

/Maurice /Raynaud
n. Maurice Raynaud (1834-1881), French physician, who first discovered and described the condition known as Raynaud's syndrome in 1862

/Maurice /Wilkins
n. Maurice Wilkins (1916-2004), New Zealand physicist, developer of the X-ray technique, used by Watson and Crick to discover the structure of the DNA molecule, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine

/Max /Ernst
n. Max Ernst (1891-1976), German surrealist painter, developer of the frottage technique, one of the founders of the dada movement

/Max /Nordau
n. Max Nordau, (1849-1923, born Simcha Meir Zeigerfeld) author, doctor, Zionist leader, president of the (7th-10th) Zionist Congress

/Max /Planck
n. Max Planck (1858-1947), German physicist, father of quantum physics

/Max Beckmann
n. Max Beckmann (1884-1950), German expressionist painter and printmaker, creator of the triptych "Departure"

/Max Delbruck
n. Max Delbruck (1906-1981), German biologist who shared the 1969 Nobel Prize (with Salvador Edward Luria and Alfred Hershey), for medicine or physiology for research on the mechanisms and materials of inheritance of viruses

/Max Roach
n. Max Roach (born 1924), famous African American jazz drummer and outspoken civil rights advocate (recorded with other famous musicians, such as Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker)

/Maxime Gordi
Maxim Gordi, Maksim Gorki, pen name of Aleksey Maximovich Pyeshkov (1868-1936), Russian author, father of Soviet literature and founder of soviet realism

/Maynard Keynes
n. Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946), British economist who advocated government intervention and increased public spending as means of curbing unemployment

/McDonnell /Douglas
n. McDonnell Douglas, large company that manufactures many different types of aircraft

/McGuffin
n. McGuffin, family name

/McLean
n. McLean, family name

/Medgar /Evers
n. Medgar Evers (1925-1963), black American civil rights activist who was assassinated in Mississippi (USA), field secretary of the NAACP

/Mel /Gibson
n. Mel Gibson (born 1956), United States film actor and director, winner of the 1995 Academy Award for Best Picture for his w

/Mel Brooks
n. Mel Brooks (born 1926 as Mel Kaminsky), American comic and screenwriter, writer of the films "Spaceballs" and "Robin Hood: Men in Tights"

/Mer /Méditerranée
n. Mediterranean, Mediterranean Sea, sea located between Europe Africa and the Middle East

/Mia Farrow
n. Mia Farrow (born 1945), American movie actress who acted in "Rosemary's Baby" and "Crimes and Misdemeanors"

/Michael /Douglas
n. Michael Douglas (born 1944), American film actor director and producer, winner of the 1975 Academy Award for Best Picture for his work on "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

/Michael /Faraday
n. Michael Faraday (1791-1867), English chemist and physicist who discovered of electromagnetism, and who contributed much to electrochemistry

/Michael /Jackson
n. Michael Jackson (born 1958), American pop singer songwriter and dancer known for his dancing style, who started his career at the age of five, when he joined his brothers' singing group known as "the Jackson 5"

/Michael /Jordan
n. Michael Jordan (born 1963), American professional basketball player and actor

/Michael /Moore
n. Michael Moore (born 1954), United States film producer commentator and comedian

/Michael /Ondaatje
n. Michael Ondaatje (born 1943 in Sri Lanka), Canadian writer, author of the novel "The English Patient"

/Michael Dell
n. Michael Dell, President and General Manager of the Dell computer company in Texas (USA)

/Michail Gorbatchov
n. Michail Gorbatchov (born 1931), Soviet political leader, president of the Soviet Union (1988-91), winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize

/Michaël /Jordan
n. Michael Jordan (born 1963), American professional basketball player and actor

/Michel /Ange
n. Michelangelo, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564), Italian artist, painter of the Sistine Chapel, sculptor of the marble statue "David", poet and architect

/Michel /Blanc
n. Michel Blanc (born in 1952), French actor

/Michel /Bouquet
n. Michel Bouquet, French movie actor (born in 1925)

/Michel /Simon
n. Michel Simon, French actor (1895-1975)

/Michel /de /Montaigne
n. Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French humanist and philosopher

/Michel Barnier
n. Michel Barnier, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Foreign Affairs

/Michel Foucault
n. Michel Foucault (1926-1984), French philosopher

/Michel Galabru
n. Michel Galabru, French actor (born in 1922)

/Michel Piccoli
n. Michel Piccoli, French actor (born in 1925)

/Michel Platini
n. Michel Platini, French footballer (born in 1955)

/Michel Serrault
n. Michel Serrault, French actor (born in 1928)

/Michelle /Kwan
n. Michelle Kwan (born 1980), leading women's figure skater from the United States (Olympic silver medallist, 3-time U.S. Champion, 2-time World Champion)

/Michelle /Pfeiffer
n. Michelle Pfeiffer (born 1958), American film actress

/Michèle /Morgan
n. Michèle Morgan, French movie actress (born in 1920)

/Michèle Alliot /Marie
n. Michèle Alliot-Marie (born in 1946), French minister of the defence, Minister of Defence, head of the government office responsible for the military and matters of national and domestic security; old president of the RPR party

/Mick Jagger
n. Mick Jagger (born 1943), famous English rock and roll singer (member of "The Rolling Stones")

/Mickey /Rourke
n. Mickey Rourke (born 1956) American movie actor who starred in "Nine and a Half Weeks"

/Mickey Finn
n. Mickey Finn (1848-2003), United States drummer

/Mickey Mouse
n. Mickey Mouse, cartoon character created by Walt Disney in 1928 (also known as Mickey)

/Miki Berkovitz
n. Miki Berkovitz, Israeli soccer player

/Milan /Kundera
n. Milan Kundera (born 1929), Czechoslovakian writer

/Millard Fillmore
n. Millard Fillmore (1800-74), 13th president of the United States (1850-53)

/Milos /Forman
n. Milos Forman (born 1932), Czech film director who lives in the United States (directed "Amadeus," "The People vs. Larry Flint" and others)

/Milton /Avery
n. Milton Avery (1893-1965), American painter who mainly produced landscapes and still lifes

/Milton /Bradley
n. Milton Bradley, large American company, leading manufacturer of games and toys

/Milton /Byron /Babbitt
n. Milton Byron Babbitt (born 1916), U.S. composer

/Milton /Friedman
n. Milton Friedman (born 1912), American economist and advocate of the free market system, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize for Economics

/Milton /Hershey
n. Milton Hershey (1857-1946), United States philanthropist and industrialist, who founded the Hershey Chocolate Company in 1903 and founded the town of Hershey, (Pennsylvania, USA) in 1909

/Ministère /de /la /Culture
n. Ministry of Culture, government office responsible for cultural matters

/Mireille Darc
n. Mireille Darc, French Actress (born in 1938)

/Monsieur /météo
n. weather man

/Mont /Ararat
n. Ararat, mountain in Turkey near the Iranian border where it is believed Noah's Ark landed

/Mont Sugar loaf
n. Sugarloaf Mountain, mountain in southeastern Brazil overlooking the city of Rio de Janeiro

/Monte /Carlo
n. Monte Carlo, city in Monaco famous for its gambling casinos

/Morris dance
n. morris dance, rural folk dance of northern England performed by men in costumes

/Moses /Montefiore
n. Moses Montefiore (1784-1885), Jewish businessman and philanthropist

/Moyen /Orient
n. Middle East, region extending from the southeastern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea (including countries in southwest Asia and northeast Africa)

/Moyen Âge
n. Middle Ages, period in European history which began after the collapse of the West Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th centuries and continued until the Renaissance in 15th century

/Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
n. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938), founder and first president of the modern republic of Turkey

/Musée /du /Louvre
n. Louvre Museum, art museum located in Paris (France), since 1793, that is one of the largest museums in the world and a major tourist attraction in Paris, formerly a royal palace

/Nadia Comaneci
n. Nadia Comaneci (born 1961), Rumanian gymnast and winner of Olympic medals in 1976 and 1980

/Nancy /Astor
n. Nancy Astor (1879-1964, born Nancy Langhorne), US-born British politician, first female MP in the House of Commons

/Napoléon /Bonaparte
n. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), renowned French general and emperor

/Nathalie Baye
n. Nathalie Baye (born in 1948), French movie actress

/Nations /uni$1$
n. United Nations, international organization founded to promote peace security and international cooperation (has headquarters in New York City, USA)

/Navette /spatial Columbia
n. Space Shuttle Columbia, first space shuttle in NASA's orbital fleet which was launched on April 12th 1981 and lost on its, 28th mission on February 1st 2003 with all its crew on board when it disintegrated, during atmospheric re-entry

/Navette spaciale Columbia
n. Space Shuttle Columbia, first space shuttle in NASA's orbital fleet which was launched on April 12th 1981

/Neal /Cassady
n. Neal Cassady (1926-1968), American poet, member of the Beat Generation

/Neil /Armstrong
n. Neil Armstrong (born 1930), American astronaut, first man to set foot on the moon, on July 20th 1969

/Nelson /Mandela
n. Nelson Mandela (born 1918), South African black political leader involved in the fight against apartheid who was sentenced in, 1964 to life imprisonment for his involvement in planning armed action and remained in prison

/Niccolo Machiavelli
n. Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), Florentine statesman and political writer, author of "the Prince"

/Nicolas /Copernic
n. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer, developer of the Copernican System (theory that the planets revolve around the sun)

/Nicolas /Sarkozy
n. Nicolas Sarkozy (born in 1955), French Minister of the Interior and Domestic security

/Nicolas Ceausescu
n. Nicolae Ceausescu (1918-89), Romanian statesman, last Communist president of Romania (1967-89)

/Nicolas Macchiavel
n. Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), Florentine statesman and political writer, author of "the Prince"

/Nicole /Garcia
n. Nicole Garcia (born in 1946), French movie actress

/Niels /Bohr
n. Niels Bohr (1855-1962) Danish physicist, who studied and researched the atomic structure, Nobel prize winner in physics in 1922

/Nil /blanc
n. White Nile, part of the Nile river above Khartoum (Africa)

/Nil /bleu
n. Blue Nile, tributary of the Nile river

/Nina Ricci
n. Nina Ricci, Haute Couture designer in Paris

/Noah /Webster
n. Noah Webster (1758-1843), American lexicographer

/Noam /Chomsky
n. Noam Chomsky, (born 1928) American linguist and educator

/Norbert /Wiener
n. Norbert Wiener (1894-1964), American mathematician who founded the science of cybernetics

/Norma /Jean
n. Norma Jean, female first name; Marilyn Monroe (1926-62, born Norma Jean Baker), Hollywood actress and sex symbol

/Norman /Rockwell
n. Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), American painter known for his classic American scenes; American corporation based in California, manufacturer of electronic controls and communication systems

/Norman /Schwarzkopf
n. Norman Schwarzkopf (born 1934), retired American general (commanded the American military forces in the Gulf War)

/Notre /Dame
n. Notre Dame, famous cathedral in Paris; Catholic university located in Indiana (USA)

/Nouveau /Brunswick
n. New Brunswick, province in eastern Canada; city in New Jersey (USA)

/Nouveau /Mexique
n. New Mexico, state in the southwestern United States

/Nouvelle /Angleterre
n. New England, region in the northeast United States (comprised of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Connecticut and Rhode Island)

/Nouvelle /Calédonie
n. New Caledonia, group of islands in the Pacific Ocean

/Nouvelle /Guinée
n. New Guinea

/Nouvelle /Orléans
n. New Orleans, city in Louisiana (USA); style of jazz music

/Nouvelle /Zélande
n. New Zealand, island country which is a member of the British Commonwealth and is located southeast of Australia

/Noëlle Lenoir
n. Noëlle Lenoir (born in 1948), French Minister delegate for European Affairs attached to the minister of foreign affairs

/Odette /Joyeux
n. Odette Joyeux (born in 1914), French movie actress

/Ofra Haza
n. Ofra Haza (1957-2000), Israeli pop singer and songwriter

/Oliver /Cromwell
n. Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), English general and statesman (defeated the forces of Charles l in the English civil war)

/Omaha Beach
n. Omaha Beach, beach of Normandy (France) where the D-day invasion of Allied troops took place in 1944

/Omar /Khayyam
n. Omar Khayyam, 11th century Persian mathematician and poet, author of the "Rubaiyat"

/Omar Sharif
n. Omar Sharif (born in 1932 as Michel Shahoub), Egyptian novie actor with international success, who starred in "Doctor Zhivago"

/Orrin Hatch
n. Orrin Hatch (born in 1934), member of the United States Senate, member of the Republican party from Utah, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee

/Osama /Bin Laden
n. Osama Bin Laden, Saudi billionaire living in Afghanistan

/Oscar /Schindler
n. Oscar Schindler (1908-74), German citizen and member of the Nazi party who saved the lives of Jews during World War II

/Oscar /Wilde
n. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish-born poet author and playwright who spent most of his career in England, author of "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

/PC /multimédia
n. multimedia computer, computer that is able to display high graphics animations videos and to produce voices and sounds

/Pablo Neruda
n. Pablo Neruda (1904-1973 born Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basualto), Chilean poet, Communist party leader and diplomat, winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature

/Paradis /terrestre
n. Garden of Eden, Paradise

/Parc /de /la /Villette
n. Parc de la Villette, Park of the Villette

/Pas /de /Calais
n. Strait of Dover, the strait between the English Channel and the North Sea; shortest distance between England and the European continent

/Patrick Deweare
n. Patrick Deweare (1947-1982), French movie actor

/Paul /Allen
n. Paul Allen (born 1953), United States entrepreneur, cofounder of Microsoft, one of the richest men in the world

/Paul /Cézanne
n. Cezanne, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), French painter, father of modern art, French postimpressionist painter who greatly influenced the development of modern art, creator of "Bathers" and "House of the Hanged Man"

/Paul /Gauguin
n. Paul Gaugin (1848-1903), French postimpressionist painter, student and friend of Camille Pissarro, creator of "The Day of the God" and "The Yellow Christ"

/Paul /Klee
n. Paul Klee, (1879-1940) Swiss artist and art theorist, member of the Blaue Reiter group, creator of "The Twittering Machine" and "Fish Magic"

/Paul /Langerhans
n. Paul Langerhans (1847-1888), German anatomist and medical doctor

/Paul /Laurence /Dunbar
n. Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), African-American poet and novelist, author of "Oak abd Ivy" and "Folks from Dixie"

/Paul /Lukas
n. Paul Lukas (1895-1971) Hungarian-born American film actor (known for his roles in "20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea", "Berlin Express")

/Paul /McCartney
n. Paul McCartney (born 1942), British composer and singer, member of the band "The Beatles"

/Paul /Newman
n. Paul Newman (born 1925), American actor and film director, winner of several Academy Awards

/Paul /Signac
n. Paul Signac (1863-1935), French neoimpressionist painter, co-developer of the technique of pointillism, creator of "Port of St. Tropez"

/Paul Revere
n. Paul Revere (1735-1818), American silversmith made famous by his "Midnight Ride" to mobilize soldiers to fight the invading British Forces at the start of the Revolutionary War

/Pavel /Cerenkov
n. Pavel Cerenkov (1904-1990), Russian physicist, winner of the 1958 Nobel prize in Physics (together with Ilya Mikhailovich Frank and Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm)

/Pays /Bas
n. Netherlands, Holland, country in northwestern Europe bordering on the North Sea

/Percy /Shelley
n. Percy Shelley (1792-1822), English poet, husband of novelist Mary Shelley

/Peter /Arno
n. Peter Arno (1904-1968), American cartoonist famous for his satirical works

/Peter /Brian /Medawar
n. Peter Brian Medawar (1915-1987), Brazilian-born English zoologist and anatomist, Nobel prize winner for medicine in 1960

/Peter /Cetera
n. Peter Cetera (born 1944), American musician and singer who was the lead singer of the popular band Chicago from ~1967-1985

/Peter /Fonda
n. Peter Fonda (born 1939), American movie actor, son of Henry Fonda and brother of Jane Fonda

/Peter /Mark /Roget
n. Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869), English doctor and lexicographer, author of an English-language thesaurus

/Peter /Pan
n. Peter Pan, play by the Scottish author James Matthew Barrie adapted into a storybook and a popular animated film

/Peter /Paul /Rubens
n. Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Flemish painter

/Peter /le /Grand
n. Peter the Great, 17th-18th century Russian Czar who worked to transform Russia into a more progressive nation

/Peter Andreas /Hansen
n. Peter Andreas Hansen (1795-1874) Danish astronomer

/Peter Cornelius
n. Peter Cornelius (1824-1874), German composer and poet

/Peter Tchaïkovsky
n. Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Russian composer

/Petit /Palais
n. Petit Palais, museum in Paris (France)

/Philippe /Léotard
n. Philippe Léotard, French actor and singer (1940-2001)

/Philippe Noiret
n. Philippe Noiret, French movie actor (born in 1930)

/Phillipe /Pétain
n. Henri Phillipe Petain (1856-1951), leader of France during World War II, Nazi collaborator who was tried and sentenced for treason in 1945

/Phillis /Wheatley
n. Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) black American slave and first major black writer in the United States

/Phyllis /Wheatley
n. Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), black American slave and first major black writer in the United States

/Pierce /Brosnan
n. Pierce Brosnan (born 1952), Irish-born stage and film actor, star of "The Thomas Crown Affair" and "Tomorrow Never Dies"

/Piermont /Morgan
n. Piermont Morgan (1837-1913), prominent American banker, founder of the J.P. Morgan Bank in New York

/Pierre /Auguste /Renoir
n. Renoir, Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), French impressionist painter and sculptor

/Pierre /Boulez
n. Pierre Boulez (born 1925), French composer and conductor known for his avant-garde style and use of electronic sounds

/Pierre /Bruegel
n. Pieter Bruegel (1525-1569, known as "the Elder"), Flemish painter and engraver, creator of "Peasant Wedding"

/Pierre /Cardin
n. Cardin (born 1922), French fashion designer

/Pierre /Curie
n. Pierre Curie (1857-1906), French physicist and chemist, co-discoverer of radium, Nobel prize winner (husband of Marie)

/Pierre /Richard
n. Pierre Richard, French movie actor (born in 1934)

/Pierre /Vernier
n. Pierre Vernier (1580-1637), French mathematician

/Pierre /de /Fermat
n. Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665), French mathematician, co-founder of number theory and probability theory (with Pascal)

/Pierre Balmain
n. Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer

/Pierre Elliot /Trudeau
n. Pierre Elliot Trudeau (born 1919), former prime minister of Canada

/Piet /Mondrian
n. Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Dutch painter, follower of Cubism and Neoplasticism

/Pieter /Bruegel l'Ancien
n. Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525-69), Flemish painter and engraver, creator of "Peasant Wedding"

/Pieter Bruegel
n. Pieter Bruegel (1525-1569, known as "the Elder"), Flemish painter and engraver, creator of "Peasant Wedding"

/Place /rouge
n. Red Square (Moscow)

/Politique /Agricole /commune
n. Common Agricultural Policy, CAP

/Porto Alegre
n. Porto Alegre, seaport city in south Brazil

/Porto Novo
n. Porto Novo, capital of Benin

/Porto Rico
n. Puerto Rico, territory of the United States located in the Caribbean Sea

/Première /Guerre /mondial
n. First World War, World War I, world war fought between the years 1914 and 1918

/Preston Sturges
n. Preston Sturges (1898-1959, born as Edmond P. Biden), American film director

/Proche /Orient
n. Near East, Middle East, countries in southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa

/Quentin /Tarantino
n. Quentin Tarantino (born 1963), American actor and film director who directed "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction"

/Rabbi /Akiva
n. Rabbi Akibba, famous Jewish rabbi whose writings formed the basis of the Mishnah

/Rabbi /Guershom
n. Rabbi Guershom, was head of a Yeshiva in Mainz who is well-known for his bans, that include the prohibition of polygamy, prohibition of divorcing a woman against her will, and prohibition of reading private mail

/Rabbi Akibba
n. Rabbi Akibba, famous Jewish rabbi whose writings formed the basis of the Mishnah

/Ralph /David /Abernathy
n. Ralph David Abernathy (1926-1990), American clergyman and civil rights activist who founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

/Ralph /Izard
n. Ralph Izard (1742-1804), United States diplomat and legislator

/Ralph /Klein
n. Ralph Klein, Israeli basketball player and coach who led the Maccabi Tel Aviv to victory in the European Championships

/Ralph Waldo /Emerson
n. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), American writer philosopher and minister, author of the transcendentalist works "Nature" and "Representative Men"

/Rami /Kleinstein
n. Rami Kleinstein, Israeli singer

/Rankine /William
n. William Rankine (1820-72), Scottish engineer and physicist

/Raoul /Wallenberg
n. Raoul Wallenberg (1912-47), Swedish diplomat and businessman who saved the lives of many Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust

/Raphaël /Eytan
n. Rafael Eitan, former chief of staff of the Israeli defense forces, member of the Israeli parliament, "Raful"

/Ray /Charles
n. Ray Charles (1930-2004), American singer songwriter and musician who is blind

/René /Cassin
n. Rene Cassin (1887-1976), French public official, winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1968

/René /Descartes
n. Rene Descartes (1596-1650), French philosopher and mathematician and the founder of modern rationalism

/René /Magritte
n. Rene' Magritte (1898-1967), Belgian painter and member of the Surrealist movement

/René Leibowitz
n. René Leibowitz (1913-1972), French composer and conductor who was born in Poland

/Reuel Gerecht
n. Reuel Gerecht, author and journalist, former CIA agent and expert on Iran and Iranian culture and people

/Richard "Dick" /Cheney
n. Richard "Dick" Cheney (born 1941), American statesman and politician, vice-president to George W. Bush

/Richard /Butler
n. Richard Butler, chief of the United Nations weapons inspection team in Iraq who were in charge of searching for nonconventional weapons (was expelled by Saddam Hussein prior to operation "Desert Fox")

/Richard /Cromwell
n. Richard Cromwell (1626-1712), English soldier and politician

/Richard /Dawkins
n. Richard Dawkins (born 1941as Clinton Richard Dawkins), British zoologist born in Nairobi (Kenya), author of the book "The Selfish Gene"

/Richard /Feynman
n. Richard Feynman (1918-1988), American physicist who made major contributions to the field of quantum mechanics (1965 Nobel Laureate in Physics)

/Richard /Holbrooke
n. Richard Holbrooke (born 1941), U.S. statesman (noted for his mediation skills during difficult conflicts)

/Richard /Leakey
n. Richard Leakey (born 1944), Kenyan paleoanthropologist, son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, most known for his discovery, of an almost complete skeleton of a 9-year-old hominid who died 1.5 million years ago

/Richard /Nixon
n. Richard Nixon (1913-94), 37th president of the United States (1969-74)

/Richard /Stockton
n. Richard Stockton (1730-1781), US lawyer and political leader during the American Revolution, signer of the Declaration of Independence

/Richard /Wagner
n. Richard Wagner, 19th century German composer

/Richard Avedon
n. Richard Avedon (1923-2004), American fashion and celebrity photographer

/Richard Bahringer
n. Richard Bahringer (born in 1941), French actor

/Richard Burton
n. Sir Richard Burton, (1821-90) British scholar and explorer, author of many travel books

/Richard Dawson
n. Richard Dawson (born 1932 under the name Colin Emm), English-born actor, and game show host who hosted the long running U.S.A. game show "Family Feud"

/Richard Dreyfuss
n. Richard Dreyfuss (born in 1947 in Brooklyn, New York, USA), American actor (starred in the 1973 movie "American Graffiti", 1975 movie "Jaws" and many many more)

/Richard Gere
n. Richard Gere (1949), American film actor who starred in the film "Pretty Woman"

/Richard Milhous /Nixon
n. Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994), 37th president of the United States (1969-1974)

/Richard Nixon
n. Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994), 37th president of the United States (1969-1974)

/Richard Stallman
n. Richard Stallman (born 1953), famous programmer who founded GNU and the Free Software Foundation

/Ricki Lake
n. Ricki Lake, popular American television personality (hostess of a popular talk show)

/Rimsky /Korsakov
n. Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), Russian composer

/Rio /Branco
n. Rio Branco, city in west Brazil

/Robert /Browning
n. Robert Browning (1812-89), British poet, author of "The Ring and the Book"

/Robert /De Niro
n. Robert De Niro (born 1943), American movie actor

/Robert /E Lee
n. Robert E Lee (1807-1870), general of the Confederate armies during the Civil War

/Robert /Fortune
n. Robert Fortune (1813-1880), British botanist

/Robert /Hooke
n. Robert Hooke (1635-1703), English philosopher and scientist known for his study of elasticity

/Robert /Hue
n. Robert Hue, French politician

/Robert /Koch
n. Robert Koch (1843-1910), German doctor and physiologist, Nobel prize winner, discoverer of the bacteria associated with tuberculosis

/Robert /Lansing
n. Robert Lansing (1864-1928), American politician, Secretary of State during the Wilson administration, head of the U.S. delegation to the Paris Peace Conference

/Robert /Laughlin
n. Robert Laughlin (born 1950), Physicist from Stanford University (USA), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1998

/Robert /Lawson
n. Robert Lawson (1892-1957), Unites States illustrator and author of children's books

/Robert /Louis /Stevenson
n. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish author and poet, author of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"

/Robert /McNamara
n. Robert McNamara (born 1916), veteran of World War II, U.S. Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War (1961-68), president of the World Bank (1968-81)

/Robert /Mitchum
n. Robert Mitchum (1917-1997), American movie actor (was a professional boxer before going to Hollywood)

/Robert /Morley
n. Robert Morley (1908-1992), English thespian

/Robert /Redford
n. Robert Redford (born in 1936), American movie actor (starred in "The Sting", "The Great Gatsby", "Out of Africa")

/Robert /Schumann
n. Robert Schumann (1810-1856), 19th century German composer

/Robert /Scott
n. Robert Scott (1868-1912), English explorer who reached the South Pole a month after Roald Amundsen

/Robert /Southey
n. Robert Southey (1774-1843), English poet and historian, member of the Lake Poets

/Robert Altman
n. Robert Altman (born 1925), famous American film director, director of "Short Cuts" (1994) and "Ready To Wear/Prêt

/Robert Burns
n. Robert Burns (1759-96), Scottish poet known for his use of traditional Scottish style and dialect

/Robert Delaunay
n. Robert Delaunay (1885-1941), modern French artist, member of the neo-impressionist and cubist movements

/Robert Fulton
n. Robert Fulton (1765-1815), American artist and engineer, builder of one of the first steamboats to be widely used in the USA, inventor of the torpedo

/Robert Jemison /Van /de /Graaff
n. Robert Jemison Van de Graaff (1901-1967), American physicist who invented the Van de Graaff generator

/Robert Mapplethorpe
n. Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-89), contemporary American photographer known for his work with flowers and human nudes

/Robert Penn /Warren
n. Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), American author and poet

/Robert Rauschenberg
n. Robert Rauschenberg (born 1925), American pop artist who worked in several different media (including painting, sculpture, collage, and printmaking)

/Robert Schuman
n. Robert Schuman (1886 - 1963), french politician

/Robert Strange /McNamara
n. Robert Strange McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense (1961-68), president of the World Bank (1968-81)

/Robert Strange McMamara
n. Robert Strange McMamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense (1961-68), president of the World Bank (1968-81)

/Robin /Cook
n. Robin Cook (1946-2005), former British Foreign Minister in Tony Blair's government

/Robin /Williams
n. Robin Williams (born 1952), famous American comedian and movie actor

/Robinson Crusoé
n. Robinson Crusoe, book by Daniel Defoe about a man who is stranded on a deserted island

/Rock /Hudson
n. Rock Hudson (1925-85), American film actor, star of "A Farewell to Arms" and "Pillow Talk"

/Rod /Stewart
n. Rod Stewart (born 1945), English popular singer and songwriter

/Rodney /Dangerfield
n. Rodney Dangerfield (1921-2004) (born as Jacob Cohen), American comedian and film actor, star of "Caddyshack" and "Natural Born Killers"

/Rodney /King
n. Rodney King, African-American man who was severely beaten by white Los Angeles police officers after a car chase (resulted in the trial and acquittal of the police officers and subsequent race riots)

/Rodrigo /de Triana
n. Rodrigo de Triana, crewman on Christopher Columbus' expedition, first person to spot the North American landmass on October 12 1492

/Roger /Daltrey
n. Roger Daltrey (born 1944) British rock and roll singer, member of the British band "The Who"

/Roger /Donaldson
n. Roger Donaldson (born 1945), Australian born movie director and producer (directed the 1987 movie "No Way Out")

/Roger /Moore
n. Roger Moore (born 1927), British television and film actor, star of the James Bond films "Live and Let Die" and "A View to a Kill"

/Roger /Williams
n. Roger Williams (1603-1683), founder of Rhode Island

/Roger Hanin
n. Roger Hanin (born in 1925), French actor

/Romain /de /Tirtoff
n. Romain de Tirtoff (1892-1990 known as "Erte"), Russian-born French painter and costume designer

/Roman /Polanski
n. Roman Polanski (born 1933) French-born American film director

/Roman Jakobson
n. Roman Jakobson (1896-1982), Russian born United States linguist and founder of modern structural linguistics, and phonology

/Roméo /et /Juliette
n. Romeo and Juliet, tragedy written by Shakespeare; ballet composed by Prokofiev

/Ronald /Reagan
n. Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), 40th President of United States (1981-89)

/Ronald /Regan
n. Ronald Regan (born 1911) 40th president of United States (1981-89)

/Ronald Reagan
n. Ronald Regan (born 1911) 40th president of United States (1981-89)

/Ronaldo /de /asseoir Moreira
n. Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, Ronaldinho (born 1980), one of the world's top soccer players born in Porto Alegre, who was named FIFA World Player of the Year in 2004

/Ronaldo Luiz /de /limer
n. Ronaldo Luiz Nazário de Lima (born 1976), Ronaldo, star soccer player from the Brazilian team, who is considered to be one of the best strikers of all time (played in the 1998 World Cup in Paris)

/Rosa Luxemburg
n. Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919), born in Poland, German Jewish Marxist politician and revolutionary who was a socialist philosopher (was assassinated in Berlin)

/Rosa Parks
n. Rosa Parks (born 1913), black American woman who refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Alabama (sparked the end of segregation in buses and the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement)

/Rossini Giocchino
n. Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868) (Italian composer, wrote many famous operas including "The Barber of Seville")

/Royaume /Uni
n. United Kingdom, U.K., United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (country in northern Europe consisting of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland)

/Rudolf /Steiner
n. Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) Austrian occultist and social philosopher who founded anthroposophy (Austrian social philosopher)

/Rudolf Nureyev
n. Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993), Russian ballet dancer who defected to the West

/Rudolph /Erich Raspe
n. Rudolph Erich Raspe (1737-1794), German writer, author of the tales of Baron von Munchausen

/Rudolph /Steiner
n. Rudolph Steiner (1861-1925), Austrian occultist and social philosopher who founded anthroposophy

/Rudyard /Kipling
n. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) British writer, author of "The Jungle Book", Nobel prize winner

/République /Populaire /de /Chine
n. People's Republic of China, China, country in east Asia

/République /de /Cuba
n. Republic of Cuba, Cuba, country in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba, island country in the Caribbean Sea (south of Florida)

/République /de /Guinée /Bissau
n. Guinea Bissau, country in western Africa

/République /de /Singapour
n. Republic of Singapore, Singapore, country in southeastern Asia

/République /de /Weimar
n. Weimar Republic, government system in Germany between 1918 and 1933

/République /du /Cameroun
n. Republic of Cameroon, Cameroon, republic on the western coast of central Africa

/République /du /Congo
n. People's Republic of the Congo, Congo, country in west central Africa; Democratic Republic of the Congo, former name of Zaire

/République /du /Tchad
n. Republic of Chad, Chad, country in central Africa

/République /du /Timor
n. East Timor, eastern side of the Indonesian Timor island, area that was formerly a Portuguese colony and is currently under the administration of the United Nations Transitional Administration for East Timor

/République /tchèque
n. Czech Republic, country in central Europe (formerly part of Czechoslovakia)

/Révolution /français
n. French Revolution, political revolution in France which lasted from 1789-1799 and resulted in the overthrow of the French monarchy

/Sabine Azéma
n. Sabine Azéma, French movie actress (born in 1952)

/Sacré /cœur
n. Sacre Coeur, sacred heart, a Roman Catholic church and popular landmark in Paris (France)

/Saddam Hussein
n. Saddam Hussein (born 1937), Iraqi president and political leader (1979-2003)

/Saint /Ambroise
n. Saint Ambrose (340-397), citizen of Rome who was a writer and composer of hymns who became the bishop of Milan

/Saint /Augustin
n. Saint Augustine (AD 354-430), Catholic saint, bishop of Hippo, one of the Latin Fathers; city in Florida (USA); oldest city in the United States

/Saint /Bede
n. Saint Bede (672-735), English monk who was a theologian and historian, known as "the Venerable Bede" (he introduced the method of dating history from the birth of Christ)

/Saint /Benoît
n. Saint Benedict (480-547), Italian monk who founded the Benedictine order approximately in 540; small village in Oregon (USA)

/Saint /Bernard
n. Saint Bernard, large breed of dog (trained especially to rescue people from avalanches in the Alps)

/Saint /Denis
n. Saint-Denis, city in France

/Saint /Domingue
n. Santo Domingo, capital city of the Dominican Republic

/Saint /Esprit
n. Holy Ghost, third person of the Trinity, Holy Spirit (Christianity)

/Saint /Etienne
n. Saint-Etienne, city in France

/Saint /Exupéry
n. Saint-Exupéry, French novelist, aviator

/Saint /George
n. Saint George's, capital city of Grenada (in the West Indies)

/Saint /Germain /des /pré$1$
n. Saint Germain des Prés, Quarter of Paris, know as a center of intellectualism like Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir

/Saint /John
n. Saint John's, capital of Antigua and Barbuda (independent commonwealth in the West Indies); city and main port of Newfoundland (Canada)

/Saint /Louis
n. Saint Louis, city in the state of Missouri (USA)

/Saint /Martin
n. Saint Martin, island located in the Leeward Islands (West Indies); French bishop who is a patron saint of France, who died in 397

/Saint /Moritz
n. St Moritz, resort town in southeast Switzerland

/Saint /Nicolas
n. St. Nicholas, bishop in Asia Minor in the 4th century, patron saint of Russia, protector of children, figure associated with Santa Claus

/Saint /Paul
n. Saint Paul, capital city of Minnesota (USA)

/Saint /Pierre
n. Saint Peter's; Saint Peter

/Saint /Pierre /et Miquelon
n. Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, overseas territory of France off the east coast of Canada near Newfoundland consisting of several

/Saint /Père
n. Holy Father, pontiff

/Saint /Raphaël
n. Saint Raphaël, city in France

/Saint /Thomas
n. SaintThomas, island of the U.S. Virgin Islands in the West Indies; city in Ontario (Canada); town in Missouri; city in North Dakota (USA) one of the twelves disciples of Jesus

/Saint Bède
n. Saint Bede (672-735), English monk who was a theologian and historian known as "the Venerable Bede" (he introduced the method of dating history from the birth of Christ)

/Saint Emilion
n. Saint-Emilion, city in France

/Saint Gall
n. Saint-Gall, city in Switzerland

/Saint Mandé
Saint-Mandé, city in France

/Saint Maur
n. Saint-Maur, city in France

/Saint Petersbourg
n. Saint Petersburg, city in northwest Russia (formerly Leningrad in the days of the USSR); city in western Florida on Tampa Bay (USA)

/Saint Pétersbourg
n. Saint Petersburg, city in northwest Russia (formerly Leningrad in the days of the USSR)

/Salman /Rushdie
n. Salman Rushdie, (born 1947) Indian-born British writer, author of the novel "The Satanic Verses" (went into hiding after being sentenced to death by the Ayatollah Khomeini)

/Salomon /Maimon
n. Salomon Maimon (c1754-1800), German philosopher

/Salvador /Dali
n. Salvador Dali (1904-89), Spanish surrealistic painter

/Salvador /Edward Luria
n. Salvador Edward Luria (1912-1991), Italian born U.S. biologist who shared the 1969 Nobel Prize for medicine, or physiology for research on the mechanisms and materials of inheritance of viruses

/Sam /Wilson
n. Sam Wilson (1766-1854), American inspector of army supplies, man rumored to be the original "Uncle Sam"

/Sam Browne
n. Sam Browne (1824-1901), General Sir Samuel James Browne, British Army cavalry officer in India and the Near East after whome the Sam Browne belt is named

/Sammy /Sosa
n. Sammy Sosa (born 1968), American baseball player for the Chicago Cubs (competed with Mark McGwire for the all-time record of most home runs hit in one season)

/Samson /et Dalilah
n. Samson and Delilah, two characters from a story in the Old Testament

/Samuel /Beckett
n. Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish born writer and dramatist who lived in France

/Samuel /Finley /Breese /Morse
n. Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), Inventor, developer of the first successful telegraph

/Samuel /Goldwyn
n. Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974), American film producer and pioneer of the motion picture industry, co-founder of "Metro Goldwyn Mayer"

/Samuel /Ha Levi
n. Samuel Hanagid, Samuel Ha-Levi (993-c.1056) medieval Spanish statesman and writer

/Samuel /Leroy /Jackson
n. Samuel Leroy Jackson (born 1948), U.S. film actor (starred in "Pulp Fiction")

/Samuel /Taylor /Coleridge
n. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), English poet and philosopher, member of the "Lake Poets"

/Samuel /de Champlain
n. Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635), French sailor and explorer, founder of Quebec in New France (now Canada)

/Samuel Ichiye /Hayakawa
n. Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (1906-1992), Canadian born U.S. semanticist and politician who served as a senator from California (1977-1983)

/Samuel Morse
n. Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), Inventor, developer of the first successful telegraph

/San /Antonio
n. San Antonio, city in Texas (USA)

/San /Diego
n. San Diego, city in California (USA)

/San /José
n. San José, capital of Costa Rico; city in western California (USA)

/San /Marino
n. San Marino, smallest republic in the world, Republic of San Marino; capital and only city of San Marino; name of several cities in Italy; city in California (USA)

/San /Salvador
n. San Salvador, capital city of El Salvador (country in Central America)

/San Bernardino
n. San Bernardino, city in California (USA)

/San Francisco
n. San Francisco, city in California (USA)

/Sandra Bullock
n. Sandra Bullock (born 1965), American film actress who starred in "While You Where Sleeping"

/Sandrine Bonnaire
n. Sandrine Bonnaire (born in 1967), French Actress

/Sara Lee
n. Sara Lee, American corporation headquartered in Illinois, worldwide manufacturer and distributor of retail products (including foods, apparel, household supplies, and health care products)

/Scarlett /O'Hara
n. Scarlett O'Hara, character played by Vivien Leigh in the Academy Award-winning 1939 film "Gone with the Wind"

/Schleswig Holstein
n. Schleswig Holstein, state in the northwestern part of Germany (annexed by Prussia in 1866)

/Scott /Baio
n. Scott Baio (born 1961), American television actor who acted in the sitcom "Happy Days"

/Scott /Mcnealy
n. Scott Mcnealy, General Manager of the Sun Microsystems company

/Sean /Connery
n. Sean Connery (born 1930 as Thomas Connery), Scottish film actor, winner of the 1987 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in "The Untouchables", star of several James Bond films

/Sean Penn
n. Sean Penn (born 1960), American film actor, winner of the 1997 Cannes Film Festival Award for best actor for his role in "She's So Lovely"

/Seconde /Guerre /mondial
n. Second World War, World War II, war between the Axis and the Allies which began in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland and ended with the surrender of Germany and Japan 1945

/Secrétariat /des /Nations /uni$1$
n. United Nations Secretariat, administrative office of the United Nations; United Nations' chief administrative officer

/Serbie /et /Monténégro
n. Serbia and Montenegro, mountainous republic of Europe, Yugoslavia, union of the republics of Serbia and Montenegro

/Serge Gainsbourg
n. Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991), French poet, singer-songwriter, actor and director.

/Serge Reggiani
n. Serge Reggiani, French actor and singer (born in 1922)

/Sergei /Konstantinovich
n. Sergei Konstantinovich, Russian astronaut (crew member on the space shuttle Endeavor during its flight to the international space station)

/Sergei /Vasilievich /Rachmaninoff
n. Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Russian composer and piano virtuoso

/Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein
n. Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (1898-1948), Russian film maker who paved the way and initiated the use of montage

/Shania /Twain
n. Shania Twain (born 1965 as Eileen Regina Twain) Canadian-Indian country music singer

/Shirley /Temple
n. Shirley Temple, Shirley Temple Black (born 1928), American child movie star who later became a politician