Interesting People: Now & Then

"How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world. How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution... how we can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness." - Anne Frank.

"The world, its people, and its institutions stand on the shoulders of the wise and the experienced. The eternal quest for gaining knowledge, philosophy, wisdom, judgment, and vision is what makes life worth living." - Anonymous.

The men and women who have achieved or done something extraordinary with their lived have always been a source of fascination and source of curiousity, inspiration and admiration for the rest of us.

• 2010 TIME MAGAZINE 100 LIST - the world's most influential people.
• FIND A GRAVE - find famous graves.
• LISA'S HISTORY ROOM - "Where the past is always present." I primarily write about people – fascinating people, people you can lie awake at night and think about. I agree with Ralph Waldo Emerson who said, "There is properly no history; only biography."
• THE WORLD'S 100 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN - Forbes Magazine.
• THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE - Forbes Magazine.
• TIME'S PERSON OF THE YEAR FROM 1927 TO 2009
• TOP 100 LIVING GENIUSES

Now: A-Z

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• ADNAN KHASHOGGI
• ALAIN ROBERT - 'the French spiderman'.
• ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER - the Governator.
• AUNG SAN SUU KYI - recipient of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.

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• BERNARD MADOFF

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• CLIFFORD IRVING

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• DAMIEN HIRST
• DONALD TRUMP

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• EDWARD MICHAEL 'BEAR' GRYLLS - British adventurer, writer and television presenter. He is best known for his television series Born Survivor, known as Man vs. Wild in the United States.

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• GEORGE SOROS
• GORDON GETTY
• GUNTER SACHS - official website.

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• HANS-HERMANN WEYER, GRAF VON YORCK - aka "Der schöne Konsul".
• HENRY KISSINGER
• HOWARD STERN
• HUGH HEFNER
• Huguette Clark - 104-year old mystery heiress. MSNBC video.

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• J. K. ROWLING - British author best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series.
• J. MICHAEL ARRINGTON
• "JAMES BOND" - website dedicated to James Bond-lifestyle.
• JAMES LOVELOCK - known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis.
• JIM ROGERS - legendary expatriate American investor and financial commentator based in Singapore.
• JOHN LE CARRÉ
• JÜRGEN HABERMAS

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• KARL LAGERFELD
• KLAUS SCHWAB - best known as the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum.

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• MADAME CLAUDE
• MARTHA STEWART
• MARTIN COOPER - father of the cellphone (1973).
• MICHAEL MOORE
• MIKHAIL KALASHNIKOV

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• NELSON MANDELA
• NOAM CHOMSKY

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• OSAMA BIN LADEN

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• PARIS HILTON - international socialite & celebrity.

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• RÉGINE Zilberberg Choukroun - founded in the 70s the international nightclub chain Régine's.
• RICHARD BRANSON - founder of the Virgin empire.
• ROBERT BALLARD - the man who discovered the RMS Titanic in 1985.
• RON WHITE - winner of the 13th USA Memory Championship.
• RUPERT MURDOCH

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• SCOTT ALEXANDER - British millionaire and nouveau riche socialite featured in Britain's Biggest Spenders and often quoted as being "the most vain man in Britain."
• SCOTT E. FAHLMANN
• STEPHEN HAWKING
• STEPHEN KING

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• TED TURNER
• TIM BERNERS-LEE - proposed the creation of the World Wide Web on March 13, 1969.
• TIMOTHY GALLWEY - has written a series of books in which he has set forth a new methodology for coaching and for the development of personal and professional excellence in a variety of fields, that he calls "The Inner Game."
• THOMAS PYNCHON
• TOM LEHRER - born 1928.
• TOM WOLFE - born 1931.

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• VALENTINO | VALENTINO GARAVANI - born 1934.

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• WARREN BUFFETT - aka "The Oracle of Omaha".
• WAYNE DYER - born 1940.
• WILLIAM GIBSON - coined the term 'cyberspace'.
• WILLIAM HENRY GATES III

Then: A-Z

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• ADAM SMITH - (1723-1780).
• ADOLF HITLER - (1889-1945).
• AGATHA CHRISTIE - (1890-1976).
• AL CAPONE - (1899-1947).
• ALBERT EINSTEIN - (1879-1955).
• ALBERT SCHWEITZER - (1875-1965).
• ALFRED NOBEL - (1833-1896).
• ALFRED SHAHEEN - (1922-2008). Inventor of the Hawaiian shirt.
• ALY KHAN - (1911-1960).
• ANAÏS NIN - (1903-1977).
• ANDREW CARNEGIE - (1835-1919).
• ANDY WARHOL - (1928-1987).
• ANNE FRANK - (1929-1945).
• ANTONI GAUDI - (1852-1926).
• ARISTOTLE - (384 BC - 322 BC).
• ARISTOTLE ONASSIS - (1904-1975). Known as "The Golden Greek".
• ARTHUR C. CLARKE - (1917-2008).
• ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE - (1859-1930).
• ARTHUR RIMBAUD - (1854-1891).
• ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER - (1788-1860).
• AXEL SPRINGER - (1912-1985).
• AYN RAND - (1905-1982).

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• BARBEY D'AUREVILLY - (1808-1889).
• BARON DE MONTESQUIEU - (1689-1755).
• BARON DE RÉDÉ - (1922-2004).
• BASIL ZAHAROFF - (1849-1936). Known as the "Armaments King".
• BEAU BRUMMELL - (1778-1840). The arbiter of men's fashion in Regency England.
• BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - (1706-1790).
• BERNARD BERENSON - (1865-1959).
• BERNARD CORNFELD - (1927-1995). Do You Sincerely Want to Be Rich?
• BERTRAND RUSSELL - (1872-1970).

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• C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON - (1909-1993). Inventor of Parkinson's Law.
• CARL GUSTAV JUNG - (1875-1961). Swiss psychiatrist.
• CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ - (1780-1831). Prussian soldier, military historian and military theorist. He is most famous for his military treatise Vom Kriege, translated into English as On War.
• CECIL BEATON - (1904-1980).
• CECIL RHODES - (1853-1902).
• CHARLES DARWIN - (1809-1882).
• CHARLES FREDERICK WORTH - (1825-1895). Considered the Father of Haute Couture.
• CHARLES PONZI - (1882-1949).
• CHARLES SCHWAB - (1862-1939).
• CHRISTIAN DIOR - (1905-1957).
• CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD - (1904-1986).
• CLAUS VON STAUFFENBERG - (1907-1944).

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• DANIEL K. LUDWIG - (1897-1992).
• DIANE VREELAND - (1903-1989).

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• EDGAR ALLAN POE - (1809-1849).
• ELMYR DE HORY - (1906-1976).
• ELSA MAXWELL - (1883-1963). - American gossip columnist and professional hostess.
• ELVIS PRESLEY - (1937-1977).
• EMANUEL LASKER - (1868-1941). German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years.
• EMILY POST - (1872-1960).
• ERROL FLYNN - (1909-1959).
• EVELYN WAUGH - (1903-1966).

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• FRANZ KAFKA - (1883-1924).
• FREDERICK ROLFE | BARON CORVO - (1860-1913).
• FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE - (1844-1900).

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• GABRIELLE "COCO" CHANEL - (1883-1971).
• GENGHIS KHAN - (1162-1227).
• GEORGE BALANCHINE - (1904-1983).
• GEORGE HERBERT - (1593-1633).
• GEORGE S. PATTON, JR. - (1885-1945).
• GERTRUDE STEIN - (1874-1946).
• GIACOMO CASANOVA - (1725-1798).
• GIANNI AGNELLI - (1921-2003).
• GRETA GARBO - (1905-1990).

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• HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN - (1805-1875).
• HEDDA HOPPER - (1885-1966). American gossip columnist.
• HENRY CLAY FRICK - (1849-1919).
• HERGÉ - (1907-1983). Best known for 'The Adventures of Tintin' (1907-1983).
• HIRAM STEVENS MAXIM - (1840-1916).
• HONORÉ DE BALZAC - (1799-1850).
• HUMPHREY BOGART - (1899-1957).

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• IAN FLEMING - (1908-1964).
• ISAAC NEWTON - (1643-1727).
• IVAR KREUGER - (1880-1932). Known as the "Match King".

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• JACK KEROUAC - (1922-1969).
• JAMES FISK - (1835-1872).
• JAY GOULD - (1836-1892).
• JEAN COCTEAU - (1889-1963).
• JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU - (1712-1778).
• JEAN-PAUL SARTRE - (1905-1980).
• JESUS CHRIST - (c. 5 BC - c. 30 AD).
• JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE - (1749-1832).
• JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER - (1839-1937). World's first US$-billionaire.
• JOHN DELOREAN - (1925-2005).
• JOHN F. KENNEDY - (1917-1963).
• JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH - (1908-2006).
• JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES - (1883-1946).
• JOHN PEMBERTON - (1831-1888). Inventor of Coca-Cola.
• JOSÉ LUIS DE VILLALONGA - (1920-2007).
• JOSEPH DUVEEN - (1869-1939).
• JULIUS CAESAR - (100 BC - 44 BC).

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• KAREN BLIXEN - (1885-1962). Pen name: Isak Dinesen.
• KARL MARX - (1818-1883).
• KARL POPPER - - (1902-1994). George Soros' mentor.
• KIM PHILBY - (1912-1988). Part of THE CAMBRIDGE FIVE.
• KNUT HAMSUN - (1859-1952).

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• LADY MENDL - (1865-1950).
• LENNY BRUCE - (1925-1966).
• LEONARDO DA VINCI - (1452-1519).
• LIBERACE - (1919-1987).
• LOUELLA PARSONS - (1881-1972). American gossip columnist.
• LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN - (1889-1951).

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• MARTIN HEIDEGGER - (1889-1976).
• MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. - (1929-1968).
• MEDICI FAMILY
• MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE - (1533-1592).
• MICHEL NOSTRADAMUS - (1503-1566).
• MICHELANGELO - (1475-1564).
• MOLIÈRE - (1622-1673).

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• NANCY MITFORD - (1904-1973).
• NAPOLEON BONAPARTE - (1769-1821).
• NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI - (1469-1527).
• NOËL COWARD - (1899-1973).

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• ORSON WELLES - (1915-1985).
• OSCAR WILDE - (1854-1900).

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• P. T. BARNUM - (1810-1891).
• PABLO PICASSO - (1881-1973).
• PIERRE PLANTARD - (1920-2000).
• PIET HEIN - (1905-1996).
• PLATO - (428/427 BC - 348/347 BC).
• PORFIRIO RUBIROSA - (1909-1965).

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• RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER - (1945-1982).
• RAYMOND LOEWY - (1893-1986). The father of industrial design.
• REMBRANDT - (1606-1669).
• ROBERT BADEN-POWELL - (1857-1941).
• ROBERT DE MONTESQUIOU - (1855-1921).
• ROBERT VESCO - (1935-2007).

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• SALVADOR DALI - (1904-1989).
• SAMUEL JOHNSON - (1709-1784). Often referred to as Dr Johnson. He is also the subject of "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature": James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.
• SERGE GAINSBOURG - (1928-1991).
• SERGEI DIAGHILEV - (1872-1929).
• SIGMUND FREUD - (1856-1939). Founded the psychoanalytic method of psychiatry.
• SIMON WIESENTHAL - (1908-2005).
• SITA DEVI OF BARODA - (1917-1989). Known as the "Indian Wallis Simpson."
• SOCRATES - (c. 469 BC - 399 BC).
• STEVE RUBELL - (1943-1989). Co-owner of the New York disco Studio 54 (1977-1986).
• SUN TZU - (c. 544 BC - c. 496 BC). Ancient Chinese military general and strategist who is traditionally believed to have authored The Art of War.
• SUSAN SONTAG - (1933-2004).
• SØREN KIERKEGAARD - (1913-1855).

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• T. E. LAWRENCE - (1888-1935) aka Lawrence of Arabia.
• THE RAT PACK - refers to a group that called itself "the summit" or "the clan," featuring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop.
• THOMAS AQUINAS - (1125-1274). Pope Benedict XV: "The Church has declared Thomas' doctrine to be her own."
• THOMAS EDISON - (1847-1931).
• THOMAS J.WATSON - (1874-1956).
• THOMAS MALTHUS - (1766-1834).
• THORSTEIN VEBLEN - (1857-1929).
• TRUMAN CAPOTE - (1924-1984).

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• VASLAV NIJINSKY - (1890-1950).
• VLADIMIR NABOKOV - (1899-1977).
• VOLTAIRE - (1694-1778).

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• WALT DISNEY - (1901-1966).
• WALTER CRONKITE - (1916-2009). "...And that's the way it is."
• WILLIAM BLAKE - (1757-1827).
• WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST - (1863-1951).
• WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS - (1914-1997).
• WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE - (1564-1616).
• WINSTON S. CHURCHILL - (1874-1965).

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• YVES SAINT LAURENT - (1936-2008).