Famous People: A-Z

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Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen

Knud Rasmussen | Biography, Expeditions, & Facts

Knud Rasmussen, Danish-Inuit explorer and ethnologist who studied tribes in Greenland and the American Arctic.

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Frank SINATRA

 

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TOMMY Steele

 

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Leslie UGGAMS - Actress

 

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VINNIE Jones (retired football player)

 

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WARREN Zevon - Musician

 

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Xu Zhimo

Xu Zhimo | Modernist, Innovator, Revolutionary

Xu Zhimo Chinese poet who strove to loosen Chinese poetry from its traditional forms and to reshape it under the influences of Western poetry and the vernacular Chinese language. After graduating from Peking University, Xu went to the United States in 1918 to study economics and political science.

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Neil YOUNG - Musician

 

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Emiliano Zapata

 

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ANNE Frank - Holocaust victim and diarist.

 

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BETTE Davis -- Iconic actress

 

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CHARLTON Heston - Legendary Actor

 

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Henry Drysdale Dakin

Dakin’s solution | Definition, Solution, & Uses

Dakin’s solution, also called Dakin’s fluid or Carrel-Dakin fluid, antiseptic solution containing sodium hypochlorite that was developed to treat infected wounds. First used during World War I, Dakin’s solution was the product of a long search by English chemist Henry Drysdale Dakin and French...

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Thomas EDISON

 

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FIONA Bruce

 

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GEORGE Strait

 

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HENRY Ford

 

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Paul INCE (ex English footballer)

 

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JIM Brown - NFL Hall of Famer

 

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Theodore von Kármán

Theodore von Kármán | American engineer

Theodore von Kármán, (born May 11, 1881, Budapest, Hung.—died May 6, 1963, Aachen, W.Ger.), Hungarian-born American research engineer best known for his pioneering work in the use of mathematics and the basic sciences in aeronautics and astronautics. His laboratory at the California Institute...

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