Famous People: A-Z

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Moon Unit ZAPPA - Frank's daughter, TV host, did the "vocals" on Frank's "Valley Girl".

 

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ANNA Moffo, Soprano

 

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David Bowie - Musician Extraordinaire

 

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CHARLES Nelson Reilly -- Jack Of All Entertainment Trades

 

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DIANA Ross - Singer SUPREME

 

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Sir John Carew Eccles

Sir John Carew Eccles | Australian physiologist

Sir John Carew Eccles, (born Jan. 27, 1903, Melbourne, Australia—died May 2, 1997, Contra, Switz.), Australian research physiologist who received (with Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley) the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the chemical means by which impulses are...

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Anne FRANK - Diarist

 

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Daniel Carleton Gajdusek

D. Carleton Gajdusek | American physician

D. Carleton Gajdusek, in full Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, (born September 9, 1923, Yonkers, New York, U.S.—found dead December 12, 2008, Tromsø, Norway), American physician and medical researcher, corecipient (with Baruch S. Blumberg) of the 1976 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his...

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Gajdusek came to the conclusion that the disease was transmitted in the ritualistic eating of the brains of the deceased, a Fore funeral custom.

 

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Harry Houdini - Escape Artist

 

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Ingrid Bergman -- Iconic actress

 

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JOHN Wayne - Iconic Actor

 

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Paul Karrer

Paul Karrer | Swiss chemist

Paul Karrer, (born April 21, 1889, Moscow, Russia—died June 18, 1971, Zürich, Switz.), Swiss chemist who investigated the constitution of carotenoids, flavins, and vitamins A and B2, for which he shared the 1937 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Sir Norman Haworth of Great Britain. Born in Russia...

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John LENNON - Iconic Musician

 

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John James Rickard Macleod

"one of the discoverers of insulin"

J.J.R. Macleod | Nobel Prize, Insulin Discovery, Physiologist

J.J.R. Macleod was a Scottish physiologist noted as a teacher and for his work on carbohydrate metabolism. Together with Sir Frederick Banting, with whom he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1923, and Charles H. Best, he achieved renown as one of the discoverers of insulin.

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Peter NOONE - Lead singer of Herman's Hermits

 

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Sir Lawrence OLIVIER -- Acting Icon

 

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PAT Sajak - Game Show Host

 

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QUINCY Jones -- Record Procucer, Musician (I used to live in his mom's building).

 

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Robert Redford - Acting Icon

 

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Upton Sinclair -- Author