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Ethel Portnoy (1927 - 2004)

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Maria Quitéria (1792 - 1853).
Brazilian independence (1822) heroine who served as lieutenant dressed as a man.
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Rachael, the female replicant - who doesn't know to be one - , who gets emotionally tied to Deckard. Played by Sean Young in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, 1982 (based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick).
 
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Robert Silverberg, b. 1935: great American science fiction writer and author of one of my favourite works of sci fi-fantasy, the epic and enthralling Lord Valentine's Castle [URL= ][/URL]
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Tarik ibn-Ziyad.
Berber general who led the Muslim conquest of Hispania from 711 AD up to 718 AD.
Gibraltar is named after him (Jabal Tariq, the mountain of Tark). 





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Leon Uris     American author
 


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Jack Vance - (1916 - 2013) American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction author, and one of my all-time favourite writers. His heroes were always clever (they always suspected what the reader wanted them to), he wrote with great style and command of language, and there was much humour in his work. Buy any Vance book you find (likely in a 2nd-hand bookstore, these days). RIP, Jack.
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Francis Xavier (1506 - 1552): Jesuit priest, patron saint of the Orient and missionaries
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Yeshua bar-Yehosef.
The (presumed) hebrew name of Jesus of Nazareth.
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Zorro: fictional, dapper, Hispanic TV swordsman extrordinaire of my youth
The mark of Zorro: Z
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(List people by surname--Western naming conventions--please.)

Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) # 1 science fiction author of my youth.
I'm now re-reading the classic short story collection "The Illustrated Man" (43 years later): good stuff, if a bit dated by science, society, and my more mature tastes. Still, his stories (especially the cycle The Martian Chronicles) changed my life. After Jules Verne, Bradbury was my intro to sci fi.
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Originally posted by Peter Peter wrote:

(List people by surname--Western naming conventions--please.)


In my opinion, this convention shall be used cum grano salis. It does not work automatically for:

- African, Asian and Native American names;
- People better known by their monickers or sobriquets, like Blackbeard, the pirate;
- People better known by their Christian names, like Naopleon or Michelangelo, the artist;
- People who lived before the Renaissance;
- Monarchs, Popes, etc;
- Many fictional or legendary characters.

Well, that's my opinion. Wink

 
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^ Yes, that makes sense, amigo Guiho. Still, I'd have called that fictional character a "T."
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Richard Cromwell (1626 - 1712)

2nd Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (1658 - 1659)
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Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731) English writer, political pamphleteer, and trader. Defoe is best remembered as the author of Robinson Crusoe, second only to the Bible in translations. I read the fascinating book as a child, as I am sure many here did also.
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 1954).
President of Turkey since 2014.
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Francisco Franco (1892 - 1975)

Spanish general, ruler of Spain 1939-1975
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