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Historical Figures 2.0: The Initials |
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Here's the updated list (don't ask me why I do this...)
 The listed persons in this game: From _A to _E
Anouk Aimée Arthur Brown A. C. Clarke Arthur Dent Ahmet Ertegun Buzz Aldrin Big Bill Broonzy Bernard of Clairvaux Benjamin Disraeli Blake Edwards Carmine Appice Chico Buarque Claudia Cardinale Charles Darwin Carolus Enckell Dan Aykroyd Dieuwertje Blok Dolores Claiborne Donald Duck Duke Ellington Edson Arantes Emily Brontë Elijah Craig Eugene Delacroix Edward Elgar Fred Astaire Francis Bacon Frank Capra Francis Drake Friedrich Engels Gianni Agnelli Georges Bizet Gustave Courbet Georges Danton George Eliot Hans Arp Herman Brood Holden Caulfield Henri Dunant Harlan Ellison Ian Anderson Irving Berlin Ingram C. Connor III Ivan Drago Irineu Evangelista de Sousa Jon Anderson J. S. Bach Jean Cocteau Johnny Depp Jan van Eyck Kevin Ayers Karl Benz Klaas Compaen Krishna Das Keith Emerson Laura Antonelli Leonid Brezhnev Lucius Catilina Lawrence Durrell Leif Erikson Marian Anderson Monica Bellucci Michael Caine Marcel Dassault Michael Ende Neil Armstrong Neil Bartlett Nero Claudius Nick Drake Nora Ephron Outi Alanen Olivier Bourdeaut Ornette Coleman Ophelia of Denmark Osiris of Egypt Pedro Almodovar Paul Bunyan Pierre de Coubertin Philip K. Dick Phil Everly (Quentin Alexander) Quentin Blake Quentin Crisp Quincy Delightt Jones ( QE skipped ) Roger Ackroyd Richard Branson Raynard de Chatillon Richard Dawkins Ralph W. Emerson Salvador Allende Simon Bolivar Samuel T. Coleridge Salvador Dalí Stuart Elliott Theodor Adorno Timothy Bottoms Thomas Cochrane Tess Durbyfield Timothy of Ephesus Urbanus van Anus ( UB skipped ) Ulric Cross Uschi Dicard Umberto Eco Vincent Auriol Martin Van Buren Vera Clouzot ( VD skipped ) Vince Edwards Wim Aantjes W. A. van Buren William Campbell Walt Disney Will Eisner (X, Y, Z skipped) [Zowie Bowie] Jacques-Yves Cousteau (X, Y, Z skipped) Yevgeny Erastov/Ziggy Elman From _F to _J Anne Frank Armando Gallo Angela Hewitt Annika Idström Alex Jones Benjamin Franklin Bernard Gui Benny Hill Bodo Illgner Brian Jones Carlos Fuentes "Che" Guevara Charlie Hebdo Chris Isaak Carl Jung Dick Francis David Gilmour David Hume Darius I Duncan Jones Eduardo Frei Erroll Garner Edwin Hubble Eugene Ionesco Earvin Johnson Florian Fricke France Gall Frank Herbert Flavius Iosephus Felicity Jones Gustave Flaubert Galileo Galilei George Harrison Georges Ifrah L. "Guitar Junior" Johnson Heinz Fricke Heinz Guderian Harry Haller/H. Hesse Henrik Ibsen Henry James Ian Fleming Ira Gershwin Ian Hunter Ilena Isinbaeva Irene Jansen Joan Fontaine John Glenn Jean Harlow John Inman James Joyce Ken Follett Kahlil Gibran Katherine Hepburn Kazuo Ishiguro Kate Jackson Leo Fender Lorne Greene Lena Horne Lee Ingleby Lady Justice Michel Foucault Mohandas Gandhi Michel Houellebecq Mary Ingalls Michael Jackson Neil Finn Nimrod the Great Nick Hornby Natalie Imbruglia Olivia Newton-John Otto Frank Oliver Goldsmith Otto Hahn Osmo Ikonen Olli Jalonen Percy Faith Paul Gauguin Pavel Haas Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (QF skipped) Quim Gutierrez [Quentin Harris] (QI skipped) Quincy Jones Richard Feynman Rufus Guinshard Richard Harris Robert Irwine Robert Johnson x2 Sigmund Freud Serge Gainsbourg Samuel Hahnemann Salvador Ibanez Samuel L. Jackson Timothy Findley Trey Gunn Thomas Hobbes Tea Ista Tom Jones (fict.) Ursula Franklin Ulysses Grant Uriah the Hittite Ursula Iguaran Uli Jon Roth Victor Frankenstein Vincent van Gogh Victor Halberstadt Vladimir Ilyich Ulianov Viktor Jansson William Friedkin William Golding William Hurt Washington Irving Will Jennings [X,Y,Z skipped) Xanana Gusmao Xaviera Hollander (X, Y, Z skipped) Yrjö Jyljä Zipporah ben-Jethro From _K to _O Anna Karenina Alice Liddell Amedeo Modigliani Alfred Nobel Anita O'Day Boris Karloff Bernhard of Lippe-B. Bibian Mentel Brigitte Nielsen Belle Otero Chiang Kai-shek Christiane Legrand Claude Monet Christopher Nolan Catherine O'Hara Diane Keaton Dalai Lama David McCallum David Niven Daniel O'Connell Elia Kazan Eberhard van der Laan Eva Mendes Edith Nesbit Evangelos Odysseas P. Franz Kafka Frederick Loewe Frederic Mistral Freddie Mercury Flannery O'Connor Gustav Klimt George Lucas Gustav Mahler Gianna Nannini George Orwell Helen Keller Hubert Laws Hans Memling Helmut Nadolsky Huub Oosterhuis Immanuel Kant Ida Lupino Ivana Marie Trump Irene Nemirovsky Ilya Oblomov Jack Kerouac John Locke James Madison Juliana of Netherlands Jan Oort Kevin Kline Konrad Lorenz Karl Marx Klaas Nuninga Kajsa Ollongren Lindsay Kemp Louis Leakey Louis Mountbatten Laura Nyro Lawrence Olivier Marco Kroon Manon Lescaut Marshall McLuhan Martina Navratilova Merle Oberon Nancy Kelly Nathan Lane Neville Marriner " N. N. " Nigel Olsson Olive Kitteridge Onni Laihanen Otto Maria Carpeaux Oliver Nelson Ozzy Osbourne Paul Klee Ptolemy of Lagus Paul Motian Paul Newman Publius Ovidius (QK skipped) Quarrymen of Liverpool Quintus F. Maximus Quintus Novius Quint Ondaantje Robert Kennedy Roy Lichtenstein Ray Manzarek Richard Nixon Ric Ocasek Stephen King Stan Laurel Sarah Miles Sam Neill Seiji Ozawa Thomas Kretschmann Timothy Leary Thomas More Ted Nugent Tom Okker Urho Kekkonen Ursula von der Leyen Ubiratan Maciel [Uolevi Nojonen] Ursula Owusu-Ekuful Vladimir Komarov Vera Lynn Vera Miles Vincenzo Nibali Viktor Orbán Wassily Kandisnky Walter Lantz William McKinley Willie Nelson William of Occam Xerxes, King (XL skipped) (XM skipped) (XN skipped) (XO skipped) Yasunari Kawabata Yasmin Levy Yvonne Minton Yannick Noah Yoko Ono Zoe Kravitz (ZL skipped) (ZM skipped) (ZN skipped) (ZO skipped) From _P to _T Anthony Phillips Anthony Quinn Auguste Rodin Anne Sexton Anne Tyler Boris Pasternak Bernard Quatermass Bertrand Russell Boyan Slat Bernie Taupin Carl Palmer [Charles Qualey] Christina Rossetti Carol Shields Charles Trenet Dennis Potter Dennis Quaid David Rockefeller Donald Suhteland Donald Trump Elvis Presley Eça de Queiroz Erich Maria Remarque Egon Schiele E.T. Frederick Pohl Francois Rabelais Frank Sinatra Francois Truffaut Gene Pitney George Raft George Soros Gary Thain Henry Purcell Henri Queffelec Hillary Rodham Clinton Horace Silver Harry S. Truman Ian Paice Ingmar Quant Iiro Rantala Ibn Saud Ian Thrope Jackson Pollock John Quincy Adams Józef Retinger Jane Seymour John Taverner Kazimierz Pulaski Kathleen Quinlan Kurt Russell Karol Szymanowski Laura Palmer Liliana Queiroz Louis Renault Lawrence Summers Michael Phelps Mary Quant Mieczysław Rakowski Mary Shelley Nick Park Nairo Quantana Nelson Rockefeller Neil Sedaka Oscar Peterson Oliver Queen Oliver Reed Omar Sy [Peter, Paul & Mary] Peter McQueen Paul Rijkens Peter Sellers [Quentin Palfrey] Quentin roosevelt [Queen of Sheba] Rosa Parks Raymond Queneau Raymond Radiguet Robert Smith Shimon Peres Steve McQueen Salman Rushdie Stella Stevens Tito Puente Thomas de Quincey Terje Rypdal Telly Savalas Ursula Plassnik Urban of Rome Uncle Sam Vincent Price Valérie Quenessen Vanessa Redgrave Villy Sørensen Wolfgang Pluck William Quant Wilhelm Röntgen William Shakespeare Xiaolong Qiu ;Yann Queffelec Yves Rocher Xavier Serrano [Zelda Plush] Zainab Quayyum Zbigniew Rybczyński Yves Saint-Laurent Ziggy Stardust Edited by Matti - June 19 2018 at 04:09 |
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This one's so delicious that I'm rushing:
Kilgore Trout, a fictional character in various novels by Kurt Vonnegut. Trout is a notably unsuccessful author of paperback science fiction novels.  |
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Posted: June 19 2018 at 04:34 |
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Liz Taylor (1932 - 2011)
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^ Officially as Elizabeth she'd rather be an E.T., but who cares, the picture's so cute (as was "E.T." too)!
Maureen "Moe" Tucker (b. 1944), American musician and singer best known as the drummer of Velvet Underground.  |
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Hope you're not getting tired... What keeps me going is the determined finish in ZZ.
Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943), Serbian-American inventor and electrical & mechanical engineer.  |
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^^Truly, but when I first became acquainted with her existence (sometime in the late 1960s), she was named Liz in that magazine. I may come up with another Liz later on. Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur, Welsh courtier, grandfather of Henry VII of England.  Edited by someone_else - June 21 2018 at 02:15 |
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Pamela Lyndon [ P. L. ] Travers (1899 – 1996), Australian-born British writer and actress, famous for Mary Poppins children's books.
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Quentin Tarantino (b. 1963)
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Rita Tushingham (b. 1942, Liverpool).
English actress. Iconic character of the 1960s London scene.  |
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Shirley Temple (1928 - 2014)
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Posted: June 23 2018 at 03:58 |
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Thomas Tallis (1505 - 1585), English composer abd organist; "the father of British church music".
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Ugo Tognazzi (1922 - 1990)
One of the greatest Italian actors.  |
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Väinö Tanner (1888 - 1966), a notable Finnish politician in the first half of the 20th century, e.g. the prime minister in 1926 - '27.
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Wilhelm Tell
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I thought I had X.T. in Javier Tomeo (Spanish writer), or Y.T. in Jannick Top (bassist in Magma), but I remembered the spelling wrong.
Zacharias - or Zachris - Topelius (1818 - 1898), Finnish writer, one of the earliest novelists in Finland. His first name is usually represented in the Finnish form Sakari, but he was Swedish-speaking.  |
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Álvaro Uribe (b. 1952).
Colombian president, 2002-2010.  |
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Beate Uhse (1919 - 2001) German stunt pilot and businesswoman. Started the first sex shop in the world.  Edited by someone_else - June 25 2018 at 13:31 |
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Another challenging letter going on... By googling I found nothing better than film assistant Carol Urquhart.
David Uosikkinen (b. 1956), American drummer, founding member of The Hooters. Surname suggests he has Finnish roots.  I had this album as a teenager. Not sure who's Uosikkinen, perhaps in the middle... For E. U., there's a children's writer from Finland's neighbour country.  Not sure if he's well known internationally, but here he's a definite classic. And there's a cathedral in Helsinki sharing the same surname.
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Ebru Umar (b. 1970)
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Francis Upton (1852 - 1921).
American doctor and mathematician who worked for many years alongside Thomas Edison.  |
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