World Biographical Encyclopedia

Omotola Jalade Ekeinde is an actress, singer, and philanthropist from Lagos, Nigeria. Since her Nollywood film debut in 1995, she has appeared in an astounding 300 films, selling millions of video copies. After receiving numerous high-profile awards, launching a music career, and amassing an enviable fan base, the press has revered the Screen Nation 'Best Actress' as Africa's biggest star.

Jack Black

Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black (born August 28, 1969) is an American comedian, actor, and musician. He makes up one half of the comedy and satirical rock duo Tenacious D. The group has four albums as well as a television series and a film.

Agostinho Neto

The Former Angola president António Agostinho Neto was a foremost African intellectual and nationalist in the three decades following the close of World War II. A poet and doctor, he also served as the president of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, directing the armed struggle within Angola against the Portuguese colonial rule, and the first president of the People's Republic of A...

Andrew Neiderman

Andrew Neiderman is arguably the best novelist in the United States best known for authoring “the Devil’s advocate” which was later adapted into the film “the devil’s advocate” directed b Taylor Hackford. Andrew Neiderman also wrote the stage adaptation of flowers in the Attic which was based on the novel by V.C Andrews. He also has written the Libretto for a musical stage adaptation of “the Dev...

Bartolomé de Las Casas

Bartolomé de Las Casas lived during the 16th century. He was one of the first people to settle in the New World. He is most famous for being a social reformer who indeed introduced many social reforms to the world never seen before. At first, Bartolomé de Las Casas participated in the persecution of the native people of the New World. But, something made him raise his voice against the terrors th...

Ayrton Senna

Ayrton Senna, in full Ayrton Senna da Silva, was a Brazilian sportsman and a racing driver. First an outstanding figure in the kart racing circuit, he then achieved tremendous success in the Formula One Championships, by winning the elite series three times, thanks in large part to his ruthless and risky maneuvers on the Grand Prix circuit.

Eiji Yoshikawa

Eiji Yoshikawa was a Japanese historical novelist. Among his best-known novels are revisions of older classics. Although most of his novels are not original works, he created a huge amount of work and a renewed interest in the past.

Tetsurō Watsuji

Tetsurō Watsuji was a Japanese moral philosopher and historian of ideas. He is an outstanding representative of modern Japanese thinkers who have tried to combine the Eastern moral spirit with Western ethical ideas.

Robert Browning

Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright best known for his engaging dramatic monologues. He is one of the first Victorian poets who only reached his popularity during his later years. Browning is known for irony, social commentary, dark humor and historical setting.

Le Duan

Le Duan was a Vietnamese communist politician. He was a founding member of the Vietnam Communist Party (at the time it was called the Indo-Chinese Communist Party) in 1930, who climbed steadily upwards on the ladder of power. He became, with the death of Ho Chi Minh in 1969, the major political figure in North Vietnam and then, after victory in the Vietnam War, in all of Vietnam.

Michael Jordan

Michael Jeffrey Jordan is an American former professional basketball player, widely considered to be the greatest all-around player in the history of the game. He led the National Basketball Association (NBA) Chicago Bulls to six championships (1991-93, 1996-98). He is also an entrepreneur and principal owner and chairman of the Charlotte Hornets.

Geraldine Page

Geraldine Sue Page was an American film, television and stage actress. An eight-time Academy Award nominee, she was nominated for Hondo (1953), Summer and Smoke (1961), Sweet Bird of Youth (1962), You're a Big Boy Now (1966), Pete 'n' Tillie (1972), Interiors (1978) and The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), before winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Carrie Watts in T...

Mike Myers

Mike Myers is one of Hollywood's most bankable comedy stars. He gained success and fame as a central cast member of Saturday Night Live, creating such characters as Linda Richman and Sprockets, before going on to even greater success in Hollywood films such as Shrek, Wayne's World, and the Austin Powers trilogy.

Gerardus Mercator

Gerardus Mercator was a Flemish cartographer, geographer and cosmographer.

H.P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft was an American writer and the most important literary supernaturalist of the twentieth century. He was one of the greatest in a line of authors that originated with the Gothic novelists of the eighteenth century and was perpetuated throughout the nineteenth century by such figures as Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, J. Sheridan LeFanu, and Arthur Machen.

John Pershing

John J. Pershing was a senior United States Army officer who served as commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. He also was Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1921 to 1924.