World Biographical Encyclopedia

Robert Lee

General in chief of the Confederate armies in the American Civil War, Robert Edward Lee displayed strategic sense and tactical skill that rank him among the great military captains of history.

Dean-Charles Chapman

Dean-Charles Chapman is an English actor. He has portrayed roles in The Revolting World of Stanley Brown, Into the Badlands and is best known for playing Tommen Baratheon in Game of Thrones.

Hans Christian Ørsted, Ørsted also spelled Oersted, was a Danish physicist and chemist. He discovered that electric current in a wire can deflect a magnetized compass needle, a phenomenon the importance of which was rapidly recognized and which inspired the development of electromagnetic theory.

Liam Hemsworth

Liam Hemsworth is an Australian actor of film and television. He started his career by acting in the Australian television series Neighbours and The Elephant Princess. He is best known for his role as Gale Hawthorne in The Hunger Games film series, based on an adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ best-selling novel series.

David Sarnoff

David Sarnoff was an American businessman and pioneer of American radio and television. Throughout most of his career he led the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in various capacities from shortly after its founding in 1919 until his retirement in 1970.

Nahman of Bratslav

Nahman of Bratslav was a Hasidic rabbi, founder of the Bratslav sect. He was the great-grandson of the founder of Hasidism, the Baal Shem Tov.

Gyula Halász

Brassaï was a Hungarian-French photographer, sculptor, medalist, writer, and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France in the 20th century. He was one of the numerous Hungarian artists who flourished in Paris beginning between the World wars.

Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. His "Common Sense" and other writings influenced the American Revolution, and helped pave the way for the Declaration of Independence.

Ehud Olmert

Ehud Olmert is an Israeli politician and lawyer. He served as Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009, as a Cabinet Minister from 1988 to 1992 and from 2003 to 2006, and as Mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003.

Jamie Oliver

Jamie Oliver is a British chef, restaurateur, and author. His specialty is Italian cuisine. Oliver achieved worldwide fame with his television shows The Naked Chef (1999) and Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution (2010-2011) and as the author of a number of cookbooks with a variety of culinary themes. He ardently rages an unrelenting crusade against unhealthy eating through his television shows and cook...

Richard Fairhead

He has spent most of his working life as an in-between person communicating between two groups, either in TV between the production staff and the technical staff or in other areas linking technical and non-technical to achieve artistic ends. His passion is the creative process involved in making visual media, he especially enjoys being out with a film crew: It's all about the story... telling a st...

Nazim Khan

Muhammad Nazim Uddin, known professionally as Nazim Khan, is an Artist, Poet, Writer, Blogger, Wikipedian and Polyglot from Chittagong, Bangladesh. His legal name is Muhammad Nazim Uddin but mostly known as Nazim Khan.

Babur I

Babur was a conqueror from Central Asia who, following a series of setbacks, finally succeeded in laying the base for the Mughal dynasty in the Indian subcontinent and became the first Mughal emperor. Bābur, a descendant of the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan and also of the Turkic conqueror Timur (Tamerlane), was a military adventurer, a soldier of distinction, and a poet and diarist of genius, as...

János Bolyai

János Bolyai was a prominent Austrian mathematician of a Hungarian origin. He is regarded as one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry - a geometry that differs from Euclidean geometry in its definition of parallel lines.

Carice van Houten

Carice van Houten is a Dutch actress and singer. She is known for her role in the HBO’s fantasy TV series Game of Thrones as the Melisandre of Asshai. She also has a leading role in the TV film Suzy and for her role in the film, she won Golden Calf Award for Best Acting in a Television Drama.

Ruby Bridges

Ruby Bridges is an American activist who became a symbol of the civil rights movement and who was at age six the youngest of a group of African American students to integrate schools in the American S. Bridges is the author of Through My Eyes: The Autobiography of Ruby Bridges and Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story.