World Biographical Encyclopedia

Chadwick Boseman was an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of T'Challa/Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (since 2016), particularly in Black Panther (2018), and for his starring roles in as Jackie Robinson in 42 (2013), James Brown in Get on Up (2014), and Thurgood Marshall in Marshall (2017).

Aryeh Carmell

Aryeh Carmell was an Orthodox rabbi, scholar, and author

Johannes Hevelius

Johannes Hevelius was a Polish astronomer who compiled an atlas of the Moon containing one of the earliest detailed maps of its surface as well as names for many of its features. Hevelius also made a catalog of 1,564 stars, the most comprehensive of its time, and a celestial atlas in which several constellations, now accepted, were shown for the first time.

Pierre Proudhon

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French libertarian socialist and journalist whose doctrines became the basis for later radical and anarchist theory.

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.

Seth Rogen

Seth Rogen is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, director, producer, and writer. Rogen shot to fame in television and film, collaborating several times with director Judd Apatow.

Garry Winogrand

Garry Winogrand was an American street photographer. He was known as the one who showed the American life and culture of the middle of the 20th century. He created his black-and-white photos primarily on the streets of New York City capturing spontaneous moments of stranger’s everyday life which reflected the social issues, revolutionary sentiments, and other perturbations of the time.

Diana Kurian

Diana Mariam Kurian, known professionally as Nayanthara, is a famous Indian actress who primarily works in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu-language films. She started her career in 2003 with a role in Manassinakkare, and since then has appeared in more than seventy films. She is now considered the most prominent South Indian actress.

Charles Lindbergh

Charles Lindbergh was an American aviator, writer, and military officer who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He also served as an officer in the United States Army Air Corps Reserve.

Albert Pujols

Albert Pujols is a Dominican-born American professional baseball player who was one of the most prolific hitters of the early 21st century. He played 11 seasons for the St. Louis Cardinals, with whom he was a three-time National League (NL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) and nine-time All-Star.

Vera Lynn

Dame Vera Margaret Lynn is a British singer and actress. She was popular during the Second World War when she hosted the BBC concert radio program "Sincerely Yours", addressed to British troops abroad. Broadcasts of her songs of love and longing were particularly resonant with members of the military fighting abroad, which led to her nickname, "the Forces’ Sweetheart."

Richard Burton

Richard Burton was a prominent Welsh stage and motion-picture actor, who gained prominence for his portrayals of highly intelligent and articulate men, who were world-weary, cynical or self-destructive. The best-known movies Richard had a role in include "Cleopatra", "Where Eagles Dare", "Raid on Rommel", among others. He was also known as the voice of Sir Winston Churchill in the television seri...

Thomas O’Neill Jr.

Thomas O’Neill Jr. was an American politician who served as the 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1987, representing northern Boston, Massachusetts, as a Democrat from 1953 to 1987.

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison was an American writer noted for her examination of Black experience within the Black community. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.

Mercy Warren

Mercy Otis Warren was an American poet, dramatist, and historian. Her proximity to political leaders and critical national events gives particular value to her writing on the American Revolutionary period. She is considered by some to be the first American woman to write primarily for the public rather than for herself.

David Puttnam

David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam, CBE, HonFRSA, HonFRPS, MRIA is a British film producer and educator. His productions include Chariots of Fire, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. He sits on the Labour benches in the House of Lords, although he is not principally a politician.