World Biographical Encyclopedia

Nikolay Maksimov

Nikolay Aleksandrovich Maksimov was a Soviet botanist. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.

Robert Hooke

Robert Hooke was an English physicist who discovered the law of elasticity, known as Hooke’s law. He did research in a remarkable variety of fields.

Huseyn Aliyev was an Azerbaijani painter. He was known as a graphic artist and a master of romantic landscapes painted with watercolor, oil or made in the technique of monotyping. The typical feature of his works is blinking of bright colored spots.

Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze was a French philosopher. His most popular works were the two volumes co-written with Félix Guattari of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980).

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas was an Italian Dominican theologian hailed as the father of the Thomistic school of theology. A Catholic priest, he was also a prominent philosopher and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism.

Dee Ramone

Douglas Glenn Colvin, known professionally as Dee Dee Ramone, was a German-American musician, singer and songwriter best known as founding member, songwriter, bassist and occasional lead vocalist for the punk rock band the Ramones.

Craig Venter

John Craig Venter is an American geneticist, biochemist, and businessman who has been a prime mover in some of the most exciting developments in the relatively new science of genomics. His scientific teams were the first to read the entire genome of a free-living organism and played a major role in building the first complete map of the human genome.

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.

Michael Bolton

Michael Bolotin, known professionally as Michael Bolton, is an American singer and songwriter. Bolton originally performed in the hard rock and heavy metal genres from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, both on his early solo albums and those he recorded as the frontman of the band Blackjack. He became better known for his series of pop rock ballads, recorded after a stylistic change in the late 198...

Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue is an Australian-British singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. She has given many hit albums to the world, like: 'Kylie,' 'Kylie Minogue,' 'Fever,' 'Rhythm of Love,' 'Body Language,' etc. She has worked in many movies as well. Her concerts are considered to be iconic and she is a style icon all over the world.

Gazanfar Khaligov

Gazanfar Khaligov was an Azerbaijani artist and cartoonist. He was an Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR and People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR. He was also known as an outstanding artist and decorator of cinema and theater.

Hyman Minsky

Hyman Philip Minsky was an American professor of economics, writer, and economist in the field of Domestic Monetary and Financial Theory and Institutions, Economic Fluctuations, Macroeconomic Theory.

Al Green

Al Green is an American songwriter and soul and gospel singer. He is known for the hit song "Let's Stay Together," and for leaving his musical career at its height in the 1970s to become a reverend at his own church.

Abubakar Balewa

The former prime minister of Nigeria Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was a politician and the first prime minister of Nigeria. He was also an international statesman, widely respected across the African continent as one of the leaders who encouraged the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU).

Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman, in full Eugene Alden Hackman, is an American motion-picture actor known for his rugged appearance and his emotionally honest and natural performances. His solid dependability in a wide variety of roles endeared him to the public.

Florentino Ameghino

Florentino Ameghino was an Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist, and zoologist. Ameghino was one of the most eminent geologists and paleontologists of his day and discovered many fossil fauna. He is regarded for his monumental work that consisted of nearly 200 monographs and memoirs.