World Biographical Encyclopedia

Helen Hayes was an American actress who was widely considered to be the "First Lady of the American Theatre" in tribute to her long and successful career and the dignity and generosity with which she conducted her offstage life.

Anselm of Canterbury

St. Anselm of Canterbury was an Italian prelate. He also was a theologian, Doctor of the Church, and archbishop of Canterbury.

Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a Turkish field marshal and revolutionary statesman, who helped establish the Republic of Turkey. He was Turkey's first president, and his reforms modernized the country.

Alfred Kinsey

Alfred Charles Kinsey was an American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist. In 1947, he founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, which is now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.

David Brewer

David Josiah Brewer was an American jurist and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court for 20 years. Mr. Brewer was one of four justices nominated by President Harrison to the Supreme Court. He served during The Fuller Court.

Pierre Proudhon

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

Eva Longoria

Eva Longoria is an American television and film actress, director, and producer. Longoria is famous for her portrayal of Gabrielle Solis on the television series Desperate Housewives, which ran from 2004 to 2012 and for which she received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.

Haim Harari

Haim Harari is an Israeli theoretical physicist.He received his entire education in Israel and made major contributions to three different fields: Particle Physics Research, Science Education in Israel and Science Management and Policy Making. He has been active in numerous international Science and Technology reviews and evaluations and has been involved in a variety of business related activitie...

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch physicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1913 for his work on low-temperature physics and his production of liquid helium. He was also the discoverer of superconductivity in 1911.

Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan is an American novelist, short story writer and journalist.

Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue is an award-winning Irish writer who lives in Canada. She's one of the most successful current female writers.

John Lewis

John Robert Lewis is an American politician and civil rights leader. He is the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district, serving since 1987, and is the dean of the Georgia congressional delegation. His district includes three-quarters of Atlanta.

Jones Inigo

Inigo Jones was a British painter, architect, draftsman, surveyor, and designer who founded the English classical tradition of architecture.

Oscar Niemeyer

Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture.

Althea Gibson

Althea Gibson was an American tennis player. The first African-American to compete in major tennis championships, she dominated these women's competitions in the late 1950s, winning the French Championship (present-day the French Open), Wimbledon, and US Nationals (present-day U.S. Open). At the beginning of the 1960s, Gibson got involved into the Women's Professional Golf Tour, also the first bl...

John Mulvaney

John Mulvaney was an Australian archaeologist. He was the first university-trained prehistorian to make Australia his subject and has revolutionized scholarly and popular understandings of the Aboriginal past. He was acknowledged as a world-leader in the field of hunter-gatherer archaeology, specifically Australian prehistory, and has often been described as the father of Australian archaeology.