World Biographical Encyclopedia

Nicole Scherzinger is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, actress and television personality. Scherzinger rose to fame as the lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls and released the albums PCD (2005) and Doll Domination (2008) becoming one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time.

Luiz da Silva

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, popularly known simply as Lula, is a Brazilian politician and former union leader who served as the 35th President of Brazil from 1 January 2003 to 1 January 2011.

Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski is a French Polish movie director, producer, writer, and actor. He is mostly known for the pictures which are centered on the topics of isolation, desire, and absurdity. Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, The Pianist, and The Ghost Writer are among his most notable works.

George Bush

George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.

George Gurdjieff

The name George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff is surrounded with fantastic legend. In truth, his life was that of a man devoted completely to the search for forgotten knowledge and then to the arduous task of bringing it to life for our times. Gurdjieff was a prominent esotericist of his time, among his followers were writers P.L. Travers and Katherine Mansfield.

Seiichi Morimura

Seiichi Morimura is a contemporary Japanese writer best known for his mystery novels. His works include High Rise Blind Spot, The Anatomy of Corruption and the Shomei trilogy. He received three different awards for his work. His most controversial work is a historical novel The Devil’s Gluttony, which revealed the monstrosities that the Japanese Army committed during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Hans Bethe

Hans Albrecht Bethe was a German-born American theoretical physicist who helped shape quantum physics and increased the understanding of the atomic processes responsible for the properties of matter. He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1967 for his work on the production of energy in stars.

Frank Joseph

Frank Joseph Perry, Jr. was an American stage director and filmmaker. The 1962 independent film David and Lisa was nominated for two Academy Awards for best director (Frank Perry) and best screenplay (written by his then-wife, Eleanor Perry). The couple would go on to collaborate on five more films including the cult classic The Swimmer starring Burt Lancaster, Diary of a Mad Housewife starring C...

Queen Margaret of Denmark

Queen Margaret is the reigning Queen of Denmark for over 40 years. She succeeded the throne after her father, King Frederick IX, passed away in 1972. She has a very high approval rating in Denmark and has maintained the reputation of the royal family. She is also an accomplished painter and a costume designer.

Serena Williams

Serena Williams is an American professional tennis player. Former World No.1, she revolutionized women's tennis with her powerful style of play and became one of very few African-Americans to dominate the game. She holds the record for the most Grand Slam singles titles (23), won by both male and female players in the history of the Open Era, and is the second only to Margaret Court in the same r...

James Iredell

James Iredell was an American lawyer and political essayist. He was a leading Federalist in North Carolina and was appointed as one of the original justices of the U.S. Supreme Court by George Washington served from 1790 until his death in 1799.

Jane Mendelsohn

Jane Mendelsohn is an American author. She is the author of the novel "I Was Amelia Earhart" that was an international bestseller in 1996 and short-listed for the Orange Prize.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is an American professional boxing promoter and former professional boxer whose combination of speed, power, and technical prowess made him one of the best pound-for-pound fighters of all time. He is undefeated as a professional and is a five-division world champion, having won eleven world titles and the lineal championship in four different weight classes.

Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki is a former Japanese baseball player who has amassed the most total hits across all professional baseball leagues in the history of the sport. He was notably also the first non-pitcher to shift from Japanese professional baseball to the American major leagues.

Oliver Holmes Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was an American justice of the United States Supreme Court, U.S. legal historian and philosopher who advocated judicial restraint. He was a key figure in the debate concerning the role of law in a rapidly changing America during the early twentieth century. Not only did Mr. Holmes personally contribute to the debate, but he also served as a symbol to a generation of lega...

Marcel Paul Pagnol

Marcel Pagnol was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Although his work is less fashionable than it once was, Pagnol is still generally regarded as one of France's greatest 20th-century writers and is notable for the fact that he excelled in almost every medium memoir, novel, drama and film.