World Biographical Encyclopedia

Malala Yousafzai is Pakistani activist who, while a teenager, spoke out publicly against the prohibition on the education of girls that was imposed by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan. At the age of 17 in 2014, she became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize after surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig Van Beethoven is one of the greatest figures in the history of classical music and one of the most brilliant composers of all times. His instrumental music forms a peak in the development of tonal music and is one of the crucial evolutionary developments in the history of music as a whole.

Horace Mann

Horace Mann was an American educational reformer, politician, and congressman, who was enormously influential in promoting and refining public education in Massachusetts and throughout the nation in the 19th century.

Sunny Deol

Sunny Deol is an Indian film actor, director and producer. He has starred in numerous films since the 1980s, and is often referred to as the "Action King of Bollywood." His film Gadar: Ek Prem Katha became one of the biggest hits of the 21st century.

James Cabell

James Branch Cabell was an American sci-fi author. He is known chiefly for his novel Jurgen (1919).

Norodom Sihanouk

Norodom Sihanouk was twice the king of Cambodia (1941-1955 and 1993-2004), who also served as prime minister, head of state, and president. He attempted to steer a neutral course for Cambodia in its civil and foreign wars of the late 20th century.

John Travolta

John Joseph Travolta is a Golden Globe-winning American actor, producer, dancer and singer who was a cultural icon of the 1970s, especially known for roles in the TV series Welcome Back, Kotter and the blockbuster film Saturday Night Fever. He had a career revival in Quentin Tarantino's 'Pulp Fiction' and has starred in a wide range of additional projects.

Joseph Lamar

Joseph Rucker Lamar was an American jurist and politician. An influential member of the Georgia legal community at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, he was the fourth native Georgian appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Stephen King

Stephen King is a prolific and immensely popular author of horror fiction. In his works, King blends elements of the traditional gothic tale with those of the modern psychological thriller, detective, and science fiction genres. Several of his works have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television series, and comic books.

Larry King

Larry King was an American host, author, and spokesman. In 1978 he started a nightly coast-to-coast radio talk show, The Larry King Show, on the Mutual Radio Network. This work caught the attention of Ted Turner, who hired King to host his own talk show, Larry King Live, on CNN in 1985. Larry King became legendary, by quizzing high-profile guests such as Madonna, Tony Blair, George H.W. Bush, Bil...

Stan Musial

Stan Musial, in full Stanley Frank Musial, born Stanislaw Franciszek Musial, was an American professional baseball player. Playing for the St. Louis Cardinals during his twenty-two-year career, he won seven National League (NL) batting championships and established himself as one of the game's greatest hitters.

John Audubon

John James Audubon was an American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He is known for his studies and detailed illustrations of North American birds. His seminal "Birds of America," a collection of 435 life-size prints, quickly eclipsed Wilson's work and is still a standard against which 20th and 21st-century bird artists, such as Roger Tory Peterson and David Sibley, are measured.

Deborah Digges

Deborah Digges was an American poet and teacher. She was the author of four well-received poetry collections and two equally well-received memoirs.

Charles de Talleyrand-Périgord

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord was a French statesman and politician.

Emma Roberts

Emma Rose Roberts is an American actress and singer known for playing lead roles in a number of television series and Hollywood movies. Emma Roberts has gained lots of attention not just because she is the daughter of an Oscar-nominated actor Eric Roberts, but also because of her successes in her own career both in TV series and in the Movies.

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.