Wikipedia:Stanford Archive answers/People
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- Damon Shelton - After playing the entire season, the loss of this fullback to steroid suspension just before the playoffs may have been a factor in the Bears' poor running game against the Eagles. [1]
- Alexander Snegiryov, Ivan Snegiryov, or Captain Nikolai Ilyich Snegiryov of The Brothers Karamazov
- Tony Sands of Kansas - NCAA all-division recorder holder for rushing yards in a single game from 1991-1993
- Blue Four -> artist's group that consisted of Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Alexej Jawlensky.
- Thomas Loudamy, (pseudonym: Mya Barnett -> corresponded with many serial killers, including Robert Pickton
- J.A.A. Lovink -> Canadian politician
- Manuel Gual -> Venezuelan military and political leader (See Manuel Gaul in Spanish Wikipedia)
- Jose Maria Espinosa -> See José María España in Spanish Wikipedia
- Jamaspa -> successor of Zoroaster
- James Yin Shi Young -> author of "The Rape of Nanking"
- Iron Shield, American Horse -> "This cousin of Red Cloud fought alongside him at the Fetterman Massacre and throughout the campaigns in and around the Bozeman trail. But he was captured at the battle of Slim Buttes in 1876 and executed."
- Michael Rogin -> historian, Berkeley professor. Wrote Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot; Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian; 'Ronald Reagan,' the Movie, and Other Episodes in Political Demonology
- Michael Tell < Patty Duke husband in 1970 for 13 days, father of Sean Astin
- Kathy Mitchell (columnist) and Marcy Sugar -> editors for Esther Lederer's column Ask Ann Landers - Annie's Mailbox
- Deletha Word -> "In the early morning hours of August 19, in Detroit, Michigan, a 33-year old lady jumped off the Belle Isle Bridge in an attempt to escape from her alleged assailants as dozens of bystanders looked on."
- Lemuel Hopkins -> One of the Hartford Wits- the only one without an article
- Emir Al-Momineen - "Leader of the Believers", title used by Mullah Omar, but possibly others.
- Gloria Gilbert -> actress. Appeared in "Vogues of 1938" and "A Musical Operation"; original reference probably F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned
- George Fiege -> "He took the work of Peano and extended it in his work Foundations of Arithmetic and in such defined the concept of numbers by means of purely mathematical concepts."
- Manheim group -> "These composers were court musicians to Karl Theodor of Germany. They expanded orchestral music to the form which we know today, adding brass and woodwinds. The group included Franz Beck, Karl Stamitz, Franz Richter, and Ignaz Holzbauer. FTP name this group from whom the Classical period stems."
- Robert v. Rota < Postmaster of the United States House of Representatives 1973-1992 Robert Rota Bob Rota
- Diana McGowin < author, Living in the Labyrinth, adapted into Forget Me Never (film)
- Siddig Ibrahim Siddig ali, Siddig Siddig Ali, Ibrahim Siddig Siddig Ali, Siddig Ali < leader of the Beta Cell, group responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
- Marcus Belfry < author, Apocalypse of the Heart etc.
- Ralph Holinshed < father of Raphael Holinshed, alt spelling for Raphael
- Stephen Keener - This president of Little League Baseball said that Almonte and the other boys had been treated in a “contemptible and despicable way.” [2]
- P.G. Carnahan Daniel Dravot George Babbitt Elmer Gantry Pierre Bezuhov Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -> all are freemasons
- John Kitchener and Hector Macdonald - see Kitchener: The Road to Omdurman by John Pollock
- Martay Jenkins -> Arizona Cardinals player who set a record for most kickoff returns in a season
- Darly Alves da Silva -> accused killer of Chico Mendes
- Issihak II -> Last ruler of the Songhai Empire, defeated in 1591 by the Moroccans
- Ferdinand III of Aragon -> not listed in Ferdinand III disambig- may be Ferdinand of Aragón, Duke of Calabria
- Rose Winslow -> American women's suffrage activist
- Charles Montbrun, Charles Dupuy-Montbrun, Charles Dupuy de Montbrun - fr:Charles Dupuy de Montbrun
- Hugh Hartsthorne, Hugh Hartshorne < American psychologist
- Carolyn Edwards, Carolyn Pope Edwards < American anthropologist
- R.C. Suggs < anthropologist, historian, sexologist: The Island Civilisations of Polynesia, Human sexual behavior
- Vivian Villarreal -> professional billiards player, the Texas Tornado
- Wladzui Valentino Liberace, Walter Valentino Liberace -> American pianist (1919-1987)
- Charles Du Puy de Montbrun, Du Puy -> "After the death of Coligny, this ruthless warlord took up arms at the head of the Dauphinese forces, laying waste to much of the countryside, even going so far as to throw the Catholic men, women and children from the city walls of Mornas (mor-nah) after its taking. He was largely responsible for the virtual eradication of Catholics within the province of Dauphiné, for which he was captured and publicly beheaded him in Grenoble on August 13, 1575." < French Wikipedia 1530 - 1575
- Daniel Goldreyer < art restorer - restored the entry above (Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue)
- Fernando Paer < 19th c. French composer
- Society of Five Authors, Les Cinq Auteurs -> literary group by Richelieu including Pierre Corneille
- Robert Kiely -> "In this writer’s essay on Northanger Abbey, a close parallel is drawn between Austen’s Gothic parody and her epistolary parody in Love and Freindship. His major work is Reverse Tradition: Postmodern Fictions and the Nineteenth Century Novel."
- Ogodei Khan -> son of Genghis Khan
- John Metzger -> "The white supremacist who swung the chair, hitting Geraldo Rivera in the face. He is President of the White Aryan Resistance Youth, and was also featured in a Rolling Stone article"
- Gustavus Theodore -> Gustavus Holst
- Tohami, Rising Moose -> Mdewakanton chief who sided with the US in the War of 1812
- Robert Burpee < 2: head of National Hurricane Center; president of Knott's Berry Farm
- Mohammad Shams Od-Din Hafez, Mohammad Shams Od-Din Hafiz -> Quran scholar who wrote the Divan and modern collections of his works include The Gift and Fifty Poems
- Victor Barna, Angelica Rozeanu, Chuang Tse-Tung -> famous table tennis players
- Henry Cabot Lodge Sr. (the First Bill Was the Lodge-Hoar Lodge-Hoar Bill Lodge Hoar Bill