Authors/Playwrights/Poets/Actors
Sappho (c. 600 BCE), Greek poet
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), USA author
Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967), USA author, chef
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British author
Victoria Sackville-West (1892-1962), British author
Kate Millett (b. 1934), USA author
Euripides (480-406 BCE), Greek playwright
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), British playwright
John Milton (1608-1674), British author
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), British poet
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), Danish author
Walt Whitman (1819-1892), USA poet
Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890), English explorer and writer
Horatio Alger (1832-1899), USA author
Samuel Butler (1835-1902), British author
Algernon Swinburne (1837-1909), British poet
Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), French poet
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), French poet
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), British playwright
Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933), Greek poet
Andre Gide (1869-1951), French author
Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French author
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), British author
E. M. Forster (1879-1970), British author
Harold Nicholson (1886-1968), British author, diplomat
T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935), British soldier, author
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), French author
Charles Laughton (1899-1962), English actor
Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986), British author
W. H. Auden (1907-1973) British-USA poet
Jean Genet (1910-1986), French playwright
Tennessee Williams (1912-1983), USA playwright
Tyrone Power (1913-1958), USA actor
William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), USA poet, author
Arthur C. Clarke (b. 1917), English science fiction writer
Merle Miller (b. 1919), USA author
Montgomery Clift (1920-1966), USA actor
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), Italian filmmaker
Brendan Behan (1923-1964), Irish author
James Baldwin (1924-1987), USA author
Truman Capote (1924-1984), USA author
Rock Hudson (1925-1985), USA actor
Hart Crane, USA poet
Sara Teasdale, USA poet
Gore Vidal (b. 1925), USA author
Allan Ginsberg (b. 1926), USA poet
Nick Adams (1931-1968), USA actor
Lewis Caroll, British author and mathematician
A. E. Housman, British poet
Willa Cather, USA novelist
Edward Albee, USA playwright
George Cukor, USA filmmaker
Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet
Jacinto Benavente, Spanish dramatist
Rita Mae Brown, USA author
Audre Lorde, USA poet
Elizabeth Bishop, USA poet
Marie-Claire Blais, Canadian author
Samuel R. Delazny, USA science fiction writer
Judy Grahn, USA author
Langston Hughes, USA author
Ursula LeGuin, USA science fiction writer
Edna St. Vincent Millay, USA poet
Marion Riggs, USA filmmaker
Harvey Fierstein, USA playwright/actor
Sal Mineo, USA actor
Tommy Kirk, USA actor
Paul Winfield, USA actor
Raymond Burr, USA actor
George Takei (b. 1937), USA actor
Tab Hunter, USA actor
Composers/Singers/Musicians/Dancers
Bessie Smith (1894-1937), USA singer
Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer
Serge Diaghilev, Russian ballet dancer
Waslaw Nijinsky (1890-1950), Russian ballet dancer
Paul Robeson (1898-1976), USA singer, actor, political activist
Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968), USA actor
Janis Joplin (1943-1970), USA singer
David Bowie (b. 1947), British singer
Elton John (b. 1947), British composer/singer
Benjamin Britton, English composer
Samuel Barber, composer
Cole Porter, USA composer
k. d. lang, USA singer
Janis Ian, USA singer/composer
Melissa Etheridge, USA singer/composer
Johnny Mathis, USA singer
Lee Liberace, USA pianist
Politicians, Social Activists, & Religious Leaders
Alexander the Great (356-323 BCE), Macedonian king
Demetrius Poliorcetes (294-288 BCE), Greek king
Antiochus I (280-261 BCE), Greek king
Antigonus II Gonatas (276-239 BCE), Greek king
Ptolemy IV (221-205 BCE), Greek king
Gaozu (206-194 BCE), Chinese emperor
Ptolemy VII (145-144 BCE), Greek king
Wu (140-86 BCE), Chinese emperor
Nicomedes IV (early first century BCE), Bithynian king
Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE), Roman emperor
Augustus (31 BCE - 14 AD), Roman emperor
Ai (6 BCE-1 AD), Chinese emperor
Tiberius (14-37 AD), Roman emperor
Caligula (37-41 AD), Roman emperor
Claudius I (41-54), Roman emperor
Nero (54-68), Roman emperor
Hadrian (76-138 AD), Roman emperor
Wei Wen (220-227), Chinese emperor
Jin Diyi (336-371), Chinese emperor
Valentian III (425-455), Roman emperor
Lian Jianwen (550-551), Chinese emperor
Constantine V (741-775), Byzantine emperor
Michael III (842-867), Byzantine emperor
Al-Hakem II (961-976), ruler of Cordoba (Spain)
Hisham II (965-1013), ruler of Cordoba (Spain)
Basil II (976-1025), Byzantine emperor
Sebuktigin (tenth century), founder of the Ghaznavid Empire (Afghanistan)
Mahmud (997-1030), Ghazni (Afghanistan) emperor
Constantine VIII (1025-1028), Byzantine emperor
Constantine IX (1042-1055), Byzantine emperor
Al-Mutamid (1069-1090), ruler of Seville (Spain)
William II (1087-1100), English king
Richard the Lion-hearted (1157-1199), British king
Frederick II (1212-1250), Holy Roman emperor
Edward II (1307-1327), English king
Richard II (1367-1400), British king
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1368-1394), Japanese shogun
Beyazid I (1389-1402), Ottoman Empire sultan
Juan II (1406-1454), Castile and Leon (Spain) king
Mehmed (Muhammad) II (1451-1481), Ottoman Empire sultan
Enrique IV (1454-1474), Castile (Spain) king
Julius III (1487-1555), Italian pope
Charles IX (1560-1574), French king
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), British philosopher, statesman
James I (1566-1625), British king
Oda Nobunaga (1568-1582), Japanese military dictator
Jahangir (1605-1627), India emperor
Louis XIII (1610-1643), French king
Tokugawa Iemitsu (1622-1651), Japanese shogun
Christina (1626-1689), Swedish queen
Peter the Great (1672-1725), Russian czar
Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (1680-1709), Japanese shogun
William III (1689-1702), English king
Charles XII (1697-1718), Swedish king
Anne (1702-1714), English queen
Frederick the Great (1712-1786), Prussian king
Gustavus III (1746-1792), Swedish king
Catherine II the Great (1762-1796), Russian empress
Christian VII (1766-1808), Denmark king
Kamran (early 19th century), Afghanistan emir
Ludwig II (1864-1886), Bavarian king
Jane Addams (1866-1935), USA social work profession founder
Frank Parsons ( -1908), USA social activitist, author, career counseling and professional counseling founder
Abdul Al-Rahman (1880-1901), Afghanistan king
Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938), Turkish ruler
Mwanga (1884-1897), Buganda (Uganda) king
Harold Nicholson (1886-1968), British author, diplomat
Ernst Rohm (1887-1934), German nazi leader
T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935), British soldier, author
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961), Swedish United Nations secretary general
Gustavus V (1907-1950), Swedish king
Ferdinand I (1908-1918), Bulgarian king
Rama VI (1910-1925), Thailand king
Amanullah Khan (1919-1929), Afghanistan king
Rev. Troy Perry, USA religious leader
Malcolm Boyd (b. 1923), USA theologian
Manuel Azana (1931-1933, 1936-1939), Spain president
Barbara Jordan (1937-1996), USA Member of Congress, Texas
Roberta Achtenberg, Assistant Director of U. S. Housing and Urban Development
Barney Frank, USA Member of Congress, Massachusetts
Gerry Studds, USA Member of Congress, Massachusetts
Tammy Baldwin, USA Member of Congress, Wisconsin
Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer, USA National Guard
David B. Mixner, USA political consultant
Karen Clark, USA Minnesota state legislator
Richard C. Failla, USA New York Supreme Court justice
Debra A. Batts, USA federal judge
Philosophers
Sophocles (496-406 BCE), Greek philosopher
Socrates (470-399 BCE), Greek philosopher
Aristotle (384-322 BCE), Greek philosopher
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), British philosopher, statesman
Painter/Sculptor/Jewelry Maker
Sandro Botticelli (1444-1510), Italian painter
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian painter, scientist, inventor
Michelangelo (1475-1564), Italian sculptor and painter
Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571), Italian goldsmith
Andy Warhol, USA artist
Academics/Scientists
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian painter, scientist, inventor
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), German naturalist
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), British economist
Lewis Caroll, British author and mathematician
Alan Turing (1912-1954), English mathematician and computer science pioneer
Sports
Bill Tilden (1893-1953), USA tennis champion
Susan McGrievy, USA Olympic team member (1956, 1960)
Glenn Burke, USA professional baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers)
Cat Chase, USA weightlifting champion
Bruce Hayes, USA Olympic gold medal swimmer
Billie Jean King, USA tennis champion
David Kopay, USA professional football player
Greg Louganis, USA Olympic diving gold medalist
Martina Navratilova, Czechoslovakia/USA tennis champion
Bob Paris & Rod Jackson, USA body builders (Mr. Universe and Mr. America)
Rudy Galindo, USA figure skating champion
Allissa Wykes, USA women's professional football player, fullback, Philadelphia Liberty Belles--the 2001 National Women's Football League champions
Roy Simmons, USA professional football player, New York Giants offensive lineman
Billy Bean, USA professional baseball player, San Diego Padres outfielder
Esera Tuaolo, USA professional football player, Minnesota Vikings defensive lineman
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