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by Clifton Fadiman


  Field, Marshall III

  Fielding, Henry

  Fields, James T.

  Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1

  Fields, W. C.

  Fiennes, Ralph

  Fier, Jack

  Welles, Orson, 2

  Fillmore, Millard

  Finch, Charlotte

  Somerset, Charles Seymour, 1

  Finley, Charles

  Sutton, Don, 1

  Fisher, Carrie

  Lucas, George, 2

  Fisher, Jonathan

  Mary, 1

  Fisher, M. F. K.

  Fiske, Jim

  Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 3

  Fiske, Minnie Maddern

  Fitzgerald, Ella

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott

  Hemingway, Ernest, 4

  Parker, Dorothy, 12

  Fitzsimmons, Robert

  Flaherty, Robert

  Flanner, Janet

  Barnes, Djuna, 3

  Flaubert, Gustave

  Fleetwood, Sir William

  Fleiss, Heidi

  Barrows, Sidney, 1

  Fleming, Sir Alexander

  Fleming, Ian

  Fletcher, Grace

  Webster, Daniel, 6

  Fletcher, John

  Beaumont, Francis, 1

  Flynn, Errol

  Curtiz, Michael, 1, 2

  Foch, Ferdinand

  Foley, Admiral

  Victoria, 12

  Fonda, Henry

  Fonda, Jane, 1

  Shatner, William, 1

  Fonda, Jane

  Fontanne, Lynn

  Lunt, Alfred, 1, 2

  Fontenelle, Bernard de

  Voltaire, 7

  Foote, Henry S.

  Benton, Thomas Hart, 2

  Foote, Samuel

  Garrick, David, 1

  Sandwich, John Montagu, 3

  Forain, Jean-Louis

  Degas, Edgar, 1, 4

  Ford, Betty

  Elizabeth II, 6

  Ford, Gerald, 2, 4

  Ford, Gerald R.

  Carson, Johnny, 4

  Carter, Jimmy, 1

  Dole, Robert, 1

  Ford, Betty, 3

  Reagan, Ronald, 11

  Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich, 1

  West, Mae, 4

  Ford, Harrison

  Lucas, George, 3

  Ford, Henry

  Duveen, Joseph, 1

  Edison, Thomas Alva, 6

  Ford, John

  Ford, Whitey

  Mantle, Mickey, 4

  Fordyce, George

  Forgy, Howell Maurice

  Forrest, Nathan Bedford

  Fosdick, Harry Emerson

  Foster, Elizabeth

  Gibbon, Edward, 2

  Foster, Stephen

  Fouché, Duc Joseph

  Alexander I, 1

  Fowler, Gene

  Cooper, Gary, 2

  Fox, Charles James

  Selwyn, George Augustus, 2

  Fox, George

  Fox, Henry

  Selwyn, George Augustus, 1

  Foxx, Jimmy

  Mack, Connie, 1

  Fraguier, Claude François

  France, Anatole

  Harris, Frank, 1

  Francis I

  Charles V, 1

  Henry VIII, 1

  Francis II

  Francis Ferdinand

  Francis Joseph

  Charles Francis Joseph, 1

  Dreyschock, Alexander, 1

  Francis of Assisi, St.

  Franck, James

  Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1

  Franco, Francisco

  Franju, Georges

  Godard, Jean-Luc, 1

  Frank, Philipp

  Einstein, Albert, 4

  Franklin, Benjamin

  Jefferson, Thomas, 3

  Paine, Thomas, 1

  Franks, Sir Oliver Shewell

  Franz Joseph II

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 5

  Frazee, Harry

  Ruth, “Babe,” 9

  Frederick, Empress

  Victoria, 10

  Frederick II

  Bach, C. P. E., 1

  Elliott, Hugh, 1

  Frederick, William I, 1

  Frederick Augustus I

  Napoleon I, 4

  Frederick William I

  Frederick William IV

  Freud, Sigmund

  Friedman, Benny

  Nagurski, Bronko, 1

  Frith, William P.

  Frohman, Charles

  Frost, David

  Nixon, Richard M., 10

  Frost, Robert

  Fugger, Johann

  Fuller, Margaret

  Fuller, Melville Watson

  Fuller, R. Buckminster

  Fullerton, William

  Shelburne, William Petty, 1

  Fulton, Robert

  Furtwängler, Wilhelm

  Prokofiev, Sergei, 1

  Fuseli, Henry

  Gabin, Jean

  Gable, Clark

  Faulkner, William, 4

  Gabor, Eva

  Coward, Noël, 9

  Gabor, Zsa Zsa

  Gainsborough, Thomas

  Gaisford, Thomas

  Galbraith, John Kenneth

  Galen

  Galento, Tony

  Louis, Joe, 3

  Galiani, Ferdinando

  Raynal, Guillaume Thomas François, 1

  Galileo

  Galli-Curci, Amelita

  Gallup, George H.

  Galois, Évariste

  Galvani, Luigi

  Gandhi, Mohandas K.

  Elizabeth II, 7

  Garagiola, Joe

  Berra, Yogi, 15

  Garbo, Greta

  Gardner, Erle Stanley

  Gardner, Isabella Stewart

  Garfield, James A.

  Lincoln, Robert, 1

  Garibaldi, Giuseppe

  Peard, John Whitehead, 1

  Garland, Judy

  Garrick, David

  Foote, Samuel, 7

  Johnson, Samuel, 23

  Garrison, C. K.

  Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1

  Garrison, William Lloyd

  Garrod, Heathcote William

  Garth, Sir Samuel

  Pope, Alexander, 1

  Garvey, Steve

  Gates, John Warne

  Gaucher, Lolotte

  Albemarle, William, 1

  Gauss, Karl Friedrich

  Gaxton, William

  Kaufman, George S., 1

  Gehrig, Lou

  Ruth, “Babe,” 7

  Gelon

  Geoffrin, Marie-Thérèse

  George, Mlle.

  Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 15

  George I

  George II

  Caroline of Ansbach, 2

  Frederick William I, 2

  Pope, Alexander, 3

  Selwyn, George Augustus, 3

  Washington, George, 2

  Wolfe, James, 1

  George III

  Hancock, John, 1

  Nelson, Horatio, 1

  North, Frederick, 3

  Pringle, Sir John, 1

  Selwyn, George Augustus, 3

  George IV

  Caroline of Brunswick, 1, 3, 4

  North, Frederick, 3

  Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 14

  Wilkes, John, 2

  George V

  Asquith, Margot, 4

  Cadbury, George, 1

  Lindbergh, Charles, 1

  Mary, 1

  Sargent, John Singer, 1

  George VI

  Armstrong, Louis, 2

  Bennett, Arnold, 3

  Mary, 2

  Montgomery, Bernard Law, 2

  George-Brown, Baron

  Gerard, James Watson

  Gerry, Elbridge

  Harrison, Benjamin, 1

  Gersay, M. de

  Lenclos, Ninon de, 4

  Gershwin, George

  Gershwin, Ira

  Gest,
Morris

  Cooper, Diana, 1

  Gesvres, Bernard François Potier

  Getty, J. Paul

  Dempsey, Jack, 2

  Ghiberti, Lorenzo

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, 6

  Giamatti, A. Bartlett

  Giampetro, Joseph

  Gibbon, Edward

  Gibbons, Euell

  Gibson, Bob

  Gibson, Kirk

  Lasorda, Tommy, 1

  Gide, André

  Gielgud, Sir John

  Gieseking, Walter

  Enesco, Georges, 1

  Gifford, William

  Hazlitt, William, 2

  Gilbert, Sir Humphrey

  Gilbert, John

  Claire, Ina, 1

  Lillie, Beatrice, 4

  Gilbert, Sir W. S.

  Gill, Brendan

  Liebling, A. J., 1

  Gillespie, “Dizzy”

  Giolotti, Giovanni

  Giorgione

  Giotto

  Gipp, George

  Girard, Stephen

  Greeley, Horace, 3

  Girardi

  Francis Joseph, 1

  Giroux, Robert

  Eliot, T. S., 6

  Girtin, Thomas

  Turner, Joseph Mallord William, 5

  Gladstone, William

  Disraeli, Benjamin, 2, 3, 10, 11

  Faraday, Michael, 1

  Tennyson, Alfred, 5

  Gladstone, Mrs. William

  Gladstone, William, 1

  Gleason, Jackie

  Gluck, Christoph Willibald

  Glyn, Elinor

  Godard, Jean-Luc

  Godiva, Lady

  Godowsky, Leopold

  Pachmann, Vladimir de, 1

  Godwin, Mary

  Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 1

  Goering, Hermann

  Baker, Josephine, 2

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

  Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1, 2

  Hugo, Victor, 4

  Gogarty, Oliver St. John

  Yeats, William Butler, 2

  Gogol, Nicolai

  Pushkin, Alexander, 1

  Goldsmith, Oliver

  Boswell, James, 1

  Goldwater, Barry

  Humphrey, Hubert Horatio, 2

  Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 13

  Goldwyn, Samuel

  Arlen, Michael, 1

  Ford, John, 4

  Korda, Sir Alexander, 2

  Marx, Groucho, 13

  Mayer, Louis B., 6

  Shaw, George Bernard, 16

  Thurber, James, 2

  Warner, Jack, 2

  Goldwyn, Samuel, Jr.

  Hawthorne, Nigel, 1

  Goodhart, Charles

  Wilde, Oscar, 14

  Goodwin, Nat

  Carleton, Henry Guy, 1

  Gordon, Lord George

  Gordon, Joe

  Colavito, Rocky, 1

  Gordon, John

  Lee, Robert, E., 3

  Gordon, Ruth

  Kaufman, George S., 10

  Gorki, Maksim

  Caine, Hall, 1

  Gossage, “Goose”

  Gossage, Howard

  Steinbeck, John, 3

  Gosse, Sir Edmund

  James, Henry, 2, 8

  Maugham, W. Somerset, 1

  Gould, Jay

  Grable, Betty

  Gracchus, Gaius

  Cornelia, 1

  Gracchus, Tiberius

  Cornelia, 1

  Grafton, Sue

  Gramont, Comte de

  Louis XIV, 7

  Grant, Cary

  Grant, Ulysses S.

  Jefferson, Joseph, 1

  Lee, Robert E., 3

  Twain, Mark, 10

  Grasset, Bernard

  Cocteau, Jean, 4

  Grassini, Giuseppina

  Graves, Robert

  Lawrence, T. E., 1

  Murray, Gilbert, 2

  Gravitt, Hugh

  Mitchell, Margaret, 2

  Gray, Thomas

  Graziano, Rocky

  Greeley, Horace

  Greeley, Mrs. Horace

  Fuller, Margaret, 2

  Green, Hetty

  Green, Joseph Henry

  Greene, Graham

  Greenwood, Frederick

  Gregory I, St.

  Greville, Mrs. Ronnie

  Chamberlain, Austen, 2

  Grey, Sir Edward

  Griffith, D. W.

  Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm, 3

  Grimaldi

  Abernethy, John, 5

  Grimm, Charlie

  Gromyko, Andrei

  Kissinger, Henry, 1

  Grote, Harriet

  Guevara, Che

  Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 6

  Guggenheim, Peggy

  Picasso, Pablo, 19

  Guiche, Comte de

  Louis XIV, 4

  Guimard, Marie

  Arnould, Sophie, 1

  Guimond, Esther

  Guinan, Texas

  Edward VIII, 1

  Guines, Adrien-Louis de Bonnières

  Guinness, Alec

  Guthrie, Tyrone, 1

  Guitry, Lucien

  Bernhardt, Sarah, 11

  Guitry, Sasha

  Guizot, François

  Lieven, Dariya Khristoforovna, 1

  Gumbel, Bryant

  Berra, Yogi, 10

  Gunther, John

  Guthrie, Tyrone

  Gwenn, Edmund

  Gwyn, Nell

  Haas, Mrs. Robert

  Edman, Irwin, 1

  Haddad, William

  Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 22

  Hadrian

  Haeseler, Gottlieb von

  Hagan, Walter

  Halbe, Mark

  Haldane, John B. S.

  Knox, Ronald, 1

  Haldane, Richard B.

  Hale, Nathaniel

  Halévy, Jacques François

  Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio, 1

  Halifax, Charles Montague

  Halifax, Edward F. L. W.

  Halkett, Hugh

  Cambronne, Pierre-Jacques de, 1

  Hall, Sir Benjamin

  Hall, Donald

  Thomas, Dylan, 2

  Haller, Albrecht von

  Voltaire, 10

  Hamilton, Alexander

  Hamilton, Lady Emma

  Nelson, Horatio, 5, 7

  Hamilton, Guy

  Reynolds, Burt, 1

  Hamilton, Sir Wililam

  Nelson, Horatio, 5

  Hamilton, Willie

  Wilson, Sir Harold, 2

  Hammarskjöld, Dag

  Khrushchev, Nikita S., 1

  Hammerstein II, Oscar

  Rodgers, Richard Charles, 1

  Hammett, Dashiell

  Bankhead, Talullah, 1

  Hampshire, Susan

  Charles, Prince, 1

  Hamsun, Knut

  Hancock, John

  Franklin, Benjamin, 3

  Handel, George Frideric

  Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1

  Hannibal

  Hanska, Evelina

  Balzac, Honoré de, 1

  Harcourt, Lady

  Devonshire, Spencer, 2

  Harding, Chester

  Boone, Daniel, 1

  Hardy, G. H.

  Russell, Bertrand, 2

  Hardy, Thomas

  Barrie, J. M., 2

  Nelson, Horatio, 6, 7

  Harlow, Jean

  Asquith, Margo, 1

  Harmodius

  Iphicrates, 1

  Harriman, E. H.

  Muir, John, 1

  Harriman, W. Averell

  Harris, Frank

  Bennett, Arnold, 1

  Wilde, Oscar, 5

  Harris, James

  Townshend, Charles, 1

  Harris, Jed

  Kaufman, George S., 5

  Harris, Sam

  Marx, Groucho, 7

  Harrison, Benjamin

  Harrison, Benjamin (
President)

  Harrison, William Henry

  Tecumseh, 1

  Hart, B. H. Liddell

  Shaw, George Bernard, 10

  Hart, Larry

  Rodgers, Richard Charles, 1

  Hart, Moss

  Woollcott, Alexander, 4, 10

  Harte, Bret

  Hartington, Lord

  Lamb, Lady Caroline, 2

  Hartleben, Otto Erich

  Hartley, David

  Burke, Edmund, 2

  Hastings, Warren

  Burke, Edmund, 4

  Hatto

  Hatton, Elizabeth

  Coke, Edward, 1

  Hauptmann, Gerhart

  Werfel, Alma Mahler, 1

  Havemeyer, Louisina W. E.

  Hawks, Howard

  Chandler, Raymond, 1

  Ford, John, 3

  Hawthorne, Julian

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel

  Melville, Herman, 1

  Hawthorne, Nigel

  Hawtrey, Sir Charles Henry

  Hay, Lord Charles

  Haydn, Franz Joseph

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 4

  Hayes, Helen

  Woollcott, Alexander, 8

  Hayes, Rutherford B.

  Haymes, Dick

  Hayworth, Rita, 1

  Hayward, Sir John

  Bacon, Francis, 2

  Hayward, Leland

  Hayworth, Rita

  Hazlitt, William

  Beckford, William, 2

  Heap, Jane

  Hearst, William Randolph

  Bennett, James Gordon, 1

  Parker, Dorothy, 3

  Rogers, Will, 1

  Heath, Edward

  Beaverbrook, William M. A., 1

  Hecht, Ben

  Hegel, Georg Wilhelm

  Heggen, Thomas

  Heidegger, John James

  Heifetz, Jascha

  Godowsky, Leopold, 1

  Kreisler, Fritz, 3

  Perlman, Itzhak, 1

  Heine, Heinrich

  Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1

  Heisenberg, Werner

  Einstein, Albert, 6

  Held, Woodie

  Helena, Princess

  Albert, Prince, 2

  Hellman, Lillian

  Hammett, Dashiell, 3

  Helmsley, Leona

  Helpmann, Robert

  Berners, Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 4

  Helvétius, Madame

  Franklin, Benjamin, 1

  Hemingway, Ernest

  Berra, Yogi, 3

  Faulkner, William, 4

  O’Hara, John, 1

  Stein, Gertrude, 4

  Hemingway, Hadley

  Hemingway, Ernest, 2

  Hemingway, Patrick

  Hemingway, Ernest, 7

  Hendrick, Chief

  Johnson, Sir William, 1

  Henri IV

  Henry, O.

  Henry II

  Henry IV

  Henry VIII

  Boleyn, Anne, 1, 2

  Catherine of Aragon, 1

  Elizabeth I, 1

  Howard, Catherine, 1

  Skelton, John, 1

  Henson, Josiah

  Henze, Hans Werner

  Hepburn, Katharine

  Barrymore, John, 5

  Tracy, Spencer, 2

  Hepple, Norman

  Elizabeth II, 11

  Herford, Oliver

  Sandburg, Carl, 2

  Herman, Floyd

  Herschel, Sir William

  George III, 1

  Hervey, Lord

  Pope, Alexander, 3

  Hess, Dame Myra

  Heth, Henry

  Lee, Robert E., 2

  Hevesy, Georg de

  Heyerdahl, Thor

  Heyward, Leland

  Faulkner, William, 2

  Hideyoshi

  Hiero

  Archimedes, 1, 2

 

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