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by Clifton Fadiman


  Livia

  Julia, 3

  Livingstone, Dr.

  Stanley, Henry Morton, 1

  Llewelyn-Davies, Sylvia

  Barrie, J. M., 9

  Lloyd George, David

  Chamberlain, Austen, 1

  Grey, Edward, 2

  Lloyd Weber, Andrew

  Lobengula

  Locke, John

  Lockhart, Robert Bruce

  Carol II, 1

  Loew, Marcus

  Kennedy, Joseph P., 2

  Logan, Joshua

  Shatner, William, 1

  Lombardi, Vince

  Ford, Gerald, 4

  Long, Huey P.

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 9

  Longstreet, James

  Lee, Robert E., 1

  Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

  Lonsdale, Lord

  Asquith, Margot, 2

  Lopat, Ed

  Musial, Stan, 1

  Lord, Winston

  Kissinger, Henry, 4

  Louis, Joe

  Louis, Rudolf

  Reger, Max, 2

  Louis XI

  Louis XIII

  Louis XIV, 1

  Louis XIV

  Boileaux, Nicolas, 2

  Bossuet, Jacques Benigne, 2

  Fontenelle, Bernard de, 1

  Mansart, François, 1

  Molière, 1

  Philip V, 1

  Vatel, 1

  Louis XV

  Du Barry, Marie, 1

  Louis XVI, 1

  Pompadour, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, 1

  Quesnay, François, 1

  Louis XVI

  Louis XV, 5

  Maurepas, Jean-Frédéric Phélippeaux, 1

  Maury, Jean Siffrein, 1

  Louis XVIII

  Charles X, 1

  Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, 2

  Louis Philippe

  Michelet, Jules, 1

  Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, 12

  Lowell, Abbott Lawrence

  Lowell, Amy

  Lowell, James

  Tennyson, Alfred, 9

  Lowell, Robert

  Roethke, Theodore, 2

  Lowenfels, Walter

  Beckett, Samuel, 1

  Lucas, George

  Luce, Clare Boothe

  Parker, Dorothy, 15

  Luce, Henry R.

  Churchill, Winston, 32

  Luce, Clare Boothe, 1

  Lucrezia

  Alexander VI, 1

  Lucullus, Lucius Licinius

  Lully, Jean-Baptiste

  Lunt, Alfred

  Fontanne, Lynn, 1

  Luther, Martin

  Lyautey, Louis Hubert Gonzalve

  Lycurgus

  Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley

  Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton

  Mably, Gabriel Bonnet

  McCain, John

  Dole, Robert, 6

  McCarthy, Joe

  Williams, Ted, 2

  McCarthy, Joseph R.

  McClellan, George B.

  Lincoln, Abraham, 22

  McCormack, John

  Tetrazzini, Luisa, 1

  McCormick, Edith Rockefeller

  McCoy, Kid

  McCrae, Joel

  Goldwyn, Samuel, 14

  McCullers, Carson

  McGraw, Frank “Tug”

  McKinley, William B.

  Adee, Alvee A., 1

  Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1

  McNamara, Robert

  Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 5

  McNulty, John

  Ross, Harold, 10

  McPherson, Aimee Semple

  Reagan, Ronald, 1

  MacArthur, Charles

  Chaplin, Charlie, 3

  Woollcott, Alexander, 8

  MacArthur, Douglas

  Eisenhower, Dwight David, 4

  MacArthur, Mary

  Woollcott, Alexander, 8

  Macauley, Thomas Babington

  Machault, Comte de

  Maurepas, Jean-Frédéric Phélippeaux, 1

  Mack, Connie

  Waddell, Rube, 1

  Mackintosh, James

  Smith, Sydney, 1

  Macklin, Charles

  Foote, Samuel, 1

  MacLaine, Shirley

  Maclise, Daniel

  Turner, Joseph Mallord William, 6

  MacMahon, Marie Edmé Patrice Maurice

  Macmillan, Harold

  MacNeice, Louise

  McCullers, Carson, 3

  MacNeil, Robert

  MacPherson, James

  Johnson, Samuel, 20

  Macready, William Charles

  Madison, Dolley

  Madison, James

  Madonna

  Maeterlinck, Maurice

  Goldwyn, Samuel, 8

  Magnus, Albertus

  Aquinas, Thomas, 1

  Magruder, John B.

  Mahaffy, Sir John Pentland

  Mahler, Gustav

  Mahony, Patrick

  Shaw, George Bernard, 19

  Mailer, Norman

  Buckley, William F., 2

  Maillol, Aristide

  Renoir, Pierre Auguste, 2

  Maintenon, Françoise d’Aubigné

  Malesherbes, Chrétien de

  Louis XVI, 3

  Malherbe, François de

  Mallarmé, Stéphane

  Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, Auguste, 1

  Mallory, George Leigh

  Mallowan, Max

  Christie, Agatha, 1

  Malraux, André

  Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 4

  Mankiewicz, Herman J.

  Mankiewicz, Joseph

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 1

  Mann, Erika

  Auden, W. H., 1

  Mann, Thomas

  Faulkner, William, 4

  Manners, Colonel

  George III, 6

  Mannix, Edgar J.

  Mayer, Louis B., 2

  Mansart, François

  Mansfield, Irving

  Susann, Jacqueline, 5

  Woollcott, Alexander, 3

  Mansfield, William Murray

  Manteuffel, General

  Bismarck, Otto von, 2

  Mantle, Mickey

  Stengel, Casey, 9

  Mao Zedong

  Marbury, Elisabeth

  Shaw, George Bernard, 5

  Marcellus

  Archimedes, 4

  Margaret, Princess

  Beaton, Cecil, 2

  Elizabeth II, 1, 2

  Elizabeth, Queen Mother, 2

  Taylor, Elizabeth, 1

  Maria Fëdorovna

  Maria Theresa

  Frederick II, 10

  Kaunitz-Rietburg, Wenzel Anton, 1

  Marie Antoinette

  Louis XV, 4

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 2

  Marie de Médicis

  Maris, Roger

  Stengel, Casey, 8

  Marks, Alfred

  Morley, Robert, 1

  Marlborough, John Churchill

  Marlborough, John Spencer-Churchill

  Marquand, J. P.

  Marquis, Don

  Marsh, Edward

  Churchill, Winston, 3, 4

  Marshall, John

  Marshall, Thomas Reilly

  Martin, Billy

  Mantle, Mickey, 4

  Steinbrenner, George, 4

  Martin, Mary

  Merman, Ethel, 1

  Martinelli, Giovanni

  Marx, Chico

  Marx, Groucho, 8

  Thalberg, Irving J., 1

  Marx, Groucho

  Kaufman, George S., 8

  Mature, Victor, 2

  Thalberg, Irving J., 1

  Marx, Harpo

  Marx, Groucho, 11, 13

  Thalberg, Irving J., 1

  Marx, Zeppo

  Marx, Groucho, 7

  Mary I

  Cranmer, Thomas, 1

  M
ary, Queen

  Cadbury, George, 1

  Elizabeth II, 3

  Mary, Queen of Scots

  Elizabeth I, 1

  Masaryk, Jan

  Mascagni, Pietro

  Mason, Jeremiah

  Webster, Daniel, 10

  Massenet, Jules

  Massey, Raymond

  Kaufman, George S., 11

  Mastroianni, Marcello

  Mathews, Charles

  Hook, Theodore Edward, 2

  Mathilde, Princess

  Matisse, Henri

  Diaghilev, Sergei, 3

  Matthews, A. E.

  Mature, Victor

  Mauch, Gene

  Maugham, W. Somerset

  Parker, Dorothy, 13

  Maupassant, Guy de

  James, Henry, 4

  Maurepas, Jean-Frédéric Phélippeaux

  Charles X, 1

  Maury, Jean Siffrein

  Mawbey, Sir Joseph

  North, Frederick, 2

  Mawson, Douglas

  David, Edgeworth, 1

  Maxentius

  Constantine, 1

  May, Samuel

  Anthony, Susan B., 1

  Mayer, Louis B.

  Arlen, Michael, 1

  Garbo, Greta, 1

  Goldwyn, Samuel, 18

  Hayes, Helen, 1

  Mayo, Charles Horace

  Mazarin, Jules

  Medici, Lorenzo de’

  Mehmed II

  Mehta, Zubin

  Mehul, Étienne

  Cherubini, Maria Luigi, 1

  Melanchthon, Philipp

  Luther, Martin, 1

  Melba, Nellie

  Melbourne, William Lamb

  Lamb, Lady Caroline, 1

  Victoria, 6

  Mellon, Andrew William

  Melville, Herman

  Mencken, H. L.

  Dreiser, Theodore, 1

  Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, George de

  Klemperer, Otto, 2

  Menelik II

  Menotti, Gian Carlo

  Callas, Maria, 2

  Menshikov, Alexander Sergeievich

  Menuhin, Yehudi

  Perlman, Itzhak, 1

  Meredith, George

  Beerbohm, Max, 1

  Merman, Ethel

  Mérode, Cléo de

  Whistler, James Abbott McNeill, 6

  Messier, Charles

  Metaxas, Ioannis

  Metternich, Klemens von

  Metternich, Pauline

  Meurisse, Paul

  Meyenberg

  Houdini, Harry, 1

  Meyerbeer, Giacomo

  Liszt, Franz, 1

  Michelangelo Buonarroti

  Ghiberti, Lorenzo, 1

  Julius II, 1

  Medici, Lorenzo de’, 1

  Michelet, Jules

  Michell, Lewis

  Rhodes, Cecil John, 3

  Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig

  Milanov, Zinka

  Bing, Rudolf, 5

  Mill, John Stuart

  Carlyle, Thomas, 1

  Millar, Andrew

  Fielding, Henry, 1

  Johnson, Samuel, 3

  Millay, Edna St. Vincent

  Millay, Mrs. Henry Tolman

  Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1

  Miller, Arthur

  Miller, Jonathan

  Marx, Harpo, 1

  Millikan, Robert Andrews

  Milne, A. A.

  Milnes, Richard Monckton Hugo, Victor, 2

  Milo

  Milton, John

  Mingus, Charlie

  Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti

  Maury, Jean Siffrein, 2

  Mirat, Eugénie

  Heine, Heinrich, 1

  Mises, Ludwig von

  Mitchell, Margaret

  Mitchum, Robert

  Monroe, Marilyn, 6

  Mitford, Nancy

  Waugh, Evelyn, 4

  Mitterand, François

  Reagan, Ronald, 13

  Miyazawa, Kiichi

  Bush, George, 3

  Mizner, Addison

  Mizner, Wilson

  Modigliani, Amedeo

  Mohr, Franz

  Horowitz, Vladimir, 2

  Molière

  Molnár, Ferenc

  Monboddo, Lord

  Kames, Henry Home, 1

  Moncey, Marshal

  Napoleon I, 7

  Monet, Claude

  Monroe, Marilyn

  DiMaggio, Joe, 1

  Montagu, Charles

  Pope, Alexander, 1

  Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

  Montague, Charles Edward

  Montaigue of Limoges

  Messier, Charles, 1

  Montand, Yves

  MacLaine, Shirley, 1

  Montcalm, Louis Joseph de

  Montebello, Count

  Bembo, Pietro, 1

  Montecuccoli, Raimund

  Montefiore, Sir Moses

  Montesquieu

  Voltaire, 2

  Monteux, Pierre

  Stravinsky, Igor, 7

  Montgomery, Bernard Law

  Churchill, Winston, 16

  Warner, Jack, 2

  Montgomery, James

  Montmorency, Anne

  Moore, Bessie

  Bowles, William Lyle, 1

  Moore, George Augustus

  Moore, Jim

  Cohan, George M., 4

  Moore, Mrs. Kate

  Edward VII, 2

  Moore, Marianne

  Moore, Tom

  Wordsworth, William, 3

  Moran, Edward

  Fillmore, Millard, 1

  More, Hannah

  More, Howard

  Bowen, Elizabeth, 1

  More, Margaret

  More, Thomas, 2

  More, Thomas

  Morel, Fédéric

  Morgan, Charles

  Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1

  Morgan, J. P., Sr.

  Bryan, William Jennings, 3

  Morgan, J. P., Jr.

  Schwab, Charles, 1

  Morgan, John Hunt

  Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1

  Moriot, Cardinal

  Jérôme, King, 1

  Morley, Christopher

  Morley, Robert

  Morris, Clara

  Morris, Sir Lewis

  Wilde, Oscar, 9

  Morris, William

  Morse, Samuel F.

  Moscardó, José

  Moser, Mary

  Fuseli, Henry, 1

  Mott, Lucretia Coffin

  Mountbatten, Louis

  Gandhi, Mohandas K., 1

  Moyers, Bill

  Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 7

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

  Mudd, Roger

  Kennedy, Edward M., 3

  Muggeridge, Malcolm

  Mugnier, Arthur

  Muhammad Ali

  Ibrahim Pasha, 1

  Muhammad Shah I

  Muir, John

  Mumbet

  Sedgwick, Theodore, 1

  Munsey, Frank

  Henry, O., 2

  Muraviev, Mikhail

  Muraviev-Apostol, Sergei

  Muraviev, Mikhail, 1

  Murphy, Arthur

  Burke, Edmund, 1

  Murphy, Sara

  Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, 6

  Murray, Sir George

  Murray, Gilbert

  Einstein, Albert, 10

  Murray, John

  Byron, George Gordon, 4

  Musial, Stan

  Musset, Alfred de

  Mussolini, Benito

  Churchill, Winston, 21

  Gandhi, Mohandas K., 3

  Myron

  Laïs, 1

  Mytton, John

  Nabokov, Nicholas

  Stravinsky, Igor, 11

  Nabokov, Vladimir

  Nagurski, Bronko

  Nakasone

  Reagan, Ronald, 18

  Namath, Joe

  Napier, Sir Charles James

  Napoleon
I

  Beethoven, Ludwig van, 4

  Campbell, Thomas, 1

  Carême, Marie-Antoine, 1

  Chateaubriand, François René de, 1

  Fouché, Joseph, 1, 2

  Grassini, Giuseppina, 1

  Laplace, Pierre-Simon, 1

  Louis XVIII, 1

  Metternich, Klemens von, 1

  Pitt, William, 3

  Staël, Anne Louise Germaine de, 1, 5

  Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, 7

  Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 5, 6, 15

  Napoleon III

  Blessington, Marguerite, 1

  Bülow, Hans Guido von, 2

  Feydeau, Georges, 1

  Jérôme, King, 1

  Pourtalès, Mme. de, 2

  Napoleon, Eugène Louis Jean Joseph

  Napoleon, Joseph Charles Paul

  Nardi, Erasmo, da

  Donatello, 1

  Narváez, Ramón María

  Nash, N. Richard

  Goldwyn, Samuel, 16

  Nash, Ogden

  Nasser, Gamal Abdel

  Nast, Thomas

  Navratilova, Martina

  Necker, Suzanne

  Nelson, Horatio

  Nelson, Lindsey

  Kines, Ralph, 1

  Nero

  Agrippina, 1, 2

  Petronius, Gaius, 1

  Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, 1

  Nerval, Gérard de

  Nesbit, Evelyn

  Mizner, Wilson, 5

  Nevinson, H. W.

  Montague, Charles Edward, 1

  Newcastle, Lord

  Pitt, William, 2

  Newman, Paul

  Fiennes, Ralph, 1

  Graziano, Rocky, 1

  Travolta, John, 2

  Newton, Sir Isaac

  Anders, William, 2

  Nicholas I

  Schwarzenberg, Felix, 1

  Nicholson, Jack

  Nicklaus, Jack

  Niewekerke, Count

  Mathilde, Princess, 1

  Nightingale, Florence

  Cambridge, George W. F. C., 1

  Nijinsky, Vaslav

  Diaghilev, Sergei, 1

  Nilsson, Birgit Marta

  Bing, Rudolf, 3

  Nitrocris

  Darius I, 1

  Niven, David

  Astaire, Fred, 2, 3

  Curtiz, Michael, 1

  Garbo, Greta, 2

  Korda, Sir Alexander, 6

  Nivernais, Louis Jules Mancini Mazarin

  Nixon, Richard Milhous

  Armstrong, Neil, 1

  Carter, Jimmy, 2

  Castro, Fidel, 1

  Dole, Robert, 1

  Hruska, Roman, 1

  Laird, Melvin, 1

  Reagan, Ronald, 11

  Norbury, John Toler

  Nordica, Lillian

  Lehmann, Lilli, 1

  Norgay, Tenzing

  Hillary, Sir Edmund, 1

  North, Frederick

  Northcliffe, Lord

  Kitchener, Horatio Herbert, 1

  Northcote, James

  Northumberland, Duchess of

  Gray, Thomas, 1

  Noyes, John Humphrey

  Nurmi, Paavo

  Oates, Lawrence Edward Grace

  O’Brien, Pat

  Warner, Jack, 1

  Ochs, Alfred

  Koppay, Joszi Arpad, 1

  Ochs, Iphigene

  Koppay, Joszi Arpád, 1

  O’Connell, Daniel

  Disraeli, Benjamin, 1

  Offenbach, Jacques

  O’Hara, Frank

  O’Hara, John

  Oldfield, Anne

  Oliver, Vic

  Churchill, Winston, 21

  Olivier, Laurence

  Coward, Noël, 5

  Gielgud, John, 4

  Richardson, Sir Ralph, 1

  ‘Omar

 

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