Theodore Roosevelt male, deceased

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., also known as T.R. and to the public (but never to friends and intimates) as Teddy, was the twenty-sixth President of the...

John Jay male, deceased

John Jay was an American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, and jurist. Considered one of the "founding fathers" of the United States,...

Alicia Keys female

Alicia Keys (born Alicia J. Augello-Cook on January 25 1980) is an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, pianist, record producer, actress,...

Isaac Asimov male, deceased

Isaac Asimov was a Russian-born American Jewish author and professor of biochemistry, a highly successful and exceptionally prolific writer best...

Allen Ginsberg male, deceased

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - April 5 1997) was an American poet. Ginsberg is best known for "Howl" (1956), a long poem about the...

Jack Kerouac male, deceased

Jack Kerouac (pronounced) (March 12 1922 - October 21 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, and artist. He is perhaps the best known of a...

Milton Friedman male, deceased

Milton Friedman (July 31 1912 - November 16 2006) was an American Nobel Laureate economist and public intellectual. An advocate of laissez-faire...

Carlo Rubbia male

Carlo Rubbia (born March 31, 1934) is an Italian physicist and Nobel laureate.

Thomas Merton male, deceased

Thomas Merton was one of the most influential Catholic authors of the 20th century. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, in the...

Alexander Hamilton male, deceased

Alexander Hamilton was an Army officer, lawyer, Founding Father, American politician, leading statesman, financier and political theorist. One of...