- Jean-Marie Le Pen
Jean-Marie Le Pen is a French far-right nationalist politician, founder and president of the Front National (National Front) party. Le Pen has run for the French presidency 5 times, including in 2002, when in a surprise upset he came second, polling more votes in the first round than the main left candidate, Lionel Jospin. Le Pen lost in the second round to president Jacques Chirac. Le Pen again ran in the 2007 French presidential election and finished fourth. - Mehmet Tarhan
Mehmet Tarhan (born 1978) was imprisoned for refusing military service in Turkey as a conscientious objector. Tarhan had been sentenced to four years in a military prison for disobedience after refusing to wear a military uniform, a sentence that is evidently the longest ever given for such an offense in Turkey. He was released in March 2006 after spending several months in prison. - Ernest Lapointe
Ernest Lapointe, PC (October 6 1876 - November 26 1941) was a Canadian politician. Lapointe was a practicing lawyer in Quebec City and was appointed Crown Prosecutor for Kamouraska before entering politics. He was first elected by acclamation to the Canadian House of Commons in an 1898 by-election as the Liberal MP for Kamouraska and was re-elected in 1908, 1911 and 1917. - George Creel
George Creel (December 1, 1876-2 October 1953) was an investigative journalist, a politician, and, most famously, the head of the United States Committee on Public Information, a propaganda organization created by President Woodrow Wilson during World War I. Creel began his career as a reporter for the "Kansas City World" in 1894 before starting his own newspaper, the "Kansas City Independent", in 1899. - Joseph E. Brown
Joseph Emerson Brown (April 15, 1821 - November 30, 1894), often referred to as Joe Brown, was a Governor of Georgia from 1857 to 1865, and a U.S. Senator from 1880 to 1891. During the American Civil War, Brown, a former Whig, had constant disagreements with Confederate President Jefferson Davis, whom he saw as an incipient tyrant. Brown was born in Pickens County, South Carolina and at a young age his family moved to Union County, Georgia. - John Woolman
John Woolman (October 19, 1720 - October 7, 1772) was an itinerant Quaker preacher, traveling throughout the American colonies, advocating against conscription, military taxation, and particularly slavery. - William Holman
William Arthur Holman was an Australian Labor Party Premier of New South Wales, Australia, who split with the party on the conscription issue in 1916 during World War I, and immediately became Premier of a conservative Nationalist Party Government. - Joe Haldeman
Joe (not Joseph) William Haldeman is an American science fiction author. Haldeman was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His family traveled and he lived in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Bethesda, Maryland and Anchorage, Alaska as a child. Haldeman married Mary Gay Potter in 1965. He received a bachelor of science degree in astronomy from the University of Maryland in 1967. That same year he was drafted into the army and served as a combat engineer in Vietnam. - Donald Tusk
Donald Franciszek Tusk is a Polish politician, co-founder and now chairman of the liberal conservative and cristian-democtratik Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska). He was one of several vice-speakers of the Sejm (2001 -2005), the lower house of Polish parliament. Prior to co-founding the Citizens' Platform in 2001, … - David McReynolds
David McReynolds (born October 25, 1929) is an American democratic socialist and pacifist activist who described himself as "a peace movement bureaucrat" during his 40-year career with "Liberation" magazine and the War Resisters League. He was born in Los Angeles to Charles and Elizabeth McReynolds. In 1951 he joined the Socialist Party of America (SPA) and in 1953 he graduated from UCLA with a degree in political science. McReynolds was openly gay in the 1950s. - Les Darcy
James Leslie ("Les") Darcy (31 October 1895 - 24 May 1917) was an Australian boxer. He was a middleweight, but held the Australian Heavyweight Championship title at the same time. Born in the Maitland District in New South Wales, Les Darcy is widely considered to be the best boxer ever from Australia. Considered one of the greatest middleweights of all-time, Darcy proved his mettle in his native Australia. - Maurice Blackburn
Maurice McCrae Blackburn (19 November 1880 - 31 March 1944), Australian politician, was born in Inglewood, Victoria. He moved to Melbourne with his mother following the death of his father in 1887. He was educated at Melbourne Grammer matriculating in 1896. After completing school, he attended the University of Melbourne, graduating in arts and law in 1909, and began to practice as a lawyer a year later. - G. D. H. Cole
George Douglas Howard Cole (September 25, 1889 - January 14, 1959) was an English political theorist, economist and historian. He was a long-time member of the Fabian Society and a principal proponent of Guild Socialist ideas, a libertarian socialist alternative to Marxist political economy. Educated at St Paul's School, Cole became involved in Fabianism while studying at Balliol College, Oxford, joining the Fabian Society executive under the sponsorship of Sidney Webb. - Donald Grant
Donald Grant (1888 - June 9, 1970) was a leader of the Industrial Workers of the World in Sydney, Australia, a member of the Sydney Twelve charged with conspiracy in 1916, and later a member of the Australian Labor Party who was elected to Sydney City Council, appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council, and elected to the Australian Senate in 1943 where he served for sixteen years. - Ralph Chaplin
Ralph Hosea Chaplin (1887-1961) became a labor activist, when at the age of seven, he saw a worker shot dead during the Pullman strike in Chicago, Illinois. He had moved with his family from Ames County, Kansas to Chicago in 1893. During a time in Mexico he was influenced by hearing of the execution squads established by Porfirio Diaz, and became a supporter of Emiliano Zapata. On his return, he began work in various union positions, most of which were very poorly paid. - Margaret Levi
Margaret Levi (born 1946) is an American political scientist and author, noted for her work in comparative political economy, labor politics, and democratic theory, notably on the origins and effects of trustworthy government. Levi graduated with a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1968 and completed a Ph.D. degree in government at Harvard University in 1974. Since then, she has taught at the University of Washington in Seattle, … - Hugo Distler
Hugo Distler was a German composer. He was born in Nuremberg and is known mostly for his church choral music. He attended Leipzig Conservatory first as a conducting student with piano as his secondary subject, but changing later, on the advice of his teacher, to composition and organ. He became organist at St. Jacobi in Lübeck in 1931. He also taught at the School for Church Music in Spandau, and became a professor of church music in Stuttgart in 1940. - Alois Hitler Jr.
Alois Hitler, Jr., born Alois Matzelsberger, was the son of Alois Hitler and Franziska Matzelsberger and the half-brother of Adolf Hitler. He was born while his father was still married to his first wife, Anna. After Anna died and his parents were married, Alois was legitimised and his name was changed to Alois Hitler, Jr. He was soon joined by a sister, Angela Hitler. When he was two years old his mother died and his father married Klara Pölzl, … - Paul Jacob
Paul Jacob (1960 -) is an activist, organizer, and advocate for legislative term limits, initiative and referendum rights, and limited government in the United States. He writes a weekly column for Townhall.com and his short radio commentary feature, "Common Sense," is syndicated on over 120 radio stations around the U.S. Primarily known as a leader of the term limits movement, Jacob ran U.S. Term Limits, the nation's most active term limits lobby, … - Frank Tudor
Frank Gwynne Tudor (27 January 1866 - 10 January 1922) was an Australian Labor politician - George Pearce
George Pearce was an Australian politician who was instrumental in founding the Australian Labor Party in Western Australia. Pearce, a carpenter, was born in 1870 in South Australia, moving to Western Australia in 1891. In 1893, Pearce helped found the Progressive Political League, a precursor to the West Australian branch of the ALP. Self-educated in politics and economics, in 1901 he was elected to the first Commonwealth Parliament as a Senator for Western Australia. - Pendleton Murrah
Pendleton Murrah (1824-1865) was a governor of Texas during the American Civil War. A native of South Carolina, Murrah graduated from Brown University in 1848. He moved to Texas and opened a law practice in Marshall. He ran and was defeated for the U.S. Congress before winning the state gubernatorial race in 1863. During the American Civil War, Murrah emphatically supported the Rebel cause, … - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is a French physicist working at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. Cohen-Tannoudji was born in Constantine to Algerian Jewish parents, when Algeria was still part of France. After primary and secondary studies in Algiers, Cohen-Tannoudji left Algeria for Paris to attend the École normale supérieure. Lectures were given by Henri Cartan, Laurent Schwartz or Alfred Kastler. In 1958 he married Jacqueline, a high school teacher, … - Billy Snedden
Sir Billy Mackie Snedden, KCMG, QC (31 December 1926 - 27 June 1987), Australian Liberal politician, was born in Perth, Western Australia, the son of a stonemason. He was educated at state schools and joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1945. After the war he was discharged and attended the University of Western Australia, where he graduated in law, being admitted to the bar in 1951. - John Earle
John Earle was an Australian politician and the first Labor Premier of Tasmania. Born in Bridgewater, Tasmania to a farmer and his wife, Earle left his father's farm at 17 and obtained employment at Kennedy's foundry, Hobart, attended a night school and obtained some knowledge of mechanical engineering. Earle first worked as a blacksmith’s apprentice and then as a tin-miner and prospector. - Ji Sung
Ji Sung (or Ji Seong; real name Kwak Tae-gun) is a South Korean actor, born on February 27, 1977. He is best known for his roles in popular drama series such as "Save the Last Dance for Me" and "Sunshine Hunting". In June 2005, Ji Sung began his mandatory military service, drawing attention from the media when he chose to be a soldier rather than a public service agent. - Bob Semple
Robert Semple was a union leader and later Minister of Public Works for the first Labour Government of New Zealand. He was born in Sofala, New South Wales, Australia. He started working at an early age as gold miner in Australia. In 1903 he was involved in a miner’s strike in Victoria Australia. The strike was defeated and Semple ended up being blacklisted. To avoid the black list Semple moved to the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. - Arndt Pekurinen
Arndt Juho Pekurinen (born August 29 1905 in Juva, Finland; died November 5 1941 in Suomussalmi, Finland) was a Finnish pacifist and conscientious objector. In 1926, Pekurinen refused repeatedly the mandatory conscription, leading to his imprisonment between 1929 and 1931. He refused to either wear uniform or take arms. While Pekurinen was deeply religious, his motives were not based on his faith. - Andrew McNaughton
General Andrew George Latta McNaughton, CH, CB, CMG, DSO, CD, PC (February 25, 1887 - July 11, 1966) was a Canadian army officer, politician and diplomat. Born in Moosomin, Saskatchewan (at the time in the Northwest Territories), McNaughton was a student at Bishop's College School in Lennoxville, Quebec. He earned a B.A. from McGill University in Montreal in 1910 and an M.Sc. in 1912. - Crawford Vaughan
Crawford Vaughan (1874 - 1947), was Premier of South Australia between April 3 1915 and July 14 1917. Vaughan unsuccessfully campaigned for a seat in the Australian House of Representatives in 1901, and for the Australian Senate in 1903. He then turned to state politics, and entered the South Australian parliament by winning the seat of Torrens in 1905, representing the United Labor Party. He held this seat until 1915, when he became the member for Sturt. - John Wheatley
John Wheatley (19 May 1869 - 12 May 1930) was a Scottish socialist politician. He was a prominent figure of the Red Clydeside era. Wheatley was born in Bonmahon, Co. Waterford in Ireland, to Thomas and Johanna Wheatley. In 1876 the family moved to Braehead, Lanarkshire in Scotland. Initially, he worked as a miner, as his father had done in Ireland, and then briefly as a publican, … - Lesbia Harford
Lesbia Harford was an Australian poet. Lesbia Venner Harford, daughter of E. J. and Helen Keogh, was born at Brighton, Victoria, on 9 April 1891. She was educated at the Sacré Coeur school at Malvern, Victoria, Mary's Mount school at Ballarat, Victoria, and at the University of Melbourne, where she graduated LL.B. in 1916. - Dora Russell
Dora Black (3 April 1894 - 31 May 1986), was an author, a feminist and progressive campaigner, and the second wife of the eminent philosopher Bertrand Russell. Black was born into an English middle class family, the second of four children. Her father, Sir Frederick Black, worked his way up in the Civil Service and laid great store by his children's education, regardless of their sex. She went to a private co-educational primary school near her parents' place, … - Harry Nixon
Harry Corwin Nixon (April 1, 1891-October 22, 1961) was a Canadian politician and briefly Premier of Ontario. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1919 as a candidate of the United Farmers of Ontario. He served as a Cabinet minister in the government of Premier Ernest C. Drury as Provincial Secretary and Registrar. Following the defeat of the UFO-Labour government in the 1923 election, … - Gary Lewis
Gary Harold Lee Lewis, born July 31, 1945, is an American musician who performed in the band Gary Lewis & the Playboys. His father was film (and later television) comedian Jerry Lewis. His mother reportedly intended to name him after her favorite actor Cary Grant but the birth certificate recorded his name as "Gary" instead. He received a set of drums as a birthday gift in his early teen years. Around 1964 he formed Gary Lewis & the Playboys with four friends. - Park Sol-Mi
Park Sol-mi (born January 3, 1978) is a South Korean actress. Park had a minor role in the 1996 series "Papa", but her breakthrough came in 2002 when she starred in several dramas, including "Bad Girls" and the popular "Winter Sonata". In 2004 she made her film debut in Park Jeong-woo's "Dance with the Wind", which required her to learn ballroom dancing over a four month period of intensive training. - Joseph Cahill
John Joseph Cahill (21 January, 1891 - 22 October, 1959) was Premier of New South Wales from 1952 to 1959. He is best remembered as the Premier who approved construction on the Sydney Opera House, and for his work increasing the authority of local government in the state - Francis Lubbock
Francis Richard Lubbock (October 16, 1815 - June 22, 1905) was a governor of Texas during the American Civil War. He was the brother of Thomas Saltus Lubbock, for whom the City of Lubbock is named. Born in Beaufort, South Carolina, Lubbock was a businessman in South Carolina before moving to Texas in 1836. During the Republic of Texas period, President Sam Houston appointed Lubbock to be comptroller. - Alexander Schmorell
Alexander Schmorell and then into the Wehrmacht (German Army during the Nazi era). In 1938, he took part in the annexation of Austria and eventually in the Wehrmacht invasion of Czechoslovakia. After his military service, the artistically gifted Alexander Schmorell began studies in medicine in 1939 in Hamburg. In the autumn of 1940, he went back with his student corps to Munich where he got to know Hans Scholl, and later Willi Graf. - Dan Blocker
Dan Blocker aka Dan Davis Blocker (real name - B. Dan D. Blocker)(December 10 1928 - May 13 1972) was an American actor best remembered for his role as Eric 'Hoss' Cartwright in the TV western blockbuster "Bonanza". He was born in DeKalb in east Texas, the son of Ora Shack Blocker & Mary Davis Blocker. He is also related to David Blocker and Kristen Blocker as well. His family moved to O'Donnell, Texas near Lubbock soon after his birth.
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