- Bill Leader
Bill Leader is an English recording engineer and producer. He is particularly associated with the British folk music revival of the 1960s and 1970s, producing records by Davey Graham, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn and others. Bill Leader was born in New Jersey in the late 1920s, of British parents. His parents returned to the UK while he was still young and he was brought up in Dagenham, Essex, Mottingham, Kent and Shipley, Yorkshire. - Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. He was the third-youngest president, older only than Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. He became president at the end of the Cold War, and as he was born in the period after World War II, is known as the first Baby Boomer president. - Imre Leader
Imre Bennett Leader is a British mathematician and Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. Educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was also a member of the British team in the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1981: he later led the team in 1999, 2000 and 2001. He has been the most consistently successful Othello player in Britain, winning the national championship in 1983, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2004 and 2005. - Benjamin Williams Leader
Benjamin Williams Leader (1833-1923) was an English artist. Born in Worcester as Benjamin Leader Williams, he was the son of civil engineer Edward Leader Williams (who was also a keen amateur artist and friend of John Constable) and Quaker Sarah Whiting. His brother, also called Edward Leader Williams, followed in his father's footsteps and became a notable civil engineer. The family lived in Worcester at Diglis House (now the Diglis Hotel). - Carol Leader
Carol Leader (b. 10 November, 1950 in Colchester, Essex) is a British theatrical and television actress who played Sadie Tomkins in "Casualty" from 1988 to 1989, Barbara Charlton in "Young At Heart" from 1980 to 1981 and has also been in "Flambards", "First and Last", "Safe", "Peak Practice", and 1992 TV series Kevin and Co. She has also appeared in UK television series including "The Bill", … - Al Leader
George Alfred "Al" Leader (born December 4 1903, Barnsley, Manitoba, died May 8, 1982) was a Canadian-American ice hockey player, referee, and administrator. He is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame in the "Builder" category. Leader settled in Seattle, Washington in the 1930's and became involved in hockey as the administrator of the Seattle City League. - George M. Leader
George Michael Leader (born January 17, 1918) was the governor of Pennsylvania from January 18, 1955 until January 20, 1959. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and a native of York County, Pennsylvania. Currently he is the only person from that county ever to be elected governor of the state. George Leader was the third child of Guy and Beulah Leader. He grew up on their York County poultry farm, and was educated in a one-room schoolhouse. - Zachary Leader
Zachary Leader is a professor of English Literature at Roehampton University. He was an undergraduate at Northwestern University, and later pursued graduate study both at Trinity College, Cambridge and at Harvard University. Though born in the United States and remaining an American citizen, Leader has lived and worked for over thirty years in Great Britain. His most well-known works are probably "The Letters of Kingsley Amis", which he edited and published in 2001, … - Zoe Leader
Zoe Ann Leader (born 1949) is a voice actress who provided the voice of Sarafina in the 1994 Disney animated film "The Lion King" and its 1998 direct-to-video sequel "The Lion King II: Simba's Pride". She only had one line in each film. Currently, she lives in Los Angeles with her spouse Steve Leader. - Gordon Brown
Dr James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Minister for the Civil Service, the current Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath and the Leader of the Labour Party since 27 June 2007. Before this, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Tony Blair from 1997 to 2007. - George Washington
George Washington was a central and critical figure in the founding of the United States, and is commonly referred to as father of the nation. He led America's Continental Army to victory over Britain in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and in 1789 was elected the first President of the United States of America. He served two four-year terms from 1789 to 1797, winning reelection in 1792. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the main leaders of the American civil rights movement, a political activist, a Baptist minister, and is regarded as one of America's greatest orators. King's most influential and well-known public address is the "I Have A Dream" speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in 1963. In 1964, King became the youngest man to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (for his work as a peacemaker, … - Abraham Lincoln
Reviews Lincoln's early years as a farmer and his significant impact on U.S. agriculture, including the establishment of the USDA and the beginnings of the National Agricultural Library. Also includes various full text documents and agricultural Acts from the 1860s. - Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. He is currently the largest Disney shareholder and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. Jobs' history in business has contributed greatly to the mythos of the quirky, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, … - Yasser Arafat
Mohammed Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, popularly known as Yasser Arafat, was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (1968-2004) and President of the Palestinian National Authority (1993-2004). In 1994, Arafat received the Nobel Peace Prize together with, Yitzhak Rabin, and Shimon Peres, for the negotiation of the 1993 Oslo Peace Accord. Arafat was a controversial and controlling figure throughout his lengthy career. - Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman, orator and strategist, Churchill was also a soldier in the British Army. He has been studied to a unique extent as part of modern British and world history. - Kim Jong-Il
Kim Jong-il (also written as Kim Jong Il) (born February 16, 1942 in Vyatskoye, Soviet Union) is the leader of North Korea. He is the Chairman of the National Defense Commission, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, and General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (the ruling party since 1948). He succeeded his father Kim Il-sung, founder of North Korea, who died in 1994. - Jesse Helms
Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr. (born October 18, 1921) is a former five-term Republican U.S. Senator from North Carolina and a former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is considered one of the leading figures of the modern "Christian right". On April 2, 2006, Helms's wife of sixty-three years, Dorothy Jane "Dot" Coble Helms, announced that he is afflicted with multi-infarct dementia and had been moved to a convalescent facility near their Raleigh home. - Black Hawk
Black Hawk or Black Sparrow Hawk (Sauk Makataimeshekiakiak, "be a large black hawk") (1767-October 3, 1838) was a leader and warrior of the Sauk Native American tribe in what is now the United States. While he had inherited an important historic medicine bundle, he was not a hereditary civil chief of the Sauk. He was, however, appointed a war chief, and was generally known in English as Chief Black Hawk. - Lone Wolf
Lone Wolf (Native name Guipago) was a Kiowa chief who lived from 1820 to 1879. On December 16,1868, Guipago and Satanta were arrested by Custer and taken to Fort Cobb. Guipago brought forth an action against US Secretary of the Interior Ethan Hitchcock regarding the disposition of the unratified Treaty of Medicine Lodge. In the final decision, which was not decided until 1903, after Guipago's death, … - Morning Star
Morning Star was a great chief to the Northern Cheyenne people during the 19th century. He was noted for his active resistance to Western expansion and the Federal government. It is due to the courage and determination held by Morning Star and other Cheyenne leaders that the Northern Cheyenne still possess a homeland in their traditional country (present-day Montana). Although he was known as "Dull Knife" ("Motšêške Ôhnêxahpo") to local settlers, … - Ken Livingstone
Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born June 17, 1945) is a British politician who became Mayor of London on the creation of the post in 2000. He was previously Leader of the Greater London Council from 1981 until it was abolished in 1986. After its abolition, he became Member of Parliament for Brent East, but was quoted as saying that being in the House of Commons was not enjoyable and made little impact there. - John Major
Sir John Major, KG, CH (born 29 March 1943) is a former British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the British Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. During his time as Prime Minister, the world went through a period of transition after the end of the Cold War. This included the growing importance of the European Union and the debate surrounding Britain's ratification of the Maastricht Treaty. - Queen Anne
Queen Anne (ca. 1650 - ca. 1715) became the chief of the Pamunkey tribe when her aunt Cockacoeske died. Colonial Governor William Berkeley requested that Anne furnish warriors to the colonists during Bacon's Rebellion, but she refused on the grounds that her tribe had been neglected by the colonists for twenty years. She eventually relented when the colonists promised better treatment for her people. When Anne's village was attacked she barely escaped with her life, … - Alan Johnson
Alan Arthur Johnson (born 17 May 1950, London) is a British Labour Party politician and the Secretary of State for Health. He has been the Member of Parliament for Hull West and Hessle since 1997. In 2004 he became the first trade union leader to become a Cabinet minister since Frank Cousins in 1964. - Ismail Haniyeh
Ismail Haniyeh ; born January 1963) is a senior political leader of Hamas and former Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority. In the wake of Hamas' military seizure of control of the Gaza Strip, he was dismissed from office on June 14, 2007 by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas; however, … - Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King was the wife of the assassinated civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., and a noted community leader. Coretta King is a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal. - Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse (ca. 1840 - September 5, 1877) was a respected war leader of the Oglala Lakota, who fought against the U.S. federal government in an effort to preserve the traditions and values of the Lakota way of life. - Michael Collins
Michael John ("Mick") Collins (16 October, 1890 - 22 August, 1922) was an Irish revolutionary leader, Minister for Finance in the Irish Republic, Director of Intelligence for the IRA, and member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations, both as Chairman of the Provisional Government and Commander-in-Chief of the National Army. He was shot and killed in August 1922, during the Irish Civil War. - Linda Chavez
Linda Chavez (born June 17, 1947 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a prominent Hispanic-American conservative author, commentator, and radio talk show host. She is of mixed Mexican American (father) and Anglo American (mother) parentage and was the first Hispanic female nominated to the United States Cabinet. - Ahmed Chalabi
Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi,<sup>1</sup> (born October 30, 1944) was interim oil minister in Iraq in April-May 2005 and December-January 2006 and deputy prime minister from May 2005 until May 2006. Chalabi failed to win a seat in parliament in the December 2005 elections, and when the new Iraqi cabinet was announced in May 2006, he was not awarded a post. Once dubbed the "George Washington of Iraq" by American neoconservatives, … - John Ross
John Ross (October 3, 1790 - August 1, 1866), also known as Kooweskoowe - "the great", Principal Chief of the Cherokee Native American Nation. - Salam Fayyad
Dr. Salam Fayyad (b. 1952) is a Palestinian politician, who, on June 15, 2007, was appointed the Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority. His appointment, justified by President Mahmoud Abbas on the basis of "national emergency", was not confirmed by the Palestinian Legislative Council. Until that date, Fayyad had been the Finance Minister of the Palestinian National Authority in the Fatah interim government from 2002. - Gilles Duceppe
Gilles Duceppe, MP (born July 22, 1947 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Quebec nationalist and social democratic politician in Canada. He is a Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons and the leader of the separatist "Bloc Québécois" party. He is the son of a well-known Québécois actor, Jean Duceppe, and Hélène Rowley. His maternal grandfather was John James Rowley, a Briton by birth. - Paul Jones
Paul Jones was elected chairman of the Navaho Tribal Council in 1955. - Bob Hawke
Robert James Lee (Bob) Hawke, AC (born 9 December 1929) is a former Australian trade union leader turned politician who became the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia. After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered politics at the 1980 elections and became Prime Minister within three years. He became by far the longest-serving and most electorally successful Labor Prime Minister, … - Elizabeth May
Elizabeth Evans May, LL.B, DHumL (h.c.), OC (born June 9, 1954) is the current leader of the Green Party of Canada. She is also an environmentalist, writer, activist and lawyer. She was the Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada from 1989 to 2006. May lives in Ottawa, Ontario with her daughter, Victoria Cate May, born in 1991. - Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota chief and holy man. He is notable in American and Native American history in large part for his major victory at the Battle of Little Big Horn against Custer’s 7th Cavalry, where his premonition of defeating them became reality. Even today, his name is synonymous with Native American culture, and he is considered to be one of the most famous Native Americans in history. - Big Foot
Big Foot (Si Thanka) (1824? - December 29, 1890), also known as Spotted Elk, was the name of a chief of a sub-group of the Lakota Sioux. He was son of chief Lone Horn, and became a chief upon the death of his father. He was a highly renowned chief, with skills in war and negotiations. He was killed in 1890 in South Dakota, along with almost 300 other members of his tribe, … - Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a French economist, lawyer, and politician, member of the social-democrat Socialist Party (PS). A former Finance Minister under Lionel Jospin's Plural left ("gauche plurielle") government, he belongs to the center-left wing of the PS and is deputy of the 8th circonscription of the Val d'Oise. DSK is Professor at the Paris Institute for Political Studies ("Sciences Po") and the HEC School of Management.
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