- Steve White
Steve White is an American science fiction author best known as the co-author of the Starfire-series alongside David Weber. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia and also works for a legal publishing company. He previous served as a United States Navy officer and served during the Vietnam War and in the Mediterranean region. He has also written the "Prince of Sunset" and its sequel "Emperor of Dawn".
- George
George (b. circa early 1920s d. May 2004, believed to be 83) was a long-serving pet on British television series "Blue Peter". The Mediterranean spur-thigh tortoise had been on the programme for 22 years and worked with 20 different presenters. He made his last appearance on the show on April 14 2004, and his death was announced on May 10 2004.
- Polybius
Polybius (ca. 203-120 BC, Greek) was a Greek historian of the Mediterranean world famous for his book called "The Histories" or "The Rise of the Roman Empire," covering in detail the period of 220-146 BC. He is also renowned for his ideas of political balance in the government, which was later used in the drafting of the United States Constitution.
- Herodotus
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: "Hērodotos Halikarnāsseus") was a Greek historian from Ionia who lived in the 5th century BC (484 BC-ca. 425 BC) and is regarded as the "Father of History". He is almost exclusively known for writing "The Histories", …
- Elizabeth David
Elizabeth David CBE (December 26, 1913 - May 22, 1992), was a pre-eminent British cookery writer of the mid 20th century. David is considered responsible for bringing French and Italian cooking into the British home (along with now ubiquitous items such as olive oil and the courgette). In a Britain worn down by post-war rationing and dull food, she celebrated the regional and rural dishes of the Mediterranean rather than the fussier food of the gourmands and aristocrats.
- Peter James
Peter James is a British author and historian who has advanced several controversial theories about the chronology of Mediterranean civilizations, the Middle East, and Egypt. His theories are not generally accepted by mainstream historians or Egyptologists. In his best known work, "Centuries of Darkness", he challenges the traditional chronology of mainstream archaeology. In particular, he advances the idea that the Greek Dark Ages never occurred, …
- John Foster
John Foster, Junior (circa 1787 - 26 September, 1846) was an English architect. He studied under Jeffry Wyatt in London and in 1809 travelled in the eastern Mediterranean. During 1810-11 he accompanied C. R. Cockerell and the German archaeologists Haller and Linckh in their excavation of the temples at Aegina and Bassae. He returned to Liverpool in 1816 and joined the family building firm.
- John Ross
Sir John Ross (June 24, 1777 - August 30, 1856) was a Scottish rear admiral and Arctic explorer. Ross was the son of the Rev. Andrew Ross, minister of Inch, near Stranraer in Scotland. In 1786, aged only nine, he joined the Royal Navy as an apprentice. He served in the Mediterranean until 1789 and then in the English Channel. In 1808 he acted as a captain of the Swedish Navy and in 1812 became a Commander.
- Michael Mullen
Admiral Michael Glenn Mullen (born October 4 1946) became the 28th Chief of Naval Operations of the United States Navy, relieving Admiral Vern Clark on 22 July, 2005. He served as Vice Chief of Naval Operations under Clark, and as the Commander of U.S. Naval Forces Europe & Commander of Allied Joint Force Command Naples.
- George Brown
General Sir George Brown, GCB KH (1790–1865) was a British soldier notable for commands in the Peninsular War and the Crimean War. He was born and educated in Elgin, Scotland. He obtained a commission in the 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) (later the 1st Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry) in 1806, was promoted lieutenant a few months later, and saw active service for the first time in the Mediterranean and at Copenhagen, …
- John Rodgers
John Rodgers (8 August 1812 - 5 May 1882), son of Commodore John Rodgers, was born near Havre de Grace, Maryland. He was received his appointment as a Midshipman in the Navy on 18 April 1828. Service in the Mediterranean on board "Constellation" and "Concord" opened his long career of distinguished service, and he commanded an expedition of Naval Infantry and Marines in Florida during the Seminole Wars.
- John Rodgers
Commodore John Rodgers (11 July 1772 - 1 August 1838) was an American naval officer who served in the United States Navy from its organization in the 1790s through the late 1830s. His service included the Quasi-War with France and the War of 1812. Rodgers was born near present-day Havre de Grace, Maryland. He entered the Navy as Second Lieutenant when it was organized on 8 March 1798 and was assigned to "Constellation".
- John Pope
John Pope (17 December 1798 - 14 January 1876) was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Born in Sandwich, Massaschusetts, Pope was appointed midshipman from Maine 30 May 1816. Prior to the Civil War, he served in the Mediterranean, West Indian, Brazil, African and East India Squadrons. From 1 July to 24 October 1861, he was attached to the Gulf Squadron commanding "Richmond".
- Turgut Reis
Turgut Reis (1485 - June 23, 1565) was a Turkish privateer and Ottoman admiral as well as Bey of Algiers; Beylerbey of the Mediterranean; and first Bey later Pasha of Tripoli. Known in different languages under such names as Dragut or Darghouth, the original name in Turkey is Turgut Reis (reis = captain) or less commonly Torgut Reis as his name appears in several old Turkish and foreign resources.
- Charles Stewart
Charles Stewart (28 July 1778 - 6 November 1869) was an officer in the United States Navy. Born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Stewart went to sea at the age of thirteen as a cabin boy and rose through the grades to become master of a merchantman. He grew up with Captain Stephen Decatur and Richard Rush.
- John Ward
John Ward [Warde], also known as "Jack Ward" and under his Muslim name "Yusuf Reis", was a notorious English pirate around the turn of the 17th century who later became a Barbary Corsair operating out of Tunis during the early 1600s. Born about 1553 probably in Faversham, Kent, in southeast England. He spent his teenage years working the fisheries. Late in the reign of Queen Elizabeth he joined the Navy, …
- Timothy
Timothy (estimated 1844 - April 3/April 4, 2004) was a Mediterranean spur thighed tortoise who was thought to be approximately 160 years old at the time of her death. This made her the UK's oldest known resident. Timothy was found aboard a Portuguese privateer in 1854 by Captain John Courtenay Everard, of the Royal Navy.
- Sargon Of Akkad
Sargon of Akkad, also known as Sargon the Great, was an Akkadian king famous for his conquest of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th and 23rd centuries BC. The founder of the Dynasty of Akkad, Sargon reigned for 56 years, c. 2334 BC–2279 BC (short chronology). He became a prominent member of the royal court of Kish, ultimately overthrowing its king before embarking on the conquest of Mesopotamia.
- David Porter
David Porter was an officer in the United States Navy and later the commander-in-chief of the Mexican Navy. Born at Boston, Massachusetts, Porter served in the Quasi-War with France first as midshipman on board USS "Constellation", participating in the capture of "L’Insurgente" 9 February 1799; secondly, as 1st lieutenant of "Experiment" and later in command of "USS Amphitheatre".
- James Robertson
James Robertson was a British photographer and gem and coin engraver who worked in the Mediterranean region, the Crimea and India. He was one of the first war photographers. Robertson was born in Middlesex in 1813. He trained as an engraver under Wyon (probably William Wyon) and in 1843 he began work as an engraver at the Imperial Ottoman Mint in Constantinople. It is believed that Robertson became interested in photography while in the Ottoman Empire in the 1840s.
- Leo Africanus
Leo Africanus was the Christianised name of Hasan bin Muhammed al-Wazzan al-Fasi (Hasan, son of Muhammed, the Weigher from Fez) (Granada 1488? - 1554?). A former inhabitant of Granada, his family left the city sometime after the Christian conquest of the Muslim kingdom in 1492. The family settled in Fez, Morocco, where Leo studied at the University of Al Karaouine.
- James Morrison
James Morrison (1760 - 1807) was a British seaman and mutineer who took part in the Mutiny on the Bounty. James Morrison was a native of Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland where his father was a merchant and land entrepreneur. He joined the navy at 18, serving as Clerk on the "Suffolk", Midshipman on the "Termagant", and Acting Gunner on the "Hind". In 1783, he passed his Master Gunner's examination.
- John Shaw
John Shaw (1773 - 17 September 1823) was a Captain in the early years of the United States Navy. He was born at Mt. Mellick, County Laois, Ireland, in 1773, and moved to the United States in 1790, where he settled in Philadelphia, and entered the merchant marine. Appointed Lieutenant in the United States Navy on 3 August 1798, he first served in "Montezuma" in Commodore Thomas Truxtun's squadron in the West Indies during the early part of the Quasi-War with France.
- Jean Bart
Jean Bart (October 21 1650 - April 27 1702) - was a ("Dutch born") French naval commander and privateer.
- David Abulafia
David Samuel Harvard Abulafia (born 12 December 1949, Twickenham, England) has been Professor of Mediterranean History at the University of Cambridge since 2000 and a fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge since 1974. Abulafia comes from a very old Sephardic family that left Spain for Galilee around 1492 and lived for many generations in Tiberias. His wife Anna Sapir Abulafia is a noted historian of Jewish-Christian relations. He was educated at St.
- Erik Prince
Erik Prince (born June 6, 1969 in Holland, Michigan) is the founder and owner of the military support contractor Blackwater USA. A millionaire and former US Navy SEAL, after high school he briefly attended the United States Naval Academy before attending and graduating from Hillsdale College. After college, he earned a commission in the United States Navy after joining in 1992, and served as a Navy SEAL officer on deployments to Haiti, the Middle East and the Mediterranean, …
- Bayezid II
Bayezid II was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481 to 1512. Bayezid II was born in Dimetoka (now Didymoteicho) in Thrace as the son of Mehmed II (1451-81) and Gulbahār Khātun, an ethnic Greek woman of noble birth from the village of Douvera in Trabzon. Bayezid II ascended the Ottoman throne in 1481. Like his father, Bayezid II was a patron of western and eastern culture and unlike many other Sultans, worked hard to ensure a smooth running of domestic politics, …
- John Elliott
John Elliott (? - September 20, 1808) naval officer and colonial governor born Scotland and died Roxburgshire, Mouth Teviot. Elliot joined the Royal Navy and became famous for his actions in destroying a French squadron off the coast of Ireland. He was commissioned Governor and commander-in-chief of Newfoundland in 1786. Two nephews by marriage were William Schaw Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart and Admiral Robert Digby. Another nephew was the 1st Earl of Minto.
- Ernle Bradford
Ernle Bradford (born Jan 11, 1922, at Cole Green, Norfolk, England, died 1986) was a noted 20th century British historian specializing in the Mediterranean world and naval topics. A keen yachtsman himself, Bradford spent almost 30 years sailing the Mediterranean, and many of his books are set here. He lived in Malta for a number of years. Sometime BBC broadcaster and magazine editor, Bradford was a prolific author.
- Isaac Hull
Isaac Hull (March 9, 1773 - February 13, 1843), was a Commodore, in the United States Navy. Hull was born in Derby, Connecticut. Early in life he joined his mariner father, Joseph, on local voyages and longer trips to the West Indies. After his father died while still young, Isaac was adopted by his uncle William Hull, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War. During the mid-1790s, the young Hull commanded several merchant vessels, losing some to French privateers.
- Richard Hugo
Richard Hugo (December 21, 1923 - October 22, 1982), born Richard Hogan, was an American poet. Primarily a regionalist, Hugo's work reflects the economic depression of the Northwest, particularly Montana. Born in White Center, Washington, he was raised by his mother's parents after his father left the family. In 1942 he legally changed his name to Richard Hugo, taking his stepfather's surname. He served in World War II as a bombardier in the Mediterranean.
- John Lawson
John Lawson (c.1615-65) was an English Naval Officer and Republican. Son of a merchant from Scarborough, Yorkshire, Lawson was a ship's captain when the First Civil War broke out in 1642. He offered his services to the Parliament of England and was given command of the Covenant, an armed merchantman. When Scarborough's governor, Sir Hugh Cholmley, defected to the Royalists in March 1643, Lawson removed his wife and daughter to the beleaguered Parliamentarian port of Hull.
- Jason Burke
Jason Burke is an author and journalist with the British Sunday newspaper "The Observer", where he is currently Europe editor. Based in Paris, he covers a wide range of topics including politics, social affairs and culture in Europe and the Mediterranean such as the 2006 Serie A scandal that affected Italian football. Burke has also lived in Pakistan and Afghanistan writing on Islamic extremism amongst other issues.
- Alan Moorehead
Alan Moorehead (1910-1983), born on July 22, 1910, in Melbourne, Australia, went to England in 1937 and became a foreign correspondent for the London "Daily Express". During World War II he won an international reputation for his coverage of campaigns in the Middle East and Asia, the Mediterranean and Northwest Europe. He was twice mentioned in dispatches and was awarded the OBE. One of the most celebrated correspondents of the Second World War, …
- James Barron
James Barron was an officer in the United States Navy. Barron was born in Virginia in 1769. As a youth he served in the Virginia Navy during the last years of the American Revolution and, nearly two decades later in 1798, received a commission as a Lieutenant in the new U.S. Navy. He demonstrated superior seamanship abilities as an officer of the frigate "United States", was promoted to Captain and commanded the frigate "Warren" in 1800-1801, …
- Bryan Ward-Perkins
Bryan Ward-Perkins is an archaeologist and historian of the later Roman Empire and early Middle Ages, with a particular focus on the transitional period between those two eras, an historical sub-field also known as Late Antiquity. His published work has focused primarily on the urban and economic history of the Mediterranean and western Europe during Late Antiquity.
- George Rooke
Sir George Rooke (1650 - January 24 1709), English naval commander, was born near Canterbury in 1650. Entering the navy as a volunteer, he served in the Dutch Wars and became post captain in 1673. He became Rear Admiral in 1690, and fought at the Battle of Beachy Head.<br> In May 1692 he served under Russell at the Battle of Barfleur, and he greatly distinguished himself in a night attack on the French fleet at La Hogue, when he succeeded in burning six of their ships.
- John Barber
John Barber (born 22 July 1929 in Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire) is a former racing driver from England. Before his racing career he was a fish merchant in London. He first raced a Cooper-JAP and then bought a Formula 2 Cooper-Bristol Mk1 which he raced during 1952. Despite winning a minor race at Snetterton, he had little success and finally crashed the car badly towards the end of the season.
- Wallace Neff
Wallace Neff (1895 - 1982), was an architect based in Southern California and was largely responsible for developing the region's distinct architectural style. Neff primarily drew from the architectural tradition of both Spain and the Mediterranean as a whole, gaining extensive recognition from the number of celebrity commissions, notably Pickfair, the mansion belonging originally to Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.
- Geiseric
Geiseric the Lame (c. 389 - January 25, 477), also spelled as Gaiseric or Genseric, was the King of the Vandals and Alans (428-477) and was one of the key players in the troubles of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. During his nearly 50 years of rule, he raised a relatively insignificant Germanic tribe to the status of a major Mediterranean power - which after he died, entered a swift decline and eventual collapse.