- 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". - Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: "Benedictus PP. XVI"; Italian: "Benedetto XVI"), born Joseph Alois Ratzinger on April 16, 1927 in Marktl am Inn, Bavaria, Germany, is the 265th and reigning Pope, the head of the Catholic Church, and as such, Sovereign of the Vatican City State. He was elected on April 19, 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on April 24, 2005, and took possession of his cathedral, the Basilica of St. - Generoso Pope Jr.
Generoso Paul "Gene" Pope, Jr. (January 13, 1927 - October 3, 1988) was an American Media mogul, best known for creating The National Enquirer. Pope learned the newspaper business from his father, Generoso Pope Sr., a New York political powerbroker and quarry magnate whose Italian-American newspaper interests included the "Corriere d'America" and the daily "Il Progresso Italo-Americano". Generoso Pope Sr. had ties to New York crime boss Frank Costello, … - Nathaniel Pope
Nathaniel Pope (January 5, 1784-January 22, 1850) was a politician and jurist from the U.S. state of Illinois. Pope was born in Louisville, Kentucky to a prominent family in regional politics. In 1806, he graduated from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar, and settled in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, in 1804, where he commenced the practice of law in the Louisiana Territory, … - Tony Pope
Anthony Pope (March 22 1947 - February 11, 2004) was a voice actor. He was born in March 22 1947 and had been known for providing the voice of Furby and did voices in the popular toy series The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin in the 1980's. He died on February 11, 2004 from complications following leg surgery. He was also known as Anthony Mozdy. - Maurice Arthur Pope
Maurice Arthur Pope, C.B., M.C. (9 August 1889 - 20 September 1978) was a Canadian civil engineer, army officer and diplomat. Born in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, the son of Sir Joseph Pope, Prime Minister John A. Macdonald's principal secretary, and grandson of Sir Henri-Thomas Taschereau and William Henry Pope, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from McGill University in 1911. - Dudley Pope
Dudley Bernard Egerton Pope (29 December 1925 - 25 April 1997) was a British writer of both nautical fiction and history, most notable for his Lord Ramage series of historical novels. He was born in Ashford, Kent, and at age 16 joined the merchant navy as a midshipman. His ship was torpedoed the next year (1942), and he was invalided out. Pope then went to work for a Kentish newspaper, then in 1944 moved to "The Evening News" in London, … - Carole Pope
Carole Pope (born August 6, 1950 in Manchester, England) is a Canadian rock singer, whose provocative blend of hard-edged New Wave rock with explicit homoerotic and BDSM-themed lyrics made her one of the first openly lesbian pop stars in the world. She is the sister of Emmy Award-winning television producer and screenwriter Elaine Pope. Pope was raised in Scarborough, Ontario, where she met her longtime musical partner, Kevan Staples at an audition for another band. - Paul Pope
Paul Pope is a United States alternative comic book artist. Influenced by Ray Bradbury and William S. Burroughs, Pope's stories evoke poignant, under-explored aspects of youth culture. Pope describes his own influences (listed in his book "P-City Parade") as Daniel Torres, Bruno Premiani, Jack Kirby, Alex Toth, Tony Salmons, Hugo Pratt, Silvio Cadelo, Vittorio Giardino, and Hergé. Pope introduced "THB" in 1995, the same year he began work for Kodansha, … - Mark Pope
Mark Edward Pope (born September 11 1972 in Omaha, Nebraska) is a former professional basketball player in the NBA. He played for the Indiana Pacers, the Milwaukee Bucks and the Denver Nuggets and enjoyed his best season in 2000-2001 when he averaged 2.1 points per game for the Bucks. Pope was a second round pick of the Pacers in the 1996 NBA Draft after his college career, first at the University of Washington and then at the University of Kentucky. - Everett P. Pope
Major Everett Parker Pope (born 16 July 1919), United States Marine Corps, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his conspicuous gallantry on Peleliu in September 1944 while leading his men in an assault on a strategic hill, and for holding it, with rocks and bare fists when ammunition ran low, against Japanese suicide attacks. - Mal Pope
Mal (Maldwyn) Pope (born May 18, 1960), is a Welsh musician and composer. Mal Pope was a child-star singer/songwriter, originally based in the Brynhyfryd area of Swansea. He now lives in the Mumbles area of Swansea. He was born to devoutly religious parents, both teachers. Both parents were members of the Open (Plymouth) Brethren, and attended Manselton Gospel Hall, which has since closed. - Eddie Pope
George Edward ("Eddie") Pope (December 24, 1973) is an American soccer player who currently plays for Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer and spent 11 years as a defender for the United States national team. Born in Greensboro, he attended Southwest Guilford High School. Pope had a very successful career playing for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1994, he was a first team All-American, and also earned All-ACC and All-South Region honors. - Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 - 30 May 1744) is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the early eighteenth century, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third most frequently quoted writer in the English language, after Shakespeare and Tennyson. Pope was a master of the heroic couplet. - James P. Pope
James Pinckney Pope (born March 31, 1884 in Jonesboro, Louisiana - died January 23 1966 in Alexandria, Virginia) was a mayor of Boise, Idaho, and a United States Senator from Idaho. Pope graduated from Louisiana Polytechnic Institute in 1906 and from the law department of the University of Chicago in 1909. He then moved to Boise, Idaho, to practice law, and served as city attorney of Boise, assistant attorney general of Idaho, … - Sabrynaah Pope
Sabrynaah Pope (died September 24, 2005, New York City) was a female Dance/House vocalist from Brooklyn, New York. She was well known for her work with Dance acts 95 North, DJ Pierre, and most recently U.D.A.U.F.L. which scored a number one track on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with "Most Precious Love" in 2005. The latter would also be her last recording and her only #1. Pope died soon after at her New York home. - Bill Pope
William Homer Pope (born June 19 1952) is an award winning American cinematographer, best known for his work on Sam Raimi's films and the "Matrix" trilogy. - P. J. Pope
William Leroy Pope, Jr. better known as P.J. Pope (born February 26, 1984 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a running back for the Green Bay Packers of the NFL. - George Uglow Pope
George Uglow Pope (1820 - 1908) popularly known as Rev. G.U. Pope or G.U. Pope was a Christian missionary who spent many years in Tamil Nadu and translated many Tamil texts into English. His popular translations include Tirukkural and Tiruvachagam. His efforts were recognized by the Royal Asiatic Society in the form of a gold medal. He was the head of the Bishop Cotton Boys School, Bangalore before returning to Oxford. - John Pope
John Pope (March 18, 1822 - September 23, 1892) was a career U.S. Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War. He had a brief, but successful, career in the Western Theater, but is best known for his defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run in the East. After the Civil War, he resumed a successful military career in the Indian Wars. - Lauren Pope
Lauren Pope (born 1983) is a British model and actress. Pope grew up in Torquay Devon with her parents and two sisters. After moving to Cyprus when she was 18, she then came back and relocated to London with her sister. She saw and entered a competition in the Daily Star, then started appearing in Page Three. Pope first made began making headlines when she was seen in a nightclub dancing with British royal Prince Harry and was alleged to be his "girlfriend". - Tim Pope
Tim Pope is an award-winning film director most famous for his music videos, but also for having directed feature films and for having a brief pop career. - Eva Pope
Eva Pope (born 16 November 1967 in Wigan, Lancashire) is an English actress, who trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. <nowiki>She has one daughter, Elise (born 1995), with longtime husband Laurence Lassalle.</nowiki> Her best known role was as Tanya Pooley in "Coronation Street" from 1993 until 1994. Eva's other television credits include roles in "Cold Feet", "Heartbeat", "Dream Team", "Casualty", "McCallum", … - Derrick Pope
Derrick Trayon Pope (born May 4, 1982 in Galveston, Texas) is an American football linebacker who currently plays for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Dolphins in the seventh round (222nd overall) of the 2004 NFL Draft. He played collegiately at Alabama. - George Pope
George Henry Pope (born January 27, 1911, Tibshelf, Derbyshire, died October 29, 1993, Spital, Derbyshire) was an English cricketer who played in one Test in 1947. A combative lower middle-order right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler, George Pope followed his older brother Alf Pope into the Derbyshire side in the mid-1930s, … - Monsanto Pope
Monsanto Leshawn Pope (born January 27, 1978 in Norfolk) is a football player. He plays the position of Defensive Tackle, who played for the Denver Broncos before signing as a free agent with the New York Jets in 2006. He left the team during the beginning of training camp. He was drafted in 2002 in the seventh round, 231st overall. He went to the University of Virginia. - Leroy Pope
LeRoy Pope was a prominent American planter, lawyer, and early settler of Madison County, Alabama. He purchased much of the land on which downtown Huntsville, Alabama now stands, and for his role in the establishment and early growth of that city, has been called the "Father of Huntsville." - Alan Pope
Alan William Pope (born August 2, 1945 in Ayr, Scotland) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1977 to 1990, and served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Bill Davis and Frank Miller. Pope was raised in northern Ontario, and was educated at Waterloo Lutheran University and Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. He worked as a barrister and solicitor before entering politics. - James Colledge Pope
James Colledge Pope, PC (June 11, 1826 - May 18, 1885) was a land proprietor and politician on Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada. He served as premier of the colony from 1865 to 1867, and from 1870 to 1872. He was premier of PEI in 1873 when the island joined Canadian confederation. Pope was a successful businessman who was at one point the island's third largest shipowner. He entered PEI politics in 1857 when the island was still a colony of the United Kingdom. - William Henry Pope
William Henry Pope (May 29, 1825 - October 7, 1879) was a Canadian lawyer, politician, judge and one of the Fathers of Confederation. The editor of Prince Edward Island's main Tory newspaper, "The Islander", from 1859 to 1872, he entered politics in 1863. An enthusiastic supporter of Canadian Confederation, he left the PEI cabinet in 1866 but continued to press for union. After this was accomplished in 1873 under the leadership of his brother, … - Philip Pope
Philip Pope is a British composer and actor. He has performed the BBC comedy series "Radio Active" and has also appeared in a number of TV comedy shows, including "Who Dares Wins", "Chelmsford 123" and "KYTV". He made guest appearances on "Shelley" as pop star Hobo with Hywel Bennett as James Shelley, … - Peggy Pope
Peggy Pope is an American actress. She was born in Montclair, New Jersey. She has made her many acting appearances memorable — even in the smallest roles — beginning in 1966 with the television show "The Trials of O'Brien", starring Peter Falk and Elaine Stritch. Pope is most recognizable as "the old lush" (and later, recovered alcoholic) Margaret Foster in the 1980 movie "Nine to Five" starring Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dabney Coleman. - William Henry Pope
William Henry Pope was an American soldier, lawyer, and State Senator from Texas. Pope was influential in writing and passing Texas Jim Crow laws and described himself as the “Jim Crow Senator”. - John Pope
John Pope (1770 - July 12, 1845) was a United States Senator from Kentucky, a member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky, Secretary of State of Kentucky, and Governor of Arkansas Territory. John Pope was born in Prince William County, Virginia in 1770. He lost his arm during his youth and was known as "One-arm Pope". He studied law and moved to Springfield, Kentucky where he was admitted to the bar. - Stephen Pope
Stephen Pope (born January 25, 1983) is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper. He has played List A cricket since 1999 and played Twenty20 cricket during the 2003 season, helping Gloucestershire to the semi-finals. In 2003 he also played in some first-class matches for the county. Having played extensively in the Second XI Championship since May 1998, he moved from Gloucestershire to Surrey in 2006, appearing for them in one List A match. - Kevin O. Pope
Dr. Kevin O. Pope is the former NASA archaeologist and founder of Geo Eco Arch Research who helped connect the Chicxulub Crater to the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event. - Martin Pope
Martin Pope (b. August 22, 1918) is a physical chemist and professor emeritus at New York University. His discoveries of ohmic contacts and research in the fields of organic insulators and semiconductors led to techniques enabling organic semiconductors to carry relatively large currents, and to convert electricity into light and vice versa. These discoveries have had application in electrophotography, organic light-emitting diodes (OLED), photovoltaic cells, … - Alfred Atmore Pope
Alfred Atmore Pope was an American industrialist and art collector. He was the father of Theodate Pope Riddle, a noted American architect. - Leonard Pope
Leonard Pope (born September 9, 1983 in Americus, Georgia) is a current American football tight end for the Arizona Cardinals. He was drafted in the third round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Georgia. Pope won two state championships during his time at Americus High School. - Vicky Pope
Vicky Pope is head of the climate predictions programme at the Hadley Centre. She spent 6 years as manager of atmospheric climate model development and evaluation. For the last 2½ years she has been a programme manager. Since October 2004 she has been Head of the Climate Prediction Programme which provides independent scientific advice on climate change. Her research interests include developing and validating climate models.
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