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Dictionary - People

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, published by Houghton Mifflin Company
Concise biographies of noteworthy people in history, sports, politics, business and entertainment from the respected American Heritage Dictionary — when the people flourished, what they accomplished and why they're famous.
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Arrau, Claudio (Chilean musician)
Arrhenius, Svante August (Swedish chemist)
Artaxerxes I (Persian king)
Artaxerxes II (Persian king)
Arthur, Chester Alan (U.S. President)
Asbury, Francis (American-English theologian)
Ascham, Roger (English scholar)
Ashbery, John (American poet & critic)
Ashcroft, Dame Peggy (British actress)
Ashe, Arthur Robert, Jr. (Tennis Player)
Asher (Bible)
Ashford, Evelyn (American athlete)
Ashton, Sir Frederick (English dancer)
Ashurbanipal (Assyrian king)
Asimov, Isaac (Writer / Chemist)
Asoka (Indian emperor)
Aspasia (Ancient Greek stateswoman)
Asquith, Herbert Henry (English statesman)
Assad, Hafez al- (Syrian president)
Astaire, Fred (Dancer / Actor)
Astor, John Jacob (1763–1848, American merchant)
Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne (English stateswoman & politician)
Asturias, Miguel Ángel (Guatemalan novelist, poet & statesman)
Atahualpa (Peruvian statesman)
Atget, Jean Eugène (French photographer)
Athanasius, Saint (Greek patriarch of Alexandria)
Athelstan (Wessex king)
Attar (Persian poet)
Attila (European king)
Attlee, Clement Richard (English statesman)
Attucks, Crispus (Revolutionary War Figure)
Auden, W(ystan) H(ugh) (Poet / Writer)
Audubon, John James (Naturalist/Artist)
Auer, Leopold (Hungarian musician)
Auerbach, Arnold (American basketball player)
Augustine, Saint (Saint / Theologian)
Augustine, Saint (English Christian missionary)
Augustus (Emperor)
Aung San Suu Kyi (Political Figure)
Aurangzeb (Indian emperor)
Aurelian (Ancient Roman emperor)
Austen, Jane (Writer)