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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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Aalto, Alvar (Finnish architect and furniture designer)
Aaron (Bible)
Aaron, Henry Louis (American baseball player)
Abbado, Claudio (Italian conductor)
Abbassid (Arabic dynasty)
Abbey, Edwin Austin (American artist)
Abbott, Berenice (American photographer)
Abbott, George (American theatrical producer and playwright)
Abbott, Robert Sengstacke (American newspaper publisher)
Abbott, Sir John Joseph Caldwell (Canadian politician)
Abbott, William (American comedian)
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem (American basketball player)
Abdullah ibn-Husein (Transjordanian emir and first king)
Abednego (Bible)
Abel (Bible)
Abelard, Peter (French theologian)
Abernathy, Ralph David (American civil rights leader)
Abigail (Bible)
Abraham (Bible)
Absalom (Bible)
Abu-Bakr (caliph of the Muslim empire)
Abzug, Bella (American politician)
Achebe, Chinua (Nigerian writer)
Acheson, Dean Gooderham (American statesman)
Adam (Bible)
Adam, Robert (British architect)
Adams, Abigail Smith (First Lady of the United States)
Adams, Ansel (American photographer)
Adams, Brooks (American historian)
Adams, Charles Francis (American public official)
Adams, Henry Brooks (American historian)
Adams, John (Vice President and second President)
Adams, John Quincy (President of the United States)
Adams, Samuel (American Revolutionary leader)
Addams, Charles Samuel (American cartoonist)
Addams, Jane (American social reformer and pacifist)
Adderley, Julian (American jazz saxophonist)
Addison, Joseph (English essayist)
Adenauer, Konrad (chancellor of West Germany)
Adler, Alfred (Austrian psychiatrist)
Adler, Cyrus (American religious leader and educator)
Adler, Felix (German-born American educator and reformer)
Adler, Mortimer Jerome (American educator and philosopher)
Adrian IV (English-born pope)
Adrian, Edgar Douglas (British physiologist)
Aelfric (Anglo-Saxon abbot)
Aeschylus (Greek tragic dramatist)
Aesop (Greek fabulist)