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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.
On this page: Barak, Ehud to Batten, Jean.
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Barak, Ehud (Soldier / Prime Minister of Israel)
Baraka, Imamu Amiri (Playwright / Poet / Activist)
Baranov, Aleksandr Andreevich (Russian-Alaskan businessman/businesswoman)
Barbarossa (Turkish statesman/stateswoman)
Barber, Samuel (American musician)
Bardeen, John (American physicist)
Barenboim, Daniel (Israeli conductor & composer)
Barents, Willem (Dutch explorer)
Baring, Alexander (British financier and public official)
Barlow, Joel (American writer & statesman/stateswoman)
Barnabas, Saint (theologian)
Barnard, Edward Emerson (American astronomer)
Barnard, Frederick Augustus Porter (American educator & mathematician)
Barnard, George Grey (American sculptor)
Barnes, Albert Coombs (American theologian)
Barneveldt, Jan van Olden (Dutch public official)
Barnum, P(hineas) T(aylor) (Showman/Entrepreneur)
Baroja y Nessi, Pío (Spanish novelist)
Barrie, J(ames) M(atthew), Sir (Scottish dramatist & novelist)
Barry, Charles, Sir (English architect)
Barry, Philip (American dramatist)
Barrymore (Family of American actors)
Barth, John Simmons (American novelist)
Barth, Karl (Swiss theologian)
Barthelme, Donald (American writer)
Barthes, Roland (French critic)
Bartholomew, Saint (personage in the New Testament)
Bartlett, John (American publisher and editor)
Bartlett, Robert Abram (American explorer)
Bartók, Béla (Hungarian musician)
Bartolommeo, Fra (Italian painter)
Barton, Clara (Nurse / Civil War Figure)
Bartram, John (American botanist)
Baruch, Bernard Mannes (American financier & politician)
Baryshnikov, Mikhail Nikolayevich (Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer)
Barzun, Jacques Martin (American-French writer & educator)
Basho, Matsuo (Japanese poet, critic & writer)
Basie, William (Pianist / Bandleader / Jazz Musician)
Basil, Saint (Greek theologian)
Baskerville, John (English printer)
Basov, Nikolai Gennadievich (Russian physicist & statesman/stateswoman)
Bates, Katharine Lee (American poet & musician)
Bateson, William (British biologist)
Bathsheba (in the Old Testament)
Battani, al- (Arabian astronomer & mathematician)
Batten, Jean (New Zealand aviator)