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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: Pierce, Franklin to Polk, James Knox.
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Pierce, Franklin (14th President of the United States)
Piero della Francesca (Italian painter)
Piero di Cosimo (Italian painter)
Pike, Zebulon Montgomery (American explorer & military leader)
Pilate, Pontius (Ancient Roman jurist & statesman/stateswoman)
Pillsbury, Charles Alfred (American manufacturer)
Pilsudski, Jozef (Polish military leader, politician & statesman/stateswoman)
Pinchot, Gifford (American agriculturalist & statesman/stateswoman)
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth (American statesman/stateswoman)
Pindar (Ancient Greek poet)
Pinkerton, Allan (American businessman/businesswoman & jurist)
Pinkham, Lydia Estes (American patent-medicine manufacturer)
Pinter, Harold (British playwright)
Pinza, Ezio (Italian musician)
Pinzón, Martín Alonso (Spanish navigator)
Piozzi, Hester Lynch (British writer)
Pirandello, Luigi (Italian writer & dramatist)
Piranesi, Giambattista (Italian artist & architect)
Pisano, Andrea (Italian sculptor)
Pisano, Nicola (Italian sculptor)
Pisistratus (Ancient Greek tyrant & statesman/stateswoman)
Pissarro, Camille (French painter)
Pitt, William (English statesman/stateswoman)
Pitt, William (1759-1806, British statesman)
Pius II (Italian pope)
Pius IX (Pope / Religious Figure)
Pius V, Saint (Italian pope)
Pius VII (Italian pope)
Pius X, Saint (Italian pope)
Pius XI (Italian pope)
Pius XII (Italian pope)
Pizarro, Francisco (Explorer / Conquistador)
Plantagenet (line of English kings)
Plath, Sylvia (Poet / Writer)
Plato (Philosopher)
Plautus, Titus Maccius (Ancient Roman writer)
Plekhanov, Georgi Valentinovich (Russian philosopher & politician)
Pliny (Naturalist / Writer)
Plotinus (Ancient Roman philosopher)
Plutarch (Writer / Historian)
Pocahontas (Political Figure / Legendary Character)
Podgorny, Nikolai Viktorovich (Russian statesman/stateswoman & politician)
Poincaré, Jules Henri (French mathematician, physicist & writer)
Poincaré, Raymond (French president)
Pol Pot (Political Leader)
Pole, Reginald (English theologian)
Polk, James Knox (11th President of the United States)