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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: Bruce, Sir David to Burke, Martha Jane.
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Bruce, Sir David (Australian physician and bacteriologist)
Bruce, Stanley Melbourne (Australian statesman)
Bruckner, Anton (Austrian musician)
Brueghel, Pieter (Belgian painter)
Brummell, George Bryan (English entertainer)
Brunelleschi, Filippo (Italian architect)
Bruno of Cologne, Saint (c.1030–1101, German monk, founder of the Carthusians)
Bruno, Giordano (Italian philosopher)
Brutus, Marcus Junius (Roman politician and general)
Bryan, William Jennings (American politician)
Bryant, William Cullen (American poet & writer)
Buber, Martin (German philosopher)
Buchan, Sir John (Scottish writer & statesman)
Buchanan, James (15th U.S. President)
Buchman, Frank Nathan Daniel (American Protestant personage)
Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker (American writer)
Buckingham, First Duke of (English royalty)
Buckingham, Second Duke of (English royalty)
Buckley, William Frank, Jr. (American writer & rhetorician)
Buddha (Religious Figure)
Buffon, Comte Georges Louis Leclerc de (French naturalist & writer)
Buisson, Ferdinand Édouard (French educator)
Bukharin, Nikolai Ivanovich (Russian politician)
Bulfinch, Charles (American architect)
Bulganin, Nikolai Aleksandrovich (Russian military leader & politician)
Bull, Ole Bornemann (Classical Artist)
Bülow, Hans Guido von (German musician)
Bulwer, William Henry Lytton Earle (English statesman, writer & novelist)
Bunche, Ralph Johnson (American statesman & UN secretary-general)
Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich (Russian writer)
Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm (Inventor / Chemist)
Buñuel, Luis (Spanish filmmaker)
Bunyan, John (Writer / Religious Figure)
Burbage, Richard (English actor)
Burbank, Luther (Botanist / Inventor)
Burbidge, (Eleanor) Margaret (American-British astronomer)
Burchfield, Charles Ephraim (American painter)
Burger, Warren Earl (American jurist & statesman)
Burgess, Anthony (English novelist)
Burgoyne, John (English military leader & dramatist)
Burgundy (ducal house of Burgundy split)
Burk, Martha Jane (American pioneer)
Burke, Edmund (English political scientist & politician)