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: Fabergé, Peter Carl to Fields, Dorothy.

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Fabergé, Peter Carl (Russian artist)
Fahd (Royalty)
Fahrenheit, Gabriel Daniel (German-born physicist)
Fairbanks, Douglas (American actor & filmmaker)
Faisal (Arabian king)
Falla, Manuel de (Spanish composer)
Faneuil, Peter (American merchant)
Faraday, Michael (Chemist / Physicist)
Fargo, William George (American personage)
Farmer, Fannie Merritt (American non-fiction writer)
Farmer, James Leonard (American civil rights leader)
Farouk I (Egyptian king)
Farquhar, George (Irish dramatist)
Farragut, David Glasgow (Sailor / Civil War Figure)
Farrakhan, Louis (Religious Figure)
Farrar, Geraldine (American musician)
Farrell, Eileen (American musician)
Farrell, James Thomas (American novelist)
Farrell, Suzanne (American ballet dancer)
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner (German filmmaker & dramatist)
Fatima (Islamic personage)
Fatimid (Muslim dynasty)
Fauré, Gabriel Urbain (French composer)
Fawkes, Guy (Revolutionary)
Feininger, Lyonel Charles Adrian (American painter & artist)
Fellini, Federico (Italian filmmaker)
Ferber, Edna (American novelist)
Ferdinand I (Spanish king of Castile and León)
Ferdinand I (Holy Roman emperor)
Ferdinand II (Holy Roman emperor)
Ferdinand III (Holy Roman emperor)
Ferdinand V (King of Castile and León)
Fermat, Pierre de (French mathematician)
Fermi, Enrico (Physicist)
Feuerbach, Ludwig Andreas von (German philosopher)
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (German philosopher)
Fiedler, Arthur (American conductor)
Field, Cyrus West (American businessman)
Field, Eugene (American poet & journalist)
Field, Marshall (American businessman, financier & publisher)
Fielding, Henry (English novelist & dramatist)
Fields, Dorothy (American lyricist)