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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: Tacitus, Publius Cornelius to Terence.
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Taft, Helen (U.S. First Lady)
Taft, William Howard (27th President of the United States)
Tagore, Rabindranath, Sir (Indian writer & mystic)
Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe (French critic & historian)
Talbot, William Henry Fox (English inventor & photographer)
Tallchief, Maria (American ballet dancer)
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de (French statesman/stateswoman & royalty)
Tamayo, Rufino (Mexican painter)
Tamerlane (Mongol military leader, statesman/stateswoman & politician)
Tamm, Igor Yevgeneevich (Russian physicist)
Tancred (Crusader)
Taney, Roger Brooke (American jurist & statesman/stateswoman)
Tang (Chinese dynasty)
Tange, Kenzo (Japanese architect)
Tanguy, Yves (French painter)
Tarbell, Ida Minerva (American writer & journalist)
Tarkenton, Francis Asbury (American football player)
Tarkington, (Newton) Booth (American writer)
Tartini, Giuseppe (Italian musician)
Tasman, Abel Janszoon (Dutch explorer)
Tasso, Torquato (Italian poet & writer)
Tate, (John Orley) Allen (American poet & critic)
Tate, Nahum (English poet & dramatist)
Tatum, Arthur (Jazz Artist, '30s-'50s)
Tatum, Edward Lawrie (American geneticist)
Taverner, John (English musician & composer)
Taylor, Cecil Percival (Jazz Artist, '50s-2000s)
Taylor, Charles Ghankay (Liberian president)
Taylor, Edward (American poet & theologian)
Taylor, Frederick Winslow (American industrialist & engineer)
Taylor, Joseph Hooton Jr. (American physicist)
Taylor, Paul (Jazz Artist, 2000s)
Taylor, Tom (English dramatist & editor)
Taylor, Zachary (12th U.S. President)
Te Kanawa, Kiri, Dame (New Zealand musician)
Teach, Edward (Pirate)
Teasdale, Sara (American poet)
Tebaldi, Renata (Italian musician)
Tecumseh (Native American Leader)
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre (French paleontologist & philosopher)
Telemann, Georg Philipp (German composer)
Teller, Edward (Physicist)
Temin, Howard Martin (American microbiologist)
Tenniel, John, Sir (English cartoonist & artist)
Tennyson, Alfred (English poet)
Terborch, Gerard (Dutch painter)
Terence (Ancient Roman writer)