Person Or Being In Fiction
|
Items 1 - 30 (of 223 total in Freebase)
|
Sort by
|
-
Person, Deceased Person, Person Or Being In FictionAttila (406 – 453), also known as Attila the Hun or the Scourge of God, was Khan of the Huns from 434 until his death. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched from Germany to the Ural River and from the River Danube to the Baltic Sea (see map below). During...
-
Person, Film producer, Film director, Visual Artist, Deceased Person, Influence Node, Person Or Being In Fiction, Film writer, Film cinematographer, Film actorAndrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), better known as Andy Warhol, was an American artist and a central figure in the movement known as Pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a...
-
Film music contributor, Musical Artist, Person, Deceased Person, Opera Composer, Composer, Person Or Being In FictionAntonio Salieri (August 18, 1750 – May 7, 1825), was an Italian composer and conductor. As the Austrian imperial Kapellmeister from 1788 to 1824, he was one of the most important and famous musicians of his time. Raised in a prosperous family of merchants in Legnago,...
-
Person, Author, Deceased Person, Influence Node, Inventor, Politician, TV Character, Award Winner, Publishing company, Person Or Being In FictionBenjamin Franklin ( – April 17 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman and diplomat. As...
-
Person, Deceased Person, Author, Influence Node, Person Or Being In Fiction, Company, EmployerMarcus Tullius Cicero (Classical Latin , usually in English; January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and philosopher. Cicero is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. Cicero is generally...
-
Person, Deceased Person, Person Or Being In Fiction, Film writer, Influence Node, Organization member, Organization founder, AuthorAnna Eleanor Roosevelt (; October 11 1884 – November 7 1962) was First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and assumed a role as an advocate for civil rights. After her...
-
Person, Person Or Being In FictionErin Brockovich-Ellis (born June 22, 1960) is an American legal clerk who, despite the lack of a formal law school education, was instrumental in constructing a case against the $28 billion Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E;), of California in 1993. Since the...
-
Musical Artist, Person, Deceased Person, Songwriter, Influence Node, Film music contributor, Composer, Lyricist, Person Or Being In FictionAlfred Éric Leslie Satie (Honfleur, 17 May 1866 – Paris, 1 July 1925) was a French composer and pianist. Starting with his first composition in 1884, he signed his name as Erik Satie. Satie was introduced as a "gymnopedist" in 1887, shortly before writing his most...
-
Person, Deceased Person, Person Or Being In FictionElizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, The Faerie Queen or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the sixth and last monarch of the Tudor...
-
Person, Film director, Film writer, Film producer, Film actor, Film critic, Film theorist, Deceased Person, Fictional Character Creator, Person Or Being In FictionFrançois Roland Truffaut (French ; February 6, 1932 – October 21, 1984) was one of the founders of the French New Wave in filmmaking, and remains an icon of the French film industry. In a film career lasting just over a quarter of a century, he was screenwriter,...
-
Person, US President, Deceased Person, Military Commander, Person Or Being In Fiction, Politician, Organization member, Influence Node, Political AppointerFranklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was the thirty-second President of the United States. Elected to four terms in office, he served from 1933 to 1945, and is the only U.S. president to have served more...
-
Fictional Character, Person Or Being In FictionDr. Fu Manchu is a fictional character first featured in a series of novels by English author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century. The character was also featured extensively in cinema, television, radio, comic strips, and comic books for over 90 years...
-
Person, US President, Deceased Person, Art Subject, Politician, TV Character, Fictional Character, Book Character, Employee, Person Or Being In FictionGeorge Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was the first President of the United States, (1789–1797), after leading the Continental Army to victory over the Kingdom of Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). Washington was chosen...
-
Person, Film writer, Film producer, Film director, Deceased Person, Aircraft designer, Person Or Being In Fiction, Organization founder, Film subjectHoward Robard Hughes, Jr. (24 December 1905 – 5 April 1976) was an American aviator, industrialist, film producer/director, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people in the world. He is famous for setting multiple world air-speed records, building the Hughes H-1...
-
Person, Deceased Person, Person Or Being In FictionHelen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to graduate from college. The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete...
-
Person, Film writer, Author, Film story contributor, Deceased Person, Film actor, Influence Node, Person Or Being In FictionHunter Stockton Thompson (18 July 1937 – 20 February 2005) was an American journalist and author, famous for his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporter involve themselves in the...
-
Person, Astronomer, Physicist, Deceased Person, Author, Chemist, Influence Node, Person Or Being In FictionSir Isaac Newton FRS (; 4 January 1643 31 March 1727 ) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist and theologian. His Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687, is said to be the greatest single work in the...
-
Person, US Vice President, US President, Deceased Person, Politician, Influence Node, Person Or Being In Fiction, Fictional Character, TV Character, Book Character, Book Subject, EmployeeJohn Adams, Jr. (October 30,1735 – July 4, 1826) was the second President of the United States (1797–1801). He also served as America's first Vice President (1789–1797). He was defeated for re-election in the "Revolution of 1800" by Thomas Jefferson. Adams was also the...
-
Person, Deceased Person, Person Or Being In Fiction, InventorJohannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg ( 1400 – February 3, 1468) was a German goldsmith and printer who is credited with introducing movable type printing, which had been invented centuries earlier in China and Korea, to Europe around 1439. His major work, the...
-
Musical Artist, Person, Author, Deceased Person, Person Or Being In Fiction, Fictional Character Creator, Influence Node, Film writer, Musical Group MemberJack Kerouac (March 12 1922 – October 21 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, and artist from Lowell, Massachusetts. Along with William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, he is amongst the best known of the writers (and friends) known as the Beat Generation. ...
-
Person, Deceased Person, Film subject, Person Or Being In Fiction, Visual ArtistJean-Michel Basquiat (December 22 1960, Brooklyn - August 12, 1988, New York, New York) was an American artist. He gained popularity, first as a graffiti artist in New York City, and then as a successful 1980s-era Neo-expressionist artist. Basquiat's painting continue...
-
Person, Deceased Person, Author, Person Or Being In Fiction'' Gaius Julius Caesar ( in Classical Latin; conventionally in English; July 13, 100 BC – March 15, 44 BC), was a Roman military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. A politician of the...
-
Person, Deceased Person, Person Or Being In Fiction, ComposerJohn Henry Newton, Jr. (July 24, 1725 – December 21, 1807) was an Anglican clergyman and former slave-ship captain. He was the author of many hymns, including Amazing Grace. John H. Newton Jr. was born in Wapping, London,in 1725, the son of John Newton, Sr., a...
-
Person, Film director, Film writer, Deceased Person, Person Or Being In FictionJames Whale (July 22, 1889 – May 29, 1957) was a ground-breaking British film director, best known for his work in the horror movie genre, making such pictures as Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, and The Invisible Man. Whale was born in Dudley, England, the sixth...
-
Person, Visual Artist, Deceased Person, Influence Node, Person Or Being In FictionPaul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionist movement. He was married to noted abstract painter Lee Krasner. Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912, the youngest of...
-
Person, Deceased Person, Person Or Being In FictionJohn (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) reigned as King of England from 6 April 1199, until his death. He succeeded to the throne as the younger brother of King Richard I (known in later times as "Richard the Lionheart"). John acquired the nicknames of "Lackland" ...
-
Person, Deceased Person, Person Or Being In Fiction, TV ActorLee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was the accused assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. A former Marine who defected to the Soviet Union and later returned, Oswald was arrested on suspicion of killing...
-
Person, Deceased Person, Baseball Player, Person Or Being In Fiction, Sports League Award WinnerHenry Louis "Lou" Gehrig (June 19 1903 – June 2 1941), born Ludwig Heinrich Gehrig, was an American baseball player in the 1920s and 1930s, who set several Major League records and was popularly called the "The Iron Horse" for his durability. His record for most career...
-
Person, Architect, Visual Artist, Deceased Person, Influence Node, Person Or Being In FictionLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci , April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath; a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Born as the illegitimate son of a notary, Piero da Vinci, and...
-
Person, Deceased Person, Author, Influence Node, Person Or Being In Fiction, PoliticianMohandas Karamchand Gandhi, (Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી mohandās karamchand gā̃dhī, IPA: /moɦənd̪äs kərəmtʃənd̪ gä̃d̪ʱi/, 2 October 1869–30 January 1948), also known as Mahatma Gandhi, was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence...
