HOLY GOD

• David Baltimore Co-discoverer, reverse transcriptase
• William Barr US Attorney General 1991-93
• John Bayley Widower's House
• Edward Bond Saved
• Emilinha Borba Queen of Brazilian Radio
• Tim Buckley Experimental singer/songwriter
• Fanny Burney Camilla
• A. S. Byatt Possession
• James M. Cain The Postman Always Rings Twice
• Philip Caputo A Rumor of War
• Ian Carmichael Bertie Wooster
• Francesco Cavalli Didone
• Celsus Opponent of Christianity
• Beatrice Cenci Italian beauty, murdered her father
• Censorinus De Die Natali
• Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses Poema trágico
• Pablo de Céspedes Spanish poet, painter, sculptor, etc.
• Thomas Chalmers Free Chuch of Scotland
• Robert Chambers Chambers's Book of Days
• William Chambers W. & R. Chambers, Ltd.
• Henri, Comte de Chambord Pretender to the French throne
• Philippe de Champaigne Prolific French Baroque painter
• Jean-François Champollion Deciphered the Rosetta Stone
• James Chance James Chance and the Contortions
• Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix Jesuit explorer of America
• Pierre Charron De la Sagesse
• Leslie Charteris Created Simon Templar
• Alain Chartier La Belle Dame sans merci
• James Hadley Chase No Orchids for Miss Blandish
• François-René de Chateaubriand Génie du christianisme
• Thomas Chatterton Fabricated as Thomas Rowley
• Bruce Chatwin In Patagonia
• Isaac Chauncey US Naval commander, War of 1812
• André de Chénier Greatest 18th c. French poet
• Tracy Chevalier Girl with a Pearl Earring
• Francesco Colonna Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
• Diogenes Laërtius Lives of Philosophers
• Dion Tyrant of Syracuse
• Dionysius Areopagiticus Converted by St. Paul
• Dionysius Exiguus 6th century chronologer
• Dionysius Halicarnassus Roman Antiquities
• Dionysius the Elder Tyrant of Syracuse
• Dionysius the Younger Tyrant of Syracuse
• Dionysius Thrax Authored first Greek grammar
• Diophantus Arithmetica
• Domenichino Baroque Italian painter
• St. Dominic Founder of the Dominican Order
• Roddy Doyle The Commitments
• Margaret Drabble The Millstone
• Georges Duhamel Civilisation
• Margaret Dumont Foil to the Marx Brothers
• Charles-François Dumouriez French general, intriguer
• Paul Laurence Dunbar Lyrics of a Lowly Life
• William Dunbar The Thrissil and the Rois
• Duncan I King of Scotland, 1034-40
• Duncan II King of Scotland, 1093–94
• Robert Duncan Bending the Bow
• Jules Dupré Barbizon school
• Pierre Dupuy Historian, Librarian to Louis XIV
• Gerald Durrell My Family and Other Animals
• Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet
• Ronnie Earle Travis County, TX district attorney 1976-
• Gentile da Fabriano Italian Gothic painter
• Frances Faye Out, Lesbian nightclub singer
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti A Coney Island of the Mind
• Joe Flanigan Stargate: Atlantis
• Giovanni Gabrieli Italian composer at St. Mark's
• James Gadsden Gadsden Purchase
• Thomas Gaisford English classical scholar
• Gaius Roman jurist, Institutes
• Galerius Roman Emperor, 305-11 AD
• Franz Joseph Gall Invented phrenology
• Gallienus Roman Emperor, 253-68 AD
• Cornelius Gallus Roman poet and orator
• John Galt The Ayrshire Legatees
• Stephen Gardiner English bishop, statesman
• Robert Garioch Scots dialect poet
• Hamlin Garland A Son of the Middle Border
• Helen Garner The First Stone
• David Garnett Lady into Fox
• Robert Garnier Bradamante
• Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Cranford
• Richard Jordan Gatling Inventor of the Gatling Gun
• John Gay The Beggar's Opera
• Artemisia Gentileschi Italian Baroque painter
• Orazio Gentileschi Italian Baroque painter
• Alberico Gentili Scholar of international law
• Geoffrey of Monmouth Historia regum Britanniae
• Gordon Gould Invented the laser
• Robert Guiscard Norman conqueror of South Italy
• Maria Innocentia Hummel Catholic nun, figurine sculptor
• Nicolas Jenson Created the Roman miniscule
• Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat
• Chip Kidd Cheese Monkeys
• Robert Kiyosaki Rich Dad, Poor Dad
• Lawrence J. Korb The Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Comte de Lautréamont Les Chants de Maldoror
• Thomas Linacre Established the Royal Academy of Physicians
• Anita Loos Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• Donald MacBride High Sierra
• Aldus Manutius Founder of Aldine Press
• Peter Matthiessen At Play in the Fields of the Lord
• George du Maurier British caricaturist, Punch
• André Maurois French biographer
• Harriet Miers White House Counsel, 2005-
• Matthew Miller The Two Percent Solution
• Katherine Moennig The L Word
• Jonathan D. Moreno Undue Risk
• Chris Morris On the Hour, Brasseye
• Iris Murdoch The Sea, the Sea
• Trevor Nunn Royal Shakespeare Company, 1968-86
• M. Scott Peck The Road Less Traveled
• Sir Stamford Raffles Founder of Singapore
• David Rakoff Don't Get Too Comfortable
• Guido Reni Painter of the Bolognese school
• Samuel Richardson Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
• James Robison Televangelist
• Benjamin Count Rumford Established the Rumford Medal
• Andy Samberg SNL, The Lonely Island
• David Satcher US Surgeon General 1998-2002
• Joseph E. Schmitz Pentagon inspector general 2002-05
• Mary Lee Settle Beulah Land
• Robert E. Sherwood Abe Lincoln in Illinois
• Shinehead New York-based dancehall vocalist
• Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres
• Christina Stead The Man Who Loved Children
• George Steiner After Babel
• Juliet Stevenson Truly Madly Deeply
• Douglas Stewart Fire in the Snow
• Jackie Stewart Three time Formula-1 world champion
• David Storey Saville
• Janet Suzman Nicholas and Alexandra
• Clive Swift Keeping Up Appearances
• Graham Swift Last Orders
• Leo Szilard Nuclear chain reaction
• Ruy Teixeira The Emerging Democratic Majority
• Lester Thurow Sloan School of Management
• Ernest Tubb The Texas Troubador
• Valerian Roman Emperor, 253-60 AD
• Sébastien de Vauban Mastermind of the siege
• Henry Vaughan Silex Scintillans
• Thomas Vaughan English alchemist and mystic
• Lope de Vega Reformed Spanish comedy
• Louis-Joseph, duc de Vendôme Marshal of France
• Giovanni da Verrazano Discovered New York Harbor
• Carl von Cosel Florida's favorite necrophile
• Andrew von Eschenbach Acting FDA director 2005-
• Marie Wilson My Friend Irma

Posted: October 6, 2005