REFERENCE WORK

Authority records maintained by the Library of Congress for the purpose of identifying authors and subjects, as well as other people associated with a work. The intent is that an authority record be strong, but unfortunately many are "undifferentiated" -- multiple people with the same name are conflated into a single record. Likewise, a person might have two separate authority records (perhaps under different names) which might be merged at some point. To further complicate matters, there are cases where the maintainers seem to desire multiple records for a single individual: Mark Twain has a separate entry under Samuel Clemens. Such entries seem to be rare and inconsistently created.

Over time, NNDB is attempting to correlate as many of our profiles with LOC Name Authority records as possible. Even though this is accomplished by manual examination to ensure as few errors as possible, sometimes the underlying data will change. For instance, we might inadvertently link to an undifferentiated record. There are also cases where we cannot correlate anything, because the only record available has obvious undifferentiation.

People in this reference: 11968 Those presently living: 6974 Those deceased: 4992     White: 10217 Black: 977 Hispanic: 275 Multiracial: 179 Asian: 127 Middle Eastern: 80 Asian/Indian: 79 American Aborigine: 23 Asian/Pacific Islander: 8 Other: 2 (not specified): 1     United States: 8712 England: 1291 Canada: 379 France: 228 Germany: 150 Australia: 122 Italy: 118 Scotland: 97 Ireland: 62 Spain: 48 Russia: 46 Wales: 43 India: 35 Mexico: 32 Ancient Rome: 32 Austria: 32 Denmark: 30 Sweden: 26 Brazil: 25 Netherlands: 24 (others): 436

Lee Aaker       Aaliyah       Willie Aames       Caroline Aaron       Hank Aaron       Frank Abagnale       Claudio Abbado       Edward Abbey       Bud Abbott       Greg Abbott       Jacob Abbott       Jim Abbott       Tony Abbott       James Abdnor       Paula Abdul             ·             · (11938 names omitted for brevity)             ·             ·       Rachel Zoe       Fuzzy Zoeller       Robert Zoellick       King Zog       Rob Zombie       Louis Zorich       China Zorrilla       Vilmos Zsigmond       John E. Zuccotti       Mark Zuckerberg       Louis Zukofsky       Daphne Zuniga       Konrad Zuse       Harald Zwart       Huldrych Zwingli

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