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Table of Contents

• A
• Abraham
• Achebe, Chinua
• Adams, Abigail
• Adams, Ansel
• Adams, John
• Addams, Jane
• Adler, Alfred
• Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
• Alexander the Great
• Alexie, Sherman
• Ali, Muhammad
• Allen, Woody
• Anderson, Poul
• Anderson, Wes
• Ando, Tadao
• Angelou, Maya
• Anthony, Susan Brownell
• Aquinas, St. Thomas
• Arendt, Hannah
• Aristotle
• Armstrong, Louis Daniel
• Asimov, Isaac
• Atwood, Margaret
• Austen, Jane
• Avedon, Richard
• B
• Backus, Isaac
• Baldwin, James
• Bandura, Albert
• Banksy
• Barth, Karl
• Barthes, Roland
• Barton, Clara (Clarissa Harlowe)
• Beatles
• Beethoven, Ludwig van
• Bell, Alexander Graham
• Beyoncé
• Bieber, Justin
• Billy the Kid
• Blackwell, Elizabeth
• Blake, William
• Bohm, David
• Bolton, John R.
• Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
• Bourdieu, Pierre
• Bourgeois, Louise
• Bowie, David
• Bradbury, Ray
• Bradstreet, Anne Dudley
• Brooker, Charlie
• Brown, Brené
• Brown, John
• Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
• Bruner, Jerome Seymour
• Bublé, Michael
• Buddha
• Bundy, Theodore Robert
• Bunyan, John
• Buonarroti, Michelangelo
• Burke, Edmund
• Burton, Tim
• Butler, Judith
• C
• Caesar, Gaius Julius
• Calvin, John
• Camus, Albert
• Capone, Al
• Caravaggio
• Carey, William
• Carnegie, Andrew
• Carson, Ben
• Carson, Rachel Louise
• Carter, Angela (Olive)
• Cartes, Horacio
• Carver, Raymond
• Cassatt, Mary
• Castro, Fidel
• Cather, Willa Sibert
• Catherine the Great
• Chávez, César
• Chandler, Raymond Jr
• Chanel, Coco
• Chaplin, Charles Spencer
• Charlemagne
• Chomsky, Noam Avram
• Chopin, Kate
• Christie, Agatha
• Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer
• Cicero, Marcus Tullius
• Clinton, Chelsea
• Clinton, Hillary Rodham
• Cleopatra
• Cobain, Kurt
• Columbus, Christopher
• Copernicus, Nicolaus
• Cruz, Ted
• Curie, Marie Sklodowska
• D
• Dahl, Roald
• Dahmer, Jeffrey
• Dali, Salvador
• David
• Davis, Angela
• Davis, Miles
• Day, Dorothy
• de Beauvoir, Simone
• Descartes, René
• DeVos, Betsy
• Dewey, John
• Dick, Philip K.
• Dickens, Charles John Huffam
• Dickinson, Emily
• Disney, Walt
• Dix, Dorothea Lynde
• Doctorow, E. L.
• Douglass, Frederick
• Drucker, Peter Ferdinand
• Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt
• Dubé, Marcel
• Duchamp, Marcel
• Durkheim, Émile
• Dweck, Carol
• Dyer, Wayne W.
• Dylan, Bob
• E
• Earhart, Amelia Mary
• Edison, Thomas Alva
• Edwards, Jonathan
• Einstein, Albert
• Eisenhower, Dwight David
• Elizabeth, I
• Elizabeth, II
• Ellison, Ralph
• Equiano, Olaudah
• Erasmus, Desiderius
• Erikson, Erik Homburger
• F
• Faulkner, William
• Felt, W. Mark
• Fillion, Nathan
• Finney, Charles Grandison
• Fiorina, Carly
• Fitzgerald, Zelda
• Ford, Henry
• Foster, Jodie
• Foucault, Michel
• Franklin, Benjamin
• Freire, Paulo
• Freud, Sigmund
• Friedan, Betty
• Frost, Robert Lee
• Frye, Northrop
• G
• Gaiman, Neil
• Galileo, Galilei
• Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
• García Márquez, Gabriel
• Garvey, Marcus
• Gates, Bill
• Geisel, Theodor Seuss
• Gifford, Frank
• Gilman, Charlotte Anna Perkins
• Glenn, John
• Gorky, Arshile
• Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de Paula José de
• Graham, Billy
• Griffith, Andy
• Grissom, Virgil Ivan
• Guevara, Ernesto
• Gutenberg, Johann
• Guzmán, Joaquín
• H
• Hadi, Abd Rabbu Mansur
• Haggard, Merle
• Hall, Stuart
• Hamilton, Alexander
• Hansberry, Lorraine
• Hatshepsut
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel
• Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
• Heisman, John William
• Hemingway, Ernest Miller
• Henry, VIII
• Heschel, Abraham Joshua
• Hirsi Ali, Ayaan
• Hitchcock, Alfred
• Hitler, Adolf
• Hobbes, Thomas
• Hobsbawm, Eric J.
• Hogarth, William
• Homer, Winslow
• Horney, Karen Danielsen
• Howard, Robert E.
• Hughes, Langston
• Hurston, Zora Neale
• I
• Ibsen, Henrik
• Isaiah
• J
• Jack the Ripper
• Jackson, Andrew
• Jackson, Michael
• Jackson, Shirley
• Jacobs, Harriet
• Jacobs, Jane
• James, I.
• James, LeBron
• Jefferson, Thomas
• Jenner, Edward
• Jesus of Nazareth
• Joan of Arc
• Jobs, Steve
• Jordan, Michael
• Joyce, James
• Julian of Norwich
• Juncker, Jean-Claude, President of the European Commission
• Jung, Carl Gustav
• K
• Kafka, Franz
• Kagan, Elena
• Kahlo, Frida
• Kahn, Louis I
• Kamehameha I
• Kant, Immanuel
• Kasich, John
• Keats, John
• Keller, Helen Adams
• Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
• Khan, Genghis
• Kierkegaard, Søren Aabye
• King, Martin Luther Jr
• King, Rodney
• King, Stephen Edwin
• Klimt, Gustav
• Kristeva, Julia
• L
• Lama, Dalai
• Lamar, Kendrick
• Lamborghini, Ferruccio
• Le Pen, Marine
• Lee, Bruce
• Lennon, John Winston
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Lewin, Kurt
• Lewis, Clive Staples
• Lewis, Harry Sinclair
• Lichtenstein, Roy
• Lincoln, Abraham
• Locke, John
• Lovelace, Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace
• Luther, Martin
• M
• Machiavelli, Niccolò
• Macri, Mauricio
• Madison, James
• Magdalene, Mary
• Magritte, René
• Mahama, John Dramani
• Mahfuz, Najib
• Malcolm X
• Mandela, Nelson
• Mankiw, N. Gregory
• Mansfield, Katherine
• Manson, Charles
• Marley, Bob
• Marshall, Thurgood
• Martyr, St. Justin
• Marx, Karl
• Maslow, Abraham
• McCarthy, Joseph Raymond
• McKay, Claude
• Menzel, Idina
• Merkel, Angela
• Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
• Merton, Thomas
• Mill, John Stuart
• Miller, Arthur
• Miyazaki, Hayao
• Mohammed
• Moltmann, Jöurgen
• Monet, Claude
• Monroe, Marilyn
• Montessori, Maria
• Moody, Dwight L.
• Morris, William
• Morrison, Toni
• Moses
• Munro, Alice
• Murakami, Haruki
• Murcutt, Glenn Marcus
• Musk, Elon
• Mussolini, Benito
• N
• Napoleon, I
• Nash, John
• Newman, John Henry
• Newton, Sir Isaac
• Niebuhr, Reinhold
• Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
• Nightingale, Florence
• Nixon, Richard Milhous
• O
• O'Brien, Tim
• O'Connor, Flannery
• O'akley, Annie
• Oates, Joyce Carol
• Obama, Barack
• Obama, Michelle
• Orwell, George
• Owen, Wilfred
• Owens, Jesse
• P
• Paglia, Camille
• Paine, Thomas
• Palahniuk, Chuck
• Parks, Rosa
• Pasteur, Louis
• Paul, Alice
• Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich
• Peltier, Leonard
• Pence, Mike
• Piaget, Jean
• Picasso, Pablo
• Plath, Sylvia
• Plato
• Poe, Edgar Allan
• Pollard, Jonathan Jay
• Pope, Francis
• Popper, Sir Karl Raimund
• Presley, Elvis
• Prince
• Princess Diana
• R
• Rahner, Karl
• Rand, Ayn
• Reagan, Ronald
• Renzi, Matteo
• Rickey, Wesley Branch
• Robeson, Paul
• Robinson, Jackie
• Rogers, Carl Ransom
• Roosevelt, Eleanor
• Roosevelt, Theodore
• Rousseau, Jean Jacques
• Rowling, J. K.
• Rudd, Paul
• S
• Sacagawea
• Said, Edward W.
• Saint Hildegard of Bingen
• Sampson, Deborah
• Sanger, Margaret Higgins
• Sartre, Jean Paul
• Satrapi, Marjane
• Saul
• Schlafly, Phyllis
• Schwarzenegger, Arnold
• Seaman, Elizabeth Cochrane
• Shakespeare, William
• Sharif, Omar
• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
• Signac, Paul
• Silva, Luiz Inácio Lula da
• Simone, Nina
• Singer, Peter Albert David
• Skinnner, B. F.
• Slick, Grace
• Smith, Clark Ashton
• Smith, Lillian Eugenia
• Snowden, Edward
• Socrates
• Solomon
• Sontag, Susan
• Sophocles
• Spurgeon, Charles Haddon
• St. Augustine
• Stalin, Joseph
• Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
• Steinbeck, John Ernst
• Steinem, Gloria
• Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher
• Strummer, Joe
• Suzuki, David
• Swift, Jonathan
• T
• Tennyson, Alfred
• Teresa, Mother
• Tesla, Nikola
• Thatcher, Margaret
• Thompson, Fred
• Thoreau, Henry David
• Tolkien, J. R. R.
• Tran Dai, Quang
• Trudeau, Justin
• Trump, Donald
• Truth, Sojourner
• Tsipras, Alexis
• Tubman, Harriet
• Tutankhamen
• Tutu, Desmond Mpilo
• Twain, Mark
• Tyson, Neil deGrasse
• U
• Updike, John
• V
• Van Gogh, Vincent
• Van Patten, Dick
• Victoria, Queen
• Vlad, the Impaler
• Voigt, Ellen Bryant
• Voltaire
• Vonnegut, Kurt Jr
• Vygotsky, Lev
• W
• Wagner, Richard
• Walker, Alice
• Wallace, David Foster
• Warhol, Andy
• Washington, Booker Taliaferro
• Washington, George
• Wasserman Schultz, Debbie
• Weber, Max
• Weird, Al Yankovic
• Weiwei, Ai
• Wesley, John
• West, Kanye
• White, Betty
• Whitman, Walt
• Wiesel, Elie
• Wilde, Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills
• Williams, Roger
• Wilson, August
• Winfrey, Oprah
• Winterson, Jeanette
• Wolfe, George C.
• Wollstonecraft, Mary
• Woods, Tiger
• Woolf, Virginia Stephen
• Wordsworth, William
• Wright, Frank Lloyd
• Wyclif, John
• Y
• Yousafzai, Malala
• Yunus, Muhammad
• Z
• Zuckerberg, Mark
• Zwingli, Huldreich