Encyclopedia of world biography.
Encyclopedia of world biography. Volume 24, Supplement [electronic resource] /
Andrea Kovacs Henderson, Tracie Ratiner, project editors.
- 2nd ed.
- Detroit, Mich. : Thomson Gale, c2005.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 604 p.) : ill.
- Gale virtual reference library .
"A-Z"--Cover and title page.
Includes bibliographical references.
Faye Glenn Abdellah -- Eduardo Acevedo Diaz -- Aerosmith -- Aesop -- Saint Agnes -- Toshiko Akiyoshi -- Alexander III -- Alicia Alonso -- Natan Alterman -- Calin Alupi -- Yehuda Amichai -- Ivo Andric -- Constance Applebee -- Abbas Mahmud al-Aqqad -- German Arciniegas -- Evelyn Ashford -- Mary Astell -- Meher Baba -- Ban Zhao -- Romana Acosta Banuelos -- Marius Barbeau -- John Barbirolli -- Thomas Beecham -- Giaconda Belli -- Gerd Karl Binnig -- Lucian Blaga -- Katharine Burr Blodgett -- Bono -- Fernando Botero -- Adrian Cedric Boult -- Myra Bradwell -- Breyten Breytenbach -- Tony Brown -- Richard Burbage -- Benny Carter -- Laura Cereta -- Fedor Ivanovich Chaliapin -- Mary Agnes Chase -- Linda Chavez-Thompson -- Francis Chichester -- Vera Chytilova -- Rebecca Thacher Clarke -- Clement XI -- John Warcup Cornforth -- Howard Cosell -- James Watson Cronin -- Celia Cruz -- Richard M. Daley -- Maurice de Hirsch -- Tamara de Lempicka -- Christine de Pisan -- Ferdinand de Saussure -- Grazia Deledda -- Jose Matias Delgado -- David Mandessi Diop -- Doris Duke -- Tan Dun -- Gerald Malcolm Durrell -- Leo Esaki -- Rene Geronimo Favaloro -- Sally Field -- Val Logsdon Fitch -- Peggy Fleming -- Maria Irene Fornes -- Rube Foster -- A. J. Foyt -- Erik Ivar Fredholm -- Fu Mingxia -- Louis Agassiz Fuertes -- Joseph Galamb -- Henry Highland Garnet -- Uri Greenberg -- Maria Grever -- Peter Hall -- Herbert Hauptman -- Ofra Haza -- Eric Arthur Heiden -- John William Heisman -- Chang Heng -- Alonzo Franklin Herndon -- Johns Hopkins -- Hviezdoslav -- Innocent X -- Lev Ivanov -- Marie Trautmann Jaell -- Nur Jahan -- Johannes Vilhelm Jensen -- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson -- Rudolf Emil Kalman -- Raden Ajeng Kartini -- Ali Akbar Khan -- Keisuke Kinoshita -- Teinosuke Kinugasa -- Alexander Kipnis -- Olga Korbut -- Serge Koussevitzky -- Miroslav Krleza -- Julie Krone -- Umm Kulthum -- Susan La Flesche Picotte -- Chuan Leekpai -- Sugar Ray Leonard -- Ada Charlotte Mackenzie -- John James Rickard Macleod -- Agnes Campbell Macphail -- Bob Marley -- Maria Montoya Martinez -- Mary Magdalene -- Vincent Massey -- Roberto Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren -- Paul McCartney -- Jose Toribio Medina -- Nellie Melba -- Albert Memmi -- Maud L. Menten -- Carl Wilheim Emil Milles -- Mirabai -- Franco Modigliani -- Ismael Montes -- Ann Haven Morgan -- Jelly Roll Morton -- Alva Myrdal -- Jean Negulesco -- Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko -- Dositej Obradovic -- Kenzaburo Oe -- Aristotle Onassis -- Ernest Oppenheimer -- Ferdinand Leopold Oyono -- Panini -- Andrzej Panufnik -- C. Northcote Parkinson -- Dolly Parton -- Eric Partridge -- Annie Smith Peck -- Aristides Maria Pereira -- Philip -- Pin-chin Chiang -- William Plomer -- Alvin Francis Poussaint -- V. I. Pudovkin -- Seewoosagur Ramgoolam -- Dan Irvin Rather -- Nancy Reagan -- Michael Redgrave -- Ilya Efimovich Repin -- Ralph Richardson -- Thomas Joseph Ridge -- Rozanne Lejeanne Ridgway -- Augusto Roa Bastos -- Rachel Ruysch -- Abdus Salam -- Hakim Sana'i -- Sonia Sanchez -- Romy Schneider -- Tex Schramm -- Richard W. Sears -- Ruth Porter Crawford Seeger -- Amartya Kumar Sen -- Ramon Jose Sender -- Huda Shaarawi -- Sheba -- Taras Grigoryevich Shevchenko -- Esther Shub -- Nina Simone -- Jessie Carney Smith -- Margaret Jean Smith Court -- Robert Smythson -- Sobhuza II -- Luang Pibul Songgram -- Bruce Springsteen -- Standing Bear -- Susan McKinney Steward -- Jackie Stewart -- Maria W. Miller Stewart -- Sylvester I -- Vivienne Tam -- Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata -- Mildred D. Taylor -- Maria Telkes -- Ellen Terry -- Rosetta Nubin Tharpe -- Leon Theremin -- Sybil Thorndike -- Susumu Tonegawa -- Lee Trevino -- Trota of Salerno -- Agrippina Vaganova -- Wilma L. Vaught -- Jose Garcia Villa -- Carlos Raul Villanueva -- Grete Waitz -- Florence Sophie Wald -- Sippie Wallace -- Vera Wang -- Sarah Frances Whiting -- Dorothy Maud Wrinch -- Cy Young -- Raul Yzaguirre -- Natan Zach.
A multicultural biographical source that covers notable individuals from every part of the world and from all time periods who have made significant contributions to human culture.
9780787693459 (electronic book) 0787693456 (electronic book)
Biography--Encyclopedias.
"A-Z"--Cover and title page.
Includes bibliographical references.
Faye Glenn Abdellah -- Eduardo Acevedo Diaz -- Aerosmith -- Aesop -- Saint Agnes -- Toshiko Akiyoshi -- Alexander III -- Alicia Alonso -- Natan Alterman -- Calin Alupi -- Yehuda Amichai -- Ivo Andric -- Constance Applebee -- Abbas Mahmud al-Aqqad -- German Arciniegas -- Evelyn Ashford -- Mary Astell -- Meher Baba -- Ban Zhao -- Romana Acosta Banuelos -- Marius Barbeau -- John Barbirolli -- Thomas Beecham -- Giaconda Belli -- Gerd Karl Binnig -- Lucian Blaga -- Katharine Burr Blodgett -- Bono -- Fernando Botero -- Adrian Cedric Boult -- Myra Bradwell -- Breyten Breytenbach -- Tony Brown -- Richard Burbage -- Benny Carter -- Laura Cereta -- Fedor Ivanovich Chaliapin -- Mary Agnes Chase -- Linda Chavez-Thompson -- Francis Chichester -- Vera Chytilova -- Rebecca Thacher Clarke -- Clement XI -- John Warcup Cornforth -- Howard Cosell -- James Watson Cronin -- Celia Cruz -- Richard M. Daley -- Maurice de Hirsch -- Tamara de Lempicka -- Christine de Pisan -- Ferdinand de Saussure -- Grazia Deledda -- Jose Matias Delgado -- David Mandessi Diop -- Doris Duke -- Tan Dun -- Gerald Malcolm Durrell -- Leo Esaki -- Rene Geronimo Favaloro -- Sally Field -- Val Logsdon Fitch -- Peggy Fleming -- Maria Irene Fornes -- Rube Foster -- A. J. Foyt -- Erik Ivar Fredholm -- Fu Mingxia -- Louis Agassiz Fuertes -- Joseph Galamb -- Henry Highland Garnet -- Uri Greenberg -- Maria Grever -- Peter Hall -- Herbert Hauptman -- Ofra Haza -- Eric Arthur Heiden -- John William Heisman -- Chang Heng -- Alonzo Franklin Herndon -- Johns Hopkins -- Hviezdoslav -- Innocent X -- Lev Ivanov -- Marie Trautmann Jaell -- Nur Jahan -- Johannes Vilhelm Jensen -- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson -- Rudolf Emil Kalman -- Raden Ajeng Kartini -- Ali Akbar Khan -- Keisuke Kinoshita -- Teinosuke Kinugasa -- Alexander Kipnis -- Olga Korbut -- Serge Koussevitzky -- Miroslav Krleza -- Julie Krone -- Umm Kulthum -- Susan La Flesche Picotte -- Chuan Leekpai -- Sugar Ray Leonard -- Ada Charlotte Mackenzie -- John James Rickard Macleod -- Agnes Campbell Macphail -- Bob Marley -- Maria Montoya Martinez -- Mary Magdalene -- Vincent Massey -- Roberto Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren -- Paul McCartney -- Jose Toribio Medina -- Nellie Melba -- Albert Memmi -- Maud L. Menten -- Carl Wilheim Emil Milles -- Mirabai -- Franco Modigliani -- Ismael Montes -- Ann Haven Morgan -- Jelly Roll Morton -- Alva Myrdal -- Jean Negulesco -- Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko -- Dositej Obradovic -- Kenzaburo Oe -- Aristotle Onassis -- Ernest Oppenheimer -- Ferdinand Leopold Oyono -- Panini -- Andrzej Panufnik -- C. Northcote Parkinson -- Dolly Parton -- Eric Partridge -- Annie Smith Peck -- Aristides Maria Pereira -- Philip -- Pin-chin Chiang -- William Plomer -- Alvin Francis Poussaint -- V. I. Pudovkin -- Seewoosagur Ramgoolam -- Dan Irvin Rather -- Nancy Reagan -- Michael Redgrave -- Ilya Efimovich Repin -- Ralph Richardson -- Thomas Joseph Ridge -- Rozanne Lejeanne Ridgway -- Augusto Roa Bastos -- Rachel Ruysch -- Abdus Salam -- Hakim Sana'i -- Sonia Sanchez -- Romy Schneider -- Tex Schramm -- Richard W. Sears -- Ruth Porter Crawford Seeger -- Amartya Kumar Sen -- Ramon Jose Sender -- Huda Shaarawi -- Sheba -- Taras Grigoryevich Shevchenko -- Esther Shub -- Nina Simone -- Jessie Carney Smith -- Margaret Jean Smith Court -- Robert Smythson -- Sobhuza II -- Luang Pibul Songgram -- Bruce Springsteen -- Standing Bear -- Susan McKinney Steward -- Jackie Stewart -- Maria W. Miller Stewart -- Sylvester I -- Vivienne Tam -- Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata -- Mildred D. Taylor -- Maria Telkes -- Ellen Terry -- Rosetta Nubin Tharpe -- Leon Theremin -- Sybil Thorndike -- Susumu Tonegawa -- Lee Trevino -- Trota of Salerno -- Agrippina Vaganova -- Wilma L. Vaught -- Jose Garcia Villa -- Carlos Raul Villanueva -- Grete Waitz -- Florence Sophie Wald -- Sippie Wallace -- Vera Wang -- Sarah Frances Whiting -- Dorothy Maud Wrinch -- Cy Young -- Raul Yzaguirre -- Natan Zach.
A multicultural biographical source that covers notable individuals from every part of the world and from all time periods who have made significant contributions to human culture.
9780787693459 (electronic book) 0787693456 (electronic book)
Biography--Encyclopedias.