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| x Henry VI of England |
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Eton College |
Henry VI (6 December 1421 – 21 May 1471) was King of England 1422–1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and King of France from 1422 to 1453. Until 1437, his realms were governed by regents. Contemporaneously, he was described as a peaceful and pious...
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| x Mustafa Kemal Atatürk |
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Gazi University |
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (indeterminate - 1881–10 November 1938) was a Turkish army officer, revolutionary statesman, and founder of the Republic of Turkey as well as its first President.
Atatürk became known as an extremely capable military officer...
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| x Dr. An Wang |
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Wang Institute of Graduate Studies |
Dr. An Wang (Chinese: 王安; pinyin: Wáng Ān; February 7, 1920 – March 24, 1990) was a Chinese American computer engineer and inventor, and co-founder of computer company Wang Laboratories.
A native of Kunshan County in Suzhou Prefecture, he was born...
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| x Agrippina Vaganova | Vaganova Ballet Academy |
Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova (Russian: Агриппина Яковлевна Ваганова) (July 6, 1879 - November 5, 1951) was an outstanding Russian ballet teacher who developed the Vaganova method - the technique which derived from the teaching methods of the old...
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| x Yoshioka Yayoi |
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Tokyo Women's Medical University |
Yoshioka Yayoi (吉岡彌生, April 29, 1871 - May 22, 1959) was a physician and women's rights activist, who founded the Tokyo Women's Medical University (東京女子医科大学, Tōkyō Joshi Ika Daigaku) in 1900, as the first medical school for women in Japan. She was...
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| x Herbert Beerbohm Tree |
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Royal Academy of Dramatic Art |
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (17 December 1852 – 2 July 1917) was an English actor-manager.
Born in Kensington, London as Herbert Draper Beerbohm, Tree was the second son of Julius Ewald Edward Beerbohm (1810–1892), of Dutch, Lithuanian, and German...
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| x Roman Catholic Hierarchy of Southern Africa | National University of Lesotho | ||
| x Walter de Merton | Merton College, Oxford |
Walter de Merton (c. 1205 – 27 October 1277) was Bishop of Rochester and founder of Merton College, Oxford.
Walter was born probably at Merton in Surrey or educated there; hence the surname. He came of a land-owning family at Basingstoke; beyond...
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| x Thomas Cardinal Wolsey |
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Christ Church, Oxford |
Thomas Wolsey (c.1471 – 29 November 1530; sometimes spelled Woolsey) was an English statesman and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. When Henry VIII became king of England in 1509, Wolsey became the King's almoner. Wolsey's affairs prospered...
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| x Giovanni Bordiga | University Iuav of Venice | ||
| x Walter Gropius |
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Bauhaus |
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (May 18, 1883 – July 5, 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture....
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| x George Balanchine |
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School of American Ballet |
George Balanchine (January 22, 1904 – April 30, 1983), born Giorgi Melitonis dze Balanchivadze (Georgian: გიორგი მელიტონის ძე ბალანჩივაძე) in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to Georgian parents, was one of the 20th century's foremost choreographers, a...
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| x John Purdue |
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Purdue University |
John Purdue (October 31, 1802 in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania – September 12, 1876) was a famous industrialist based in Lafayette, Indiana and the primary original benefactor of Purdue University.
Most details of John Purdue's early life were...
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| x Daniel Bliss | American University of Beirut |
Daniel Bliss (August 17, 1823 – July 27, 1916) was the founder of the American University of Beirut. Born in the town of Georgia, Vermont, he was one of seven children in his household. His parents were Loomis and Susanna Bliss. His mother died when...
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| x Absalon | Sorø Academy |
Absalon (c. 1128 – 21 March 1201) was a Danish archbishop and statesman. He was the son of Asser Rig of Fjenneslev (Zealand), at whose castle he and his brother Esbjørn (Esbern) were brought up along with the young prince Valdemar, afterwards King...
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| x Leland Stanford |
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Stanford University |
Amasa Leland Stanford (9 March 1824 – 21 June 1893) was an American tycoon, politician and founder of Stanford University.
Stanford was born in 1824 in what was then Watervliet, New York (which is now the town of Colonie). He was one of eight...
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| x Jane Stanford |
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Stanford University |
Jane Stanford (August 25, 1828–February 28, 1905), was the daughter of a shopkeeper and lived on Washington Avenue in Albany, New York. She wed Leland Stanford in 1850. They headed west, first to Wisconsin and then to California. She would...
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| x Pierre Boulez |
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IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique) |
Pierre Boulez (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ buˈlɛz]) (born March 26, 1925) is a French composer of contemporary classical music and conductor.
Boulez was born in Montbrison, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both...
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| x Lucie Lalonde | Académie de la Capitale International School | ||
| x Ayna A. Cader | Canadian Montessori Academy | ||
| x Omar Malow | IBN Batouta School | ||
| x Shelley Holloway | MindWare Academy | ||
| x Manolis Kalomiris | Hellenic Conservatory |
Manolis Kalomiris, Μανώλης Καλομοίρης (1883–1962), was a Greek composer.
Born in Smyrna, he attended school in Constantinople and studied piano and composition in Vienna. After working for a few years as a piano teacher in Kharkov (then Russia and...
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| x Avi Weiss | Yeshivat Chovevei Torah |
Rabbi Avraham Weiss (born 1944) is an American Modern Orthodox rabbi who heads the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in The Bronx, New York. He is an author, teacher, lecturer, and activist. In addition he is founder and Dean of the "Open Orthodox" ...
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| x Doris Conard | The Mountain School | ||
| x Mac Conard | The Mountain School | ||
| x John Ruskin |
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Anglia Ruskin University |
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English art critic and social thinker, also remembered as an author, poet and artist. His essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
Ruskin...
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| x William McMaster |
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McMaster University |
William McMaster (December 24, 1811 – September 22, 1887) was a wholesaler, Senator and banker in the 1800s. A director of the Bank of Montreal from 1864-1867, he was a driving force behind the creation of the Canadian Bank of Commerce of which he...
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| x François de Laval |
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Université Laval |
François-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval (30 April 1623 – 6 May 1708) was the first Roman Catholic bishop of New France and was one of the most influential men of his day. He was appointed when he was 36 years old by Pope Alexander VII. He was a member...
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| x Sarah Peter | Moore College of Art and Design |
Sarah Peter (b. at Chillicothe, Ohio, U.S.A. 10 May, 1800; d. at Cincinnati, 6 February, 1877) was an American philanthropist.
Her father, Thomas Worthington, was Governor of Ohio, 1814-18, and also served in the United States Senate. On 15 May,...
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| x Hugh Childers |
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University of Melbourne |
Hugh Culling Eardley Childers (25 June 1827 – 29 January 1896) was a British and Australian Liberal statesman of the nineteenth century. He is perhaps best known for being the politician responsible for the sinking of HMS Captain and for his reforms...
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| x Townsend Harris |
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City College of New York |
Townsend Harris (October 3, 1804 – 1878) was a successful New York City merchant and minor politician, and the first United States Consul General to Japan. He negotiated the "Harris Treaty" between the US and Japan and is credited as the diplomat...
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| x Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod |
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Concordia University College of Alberta |
The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS), founded in 1847 in Chicago, is the eighth largest Protestant denomination in the United States, and the second-largest Lutheran body in the U.S. after the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It is a...
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| x David Strangway | Quest University |
David William Strangway, OC, FRSC is a Canadian geophysicist and university administrator. Strangway is the founder and Chancellor of Quest University Canada, a private non-profit liberal arts and sciences university in Squamish, British Columbia...
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| x John Hughes |
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Fordham University |
Archbishop John Joseph Hughes (June 24, 1797 – January 3, 1864) was the fourth bishop and first Archbishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York. He was born in County Tyrone, Ireland and followed his parents to the United States in 1817. His...
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| x Thomas Green Clemson |
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Clemson University |
Thomas Green Clemson, IV (July 1, 1807 – April 6, 1888) was an American politician and statesman, serving as an ambassador and the United States Superintendent of Agriculture. He was the founder of Clemson University. Born in Philadelphia, Clemson...
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| x Ovid Butler | Butler University | ||
| x Mary Lucretia Creighton | Creighton University |
Mary Lucretia Creighton (February 3, 1834 – January 23, 1876) was born Mary Lucretia Wareham in Dayton, Ohio. Creighton was a philanthropist who left a bequest of $200,000 in her will to found Creighton University in honor of her husband, Omaha,...
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| x Suhaila Salimpour | Suhaila Salimpour School of Dance | ||
| x Augustus Juilliard |
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Juilliard School |
Augustus D. Juilliard (April 19, 1836 – April 25, 1919) was an American businessman whose philanthropy built the renowned conservatory of dance, music, and theatre in New York City that bears his name.
The son of immigrants from the Burgundy region...
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| x Jakob Jakobsen | Copenhagen Free University | ||
| x Henrietta Heise | Copenhagen Free University | ||
| x James Goodnight |
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Cary Academy |
James "Jim" Goodnight (b. January 6, 1943) is the CEO of SAS Institute and is generally recognized as the wealthiest man in the state of North Carolina and one of the wealthiest in the world. He was born in Salisbury, NC and lived in Greensboro, NC...
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| x Mykola Lysenko |
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Lysenko music school |
Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko (Ukrainian: Микола Віталійович Лисенко, October 22 [O.S. October 3] 1842 – November 6 [O.S. October 24] 1912) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist.
Lysenko was born in Hrynky, Kremenchuk...
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| x Anna Leonowens |
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Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University |
Anna Leonowens (26 November 1831 – 19 January 1915) was a British travel writer, educator and social activist, known for teaching the wives and children of Mongkut, king of Siam, and for co-founding the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design....
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| x Reverend Edmund Burke | Saint Mary's University | ||
| x Gustave Maria Blanche |
Gustave Maria Blanche (30 April 1849 – 26 July 1916) was a French-Canadian Roman Catholic priest, Bishop, and Vicar Apostolic of Golfe St-Laurent.
Born in Josselin, Diocese de Vannes, France, the son of L. Blanche and Marie Hayard, Blanche was...
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| x John Colet |
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St Paul's School |
John Colet (January 1467 – 10 September 1519) was an English churchman and educational pioneer.
Colet was an English scholar, Renaissance humanist, theologian, and Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. Colet wanted people to see the scripture as...
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| x John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland |
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John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland KG, PC (1 June 1759 – 15 December 1841), styled Lord Burghersh between 1771 and 1774, was a British Tory politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, who served in most of the cabinets of the period,...
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| x John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland | Royal Academy of Music |
General John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland GCB PC (2 February 1784 – 16 October 1859) was a British soldier and diplomat.
He was the son of the 10th Earl of Westmorland and the heiress Sarah Anne Child, daughter of the wealthy banker Sir Robert...
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| x Isaac Hellmuth | University of Western Ontario |
Isaac Hellmuth (December 14, 1819 – 28 May 1901), second Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Huron, was the founder of Huron University College and the University of Western Ontario, one of Canada's leading universities.
Isaac was born in Poland in...
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| x Siegfried Lehmann | Ben Shemen Youth Village | ||
| x Robert Sparke Hutchings | Penang Free School | ||
| x Peter Kump |
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Institute of Culinary Education | |
| x Anton Rubinstein |
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Saint Petersburg Conservatory |
Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein (Russian: Антóн Григóрьевич Рубинштéйн) (November 28, 1829 – November 20, 1894) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great...
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| x Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein |
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Moscow Conservatory |
Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein (14 June [O.S. 2 June] 1835 – 23 March [O.S. 11 March] 1881) was a Russian pianist, conductor and composer. He was the younger brother of Anton Rubinstein and a close friend of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Born to Jewish...
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| x British East India Company |
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Addiscombe Military Academy |
The East India Company (also the East India Trading Company, English East India Company, and then the British East India Company) was an early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that...
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| x William Barton Rogers |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
William Barton Rogers (December 7, 1804 – May 30, 1882) is best known for setting down the founding principles, advocating for, and finally incorporating the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1861. The university opened in 1865 after...
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| x Sisters of Mercy |
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College Misericordia |
The Religious Order of the Sisters of Mercy (RSM) is an order of Catholic women founded by Catherine McAuley in Dublin, Ireland in 1831. As of 2003, the order has about 10,000 members worldwide, organized into a number of independent congregations....
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| Mercyhurst Preparatory School | |||
| Maricourt High School | |||
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| x George Peabody |
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Peabody Institute |
George Peabody (February 18, 1795 – November 4, 1869) was an entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Peabody Institute. He was born in what was then South Danvers, Massachusetts (now Peabody, Massachusetts), to a family with Puritan...
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