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The "person or being in fiction" type allows people, deities, and other
beings that are not actually fictional to be modeled as characters in
fictional works that treat them in a fictional manner or that include
characters clearly based on real people.
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| x Adam Worth |
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Professor Moriarty |
Adam Worth (1844–January 8, 1902) was an American criminal. Scotland Yard detective Robert Anderson nicknamed him "the Napoleon of the criminal world", and he is commonly referred to as "the Napoleon of Crime."
Adam Worth was born into a poor Jewish...
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| x David Gerrold | David Gerrold |
Jerrold David Friedman (born 24 January 1944, in Chicago, Illinois), better known by his pen name David Gerrold, is an American science fiction author who started his career in 1966 while a college student by submitting an unsolicited story outline...
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| x Nikola Tesla |
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Janos Bartok |
Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and futurist. He was an important contributor to the use of commercial electricity, and is best...
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| x Dee Dee Myers |
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C. J. Cregg |
Dee Dee Myers (born Margaret Jane Myers, September 1, 1961), a political analyst, was the White House Press Secretary during the first two years of the Clinton administration, from January 1993 to December 1994. She was the first woman and the...
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| x Horatio Hornblower | James T. Kirk |
Horatio Hornblower is a fictional Royal Navy officer who is the protagonist of a series of novels by C. S. Forester. He was later the subject of films and television programs.
The original Hornblower tales began with the 1937 novel The Happy Return ...
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| x Hamlet (legend) |
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Prince Hamlet |
Hamlet is a figure in Scandinavian romance and the hero of Shakespeare's tragedy, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
The chief authority for the legend of Hamlet is Saxo Grammaticus, who devotes to it parts of the third and fourth books of his Gesta Danorum...
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| x Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald |
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Horatio Hornblower |
Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, 1st Marquess of Maranhão, GCB, ODM (14 December 1775 – 31 October 1860), styled Lord Cochrane between 1778 and 1831, was a Scottish naval flag officer and radical politician.
He was a daring and...
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| x James Alexander Gordon |
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Horatio Hornblower |
Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Alexander Gordon, KCB, RN (6 October 1782 – 8 January 1869) was a distinguished British officer in the Royal Navy. His 75 years in the service, from Midshipman to Admiral of the Fleet was unprecedented in its duration....
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| x Frank DeSimone |
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Tom Hagen |
Frank A. DeSimone (July 17, 1909 – August 4, 1967) was the Boss of the Los Angeles crime family from 1956 to 1967. DeSimone was the son of former don Rosario DeSimone. He was sometime referred to as "One Eye" because one of his eyes drooped, in the...
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| x Jack Kerouac |
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Sal Paradise |
Jean-Louis "Jack" Kerouac ( /ˈkɛruːæk/ or /ˈkɛrɵæk/; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat...
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| x Neal Cassady | Dean Moriarty |
Neal Leon Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s. He served as the model for the character Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road....
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| x Mary Carney | Maggie Cassidy | ||
| x William S. Burroughs |
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Frank Carmody |
William Seward Burroughs II ( /ˈbʌroʊz/; also known by his pen name William Lee; February 5, 1914(1914-02-05) – August 2, 1997(1997-08-02)) was an American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer. A primary figure of the Beat Generation...
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| x Gérard Kerouac | Gerard Duluoz | ||
| x Gabrielle-Ange Lévesque | Ange Duluoz | ||
| x Jerry Holkins |
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Tycho |
Keith Gerald "Jerry" Holkins né Parkinson (born February 6, 1976) is the primary writer of the webcomic Penny Arcade along with its artist Mike Krahulik. He is also a co-founder of Child's Play, a multimillion dollar charity which organizes toy...
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| x Theodore Sturgeon | Kilgore Trout |
Theodore Sturgeon (born Edward Hamilton Waldo; February 26, 1918 – May 8, 1985) was an American science fiction and horror author. His most famous novel is More Than Human (1953).
Sturgeon was born Edward Hamilton Waldo in Staten Island, New York in...
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| x Steve Rubell |
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Steve Rubell |
Steve Rubell (December 2, 1943 - July 25, 1989) was an American entrepreneur and co-owner of the New York disco Studio 54.
Rubell and his brother Don spent their childhoods with their parents in Brooklyn, New York. His father worked for the U.S....
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| x Bernard Sumner |
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Bernard Sumner |
Bernard Sumner (born 4 January 1956), also known as Bernard Dickin, Bernard Dicken and Bernard Albrecht is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, keyboard player and producer.
He is best known as a founding member of the bands Joy Division and New...
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| x Tony Wilson |
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Tony Wilson |
Anthony Howard Wilson known as Tony Wilson (20 February 1950 – 10 August 2007), was an English record label owner, radio presenter, TV show host, nightclub manager, impresario and journalist for Granada Television and the BBC.
Wilson was the music...
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| x John Forbes Nash |
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John Nash |
John Forbes Nash, Jr. (born June 13, 1928) is an American mathematician whose works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations have provided insight into the forces that govern chance and events inside complex systems...
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| x Dan Marino |
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Dan Marino |
Daniel Constantine "Dan" Marino, Jr. (born September 15, 1961) is a retired American football quarterback who played for the Miami Dolphins in the National Football League. The last quarterback of the Quarterback Class of 1983 to be taken in the...
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| x Alexander Nevsky |
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Alexander Nevsky |
Alexander Nevsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Яросла́вич Не́вский (help·info), Aleksandr Yaroslavich Nevskiy; pronounced [ɐlʲɪˈksandr jɪrɐˈslavʲɪtɕ ˈnʲefskʲɪj]; 30 May 1220 – 14 November 1263, proclaimed Saint of the Russian Orthodox Church by Metropolite...
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| x Howard Cosell |
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Howard Cosell |
Howard William Cosell (pronounced /koʊˈsɛl/; born Howard William Cohen; March 25, 1918 – April 23, 1995) was an American sports journalist who was widely known for his blustery, cocksure personality. Cosell said of himself, "Arrogant, pompous,...
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| x Muhammad Ali |
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Muhammad Ali |
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.; January 17, 1942) is an American former professional boxer, philanthropist and social activist. Considered a cultural icon, Ali was both idolized and vilified.
Originally known as Cassius Clay, Ali...
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| x Antonio Salieri |
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Antonio Salieri |
Antonio Salieri (18 August 1750 – 7 May 1825) was a Venetian classical composer, conductor and teacher born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a faithful subject of the Habsburg...
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| x Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (German: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ amaˈdeus ˈmoːtsaʁt], English see fn.), baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He...
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| x Fred Haise |
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Fred Haise |
Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. (pronounced /ˈheɪz/ HAYZ) (born November 14, 1933) is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut. He is one of only 24 humans to have flown to the Moon. Having flown on Apollo 13, Haise was to be the sixth human to walk...
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| x Gene Kranz |
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Gene Kranz |
Eugene Francis "Gene" Kranz (born August 17, 1933) is a retired NASA Flight Director and manager. Kranz served as a Flight Director, the successor to NASA founding Flight Director Chris Kraft, during the Gemini and Apollo programs, and is best known...
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| x Jack Swigert |
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Jack Swigert |
John Leonard "Jack" Swigert, Jr., (August 30, 1931 – December 27, 1982) was a NASA astronaut, one of the 24 persons who have flown to the Moon.
Before joining NASA, Swigert was a test pilot. After leaving NASA, he was elected to the United States...
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| x Jim Lovell |
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Jim Lovell |
James "Jim" Arthur Lovell, Jr., (born March 25, 1928) is a former NASA astronaut and a retired captain in the United States Navy, most famous as the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, which suffered a critical failure en route to the Moon but was...
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| x Ken Mattingly |
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Ken Mattingly |
Thomas Kenneth "Ken" Mattingly II, (born March 17, 1936) is a retired American astronaut and rear admiral in the United States Navy who flew on the Apollo 16, STS-4 and STS-51-C missions. He had been scheduled to fly on Apollo 13, but was held back...
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| x Charles Starkweather |
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Kit |
Charles Raymond Starkweather (November 24, 1938 – June 25, 1959) was an American teenaged spree killer who murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming during a two-month road trip with his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate. The couple was...
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| x Bruno Bischofberger |
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Bruno Bischofberger |
Bruno Bischofberger (born 1940) is an art dealer and gallerist from Zurich, Switzerland, and a major figure in the international art market for several decades. He is especially known for bringing American pop art to Europe in the 1960s, and...
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| x Jean-Michel Basquiat |
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Jean-Michel Basquiat |
Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist. He began as a graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s and evolved into a Neo-expressionist painter during the 1980s.
Jean-Michel Basquiat was born after...
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| x Reinaldo Arenas | Reinaldo Arenas |
Reinaldo Arenas (July 16, 1943 – December 7, 1990) was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who despite his early sympathy for the 1959 revolution, grew critical of and then rebelled against the Cuban government.
Arenas was born in the countryside...
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| x Ron Kovic |
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Ron Kovic |
Ronald Lawrence Kovic (born July 4, 1946) is an anti-war activist, veteran and writer who was paralyzed in the Vietnam War. He is best known as the author of the memoir Born on the Fourth of July, which was made into an Academy Award–winning movie...
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| x Brandon Teena | Brandon Teena |
Brandon Teena (December 12, 1972 – December 31, 1993) was an American trans man who was raped and murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska. His life and death were the subject of the Academy Award-winning 1999 film Boys Don't Cry, which was based on the...
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| x Holly Golightly |
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Holly Golightly |
Holly Golightly (born Holly Golightly Smith, 1966, London) is a British singer-songwriter. Her mother christened her after the protagonist in Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. Her musical style ranges from garage rock to R&B.;
While she was...
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| x Bugsy Siegel |
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Bugsy Siegel |
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (born Benjamin Siegelbaum; February 28, 1906 – June 20, 1947) was an American gangster who was involved with the Genovese crime family. Siegel was a major driving force behind large-scale development of the Las Vegas Valley....
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| x Lawrence "Crash" Davis | Crash Davis |
Lawrence Columbus "Crash" Davis (July 14, 1919 – August 31, 2001) was an American professional baseball player whose name inspired that of the main character of the 1988 movie Bull Durham. Born in Canon, Georgia, and raised in Gastonia, North...
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| x Truman Capote |
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Truman Capote |
Truman Streckfus Persons (September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984), known as Truman Capote ( /ˈtruːmən kəˈpoʊtiː/), was an American author, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the...
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| x Frank Abagnale | Frank Abagnale Jr. |
Frank William Abagnale, Jr. (born April 27, 1948) is an American security consultant known for his history as a former confidence trickster, check forger, impostor, and escape artist. He became notorious in the 1960s for passing $2.5 million worth...
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| x Frank Abagnale, Sr. | Frank Abagnale, Sr. |
Frank William Abagnale, Sr. (1917-1974) is the father of Frank William Abagnale, Jr., the author of Catch Me If You Can.
According to Abagnale Jr's book, his father met his mother, Paulette, in Montpellier, France following the last months of...
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| x Loretta Lynn |
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Loretta Lynn |
Loretta Lynn (born Loretta Webb April 14, 1935 though Kentucky Birth Records show she was actually born 14 Apr 1932) is an American country music singer-songwriter, author and philanthropist. Born in Butcher Holler, near Paintsville, Kentucky in...
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| x Napoleon Bonaparte |
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Napoléon Bonaparte |
Napoleon Bonaparte (French: Napoléon Bonaparte [napoleɔ̃ bɔnɑpaʁt]) (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the latter stages of the French Revolution. As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of...
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| x Cyrano de Bergerac |
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Cyrano de Bergerac |
Hercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655) was a French dramatist and duelist. He is now best remembered for the works of fiction which have been woven, often very loosely, around his life story, most notably the 1897 play...
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| x Elizabeth I of England |
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Queen Elizabeth I |
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor...
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| Princess Elizabeth | |||
| x Erin Brockovich |
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Erin Brockovich |
Erin Brockovich-Ellis (born June 22, 1960) is an American legal clerk and environmental activist who, despite the lack of a formal law school education, or any legal education, was instrumental in constructing a case against the Pacific Gas and...
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| x God |
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God |
God is either the sole deity in monotheism or the monist deity in polytheism. God is most often conceived of as the supernatural creator and overseer of the universe. Theologians have ascribed a variety of attributes to the many different...
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| x Andy Warhol |
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Andy Warhol |
Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that...
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| x Frida Kahlo | Frida Kahlo |
Frida Kahlo de Rivera (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954; born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón) was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán, and is perhaps best known for her self-portraits.
Kahlo's life began and ended in Mexico City, in her home...
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| x Fanny Brice |
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Fanny Brice |
Fanny Brice (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951) was a popular and influential American illustrated song "model," comedian, singer, theatre and film actress, who made many stage, radio and film appearances and is known as the creator and star of the...
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| x Mahatma Gandhi |
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Mahatma Gandhi |
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (pronounced: [ˈmoːɦənd̪aːs ˈkərəmtʃənd̪ ˈɡaːnd̪ʱi]; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British ruled India. Employing non-violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to...
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| x Cicero |
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Cicero |
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( /ˈsɪsɨroʊ/; Classical Latin: [ˈkɪkɛroː]; January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC; sometimes anglicized as Tully), was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, orator, political theorist, Roman consul and constitutionalist. He...
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| x Commodus |
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Commodus |
Commodus (Latin: Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus; 31 August 161 – 31 December 192), was Roman Emperor from 180 to 192. He also ruled as co-emperor with his father Marcus Aurelius from 177 until his father's death in 180. His name changed...
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| x Lucilla |
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Lucilla |
Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla or Lucilla (March 7, 148 or 150-182) was the second daughter and third child of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Roman Empress Faustina the Younger and an elder sister to future Roman Emperor Commodus.
Lucilla was the...
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| x Marcus Aurelius |
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Marcus Aurelius |
Marcus Aurelius (Latin: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus; 26 April 121 – 17 March 180 AD), was Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD. He ruled with Lucius Verus as co-emperor from 161 until Verus' death in 169. He was the last of the "Five Good...
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| x Adolph Rupp | Adolph Rupp |
Adolph Frederick Rupp (September 2, 1901 – December 10, 1977) was one of the most successful coaches in the history of American college basketball. Rupp is ranked 5th (behind Mike Krzyzewski, Bob Knight, Jim Boeheim, and Dean Smith) in total...
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| x James Whale | James Whale |
James Whale (22 July 1889 – 29 May 1957) was an English film director, theatre director and actor. He is best remembered for his work in the horror film genre, having directed such classics as Frankenstein (1931), The Old Dark House (1932), The...
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