ABSTRACT
Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
entry |4 pages
Alvaraalto
entry |4 pages
Ferhat Abbas
entry |4 pages
Ralph David Abernathy
entry |3 pages
Chinua Achebe
entry |5 pages
Dean Acheson
entry |5 pages
Jane Addams
entry |4 pages
Konrad Adenauer
entry |4 pages
Alfred Adler
entry |3 pages
Joanne Akalaitis
entry |4 pages
Anna Akhmatova
entry |4 pages
Akihito
entry |4 pages
First Viscount Alanbrooke
entry |4 pages
Madeleine Albright
entry |5 pages
Muhammad Ali
entry |5 pages
Lord Allenby
entry |3 pages
Viktor A. Ambartsumian
entry |4 pages
Roald Amundsen
entry |4 pages
Marian Anderson
entry |5 pages
Norman Angell
entry |3 pages
Maya Angelou
entry |4 pages
Guillaume Apollinaire
entry |4 pages
Corazon Aquino
entry |5 pages
Yasir Arafat
entry |3 pages
Diane Arbus
entry |4 pages
Hannah Arendt
entry |3 pages
Edwin H. Armstrong
entry |5 pages
Louis Armstrong
entry |4 pages
Neil Armstrong
entry |3 pages
Svante August Arrhenius
entry |4 pages
Dorothy Arzner
entry |4 pages
H.H.Asquith
entry |4 pages
Fred Astaire
entry |4 pages
Nancy Astor
entry |4 pages
Kemal Ataturk
entry |4 pages
Clement Attlee
entry |3 pages
Sri Aurobindo
entry |4 pages
Nnamdi Azikiwe
entry |4 pages
Leo Baeck
entry |3 pages
Mikhail Bakhtin
entry |5 pages
George Balanchine
entry |4 pages
Emily Greene Balch
entry |4 pages
James Baldwin
entry |4 pages
Stanley Baldwin
entry |4 pages
Arthur Balfour
entry |4 pages
Lucille Ball
entry |3 pages
Robert Duane Ballard
entry |4 pages
Surendranath Banerjea
entry |4 pages
Sir Frederick Grant Banting
entry |4 pages
Samuel Barber
entry |4 pages
Christiaan Barnard
entry |4 pages
Djuna Barnes
entry |4 pages
Karl Barth
entry |3 pages
Roland Barthes
entry |4 pages
Béla Bartók
entry |3 pages
Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov
entry |4 pages
Sir William Maddock Bayliss
entry |5 pages
Charles A. Beard
entry |4 pages
The Beatles
entry |4 pages
Simone De Beauvoir
entry |4 pages
Lord Beaverbrook
entry |5 pages
Samuel Beckett
entry |4 pages
Menachem Begin
entry |4 pages
Saul Bellow
entry |4 pages
David Ben-Gurion
entry |4 pages
Ruth Benedict
entry |4 pages
Edvard Beneš
entry |4 pages
Stephen Vincent Benét
entry |4 pages
Walter Benjamin
entry |4 pages
Alban Berg
entry |3 pages
Friedrich Bergius
entry |5 pages
Ingmar Bergman
entry |4 pages
Henri Bergson
entry |4 pages
Irving Berlin
entry |4 pages
Eduard Bernstein
entry |5 pages
Leonard Bernstein
entry |4 pages
Hans Albrecht Bethe
entry |4 pages
Aneurin Bevan
entry |5 pages
Lord Beveridge
entry |5 pages
Ernest Bevin
entry |3 pages
Vilhelm Bjerknes
entry |4 pages
Hugo L. Black
entry |3 pages
Louis Blériot
entry |4 pages
Eugen Bleuler
entry |3 pages
Aleksandr Blok
entry |4 pages
Léon Blum
entry |3 pages
Franz Boas
entry |3 pages
Umberto Boccioni
entry |4 pages
Niels Bohr
entry |4 pages
Heinrich Böll
entry |5 pages
Margaret Bondfield
entry |4 pages
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
entry |3 pages
Pierre Bonnard
entry |3 pages
Robert Laird Borden
entry |3 pages
Björn Borg
entry |5 pages
Jorge Luis Borges
entry |3 pages
Louis Botha
entry |3 pages
Waltherbothe
entry |4 pages
Horatio W. Bottomley
entry |5 pages
Pierre Boulez
entry |4 pages
Habib Bourguiba
entry |4 pages
Margaret Bourke-White
entry |4 pages
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
entry |4 pages
Omar N.Bradley
entry |3 pages
Donald G. Bradman
entry |4 pages
Sir Lawrence Bragg
entry |5 pages
Constantin Brancusi
entry |5 pages
Louis D. Brandeis
entry |3 pages
Marlon Brando
entry |4 pages
Willy Brandt
entry |5 pages
Georges Braque
entry |4 pages
Fernand Braudel
entry |4 pages
Wernher Von Braun
entry |4 pages
Bertolt Brecht
entry |4 pages
André Breton
entry |4 pages
Josef Breuer
entry |3 pages
Henri-Édouard-Prosper Breuil
entry |4 pages
Leonid Ilich Brezhnev
entry |3 pages
Percy Williams Bridgman
entry |6 pages
Benjamin Britten
entry |3 pages
Louis De Broglie
entry |4 pages
Emil Brunner
entry |4 pages
William Jennings Bryan
entry |3 pages
Martin Buber
entry |5 pages
Pearl S. Buck
entry |3 pages
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin
entry |4 pages
Bernhard Von Bülow
entry |3 pages
Rudolf Bultmann
entry |4 pages
Ralph Bunche
entry |4 pages
Luis Buñuel
entry |3 pages
Warren E. Burger
entry |4 pages
Sir Macfarlane Burnet
entry |4 pages
Edgar Rice Burroughs
entry |4 pages
George Bush
entry |5 pages
Nicholas Murray Butler
entry |5 pages
R. A. Butler
entry |4 pages
Richard E. Byrd
entry |4 pages
Alexander Calder
entry |4 pages
Plutarco Elías Calles
entry |3 pages
Albert Calmette
entry |4 pages
Kim Campbell
entry |4 pages
Albert Camus
entry |3 pages
Felix Candela
entry |3 pages
karel Čaper
entry |4 pages
Alphonse Capone
entry |4 pages
Truman Capote
entry |4 pages
Lázaro Cárdenas
entry |4 pages
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo
entry |3 pages
Chester F. Carlson
entry |3 pages
Rudolf Carnap
entry |4 pages
Rachel Carson
entry |5 pages
Jimmy Carter
entry |4 pages
Henri Cartier-Bresson
entry |4 pages
Enrico Caruso
entry |4 pages
George Washington Carver
entry |4 pages
Pablo Casals
entry |4 pages
René Cassin
entry |3 pages
Ernst Cassirer
entry |4 pages
Fidel Castro
entry |6 pages
Willa Cather
entry |4 pages
Carrie Chapman Catt
entry |4 pages
Aime Cesaire
entry |4 pages
James Chadwick
entry |4 pages
Marc Chagall
entry |5 pages
Neville Chamberlain
entry |5 pages
Coco Chanel
entry |4 pages
Charles Chaplin
entry |3 pages
Ray Charles
entry |4 pages
Ch'En Tu-Hsiu
entry |4 pages
Chiang Kai-Shek
entry |5 pages
Shirley Chisholm
entry |3 pages
Noam Chomsky
entry |4 pages
Chou En-Lai
entry |3 pages
Jean Chrétien
entry |4 pages
Agatha Christie
entry |4 pages
Chu Teh
entry |4 pages
Sir Winston Churchill
entry |4 pages
André-Gustave Citroën
entry |3 pages
Georges Claude
entry |5 pages
Georges Clemenceau
entry |6 pages
Bill Clinton
entry |4 pages
Hillary Rodham Clinton
entry |4 pages
Ty Cobb
entry |4 pages
Jean Cocteau
entry |4 pages
Sebastian Coe
entry |4 pages
Colette Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
entry |4 pages
Michael Collins
entry |4 pages
Norman Collins
entry |4 pages
John Coltrane
entry |3 pages
Arthur Holly Compton
entry |5 pages
James Bryant Conant
entry |6 pages
Joseph Conrad
entry |3 pages
Baron Constantine
entry |4 pages
Calvin Coolidge
entry |4 pages
Aaron Copland
entry |4 pages
William T. Cosgrave
entry |4 pages
Pierre De Coubertin
entry |5 pages
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
entry |6 pages
Noël Coward
entry |4 pages
Hart Crane
entry |4 pages
Cheryl Crawford
entry |4 pages
Francis Crick
entry |3 pages
Benedetto Croce
entry |4 pages
E. E. Cummings
entry |3 pages
Imogen Cunningham
entry |5 pages
Pierre Curie and Marie Curie
entry |3 pages
John Curtin
entry |4 pages
Lord Curzon
entry |4 pages
Harvey Williams Cushing
entry |5 pages
Salvador Dalí
entry |5 pages
Alexandra Danilova
entry |2 pages
André-Louis Danjon
entry |4 pages
Clarence Darrow
entry |4 pages
Bette Davis
entry |3 pages
Lucy S. Dawidowicz
entry |4 pages
Dorothy Day
entry |4 pages
Moshe Dayan
entry |4 pages
Lee De Forest
entry |4 pages
Alcide De Gasperi
entry |4 pages
Charles De Gaulle
entry |4 pages
F. W. De Klerk
entry |3 pages
Agnes De Mille
entry |3 pages
Eamon de Valera
entry |4 pages
Eugene V. Debs
entry |4 pages
Claude Debussy
entry |4 pages
Robert Delaunay
entry |4 pages
Frederick Delius
entry |4 pages
Cecil B. Demille
entry |5 pages
Jack Dempsey
entry |4 pages
Deng Xiaoping
entry |3 pages
Maurice Denis
entry |4 pages
Jacques Derrida
entry |3 pages
John Dewey
entry |4 pages
Sergei Diaghilev
entry |4 pages
Diana, Princess Of Wales
entry |3 pages
Otto Paul Hermann Diels
entry |4 pages
Marlene Dietrich
entry |4 pages
Joe Dimaggio
entry |6 pages
Walt Disney
entry |3 pages
Milovan Djilas
entry |4 pages
Robert J. Dole
entry |3 pages
Gerhard Domagk
entry |5 pages
Theodore Dreiser
entry |4 pages
Carl Theodor Dreyer
entry |5 pages
W.E.B. Du Bois
entry |4 pages
Alexander Dubček
entry |4 pages
Marcel Duchamp
entry |4 pages
John Foster Dulles
entry |4 pages
Isadora Duncan
entry |4 pages
Katherine Dunham
entry |4 pages
Émile Durkheim
entry |4 pages
Amelia Earhart
entry |4 pages
George Eastman
entry |4 pages
Abba Eban
entry |4 pages
Félix Éboué
entry |3 pages
Sir John Carew Eccles
entry |4 pages
Hugo Eckener
entry |5 pages
Anthony Eden
entry |3 pages
Edward VII
entry |3 pages
António Egas Moniz
entry |3 pages
Christian Von Ehrenfels
entry |3 pages
Eugen Ehrlich
entry |3 pages
Paul Ehrlich
entry |4 pages
Albert Einstein
entry |4 pages
Willem Einthoven
entry |4 pages
Dwight D. Eisenhower
entry |4 pages
Sergei Eisenstein
entry |4 pages
Sir Edward Elgar
entry |3 pages
Mircea Eliade
entry |4 pages
T. S. Eliot
entry |4 pages
Elizabeth II
entry |4 pages
Duke Ellington
entry |4 pages
Havelock Ellis
entry |4 pages
Paul Éluard Eugéne Grindel
entry |5 pages
Enver Pasha
entry |4 pages
Nora Ephron
entry |4 pages
Sir Jacob Epstein
entry |3 pages
Louise Erdrich
entry |4 pages
Ludwig Erhard
entry |4 pages
Max Ernst
entry |4 pages
Matthias Erzberger
entry |3 pages
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
entry |3 pages
Herbert Vere Evatt
entry |3 pages
Chris Evert
entry |3 pages
Fahd
entry |4 pages
Faisal
entry |5 pages
Faisal I
entry |3 pages
Manuel De Falla
entry |3 pages
Beatrix Jones Farrand
entry |4 pages
William Faulkner
entry |4 pages
Dianne Feinstein
entry |4 pages
Federico Fellini
entry |5 pages
Enrico Fermi
entry |3 pages
Enzo Ferrari
entry |4 pages
Geraldine Ferraro
entry |4 pages
Ella Fitzgerald
entry |5 pages
F. Scott Fitzgerald
entry |3 pages
Sir Alexander Fleming
entry |3 pages
Abraham Flexner
entry |3 pages
Baron Florey
entry |5 pages
Dame Margot Fonteyn
entry |4 pages
Gerald R. Ford
entry |5 pages
Henry Ford
entry |4 pages
C. S. Forester
entry |4 pages
E. M. Forster
entry |3 pages
Francis Ferdinand
entry |4 pages
Francisco Franco
entry |4 pages
Anne Frank
entry |4 pages
Helen Frankenthaler
entry |4 pages
Felix Frankfurter
entry |4 pages
Aretha Franklin
entry |4 pages
Sir James George Frazer
entry |4 pages
Sigmund Freud
entry |3 pages
Eugéne Freyssinet
entry |4 pages
Betty Friedan
entry |3 pages
Karl Von Frisch
entry |4 pages
Max Frisch
entry |4 pages
Leo Frobenius
entry |4 pages
Erich Fromm
entry |3 pages
Robert Frost
entry |4 pages
Roger Fry
entry |4 pages
Athol Fugard
entry |4 pages
Loie Fuller
entry |5 pages
R. Buckminster Fuller
entry |4 pages
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
entry |4 pages
Abel Gance
entry |4 pages
Indira Gandhi
entry |4 pages
Mahatma Gandhi
entry |4 pages
Greta Garbo
entry |3 pages
Federico García Lorca
entry |4 pages
Gabriel García Márquez
entry |3 pages
Erle Stanley Gardner
entry |4 pages
Isabella Stewart Gardner
entry |4 pages
Judy Garland
entry |3 pages
Tony Garnier
entry |4 pages
Marcus Garvey
entry |4 pages
Antonio Gaudí
entry |3 pages
Norman Bel Geddes
entry |4 pages
Lou Gehrig
entry |3 pages
Rudolf Oskar Robert Williams Geiger
entry |4 pages
Theodor Seuss Geisel Dr. Seuss
entry |3 pages
Jean Genet
entry |3 pages
Giovanni Gentile
entry |4 pages
Georgev
entry |4 pages
George VI
entry |5 pages
George Gershwin Jacob Gershvin
entry |4 pages
Ira Gershwin
entry |3 pages
Arnold Gesell
entry |4 pages
Alberto Giacometti
entry |4 pages
Althea Gibson
entry |3 pages
André Gide
entry |4 pages
Dizzy Gillespie
entry |5 pages
Étienne Gilson
entry |4 pages
Jean Giraudoux
entry |4 pages
Lillian Gish
entry |6 pages
John H. Glenn, Jr.
