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
Hermann Oberth
entry |4 pages
Álvaro Obregón
entry |4 pages
Flannery OConnor
entry |4 pages
Sandra Day OConnor
entry |3 pages
Thomas Power OConnor
entry |4 pages
Sadaharu Oh
entry |4 pages
Georgia OKeeffe
entry |4 pages
Seán T. OKelly
entry |7 pages
Sir Laurence Olivier
entry |4 pages
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
entry |5 pages
Eugene ONeill
entry |3 pages
Thomas Philip ONeill, Jr.
entry |3 pages
Jan Hendrik Oort
entry |3 pages
Aleksandr Ivanovich Oparin
entry |3 pages
J. Robert Oppenheimer
entry |4 pages
José Clemente Orozco
entry |3 pages
Katherine Davalos Ortega
entry |3 pages
José Ortega Y Gasset
entry |6 pages
George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair
entry |3 pages
Thomas Mott Osborne
entry |4 pages
Wilhelm Ostwald
entry |3 pages
J. J. P. Oud
entry |5 pages
Jesse Owens
entry |4 pages
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
entry |5 pages
Emmeline Pankhurst
entry |4 pages
Franz Von Papen
entry |4 pages
Charlie Parker
entry |4 pages
Dorothy Parker
entry |4 pages
Rosa Parks
entry |4 pages
Vernon L. Parrington
entry |3 pages
Dolly Parton
entry |4 pages
Boris Pasternak
entry |4 pages
Vallabhbhai jhaverbhai patel
entry |4 pages
Alan Paton
entry |4 pages
George S. Patton
entry |4 pages
Paul VI Giovanni Battista Montini
entry |4 pages
Alice Paul
entry |3 pages
Wolfgang Pauli
entry |4 pages
Linus Pauling
entry |3 pages
Luciano Pavarotti
entry |4 pages
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
entry |4 pages
Anna Pavlova
entry |5 pages
Robert Edwin Peary
entry |4 pages
I. M. Pei
entry |4 pages
Pelé: Edson Arantes do Nascimento
entry |3 pages
P'eng Te-Huai
entry |4 pages
Javier Pérez De Cuéllar
entry |4 pages
Frances Perkins
entry |4 pages
Eva Perón
entry |4 pages
Juan Perón
entry |3 pages
H. Ross Perot
entry |3 pages
Auguste Perret
entry |4 pages
Fred Perry
entry |4 pages
John J. Pershing
entry |3 pages
Philippe Pétain
entry |4 pages
Jean Piaget
entry |3 pages
Émile Picard
entry |5 pages
Pablo Picasso
entry |4 pages
Auguste and Jean-Felix Piccard
entry |4 pages
Mary Pickford
entry |3 pages
Susan La Flesche Picotte
entry |4 pages
Luigi Pirandello
entry |3 pages
Dominique Pire
entry |3 pages
The Pirelli Family
entry |3 pages
Henri Pirenne
entry |4 pages
Pius XI: Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti
entry |3 pages
Pius XII: Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Pacelli
entry |3 pages
Max Planck
entry |4 pages
Sylvia Plath
entry |4 pages
Gary Player
entry |4 pages
Raymond Poincaré
entry |4 pages
Jackson Pollock
entry |3 pages
Georges Pompidou
entry |4 pages
Cole Porter
entry |4 pages
Katherine Anne Porter
entry |3 pages
Beatrix Potter
entry |4 pages
Francis Poulenc
entry |3 pages
Colin L. Powell
entry |3 pages
Ludwig Prandtl
entry |5 pages
Elvis Presley
entry |4 pages
Leontyne Price
entry |4 pages
Sergei Prokofiev
entry |4 pages
Marcel Proust
entry |5 pages
Giacomo Puccini
entry |3 pages
Muammar Al-Qaddafi
entry |4 pages
Isidor Isaac Rabi
entry |4 pages
Sergei Rachmaninoff
entry |3 pages
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
entry |5 pages
A. Philip Randolph
entry |4 pages
Jeannette Rankin
entry |4 pages
Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen
entry |4 pages
Walter Rauschenbusch
entry |3 pages
Maurice Ravel
entry |4 pages
Satyajit Ray
entry |6 pages
Ronald Reagan
entry |4 pages
William H. Rehnquist
entry |4 pages
First Baron Reith of Stonehaven
entry |3 pages
Erich Maria Remarque
entry |4 pages
Janet Reno
entry |4 pages
Jean Renoir
entry |4 pages
Walter P. Reuther
entry |4 pages
Syngman Rhee
entry |4 pages
Ann Richards
entry |5 pages
Hyman G. Rickover
entry |3 pages
Sally Ride
entry |3 pages
Rainer Maria Rilke
entry |3 pages
Diego Rivera
entry |6 pages
Paul Robeson
entry |5 pages
Jackie Robinson
entry |3 pages
Norman Rockwell
entry |3 pages
Richard Rodgers
entry |5 pages
Will Rogers
entry |4 pages
Charles Stewart Rolls and Sir Frederick Henry Royce
entry |4 pages
Erwin Rommel
entry |5 pages
Eleanor Roosevelt
entry |6 pages
Franklin D. Roosevelt
entry |4 pages
Theodore Roosevelt
entry |4 pages
Elihu Root
entry |3 pages
Hermann Rorschach
entry |4 pages
Pete Rose
entry |4 pages
Nellie Tayloe Ross
entry |4 pages
Ronald Ross
entry |3 pages
Georges Rouault
entry |3 pages
Josiah Royce
entry |3 pages
Muriel Rukeyser
entry |4 pages
Gerd Von Rundstedt
entry |4 pages
Bertrand Russell
entry |5 pages
Bill Russell
entry |4 pages
Babe Ruth
entry |4 pages
Ernest Rutherford
entry |4 pages
Nicola Sacco
entry |4 pages
Nelly Sachs
entry |3 pages
Anwar El-Sadat
entry |4 pages
Carl Sagan
entry |5 pages
Andrei Sakharov
entry |4 pages
J.D. Salinger
entry |3 pages
Jonas Edward Salk
entry |5 pages
Carl Sandburg
entry |4 pages
Margaret Sanger
entry |3 pages
George Santayana
entry |4 pages
Alberto Santos-Dumont
entry |3 pages
Nathalie Sarraute
entry |4 pages
Jean-Paul Sartre
entry |5 pages
Erik Satie
entry |4 pages
Eisaku Satō
entry |4 pages
Ferdinand De Saussure
entry |3 pages
Jeanne sauvé
entry |4 pages
Max Scheler
entry |3 pages
Bernhard Voldemar Schmidt
entry |3 pages
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
entry |5 pages
Arnold Schoenberg
entry |4 pages
Erwin SchröDinger
entry |4 pages
Karl Schwarzschild
entry |5 pages
Albert Schweitzer
entry |5 pages
Glenn Theodore Seaborg
entry |3 pages
Hans Von Seeckt
entry |4 pages
Andrés Segovia
entry |4 pages
Maurice Sendak
entry |4 pages
LéOpold Senghor
entry |4 pages
Anne Sexton
entry |6 pages
George Bernard Shaw
entry |4 pages
Alan Shepard
entry |4 pages
Dmitri Shostakovich
entry |4 pages
Jean Sibelius
entry |5 pages
Norodom Sihanouk
entry |4 pages
Frank Sinatra
entry |5 pages
Upton Sinclair
entry |4 pages
B. F. Skinner
entry |4 pages
First Viscount Slim
entry |3 pages
Alfred E. Smith
entry |4 pages
Bessie Smith
entry |4 pages
Margaret Chase Smith
entry |3 pages
Theobald Smith
entry |3 pages
Jan Christian Smuts
entry |3 pages
Nathan SöDerblom
entry |4 pages
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
entry |3 pages
Georges Sorel
entry |5 pages
John Philip Sousa
entry |4 pages
Wole Soyinka
entry |3 pages
Paul-Henri Spaak
entry |4 pages
Benjamin Spock
entry |4 pages
Joseph Stalin: Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
entry |4 pages
Konstantin Stanislavsky: Konstantin Sergeyevich Alekseyev
entry |4 pages
Johannes Stark
entry |3 pages
Ernest Henry Starling
entry |4 pages
Hermann Staudinger
entry |5 pages
Edward Steichen
entry |5 pages
Edith Stein
entry |4 pages
Gertrude Stein
entry |4 pages
John Steinbeck
entry |4 pages
Gloria Steinem
entry |5 pages
Adlai E. Stevenson
entry |4 pages
James Stewart
entry |5 pages
Alfred Stieglitz
entry |4 pages
Henry L. Stimson
entry |5 pages
Karlheinz Stockhausen
entry |5 pages
Harlan Fiske Stone
entry |4 pages
Marie Stopes
entry |4 pages
Richard Strauss
entry |4 pages
Igor Stravinsky
entry |3 pages
Gustav Stresemann
entry |4 pages
August Strindberg
entry |5 pages
Sukarno
entry |3 pages
Harry Stack Sullivan
entry |4 pages
Sun Yat-Sen
entry |5 pages
Billy Sunday
entry |3 pages
Graham Vivian Sutherland
entry |4 pages
Robert A. Taft
entry |4 pages
William Howard Taft
entry |5 pages
Rabindranath Tagore
entry |4 pages
Marion Talbot
entry |4 pages
Maria Tallchief
entry |3 pages
Jun'Ichirō Tanizaki
entry |4 pages
Ida Tarbell
entry |4 pages
Frederick Winslow Taylor
entry |4 pages
Sara Teasdale
entry |5 pages
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
entry |4 pages
Edward Teller
entry |4 pages
Mother Teresa: Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
entry |3 pages
Valentina Tereshkova
entry |4 pages
Megan Terry
entry |3 pages
U Thant
entry |5 pages
Margaret Thatcher
entry |3 pages
Axel Hugo Teodor Theorell
entry |3 pages
Clarence Thomas
entry |5 pages
Norman Thomas
entry |4 pages
Tom Thomson
entry |3 pages
Edward L. Thorndike
entry |5 pages
Jim Thorpe
entry |4 pages
James Thurber
entry |4 pages
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
entry |3 pages
Paul Tillich
entry |4 pages
Alfred Von Tirpitz
entry |4 pages
Tito
entry |3 pages
J. R. R. Tolkien
entry |4 pages
Clyde William Tombaugh
entry |4 pages
Ferdinand Julius Tönnies
entry |4 pages
Arturo Toscanini
entry |4 pages
Ahmed Sékou Touré
entry |4 pages
Arnold Toynbee
entry |3 pages
Eiji Toyoda
entry |4 pages
Ernst Troeltsch
entry |4 pages
Leon Trotsky: Lev Davidovich Bronstei
entry |6 pages
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
entry |4 pages
François Truffaut
entry |5 pages
Harry S Truman
entry |4 pages
Moïse Tshombe
entry |4 pages
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
entry |4 pages
Marina Tsvetayeva
entry |3 pages
William V. S. Tubman
entry |4 pages
Barbara Tuchman
entry |4 pages
Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev
entry |3 pages
Alan Mathison Turing
entry |4 pages
Frederick Jackson Turner
entry |4 pages
Desmond Tutu
entry |4 pages
Walter Ulbricht
entry |4 pages
Miguel De Unamuno Y Jugo
entry |4 pages
Harold C. Urey
entry |3 pages
Paul Valéry
entry |4 pages
Edgard Varèse
entry |3 pages
Ralph Vaughan Williams
entry |4 pages
Nikolaiivanovich Vavilov
entry |3 pages
Thorstein Veblen
entry |3 pages
Eleuthérios Venizélos
entry |4 pages
Pancho Villa
entry |3 pages
Heitor Villa-Lobos
entry |3 pages
Luchino Visconti
entry |5 pages
Vo Nguyen Giap
entry |3 pages
Édouard Vuillard
entry |4 pages
Joachim Wach
entry |4 pages
Selman Abraham Waksman
entry |4 pages
Lillian D. Wald
entry |3 pages
Kurt Waldheim
entry |5 pages
Lech WaŁesa
entry |4 pages
Alice Walker
entry |4 pages
Madam C. J. Walker: Sarah Breedlove Mc Williams Walker
entry |3 pages
George C. Wallace
entry |5 pages
Henry A. Wallace
entry |3 pages
Léon Walras
entry |4 pages
Barbara Walters
entry |5 pages
Sir William Walton
entry |4 pages
Wang Ching-Wei
entry |3 pages
Felix Wankel
entry |4 pages
Andy Warhol
entry |5 pages
Earl Warren
entry |4 pages
Robert Penn Warren
entry |4 pages
James D. Watson
entry |4 pages
John Wayne
entry |5 pages
Beatrice Webb and Sidney Webb
entry |4 pages
Max Weber
entry |4 pages
Anton Von Webern
entry |4 pages
Alfred Wegener
entry |4 pages
Simone Weil
entry |4 pages
Kurt Weill
entry |4 pages
Chaim Weizmann
entry |4 pages
Orson Welles
entry |3 pages
H. G· Wells
entry |4 pages
Ida Β. Wells-Barnett
entry |4 pages
Max Wertheimer
entry |4 pages
Mae West
entry |4 pages
Edith Wharton
entry |4 pages
George Hoyt Whipple
entry |4 pages
Walter White
entry |4 pages
Alfred North Whitehead
entry |3 pages
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
entry |4 pages
Sir Frank Whittle
entry |4 pages
Norbert Wiener
entry |4 pages
Elie Wiesel
entry |5 pages
Simon Wiesenthal
entry |3 pages
Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman
entry |3 pages
Laura Ingalls Wilder
entry |4 pages
Maurice H. F. Wilkins
entry |4 pages
Sir George Hubert Wilkins
entry |4 pages
William II
entry |5 pages
Tennessee Williams
entry |4 pages
Edmund Wilson
entry |4 pages
Sir Harold Wilson
entry |5 pages
Woodrow Wilson
entry |4 pages
Duke of Windsor: Edward VIII
entry |4 pages
Oprah Winfrey
entry |3 pages
Stephen Samuel Wise
entry |3 pages
Ludwig Wittgenstein
entry |2 pages
Max Wolf
entry |4 pages
Thomas Wolfe
entry |4 pages
Grant Wood
entry |3 pages
Tiger Woods
entry |4 pages
Robert Burns Woodward
entry |4 pages
Virginia Woolf
entry |4 pages
Frank Lloyd Wright
entry |5 pages
Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright
entry |3 pages
Wilhelm Wundt
entry |3 pages
Andrew Wyeth
entry |4 pages
Iannis Xenakis
entry |3 pages
Ahmad Zaki Yamani
entry |4 pages
William Butler Yeats
entry |4 pages
Boris Ν. Yeltsin
entry |3 pages
Hideki Yukawa
entry |3 pages
Sa'd Zaghlūl
entry |4 pages
“Babe” Didrikson Zaharias
entry |4 pages
Darryl F. Zanuck
entry |4 pages
Emiliano Zapata
entry |4 pages
Ferdinand Von Zeppelin
entry |4 pages
Clara Zetkin
entry |5 pages
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov
entry |4 pages
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
entry |4 pages
Vladimir Zworykin
