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 |5 pages
Jean-Luc Godard
entry |4 pages
Robert H. Goddard
entry |4 pages
Edwin Lawrence Godkin
entry |4 pages
Joseph Goebbels
entry |3 pages
George Washington Goethals
entry |4 pages
Emma Goldman
entry |4 pages
Samuel Goldwyn
entry |4 pages
Benny Goodman
entry |4 pages
Mikhail Gorbachev
entry |4 pages
Nadine Gordimer
entry |3 pages
Albert Gore
entry |4 pages
William Crawford Gorgas
entry |4 pages
Hermann Göring
entry |5 pages
Maxim Gorky
entry |4 pages
Billy Graham
entry |4 pages
Katharine Graham
entry |4 pages
Martha Graham
entry |4 pages
Antonio Gramsci
entry |4 pages
Günter Grass
entry |4 pages
Graham Greene
entry |4 pages
Alan Greenspan
entry |3 pages
Sir Edward Grey
entry |5 pages
D. W. Griffith
entry |3 pages
Juan Gris
entry |4 pages
Walter Gropius
entry |4 pages
Heinz Guderian
entry |4 pages
Che Guevara
entry |4 pages
Daniel Guggenheim
entry |3 pages
Charles-Édouard Guillaume
entry |4 pages
H. D. Hilda Doolittle
entry |4 pages
Fritz Haber
entry |4 pages
Otto Hahn
entry |5 pages
Haile Selassie I
entry |3 pages
Halide Edib Adivar
entry |4 pages
William F. Halsey
entry |4 pages
Dag Hammarskjöld
entry |4 pages
Oscar Hammerstein II
entry |4 pages
Knut Hamsun
entry |4 pages
Learned Hand
entry |5 pages
Lorraine Hansberry
entry |4 pages
Warren G. Harding
entry |3 pages
Alfred Harmsworth and Harold Harmsworth
entry |3 pages
Adolf Von Harnack
entry |6 pages
William Averell Harriman
entry |5 pages
Lorenz Hart
entry |3 pages
Nicolai Hartmann
entry |3 pages
Hatoyama Ichirō
entry |3 pages
Mohammad Hatta
entry |4 pages
Stephen W. Hawking
entry |4 pages
Víctor Raúl Haya De La Torre
entry |5 pages
Helen Hayes
entry |3 pages
Le Ly Hayslip
entry |5 pages
Rita Hayworth
entry |5 pages
William Randolph Hearst
entry |4 pages
Edward Heath
entry |4 pages
Martin Heidegger
entry |3 pages
Ernst Heinrich Heinkel
entry |3 pages
Werner Heisenberg
entry |4 pages
Lillian Hellman
entry |5 pages
Ernest Hemingway
entry |4 pages
Sonja Henie
entry |4 pages
Hans Werner Henze
entry |4 pages
Katharine Hepburn
entry |3 pages
Aileen Clarke Hernandez
entry |3 pages
Édouard Herriot
entry |3 pages
Gustav Hertz
entry |4 pages
Hermann Hesse
entry |4 pages
Georg Von Gevesy
entry |4 pages
Thor Heyerdahl
entry |4 pages
Sir Edmund Hillary
entry |4 pages
Heinrich Himmler
entry |4 pages
Paul Hindemith
entry |4 pages
Paul Von Hindenburg
entry |5 pages
Hirohito
entry |4 pages
Alger Hiss
entry |5 pages
Alfred Hitchcock
entry |6 pages
Adolf Hitler
entry |5 pages
Ho Chi Minh
entry |4 pages
Oveta Culp Hobby
entry |4 pages
Leonard T. Hobhouse
entry |4 pages
David Hockney
entry |5 pages
Billie Holiday
entry |4 pages
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
entry |3 pages
Soichiro Honda
entry |5 pages
Herbert Hoover
entry |4 pages
J. Edgar Hoover
entry |4 pages
Harry Hopkins
entry |4 pages
Edward Hopper
entry |3 pages
Karen Horney
entry |4 pages
Vladimir Horowitz
entry |3 pages
Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
entry |5 pages
Félix Houphouët-Boigny
entry |3 pages
Bernardo Alberto Houssay
entry |4 pages
Dolores Huerta
entry |5 pages
Charles Evans Hughes
entry |4 pages
Langston Hughes
entry |4 pages
William Morris Hughes
entry |4 pages
Cordell Hull
entry |4 pages
Hubert H. Humphrey
entry |4 pages
Zora Neale Hurston
entry |6 pages
Hussein I
entry |3 pages
Edmund Husserl
entry |4 pages
Robert M. Hutchins
entry |5 pages
Aldous Huxley
entry |3 pages
Hayato Ikeda
entry |4 pages
İsmet İnönü
entry |4 pages
Eugène Ionesco
entry |4 pages
Charles Ives
entry |3 pages
Jesse L. Jackson
entry |4 pages
François Jacob
entry |4 pages
Roman Jakobson
entry |4 pages
Leoš Janáček
entry |4 pages
Pierre Janet
entry |4 pages
Karl Jaspers
entry |4 pages
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
entry |3 pages
Joseph-Jacques-Césaire Joffre
entry |4 pages
John XXIII
entry |4 pages
Augustus John
entry |4 pages
John Paul II
entry |4 pages
Lyndon B. Johnson
entry |4 pages
Frédéric Joliot and Irène Joliot-Curie
entry |5 pages
Bobby Jones
entry |4 pages
Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
entry |4 pages
Janis Joplin
entry |4 pages
Barbara Jordan
entry |5 pages
James Joyce
entry |4 pages
Carl Jung
entry |3 pages
Franz Kafka
entry |3 pages
Wassily Kandinsky
entry |4 pages
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa
entry |3 pages
Herbert Von Karajan
entry |4 pages
Yasunari Kawabata
entry |3 pages
First Baronet Kay-Shuttleworth
entry |4 pages
Nikos Kazantzakis
entry |4 pages
Helen Keller
entry |4 pages
John F. Kennedy
entry |4 pages
Ronert F. Kennedy
entry |5 pages
Jomo Kenyatta
entry |4 pages
Aleksandr Fyodorovich Kerensky
entry |4 pages
Jack Kerouac
entry |3 pages
Albert Kesselring
entry |5 pages
John Maynard Keynes
entry |4 pages
Ruhollah Khomeini
entry |4 pages
Nikita S. Khrushchev
entry |3 pages
Jean-Claude Killy
entry |3 pages
Billie Jean King
entry |6 pages
Martin Luther King, Jr.
entry |4 pages
Stephen King
entry |5 pages
William Lyon Mackenzie King
entry |5 pages
Alfred Charles Kinsey
entry |3 pages
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
entry |4 pages
Jeane Kirkpatrick
entry |4 pages
Henry A. Kissinger
entry |3 pages
Lord Kitchener
entry |4 pages
Paul Klee
entry |3 pages
Helmut Kohl
entry |4 pages
Oskar Kokoschka
entry |3 pages
Käthe Kollwitz
entry |4 pages
Sergei Korolev
entry |4 pages
Lee Krasner
entry |3 pages
August Krogh
entry |3 pages
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
entry |3 pages
Kuo Mo-Jo
entry |3 pages
František Kupka
entry |4 pages
Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov
entry |4 pages
Akira Kurosawa
entry |4 pages
Robert M. La Follette
entry |3 pages
Henri-Marie La Fontaine
entry |4 pages
Fiorello Henry La Guardia
entry |3 pages
Rudolf Laban
entry |4 pages
Jacques Lacan
entry |4 pages
Selma Lagerlöf
entry |4 pages
Frederick William Lanchester
entry |4 pages
Lev Davidovich Landau
entry |3 pages
Fritz Lang
entry |3 pages
K. D. Lang
entry |4 pages
Dorothea Lange
entry |3 pages
Susanne K. Langer
entry |3 pages
Fifth Marquess of Lansdowne
entry |3 pages
Harold J. Laski
entry |4 pages
Julia C. Lathrop
entry |5 pages
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
entry |4 pages
Pierre Laval
entry |3 pages
Rod Laver
entry |3 pages
Bonar Law
entry |6 pages
D.H. Lawrence
entry |4 pages
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
entry |6 pages
T. E. Lawrence
entry |3 pages
Halldór Laxness
entry |3 pages
Gustave Le Bon
entry |4 pages
Le Corbusier
entry |4 pages
Eva Le Gallienne
entry |5 pages
L. S. B. Leakey
entry |4 pages
Lee Kuan Yew
entry |3 pages
Fernand Léger
entry |3 pages
Georges Lemaître
entry |4 pages
Vladimir Ilich Lenin
entry |3 pages
Claude Lévi-Strauss
entry |3 pages
C.S. Lewis
entry |4 pages
John L. Lewis
entry |4 pages
Sinclair Lewis
entry |4 pages
Li Peng
entry |3 pages
Serge Lifar
entry |4 pages
Maya Ying Lin
entry |4 pages
Lin Piao
entry |6 pages
Charles A. Lindbergh
entry |4 pages
Jacques Lipchitz
entry |5 pages
Walter Lippmann
entry |4 pages
Maksim Maksimovich Litvinov
entry |4 pages
Liu Shao-Ch'i
entry |3 pages
David Lloyd George
entry |4 pages
Henry Cabot Lodge
entry |4 pages
Jack London
entry |4 pages
Huey Long
entry |4 pages
Anita Loos
entry |3 pages
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
entry |3 pages
Konrad Lorenz
entry |5 pages
Joe Louis
entry |3 pages
Juliette Gordon Low
entry |3 pages
Amy Lowell
entry |4 pages
Lu Hsün
entry |4 pages
Clare Boothe Luce
entry |5 pages
Henry R. Luce
entry |4 pages
Erich Ludendorff
entry |3 pages
Lord Lugard
entry |4 pages
György Lukács
entry |5 pages
Auguste Lumière and Louis Lumière
entry |4 pages
Albert Lutuli
entry |4 pages
Rosa Luxemburg
entry |3 pages
Dame Enid Muriel Lyons
entry |3 pages
Joseph Aloysius Lyons
entry |5 pages
Douglas MacArthur
entry |4 pages
Joseph R. McCarthy
entry |4 pages
Mary McCarthy
entry |4 pages
Carson McCullers
entry |5 pages
Ramsay MacDonald
entry |4 pages
Samora Moisès Machel
entry |4 pages
Sir Halford John Mackinder
entry |4 pages
Catharine A. MacKinnon
entry |3 pages
John J. R. Macleod
entry |4 pages
Marshall McLuhan
entry |4 pages
Edwin Mattison McMillan
entry |5 pages
Harold Macmillan
entry |4 pages
Francisco Madero
entry |6 pages
René Magritte
entry |4 pages
Naguib Mahfouz
entry |6 pages
Gustav Mahler
entry |4 pages
Norman Mailer
entry |4 pages
John Major
entry |4 pages
Malcolm X
entry |3 pages
Georgi M. Malenkov
entry |4 pages
André Malraux
entry |5 pages
Nelson Mandela
entry |3 pages
Wilma P. Mankiller
entry |4 pages
Thomas Mann
entry |4 pages
Carl Gustaf Mannerheim
entry |4 pages
Mao Tse-Tung
entry |3 pages
Franz Marc
entry |4 pages
Gabriel Marcel
entry |4 pages
Rocky Marciano
entry |5 pages
Guglielmo Marconi
entry |5 pages
Ferdinand E. Marcos
entry |4 pages
Jacques Maritain
entry |4 pages
George C. Marshall
entry |4 pages
Thurgood Marshall
entry |3 pages
Agnes Martin
entry |4 pages
Tomáš Masaryk
entry |4 pages
William Ferguson Massey
entry |4 pages
Léonide Massine
entry |5 pages
Henri Matisse
entry |4 pages
Konosuke Matsushita
entry |4 pages
Vladimir Mayakovsky
entry |3 pages
William J. Mayo and Charles H. Mayo
entry |4 pages
Margaret Mead
entry |4 pages
Golda Meir
entry |4 pages
Lise Meitner
entry |3 pages
Andrew Mellon
entry |4 pages
H. L. Mencken
entry |4 pages
Erich Mendelsohn
entry |3 pages
Pierre Mendès-France
entry |3 pages
Gian Carlo Menotti
entry |3 pages
Robert Gordon Menzies
entry |3 pages
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
entry |3 pages
Olivier Messiaen
entry |4 pages
Reinhold Messner
entry |4 pages
Vsevolod Yemilyevich Meyerhold
entry |3 pages
André Michelin and Édouard Michelin
entry |3 pages
James A. Michener
entry |5 pages
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
entry |4 pages
Darius Milhaud
entry |4 pages
Edna St. Vincent Millay
entry |3 pages
Arthur Miller
entry |3 pages
Kate Millett
entry |4 pages
Robert Andrews Millikan
entry |3 pages
A. A. Milne
entry |5 pages
Joan Miró
entry |3 pages
Yukio Mishima
entry |4 pages
William Mitchell
entry |4 pages
François Mitterrand
entry |4 pages
Mobutu Sese Seko
entry |5 pages
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
entry |4 pages
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov
entry |4 pages
Piet Mondrian
entry |4 pages
Claude Monet
entry |4 pages
Jean Monnet
entry |5 pages
Marilyn Monroe
entry |4 pages
Eugenio Montale
entry |5 pages
Maria Montessori
entry |4 pages
Bernard Law Montgomery
entry |4 pages
G. E. Moore
entry |5 pages
Henry Moore
entry |4 pages
Marianne Moore
entry |4 pages
Thomas Hunt Morgan
entry |4 pages
Akio Morita
entry |4 pages
Toni Morrison
entry |3 pages
Gaetano Mosca
entry |4 pages
Grandma Moses
entry |4 pages
John R. Mott
entry |6 pages
Louis Mountbatten
entry |4 pages
Robert Mugabe
entry |4 pages
Hermann Joseph Muller
entry |3 pages
Brian Mulroney
entry |4 pages
Edvard Munch
entry |5 pages
Edward R. Murrow
entry |4 pages
Benito Mussolini
entry |4 pages
Gunnar Myrdal
entry |4 pages
Vladimir Nabokov
entry |4 pages
Ralph Nader
entry |3 pages
Sarojini Naidu
entry |3 pages
Fridtjof Nansen
entry |4 pages
Paul Nash
entry |5 pages
Gamal Abdel Nasser
entry |4 pages
Giulio Natta
entry |3 pages
Martina Navratilova
entry |4 pages
Louis-Eugéne-Félix Néel
entry |4 pages
Jawaharlal Nehru
entry |3 pages
Walther Hermann Nernst
entry |4 pages
Pablo Neruda
entry |4 pages
Pier Luigi Nervi
entry |4 pages
John Von Neumann
entry |4 pages
Louise Nevelson
entry |3 pages
Ben Nicholson
entry |4 pages
Reinhold Niebuhr
entry |3 pages
Oscar Niemeyer
entry |4 pages
Martin Niemöller
entry |4 pages
Vaslav Nijinsky
entry |4 pages
Chester W. Nimitz
entry |4 pages
Kitarō Nishida
entry |4 pages
Richard M. Nixon
entry |4 pages
Kwame Nkrumah
entry |3 pages
Max Nordau
entry |4 pages
Jessye Norman
entry |4 pages
Julius Nyerere
entry |4 pages
Hermann Oberth
