List of rose cultivars named after people
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Among the individuals or fictional characters who have had rose
cultivar
s named after them are the following:
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Rose
A rose is a woody perennial of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae. There are over 100 species. They form a group of erect shrubs, and climbing or trailing plants, with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles. Flowers are large and showy, in colours ranging from white through yellows...
cultivar
Cultivar
A cultivar'Cultivar has two meanings as explained under Formal definition. When used in reference to a taxon, the word does not apply to an individual plant but to all those plants sharing the unique characteristics that define the cultivar. is a plant or group of plants selected for desirable...
s named after them are the following:
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- A. Drawriel (1887 — Leveque, France)
- Abbé André Reitter (1904 — Welter, Germany)
- Abbé Berliez (1864 — Guillot, France)
- Abbé Bramérel (1871 — Guillot, France)
- Abbé Giraudier (1869 — Levet, France)
- Abe LincolnAbraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...
- Abel Carrière (1875 — E. Verdier, France)
- Abelle Weber-Paté (1904 — Lambert),
- Abraham DarbyAbraham Darby IIIAbraham Darby III was an English ironmaster and Quaker. He was the third Abraham Darby in three generations of an English Quaker family that played a role in the Industrial Revolution....
(1985 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Achille Gonod (1864 — Gonod, France)
- Adam Messerich (1920 — Lambert, Germany)
- Adélaïde de Meynot (1882 — Gonod, France)
- Adélaide d`Orléans (1826 — Jacques, France)
- Adelaide HoodlessAdelaide HoodlessAdelaide Hoodless née Hunter was a Canadian educational reformer who founded the international women’s organization known as the Women's Institute....
- Adèle Heu (1816 — Vibert, France)
- Adèle Pavie (1850 — Vibert, France)
- Adèle Prévost (1848)
- Ady Endre emlekeEndre AdyEndre Ady was a Hungarian poet.-Biography:Ady was born in Érmindszent, Szilágy county . He belonged to an impoverished Calvinist noble family...
(2004 — Mark, Hungary) - Adolf Deegen (1935 — Böhm, Czechoslovakia)
- Adolf Horstmann (1971 — Kordes, Germany)
- Adolphe van den Heede (1904 — Lambert)
- Adrian Reverchon (1909 — Lambert)
- Aenne BurdaAenne BurdaAenne Burda , born Anna Magdalene Lemminger, was a German publisher of the Burda Group, a media group based in Offenburg and Munich, Germany. She was one of the symbols of German economic miracle.- Biography :...
(Kordes, Germany) - AgarHagar (Bible)Hagar , according to the Abrahamic faiths, was the second wife of Abraham, and the mother of his first son, Ishmael. Her story is recorded in the Book of Genesis, mentioned in Hadith, and alluded to in the Qur'an...
(1836 — Vibert, France) - Agatha ChristieAgatha ChristieDame Agatha Christie DBE was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections , and her successful West End plays.According to...
(1988 — Kordes, Germany) - AglaïaAglaeaAglaea or Aglaïa is the name of several figures in Greek mythology.-Charis:The youngest of the Charites, Aglaea or Aglaia was one of three daughters of Zeus and the Oceanid Eurynome. Her other two sisters were Euphrosyne, and Thalia. Together they were known as the Three Graces, or the Charites...
(1811 — Descemet, France) - Aglaia (II)AglaeaAglaea or Aglaïa is the name of several figures in Greek mythology.-Charis:The youngest of the Charites, Aglaea or Aglaia was one of three daughters of Zeus and the Oceanid Eurynome. Her other two sisters were Euphrosyne, and Thalia. Together they were known as the Three Graces, or the Charites...
(1896 — Lambert, Germany)
- Agnes BernauerAgnes BernauerAgnes Bernauer was the mistress and perhaps also the first wife of Albert, later Albert III, Duke of Bavaria...
(1989 — Kordes, Germany) - Agnes (1900 — Saunders, Canada)
- Agnes Schilliger (2002 — Guillot-Massad, France)
- Aimée Vibert (1828 — Vibert, France)
- Alain BlanchardAlain BlanchardAlain Blanchard was a commander of the crossbowmen of Rouen during the Hundred Years' War.He was active in the defence of the city during its siege by king Henry V of England. When the city capitulated on January 20, 1419 the English demanded that three notable inhabitants be surrendered to be...
(1839 — Vibert, France) - Alain Souchon (2000 — Meilland, France)
- Alan TitchmarshAlan TitchmarshAlan Fred Titchmarsh, MBE DL is an English gardener, broadcaster and novelist. After working as a professional gardener and a garden journalist, he established himself as a media personality through appearances on gardening programmes...
(2007 — Austin, United Kingdom)
- Albéric Barbier (1900 — Barbier, France)
- AlberichAlberichAlberich was a legendary sorcerer who originated in the mythology or epic sagas of the Frankish Merovingian Dynasty of the 5th to 8th century AD, and whose name means king of the elves , who possessed the ability to become invisible...
(1954 — De Ruiter, The Netherlands) - Albert Edwards (1961 — Hillier, United Kingdom)
- Albert Hoffmann (1904 — Welter, Germany)
- Albert James Nottidge(1909 — Welter, Germany)
- Albert Payé (1873Tourais, France)
- Albert Poyet (1979 — Eve)
- Albrecht DürerAlbrecht DürerAlbrecht Dürer was a German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since...
(2002 — Tantau, Germany) - Alec C. Collie (Cocker, United Kingdom)
- Alex Nordholm
- Alexander Mackenzie — Canada
- Alexandre DumasAlexandre Dumas, pèreAlexandre Dumas, , born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie was a French writer, best known for his historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world...
(1861 — Margottin, France) - Alexandre Dupont (1892 — Liabaud, France)
- Alexandre Girault (1909 — Barbier, France).
- Alexandre Laquement (1906 — Roseraie de L´Hay, France)
- AlfieriVittorio AlfieriCount Vittorio Alfieri was an Italian dramatist, considered the "founder of Italian tragedy."-Early life:Alfieri was born at Asti in Piedmont....
(after 1800 — France) - Alfred Colomb (1865 — Lacharme, France)
- Alfred de Dalmas (1855 — Portemer / Laffay, France)
- Alfred K. Williams (1877 — Schwartz, France)
- Admiral TirpitzAlfred von TirpitzAlfred von Tirpitz was a German Admiral, Secretary of State of the German Imperial Naval Office, the powerful administrative branch of the German Imperial Navy from 1897 until 1916. Prussia never had a major navy, nor did the other German states before the German Empire was formed in 1871...
(1918 — Kiese, Germany), - Alice Aldrich (1899 — Lovett, USA)
- Alice HamiltonAlice HamiltonAlice Hamilton was the first woman appointed to the faculty of Harvard University and was a leading expert in the field of occupational health...
(1904 — Nabonnand, France) - Alice Hoffmann (1897 — Hoffmann, Germany)
- Alice Rauch (1909 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Alice Vena
- Alida Lovett (1905 — Van Fleet, USA)
- Alison Wheatcroft (1959 — Wheatcroft, United Kingdom)
- Alister Stella Gray (1894 — Gray, United Kingdom)
- Alphonse DaudetAlphonse DaudetAlphonse Daudet was a French novelist. He was the father of Léon Daudet and Lucien Daudet.- Early life :Alphonse Daudet was born in Nîmes, France. His family, on both sides, belonged to the bourgeoisie. The father, Vincent Daudet, was a silk manufacturer — a man dogged through life by misfortune...
(1997 — Meilland, France) - Amadeus (II)Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
(2003 — Kordes, Germany) - Amadis (1829 — Laffay, France)
- Amalia Jung (1934 — Leenders, The Netherlands)
- Amalie de Greiff (1912 — Lambert, Germany),
- Amandine Chanel (2004 — Massad, France)
- Ambroise ParéAmbroise ParéAmbroise Paré was a French surgeon. He was the great official royal surgeon for kings Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III and is considered as one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology. He was a leader in surgical techniques and battlefield medicine, especially the...
(1846 — Vibert, France) - Amelia EarhartAmelia EarhartAmelia Mary Earhart was a noted American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first woman to receive the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean...
(1932 — Reymond, USA) - Amélie Gravereaux (1900 — Gravereaux, France)
- Amélie Hoste (1875 — Gonod, France)
- Amy RobsartAmy RobsartAmy Dudley was the first wife of Lord Robert Dudley, favourite of Elizabeth I of England. She is primarily known for her death by falling down a flight of stairs, the circumstances of which have often been regarded as suspicious...
(1894 — Penzance, United Kingdom) - Anaïs Ségalas (1837 — Vibert, France)
- Andenken an Alma de L'Aigle (1955 — Wohlt/Kordes, Germany)
- AnacréonAnacreonAnacreon was a Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and hymns. Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of nine lyric poets.- Life :...
(1836 — Vibert, France) - Andenken an Ferdinand Hopf (1927 — Elbel, Germany)
- Andenken an Gustav Frahm (1956 — Kordes, Germany)
- Andenken an Joh. Diering (1902 — Hinner, Germany)
- Andenken an Erreth Jolànka (1916 — Welter, Germany)
- Andenken an Moritz von Fröhlich (1904 — Hinner, Germany)
- Andreas HoferAndreas HoferAndreas Hofer was a Tirolean innkeeper and patriot. He was the leader of a rebellion against Napoleon's forces....
(1911 — Kiese, Germany), - André Le NôtreAndré Le NôtreAndré Le Nôtre was a French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France...
(2001 — Meilland, France) - André Leroy d'Angers (1866 — Trouillard, France)
- Angela Müll (1902 — Hinner, Germany)
- Angela RipponAngela RipponAngela M. Rippon, OBE, born 12 October 1944, Plymouth, Devon, England, is an English television journalist, newsreader, writer and presenter. Rippon presented radio and television news programmes in South West England before moving to BBC One's Nine O'Clock News, becoming a regular presenter in 1975...
(1978 — De Ruiter Netherlands) - Angela Welter (1903 — Welter, Germany)
- Angèle Pernet (1924 — Pernet-Ducher, France)
- Angels Mateu (1934 — Dot, Spain)
- Angyal Dezső emléke (2000 — Mark, Hungary)
- Anikó (1994 — Mark, Hungary)
- Anisley Dickson (1983 — Dickson, United Kingdom)
- Ann Saxby (1997 — Austin, United Kingdom)
- Anna de Besobrasoff (1878 — Gonod, France)
- Anna de Diesbach (1859 — Lacharme, France)
- Anna FordAnna FordAnna Ford is a retired English journalist and television presenter, best known as a newsreader....
(1980 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom). - Anna Geschwind (1882 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Anna Marie de Montravel (1879 — Rambeaux, France)
- Anna Pavlova (1891 — Beales, United Kingdom)
- Anna Rubsamen (1903 — Weigand, France)
- Anna Scharsach (1890 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Anna Schneider (1912 — Welter, Germany)
- Anna ZinkeisenAnna ZinkeisenAnna Katrina Zinkeisen was a Scottish painter and artist.in 1935, Anna Zinkeisen and her sister Doris Zinkeisen were commissioned by John Brown and Company Shipbuilders of Clydebank to paint the murals in the Verandah Grill of the famous ocean liner the RMS Queen Mary...
(1983 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Annamarie Jacobs (1911 — Jacobs, Germany),
- Ännchen Müller (1907 — J.C. Schmidt, Germany),
- Ännchen von Tharau (1886 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Anne BoleynAnne BoleynAnne Boleyn ;c.1501/1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of Henry VIII of England and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right. Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the...
(1993 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Anne Cocker (1970 — Cocker, United Kingdom)
- Anne de Bretagne (1979 — Meilland, France)
- Anne Harkness (1979 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Anne Marie de Montravel (1879 — Rambaux, France)
- Anne-Marie d'Orbesson (1820 — Jacques, France)
- Anne Marie TrechslinAnne Marie TrechslinAnne Marie Trechslin was a Swiss painter, wood engraver, draftsperson and illustrator.- Life :...
(1968 — Meilland, France) - Anne-Mette Poulsen (1935 — Poulsen, Denmark)
- Anne of GeiersteinAnne of GeiersteinAnne of Geierstein, or The Maiden of the Mist is a novel by Sir Walter Scott. It is set in Central Europe, mainly in Switzerland, shortly after the Yorkist victory at the Battle of Tewkesbury...
(1894 — Penzance, United Kingdom) - Anneliese RothenbergerAnneliese RothenbergerAnneliese Rothenberger was a German operatic soprano who had an active international performance career which spanned from 1943 to 1983...
(1975 — Tantau, Germany) - Anni Welter (1912 — Welter, Germany)
- Anthony Meilland (1990 — Meilland, France)
- AntigoneAntigoneIn Greek mythology, Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Oedipus' mother. The name may be taken to mean "unbending", coming from "anti-" and "-gon / -gony" , but has also been suggested to mean "opposed to motherhood", "in place of a mother", or "anti-generative", based from the root...
(1969 — Gaujard, France) - Antoine Devert (1880 — Gonod, France)
- Antoine Ducher (1826 — Ducher, France)
- Antoine Mouton (1874 — Levet, France)
- Antoine Rivoire (1895 — Pernet-Ducher, France)
- Antonia d`Ormois (1835 — Vibert, France)
- Antonia Ridge (1976 — Meilland, France)
- Antonie Schurz (1890 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- AnuschkaUdo JürgensUdo Jürgens is an Austrian composer and singer of popular music whose career spans over fifty years...
(1977 — Tantau, Germany) - AphroditeAphroditeAphrodite is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation.Her Roman equivalent is the goddess .Historically, her cult in Greece was imported from, or influenced by, the cult of Astarte in Phoenicia....
(2006 — Tantau, Germany)
- Apor Vilmos emlékeVilmos AporBlessed Baron Vilmos Apor de Altorja was the Bishop of Győr during World War II who became famous for protesting against the persecution of the Hungarian Jews...
(1994 — Mark, Hungary) - Apotheker Georg Höfer (1902 — Welter, Germany)
- Áprily Lajos emléke (2000 — Mark, Hungary)
- Arany János emlékeJános AranyJános Arany , was a Hungarian journalist, writer, poet, and translator. He is often said to be the "Shakespeare of ballads" – he wrote more than 40 ballads which have been translated into over 50 languages, as well as the Toldi trilogy, to mention his most famous works.-Biography:He was born in...
(2006 — Mark, Hungary) - Archiduc CharlesArchduke Charles, Duke of TeschenArchduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of emperor Leopold II and his wife Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain...
(1825 — Laffay, France) - Archiduc Joseph (1892 — Nabonnand, France)
- Archiduchesse Elisabeth d'AutricheArchduchess Elisabeth Franziska of AustriaElisabeth Franziska Maria, Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Hungary and Bohemia ....
(1881 — Moreau-Robert, France) - Ariana El (1912 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Arielle DombasleArielle DombasleArielle Dombasle is a French-American singer, actress, director and model. Her breakthrough roles were in Éric Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach and Alain Robbe-Grillet's The Blue Villa...
(1992 — Meilland, France) - Arillaga (1929 — Schoener, USA)
- Aristide BriandAristide BriandAristide Briand was a French statesman who served eleven terms as Prime Minister of France during the French Third Republic and received the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize.- Early life :...
(1928 — Penny, France) - Arlene FrancisArlene FrancisArlene Francis was an American actress, radio talk show host, and game show panelist...
(1957 — Boerner/Jackson and Perkins, USA) - ArmideArmideArmide is the French and English form of the name Armida, a witch in Torquato Tasso's epic poem "Jerusalem Delivered" . The sequence of the poem recounting her love affair with the Christian knight Renaud inspired many operas, which are listed under the names of their respective composers in the...
(1817 — Vibert, France) - ArndtErnst Moritz ArndtErnst Moritz Arndt was a German nationalistic and antisemitic author and poet. Early in his life, he fought for the abolition of serfdom, later against Napoleonic dominance over Germany, and had to flee to Sweden for some time due to his anti-French positions...
(1913 — Lambert, Germany) - Arpad-hazi Szent Erzsebet emlékeElisabeth of HungaryElizabeth of Hungary, T.O.S.F., was a princess of the Kingdom of Hungary, Countess of Thuringia, Germany and a greatly-venerated Catholic saint. Elizabeth was married at the age of 14, and widowed at 20. She then became one of the first members of the newly-founded Third Order of St. Francis,...
(1995 — Mark, Hungary) - Arthur BellArthur BellThe Blessed Arthur Bell was an English Franciscan martyr. He was tried and found guilty of being a Royalist spy and a Roman Catholic priest by a court sitting under the auspices of Parliament during the English Civil War and was executed at Tyburn in London.-Biography:Bell was born at...
(1965 — McGredy, Ireland) - Arthur CookArthur Bernard CookArthur Bernard Cook was a British classical scholar, known for work in archaeology and the history of religions. He is best known for his three-part work Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion. He is often considered one of the Cambridge Ritualists...
(1924 — McGredy, Ireland) - Arthur de Sansal (1855 — Cochet, France)
- Arthur ScargillArthur ScargillArthur Scargill is a British politician who was President of the National Union of Mineworkers from 1982 to 2002, leading the union through the 1984–85 miners' strike, a key event in British labour and political history...
- Arthur Young (1863 — Portemer, France)
- Arva Leany (1911 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Asta von Parpart (1909 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Astra DesmondAstra DesmondAstra Desmond CBE was a British contralto of the early and middle twentieth century.-Early years:Astra Desmond was born Gwendolyn Mary Thompson, in Torquay, England. She was educated at Notting Hill High School and Westfield College, where she was a classical scholar...
(United Kingdom) - Astrid Gräfin von HardenbergAstrid Gräfin von HardenbergAstrid Gräfin von Hardenberg is the daughter of the opponent to the national socialist regime Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg and of Renate von der Schulenburg....
(2001 — Tantau, Germany) - Astrid LindgrenAstrid LindgrenAstrid Anna Emilia Lindgren , 14 November 1907 – 28 January 2002) was a Swedish author and screenwriter who is the world's 25th most translated author and has sold roughly 145 million copies worldwide...
(1989 — Olesen, Denmark) - AthenaAthenaIn Greek mythology, Athena, Athenê, or Athene , also referred to as Pallas Athena/Athene , is the goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, warfare, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, justice, and skill. Minerva, Athena's Roman incarnation, embodies similar attributes. Athena is...
(1982 — Kordes, Germany) - Audie MurphyAudie MurphyAudie Leon Murphy was a highly decorated and famous soldier. Through LIFE magazine's July 16, 1945 issue , he became one the most famous soldiers of World War II and widely regarded as the most decorated American soldier of the war...
(1957 — Lammerts, USA) - Audrey HepburnAudrey HepburnAudrey Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian. Although modest about her acting ability, Hepburn remains one of the world's most famous actresses of all time, remembered as a film and fashion icon of the twentieth century...
(1983 — Twomey, USA) - Audrey Wilcox (1987 — Fryer, United Kingdom)
- August Seebauer (1944 — Kordes, Germany)
- Augusta LuiseAugusta Louise zu Stolberg-StolbergCountess Louise Augusta zu Stolberg-Stolberg is known for a lively correspondence with the poet and thinker Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; she is known as Goethe Gustchen in the history of literature....
(1999 — Tantau, Germany) - Kaiserin Auguste ViktoriaAugusta Viktoria of Schleswig-HolsteinAugusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein was the last German Empress and Queen of Prussia. Her full German name was Auguste Victoria Friederike Luise Feodora Jenny von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.She was the eldest daughter of Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein and Princess...
(1891 — Lambert, Germany), - Auguste Gervais (1918 — Barbier, France)
- Auguste Kordes (1928 — Kordes, Germany)
- Auguste RenoirPierre-Auguste RenoirPierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to...
(1995 — Meilland, France) - Auguste Roussel (1913 — Barbier, France)
- Augustine Guinoisseau (1889 — Guinoisseau, France)
- Augustine Halem (1891 — Guillot, France)
- Augustus Hartmann (1914 — Cant, Germany)
- Aurelia Liffa (1886 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- AuroraAurora (mythology)Aurora is the Latin word for dawn, the goddess of dawn in Roman mythology and Latin poetry.Like Greek Eos and Rigvedic Ushas , Aurora continues the name of an earlier Indo-European dawn goddess, *Hausos....
(1923 — Pemberton, United Kingdom) - Aurore de Jacques-Marie (1999 — Guillot, France)
- Aurore Poniatowska (1820 — Du Pont, France) Paris c1820
- AusoniusAusoniusDecimius Magnus Ausonius was a Latin poet and rhetorician, born at Burdigala .-Biography:Decimius Magnus Ausonius was born in Bordeaux in ca. 310. His father was a noted physician of Greek ancestry and his mother was descended on both sides from long-established aristocratic Gallo-Roman families...
(1932 — Lambert, Germany) - Aviateur BlériotLouis BlériotLouis Charles Joseph Blériot was a French aviator, inventor and engineer. In 1909 he completed the first flight across a large body of water in a heavier-than-air craft, when he crossed the English Channel. For this achievement, he received a prize of £1,000...
(1909 — Fauqué, France) - Avocat Duvivier (1875 — Lévêque, France)
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- Barbara Austin (1997 — Austin, United Kingdom)
- Barbara BushBarbara BushBarbara Pierce Bush is the wife of the 41st President of the United States George H. W. Bush, and served as First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993. She is the mother of the 43rd President George W. Bush and of the 43rd Governor of Florida Jeb Bush...
(1978 — Warriner, USA) - Barbara CarreraBarbara CarreraBarbara Carrera is a Nicaraguan-born American film and television actress as well as a former model. She is best known for her roles as Bond girl Fatima Blush in Never Say Never Again and as Angelica Nero on the soap opera Dallas.-Early life:Barbara Kingsbury was born in San Carlos, Río San Juan,...
(1994 — Beales, United Kingdom) - Barbara MandrellBarbara MandrellBarbara Ann Mandrell is an American country music singer best known for a 1970s–1980s series of Top 10 hits and TV shows that helped her become one of country's most successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s...
(1990 — King, USA) - Barbra StreisandBarbra StreisandBarbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy,...
(2001 — Carruth, USA) - BarbarossaFrederick I, Holy Roman EmperorFrederick I Barbarossa was a German Holy Roman Emperor. He was elected King of Germany at Frankfurt on 4 March 1152 and crowned in Aachen on 9 March, crowned King of Italy in Pavia in 1155, and finally crowned Roman Emperor by Pope Adrian IV, on 18 June 1155, and two years later in 1157 the term...
(1906 — Welter, Germany) - Bardou Job (1887 — Nabonnand, France)
- Báró Natália (1889 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Baron Alexandre de Vrints (1880 — Gonod, France)
- Baron de Bonstetten (1871 — Liabaud, France)
- Baron Girod de l`Ain (1897 — Reverchon, France)
- Baron de Wassenaer (1854 — Verdier, France)
- Baron J. B. Gonella (1859 — Guillot, France)
- Baron Palm (1913 — Lambert, Germany)
- Baron van PallandtRudolph van PallandtRudolph Theodorus Baron van Pallandt van Eerde was a Dutch sport shooter who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.He was born in Oldebroek and died in London, Great Britain....
(1905 — Welter, Germany) - Baronin Armgard von Biel (1905 — Jacobs, Germany)
- Baronne Adolphe de Rothschild (1862 — Lacharme, France)
- Baronne Caroline von Rothschild (1868 — Jean Pernet, père, France)
- Baronne de Fontvieille (1886 — Gonod, France)
- Baronne de Sinétry (1883 — Gonod, France)
- Baronne Edmond de RothschildNadine de RothschildNadine de Rothschild is a French author and actress. She is the widow of banker Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild and belongs to the Rothschild family.- Biography :...
(1968 — Meilland, France) - Baronne Henriette de Snoy (1897 — Bernaix, France)
- Baronne Prévost (1842 — Desprez, France)
- Belle IsisIsisIsis or in original more likely Aset is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. She was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the matron of nature and magic...
(1845 — Parmentier, Belgium) - Belmonte (2007 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Benjamin BrittenBenjamin BrittenEdward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
(2001 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Benoit Broyer (1875 — Gonod, France)
- BérangerPierre-Jean de BérangerPierre-Jean de Béranger was a prolific French poet and chansonnier , who enjoyed great popularity and influence in France during his lifetime, but faded into obscurity in the decades following his death...
(1849 — Vibert, France) - Bergrat Otto Berger (1924 — Berger, Germany)
- Bernard (1818 — Robert, France)
- Bernd Weigel (2003 — Tantau, Germany)
- Betty Harkness (1998 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom). - Betty Prior (1935 — Prior, United Kingdom)
- Betty Sheriff (1788)
- Betty Uprichard (1922 — Dickson, United Kingdom)
- Betty WhiteBetty WhiteBetty White Ludden , better known as Betty White, is an American actress, comedienne, singer, author, and former game show personality. With a career spanning seven decades since 1939, she is best known to modern audiences for her television roles as Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and...
(2004 — USA) - Billy GrahamBilly GrahamWilliam Franklin "Billy" Graham, Jr. is an American evangelical Christian evangelist. As of April 25, 2010, when he met with Barack Obama, Graham has spent personal time with twelve United States Presidents dating back to Harry S. Truman, and is number seven on Gallup's list of admired people for...
(1998 — Zary, USA) - Bing CrosbyBing CrosbyHarry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
(1981 — Weeks, USA) - Bischof Dr. KorumMichael Felix KorumMichael Felix Korum was bishop of Trier from 1881 to 1921.He was appointed by Pope Leo XIII on August 12, 1881 and was ordained two days afterwards by Raffaele Monaco La Valletta....
(1921 — Lambert, Germany) - Bishop Darlington (1926 — Thomas, USA)
- Blanche Lafitte (1851 — Pradel, France)
- BlanchefleurFloris and BlancheflourFloris and Blancheflour is the name of a popular romantic story that was told in the Middle Ages in many different vernacular languages and versions. It first appears in Europe around 1160 in "aristocratic" French...
(1835 — Vibert, France) - Bob HopeBob HopeBob Hope, KBE, KCSG, KSS was a British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in radio, television and movies. He was also noted for his work with the US Armed Forces and his numerous USO shows entertaining American military personnel...
(1960 — Korder, Germany) - Bobbie James (1961 — James, United Kingdom)
- Bobby CharltonBobby CharltonSir Robert "Bobby" Charlton CBE is an English former professional football player, a member of the England team who won the World Cup and Ballon d'Or for European Footballer of the Year in 1966...
(1974 — Fryer, United Kington) - Bobby James (Rambler, Sunningdale Nursery, 1961)
- BotticelliSandro BotticelliAlessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance...
(2004 — Meilland, France) - BotzarisMarkos BotsarisMarkos Botsaris was a Souliote captain and a hero of the War of Greek Independence. Markos Botsaris is among the most revered national heroes in Greece.-Early life:...
(1856 — Robert, France) - BougainvilleLouis Antoine de BougainvilleLouis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville was a French admiral and explorer. A contemporary of James Cook, he took part in the French and Indian War and the unsuccessful French attempt to defend Canada from Britain...
(1822 — Cochet, France) - Bourbon Queen (1835 — Mauget, France)
- Brenda Colvin (1970 — Colvin, United Kingdom)
- Brenda LeeBrenda LeeBrenda Mae Tarpley , known as Brenda Lee, is an American performer who sang rockabilly, pop and country music, and had 37 US chart hits during the 1960s, a number surpassed only by Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Ray Charles and Connie Francis...
(1990 — USA) - BrennusBrennusBrennus is the name of two Gaulish chieftains famous in ancient history:* Brennus , chieftain of the Senones, a Gallic tribe originating from the modern areas of France known as Seine-et-Marne, Loiret, and Yonne; in 387 BC, in the Battle of the Allia, he led an army of Cisalpine Gauls in their...
(1830 — Laffay, France) - Brigitte BardotBrigitte BardotBrigitte Anne-Marie Bardot is a French former fashion model, actress, singer and animal rights activist. She was one of the best-known sex-symbols of the 1960s.In her early life, Bardot was an aspiring ballet dancer...
(2001 — Orard, France) - Brigitte de Villenfagne (1993 — Lens, Belgium)
- British QueenMary of TeckMary of Teck was the queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, as the wife of King-Emperor George V....
(1912 — McGredy, Ireland) - Bürgermeister Christen Bergmann (19211 — Teschendorff, Germany)
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- Caecilie Scharsach (1887 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Camille Bernardin (1865 — Gautreau, France)
- Camille PissarroCamille PissarroCamille Pissarro was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas . His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, as he was the only artist to exhibit in both forms...
(1996 — Delbart, France) - CamoënsLuís de CamõesLuís Vaz de Camões is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Vondel, Homer, Virgil and Dante. He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry and drama but is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusíadas...
(1881 — Schwartz, France) - Capitaine Basroger (1890 — Moreau-Robert, France)
- Capitaine Dyel de Graville (1907 — Boutigny, France)
- Capitaine Williams (1835 — France)
- Captain HaywardCaptain HaywardCaptain Hayward was an English sailor. He was in command of the first ferry to cross the English Channel from Folkestone to Boulogne-sur-Mer in June 1843....
(1893 — Bennett, United Kingdom) - Captain John Ingram (1856 — Laffay, France)
- Captain Philip Green (1899 — Nabonnand, France)
- Cardinal Hume (1984 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Cardinal de Richelieu (1847 — Parmentier, Belgium)
- CarmenCarmenCarmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself possibly influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies by Alexander Pushkin...
(1906 — Lambert, Germany) - Caroline Bank (1889 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Caroline Schmitt (1878 — J.C. Schmidt, Germany)
- Caron KeatingCaron KeatingCaron Louisa Keating was a Northern Irish television presenter on British and Northern Irish television.-Early life and education:...
(2005 — Harkness, United Kingdom) - Cary GrantCary GrantArchibald Alexander Leach , better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was an English actor who later took U.S. citizenship...
(1987 — Meilland, France) - CasanovaGiacomo CasanovaGiacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie , is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century...
(1964 — McGreedy, Ireland) - Casimir Moullé (1911 — Barbier, France)
- Catherine DeneuveCatherine DeneuveCatherine Deneuve is a French actress. She gained recognition for her portrayal of aloof and mysterious beauties in films such as Repulsion and Belle de jour . Deneuve was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1993 for her performance in Indochine; she also won César Awards for that...
(1981 — Meilland, France) - Catherine de WürttembergCatharina of WürttembergPrincess Catharina Frederica of Württemberg was the second wife of Jérôme Bonaparte.-Family:Catharina was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia to the later King Frederick I of Württemberg and Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel...
(1843 — Robert, France) - Catherine Guillot (1861 — Guillot, France)
- Catherine Mermet (1869 — Guillot, France)
- Catherine Seyton (1894 — Penzance, United Kingdom)
- Cécile Brunner (1880 — Ducher, France)
- Cécile Brunner|Cécile Brunner Climbing (1904 — Hosp, USA)
- Céline Forestier (1842 — Trouillard, France)
- Céline Gonod 1861 — Gonod, France)
- Celsiana (cca. 1750)
- Ceres (1914 — Pemberton, United Kingdom)
- CésarCésar BaldacciniCésar Baldaccini , usually called César was a noted French sculptor.César was at the forefront of the Nouveau Réalisme movement with his radical compressions , expansions , and fantastic representations of animals and insects.- Biography :He...
(1993 — Meilland, France) - ChamissoAdelbert von ChamissoAdelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...
(1922 — Lambert, Germany) - Chantal Merieux (1999 — Guillot-Massad, France)
- CharlemagneCharlemagneCharlemagne was King of the Franks from 768 and Emperor of the Romans from 800 to his death in 814. He expanded the Frankish kingdom into an empire that incorporated much of Western and Central Europe. During his reign, he conquered Italy and was crowned by Pope Leo III on 25 December 800...
(1836 — Dorizy, France) - Charles AlbanelCharles AlbanelCharles Albanel was a Freech missionary explorer in Canada, and Jesuit priest. In 1649, he arrived in Canada, at Tadoussac. In 1672, at the time when the Hudson's Bay Company was beginning operations, he was a leader of a French party that went by the Saguenay River, Lake Mistassini, and the...
(1981, Svejda, Canada) - Charles Austin (1973 — Austin, United Kingdom)
- Charles AznavourCharles AznavourCharles Aznavour, OC is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter, actor, public activist and diplomat. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the best-known singers in the world...
(1988 — Meilland, France) - Charles de GaulleCharles de GaulleCharles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969....
(1975 — Meilland, France) - Charles de Lapisse (1910 — Laroulandie, France)
- Charles DickensCharles DickensCharles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...
(1886 — Paul, United Kingdom) - Charles Lawson (1853 — Lawson, United Kingdom)
- Charles Lefebvre (1861 — Lacharme, France)
- Charles Margottin (1864 — Margottin, France)
- Charles de Mills (1790 — France)
- Charles Lawson (1853 — Lawson, United Kingdom)
- Charles LefèbvreCharles, comte Lefebvre-DesnouettesCharles, comte Lefebvre-Desnouettes or Lefèbvre-Desnoëttes became a French officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and a general during the Napoleonic Wars...
(1862 — Lacharme, France) 1862 - Charles Mallerin (1951 — Meilland, France)
- Charles Rennie MackintoshCharles Rennie MackintoshCharles Rennie Mackintosh was a Scottish architect, designer, watercolourist and artist. He was a designer in the Arts and Crafts movement and also the main representative of Art Nouveau in the United Kingdom. He had a considerable influence on European design...
(1988 — David Austin, United Kingdom) - Charlotte Ewert (1994 — Scholle, Germany)
- Charlotte Klemm (1905 — Türke, Germany),
- Charlotte RamplingCharlotte RamplingCharlotte Rampling, OBE is an English actress. Her career spans four decades in English-language as well as French and Italian cinema.- Early life :...
(1988 — Meilland, France) - ChaucerGeoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer , known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey...
(1970 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Chevy ChaseChevy ChaseCornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase is an American comedian, writer, and television and film actor, born into a prominent entertainment industry family. Chase worked a plethora of odd jobs before moving into comedy acting with National Lampoon...
(1939 — Hansen, USA) - Chief SeattleChief SeattleChief Seattle , was a Dkhw’Duw’Absh chief, also known as Sealth, Seathle, Seathl, or See-ahth. A prominent figure among his people, he pursued a path of accommodation to white settlers, forming a personal relationship with David Swinson "Doc" Maynard. Seattle, Washington was named after him...
(1951 — Swim & Armstrong, USA) - ChlorisChloristhumb|250px|right| "As she talks, her lips breathe spring roses:I was Chloris, who am now called Flora." [[Ovid]]There are many stories in Greek mythology about figures named Chloris...
(1820 — Descemet, France) - Chris EvertChris EvertChristine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former world number 1 professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles championships, including a record seven championships at the French Open and a record six championships at the U.S. Open. She was the year-ending World No...
(1997 — Carruth, United Kingdom) - Christian Curle (1909 — Cocker, United Kingdom)
- Christian DiorChristian DiorChristian Dior , was a French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses, also called Christian Dior.-Life:...
(1958 — France) - Christian Schultheis (1999 — Schultheis, Germany)
- Christiane HörbigerChristiane HörbigerChristiane Hörbiger is an Austrian television and film actress.-Life and work:Christiane Hörbiger is one of the three actress daughters of Austrian actors Attila Hörbiger and Paula Wessely . Her sisters are Elisabeth Orth and Maresa Hörbiger.She has played roles in various German and Austrian TV...
(1988 — McGreedy, New Zealand) - Christine Wright (1909 — Hoopes, USA)
- Christl Flocke (1995 — Scholle, Germany)
- Christophe ColumbusChristopher ColumbusChristopher Columbus was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents in the...
(1992 — Meilland, France) - Christophe de Combejean (2004 — Massad, France)
- Christopher MarloweChristopher MarloweChristopher Marlowe was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. As the foremost Elizabethan tragedian, next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his mysterious death.A warrant was issued for Marlowe's arrest on 18 May...
(2002 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Cilly Michel (1928 — Felberg, Germany)
- Claire Laberge (2001 — Fleming)
- Claire RaynerClaire RaynerClaire Berenice Rayner OBE was an English nurse, journalist, broadcaster and novelist, best known for her role for many years as an agony aunt.-Early life:...
(1931 — Jones, United Kingdom - Claire Rose (1986 — Austin, United Kingdom)
- Clarissa (1983 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Claude Brasseur (2006 — Meilland, France)
- Claude MonetClaude MonetClaude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. . Retrieved 6 January 2007...
(1982 — Delbard, France) - Claudia CardinaleClaudia CardinaleClaudia Cardinale is an Italian actress, and has appeared in some of the most prominent European films of the 1960s and 1970s. The majority of Cardinale's films have been either Italian or French...
(1997 — Guillot-Massad, France) - Claus Groth (1951 — Tantau, Germany)
- Cleopatra (1994 — Kordes, Germany)
- ClioCliothumb|Clio—detail from [[The Art of Painting|The Allegory of Painting]] by [[Johannes Vermeer]]In Greek mythology, Clio or Kleio, is the muse of history. Like all the muses, she is a daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne...
(1894 — Paul, United Kingdom) - ClytemnestraClytemnestraClytemnestra or Clytaemnestra , in ancient Greek legend, was the wife of Agamemnon, king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Mycenae or Argos. In the Oresteia by Aeschylus, she was a femme fatale who murdered her husband, Agamemnon – said by Euripides to be her second husband – and the Trojan princess...
(1915 — Pemberton, United Kingdom) - ColetteColetteColette was the surname of the French novelist and performer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette . She is best known for her novel Gigi, upon which Lerner and Loewe based the stage and film musical comedies of the same title.-Early life and marriage:Colette was born to retired military officer Jules-Joseph...
(1995 — Meilland, France) - Commandant BeaurepaireNicolas-Joseph BeaurepaireNicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire was a French officer.Born in Coulommiers, he commanded the defense of Verdun against the invading Allied armies of the First Coalition, shortly before they were stopped at the Battle of Valmy...
(1874 — Moreau-Robert, France) - Commandant CousteauJacques-Yves CousteauJacques-Yves Cousteau was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water...
(1993 — Adam, France) - Commandeur Jules GravereauxJules GravereauxJules Gravereaux was a French rosarian. He was a top executive at the department store Le Bon Marché and in 1892 purchased land at the village of L'Haÿ about 8 km south of Paris. There, he built the first ever complete garden devoted exclusively to roses...
(1909 — Croibier, France) 1909 - Comte de ChambordHenri, comte de ChambordHenri, comte de Chambord was disputedly King of France from 2 to 9 August 1830 as Henry V, although he was never officially proclaimed as such...
(1860 — Moreau-Robert, France) - Comte de Nanteuil (II) (1850 — Quetier, France)
- Comte de ParisPhilippe, Comte de ParisPhilippe d'Orléans, Count of Paris was the grandson of Louis Philippe I, King of the French. He was a claimant to the French throne from 1848 until his death.-Early life:...
(1886 — Leveque, France) - Comtes de ChampagneTaittinger familyTaittinger is a French wine family who are famous producers of Champagne. The estate is headed by Claude Taittinger , a member of the consultative committee of the Banque de France...
(2001 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Comte G. de Rochemur (1911 — Schwartz, France)
- Comtesse Brigitte Chandon-Moët (1997 — Dorieux, France)
- Comtesse Cécile de Chabrillant (1858 — France)
- Comtesse Cécile de Forton (1916 — Nabonnand, France)
- Comtesse d`Oxford (1869 — Guillot, France)
- Comtesse de Caserta (1878 — Nabonnand, France)
- Comtesse de Cassagne (1919 — Guillot, +France)
- Comtesse de Lacepede (1940 — France)
- Comtesse de Murinais (1843 — Vibert, France)
- Comtesse de Noghera (1902 — Nabonnand, France)
- Comtesse de SégurSophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de SégurSophie, Countess of Ségur was a French writer of Russian birth....
(1994 — Delbard, France) - Comtesse Diana (1993 — Hetzel, Germany)
- Comtesse du BarryMadame du BarryJeanne Bécu, comtesse du Barry was the last Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XV of France and one of the victims of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.-Early life:...
(1993 — Verschuren, The Netherlands) - Comtesse du CaylaZoé Talon, comtesse du CaylaZoé Victoire Talon , styled comtesse du Cayla, was an intimate friend and confidante of Louis XVIII of France, and was his maîtresse-en-titre.She was born at Le Boullay-Thierry...
(1902 — Guillot, France) - Comtesse Risa du Parc (1876 — Schwartz, France)
- Comtesse Vandal (1932 — Leenders, The Netherlands)
- Condesa de Sástago (1930 — Dot, Spain)
- Conrad Ferdinand MeyerConrad Ferdinand MeyerConrad Ferdinand Meyer was a Swiss poet and historical novelist, a master of realism chiefly remembered for stirring narrative ballads like "Die Füße im Feuer" .-Biography:...
(1899 — Dr. Müller, Switzerland) - Constance Finn (1997 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Constance SpryConstance SpryConstance Spry was a famous British educator, florist and author in the mid-20th century.- Background :Constance Spry was born Constance Fletcher in Derby in 1886, eldest child and only daughter of George Fletcher and his wife Henrietta Maria Fletcher...
(1961 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Coralie (before 1848 — France)
- CorneliaCornelia AfricanaCornelia Scipionis Africana was the second daughter of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, the hero of the Second Punic War, and Aemilia Paulla. She is remembered as the perfect example of a virtuous Roman woman....
(1925 — Pemberton, United Kingdom) - Corporal Johann Nagy (1890 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Cosimo Ridolfi (1842- Vibert, France),
- Coupe d'HébéHebe (mythology)In Greek mythology, Hēbē is the goddess of youth . She is the daughter of Zeus and Hera. Hebe was the cupbearer for the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus, serving their nectar and ambrosia, until she was married to Heracles ; her successor was the young Trojan prince Ganymede...
(1840 — Laffay, France) - Countess of Oxford (1869 — Guillot, France)
- Cristoforo ColomboChristopher ColumbusChristopher Columbus was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents in the...
(1953 — Aicardi, Italy) - Crown Princess MargaretaPrincess Margaret of ConnaughtPrincess Margaret of Connaught was the daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, third son of Queen Victoria, and his wife, Princess Luise Margarete of Prussia...
(2000 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Crown Princess MaryMary, Crown Princess of DenmarkMary, Crown Princess of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat, is the wife of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark...
(2006 — Australia) - CymbalineCunobelinusCunobeline or Cunobelinus was a historical king in pre-Roman Britain, known from passing mentions by classical historians Suetonius and Dio Cassius, and from his many inscribed coins...
(1982 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Cuthbert GrantCuthbert GrantCuthbert Grant was a prominent Métis leader of the early nineteenth century.-Life:Grant was the son of a Scottish father and Métis mother. He was born in 1793 at Fort Tremblant, a North West Company trading post located near the present-day town of Togo, Saskatchewan, where his father was a manager...
(1967 — Canada) - CyranoCyrano de BergeracHercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac 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 by Edmond Rostand...
(1954 — Gaujard, France)
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- D`Aguesseau (1836- Vibert, France)
- Dagmar Späth (1935 — Späth, Germany)
- Dame Edith HelenEdith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of LondonderryEdith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry DBE was a noted socialite and philanthropist in the United Kingdom between World War I and World War II.-Family:...
(1926 — Dickson, United Kingdom) - Dame of Sark (1976 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Dame Prudence (1969 — Austin, United Kingdom)
- Dame WendyWendy HillerDame Wendy Margaret Hiller DBE was an Academy Award-winning English film and stage actress, who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years. The writer Joel Hirschorn, in his 1984 compilation Rating the Movie Stars, described her as "a no-nonsense actress who literally took...
(1991 — Cants, United Kingdom) - Dan PoncetDan PoncetDan Poncet is a contemporary French painter.Born on July 14, 1953 at the château de Saint-Just in Ain department, France. She graduated in 1972 from the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Lyon and thereafter from the École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon.Her first paintings show an...
(1999 — Guillot-Massad, France) - DanaëDanaëIn Greek mythology, Danaë was a daughter of King Acrisius of Argos and Eurydice of Argos. She was the mother of Perseus by Zeus. She was sometimes credited with founding the city of Ardea in Latium....
(1913 — Pemberton, United Kingdom) - Dany Hahn (2004 — Guillot, France)
- DaphnéDaphneDaphne was a female minor nature deity. Pursued by Apollo, she fled and was chased. Daphne begged the gods for help, who then transformed her into Laurel.-Overview:...
(1819- Vibert, France) - DaphneDaphneDaphne was a female minor nature deity. Pursued by Apollo, she fled and was chased. Daphne begged the gods for help, who then transformed her into Laurel.-Overview:...
(1962, Leenders, Netherlands) - DariusDarius I of PersiaDarius I , also known as Darius the Great, was the third king of kings of the Achaemenid Empire...
(1827 — Laffay, France) - David ThompsonDavid ThompsonDavid Thompson may refer to:In exploration:*David Thompson , founder of the first European settlement in New Hampshire, United States...
(1970 — Svejda, Canada)
- De la Grifferaie (1845- Vibert, France)
- Dee Bennett (1988 — Saville, USA)
- Dee Dee BridgewaterDee Dee BridgewaterDee Dee Bridgewater is an American Jazz singer. She is a three-time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter, as well as a Tony Award - winning stage actress and host of National Public Radio's syndicated radio show JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater...
(2003 — Meilland, France) - Delambre (1863 — Moreau-Robert, France)
- Della Balfour (1994 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Dembrowski (1849 — Vibert, France)
- Denise Hilling (1965 — Hilling, France)
- Désirée Parmentier (1941 — Parmentier, Belgium)
- Deuil de Paul FontainePaul Fontaine-Life:Abstract-colorist painter Paul Emile Fontaine was born in 1913 in Worcester, Massachusetts to Elzear and Mary Fontaine, both of French Canadian descent. Fontaine had two brothers, Russell and Leo Fontaine, both younger. Paul Fontaine was early on encouraged to be a painter, deciding to pursue...
(1873 — Fontaine, France) - Deuil du Prince Albert (1862 — Lapente, France)
- Detlev von LiliencronDetlev von LiliencronBaron Detlev von Liliencron born Friedrich Adolf Axel Detlev Liliencron was a German lyric poet and novelist from Kiel, the son of Louis Freiherr von Liliencron and Adeline von Harten....
(1915 — Lambert, Germany) - DianaDianaDiana may refer to:*Diana , ancient Roman goddess of the moon, the hunt, and chastity*Diana , people with the given name Diana*Diana, Princess of Wales, first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales-Music:...
(1977 — Tantau, Germany) - Diana, Princess of WalesDiana, Princess of WalesDiana, Princess of Wales was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, whom she married on 29 July 1981, and an international charity and fundraising figure, as well as a preeminent celebrity of the late 20th century...
(1998 — Zary, USA) - Dieter MüllerDieter MüllerDieter Müller is a former German footballer, who is currently the chairman of Kickers Offenbach.He appeared in twelve senior matches, scoring nine goals for Germany. He played in the 1976 European Football Championship and the 1978 FIFA World Cup. In his spell with 1...
(2005 — Delbart, France) - Dieter Wedel (1997 — Dickson, United Kingdom)
- Director W. Cordes (1905 — Lambert, Germany)
- Direktor Benshop (1945 — Tantau, Germany)
- Dolly PartonDolly PartonDolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music. Dolly Parton has appeared in movies like 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias and Straight Talk...
(1984 — USA) - Dometil Beccard (1853 — France)
- Domkapitular Dr. Lager (1903 — Lambert, Germany)
- Donna Marie (1830- Vibert, France)
- Dora Hansen (1911 — Jacobs, Germany)
- Doris Tysterman (1975 — Tysterman, United Kingdom)
- Dorothea Söffker — (1899 — Welter, Germany)
- Dorothy Perkins (1901 — Miller, USA)
- Dorothy Wheatcroft (1960 — Tantau, Germany)
- Dorothy Whitney Wood (1992 — Fryer, United Kingdom)
- Dorothy Wilson (1995 — Beales, United Kingdom)
- Dr. Andry (1864 — Verdier, France)
- Dr. Augustin Wibbelt (1928 — Leenders, The Netherlands)
- Dr. Bender (1914 — Lambert, Germany)
- Dr. Christian Friedrich Samuel HahnemannSamuel HahnemannChristian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann was a German physician, known for creating an alternative form of medicine called homeopathy.- Early life :Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann was born in Meissen, Saxony near Dresden...
(2006 — Huber, Switzerland) - Dr. Dick (1985 — Cocker, United Kingdom)
- Dr. EckenerHugo EckenerDr. Hugo Eckener was the manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin during the inter-war years, and was commander of the famous Graf Zeppelin for most of its record-setting flights, including the first airship flight around the world, making him the most successful airship commander in history...
(1928 — V. Berger, Germany) - Dr. Georges Martin (1908 — Vilin, France)
- Dr. Gustav Krüger (1913 — Ulbrich/Kiese, Germany)
- Dr. Heinrich Lumpe (1928 — V. Berger, Germany)
- Dr. Helfferich (1919 — Lambert, Germany)
- Dr. Huey (1914 — G. Thomas, USA)
- Dr. Ing. H. Blohm (1919 — Lambert, Germany)
- Dr. John Snow (1979 — Gandy, United Kingdom)
- Dr. Karel KramářKarel KramárKarel Kramář was a Czech politician.- Biography :Leader of the Young Czech Party in Austria-Hungary and later of the National Democratic Party in Czechoslovakia...
(1937 — Böhm, Czechoslovakia) - Dr. Martin LutherMartin LutherMartin Luther was a German priest, professor of theology and iconic figure of the Protestant Reformation. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money. He confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517...
(2000 — Scholle, Germany) - Dr. Rudolf Maag (1968, Meilland, France)
- Dr. Reiner KlimkeReiner KlimkeDr Reiner Klimke was a German equestrian, who won six gold and two bronze medals in dressage at the Summer Olympics — a record for equestrian events...
(1988 — Noack, Germany) - Dr. Rouges (1893 — Schwartz, France)
- Dr. Valentin Teirich (1890 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Dr. W. van Fleet (1910 — Van Fleet, USA)
- Dr. Waldheim (1974 — Kordes, Germany)
- Druschki Rubra (1929 — Lambert, Germany)
- Duc d`ArembergEngelbert, 8th Duke of ArenbergEngelbert August Anton of Arenberg was 8th Duke of Arenberg and 14th Duke of Aarschot...
(1836 — Parmentier, Belgium) - Duc d'Audiffret-Pasquier (France)
- Duc d'Aumale (France)
- Duc de Bragance (France)
- Duc de Bordeaux (1820 — Vibert, France)
- Duc de CambridgePrince Adolphus, Duke of CambridgeThe Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge , was the tenth child and seventh son of George III and Queen Charlotte. He held the title of Duke of Cambridge from 1801 until his death. He also served as Viceroy of Hanover on behalf of his brothers George IV and William IV...
(1800 — Laffay, France) - Duc de Cazes (1861 — Touvais, France)
- Duc de Constantine (1857 — Souper & Notting, France)
- Duc de Malakoff (France)
- Duc de Fitz-James (1885 — France)
- Duc de GuicheAgenor, duc de GramontAntoine Alfred Agénor, Duc de Gramont was a French diplomat and statesman.He was born at Paris of one of the most illustrious families of the old noblesse, a cadet branch of the viscounts of Aure, which took its name from the Seignory of Gramont in Navarre...
(1835 — Prévost, France) - Duc de Montpensier (France)
- Duc de Rohan (1847 — Lévêque, France)
- Duc de Rohan (1861 — Lévêque, France)
- Duc de WellingtonArthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of WellingtonField Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS , was an Irish-born British soldier and statesman, and one of the leading military and political figures of the 19th century...
(1864 — Granger, France) - Duc d'Orléans (France)
- Duchess of BedfordElizabeth Russell, Duchess of BedfordElizabeth, Duchess of Bedford was born as Elizabeth Sackville-West, daughter of the 5th Earl De La Warr and the Countess De La Warr....
(1879 — Postans, United Kingdom) - Duchess of Connaught (1879 — Bennett, United Kingdom)
- Duchess of Connaught (1882 — Standish & Noble, United Kingdom)
- Duchess of Cornwall (2005 — Tantau, United Kingdom)
- Duchess of Edinburgh (1874 — Bennett, United Kingdom)
- Duchess of FifeLouise, Princess Royal and Duchess of FifeThe Princess Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife was the third child and the eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark...
(United Kingdom) - Duchess of SutherlandHarriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of SutherlandHarriet Elizabeth Georgiana Howard was born Lady Harriet Howard, daughter of the 6th Earl of Carlisle and his wife Lady Georgiana Cavendish, who was a daughter of the famous Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. On 18 May 1823 Harriet married Earl Gower, eldest son of the 2nd Marquess of Stafford, and...
(1839 — Laffay, France) - Duchess of PortlandMargaret Bentinck, Duchess of PortlandMargaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland , styled Lady Margaret Harley before 1734, Duchess of Portland from 1734 to her husband's death in 1761, and Dowager Duchess of Portland from 1761 until her own death in 1785...
(1775 — Italy) - Duchess of York (1897 — Cocker, United Kingdom)
- Duchess of YorkSarah, Duchess of YorkSarah, Duchess of York is a British charity patron, spokesperson, writer, film producer, television personality and former member of the British Royal Family. She is the former wife of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, whom she married from 1986 to 1996...
(1994 — Dickson, United Kingdom)
- Duchesse Antonine d'Ursel (France)
- Duchesse d'AbrantèsLaure Junot, duchess d'AbrantèsLaure Junot, Duchess of Abrantès was the wife of French general Jean-Andoche Junot....
(1851 — Robert, France) - Duchesse d'AngoulêmeMarie-Thérèse-Charlotte of FranceMarie Thérèse de France was the eldest child of King Louis XVI of France and his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette...
(1828 — Vibert, France) - Duchesse d'AostePrincess Hélène d'OrléansPrincess Hélène of Orléans was a member of the Orléans royal family and by marriage Duchess of Aosta.-Family:She was the third of eight children born to Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, and Infanta Maria Isabel of Spain...
(France) - Duchesse d'Auerstedt (1888 — Bernaix, France)
- Duchesse de Berry (1818- Vibert, France)
- Duchesse de BrabantMarie Henriette of AustriaMarie Henriette of Austria was the queen consort of King Leopold II of Belgium.-Family:...
(1857 — Bernède, France) - Duchesse de Bragance (France)
- Duchesse de Buccleugh (1837 — Vibert, France)
- Duchesse de Buccleugh (1846 — Robert, France)
- Duchesse de Cambacérès (France)
- Duchesse de Caylus (France)
- Duchesse de Dino (before 1829 — France)
- Duchesse de Dino (1889 — Lévêque, France)
- Duchesse de Galliera (1847 — Portemer, France)
- Duchesse de Grammont (before 1838)
- Duchesse de Magenta (France)
- Duchesse de MontebelloLouise Antoinette Lannes, Duchess of MontebelloLouise Antoinette Lannes, Duchess of Montebello was the daughter of senator and financier François Scholastique, Count of Guéhéneuc. She was the sister of general Charles Louis Joseph Olivier, Count of Guéhéneuc.On September 16, 1800, age 18 at Dornes she married general Jean Lannes , being his...
(1825 — Laffay, France) - Duchesse de MontpensierInfanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of MontpensierInfanta María Luisa Fernanda of Spain was Infanta of Spain and Duchess of Montpensier. She was the youngest daughter of king Ferdinand VII of Spain and his fourth wife Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, the queen-regent, who was also his niece.-Biography:-Heiress-presumptive:When her elder...
(France) - Duchesse de Morny (France)
- Duchesse de Nemours (France)
- Duchesse de NorfolkAugusta Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of NorfolkHon. Augusta Mary Minna Catherine Lyons* Born Torquay, Devon, 1 August 1821* Died Norfolk House, St James's Square, London, 22 March 1886Augusta, or Minna as she was more commonly known, was the younger daughter of Edmund Lyons by his wife Augusta Louisa .In 1838/9 Minna was residing with her...
(France) - Duchesse de Polignac (France)
- Duchesse de Rohan (1847 — Lévêque, France)
- Duchesse de Rohan (1858 — France)
- Duchesse de Vallombrosa (1876 — Schwartz, France)
- Duchesse de Verneuil (1856 — Portemer)
- Duchesse d'OrléansMaria Amalia of the Two SiciliesMaria Amalia of Naples and Sicily sometimes known as Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies was a Princess of Naples and Sicily and later the Queen of the French from 1830–1848, consort to Louis Philippe I....
(1820 — Jacques, France)
- Duchesse d'Orléans (1851 — Quétier, France)
- Duchesse d'Ossuna (France)
- Duhamel du MonceauHenri-Louis Duhamel du MonceauHenri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau , was a French physician, naval engineer and botanist. As a botanist his standard abbreviation is Duhamel...
(France) - Duke of AlbanyPrince Leopold, Duke of AlbanyThe Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany was the eighth child and fourth son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Leopold was later created Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence, and Baron Arklow...
(United Kingdom) - Duke of ConnaughtPrince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and StrathearnPrince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn was a member of the shared British and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha royal family who served as the Governor General of Canada, the 10th since Canadian Confederation.Born the seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and...
(1875 — Paul, United Kingdom) - Duke of ConnaughtPrince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and StrathearnPrince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn was a member of the shared British and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha royal family who served as the Governor General of Canada, the 10th since Canadian Confederation.Born the seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and...
(1879 — Bennett, United Kingdom) - Duke of EdinburghAlfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and GothaAlfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the third Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and reigned from 1893 to 1900. He was also a member of the British Royal Family, the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha...
(1868 — Paul, United Kingdom) - Duke of FifeAlexander Duff, 1st Duke of FifeAlexander William George Duff, 1st Duke of Fife KG, KT, GCVO, PC, VD , styled Viscount Macduff between 1857 and 1879 and known as The Earl Fife between 1879 and 1889, was a British Peer who married Princess Louise of Wales, the third child and eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Alexandra of...
(United Kingdom) - Duke of Teck (United Kingdom)
- Duquesa de Peñaranda (1931 — Dot, Spain)
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- E. G. Hill (1929 — Hill, USA)
- Earl of DufferinFrederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and AvaFrederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, KP, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC was a British public servant and prominent member of Victorian society...
( Dickson, United Kingdom) - Earl of PembrokeGeorge Herbert, 13th Earl of PembrokeGeorge Robert Charles Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke, 10th Earl of Montgomery , known as The Lord Herbert of Lea from 1861 to 1862, was a British Conservative politician...
(1882 — Bennett, United Kingdom) - Eckart WitzigmannEckart WitzigmannEckart Witzigmann is an Austrian chef.After his chef-apprenticeship in the Hotel Straubinger in Bad Gastein , Witzigmann moved on to numerous positions in prestigious restaurants around the world, among others as a student of Paul Bocuse in Lyon, France.His work in Germany began in 1971 at the...
(2001, Delbard, France) - Edgar DegasEdgar DegasEdgar Degas[p] , born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist...
(2002 — Delbard, France) - Edith Bellenden (1895 — Penzance, United Kingdom)
- Édith de Murat (1858 — Ducher, France)
- Edith HoldenEdith HoldenEdith Blackwell Holden was a British artist and art teacher. She became famous following the posthumous publication of her Nature Notes for 1906, in facsimile form, as the book The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady in 1977, which was an enormous publishing success, frequently given as a gift...
(1988 — Warner, United Kingdom) - Edith Krause (1930 — Krause, Germany)
- Édith Piaf (I) (1964 — Verbeek, The Netherlands)
- Édith Piaf (2007 — Meilland, France)
- Edmond Proust (1903 — Barbier, France)
- Edouard Guillot (2004 — Guillot, France)
- Edu Meyer (1904 — Lambert, Germany),
- Edward VII Royal Edward Rose, Canada
- Eileen O'Neill (2000 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Elfi von DassanowskyElfi von DassanowskyElfriede "Elfi" von Dassanowsky was an Austrian-American singer, pianist, film producer and humanitarian.- Early life :...
(2009 — Jalbert, Canada) - Eliane Gillet (1998 — Guillot-Massad, France)
- Elie Lambert (1898 — Lambert, Germany),
- Elisabeth (1926 — Alfons, Germany)
- Elise Heymann (1891 — Strassheim, Germany)
- Eliza
- Elizabeth Harkness (1969 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Elizabeth StuartElizabeth of BohemiaElizabeth of Bohemia was the eldest daughter of King James VI and I, King of Scotland, England, Ireland, and Anne of Denmark. As the wife of Frederick V, Elector Palatine, she was Electress Palatine and briefly Queen of Bohemia...
(2003 — Guillot, France) - Elizabeth TaylorElizabeth TaylorDame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE was a British-American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age...
- Elke Gönewein (1974 — Gönewein, Germany)
- Ellen WillmottEllen WillmottEllen Ann Willmott was an English horticulturalist. She was an influential member of the Royal Horticultural Society, and a recipient of the first Victoria Medal of Honour in 1897. She cultivated more than 100,000 species of plants, and sponsored expeditions to discover new species...
(1936 — Archer, United Kingdom) - Ellen Zinnow (1930 — Krause, Germany)
- Elli Hartmann (1912 — Welter, Germany)
- Ellinor LeGrice (1959 — LeGrice, United Kingdom)
- Elly J. Nieborg (2006 — Nieborg, Germany)
- Elmar Gunsch (2001 — Scholle, Germany)
- Else Poulsen (1924 — Poulsen, Denmark)
- ElvisElvis PresleyElvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
(2004 — Adam, France) - Emmanuelle (1985 — Austin, United Kingdom)
- Emil Simmer (1910 — — Türke, Germany),
- Emil NoldeEmil NoldeEmil Nolde was a German painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and is considered to be one of the great oil painting and watercolour painters of the 20th century. He is known for his vigorous brushwork and expressive choice of colors...
(2001 — Tantau, Germany) 2001 - Emilien Guillot (2001 — Guillot-Massad, France)
- Emily CarrEmily CarrEmily Carr was a Canadian artist and writer heavily inspired by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. One of the first painters in Canada to adopt a post-impressionist painting style, Carr did not receive widespread recognition for her work until later in her life...
- Emily Gray (1918 — Williams, United Kingdom)
- Emmy von Dippe (1915 — Lambert, Germany)
- Empereur du MarocAbderrahmane of MoroccoMoulay Sharif Abderrahmane was sultan of Morocco from 1822 to 1859. He was a member of the Alaouite dynasty.-Biography:He was born in 1778. His reign began at the start of the French occupation of Algeria...
(1858 — Guinoisseau, France) - Empress Michiko (1992 — Dickson, United Kingdom)
- Empress JosephineJoséphine de BeauharnaisJoséphine de Beauharnais was the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte, and thus the first Empress of the French. Her first husband Alexandre de Beauharnais had been guillotined during the Reign of Terror, and she had been imprisoned in the Carmes prison until her release five days after Alexandre's...
(1853 — Paris) - Ena Baxter (1989 — Cocker, United Kingdom)
- Ena Harkness (1946 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Ena Harkness Climbing (1954 — Murrell, United Kingdom)
- EosEosIn Greek mythology, Eos is the Titan goddess of the dawn, who rose from her home at the edge of Oceanus, the ocean that surrounds the world, to herald her brother Helios, the Sun.- Greek literature :...
(1950 — Ruys, The Netherlands) - EratoEratoIn Greek mythology, Erato is one of the Greek Muses. The name would mean "desired" or "lovely", if derived from the same root as Eros, as Apollonius of Rhodes playfully suggested in the invocation to Erato that begins Book III of his Argonautica....
(1937 — Tantau, Germany) - Erbprinzessin Leopold von Anhalt (1933 — Behrens, Germany)
- Erbprinzessin von Ratibor (1893 — Türke, Germany)
- Erika Teschendorff (1949 — Berger, Germany)
- Erinnerung an Loni Westermann (1907 — Welter, Germany)
- Erna Teschendorff (1911 — Zschöckel-Teschendorff, Germany)
- Ernst G. Dörell (1888 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Ernst Grandpierre (1900 — Weigand, Germany)
- Ernst Willner (1888 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Esther (1819 — Vibert, France)
- Esther Ofarim (1970 — Kordes, Germany)
- Esther's BabyEsther RantzenEsther Louise Rantzen CBE is an English journalist and television presenter who is best known for presenting the BBC television series That's Life!, and for her work in various charitable causes. She is founder of the child protection charity ChildLine, and also advocates the work of the Burma...
(1979 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Eugen E. MarlittE. MarlittE. Marlitt is the pseudonym of Eugenie John , a popular German novelist, born at Arnstadt. Her father was a portrait painter; her patroness was the Princess of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, who sent her to Vienna to study music. She became deaf, lived for 11 years at court, and then, withdrawing to...
(1900 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary) - Eugen Fürst (1875 — Soupert & Notting, Luxemburg)
- Eugène Savary (1872– Gonod, France)
- Eugénie Guinoisseau (1864 — Guinoisseau, France)
- Eugenie Lamesch (1899 — Lambert, Germany)
- EuphrosyneEuphrosyne (mythology)In Greek mythology, Euphrosyne In Greek mythology, Euphrosyne In Greek mythology, Euphrosyne (Εὐφροσύνη; was one of the Charites, known in English also as the "Three Graces". Her best remembered representation in English is in Milton's poem of the active, joyful life, "L'Allegro". She is also the...
(1896 — Lambert, Germany) - EvaEveEve is the first woman created by God in the Book of Genesis.Eve may also refer to:-People:*Eve , a common given name and surname*Eve , American recording artist and actress-Places:...
(1937 — Kordes, Germany) - Evita IIEva PerónMaría Eva Duarte de Perón was the second wife of President Juan Perón and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is often referred to as simply Eva Perón, or by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita.She was born in the village of Los Toldos in...
(2000 — Cocker, United Kingdom) - Eva Teschendorff Climbing (1926 — Opdebeeck, Belgium)
- EvangelineEvangelineEvangeline, A Tale of Acadie, is an epic poem published in 1847 by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians.The idea for the poem came from...
(1906 — Walsh, USA) - Eveline Timm (Weihrauch, Ger,many)
- Evelyn May (2000 — Beales, United Kingdom)
- Excellenz Kuntze (1909 — Lambert, Germany)
- Excellenz M. Schmidt-Metzler (1910 — Lambert, Germany)
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- FalstaffFalstaff (opera)Falstaff is an operatic commedia lirica in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV. It was Verdi's last opera, written in the composer's ninth decade, and only the second of his 26 operas to be a comedy...
(1999 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Fanny ElßlerFanny ElsslerFanny Elssler - 27 November 1884), born Franziska Elßler, was an Austrian ballerina of the 'Romantic Period'.- Life :Daughter of Johann Florian Elssler, a second generation employee of Prince Esterhazy in Eisenstadt. Both Johann and his brother Josef were employed as copyists to the Prince's...
(1835 — Vibert, France) - Fantin LatourHenri Fantin-LatourHenri Fantin-Latour was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.-Biography:...
(1840 — France) - Felberg-Leclerc (Jacobs, Germany)
- Felicia (1928 — Pemberton, United Kingdom)
- Felicitas (1998 — Kordes, Germany)
- Félicité et Perpétue (1827 — Jacques, France)
- Félicité Bohain (1865 — France)
- Felicité Parmentier (1834 -Parmentier France)
- Felicity KendalFelicity KendalFelicity Ann Kendal, CBE is an English actor known for her television and stage work.Born in 1946, Kendal spent much of her childhood in India, where her father managed a touring repertory company. First appearing on stage at the age of nine months, Kendal appeared in her first film, Shakespeare...
(1985 — Sealand, United Kingdom) - Felix LeclercFélix LeclercFélix Leclerc, was a French-Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, writer, actor and Québécois political activist. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on December 20, 1968...
(2007 — Canada) - Fellemberg (1857 — Fellemberg, Germany)
- Fenja (1965 — Petersen, Denmark)
- Ferdinand Chaffolte (1879 — Pernet, France)
- Ferdinand Pichard (1921 — Tanne, France)
- Ferry PorscheFerdinand Anton Ernst PorscheFerdinand Anton Ernst Porsche , mainly known as Ferry Porsche, was an Austrian technical automobile designer and automaker-entrepreneur. He operated Porsche AG in Stuttgart, Germany. His father, Ferdinand Porsche Sr was also a renowned automobile engineer. His nephew, Dr...
(1971 — Kordes, Germany) - First Lady Martha WashingtonMartha WashingtonMartha Dandridge Custis Washington was the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States. Although the title was not coined until after her death, Martha Washington is considered to be the first First Lady of the United States...
(cca. 1889 — unknown parentage, USA) - Florence Delattre (1991 — Massad, France)
- Florence NightingaleFlorence NightingaleFlorence Nightingale OM, RRC was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night...
(1989 — Gandy, United Kingdom) - Foley Hobbs (Mrs.) Rose named for her in 1910. Resident of MalvernMalvern, WorcestershireMalvern is a town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England, governed by Malvern Town Council. As of the 2001 census it has a population of 28,749, and includes the historical settlement and commercial centre of Great Malvern on the steep eastern flank of the Malvern Hills, and the former...
. Photographed 1917. - FornarinaLa FornarinaThe Portrait of a Young Woman is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael, made between 1518 and 1520. It is in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Palazzo Barberini, Rome....
(1861 — Robert et Moreau, France) - Forstmeisters Heim (1886 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Francesca (1922, Pemberton, United Kingdom)
- Francine Austin (1988 — Austin, United Kingdom) 1988
- Francis Blaise (1999 — Guillot-Massad, France)
- Francis Dubreuil (1894 — Dubreuil, France)
- Francis E. Lester (1946 — Lester, USA)
- François CoppéeFrançois CoppéeFrançois Edouard Joachim Coppée was a French poet and novelist.-Biography:He was born in Paris to a civil servant. After attending the Lycée Saint-Louis he became a clerk in the ministry of war, and won public favour as a poet of the Parnassian school. His first printed verses date from 1864...
(1895 — Lédéchaux, France) - François d`AragoFrançois AragoFrançois Jean Dominique Arago , known simply as François Arago , was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician.-Early life and work:...
(1858 — Trouillard, France) - François Juranville (1906 — Barbier, France)
- François Poisson (1902 — Barbier, France)
- François RabelaisFrançois RabelaisFrançois Rabelais was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs...
(1997 — Meilland, France) - Franz Pöhls (1909 — Jacobs, Germany),
- Frau Alexander Weiß (1909 — Lambert, Germany),
- Frau Alfred Mauthner (1907 — Lambert, Germany),
- Frau Anna Hinner (1909 — Hinner, Germany)
- Frau Anna Lautz (1912 — Kiese, Germany),
- Frau Anne Beaufays (1962 — De Ruiter, Netherlands)
- Frau Bertha Kiese (1913 — Jacobs, Germany)
- Frau Bürgermeister Kirschstein (1907 — Jacobs, Germany)
- Frau Cecilie Walter (1904 — Lambert, Germany),
- Frau Dr. Burghardt (1900 — Welter, Germany)
- Frau Dr. E. Skibinska (Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Frau Dr. Schricker (1927 — Felberg, Germany)
- Frau Eduard Bethge (1930 — Felberg-Leclerc, Germany)
- Frau Else Krech (1915 — Welter, Germany)
- Frau Ernst Borsig (1907 — Lambert, Germany)
- Frau Eva Schubert (1937- Tepelmann, Germany)
- Frau Franziska Krüger (1880 — Nabonnand, France)
- Frau Frieda Croissant (1911 — Welter, Germany).
- Frau Geheimrat Dr. Staub (1908 — Lambert, Germany)
- Frau Geheimrat von Boch (1897 — Lambert, Germany)
- Frau H. Stakemann (1922 — Lambert, Germany)
- Frau Hans Drazil (1907 — Welter, Germany)
- Frau Hedwig Koschel (1921 — Münch & Haufe, Germany)
- Frau Hedwig Wagner (1919 — Krüger/Kiese, Germany)
- Frau Helene Videnz (1904 — Lambert, Germany),
- Frau Hilde Nicolai (1916 — Welter, Germany)
- Frau Ida Münch (1919 — Beschnidt/Münch & Haufe, Germany)
- Frau J. Reiter (1904 — Welter, Germany).
- Frau Karl Druschki (1901 — Lambert, Germany)
- Frau Käthe Roth (1911 — Welter, Germany)
- Frau Lilla Rautenstrauch (1903 — Lambert, Germany).
- Frau Lina Straßheim (1907 — Strassheim, Germany)
- Frau Mathilde Bätz (1920 — Felberg-Leclerc, Germany)
- Frau Mathilde Noehl (1913 — Welter, Germany)
- Frau O. Plegg (1909 — Nabonnand, France)
- Frau Oberhofgärtner Luiger (1908 — Lambert, Germany)
- Frau Oberhofgärtner Schulze (1909 — Lambert, Germany)
- Frau Oberhofgärtner Singer (1908 — Lambert, Germany)
- Frau Ottilie Lüntzel (1909 — Lambert, Germany)
- Frau Otto Evertz (1907 — Welter, Germany)
- Frau Peter Lambert (1902 — Welter/Lambert, Germany)
- Frau Philipp Siesmayer (1908 — Lambert, Germany)
- Frau Prof. Gnau (1925 — Kiese, Germany)
- Frau Robert Türke (1923 — Türke, Germany)
- Frau Syndica Roeloffs (1900 — Lambert, Germany)
- Frau Therese Lang (1910 — Welter, Germany)
- Frau von Brauer (1913 — Lambert, Germany)
- Frau Viktoria von Thusansky (1888 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Fräulein Octavia Hesse (1909 — Hesse, Germany)
- Fred Loads (1968 — Holmes, United Kingdom)
- Fred Streeter (1951 — Jackman, USA)
- Freddy Quinn (1989 — Pearce, United Kingdom)
- Freddie MercuryFreddie MercuryFreddie Mercury was a British musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Queen. As a performer, he was known for his flamboyant stage persona and powerful vocals over a four-octave range...
(1993 — Battersby, USA) - Frederyk ChopinFrédéric ChopinFrédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
(1988 — Zyla, Poland) - Frédéric MistralFrédéric MistralFrédéric Mistral was a French writer and lexicographer of the Occitan language. Mistral won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 and was a founding member of Félibrige and a member of l'Académie de Marseille...
(1995 — Meilland, France) - Frédéric II de PrusseFrederick II of PrussiaFrederick II was a King in Prussia and a King of Prussia from the Hohenzollern dynasty. In his role as a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire, he was also Elector of Brandenburg. He was in personal union the sovereign prince of the Principality of Neuchâtel...
(1847 — Verdier, France) - Freifrau Anna von Münchhausen (1911 — Welter, Germany).
- Freifrau Ella von Wangenheim (1907 — Jacobs, Germany)
- Freifrau Ida von Schubert (1911 — Lambert, Germany)
- Freifrau von der Goltz (1913 — Lambert, Germany)
- Freiherr von MarschallAdolf Marschall von BiebersteinAdolf Freiherr Marschall von Bieberstein was a German politician and Secretary of State of the Foreign Office of the German Empire.-Biography:...
(1903 — Lambert, Germany) - Freiherr von Schilling (1904 — Jacobs, Germany)
- Frieda Krause (1935 — Krause, Germany)
- Friedrich Alfred KruppFriedrich Alfred KruppFriedrich Alfred Krupp was a German steel manufacturer of the company Krupp.- Biography :Krupp was born in Essen, Germany. His father was Alfred Krupp. In 1887, Friedrich took over the leadership of his father's company. He married Margarethe Krupp...
(1903 — Welter, Germany) - Friedrich HarmsFriedrich HarmsFriedrich Harms was a German realist philosopher, much influenced by Fichte.-Works:*Prolegomena zur Philosophie, Vierter Abschnitt. Von der Sprache und dem inneren Wesen der Erkenntnis...
(1901 — Hinner/Welter, Germany) - Friedrich Schröder (1903 — Hinner, Germany)
- Fritz Nobis (1940 — Kordes, Germany);
- Fritz ReuterFritz ReuterFritz Reuter was a novelist from Northern Germany who was one of the most prominent contributors to Low German literature.-Early life:...
(1913 — Lambert, Germany) - Fritz ThiedemannFritz ThiedemannFritz Thiedemann was a German equestrian, considered to be one of the greatest show jumpers of his time....
(1959 — Tantau, Germany) - Fritz WalterFritz WalterFriedrich "Fritz" Walter was a German footballer. In his time with the German national team, he won 61 caps and scored 33 goals.-Early club career:...
(1987 — Hetzel, Germany) - Fru Dagmar Hastrup (1901 — Herts, Denmark)
- Fru Dagmar Hastrup (1914 — Hastrup/Poulsen, Denmark)
- Fürst BismarckOtto von BismarckOtto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg , simply known as Otto von Bismarck, was a Prussian-German statesman whose actions unified Germany, made it a major player in world affairs, and created a balance of power that kept Europe at peace after 1871.As Minister President of...
(1886 — Drogemüller, Germany) - Fürst Leopold IV zu Schaumburg-LippeLeopold IV, Prince of LippeLeopold IV, Prince of Lippe was the final sovereign of the Principality of Lippe...
(1918 — Kiese, Germany) - Fürstin von PlessDaisy, Princess of PlessDaisy, Princess of Pless , was a noted society beauty in the Edwardian period.- Early life :...
(1911 — Lambert, Germany)
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- Gabriela SabatiniGabriela SabatiniGabriela Beatriz Sabatini is a former professional Argentine tennis player. She was one of the leading players on the women's circuit in the late-1980s and early-1990s...
(1992 — United States) - Gabrielle Noyelle (1933 — Buatois, France)
- Gartenarchitekt Günther Schulze (1991 — Austin, United Kingdom)
- Gartendirektor Otto Linne (1934 — Lambert, Germany)
- Gartendirektor Ries (1916 — J.C. Schmidt, Germany)
- Gebrüder GrimmBrothers GrimmThe Brothers Grimm , Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm , were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, and authors who collected folklore and published several collections of it as Grimm's Fairy Tales, which became very popular...
(2002 — Germany) - Geheimrat Dr. Mittweg (1909 — Lambert, Germany)
- Geheimrat Richard WillstätterRichard WillstätterRichard Martin Willstätter was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Willstätter invented paper chromatography independently of Mikhail Tsvet.-Biography:Willstätter was born in to a Jewish family...
(1931 — Felberg, Germany) - GellertChristian Fürchtegott GellertChristian Fürchtegott Gellert was a German poet, one of the forerunners of the golden age of German literature that was ushered in by Lessing.-Biography:...
(1917 — Lambert, Germany) - Gemma (2003 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Gene Boerner (1968 — Boerner, USA)
- Général Cavaignac (1848 — Foulard, France)
- Général DesaixLouis Charles Antoine DesaixLouis Charles Antoine Desaix was a French general and military leader. According to the usage of the time, he took the name Louis Charles Antoine Desaix de Veygoux.-Biography:...
(1867 — Moreau-Robert, France) - Général GalliéniJoseph GallieniJoseph Simon Gallieni was a French soldier, most active as a military commander and administrator in the French colonies and finished his career during the First World War. He was made Marshal of France posthumously in 1921...
(1899 — Nabonnand, France) - General JacqueminotJean-François JacqueminotJean François Jacqueminot, viscount of Ham was a French general.He was born at Nancy, studied at the École Militaire, entered the army in 1803, and , distinguished himself at the battles of Austerlitz, Essling, Wagram, and the Beresina. In 1814 he was promoted colonel. When Napoleon returned from...
(1853 — Rousselet, France) - Général KléberJean Baptiste KléberJean Baptiste Kléber was a French general during the French Revolutionary Wars. His military career started in Habsburg service, but his plebeian ancestry hindered his opportunities...
(1856 — Robert, France) - General McArthurJohn McArthurJohn McArthur was a Union general during the American Civil War. McArthur became one of the ablest Federal commanders in the Western Theater.-Early life:...
(1905 — Hill, USA) - General Superior Arnold JanssenArnold JanssenSaint Arnold Janssen, S.V.D., was a Roman Catholic priest and missionary, and is venerated as a saint. He is best known for founding the Society of the Divine Word, a Roman Catholic missionary religious congregation, also known as the Divine Word Missionaries, as well as two congregations for...
(1912 — Leenders, The Netherlands) - Général Tétard (1918 — Pajotin-Chédane, France)
- Generalin Isenbart (1915 — Lambert, Germany)
- Generaloberst HindenburgPaul von HindenburgPaul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg , known universally as Paul von Hindenburg was a Prussian-German field marshal, statesman, and politician, and served as the second President of Germany from 1925 to 1934....
(1915 — Lambert, Germany) - Generaloberst von KluckAlexander von KluckAlexander Heinrich Rudolph von Kluck was a German general during World War I.- Military career :He enlisted in the Prussian army in time to serve in the seven-week Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and the Franco-Prussian War, where he was wounded twice in the Battle of Colombey-Neuilly...
(1916 — Lambert, Germany) - Geoff HamiltonGeoff HamiltonGeoff Hamilton was an English gardener, broadcaster and author, best known as presenter of BBC television's Gardeners' World in the 1980s and 90s.-Background:...
(1997 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Georg Arends (1910 — Hinner, Germany)
- George BurnsGeorge BurnsGeorge Burns , born Nathan Birnbaum, was an American comedian, actor, and writer.He was one of the few entertainers whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, film, radio, television and movies, with and without his wife, Gracie Allen. His arched eyebrow and cigar smoke punctuation became...
(1996 — Carruth, USA) - George Dickson (1912 — Dickson, United Kingdom)
- George VancouverGeorge VancouverCaptain George Vancouver RN was an English officer of the British Royal Navy, best known for his 1791-95 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of contemporary Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon...
(1985 — Ogilvie, Canada) - George Vibert (1853 — Robert, France)
- George Will (1939 — Skinner, Canada)
- Georges de Cadoudel (1904 — Schwartz, France)
- Georges Vibert (1853 — Robert, France)
- Geraldine (1984 — Pearce, United Kingdom)
- Gertrud Kiese (1918 — Kiese, Germany),
- Gertrude JekyllGertrude JekyllGertrude Jekyll was an influential British garden designer, writer, and artist. She created over 400 gardens in the UK, Europe and the USA and contributed over 1,000 articles to Country Life, The Garden and other magazines.-Early life:...
(1986 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Ghislaine de Féligonde (1916 — Turbat, France)
- Gil BlasGil BlasGil Blas is a picaresque novel by Alain-René Lesage published between 1715 and 1735. It is considered to be the last masterpiece of the picaresque genre.-Plot summary:...
(1848 — France) - GildaRigolettoRigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. It was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on March 11, 1851...
(1887 — Geschwindt, Austria-Hungary) - Gina LollobrigidaGina LollobrigidaGina Lollobrigida is an Italian actress, photojournalist and sculptress. She was one of the most popular European actresses of the 1950s and early 1960s. She was also an iconic sex symbol of the 1950s. Today, she remains an active supporter of Italian and Italian American causes, particularly the...
(1989 — Meilland, France) - Ginger RogersGinger RogersGinger Rogers was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century....
(1969 — Boerner, USA) - GitteGitte HænningGitte Hænning is a Danish singer and film actress, who rose to fame as a child star in the 1950s.Because her name was relatively unique, she was known primarily without a surname in Europe. She moved to Sweden in 1958. Her first hit in Swedish was "Tror du jag ljuger" from 1961...
(1982 — Kordes, Germany) - GivenchyHubert de GivenchyCount Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy is a French aristocrat and fashion designer who founded The House of Givenchy in 1952. He is famous for having designed much of the personal and professional wardrobe of Audrey Hepburn, as well as clothing for clients such as Jacqueline Kennedy...
(1985 — Christensen, USA) - Gladys Harkness (1900 — Dickson, United Kingdom)
- Gloire de Chédane Guinoisseau (1908 — Chédane Pajotin, France)
- Gneisenau (1924 — Lambert, Germany)
- GoetheJohann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, and science. His Faust has been called the greatest long...
(1911 — Lambert, Germany) - Kurt Goldstein|Goldstein (1983 — Cocker, United Kingdom)
- Gottfried KellerGottfried KellerGottfried Keller , a Swiss writer of German-language literature, was best known for his novel Green Henry .- Life and work :...
(1894 — Müller, Germany) - Goubault (1835 — Hardy, France)
- Goya, BeesFrancisco GoyaFrancisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown, and through his works was both a commentator on and chronicler of his era...
(1976 — United Kingdom) - Grace AboundingJohn BunyanJohn Bunyan was an English Christian writer and preacher, famous for writing The Pilgrim's Progress. Though he was a Reformed Baptist, in the Church of England he is remembered with a Lesser Festival on 30 August, and on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church on 29 August.-Life:In 1628,...
(1968 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Grace DarlingGrace DarlingGrace Horsley Darling was an English Victorian heroine who in 1838, along with her father, saved 13 people from the wreck of the SS Forfarshire.-Biography:...
(1884 — Bennett, United Kingdom) - Grace de MonacoGrace KellyGrace Patricia Kelly was an American actress who, in April 1956, married Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, to become Princess consort of Monaco, styled as Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, and commonly referred to as Princess Grace.After embarking on an acting career in 1950, at the age of...
(1956 — Meilland, France) - Gracie AllenGracie AllenGrace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen , known as Gracie Allen, was an American comedian who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns...
- Graf Fritz von Hochberg (1905 — Lambert, Germany)
- Graf Fritz von Schwerin (1916 — Lambert, Germany)
- Graf Lennart (1991 — Meilland, France)
- Graf Silva Tarouca (1915 — Lambert, Germany)
- Gräfin ChotekMarie Henrieta ChotekCountess Henrieta Hermína Rudolfína Ferdinanda Marie Antonie Anna Chotková of Chotkov and Vojnín – - , also known as the countess of roses was a grower of roses, who established the rosarium of Dolná Krupá ,-The Dolná Krupá mansion:The village of Dolná Krupá is located in the Danubian Hills at...
(1900 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary) - Gräfin ChotekMarie Henrieta ChotekCountess Henrieta Hermína Rudolfína Ferdinanda Marie Antonie Anna Chotková of Chotkov and Vojnín – - , also known as the countess of roses was a grower of roses, who established the rosarium of Dolná Krupá ,-The Dolná Krupá mansion:The village of Dolná Krupá is located in the Danubian Hills at...
(1911 — Kiese, Germany) - Gräfin SonjaSonja BernadotteSonja Anita Maria Countess Bernadotte af Wisborg was the widow of Count Lennart Bernadotte, grandson of Sweden's King Gustaf V through his father, Prince Wilhelm, the king's second son, married in Mainau on 29 April 1971.She managed the Mainau estate on Lake Constance in southern Germany which...
(1994 — Kordes, Germany) - Gräfin Stefanie Wedel (1910 — Lambert, Germany),
- Graham ThomasGraham Stuart ThomasGraham Stuart Thomas OBE , was an English horticulturalist, artist, author, poet and garden designer.He was born in Cambridge and studied in the University Botanic Garden at Cambridge University...
(1983 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Grandmère Jenny (1950 — Meilland, France)
- Grandpa Dickson (1966 — Dickson, United Kingdom)
- Granny (1991 — Olesen, Denmark)
- Gretel Greuel (1939 — Greuel, Germany)
- GrimmHans GrimmHans Grimm was a German writer.His father, Julius Grimm, was a professor of law who retired early and devoted his time to private historical and literary studies and to political activity as a founder member of the National Liberal party, which he represented in the Prussian parliament, and was a...
(1932 — Lambert, Germany) - GriseldisGriselda (folklore)Griselda is a figure from certain folklores whose name is eponymous for patience and obedience.In the tale as written by Giovanni Boccaccio, Griselda marries Gualtieri, the Marquis of Saluzzo. He tests her by declaring that their first child—a daughter—must be put to death, likewise their second...
(1895 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary) - Großherzog Ernst LudwigErnest Louis, Grand Duke of HesseErnest Louis Charles Albert William , was the last Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine from 1892 until 1918...
(1989 — Müller, Germany) - Großherzog Friedrich von Baden (1908 — Lambert, Germany)
- Großherzog von Oldenburg (1904 — Welter. Germany)
- Großherzog Wilhelm Ernst von SachsenWilliam Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-EisenachWilhelm Ernst Karl Alexander Friedrich Heinrich Bernhard Albert Georg Hermann was the last Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.-Biography:...
(1915 — Welter, Germany) - Großherzogin Luise von BadenPrincess Louise of PrussiaPrincess Louise of Prussia was the second child and only daughter of German Emperor Wilhelm I and Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. She was the younger sister of Frederick III of Germany and aunt of Wilhelm II of Germany...
(1893 — Welter, Germany) - Großherzogin Alexandra (1904 — Jacobs, Germany)
- Grossherzogin Feodora von Sachsen (1913 — Kiese, Germany),
- Großherzogin Marie (1912 — Jacobs, Germany),
- Großherzogin Viktoria Melitta (1898 — Lambert, Germany),
- Guillaume Kaempff (1931 — Felberg, Germany)
- Gustav Grünerwald (1903 — Lambert, Germany),
- Gustel Mayer (1909 — Lambert, Germany),
- Gustav Sobry (1902 — Welter, Germany)
- Guy de MaupassantGuy de MaupassantHenri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents....
(1994 — Meilland, France) - Guy SavoyGuy SavoyGuy Savoy is a world-renowned French chef, and is the Head Chef and owner of the eponymous Guy Savoy restaurant in Paris and sister restaurant in Las Vegas.The Paris restaurant has garnered the 3 Michelin stars, being elevated in 2002...
(2002 — Delbard, France)
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- H. C. AndersenHans Christian AndersenHans Christian Andersen was a Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet noted for his children's stories. These include "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," "The Snow Queen," "The Little Mermaid," "Thumbelina," "The Little Match Girl," and "The Ugly Duckling."...
(Olesen, Denmark) - H. F. Eilers (1914 — Lambert, Germany)
- HändelGeorge Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...
(1965 — McGredy, Ireland) - Hannah GordonHannah GordonHannah Cambell Grant Gordon is a Scottish actress who is well known in the United Kingdom for her television work, including Upstairs, Downstairs, Telford's Change, My Wife Next Door, Joint Account and an appearance in the final episode of One Foot in the Grave.-Early life:Gordon was born in...
(1973 — Kordes, Germany) - Hanne Soenderhousen (1959 — Soenderhousen, Denmark)
- Hans Rathgeb (2004 — Huber, Switzerland)
- Hans RosenthalHans RosenthalHans Rosenthal was a radio editor, director, and one of the most popular German radio and television hosts of the 1970s and 80s.- Life :...
(1987 — Meilland, France) - Harald WohlfahrtHarald WohlfahrtHarald Wohlfahrt is a German chef. In 2005 he was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz.He is often rated as the best German chef and amongst the finest in Europe....
(2003 — Delbard, France) - Harry Maasz (1939 — Kordes, Germany)
- Harry WheatcroftHarry WheatcroftHarry Wheatcroft was a famous English rose grower. He did a great deal to popularise roses among British gardeners. He was known for his flamboyant appearance and opinions.- Early life :...
- HauffWilhelm HauffWilhelm Hauff was a German poet and novelist.-Early life:Hauff was born in Stuttgart, the son of August Friedrich Hauff, a secretary in the ministry of foreign affairs, and Hedwig Wilhelmine Elsaesser Hauff...
(1911 — Lambert, Germany) - Hauptmann A. Steinsdorfer (1890 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Heather Austin (1996 — Austin, United Kingdom)
- Heather Muir (1957 -, Sunningdale Nurseries, United Kingdom)
- Hedi Grimm (1970 — Scholle, Germany)
- Hedwig Reicher (1912 — Hinner, Germany)
- HeidiHeidiHeidi is a Swiss work of fiction, published in two parts as Heidi's years of learning and travel and Heidi makes use of what she has learned.It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care, in the Swiss Alps...
(1978 — Christensen, USA) - Heidi KlumHeidi KlumHeidi Samuel , better known by her birth name Heidi Klum, is a German model, actress, television host, businesswoman, fashion designer, television producer, and occasional singer. In 2008 she became an American citizen while maintaining her native German citizenship...
(1999 — Tantau, Germany) - Hein Evers (1957 — Tantau, Germany)
- Heinrich Blanc (1994 — Hetzel, Germany)
- Heinrich Conrad Söth (1919 — Lambert, Germany)
- HeineHeinrich HeineChristian Johann Heinrich Heine was one of the most significant German poets of the 19th century. He was also a journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder by composers such as Robert Schumann...
(1912 — Lambert, Germany) - Heinrich Karsch (1927 — Leenders (NL)
- Heinrich Münch (1911 — Hinner, Germany)
- Heinrich Schultheis (1882 — Bennett, United Kingdom)
- Heinrich Siesmayer (1996 — McGredy, New Zealand)
- Heinz ErhardtHeinz ErhardtHeinz Erhardt was a German comedian, musician, entertainer, actor, and poet.Heinz Erhardt was the son of Baltic German Kapellmeister Gustl Erhardt. He lived most of his childhood at his grandparents in Riga, where his grandfather, Paul Nelder, owned a music house...
(1984 — Kordes, Germany) - Heinz WinklerHeinz Winkler (chef)Heinz Winkler is an Italian-German two-Michelin star chef.Heinz Winkler was the youngest ever chef to receive 3 Michelin stars, when, in 1981, he was 32 years old. He also was the first Italian chef to receive 3 Michelin stars.-Awards:1...
(Delbard, France) - Helen HayesHelen HayesHelen Hayes Brown was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of twelve people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award...
- Helene von Zwehl (1915 — Lambert, Germany)
- Helene Welter (1903 — Welter, Germany)
- Helga (II) (1975 — De Ruiter, The Netherlands)
- Helmut KohlHelmut KohlHelmut Josef Michael Kohl is a German conservative politician and statesman. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 and the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union from 1973 to 1998...
(1996 — Tantau, Germany) - Helmut SchmidtHelmut SchmidtHelmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt is a German Social Democratic politician who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. Prior to becoming chancellor, he had served as Minister of Defence and Minister of Finance. He had also served briefly as Minister of Economics and as acting...
(1979 — Kordes, Germany) - Henri IVHenry IV of FranceHenry IV , Henri-Quatre, was King of France from 1589 to 1610 and King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610. He was the first monarch of the Bourbon branch of the Capetian dynasty in France....
(1862 — Verdier, France) - Henri Barruet (1918 — Barbier, France)
- Helene von Zwehl (1915 — Lambert, Germany)
- Henri de Toulouse-LautrecHenri de Toulouse-LautrecHenri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of fin de siècle Paris yielded an œuvre of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern...
(1993 — Meilland, France) - Henri Fouquier (1854 — Philipps-Rix, France)
- Henri Martin (1863 — Laffay, France) 1863
- Henri MatisseHenri MatisseHenri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter...
(1995 — Delbard, France) - Henriette Boulogne (1845 — France)
- Henry FondaHenry FondaHenry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor.Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins...
- Henry FordHenry FordHenry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry...
— (1927 — Devermann, USA) - Henry HudsonHenry HudsonHenry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. Hudson made two attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a prospective Northeast Passage to Cathay via a route above the Arctic Circle...
(1976 — Svejda, Canada) - Henry KelseyHenry KelseyHenry Kelsey , aka the Boy Kelsey, was an English fur trader, explorer, and sailor who played an important role in establishing the Hudson's Bay Company. Kelsey was born and married in East Greenwich, south-east of central London...
- Henry Nevard (1924 — Cant, Germany)
- HerkulesHerculesHercules is the Roman name for Greek demigod Heracles, son of Zeus , and the mortal Alcmene...
(2007 — Kordes, Germany) - Hermann Berger (1982 — Roter Oktober, East-Germany)
- Herrmann Coenemann (1907 — Welter, Germany)
- Hermann Kegel (1848 — Portemer, France)
- Hermann KieseHermann KieseHermann Kiese was a German rosarian known for his breeding of rose cultivars.Born in Vieselbach, Thuringia, Germany on May 8, 1865. He worked for 22 years as gardener for the Johann Christoff Schmidt rosarium in Erfurt...
(1906 — Geduldig, Austria-Hungary) - Hermann Lüder (1910 — Kiese, Germany)
- Hermann Raue (1905 — Lambert, Germany)
- Hermann Robinow (1918 — Lambert, Germany)
- Hermann Schmidt (1986 — Hetzel, Germany)
- Hermann Teschendorff (1950 — Berger, Germany)
- Herrin von Lieser (1905 — Lambert, Germany)
- Herzog Friedrich von Anhalt (1906 — Welter, Germany)
- Herzog Johann Albrecht (1913 — Jacobs, Germany),
- Herzog Karl EduardCharles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and GothaCharles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the fourth and last reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, two duchies in Germany , and the head of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1900 until his death in 1954...
(1909 — Jacobs, Germany), - Herzog Viktor von Ratibor (1918 — Welter, Germany)
- Herzog von Windsor (1968 — Tantau, Germany)
- Herzogin Marie von Ratibor (1898 — Lambert, Germany)
- Herzogin Marie Antoinette zu MecklenburgDuchess Marie of MecklenburgDuchess Marie of Mecklenburg was the eldest daughter of Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt....
(1911 — Jacobs, Germany), - Herzogin von CalabrienPrincess Maria Ludwiga Theresia of BavariaPrincess Maria Ludwiga Theresia of Bavaria was a daughter of the final King of Bavaria, Ludwig III of Bavaria, and his wife Maria Theresia of Austria-Este...
(1914 — Lambert, Germany) - HiawathaHiawathaHiawatha was a legendary Native American leader and founder of the Iroquois confederacy...
(1904 — Walsh, USA) - Hilda MurrellHilda MurrellHilda Murrell was a rose grower, naturalist, diarist and campaigner against nuclear energy and weapons. She was abducted in her own car and found murdered five miles from her home in Shropshire, in a case which remains controversial.-Life:Hilda Murrell was born on 3 February 1906 in Shrewsbury,...
(1984 — Austin, United Kingdom) - HindenburgPaul von HindenburgPaul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg , known universally as Paul von Hindenburg was a Prussian-German field marshal, statesman, and politician, and served as the second President of Germany from 1925 to 1934....
(1916 — Kiese, Germany) - HippolyteHippolytaIn Greek mythology, Hippolyta or Hippolyte is the Amazonian queen who possessed a magical girdle she was given by her father Ares, the god of war. The girdle was a waist belt that signified her authority as queen of the Amazons....
(Before 1842 — Parmentier, Belgium) - Hoffmann von FallerslebenAugust Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben' , who used Hoffmann von Fallersleben as his pen name, was a German poet. He is best known for writing "Das Lied der Deutschen", its third stanza now being the national anthem of Germany, and a number of popular children's songs.- Biography :Hoffmann was born in Fallersleben , Brunswick-Lüneburg,...
(1917 — Lambert, Germany)
- Hofgartendirektor Graebener (1899 — Lambert, Germany)
- Hofgärtner Kalb (1913 — Felberg, Germany)
- HomèreHomerIn the Western classical tradition Homer , is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.When he lived is...
(1858 — Moreau-Robert, France) - Honest AbeAbraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...
(1978 — Christensen) - Honoré de BalzacHonoré de BalzacHonoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon....
(1994 — Meilland, France) - Honorine de Brabant (circa 1840)
- Hortense de BeauharnaisHortense de BeauharnaisHortense Eugénie Cécile Bonaparte , Queen Consort of Holland, was the stepdaughter of Emperor Napoleon I, being the daughter of his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais. She later became the wife of the former's brother, Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, and the mother of Napoleon III, Emperor of...
(1834 — Vibert, France), - Horace VernetHorace VernetÉmile Jean-Horace Vernet was a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects.Vernet was born to Carle Vernet, another famous painter, who was himself a son of Claude Joseph Vernet. He was born in the Paris Louvre, while his parents were staying there during the French...
(1866 — Guillot, France) - Horstmanns Bergfeuer (1954 — Horstmann / Kordes, Germany)
- Hugh Dickson (1904 — Dickson, United Kingdom)
- Hume`s Blush (1810 — Hume, United Kingdom)
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- Ignasi Iglésias (1934 — Spain)
- Ilse Haberland (1956 — Kordes, Germany)
- Ilse Krohn (1964 — Kordes, Germany)
- Immortal JunoJuno (mythology)Juno is an ancient Roman goddess, the protector and special counselor of the state. She is a daughter of Saturn and sister of the chief god Jupiter and the mother of Mars and Vulcan. Juno also looked after the women of Rome. Her Greek equivalent is Hera...
(1983 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Impératrice EugénieEugénie de MontijoDoña María Eugenia Ignacia Augustina de Palafox-Portocarrero de Guzmán y Kirkpatrick, 16th Countess of Teba and 15th Marquise of Ardales; 5 May 1826 – 11 July 1920), known as Eugénie de Montijo , was the last Empress consort of the French from 1853 to 1871 as the wife of Napoleon III, Emperor of...
(1855 — Béluze, France) - Impératrice EugénieEugénie de MontijoDoña María Eugenia Ignacia Augustina de Palafox-Portocarrero de Guzmán y Kirkpatrick, 16th Countess of Teba and 15th Marquise of Ardales; 5 May 1826 – 11 July 1920), known as Eugénie de Montijo , was the last Empress consort of the French from 1853 to 1871 as the wife of Napoleon III, Emperor of...
(1856 — Guillot, France) 1856 - Impératrice JoséphineJoséphine de BeauharnaisJoséphine de Beauharnais was the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte, and thus the first Empress of the French. Her first husband Alexandre de Beauharnais had been guillotined during the Reign of Terror, and she had been imprisoned in the Carmes prison until her release five days after Alexandre's...
(before 1815 — Descemet, France) - IndiraIndira GandhiIndira Priyadarshini Gandhara was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms and a fourth term . She was assassinated by Sikh extremists...
(1973 — Hetzel, Germany) - Infante Beatrice (1930 — Guillot, France)
- Ingrid BergmanIngrid BergmanIngrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute...
(1984 — Olesen, Denmark) - Irene von DänemarkPrincess Irene of Greece and DenmarkPrincess Irene of Greece and Denmark is the youngest child of King Paul of Greece and his wife Frederika of Hanover. She is the younger sister of Queen Sofía of Spain and of deposed King Constantine II of Greece...
(1948 — Poulsen, Denmark) - Irène Watts (1896 — Guillot, France)
- Isobel Derby (1993 — Horner, United Kingdom)
- Isobel Harkness (1957 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
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- J. H. Pemberton (1931 — Bentall, United Kingdom)
- J. J. AudubonJohn James AudubonJohn James Audubon was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He was notable for his expansive studies to document all types of American birds and for his detailed illustrations that depicted the birds in their natural habitats...
(2006 — Shoup, USA) - J. L. Monk (1923 — Timmermans, United Kingdom)
- J.P. Connell
- Climbing Jackie MooreJackie Moore (basketball)John T. "Jackie" Moore is a retired American professional basketball player.A 6'5" forward from La Salle University, Moore played three seasons in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Philadelphia Warriors. He averaged 2.7 points per game in his career and won a league...
(1957 — USA) - Jacqueline du PréJacqueline du PréJacqueline Mary du Pré OBE was a British cellist. She is particularly associated with Elgar's Cello Concerto in E Minor; her interpretation has been described as "definitive" and "legendary." Her career was cut short by multiple sclerosis, which forced her to stop performing at 28 and led to her...
(1989 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - JacquenettaLove's Labour's LostLove's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s, and first published in 1598.-Title:...
(1983 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Jacques CartierJacques CartierJacques Cartier was a French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France. He was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named "The Country of Canadas", after the Iroquois names for the two big...
(1868 -, Moreau-Robert, France) - Jacques Porcher (1914 — Guillot, France)
- James GalwayJames Galway- External links : IMGArtists.com 15 September 2008. AllAboutJazz.com 5 August 2008.*...
(2000 — Austin, United Kingdom) - James MasonJames MasonJames Neville Mason was an English actor who attained stardom in both British and American films. Mason remained a powerful figure in the industry throughout his career and was nominated for three Academy Awards as well as three Golden Globes .- Early life :Mason was born in Huddersfield, in the...
(1982 — Beales, United Kingdom) - James Mitchell (1861 — Verdier, France)
- James Veitch (1854 — Verdier, France) 1864
- Jan Spek (1966 — McGredy, Ireland)
- Jane AsherJane AsherJane Asher is an English actress. She has also developed a second career as a cake decorator and cake shop proprietor.-Early life:...
(1987 — Pearce, United Kingdom) - Janet B. Wood (1989 — Beales, United Kingdom)
- Janetta (1995 — Sievers, Germany)
- Jayne Austin (1990 — Austin, United Kingdom)
- Jean GionoJean GionoJean Giono was a French author who wrote works of fiction set in the Provence region of France.-First period:...
(1994 — Meilland, France) - Jean LafitteJean LafitteJean Lafitte was a pirate and privateer in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century. He and his elder brother, Pierre, spelled their last name Laffite, but English-language documents of the time used "Lafitte", and this is the commonly seen spelling in the United States, including for places...
(1934 — Horvath, USA) - Jean StéphenneJean StéphenneJean Stéphenne is a Belgian businessman. He studied chemistry and bioindustries and obtained an MSc at the Faculté universitaire des sciences agronomiques de Gembloux in 1972 and an MBA from the Université Catholique de Louvain in 1982....
(2006 — Velle, Belgium) - Jean Liabaud (1875 — Liabaud, France)
- Jeanne Bouyer (1877 — Gonod, France)
- Jeanne de MontfortJoanna of FlandersJoanna of Flanders , also known as, Countess Jeanne, Jehanne de Montfort, and Jeanne la Flamme, was consort Duchess of Brittany by her marriage to John IV, Duke of Brittany...
(1851 — Robert, France) - Jeanne MoreauJeanne MoreauJeanne Moreau is a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director.She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française...
(2005 — Meilland, France) - Jeannie DeansThe Heart of MidlothianThe Heart of Midlothian is the seventh of Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley Novels. It was originally published in four volumes on 25 July 1818, under the title of Tales of My Landlord, 2nd series, and the author was given as "Jedediah Cleishbotham, Schoolmaster and Parish-clerk of Gandercleugh"...
(1895 — Penzance, United Kingdom) - Jens MunkJens MunkJens Munk was a Danish navigator and explorer who was born in Norway where his father, Erik Munk, had received several fiefs for his achievements in the Northern Seven Years' War. He returned to Denmark at the age of eight...
— Canada - Jenny Duval (before 1842 — France)
- Jeanne d'ArcJoan of ArcSaint Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" , is a national heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, which paved the way for the...
(1818- Vibert, France), - Jill DandoJill DandoJill Wendy Dando was an English journalist, television presenter and newsreader who worked for the BBC for 14 years. She was murdered by gunshot outside her home in Fulham, West London; her killer has never been identified....
(1999 — Beales, United Kingdom) - Jimmy GreavesJimmy GreavesJames Peter 'Jimmy' Greaves is an English former football player, England's third highest international goalscorer, the highest goalscorer in the history of Tottenham Hotspur football club, the highest goalscorer in the history of English top flight football and more recently a television pundit -...
(1940 — Gandy, United Kingdom) - Joanna Hill (1927 — Hill, USA)
- Joasine Hanet (1847- Vibert, France),
- Johann StraußJohann Strauss IIJohann Strauss II , also known as Johann Baptist Strauss or Johann Strauss, Jr., the Younger, or the Son , was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas...
(1993 — Meilland, France) - Johannes RauJohannes RauJohannes Rau was a German politician of the SPD. He was President of Germany from 1 July 1999 until 30 June 2004, and Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1978 to 1998.-Education and work:...
(2001 — Noack, Germany) - Johannes Wesselhöft (1899 — Welter, Germany)
- John BrightJohn BrightJohn Bright , Quaker, was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with Richard Cobden in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League. He was one of the greatest orators of his generation, and a strong critic of British foreign policy...
(1878 — Paul, United Kingdom)
- John CabotJohn CabotJohn Cabot was an Italian navigator and explorer whose 1497 discovery of parts of North America is commonly held to have been the first European encounter with the continent of North America since the Norse Vikings in the eleventh century...
- John ClareJohn ClareJohn Clare was an English poet, born the son of a farm labourer who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major re-evaluation in the late 20th century and he is often now considered to be among...
(1994 — Austin, United Kingdom) - John Cook (1917 — Krüger, Germany)
- John Davis (English explorer)John Davis (English explorer)John Davis , was one of the chief English navigators and explorers under Elizabeth I, especially in Polar regions and in the Far East.-Early life:...
- John FranklinJohn FranklinRear-Admiral Sir John Franklin KCH FRGS RN was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. Franklin also served as governor of Tasmania for several years. In his last expedition, he disappeared while attempting to chart and navigate a section of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic...
- John F. KennedyJohn F. KennedyJohn Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
(1965 — Boerner, USA) - John Grooms (1993 — Beales, United Kingdom)
- John Hopper (1862 — Ward, United Kingdom)
- John S. ArmstrongJohn S. ArmstrongJohn S. Armstrong was the co-founder of the former City of Oak Cliff and founder of the town of Highland Park, Texas. Armstrong was also a founder of the State Fair of Texas.-References:...
- Johnnie WalkerJohn Walker (grocer)John Walker was a Scottish grocer, who originated what would become one of the world’s most famous whisky brand names, Johnnie Walker.-Biography:...
(1982 — Fryer, United Kingdom) - José CarrérasJosé CarrerasJosep Maria Carreras i Coll , better known as José Carreras , is a Spanish Catalan tenor particularly known for his performances in the operas of Verdi and Puccini...
(1998 — Poulsen, Denmark) - Joseph`s Coat (1969 — Swim/Armstrong, USA)
- Joseph Liger (1909 — Barbier, France)
- Josephine Bruce (1950 — Bees, United Kingdom)
- Joséphine de BeauharnaisJoséphine de BeauharnaisJoséphine de Beauharnais was the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte, and thus the first Empress of the French. Her first husband Alexandre de Beauharnais had been guillotined during the Reign of Terror, and she had been imprisoned in the Carmes prison until her release five days after Alexandre's...
(1823 -Vibert, France) - Josephine Ritter (1900 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Josie Whitney (2000 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Juan Francisco de la Bodega y QuadraJuan Francisco de la Bodega y QuadraJuan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra was a Spanish naval officer born in Lima, Peru. Assigned to the Pacific coast Spanish Naval Department base at San Blas, in the Viceroyalty of New Spain , this navigator explored the Northwest Coast of North America as far north as present day Alaska.Juan...
Quadra Rose, Canada - Jubilé du Prince de MonacoRainier III, Prince of MonacoRainier III, Prince of Monaco , styled His Serene Highness The Sovereign Prince of Monaco, ruled the Principality of Monaco for almost 56 years, making him one of the longest ruling monarchs of the 20th century.Though he was best known outside of Europe for having married American...
(2000 — Meilland, France) - Jude the ObscureJude the ObscureJude the Obscure, the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, began as a magazine serial and was first published in book form in 1895. The book was burned publicly by William Walsham How, Bishop of Wakefield, in that same year. Its hero, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man who dreams of becoming a...
(1995 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Judy GarlandJudy GarlandJudy Garland was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years and for her renowned contralto voice, she attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage...
(1978 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, USA) - Jules Margottin (1853 — Margottin, France)
- Julia ChildJulia ChildJulia Child was an American chef, author, and television personality. She is recognized for introducing French cuisine to the American public with her debut cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her subsequent television programs, the most notable of which was The French Chef, which...
- Julia Festilla (1900 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Julia ManneringGuy ManneringGuy Mannering or The Astrologer is a novel by Sir Walter Scott, published anonymously in 1815. According to an introduction that Scott wrote in 1829, he had originally intended to write a story of the supernatural, but changed his mind soon after starting...
(1895 — Penzance, United Kingdom) - Julia's Rose (1976 — Wisbech Plant Co. Ltd., United Kingdom)
- Julie AndrewsJulie AndrewsDame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE is an English film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honors...
- Julie de Mersan (1854 — Thomas, USA).
- Julien Potin (1927 — Pernet-Ducher, France)
- JulietJuliet CapuletJuliet is one of the title characters in William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet, the other being Romeo. She is the daughter of old Capulet, head of the house of Capulet. The story has a long history that precedes Shakespeare himself....
(1910 — Paul, United Kingdom) - JulietteJuliet CapuletJuliet is one of the title characters in William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet, the other being Romeo. She is the daughter of old Capulet, head of the house of Capulet. The story has a long history that precedes Shakespeare himself....
(1850 — Miellez, France) - Juliette GrécoJuliette GrécoJuliette Gréco, — also Michelle – is a French actress and popular chanson singer.-Early life and family:Juliette Gréco was born in Montpellier to a Corsican father and a mother who became active in the Résistance, in the Hérault département of southern France. She was raised by her maternal...
(1999 — Delbard, France) - Julius Fabianics de Misefa (1890 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- June WhitfieldJune WhitfieldJune Rosemary Whitfield, CBE is an English actress, well known in the United Kingdom since the 1950s for roles in radio and television comedy series....
(1925 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - JunoJuno (mythology)Juno is an ancient Roman goddess, the protector and special counselor of the state. She is a daughter of Saturn and sister of the chief god Jupiter and the mother of Mars and Vulcan. Juno also looked after the women of Rome. Her Greek equivalent is Hera...
(1832) - Juno (II)Juno (mythology)Juno is an ancient Roman goddess, the protector and special counselor of the state. She is a daughter of Saturn and sister of the chief god Jupiter and the mother of Mars and Vulcan. Juno also looked after the women of Rome. Her Greek equivalent is Hera...
(1847 — Laffay, France) - Just Joey (1972 — Pawsey, United Kingdom)
- Justino Henriquez (1926 — Guillot, France)
- Justizrat Dr. Hessert (1918 — Lambert, Germany)
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- Kaiser Franz JosephFranz Joseph I of AustriaFranz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I was Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, King of Croatia, Apostolic King of Hungary, King of Galicia and Lodomeria and Grand Duke of Cracow from 1848 until his death in 1916.In the December of 1848, Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria abdicated the throne as part of...
(1915 — Lambert, Germany) - Kaiser Wilhelm I (1878 — Elze/Ruschpler, Germany)
- Kaiser Wilhelm II (1909 — Jacobs, Germany)
- Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria (1891 — Lambert, Germany)
- Kaiserin FarahFarah PahlaviFarah Pahlavi is the former Queen and Empress of Iran. She is the widow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, and only Empress of modern Iran...
(1965 — Kordes, Germany) - Kaiserin FriedrichVictoria, Princess RoyalThe Princess Victoria, Princess Royal was the eldest child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert. She was created Princess Royal of the United Kingdom in 1841. She became German Empress and Queen of Prussia by marriage to German Emperor Frederick III...
(1889 — Drogemüller, Germany) - Kaiserin ZitaZita of Bourbon-ParmaPrincess Zita of Bourbon-Parma was the wife of Emperor Charles of Austria...
(1965 — Kordes, Germany) - Kammersänger TerkalKarl TerkalKarl Terkal was an Austrian operatic tenor, particularly associated with lyric roles of the German repertory, both opera and operetta....
(1971 — Tantau, Germany) - Kapitän von MüllerKarl von MüllerKarl Friedrich Max von Müller was Captain of the famous German commerce raider, the light cruiser SMS Emden during World War I.- Early life and career :The son of a cracking Colonel, he was born in Hanover...
(1915 — Lambert, Germany) - Karen BlixenKaren BlixenBaroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke , , née Karen Christenze Dinesen, was a Danish author also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen. She also wrote under the pen names Osceola and Pierre Andrézel...
(1994 — Olesen, Denmark) - Karl Foerster (1931 — Kordes, Germany)
- Karl Heinz Hanisch (1986 — Meilland, France)
- Karl Herbst (1950 — Kordes, Germany)
- Karl Höchst (1983 — Hetzel, Germany)
- Käte Felberg (1930 — Felberg, Germany)
- Katharina Mock (1942 — Mock, Germany)
- Katharina von BoraKatharina von BoraKatharina von Bora, referred to as "die Lutherin", was the wife of Martin Luther, Germanleader of the Protestant Reformation. Beyond what is found in the writings of Luther and some of his contemporaries, little is known about her...
(2006 — Schultheis, Germany) - Katharina Zeimet (1901 — Lambert, Germany)
- Käthe Duvigneau (1942 — Tantau, Germany)
- Kathleen (1922 — Pemberton, United Kingdom)
- Kathleen FerrierKathleen FerrierKathleen Mary Ferrier CBE was an English contralto who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong and popular ballads to the classical works of Bach, Brahms, Mahler and Elgar...
(1952 — Buisman, Netherlands) - Kathleen Harrop (1919 — Dickson, United Kingdom)
- Kathryn McGredy (1996 — McGredy, New Zealand)
- Kathryn Morley (1990 — Austin, United Kingdom)
- KeanEdmund KeanEdmund Kean was an English actor, regarded in his time as the greatest ever.-Early life:Kean was born in London. His father was probably Edmund Kean, an architect’s clerk, and his mother was an actress, Anne Carey, daughter of the 18th century composer and playwright Henry Carey...
(Laffay, France) - Kessi (1999 — Schultheis, Germany)
- KieseHermann KieseHermann Kiese was a German rosarian known for his breeding of rose cultivars.Born in Vieselbach, Thuringia, Germany on May 8, 1865. He worked for 22 years as gardener for the Johann Christoff Schmidt rosarium in Erfurt...
(1910 — Kiese, Germany) - Kirsten KleinKirsten KleinKirsten Klein is a Danish photographer who since the mid-1970s has lived on the island of Mors. She has become one of Denmark's foremost landscape photographers, developing a highly characteristic, somewhat melancholic style, frequently achieved by employing older photographic techniques.-Early...
(1995 — Scarman, United Kingdom) - Kirsten Poulsen (1924 — Poulsen, Denmark)
- Kitchener of KhartoumHerbert Kitchener, 1st Earl KitchenerField Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, ADC, PC , was an Irish-born British Field Marshal and proconsul who won fame for his imperial campaigns and later played a central role in the early part of the First World War, although he died halfway...
(1917 — Dickson, United Kingdom) - Kitty's Rose (2003 — Beales, United Kingdom)
- Klaus GrothKlaus GrothKlaus Groth , Low German poet, was born at Heide in Schleswig-Holstein.After studying at the seminary in Tondern , he became a teacher at the girls school in his native village, but in 1847 went to Kiel to qualify for a higher educational post. Ill health interrupted his studies and it was not...
(1951 — Tantau, Germany) - Kleopatra 94 (1994 — Kordes, Germany)
- Kletternde Hermann Robinow (1934 — Lambert, Germany)
- Kommerzienrat W. Rautenstrauch (1909 — Lambert, Germany)
- König Laurin (1910 — Türke, Germany)
- König LudwigLudwig II of BavariaLudwig II was King of Bavaria from 1864 until shortly before his death. He is sometimes called the Swan King and der Märchenkönig, the Fairy tale King...
(1994 — Tantau, Germany) - Königin BeatrixBeatrix of the NetherlandsBeatrix is the Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands comprising the Netherlands, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and Aruba. She is the first daughter of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. She studied law at Leiden University...
(1983 — Kordes, Germany) - Königin Carola von SachenCarola of VasaCarola of Vasa was a titular princess of Sweden, and the queen consort of Saxony...
(1904 — Türke, Germany) - Königin MargaretheMargrethe II of DenmarkMargrethe II is the Queen regnant of the Kingdom of Denmark. In 1972 she became the first female monarch of Denmark since Margaret I, ruler of the Scandinavian countries in 1375-1412 during the Kalmar Union.-Early life:...
(1994 — Olesen, Denmark) - Königin Maria Therese (1916 — Lambert, Germany)
- Königin Maria Therese (1916 — Lambert, Germany)
- Konrad AdenauerKonrad AdenauerKonrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer was a German statesman. He was the chancellor of the West Germany from 1949 to 1963. He is widely recognised as a person who led his country from the ruins of World War II to a powerful and prosperous nation that had forged close relations with old enemies France,...
(1953 — Tantau, Germany) - Konrad Henkel (1983 — Kordes, Germany)
- KörnerTheodor Körner (author)Karl Theodor Körner was a German poet and soldier. After some time in Vienna, where he wrote some light comedies and other works, he became a soldier and joined the German uprising against Napoleon...
(1914 — Lambert) - Kronprinz RuprechtRupprecht, Crown Prince of BavariaRupprecht or Rupert, Crown Prince of Bavaria was the last Bavarian Crown Prince.His full title was His Royal Highness Rupprecht Maria Luitpold Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Duke of Bavaria, of Franconia and in Swabia, Count Palatine of the Rhine...
(1915 — Lambert, Germany) - Kronprinz Wilhelm (1916 — Lambert, Germany)
- Kronprinzessin CecilieDuchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-SchwerinCecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was a Crown Princess of Germany and Prussia as the wife of German Crown Prince William, the son of German Emperor William II...
(1907 — Kiese, Germany) - Kronprinzessin ViktoriaVictoria, Princess RoyalThe Princess Victoria, Princess Royal was the eldest child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert. She was created Princess Royal of the United Kingdom in 1841. She became German Empress and Queen of Prussia by marriage to German Emperor Frederick III...
(1888 — Vollert, Germany) - Kronprinzessin Viktoria (II)Victoria, Crown Princess of SwedenVictoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, Duchess of Västergötland is the heiress-apparent to the Swedish throne. If she ascends to the throne as expected, she will be Sweden's fourth queen regnant .-Early life:...
(1986 — Hetzel, Germany)
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- L.D. Braithwaite
- Lady Banks (1807 — Boursault, France)
- Lady CurzonMary Curzon, Baroness Curzon of KedlestonMary Victoria Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston, CI was a British-American peeress who was Vicereine of India, as the wife of Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India.-In America:...
(1901 — Turner, United Kingdom) - Lady Di (1982 — Huber, Switzerland)
- Lady Emma HamiltonEmma, Lady HamiltonEmma, Lady Hamilton is best remembered as the mistress of Lord Nelson and as the muse of George Romney. She was born Amy Lyon in Ness near Neston, Cheshire, England, the daughter of a blacksmith, Henry Lyon, who died when she was two months old...
(2005 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Lady Emily Peel (1862 — Lacharme, France)
- Lady Gray (1905 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Lady Helen Stuart (1887 — Dickson, United Kingdom)
- Lady Hillingdon (1910 — Lowe & Shawyer, United Kingdom)
- Lady Hillingdon Climbing (1917 — Hicks, United Kingdom)
- Lady Mary FitzWilliamLady Mary FitzWilliamLady Mary FitzWilliam was the daughter of William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 6th Earl FitzWilliam and of Lady Frances Harriet Douglas. On May 23, 1872 she married the Hon...
(1882 — Bennett, United Kingdom) - Lady Mavis Pilkington (1992- Kordes, Germany)
- Lady of MegginchCherry Drummond, 16th Baroness StrangeJean Cherry Drummond of Megginch, 16th Baroness Strange was a cross bench hereditary peer in the House of Lords. She also wrote romantic novels and historical works.-Personal life:...
(2007 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Lady Mitchell (1991 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Lady Monson (Monson, United Kingdom)
- Lady PenzanceLady Mary BouverieMary Wilde, Baroness Penzance , born Lady Mary Pleydell-Bouverie, was an English gardener. She was the daughter of William Pleydell-Bouverie, 3rd Earl of Radnor and Judith Anne St. John-Mildmay. She married Sir James Wilde in 1860, becoming Baroness Penzance on her husband's elevation to the...
(1894 — Penzance, United Kingdom) - Lady Romsey (1985 — Beales, United Kingdom)
- Lady Ursula (1908 — Dickson, United Kingdom)
- LamarqueJean Maximilien LamarqueJean Maximilien Lamarque was a French commander during the Napoleonic Wars who later became a member of French Parliament. As an opponent of the Ancien Régime, he is known for his active suppression of Royalist and Legitimist activity...
(1830 — France) - Lambert ClosseLambert ClosseRaphaël Lambert Closse was a merchant when he disembarked at Ville-Marie, Nouvelle-France in 1647.His exact date of birth is unknown, however, he was born in Mogues in the Ardennes department of today's northern France....
- Laura AshleyLaura AshleyLaura Ashley was a Welsh fashion designer and businesswoman. She became a household name on the strength of her work as a designer and manufacturer of a range of colourful fabrics for clothes and home furnishings....
(1991 — Warner, United Kingdom) - Laura FordLaura FordLaura Ford is a Welsh artist and sculptor who has exhibited her work at the British Art Show and represented Wales at Venice Biennale. She is recognised internationally as one of the UK's leading sculptors and is included in important museum collections worldwide-Early life and career:Ford was...
(1990 — Warner, United Kingdom) - Laure Davoust (1834 — Laffay, France)
- Laurent Carle (1907 — Pernet-Ducher, France)
- Laurent de Rille (1885 — Lévêque, France)
- LawiniaLavinia Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of NorfolkLavinia Mary Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk LG CBE was a British peeress....
(1980 — Tantau, Germany) - Lawrence JohnstonLawrence JohnstonMajor Lawrence Waterbury Johnston was a British soldier and garden creator.- Early years & military career :Johnston was born in Paris, France, into a family of wealthy American East Coast stockbrokers from Baltimore. He went to England to study at Trinity College, Cambridge. Soon after his...
(1923 — Pernet-Ducher, France). - LeanderHero and LeanderHero and Leander is a Byzantine myth, relating the story of Hērō and like "hero" in English), a priestess of Aphrodite who dwelt in a tower in Sestos on the European side of the Dardanelles, and Leander , a young man from Abydos on the opposite side of the strait. Leander fell in love with Hero...
(1982 — Austin, United Kingdom) - LeAnn RimesLeAnn RimesLeAnn Rimes is an American country/pop singer. She is known for her rich vocals and her rise to fame as an eight-year-old champion on the original Ed McMahon version of Star Search, followed by the release of the Patsy Cline-intended single "Blue" when Rimes was only age 13, resulting in her...
- LédaLeda (mythology)In Greek mythology, Leda was daughter of the Aetolian king Thestius, and wife of the king Tyndareus , of Sparta. Her myth gave rise to the popular motif in Renaissance and later art of Leda and the Swan...
(before 1838 — France) - Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da VinciLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...
(1994 — Meilland, France) - Leonie Lamesch (1899 — Lambert, Germany)
- Leonie Lambert (1913 — Lambert, Germany)
- Léontine Gervais (1903 — Barbier, France).
- Leopold RitterLeopold von Sacher-MasochLeopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch was an Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name....
(1900 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary) - LessingGotthold Ephraim LessingGotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature...
(1914 — Lambert, Germany) - Leveson GowerGranville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl GranvilleGranville George Leveson Gower, 2nd Earl Granville KG, PC FRS , styled Lord Leveson until 1846, was a British Liberal statesman...
(1846 — Béluze, France) - Lilian Austin (1973 — Austin, United Kingdom)
- Lilian BaylisLilian BaylisLilian Mary BaylisCH was an English theatrical producer and manager. She managed the Old Vic and Sadler's Wells theatres in London, and ran an opera company, which became the English National Opera , a theatre company, which evolved into the English National Theatre, and a ballet company, which...
(1996 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Lilli Marleen (1959 — Kordes, Germany)
- Lilli von Posern (1910 — Kiese, Germany)
- Lina Schmidt-Michel (1906 — Lambert, Germany)
- Linda Campbell
- Line RenaudLine Renaud- Early life :Line Renaud was born in Pont-de-Nieppe on 2 July 1928. Her mother Simone was a shorthand typist; her father was a truck driver during the week, but he played trumpet at the weekends, in a local brass band...
(2006 — Meilland, France) - Lisbeth Stellmacher (1919 — Lambert, Germany)
- Lisbeth von Kamecke (1910 — Kiese, Germany)
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(2005 — Meilland, France) - Long John SilverLong John SilverLong John Silver is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of the novel Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Silver is also known by the nicknames "Barbecue" and the "Sea-Cook".- Profile :...
(1934 — Horvath, (USA) - Lord PenzanceJames Wilde, 1st Baron PenzanceJames Plaisted Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance was a noted British judge and rose breeder who was also a proponent of the Baconian theory that the works usually attributed to William Shakespeare were in fact authored by Francis Bacon....
(1894 — Penzance, United Kingdom) - Lord RaglanFitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron RaglanField Marshal FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, GCB, PC , known before 1852 as Lord FitzRoy Somerset, was a British soldier.-Early life:...
(1854 — Guillot, France) - Loreley 82LoreleiThe Lorelei is a rock on the eastern bank of the Rhine near St. Goarshausen, Germany, which soars some 120 metres above the waterline. It marks the narrowest part of the river between Switzerland and the North Sea. A very strong current and rocks below the waterline have caused many boat...
(1982 — Noack, Germany) - Louis Bulliat 1867 — Gonod, France)
- Louis de Buade de FrontenacLouis de Buade de FrontenacLouis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau was a French soldier, courtier, and Governor General of New France from 1672 to 1682 and from 1689 to his death in 1698...
(Canada) - Louis de FunèsLouis de FunèsLouis Germain David de Funès de Galarza was a very popular French actor who is one of the giants of French comedy alongside André Bourvil and Fernandel...
(1984 — Meilland, France) - Louis Donadine (1887 — Gonod, France)
- Louis Gimard (1877 — Pernet-Ducher, France)
- Louis Kahle (1922 — Kiese, Germany),
- Louis JollietLouis JollietLouis Jolliet , also known as Louis Joliet, was a French Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America...
- Louis Rödiger (1935 — Kordes, Germany)
- Louis Rollet (1887 — Gonod, France)
- Louis van Tyll (Before 1846)
- Louis-Philippe (1824 — France)
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, United Kingdom) - Louise Bugnet (1960 — Bugnet, France)
- Louise Clements (1998 — Clements, USA)
- Louise Cretté (1815 — Chambard, France)
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(2008 — USA) - Louise Odier (1851 — Margottin, France)
- Lucetta (1983 — Austin, United Kingdom)
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- Lucie Crampton (1960 Kriloff, France)
- Lucie Duplessis (1853 — Robert, France)
- Lucien de Lemos (1905 — Lambert, Germany)
- Lucy Ashton
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(1968 — Laperrière, France) - Ludwig Möller (1915 — Kiese, Germany)
- Luise Gimard Moosrose
- Luise Krause (1930 — Krause, Germany)
- Luise Lilia (1912 — Lambert, Germany)
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(1825 — Poulsen, Denmark) - Lydia (II) (1873 — Kordes, Germany) 1973
- Lydia Geschwind (1890 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Lydia Grimm (1907 — Geduldig, Germany)
- Lynn AndersonLynn AndersonLynn Rene Anderson is an American country music singer and equestrian known for a string of hits throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, most notably her Grammy Award-winning, worldwide mega-hit, " Rose Garden." Helped by her regular exposure on national television, Anderson was one of the most...
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- Mabel Morrison, (1878 — Broughton, United Kingdom)
- Madame A. Meilland (1942 — Meilland, France)
- Madame Abel Chatenay (1894 — Pernet-Ducher, France)
- Madame Abel Chatenay (1917 — Page, United Kingdom)
- Madame Alfred Carrière (1879 — Schwartz, France)
- Madame Anna Bugnet (1866 — Gonod, France)
- Madame Antoine Mari (1901 — Mari/Japeau, France)
- Madame Ballu (1901 — l'Haÿ, France)
- Madame Bardou Job (1913 — Dubreuil, France)
- Madame Bérard (1915 — Levet, France)
- Madame Boll (1859 — Boll/Boeyeau, France)
- Madame Bouyer (1877 — Gonod, France)
- Msdame Bovary (Delbard, France)
- Msdame Bravy (1846 — Guillot, France)
- Madame Caroline Testout (1890 — Pernet-Ducher, France)
- Madame Caroline Testout Climbing (1901 — Chauvry, France)
- Madame Céline Touvais (1859 -Touvais, France)
- Madame Charles Baltet (1873 — Moreau-Robert, France)
- Madame Clémence Joigneau (1861 — Liabaud, France)
- Madame Clert (1868 — Gonod, France)
- Madame Creyton (1868 — Gonod, France)
- Madame d`Enfert (1904 — Vilin, France)
- Madame David (1885 — Pernet-Ducher, France)
- Madame de la Roche Lambert (1851 — Robert, France)
- Madame de Villars (1847 — Béluze, France)
- Madame de PompadourMadame de PompadourJeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, also known as Madame de Pompadour was a member of the French court, and was the official chief mistress of Louis XV from 1745 to her death.-Biography:...
(1945 — Gaujard, France) - Madame de Sansal (1850 — De Sansal, France)
- Madame de Tartas (1859 — Bernède, France)
- Madame Delbard (1980 — Delbard, France)
- Madame Denis 1872– Gonod, France)
- Madame Edmond RostandEdmond RostandEdmond Eugène Alexis Rostand was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best known for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays provided an alternative to the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century...
(1912 — Pernet-Ducher, France) - Madame Edouard Herriot (1914 — Pernet-Ducher, France)
- Madame Edouard Herriot (1921 — Ketten, Luxemburg)
- Madame Edouard Ory (1854 — Robert, France)
- Madame Elie Lambert (1890 — Lambert, Germany)
- Madame Emma Combay (1872 — Gonod, France)
- Madame Ernest Calvat (1888 — Schwartz, France)
- Madame Ernest Levavasseur (1900 — Vigneron, France)
- Madame Eugène Chambeyran 1879 — Gonod, France)
- Madame Eugène Labruyère (1882/1883 — Gonod, France)
- Madame Eugène Savary (1873 — Gonod, France)
- Madame Eugénie Frémy (1885 — Verdier, France)
- Madame Eugénie Savary (1872 — Gonod, France)
- Madame Falcot (1858 — Guillot, France)
- Madame Ferdinand Jamin (1875 — Lédéchaux, France)
- Madame Figaro (Delbard, France)
- Madame Fillion (1865 — Gonod, France)
- Madame Gabriel Luizet (1877 — Liabaud, France)
- Madame Georges Bruant (1887 — Bruant, France)
- Madame Gonod (1875 — Gonod, France)
- Madame Grégoire Staechelin (1927 — Dot, France)
- Madame Grondier (1867 — Gonod, Franc)
- Madame Guillot de Mont Favez (1871 — Gonod, France)
- Madame Gustave Bonnet (1896 — Bizot, France)
- Madame Hardy (1832 — Hardy, France)
- Madame Hermann Stenger 1864– Gonod, France)
- Madame Hippolyte Dumas (1924 — Guillot, France)
- Madame Hoste (1865 — Gonod, France)
- Madame Hoste (1887 — Guillot, France)
- Madame Isaac Péreire (1881- Garçon, Paris)
- Madame Jean Everaerts (1907 — Geduldig, Germany)
- Madame Jeanne Bouger 1876 — Gonod, France)
- Madame Joseph Schwartz (1880 — Schwartz, France)
- Madame Jules Bouché (1911 — Croibier, France)
- Madame Jules Gravereaux (1901 — Soupert & Notting, Luxembourg)
- Madame Knorr (1855 — Verdier, France)
- Madame Lacharme (1872 — Lacharme, France)
- Madame Laurette Messimy (1888 — Guillot, France)
- Madame Lauriol de Barny (1868 — Trouillard, France)
- Madame Legras de St. Germain (1848 — France)
- Madame Léon Pain (1904 — Guillot, France).
- Madame Léon Simon (1909 — Lambert, Germany)
- Madame Liabaud (1869 — Gonod, France)
- Madame Lombard (1878 — Lacharme, France)
- Madame Louis Donadine (1877 — Gonod, France)
- Madame Louis Laperrière (1951 — Laperrière, France)
- Madame Louis Léveque (1898 — Leveque, France)
- Madame Louise Piron (1903 — Piron-Médard, France)
- Madame Marie Garnier (1881 — Gonod, France)
- Madame Maurice Rivoire (1878 — Gonod, France)
- Madame Moreau (1864 — Gonod, France)
- Madame Moreau (1872 — Moreau-Robert, France)
- Madame Norbert Levavasseur (1903 — Levavasseur, France)
- Madame Paule Massad (1997 — Guillot-Massad, France)
- Madame Pierre Oger (1878 — Oger, France)
- Madame Plantier (1835 — Plantier, France)
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(1919 — Gravereaux, France) - Madame Richter (1886 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Madame Rival (1866 — Gonod, France)
- Madame Rollet 1875 — Gonod, France)
- Madame Sancy de Parabère (1874 — Bonnet, France).
- Madame Schultz (1856 — Béluze, France)
- Madame Ségond Weber (1908 — Soupert & Notting, France)
- Madame Sophie CharlotteSophia Charlotte of HanoverSophia Charlotte of Hanover was the Queen consort of Prussia as wife of Frederick I of Prussia. She was the daughter of Ernst August, Elector of Hanover, and Sophia of the Palatinate...
(1986 — Weihrauch, Germany) - Madame Soubeyran 1872 — Gonod, France)
- Madame Souveton (1874 — Pernet, France)
- Madame Suzanne Chavagnon 1887 — Gonod, France)
- Madame Victor Verdier (1863 — Verdier, France)
- Madame Wagram, Comtesse de Turenne (1894 — France)
- Madame Willermoz (1850–1853 — unknown parentage, France)
- Madame William Paul (II) (1869 — Moreau-Robert, France)
- Mademoiselle Blanche Lafitte (1851 — Pradel, France)
- Mademoiselle Cécile Brunner (1881 — France)
- Mademoiselle Claire Andruejol (1920 — Schwartz, France)
- Mademoiselle de Sombreuil (1850 — Robert, France)
- Mademoiselle Eugénie Verdier (1869 — Guillot fils, France)
- Mademoiselle Julia Dumonier (1879 — Gonod, France)
- Mademoiselle Marie Gonod (1871 — Gonod, France)
- Mademoiselle Marie Magat (1889 — Liabaud, France)
- Mademoiselle Philiberte Pellet 1873– Gonod, France)
- Mademoiselle Suzanne Bouyer 1879 — Gonod, France)
- Magda Zwerg (1904 — Jacobs, Germany)
- Maja OetkerRudolf August OetkerRudolf August Oetker was a German entrepreneur who became a billionaire running his private food company Oetker-Gruppe....
(1981 — Cocker, United Kingdom) - Major Franz Teirich (1888 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Mala Rubinstein (1971 — Dickson, United Kingdom)
- Malvina (1841 — Verdier, France)
- Mama Lamesch (1923 — Löbner/Lambert, Germany)
- Maman Cochet (1893 — Cochet, France) duftend
- Maman Cochet Climbing (1915 — Howard & Smith (USA)
- Manette (1820 — Lacaffe, France)
- Manou Meilland (1978 — Meilland, France)
- Manuel Canovas (1995 — Guillot-Massad, France)
- Marc-Antoine CharpentierMarc-Antoine CharpentierMarc-Antoine Charpentier, , was a French composer of the Baroque era.Exceptionally prolific and versatile, he produced compositions of the highest quality in several genres...
(2005 — Massad, France) - Marcel Bourgouin (1899 — Corboeuf, France)
- Marcel PagnolMarcel PagnolMarcel Pagnol was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. In 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie Française.-Biography:...
(1996 — Meilland, France) - Marchioness of LornePrincess Louise, Duchess of ArgyllThe Princess Louise was a member of the British Royal Family, the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and her husband, Albert, Prince Consort.Louise's early life was spent moving between the various royal residences in the...
(1889 — Paul, United Kingdom) - Marco PoloMarco PoloMarco Polo was a Venetian merchant traveler from the Venetian Republic whose travels are recorded in Il Milione, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. He learned about trading whilst his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, travelled through Asia and apparently...
(1991 — Meilland, France) - Maréchal Davoust (1853 — Robert, France)
- Maréchal NielAdolphe NielAdolphe Niel was a French Army general and statesman, also Marshal of France.He was born at Muret, Haute-Garonne and entered the École Polytechnique in 1821. Niel entered the engineer school at Metz, became lieutenant in the Engineers Corps in 1827, and captain in 1833...
(1864 — H & G Pradel, France) - Margaret Dickson (1892 — Dickson, United Kingdom)
- Margaret McGredy (1927 — McGredy, Ireland)
- Margaret Merril (1977 — Harkness, United Kingdom)
- Margaret Thatcher (Named in Pattoki, Punjab, Pakistan)
- Margarete Gnau (1930 — Krause, Germany)
- Margarete Heike (1914 — Lambert, Germany)
- Margarita (1924 — Alfons, Germany)
- Marguerite de Roman (1882 — Schwartz, France)
- Maria (Sievers, Germany)
- Maria Bülow (1903 — Welter, Germany)
- Maria Hofker (1993 — Interplant, The Netherlands)
- Maria Liesa (1936 — Liebau, Germany)
- Maria Lisa (1925 — Alfons, Germany)
- Maria von Weber (1893 — Türke, Germany)
- Marianne Pfitzer (1902 — Jacobs, Germany)
- Margo Koster (1931 — Koster, Germany)
- Marguerite Hilling (1959 — Hilling, United Kingdom)
- Maria CallasMaria CallasMaria Callas was an American-born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned opera singers of the 20th century. She combined an impressive bel canto technique, a wide-ranging voice and great dramatic gifts...
(1965 — Meilland, France) - Mariandel (1985 — Kordes, Germany)
- Maribel (1991 — Cocker, United Kingdom)
- Marie Accarie (1872 — Guillot, France)
- Marie AntoinetteMarie AntoinetteMarie Antoinette ; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was an Archduchess of Austria and the Queen of France and of Navarre. She was the fifteenth and penultimate child of Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I....
(1968 — Armstrong, USA) - Marie Antoinette IIMarie AntoinetteMarie Antoinette ; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was an Archduchess of Austria and the Queen of France and of Navarre. She was the fifteenth and penultimate child of Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I....
(2003 — Tantau, Germany)
- Marie Baumann (1863 — Baumann, France)
- Marie Bugnet (1963 — Bugnet, Canada)
- Marie Claire ClimbingMarie-ClaireMarie-Claire is a given name. It is a combination of the names Marie and Claire, which are both of French origin. It may refer to:* Marie-Claire Alain , organist and organ teacher* Marie-Claire Baldenweg , contemporary artist...
(1944 — Meilland, France) - Marie CurieMarie CurieMarie Skłodowska-Curie was a physicist and chemist famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes—in physics and chemistry...
(1997 — Meilland, France) - Marie d`Orléans (1883 — Nabonnand, France)
- Marie de Blois (1852 — Robert, France)
- Marie de BourgogneMary of BurgundyMary of Burgundy ruled the Burgundian territories in Low Countries and was suo jure Duchess of Burgundy from 1477 until her death...
(1853 — Robert, France) - Marie de Saint Jean (1852 — Damaizin, France)
- Marie Dermar (1889 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Marie Faist (1925 — Berger, Germany)
- Marie François Sadi CarnotMarie François Sadi CarnotMarie François Sadi Carnot was a French statesman and the fourth president of the Third French Republic. He served as the President of France from 1887 until his assassination in 1894.-Early life:...
(1894 — Pernet-DucherJoseph Pernet-DucherJoseph Pernet-Ducher was a French rosarian and hybridizer. Born near Lyon, the son of Jean Pernet, he was a third generation rose-grower. In 1879 he began his apprenticeship in the rose-breeding business with the Ducher nursery in Lyon...
, France) - Marie Geschwind (1889 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Marie Gouchault (1927 — Turbat, France)
- Marie Helene (1991 — Weihrauch, Germany)
- Marie Henriette Gräfin ChotekMarie Henrieta ChotekCountess Henrieta Hermína Rudolfína Ferdinanda Marie Antonie Anna Chotková of Chotkov and Vojnín – - , also known as the countess of roses was a grower of roses, who established the rosarium of Dolná Krupá ,-The Dolná Krupá mansion:The village of Dolná Krupá is located in the Danubian Hills at...
(1920 — Lambert, Germany) - Marie Jeanne (1913 — Turbat, France)
- Marie Lambert (1889 — Lambert),
- Marie LouiseMarie Louise, Duchess of ParmaMarie Louise of Austria was the second wife of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French and later Duchess of Parma...
(1813, France) - Marie Louise Pernet (1876 — Pernet, France)
- Marie Herzogin von Anhalt (1909 — Jacobs, Germany),
- Marie Pavié (1888 — Allégatière, France)
- Marie-Luise MarjanMarie-Luise MarjanMarie-Luise Marjan is a German actress.Marie-Luise Marjan is best known for her role as Helga Beimer in the German Television Series Lindenstraße...
(1999 — Kordes, Germany) - Marie TudorMary I of EnglandMary I was queen regnant of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death.She was the only surviving child born of the ill-fated marriage of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon. Her younger half-brother, Edward VI, succeeded Henry in 1547...
(before 1846 — France) - Marie-VictorinMarie-VictorinBrother Marie-Victorin was a De La Salle Christian Brother and botanist in Quebec, Canada, best known as the father of the Jardin botanique de Montréal....
(Canada) - Marietta Biolley 1875 — Gonod, France)
- Marilyn MonroeMarilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model and showgirl who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s....
(Weeks, USA) - Marinette (1995 — Austin, United Kingdom)
- Marion (1956 — De Ruiter, The Netherlands)
- Marion Harkness (1979 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Marion Hess (1981 — Hetzel, Germany)
- Marjorie Fair (1978 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Marjorie Marshall (1996 — Harkness, United Kingdom)
- Marjorie ProopsMarjorie ProopsRebecca Marjorie Proops , born Rebecca Marjorie Israel, was probably best known as an agony aunt in the United Kingdom, writing the column Dear Marje for the Daily Mirror newspaper....
(1969 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Mark Twain (II)Mark TwainSamuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...
(2000 — Huber, Switzerland) - Marlena
- Marlene CharellMarlene CharellMarlene Charell is a German entertainer and was the leading dancer and superstar at Le Lido in Paris from 1968 until the end of 1970...
(2007 — Wänninger, Germany) - MarlenaMarlene DietrichMarlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the 1920s, she acted on the stage and in silent films...
(1864 — Kordes, Germany) - Marquesa de Urquijo (1940 — Camprubi, Spain)
- Martha (II) (1912 — Zeiner, France)
- Martha Lambert (1936 — Lambert)
- Martin FrobisherMartin FrobisherSir Martin Frobisher was an English seaman who made three voyages to the New World to look for the Northwest Passage...
(1968 — Svejda, Canada) - M. Geier (1929 — Felberg, Germany) 1929
- Martin Liebau (1930 — Kiese, Germany)
- Martine Guillot (1996 — Guillot-Massad, France)
- Marty (II) (1947 — Pearce, United Kingdom) 1947
- Mary DonaldsonMary Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of LymingtonDorothy Mary Warwick, Baroness Donaldson of Lymington, GBE DStJ , better known as Dame Mary Donaldson, was the first, and to date the only, female Lord Mayor of London ....
(1984 — Cants, United Kingdom) - Mary Hayley BellMary Hayley BellMary Hayley Bell, Lady Mills was an English actress, writer and dramatist.Mary Hayley Bell was born in Shanghai, China, where her father served in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, and the family later moved to Tianjin . It was there that she first met John Mills, although exactly when is not...
(1989 — Kordes, Germany) - Mary MacKillopMary MacKillopMary Helen MacKillop , also known as Saint Mary of the Cross, was an Australian Roman Catholic nun who, together with Father Julian Tenison Woods, founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart and a number of schools and welfare institutions throughout Australasia with an emphasis on...
- Mary MagdaleneMary MagdaleneMary Magdalene was one of Jesus' most celebrated disciples, and the most important woman disciple in the movement of Jesus. Jesus cleansed her of "seven demons", conventionally interpreted as referring to complex illnesses...
(1998 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Mary Manners (1970 — Leicester Rose Company, United Kingdom)
- Mary Margaret McBrideMary Margaret McBrideMary Margaret McBride was an American radio interview host and writer. Her popular radio shows spanned more than 40 years; she is also remembered for her few months of pioneering television, as an early sign of radio success not guaranteeing a transition to the new medium...
(1943-USA) - Mary, Queen of Scots (19th century)
- Mary WebbMary WebbMary Webb , was an English romantic novelist and poet of the early 20th century, whose work is set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside and among Shropshire characters and people which she knew. Her novels have been successfully dramatized, most notably the film Gone to Earth in 1950 by Michael...
(1984 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Master Hugh (1966 — Mason, United Kingdom)
- Dearest (1960 — Dickson, United Kingdom)
- Maude Elizabeth (2000 — Beales, United Kingdom)
- MaupertuisPierre Louis MaupertuisPierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He became the Director of the Académie des Sciences, and the first President of the Berlin Academy of Science, at the invitation of Frederick the Great....
(1888 — Moreau-Robert, France) - Maurice Bernardin (1861 — Granger/Lévêque, France)
- Maurice UtrilloMaurice UtrilloMaurice Utrillo, , born Maurice Valadon, was a French painter who specialized in cityscapes. Born in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painters of Montmartre who were born there....
(2004 — Delbard France) - Max Graf (1919 — Bowditsch, USA)
- Max Hesdörffer (1902 — Jacobs, Germany)
- Max Krause (1930 — Krause, Germany)
- Max SchmelingMax SchmelingMaximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling was a German boxer who was heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. His two fights with Joe Louis in the late 1930s transcended boxing, and became worldwide social events because of their national associations...
(1873 — Tantau, Germany) - Mayor of CasterbridgeThe Mayor of CasterbridgeThe Mayor of Casterbridge , subtitled "The Life and Death of a Man of Character", is a tragic novel by British author Thomas Hardy. It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge . The book is one of Hardy's Wessex novels, all set in a fictional rustic England...
- MécèneGaius MaecenasGaius Cilnius Maecenas was a confidant and political advisor to Octavian as well as an important patron for the new generation of Augustan poets...
(1846, Vibert, France) - Mechtilde von der Neuerburg (1920 — Boden, Germany)
- Meg Merrilies (1894 — Penzance, United Kingdom)
- Mercedes (1886 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Michael CrawfordMichael CrawfordMichael Crawford OBE is an English actor and singer. He has garnered great critical acclaim and won numerous awards during his career, which covers radio, television, film, and stagework on both London's West End and on Broadway in New York City...
- Michel BrasMichel BrasMichel Bras is a chef from France.He and his son run a restaurant and hotel in Laguiole , in the Aveyron department. He learned to cook from his mother who still makes the "Aligot" dish with maestria from time to time...
(2002 — Delbard, France) - Michel Dupré (1876 — Gonod, France)
- MichelangeloMichelangeloMichelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art...
(1997 — Meilland, France) - Michele Meilland (1945 — Meilland, France)
- Mildred ScheelMildred ScheelMildred Scheel was a German physician, the second wife of the German President of the Federal Republic Walter Scheel and the founder of the German Cancer Aid. As the First Lady , she immediately established this Non-profit organization to fight all kinds of cancer...
(1976 — Tantau, Germany) - Miller Hayes (1873 — Verdier, France)
- Mimie MathyMimie MathyMimie Mathy is a French actress and comedienne who is best known for her starring role in the long-running Josephine, Guardian Angel television series. Mathy has achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism, and is tall.-Biography:...
(1999 — Dorieux, France) - MinnehahaMinnehahaMinnehaha is a fictional Native American woman documented in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 epic poem The Song of Hiawatha. She is the lover of the titular protagonist Hiawatha. The name is often incorrectly said to mean "laughing water", though in reality it translates to "waterfall" or...
(1905 — Walsh, USA) - Minette (1819 — Vibert, France)
- MinerveMinervaMinerva was the Roman goddess whom Romans from the 2nd century BC onwards equated with the Greek goddess Athena. She was the virgin goddess of poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, weaving, crafts, magic...
(1868 — Gonod, France) - Minnie PearlMinnie PearlSarah Ophelia Colley Cannon , known professionally as Minnie Pearl, was an American country comedienne who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years and on the television show Hee Haw from 1969 to 1991.-Early life:Sarah Colley was born in Centerville, in Hickman County, Tennessee,...
- Miranda (1869 — de Sansal, France)
- Miss Alice (2000 — Austin, United Kingdom)
- Miss Edith CavellEdith CavellEdith Louisa Cavell was a British nurse and spy. She is celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from all sides without distinction and in helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium during World War I, for which she was arrested...
(1917 — De Ruiter, The Netherlands) - Miss WillmottEllen WillmottEllen Ann Willmott was an English horticulturalist. She was an influential member of the Royal Horticultural Society, and a recipient of the first Victoria Medal of Honour in 1897. She cultivated more than 100,000 species of plants, and sponsored expeditions to discover new species...
(1916 — McGredy, Ireland) - Mister LincolnAbraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...
(1964 — Swim, USA) - MontezumaMoctezuma IIMoctezuma , also known by a number of variant spellings including Montezuma, Moteuczoma, Motecuhzoma and referred to in full by early Nahuatl texts as Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin, was the ninth tlatoani or ruler of Tenochtitlan, reigning from 1502 to 1520...
(1955 — Swim, USA) - Moje Hammarberg (1931 — Hammarberg)
- Monsieur Boncenne (1864 — Liabaud, France)
- Monsieur Cordier 1871 — Gonod, France)
- Monsieur de Morand (1891 — Schwartz, France)
- Monsieur Fillion (1876 — Gonod, France)
- Monsieur Jules LemaîtreJules LemaîtreFrançois Élie Jules Lemaître , was a French critic and dramatist.He was born at Vennecy . He became a professor at the university of Grenoble, but was already well known for his literary criticism, and in 1884 he resigned his position to devote his time to literature...
(1890 — Vigneron, France) - Monsieur Lapierre (1878 — Gonod, France)
- Monsieur le Capitaine Louis Frère (1883 — Vigneron. France)
- Monsieur Tillier (1801 — Bernaix, France)
- Mortimer SacklerMortimer SacklerDr Mortimer David Sackler KBE was an American physician and entrepreneur. With his brothers Arthur M. Sackler and Raymond Sackler he used his fortune from the pharmaceutical industry to become a prominent philanthropist....
(2002 — Austin, United Kingdom) - MountbattenLouis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of BurmaAdmiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC, FRS , was a British statesman and naval officer, and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...
(1982 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - MozartWolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
(1937 — Lambert, Germany) - Mrs. Aaron WardAaron Montgomery WardAaron Montgomery Ward was an American businessman notable for the invention of mail order.The mail-order industry was started by Aaron Montgomery Ward in 1872 in Chicago...
(1907 — Pernet-Ducher, France) - Mrs Aaron WardAaron Montgomery WardAaron Montgomery Ward was an American businessman notable for the invention of mail order.The mail-order industry was started by Aaron Montgomery Ward in 1872 in Chicago...
(1922 — Dickson, United Kingdom) - Mrs Anthony Waterer (1898 — Waterer, United Kingdom)
- Mrs. B. R. Cant (1901 Cant, USA)
- Mrs Billie Crick (1995 — Scarman, United Kingdom)
- Mrs Baker Turner (1876 — United Kingdom)
- Mrs. Charles Bell (1917)
- Mrs. Chiang Kai-ShekSoong May-lingSoong May-ling or Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek or Madame Chiang was a First Lady of the Republic of China , the wife of Generalissimo and President Chiang Kai-shek. She was a politician and painter...
(1942 — Carl G. Duehrsen) - Mrs Colville (Colville, United Kingdom)
- Mrs Doreen Pike (1989 — Austin, United Kingdom)
- Mrs. F. F. Prentiss (1925 Horvath)
- Mrs F. W. Flight (1905 — Cutbush, United Kingdom)
- Mrs. Franklin D. RooseveltEleanor RooseveltAnna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an international...
(1933 — Traendly & Schenck, USA) - Mrs. Harkness (1893 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Mrs Herbert Stevens (1922 — Pernet-Ducher, France)
- Mrs. Iris Clow (1994 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Mrs John Laing (1887 — Bennett, United Kingdom)
- Mrs O. G. Orpen (Orpen, United Kingdom)
- Mrs. Oakley Fisher (1921 Cant, USA)
- Mrs Paul (1891, Paul, United Kingdom)
- Mrs Quickly (1995 — Austin, United Kingdom)
- Mrs Sam McGredy (1929 — McGredy, Ireland)
- Mrs Sam McGredy (1937 — Buisman, Netherlands)
- Mrs R.G. Sharman-Crawford (1894 — Dickson, United Kingdom)
- Mrs Theodor RooseveltEdith RooseveltEdith Kermit Carow Roosevelt was the second wife of Theodore Roosevelt and served as First Lady of the United States during his presidency from 1901 to 1909.-Early life:...
(1902 — Hill, USA) - Mrs W. J. Grant (1895 — Dickson (United Kingdom)
- Muriel (1991 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Mutter Brada (1934 — Brada, Czechoslovakia)
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- Napoleon
- Nancy ReaganNancy ReaganNancy Davis Reagan is the widow of former United States President Ronald Reagan and was First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989....
(2005 — Zary, USA) - Nancy SteenNancy SteenNancy Steen American television producer, writer and actress.Steen began her career as an actress at Dudley Riggs' Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She then began appearing the television series Charlie's Angels, Taxi, Mork & Mindy and M*A*S*H.Her television producing and writing...
(1976) - NewtonIsaac NewtonSir Isaac Newton PRS was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, who has been "considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived."...
(1869 — Gonod, France) - Niccolò PaganiniNiccolò PaganiniNiccolò Paganini was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was one of the most celebrated violin virtuosi of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique...
(1991 — Meilland, France) - Nicola Welter (1903 — Jacobs, Germany)
- NiobeNiobeNiobe was a daughter of Tantalus and of either Dione, the most frequently cited, or of Eurythemista or Euryanassa, and she was the sister of Pelops and Broteas, all of whom figure in Greek mythology....
(1895 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary) - Nozomi (1968 — T. Onodera, Japan)
- Nymphe EgeriaEgeria (mythology)Egeria was a nymph attributed a legendary role in the early history of Rome as a divine consort and counselor of the Sabine second king of Rome, Numa Pompilius, to whom she imparted laws and rituals pertaining to ancient Roman religion...
(1891 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary) - Nymphe Teplá (1886 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
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- Obergärtner Franz Joost (1902 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Oberhofgärtner A. Singer (1904 — Lambert, Germany)
- Octavia HillOctavia HillOctavia Hill was an English social reformer, whose main concern was the welfare of the inhabitants of cities, especially London, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Born into a family with a strong commitment to alleviating poverty, she herself grew up in straitened circumstances owing...
(1995 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Ökonomierat Echtermayer (1913 — Lambert, Germany)
- Olive (1892 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Oliver Delhomme (1861 — V. Verdier, France)
- Olivia Newton-JohnOlivia Newton-JohnOlivia Newton-John AO, OBE is a singer and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles and two No. 1 Billboard 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles and 14 of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA...
- OpheliaOpheliaOphelia is a fictional character in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. She is a young noblewoman of Denmark, the daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes, and potential wife of Prince Hamlet.-Plot:...
(1912 — W. Paul, France) - Ormiston Roy (Canada)
- Oscar Kordel (1897 — Lambert, Germany)
- Otto von BismarckOtto von BismarckOtto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg , simply known as Otto von Bismarck, was a Prussian-German statesman whose actions unified Germany, made it a major player in world affairs, and created a balance of power that kept Europe at peace after 1871.As Minister President of...
(1908 — Kiese, Germany) - Otto von Weddingen (1904 — Lambert, Germany)
- Our Molly (1994 — Dickson, United Kingdom)
- OvidOvidPublius Ovidius Naso , known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria...
(1890 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
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- Paddy McGredy (1962 — McGredy, United Kingdom)
- PaganiniNiccolò PaganiniNiccolò Paganini was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was one of the most celebrated violin virtuosi of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique...
(1989 — Lens, Belgium) - PaolaPaola del MedicoPaola Felix-del Medico is a Swiss singer.Born in Saint-Gall, she has sung in German, mainly, and in French. She represented Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1969 with the entry "Bonjour, Bonjour", finishing in fifth place....
(1981 — Tantau, Germany) - Papa Gontier (1882 — Nabonnand, France)
- Papa Gouchault (1922 — Turbat, France)
- Papa Lambert (1899 — Lambert, Germany)
- Papa Meilland (1963 — Meilland, France)
- Papa Schneider (1961 — Kriloff, France)
- Papi Delbard (1995 — Delbard, France)
- ParmentierAntoine-Augustin ParmentierAntoine-Augustin Parmentier is remembered as a vocal promoter of the potato as a food source in France and throughout Europe...
(1847 — Moreau & Robert, France) - Pat Austin (1995 — Austin, United Kingdom) 1995
- Pat James (1991 — Harkness, United Kingdom)
- Paul BocusePaul BocusePaul Bocuse is a French chef based in Lyon who is famous for the high quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine...
(1997 — Guillot-Massad, France) - Paul CézannePaul CézannePaul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th...
(1995 — Delbard, France) - Paul Crampel (1930 — Kluis & Konig, The Netherlands / Kordes, Germany)
- Paul Kadalozigue (1912 — Lambert, Germany)
- Paul Lédé Climbing (1902 — Lowe & Shawyer, United Kingdom)
- Paul McCartneyPaul McCartneySir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
(1991 — Meilland, France) - Paul Noël (1913 — Tanne, France)
- Paul Neyron (1869 — Levet, France)
- Paul RicardPaul RicardPaul Ricard was a French entrepreneur and founder of the eponymous company, which merged in 1975 with its competitor Pernod to become Pernod Ricard....
(1991 — Meilland, France) - Paul RicaultPaul RycautSir Paul Rycaut FRS was a British diplomat and historian, and authority on the Ottoman Empire.-Life:...
(1845 — Portemer, France) - Paul Shirville (1983 — Harkness, United Kingdom)
- Paul Transon (1900 — Barbier, France)
- Paula Clegg (1912 — Kiese, Germany)
- Peer GyntPeer GyntPeer Gynt is a five-act play in verse by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen, loosely based on the fairy tale Per Gynt. It is the most widely performed Norwegian play. According to Klaus Van Den Berg, the "cinematic script blends poetry with social satire and realistic scenes with surreal ones"...
(1968 — Kordes, Germany) - PeléPeléHowever, Pelé has always maintained that those are mistakes, that he was actually named Edson and that he was born on 23 October 1940.), best known by his nickname Pelé , is a retired Brazilian footballer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time...
- Pélisson (1848- Vibert, France)
- PenelopePenelopeIn Homer's Odyssey, Penelope is the faithful wife of Odysseus, who keeps her suitors at bay in his long absence and is eventually reunited with him....
(1924 — Pemberton, United Kingdom) - Penelope KeithPenelope KeithPenelope Anne Constance Keith, CBE, DL is an English actress.Having started her television career in the 1950s, Penelope Keith became a household name in the United Kingdom in the 1970s when she played Margo Leadbetter in the sitcom The Good Life...
(1983 — McGredy, New Zealand) - Percy IzzardPercy IzzardPercy W. D. Izzard OBE was the well-known gardening correspondent on the Daily Mail newspaper and author of several books on gardening.- Life and works :...
(1936 H. Robinson) - PergolèseGiovanni Battista PergolesiGiovanni Battista Pergolesi was an Italian composer, violinist and organist.-Biography:Born at Iesi, Pergolesi studied music there under a local musician, Francesco Santini, before going to Naples in 1725, where he studied under Gaetano Greco and Francesco Feo among others...
(1850 — Moreau Robert, France) - Pernille Poulsen (1965 — Poulsen (Denmark)
- Peter Beales (2000 — Clements, USA)
- Peter FrankenfeldPeter FrankenfeldPeter Frankenfeld was a German comedian, radio and television personality....
(1966 — Kordes, Germany) - Peter Lambert (Jacobs, Germany)
- Peter RoseggerPeter RoseggerPeter Rosegger was an Austrian poet from the province of Styria. He was a son of a farmer and grew up in the forests and fields. Rosegger went on to become a most productive poet and author as well as an insightful teacher and visionary...
(1914 — Lambert, Germany) - Philippe CandeloroPhilippe CandeloroPhilippe Candeloro is a French figure skater who medalled at the 1994 and 1998 Winter Olympics.-Early years:Philippe Candeloro was born in Courbevoie, in France, the youngest of four children...
(2009 — Guillot, France) - Philipp Paulig (1908 — Lambert, Germany)
- Philippine Lambert (1903 — Lambert, Germany)
- Phyllis Bide (1923 — Bide, United Kingdom)
- PicassoPablo PicassoPablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...
(1971 — McGredy, Ireland) - Pierre Cagnaire (2003 — Delbard, France)
- Pierre-Auguste RenoirPierre-Auguste RenoirPierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to...
(1995 — Meilland, France) - Pigalle 85Jean-Baptiste PigalleJean-Baptiste Pigalle was a French sculptor.He was born in Paris, the seventh child of a carpenter. Although he failed to obtain the Grand Prix, after a severe struggle he entered the Académie Royale and became one of the most popular sculptors of his day.His earlier work, such as Child with Cage ...
(1984 — Meilland, France) - Pius IXPope Pius IXBlessed Pope Pius IX , born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, was the longest-reigning elected Pope in the history of the Catholic Church, serving from 16 June 1846 until his death, a period of nearly 32 years. During his pontificate, he convened the First Vatican Council in 1869, which decreed papal...
(1849 — Vibert, France) - Plomin (1951 — Tantau, Germany)
- PompadourMadame de PompadourJeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, also known as Madame de Pompadour was a member of the French court, and was the official chief mistress of Louis XV from 1745 to her death.-Biography:...
(1979 — Murray) - Pope John Paul IIPope John Paul IIBlessed Pope John Paul II , born Karol Józef Wojtyła , reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death on 2 April 2005, at of age. His was the second-longest documented pontificate, which lasted ; only Pope Pius IX ...
- PortlandMargaret Bentinck, Duchess of PortlandMargaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland , styled Lady Margaret Harley before 1734, Duchess of Portland from 1734 to her husband's death in 1761, and Dowager Duchess of Portland from 1761 until her own death in 1785...
(1782, Brunton, United Kingdom) - Président Dutailly (1888 — Dubreuil, France)
- Président Gausen (1862 — H & G Pradel, France)
- President Herbert HooverHerbert HooverHerbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...
(1930 — Coddington, USA) - President Herbert HooverHerbert HooverHerbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...
(1931 — B.R. Cant, USA) - Président LincolnAbraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...
(1863 — Granger, France) - Président Schlachter (1872 — Verdier, France)
- Prince Camille de Rohan (1861 — Verdier, France)
- Prince Caspian
- Prince Charles (1842 — Luxemburg)
- Prince Charles d'Aremberg (1877 — Soupert & Notting, Luxemburg)
- Prince de BulgarieFerdinand I of BulgariaFerdinand , born Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry, was the ruler of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1918, first as knyaz and later as tsar...
(1900 — Pernet-Ducher, France) - Prince Eugène de BeauharnaisEugène de BeauharnaisEugène Rose de Beauharnais, Prince Français, Prince of Venice, Viceroy of the Kingdom of Italy, Hereditary Grand Duke of Frankfurt, 1st Duke of Leuchtenberg and 1st Prince of Eichstätt ad personam was the first child and only son of Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais and Joséphine Tascher de la...
(1864 — Moreau-Robert, France) - Prince FrédéricPrince Frederick of the NetherlandsPrince Frederick of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau , was the second son of king William I of the Netherlands and his wife, Wilhelmine of Prussia....
(1840 — Parmentier, Belgium) - Prince NapoléonNapoléon Joseph Charles Paul BonaparteNapoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, Prince Français, Count of Meudon, Count of Moncalieri ad personam, titular 3rd Prince of Montfort was the second son of Jérôme Bonaparte, king of Westphalia, by his wife Catherine, princess of Württemberg...
(1864 — Pernet-Ducher, France) - Princess Alexandra (1998 — Olesen, Denmark)
- Princess AlicePrincess Alice, Duchess of GloucesterPrincess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester was a member of the British Royal Family, the wife and then widow of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the third son of George V and Queen Mary.The daughter of the 7th Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry, Scotland’s largest landowner, her brothers Walter and...
(1985 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Princess AikoAiko, Princess Toshi, born 1 December 2001, is the daughter and only child of the heir apparent to the Japanese throne, Crown Prince Naruhito, and Crown Princess Masako....
(2002 — Keisei, Japan) - Princess Caroline of MonacoCaroline, Princess of HanoverCaroline, Princess of Hanover, Hereditary Princess of Monaco , formally styled Her Royal Highness The Princess of Hanover , has been heiress presumptive to the throne of Monaco since 2005, a position which she previously held from 1957 to 1958.She is the wife of...
(1988 — Meilland) - Princess Louise (1828 — Jacques, France)
- Princess Marie (1829 — Jacques, France)
- Princess MargaretPrincess Margaret, Countess of SnowdonPrincess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon was the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II and the younger daughter of King George VI....
(1969 — Meilland, France) - Princess Mary of CambridgePrincess Mary Adelaide of CambridgePrincess Mary Adelaide Wilhelmina Elizabeth of Cambridge was a member of the British Royal Family, a granddaughter of George III, and great-grandmother of Elizabeth II. She held the title of Duchess of Teck through marriage.Mary Adelaide is remembered as the mother of Queen Mary, the consort of...
(1867 — Paul, United Kingdom) - Princess Michael of KentPrincess Michael of KentPrincess Michael of Kent is an Austrian-Hungarian member of the British Royal Family. She is married to Prince Michael of Kent, who is a grandson of King George V....
(1979 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Princess de MonacoGrace KellyGrace Patricia Kelly was an American actress who, in April 1956, married Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, to become Princess consort of Monaco, styled as Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, and commonly referred to as Princess Grace.After embarking on an acting career in 1950, at the age of...
(1982 — Meilland, France) - Princess of WalesAlexandra of DenmarkAlexandra of Denmark was the wife of Edward VII of the United Kingdom...
(1871 — Laxton, United Kingdom) - Princess of WalesDiana, Princess of WalesDiana, Princess of Wales was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, whom she married on 29 July 1981, and an international charity and fundraising figure, as well as a preeminent celebrity of the late 20th century...
(1997 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Princess RoyalAnne, Princess RoyalPrincess Anne, Princess Royal , is the only daughter of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...
(1992 — Dickson, United Kingdom) - Princess Tomohito of Mikasa (2003 — United Kingdom)
- Princesse de Béarn (1885 — Lévêque, France)
- Princesse de LamballePrincess Marie Louise of SavoyMaria Luisa of Savoy was a member of the House of Savoy. She was married at the age of 16 to Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Prince de Lamballe, the heir to the greatest fortune in France. After her marriage, which lasted a year, she went to court and became the confidante of Queen Marie Antoinette...
(France) - Princesse de Vaudémont (1854 — Moreau/Robert, France)
- Princesse Marie-Adélaïde de Luxembourg
- Princesse Marie Dolgorouky 1878 — Gonod, France)
- Prinz RupertRupprecht, Crown Prince of BavariaRupprecht or Rupert, Crown Prince of Bavaria was the last Bavarian Crown Prince.His full title was His Royal Highness Rupprecht Maria Luitpold Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Duke of Bavaria, of Franconia and in Swabia, Count Palatine of the Rhine...
(1910 — Lambert, Germany) - Prinzessin Adolf zu Schaumburg-Lippe (1913 — Lambert, Germany)
- Prinzessin Hildegard von BayernPrincess Hildegard of BavariaPrincess Hildegard of Bavaria was the seventh child and fourth daughter of Ludwig I of Bavaria and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen....
(1914 — Lambert, Germany) - Prior M. Oberthau
- Professor Gnau (1928 — Tantau, Germany)
- Professor KnöllHans KnöllHans Knöll was a German physician and microbiologist. He was the director of the Central Institute of Microbiology and Experimental Therapy in Jena from 1953 to 1976, a member of the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic , and professor of bacteriology at the University of Jena...
(1964 — W Berger, German Democratic Republic) - Prolifera RedoutéPierre-Joseph RedoutéPierre-Joseph Redouté , was a Belgian painter and botanist, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison. He was nicknamed "The Raphael of flowers"....
(1824 — France) - ProsperoProsperoProspero is the protagonist in The Tempest, a play by William Shakespeare.- The Tempest :Prospero is the rightful Duke of Milan, who was put to sea on "a rotten carcass of a butt [boat]" to die by his usurping brother, Antonio, twelve years before the play begins. Prospero and Miranda survived,...
(1982 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Psyche (1899 — Paul, United Kingdom)
- PucciniGiacomo PucciniGiacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire...
(1984 — Lens, Belgium) - Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyPyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
(2000 — Meilland, France)
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- Queen AlexandraAlexandra of DenmarkAlexandra of Denmark was the wife of Edward VII of the United Kingdom...
(1918 — McGreedy, Ireland) - Queen CharlotteCharlotte of Mecklenburg-StrelitzCharlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was the Queen consort of the United Kingdom as the wife of King George III...
(1989 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Queen Elizabeth IElizabeth I of EnglandElizabeth I 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 dynasty...
(1800 — Du Pont, France) - Elizabeth II (1954 — Lammerts, USA)
- Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee (1978 — Cocker, United Kingdom)
- Queen Elizabeth II Ruby Anniversary (1993 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Queen Mother (1991 — Kordes, Germany)
- Queen NefertitiNefertitiNefertiti was the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. Nefertiti and her husband were known for a religious revolution, in which they started to worship one god only...
(1988 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Queen of DenmarkMarie Sophie of Hesse-Kasselthumb|Queen Marie Sophie portrayed by [[Cornelius Høyer]] Marie Sophie Frederikke of Hesse-Kassel was Queen Consort of Denmark and Norway. She also served as Regent of Denmark in 1814–1815.-Background:...
(1826 — Booth, Denmark) - Queen of SwedenQueen Silvia of Sweden|align=right|Queen Silvia of Sweden is the Queen consort of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. Styled Her Majesty The Queen, Silvia is the mother of the heir apparent to the throne, Crown Princess Victoria.-Childhood:Queen Silvia was born in Heidelberg, Germany, on 23 December 1943...
(2004 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Queen Victoria (1851 — Fontaine/A. Paul, United Kingdom)
- Queen Victoria (1872 — Labruyère/Schwartz, France)
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- Rabelais IIFrançois RabelaisFrançois Rabelais was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs...
(1997 — Meilland, France) - Rachel Crawshay (1977 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Raphael (III)RaphaelRaffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur...
(1856 — Robert, France). - RavelMaurice RavelJoseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
(1988 — Lens, Belgium) - Reba McEntireReba McEntireReba Nell McEntire is an American country music artist and actress. She began her career in the music industry as a high school student singing in the Kiowa High School band , on local radio shows with her siblings, and at rodeos. As a solo act, she was invited to perform at a rodeo in Oklahoma...
(1998 — McGredy, New Zealand) - Régine CrespinRégine CrespinRégine Crespin was a French singer who had a major international career in opera and on the concert stage between 1950 and 1989. She started her career singing roles in the dramatic soprano and spinto soprano repertoire, drawing particular acclaim singing Wagner and Strauss heroines...
(1990 — Delbard, France) - Rebecca Claire (1986 — Law, United Kingdom)
- Reichsgraf von KesselstattCounts of KesselstattThis page is about the title Count of Kesselstatt . The title is accompanied by the style of His Excellency; wives and daughters of Counts of Kesselstatt would be "Her Excellency Countess Forename of Kesselstatt". They are cousins of the Princely Family of Liechtenstein. Their historic seat is...
(1898 — Lambert, Germany) - Reichspräsident von HindenburgPaul von HindenburgPaul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg , known universally as Paul von Hindenburg was a Prussian-German field marshal, statesman, and politician, and served as the second President of Germany from 1925 to 1934....
(1933 — Lambert, Germany) - Regierungsrat Rottenberger (1926 — Praskac, Austria)
- Reine Olga de Wurttemberg (1881 — Nabonnand, France)
- Reine Victoria (1872 — Schwartz, France)
- Rembrandt (1883 — Moreau-Robert, France)
- Renata TebaldiRenata TebaldiRenata Tebaldi was an Italian lirico-spinto soprano popular in the post-war period...
(1989 — Delbard, France) - René André (1901 — Barbier, France)
- René d'Anjou (1853 — Robert, France)
- René GoscinnyRené GoscinnyRené Goscinny was a French comics editor and writer, who is best known for the comic book Astérix, which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo, and for his work on the comic series Lucky Luke with Morris and Iznogoud with Jean Tabary.-Early life:Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, to a family...
(2005 — Meilland, France) - Resi Bindseil (1913 — Lambert, Germany)
- Richard Elbel (1927 — Elbel, Germany)
- Richard WagnerRichard WagnerWilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
(1893 — Türke, Germany), - Rob RoyRobert Roy MacGregorRobert Roy MacGregor , usually known simply as Rob Roy or alternately Red MacGregor, was a famous Scottish folk hero and outlaw of the early 18th century, who is sometimes known as the Scottish Robin Hood. Rob Roy is anglicised from the Scottish Gaelic Raibeart Ruadh, or Red Robert...
(1971 — Cocker, United Kingdom) - Robert Bäßler (1905 — Hinner, Germany)
- Robert Betten (1920 — J.C. Schmidt, Germany)
- Robert FortuneRobert FortuneRobert Fortune was a Scottish botanist and traveller best known for introducing tea plants from China to India.-Travels and botanical introductions to Europe:Fortune was born in Kelloe, Berwickshire...
(1853 — Moreau & Robert, France) - Robert le DiableRobert the DevilRobert the Devil is a legend of medieval origin. Robert is the devil's own child, for his mother, despairing of heaven's aid in order to obtain a son, has addressed herself to the devil...
(Before 1837 — France) - Robin HoodRobin HoodRobin Hood was a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his "Merry Men". Traditionally, Robin Hood and his men are depicted wearing Lincoln green clothes....
(1927 — Pemberton, United Kingdom) - RodinAuguste RodinFrançois-Auguste-René Rodin , known as Auguste Rodin , was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past...
(1990 — Meilland, France) - Roger Lambelin (1890 — Schwartz, France)
- Roman HerzogRoman HerzogRoman Herzog is a German politician as a member of the Christian Democratic Union, and served as President of Germany from 1994 to 1999...
(1999 — Noack, Germany) - Ronald ReaganRonald ReaganRonald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
(2005 — Zary, USA) - RoncallCircus RoncalliCircus Roncalli is a German circus founded in 1976 by Bernhard Paul and André Heller. According to Bernhard Paul, the name was inspired by a film script of his fellow Austrian Peter Hajek, "Sarah Roncalli, Tochter des Mondes"...
(1997 — Noack, Germany) - RooseveltTheodore RooseveltTheodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...
(1922 — Lambert, Germany) - rosa moyesii (1894 — Hemsley/Wilson, Canada)
- Rose Benary (1908 — Lambert, Germany)
- Rosel Klemm (1904 — Hinner, Germany)
- Rosemarie Viaud (1924 — Igoult, France).
- Rosemary Foster (1997 — Foster, United Kingdom)
- Rosemary Harkness (1985 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Rosenpfarrer Meyer (1930 — Soupert, Luxembourg)
- Rosenprofessor Sieber (1997 — Kordes, Germany)
- Rosi MittermaierRosi MittermaierRosemarie "Rosi" Mittermaier-Neureuther is a former alpine ski racer. She won two gold medals and one silver at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, becoming the most successful athlete there along with Raisa Smetanina of Soviet Union, and earning her the nickname of Gold-Rosi within...
(1977 — Kordes, Germany) - Rosie O'DonnellRosie O'DonnellRoseann "Rosie" O'Donnell is an American stand-up comedian, actress, author and television personality. She has also been a magazine editor and continues to be a celebrity blogger, LGBT rights activist, television producer and collaborative partner in the LGBT family vacation company R Family...
(1998 — Winchell, USA) - Rosiériste Chauvry (1885 — Gonod, France)
- Rosomane Gravereaux (1899 — Soupert & Notting, Luxembourg)
- Roy BlackRoy BlackRoy Black may refer to:* Roy Black , U.S. criminal defense attorney and law professor* Roy Black , German singer and actor* Roy Turnbull Black, early 20th century U.S. chess player...
(1993 — Olesen, Denmark) - Royal William (1987 — Kordes, Germany)
- Rubens (1859 — Moreau-Robert, France)
- RübezahlRübezahlRübezahl is a folklore mountain spirit of the Giant Mountains , a mountain range along the border between the historical lands Bohemia and Silesia. He is the subject of many legends and fairy tales in German folklore.-Name:The origin of the name is not clear...
(1917 — Krüger, Germany) - RückertFriedrich RückertFriedrich Rückert was a German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages.-Biography:Rückert was born at Schweinfurt and was the eldest son of a lawyer. He was educated at the local Gymnasium and at the universities of Würzburg and Heidelberg. From 1816-1817, he worked on the editorial...
(1914 — Lambert, Germany) - Rudolf von Bennigsen (1932 — Lambert, Germany)
- RuskinJohn RuskinJohn Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political...
(18928 — Van Fleet, USA)
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- Saint Exupery (1961 — Delbard, France)
- Sally Holmes 1976 — Holmes, United Kingdom)
- Sally's Rose (1994 — Cants, United Kingdom)
- Samuel de ChamplainSamuel de ChamplainSamuel de Champlain , "The Father of New France", was a French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler. He founded New France and Quebec City on July 3, 1608....
Champlain — Canada - Samuel HollandSamuel HollandSamuel Johannes Holland was a Royal Engineer and first Surveyor General of British North America.-Life in the Netherlands:...
(1991 — Ogilvie, Canada) - Samuel PepysSamuel PepysSamuel Pepys FRS, MP, JP, was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man...
(1934 — Cant, United Kingdom) - Sankta RitaRita of CasciaSaint Rita of Cascia is an Italian Augustinian saint.-Early life:St. Rita was born at Roccaporena near Spoleto, Umbria, Italy....
(1922 — Alfons, Germany) - Santa Tereza d'AvilaTeresa of ÁvilaSaint Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, was a prominent Spanish mystic, Roman Catholic saint, Carmelite nun, and writer of the Counter Reformation, and theologian of contemplative life through mental prayer...
(1959 — Moreira da Silva, Portugal) - SantanaTelê SantanaTelê Santana da Silva, also known as Telê Santana , was a Brazilian football manager and former player...
(1985 — Tantau, Germany) - SapphoSapphoSappho was an Ancient Greek poet, born on the island of Lesbos. Later Greeks included her in the list of nine lyric poets. Her birth was sometime between 630 and 612 BC, and it is said that she died around 570 BC, but little is known for certain about her life...
(Before 1817 — France) - Sarah (1986 — Meilland, France)
- Sarah van Fleet (1926 — Van Fleet, (USA)
- Scarlett Queen Elizabeth (1963 — Dickson, United Kingdom)
- SchillerFriedrich SchillerJohann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life , Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
(1913 — Lambert), - SchneewittchenSnow White"Snow White" is a fairy tale known from many countries in Europe, the best known version being the German one collected by the Brothers Grimm...
(1901 — Lambert, Germany) - Schneewittchen ClimbingSnow White"Snow White" is a fairy tale known from many countries in Europe, the best known version being the German one collected by the Brothers Grimm...
(1970 — Kordes, Germany) - Schön Ingeborg (1921 — Kiese, Germany)
- Sebastian KneippSebastian KneippSebastian Kneipp was a Bavarian priest and one of the founders of the Naturopathic medicine movement...
(1997 — Kordes, Germany) - Sénateur Amic (1924 — Nabonnand, France)
- Senator Burda (1988 — Meilland, France)
- Sharifa Asma 1989 — Austin, United Kingdom)
- Sheila MacQueen (1994 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Sibelius (II)Jean SibeliusJean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. His mastery of the orchestra has been described as "prodigious."...
(1984 — Lens, Belgium) . - Signe RelanderLauri Kristian RelanderLauri Kristian Relander was the second President of Finland . A prominent member of the Agrarian League, he served as a member of Parliament, and as Speaker, before his election as President....
(1928 — Poulsen, Denmark) - Signora Piero Puricelli (1935 — Aicardi, Italy)
- Simone de Nanteuil (1925 — Schwartz, France)
- Sir Cedric MorrisCedric MorrisSir Cedric Lockwood Morris, 9th Baronet was a British artist, art teacher and plantsman. He was born in Swansea but worked mainly in East Anglia...
(1979 — Morris/Beales, United Kingdom) - Sir CloughClough Williams-EllisSir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis, CBE, MC was an English-born Welsh architect known chiefly as creator of the Italianate village of Portmeirion in North Wales.-Origins, education and early career:...
(1985 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Sir Edward ElgarEdward ElgarSir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...
(1982 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Sir Frederick AshtonFrederick AshtonSir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton OM, CH, CBE was a leading international dancer and choreographer. He is most noted as the founder choreographer of The Royal Ballet in London, but also worked as a director and choreographer of opera, film and theatre revues.-Early life:Ashton was born at...
(1985 — Beales, United Kingdom) - Sir Walter Raleigh (II)Walter RaleighSir Walter Raleigh was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is also well known for popularising tobacco in England....
(1985 — Austin, United Kingdom) - Sir Winston ChurchillWinston ChurchillSir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...
(1955 — Dickson, United Kingdom) - Sissel KyrkjebøSissel KyrkjebøSissel Kyrkjebø , also simply known as Sissel, is a Norwegian soprano.Sissel is considered one of the world's top crossover sopranos. Sissel's musical style runs the gamut from pop recordings and folk songs, to classical vocals and operatic arias...
(1969 — Bergen, Norway) - Soham RoseSoham murdersThe Soham murders was an English murder case in 2002 of two 10-year-old girls in the village of Soham, Cambridgeshire.The victims were Holly Marie Wells and Jessica Aimee Chapman...
(2003 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Sonia Meilland (1974 — Meilland, France)
- Sonia Meilove (2000 — Meilland, France)
- Sonia RykielSonia RykielSonia Rykiel née Flis is a French fashion designer.Ethnically a Polish-Romanian Jew, Sonia Rykiel was born in Neuilly a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, the eldest of five daughters of a Polish mother and a Romanian father. At the age of 17, she was employed to dress the window...
(1995 — Guillot-Massad, France) - Sophie de Marsilly (1863 — Moreau-Robert France)
- Soupert et NottingJean SoupertJean Soupert was a Luxembourg-born floriculturist, who specialized in breeding rose cultivars.In 1855, with a friend, Pierre Notting, he established the "Soupert & Notting" company specializing in growing roses in Limpertsberg. In 1857, Soupert married Anne Marie Notting, Pierre Notting’s sister...
(1867 — Pernet-Ducher, France) 1867 - Souvenir d'Adolphe de Charvoik (1911 — France)
- Souvenir d'Alphonse LavalléeAlphonse LavalléeAlphonse Lavallée is the founder of the École Centrale Paris, a French Grande École.He was born in 1791 in Savigné-l'Évêque . He became a businessman in the region of Nantes...
(1884 — Verdier, France) - Souvenir de Christophe Cochet (1894 — Cochet, France)
- Souvenir de Claudius PernetJoseph Pernet-DucherJoseph Pernet-Ducher was a French rosarian and hybridizer. Born near Lyon, the son of Jean Pernet, he was a third generation rose-grower. In 1879 he began his apprenticeship in the rose-breeding business with the Ducher nursery in Lyon...
(1920 — Pernet-Ducher, France) - Souvenir de George PernetJoseph Pernet-DucherJoseph Pernet-Ducher was a French rosarian and hybridizer. Born near Lyon, the son of Jean Pernet, he was a third generation rose-grower. In 1879 he began his apprenticeship in the rose-breeding business with the Ducher nursery in Lyon...
(1927 — Pernet-Ducher, France) - Souvenir de Jeanne Balandreau (1899 — Robichon, France)
- Souvenir de Julie Gonod 1871 — Gonod, France)
- Souvenir de la Reine d`Angleterre (1855 — Cochet, France)
- Souvenir de Labruyère (1885 — Gonod, France)
- Souvenir de Léon GambettaLéon GambettaLéon Gambetta was a French statesman prominent after the Franco-Prussian War.-Youth and education:He is said to have inherited his vigour and eloquence from his father, a Genovese grocer who had married a Frenchwoman named Massabie. At the age of fifteen, Gambetta lost the sight of his right eye...
(1883 — Gonod, France) - Souvenir de Louis Amade (2000 — Delbard, France)
- Souvenir de Madame Auguste Charles (1866 — Moreau-Robert, France)
- Souvenir de Madame Boullet (1921 — Pernet-Ducher, France)
- Souvenir de Madame Bruel (1889 — Levet, France)
- Souvenir de Madame de Corval 1867 — Gonod, France)
- Souvenir de Madame Hélène Lambert (1885 — Gonod, France)
- Souvenir de Madame Robert (1879 — Moreau-Robert, France)
- Souvenir de Madame H. Thuret (1922 — Texier, France)
- Souvenir de Marcel ProustMarcel ProustValentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental À la recherche du temps perdu...
(1993 — Delbard, France) - Souvenir de Philémon Cochet (1899 — Cochet, France)
- Souvenir de Pierre NottingPierre NottingPierre Notting was a Luxembourgian rosarian known for his breeding of rose cultivars.In 1855, in association with his friend Jean Soupert, he established the "Soupert & Notting" company specializing in growing roses in Limpertsberg...
(1902 — Soupert & Notting, Luxembourg) - Souvenir de Pierre VibertJean-Pierre VibertJean Pierre Vibert was a French rosarian.He first was an owner of a hardware store and served in Napoleon's army. His store was close to the rosarium of André Dupont in Chénevières-sur-Marne, where he gained interest in breeding roses...
(1867 — Moreau-Robert, France) - Souvenir de Victor HugoVictor HugoVictor-Marie Hugo was a Frenchpoet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France....
(1885 — Pernet, France) - Souvenir du Docteur Jamain (1865 — Lacharme, France)
- Souvenir du Président CarnotMarie François Sadi CarnotMarie François Sadi Carnot was a French statesman and the fourth president of the Third French Republic. He served as the President of France from 1887 until his assassination in 1894.-Early life:...
(1894 — Pernet-Ducher, France) - Souvenir du Président LincolnAbraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...
(1865—Moreau-Robert) - Souvenir du Rosiériste GonodJean-Marie GonodJean-Marie Gonod was a French rosarian.Jean-Marie Gonod was born on January 6, 1827 in Crottet, Ain department, France. He started working in 1843 as a gardener apprentice at the chateau of Beauregard, Ain, In 1846 he moved to Lyon to complete his skills at the gardens of M...
(1889 — Ducher, France) - St. AnneSaint AnneSaint Hanna of David's house and line, was the mother of the Virgin Mary and grandmother of Jesus Christ according to Christian and Islamic tradition. English Anne is derived from Greek rendering of her Hebrew name Hannah...
(Before 1919 — Campbell, Ireland) - St. BonifaceSaint BonifaceSaint Boniface , the Apostle of the Germans, born Winfrid, Wynfrith, or Wynfryth in the kingdom of Wessex, probably at Crediton , was a missionary who propagated Christianity in the Frankish Empire during the 8th century. He is the patron saint of Germany and the first archbishop of Mainz...
(1980 — Kordes, Germany) - St. BrunoBruno of CologneSaint Bruno of Cologne , the founder of the Carthusian Order, personally founded the order's first two communities...
(1985 — Hallows/Sealand, United Kingdom) - St. CeciliaSaint CeciliaSaint Cecilia is the patroness of musicians and Church music because as she was dying she sang to God. It is also written that as the musicians played at her wedding she "sang in her heart to the Lord". St. Cecilia was an only child. Her feast day is celebrated in the Roman Catholic, Anglican,...
(1987 — Austin, United Kingdom) - St. ChristopherSaint Christopher.Saint Christopher is a saint venerated by Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians, listed as a martyr killed in the reign of the 3rd century Roman Emperor Decius or alternatively under the Roman Emperor Maximinus II Dacian...
(1996 — Harkness, United Kingdom) - St. JohnJohn the ApostleJohn the Apostle, John the Apostle, John the Apostle, (Aramaic Yoħanna, (c. 6 - c. 100) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He was the son of Zebedee and Salome, and brother of James, another of the Twelve Apostles...
(1994 — Harkness, United Kingdom) - St. LuciaSaint LucySaint Lucy , also known as Saint Lucia, was a wealthy young Christian martyr who is venerated as a saint by Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, and Orthodox Christians. Her feast day in the West is 13 December; with a name derived from lux, lucis "light", she is the patron saint of those who are...
(1973 — Tantau, Germany) - St. NicholasSaint NicholasSaint Nicholas , also called Nikolaos of Myra, was a historic 4th-century saint and Greek Bishop of Myra . Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nikolaos the Wonderworker...
(1950, Hilling, United Kingdom) - St. PatrickSaint PatrickSaint Patrick was a Romano-Briton and Christian missionary, who is the most generally recognized patron saint of Ireland or the Apostle of Ireland, although Brigid of Kildare and Colmcille are also formally patron saints....
(1991 — Strickland, USA). - Simon FraserSimon Fraser (explorer)Simon Fraser was a fur trader and an explorer who charted much of what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia. Fraser was employed by the Montreal-based North West Company. By 1805, he had been put in charge of all the company's operations west of the Rocky Mountains...
Canada - St. Swithun (1993 — Austin, United Kingdom)
- Staatspräsident PätsKonstantin PätsKonstantin Päts VR I/1 and III/1 was the most influential politician of interwar Estonia. He was one of the first Estonians to become active in politics and started an almost 40-year political rivalry with Jaan Tõnisson, first through journalism with his newspaper Teataja, later through politics...
(1937 – Germany, Christoph Weigand) - Stadkassierer Wilhelm Liffa (1889 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Stadtrat F. Kähler (1905 — Geduldig, Austria-Hungary)
- Steffi GrafSteffi GrafSteffi Graf is a former World No. 1 German tennis player.In total, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24...
(1993 — Hetzel, Germany) - Stéphanie Charreton (1886 — Gonod, France)
- Studienrat Schlenz (1926 — Lambert)
- Sue Hipkin (1997 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Sue RyderSue Ryder, Baroness Ryder of WarsawMargaret Susan Cheshire, Baroness Ryder of Warsaw and Baroness Cheshire, CMG, OBE , best known as Sue Ryder, was a British volunteer with Special Operations Executive in the Second World War, who afterwards led many charitable organizations, notably the charity named in her honour.-Early...
(1983 — HarknessHarkness RosesHarkness Roses are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England.The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs...
, United Kingdom) - Susan HampshireSusan HampshireSusan Hampshire, Lady Kulukundis, OBE is an English actress, best-known for her many television and film roles.-Early life:Susan Hampshire was born in Kensington, London, the youngest of four children. She had two sisters and one brother...
(1974 — Paolino/Meilland, France) - Svaty VáclavWenceslaus I, Duke of BohemiaWenceslaus I , or Wenceslas I, was the duke of Bohemia from 921 until his assassination in 935, purportedly in a plot by his own brother, Boleslav the Cruel....
(1936 Berger, Czechoskovakia) - Sylvie VartanSylvie VartanSylvie Vartan is a French singer. She was one of the first rock girls in France. Vartan was the most productive and active of the yé-yé style artists, considered as the toughest-sounding of those. Her performance often featured elaborate show-dance choreography. She made many appearances on French...
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- Tania Verstak (1962 — Armbrust, Australia)
- TchaikovskiPyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
(1899 — Meilland, France) - Teresa Scarman (1996 — Ferguson/Scarman, United Kingdom)
- Tess of the d'UrbervillesTess of the d'UrbervillesTess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented, also known as Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Tess of the d'Urbervilles or just Tess, is a novel by Thomas Hardy, first published in 1891. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British...
(1998 — Austin, United Kingdom) - ThaliaThaliaThalia was the Muse who presided over comedy and idyllic poetry. In this context her name means "flourishing", because the praises in her songs flourish through time. She was the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne, the eighth-born of the nine Muses....
(1895 — Schmitt/Lambert, Germany) - Thalia RemontantThaliaThalia was the Muse who presided over comedy and idyllic poetry. In this context her name means "flourishing", because the praises in her songs flourish through time. She was the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne, the eighth-born of the nine Muses....
(1903 — Lambert, Germany) - Thalie La GentilleThaliaThalia was the Muse who presided over comedy and idyllic poetry. In this context her name means "flourishing", because the praises in her songs flourish through time. She was the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne, the eighth-born of the nine Muses....
(cca. 1800 — France) - The McCartney RosePaul McCartneySir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
(1991 — Meilland, France) - The MillerPhilip MillerPhilip Miller FRS was a Scottish botanist.Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1722 until he was pressured to retire shortly before his death...
(1970 — Austin, United Kingdom) - The Queen Alexandra RoseAlexandra of DenmarkAlexandra of Denmark was the wife of Edward VII of the United Kingdom...
(1918 — McGredy, Ireland) - Thelma BarlowThelma BarlowThelma Barlow is an English television actress and writer, most famous for her roles as Mavis Wilton in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street and as Dolly Bellfield in the sitcom Dinnerladies....
(2001 — Fryers, Cheshire) - Thérèse Bugnet (1950 — Bugnet, Canada)
- Therese Zeimet-Lambert (1923 — Lambert, Germany)
- Thisbe (1918 — Pemberton, United Kingdom)
- Thomas BartonTom BartonThomas Alfred Barton is an Australian politician. He was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1992 to 2006 as the member for Waterford....
(1988 — Meilland, France) - ThorThorIn Norse mythology, Thor is a hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, oak trees, strength, the protection of mankind, and also hallowing, healing, and fertility...
(1940 — Horvath, USA) - Tiergartendirektor Timm (1944 — Kordes, Germany)
- Till UhlenspiegelTill EulenspiegelTill Eulenspiegel was an impudent trickster figure originating in Middle Low German folklore. His tales were disseminated in popular printed editions narrating a string of lightly connected episodes that outlined his picaresque career, primarily in Germany, the Low Countries and France...
(1950 — Kordes, Germany). - Tinkerbell (1992 — Schuurman, Newzealand)
- Tino RossiTino RossiTino Rossi was a singer and film actor.Born Constantino Rossi in Ajaccio, Corsica, France, he became a tenor of French cabaret and one of the great romantic idols of his time. Gifted with an operatic voice, a "Latin Lover" persona made him a movie star as well...
(1990 — Meilland, France) - TitianTitianTiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576 better known as Titian was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near...
(1950 — Riethmüller, Australia) - Tom BrownTom Brown (actor)Thomas Brown was an American child model, and later a film and television actor....
(1964 — LeGrice, United Kingdom) - Tom Wood (1896 — Dickson, United Kingdom)
- Toulouse LautrecHenri de Toulouse-LautrecHenri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of fin de siècle Paris yielded an œuvre of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern...
(1994 — Meilland, France) - Tracey WickhamTracey WickhamTracey Lee Wickham MBE OAM is an Australian former middle distance world champion swimmer. Despite her success in the pool, Wickham has battled financial hardship and personal tragedy throughout her life....
(1984 — Welsh, Australien) - Trevor GriffithsTrevor GriffithsTrevor Griffiths is an English dramatist.Raised as a Roman Catholic, he attended Saint Bede's College, before being accepted into Manchester University in 1952 to read English...
(1994 — Austin, United Kingdom) - TroilusTroilusTroilus is a legendary character associated with the story of the Trojan War...
(1983 — Austin, United Kingdom) - TurenneHenri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de TurenneHenri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne,often called simply Turenne was the most illustrious member of the La Tour d'Auvergne family. He achieved military fame and became a Marshal of France...
(1846- Vibert, France),
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- UhlandLudwig UhlandJohann Ludwig Uhland , was a German poet, philologist and literary historian.-Biography:He was born in Tübingen, then Duchy of Württemberg, and studied jurisprudence at the university there, but also took an interest in medieval literature, especially old German and French poetry...
(1917 — Lambert), - Ulrich Brunner Fils (1882 — Levet, France)
- Uncle WalterWalter CronkiteWalter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years . During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll...
(1963 — McGredy, Ireland) - UndineOndine (mythology)Undines , also called ondines, are elementals, enumerated as the water elementals in works of alchemy by Paracelsus. They also appear in European folklore as fairy-like creatures; the name may be used interchangeably with those of other water spirits. Undines are said to be able to gain a soul by...
(1901 — Jacobs, Germany) - UrdhUrðrUrðr is one of the Norns in Norse mythology. Along with Verðandi and Skuld , Urðr makes up a trio of Norns that are described as deciding the fates of people...
(1930 — Tantau, Germany) - Uwe Seeler (1970 — Kordes, Germany)
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- Van ArteveldeJacob van ArteveldeJacob van Artevelde , also known as the Wise Man and the Brewer of Ghent, was a Flemish statesman and political leader....
(1847 — Parmentier, France) - Van GoghVincent van GoghVincent Willem van Gogh , and used Brabant dialect in his writing; it is therefore likely that he himself pronounced his name with a Brabant accent: , with a voiced V and palatalized G and gh. In France, where much of his work was produced, it is...
(1996 — Williams, USA). - Van HuysumJan van HuysumJan van Huysum, also spelled Huijsum, was a Dutch painter.-Biography:He was the brother of Jacob van Huysum, the son of the flower painter Justus van Huysum, and the grandson of Jan van Huysum I, who is said to have been expeditious in decorating doorways, screens and vases...
(1845 — Parmentier, France) - VenusVenus (mythology)Venus is a Roman goddess principally associated with love, beauty, sex,sexual seduction and fertility, who played a key role in many Roman religious festivals and myths...
(before 1817 — France) - VenusVenus (mythology)Venus is a Roman goddess principally associated with love, beauty, sex,sexual seduction and fertility, who played a key role in many Roman religious festivals and myths...
(1904 — Welter, Germany) - VerdiGiuseppe VerdiGiuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...
(1960 — Dorieux, France) - Verdi IIGiuseppe VerdiGiuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...
(1984 — Lens, Belgium) - Vick`s Caprice (1891 — Vick, USA)
- Vicomte Douglas 1871 — Gonod, France)
- Vicomtesse de Bernis (1884 — Nabonnand, France)
- Vicomtesse Decazes (1844 — Pradel, France)
- Vicomtesse Douglas 1862 — Gonod, France)
- Victor HugoVictor HugoVictor-Marie Hugo was a Frenchpoet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France....
(1884 — Schwartz, France) - Victor Parmentier (1847 — Parmentier, France)
- Vincente Peluffo (1902 — Lévêque, France)
- Violet Carson (1964 — McGredy, Ireland)
- Violette Bouyer (1881 — Lacharme, France)
- Virginia R. Coxe (1897 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary)
- Viscountess FolkestoneWilliam Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of RadnorWilliam Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor PC , styled Viscount Folkestone from 1869 to 1889, was a British Conservative politician...
(1886 — Bennett, United Kingdom) - Von HardenbergNovalisNovalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg , an author and philosopher of early German Romanticism.-Biography:...
(1915 — Lambert, Germany) - Von ScharnhorstGerhard von ScharnhorstGerhard Johann David Waitz von Scharnhorst was a general in Prussian service, Chief of the Prussian General Staff, noted for both his writings, his reforms of the Prussian army, and his leadership during the Napoleonic Wars....
(1921 — Lambert, Germany)
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- Weisse Cécile Brunner (1909 — Fauqué, France)
- Weisse Max Graf (1983 — Kordes, Germany)
- Wendy Cussons (1963 — Gregory, United Kingdom)
- WenzelWenceslaus I, Duke of BohemiaWenceslaus I , or Wenceslas I, was the duke of Bohemia from 921 until his assassination in 935, purportedly in a plot by his own brother, Boleslav the Cruel....
(1902 — Geschwind, Austria-Hungary) - Werner von Blon (1993 — Hetzel, Germany)
- WielandChristoph Martin WielandChristoph Martin Wieland was a German poet and writer.- Biography :He was born at Oberholzheim , which then belonged to the Free Imperial City of Biberach an der Riss in the south-east of the modern-day state of Baden-Württemberg...
(1916 — Lambert, Germany) - Wilhelm Frank (1910 — Welter, Germany)
- Wilhelm Hansmann (1955 — Kordes, Germany)
- Wilhelm KordesWilhelm KordesWilhelm Kordes I was a German horticulturist.His sons, the breeder Wilhelm Kordes II and Hermann Kordes continued to expand the business, now known as W. Kordes’ Söhne...
(1922 — Kordes, Germany) - Will Alderman (1949 — Skinner)
- Will ScarletWill ScarletWill Scarlet was a prominent member of Robin Hood's Merry Men. He was present in the earliest ballads along with Little John and Much the Miller's Son....
(1947 — Hilling, United Kingdom) - Willi Maass (1942 — Krause, Germany)
- William IIIWilliam III of EnglandWilliam III & II was a sovereign Prince of Orange of the House of Orange-Nassau by birth. From 1672 he governed as Stadtholder William III of Orange over Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel of the Dutch Republic. From 1689 he reigned as William III over England and Ireland...
- William Allen Richardson (1878 — Pernet-Ducher, France)
- William and MaryWilliam and MaryThe phrase William and Mary usually refers to the coregency over the Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, of King William III & II and Queen Mary II...
(1988 — Beales, United Kingdom) - William BaffinWilliam BaffinWilliam Baffin was an English navigator and explorer. Nothing is known of his early life, but it is conjectured that he was born in London of humble origin, and gradually raised himself by his diligence and perseverance...
- William BoothWilliam BoothWilliam Booth was a British Methodist preacher who founded The Salvation Army and became its first General...
- William ChristieWilliam Christie (musician)William Lincoln Christie is an American-born French conductor and harpsichordist. He is noted as a specialist in baroque repertoire and as the founder of the ensemble Les Arts Florissants....
(1999 — Guillot, France) - William Francis Bennett (1884 — Bennett, United Kingdom)
- William Grant (1915 — Schoener, Germany)
- William Jesse (1838 — Laffay, France)
- William LobbWilliam LobbWilliam Lobb was a Cornish plant collector, employed by Veitch Nurseries of Exeter, who was responsible for the commercial introduction to England of Araucaria araucana from Chile and the massive Sequoiadendron giganteum from North America.He and his brother, Thomas Lobb, were the first...
(1855 — Laffay, France) 1855 - William MorrisWilliam MorrisWilliam Morris 24 March 18343 October 1896 was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement...
(1998 — Austin, United Kingdom) - William ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
(1987 — Austin, United Kingdom) - William Shakespeare 2000 (2000 — Austin, United Kingdom) 2000
- WimiWilly MillowitschWilly Millowitsch was a German stage and TV actor and the director of the Volkstheater Millowitsch in Cologne.-Early life:...
(1983 — Tantau, Germany) - Wilona (Sievers, Germany)
- Wise PortiaPortia (Merchant of Venice)Portia is the heroine of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. A rich, beautiful, and intelligent heiress, she is bound by the lottery set forth in her father's will, which gives potential suitors the chance to choose between three caskets composed of gold, silver and lead...
(1982 — Austin, United Kingdom)
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- Yolande d'AragonYolande of AragonYolande of Aragon, , was a throne claimant and titular queen regnant of Aragon, titular queen consort of Naples, Duchess of Anjou, Countess of Provence, and regent of Provence during the minority of her son...
(1843- Vibert, France) - Youki San (1965 — Meilland, France)
- Ypsilanti (1821 — Vibert, France)
- Yves Piaget (1984 — Meilland, France)
- Yvette Scarman (1995)
- Yvonna (1995 — Sievers, Germany)
- Yvonne Rabier (1911 — Turbat, France)
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- ZenobiaZenobiaZenobia was a 3rd-century Queen of the Palmyrene Empire in Roman Syria. She led a famous revolt against the Roman Empire. The second wife of King Septimius Odaenathus, Zenobia became queen of the Palmyrene Empire following Odaenathus' death in 267...
(1892 — Paul, United Kingdom) - Zéphirine Drouhin (1868 — Bizot, France)
- Zhong Lei (2010 — Chengdu, China)
- Zoé (1830 — Vibert, France) 1830
- ZorinaVera ZorinaVera Zorina was a Norwegian ballerina, musical theatre actress and choreographer.-Background:Vera Zorina was born Eva Brigitta Hartwig in Berlin, Germany. Her father Fritz was a German and her mother Billie Hartwig was Norwegian. Both were professional singers...
(1963 — Boerner, USA)
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