Famous People Collection (page 4)

Luise Rainer, (1910-), two time Academy Award winning film actress, 20th century
Luise Rainer, (1910-), two time Academy Award winning German born film actress, 20th century

Basil Rathbone, (1892-1967), English actor, 20th century. Rathbone is most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes and swashbuckler film villain roles

Merle Oberon, (1911-1979), film actress, 20th century

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, (1907-1989), Academy Award winning English actor and director
Laurence Olivier, Baron Olivier, (1907?1989), Academy Award winning English actor and director, 20th century

Maureen O?Sullivan, (1911-1998), Irish actress, 20th century

Mary Morris, (1915-1988), English actress, 20th century

Paul Muni, (1895-1967), Academy Award winning versatile actor, 20th century

Jeanette MacDonald, (1903-1965), singer and actress, 20th century
Jeanette MacDonald, (1903-1965), American singer and actress, 20th century

Barry Mackay, British actor, 20th century

Fredric March, (1897-1975), two time Academy Award winning American actor, 20th century

Raymond Hart Massey, (1896-1983), Canadian actor, 20th century

Richard Ewing Dick Powell, (1904-1963), American singer, actor, producer, and director, 20th century

Ray Milland, (1905-1986), Welsh actor and director, 20th century

Vivien Leigh, (1913-1967), English actress of the theatre and cinema, 20th century

Margaret Lockwood, (1916-1990), British actress, 20th century

Myrna Loy, (1905-1993), American motion picture actress, 20th century

Corinne Luchaire, (1921-1950), French actress, 20th century

Valerie Hobson, (1917-1998), British actress, 20th century. Valerie Hobson was a leading lady in the British cinema of the Thirties and Forties and achieved a second, unsought

George Formby, (1904-1961), British singer and comedian, 20th century
George Formby, (1904-1961), British singer, comedian and actor, 20th century

Allan Jones, (1907-1992), American actor and singer, 20th century

John Howard, (1913-1995), American actor, 20th century

Patric Knowles, (1911-1995), English born film actor, 20th century

Olivia de Havilland, (1916-), Japanese born American film actress, 20th century

Deanna Durbin, (1921-1999), singer and actress in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s, 20th century

Nelson Ackerman Eddy, (1901-1967), American singer and film actor, 20th century

Dame Gracie Fields, (1898-1979), English singer and comedian, 20th century

Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn, (1909-1959), Australian film actor, 20th century

Joan Crawford, (1905-1977), Academy Award winning American actress, 20th century

Bette Davis, (1908-1989), two-time Academy Award winning American actress, 20th century

Constance Campbell Bennett, (1904-1965), US actress, 20th century

Charles Boyer, (1899-1978), French actor, 20th century

Virginia Bruce, (1910-1982), American actress and singer, 20th century

Gary Cooper, (1901-1961), American film actor of British heritage, 20th century. Two-time Academy Award-winning American film actor of British heritage

Diana Churchill, (1913-1994), English film and stage actress, 20th century. She was a crisp, opulent blonde who appeared in several British films

Brian Aherne, (1902-1986), English film actor who found success in Hollywood, 20th century

Fred Astaire, (1899-1987), American film and Broadway stage dancer, actor, 20th century. Born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska, he became an American film and Broadway stage dancer

June Duprez, (1918-1984), British film actress, 20th century

Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, Cornish chemist and physicist, 19th century. Artist: J Jenkins
Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, Cornish chemist and physicist, 19th century. Davy (1778-1829) became famous for his discovery of sodium and potassium, and the invention of the miners safety-lamp

Autographs of Eminent Persons, 19th century. Signatures of famous Britons from an encyclopaedia: Sir Ralph Abercromby, soldier; J C Adams, astronomer; Roger Ascham, scholar; W Edmonstone Aytoun

Charlotte Bronte, English novelist, 1906. Charlotte (1816-1855), was the the eldest of the trio of Bronte sisters whose novels have become enduring classics of English literature

Edmund Cartwright, (1743-1823), British clergyman and inventor of the power loom, Artist: J Thomson
Edmund Cartwright, British clergyman and inventor of the power loom, 19th century. In 1785, Cartwright (1743-1823) invented the mechanical loom

Guiseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot, 19th century. Artist: W Holl
Guiseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot, 19th century. Leading his 1, 000 Red Shirts, Garibaldi (1807-1882) conquered Sicily and Naples

Jons Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist, 1830s. Berzelius (1779-1848) introduced modern chemical symbols. He discovered the elements selenium, thorium and cerium, and was first to isolate others

Oscar WiIde, Irish writer, wit and playwright, 1882. Artist: Napoleon Sarony
Oscar WiIde, Irish writer, wit and playwright, 1882. Wilde (1854-1900) was an exponent of art for arts sake. His best known novel is The Picture of Dorian Gray

Ernst Werner von Siemens 19th century German inventor and industrialist, (1900). Siemens (1816-1892) co-invented an electroplating process (1841) and also developed an electric dynamo

Prince Rupert, Royalist cavalry commander of the English Civil War, (19th century). Artist: J Cochran
Prince Rupert, Royalist cavalry commander of the English Civil War, (19th century). Rupert (1619-1682) was the third son of the Elector Palatine Frederick V and Elizabeth

Humphry Davy, English chemist, (1833). Artist: E Scriven
Humphry Davy, English chemist, (1833). Davy (1778-1829) discovered sodium and potassium, and the anaesthetic effects of laughing gas (nitrous oxide)

John Ray, English naturalist, (1833). Artist: H Mayer
John Ray, English naturalist, (1833). Ray was a pioneer of plant taxonomy. He toured Europe extensively, studying flora and fauna - his botanical work includes the study of some 18, 600 species

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