Bob Holden...Governor of Missouri from 2001 to 2005
Bob Dylan--(born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, musician and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades.
Dylan Thomas...Welsh poet.
Thomas Clayton Wolfe--(October 3, 1900-September 15, 1938) was an important American novelist of the 20th century. He wrote four lengthy novels, plus many short stories, dramatic works, and novel fragments. He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodical, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing.
Thomas Alva Edison - (February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century.
Thomas Cook--(22 November 1808 - 18 July 1892) of Melbourne, Derbyshire, founded the travel agency that bears his name.
Captain James Cook, FRS, RN - (October 27, 1728 (O.S.) - February 14, 1779) was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer.
Captain James Tiberius Kirk - One of a number of Captains of the Star Ship Enterprise, who very boldly went where no man had gone before.
Kirk Douglas - (born December 9, 1916) is an American actor and film producer known for his gravelly voice and his recurring roles as the kinds of characters Douglas himself once described as "sons of bitches". He is also father to Hollywood actor and producer Michael Douglas.
William Orville Douglas --(October 16, 1898 - January 19, 1980) was a United States Supreme Court Associate Justice. As of 2006, with a term lasting thirty-six years, he remains the longest-serving justice in the history of the Court.
William James...1842 to 1910...Philosopher, psychologist and author of The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, The Will To Believe, Pragmatism: A New Name For Some Old Ways of Thinking and of course The Meaning of Truth: A Sequel To Pragmatism
James Buchanan Duke - (December 23, 1856 - October 10, 1925) was a U.S. tobacco and electric power industrialist
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington--(April 29, 1899 - May 24, 1974), also known simply as Duke, was an American jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader.
Edward Elgar. English composer.
Edward Woodward...d.o.b.-June 1,1930...British actor known in some parts as The Equalizer. "Do you understand me?" Also from Breaker Morant and the original (and far better) The Wicker Man
Re: FAMOUS PERSON GAME
Mame wrote:In this one, your famous person has to have one of the names in the entry above... and you have to indicate how they're famous...
EG: Henry Ford - Automobile Inventor
Francis FORD Coppola - Movie Director
By the by Mame, dearest...You neglected to adhere to your own directions regarding how this Kennedy chap of yours achieved his level of fame.
Re: FAMOUS PERSON GAME
Sturgis wrote:Mame wrote:In this one, your famous person has to have one of the names in the entry above... and you have to indicate how they're famous...
EG: Henry Ford - Automobile Inventor
Francis FORD Coppola - Movie Director
By the by Mame, dearest...You neglected to adhere to your own directions regarding how this Kennedy chap of yours achieved his level of fame.
senator
Chunky Woodward - department store owner
Sir Clive Woodward-- Director of Elite Performance for the British Olympic Association.
I thought Mame's "blah" quite summed up how Mr Kennedy became famous.
Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward--(born February 27, 1930) is an Emmy Award and Academy Award-winning American actress. Woodward, who is married to Paul Newman, is also a television and theatrical producer.
