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Erich Fromm 6.52

David Frost 6.53

Robert Frost 6.54

Christopher Fry 6.55

Roger Fry 6.56

R. Buckminster Fuller 6.57

Alfred Funke 6.58

Sir David Maxwell Fyfe 6.59

Will Fyffe 6.60

Rose Fyleman 6.61

G 7.0

Zsa Zsa Gabor (Sari Gabor) 7.1

Norman Gaff 7.2

Hugh Gaitskell 7.3

J. K. Galbraith 7.4

John Galsworthy 7.5

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson 7.6

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 7.7

Greta Garbo (Greta Lovisa Gustafsson) 7.8

Ed Gardner 7.9

John Nance Garner 7.10

Bamber Gascoigne 7.11

Noel Gay (Richard Moxon Armitage) 7.12

Noel Gay and Ralph Butler 7.13

Sir Eric Geddes 7.14

Bob Geldof 7.15

Bob Geldof and Midge Ure 7.16

King George V 7.17

Daniel George (Daniel George Bunting) 7.18

George Gershwin 7.19

Ira Gershwin 7.20

Stella Gibbons 7.21

Wolcott Gibbs 7.22

Kahlil Gibran 7.23

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 7.24

Andr� Gide 7.25

Eric Gill 7.26

Terry Gilliam 7.27

Penelope Gilliatt 7.28

Allen Ginsberg 7.29

George Gipp 7.30

Jean Giraudoux 7.31

George Glass 7.32

John A. Glover-Kind 7.33

Jean-Luc Godard 7.34

A. D. Godley 7.35

Joseph Goebbels 7.36

Hermann Goering 7.37

Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts (Benjamin Eisenberg) 7.38

Isaac Goldberg 7.39

William Golding 7.40

Emma Goldman 7.41

Barry Goldwater 7.42

Sam Goldwyn (Samuel Goldfish) 7.43

Paul Goodman 7.44

Mack Gordon 7.45

Stuart Gorrell 7.46

Sir Edmund Gosse 7.47

Lord Gowrie (2nd Earl of Gowrie) 7.48

Lew Grade (Baron Grade) 7.49

D. M. Graham 7.50

Harry Graham 7.51

Kenneth Grahame 7.52

Bernie Grant 7.53

Ethel Watts-Mumford Grant 7.54

Robert Graves 7.55

Hannah Green (Joanne Greenberg) 7.56

Graham Greene 7.57

Oswald Greene 7.58

Germaine Greer 7.59

Hubert Gregg 7.60

Joyce Grenfell 7.61

Julian Grenfell 7.62

Clifford Grey 7.63

Sir Edward Grey (Viscount Grey of Fallodon) 7.64

Mervyn Griffith-Jones 7.65

Leon Griffiths 7.66

Jo Grimond (Baron Grimond) 7.67

Philip Guedalla 7.68

R. Guidry 7.69

Texas Guinan (Mary Louise Cecilia Guinan) 7.70

Nubar Gulbenkian 7.71

Thom Gunn 7.72

Dorothy Frances Gurney 7.73

Woody Guthrie (Woodrow Wilson Guthrie) 7.74

H 8.0

Earl Haig 8.1

Lord Hailsham (Baron Hailsham, Quintin Hogg) 8.2

J. B. S. Haldane 8.3

H. R. Haldeman 8.4

Sir William Haley 8.5

Henry Hall 8.6

Sir Peter Hall 8.7

Margaret Halsey 8.8

Oscar Hammerstein II 8.9

Christopher Hampton 8.10

Learned Hand 8.11

Minnie Hanff 8.12

Brian Hanrahan 8.13

Otto Harbach 8.14

E. Y. 'Yip' Harburg 8.15

Gilbert Harding 8.16

Warren G. Harding 8.17

Godfrey Harold Hardy 8.18

Thomas Hardy 8.19

Maurice Evan Hare 8.20

Robertson Hare 8.21

W. F. Hargreaves 8.22

Lord Harlech (David Ormsby Gore) 8.23

Jimmy Harper, Will E. Haines, and Tommie Connor 8.24

Frank Harris (James Thomas Harris) 8.25

H. H. Harris 8.26

Lorenz Hart 8.27

Moss Hart and George Kaufman 8.28

L. P. Hartley 8.29

F. W. Harvey 8.30

Minnie Louise Haskins 8.31

Lord Haw-Haw 8.32

Ian Hay (John Hay Beith) 8.33

J. Milton Hayes 8.34

Lee Hazlewood 8.35

Denis Healey 8.36

Seamus Heaney 8.37

Edward Heath 8.38

Fred Heatherton 8.39

Robert A. Heinlein 8.40

Werner Heisenberg 8.41

Joseph Heller 8.42

Lillian Hellman 8.43

Sir Robert Helpmann 8.44

Ernest Hemingway 8.45

Arthur W. D. Henley 8.46

O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) 8.47

A. P. Herbert 8.48

Oliver Herford 8.49

Jerry Herman 8.50

June Hershey 8.51

Hermann Hesse 8.52

Gordon Hewart (Viscount Hewart) 8.53

Patricia Hewitt 8.54

Du Bose Heyward and Ira Gershwin 8.55

Sir Seymour Hicks 8.56

Jack Higgins (Henry Patterson) 8.57

Joe Hill 8.58

Pattie S. Hill 8.59

Sir Edmund Hillary 8.60

Fred Hillebrand 8.61

Lady Hillingdon 8.62

James Hilton 8.63

Alfred Hitchcock 8.64

Adolf Hitler 8.65

Ralph Hodgson 8.66

'Red' Hodgson 8.67

Eric Hoffer 8.68

Al Hoffman and Dick Manning 8.69

Gerard Hoffnung 8.70

Lancelot Hogben 8.71

Billie Holiday (Eleanor Fagan) and Arthur Herzog Jr. 8.72

Stanley Holloway 8.73

John H. Holmes 8.74

Lord Home (Baron Home of the Hirsel, formerly Sir Alec Douglas-Home) 8.75

Arthur Honegger 8.76

Herbert Hoover 8.77

Anthony Hope (Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins) 8.78

Bob Hope 8.79

Francis Hope 8.80

Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Nicolson) 8.81

Zilphia Horton 8.82

A. E. Housman 8.83

Sidney Howard 8.84

Elbert Hubbard 8.85

Frank McKinney ('Kin') Hubbard 8.86

L. Ron Hubbard 8.87

Howard Hughes Jr. 8.88

Jimmy Hughes and Frank Lake 8.89

Langston Hughes 8.90

Ted Hughes 8.91

Josephine Hull 8.92

Hubert Humphrey 8.93

Herman Hupfeld 8.94

Aldous Huxley 8.95

Sir Julian Huxley 8.96

I 9.0

Dolores Ibarruri ('La Pasionaria') 9.1

Henrik Ibsen 9.2

Harold L. Ickes 9.3

Eric Idle 9.4

Francis Iles (Anthony Berkeley Cox) 9.5

Ivan Illich 9.6

Charles Inge 9.7

William Ralph Inge (Dean Inge) 9.8

Eug�ne Ionesco 9.9

Weldon J. Irvine 9.10

Christopher Isherwood 9.11

J 10.0

Holbrook Jackson 10.1

Joe Jacobs 10.2

Mick Jagger and Keith Richard (Keith Richards) 10.3

Henry James 10.4

William James 10.5

Randall Jarrell 10.6

Douglas Jay 10.7

Sir James Jeans 10.8

Patrick Jenkin 10.9

Rt. Revd David Jenkins (Bishop of Durham) 10.10

Roy Jenkins (Baron Jenkins of Hillhead) 10.11

Paul Jennings 10.12

Jerome K. Jerome 10.13

William Jerome 10.14

C. E. M. Joad 10.15

Pope John XXIII (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli) 10.16

Lyndon Baines Johnson 10.17

Philander Chase Johnson 10.18

Philip Johnson 10.19

Hanns Johst 10.20

Al Jolson 10.21

James Jones 10.22

LeRoi Jones 10.23

Erica Jong 10.24

Janis Joplin 10.25

Sir Keith Joseph 10.26

James Joyce 10.27

William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) 10.28

Jack Judge and Harry Williams 10.29

Carl Gustav Jung 10.30

K 11.0

Pauline Kael 11.1

Franz Kafka 11.2

Gus Kahn and Raymond B. Egan 11.3

Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Arthur Sheekman, and Nat Perrin 11.4

George S. Kaufman 11.5

George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart 11.6

George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind 11.7

Gerald Kaufman 11.8

Paul Kaufman and Mike Anthony 11.9

Patrick Kavanagh 11.10

Ted Kavanagh 11.11

Helen Keller 11.12

Jaan Kenbrovin and John William Kellette 11.13

Florynce Kennedy 11.14

Jimmy Kennedy 11.15

Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr 11.16

Jimmy Kennedy and Hugh Williams (Will Grosz) 11.17

John F. Kennedy 11.18

Joseph P. Kennedy 11.19

Robert F. Kennedy 11.20

Jack Kerouac 11.21

Jean Kerr 11.22

Joseph Kesselring 11.23

John Maynard Keynes (Baron Keynes) 11.24

Nikita Khrushchev 11.25

Joyce Kilmer 11.26

Lord Kilmuir (Sir David Maxwell Fyfe) 11.27

Martin Luther King 11.28

Stoddard King 11.29

David Kingsley, Dennis Lyons, and Peter Lovell-Davis 11.30

Hugh Kingsmill (Hugh Kingsmill Lunn) 11.31

Neil Kinnock 11.32

Rudyard Kipling 11.33

Henry Kissinger 11.34

Fred Kitchen 11.35

Lord Kitchener 11.36

Paul Klee 11.37

Charles Knight and Kenneth Lyle 11.38

Frederick Knott 11.39

Monsignor Ronald Knox 11.40

Arthur Koestler 11.41

Jiddu Krishnamurti 11.42

Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster 11.43

Joseph Wood Krutch 11.44

Stanley Kubrick 11.45

Satish Kumar 11.46

L 12.0

Henry Labouchere 12.1

Fiorello La Guardia 12.2

R. D. Laing 12.3

Arthur J. Lamb 12.4

Constant Lambert 12.5

Giuseppe di Lampedusa 12.6

Sir Osbert Lancaster 12.7

Bert Lance 12.8

Andrew Lang 12.9

Julia Lang 12.10

Suzanne K. Langer 12.11

Ring Lardner 12.12

Philip Larkin 12.13

Sir Harry Lauder 12.14

Stan Laurel (Arthur Stanley Jefferson) 12.15

James Laver 12.16

Andrew Bonar Law 12.17

D. H. Lawrence 12.18

T. E. Lawrence 12.19

Sir Edmund Leach 12.20

Stephen Leacock 12.21

Timothy Leary 12.22

F. R. Leavis 12.23

Fran Lebowitz 12.24

Stanislaw Lec 12.25

John le Carr� (David John Moore Cornwell) 12.26

Le Corbusier (Charles �douard Jeanneret) 12.27

Harper Lee 12.28

Laurie Lee 12.29

Ernest Lehman 12.30

Tom Lehrer 12.31

Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller 12.32

Fred W. Leigh 12.33

Fred W. Leigh, Charles Collins, and Lily Morris 12.34

Fred W. Leigh and George Arthurs 12.35

Curtis E. LeMay 12.36

Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov) 12.37

John Lennon 12.38

John Lennon and Paul McCartney 12.39

Dan Leno (George Galvin) 12.40

Alan Jay Lerner 12.41

Doris Lessing 12.42

Winifred Mary Letts 12.43

Oscar Levant 12.44

Ros Levenstein 12.45

Viscount Leverhulme (William Hesketh Lever) 12.46

Ada Leverson 12.47

Bernard Levin 12.48

Claude L�vi-Strauss 12.49

Cecil Day Lewis 12.50

C. S. Lewis 12.51

John Spedan Lewis 12.52

Percy Wyndham Lewis 12.53

Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young 12.54

Sinclair Lewis 12.55

Robert Ley 12.56

Liberace (Wladziu Valentino Liberace) 12.57

Beatrice Lillie 12.58

R. M. Lindner 12.59

Audrey Erskine Lindop 12.60

Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse 12.61

Vachel Lindsay 12.62

Eric Linklater 12.63

Art Linkletter 12.64

Walter Lippmann 12.65

Joan Littlewood and Charles Chilton 12.66

Maxim Litvinov 12.67

Ken Livingstone 12.68

Richard Llewellyn (Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd) 12.69

Jack Llewelyn-Davies 12.70

David Lloyd George (Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor) 12.71

David Lodge 12.72

Frank Loesser 12.73

Jack London (John Griffith London) 12.74

Alice Roosevelt Longworth 12.75

Frederick Lonsdale 12.76

Anita Loos 12.77

Frederico Garc�a Lorca 12.78

Konrad Lorenz 12.79

Joe Louis 12.80

Terry Lovelock 12.81

Robert Loveman 12.82

David Low 12.83

Amy Lowell 12.84

Robert Lowell 12.85

L. S. Lowry 12.86

Malcolm Lowry 12.87

E. V. Lucas 12.88

George Lucas 12.89

Clare Booth Luce 12.90

Joanna Lumley 12.91

Sir Edwin Lutyens 12.92

Rosa Luxemburg 12.93

Lady Lytton (Pamela Frances Audrey, Countess of Lytton) 12.94

M 13.0

Alexander McArthur and H. Kingsley Long 13.1

Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht 13.2

General Douglas MacArthur 13.3

Dame Rose Macaulay 13.4

General Anthony McAuliffe 13.5

Sir Desmond MacCarthy 13.6

Joe McCarthy 13.7

Joseph McCarthy 13.8

Mary McCarthy 13.9

Paul McCartney 13.10

David McCord 13.11

Horace McCoy 13.12

John McCrae 13.13

Carson McCullers 13.14

Derek McCulloch 13.15

Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve) 13.16

Ramsay MacDonald 13.17

A. G. Macdonell 13.18

John McEnroe 13.19

Arthur McEwen 13.20

Roger McGough 13.21

Sir Ian MacGregor 13.22

Jimmy McGregor 13.23

Dennis McHarrie 13.24

Colin MacInnes 13.25

Claude McKay 13.26

Sir Compton Mackenzie 13.27

Joyce McKinney 13.28

Alexander Maclaren 13.29

Alistair Maclean 13.30

Archibald MacLeish 13.31

Irene Rutherford McLeod 13.32

Marshall McLuhan 13.33

Ed McMahon 13.34

Harold Macmillan (Lord Stockton) 13.35

Louis MacNeice 13.36

Salvador de Madariaga 13.37

Maurice Maeterlinck 13.38

John Gillespie Magee 13.39

Magnus Magnusson 13.40

Sir John Pentland Mahaffy 13.41

Gustav Mahler 13.42

Derek Mahon 13.43

Norman Mailer 13.44

Bernard Malamud 13.45

George Leigh Mallory 13.46

Andr� Malraux 13.47

Lord Mancroft (Baron Mancroft) 13.48

Winnie Mandela 13.49

Osip Mandelstam 13.50

Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles 13.51

Joseph L. Mankiewicz 13.52

Thomas Mann 13.53

Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp) 13.54

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