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--Frederick Oakeley (1802—1880)
English theologian and poet.

--Annie Oakley [Phoebe Anne Oakley Mozee]
(1860—1926) American sharpshooter.

--Captain Lawrence Oates (1880—1912)
English polar explorer.

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--Obadiah of Bertinoro (c.I450—c.1516)
Italian rabbi.
_Letters_ [1487—90]

--Conan O'Brien (1963— )
American TV personality.

--Flann O'Brien [Brian O'Nolan] (1911—1966)
Irish humorous writer.

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--Sean O'Casey (1880—1964)
Irish dramatist and memorist.

--Adolph S. Ochs (1858—1935)
Publisher of The New York Times.

--Phil Ochs (1940—1976)
American "protest" singer.

--Sandra Day O'Connor (1930— )
American lawyer, politician, and first woman to
become a United States Supreme Court justice [1981—2006].

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--Herbert O'Driscoll
Canadian Anglican Priest and author.
_A Doorway in Time_

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--Roger von Oech
American creativity and motivational speaker and author.

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--Jack O'Hagan (1898—1987)
Australian songwriter.

--John O'Hara (1905—1970)
American novelist and short-story writer.

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--Georgia O'Keeffe (1887—1986)
American artist.

--Dennis O'Kelly (c. 1720—1787)
Irish racehorse owner.

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--Margaret Oliphant (1828—1897)
Scottish novelist and historical writer.
_Miss Marjoribanks_ [1866]

--Olivares, Gaspar de Guzmαn y Pimentel (1587—1645)
Spanish prime minister [1623—1643].

--Vic Oliver (1898—1964)
Austrian-born English comedian, actor, and musician.

--Lord Laurence Olivier (1907—1989)
English actor and director.

--Frederick Law Olmsted (1822—1903)
Amrican landscape architect
and Calvert Vaux (1824—1895)
British architect.
(Together designed NYC's **Central Park)

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--Caliph Omar (581—644)
Muslim caliph.

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--Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929—1994)
Wife of President John F. Kennedy.

--Carlotta O'Neill (1888—1970)
Actress and third wife of Eugene O'Neill.

--Eugene O'Neill (1888—1953)
American and winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1936.
_Lazarus Laughed_ [1927]
_The Iceman Cometh_ [1939]

--Tatum O'Neal (1963— )
American film actress.

--William O'Neill (1930— )
American politician.

--Yoko Ono (1933— )
Japanese poet and songwriter.

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--James Oppenheim (1882—1932)
Poet and novelist.

--J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904—1967)
American physicist and the director of
the Manhattan Project.

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--Robert Orben (1927— )
American magician and comedy writer.

--P.J. O'Rourke (1947— )
American political satirist.
_Modern Manners_ [1983]
_The Bachelor Home Companion_ [1987]
_Holidays in Hell_ [1988]
_Parliament of Whores_ [1991]
_Eat the Rich_ [1998]
_The CEO of the Sofa_ [2001]

--George Orwell [Eric Blair] (1903—1950)
English novelist.
_The Road to Wigan Pier_ [1937]
_Animal Farm_ [1945]
_Nineteen Eighty-Four_ [1949]
_The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell_
ed. Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus [1968]

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--John Osborne (1929—1994)
English playwright.

--Sir William Osler (1849—1919)
Canadian-born physician.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Harvy Cushing _The Life of Sir William Osler_ [1925]

--Humphrey Osmond (1917—2004)
British psychiatrist.

--Maureen O'Sullivan (1911—1998)
Irish actress.

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--Peter O'Toole (1932— )
British actor.

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--Ouida [Maria Louise de la Ramιe] (1839—1908)
English novelist.

--Fulton Oursler (1893—1952)
American writer and editor.
_The Greatest Story Ever Told_

--Sir Thomas Overbury (1581?—1613)
English poet and essayist.
_An Affectate Traveller_ [1614]

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--Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 B.C.—18 A.D.)
Roman poet.
"Metamorphoses"
"The Art of Love" tr. Peter Green [1982]

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--John Owen (1616—1683)
English theologian.

--Robert Owen (1771—1858)
Welsh-born socialist reformer.

--Wilfred Owen (1893—1918)
English poet.

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--Amos Oz (1939— )
Israeli writer and journalist.

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--Jack Paar (1918—2004)
American radio and television talk show host.

--Patti Page [Clara Ann Fowler] (1927— )
American singer.

--Walter Hines Page (1855—1918)
American Ambassador to the Court of St James.

--Camille Paglia (1947— )
American writer and social critic.
_Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays_ [1992]

--Leroy "Satchel" Paige (1906—1982)
American baseball pitcher in both the Negro
Leagues and the Major League; inducted in
the Hall of Fame in 1971.
_How to Stay Young_ [1953]

--Albert Bigelow Paine (1861—1937)
American author and biographer.

--Thomas Paine [spelled Pane prior to 1774] (1737—1809)
English-American writer and political pamphleteer.
_Common Sense_ [1776]
_Rights of Man_ [1791]
_Age of Reason_ [1794]
_Dissertation on First Principles of Government_ [1795]
Biographies and/or related books about:
Craig Nelson _Thomas Paine_ [2006]
Harvey J. Kaye _Thomas Paine and the Promise of America_ [2006]

--Grace Paley (1922— )
American author.
"Enormous Changes at the Last Minute" [1960]

--William Paley (1743—1805)
English theologian and philosopher.
_Principles of Moral and Politcal Philosophy_ [1785]

--Arnold Palmer (1929— )
Professional American golfer, the first to win
the Masters Tournament four times and the
first to win $1,000,000 in tournament prize
money {EB}.

--George Herbert Palmer (1842—1933)
American educator, philosopher, and author.

--Lord Palmerston [Henry John Temple] (1784—1865)
British politician.

--Gwyneth Paltrow (1971— )
American film actress.

--Paracelsus [Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim] (1493—1541)
Swiss alchemist, physician, and astrologer.

--Dorothy Parker (1893—1967)
American critic and humorist.
_Enough Rope_ [1927]

--Joseph Parker (1830—1902)
English Nonconformist divine.

--Robert B. Parker (1932— )
American mystery writer.

--Ross Parker (1914—1974)
British songwriter who teamed with
Hughie Charles (1907-1995).

--Theodore Parker (1810-1860)
American minister of the Unitarian church.
_A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion_ [1842]

--C. Northcote Parkinson (1909—1993)
English writer.
_Parkinson's Law, or the Pursuit of Progress_ [1958]

--Cecil Parkinson (1931— )
British Conservative politician.

--Rosa Parks (1913—2005)
Figure in the American civil rights movement.
_Rosa Parks: My Story_ [1992]

--Matthew Parris (1949— )
British journalist and politician.

--Tony Parsons (1953— )
British critic and writer.

--Dolly Parton (1946— )
American country music singer.

--Blaise Pascal (1623—1662)
French mathematician, physicist, and moralist.
_Lettres Provinciales_ [1657]
_Pensιes_ [1670]

--John Rodrigo Dos Passos (1896—1970)
American novelist and artist.
"Americans Are Losing the Victory in Europe"
In _Life_ (magazine) [7 January 1946]

--Louis Pasteur (1822—1895)
French chemist and bacteriologist.

--Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson (1864—1941)
Australian author and poet "Waltzing Matilda."

--Alan Stewart Paton (1903—1988)
South African author.

--Sir Les Patterson
Fictitious Australian cultural attache,
created by Barry Humphries.

--George S. Patton, Jr. (1885—1945)
American general.
_War As I Knew It_ [1947]
Biographies and/or related books about:
Martin Blumenson _The Patton Papers 1940—1945_ [1974]

--Pope Paul VI [Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini]
(1897—1978) Pope [1963—1978].

--Cesare Pavese (1908—1950)
Italian novelist, poet, and translator.
_This Business of Living: Diaries, 1935—1950_

--John Howard Payne (1791—1852)
American actor, dramatist, and songwriter.

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--Thomas Love Peacock (1785—1866)
English satirist and author.

--Mervyn Peake (1911—1968)
British novelist, poet, and artist.
_The Glassblower_ [1950]

--Norman Vincent Peale (1898—1993)
American preacher and author.
_You Can If You Think You Can_

--Hesketh Pearson (1887—1964)
English actor and biographer.
_Dizzy, the Life and Personality of Benjamin Disraeli_
_Common Misquotations_ [1934]
_Bernard Shaw, His Life and Times_
_The Life of Oscar Wilde_ [1946]

--Lester B. Pearson (1897—1972)
Canadian prime minister [1963—1968].

--Maryon Pearson (1901—1991)
Wife of Lester Bowles Pearson
the 14th Prime Minister of Canada.

--Donald Culross Peattie (1898—1964)
American botanist and author.
_The Road of a Naturalist_ [1941]

--Scott Peck (1936—2005)
American author.
_The Road Less Traveled_ [1978]
_People of the Lie_ [1983]
_The Different Drum_ [1987]

--Westbrook Pegler (1884—1969)
American Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
and war correspondent.

--Charles Pιguy (1873—1914)
French poet and essayist.

--Leonard Peikoff (1933— )
Canadian-born American philosopher.
_The Philosophy of Objectivism_

-- Nancy Pelosi (1940— )
First woman Speaker of the United States
House of Representatives.

--William Penn (1644—1718)
Quaker leader and advocate of religious
freedom who oversaw the founding of
the American Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers
and other religious minorities of Europe {E.B.}.
_Some Fruits of Solitude_ [1693]

--Samuel Pepys (1633—1703)
English diarist and naval administrator.

--S.J. Perelman (1904—1979)
American humorist and author.
_Strictly from Hunger_

--Shimon Peres (1923— )
Israeli statesman.

--Pericles (495—429 B.C.)
Leader of Athens.

--George Clement Perkins (1839-1923)
American politician; governor of California [1880—1883];
U.S. Senator [1893-1915].

--Fritz Perls (1893—1970)
German-born psychologist.

--Eva Perσn (1919—1952)
Second wife of Argentine president Juan Perσn.

--Ross Perot (1930— )
American businessman, philanthropist, and independent
candidate for U.S. president in 1992 and 1996.

--Oliver Hazard Perry (1785—1819)
American naval officer.

--John J[oseph] Pershing [byname Black Jack]
(1860—1948) American general who commanded
the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in
Europe during World War I.

--Persius [Aulus Persius Flaccus] (34—64 A.D.)
Stoic poet.

--Max Perutz (1914—2002)
Austrian-born scientist.
_Is Science Necessary_ [1989]

--Peter of Blois (c.1135—c.1203)
French poet and diplomat.

--Irene Peter (1945— )
American writer.

--Laurence J. Peter (1919—1990)
Canadian teacher and author.
_The Peter Principle_ [1969]
_Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time_ [1977]
_Peter's Almanac_ [1982]

--Julia Peterkin (1880—1961)
American author.
_A Plantation Christmas_ [1934]

--Virgilia Peterson (1904—1966)
author, lecturer, and broadcaster.

--James L. Petigru (1789—1863)
American lawyer and politician.

--Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn (1792—1870)
French-Swiss lyric poet.

--Petrarch [Francesco Petrarca] (1304—1374)
Italian scholar, poet, and Humanist.

--Gaius Petronius Arbiter (?—AD 66)
Roman writer and senator.
_Satyricon_, 1st century AD

--Tom Petty (1950— )
American folk/rock musician.

--Nicholas Pevsner (1902—1983)
German-born English architectural historian.
_An Outline of European Architecture_ [1943]

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--Gaius Julius Phaedrus (c. 15 B.C.— c. 50 A.D.)
The versifier of Aesop's Fables in Latin.

--Edward John Phelps (1822—1900)
American lawyer and diplomat.

--William L. Phelps (1865—1943)
American educator, journalist, and man of letters.

--Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921— )
Consort of Queen Elizaberh II.

--Emo Phillips [Philip Soltanec] (1956— )
American comedian.

--Melanie Phillips (1951— )
British journalist.

--Sir Richard Phillips (1767—1840)
British author and publisher.
_A Morning's Walk from London to Kew_ (1817)

--Wendell Phillips (1811—1884)
American abolitionist and reformer.
_Speeches, Lectures, and Letters_ [1863]

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--Donn Piatt (1819—1891)
American journalist.
_Memories of the Men Who Saved the Union_ [1887]

--Pablo Picasso (1881—1973)
Spanish painter and sculptor.

--George Edward Pickett (1825—1875)
Confederate Army officer during the American Civil War.

--Mary Pickford [Gladys Mary Smith] (1894—1979)
Canadian-born American motion-picture actress.

--Waldo Pierce (1884—1970)
American painter.

--Marge Piercy (1936— )
American poet and novelist

--Frank R. Pierson (1925— )
American screenwriter

--Arthur Wing Pinero (1855—1934)
British playwright
_The Princess and the Butterfly_ [1896]

--Harold Pinter (1930— )
English playwright

--Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741—1821)
_Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson_ [4th ed. 1786]

--H. Beam Piper (1904—1964)
American science-fiction author.

--Daniel Pipes

--Luigi Pirandello (1867—1936)
Italian dramatist and novelist awarded the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934.
_Six Characters in Search of an Author_ [1921]

--William Pitt, the Elder, also called (from 1766)
1st Earl of Chatham (1708—1778)
British statesman, twice virtual prime minister
[1756—1761, 1766—1768].

--William Pitt, the Younger, (1759—1806)
British prime minister [1783—1801, 1804—1806]
during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.

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--Max Plank [Karl Ernst Ludwig] (1858—1947)
German theoretical physicist who originated
quantum theory; winner of the Nobel Prize
for Physics in 1918.
_The Philosophy of Physics_ [1936]

--Sylvia Plath [pseu. Victoria Lucas] (1932—1963)
American poet.

--Plato (427?—347 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.
_The Republic_, tr. Benjamin Jowett [1894]

--Titus Maccius Plautus (254—184 BC)
Roman comic dramatist.

--Sir Thomas Playford IV (1896—1981)
Premier of South Australia 1938-1965.

--George Plimpton (1927—2003)
American journalist, writer, and actor.

--Pliny the Elder [Gaius Plinius Secundus] (23—79)
Roman statesman and scholar.
_Natural History_

--Pliny the Younger or Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (62—c.115)
Roman senator and author of a famous collection of letters.

--Plotinus (205—270)
Greek philosopher.
_The Enneads_

--Plutarch (A.D. 46?—119?)
Greek philosopher and biographer.
_Parallel Lives_, Dryden edition [1693]

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--Edgar Allan Poe (1809—1849)
American poet and short-story writer.
_Marginalia_ [1844—1849]
"Annabel Lee" [1849]

--Jules Henri Poincarι (1854—1912)
French mathematician and philosopher of science.
_Science and Hypothsis_ [1903]

--Melchior de Polignac (1661—1742)
French Cardinal, diplomat, and writer.

--Stephen Pollard
Political columnist.

--Channing Pollack (1880—1946)
American playwright, dramatist, and critic.
"Mr. Moneypenny" [1928]

--Edward Pollock (1823—1858)
Poet.
_The Parting Hour_

--Robert Pollok (1799—1827)
Scottish poet.

--Marco Polo (c.1254—1324)
Venetian merchant, adventurer, and traveler.
_The Travels of Marco Polo_ [1298]

--Georges Pompidou (1911—1974)
French statesman.

--Lowell Ponte
Libertarian radio talk show host
_The Cooling_ [1976]

Pony Express

--Alexander Pope (1688—1744)
English poet.
_An Essay on Criticism_ [1711]
_The Rape of the Lock_ [1712]
_Letter to Fortescue_ [1725]
_Moral Essays_ [1731-1735]
_Essay on Man_ [1733]
_Imitations of Horace_ [1733—1738]
_An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot_ [1735]

--Saxton Temple Pope (1875—1926)
American hunter, author, and doctor.

--Karl Popper (1902—1994)
Austrian-born British philosopher of science.
_The Open Society and Its Enemies_ [1945]

--Antonio Porchia (1885—1968)
Italian poet.
_Voces_ [1943]

--Cole Porter (1892—1964)
American songwriter.
_Anything Goes_ [1934]

--Jane Porter (1776—1850)
Scottish novelist.

--Janet Street-Porter (b. 1946)
British broadcaster.

--William Sydney Porter - see O. Henry

--Emily Post (1873—1960)
American authority on social behavior.
_Etiquette_ [1922]

--Neil Postman (1931—2003)
American educator.
_Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business_ [1985]

--Beatrix Potter (1866—1943)
English author of children's books.
_The Tale of Peter Rabbit_ [1902]

--Dennis Potter (1935—1994)
English television dramatist.
_Seeing the Blossom_ [1994]

--Ezra Pound (1885—1972)
American expatriate poet and critic.

--Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (1908—1972)
American public official, pastor,
and prominent civil-rights leader.
_Keep the Faith, Baby!_ [1967]

--Anthony Powell (1905—2000)
English novelist.
_The Acceptance World_ [1955]

--Colin L. Powell (1937— )
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff [1989—1993]
and Secretary of State [2001—2005].
_My American Journey_ [1995]

--Enoch Powell (1912—1998)
British Conservative politician.

--John Joseph Powell (1925— )
_Unconditional Love_ [1978]

--Sir John Powell (1633—1696)
English jurist.

--William Powell (1892—1984)
American actor.

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--Winthrop Mackworth PraedDennis Prager (1948— )
American talk-show host.

--Terry Pratchett (1948— )
English science fiction writer.
_Small Gods_
_The Fifth Elephant_
_Lords and Ladies_ [1992]
_Feet of Clay_ [1996]
_The Light Fantastic_
_Men at Arms_
_The Colour of Magic_
_Wintersmith_ [2006]

--Hugh Prather
Motivational writer.

--Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (1714—1794)
English jurist.

--Antoine-Augustin Prιault (1809—1879)
French sculptor.

--George Dennison Prentice (1802—1870)
American journalist.
_Prenticeana_ [1860]

--Colonel William Prescott (1726—1795)

--Elvis Presley (1935—1977)
American singer.

--Vincent Price (1911—1993)
American film actor.

--J.B. [John Boynton] Priestley (1894—1984)
English novelist, playwright and critic.
_Apes and Angels_ [1928]
_Good Companions_ [1929]
_Outcries and Asides_ [1974]
_Thoughts in the Wilderness_

--Joseph Priestley (1733—1804)
English clergyman, political theorist, and scientist.

--Matthew Prior (1664—1721)
English poet.
_Hans Carvel_

--Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
British journalist.

--V S [Victor Sawdon] Pritchett (1900—1997)
British novelist and short-story writer.

Prohibition

--Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809—1865)
French social reformer.
_What Is Property?_ [1840]

--Marcel Proust (1871—1922)
French novelist.
_Remembrance of Things Past_ [1913-1927]

--William Jeffrey Prowse (1836—1870)
British poet.

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--Ptahhotpe
24th century B.C. philosopher.

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--Publilius Syrus (85—43 B.C.)
Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave.
_Maxims_
_Moral Sayings_, tr. Darius Lyman Jr., [1862]

--Joseph Pulitzer (1847—1911)
Hungarian-born American newpaper publisher.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Don Carlos Seitz _Joseph Pulitzer_ [1924]

--Lester Burwell "Chesty" Puller (1898—1971)
Marine officer, the most decorated Marine
in American history.

--Alexander Pushkin (1799—1837)
Russian poet.
"Eugene Onegin" [1833]

--Mario Puzo (1920— )
American novelist.
_The Godfather_ [1969]

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--Ernie Pyle (1900—1945)
American journalist, war correspondent.
and winner of a 1944 Pulitzer.
_Here is Your War_ [1943]
_Home Country_ [1947]

--Pyrrhus (c. 318—272 BC)
King of Epirus.

--Pythagoras (582—486 B.C.)
Ionian mathematician and philosopher.

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--Muammar Qaddafi (1942— )
Libyan leader [1970— ].

--Mary Quant (1934— )
English fashion designer.

--Francis Quarles (1592—1644)
English poet.

--Matthew Stanley Quay (1833—1904)
American politician.

--Dan Quayle (1947— )
Vice-President of the United States [1989—1993].

--Queen for a Day

--Anna Quindlen (1952— )
American writer.
_Thinking Out Loud_ [1994]

--Anthony Quinn [Antonio Quinones] (1915—2001)
Mexican-born American actor, author, and painter.

--Sally Quinn (1941— )
American journalist.

--Quintilian (c. 35—100)
Roman rhetorician.


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