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| Actors |
Medals, decorations, awards, prizes |
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| Ancient Greece, Athens, Sparta, Macedon, Minoan, Mycenaean |
Medics post-17th-century |
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| Ancient Rome (including AD Empire), Etruria |
Middle Eastern and North African locations - Egyptians, Alexandrians, Carthage, Persia, Assyria, Israel, Cyrene, Halicarnassus, Babylonia, Byzantium, Armenia, Sicily, Syracuse |
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| Anthropologists, ethnologists, ethnographers, theorists |
Modern (16th-c on) philosophers, and others associated with the subject |
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| Aristocrats, noblemen/women, peers (hereditary), royal mistresses, counts, countesses, marquesses, earls, viscounts, regents, princes |
Monastic figures - abbots, abbesses, monks, nuns, priors, friars |
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| Army personalities - generals, field marshals, commanders-in-chief, marshals, officers, soldiers, conquistadors, knights, Indian chiefs, warriors, crusaders, surgeons |
Natural history personalities, biologists, naturalists, evolutionists, museum directors, geneticists, embryologists, microscopists, cytologists, taxonomists, photographers, natural history TV presenters (excludes those working only on humans) |
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| Astronomers, astrophysicists, origins of universe theorists, radio engineers |
Navy personalities - admirals, commanders, officers, seamen, sailors (not merchant seamen, explorers etc) |
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| Australia, Australian External Territories (later - classify into states) |
Netherlands, Aruba, Netherlands Antilles |
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| Austria |
Newspaper/magazine personalities - reporters, journalists, columnists, correspondents, editors, proprietors, reporters, publishers, magnates |
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| Barons, baronesses |
Novelists in general |
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| Belgium |
Operatic singers, directors, and other people involved (but not composers) |
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| Biographers |
Painters (breakdown later into portraits, frescoes, etc) |
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| Canada (later - classify into provinces) |
Personalities |
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| Chemists, including physical, industrial, agricultural, analytical, (in)organic (but not biochemistry) |
Personalities - architects, critics, writers, historians, preservationists, consultants |
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| Children's writers, folk-tale collectors, fables, fairy tales |
Personalities - drawers, illustrators, caricaturists, calligraphers, cartoonists, pastellists, graphic designers, publishers, poster designs |
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| China, Hong Kong |
Personalities - publishers, bookbinders, booksellers, dealers, collectors |
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| Cinema actors |
Personalities - sculptors, land artists, human sculptures |
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| Civil and human rights, topics and personalities - slavery, aboriginal, events |
Personalities - writers, critics, patrons, relatives |
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| (Classical) music theorists, critics, musicologists, teachers, administrators, editors, historians, publishers, festival founders, directors of conservatories |
Philanthropists, benefactors, patrons, fund-raisers, foundations |
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| Clergy, (arch)bishops, cardinals (but not popes), ministers, martyrs (other than saints), lay leaders and activists, prophets, writers |
Physicians of all kinds (GPs, neurologists, neuropathologists, gynaecologists, paediatricians, forensics) |
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| Composers (incl classical songs), hymn composers |
Poets (do later breakdown: classical, 20th, etc) |
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| Diplomats, viceroys, ambassadors, (international) secretaries-general, consuls, foreign administrators, high commissioners, colonial governors, (international) ministers, envoys, legates |
Poland |
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| Dramatists, librettists, musical lyricists |
Pop music, singers, groups, instrumentalists, disc jockeys, producers, song-writers, people involved in musicals and musical comedies, music halls (take out musicals) |
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| Economists, theorists, bankers, financiers, business forecasters, speculators, accountants, management consultants, efficiency experts, econometricians, arbitrageurs, industrial psychologists, investment analysts, stockbrokers, consumer activists |
Producers, directors, documentary makers |
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| Educationalists, founders / leaders of educational institutions, trainers, teachers, popularizers, reformers, creators of teaching systems |
Producers, directors, managers |
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| England, UK/GB royals, unspecified British |
Revolutionaries, rebels, reformers, anarchists, guerrillas, terrorists, assassins, conspirators, resistance workers, dissidents, activists, agitators, heroes, patriots, nationalist leaders, propagandists, spies, traitors, agents |
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| Engravers, lithographer, etchers, print-makers, inventors |
Rulers - monarchs, kings, queens (as rulers), emperors, khedives, emirs, amirs, sultans, caliphs, shoguns, tyrants (Greek), pharaohs, tsars, tsarinas, chieftains, electors, shahs, (ruling) princes, stadtholders |
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| Entertainers - comics, show/game hosts, presenters, commentators, documentary makers, newscasters, reporters, musicians |
Russia |
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| Entertainments - circus, show, puppets - and entertainers - comedians, song & dance, magicians, conjurors, performers, showmen, performance artists, escapologists, clowns |
Saints |
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| Essayists, documentary writers, letter-writers, literary autobiographers, memoirists, reviewers, rhetoricians, pamphleteers |
Scholars (unspecified), humanists, Renaissance men, intellectuals, polymaths, academics (unspecified), orientalists (etc), men of letters |
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| Exploration (geographical - not naturalists, antiquities)- explorers, conquistadors, navigators, polar explorers, circumnavigators, pioneers |
Scotland |
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| France, French Overseas Territories |
Short story writers |
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| France, Norman |
Singers, all types |
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| Germany |
Social, prison, temperance reformers (additional to social reformers are educational, legal, religious, land, linguistic, military, medical, political) |
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| Germany, Holy Roman Empire |
Spain (Balearic Islands, Canary Islands) |
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| Historians, chroniclers, memorialists (incl political/social/religious/legal, but not arts/science historians) |
Stage actors, mimes |
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| Immediate members of royal families, princes, princesses, queen/empress/prince consorts, dukes, duchesses, archdukes, lords (divide into dukes, counts, etc) |
Sweden |
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| India |
Switzerland |
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| Industrialists, businessmen/women, manufacturers, entrepreneurs, business heirs/heiresses, merchants and those employed by such* |
Technology personalities - engineers, builders, manufacturers, industrialists |
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| Instrumentalists (classical), electronic performers |
Theologians, apologists |
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| Inventors |
Translators, linguists (speakers of) |
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| Ireland |
UK prime ministers, ministers, statesmen, MPs, government officials, civil servants, etc (includes pre-Union personalities for England, Scotland, Wales, but not Ireland) |
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| Italy |
US political figures - presidents, vice-presidents, secretaries, senators, representatives, party leaders, public officials (incl. pre-Revolution colonial leaders), first ladies |
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| Jazz and folk music, singers, instrumentalists, composers, arrangers, critics, teachers, band leaders, club owners, song-writers |
United Kingdom (breakdown into countries later) |
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| Jewish personalities |
United States of America |
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| Judges, justices, Masters of the Rolls |
United States of America (incl American Revolution, Civil War, Vietnam War, War of 1812) |
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| Jurists, law professors, legislators, legal theorists, law-givers, legal scholars, legal philosophers, law reformers, legal writers, case personalities |
Women's rights, feminist personalities |
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| Language personalities - analysts, linguisticians, philologists, lexicographers, grammarians, phoneticians, philosophers, teachers, enthusiasts, inventors, technologists, pundits, reformers |
World War 2 events and personalities |
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| Lawyers, attornies, barristers |
World politicians and government officials outside US and UK (to be broken down further into main English-speaking nations, and maybe others, e.g. Nazis) |
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| Literary critics, editors, journalists (lit), historians, anthologists |
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| Mathematicians |
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