Moe Howard was an American comedian and actor best known for his role as the leader of one of the most popular farce comedy teams of all time, The Three Stooges. He appeared in several films as part of the comedy team and is credited with popularizing a distinctive hairstyle called a bowl cut.
![Dom DeLuise Dom DeLuise](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/dom-deluise-45364-1.jpg)
![Don Shula Don Shula](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/don-shula-3754-1.jpg)
![Diana Dors Diana Dors](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/diana-dors-1.jpg)
Diana Dors was an English singer and actress who became renowned as one of the most famous sex symbols of her generation in the UK. She achieved stardom, first as a blonde bombshell—who made headlines for organizing lavish parties—and later as a regular chat-show guest. Diana Dors’ life and career inspired a 1999 TV biographical film titled The Blonde Bombshell.
Rapper and bass guitarist Adam Yauch, better known by his pseudonym, “MCA,” was a founding member of the hip-hop and rap rock Beastie Boys. He also owned a film distributing company and was a practicing Buddhist who supported the Tibetan independence movement. He died of parotid cancer.
![Nettie Stevens Nettie Stevens](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/nettie-stevens-55041-1.jpg)
Nettie Stevens was an American geneticist. She is credited with discovering sex chromosomes which later came to be known as the X and Y chromosomes. In 1994, Nettie Stevens was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
![Paul Butterfield Paul Butterfield](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/paul-butterfield-1.jpg)
![George Enescu George Enescu](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/george-enescu-39005-1.jpg)
![Sada Thompson Sada Thompson](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/sada-thompson-1.jpg)
![Michael Taliferro Michael Taliferro](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/michael-taliferro-110012-1.jpg)
![Jigoro Kano Jigoro Kano](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/jigoro-kano-40967-1.jpg)
Legendary Japanese athlete Jigoro Kano is remembered as the founder of judo. A fine educator, he had also had a 23-year stint as the principal of 2 schools, which later became the University of Tsukuba. He was also the first Asian to be part of the International Olympic Committee.
![Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/edward-of-westminster-prince-of-wales-1.jpg)
![Ernie Harwell Ernie Harwell](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/ernie-harwell-1.jpg)
Milan Rastislav Štefánik was a Slovak politician, diplomat, aviator, and Freemason. He served as the minister of war for Czechoslovakia during World War I while simultaneously serving as a general in the French Army. He was a leading member of the Czechoslovak National Council and contributed to the cause of Czechoslovakian sovereignty. He died in a plane crash in 1919.
![Coxsone Dodd Coxsone Dodd](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/coxsone-dodd-1.jpg)
Coxsone Dodd was a Jamaican record producer best remembered for his influential role in the development of reggae and ska in the 1950s and 1960s. Coxsone Dodd is also credited with founding a record company named Worldisc in 1959. In 2002, the Institute of Jamaica honored him with the prestigious Gold Musgrave Medal for his contribution to Jamaican music.
![Elena Baltacha Elena Baltacha](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/elena-baltacha-25601-1.jpg)
Four-time winner of the AEGON Awards, Elena Baltacha was a Ukrainian-born British tennis player, who held the British No. I position for the first time at the age of nineteen. An unbelievable fighter, she continued to play despite her debilitating illness, winning matches almost till the very end, retiring from professional tennis five months before her death from liver cancer.
![Adnan Khairallah Adnan Khairallah](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/adnan-khairallah.jpg)
Adnan Khairallah was an Iraqi political leader who served as the Minister of Defence from 15 October 1977 until his death on 4 May 1989. Although he was Saddam Hussein's brother-in-law, Khairallah had a long-standing rift with Hussein, which led many to believe that Adnan Khairallah was killed under orders from Saddam Hussein. His death was officially labeled an accident.
![Tatiana Samoilova Tatiana Samoilova](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/tatiana-samoilova-1.jpg)
![Anna Maria van Schurman Anna Maria van Schurman](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/anna-maria-van-schurman-1.jpg)
![Valentino Mazzola Valentino Mazzola](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/valentino-mazzola-133594-1.jpg)
![Potter Palmer Potter Palmer](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/potter-palmer-1.jpg)
![Irvin McDowell Irvin McDowell](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/irvin-mcdowell-1.jpg)
Nobel Prize-winning chemist Edward Calvin Kendall is best known for his work on isolating thyroxine, or the thyroid hormone, and for crystallizing glutathione. He also revolutionized medical science by curing rheumatoid arthritis with cortisone, the steroid hormone he discovered. He was also associated with the Mayo Foundation and Princeton University.
![Olle Ljungström Olle Ljungström](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/olle-ljungstrm-100109-1.jpg)
![Isaac Barrow Isaac Barrow](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/isaac-barrow-24837-1.jpg)
![Maurice Ewing Maurice Ewing](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/maurice-ewing-1.jpg)
US geophysicist Maurice Ewing conducted path-breaking research on ocean basins and sediments, using seismic methods. Apart from teaching geology at Columbia University, he also served as the director of the Lamont Geological Observatory. A Fellow of the Royal Society, he also received the National Medal of Science, among other awards.
![Shūji Terayama Shūji Terayama](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/shji-terayama-1.jpg)
![Pope Eleutherius Pope Eleutherius](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/pope-eleutherius-1.jpg)
Pope Eleutherius, the bishop of Rome for around 15 years from 174 to 189 C.E, is revered as a Saint in the Catholic Church. He is known for his stance against the Montanist movement and the food decree that he issued. Also, as per a legend, it is believed that Lucius, the King of Britain, asked him to send missionaries.
![Pope Theodore I Pope Theodore I](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/pope-theodore-i-1.jpg)
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![E. Nesbit E. Nesbit](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/e-nesbit-53635-1.jpg)
![Rashidi Yekini Rashidi Yekini](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/rashidi-yekini-1.jpg)
Christian de Duve was an English-born Belgian cytologist and biochemist. For his discoveries of two cell organelles, peroxisome and lysosome, he shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Albert Claude and George E. Palade. He was the founder of the International Institute of Cellular and Molecular Pathology in Brussels, which was later renamed in his honor.
![Frances Nelson Frances Nelson](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/frances-nelson-1.jpg)
![Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/lorenzo-de-medici-duke-of-urbino-1.jpg)
![Géo André Géo André](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/geo-andre-120830-1.jpg)
![Vaska Ilieva Vaska Ilieva](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/vaska-ilieva-1.jpg)
![Eustace Budgell Eustace Budgell](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/eustace-budgell-1.jpg)
![Joseph Joubert Joseph Joubert](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/joseph-joubert-2008-1.jpg)
![Freddy Kottulinsky Freddy Kottulinsky](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/freddy-kottulinsky-1.jpg)
![Lee Miglin Lee Miglin](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/lee-miglin-119814-1.jpg)
![Mohammed Abdel Wahab Mohammed Abdel Wahab](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/mohammed-abdel-wahab-1.jpg)
![Laelius Socinus Laelius Socinus](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/laelius-socinus-1.jpg)
![Frederic Franklin Frederic Franklin](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/frederic-franklin-1.jpg)
Frederic Franklin was a British-American ballet dancer, director, and choreographer. Over the course of his illustrious career, Franklin made immense contributions to several popular ballet companies, such as The Royal Ballet, Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo, and the Markova-Dolin Ballet. Frederic Franklin also received prestigious awards like the Laurence Olivier Award, the Capezio Dance Award, and the Dance Magazine Award.
![Luis Taruc Luis Taruc](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/luis-taruc-1.jpg)
Philippine communist leader Luis Taruc was a major figure of the guerrilla movement named Hukbalahap and led its fight against the Japanese occupiers of the Philippines. Tried for terrorism, he was sentenced to a 12-year prison term but was later pardoned by President Ferdinand Marcos.
![Boris Borisovich Golitsyn Boris Borisovich Golitsyn](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/boris-borisovich-golitsyn-71612-1.jpg)
![Charles Tidwell Charles Tidwell](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/no-profile-img.jpg)