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Hi and welcome! I love to read and listen about famous people, people who did something special and / or have been an example for us all. So I'm making pages for these great personalities here. Enjoy and have fun.

If you're looking for even more biographies and material about great people, here's my source for super audio books:

Biography Audio Books  

Short Funny Monologues

Short Funny Monologues -It's an art to be funny. With these short funny monologues on audio you will be able to emulate some of the greatest comedians and comics there are. Some of these short funny monologues are available for FREE: Very Best of BBC...

Ray Charles Biography

Ray Charles Biography (1930-2004)... we still miss you!!!! Ray Charles Robinson was born September. 23, 1930, in Albany, Georgia. Ray Charles died June 11, 2004 (At his home in Beverly Hills, California.He was 73) His parents were simple but hard worki...

Funny Free Monologues

Comic, funny monologues have become a standard element of entertainment routines on stage and television. Well delivered they can amuse large crowds. Famous comic monologuists include Dave Chappelle, George Carlin, Billy Connolly, Bill Cosby, Johnny...

Bob Dylan Biography

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman May 24, 1941, Duluth, Minnesota, USA) is widely regarded as America's greatest living popular songwriter. Bob Dylan and Sara Lowndes (married in 1965 and divorced in 1977) had four children together: Jesse, Anna...

Nelson Mandela

Mandela's words, "The struggle is my life," are not to be taken lightly. "I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all per...

Martin Luther King Biography

Martin Luther King won the Nobel Peace Prize 1964.  He did most probably more for the end of racial discriminaton than any other man. Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later changed...

Beatles Lyrics

As producer George Martin said recently: "I wouldn't have believed at the time that 40 years later I'd still be talking about the phenomenon of The Beatles." The Beatles are the greatest pop stars of the 20th century, if we measured it on pu...

Sarah Brightman

Sarah Brightman is an English classical soprano, actress and dancer.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci  (April 15, 1452 to May 2, 1519) , usually simply refered to as 'Leonardo da Vinci' was an exceptional artist, scientist and visionary who was way ahead of his time.

Isaac Newton Biography

Sir Isaac Newton, President of the Royal Society English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, and natural philosopher who is generally regarded as one of the greatest scientists and mathematicians in history. Born: 25 December 1642 in Wool...

Jimi Hendrix Biography

1942 - 1970: Guitarist, singer, and songwriter. November 27, 1942: Jimi Hendrix was born Johnny Allen Hendrix at Seattle's King County Hospital at 10:15 a.m. August 17, 1970: he died at the age of 27 in London (the day before he took some sleeping pi...

Hillary Clinton Biography

Hillary Diane Rodham was born on October 26, 1947 at Edgewater Hospital - Chicago - Illinois. She was raised in a Methodist family in Park Ridge, Illinois. During the 1992 presidential campaign, she observed : "Our lives are a mixture of different...

Jane Austen Biography

Jane Austen  1775-1817 Born : 16 December, 1775 in Steventon , near Basingstoke, Hampshire Died : 18 July, 1817 in Winchester, Hampshire. She was 41 years old. Buried :in Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire.Later her sister Cassandra Austen wrote :&qu...

Cleopatra Biography

Cleopatra Biography - Queen Cleopatra of Egypt Last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt.Born: 69 B.C. Birthplace: Egypt Died: 30 B.C. (Suicide, possibly by snake) Daughter of Ptolemy XII Auletes.  Cleopatra's mother was probably Auletes's sist...

Agatha Christie Biography

Agatha Christie 1890-1976 Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, England on September 15, 1890. She died peacefully at home on January 12, 1976 after a short cold. Agatha Christie  wrote also as Mary Westmacott. In 1914 she married Colone...

Benjamin Franklin Biography

Benjamin Franklin, Revolutionary War Figure / Inventor / Writer     * Born: 17 January 1706     * Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts     * Died: 17 April 1790 (pleurisy and old age)     * Best Kn...

Andrea Bocelli

Andrea Bocelli  is a blind polylingual Italian singer and tenor.

Winston Churchill Biography

Winston Churchill won The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953. He was born on 30 November 1874 at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire and he died on 24 January 1965 28 Hyde Park Gate, London He studied at  Harrow (1888) and Royal Military College, Sandhurst...

Marie Curie Biography

Marie Curie (née Maria Sklodowska) was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867. She died on July 4, 1934 in Sallanche, Savoy, France. 1903 : Won the Nobel Prize in Physics 1911 : Won her second Nobel Prize in Chemistry She discovered the mysterious...

Emily Dickinson Biography

Emily Dickinson Biography (1830 - 1886) With full name Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, Born on 10th December 1830 in Amherst, western Massachusetts, USA, in a house called the Homestead, built by her grandfather. This house was sold out of the familyin 183...

Elvis Presley Funeral

ELVIS PRESLEY GRACELAND. GRACELAND IN MEMPHIS. THE KING OF ROCK N ROLL Elvis Aron Presley Born 8 January 1935 Tupelo, Mississippi Elvis died 16 August 1977, in Graceland Memphis Tennessee. He was 42 years old Funeral August 18, 1977 at 2pm in Gracelan...

Biography Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar (13 July 100 - 15 March 44 BCE). Julius Caesar, Emperor, military leader, roman statesman, general and author, famous for the conquest of Gaul (modern France and Belgium). He changed the Roman republic into a monarchy and a truly M...

Mark Twain Biography

Mark Twain (1835-1910) - pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens American writer, journalist, and humorist.. Genre(s): Novels; humor/satire; short stories;plays; essays; letters. Birth: November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri, USA Death: April 21, 1910 in R...

Cecilia Bartoli

Cecilia Bartoli is an Italian opera singer and recitalist. She sings mezzo-soprano.

Jose Carreras

Jose Carreras is a Spanish operatic tenor.

Patricia Cornwell Biography

Born: 9 June 1956, Miami, Florida, United States Birth Name: Patricia Carroll Daniels Nickname: Patsy Father: Sam Daniels, appellate attorney Mother: Marilyn Daniels, secretary Brothers: Jim Daniels (1955) and John Daniels (1959) Husband: Charles Cornwell...

John F. Kennedy Biography

KENNEDY, John Fitzgerald, (1917 - 1963) 1917, May 29: Born in Brookline, Massachusetts 1963, November 22: Died in Dallas (shot to death by Lee Harvey Oswald) Father: The indomitable Joseph Kennedy (Was Ambassador to Great Britain 1937-1940) Mother: Rose...

Charles Darwin Biography

Charles Darwin (1809-1882) British naturalist who laid the foundations of the theory of evolution and transformed the way we think about the natural world. Darwin's "On The Origin Of Species By Means Of Natural Selection, or "The Preservation...

Biography of Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), the father of modern mystery. Edgar Poe was born on 19 January 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. He died on 7 October 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland. He is burried in an unmarked grave in the Old Westminster Burying Ground of Ba...

Thomas Jefferson Biography

  Thomas Jefferson  Third President of the United States 1743 - 1826 Born: April 13, 1743 in Shadwell in Albemarle county, Virginia. Died: July 4, 1826 in Monticello in Virginia on the 50tz anniversary of the Declaration of Independence...

John Adams Biography

John Adams (1735 - 1826) Member of the Continental Congress, diplomat, vice president and second president of the United States (1797-1801). Revolutionary War Figure. John Adams, son of Deacon John Adams and Susanna Boylston, was the fifth gener...

John Updike Biography

John Updike - Two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction Born: John Hoyer Updike March 18, 1932 in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. Spent his first years in nearby Shillington. Father: Wesley Russel Updike - High school science teacher. Mother: Linda Grac...

Abraham Lincoln Biography

He was the son of Thomas and  Nancy Hanks Lincoln, and he was named for his paternal grandfather. February 12, 1809 : Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Hardin (now Larue) County, Kentucky. April 14, 1865 : Ford Theater : At 10.13, he was shot in...

Biography Audio Books

Biography Audio Books (and Autobiography Books too...) are great! I love biographies, and often in biography audio books you can hear the person you learn about in the original voice, telling about his / her life, or a famous speech etc. Biography au...

Placido Domingo

Placido Domingo is an operatic tenor. He is considered as one of the most talented and hardest working musicians with a repertoire of over 120 different  music pieces.

William J. Clinton Biography

William Jefferson Clinton (better known under the name of Bill Clinton). 42nd president of the United States - 1993-2001. During his administration , the U.S. enjoyed more peace and economic well being than at any time in its history. He was the firs...

Charles Dickens Biography

Name: Charles Dickens Birthname: Charles John Huffam Dickens (early alias: Boz) Born: Friday, February 7, 1812, No. 1 Mile End Terrace, Landport,Portsmouth, Hampshire, England Died: Thursday, June 9, 1870 (stroke), Gadshill, England Burried: Poet's Corne...

Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama - His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, was born in 1935 to a peasant family in northeastern Tibet and was recognized at the age of two as the reincarnation of his predecessor, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama. The world's foremost Bud...

Michael Palin

MICHAEL PALIN is a scriptwriter, comedian, novelist, television presenter, actor and playwright. He established his reputation with Monty Python's Flying Circus and Ripping Yarns. His work also includes several famous films with Monty Python, as well...

John McCormack

John McCormack was an Irish tenor.

Ernest Hemingway Biography

Ernest Hemingway, Writer. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954.     * Born: 21 July 1899     * Birthplace: Oak Park, Illinois     * Died: 2 July 1961 (suicide)     * Best Known As: Famously manly...

Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma is an French-born American cellist.

Richard Tauber

Richard Tauber was an Austrian tenor.

Luciano Pavarotti

Luciano Pavarotti was an Italian tenor.

Biography Langston Hughes

 Biography Langston Hughes Born: February 1, 1902 Joplin, Missouri into an abolitionist family Died: May 22, 1967 of cancer Harlem, New York Poet, writer, playwright His residence at 20 East 127th Street in Harlem, New York has been given land...

Jimmy Carter Biography

Jimmy Carter ( full name James Earl Carter, Jr.) -  39th President of the United States -1977 - 1981. He was the first Georgian to be elected President and the first President elected from the deep South since 1848. The Nobel Peace Prize 2002 &quo...

Salvador Dali Biography

Famous surrealist Artist Salvador Dali born Salvador Felip Jacint Dali Domenech May 11, 1904: He was born as "Salvador Domenec Felip Jacint Dalí Domenech" (known as "Salvador Dali") in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain January 23...

Milarepa

Jetsun Milarepa - Milarepa was a Tibetan Buddhist renunciate who roamed the northern slopes of the Himalayas 900 years ago. The easy-going narrative is like a talking meditation, and takes the listener through the stages of his fascinating life, such...

Stephen King Biography

Stephen King Biography: Stephen Edwin King (born 21st September 1947) is an American author of over 200 stories including over 50 bestselling horror novels. King was the 2003 recipient of The National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contrib...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Biography

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American poet, educator, linguist Born: February 27, 1807, Portland, Maine Died: March 24, 1882, Cambridge, Massachusetts In London his marble image is seen in Westminster Abbey, in the Poet's Corner Father: Stephen Longfellow w...

Enrico Caruso

Enrico Caruso was an Italian opera singer and  tenor.

Ella Fitzgerald Biography

Ella Fitzgerald Jazz Singer Best known as: Jazz vocalist known for "scat singing" She is the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. She won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums. She worke...

Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus is a banker -and he is a banker with foresight and great social conscience. If you have heared of micro loans and Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, then you know already a little about this great man. Muhammad Yunus has received the 2006 Nob...

Emily Wilding Davison Biography

Emily Wilding Davison is one of the most famous of the Suffragettes. It was Emily Wilding Davison who threw herself under the king's horse at the Derby of 1913 thus making her mark in history. Emily Davison (1872 - 1913): Born: 11 October 1872 - Bla...

William Shakespeare Biography

William Shakespeare Biography - The life and work of The Bard: William Shakespeare is the most important writer in the English language. He still inspires and he still is good for literary discussions and interpretations. .