Authors published originally by Harper include Mark Twain, the Brontë sisters and William Makepeace Thackeray.

Burnand had a very large circle of friends and colleagues who included William Makepeace Thackeray, Mark Lemon and most writers, dramatists and actors of the day.

Richardson lived at Mortlake, and at about this time, became a member of " Our Club ", where he met Douglas Jerrold, William Makepeace Thackeray, William Hepworth Dixon, Mark Lemon, John Doran and George Cruikshank, of whose will he became an executor.

Mark Thackeray ( Sir Sidney Poitier ) is a West Indian, who in the 1967 film had taken teaching in a London East End school.

* Sidney Poitier as Mark Thackeray

Giovanni and Giacomo Tocci, from Locana, Italy, were immortalized in Mark Twain's short story " Those Extraordinary Twins " as fictitious twins Angelo and Luigi.

Nationwide's previous advertising campaign featured Mark Benton as a fictitious bank manager who was only interested in brand new customers, and not the existing ones.

Lennox Mark, the owner of The Daily Legion, was brought up in the ( fictitious ) African country of Zinariya, where he got to know, and was taught to distinguish right from wrong, by Father Vivyan, a man 15 years his senior.

* The DVD release of this story features a fictitious documentary, Global Conspiracy, starring Mark Gatiss as investigative reporter Terry Scanlon, following up the events surrounding the incident at Global Chemicals.

According to Hippolytus of Rome, John Mark is not Mark the Cousin of Barnabas, and Barnabas did not dispute with Paul because of personal favor to a blood relative, but due to his character as his nickname Barnabas (" Son of Encouragement ") indicates.

Similarly, while having several characters as students in a class taught by Henry Kissinger, the dialogue made up for Kissinger would also come from “ off-panel ” ( although Kissinger had earlier appeared as a character with his face shown in a 1972 series of strips in which he met Mark Slackmeyer while the latter was on a trip to Washington ).

* Mark Sisson, author of " The Primal Blueprint ", in which he uses a fictional character representation of a Paleolithic man named " Grok " to help illustrate the virtues and health benefits of following a Paleolithic lifestyle in the modern world

Mark Twain's humorous short story " Nevada Funeral " similarly has a character saying a series of euphemisms for death.

Works in which the character of Mark Antony plays a central role include:

* The HBO / BBC TV series Rome ( see Mark Antony ( character )) ( played by James Purefoy )

Mary, mother of John Mark is a character in the Bible.

The Doctor, an Emergency Medical Hologram Mark I ( or EMH for short ), is a fictional character from the television series Star Trek: Voyager, played by actor Robert Picardo.

Those works actually featuring Satan as a heroic character are fewer in number, but do exist ; George Bernard Shaw, and Mark Twain ( Letters from the Earth ) included such characterizations in their works long before religious Satanists took up the pen.

In Life on the Mississippi ( 1883 ), Mark Twain, on the other hand, satirized the impact of Scott's writings, declaring ( with humorous hyperbole ) that Scott " had so large a hand in making Southern character, as it existed before the

Aragonés had created the humorous barbarian comic book Groo the Wanderer with Mark Evanier in the late 1970s, but the character did not appear in print until 1982.

The origins of Unicode date back to 1987, when Joe Becker from Xerox and Lee Collins and Mark Davis from Apple started investigating the practicalities of creating a universal character set.

Mark Twain's novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has long been the subject of controversy for its racial content, including its use of the word " nigger " as applied to the escaped slave character Jim.

The character appeared on television several weeks later, animated by Nelvana Studios for The Star Wars Holiday Special ( 1978 ) as a mysterious figure who betrays Luke Skywalker ( voiced by Mark Hamill ) after saving him, Chewbacca, C-3PO ( voiced by Anthony Daniels ), and R2-D2 from a giant monster, only to be revealed as a bounty hunter working for Darth Vader.

Luke Skywalker is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the original film trilogy of the Star Wars franchise, where he is portrayed by Mark Hamill.

* Von Bach, a fictional superpowered character modeled after Milan Fras, appears in the DC comics graphic novel Kingdom Come, by Alex Ross and Mark Waid.

Mark Hughes Cobb of The Tuscaloosa News named him his favorite secondary character from the show.

Animator Mark Kirkland said that he usually lets pass through production off-model drawings of Moe because the character is so ugly that no one will notice.

* In Regular Show, the character Skips ( voiced by Mark Hamill ) is a Yeti.

In 1956, his Dr. Christian character made the transition to television, scripted by Gene Roddenberry, with Macdonald Carey as his nephew Dr. Mark Christian.

The character was developed by writer Mark Evanier, who has acknowledged basing his personality largely on that of the Looney Tunes character Henery Hawk.

The main character in an episode from the series's first season, " Portrait of Jocelyn ," is named Mark Halliday.

* Huckleberry Finn, the title character of the Mark Twain novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Four, or perhaps five men were chiefly concerned in the labour – the Earl of Balfour, the late Sir Mark Sykes, and Messrs. Weizmann and Sokolow, with perhaps Lord Rothschild as a figure in the background.

Financial backers included Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and possibly the British novelist Jeffrey Archer.

Other notable figures in the movement include Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan ( who together initiated the Great Books program at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland ), Mark Van Doren, Alexander Meiklejohn, and Sir Richard Livingstone, an English classicist with an American following.

* Sir Mark Evelyn Heath-Diplomat, British Ambassador to Chad ( 1975 – 1978 ), the first British Ambassador to Holy See ( 1982 – 1985 ) and Head of Protocol for the Hong Kong Government ( 1985 – 1988 ).

However, there were international protests particularly in Britain and the United States in 1903-04 spearheaded mainly by Edmund Dene Morel and British diplomat / Irish patriot Roger Casement, whose 1904 report on the Congo condemned the practice, as well as famous writers such as Mark Twain ( who wrote King Leopold's Soliloquy ) and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The children of HRH The Princess Royal and of HRH Princess Alexandra have no titles, because Mark Phillips and Sir Angus Ogilvy did not accept hereditary peerages upon marriage.

He was assisted in this task by Sir Robert Mark, who later became Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service, and Sir James Robertson, the then Chief Constable of Glasgow.

The principal source for the story is Plutarch's " Life of Mark Antony " from Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together, in the translation made by Sir Thomas North in 1579.

The film stars Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon, Mark Addy, Alan Tudyk, Rufus Sewell, Paul Bettany as Geoffrey Chaucer, and James Purefoy as Sir Thomas Colville / Edward, the Black Prince.

In 14th century Europe, squires William Thatcher ( Heath Ledger ), Roland ( Mark Addy ) and Wat ( Alan Tudyk ), discover their master, Sir Ector ( Nick Brimble ), has died with one final pass to complete to win a jousting tournament.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

It is alleged that there is a paper trail from him which implicates Sir Mark Thatcher, Lord Archer and Ely Calil ( a Lebanese-British oil trader ).

Their eldest son, Sir Mark Thatcher, became the 2nd Baronet upon his father's death in 2003.

On 15 September 1997, Sting joined Sir Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Sir Elton John, Phil Collins and Mark Knopfler at London's Royal Albert Hall for Music For Montserrat, a benefit concert for the Caribbean island that had recently been devastated by an eruption from a volcano.

He is perhaps best known for his portrayals of William Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love, Sir Robert Dudley in Elizabeth, Commisar Danilov in Enemy at the Gates, Martin Luther in Luther, Merlin in Camelot, and his portrayal of Mark Benford in the 2009 TV series FlashForward.

Earlier Prime Ministerial advisers had appeared from time to time in episodes of Yes Minister, including Daniel Moynihan as Daniel Hughes in " The Writing on the Wall " ( 1980 ) and Nigel Stock as Sir Mark Spencer in " Bed of Nails " ( 1982 ).

Other Merton alumni are Bodleian Library founder Thomas Bodley, the Oxford Calculators, Director-General of the BBC Mark Thompson and Sir Andrew Wiles who proved Fermat's Last Theorem.

** Sir Mark MacTaggart-Stewart, 1st Baronet

" Principal guest conductors in the 1970s and 80s included Sir Charles Mackerras ( 1977 – 79 ), Michael Gielen ( 1978 – 81 ), Günter Wand, Mark Elder ( 1982 – 85 ) and Peter Eötvös ( 1985 – 88 ).

There were brief appearances by Geoffrey Russell ( Sir Henry Thorpe ), Desmond Llewelyn ( Sir Charles Thorpe, father of Sir Henry ); Mark Eden ( Detective Chief Inspector Charles Parker, Wimsey's brother in law ), John Duttine ( Wally Pratt, bellringer ) and Kenneth Colley (" Potty " Peake, local resident )