A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.

Sir Thomas More (; 7 February 14786 July 1535 ), known to Catholics as Saint Thomas More since 1935, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist.

On October 19, 2009, West Virginia State University dedicated a monument to the memory of noted African American educator and statesman Booker T. Washington.

Hanover County was the birthplace and home of noted American statesman Patrick Henry.

He was a noted statesman and the most famous member of the Cavendish family.

Theodorus was the grandfather of Theodore Frelinghuysen, the noted statesman, educator and running mate of presidential candidate Henry Clay on the Whig Party ticket in the 1844 election, and who is also credited as the inspiration for the township's name.

* Charles N. Haskell, noted lawyer, oilman, statesman, and the first governor of Oklahoma

Charles James Fox PC ( 24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806 ), styled The Honourable from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned thirty-eight years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and who was particularly noted for being the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger.

Clarence Seward Darrow ( April 18, 1857 – March 13, 1938 ) was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert " Bobby " Franks ( 1924 ) and defending John T. Scopes in the Scopes " Monkey " Trial ( 1925 ), in which he opposed William Jennings Bryan ( statesman, noted orator, and 3-time presidential candidate ).

It derived from Wellington in Somerset, and was created for Arthur Wellesley ( 1769 – 1852 ), the noted Anglo-Irish career British Army officer and statesman.

He was succeeded by his only son, George who became a noted Liberal statesman and cabinet minister and was created Marquess of Ripon.

He was a noted statesman and served as First Lord of the Admiralty, Secretary of State for the Southern Department, Secretary of State for the Northern Department and as Lord President of the Council.

The portrait of Liberty on the obverse was based on a Gilbert Stuart drawing of prominent Philadelphia socialite Ann Willing Bingham, wife of noted American statesman William Bingham.

The 2nd Marquess, better known as Lord Castlereagh ( he went by the courtesy title of Viscount Castlereagh from 1796 to 1821 ), was a noted statesman and diplomat.

He married Margaret Leslie, 8th Countess of Rothes ( d. 1700 ), daughter of the noted statesman John Leslie, 1st Duke of Rothes, who had received a re-grant of the earldom of Rothes in 1663 which allowed it to be passed on to his daughter ( see the Earl of Rothes for earlier history of this title ).

He was succeeded by his eldest son Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, the noted statesman.

A minute scrutiny of his papers, lasting nearly six weeks, revealed nothing treasonable ; but it provided the enemies of the fallen statesman with a deadly weapon against him in the shape of an entry in his private diary, in which he had imprudently noted that on one occasion Christian V in a conversation with a foreign ambassador had spoken like a child.

* Thomas More – English lawyer, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist.

He was also a third cousin of Henry Clay, the noted statesman from Kentucky.

His father John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley was a leading Liberal statesman in the government of William Ewart Gladstone and the family were noted landowners in Norfolk.

Booker T. Washington, noted African American educator and statesman, was instrumental in having the institution located in the Kanawha Valley.

On October 19, 2009, West Virginia State University dedicated a monument to the memory of noted African American educator and statesman Booker T. Washington.

Travel literature authors such as Fan Chengda ( 1126 – 1193 ) and Xu Xiake ( 1587 – 1641 ) incorporated a wealth of geographical and topographical information into their writing, while the ' daytrip essay ' Record of Stone Bell Mountain by the noted poet and statesman Su Shi ( 1037 – 1101 ) presented a philosophical and moral argument as its central purpose.

Although the FitzGeralds subsequently regained their land and titles, they did not regain their position at the English Court until the 18th century when Robert, the 19th Earl of Kildare, became a noted statesman.

In Essai de Cosmologie, Maupertuis noted:

The country is noted for its national park system, administered by SINAC ( Sistema Nacional de Areas de Conservacion, or " National System of Conservation Areas ").

Chagas named the pathogenic parasite as Trypanosoma cruzi and later that year as Schizotrypanum cruzi, both honoring Oswaldo Cruz, the noted Brazilian physician and epidemiologist who successfully fought epidemics of yellow fever, smallpox, and bubonic plague in Rio de Janeiro and other cities in the beginning of the 20th century.

Nicolas de Condorcet was especially noted for his advocacy, in his articles published in the Journal de la Société de 1789, and by publishing De l ' admission des femmes au droit de cité (" For the Admission to the Rights of Citizenship For Women ") in 1790.

de Klerk noted that he is of Dutch descent, with an Indian ancestor.

In the European Middle Ages, Hector figures as one of the Nine Worthies noted by Jacques de Longuyon, known not only for his courage but also for his noble and courtly nature.

* David Harvey ( born 1935 ), world's most cited academic geographer and winner of the Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud, also noted for his work in critical geography and critique of global capitalism.

Hernando de Alarcón, a Spanish navigator of the 16th century, noted for having led an early expedition to the Baja California peninsula, meant to be coordinated with Francisco Vasquéz de Coronado's overland expedition, and for penetrating the lower Colorado River, perhaps as far as the modern California-Arizona boundary.

The documentary also noted that Holt was suffering a shoulder injury and had been advised by his physician Marcus de Laune Faunce not to play tennis or swim-advice that Holt ignored on both counts.

There may be some confusion here, however, in that Guy's son, Guy de Laval V, was also married to an Emma who described herself as the daughter of Reginald de Dunstanville, Earl of Cornwall, who was an illegitimate son of Henry I as noted below.

The existence of angular unconformities had been noted by Nicolas Steno and by French geologists including Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, who interpreted them in terms of Neptunism as " primary formations ".

Sartre has also been noted for his relationship with the prominent feminist theorist Simone de Beauvoir.

In 1929 at the École Normale, he met Simone de Beauvoir, who studied at the Sorbonne and later went on to become a noted philosopher, writer, and feminist.

The authors noted most for establishing the English mercantilist system include Gerard de Malynes and Thomas Mun, who first articulated the Elizabethan System, which in turn was then developed further by Josiah Child.

Flutes and whistles made of wood, cane, or bone are also played, generally by individuals, but in former times also by large ensembles ( as noted by Spanish conquistador de Soto ).

The 15th-century trees of Olivo della Linza located in Alliste province of Lecce in Puglia were noted by Bishop Ludovico de Pennis during his pastoral visit to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nardò-Gallipoli in 1452.

He is noted in history for laying the foundation stone for the Notre Dame de Paris.

After the death of Reclus as well as the main proponents of Le Play's ideas, and with Émile Durkheim turning away from his early concept of social morphology, Paul Vidal de la Blache, who noted that geography " is a science of places and not a science of men ", remained the most influential figure of French geography.

The Chinese scholar A ' de noted this was because the Lotus Sutra says Avalokitesvara takes on the visage of whatever being that would best help pervade the dharma.