Mark Twain was a prominent American author of the 19th century.

Washington Irving, a prominent American writer with a European reputation, was approached by John Jacob Astor to mythologize the three-year reign of his Pacific Fur Company.

Lomax was the first prominent scholar to study distinctly American folk music such as that of cowboys and southern blacks.

During the past four hundred years, Virginia Dare has become a prominent figure in American myth and folklore, symbolizing different things to different groups of people.

He was a prominent contributor to the ABA book Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association.

In American film, the most prominent comic actors of the silent era were Charlie Chaplin ( although born in England, his success was principally in the U. S .), Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.

Other prominent Latin American composers are Leo Brouwer of Cuba, Antonio Lauro of Venezuela and Enrique Solares of Guatemala.

The most prominent leader to escape execution was Éamon de Valera, Commandant of the 3rd Battalion, who did so partly due to his American birth.

It won three Academy Awards, including his second for Best Writing ( Adapted Screenplay ) ( with Puzo ), Best Picture and Best Actor ( for Brando ) and a nomination for Best Director and was instrumental in cementing his position as a prominent American film director.

Lomax was the first prominent scholar to study distinctly American folk music such as that of cowboys and southern blacks.

American scholar David Bordwell has spoken against many prominent developments film theory since the 1970s, i. e., he uses the humorously derogatory term " SLAB theory " to refer to film studies based on the ideas of Saussure, Lacan, Althusser, and / or Barthes.

The prominent Nazi jurist Rudolf Klare argued for the moral superiority of harsh anti-homosexual Teutonic traditions ( such as Germany, England and American states ) over Latin countries ( such as France, Spain, Italy, and Poland ) which no longer punished homosexual acts.

The true forerunner of human rights discourse was the concept of natural rights which appeared as part of the medieval Natural law tradition that became prominent during the Enlightenment with such philosophers as John Locke, Francis Hutcheson, and Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, and featured prominently in the political discourse of the American Revolution and the French Revolution.

Under the terms of the will of Avery Hopwood, a prominent American dramatist and member of the Class of 1905 of The University of Michigan, one-fifth of Mr. Hopwood's estate was given to the Regents of the University for the encouragement of creative work in writing.

Rabbi Harold Samuel Kushner is a prominent American rabbi aligned with the progressive wing of Conservative Judaism, and a popular author.

Walter Dill Scott, who was elected President of the American Psychological Association ( APA ) in 1919, was arguably the most prominent I – O psychologist of his time, although James McKeen Cattell ( elected APA President in 1895 ) and Hugo Münsterberg ( 1898 ) were influential in the early development of the field.

Joseph Harold Greenberg ( May 28, 1915 – May 7, 2001 ) was a prominent American linguist, principally known for his work in two areas, linguistic typology and the genetic classification of languages.

References to MIT professors and other American computer scientists are prominent in Episode 11 of the series.

From this time his scientific studies dropped off, but he was a profound influence on the American branches of his two fields, teaching decades worth of future prominent scientists, including Alpheus Hyatt, David Starr Jordan, Joel Asaph Allen, Joseph Le Conte, Ernest Ingersoll, William James, Nathaniel Shaler, Samuel Hubbard Scudder, Alpheus Packard, and his son Alexander Agassiz, among others.

American anarchist Emma Goldman, prominent anarcha-feminist, free love and freethought activist

The most prominent proponents of logical positivism emigrated to the United Kingdom and the United States, where they influenced American philosophy considerably.

In 1971, she was included in a compilation of talks by prominent women, But the Women Rose, Vol. 2: Voices of Women in American History.

Each European capital had an ECA envoy, generally a prominent American businessman, who would advise on the process.

* Martin Luther King, Jr. ( 1929 – 1968 ), American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement

Frederick Warne & Co. had previously rejected the tale but, eager to compete in the booming small format children's book market, reconsidered and accepted the " bunny book " ( as the firm called it ) following the recommendation of their prominent children's book artist L. Leslie Brooke.

Summer would become the first well-known and most popular disco artist — eventually having the title " The Queen of Disco " bestowed upon her by various critics — and would also play a part in pioneering the electronic sound that later became a prominent element of disco.

Each issue is designed, in its entirety, by a prominent artist, one usually working outside his / her expected field.

Among the most prominent members were the loose collective of The Four: acclaimed architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, his wife the painter and glass artist Margaret MacDonald, her sister the artist Frances, and her husband, the artist and teacher Herbert MacNair.

is a Japanese manga artist and prominent film director and animator of many popular anime feature films.

In later years, when he was already a known artist, Friedensreich Hundertwasser became an environmental activist and most recently operated as a more prominent opponent of the European Union, advocating the preservation of regional peculiarities.

Roy Lichtenstein ( pronounced ; October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997 ) was a prominent American pop artist.

The prominent Disney artist Norm Ferguson owned an English Pointer.

A Y-shaped scar on Marsters's left eyebrow, received during a mugging, was worked into the show ; make-up artist Todd McIntosh decided to shave out his eyebrow in order to make it more prominent.

Crumb remains a prominent figure, as both artist and influence, within the alternative comics milieu.

Paul Hadley, a Mooresville resident, was the designer of the current Indiana flag, as well as a locally prominent water color artist in the early twentieth century.

Recent prominent musicians from Terre Haute include Dave Frey, lead singer of the Dove Award-winning band Sidewalk Prophets, and the band Yearbook Committee, a 2011 and 2012 showcasing artist at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas.

Another prominent artist who came from the German Expressionist " school " was Bremen-born Wolfgang Degenhardt.

Other prominent actors who played the famed martial artist include Jet Li in the series, Once Upon a Time in China.

Knight next formed an artist management company and signed prominent West Coast hip hop artists The D. O. C.

Brassai photographed many of his artist friends, including Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, and several of the prominent writers of his time, such as Jean Genet and Henri Michaux.

As the Tate puts it: " Chiaroscuro is generally only remarked upon when it is a particularly prominent feature of the work, usually when the artist is using extreme contrasts of light and shade ".

Other notable alumni include writers ( including Lord Byron, Sir Terence Rattigan and Richard Curtis ), numerous aristocrats ( including the current richest British subject, the Duke of Westminster and the prominent reformist Lord Shaftesbury ) and business people ( including DeBeers chairman Nicky Oppenheimer, Pret a Manger founder Julian Metcalfe ) and the big game hunter and artist General Douglas Hamilton, as well as Island Records founder Chris Blackwell.

Some prominent bass guitar players known for their use of slapping in their playing include Bootsy Collins ( solo artist ; Bootsy's Rubber Band, Funkadelic, Parliament, Praxis ), Flea ( Red Hot Chili Peppers ), Larry Graham ( Sly and the Family Stone, Graham Central Station ), Marcus Miller ( solo artist, Miles Davis, David Sanborn, Luther Vandross ), Louis Johnson ( The Brothers Johnson, Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson ), Nick Beggs ( Kajagoogoo ), Mark King ( Level 42 ), Mike Gordon ( Phish ), Les Claypool ( solo artist, Primus ), Fieldy ( Korn ), Jayen Varma ( solo artist ), Tetsuya ( L ' Arc-en-Ciel ).