Famed Arctic explorer, Admiral Sir William Edward Parry was appointed as Comptroller of Steam Machinery and Packet Service in April 1837.

Famed motorsports writer William Edgar and Hollywood director Andy Sidaris teamed with Garner for the racing documentary " The Racing Scene ," filmed in 1969 and released in 1970.

Famed fantasy writer Charles Beaumont contributed a handful of stories for Dell's funny animal comics early in his career, all done in collaboration with William F. Nolan

Famed attorney and liberal activist William M. Kunstler published a 1964 book titled The Minister and the Choir Singer, which he re-released with added editorial material in 1980 as The Hall-Mills Murders.

Famed French film director François Truffaut noted that early in the production, Chaplin said he would not play The Tramp in a sound film, and he considers the barber an entirely different character.

Famed for his resourcefulness that even Zhuge Liang was said to be wary of, Zhang He was considered by Chen Shou, author of the Records of the Three Kingdoms, to be one of the five elite generals of Cao Cao, along with Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, Yue Jin and Yu Jin.

" Abdul said that she reminded her of " a young Gladys Knight " after she performed the Garth Brooks song " Ain't Goin ' Down (' Til the Sun Comes Up )," Nickolas Ashford of famed soul duo Ashford & Simpson called her performance of " Ooo Baby Baby " by Smokey Robinson as " beautiful " and full of " sex appeal ," Famed film director Quentin Tarantino called her a " powerhouse " after her performance of " Somewhere " from the musical West Side Story, and Cowell announced her as " the best singer in the competition " after she sang " All the Time " by Barry Manilow and gave her " a ten out of ten " for her performance of " Don't Rain on My Parade ," which also garnered standing ovations from Abdul and Jackson.

Famed for his enormous strength, Dian Wei excelled in wielding dual halberds, each of which was said to weigh 40 jin.

Famed group Animal Collective had their beginnings in the suburbs surrounding Baltimore, and named their breakout 2009 album Merriweather Post Pavilion after the famed Pavilion in Columbia.

Famed Jewish jazz pianist Irving Fields was born Isadore Schwartz, taking the name Fields from his sister Peppy, who had borrowed the name in tribute to Gracie Fields.

Although it once had a population of nearly 200 people, it has been uninhabited since World War I. Famed for its slate, the island has been considerably denuded by its quarrying.

Famed horror director Tobe Hooper directed one episode, " Souls On Board ", and the series ' writers included Glen Morgan and James Wong ( also executive producers, with Brancato and Ferris ), who had previously written for shows including The X-Files and Millennium and created, produced and written for Space: Above and Beyond.

Famed photographer Napoleon Sarony filed a copyright infringement suit against the Burrow-Giles Lithographic Company, which had marketed unauthorized lithographs of Sarony's photograph of writer Oscar Wilde, entitled " Oscar Wilde No. 18.

Famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright had also once designed a comprehensive plan for the shoreline before it became hyper-industrialized.

Famed songwriter Kostas had a major role by writing three of the album's tunes, including " Timber, I'm Falling in Love " and " The Lonely Side of Love ", which peaked at No. 6.

Famed film critic Leonard Maltin remarked that Oates ' performance in this film was as good as any he'd seen and should have won the Oscar.

Famed Texas coach Darrell K. Royal called him " the finest two-way player I have ever seen.

Famed film historian Charles Musser wrote, " It is not too much to say that modern cinema began with the nickelodeons.

Famed Hollywood car customizer George Barris made two much more accurate replicas for the 1971 television series Bearcats !.

Famed as much for his great hands and line-breaking ability as his tactical skills and rapier boot, Gibson scored 112 Test points ( 9 tries, 16 penalties, 7 conversions and 6 drop goals ) for Ireland in a career that also saw him tour five times with the British & Irish Lions.

Famed paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren investigated the case and aided the Perron family in their fight against this demonic entity.

Famed cellist Pablo Casals took his instrument to the East Room of the White House yesterday and charmed the staff with a two-hour rehearsal.

Famed Western writer Max Brand contributed the novel, Destry Rides Again, but the film also owes its origins to Brand's serial " Twelve Peers ", published in a pulp-magazine.

Other Mexicans of Irish descent are: Romulo O ' Farril, Juan O ' Gorman, Edmundo O ' Gorman, Anthony Quinn, Alejo Bay ( Governor of the state of Sonora ), Famed Conductor Felix Carrasco, Guillermo Purcell a businessman, former Miss Mexico Judith Grace Gonzalez, among many others.

Famed psycho-anatomist Ralph Greenson and Sir Peter Scott were good friends.

* The Mackenzie Poltergeist ( 1998 ) – Famed for haunting Greyfriars churchyard, Edinburgh.

Famed " Gonzo " writer Hunter S. Thompson covered the game for Rolling Stone magazine, and his exploits in Houston are legendary.

Famed fictional gunslinger Morgan Kane was Roosevelt's bodyguard when Roosevelt was a general, and Kane worked as a Pinkerton special agent.

Famed writer Colette provided the libretto.

Famed artist Jacques le Moyne de Morgues joined Laudonnière on this colonizing effort and created the first known artistic depictions by a European of Native Americans in the New World, specifically the Timucua tribes in the modern-day areas of northeast Florida and southeast Georgia.

Famed for his red fez, his appearance was large and lumbering at and more than in weight.

* Famed Swedish director Ingmar Bergman directed the Bacchae three times: as an opera ( 1991 ) for the Royal Swedish Opera, as a TV-film ( 1993 ) for Sveriges Television and as a staged play ( 1996 ) for the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.

They received names Melaina (" the Black "), Kleodora (" Famed for her Gift "), and Daphnis (" Laurel "); however, in the page in the Corycian nymphs, the third sister is listed as Corycia.

Famed for its lotus blooms, recently controversy has sparked with mismanaged tourism development resulting in the massive die off of trees, and recent findings of pollution in the water.

Famed for its picturesque aspect, Ussé was the subject of a French railroad poster issued by the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans in the 1920s and was one of several that inspired Walt Disney in the creation of many of the Disney Castles.

Famed railroad engineer J. L. " Casey " Jones moved from Jackson, Tennessee to Water Valley in 1893.

Famed radio commentator Paul Harvey also resided in River Forest until his death in 2009.

Famed actress Virginia Mayo ( Virginia Clara Jones ) was a great, great granddaughter of Captain Piggott.

Famed World War II war correspondent Ernie Pyle was born on a tenant farm near Dana.

Famed authors such as Don DeLillo, Giannina Braschi, Gilbert Sorrentino, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gay Talese, John Fante Tina DeRosa, Daniela Gioseffi, Kim Addonizio and Dana Gioia have broken into mainstream American literature and publishing.

* Alexandria Grabowski ( b. 1990 ) Famed poet, nudist.