Famous tourist attractions include the ancient castle, and the numerous architectural attractions in the city's center, including the cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Holy Trinity Church, the city hall building, and the numerous fortifications.

Famous for his oratory abilities, he was renowned for having an embarrassing speech impediment which earned him the affectionate nickname of Biffe. The nickname Biffe derived from the ancient Celtic word for fool from which we now take the word buffoon.

De viris illustribus, meaning " On Illustrious / Famous Men ", represents a trope of ancient Roman exemplary literature that was revived during the Italian Renaissance and inspired the assembly or commissioning of series of portraits of outstanding men — and sometimes, by the sixteenth century, of outstanding women as well — with a high didactic purpose.

Famous authors of works in Danish are existential philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, prolific fairy tale author Hans Christian Andersen, and playwright Ludvig Holberg.

Famous players such as Delio Onnis, Jean Tigana, Christian Dalger, David Ginola or Sébastien Squillaci have played for Sporting.

Famous people who visited and lived in Vernon include: Alexander Campbell, founder of the Christian Church and Bethany College ; Henry Ward Beecher came to Vernon early in the Civil War and made a plea for Lincoln and the Union at the Courthouse ; and Lord Flanigan, English nobleman, was a one time a citizen of Vernon.

Famous Christian preacher C. H.

Famous Texan musicians and groups include Bob Wills / Texas Playboys / Light Crust Doughboys, Milton Brown / Musical Brownies / Light Crust Doughboys, T-Bone Walker, Freddie King, Charlie Christian, Red Garland, Eddie Durham, Albert Collins, Blind Willie Johnson, Johnny Copeland, Z. Z.

Narrative of the Anabaptist Madness: The Overthrow of Münster, the Famous Metropolis of Westphalia ( Studies in the History of Christian Traditions ; 132 ), translated with introduction and notes by Christopher S. Mackay.

Famous players from the club include Álvaro Recoba, Ruben Sosa, Marcelo Zalayeta, Rubén Olivera, Adrian Dean, Rubén " Polillita " Da Silva, Javier Chevantón, Fabián Carini, Richard Núñez, Walter Gargano, Carlos Grossmuller, Ignacio María González, Edinson Cavani and Christian Stuani.

The champions have been depicted in Christian art and folklore as heroic warriors, most notably in a 1596 book by Richard Johnson titled Famous Historie of the Seaven Champions of Christendom.

Famous Pakistani Air Force pilot Cecil Chaudhry is a Pakistani Christian and was credited with numerous kills receiving the PAF awards for gallantry and bravery.

It has played host to a number of DVD & television special filmings including the MTV program 2 Dollar Bill for My Chemical Romance in September of 2006, comedian & actor Christian Finnegan's DVD / Comedy Central special " Au Contraire " in October 2008 and most recently, comedian and actor Michael Ian Black's DVD / Comedy Central special " Very Famous " in March 2011.

Famous novelists of the 20th century include Mohammed Dib, Albert Camus, Kateb Yacine and Ahlam Mosteghanemi while Assia Djebar is widely translated.

Famous ethnographies include The Nuer, by Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, and The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi, by Meyer Fortes ; well-known edited volumes include African Systems of Kinship and Marriage and African Political Systems.

Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.

" Famous Hopwood award winners include Robert Hayden, Marge Piercy, Arthur Miller, Betty Smith, Lawrence Kasdan, John Ciardi, Mary Gaitskill, Nancy Willard, Frank O ’ Hara, and Steve Hamilton.

Famous residents include Bill and Gloria Gaither, winners of five Grammys.

Famous examples include the War of the Roses, as well as the Jacobite Uprisings.

Famous residents of Burwash include Vincent Massey, Lester B. Pearson, Don Harron, and Donald Sutherland.

Famous concrete structures include the Burj Khalifa ( world's tallest building ), the Hoover Dam, the Panama Canal and the Roman Pantheon.

Famous formations from North America include the rich marine fossils of Kansas's Smoky Hill Chalk Member and the terrestrial fauna of the late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation.

Famous Football players from Fermanagh include Roy Carroll, Harry Chatton, Barry Owens and Kyle Lafferty.

Famous casuistic authors include Antonio Escobar y Mendoza, whose Summula casuum conscientiae ( 1627 ) enjoyed a great success, Thomas Sanchez, Vincenzo Filliucci ( Jesuit and penitentiary at St Peter's ), Antonino Diana, Paul Laymann ( Theologia Moralis, 1625 ), John Azor ( Institutiones Morales, 1600 ), Etienne Bauny, Louis Cellot, Valerius Reginaldus, Hermann Busembaum ( d. 1668 ), etc.

Famous Brâncuși works include the Sleeping Muse ( 1908 ), The Kiss ( 1908 ), Prometheus ( 1911 ), Mademoiselle Pogany ( 1913 ), The Newborn ( 1915 ), Bird in Space ( 1919 ) and The Column of the Infinite ( Coloana infinitului ), popularly known as The Endless Column ( 1938 ).

Famous cinéma vérité / direct cinema films include Les Raquetteurs, Showman, Salesman, Near Death, The Children Were Watching, and Grey Gardens.

Famous people who lived, worked or were born in Dachau include

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

Famous city artists include the portrait painters Sir Henry Raeburn, Sir David Wilkie and Allan Ramsay.

Series of this type include the Famous Five ( 21 novels, 1942 – 1963, based on four children and their dog ), the Five Find-Outers and Dog, ( 15 novels, 1943 – 1961, where five children regularly outwit the local police ) as well as The Secret Seven ( 15 novels, 1949 – 1963, a society of seven children who solve various mysteries ).

Examples include the Famous Five and Secret Seven, and the Adventure series.

Famous battles in France include Battle of Verdun ( spanning 10 months from 21 February to 18 December 1916 ), Battle of the Somme ( 1 July to 18 November 1916 ), and five separate conflicts called the Battle of Ypres

Famous London examples of inns include the George and the Tabard.

Famous players of the RGA guitars include Shaun Stonard of Assassins Of Arcadia.

Famous writers and composers who have created works about her include: William Shakespeare ( Henry VI, Part 1 ), Voltaire ( The Maid of Orleans ), Friedrich Schiller ( The Maid of Orleans ), Giuseppe Verdi ( Giovanna d ' Arco ), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( The Maid of Orleans ), Mark Twain ( Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc ), Arthur Honegger ( Jeanne d ' Arc au bûcher ), Jean Anouilh ( L ' Alouette ), Bertolt Brecht ( Saint Joan of the Stockyards ), George Bernard Shaw ( Saint Joan ), Maxwell Anderson ( Joan of Lorraine ), and Leonard Cohen ( Joan of Arc ).

Famous examples of his Suprematist works include Black Square ( 1915 ) and White on White ( 1918 ).

Famous London inns include The George, Southwark and The Tabard.

Famous cosmetic brands produced in France include Vichy, Yves Saint Laurent, Yves Rocher and many others.

Famous Hernians or Wanne-Eickelians include Jürgen von Manger, Kurt Edelhagen, Jürgen Marcus, Heinz Rühmann, Dr. Heinz Dieter Meyer, Tana Schanzara, Rudolf Witzig, Andrea Jürgens, Dr. Claudia Dollins ( Geier ), Yıldıray Baştürk, Jan Zweyer, Peavy Wagner, Leonie Saint and Bärbel Beuermann.

Among the famous personalities who hailed from Feni district are Famous saint Shah Syed Amir Uddin Pagla Miah / Baba ( RA ) who is regarded as founder of feni and sultanul awlia feni, Saint Mamu Fakir ( RA ), Begum Khaleda Zia ( former Prime Minister ), Sir A. F. Rahman ( the first Muslim Vice Chancellor of University, Dr. Mustafa Chowdhury ( former Public Service Commission Chairman ), Prof. Ahmed Shafee ( Vice-Chancellor of East West University ), Former Politician and Businessman Mowlana Abdul Wadud, Abdul Awal Mintu, Saber Hossen Chowdhury, Mosarraf Hossen, Economist Abu Ahammed, journalists

Famous as a preacher, theologian, and inquisitor, he earned himself the nickname ' the Soldier Saint ' when in 1456 at age 70 he led a crusade against the invading Ottoman Empire at the siege of Belgrade with the Hungarian military commander John Hunyadi.

Famous attractions in the city are the wide pineapple plantations, the cock farms, the Baroque Church of Saint William, the old Mascuvado Chimney, the Chameleon Butterfly Garden, the Amorotic caves of Brgy.

Famous temporary residents were Saint Nicodim Tismansky ( XIV-XV c .) and Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, a Serbian linguist and reformer of the Serbian language.