Famous natives of Leeuwarden include stadtholder William IV of Orange, graphic artist M. C. Escher, and dancer-spy Mata Hari, as well as the theologian Dr. N. H. Gootjes.

Famous residents and natives include Pat Sajak, host of Wheel of Fortune, and Major League Baseball players Mark Teixeira, Josh Banks, and Gavin Floyd.

Other Famous Newport natives include Jonathan Clay, a Purple Heart and Bronze Star with Valor winner from Afghanistan.

Famous natives of Columbia include James K. Polk, Governor, Congressman, Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives and eleventh President of the United States ; A. O. P.

Famous natives of Almería include Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso, who in 1873 was the third president of the First Spanish Republic, and several musicians, like the popular folk singer Manolo Escobar, renowned Flamenco guitar player José Tomás " Tomatito " and Grammy Award winner David Bisbal, record-breaking album seller in America and Spain.

Famous natives of the area include Cliff Hanley, the lyricist of Scotland's anthem Scotland the Brave, world-renowned plastic surgeon, Dr. Ian Jackson, and Charles Wilson, former editor of The Times, Junior Campbell, ( musician ) with sixties band The Marmalade, ( and, composer of the music for Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends ), all of whom attended the local school Eastbank Academy.

Famous natives of the province of Ancona include the painter Gentile da Fabriano, born in Fabriano ; writer Rafael Sabatini ( Jesi ); composer Gaspare Spontini, born in Maiolati, now named after him Maiolati Spontini ; composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi ( Jesi ); mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra ( Ancona ); Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor ( Jesi ); footballer Roberto Mancini ( Jesi ); Pope Leo XII ( Genga, although a minority opinion holds he was born in the Umbrian town of Spoleto ); Pope Pius IX ( Senigallia ); Maria Montessori ( Chiaravalle ), and actress Virna Lisi ( Jesi ).

see also: Famous Jewish natives of Ponevezh

She has also performed live on Parliament Hill in 1997 for the Canada Day celebration ; and on October 18, 2000 Crystal sang the Famous Five Anthem for the inauguration of the " Women are Persons!

Famous people who are associated with Springs include:

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.

In 1985, he appeared in Larry Cohen's science fiction horror film The Stuff, playing cookie magnate " Chocolate Chip Charlie ", a parody of Famous Amos.

* Famous musicians such as Kirk Hammett of Metallica and Exodus, Marc Biederman of Blind Illusion, Les Claypool ( former member of Blind Ilusion currently of Primus ), Larry " Ler " LaLonde of Primus and Possessed, Jason Beebout of Samiam and Isocracy and John Kiffmeyer of Green Day and Isocracy all grew up in El Sobrante, and most of them attended De Anza High School.

In 2003, Harmon released six of his Bozo's Big Top programs with Avruch on DVD and 2 box sets of 30 episodes each in 2007 retitled " Larry Harmon's Bozo, The World's Most Famous Clown Vols. 1 & 2 ".

" In 2003, Harmon released six of these shows on DVD and, in 2007, 30 of them in a DVD box set entitled Larry Harmon's Bozo, The World's Most Famous Clown, Collection 1.

These were the only Bozo shows that were wholly owned and syndicated by Larry Harmon Pictures Corporation, 60 of which are currently available on worldwide DVD distribution entitled " Bozo The World's Most Famous Clown " Volumes 1 & 2.

Steinberg has been featured on national television programs such as “ 60 Minutes ,” “ Larry King Live ,” “ The Today Show ,” " Good Morning America ," " CNN ," " CNN World News ," " Charlie Rose ,” Fox Business ,” “ Fox News ,” “ CBS Morning News ,” “ Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous ,” “ The Pat Sajak Show ,” “ Morning Joe ” on MSNBC, “ The Leeza Gibbons Show ,” “ Living Large ,” and “ The Man Show .” A host of magazines have covered him including Business Week, Sports Illustrated, ESPN The Magazine, People, Success, Forbes, Playboy, GQ, FHM, LA Times Sunday Magazine, Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, United Airlines ’ Magazine Hemispheres, Hawaiian Airlines ’ Magazine Hana Hou !, and US Airways Magazine.

A collection of some of the country's greatest air personalities entertained Seattle listeners like Larry Lujack, Scotty Brink, Norm Gregory, Burl Barer, Pat O ' Day, Eric Chase, Bob Shannon, " World Famous " Tom Murphy, Bobby Simon, Jerry Kaye, " Emperor " Lee Smith, Lan Roberts, Robert O. Smith, Charlie Brown, Bwana Johnny, Matt Riedy, Marion Seymour, Sky Walker, Tracy Mitchell, Bob Brooks and sports commentator Chuck Bolland plus Bolland's much younger brother Mark " Jeffries " Bolland.

Kozelek has also dabbled in acting — friend Cameron Crowe cast him in Almost Famous ( 1999 ) as Larry Fellows ( the bass player in Stillwater ), and in Vanilla Sky ( 2001 ).

Famous alumni, besides Fran Brill, who was ( and still is ) best known as a muppeteer on Sesame Street ; included Dallas star Ken Kercheval ( Larry Kirby # 2 ), Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham ( Joshua Browne ), film actor Armand Assante ( Johnny McGhee ), and the late film actor Brad Davis ( Alexander Kronos ).

* Chris Fleming is an international TV host and Paranormal investigator on Dead Famous: Ghostly Encounters which aired 2004-2007 on The Biography Channel, He also co-hosted episodes of A & E Network Psychic Kids 2009-2010 and made numerous TV appearances on such shows as Larry King, Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures, The Haunted ( TV Series ), and Paranormal Challenge.

Famous members include Jack Welch ( whose island residence is just off the 4th tee-box ), Bob Wright, Harry Fraker, Larry Bossidy, Amos Hostetter, Henry C. Pfaff, and Bill Belichick.

Famous Jazz harmonica player Larry Adler has his own harmonica series, which are chromatic with either 12 or 16 holes.

* Larry Walker-" Famous Italian Director "