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 people born, raised in or living in Fermanagh.

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

While performing in Macon, Georgia, having now changed their name to the Flames, a club promoter, Clint Brantley ( then agent of one of Brown's idols, Little Richard ), suggested the band add " Famous " in front of their name to draw more people to his club.

* Famous people from The Hague

Famous people who have had the disease include

Famous people who were kidney stone formers include Napoleon I, Napoleon III, Peter the Great, Louis XIV, George IV, Oliver Cromwell, Lyndon B. Johnson, Benjamin Franklin, Michel de Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, Samuel Pepys, William Harvey, Herman Boerhaave, and Antonio Scarpa.

Famous for the Godavari Pushkaralu-an event that happens once in every 12 years, celebrated with pomp and glory and attended by lakhs of people from all round the world.

Famous people from the city of Turku include Paavo Nurmi, Mauno Koivisto, Matti Salminen, Johan Gadolin, Herman Spöring, Miikka Kiprusoff and the brothers Saku and Mikko Koivu.

* Famous people affiliated with Yeshiva University

Famous people related to the département:

Famous people born in Morrow County include ( 1 ) Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States, who was born near Blooming Grove, Ohio, in northeast Morrow County ; ( 2 ) Quaker abolitionist Richard Dillingham, who was born in Peru Township ; ( 3 ) Reverend Frank W. Gunsaulus, cleryman, writer and educator ( see Illinois Institute of Technology ), who was born in Chesterville, Ohio ; and ( 4 ) writer Dawn Powell, who was born in Mount Gilead.

Famous people connected with the town include Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, who lived at May Place between 1694 and 1707, and Sir Frederick Currie who also lived at the Manor House, May Place.

Famous people born there include: the author, Enid Blyton in 1897 ; the first compiler of the London A-Z, Phyllis Pearsall in East Dulwich in 1906, she went on to live in Dulwich Village ; the war-time singer Anne Shelton in 1923 ( or 1928?

Famous people whose cremations have taken place include Kingsley Amis, Stanley Baldwin, Marc Bolan ( born, Mark Feld ), Neville Chamberlain, T. S. Eliot, Sigmund Freud, Hugh Gaitskell, John Inman, Keith Moon, Ivor Novello, Anna Pavlova, Frank Rutter, Peter Sellers, Ghisha Tuckman ( born, Ghisha Koenig ) Amy Winehouse, Michael Foot and Wendy Richard.

Famous people to originate from Southgate include Leigh Hunt, the English essayist and writer, who was born here in 1784, and Frederick Hitch, one of the men awarded a Victoria Cross for the defence of Rorke's Drift in 1879.

Famous people who have lived here include Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer ; George Grove of musical dictionary fame ; John Logie Baird, the television inventor ; Jason Statham, an actor ; the comics and film historian Denis Gifford ; and Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice movement.

Three famous people born in Winthrop Arkansas were some of the first women in history to play barnstorming women's basketball, Leeona Evans, Florence Holder, Francis Holder birthplace Winthrop Arkansas played on Dempsey Hovlands World Famous Texas Cowgirls in the nineteen fifties.

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 people born in Berkhamsted include the novelist Graham Greene ( 1904 – 1991 ), whose father was headmaster of Berkhamsted School, which Greene attended.

Famous people who attended the Little Red Schoolhouse include opera star and Edison protégé, Anna Case and Marion Van Fleet, the mother of actor Lee Van Cleef.

Famous people who have attended Mason schools include actor George Clooney, who attended Western Row Elementary School and also St. Susanna Catholic School in junior high ; national radio host Dan Patrick ( Mason class of 1974 ); and Pretty Little Liars ' Brant Daugherty.

Famous people from Wetumka include:

Famous people from Soli:

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.

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 ).

Famous political figures to be sent to the islands included Alfred Dreyfus and Henri Charrière, who managed to escape.

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 sufi saint Bulbul Shah was able to convert Rinchan Shah who was then prince of Kashgar Ladakh to an Islamic lifestyle, thus founding the Sufiana composite culture.

Beginning in 1914, both Lasky and Famous Players released their films through a start-up company, Paramount Pictures Corporation, organized early that year by a Utah theatre owner, W. W. Hodkinson, who had bought and merged several smaller firms.

This " strategy " of the gradual dismantling Paramount's assets and library has continued under current Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman who not only split the company in half and gave the television library and distribution rights to the feature films to CBS, but also sold off the Company's music library, Famous Music.

Famous scientists who experimented with such tubes included Thomas Edison, Eugen Goldstein, Nikola Tesla, and Johann Wilhelm Hittorf among many others.

The five women who initiated the case are known in Canada as the Famous Five.

More recently, the re-released works of English toilet humour specialist Ivor Biggun include " Southern Breeze ", a song about a " Famous French Farteur " who describes in rhyme a stroll through a farmyard, accompanied by appropriate farting noises.

In the 2006 book, In Vogue: The Illustrated History of the World's Most Famous Fashion Magazine ( Rizzoli ), the editors cite Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Tatjana Patitz, and Claudia Shiffer when quoting Vogue Magazine Editor-In-Chief, Anna Wintour, who said, " Those girls were so fabulous for fashion and totally reflected that time ... were like movie stars.

The neck pinch itself ( referred to in scripts as ' FSNP ', or ' Famous Spock Neck Pinch ') was created by Leonard Nimoy, who objected to a scene in one early episode that required Spock to knock a guard unconscious by hitting him over the head.

Famous historic slave rebellions have been led by the Roman slave Spartacus ; the thrall Tunni who rebelled against the Swedish monarch Ongentheow, a rebellion that needed Danish assistance to be quelled ; the poet-prophet Ali bin Muhammad, who led imported east African slaves in Iraq during the Zanj Rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate in the ninth century ; Granny Nanny of the Maroons who rebelled against the British in Jamaica ; the Haitian Revolution, the only slave revolt which led to the founding of a country ; Denmark Vesey in South Carolina, USA ; and Madison Washington during the Creole case in 19th century America.

* Famous students who dropped out: Charles Eames ( who was expelled for defending modernist architecture ); Tennessee Williams ( who left in protest of not winning the poetry prize ); Enterprise Rent-a-Car founder Jack C. Taylor ( who withdrew to fight in World War II ); actor Robert Guillaume ( who withdrew to study opera ); Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Dedman ( who left to become a newspaper reporter ); and IQ-record holder Marilyn vos Savant ( who says she withdrew because she was bored ).

Famous swing orchestras in California realized that many of their followers were leaving to dance to Bob Will's Western swing.

Other independent companies were grouped under the Mutual banner in 1912, and there were also important new entrants, particularly the Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company, and Famous Players, which were both formed in 1913 to take advantage of the fact that films could reproduce the real substance of a stage play ( plus embellishments ), and so the best plays and actors from the legitimate stage could be enticed into films.

In 1914 the Lasky company and Famous Players were amalgamated into Famous Players-Lasky, with distribution of their films handled by the new Paramount Pictures Corporation.

Alex Soma's Horrors of the Screen, Calvin T. Beck's Journal of Frankenstein ( later Castle of Frankenstein ) and Gary Svehla ’ s Gore Creatures were the first horror fanzines created as more serious alternatives to the popular Forrest J Ackerman 1958 magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland.

Released that October, it returned the Famous Flames to the charts and reached # 1 on the R & B chart in February 1959 becoming the first of 17 chart-topping hits on the R & B chart which were credited to Brown over the next 15 years with six of them credited to the Famous Flames.

The confusion of the band was that for years, the Famous Flames were often mistaken for Brown's backing band ; fellow Famous Flame Byrd was also a member of the backing band at one point.

Famous medieval painters like the Limbourg brothers were born and educated in Nijmegen.

Also, Famous Players and Lasky were privately owned while Paramount was a corporation.

After an unsuccessful expansion into feature films, as well as the fact that Max and Dave Fleischer were no longer speaking to one another, Fleischer Studios was acquired by Paramount, which renamed the operation Famous Studios.

The rest of the post-September 1950 cartoons by Famous Studios that were released prior to April 1, 1962 ( except some special releases ) were sold to Harvey Comics, along with all rights to Famous ' characters Casper the Friendly Ghost, Little Audrey, Herman and Katnip, et al., in 1958, which were retitled " Harveytoons " for television distribution after 1959 ( beginning with their exposure on Matty's Funday Funnies ).

Famous for its fine claret, numerous members of European society were made welcome there as guests.

Famous African trade ports such as Mombasa, Zanzibar, and Kilwa were known to Chinese sailors such as Zheng He and medieval Islamic historians such as the Berber Islamic voyager Abu Abdullah ibn Battua.

Turner kept MGM's pre-May 1986 and pre-merger film and TV library, which included nearly all of MGM's material made before the merger, and a small portion of United Artists ' film and TV properties which included few UA pictures, the TV series Gilligan's Island, the U. S and Canadian distribution rights to RKO Radio Pictures library, and the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library and the Fleischer and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons that both were once the property of Associated Artists Productions, which merged with UA Television in 1958 ).