Prominent big bandleaders in the modern era include Abdel Gadir Salim and Abdel Aziz El Mubarak, both of whom have achieved some international fame.

Prominent traditional musicians include Fairuz, an icon during the civil war, Sabah, Wadih El Safi, Majida El Roumi, and Najwa Karam who built an international audience for the genre.

Prominent former members have included Joe Arroyo who joined Fruko y sus Tesos in 1973 and performed lead vocals for the group for several years before embarking upon a solo career, and Wilson " Saoko " Manyoma who provided lead vocals on some of the group's most important tracks such as " El Preso " before also leaving to pursue a solo career.

Prominent sculptor / architect Maya Lin contributed to the CM-5 design.

Prominent architect and critic Philip Johnson was inspired by the design to build his own Glass House in 1947.

Prominent Philadelphia architect Wilson Eyre was commissioned to remodel the building, and hired the young Maxfield Parrish, who would later become one of the greatest illustrators of the 20th century, to decorate the interior.

Prominent New Yorkers who have been members of the ACC include Theodore, Frederick and John Steinway of the piano manufacturing family ; Gordon Grant, the marine artist ; Christopher La Farge, the architect ; Van H. Cartmell, the publisher ; Albert Sterner, the painter ; and Edward Fales Coward, the theatre critic and playwright.

Prominent former residents include the musician Charles Hallé, the artists Ford Madox Brown and Elias Bancroft, the famous suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst and the Pankhurst family, the physicist Sir Arthur Schuster, the architect Edward Salomons, the political activist Richard Cobden, the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell and the woman of letters Marie Nordlinger ( 1876-1961 ).

Prominent defenders of Khoisan include Christopher Ehret ( 1986, 2003 ), Henry Honken ( 1988, 1998 ), and George Starostin ( 2003, 2008 ).

Prominent theorists who developed the modernist interpretation of nations and nationalism include: Henry Maine, Ferdinand Tönnies, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Talcott Parsons.

Prominent early settlers included William Henry Cooke, who operated an iron forge near modern Etowah, and Samuel Clegg ( or Cleage ), a construction entrepreneur.

Prominent examples included Francis A. Pratt, Amos Whitney, Henry Leland, Edward Bullard, Worcester R. Warner, Charles Brinckerhoff Richards, William Mason and Ambrose Swasey.

Prominent figures such as Henry Hyde Champion, Ben Tillett, Jim Connell and George Lansbury, all left the SDF for the ILP.

" Prominent members included jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., abolitionist minister Henry Ward Beecher, and poet John Greenleaf Whittier.

Prominent spokesmen for Jeffersonian principles included Madison, Albert Gallatin, John Randolph of Roanoke, Nathaniel Macon, John Taylor of Caroline, James Monroe, John C. Calhoun, John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay ( with the last three taking new paths after 1828 ).

Prominent examples included F. Pratt and A. Whitney ( as mentioned above ); Henry Leland ( who would end up at Cadillac and Lincoln ); Edward Bullard Sr of the Bullard firm ; and, through Pratt & Whitney, Worcester R. Warner and Ambrose Swasey ( of Warner & Swasey ).

Prominent members of JIPF are Dror Feiler, Swedish-Israeli musician and artist, and Henry Ascher, pediatrician and local candidate of the Communist Party.

Prominent New England pastor Lyman Beecher moved his family ( including daughter Harriet and son Henry ) from Boston to Cincinnati to become the first President of the Seminary in 1832.

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Prominent campus buildings include the Gold Star Memorial Building ( law library ), Clara Jones Administration Building, Bishop W. Angie Smith Chapel, Sarkeys Law Center, Edith Kinney Gaylord Center ( housing the Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Arts Management ), Kirkpatrick Fines Arts Building, Dulaney-Browne Library, McDaniel University Center, Meinders School of Business and Henry K. Freede Wellness and Activity Center.

Prominent climbers like Henry Barber and John Stannard helped popularize the use of nuts, especially after it was discovered that a nut was lighter and easier to place while climbing, as well as being at least as secure as a well-placed piton.

Prominent attendees of the demonstrations were Sir William Crookes Sir William Henry Preece, William Grylls Adams, and James Dewar.

Prominent Sydney merchants such as Simeon Lord, Henry Kable and James Underwood were engaged in the trade as well as the Americans Daniel Whitney and Owen Folger Smith.

Prominent newspaperman and politician Henry J. Allen was publisher of the Beacon for many years, and the two papers competed for 88 years.

* Macfarland, Henry B. F. District of Columbia: Concise Biographies of Its Prominent and Representative Contemporary Citizens, and Valuable Statistical Data.

Prominent traditionalists include former Michigan Governor John Engler, former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson, former U. S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham, former Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde, Michigan Congressmen Thaddeus McCotter and Dave Camp as well as Intercollegiate Studies Institute president T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr. journalist Rod Dreher, Catholic University of America Professor Claes G. Ryn, Kansas statesman Caleb Stegall, and author and Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society president Allan C. Carlson.

Prominent writers with this point of view included poets Henry Timrod, Daniel B. Lucas, Abram Joseph Ryan, and Sidney Lanier and fiction writer Thomas Nelson Page.

Prominent pre-Civil War abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison, Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe were influenced by Rankin's writings and work in the anti-slavery movement.

Prominent anti-gin campaigners included Henry Fielding ( whose 1751 ' Enquiry into the Late Increase in Robbers ' blamed gin consumption for both increased crime and increased ill health among children ), Josiah Tucker, Daniel Defoe ( who had originally campaigned for the liberalisation of distilling, but later complained that drunken mothers were threatening to produce a ' fine spindle-shanked generation ' of children ), and – briefly – William Hogarth.

Prominent of these appointments are the bronze doors and the statue called The Virgin Mary, all adorning the entrance and designed by Robert Graham.

Prominent anarcho-syndicalist Emma Goldman was among one of the first to speak out for homosexual rights explicitly.

Prominent politicians of the Sikh Diaspora include the first Asian American to be elected as a Member of United States Congress Dalip Singh Saund, the current UK Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Parmjit Dhanda MP and the first couple to ever sit together in any parliament in the history of Commonwealth countries Gurmant Grewal and Nina Grewal, who sought apology by the Canadian Government for the historical Komagata Maru incident, and the Canadian Shadow Social Development Minister Ruby Dhalla MP.

Prominent citizens were placed on the engine of the train so that it might be understood that in every accident caused by the hostility of the inhabitants their compatriots will be the first to suffer.

Prominent measures of his administration included the prosecution of John Wilkes and the passing of the American Stamp Act 1765, which led to the first symptoms of alienation between American colonies and Great Britain.

* Ibrahim Ahmad, Prominent Sudanese politician, first Sudanese head of the University of Khartoum, first Secretary of Treasury, the first chairman of the Bank of Sudan, co-founder of Umma party, Author and negotiator of the Sudanese Declaration of Independence

The scheme won the " Prominent Award for City Planning Design " at the first session of Annual Meeting of the World Architects Alliance in 2002.

Prominent display of the Swiss flag on clothing and apparel has become more frequent with the " Swissness " fashion trend in the first decade of the 21st century, while such use of the flag had previously been largely limited to conservative and right-wing circles.

Prominent among the political activists were Buddhist monks ( pongyi ), such as U Ottama and U Seinda in the Arakan who subsequently led an armed rebellion against the British and later the nationalist government after independence, and U Wisara, the first martyr of the movement to die after a protracted hunger strike in prison.

Prominent there were Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor ( the " Kovner Rav "; officiated 1864-96 ); Abraham Mapu, one of the first modern Hebrew writers ; and Israel Isidor Elyashev, the " Ba ' al Makhshoves ", the first Yiddish literary critic.

Prominent alumni include: Bader Ben Hirsi, playwright and director, Brandon Lewis, MP for Great Yarmouth, Mark Lancaster, MP for Milton Keynes North, Chris de Lapuente ( Global President and CEO of Sephora, part of the LVMH Group ) and Graham Roos who, since 2011, has been appointed the University's first Creative Artist in Residence.

Prominent SF fan Forrest Ackerman is regarded as one of the first members of fandom to openly support the gay and lesbian movements.

Prominent members of Anderson's administration included Bob Awana as administrative director and chief of staff, later chief of staff to Linda Lingle, the first Hawaii Republican governor after forty years of Democrat dominance in the state.

Prominent historical and science texts began to be translated into English for the first time in the second half of the 14th century, including the Polychronicon and The Travels of Sir John Mandeville.

Prominent examples include the ornate Gare d ' Orsay in Paris, France, which was converted into the Musée d ' Orsay art gallery ; and Manchester Central railway station which was put to new use first as a car park, and later refurbished as the Manchester Central Conference Centre.

* Willis Richards – Prominent playwright credited with having the first serious play to be performed on Broadway.

Prominent members included King O ' Malley, a colourful Labor member, Sir George Bell, Speaker of the House, and Dame Enid Lyons, the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.

Prominent players during the first four years included Clyde Best, Željko Bilecki, Jimmy Bone, Roberto Bettega, Drew Busby, David Byrne, Cliff Calvert, Tony Chursky, David Fairclough, Colin Franks, George Gibbs, Jimmy Greenhoff, Steve Harris-Byrne, Graham Hatley, Victor Kodelja, Sam Lenarduzzi, Peter Lorimer, Ivan Lukačević, Drago Vabec, Mike McLenaghen, Willie McVie, Alan Merrick, Charlie Mitchell, Juan Carlos Molina, Jan Möller, Francesco Morini, Ace Ntsoelengoe, Rob Prentice, Randy Ragan, Neill Roberts, Malcolm Robertson, Peter Roe, Jomo Sono, Gordon Sweetzer, Blagoje Tamindžić, Jose Velasquez, and Bruce Wilson.

Prominent former mayors include Linda Lingle, the sixth governor of Hawaii and first woman governor, who was mayor from 1991 to 1999.

Prominent among these were the films of Florián Rey, starring Imperio Argentina, and the first version of Nobleza Baturra ( 1925 ).