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.

Chorion Limited of London now owns and handles the intellectual properties and character brands of Blyton's Noddy and the well known series the Famous Five.

* The Famous Five series

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

She was also the subject of the documentaries Helen Keller in Her Story, narrated by Katharine Cornell, and The Story of Helen Keller, part of the Famous Americans series produced by Hearst Entertainment.

Later reissued in the Famous Characters of History series, and in the 1904 series Makers of History:

Ribbentrop is also a key figure in the historical novel Famous Last Words by Timothy Findley ( Penguin Books 1982, ISBN 0-14-006268-8 ) and Harry Turtledove's alternate history series Worldwar where his Soviet counterpart Molotov frequently expresses contempt for his lack of intelligence.

Among them are Secretum (" My Secret Book "), an intensely personal, guilt-ridden imaginary dialogue with Augustine of Hippo ; De Viris Illustribus (" On Famous Men "), a series of moral biographies ; Rerum Memorandarum Libri, an incomplete treatise on the cardinal virtues ; De Otio Religiosorum (" On Religious Leisure ") and De Vita Solitaria (" On the Solitary Life "), which praise the contemplative life ; De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae (" Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul "), a self-help book which remained popular for hundreds of years ; Itinerarium (" Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land "); a number of invectives against opponents such as doctors, scholastics, and the French ; the Carmen Bucolicum, a collection of 12 pastoral poems ; and the unfinished epic Africa.

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 ).

Durie has also appeared in other top brand name programs in Australia and the USA including Dancing with the Stars, 60 minutes, Celebrity Millionaire, The Price is Right, Better Homes and Gardens, Hard Copy, Entertainment Tonight, E news, NBC Today Show, Donahue, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, and most recently was host and judge on the popular US series Top Design in Australia.

Beginning as the " Whitman Famous Classics ," and later renamed the " Golden Press " imprint, Western published a series of ( public domain ) classics, such as Little Women, Little Men, Black Beauty and Heidi.

He was signed to a publishing agreement with Famous Music ( Paramount Pictures ) from the late 1980s through the 1990s and has written songs for movies and TV productions such as the big-screen hit Point Break starring Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze and the well-known TV series ' Beverly Hills, 90210 and 21 Jump Street featuring Johnny Depp.

Famous features of the park include its red and pink granite formations and a series of jagged granite peaks in a line, called " The Hazards ".

One bright moment in the UPA television era came with Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol ( 1963 ), which became the first episode of an animated TV series entitled The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo.

The special also inspired the 1964 TV series The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo.

Although the special led to the Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo television series, the studio ultimately found it could not adapt to the rigors of mass-producing cartoons for television.

Ellery Queen was featured on a postage stamp issued by Nicaragua as part of a series of " Famous Fictional Detectives " to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Interpol in 1973 and a similar series of famous fictional detectives from San Marino in 1979.

* In 1940, French was selected as one of five artists to be honored in the 35-stamp " Famous Americans " series.

After the theatrical Popeye cartoon series went out of production in 1957, Bluto's name was changed to Brutus because it was ( wrongly ) believed that Paramount Pictures, distributors of the Fleischer Studios ( later Famous Studios ) cartoons, owned the rights to the name Bluto.

The Famous Jett Jackson is a joint Canadian and American Disney Channel Original Series coming-of-age television series for children ages 12 – 16 about a boy named Jett Jackson ( Lee Thompson Young ) who plays a teenage secret-agent on a fictional TV show-within-a-show called Silverstone.

Famous atmospheric anomaly time series are for instance the Southern Oscillation index ( SOI ) and the North Atlantic oscillation index.

The Famous Five is the name of a series of children's novels written by British author Enid Blyton.

That's So Raven was responsible for many firsts for Disney Channel: the series was the highest-rated series in the history of Disney Channel and the first series to garner more than three-million viewers ; the second longest-running original series in Disney Channel history, the first Disney-produced series to reach 100 episodes ), the First Disney-produced series to produce a spinoff ( Cory in the House ) and one of only three live action original series, where the lead and most of the supporting main characters are minorities ( The Famous Jett Jackson and Cory in the House being the others ).

She began her acting career at age seven, when her aunt Rhonda Jett ( mother of Kyle Jett ), a nanny for actor Michael Landon's children, helped Martin land a guest spot on the Landon produced series Father Murphy.

The series ' opening sequence depicts each of the main characters, with the exception of Kim Kelly ( Busy Philipps ) and Harold and Jean Weir ( Joe Flaherty and Becky Ann Baker ), having their high school yearbook photo taken as the song " Bad Reputation " by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts plays.

* All of the continuing adult cast and some of the guest stars on Strange Days previously appeared in another Disney Channel series, The Famous Jett Jackson.

* Altus, a fictional god in the Royal Regalis series by Chance Jett

She's best known for playing Riley Grant on the Disney Channel series The Famous Jett Jackson ( and Agent Hawk in the show-within-a-show Silverstone ) and Claudia on Relic Hunter.

In 1905 England's captain Stanley Jackson not only won the series 2 – 0, but also won the toss in all five matches and headed both the batting and the bowling averages.

Athena appears in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians book series.

The TV series emphasizes the boisterous nature of the team, led by manager Billy Martin, catcher Thurman Munson and outfielder Reggie Jackson, as well as the malaise of the Bronx and New York City in general during that time, such as the blackout, the city's serious financial woes and near bankruptcy, the arson for insurance payments, and the election of Ed Koch as mayor.

* Hera is featured in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Heroes of Olympus book series, more notably in in the first book of the latter series, as a goddess with a certain hatred to all demigods, especially Jason and Thalia Grace.

Examples would be: Tolkien's Morgoth of The Silmarillion as well as Sauron, the King of the Nazgûl and the others of the Nine Riders from The Lord of the Rings, Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter series, Lasky's Kludd and Nyra of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, Brooks's Warlock Lord of The Sword of Shannara, Jordan's Dark One of The Wheel of Time, and Eddings ' Torak of The Belgariad and Zandramas of The Malloreon, Rick Riordan's Kronos of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Goodkind's Darken Rahl and Emperor Jagang of The Sword of Truth, Dart-Thornton's Moragon, and Paolini's Galbatorix of The Inheritance Cycle.

In Rick Riordan's series Percy Jackson & the Olympians, the events of the fourth novel The Battle of the Labyrinth predominantly take place within the labyrinth of Daedalus, which has followed the heart of the West to settle beneath the United States.

He has also been voiced in animation by Jackson Beck in the 1960s series The New Adventures of Superman, Stan Jones in the 1970s / 1980s Super Friends franchise, Michael Bell in the 1988 Superman animated series, and by Clancy Brown in the 1990s / 2000s DC animated universe, as well as a 2007 episode of The Batman and the 2009 direct-to-DVD animated feature Superman / Batman: Public Enemies, among others.

Ferrigno trained Michael Jackson on and off since the early 1990s, and in 2009, he helped Jackson get into shape for a planned series of concerts in London.

* Morpheus ( Percy Jackson ) a minor character who appears in the last book in the series and is the god of dreams.

* In the Percy Jackson & The Olympians and The Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan Athena is the mother of Annabeth Chase, one of the main characters in both series and has appeared in a few of the books.

After a series of battles and having taken a railroad junction near Jackson, Grant went on to defeat Confederate General John C. Pemberton at the Battle of Champion Hill.

* ESP, the acronym for " Edd Smith's People " and " Edd Smith Place " in " The Pirate's Chest " bookstore in the fictional work The Cat Who Went Bananas honoring the bibliophile character Eddington Smith ( volume 27 of the Cat Who series by Lilian Jackson Braun )

* Hestia appears in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians during the fifth book of the series, The Last Olympian, where Hestia is the last Olympian.

* With Apologies to Jesse Jackson, an episode of an animated comedy series, South Park, in which Stan's dad, Randy becomes a social pariah after saying " niggers " on Wheel of Fortune

Fighting Fantasy is a series of single-player roleplay gamebooks created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone.

There were 59 books in the original series, beginning with The Warlock of Firetop Mountain ( Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone, 1982 ) and concluding with Curse of the Mummy ( Jonathan Green, 1995 ).

Jackson also wrote a self-contained four-part series titled Sorcery!

In 1980, Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone attended a Games Day, and after meeting with a Penguin editor decided to create a series of single-player gamebooks.

In 1984, a decision was made to hire more writers to continue the series: Steve Jackson ( the United States-based founder and owner of Steve Jackson Games ),

Jackson wrote a self-contained four-part series titled Sorcery!