Nouns denoting people
- Marguerite Radclyffe Hall
- English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943)
- Fox
- a member of an Algonquian people formerly living west of Lake Michigan along the Fox River
- Robert Andrews Millikan
- United States physicist who isolated the electron and measured its charge (1868-1953)
- Edward Lear
- British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888)
- cunctator
- someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness)
- St. Basil the Great
- (Roman Catholic Church) the bishop of Caesarea who defended the Roman Catholic Church against the heresies of the 4th century; a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-379)
- John Moses Browning
- United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- French writer of moralistic maxims (1613-1680)
- Mary Augusta Arnold Ward
- English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women's suffrage movement (1851-1920)
- sire
- a title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority
- animator
- the technician who produces animated cartoons
- platitudinarian
- a bore who makes excessive use of platitudes
- stranger
- an individual that one is not acquainted with
- coyote
- a forest fire fighter who is sent to battle remote and severe forest fires (often for days at a time)
- occultist
- a believer in occultism; someone versed in the occult arts
- Wilhelm Karl Grimm
- the younger of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories (1786-1859)
- Aesir
- (Norse mythology) the chief of gods living at Asgard
- barrator
- someone guilty of barratry
- cyberpunk
- a writer of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology
- class act
- someone who shows impressive and stylish excellence
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