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Robert Redford
Robert Redford (Charles Robert Redford, Jr.), 1937-, American actor and director, b. Santa Monica, Calif. Blond, with a perennially boyish handsomeness and an appeal that has lasted several decades, he is one of Hollywood's superstars. He began his acting career in 1959, scoring his first big succe...
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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson 1696-1772, American clergyman, educator, and philosopher, b. Guilford, Conn., grad. Collegiate School (now Yale), 1714; father of William Samuel Johnson . He became a Congregationalist minister, but in 1722 joined the Church of England. In 1724 he opened the first Anglican church in...
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Ikhnaton
Ikhnaton or Akhenaton [Egyptian,=Aton is satisfied], d. c.1354 BC, king of ancient Egypt (c.1372-1354 BC), of the XVIII dynasty; son and successor of Amenhotep III (see under Amenhotep I ). His name at his accession was Amenhotep IV, but he changed it to honor the god Aton. He is important for...
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Miami Beach
Miami Beach city (1990 pop. 92,639), Dade co., SE Fla., on an island between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean; inc. 1915. It is connected to Miami by four causeways. Miami Beach is a popular year-round resort, famous for its "gold coast" hotel strip, palatial estates, and recreational facili...
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Sir Francis Darwin
Sir Francis Darwin 1848-1925, English botanist, assistant to his father, Charles Robert Darwin . He lectured in botany at Cambridge and was foreign secretary of the Royal Society and president of the British Association. He edited the Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887) and was knighted in...
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Robert Charles Benchley
Robert Charles Benchley 1889-1945, American humorist, b. Worcester, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1912. He was drama critic of Life (1920-29) and of The New Yorker (1929-40). Benchley was known for a series of short satirical films that he wrote, directed, and acted in himself. His books, which are ric...
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Charles Robert Leslie
Charles Robert Leslie , 1794-1859, English painter and writer, b. London. Educated in the United States, he returned to England to study art and to work. He painted incidents from literature and also executed portraits, including one of Dr. John Wakefield Francis at the Metropolitan Museum. Leslie i...
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Charles Robert Maturin
Charles Robert Maturin , 1782-1824, Irish author. A minister by vocation, he wrote novels in the manner of the Gothic horror tale of Ann Ward Radcliffe . They include The Fatal Revenge (1807), The Milesian Chief (1812), and his masterpiece Melmoth the Wanderer (1820). He wrote several tragedi...
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Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts 1860-1943, Canadian author, b. New Brunswick. He was the first Canadian to be knighted for his work as a writer. He wrote over 67 works, of which the best-known are Orion (1880), Divers Tones (1886), Selected Poems (1936), and other volumes of lyrics and idy...
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Charles
Charles ♂ Germanic. ...
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