It's my party: Welcome!
Submitted by kenji on Sun, 04/10/2005 - 03:12
Tags:
- Kyoko Kagawa (Japanese actress)
- Fred Astaire
- Marilyn Monroe
- Humphrey Bogart
- Isabelle Adjani (French actress)
- Zhang Ziyi (young Chinese actress)
- Laurel and Hardy
- Marx brothers
- Louise Brooks (silent film actress)
- Maria de Medeiros (Portuguese film actress- e.g Pulp Fiction)
- Emma Suarez (Spanish actress)
- Kenji Mizoguchi (Japanese film director)
- Jean Renoir (French film director)
- Manoel de Oliveira (Portuguese film director in his 90's)
- Andrei Tarkovsky (Russian film director)
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Orson Welles
- Stanley Kubrick
- Samira Makhmlbaf (young Iranian film director)
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Che Guevara
- Aung Sang Sun Kyi (Burmese opponent of dictatorship)
- Salvador Allende (Chilean president overthrown + killed by Pinochet's coup)
- Nelson Mandela
- Frederick Douglass (black US anti-slavery campaigner)
- Gro Harlem Brundtland (Norway's first female P.M)
- David Lloyd George (Britain's greatest chancellor + P.M)
- Aneurin Bevan (passionate British socialist)
- Robert Owen (19th century Socialist + cooperative pioneer)
- Karl Marx
- Denis Diderot (18th century French enlightened thinker)
- Socrates
- Jan Vermeer
- Ando Hiroshige (Japanese artist)
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Gwen John (Welsh painter)
- J.M.W.Turner
- Paula Rego (Portuguese painter)
- William Blake (visionary 18th century poet/artist)
- Kenji Miyazawa (Japanese writer of children's tales)
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Isabel Allende
- Antoine de St Exupéry (French writer- "The Little Prince")
- Opal Whiteley (wrote a mystical nature diary as a girl in Oregon)
- William Shakespeare
- John Keats
- Tu Fu + Li Po (Tang dynasty Chinese poets)
- Federico Garcia Lorca (Spanish poet)
- Dafydd ap Gwilym (medieval Welsh romantic nature poet)
- Alfred Russel Wallace (originator of the theory of evolution by natural selection, progressive political + social thinker)
- Albert Einstein
- Amalia Rodrigues (Portuguese fado singer)
- Elton John
- Jean Sibelius
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Giaccomo Puccini
- Montserrat Caballé (Spanish opera singer, for a rendition of O Mio Babbino Caro)
- Bruce Springsteen
- Kylie Minogue (i like her more than her music)
- Barry John (Welsh Rugby player)
- Muhammad Ali
- Majid Khan (Pakistan cricketer at his peak in 1970's)
- Jimmy Wilde (Wales' + world's greatest ever flyweight boxer)
- Catherine Destivelle (French climber)
- Pélé
- Ellen Macarthur (record-breaking round the world yachtswoman)
- Olga Korbut (Russian gymnast in '72 Olympics)
- Haile Gebresellasie (Ethiopian distance runner)
- José Mourinho (Portuguese manager of Chelsea)
- Michael Palin
- David Attenborough (BBC TV nature presenter)
- Dan Cruickshank (BBC TV traveller)
- Sei Shonagon (10th/11th century Japanese court lady, writer)
- Hannibal of Carthage
- Joan of Arc
- Hugo Chavez (Venezuelan leader)
- Tove Jansson (Finnish writer)
- Chiyonofuji Mitsugu (Japanese sumo wrestler)
- José de San Martin (early 19th century liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru)
- Cleopatra
- Geronimo, Crazy Horse + Sitting Bull
- Princess Diana
- Bodhidharma (Indian founder of Zen Buddhism)
- Antonio Gaudi (Spanish architect)
- Harry Houdini
- Mary Seacole (black nurse in Crimean war)
- Tommy Cooper (British comedian)
- Eric Morecambe (British comedian)
- Laurel and Hardy
- Jan Francis (British TV actress)
- Lorraine Kelly + Carol Smillie (Scottish presenters on British TV)
- Sara Edwards (Welsh newsreader)
- Nicholas Bailey (British actor, "EastEnders"' Dr Trueman- a friend)
- Susan Kennedy (character in Aussie soap Neighbours)
- Top Cat
- A wombat
Author Comments:
Famous (and not so famous) names of past + present who i'd be happy to invite to a big party! A large film group and also a strong Welsh + British contingent, partly due to greater familiarity with achievers here. Not as many women as i'd like but i suppose that reflects a male-dominated world. I'm tempted to add a few infamous baddies to stir things up a bit, but for the moment...
Nice. Highly interesting, revealing, entertaining, and cloneable!
Oh good. :) Of course i don't expect everyone to approve of most or all my choices but hopefully it'll give ideas.
Best list ever. clone!