Famous Figures With Unique Distinctions 1-19
19 entries in the Famous Figures With Unique Distinctions compendium.
Robert RayfordTeenager whose illness may be earliest North American HIV case.Robert Tappan MorrisCreator of the first Internet worm and tech entrepreneur.Robert WadlowTallest person in recorded history with irrefutable evidence.Rodney KingVictim of police brutality whose beating sparked the 1992 Los Angeles riots.Roy RaymondFounder of Victoria's Secret lingerie retailer.Ruth HandlerInventor of the Barbie doll and co-founder of Mattel.Ryan WhiteTeenager whose AIDS diagnosis sparked a national conversation.Sada AbeJapanese geisha who murdered her lover and carried his severed genitals.Sarah BaartmanKhoekhoe woman exhibited as the Hottentot Venus in 19th-century Europe.SchlitzieSideshow performer and cult film icon from Freaks.Stephen Van RensselaerLast patroon of Rensselaerswyck and founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.Steve FossettFirst to fly solo nonstop around the world in balloon and aircraft.Steve ShirleyGerman-born British IT pioneer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.Tollund ManIron Age bog body preserved for over two millennia.Trayvon MartinTeenager whose death ignited national protests and legal debate.TruganiniAboriginal Tasmanian guide and symbol of contested extinction.Vannozza dei CattaneiChief mistress of Pope Alexander VI and mother of four Borgia children.William James SidisChild prodigy who later retreated from public life.William de Warenne, 1st Earl of SurreyNorman nobleman, fought at Hastings, founded England's first Cluniac priory.
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