Lady Christian Henrietta Caroline Acland
(1750-1815) Lady Harriet followed her husband, Maj. John Acland, through Burgoyne's campaign of the…
Charles Francis Adams
(1807-1886) Diplomat and member of the House of Representatives. He was able to lobby to keep Britain…
![Rodolphus Agricola (Phrisius) (?February 17, 1444, August 28, 1443?[1] – October 27, 1485) was a pre-Erasmian humanist of the northern Low Countries, famous for his supple Latin and one of the first north of the Alps to know Greek well. Agricola was a Hebrew scholar towards the end of his life, an educator, musician and builder of a church organ, a poet in Latin as well as the vernacular, a diplomat and a sportsman of sorts (boxing). He is best known today as the author of De inventione dialectica, as the father of northern European humanism and as a zealous anti-scholastic in the late-fifteenth century. Born at Baflo, in the Dutch province of Groningen, Agricola was originally named Roelof Huusman.](https://etc.usf.edu/clipart/4300/4301/arigicola_1_mth.gif)
Rodolphus Agricola
Rodolphus Agricola (Phrisius) (?February 17, 1444, August 28, 1443?[1] – October 27, 1485) was a pre-Erasmian…
Louisa May Alcott
(1832-1888) Children's author who wrote Little Women amongst other children's stories.
William Alexander, Earl of Stirling
(1567-1640) Was a courtier to James I and Charles I. He later became secretary of state and Earl of…
Queen Alexandra
(1844-1925) Consort of King Edward VII. She founded the Imperial Military Nursing Service and instituted…
Alfonso XII
Alfonso XII (Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo;…
Washington Allston
(1779-1843) American Romantic painter who studied under Benjamin West and taught Samuel F.B. Morse.…
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
(1836-1912) Dutch Painter of Classical-genre paintings such as The Conversion of Paula and The Roses…
Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva (or Alba)
(1508-1582) Prime minister and general of the Spanish armies under Charles V and Philip II.
Hans Christian Andersen
(1805-1875) Author that wrote children's stories such as The Tin Soldier, The Tinderbox and The Ugly…
Robert Anderson
(1805-1871) Soldier during the Civil War who commanded the Federal Garrison at Fort Sumter the signaled…
Salomon Auguste Andrée
(1854-1897) Swedish balloonist lost while trying to reach the North Pole in 1897.
J. B. Angell
(1829-1916) American educator, editor of the Providence journal and minister to China and Turkey
Portrait of Antiochus
Portrait of Antiochus IV from a large engraving of him looting the Jewish Temple. Engraving by William…
Kaspar Aquila
Caspar Aquila (sometimes Kaspar or Gaspar Aquila, Caspari Aquilae, etc.; 7 August 1488 – 12 November…
