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| Biography articles |
Importance | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top | None | Total | |||||
| Quality | |||||||
| 21 | 609 | 630 | |||||
| 80 | 80 | ||||||
| 1 | 26 | 27 | |||||
| 23 | 1455 | 1478 | |||||
| B | 114 | 14829 | 14943 | ||||
| C | 40 | 5216 | 5256 | ||||
| Start | 1 | 133701 | 133702 | ||||
| Stub | 384940 | 384940 | |||||
| List | 380 | 380 | |||||
| Assessed | 200 | 541236 | 541436 | ||||
| Unassessed | 174962 | 174962 | |||||
| Total | 200 | 716198 | 716398 | ||||
This page lists recently created biography-related articles. Remember to nominate the best new articles at Template talk:Did you know so Wikipedia can highlight them on the main page.
[edit] June 2009
- Michael B. Ellis - World War I Medal of Honor recepeint from the U.S. Army.
[edit] April 2009
- Arturo Alcaraz - Guggenheim Fellowship awardee, volcanologist
- Caleb Huse Confederate Major chiefly responsible for purchasing arms from Europe for the CSA.
- John Carpenter, town clerk of London - major rewrite done - Author of Liber Albus first book of English common law.
- William Carpenter, Providence Rhode Island First surnamed Carpenter to settle in America, early settler of Providence
- William, Count of Melun WikiProject Middle Ages, French Knight & Noble during First Crusade.
- Frederic H. Balfour Victorian sinologist, editor, essayist.
- Evgeny Belyaev (1926-1994) Superb tenor, admired briefly but not really known in the West due to the Cold War.
- Shafik Chokin (1912-2003) The most recognized Kazakh scientist in energy sector, president of Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences
- K. Subrahmanyam - Foreign Policy expert, 'Doyen of India's strategic affairs community' - expanded from a stub
[edit] February 2009
- Matija Gogala, Slovene entomologist
[edit] January 2009
- Edwin F. Harding, World War II Major General
- Al Kaprielian
- Brian Gorman
[edit] December 2008
- Madeline Perry - Irish professional squash player.
- Delia Arnold - Malaysian professional squash player.
- Sharon Wee - Malaysian professional squash player.
- Annelize Naude - Dutch professional squash player.
- Kasey Brown - Australian professional squash player.
- Annie Au - Hong Kong professional squash player.
- Dominique Lloyd-Walter - English professional squash player.
- Tricia Chuah - Malaysian professional squash player.
- Laurens Jan Anjema - Dutch professional squash player.
- Borja Golan - Spanish professional squash player.
- Low Wee Wern - Malaysian professional squash player.
- Jaclyn Hawkes - New Zealand professional squash player.
- Donna Urquhart - Australian professional squash player.
- Raymond Jackson, cartoonist who worked for the Evening Standard and was known as Jak
- Andy Collins (game designer), role-playing game designer.
- Richard Clarke Cabot - American Physician
[edit] November 2008
- Edmund Wright Brooks(1834 – 1928), English Quaker philanthropist and cement maker.
- Boris Bazhanov (1900-1983), Joseph Stalin's secretary who defected in 1928.
- William Dewsbury (circa 1671 – 1688), Quaker minister.
- Herold C. Hunt (February 8, 1902—October 17, 1976), noted educator
[edit] October 2008
- Michael Hudson, American economist on 2008-10-14
- Henri Rivière (painter), artist, designer and technical innovator in shadow plays
- Beth Nolan, American lawyer, GWU general counsel, former DOJ official, first woman (and Bill Clinton's final) White House Counsel
[edit] September 2008
- Ivan Regen, Slovene biologist, appeared on DYK? on october 2nd.
- Martin Cassini - of questionable notability
- John G. Jackson - Pan-Africanist and Afrocentrist writer
- Joseph Nourse, first United States Register of the Treasury
[edit] August 2008
- Joseph Fry (tea merchant) - husband of Elizabeth Fry
- Ger McDonnell - mountaineer and first Irish person to reach summit of K2
- Andrey Molchanov - Russian billionaire businessman and politician
[edit] July 2008
- Jane Collier - A fact from Jane Collier appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on July 18, 2008.
- Arpad Vass - anthropologist request for over a year fulfilled - A fact from Arpad Vass appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on July 8, 2008.
- John McIntosh (Saskatchewan MP)
- Richard Southam
- Bert Cadieu
- Roderick J. Thomson
- Albert B. Douglas
- Anthony Pratkanis - anthropologist request for over a year fulfilled
[edit] June 2008
- David Stuart (diplomat)
- Ben Shearer - Australian artist
- Constance Reid - mathematical biographer and popularizer - article is not new but is expanded from stub and has much new material
- Kaye Don
- Marcus J. Ranum - Computer/Network security innovator. Article was redlinked from multiple places, so may have existed but been previously deleted. N/V/RS firmly established in new version.
- Michael Wyndham Hudson - Australian Admiral.
- Gwilt Jolley (1859-1916), an English painter
[edit] May 2008
- John Billingsley
- Amadou Lamine Ba
- Mark Andrew Kelly - Australian Major General
- Alan Beaumont - Australian Admiral
- Victor Smith - Australian Admiral
[edit] April 2008
- Christopher Levett
- Ulrike Lunacek
- Hans-Georg Stümke
- Thomas Grossmann
- Alexander Ziegler
- Azariah Southworth
- Claire Waldoff
- Jean Follain
- William Jarvis (merchant)
- Philippe Descola - French Arch. - article requested since 2006
- Eugene Cussons - Chimps
- Eugène Boban - French antiquarian and crystal skulls saleman. Needs help with translations from the French Wikipedia
- Stanley Diamond (anthropologist)
- Pietra Rivoli - author
- Edwin Jaggard - Historian
- Davyd Thomas - Australian Rear Admiral
- Robert Marsden Hope - Australian Justice and Royal Commissioner. First bio I've written. Would appreciate feedback or copyedit/cleanup etc Akitora (talk) 13:14, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] March 2008
- Gustav Christian Schwabe - merchant, financier
- Alan G. Rogers - GLBT, iraqi casualty
- Andrew Toovey - composer
- Don Boyd - director
- Helen Donald-Smith - artist
- Alan Chadwick - gardner
- Jonathan Riley-Smith
- Bill Lann Lee - civil rights lawyer, asst. attorney general
- Clarence Lightner, first African-American mayor of a metropolitan Southern U.S. city
- Dona Cadman, widow of former Canadian Member of Parliament Chuck Cadman
- Benjamin Wills Newton, evangelist, former leader of Plymouth Brethren assembly
- Lena Yada
- Garry Tregidga, an academic at the Institute of Cornish Studies.
- Michael Williams (1784-1858), MP for West Cornwall and owner of Caerhays Castle.
- Edward William Wynne Pendarves (1775 – 1853), MP for West Cornwall.
- John Hearle Tremayne (1780 - 1851) was Tory MP for Cornwall for 20 years.
- Arthur Tremayne (1827 - 1905), Crimean War soldier and Cornish MP, son of J.H. Tremayne.
- Nigel Sheinwald british ambassador
- Jaymee Ong model
- Gottlieb Kirchhoff corn syrup
- Raymond L Brett (1917-1996) Professor of English at University of Hull.
- Francis Gregor (MP) (1760 - 1815 ), MP for the County of Cornwall.
- Sir William Molesworth, 6th Baronet (1758 - 1798), MP for Cornwall 1784 until 1790.
- Richard Davey (MP) (1799–1884), of Bochym in Cury. MP for West Cornwall for 11 years.
[edit] February 2008
- Samuel S. Carr English-born American 19th-early 20th century pastoral and landscape painter, Freemason and former President of the Brooklyn Art Club.
- William Penny Brookes, inspiration for the modern Olympic Games
- Edward Paisnel, the Beast of Jersey
- Barry Lee Myers, businessman
- Bill Dilks - of questionable notability
- Ian Bogost, game designer
- Rosanna Capolingua, Australian AMA
- Chris Columbo, jazz drummer
- Hugh Davson
- Eleanor Josaitis
- Ira Fusfeld
- Gentil Ferreira Viana
- Heidi Hammel
- Jalal El-Gharbi
- James Losh
- Jason Lawrence
- Scott Millan
- Paolo Vitelli, yacht maker
- Parvati Shallow
- Patricia Cahill (drug smuggler)
- Richard Pearsall, 1698-1762 -> Richard Pearsall
- Roman Sledziejowski
- Sarah Turner Butler
- Yuji Terajima, artist
- Andrey Petrov, Russian composer - article had been requested prior to 2006-07-16
- Alexander William Gaskarth
- Frederick Glaysher
[edit] January 2008
- Omar Osama bin Laden, son of Osama bin Laden
- Ross Drummond, golfer
- Robert Campbell Reeve Alaskan aviation pioneer and founder of Reeve Aleutian Airways.
- Dan Cavanaugh, professional ice hockey player
- Eryl McNally, former MEP
- Clive Needle, former MEP
- Bill Miller (Scotland), former MEP
- Mark Watts, former MEP
- Pierre Bonga
- Samuel Teresi
[edit] December 2007
- Tom Wontner, (British actor)
- Suril Shah, (IT prodigy)
- Howard Fox (1836 - 1922), Falmouth, Cornwall worthy
- Jean-François Cail (1804-1871)
- Andre Couder
- Jean Pierre Pellissier
- Terence Patrick O'Sullivan
[edit] October 2007
- H. S. S. Lawrence (Educationalist - India)
- Vernice Armour (military, African-American, female) October 6, 2007
- Jimmy Hutmaker The "Mr. Jimmy" mentioned in You Can't Always Get What You Want.
- Lonny Chapman actor (Come back, little Sheeba, McCloud)
- David Montagu, 4th Baron Swaythling baron, banker and businessman
- Anna Maria Fox (1816 – 1897), Falmouthian
- Celia Calle, illustrator
- Henry George Raverty
[edit] November 2007
[edit] September 2007
- Karl Dalhouse September 10, 2007
- Thomas Dalton and Lucy Lew (African Americans) September 24, 2007
- S U Hastings September 10, 2007
- Andrea Smith (academic) September 15, 2007
[edit] August 2007
- Anna Cora Mowatt, August 5, 2007
- Susan Kiefel August 13, 2007
- Col. michael Osos August 19, 2007
- Dr. Sivakumar Jaganathan August 20, 2007
- Margaret Hillert August 20, 2007
- Helen Hartness Flanders August 31, 2007
- Christa Calamas
[edit] July 2007
- Horace West, July 19, 2007
- Renato D’Aiello, July 28, 2007
[edit] June 2007
- Katie Hopkins, June 3, 2007
- Dean Redman, June 15, 2007
- Patricia Drake, June 15, 2007
- Leraldo Anzaldua, June 15, 2007
- John McPhail, June 15, 2007
- Marek Hamšík, June 22, 2007
- Samuel Slovák, June 22, 2007
- Alfred Herbert
[edit] May 2007
- Joe Baksi May 12, 2007
- Josh Key May 20, 2007
- Henry Reed (merchant) May 27, 2007
- William Theed famous Victorian sculptor --McKDandy 21:08, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
- Greg Brady (broadcaster)
[edit] April 2007
- Geoff Plant Attorney General of British Columbia. April 27, 2007
- Tatsuo Kawai (diplomat) April 23 2007
- Dorus Rijkers April 13, 2007
[edit] March 2007
- John Joseph Mitty March 29, 2007
- Giuditta Bellerio Sidoli March 21, 2007
- Ken Noguchi March 20, 2007
- Paul Torrisi March 10, 2007
- Timothy Campbell March 2, 2007
- William G. Gale March 2, 2007
- Anne Curwen - YWCA
- Sidney Rosenthal - Magic marker
- Herbert Simon (real estate)
[edit] February 2007
- Cesare Cremonini 7 February 2007
- Leona Woods 20:20, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
- Ursula Pearson
- John Lester 03:50, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
- Tiffini Hale February 18, 2007
- Albert Fields February 18, 2007
- Chase Hampton February 18, 2007
- Deedee Magno February 18, 2007
- Marcus Brosch February 19, 2007
- Susan Solomon February 20, 2007
[edit] January 2007
- Michelle Paver 28 january, 2007
- Herb Jackson 16 January, 2007 by User:Jieagles
- Ajeet Bajaj 12:53, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
- Andy Burton (TV presenter)
[edit] December 2006
I apologize for finally tagging my articles with {{WPBiography}} tags. Here they are
- William Wrigley III 16:53, 9 December 2006
- Robert E. Johnson 16:53, 9 December 2006
- R. Eden Martin 16:53, 9 December 2006
- Paul Cornell (Chicago) 16:53, 9 December 2006
- Samuel Curtis Johnson, Sr. 16:53, 9 December 2006
- Herbert Fisk Johnson, Sr. 16:53, 9 December 2006
- Herbert Fisk Johnson III 16:53, 9 December 2006
- Helen Johnson-Leipold 16:53, 9 December 2006
- S. Curtis Johnson 16:53, 9 December 2006
- Winnie Johnson-Marquart 16:53, 9 December 2006
- Jennifer Martz 16:53, 9 December 2006
- August Busch IV 16:53, 9 December 2006
- August Anheuser Busch, Sr. 16:53, 9 December 2006
- Eberhard Anheuser 16:53, 9 December 2006
- Adolphus Busch III 16:53, 9 December 2006
- Antoine Thompson 16:53, 9 December 2006
- Seymour H. Knox I 16:53, 9 December 2006
- Seymour H. Knox II 16:53, 9 December 2006
- Northrup R. Knox 16:53, 9 December 2006
- Donald Trump, Jr. 16:53, 9 December 2006
- Tony Lopez 16:53, 9 December 2006
- Heath Irwin 16:53, 9 December 2006
- George Fisk Comfort 16:53, 9 December 2006
- Samuel Ealy Johnson, Sr. 16:53, 9 December 2006
- James Griffin (songwriter) 16:53, 9 December 2006
[edit] November 2006
- Mitch Clem 05:37, November 30, 2006
- Rosemary Firth 15:35, November 26, 2006
- Raymond Firth expanded from stub
- Cecil Gould 14:14, November 25, 2006
- K. A. C. Creswell 21:07, November 24, 2006
- Floyd M. Riddick 23:08, November 22, 2006
- Douglas A. Warner III 02:26, November 2, 2006
[edit] October 2006
- Leonard Orban 08:42, 31 October 2006
- Henry Bowen 23:25, October 15, 2006
- Charles F. Mercer 01:56, October 6, 2006
- James Breckinridge 00:40, October 6, 2006
[edit] September 2006
- George Rogers Clark Floyd 23:49, September 13, 2006
- Jamsetji Tata expanded from stub. Appeared on DYK on 11 September
- G. D. Madgulkar expanded from stub.
[edit] August 2006
- Alfred Ford appeared on DYK on 28 August
- William Brydon appeared on DYK on 25 August
- Yogendra Singh Yadav appeared on DYK on 21 August

