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Here's the updated list (don't ask me why I do this...) Embarrassed 
 
The listed persons in this game:    From _A to _E 
 
Anouk Aimée       Arthur Brown        A. C. Clarke             Arthur Dent          Ahmet Ertegun
Buzz Aldrin          Big Bill Broonzy     Bernard of Clairvaux Benjamin Disraeli  Blake Edwards
Carmine Appice   Chico Buarque       Claudia Cardinale     Charles Darwin      Carolus Enckell
Dan Aykroyd      Dieuwertje Blok      Dolores Claiborne     Donald Duck         Duke Ellington
Edson Arantes    Emily Brontë          Elijah Craig              Eugene Delacroix   Edward Elgar
Fred Astaire       Francis Bacon         Frank Capra             Francis Drake       Friedrich Engels
Gianni Agnelli     Georges Bizet        Gustave Courbet       Georges Danton    George Eliot 
Hans Arp           Herman Brood       Holden Caulfield        Henri Dunant        Harlan Ellison
Ian Anderson     Irving Berlin          Ingram C. Connor III  Ivan Drago          Irineu Evangelista de Sousa
Jon Anderson     J. S. Bach             Jean Cocteau             Johnny Depp       Jan van Eyck
Kevin Ayers        Karl Benz              Klaas Compaen         Krishna Das          Keith Emerson
Laura Antonelli    Leonid Brezhnev   Lucius Catilina           Lawrence Durrell   Leif Erikson
Marian Anderson  Monica Bellucci    Michael Caine           Marcel Dassault      Michael Ende
Neil Armstrong    Neil Bartlett          Nero Claudius           Nick Drake            Nora Ephron
Outi Alanen       Olivier Bourdeaut    Ornette Coleman     Ophelia of Denmark  Osiris of Egypt
Pedro Almodovar   Paul Bunyan       Pierre de Coubertin  Philip K. Dick            Phil Everly
(Quentin Alexander) Quentin Blake   Quentin Crisp         Quincy Delightt Jones  ( QE skipped )
Roger Ackroyd         Richard Branson  Raynard de Chatillon  Richard Dawkins   Ralph W. Emerson
Salvador Allende      Simon Bolivar     Samuel T. Coleridge   Salvador Dalí        Stuart Elliott
Theodor Adorno      Timothy Bottoms  Thomas Cochrane    Tess Durbyfield     Timothy of Ephesus
Urbanus van Anus   ( UB skipped )      Ulric Cross               Uschi Dicard         Umberto Eco
Vincent Auriol         Martin Van Buren  Vera Clouzot            ( VD skipped )      Vince Edwards
Wim Aantjes          W. A. van Buren    William Campbell      Walt Disney          Will Eisner 
(X, Y, Z skipped)    [Zowie Bowie]      Jacques-Yves Cousteau (X, Y, Z skipped) Yevgeny Erastov/Ziggy Elman
 
 
From _F to _J
 
Anne Frank           Armando Gallo     Angela Hewitt        Annika Idström       Alex Jones 
Benjamin Franklin  Bernard Gui        Benny Hill              Bodo Illgner            Brian Jones  
Carlos Fuentes       "Che" Guevara    Charlie Hebdo        Chris Isaak             Carl Jung    
Dick Francis          David Gilmour      David Hume           Darius I                 Duncan Jones  
Eduardo Frei         Erroll Garner        Edwin Hubble         Eugene Ionesco      Earvin Johnson  
Florian Fricke         France Gall         Frank Herbert         Flavius Iosephus     Felicity Jones  
Gustave Flaubert    Galileo Galilei      George Harrison      Georges Ifrah       L. "Guitar Junior" Johnson
Heinz Fricke           Heinz Guderian  Harry Haller/H. Hesse Henrik Ibsen        Henry James    
Ian Fleming           Ira Gershwin       Ian Hunter              Ilena Isinbaeva      Irene Jansen    
Joan Fontaine        John Glenn         Jean Harlow            John Inman           James Joyce    
Ken Follett             Kahlil Gibran       Katherine Hepburn    Kazuo Ishiguro     Kate Jackson   
Leo Fender            Lorne Greene      Lena Horne              Lee Ingleby          Lady Justice     
Michel Foucault      Mohandas Gandhi  Michel Houellebecq  Mary Ingalls        Michael Jackson  
Neil Finn               Nimrod the Great   Nick Hornby            Natalie Imbruglia   Olivia Newton-John 
Otto Frank            Oliver Goldsmith     Otto Hahn              Osmo Ikonen        Olli Jalonen
Percy Faith           Paul Gauguin          Pavel Haas             Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
(QF skipped)        Quim Gutierrez       [Quentin Harris]      (QI skipped)             Quincy Jones      
Richard Feynman   Rufus Guinshard    Richard Harris         Robert Irwine          Robert Johnson x2
Sigmund Freud      Serge Gainsbourg   Samuel Hahnemann   Salvador Ibanez     Samuel L. Jackson
Timothy Findley     Trey Gunn             Thomas Hobbes        Tea Ista                Tom Jones (fict.)
Ursula Franklin      Ulysses Grant         Uriah the Hittite        Ursula Iguaran       Uli Jon Roth   
Victor Frankenstein   Vincent van Gogh  Victor Halberstadt    Vladimir Ilyich Ulianov  Viktor Jansson 
William Friedkin       William Golding      William Hurt           Washington Irving        Will Jennings
[X,Y,Z skipped)      Xanana Gusmao      Xaviera Hollander    (X, Y, Z skipped)         Yrjö Jyljä
                                                                                                                    Zipporah ben-Jethro
 
From  _K  to  _O
 
Anna Karenina      Alice Liddell            Amedeo Modigliani    Alfred Nobel         Anita O'Day  
Boris Karloff         Bernhard of Lippe-B.  Bibian Mentel         Brigitte Nielsen      Belle Otero  
Chiang Kai-shek   Christiane Legrand     Claude Monet         Christopher Nolan   Catherine O'Hara 
Diane Keaton       Dalai Lama                David McCallum      David Niven          Daniel O'Connell
Elia Kazan           Eberhard van der Laan    Eva Mendes       Edith Nesbit          Evangelos Odysseas P.
Franz Kafka         Frederick Loewe          Frederic Mistral     Freddie Mercury     Flannery O'Connor  
Gustav Klimt        George Lucas              Gustav Mahler      Gianna Nannini      George Orwell      
Helen Keller         Hubert Laws              Hans Memling        Helmut Nadolsky    Huub Oosterhuis  
Immanuel Kant    Ida Lupino                Ivana Marie Trump   Irene Nemirovsky   Ilya Oblomov   
Jack Kerouac       John Locke                James Madison       Juliana of Netherlands   Jan Oort 
Kevin Kline          Konrad Lorenz             Karl Marx              Klaas Nuninga         Kajsa Ollongren  
Lindsay Kemp      Louis Leakey              Louis Mountbatten   Laura Nyro            Lawrence Olivier 
Marco Kroon        Manon Lescaut           Marshall McLuhan   Martina Navratilova   Merle Oberon  
Nancy Kelly         Nathan Lane               Neville Marriner       " N. N. "                 Nigel Olsson  
Olive Kitteridge    Onni Laihanen          Otto Maria Carpeaux   Oliver Nelson        Ozzy Osbourne 
Paul Klee            Ptolemy of Lagus           Paul Motian           Paul Newman        Publius Ovidius 
(QK skipped)       Quarrymen of Liverpool  Quintus F. Maximus  Quintus Novius    Quint Ondaantje 
Robert Kennedy   Roy Lichtenstein          Ray Manzarek          Richard Nixon       Ric Ocasek    
Stephen King       Stan Laurel                 Sarah Miles              Sam Neill             Seiji Ozawa  
Thomas Kretschmann  Timothy Leary       Thomas More          Ted Nugent          Tom Okker  
Urho Kekkonen      Ursula von der Leyen   Ubiratan Maciel       [Uolevi Nojonen]   Ursula Owusu-Ekuful
Vladimir Komarov     Vera Lynn                Vera Miles              Vincenzo Nibali     Viktor Orbán  
Wassily Kandisnky    Walter Lantz          William McKinley        Willie Nelson        William of Occam 
Xerxes, King           (XL skipped)            (XM skipped)           (XN skipped)     (XO skipped)
Yasunari Kawabata      Yasmin Levy      Yvonne Minton          Yannick Noah     Yoko Ono  
Zoe Kravitz            (ZL skipped)           (ZM skipped)             (ZN skipped)       (ZO skipped)
 
From _P  to  _T
 
Anthony Phillips    Anthony Quinn       Auguste Rodin       Anne Sexton        Anne Tyler  
Boris Pasternak    Bernard Quatermass Bertrand Russell   Boyan Slat           Bernie Taupin 
Carl Palmer         [Charles Qualey]      Christina Rossetti   Carol Shields        Charles Trenet  
Dennis Potter      Dennis Quaid           David Rockefeller   Donald Suhteland  Donald Trump 
Elvis Presley       Eça de Queiroz        Erich Maria Remarque Egon Schiele       E.T.
Frederick Pohl                                   Francois Rabelais      Frank Sinatra       Francois Truffaut  
Gene Pitney                                      George Raft            George Soros       Gary Thain  
Henry Purcell     Henri Queffelec       Hillary Rodham Clinton  Horace Silver     Harry S. Truman 
Ian Paice            Ingmar Quant         Iiro Rantala              Ibn Saud             Ian Thrope   
Jackson Pollock    John Quincy Adams  Józef Retinger       Jane Seymour       John Taverner  
Kazimierz Pulaski  Kathleen Quinlan     Kurt Russell          Karol Szymanowski    
Laura Palmer        Liliana Queiroz       Louis Renault         Lawrence Summers 
Michael Phelps      Mary Quant         Mieczysław Rakowski  Mary Shelley   
Nick Park             Nairo Quantana     Nelson Rockefeller        Neil Sedaka     
Oscar Peterson     Oliver Queen         Oliver Reed                Omar Sy     
[Peter, Paul & Mary] Peter McQueen   Paul Rijkens            Peter Sellers     
[Quentin Palfrey]                              Quentin roosevelt     [Queen of Sheba]
Rosa Parks            Raymond Queneau  Raymond Radiguet   Robert Smith  
Shimon Peres        Steve McQueen     Salman Rushdie         Stella Stevens    
Tito Puente           Thomas de Quincey   Terje Rypdal          Telly Savalas     
Ursula Plassnik                                Urban of Rome             Uncle Sam
Vincent Price         Valérie Quenessen  Vanessa Redgrave    Villy Sørensen 
Wolfgang Pluck     William Quant         Wilhelm Röntgen      William Shakespeare
                   Xiaolong Qiu ;Yann Queffelec   Yves Rocher      Xavier Serrano  
[Zelda Plush]     Zainab Quayyum       Zbigniew Rybczyński  Yves Saint-Laurent
                                                                                      Ziggy Stardust
 


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This one's so delicious that I'm rushing:
 
 
Kilgore Trout, a fictional character in various novels by Kurt Vonnegut. Trout is a notably unsuccessful author of paperback science fiction novels.
 
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Liz Taylor (1932 - 2011)

British-American actress

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^ Officially as Elizabeth she'd rather be an E.T., but who cares, the picture's so cute (as was "E.T." too)!
 
 
Maureen "Moe" Tucker (b. 1944), American musician and singer best known as the drummer of Velvet Underground.
 
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Hope you're not getting tired... What keeps me  going is the determined finish in ZZ.
 
 
Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943), Serbian-American inventor and electrical & mechanical engineer.
 
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^^Truly, but when I first became acquainted with her existence (sometime in the late 1960s), she was named Liz in that magazine. I may come up with another Liz later on.


Owen Tudor (c. 1400 - 1461)

Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur, Welsh courtier, grandfather of Henry VII  of England.




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Pamela Lyndon [ P. L. ] Travers (1899 – 1996), Australian-born British writer and actress, famous for Mary Poppins children's books.
 
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Quentin Tarantino (b. 1963)

American director


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Rita Tushingham (b. 1942, Liverpool).
English actress. Iconic character of the 1960s London scene.

 
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Shirley Temple (1928 - 2014)

American actress, businesswoman and diplomat

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Thomas Tallis (1505 - 1585), English composer abd organist; "the father of British church music".
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Ugo Tognazzi (1922 - 1990)
One of the greatest Italian actors.

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Väinö Tanner (1888 - 1966), a notable Finnish politician in the first half of the 20th century, e.g. the prime minister in 1926 - '27.
 
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Wilhelm Tell

Swiss legendary folk hero

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I thought I had X.T. in Javier Tomeo (Spanish writer), or Y.T. in Jannick Top (bassist in Magma), but I remembered the spelling wrong.
 
 
Zacharias - or Zachris - Topelius (1818 - 1898), Finnish writer, one of the earliest novelists in Finland.
His first name is usually represented in the Finnish form Sakari, but he was Swedish-speaking.
 
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Álvaro Uribe (b. 1952).
Colombian president, 2002-2010.

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Beate Uhse (1919 - 2001)

German stunt pilot and businesswoman. Started the first sex shop in the world.





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Another challenging letter going on...  By googling I found nothing better than film assistant Carol Urquhart.
 
 
David Uosikkinen (b. 1956), American drummer, founding member of The Hooters. Surname suggests he has Finnish roots.
 
 
I had this album as a teenager. Not sure who's Uosikkinen, perhaps in the middle...
 
 
For E. U., there's a children's writer from Finland's neighbour country. Tongue 
Not sure if he's well known internationally, but here he's a definite classic. And there's a cathedral in Helsinki sharing the same surname.
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Ebru Umar (b. 1970)

Dutch columnist

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Francis Upton (1852 - 1921).
American doctor and mathematician who worked for many years alongside Thomas Edison.

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