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Viktor Jansson (1886 - 1958), among the most notable sculptors in Finland in the time between the wars. 
Of course his daughter is much better remembered internationally. Yes, Tove. Heart
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The listed persons in this game up to this point:    from AA to ZE  (2nd choices not listed here)
 
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 AF to .... (to be updated)
 
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       
[X,Y,Z skipped)      Xanana Gusmao      Xaviera Hollander    (X, Y, Z skipped)     
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Will Jennings (born 1944).
American songwriter: "My heart will go on", from Titanic.
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Yrjö Jylhä (1903 - 1956), Finnish poet. His poem collection Kiirastuli ('Purgatorio', 1941) is among Finnish poetry classics. Also translated works of Shakespeare, John Milton, La Fontaine, etc.
 
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Zipporah ben-Jethro, biblical character.
The daughter of Jethro, wife of Moses.
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Anna Karenina, the main character in Leo Tolstoy's classic novel Anna Karenina (1878).
 
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Boris Karloff (1887 - 1969)

William Henry Pratt, English horror movie actor
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Chiang Kai-shek (1887 - 1975).
Chinese and Taiwanese politician.
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Diane Keaton (b. 1946), American actress, director and producer.
 
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Elia Kazan (1909 - 2003).
Greek-American director, producer, actor, etc.
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Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924), German-speaking, Prague-based Jewish whose fame as one of the most influential 20st century writers was totally posthumous. "The Trial", "The Castle", "Metamorphosis", ...
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Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918)

Austrian painter
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Helen Keller (1886 - 1968), American author, political activist and lecturer. The first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree.

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Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804).
German philosopher. Very influential figure for the modern philosophy.
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Jack Kerouac (1922 – 1969), American novelist and poet.
"Read some Kerouac and it put me on the tracks to burn a little brighter now..." - Marillion: Torch Song
 
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Kevin Kline (b. 1947).
American actor.
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(Hopefully we'll get to ZZ some day, even though there seem to be very few active players at the moment... A special Thank You to Atkingani! Clap)
Lindsay Kemp (b. 1938), English dancer, coreographer, mime artist/teacher who's taught e.g. David Bowie and Kate Bush.
 
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Marco Kroon (b. 1970)

Dutch officer, the first to be appointed a knight of the Military William Order in more than 50 years.
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Nancy Kelly (1921 - 1995).
American actress.







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