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AA
(1/1)

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Abigail Adams
Arthur Ashe

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Alexander G Bell
Ann Boleyn
Anthony Bourdain
Aaron Burr

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AC
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Al Capone
Aleister Crowley
Allister Cooke
Angus Cloud
Augustus Caesar

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AD

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Arthur Conan Doyle

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Albert Einstein
Amelia Earhart

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AF
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Anne Frank
Aretha Franklin
Albert Finney

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AG
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Andy Gibb
Alexander the Great

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AH
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Adoff Hitler
Alexander Hamilton
Alfred Hitchcock
Aldous Huxley
Audrey Hepburn

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AJ

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Andrew Jackson

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AK

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Andy Kaufman

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AL

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Abraham Lincoln

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AM

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Arthur Miller

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AO
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Annie Oakley

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AP
1/1

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Arnold Palmer
Anna Pavlova

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AS
2/1

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Albert Schweitzer
Ayrton Senna
Anna Nicole Smith

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AW
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Andy Warhol
Amy Winehouse

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BA
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Benedict Arnold
Bud Abbott

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BB
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Barbara Bush

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BC
2

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Butch Cassidy
Bing Crosby

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BD
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Bette Davis

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BF
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Benjamin Franklin
Bobby Fischer
Betty Ford
Betty Friedan

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BG
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Betty Grable
Benny Goodman

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BH
2/1

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Buddy holly
Bob Hope
Billie Holliday

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BJ

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Bobby Jones

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BK

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Buster Keaton

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BL
3

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Bruce Lee
Burt Lancaster
Bella Lagosi

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BM
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Brittany Murphy
Bernie Mac
Bob Marley

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BR
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Babe Ruth
Burt Reynolds
Betsy Ross
Bill Russell
Bob Ross (painter)

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BS

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Bugsy Seigel

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BW
1/1

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Booker T Washington
Betty White

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CB
1/1

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Clara Barton
Chuck Berry

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CC
5/4

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Christopher Columbus
Charlie Chaplin
Calvin Coolidge
Cab Calloway
Chris Cornell
Cyd Charrise
Coco Chanel
Claudine Colbert
Carol Channing

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33
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CD
4

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Charles Dickens
Clarence Darrow
Charles DeGaulle
Charles Darwin

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CF
1/1

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Chris Farley
Carrie Fisher

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CG
2

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Clark Gable
Cary Grant

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CK
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Coretta Scott King

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CL
2

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Charles Lindbergh
CS Lewis

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CM
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Claude Monet
Christine McVeigh
(Fleetwood Mac)

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CP

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Charlie Parker

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CR

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Christopher Reeve

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DB
4

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David Bowie
Daniel Burnham
Daniel Boone
Dick Butkus

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DC
2

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Davey Crockett
David Carradine

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DE
2/1

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Dwight David Eisenhower
Dale Evans
Duke Ellington

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DK

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Danny Kaye

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DM
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Dean Martin
Dolly Madison
Douglas McArthur

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DR
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Debbie Reynolds

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DS
0/1

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Diana Spencer

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DT

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Danny Thomas

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EB
1/1

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Ernie Banks
Elizabeth Browning

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ED
0/1

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Emily Dickinson

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EF
1/1

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Ella Fitzgerald
Errol Flynn

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EH

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Ernest Hemingway

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EJ
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Etta James

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EK
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Edward Kennedy
Evil Knievel
Eartha Kitt
Ethel Kennedy

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EP
2

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Elvis Presley
Edgar Allan Poe

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ER
0/1

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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ET
0/1

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Elizabeth Taylor

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ETR

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Eric the Red

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EW
3

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Eli Whitney
Erich Weiss
Ellie Wiesel

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FA

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Fred Astaire

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FC
3

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Fidel Castro
Frederick Chopin
Francis Crick

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FD
3

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Frederick Douglass
Fats Domino
Francis Drake

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FF
2/1

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Farrah Fawcett
Franz Ferdinand
F Scott Fitzgerald

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FM
2

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Ferdinand Magellan
Freddie Mercury

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FR

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Franklin Roosevelt

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FS
2

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Frank Sinatra
Franz Schubert

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FN
1/1

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Florence Nightengale
Frederick Nietzche

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FW

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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GA
2

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Gene Autry
Gregg Allman

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GB
3

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Geo Burns
Geo W Bush
George Balanchine

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GC
6

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Gary Cooper
Geo Wash. Carver
Grover Cleveland
Geo Carlin
Glenn Campbell
Geo Custer

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GF

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Gerald ford

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GG
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Geo Gershwin
Greta Garbo
Galileo Galilee

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GH
2

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George Harrison
George Hamilton

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GK
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Grace Kelly
Gene Kelly
Ghengis Kahn

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GM
1/1

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Golda Meier
Groucho Marx

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GO

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Geo Orwell

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GP
3

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George Patton
Gregory Peck
Gavrilo Princip

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GR
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Ginger Rogers
Gilda Radner

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GS
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George Seurat
Gertrude Stein

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GW
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George Washington
Gene wilder

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HA
2

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Hans Christian Andersen
Hank Aaron

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HB

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Humphrey Bogart

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HF
2

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Henry Ford
Henry Fonda

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HK
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Helen Kellar

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HH
5

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Harry Houdini
Hugh Hefner
Herbert Hoover
Howard Hughes
Hubert Humphrey

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HL
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Heath Ledger
Huey long
Harper Lee

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HM
3

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Henri Matisse
Harvey Milk
Herman Melville

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HT
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Harry Truman
Harriet Tubman
Henry Tudor

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IB
2/1

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Irving Berlin
Ingrid Bergman
Igmar Bergman

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IG

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Indira Ghandi

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IN

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Isaac Newton

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IW
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Ida B Wells

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JA
1/2

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John Adams
Jane Austin
Joan of Arc

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JB
8/1

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John Belushi
Jimmy Buffet
James Brown
Jack Benny
Johann S Bach
Johanne Brahms
Josephine Baker
John Wilkes Booth
John Bonham

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JC
7/3

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Jesus Christ
Julius Caesar
Johnny Carson
Johnny Cash
Jacques Cousteau
James Cagney
John Coltrane
John Candy
June Carter
Julia Child
Joan Crawford

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JD
5

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James Dean
Joe DiMaggio
John Denver
John Dillinger
Jimmy Durante

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JG
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Judy Garland
Jackie Gleason
Jerry Garcia
John Glenn

99
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JH
4

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Jimi Hendrix
John Hancock
James Hoffa
J Edgar Hoover

100
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JJ
2/1

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Janis Joplin
Jesse James
James Joyce

101
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JK
4/1

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John F Kennedy
John F Kennedy, Junior
Jackie Kennedy
Jack Kevorkian
John Keats

102
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JL
6/1

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John Lennon
Jerry Lewis
Jack Lemmon
Joe Louis
Jack London
John Locke
Janet Leigh

103
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JM
4/1

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Jim Morrison
James Monroe
James Madison
Jayne Mansfield
John McCain

104
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JO
0/1

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Jacqueline Onassis

105
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JR
2/1

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Joan Rivers
Jackie Robinson
Jack the Ripper 
John D Rockerfeller

106
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JS
5

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Jimmy Stewart
Jonas Salk
Joseph Smith
Joseph Stalin
Jerry Springer

107
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JV

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Jules Verne

108
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JW

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John Wayne

109
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KC

A

Kurt Cobain
Keith Caradine

110
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KH
0/1

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Katherine Hepburn

111
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KM

112
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KT

113
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KS
0/1

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Kate spade

114
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KV

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Kurt Vonnegut

115
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LA
1

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Louis Armstrong

116
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LB
4/3

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Lauren Bacall
Ludwig Beethoven
Lucille Ball
Lenny Bruce
Lizzie Borden
Lionel Barrymore
Leonard Bernstein

117
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LC
3

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Leonard Cohen
Lou Costello
Lon Chaney

118
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LD

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Leonardo da Vinci

119
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LG

A

Lou Gehrig

120
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LH

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Langston Hughes

121
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LJ

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Lyndon Johnson

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LL
1/1

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Lucky Luciano
Lily Langtry

123
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LN

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Leonard Nimoy

124
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LO
2

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Lee Harvey Oswald
Laurence Olivier

125
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LP
1/1

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Lisa Marie Presley
Louis Pasteur

126
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LS

A

Louis Sullivan

127
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LT
2/1

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Lana Turner
Leo Tolstoy
Leon Trotsky

128
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LV
2

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Leonardo Divinci
Luther vanDross

129
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MA
3/2

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Muhammad Ali
Marc Anthony
Marcus Aurelius
Marie Antoinette
Maya Angelou

130
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MB
2

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Marlon Brando
Milton Berle

131
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MC
1/1

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Marie Curie
Marc Chagall

132
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MD
1/1

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Miles Davis
Marlene Dietrich

133
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ME

A

Medgar Evans

134
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MG
4

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Marvin Gaye
Mahatma Gandhi
Muammar Gaddafi
Mickey Gilley

135
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MH

A

Merle Haggard

136
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MJ

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Michael Jackson

137
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MK

A

Martin Luther King

138
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ML
1/1

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Mary Todd Lincoln
Martin Luther

139
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MM
1/4

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Marilyn Monroe
Mickey Mantle
Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Magdalene
Mary Martin

140
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MP
2

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Marco Polo
Matthew Perry

141
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MT
1/2

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Mark Twain
Margaret Thatcher
Mother Theresa

142
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MW
0/2

A

Mae West
Martha Washington

143
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MX

144
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NA

A

Neil Armstrong

145
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NB

A

Napoleon Bonaparte

146
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NC
2/1

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Natalie Cole
Nat King Cole
Nicholaus Copernicus

147
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NK

A

Nikita Kruschev

148
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NH

A

Nathaniel Hawthorne

149
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NM
2

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Nelson Mandela
Norman Mailer

150
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NR
1/1

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Nancy Reagan
Norman Rockwell

151
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NT

A

Nikola Tesla

152
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NW
0/1

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Natalie Wood

153
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OH

A

Oliver Hardy

154
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OL

A

Osama bin Laden

155
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OVB

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Otto von Bismarck

156
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OW
3

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Orville Wright
Orson Wells
Oscar Wilde

157
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PB

158
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PC
2

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Pierre Curie
Paul Cézanne

159
Q

PE

A

Pablo Escobar

160
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PM
2/1

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Penny Marshall
Piet Mondrian
Phillip Morris

161
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PH

A

Philip Seymour Hoffman

162
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PN

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Paul Newman

163
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PP

A

Pablo Picasso

164
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PR
4

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Paul Revere
Pierre Renoir
Pete Rose
Phillip Roth

165
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PS

A

Patrick Swayze

166
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PT

A

Pierre Trudeau

167
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PW

A

Paul Walker

168
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RC
1/1

A

Ray Charles
Rosemary Clooney

169
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RD
3

A

Richard Daley
Renee DesCartes
Rodney Dangerfield

170
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RL

A

Robert E Lee

171
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RF
2

A

Robert Frost
Rosalind Franklin

172
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RH

A

Rock Hudson

173
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RK

A

Robert Kennedy

174
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RM

A

Roger Maris

175
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RN
2

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Richard Nixon
Rudolf Nureyev

176
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RP
3/1

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Rosa Parks
Regis Philbin
Robert Peary
Richard Pryor

177
Q

RR
3/1

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Ronald Reagen
Roy Rogers
Rosland Russell
Richard Rogers

178
Q

RW

A

Robin Williams

179
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SA
2/1

A

Spiro Agnew
Samuel Adams
Susan B Anthony

180
Q

SB
3/1

A

Sonny Bono
Sandro Botticelli
Sarah Bernhardt
Sitting bull

181
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SC
2

A

Samuel Clemens
Sean Connery

182
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SD
2/2

A

Salvador Dali
Sammy Davis
Simone deBeauvoir
Sandra Dee

183
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SF

A

Sigmund Freud

184
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SH
2

A

Stephen Hawking
Sam Houston

185
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SI

A

Steve Irwin

186
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SL
2

A

Stan Laurel
Stan Lee

187
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SJ
2

A

Stonewall Jackson
Steve Jobs

188
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SK

A

Sam Kinnison

189
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ST
1/2

A

Spencer Tracy
Shirley Temple
Sojourner Truth

190
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SV

A

Stevie Ray Vaughn

191
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TA

A

Thomas Aquinas

192
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TC
2

A

Truman Capote
Ty Cobb

193
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TE
2

A

Thomas Edison
TS Elliot

194
Q

TJ

A

Thomas Jefferson

195
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TL

A

Tolouse LaTrec

196
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TP
2

A

Tom Petty
Thomas Paine

197
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TR

A

Teddy Roosevelt

198
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TS

A

Tupac Shakur

199
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TW
2/1

A

Tennessee Williams
Ted Williams
Tammy Wynette

200
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UG

A

Ulysses Grant

201
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VH

A

Victor Hugo

202
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VL
1/1

A

Vivian Leigh
Vince Lombardi

203
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VN

A

Vladimir Nabakov

204
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VP

A

Vincent Price

205
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VV

A

Vincent Van Gogh

206
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WB
2

A

William Blake
William S Burroughs

207
Q

WC
2

A

Winston Churchill
Walter Cronkite

208
Q

WD

A

Walt Disney

209
Q

WE

A

Wyatt Earp

210
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WF
2

A

WC Fields
William Faukner

211
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WH
0/1

A

Whitney Houston

212
Q

WM
3

A

Wolfgang A Mozart
Willie Mays
William McKinley
Walter Mathau

213
Q

WP

A

Walter Payton

214
Q

WW
5

A

Woodrow Wilson
Wilbur Wright
Walt Whitman
William Wordsworth
William Wallace

215
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WS

A

William Shakespeare

216
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WY

A

William Yeats

217
Q

YA

A

Yassir Arafat

218
Q

YB
2

A

Yul Brenner
Yogi Berra

219
Q

ZT

A

Zachary Taylor

220
Q

IA

A

Isaac Asimov

221
Q

VW
0/1

A

Virginia Woolf

222
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MR

A

Mickey Rooney

223
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CH

A

Charlton Heston

224
Q

PD

A

Princess Diana

225
Q

AV

A

Amerigo Vespucci

226
Q

PF

A

Peter Falk

227
Q

OR

A

Otis Redding

228
Q

KB

A

Kobe Bryant

229
Q

TEF

A

Tennessee Ernie Ford

230
Q

FK
O/1

A

Frida Kahlo

231
Q

CS

A

Carl Sagan

232
Q

FK
2/1

A

Franz Kafka
Frank Kapra
Frida Kahlo

233
Q

BP
0/2

A

Beatrix Potter
Betty Page

234
Q

ATG

A

Alexander the Great

235
Q

AT

A

Alex Trebec

236
Q

TT
0/1

A

Tina Turner

237
Q

TB
1

A

Tony Bennett

238
Q

OJ
0/1

A

Olivia Newton John

239
Q

OS

A

OJ Simpson

240
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TM

A

Thurgood Marshall

241
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LE

A

Leif Erickson

242
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GL

A

G Gordon Liddy

243
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RG
1/1

A

Rajiv Gandhi
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

244
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LR

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