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Discover which famous personalities were born today. From legendary artists to groundbreaking scientists, see who was born on this day in history.
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Today in History April 12
Step back in time and explore significant historical events, notable births, and memorable deaths that occurred on this day throughout history.
- 2014 The Great Fire of Valparaíso ravages the Chilean city of Valparaíso, killing 16 people, displacing nearly 10,000, and destroying over 2,000 homes.
- 2013 Two suicide bombers kill three Chadian soldiers and injure dozens of civilians at a market in Kidal, Mali.
- 2011 Minsk Metro bombing kills 15 people and injuries 204 when a bomb is detonated within the Minsk Metro, Belarus.
- 2010 Merano derailment: A rail accident in South Tyrol kills nine people and injures a further 28.
- 2009 Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwean dollar as its official currency.
- 1996 Jan Bednarek, Polish footballer
- 1996 Matteo Berrettini, Italian tennis player
- 1996 Elizaveta Kulichkova, Russian tennis player
- 1995 Pedro Cachin, Argentine tennis player
- 1994 Eric Bailly, Ivorian professional footballer
- 2025 Pilita Corrales, Filipino singer-songwriter and actress (born 1939)
- 2024 Roberto Cavalli, Italian fashion designer and inventor (born 1940)
- 2024 Eleanor Coppola, American filmmaker (born 1936)
- 2024 Robert MacNeil, Canadian-American journalist and author (born 1931)
- 2022 Gilbert Gottfried, American comedian, actor, and singer (born 1955)
All 1,061 Celebrities (A-Z)
Browse our complete directory of notable personalities organized alphabetically. From A-list celebrities to historical icons, find detailed profiles of the world's most influential individuals.
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Abani, ChrisAbbey, EdwardAbe, KoboAboulela, LeilaAbramović, MarinaAbécassis, ÉlietteAchebe, ChinuaAdams, JohnAdams, John QuincyAdams, ScottAdebayo, Ayọ̀bámiAdichie, Chimamanda NgoziAdiga, AravindAdkins, AdeleAdrianov, NikolaiAguon, JulianAho, JuhaniAiken, JoanAkhmatova, AnnaAl Aswany, AlaaAl Bisri, Sharifaal-Haytham, IbnAl-KhwarizmiAl-Kurdi, DuaaAlcott, KathleenAlcott, Louisa MayAlexandria, NanaAlexievich, SvetlanaAlexis, AndréAlhakim, TawfiqAlharthi, JokhaAli, MonicaAljechin, AlexanderAllende, IsabelAlmodóvar, PedroAltan, AhmetAlwan, HannaAmado, JorgeAmedee Barbey, JulesAnand, Mulk RajAnand, ViswanathanAndersen, Hans ChristianAnderton, JimAndrić, IvoAngelou, MayaAnguissola, SofonisbaAnne Porter, KatherineAnning, MaryAparicio, YalitzaArchimedesAristotleArjun, SaraArmani, GiorgioAronian, LevonArp, JeanArthur, Chester A.Arudpragasam, AnukAsturias, Miguel ÁngelAtwood, MargaretAuden, W. H.Audubon, John JamesAusten, Janede Avellaneda, Gertrudis Gómez
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Babbage, CharlesBach, Johann SebastianBacon, FrancisBad BunnyBajani, Andreade Balzac, HonoréBamonte, PerryBarbey d’Aurevilly, JulesBardem, JavierBardot, BrigitteBaring-Gould, SabineBarnes, DjunaBarnes, JulianBasquiat, Jean-MichelBaudelaire, CharlesBaulieu, Étienne-ÉmileBeatty, Paulde Beauvoir, SimoneBeckett, SamuelBeecher Stowe, Harrietvan Beethoven, LudwigBekele, KenenisaBeliavsky, AlexanderBell, GertrudeBellow, SaulBellucci, MonicaBelmondo, Jean-PaulBelmondo, StefaniaBenigni, RobertoBergman, IngridBerners-Lee, TimBernini, Gian LorenzoBerry, HalleBetancourt, ÍngridBetasamosake Simpson, LeanneBeukes, LaurenBezos, JeffBhutto, FatimaBiden, JoeBieber, JustinBiffle, GregBikila, AbebeBiles, SimoneBinoche, JulietteBisciotti, SteveBjörnson, BjørnstjerneBjørgen, MaritBjørndalen, Ole EinarBlanchett, CateBlankers-Koen, FannyBlasim, HassanBloomberg, GeorginaBlum, HilaBlunt, EmilyBocelli, AndreaBohr, NielsBolt, UsainBonaparte, NapoleonBorges, Jorge LuisBoseman, ChadwickBosworth, KateBotticelli, SandroBotvinnik, MikhailBouin, JeanBouraoui, NinaBourgeois, LouiseBouvard, PhilippeBowie, DavidBrahms, JohannesBraque, GeorgesBrecht, BertoltBremer, FredrikaBronstein, DavidBronte, AnneBronte, CharlotteBronte, EmilyBrown, Millie BobbyBrowning, Elizabeth BarrettBrowning, Robertde Bruijn, IngeLe Brun, Élisabeth VigéeBruni, CarlaBruni Tedeschi Jr., ValeriaBruyère, RobinBrynner, YulBrâncuși, ConstantinBuchanan, JamesBuckley, JessieBulawayo, NoVioletBulgakov, MikhailVan Buren, MartinBurroughs, JordanBusfield, TimothyBush, George H. W.Bush, George W.Bush, KateByatt, A.S.Byrne, RoseByron, Lord
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Caesar, JuliusCampbell, Mattdel Campo, EstanislaoCamus, AlbertCapablanca, Jose RaulCaravaggioCarey, MariahCarlsen, MagnusCarlyle, ThomasCarpentier, AlejoCarroll, LewisCarson, RachelCarter, JimmyCartland, BarbaraCaruana, FabianoCash, JohnnyCashman, NellieCassatt, MaryCather, WillaChagall, MarcChalamet, TimothéeChampollion, Jean-FrançoisChan, GemmaChan, JackieChaplin, OonaCharles, RayCharrier, JacquesChatterjee, Bankim ChandraChaudhuri, AmitCheadle, DonChekhov, AntonCheney, DickCheung, MaggieChiang, TedCho, Nam-jooChopin, FrédéricChopin, KateChung, ClarissaChurchill, WinstonCiccone, MadonnaCixin, LiuCixous, HélèneClark, LygiaClaudel, CamilleCleopatraClerk Maxwell, JamesCleveland, GroverClinton, BillClooney, GeorgeCoben, HarlanCocker, JoeCocteau, JeanCoetzee, J. M.Cole, TejuColeridge, Samuel TaylorColumbus, ChristopherCombs, SeanComăneci, NadiaConfuciusConrad, JosephCoolidge, CalvinCortázar, JulioCotillard, MarionCourbet, GustaveCramling, PiaCrick, FrancisCrosby, BingCruz, AngieCruz, PenélopeCurie, MarieCusk, RachelCézanne, Paul
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d'Alpuget, BlancheDafoe, WillemDalí, SalvadorDangarembga, TsitsiDanticat, EdwidgeDarwin, CharlesDarwish, MahmoudDarío, RubénDasgupta, RanaDaudet, AlphonseDavid Friedrich, CasparDavies, RickDay-Lewis, DanielDean, JamesDee, GerryDegas, EdgarDelpy, JulieDeneuve, CatherineDennis, DukeDevi, MahaswetaDiCaprio, LeonardoDickens, CharlesDicker, JoëlDickinson, EmilyDion, CelineDiop, DavidDjebar, Assiado Amaral, TarsilaDomínguez, LeinierDostoevsky, FyodorDoucet, JulieDrakeDressel, CaelebDrummond de Andrade, Carlosdu Châtelet, ÉmilieDucournau, KatiaDumas, AlexandreDumas fils, AlexandreDunaway, FayeDuVernay, AvaDylan, BobDürer, Albrecht
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Eco, UmbertoEddo-Lodge, ReniEdison, ThomasEduardo Agualusa, JoséEdugyan, EsiEgan, JenniferEilish, BillieEinstein, AlbertEisenhower, Dwight D.El Akkad, OmarEl Guerrouj, HichamEl Hachmi, NajatEl Saadawi, NawalElba, IdrisEliot, GeorgeEliot, T. S.Ellington, Edward Kennedy "Duke"Elytis, OdysseasEmerson, Ralph WaldoEmin, TraceyEndo, ShusakuEnríquez, MarianaErnst, MaxErpenbeck, JennyEsaki, LeoEscobar, PabloEuclidEvaristo, BernardineEvert, ChrisEvora, CesáriaEça de Queirós, José Maria
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Fabian, LaraFaithfull, MarianneFaraday, MichaelFarah, MoFarrokhzad, ForoughFaulkner, WilliamFedoseev, VladimirFelix, AllysonFenty, RihannaFerdinand Meyer, ConradFermi, EnricoFerrante, ElenaFerrat, JeanFetisov, VyacheslavFeynman, RichardFielding, HelenFiennes, RalphFillmore, MillardFine, AnneFirouzja, AlirezaFischer, BirgitFischer, BobbyFitzgerald, EllaFitzgerald, F. ScottFlaubert, GustaveFolorunso, TopeFonda, JaneFonsi, LuisFontane, TheodorFord, Gerald R.Ford, HarrisonFord, HarrisonForna, AminattaFrank, AnneFrankenthaler, HelenFranklin, ArethaFranklin, BenjaminFranklin, RosalindFraser-Pryce, Shelly-AnnFreeman, MorganFreud, LucianFreud, SigmundFrey, JacobFuentes, CarlosFältskog, Agnetha
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Galchen, RivkaGalilei, GalileoGalloway, JaniceGandhi, MahatmaGanguly, Surya ShekharGarbo, GretaGarcía Bernal, GaelGarcía Márquez, GabrielGardner, AvaGarfield, James A.Gary, RomainGates, BillGauguin, PaulGautier, ThéophileGehry, FrankGeisenberger, NatalieGeller, EfimGenet, JeanGentileschi, ArtemisiaGerwig, GretaGhalib, MirzaGhosh, AmitavGiacometti, AlbertoGibaGilbert, MelissaGiri, AnishGlaser, NikkiGleeson, SineadGodard, Jean-Lucvon Goethe, Johann Wolfgangvan Gogh, VincentGogol, NikolaiGoncharov, IvanGoodall, JaneGordimer, NadineGordon-Levitt, JosephGosling, RyanGotthelf, JeremiasDe Goya, FranciscoGrace, PatriciaGrande, ArianaGrant, Ulysses S.Grass, GünterGreen, EvaGreenberg, IsabelGreene, PeterGreenwell, GarthGrint, RupertGrischuk, AlexanderGrisham, JohnGroff, LaurenGuelfenbein, CarlaGuitry, SachaGujrathi, ViditGuo, XiaoluGutenberg, JohannesGyasi, Yaa
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Hamasaki, AyumiHamid, MohsinHamilton, ScottHamsun, KnutHanks, TomHanyu, YuzuruHao, WangHarding, Warren G.Hardy, ThomasHarikrishna, PentalaHarris, JoanneHarris, KamalaHarrison, BenjaminHarrison, William HenryHashmi, ZarinaHawke, MayaHawking, StephenHawthorne, NathanielHayek, SalmaHayes, Rutherford B.Hayworth, RitaHead, BessieHeaney, SeamusHedayat, SadeghHeiden, EricHeine, HeinrichHeisenberg, WernerHemingway, ErnestHeng, ZhangHepburn, AudreyHepworth, BarbaraHernández, JoséHertz, HeinrichHerzog, WernerHesse, HermannHiggins Clark, MaryHighsmith, PatriciaHikmet, NazimHippocratesHiroshige, UtagawaHokusai, KatsushikaHolan, VladimirHolzer, Jennyvan den Hoogenband, PieterHoover, HerbertHopkins, AnthonyHopper, EdwardHopper, GraceHosseini, ShahabHourani, HassanHouston, WhitneyHoward, Elizabeth JaneHoy, ChrisHugo, VictorHumpy, KoneruHuppert, IsabelleHusain, M. F.Hutchinson, IshionHypatia
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Jackson, AndrewJackson, MichaelJacobsen, Jens PeterJames, EttaJames, HenryJames, KiraniJames, MarlonJefferson, ThomasJelloun, Tahar BenJensen, CarstenJiles, PauletteJingjing, GuoJobs, SteveJohnson, AndrewJohnson, Lyndon B.Johnson, MichaelJohnson, ShawnJoly, EvaJoyce, JamesJoyner, FlorenceJoyner-Kersee, JackieJr., Martin Luther King
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Kaas, PatriciaKabakov, IlyaKabbani, RanaKadaré, IsmailKafka, FranzKahlo, FridaKandinsky, WassilyKang, HanKang-ho, SongKanno, YokoKapoor, AnilKapoor, AnishKapuscinski, RyszardKarjakin, SergeyKarpov, AnatolyKarunatilaka, ShehanKasparov, GarryKaur, RupiKavenna, JoannaKawabata, YasunariKawakami, HiromiKawakami, MiekoKeating, RonanKeats, JohnKeller, GottfriedKennedy, John F.Kenny, JasonKepler, JohannesKeres, PaulKertész, ImreKhan, AamirKidman, NicoleKiefer, AnselmKikuchi, RinkoKim, ChloeKinsella, SophieKipchoge, EliudKitajima, KosukeKlee, PaulKlimt, GustavKnausgård, Karl OveKnowles, BeyoncéKo, LisaKollwitz, Käthede Kooning, WillemKorchnoi, ViktorKorneliussen, NiviaqKosteniuk, AlexandraKramnik, VladimirKrasko, IvanKundera, MilanKurniawan, EkaKurosawa, AkiraKusama, YayoiKuti, Fela
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Labisse, FélixLagerkvist, PärLagerlöf, SelmaLahiri, JhumpaLalami, LailaLamarr, HedyLarson, BrieLasker, EmanuelLatynina, LarisaLau, AndyLauper, CindyLaurent, MélanieLavoisier, AntoineLeavitt, KarolineLedecky, KatieLedger, HeathLee, BruceLee, Min JinLeko, Peterde Lempicka, TamaraLennon, JohnLennox, CharlotteLermontov, MikhailLessing, DorisLevy, DeborahLewis, CarlLi, GongLi, YiyunLimón, AdaLincoln, AbrahamLinnaeus, CarlLipinski, TaraLiren, DingLispector, ClariceLiu, LucyLiukin, NastiaLobo Antunes, AntónioLochte, RyanLope de VegaLoren, SofiaLovelace, AdaLuciano, PavarottiLuiselli, ValeriaLutikov, Anatoly
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Ma, LingMachado de Assis, Joaquim MariaMachiavelli, NiccolòMadison, JamesMaduro, NicolásMagritte, ReneMahfouz, NaguibMakeba, MiriamMalagatti, AravindMalek, RamiMallarmé, StéphaneMamdani, ZohranMamedyarov, ShakhriyarMandela, NelsonManet, ÉdouardManiscalco, SebastianMann, ThomasMansfield, KatherineManto, Saadat HasanManuel, SimoneManzoni, AlessandroMaraini, DaciaMarengwa, DambudzoMaria, CallasMarley, BobMarra, AdaMars, BrunoMartinez, OlivierMatesis, PavlosMathieu, NicolasMathis, JohnnyMatisse, HenriMatsuda, AokoMatsumoto, SeichoMaxwell, James ClerkMay-Treanor, MistyMayakovsky, VladimirMbappé, KylianMbougar Sarr, MohamedMbue, ImboloMcCartney, PaulMcClintock, BarbaraMcFadden, FreidaMcKinley, WilliamMebarak, ShakiraMehretu, JulieMeitner, LiseMelchor, FernandaMelo, PatríciaMelville, HermanMenchik, VeraMendel, GregorMendeleev, DmitriMendoza, FernandoMercury, FreddieMeredith, GeorgeMerlant, NoémieMeyer, ClemensMichelangeloMickiewicz, AdamMifune, ToshiroMiller, ArthurMin-sik, ChoiMinxia, WuMirren, HelenMiró, JoanMishima, YukioMistral, GabrielaMitchell, DavidMitchell, JoanMiura, ShionMiyazaki, HayaoMiłosz, CzesławModigliani, AmedeoMoir, ScottMondrian, PietMonet, ClaudeMonroe, JamesMontale, EugenioMoore, HenryMoore, JulianneMoore, SherroneMorante, ElsaMoravia, AlbertoMorisot, BertheMorphy, PaulMorrison, ToniMortensen, ViggoMoshfegh, OttessaMozart, Wolfgang AmadeusMuchá, AlphonseMunaweera, NayomiMunch, EdvardMunro, AliceMurakami, HarukiMurata, SayakaMurray, AndyMurray, LesMusah, YunusMusk, Elonde Musset, AlfredMutu, WangechiMuzichuk, MariyaMuzychuk, AnnaMwanza Mujila, FistonMüller, Herta
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Nabokov, VladimirNaguib, MahfouzNaidu, SarojiniNaipaul, V. S.Nakamura, HikaruNarayan, R.K.Navara, DavidNayeri, DinaNDiaye, MarieNelson, PrinceNenaNepomniachtchi, IanNeruda, PabloNeuman, AndrésNewton, Isaacvan Niekerk, WaydeNietzsche, FriedrichNightingale, FlorenceNin, AnaïsNixon, RichardNobel, AlfredNoem, KristiNoemí, DaríoNoguchi, IsamuNolan, ChristopherNorris, LandoNunn, JohnNurmi, PaavoNyong'o, Lupita
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Pampini, GabinoPamuk, OrhanParadis, VanessaPasternak, BorisPasteur, LouisPatel, DevPaz, OctavioPeixoto, José LuísPellegrini, FedericaPeltz, NicolaPerse, Saint‑JohnPetrosian, TigranPetőfi, SándorPhelps, MichaelPicasso, PabloPierce, FranklinPincent, MatthewPissarro, CamillePitts, JohnyPlanck, MaxPlatoPoe, Edgar AllanPolgar, JudithPolk, JamesPollock, JacksonPolo, MarcoPoniatowska, ElenaPonomariov, RuslanPorter, ColePorter, MaxPortman, NataliePresley, ElvisProulx, AnniePudzianowski, MariuszPushkin, AlexanderPutuma, KolekaPythagorasPérez Galdós, Benito
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Radcliffe, DanielRadjabov, TeimourRahim, TaharRai, AishwaryaRankine, ClaudiaRaphaelRapport, RichardRea, ChrisReade, CharlesReagan, RonaldRedgrave, SteveReeves, KeanuReiche, AriannaReiner, RobRembrandtRenoir, Pierre-AugusteRenó, JeanReonaReyes, DoloresRichard, LittleRichards-Ross, SanyaRichter, Gerhardvan Rijn, RembrandtRiley, BridgetRilke, Rainer MariaRimbaud, ArthurRiner, TeddyRist, José Antonio KastRivera, DiegoRivera, MarianRivers, PhilipRobinson, BettyRockwell, NormanRodin, AugusteRoffey, MoniqueRolland, RomainRooney, SallyRoosevelt, Franklin D.Roosevelt, TheodoreRoss, DianaRoss, LeoneRostand, EdmondRoy, ArundhatiRubinstein, AkibaRudisha, DavidRudolph, WilmaRugero, RolandRukh Khan, ShahRuolin, ChenRushdie, SalmanRyder, WinonaRóżewicz, Tadeusz
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Saeki, SayakaSagan, CarlSaldana, ZoeSalih, TayebSanada, HiroyukiSartre, Jean-PaulSavón, FelixScherbo, VitalySchiele, EgonSchiller, FriedrichSchlossberg, TatianaSchrödinger, ErwinSchweblin, SamantaSeahorn, RheaSebald, W. G.Sebbar, LeïlaSeberg, JeanSeferis, GiorgosSeghers, AnnaSeles, MonicaSelvadurai, ShyamSepetys, RutaSerpell, NamwaliSeurat, GeorgesShafak, ElifShakespeare, WilliamShamsie, KamilaShankland, SamuelSharif, OmarSheeran, EdShelley, Percy ByssheShevchenko, TarasShibli, AdaniaShields, ClaressaShiffrin, MikaelaShikibu, MurasakiShire, WarsanShogdzhiev, RomanShort, NigelShree, GeetanjaliShtotland, KarinaSienkiewicz, HenrykSignac, PaulSigurdsson, SjonSimone, NinaSinatra, FrankSinger Sargent, JohnSitwell, EdithSkarsgard, BirgitSklenar, BrandonSlimani, LeilaSmart, ElizabethSmith, AliSmith, PattiSmith, SamSmyslov, VassilySnow, C. P.So, WesleySocratesSolzhenitsyn, AleksandrSong, Kang-hoSoyinka, WoleSpark, MurielSpassky, BorisSpears, BritneySpitz, MarkStatovci, PajtimStefanova, AntoanetaSteinfeld, HaileeSteinitz, WilhelmStendhalStevenson, Robert LouisStevenson, TeófiloStifter, AdalbertStoker, BramStone, SharonStorm, TheodorStorrie, ConnorStreep, MerylStreisand, BarbraStrindberg, AugustStrug, KerriSwift, TaylorSwinton, TildaSyjuco, MiguelSzymborska, WisławaSzécsi, NoémiSábato, ErnestoSüleymanoğlu, NaimSłowacki, JuliuszSōseki, Natsume
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Taft, William HowardTagawa, Cary-HiroyukiTagore, RabindranathTaimanov, MarkTaro Greenfeld, KarlTauber-Arp, SophieTaylor, BrandonTaylor, ZacharyTegnér, EsaiasTell, DianeTerrin, PeterTesla, NikolaTevetoğlu, TarkanTheron, CharlizeThomas, DylanThompson, DaleyThoreau, Henry DavidThorpe, IanTitianTokarczuk, OlgaTolstoy, LeoTomba, AlbertoTomlin, MikeTopalov, Veselindel Toro, BenicioTorvill, JayneTouqan, FadwaTretiak, VladislavTrouillot, ÉvelyneTrudeau, JustinTruman, Harry S.Trump, DonaldTurgenev, IvanTuring, AlanTurner, WilliamTutu, DesmondTwain, MarkTyler, John
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wa Thiong'o, Ngũgĩwa Thiong'o Jr., NgugiWadsworth Longfellow, HenryWaititi, TaikaWaits, TomWalcott, DerekWaldheim, KurtWalker, AliceWalker, KaraWalls, JeannetteWalsh Jennings, KerriWarton, EdithWashington, DenzelWashington, GeorgeWatanabe, KenWatson, JamesWatson, MaryWatts, NaomiWeisz, RachelWeiwei, AiWells, H.G.Werth, IsabellWestinghouse, GeorgeWhitaker, ForestWhite, PatrickWhite, ShaunWhite, T. H.Whitehead, ColsonWhitman, WaltWhittingham, KyleWilde, OscarWilliams, GrantWilliams, HudsonWilliams, MichelleWilliams, SerenaWilliams, VenusWilson, EdmundWilson, WoodrowWinehouse, AmyWinslet, KateWinterson, JeanetteWitt, KatarinaWonder, StevieWood, GrantWoods, TigerWoolf, VirginiaWordsworth, WilliamWou-Ki, ZaoWu, Chien-ShiungWurtzel, ElizabethWłodarczyk, Anita