Who's
Who - Miscellaneous
Updated - Saturday, 5 June, 2004
This sub-section of the Who's Who category of the site contains folio biographies for miscellaneous entries not found within one of the four other available categories.
Entries include the press barons Lords Beaverbrook and Northcliffe; and also such varied personalities as the leader of the Serbian Black Hand secret society and the convicted spy and temptress, Mata Hari.
 Sir
William Babtie, Director of
Medical Supplies (UK) |
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Bruce
Bairnsfather, Cartoonist (UK) |
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Sir
Herbert Baker, War Graves Architect
(UK) |
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Charles
Bean, Official War Historian
(Australia) |
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Lord
Beaverbrook, Minister of
Information (UK) |
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Pope
Benedict XV, Successor to Pius
X (Italy) |
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Robert
Blackburn, Aircraft Designer (UK) |
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Sir
Reginald Blomfield, Architect of
Menin Gate (UK) |
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Paul
Bolo, Traitor (France) |
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Sir
Muirhead Bone, War Artist (UK) |
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Fenner
Brockway, Home Secretary
(UK) |
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George
Butterworth, Composer/Collector
(UK) |
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Sir
Roger Casement, Irish Nationalist
(Ireland) |
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Edith
Cavell, Nurse (UK) |
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Tubby
Clayton, Founder of 'Toc H' (UK) |
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George
M Cohan, Composer and
Playwright (US) |
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George
Creel, Head of CPI Department
(US) |
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Harry
Dalziel, VC Holder (Australia) |
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Dragutin
Dimitrijevic, Leader, Black
Hand Society (Serbia) |
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Sir
James Edmonds, Official War
Historian (UK) |
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Sir
James Alfred Ewing, Head of
Room 40 (UK) |
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Arthur
Fields, Music Hall Performer
(US) |
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Anton
Fokker, Aircraft
Designer (Germany/Netherlands) |
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Sir
Philip Gibbs, Journalist (UK) |
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Samuel
Gompers, AFL Union Leader (US) |
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Fritz
Haber, Scientist (Germany) |
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Sir
William Hall, Director of Naval
Intelligence (UK) |
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Maurice
Hankey, Secretary of War Cabinet
(UK) |
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Evelina
Haverfield, Suffragette/WRAC
Commandant (UK) |
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Adolf
Hitler, Soldier (Germany) |
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Elsie
Inglis, Suffragette/Medical
Pioneer (UK) |
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John
Jackson, V.C. Holder (Australia) |
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Raphael
Kirchner, Illustrator (Austria) |
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John
Simpson Kirkpatrick, ANZAC War
Hero (Australia) |
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Sir
Harry Lauder, Musician (UK) |
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Percy
Wyndham Lewis, Artist (Canada/UK) |
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Walter
Lippmann, Assistant to
Secretary of War (US) |
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Carl
Lody, Convicted German Spy
(Germany) |
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Sir
Edwin Lutyens, War Graves Architect
(UK) |
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Geoffrey
Malins, Official Photographer (UK) |
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Charles
Masterman, Head of War Propaganda
(UK) |
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Mata
Hari, Dancer/Convicted Spy
(Netherlands) |
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Sir
Hiram Maxim, Inventor of Machine
Gun (US/UK) |
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John
Benjamin McDowell, Official
Photographer (UK) |
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Desire
Mercier, Cardinal (Belgium) |
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Sir
William Mills, Inventor of
Mills Bomb (UK) |
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Sir
Keith Murdoch, Journalist (Australia) |
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Paul
Nash, War Artist (UK) |
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Walter
Nernst, Scientist (Germany) |
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Christopher
Nevinson, War Artist (UK) |
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Henry
Nevinson, Journalist (UK) |
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Lord
Northcliffe, Director of Propaganda
(UK) |
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Sir
John Norton-Griffiths, Mining
Liaison Officer (UK) |
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Ivor
Novello, Composer and
Playwright (UK) |
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Sir
William Orpen, Artist (UK) |
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Gabrielle
Petit, Executed Spy (Belgium) |
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Gavrilo
Princip, Assassin of Franz
Ferdinand (Serbia) |
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Louis
Raemaekers, Propaganda
Cartoonist (Netherlands) |
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Grigory
Rasputin, Advisor to Tsar and
Tsarina (Russia) |
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Charles
Repington, Journalist (UK) |
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Flora
Sandes, Nurse/Serbian Soldier
(UK) |
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Alfred
Shout, VC Holder (Australia) |
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Wilfred
Stokes, Inventor of Stokes Mortar
(UK) |
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William
Stones, Executed at Dawn (UK) |
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Sir
Ernest Swinton, General (UK) |
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Karl
von Tappen, Scientist (Germany) |
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Bert
Thomas, Artist (UK) |
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John
Thompson, Weapons Designer (US) |
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Arnold
Toynbee, Historian |
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Sir
Fabian Ware, Founder, CWGC (UK) |
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Lewis
Yealland, Psychiatrist (Canada) |
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Felix
Yusupov, Assassin of Grigory
Rasputin (Russia) |
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Ferdinand
von Zeppelin, Inventor of
Zeppelin (Germany) |
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