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Relating to public figures or personalities, celebrities or otherwise, who have made significant progress in their particular professional field, or who have helped or influenced wider society to an outstanding degree.

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Richard Phillips Leary

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Richard Phillips Leary (3 November 1842 – 27 December 1901) was an admiral in the United States Navy who served from the American Civil War through the Spanish-American War.

William Edwin Safford

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William Edwin Safford (December 14, 1859, Chillicothe, Ohio – January 10, 1926) was an American botanist, ethnologist, and educator employed by the U.S. Navy and federal ...

Seaton Schroeder

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Seaton Schroeder (17 August 1849 – 19 October 1922) was an admiral of the United States Navy. Schroeder was born in Washington, D.C., on 17 August 1849 the son of Frances ...

William Swift

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William Swift (March 17, 1848—June 30, 1919) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy, and briefly the Naval Governor of Guam in 1901. He was court-martialed in 1907 for the ...

William Elbridge Sewell

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William Elbridge Sewell (November 16, 1851 – March 18, 1904) was a United States Navy Lieutenant Commander, and the 6th Naval Governor of Guam from February 9, 1903 until being ...

Paul Ryan

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Paul Ryan (born January 29, 1970) is the U.S. Representative from Wisconsin's 1st congressional district since 1999 and the chairman of the House Budget Committee since ...

Riyad Farid Hijab

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Riyad Farid Hijab, born 1956, is a Syrian politician. He was Prime Minister of Syria in the year 2012, serving under the President Bashar al-Assad. From 2011 to 2012, he was ...