Category: Biography
Thomas Carlyle Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish historian and essayist, the son of a stonemason. He abandoned his plans to become a Calvinist minister in favour of an intellectual life …
Caravaggio Caravaggio, nickname of Michelangelo Merisi (1573-1610). Italian painter, one of the most influential artists of the Baroque period. He spent most of his career in Rome, where he …
Al Capone Al Capone (1899-1947), US gangster, the son of an Italian barber. Employed at 20 to work as a strong-arm man for a Chicago gangster, he subsequently went into …
Canute Canute (995-1035), King of England, Denmark, and Norway. With his father, Sweyn , king of Denmark, he invaded England in 1013; the next year he succeeded his father …
Canaletto Canaletto, real name Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768). Italian painter and his precise and highly detailed cityscapes, such as The Basin of San Marco (c. 1730), were inspired by …
Albert Camus Albert Camus (1913-60), French novelist, dramatist, and essayist, a leader of existentialist thought. In the 1930s he studied philosophy in Algiers and became involved with the Algerian …
Donald Campbell Donald Campbell (1921-67), British world speed record breaker. Having broken the world land and water speed records in a car and a boat that were both called …
John Calvin John Calvin (1509-64), French Protestant theologian and religious reformer. Having broken with the Catholic Church, he travelled to Basel in Switzerland. There in 1536 he completed his …
