Che Guevara Che Guevara real name Ernesto Guevara (1928-67). Argentinian revolutionary. A qualified doctor, he left Argentina in 1953 because of his opposition to the dictator Person. He became …
Hugo Grotius Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), Dutch political philosopher. He was active in Netherlands politics and arrested as a republican in 1618. Sentenced to life imprisonment, he escaped to France …
Walter Gropius Walter Gropius (1883-1969), US architect, born in Berlin. He studied architecture in Munich and Berlin and founded the Bauhaus school of architecture in Weimar (1919). In 1925 …
Jacob Grimm Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859), German scholars. Their famous collection of folk-tales, many, of which had never been written down before, was published …
Joseph Grimaldi Joseph Grimaldi (1779-1837), British clown. The son of an Italian actor, he first performed at the age of two as a child dancer at Sadler’s Wells. He …
D. W. Griffith D. W. Griffith (1875-1948), US film director, who greatly influenced the development of cinema in the 1910’s. He has been credited with developing many basic film …
Edvard Grieg Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), Norwegian composer. The son of a diplomat, he studied at Leipzig and Copenhagen, where he met the Norwegian Romantic corn-poser Rikard Nordraak. Through him, …
Pope Gregory I St Gregory I (540-604), Italian pope. In 572 he achieved the highest civilian office in Rome, that of urban prefect, but resigned two years later and …
