Preface -- Table of contents -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- A -- Abacha, Sani (1943-1998) -- Abbas, Ferhat (1899-1985) -- Abbas II (1874-1944) -- also known as Abbas Hilmi Pasha, -- Abbey, Joseph Leo Seko (1940- ) -- Abboud, Ibrahim (1900-1983) -- Abd al-Hamid II (1842-1918) -- Abdel Meguid, Ahmed Esmat (1923- ) -- Abdullah, ibn Abdul Aziz al-Saud (1924- ) -- Abdullah, Sheikh Muhammad (1905-1982) -- Abdullah ibn Hussein (1882-1951) -- Aberhart, William (1878-1943) -- Abernathy, Ralph D (1926-1990) -- Abiola, Moshood Kastumawo (1937-1998) -- Abubakar, Siddiq (1903-1988) -- Abu Nidal (1934-2002) -- also known as Sabri Khalil al-Banna, -- Abzug, Bella Savitsky (1920-1998) -- Achad Haam (or Ahad ha-Am) (1858-1927) -- pseudonym of Asher Ginzberg, -- Acheampong, Ignatius Kutu (1931-1979) -- Achebe, Chinua (1930- ) -- born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, -- Acheson, Dean (Gooderham) (1893-1971) -- Dean (Gooderham) Acheson -- US Democratic politician -- Dean (Gooderham) Acheson -- US Democratic politician -- Dean (Gooderham) Acheson -- US Democratic politician -- Achour, Habib (1913- ) -- Adamkus, Valdas (1926- ) -- Adams, Gerry (1948- ) -- born Gerard Adams, -- Gerry Adams -- Leader of Sinn Fein -- Gerry Adams -- President of Sinn Fein and member of the Northern Ireland Assembly -- Gerry Adams -- Former IRA commander, president of Sinn Fein, and member of the Northern Ireland Assembly -- Adams, Grantley Herbert (1898-1971) -- Adams, Henry Brooks (1838-1918) -- Henry Brooks Adams -- US historian and novelist -- Henry Brooks Adams -- US historian -- Henry Brooks Adams -- US historian and novelist -- Henry Brooks Adams -- US historian and novelist -- Adams, Tom (John Michael) (1931-1985) -- Addams, Jane (1860-1935) -- Anonymous -- Adenauer, Konrad (1876-1967).

Konrad Adenauer -- German Christian Democrat politician -- Adler, Cyrus (1863-1940) -- Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund (1903-1969) -- Aehrenthal, Count Aloys von (1854-1912) -- 'Aflaq, Michel (1910-1989) -- Afrifa, Okatakyie Akwasi Amankwa (1936-1979) -- Afwerki, Issaias (1945- ) -- Aga Khan III (1877-1957) -- also known as Sir Sultan Muhammad Aga Khan, -- Aga Khan IV, (Karim) (1936- ) -- Agnew, Spiro (Theodore) (1918-1996) -- Aguinaldo, Emilio (1869-1964) -- Aguiyi-Ironsi, Johnson (1925-1966) -- Ahern, Bertie (1951- ) -- Ahidjo, Ahmadou (1924-1989) -- Ahtisaari, Maarti (1939- ) -- Aidid, Muhammad Farah (1936-1996) -- Aidit, D N (1923-1965) -- Ait Ahmed, Hocine (1926- ) -- Aitken, Jonathan (William Patrick) (1942- ) -- Akaka, Daniel Kahikina (1924- ) -- Akayev, Askar (1944- ) -- Akhmatova, Anna (1889-1966) -- pen-name of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, -- Anna Akhmatova -- Russian poet -- Akintola, Samuel Ladoke (1910-1966) -- Alain (1868-1951) -- pen-name of Emile-Auguste Chartier, -- Al-Bakr, Ahmed Hassan (1914-1982) -- Albizu Campos, Pedro (1891-1964) -- Albright, Madeleine (1937- ) -- Madeleine Albright -- US diplomat and Democrat politician, secretary of state from 1997 -- Madeleine Albright -- US secretary of state -- Alcalá Zamora y Torres, Niceto (1877-1949) -- Alebua, Ezekiel (1947- ) -- Alemán Lacayo, (José Arnoldo) (1946- ) -- Alemán Valdés, Miguel (1902-1983) -- Alessandri Palma, Arturo (1868-1950) -- Alexander I, Karageorgevich (1888-1934) -- Alexander of Hillsborough, Albert Victor Alexander (1885-1965) -- Viscount Hillsborough, -- Alfaro, Eloy (1842-1912) -- Alfonsín Foulkes, Raúl Ricardo (1927- ) -- Algren, Nelson Abraham (1909-1981) -- Ali, (Chaudri) Muhammad (1905-1980) -- Ali, Ibn Hussein (1879-1935) -- Ali, Maulana Muhammad (1878-1931) -- Ali, Maulana Shaukat (1873-1938) -- Ali, Salim Rubayi (1934-1978) -- Ali, Tariq (1943- ).

Alia, Ramiz (1925- ) -- Ali Aref Bourhan (1934- ) -- Ali Mahdi, Muhammad (1934- ) -- Aliyev, Geidar Alirza (1923-2003) -- Allende (Gossens), Salvador (1908-1973) -- Alvear, Marcelo Torcuato de (1868-1942) -- Amado, Jorge (1912-2001) -- Amato, Giuliano (1938- ) -- Amery, Leo(pold Charles Maurice Stennett) (1873-1955) -- Leo(pold Charles Maurice Stennett) Amery -- British politician -- Leo(pold Charles Maurice Stennett) Amery -- British politician -- Amin, Mustafa (1914-1997) -- Amin (Dada), Idi (1925-2003) -- Amos, Valerie (1954- ) -- Baroness, -- Anami, Korechika (1897-1945) -- Ancram, Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr (1945- ) -- Anderson, John (1922- ) -- Anderson, Marian (1902-1993) -- early struggle -- career -- Andrade, Mario Pinto de (1928-1990) -- Andreotti, Giulio (1919- ) -- Andropov, Yuri (1914-1984) -- Angelou, Maya (1928- ) -- born Marguerite Annie Johnson, -- Maya Angelou -- US writer -- Maya Angelou -- US writer -- Maya Angelou -- US writer -- Annan, Kofi (1938- ) -- Kofi Annan -- Secretary general of the United Nations (UN) -- Antall, József (1932-1993) -- Anthony, Kenny (1951- ) -- Antonescu, Ion (1886-1946) -- Anyaoku, Eleazar Chukwuemeka (Emeka) (1933- ) -- Aoun, Michel (1935- ) -- Aquino, (Maria) Corazon (1933- ) -- called 'Cory' -- born Maria Corazon Conjuangco, -- Arafat, Yassir (1929-2004) -- born Muhammad Yassir Abdul-Ra'ouf Arafat As Qudwa al-Husseini, -- Yassir Arafat -- Leader of the PLO -- Aragon, Louis Marie (1897-1982) -- Araña Osorio, Carlos (1918-2003) -- Arbenz Guzmán, Jácobo (1913-1971) -- Archer, Jeffrey Howard (1940- ) -- Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare, -- Jeffrey Howard Archer -- English writer and politician -- Jeffrey Howard Archer -- English writer and politician -- Arendt, Hannah (1906-1975) -- Arens, Moshe (1925- ) -- Arevalo Bermejo, Juan José (1904-1990) -- Arias Madrid, Arnulfo (1901-1988).

Arias Navarro, Carlos (1908-1989) -- Arias Sanchez, Oscar (1940- ) -- Aristide, Jean-Bertrand (1953- ) -- Armstrong, Robert Temple (1927- ) -- Baron Armstrong of Ilminster, -- Arnold, Eve (c. 1925- ) -- Arriaga, Manuel José de (1842-1917) -- Arroyo, Gloria Macapagal (1947- ) -- Arthur, Owen (Seymour) (1949- ) -- Arzú, Irigoyen Alvaro (1947- ) -- Asanuma, Inejiro (1898-1960) -- Ashcroft, John (1942- ) -- Ashdown, Paddy (Jeremy John Durham) (1941- ) -- Paddy Ashdown -- Leader of the Liberal Democrats -- Paddy Ashdown -- Leader of the Liberal Democrat Party -- Ashe, Arthur (Robert, Jr) (1943-1993) -- Ashley, Jack (1922- ) -- Lord Ashley, -- Ashrawi, Hanan (1946- ) -- Askin, Robert (Robin William) (1907-1981) -- Asquith, Herbert Henry (1852-1928) -- 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, -- Assad, Hafez al (1930-2000) -- Astor, Nancy (1879-1964) -- born Nancy Witcher Langhorne, -- Asturias, Miguel Ángel (1899-1974) -- Atassi, Hashem al- (1874-1960) -- Atatürk, Kemal (1881-1938) -- born Mustafa Kemal Pasha, -- (Turkish 'Father of the Turks') -- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk -- Turkish president -- Attlee, Clement (Richard) (1883-1967) -- 1st Earl Attlee, -- Atwood, Margaret (Eleanor) (1939- ) -- Auden, W(ystan) H(ugh) (1907-1973) -- W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden -- English-born US poet -- W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden -- English-born US poet -- W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden -- English-born US poet -- W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden -- English-born US poet -- W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden -- English-born US poet -- W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden -- English-born US poet -- W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden -- English-born US poet -- W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden -- English-born US poet -- W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden -- English-born US poet -- W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden -- English-born US poet -- W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden -- English-born US poet -- W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden -- English-born US poet -- W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden -- English-born US poet.

W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden -- English-born US poet -- W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden -- English-born US poet -- W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden -- English-born US poet -- W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden -- English-born US poet -- W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden -- English-born US poet -- W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden -- English-born US poet -- W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden -- English-born US poet -- W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden -- English-born US poet -- W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden -- English born US poet -- Aung San (1916-1947) -- Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950) -- also known as Shri Aurobindo, -- Ávila Camacho, Manuel (1897-1955) -- Avksent'yev,, Nikolai Dmitriyevich (1878-1943) -- Awolowo, Obafemi (1909-1987) -- Aylwin, (Azòcar) Patricio (1919- ) -- Ayub Khan, Muhammad (1907-1974) -- Azad, Maulana Abul Kalam (1888-1958) -- Azaña, Manuel (1880-1940) -- Azcona del Hoyo, José Simon (1927- ) -- Azhari, Ismail (1902-1969) -- Azikiwe, Nnamdi (1904-1996) -- Aziz, Tariq (1936- ) -- born Mikhail Yuhanna, -- Aznar, José Maria (1953- ) -- B -- Baader, Andreas (1943-1977) -- Babangida, Ibrahim (1941- ) -- Badawi, Abdullah Ahmad (1939- ) -- Badinter, Robert (1928- ) -- Badoglio, Pietro (1871-1956) -- Baez, Joan (1941- ) -- Joan Baez -- US folk singer -- Bailey, Liberty Hyde (Jr) (1858-1954) -- Baker, Howard Henry (1925-1994) -- Baker, James Addison III (1930- ) -- Baker, Kenneth Wilfrid (1934- ) -- Kenneth Baker -- English politician -- Baker, Newton Diehl (1871-1937) -- Bakhtiar, Shahpur (1914-1991) -- Balaguer Ricardo, Joaquín Videla (1906-2002) -- Balbo, Count Italo (1896-1940) -- Baldwin, James Arthur (1924-1987) -- James Arthur Baldwin -- US writer and civil-rights activist -- James Arthur Baldwin -- US writer and civil-rights activist -- James Arthur Baldwin -- US writer and civil-rights activist -- James Arthur Baldwin -- US writer and civil-rights activist -- James Arthur Baldwin -- US writer and civil-rights activist.

James Arthur Baldwin.