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Birthdays of famous Jews throughout history. The project also includes people with Jewish ancestry (usually at least one Jewish grandparent). Generally, the project includes people with a Wikipedia page or an entry in the Jewish Encyclopedia or Jewish Women's Archive . Bold names are already on Geni and connected to the World Family Tree . Italicized names are on Geni but not yet connected to t...
Businesspeople (also businessmen or businesswomen ) are people involved in a particular undertaking of activities for the purpose of generating revenue from a combination of human, financial, and physical capital. List of notable businesspeople Aerospace industry Thomas O Paine (1921-1992) USA Advertising Leo Burnett (1891 - 1971) Fairfax M. Cone (1903 - 1977) USA George Ho...
Notable Americans of Dutch descent The first Dutch settlers arrived in 1624 and founded a number of villages and a town called New Amsterdam on the East Coast, which would become the future world metropolis of New York. According to the 2006 United States Census, more than 5 million Americans claim total or partial Dutch heritage. Today the majority of the Dutch Americans live in California, ...
What is a "notable?". "worthy of notice"; that is, "significant, interesting, or unusual enough to deserve attention or to be recorded". Notable in the sense of being "famous", or "popular"—although not irrelevant—is secondary. So let's celebrate our indigenous peoples (American Indian, First Nations, Aleuts, Caribbean Islands, Central and South American tribal peoples ... ) and their descend...
Notable Retailers The object of this project is to catalogue notable retailers or business magnates, founders of big chain stores etc., linking them to profiles and trees on GENi. These giants mostly started out as ordinary shopkeepers. The project is international. See also Shopkeepers where you can add profiles of those who were the backbone of society - ordinary shopkeepers. Related ...
Notables of Welsh background Before 1200 Rhodri Mawr 820-878 Llywelyn the Great 1172-1240 Gwladys Ddu 1194-1251 1200-1699 Cydafael Ynnyd 1212-- Owain Glyndwr (Owen Glendower) 1349-1415 Dafydd Gam (Davy Gam) 1351-1415 Einion Sais 1380--
British Radio and Television Personalities Please link the profiles of people who have either presented or hosted programs on British Radio or Television or were born in the United Kingdom and are radio or television personalities in other countries. A radio personality can be someone who introduces and discusses various genres of music, hosts a talk radio show that may take calls from list...
The founders of American companies of world renown.
Libb Thims's Genius IQ Rankings Ranked by IQ or "relative brightness or intellect" Top 1000 Geniuses of All Time Johann Goethe , 225 IQ Isaac Newton , 220 IQ Albert Einstein , 215 IQ James Maxwell , 210 IQ Willard Gibbs , 210 IQ Rudolf Clausius , 205 IQ Leonardo da Vinci , 200 IQ
Persons of note who were born, raised, or spent portions of their lives in the American Commonwealth of Kentucky. Additions to the list welcome. notables John Adair pioneer and political leader; Muhammad Ali , boxer Alben W. Barkley vice president; Louis D. Brandeis jurist; John Mason Brown critic; Kit Carson scout; Champ Clark politician; George Clooney actor; Rosemary Cl...
Google from time to time honor people or events with a customized version of their logo. The goal of this project is to list and tag all of those honored by Google. There is a full list by year at the Google Doodles home page . Bold names have Geni Profiles and have been tagged. This project is on History Link where you can discover which projects your ancestors are on. NOTE: A limited numb...
Huguenots were French Protestants, the term possibly deriving from mispronunciation of the Swiss-German Eidgenosse, meaning sworn companion or confederate. They were at the centre of political and religious disputes in France in the 16th and 17th centuries. Under Henri II (1547-59) they formed a powerful group which included the king of Navarre and Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France, and was...
Notable Black Britons Diane Abbott, MP Floella Benjamin John Boyega Melanie Brown Naomi Campbell Ainsley Harriott Lenny Henry Thandie Newton Hugh Quarshie Ignatius Sancho
This project aims to document notable residents of Freehold. From Freehold Township Heritage Society » Freehold History This land was first sighted by European Venetian John Cabot while sailing along the coast in 1498. The Lenni Lenape Indians originally inhabited the area called Freehold Township. It wasn’t until September 1609 that the first European actually set foot at Sandy Hook. Th...
Chickasaw Nation Hall of Fame For tribal members who have beem inducted into the Chickasaw Hall of Fame by the Chickasaw Nation. Members are listed on the Chickasaw Nation website "In 1987 the Chickasaw Nation began honoring Chickasaws who made significant contributions to Chickasaw people or the Native American community by induction into the Chickasaw Nation Hall of Fame. Since that tim...
This project aims to identify founders, notable teachers and students of Vilnius University from 1579 to present day. If in your family tree you have an individual who was a notable professor, administrator or student of a high professional achievement (later in life), whose education was associated with Vilnius University, please add them to this project. It would be great if within profile ...
Some people are notable enough to have actual chemical elements themselves named after them. This is a project to list them. List Gd ₆₄ Gadolinium - Johan Gadolin Cm ₉₆ Curium - Pierre Curie, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1903 Es ₉₉ Einsteinium - Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1921 Fm ₁₀₀ Fermium - Enrico Fermi Md ₁₀₁ Mendelevium - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev No ₁₀₂ Nobelium ...
Notable men in South Australia Smith, Robert Barr (1855) benefactor, company director, ship owner and grazier. His firm pioneered the opening of outback South Australia, including the fencing of properties and sinking of bores. Smith's philanthropic activity became a legend. Elder, Sir T. businessman, pastoralist, public benefactor, wool broker, ship owner and member of the Legislative Counc...
Notable women in South Australia Saint Mary Mackillop (1842-1909) co-founded an order of nuns in rural South Australia in 1866 and became the first Australian saint of the Catholic Church in 2010. Wikipedia South Australian suffragette Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910). In 1895 women in South Australia were among the first in the world to attain the vote and were the first to be able to stan...
Notable Victorians Lots of changes took place during the Victorian era (1837 to 1901), and many people made important contributions to Victorian society in a wide variety of different ways. This project will help to learn more about some of these notable Victorians: Queen Victoria ...