People in History A-Z #12

Name the important historical figure for each letter of the alphabet

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	Hint	Answer
A	Post-war Labour prime minister of the United Kingdom	Clement Attlee
B	Italian Renaissance artist who painted 'The Birth of Venus'	Sandro Botticelli
C	Middle Ages poet dubbed the 'Father of English Literature', known for The Canterbury Tales	Geoffrey Chaucer
D	American animator and who created many characters including Mickey Mouse and Dumbo	Walt Disney
E	Ancient Greek mathematician known as the 'Father of Geometry'	Euclid
F	Influential soul singer of the 60s and 70s who sold over 75 million records worldwide	Aretha Franklin
G	Leader of the French resistance during Nazi occupation, and later founder and president of the Fifth Republic	Charles de Gaulle
H	Top SS member and proponent of the Holocaust	Heinrich Himmler
I	Discovered photosynthesis in plants	Jan Ingenhousz
J	Iconic front man and co-founder of The Rolling Stones	Mick Jagger
K	Cold War Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis	Nikita Khrushchev
L	Longest reigning monarch in European history, known as the 'Sun King'	Louis XIV
M	South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and later President of South Africa	Nelson Mandela
N	Founder of modern nursing known as the 'Lady of the Lamp'	Florence Nightingale
O	British WW1 soldier and poet	Wilfred Owen
P	First Lady of Argentina immortalised in the musical Evita	Eva Peron
Q	Norwegian prime minister who collaborated with the Nazis in WWII	Vidkun Quisling
R	Egyptian pharaoh who led conquests into Nubia and the Levant	Ramesses II
S	American rock singer, known by his moniker 'The Boss'	Bruce Springsteen
T	Japanese shogun who established his clan's dominance over Kyoto for over 200 years	Tokugawa Ieyasu
U	English actress whose eponymous show first featured shorts of the The Simpsons	Tracey Ullman
V	American actor and comedian known for his roles in Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang	Dick Van Dyke
W	The last German emperor who abdicated as King of Prussia in 1918	Wilhelm II
X	Seventh president of China known for his restrictions on civil liberty	Xi Jinping
Y	Canadian musician and founder of Buffalo Springfield	Neil Young
Z	Russian-American physicist who introduced the idea of quarks to the Standard Model of particle physics	George Zweig

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