Nouns denoting people

dreamer

someone who is dreaming

 

emeritus

a professor or minister who is retired from assigned duties

 

selling agent

someone who sells goods (on commission) for others

 

encroacher

someone who enters by force in order to conquer

 

Robert Floyd Curl Jr.

American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)

 

guard

the person who plays the position of guard on a basketball team

 

Johann Sebastian Bach

German baroque organist and contrapuntist; composed mostly keyboard music; one of the greatest creators of western music (1685-1750)

 

Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov

Russian writer of plays and novels and short stories; noted for his depiction of social outcasts

 

employee

a worker who is hired to perform a job

 

comber

a person who separates and straightens the fibers of cotton or wool

 

Mitra

Hindu god of friendship and alliances; usually invoked together with Varuna as a supporter of heaven and earth

 

Robert Tyre Jones

United States golfer (1902-1971)

 

Manfred Eigen

German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927)

 

Crow

a member of the Siouan people formerly living in eastern Montana

 

Thomas Tallis

English organist and composer of church and secular music; was granted a monopoly in music printing with William Byrd (1505-1585)

 

Epicurus

Greek philosopher who believed that the world is a random combination of atoms and that pleasure is the highest good (341-270 BC)

 

Victorian

a person who lived during the reign of Victoria

 

Christian Friedrich Hebbel

German dramatist (1813-1863)

 

flag officer

a senior naval officer above the rank of captain

 

leprechaun

a mischievous elf in Irish folklore