Nouns denoting people
- Wallis Warfield Simpson
- United States divorcee whose marriage to Edward VIII created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication
- fleet admiral
- an admiral of the highest rank
- banderillero
- the bullfighter who implants decorated darts (banderillas) into the neck or shoulders of the bull during a bull fight
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- German composer of instrumental music (especially symphonic and chamber music); continued to compose after he lost his hearing (1770-1827)
- Shi'ite Muslim
- a member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs
- copy editor
- an editor who prepares text for publication
- First Lord of the Treasury
- the British cabinet minister responsible for economic strategy
- tagger
- someone who assigns labels to the grammatical constituents of textual matter
- trencherman
- a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
- Cyrus the Elder
- king of Persia and founder of the Persian Empire (circa 600-529 BC)
- Kong the Master
- Chinese philosopher whose ideas and sayings were collected after his death and became the basis of a philosophical doctrine known a Confucianism (circa 551-478 BC)
- waffler
- someone who speaks or writes in a vague and evasive manner
- judge
- an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality
- crier
- a person who weeps
- Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen
- German physicist who discovered x-rays and developed roentgenography (1845-1923)
- flagellant
- a person who is whipped or whips himself for sexual gratification
- long shot
- a contestant that is unlikely to win
- backup
- someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
- Ezra Loomis Pound
- United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972)
- Helvetian
- a native of Switzerland
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