Name That Historical Person

[FatOne]

Good. You got it with the basket and without the ball.

I assume from the picture that he is the basketball dude. I think just about everyone north of the border has seen the commercial.

 

[Insidious Von]

This one is difficult, so here's a clue. The man who set Great Britain on the road to Empire.

 

[Aardvark154]

This one is difficult, so here's a clue. The man who set Great Britain on the road to Empire.

Well with that clue, Sir Robert Walpole although it could also be Henry Pellham?

 

[Aardvark154]

Gregor Mendel, O.S.A.

 

[mickmasterson]

I'm pretty sure that's Friedrich Engels.

 

[mickmasterson]

Frank Lloyd Wright, architect and designer. I like his work.

 

[dirkd101]

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James Naismith

Would it not be more accurate to state that it's a likeness of him?

 

[prestokeys]

 

[prestokeys]

 

[mickmasterson]

Richard Wagner, composer.

 

[prestokeys]

 

[Aardvark154]

Menachem Begin - Prime Minister of Israel

 

[prestokeys]

Here's another picture of the woman:

 

[Insidious Von]

Here's another picture of the woman:

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

 

[Insidious Von]

Well with that clue, Sir Robert Walpole although it could also be Henry Pellham?

Incorrect on both but close. Another clue; was one of the few peers that Sir Isaac Newton actually considered a friend, their fields of study were polar opposites (look at the fingers).

 

[Insidious Von]

Clue: Suffered the same fate as Oscar Wilde but his impact on the 21st Century is HUGE.

 

[Insidious Von]

Clue: Mother of a tragic Queen.

 

[Insidious Von]

Clue: Jari Kurri

 

[Aardvark154]

This should be for RLD, Empress Maria Theresa, in her own right Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Queen of Bohemia.

 

[Aardvark154]

Clue: Suffered the same fate as Oscar Wilde but his impact on the 21st Century is HUGE.

Allen Turing, OBE, FRS. (I had a friend now dead who was a fellow Undergraduate with him at King's College, Cambridge). One of the Giants of both Cryptology and Computer Science. Hounded into suicide in the early 1950's.

He was not awarded far higher honours, because everything he did at Bletchley Park was classified Most Secret (Code Word).