| Biographies People who helped shape history
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| | Abacha, Sani |
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| | Abbott, Diane |
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| | Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem |
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| | Abedi Ayew Pele |
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| | Abernathy, Ralph David |
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| | Achebe, Chinua |
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| | Adderley, Cannonball |
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| | Adderley, Nat |
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 | Ailey, Alvin, Jr. |
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| | Aldridge, Ira Frederick |
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 | Ali, Muhammad |
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| | Allen, Henry |
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 | Allen, Richard |
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 | Amin, Idi |
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| | Ammons, Gene |
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| | Amos, Valerie Ann |
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 | Anderson, Marian |
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| | Anderson, Regina M. |
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| | Anderson, Viv |
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| | Angelou, Maya |
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| | Annan, Kofi |
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| | Appiah, Kwame Anthony |
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| | Aristide, Jean-Bertrande |
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 | Armatrading, Joan |
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 | Armstrong, Henry |
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 | Armstrong, Louis |
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| | Armstrong, Samuel Chapman |
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 | Ashe, Arthur (Robert) |
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| | Ashford, Evelyn |
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 | Ashley, Maurice |
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| | Attucks, Crispus |
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| | Avery, Byllye |
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| | Ayler, Albert |
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