Food For Thought

A Collection of Heretical Notions and Wretched Adages
compiled by Jack Tourette

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Ubaldini, Petruccio (Florentine illuminator, scholar) 1524?-1600?
Uccello, Paolo (orig. Paolo di Dono) (Florentine painter) 1397-1475
Uchatius, Franz von (Austrian general, artillery authority) 1811-1881
Uchimura Kanzo (Japanese theologian, critic) 1861-1930
Udall (or Uvedale), John (English Puritan preacher) 1560?-1592
Udall, Nicholas (Eng. schoolmaster, Latin scholar, playwright) 1505-1556
Udet, Ernst (German aviator, army officer) 1896-1941
Uechtritz, Friedrich von (German writer) 1800-1875
Ueda Senjiro (pseud. Ueda Akinari) (Japanese writer) 1734-1809
Ueno, Harry (Hawaii-born Am. orchardist; internment camp hero) 1907-2004
Ugarte, Manuel (Argentinean writer) 1874-1951
Ugolini, Vincenzo (Italian composer) c.1580-1638
Uhde, Fritz von (German painter) 1848-1911
Uhland, Johann Ludwig (German poet, philologist, politician) 1787-1862
Uhlenbeck, Christianus Cornelius (Dutch philologist) 1866-1926
Uhlenbeck, George Eugene (Indonesian-born American physicist) 1900-1988
Uhlenhuth, Paul (German bacteriologist, hygienist) 1870-1957
Uisang Daisa (Korean Buddhist monk) 625-702
Ujejski, Kornel (Polish poet) 1823-1897
Ukrainka, Lesia (Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka)(Ukrainian poet) 1871-1913
Ulam, Stanslaw Marcin (Polish-born American physicist) 1909-1984
Ulbricht, Walter (East German politician; erected Berlin Wall) 1893-1973
Ulfilas (Gothic: Wulfila) (Cappadocian prelate) c.311-c.382
Ullman, Tracey (English actor, comedian) b.1959
Ulloa, Antonio de (Spanish naval officer, scientist, explorer) 1716-1795
Ulmer, James "Blood" (American guitarist, singer) b.1942
Ulpian (Domitius Ulpianus) (Roman jurist) d. AD 228
Ulrich von Hutten (Franconian knight, humanist) 1488-1523
Ulrich von Lichtenstein (Styrian noble, poet) c.1200-1275
Ulrich von Turheim (German poet, noble) fl.1236-1285
Ulrici, Hermann (German philosopher) 1806-1884
Ulugh Beg (Tatar prince, poet, astronomer) 1394-1449
'Umar I ('Umar ibn al-Khattab) (Second Muslim caliph 634-644) c.586-644
'Umar II ('Umar ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz) (Umayyad caliph 717-720) 683/3-720
'Umar ibn Abi Rabi'ah (Arab poet) 644-712/9
Umberto I (Duke of Savoy) (Italian king 1878-1900) 1844-1900
Umberto II (Prince of Piedmont) (Italian king 1946) 1904-1983
Unamuno y Jugo, Miguel de (Spanish philosopher, writer) 1864-1936
Uncas (American Mohegan Indian sachem) 1588?-1683?
Underhill, Evelyn (married name Moore) (English poet, writer) 1875-1941
Underhill, John (English-born American colonial soldier) 1597?-1672
Underwood, John Thomas (American typewriter industrialist) 1857-1937
Underwood, Francis Henry (American reformer, editor) 1825-1894
Underwood, Oscar Wilder (American politician) 1862-1929
Underwood, Stephen Hale (American writer?) b.1970
Undset, Sigrid (Norwegian novelist) 1882-1949
Ungaretti, Giuseppe (Italian poet, teacher, translator) 1888-1970
Unkei (Japanese sculptor) 1148?-1223
Unkoku Togan (Japanese painter) 1547-1618
Uno, Sousuke (Japanese prime minister 1989) b.1922
Unruh, Fritz von (German playwright, poet, novelist) 1885-1970
Untermeyer, Louis (American author, editor, poet) 1885-1977
Unverdorben, Otto (German chemist) 1806-1873
Unwin, Sir Stanley (English publisher) 1884-1968
Updike, Daniel Berkeley (American printer, publisher) 1860-1941
Updike, John Hoyer (American writer, poet) b.1932
Upfield, Arthur William (English-born Australian novelist) 1888-1964
Upjohn, Richard (English-born American architect) 1802-1878
Uppdal, Kristofer Oliver (Norwegian writer) 1878-1961
Upson, Ralph Hazlett (American aeronautical engineer) 1888-1968
Upton, Emory (American army officer, military strategist) 1839-1881
Upton, George Putnam (pseud. Peregrine Pickle) (Am. journalist) 1834-1919
'Urabi Pasha (Egyptian nationalist) 1839-1911
Uragami Gyokudo (Japanese painter, musician) 1745-1820
Urban, Joseph (Austrian-born American architect, designer) 1872-1933
Urdaneta, Andres de (Spanish religious, navigator) 1498-1568
U'Ren, William Simon (American reformer) 1859-1949
Urey, Harold Clayton (American chemist; discovered deuterium) 1893-1981
Urfe, Honore d' (French writer) 1568-1625
Uris, Leon Marcus (American writer) 1924-2003
Urquhart, Sir Thomas (Scottish author, translator) 1611-1660
Usakligil, Halid Ziya (Turkish writer) 1866-1945
Usigli, Rodolfo (Mexican playwright) 1905-1979
Usk, Thomas (English writer) d.1388
Uslar Pietri, Arturo (Venezuelan writer, essayist) b.1906
Usman dan Fodio (Fulani religious, political leader) 1754-1817
Uspensky, Gleb Ivanovich (Russian writer) 1843-1902
Ussher, James (Irish prelate, Biblical scholar) 1581-1656
Ustinov, Peter Alexander (English actor, author) b.1921
Ustvolskaya, Galina Ivanovna (Russian composer) 1919-2006
Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese painter, printmaker) 1786-1864
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese painter, printmaker) 1797-1861
Utagawa Toyokuni (aka Toyokuni) (Japanese painter, printmaker) 1769-1825
'Uthman ibn 'Affan (Third Muslim caliph) d.656
Utrillo, Maurice (French painter) 1883-1955
Uz, Johann Peter (German poet) 1720-1796

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