Leading Figures in History

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Dorothea Röschmann

b. 1967

Opera singer

Dorothea Tanning

b. 1910

American painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and poet (1910–2012)

Dorothea von Schlegel

German novelist and translator (1764–1839)

Dorothy Burr Thompson

b. 1900

American archaeologist (1900–2001)

Dorothy E. Denning

b. 1945

American information security researcher

Dorothy E. Smith

b. 1926

British-Canadian sociologist (1926–2022)

Dorothy Fields

b. 1905

American librettist and lyricist (1904–1974)

Dorothy Fuldheim

b. 1893

American journalist and anchor (1893–1989)

Dorothy Garrod

b. 1892

English archaeologist (1892–1968)

Dorothy Gibson

b. 1889

American actress (1889–1946)

Dorothy Gilman

b. 1923

American novelist

Dorothy Gish

American actress (1898–1968)

Dorothy Hamill

b. 1956

American figure skater

Dorothy Head Knode

b. 1925

American tennis player

Dorothy Height

American activist (1912–2010)

Dorothy Hewett

b. 1923

Australian feminist poet, playwright and novelist (1923–2002)

Dorothy Hodgkin

b. 1910

English chemist (1910–1994)

Dorothy Hyman

b. 1941

English sprinter (born 1941)

Dorothy Kilgallen

b. 1913

American journalist and TV personality

Dorothy L. Sayers

b. 1893

English novelist, translator and Christian writer (1893–1957)

Dorothy Levitt

20th-century British racing driver

Dorothy Mackaill

British-American actress (1903–1990)

Dorothy Manley

b. 1927

British sprint runner (1927–2021)