Struggling on this one but 6 has the look of an elderly Robert Louis Stevenson?
Tocino
7. Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935) , CB, DSO, known professionally as T.E. Lawrence and, later, T.E. Shaw, but most famously as “Lawrence of Arabia,” gained international renown for his role as a British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt of 1916-18. His public image was due in part to U.S. traveller and journalist Lowell Thomas’ sensationalised reportage of the Revolt, as well as to Lawrence’s autobiographical account, Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Source
1. Laozi (also Lao Tse, Lao Tu, Lao-Tzu, Lao-Tsu, Laotze, Lao Zi, Laocius, and other variations) was a philosopher of ancient China and was a central figure in Taoism (also spelled “Daoism”). Laozi literally means “Old Master” and is generally considered an honorific. According to Chinese tradition, Laozi lived in the 6th century BC. Historians variously contend that Laozi is a synthesis of multiple historical figures, that he is a mythical figure, or that he actually lived in the 4th century BC, concurrent with the Hundred Schools of Thought and Warring States Period. A central figure in Chinese culture, both nobility and common people claim Laozi in their lineage. Throughout history, Laozi’s work was embraced by various anti-authoritarian movements. Source
Sorry John!
2 Leonardo Da Vinci?
9. Louis-B-Mayer?
Boa What an embarrassment
6. is Dr Livingstone, I presume. I go past his statue to and from work.
Now, that is interesting. Mrs M’s family history has it that she is related both to RLS and the good Doctor. And they do look a wee thing alike so maybe there’s something in it.
Mind, thankfully, she looks nothing like either of them.
JM,
I hope she looks nothing like No10 either. 😉
John
How embarrassing indeed!
6. David Livingstone (1813-1865) was a curious combination of missionary, doctor, explorer, scientist and anti-slavery activist. He spent 30 years in Africa. Livingstone received a gold medal from the London Royal Geographical for being the first to cross the entire African Continent from west to east. He was the first white man to see Victoria Falls and although he never discovered the source of the Nile, one of his goals, he eliminated some possibilities and thereby helped direct the efforts of others. Although popular among native tribes in Africa, Livingstone made enemies of some white settlers there because he learned African languages and had an unusually keen understanding and sympathy for native people and cultures. In 1865, at age 52, Livingstone set out on his last and most famous journey. He soon lost his medicine, animals and porters, but struggled on almost alone. Source
10 Annie Leibovitz
2 Martin Luther
Ferret
Luckily, Ferret, Mrs M has no Germanic ancestry so far as I am aware. It would indeed have to be be a ‘triumph of the will’ to fancy number 10, in my opinion!
Wild arsed guess.
3. Louis XVI.
8. Louis Daniel Armstrong
Oh Dear! I thought most of these were quite easy!
John seems to know number 10, and Christina is almost right… 🙂
5. Toussaint Louveture.
Haitian that saw off the Frogs!
8. Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson
3, OK, try Louis XIV!
Christina
5. François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (1743-1803) , also Toussaint Bréda, was a leader of the Haitian Revolution. Born in Saint-Domingue, in a long struggle for independence Toussaint led enslaved Africans and Afro-Haitians to victory over French colonisers, abolished slavery, and secured “native” control over the colony, Haiti, in 1797 while nominally governor of the colony, he expelled the French commissioner Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, as well as the British armies; invaded Santo Domingo to free the slaves there; and wrote a Constitution naming himself governor-for-life that established a new polity for the colony. Source
Christina
3. Louis XIV (1638-1715) reigned as King of France and King of Navarre from 1643 until his death at 77 years of age. He inherited the Crown at the age of four, but he did not actually assume personal control of the government until the death of his chief minister, Jules Cardinal Mazarin, in 1661. Louis XIV, known as The Sun King (Le Roi Soleil) and as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand), ruled France for seventy-two years — the longest reign of any French or other major European monarch. He attempted to increase the power of France in Europe, fighting four major wars: the War of Devolution, the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the Grand Alliance, and the War of the Spanish Succession. He worked successfully to create an absolutist and centralized state; historians and political scientists often cite him as an example of an enlightened despot. Louis XIV became the archetype of an absolute monarch. Source
🙂
L-ish tricky Boadicea. 🙂
I did think the singer was Paul Robeson but there’s noel, unless Tocino is correct….
Jan
No one has got this right yet – he’s one of my favourite singers, well and truly dead now.
8. Lou Rawls
Boa, No. 2. Has to be Bishop Latimer.
‘We shall this day light such a candle by God’s grace in England, as I trust shall never be put out.’
Tocino
Blues singer!
John
It is indeed…
2. Hugh Latimer (d. 1555) was born into a family of farmers in Thurcaston, Leicestershire. He started his studies in Latin grammar at the age of four.. He attended Cambridge University and in 1510, he was elected a fellow of Clare College. He received the Master of Arts in April 1514 and was ordained a priest on 15 July 1515. He became noted for his reformist teachings, which attracted the attention of the authorities. In 1535, he was appointed Bishop of Worcester, and promoted reformed teachings in his diocese. In 1539, he opposed Henry VIII’s Six Articles, with the result that he was forced to resign his bishopric and imprisoned in the Tower of London (where he was again in 1546). During the reign of Henry’s son, Edward VI, he was restored to favour, becoming court preacher until 1550. However, when Edward VI’s sister Mary I came to the throne, he was tried for his beliefs and teachings in Oxford and imprisoned. In October 1555 he was burned at the stake outside Balliol College, Oxford with another reformer, Nicholas Ridley. Latimer is reputed to have said: ‘Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man; we shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.’ Source
8. Last go. John Lee Hooker
Hi, Boa.
Thanks as always. Got them all now except No. 4, the scientist. Don’t think it’s Lavoisier but I’ll offer him anyway just to get it of the way and since I have to go to bed.
Read and enjoyed the author’s Space trilogy in my dim and distant youth. Must go and see if I still have them somewhere.
Goodnight Boa (and Irene if she’s out there).
10. Lotte Jacobi?
Number 8 is Lead Belly.
Evenin’/Mornin’, Boadicea – Just got in from a very extended and liquid stag night (not mine, I hasten to add), so please excuse any shakey typing. Had a quick squizz at the piccies, but haven’t the attention span right now to concentrate on the responses to be honest.
10. Leni Riefenstahl, Adolph’s filmmaker?
8. John Lee Hooker, blues singer?
I know the author too, but the fuddled brain needs sleep and will not engage.
If it isn’t Lotte Jacobi it is probably Dorothea Lange.
Christopher
8. Huddie William Ledbetter (1888-1949, was an American folk and blues musician, notable for his clear and forceful singing, his virtuosity on the twelve string guitar, and the rich songbook of folk standards he introduced. He is best known as Leadbelly or Lead Belly. Although he most commonly played the twelve string, he could also play the piano, mandolin, harmonica, violin, concertina, and accordion. Source
OZ
10. Leni Riefenstahl was born in Berlin in 1902. She studied painting and started her artistic career as a dancer. She became already so famous after her first dance hat Max Reinhardt engaged her for the »Deutsches Theater«. An injury of the knee put an end to her sensational career. After that, she became famous as an actress, a film director, a film producer and a film reporter. Her greatest success she made with the documentary film »Triumph des Willens« named after the Reich Party Congress 1934 in Nuremberg which got the highest awards: The gold medal in Venice in 1935 and the gold medal at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937. However, at the end of the war this film destroyed Leni Riefenstahl’s career, for now it had no longer been recognized as a piece of art but been condemned as a National Socialist propaganda film. Her world-famous film about the Olympic games made the same experience. At the age of 71, Leni Riefenstahl fulfilled a dream to herself, she had cherished for long: She attended a diving course to be able to also work as an underwater photographer in the future. Soon she became a master in this profession too. Leni Riefenstahl died on Monday 8 September 2003, in Poecking, Germany. She died a few weeks after her 101st birthday. Source
Can we have some clues please Miss?
I have put them up for the last two… 🙂
9 C S Lewis
Sipu
9. Clive Staples “Jack” Lewis (1893-1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was a British writer and scholar. Lewis’s works are diverse and include medieval literature, Christian apologetics, literary criticism, radio broadcasts, essays on Christianity, and fiction relating to the fight between good and evil. Examples of Lewis’s fiction include The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy. Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings. Both authors were leading figures in the English faculty at Oxford University and in the informal Oxford literary group known as the “Inklings”. Source
4 Antoine Lavosier
Can I do “V” now and go for Voltaire; he must be in there somewhere!
And to the Bernstein tune “Somewhere” … somewhere, there’s a place for him, somewhere, somewhere, Voltaire!
4 James Lind. I have to confess, it took a few minutes detective work.
Sipu
4. James Lind (1716-1794) was a pioneer of naval hygiene in the Royal Navy. By conducting what was perhaps the first ever clinical trial, he proved that citrus fruits cure scurvy. He also proposed that by distilling sea water you could obtain fresh water. He fought for the drying of ships by better ventilation, improved clothing and cleanliness of the sailors and introduced fumigation with sulphur and arsenic. By his work he also influenced practices of preventive medicine and nutrition among British soldiers. Source
Boadicea's Chariot 
7. Thomas Edward Lawrence
1. Lao Tzu
Hi Boa
Struggling on this one but 6 has the look of an elderly Robert Louis Stevenson?
Tocino
7. Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935) , CB, DSO, known professionally as T.E. Lawrence and, later, T.E. Shaw, but most famously as “Lawrence of Arabia,” gained international renown for his role as a British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt of 1916-18. His public image was due in part to U.S. traveller and journalist Lowell Thomas’ sensationalised reportage of the Revolt, as well as to Lawrence’s autobiographical account, Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
Source
1. Laozi (also Lao Tse, Lao Tu, Lao-Tzu, Lao-Tsu, Laotze, Lao Zi, Laocius, and other variations) was a philosopher of ancient China and was a central figure in Taoism (also spelled “Daoism”). Laozi literally means “Old Master” and is generally considered an honorific. According to Chinese tradition, Laozi lived in the 6th century BC. Historians variously contend that Laozi is a synthesis of multiple historical figures, that he is a mythical figure, or that he actually lived in the 4th century BC, concurrent with the Hundred Schools of Thought and Warring States Period. A central figure in Chinese culture, both nobility and common people claim Laozi in their lineage. Throughout history, Laozi’s work was embraced by various anti-authoritarian movements.
Source
Sorry John!
2 Leonardo Da Vinci?
9. Louis-B-Mayer?
Boa What an embarrassment
6. is Dr Livingstone, I presume. I go past his statue to and from work.
Now, that is interesting. Mrs M’s family history has it that she is related both to RLS and the good Doctor. And they do look a wee thing alike so maybe there’s something in it.
Mind, thankfully, she looks nothing like either of them.
JM,
I hope she looks nothing like No10 either. 😉
John
How embarrassing indeed!
6. David Livingstone (1813-1865) was a curious combination of missionary, doctor, explorer, scientist and anti-slavery activist. He spent 30 years in Africa. Livingstone received a gold medal from the London Royal Geographical for being the first to cross the entire African Continent from west to east. He was the first white man to see Victoria Falls and although he never discovered the source of the Nile, one of his goals, he eliminated some possibilities and thereby helped direct the efforts of others. Although popular among native tribes in Africa, Livingstone made enemies of some white settlers there because he learned African languages and had an unusually keen understanding and sympathy for native people and cultures. In 1865, at age 52, Livingstone set out on his last and most famous journey. He soon lost his medicine, animals and porters, but struggled on almost alone.
Source
10 Annie Leibovitz
2 Martin Luther
Ferret
Luckily, Ferret, Mrs M has no Germanic ancestry so far as I am aware. It would indeed have to be be a ‘triumph of the will’ to fancy number 10, in my opinion!
Wild arsed guess.
3. Louis XVI.
8. Louis Daniel Armstrong
Oh Dear! I thought most of these were quite easy!
John seems to know number 10, and Christina is almost right… 🙂
5. Toussaint Louveture.
Haitian that saw off the Frogs!
8. Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson
3, OK, try Louis XIV!
Christina
5. François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (1743-1803) , also Toussaint Bréda, was a leader of the Haitian Revolution. Born in Saint-Domingue, in a long struggle for independence Toussaint led enslaved Africans and Afro-Haitians to victory over French colonisers, abolished slavery, and secured “native” control over the colony, Haiti, in 1797 while nominally governor of the colony, he expelled the French commissioner Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, as well as the British armies; invaded Santo Domingo to free the slaves there; and wrote a Constitution naming himself governor-for-life that established a new polity for the colony.
Source
Christina
3. Louis XIV (1638-1715) reigned as King of France and King of Navarre from 1643 until his death at 77 years of age. He inherited the Crown at the age of four, but he did not actually assume personal control of the government until the death of his chief minister, Jules Cardinal Mazarin, in 1661. Louis XIV, known as The Sun King (Le Roi Soleil) and as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand), ruled France for seventy-two years — the longest reign of any French or other major European monarch. He attempted to increase the power of France in Europe, fighting four major wars: the War of Devolution, the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the Grand Alliance, and the War of the Spanish Succession. He worked successfully to create an absolutist and centralized state; historians and political scientists often cite him as an example of an enlightened despot. Louis XIV became the archetype of an absolute monarch.
Source
🙂
L-ish tricky Boadicea. 🙂
I did think the singer was Paul Robeson but there’s noel, unless Tocino is correct….
Jan
No one has got this right yet – he’s one of my favourite singers, well and truly dead now.
8. Lou Rawls
Boa, No. 2. Has to be Bishop Latimer.
‘We shall this day light such a candle by God’s grace in England, as I trust shall never be put out.’
Tocino
Blues singer!
John
It is indeed…
2. Hugh Latimer (d. 1555) was born into a family of farmers in Thurcaston, Leicestershire. He started his studies in Latin grammar at the age of four.. He attended Cambridge University and in 1510, he was elected a fellow of Clare College. He received the Master of Arts in April 1514 and was ordained a priest on 15 July 1515. He became noted for his reformist teachings, which attracted the attention of the authorities. In 1535, he was appointed Bishop of Worcester, and promoted reformed teachings in his diocese. In 1539, he opposed Henry VIII’s Six Articles, with the result that he was forced to resign his bishopric and imprisoned in the Tower of London (where he was again in 1546). During the reign of Henry’s son, Edward VI, he was restored to favour, becoming court preacher until 1550. However, when Edward VI’s sister Mary I came to the throne, he was tried for his beliefs and teachings in Oxford and imprisoned. In October 1555 he was burned at the stake outside Balliol College, Oxford with another reformer, Nicholas Ridley. Latimer is reputed to have said: ‘Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man; we shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.’
Source
8. Last go. John Lee Hooker
Hi, Boa.
Thanks as always. Got them all now except No. 4, the scientist. Don’t think it’s Lavoisier but I’ll offer him anyway just to get it of the way and since I have to go to bed.
Read and enjoyed the author’s Space trilogy in my dim and distant youth. Must go and see if I still have them somewhere.
Goodnight Boa (and Irene if she’s out there).
10. Lotte Jacobi?
Number 8 is Lead Belly.
Evenin’/Mornin’, Boadicea – Just got in from a very extended and liquid stag night (not mine, I hasten to add), so please excuse any shakey typing. Had a quick squizz at the piccies, but haven’t the attention span right now to concentrate on the responses to be honest.
10. Leni Riefenstahl, Adolph’s filmmaker?
8. John Lee Hooker, blues singer?
I know the author too, but the fuddled brain needs sleep and will not engage.
Nighty night
OZ
If it is Lotte Jacobi it is probably Dorothea Lange.
If it isn’t Lotte Jacobi it is probably Dorothea Lange.
Christopher
8. Huddie William Ledbetter (1888-1949, was an American folk and blues musician, notable for his clear and forceful singing, his virtuosity on the twelve string guitar, and the rich songbook of folk standards he introduced. He is best known as Leadbelly or Lead Belly. Although he most commonly played the twelve string, he could also play the piano, mandolin, harmonica, violin, concertina, and accordion.
Source
OZ
10. Leni Riefenstahl was born in Berlin in 1902. She studied painting and started her artistic career as a dancer. She became already so famous after her first dance hat Max Reinhardt engaged her for the »Deutsches Theater«. An injury of the knee put an end to her sensational career. After that, she became famous as an actress, a film director, a film producer and a film reporter. Her greatest success she made with the documentary film »Triumph des Willens« named after the Reich Party Congress 1934 in Nuremberg which got the highest awards: The gold medal in Venice in 1935 and the gold medal at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937. However, at the end of the war this film destroyed Leni Riefenstahl’s career, for now it had no longer been recognized as a piece of art but been condemned as a National Socialist propaganda film. Her world-famous film about the Olympic games made the same experience. At the age of 71, Leni Riefenstahl fulfilled a dream to herself, she had cherished for long: She attended a diving course to be able to also work as an underwater photographer in the future. Soon she became a master in this profession too. Leni Riefenstahl died on Monday 8 September 2003, in Poecking, Germany. She died a few weeks after her 101st birthday.
Source
Can we have some clues please Miss?
I have put them up for the last two… 🙂
9 C S Lewis
Sipu
9. Clive Staples “Jack” Lewis (1893-1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was a British writer and scholar. Lewis’s works are diverse and include medieval literature, Christian apologetics, literary criticism, radio broadcasts, essays on Christianity, and fiction relating to the fight between good and evil. Examples of Lewis’s fiction include The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy. Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings. Both authors were leading figures in the English faculty at Oxford University and in the informal Oxford literary group known as the “Inklings”.
Source
4 Antoine Lavosier
Can I do “V” now and go for Voltaire; he must be in there somewhere!
And to the Bernstein tune “Somewhere” … somewhere, there’s a place for him, somewhere, somewhere, Voltaire!
4 James Lind. I have to confess, it took a few minutes detective work.
Sipu
4. James Lind (1716-1794) was a pioneer of naval hygiene in the Royal Navy. By conducting what was perhaps the first ever clinical trial, he proved that citrus fruits cure scurvy. He also proposed that by distilling sea water you could obtain fresh water. He fought for the drying of ships by better ventilation, improved clothing and cleanliness of the sailors and introduced fumigation with sulphur and arsenic. By his work he also influenced practices of preventive medicine and nutrition among British soldiers.
Source