dl#agentive_physical_object__APO something or someone that can act on its own and produce changes in the world
closed_exclusion: non-agentive_physical_object
supertype: physical_object causal_entity (pm)
equal: Agent (pm)
related_to: agentive_physical_object (dl)
subtype: entity_that_can_be_or_was_alive e.g., an animal, a cell
subtype: sentient_agent an agent that has rights but may or may not have responsibilities and the ability to reason; if the latter are present, then the agent is also a cognitive_agent; domesticated animals are an example of sentient_agents that are not also cognitive_agents
subtype: cognitive_agent__cognitiveagent (many specializations)$ sentient_agent with responsibilities and the ability to reason, deliberate, make plans, etc; this is essentially the legal/ethical notion of a person; chimpanzees, gorillas, dolphins, whales, and some extraterrestrials (if they exist) may be cognitive_agents
subtype: human a modern man (member of the only remaining species of the Homo genus)
subtype: man
subtype: woman
subtype: person__individual__someone__somebody__mortal__human__human_being__humanbeing__soul a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
subtype: self a person considered as a unique individual; "one's own self"
subtype: number_one (informal) a reference to yourself or myself etc.; "take care of number one" means to put your own interests first
subtype: grownup__adult a fully developed person from maturity onward
subtype: caregiver a person who is responsible for attending to the needs of a child or dependent adult
subtype: catch.grownup__match a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
subtype: centrist__middle_of_the_roader__moderate__moderationist a person who takes a position in the political center
subtype: eccentric__character__type__case a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case"
subtype: conservative__conservativist a person who has conservative ideas or opinions
subtype: rugged_individualist__capitalist an advocate of capitalism
subtype: conformist someone who conforms to established standards of conduct (especially in religious matters)
subtype: hardliner someone who is uncompromising
subtype: minimalist.conservative a conservative who advocates only minor reforms in government or politics
subtype: reactionary__ultraconservative__extreme_right-winger__extremerightwinger an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism
subtype: Bourbon a reactionary politician in the United States (usually from the South)
subtype: Blimp__Colonel_Blimp (British) any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low)
subtype: rightist__right-winger__rightwinger a member of a right wing political party
subtype: fascist an adherent of fascism or other right-wing authoritarian views
subtype: Blackshirt a member of the Italian fascist party before World War II
subtype: Nazi a German member of Adolf Hitler's political party
subtype: Brownshirt a member of the German Nazi SA which wore brown uniforms
subtype: storm_trooper__stormtrooper a member of the Nazi S.A.
instance: Karl_Adolf_Eichmann__Eichmann__Adolf_Eichmann Paul_Joseph_Goebbels__Goebbels__Joseph_Goebbels Hermann_Wilhelm_Goring__Goring__Goering__Hermann_Goring__Hermann_Goering__Hermann_Wilhaelm_Goering Walther_Richard_Rudolf_Hess__Hess__Rudolf_Hess Heinrich_Himmler__Himmler Adolf_Hitler__Hitler__Der_Fuhrer
subtype: monarchist__royalist an advocate of the principles of monarchy
subtype: Cavalier a royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War
subtype: Orleanist a supporter of the Orleans branch of the French Bourbons that was descended from a younger brother of Louis XIV
subtype: Tory.rightist__tory a supporter of traditional political and social institutions against the forces of reform; a political conservative
subtype: square_toes__square (informal) a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
subtype: traditionalist__diehard one who adheres to traditional views
subtype: Rip_van_Winkle.traditionalist__ripvanwinkle a person oblivious to social changes
subtype: elder.grownup__senior a person who is older than you are
subtype: doyen__dean a man who is the senior member of a group; "he is the dean of foreign correspondents"
subtype: doyenne a woman who is the senior member of a group
subtype: ex-spouse a person who was formerly a spouse
subtype: host a person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there
subtype: hostess.host a woman host
subtype: important_person__importantperson__influential_person__influentialperson__personage a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events
subtype: big_shot__bigshot__big_wheel__bigwheel__head_honcho (informal) an important influential person
subtype: famous_person__celebrity a widely known person; "he was a baseball celebrity"
subtype: immortal a person (such as an author) of enduring fame; "Shakespeare is one of the immortals"
subtype: social_lion__lion a celebrity who is lionized (much sought after)
subtype: luminary__leading_light__leadinglight__guiding_light__guidinglight__notable__notability a celebrity who is an inspiration to others; "he was host to a large gathering of luminaries"
subtype: personality.famous_person a person of considerable prominence; "she is a Hollywood personality"
subtype: colossus__behemoth__giant__heavyweight__titan a person of exceptional importance and reputation
subtype: elder_statesman.important_person__elderstatesman any influential person whose advice is highly respected
subtype: Excellency a title used to address dignitaries (such as ambassadors or governors); usually preceded by Your or His or Her: "Your Excellency"
subtype: fixer__influence_peddler__influencepeddler someone who intervenes with authorities for a person in trouble (usually using underhand or illegal methods for a fee)
subtype: heavy_hitter__heavyhitter an influential person who works hard to promote the causes they are interested in
subtype: high-muck-a-muck__pooh-bah an arrogant or conceited person of importance
subtype: kingpin__top_banana__topbanana__bigwig the most important person in a group or undertaking
subtype: magnificio a person of distinguished rank or appearance
subtype: public_figure__name__figure a well-known or notable person; "they studied all the great names in the history of France"; "she is an important figure in modern music"
subtype: policy_maker someone who sets the plan pursued by a government or business etc.; "policy makers often make the right decision for the wrong reason"
subtype: power_broker__powerbroker a person who is important by virtue of the people or votes they control; "a power broker who does you a favor will expect you to return it"
subtype: sacred_cow a person unreasonably held to be immune to criticism
subtype: sirdar an important person in India
subtype: socialite a socially prominent person
subtype: sun.important_person a person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory etc
subtype: VIP__very_important_person__high-up__dignitary__panjandrum__high_muckamuck an important or influential (and often overbearing) person
subtype: worthy word is often used humorously
subtype: Jack_of_all_trades a person able to do a variety of different jobs acceptably well
subtype: progressive__liberal a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
subtype: latitudinarian a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct)
subtype: neoliberal a liberal who subscribes to neoliberalism
subtype: pluralist someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society
subtype: Whig urged social reform in 19th century England
subtype: liberal a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets
subtype: militarist__warmonger a person who advocates war or warlike policies
subtype: war_hawk__warhawk__hawk an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations
subtype: oldster__old_person__oldperson__senior_citizen an elderly person
subtype: antediluvian a very old (or old fashioned) person
subtype: centenarian someone who is at least 100 years old
subtype: curmudgeon a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas
subtype: dodderer one who dodders from old age and weakness
subtype: dodo__fogy__fogey__fossil (informal) someone whose style is out of fashion
subtype: dotard an oldster in his dotage; someone whose age has impaired his intellect
subtype: has-been__hasbeen__back-number someone who is no longer popular
subtype: nonagenarian someone whose age is in the nineties
subtype: octogenarian someone whose age is in the eighties
subtype: old_boy__oldboy a vivacious elderly man
subtype: greybeard__old_man__graybeard__Methuselah a man who is very old
subtype: old_codger__oldcodger__codger used affectionately to refer to an eccentric but amusing old man
subtype: patriarch.greybeard a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself
subtype: mossback__old-timer__oldtimer__gaffer__old_geezer__oldgeezer__antique an elderly man
subtype: old_woman__oldwoman a woman who is old
subtype: beldam__beldame a woman of advanced age
subtype: granny__matriarch an old woman
subtype: hag__beldame__crone an ugly evil-looking old woman
subtype: mother.old_woman a term of address for an elderly woman
subtype: septuagenarian someone whose age is in the seventies
subtype: sexagenarian someone whose age is in the sixties
subtype: pacifist__pacificist__disarmer someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes
subtype: peacenik__dove someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations
subtype: patrician a person of refined upbringing and manners
subtype: pledger someone who makes or gives a pledge
subtype: professional_person__professional a person engaged in one of the learned professions
subtype: careerist a professional who follows a career
subtype: career_girl a woman who follows a professional career
subtype: career_man a man who follows a professional career
subtype: craftsman a professional whose work is consistently of high quality; "as an actor he was a consummate craftsman"
subtype: critic a person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art
subtype: art_critic__artcritic a critic of paintings
instance: Roger_Eliot_Fry__Fry__Roger_Fry John_Ruskin__Ruskin
subtype: literary_critic a critic of literature
instance: Matthew_Arnold__Arnold Van_Wyck_Brooks__Brooks John_Anthony_Ciardi__Ciardi__John_Ciardi Jacques_Derrida__Derrida__derrida Herman_Northrop_Frye__Frye__Northrop_Frye William_Hazlitt__Hazlitt Henry_Louis_Mencken__Mencken__H._L._Mencken Ivor_Armstrong_Richards__Richards__I._A._Richards Sir_Stephen_Harold_Spender__Spender__Stephen_Spender Lionel_Trilling__Trilling Carl_Clinton_Van_Doren__Van_Doren__Carl_Van_Doren Edmund_Wilson__Wilson
subtype: newspaper_critic__newspapercritic a critic who writes a column for the newspapers
instance: Harley_Granville-Barker__Granville-Barker John_Orley_Allen_Tate__Tate__Allen_Tate
subtype: educator__pedagogue someone who educates
subtype: academic__academician__faculty_member__facultymember an educator who works at a college or university
subtype: professor someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university
subtype: assistant_professor__assistantprofessor a teacher or lower rank than an associate professor
subtype: associate_professor__associateprofessor a teacher lower in rank than a full professor but higher than an assistant professor
subtype: full_professor a professor of the highest rank
subtype: Regius_professor holder of a British professorship created by a royal patron
subtype: visiting_professor a professor visiting another college or university to teach for a limited time
subtype: lector__lecturer__reader a public lecturer at certain universities
subtype: school_principal__principal__head_teacher__head the educator who has executive authority for a school; "she sent unruly pupils to see the principal"
subtype: chancellor (British) the honorary or titular head of a university
subtype: headmaster__schoolmaster__master presiding officer of a school
subtype: housemaster teacher in charge of a school boardinghouse
subtype: headmistress a woman headmaster
subtype: schoolmaster any person (or institution) who acts as an educator
subtype: instructor__teacher a person whose occupation is teaching
subtype: art_teacher__artteacher someone who teaches art
subtype: private_instructor__privateinstructor__coach__tutor a person who gives private instruction (as in singing or acting)
subtype: crammer.private_instructor a teacher who is paid to cram students for examinations
subtype: demonstrator a teacher or teacher's assistant who demonstrates the principles that are being taught
subtype: English_teacher__englishteacher__English_professor someone who teaches English
subtype: French_teacher someone who teaches French
subtype: governess__governes a woman entrusted with the care and supervision of a child (especially in a private home)
subtype: instructress a woman instructor
subtype: math_teacher__mathematics_teacher__mathematicsteacher someone who teaches mathematics
subtype: geometry_teacher someone who teaches geometry
subtype: missionary someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program
instance: David_Livingstone__Livingstone Marcus_Whitman__Whitman Saint_Francis_Xavier__Xavier
subtype: music_teacher__musicteacher someone who teaches music
subtype: piano_teacher__pianoteacher someone who teaches students to play the piano
subtype: preceptor__don (British) teacher at a university of college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford)
subtype: reading_teacher__readingteacher someone who teaches students to read
subtype: riding_master someone who teaches horsemanship
subtype: schoolteacher__school_teacher a teacher in a school below the college level
subtype: games-master__gamesmaster__games-mistress the teacher in charge of games at a school
subtype: schoolmarm__schoolmistress__mistress a woman schoolteacher
instance: John_Thomas_Scopes__Scopes__John_Scopes
subtype: science_teacher__scienceteacher someone who teaches science
subtype: section_man__sectionman someone who teaches a section of a large college course
subtype: catechist one who instructs catechumens in preparation for baptism
subtype: teaching_fellow a graduate student with teaching responsibilities
instance: Mary_McLeod_Bethune__Bethune Louis_Braille__Braille Dale_Carnegie__Carnegie John_Amos_Comenius__Comenius__Jan_Amos_Komensky John_Dewey__Dewey Friedrich_Wilhelm_August_Froebel__Froebel__Friedrich_Froebel Thomas_Hopkins_Gallaudet__Gallaudet Mark_Hopkins__Hopkins Robert_Maynard_Hutchins__Hutchins Lucy_Craft_Laney__Laney Abbott_Lawrence_Lowell__Lowell Horace_Mann__Mann William_Holmes_McGuffey__McGuffey Montessori__Maria_Montesorri James_Naismith__Naismith Carl_Orff__Orff Elizabeth_Palmer_Peabody__Peabody__peabody__elizabethpeabody Sir_Isaac_Pitman__Pitman Anne_Mansfield_Sullivan__Sullivan__Anne_Sullivan Booker_Taliaferro_Washington__Washington__Booker_T._Washington Andrew_Dickson_White__White__Andrew_D._White Emma_Hart_Willard__Willard John_Witherspoon__Witherspoon
subtype: health_professional__health_care_provider__caregiver a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability
subtype: bonesetter someone (not necessarily a licensed physician) who sets broken bones
subtype: electrologist someone skilled in the use of electricity to remove moles or warts or hair roots
subtype: medical_assistant__medicalassistant a person trained to assist medical professionals
subtype: medical_practitioner__medicalpractitioner__medical_man__medicalman someone who practices medicine
subtype: dentist__tooth_doctor__toothdoctor__dental_practitioner a person qualified to practice dentistry
subtype: dental_surgeon a dentist qualified to perform surgical procedures
subtype: endodontist a dentist specializing in diseases of the dental pulp and nerve
subtype: exodontist a dentist specializing in the extraction of teeth
subtype: orthodontist a dentist specializing in the prevention or correction of irregularities of the teeth
subtype: pedodontist a dentist who specializes in the care of children's teeth
subtype: periodontist a dentist specializing in diseases of the gums and other structure surrounding the teeth
subtype: prosthodontist a dentist who is expert in prosthodontics
subtype: doc__physician__MD__Dr.__medico a licensed medical practitioner; "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor"
subtype: abortionist a person (who should be a doctor) who terminates pregnancies
subtype: allergist a physician skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of allergies
subtype: angiologist a physician who specializes in angiology
subtype: medical_extern__medicalextern__extern a nonresident doctor or medical student; connected with a hospital but not living there
subtype: gastroenterologist a physician who specializes in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract
subtype: general_practitioner__generalpractitioner__GP a physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses
subtype: country_doctor__countrydoctor a doctor who practices in the country (rather than in a city) usually remote from a modern hospital; "do country doctors still make house calls?"
subtype: family_doctor a general practitioner who treats all the family members
subtype: house_physician__housephysician__resident__resident_physician a physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital
subtype: medical_intern__medicalintern__intern__interne__houseman an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term)
subtype: quack an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice
subtype: medical_specialist__medicalspecialist__specialist practices one branch of medicine
subtype: anesthesiologist__anesthetist__anaesthetist a specialist who administers an anesthetic to a patient before he is treated
subtype: baby_doctor__pediatrician__pediatrist__paediatrician a specialist in the care of babies
instance: Harold_Hirschsprung__Hirschsprung Benjamin_Spock__Spock
subtype: cardiologist__heart_specialist__heartspecialist__heart_surgeon__heartsurgeon a specialist in cardiology; a specialist in the structure and function and disorders of the heart
subtype: chiropodist__foot_doctor__podiatrist a specialist in care for the feet
subtype: dermatologist__skin_doctor a doctor who specializes in the physiology and pathology of the skin
subtype: diagnostician__pathologist a doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis
subtype: etiologist__aetiologist a specialist in the etiology of diseases
instance: Sir_Howard_Walter_Florey__Florey__Howard_Florey Karl_Landsteiner__Landsteiner Sir_James_Paget__Paget Francis_Peyton_Rous__Rous__Peyton_Rous Rudolf_Karl_Virchow__Virchow__Rudolf_Virchow
subtype: diplomate medical specialist whose competence has been certified by a diploma granted by an appropriate professional group
subtype: ear_doctor__eardoctor__ear_specialist__earspecialist__otologist a physician who specializes in the ear and its diseases
instance: Prosper_Meniere__Meniere
subtype: endocrinologist physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions affecting the endocrine system
instance: Henry_Hubert_Turner__Turner
subtype: ENT_man__ear-nose-and-throat_doctor__otolaryngologist__otorhinolaryngologist__rhinolaryngologist a specialist in the disorders of the ear or nose or throat
subtype: gerontologist__geriatrician a specialist in gerontology
subtype: gynecologist__gynaecologist__woman's_doctor__woman'sdoctor a specialist in gynecology
subtype: hematologist__haematologist a doctor who specializes in diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs
subtype: internist a specialist in internal medicine
subtype: neurologist__brain_doctor__braindoctor a medical specialist in the nervous system and the disorders affecting it
instance: Jean_Martin_Charcot__Charcot__charcot Harvery_Williams_Cushing__Cushing__Harvey_Cushing Sigmund_Freud__Freud Baron_Richard_von_Krafft-Ebing__Krafft-Ebing__Richard_von_Krafft-Ebing Georges_Gilles_de_la_Tourette__Tourette__Gilles_de_la_Tourette Karl_Wernicke__Wernicke
subtype: obstetrician__accoucheur a physician specializing in obstetrics
subtype: perinatologist an obstetrician specializing in perinatology
subtype: oncologist a specialist in oncology
subtype: ophthalmologist__eye_doctor__eyedoctor__oculist a medical doctor specializing in the treatment of diseases of the eye
instance: Hermann_Snellen__Snellen
subtype: orthopedist__orthopaedist a specialist in correcting deformities of the skeletal system (especially in children)
subtype: orthoptist a specialist in orthoptics
subtype: proctologist a doctor specializing in diseases of the rectum and anus
subtype: psychiatrist__head-shrinker__shrink a physician who specializes in psychiatry
subtype: alienist a psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness
subtype: psychoanalyst__analyst a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis
instance: Sigmund_Freud__Freud Melanie_Klein__Klein
instance: Karl_Theodor_Jaspers__Jaspers__Karl_Jaspers Charles_Frederick_Menninger__Menninger__Charles_Menninger Karl_Augustus_Menninger__Menninger__Karl_Menninger William_Claire_Menninger__Menninger__William_Menninger Harry_Stack_Sullivan__Sullivan
subtype: radiographer a person who makes radiographs
subtype: radiologist a medical specialist who uses radioactive substances and X-rays in the treatment of disease
subtype: rheumatologist a physician specializing in rheumatic diseases
subtype: urologist a specialist in urology
subtype: operating_surgeon__operatingsurgeon__surgeon__sawbones a physician who specializes in surgery
subtype: amputator a surgeon who remove part or all of a limb
subtype: cosmetic_surgeon__plastic_surgeon__plasticsurgeon a surgeon who beautifies the body (especially the face)
subtype: neurosurgeon__brain_surgeon__brainsurgeon someone who does surgery on the nervous system (especially the brain)
instance: Alexis_Carrel__Carrel Michael_Ellis_De_Bakey__De_Bakey William_Crawford_Gorgas__Gorgas Joseph_Lister__Lister__Baron_Lister James_Parkinson__Parkinson Walter_Reed__Reed
subtype: veterinarian__veterinary__veterinary_surgeon__vet a doctor who practices veterinary medicine
subtype: horse_doctor__horsedoctor a veterinarian who treats horses
instance: Robert_Barany__Barany Sir_David_Bruce__Bruce__David_Bruce Burrill_Bernard_Crohn__Crohn John_L._H._Down__Down Christiaan_Eijkman__Eijkman Etienne-Louis_Arthur_Fallot__etiennelouisarthurfallot__Fallot William_Gilbert__Gilbert William_Harvey__Harvey Thomas_Hodgkin__Hodgkin Aletta_Jacobs__Jacobs Edward_Jenner__Jenner Harry_F._Klinefelter__Klinefelter__Harry_Fitch_Kleinfelter Clemence_Sophia_Harned_Lozier__Lozier Sir_Patrick_Manson__Manson Friedrich_Anton_Mesmer__Mesmer__Franz_Anton_Mesmer Philippus_Aureolus_Paracelsus__Paracelsus__Theophrastus_Philippus_Aureolus_Bombastus_von_Hohenheim Peter_Mark_Roget__Roget Sir_Ronald_Ross__Ross Benjamin_Rush__Rush Albert_Schweitzer__Schweitzer Anna_Howard_Shaw__Shaw Sir_James_Young_Simpson__Simpson Thomas_Sydenham__Sydenham__The_English_Hippocrates Erik_Adolf_von_Willebrand__Willebrand__von_Willebrand__E._A._von_Willebrand
subtype: inoculator__vaccinator a medical practitioner who inoculates people against diseases
subtype: medical_officer__medicalofficer__medic a medical practitioner in the armed forces
subtype: flight_surgeon a medical officer specializing in aviation medicine
subtype: surgeon_general the senior medical officer in an army or navy
instance: Hippocrates
subtype: nurse one skilled in caring for the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician)
subtype: graduate_nurse__trained_nurse__trainednurse someone who has completed the course of study (including hospital practice) at a nurses training school
subtype: licensed_practical_nurse__LPN__practical_nurse__practicalnurse a nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick
subtype: head_nurse__matron a woman in charge of nursing in a medical institution
subtype: midwife__accoucheuse a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies
subtype: probationer__student_nurse__studentnurse a nurse in training who is undergoing a trial period
subtype: registered_nurse__RN a graduate nurse who has passed examinations for registration
subtype: nurse-midwife__nursemidwife a registered nurse who has received special training as a midwife
subtype: nurse_practitioner__nursepractitioner__NP__nurse_clinician__nurseclinician a registered nurse who has received special training and can perform many of the duties of a physician
subtype: scrub_nurse__scrubnurse a nurse who helps a surgeon prepare for surgery
subtype: visiting_nurse a nurse who is paid to visit the sick in their homes
instance: Edith_Louisa_Cavell__Cavell__Edith_Cavell Florence_Nightingale__Nightingale__the_Lady_with_the_Lamp Margaret_Higgins_Sanger__Sanger__Margaret_Sanger
subtype: pharmacist__druggist__chemist__pill_pusher__pill_roller a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs
subtype: pharmacologist__pharmaceutical_chemist someone trained in the science of drugs (their composition and uses and effects)
instance: Otto_Loewi__Loewi
subtype: lawyer__attorney a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice
subtype: advocate__counsel__counselor__counsellor__counselor-at-law__pleader a lawyer who pleads cases in court
subtype: ambulance_chaser__ambulancechaser a lawyer who incites accident victims to sue
subtype: barrister a British lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law
subtype: Counsel_to_the_Crown a barrister selected to serve as counsel to the British ruler
subtype: King's_Counsel Counsel to the Crown when the British monarch is a king
subtype: Queen's_Counsel Counsel to the Crown when the British monarch is a queen
subtype: serjeant-at-law__serjeant__sergeant-at-law__sergeant an English barrister of the highest rank
subtype: conveyancer a lawyer who specializes in the business of conveying properties
subtype: defense_attorney__defenseattorney__defenselawyer the lawyer representing the defendant
subtype: divorce_lawyer__divorcelawyer a lawyer specializing in actions for divorce or annulment
subtype: prosecutor__prosecuting_officer__prosecutingofficer__prosecuting_attorney__prosecutingattorney a lawyer who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
subtype: district_attorney__DA an official prosecutor for a judicial district
subtype: state's_attorney__state'sattorney__state_attorney__stateattorney a prosecuting attorney for a state
subtype: public_defender a lawyer who represents indigent defendants at public expense
subtype: solicitor a British lawyer who gives legal advice and prepares legal documents
subtype: law_agent__lawagent a solicitor holding a certificate from the Law Society of Scotland
subtype: trial_attorney__trialattorney__trial_lawyer__triallawyer a lawyer who specializes in defending clients before a court of law
instance: William_Jennings_Bryan__Bryan__the_Great_Commoner__The_Boy_Orator_of_the_Platte Clarence_Seward_Darrow__Darrow__Clarence_Darrow Arthur_Garfield_Hays__Hays William_Harrison_Hays__Hays__Will_Hays John_Edgar_Hoover__Hoover__J._Edgar_Hoover Francis_Scott_Key__Key President_Lincoln__Lincoln__Abraham_Lincoln
subtype: librarian__bibliothec a professional person trained in library science and engaged in library services
subtype: cataloger__cataloguer a librarian who classifies publication according to a categorial system
subtype: practitioner__practician someone who practices a learned profession
subtype: clinician a practitioner (of medicine or psychology) who does clinical work instead of laboratory experiments
subtype: homeopath__homoeopath a practitioner of homeopathy
subtype: publisher a person engaged in publishing periodicals or books or music
instance: Karl_Baedeker__Baedeker Henry_Oscar_Houghton__Houghton Henry_Robinson_Luce__Luce__Henry_Luce Keith_Rupert_Murdoch__Murdoch__Rupert_Murdoch Adolph_Simon_Ochs__Ochs
subtype: yuppie a young upwardly mobile professional person; someone under 40 who prospered during the 1980s
subtype: sobersides a serious and sedate individual
subtype: sophisticate__man_of_the_world a worldly-wise person
subtype: city_slicker__city_boy a city dweller with sophisticated manners
subtype: cosmopolitan__cosmopolite a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
subtype: globetrotter__world_traveler__worldtraveler someone who travels widely and often
subtype: stay-at-home__homebody a person who seldom goes anywhere; one not given to wandering or travel
subtype: stoic__unemotional_person__unemotionalperson someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions
subtype: thoroughbred a well-bred person
subtype: adventurer__venturer a person who enjoys taking risks
subtype: argonaut someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure
subtype: adventuress a woman adventurer
subtype: cowboy someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in driving vehicles)
subtype: daredevil__madcap__hothead__swashbuckler__lunatic__harum-scarum__harumscarum a reckless impetuous irresponsible person
subtype: tearaway (British) a reckless and impetuous person
subtype: risk_taker__gambler someone who risks loss or injury in the hope of gain or excitement
subtype: hotspur a rash or impetuous person
subtype: mercenary__soldieroffortune a person hired to fight for another country than their own
subtype: mountaineer__mountain_climber someone who climbs mountains
subtype: alpinist a mountain climber who specializes in difficult climbs
instance: Sir_Edmund_Percival_Hillary__Hillary__Edmund_Hillary__Sir_Edmund_Hillary Tenzing_Norgay
subtype: parachutist__parachuter a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute
subtype: plunger__speculator someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
subtype: hedger.plunger someone who counterbalances one transaction (as a bet) against another in order to protect against loss
subtype: operator.plunger a speculator who trades aggressively on stock or commodity markets
subtype: scalper someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost; "he got theater tickets through a scalper"
subtype: ticket_tout__tout (British) someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit
subtype: venture_capitalist__venturecapitalist a speculator who makes money available for innovative projects (especially in high technology)
instance: Giovanni_Jacopo_Casanova_de_Seingalt__Casanova__Giovanni_Jacopo_Casanova__Casanova_de_Seingalt
subtype: unusual_person__unusualperson__anomaly a person who is unusual
subtype: anachronism.unusual_person a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age
subtype: aberrant one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group
subtype: albino a person with albinism: white hair and pink eyes and milky skin
subtype: automaton__zombi__zombie someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way; "only an automaton wouldn't have noticed"
subtype: eccentric_person__eccentricperson__oddball a person with an unusual or odd personality
subtype: crackpot__crank__nut__nutcase__fruitcake__screwball a whimsically eccentric person
subtype: goliath__giant__behemoth__monster__colossus someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
subtype: Jekyll_and_Hyde__jekyllandhyde someone with two personalities - one good and one evil
subtype: kook__odd_fellow__oddfellow__odd_fish__oddfish__queer_bird__queerbird__queer_duck__queerduck__odd_man_out__oddmanout someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group
subtype: misfit someone unable to adapt to their circumstances
subtype: anthropoid.misfit__ape person who resembles a non-human primate
subtype: dork__jerk a dull stupid fatuous person
subtype: addle-head__addlehead__loon__birdbrain a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought
subtype: rare_bird__rara_avis a rare or unique person
subtype: transsexual.unusual_person a person who has undergone a sex change operation
subtype: ugly_duckling an ugly or unpromising child who grows into a beautiful or worthy person
subtype: applicant__applier a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission
subtype: aspirant__aspirer__wannabe an ambitious and aspiring young person; "a lofty aspirant"; "two executive hopefuls joined the firm"; "the audience was full of Madonna wannabes"
subtype: bidder someone who makes an offer
subtype: claimant someone who claims a benefit or right or title; "claimants of unemployment compensation"; "he was a claimant to the throne"
subtype: Pretender a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title)
subtype: job_candidate__jobcandidate an applicant who is being considered for a job
subtype: material.applicant a person judged suitable for admission or employment; "he was university material"; "she was vice-presidential material"
subtype: petitioner__suppliant__supplicant one praying humbly for something: "a suppliant for her favors"
subtype: besieger.petitioner an energetic petitioner
subtype: postulant one submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order
subtype: solicitor.petitioner a petitioner who seeks contributions or trade
subtype: possible.applicant an applicant who might be suitable
subtype: probable an applicant likely to be chosen
subtype: submitter someone who submits something (as an application for a job or a manuscript for publication etc.) for the judgment of others; "he was a prolific submitter of proposals"
subtype: appointee.person__appointment a person who is appointed to a job or position
subtype: bad_person__badperson a person who does harm to others
subtype: wrongdoer__offender a person who transgresses moral or civil law
subtype: abuser__maltreater someone who abuses
subtype: attacker__aggressor__assailant__assaulter someone who attacks
subtype: ambusher an attacker who waits in a concealed position to launch a surprise attack
subtype: avenger__retaliator someone who takes vengeance
subtype: beast__wolf__savage__brute__wildcat a cruelly rapacious person
subtype: bully__tough__hooligan__ruffian__roughneck__rowdy__yob__yobo__yobbo a cruel and brutal fellow
subtype: bullyboy a swaggering tough; usually one acting as an agent of a political faction
subtype: muscleman a bully employed by a gangster
subtype: skinhead a young person who belongs to a British or American group that shave their heads and gather at rock concerts or engage in white supremacist demonstrations
subtype: tough_guy__toughguy__plug-ugly someone who bullies weaker people
subtype: Ted__Teddy_boy (Brit) a tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes
subtype: harasser__harrier a persistent attacker; "the harassers were not members of the regular army"
subtype: marauder__predator__vulture someone who attacks in search of booty
subtype: night_rider__nightrider__nightrider member of a secret mounted band in United States south after the Civil War; committed acts of intimidation and revenge
subtype: raper__rapist someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse
subtype: shedder__spiller an attacker who sheds or spills blood; "a great hunter and spiller of blood"
subtype: stabber someone who stabs another person
subtype: stoner__lapidator an attacker who pelts the victim with stones (especially with intent to kill)
subtype: convict a person convicted of a criminal offence
subtype: first_offender__firstoffender someone convicted for the first time
subtype: criminal__felon__crook__outlaw__malefactor someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
subtype: accessory__accessary someone who helps another person commit a crime
subtype: abettor__abetter one who helps or encourages or incites another
subtype: accessory_after_the_fact__accessoryafterthefact a person who gives assistance or comfort to someone known to be a felon or known to be sought in connection with the commission of a felony
subtype: accessory_before_the_fact a person who procures or advises or commands the commission of a felony but who is not present at its perpetration
subtype: accessory_during_the_fact a person who witnesses a crime but does not try to prevent it
subtype: confederate__collaborator__henchman__partner_in_crime someone who assists in a plot
subtype: arsonist__incendiary__firebug a criminal who illegally sets fire to property
subtype: barnburner someone who burns down a barn
subtype: blackmailer__extortioner__extortionist a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them
subtype: bootlegger__moonshiner someone who makes or sells illegal liquor
subtype: briber__suborner someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act
subtype: conspirator__plotter a member of a conspiracy
instance: Guy_Fawkes__Fawkes Titus_Oates__Oates
subtype: desperado__desperate_criminal__desperatecriminal a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier)
subtype: fugitive_from_justice__fugitive someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice
subtype: absconder someone who runs away and hides to avoid arrest or prosecution
subtype: escapee someone who escapes
subtype: gangster__mobster a criminal who is a member of gang
subtype: apache a Parisian gangster
subtype: yardie member of an international gang of Jamaican criminals who sell drugs and violence; "A much publicized raid on a yardie stronghold had first been simulated at Riot City"
instance: Alphonse_Capone__Capone__Al_Capone__Scarface
subtype: highbinder a corrupt politician
subtype: highjacker__hijacker someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination
subtype: hoodlum__hood__goon__punk__thug__tough__toughie__strong-armer an aggressive and violent young criminal
subtype: kidnapper__abductor__snatcher someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
subtype: crimper someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers
subtype: shanghaier__seizer a kidnapper who drugs men and takes them for compulsory service aboard a ship
subtype: gangster's_moll__moll__gun_moll__gunmoll the girl friend of a gangster
subtype: murderer__liquidator__manslayer a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
subtype: assassin__assassinator__bravo a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a treacherous surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed; "his assassins were hunted down like animals"; "assassinators of kings and emperors"
instance: John_Wilkes_Booth__Booth Lee_Harvey_Oswald__Oswald
subtype: butcher a brutal indiscriminate murderer
subtype: cutthroat someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat
subtype: fratricide.murderer a person who murders their brother or sister
subtype: gunslinger__gunman__hired_gun__hiredgun__gun__triggerman__hit_man__hitman__torpedo__shooter a professional killer who uses a gun
subtype: hatchet_man__hatchetman__iceman a professional killer
subtype: infanticide.murderer a person who murders an infant
subtype: murderess__murderes a woman murderer
subtype: parricide.murderer someone who kills his or her parent
subtype: matricide.parricide a person who murders their mother
subtype: patricide.parricide a person who murders their father
subtype: ripper a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife; "Jack the ripper was probably a madman"
subtype: serial_killer__serial_murderer someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval
instance: Jack_the_Ripper
subtype: parolee__probationer someone released on probation or on parole
subtype: drug_peddler__pusher__peddler__drug_dealer__drug_trafficker an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs
subtype: racketeer some who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion)
subtype: bagman a racketeer assigned to collect or distribute payoff money
subtype: raper__rapist someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse
subtype: recidivist__repeater__habitual_criminal someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior)
subtype: scofflaw one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses
subtype: smuggler__runner__contrabandist__mooncurser someone who imports or exports without paying duties
subtype: gunrunner__arms-runner a smuggler of guns
subtype: rumrunner someone who illegally smuggles liquor across a border
subtype: thief__stealer a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it
subtype: bandit__brigand an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band
subtype: shoplifter__booster__lifter a thief who steals goods that are on display in a store
subtype: burglar a thief who enters a building with intent to steal
subtype: housebreaker__cat_burglar a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house
subtype: dacoit__dakoit (in India and Burma) a member of an armed gang of robbers
subtype: embezzler__peculator__defalcator someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for their own use
subtype: body_snatcher__graverobber__ghoul someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection
subtype: graverobber someone who steals valuables from graves or crypts
subtype: holdup_man__stickup_man__stickupman an armed thief
subtype: highwayman__highjacker__hijacker__road_agent a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it
subtype: footpad__padder a highwayman who robs on foot
instance: Dick_Turpin__Turpin
subtype: larcenist__larcener a person who commits larceny
subtype: pickpocket__cutpurse__dip a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
subtype: plagiarist__plagiarizer__literarypirate__pirate someone who uses another person's words or ideas is they were his own
subtype: plunderer__pillager__looter__spoiler__raider__freebooter someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
subtype: pirate__buccaneer__sea_robber__searobber__sea_rover__searover someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation
subtype: Barbary_pirate__corsair a pirate along the Barbary coast
instance: Khayr_ad-Din__Barbarossa
subtype: sea_king__seaking a Viking pirate chief
instance: Jean_Laffite__Laffite__Lafitte__Jean_Lafitte Sir_Henry_Morgan__Morgan__Henry_Morgan Bartholomew_Roberts__Roberts Edward_Teach__Teach__Thatch__Edward_Thatch__Blackbeard
subtype: robber a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence
subtype: bank_robber a robber of banks
subtype: mugger a robber who takes property by threatening or performing violence on the person who is robbed (usually on the street)
subtype: rustler__cattle_thief someone who steals livestock (especially cattle)
subtype: safebreaker__safecracker__cracksman a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents
subtype: snatcher a thief who grabs and runs; "a purse snatcher"
subtype: sneak_thief__pilferer__snitcher a thief who steals without using violence
subtype: wharf_rat.sneak_thief__wharfrat someone who lives near wharves and lives by pilfering from ships or warehouses
subtype: traitor__treasonist someone who betrays his country by committing treason
subtype: collaborator__collaborationist__quisling someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force
subtype: fifth_columnist__fifthcolumnist__saboteur a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader
subtype: traitress__traitres female traitor
instance: Benedict_Arnold__Arnold
subtype: violator__lawbreaker someone who violates the law
instance: William_H._Bonney__Bonney__Billie_the_Kid Jesse_James__James Robert_MacGregor__MacGregor__Rob_Roy
subtype: deceiver__cheat__cheater__trickster__beguiler__slicker someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
subtype: bluffer a person who tries to bluff other people
subtype: swindler__chiseller__chiseler__gouger__scammer__sharpie a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud
subtype: cardsharp__cardsharper a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games
subtype: clip_artist a swindler who fleeces the victim
subtype: confidence_man__con_man__conman__con_artist__conartist a swindler who exploits the confidence of his victim
subtype: welcher__welsher someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager
subtype: steerer__decoy a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)
subtype: roper.steerer a decoy who lures customers into a gambling establishment (especially one with a fixed game)
subtype: shill a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others
subtype: dodger__fox__slyboot a shifty deceptive person
subtype: double-crosser__double-dealer__two-timer__twotimer__betrayer__traitor a person who says one thing and does another
subtype: Judas someone who betrays under the guise of friendship
subtype: falsifier someone who falsifies
subtype: finagler__wangler a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods
subtype: counterfeiter__forger someone who makes copies illegally
subtype: coiner.counterfeiter (British) a maker of counterfeit coins
subtype: paperhanger (informal) someone who passes bad checks or counterfeit paper money
subtype: fortune_hunter__fortunehunter a person who seeks wealth through marriage
subtype: front_man__frontman__front__figurehead__nominal_head__nominalhead__straw_man__strawman a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
subtype: hypocrite__dissembler__phony__phoney__pretender a person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold
subtype: smoothie__smoothy__sweettalker someone with an assured and ingratiating manner
subtype: Tartuffe__Tartufe a hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere)
subtype: whited_sepulcher__whited_sepulchre a person who is inwardly evil but outwardly professes to be virtuous
subtype: impersonator__imitator someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another
subtype: mimic__mimicker someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress)
subtype: imposter__impostor__pretender__fake__faker__fraud__sham__shammer__pseudo__pseud__role_player a person who makes deceitful pretenses
subtype: namedropper someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends
subtype: ringer.imposter a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses
subtype: liar__prevaricator a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly
subtype: perjurer__false_witness__falsewitnes a person who deliberately gives false testimony
subtype: storyteller__fibber__fabricator someone who tells lies
instance: Ananias
subtype: misleader someone who leads astray (often deliberately)
subtype: mountebank__charlatan a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes
subtype: phrenologist__craniologist someone who claims to read your character from the shape of your skull
subtype: quack an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice
subtype: obscurantist a person who is deliberately vague
subtype: sandbagger someone who deceives you about his true nature or intent in order to take advantage of you
subtype: two-timer__twotimer someone who deceives a lover or spouse by carrying on a sexual relationship with somebody else
subtype: utterer someone who circulates forged banknotes or counterfeit coins
subtype: juvenile_delinquent__delinquent a young offender
subtype: defector__deserter a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post)
subtype: deviationist an ideological defector from the party line (especially from orthodox communism)
subtype: draft_dodger__draftdodger__draft_evader__draftevader someone who is drafted and illegally refuses to serve
subtype: renegade__turncoat someone who rebels and becomes and outlaw
subtype: transgressor someone who transgresses; someone who violates a law or command; "the way of transgressors is hard"
subtype: malfeasant one guilty of malfeasance
subtype: nonattender__no-show__truant someone who shirks duty
subtype: perpetrator__culprit someone who perpetrates wrongdoing
subtype: pimp__procurer__panderer__pander__pandar__fancy_man__fancyman__ponce someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
subtype: procuress__procures a woman pimp
subtype: whoremaster__whoremonger a pimp who procures whores
subtype: backslider__recidivist__reversionist someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior
subtype: reprobate__miscreant a person without moral scruples
subtype: pervert__deviant__deviate__degenerate a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
subtype: fetishist one who engages in fetishism (especially of a sexual nature)
subtype: masochist someone who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment
subtype: flagellant.masochist a person who is whipped or whips himself for sexual gratification
subtype: molester someone who subjects others to unwanted or improper sexual activities
subtype: nymphomaniac__nympho a woman with abnormal sexual desires
subtype: pederast__paederast__childmolester a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner
subtype: pedophile__paedophile an adult who is sexually attracted to children
subtype: sadist someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain or others
subtype: sadomasochist someone who enjoys both sadism and masochism
subtype: satyr__lecher man with strong sexual desires
subtype: sodomite__sodomist__sod someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male)
subtype: scapegrace__black_sheep__blacksheep a reckless and unprincipled reprobate
subtype: wretch performs some wicked deed
subtype: shark.wrongdoer a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
subtype: shyster__pettifogger a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods
subtype: sinner__evildoer a person who sins (without repenting)
subtype: magdalen a reformed prostitute
instance: St_Mary_Magdalene__Mary_Magdalene__Mary_Magdalen__St_Mary_Magdalen
subtype: usurper__supplanter one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another
subtype: claim_jumper__claimjumper one who illegally occupies property to which another has a legal claim
subtype: war_criminal__warcriminal an offender who violates international law during times of war
subtype: decadent a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically)
subtype: destroyer__ruiner__undoer__waster__uprooter a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to; "a destroyer of the environment"; "jealousy was his undoer"; "uprooters of gravestones"
subtype: annihilator a total destroyer
subtype: iconoclast__image_breaker__imagebreaker someone who tries to destroy traditional ideas or institutions
subtype: saboteur__wrecker someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
subtype: vandal someone who willfully destroys or defaces property
subtype: libertine__debauchee__rounder a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained
subtype: adulterer__fornicator someone who commits adultery
subtype: adulteress__fornicatress__hussy__jade__loose_woman__slut__strumpet a woman adulterer
subtype: wencher someone who patronizes prostitutes
subtype: gigolo a man who has sex with and is supported by a woman
subtype: lounge_lizard__lizard a man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him
subtype: profligate__rake__rip__blood__roue a dissolute man in fashionable society
subtype: ladies'_man__seducer__ladykiller a man who takes advantage of women
subtype: undoer a seducer who ruins a woman; "she awoke in the arms of her cruel undoer"
subtype: swinger.libertine__tramp a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex
subtype: debaucher__violator__ravisher someone who assaults others sexually
subtype: womanizer__womaniser__philanderer a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them
subtype: Casanova any man noted for his amorous adventures
subtype: Don_Juan a successful womanizer (after the legendary profligate Spanish nobleman)
subtype: Lothario a successful womanizer (after a fictional seducer)
subtype: woman_chaser__womanchaser__wolf__skirt_chaser__skirtchaser__masher a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women
subtype: panderer a person who serves or caters to the vulgar passions or plans of others (especially in order to make money)
subtype: polluter__defiler a person or organization that causes pollution of the environment
subtype: scalawag__scallywag white Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest
subtype: seducer a bad person who entices others into error or wrong-doing
subtype: shocker.bad_person a shockingly bad person
subtype: snake_in_the_grass__snake a deceitful or treacherous person
subtype: trampler someone who injures by trampling
subtype: varmint__vermin an irritating or obnoxious person
subtype: victimizer__victimiser a person who victimizes others; "I thought we were partners, not victim and victimizer"
subtype: slaver__slave_dealer__slavedealer__slave_trader__slavetrader a person engaged in slave trade
subtype: white_slaver__whiteslaver a person who forces women to become prostitutes
subtype: capitalist a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business)
subtype: businessperson__bourgeois__bourgeoi engages in industrial commercial enterprise
subtype: accountant__comptroller__controller someone who maintains and audits business accounts
subtype: auditor someone who audits accounts
subtype: bookkeeper someone who records the transactions of a business
subtype: certified_public_accountant__CPA an accountant certified by the state
subtype: chartered_accountant__charteredaccountant a British accountant who is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
subtype: cost_accountant a specialist in the systematic recording and analysis of the costs incident to production
subtype: account_executive__accountexecutive__account_representative__accountrepresentative__registered_representative__customer's_broker__customer's_man someone in charge of a client's account for an advertising agency or brokerage or other service business
subtype: broker__agent__factor a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
subtype: auctioneer an agent who conducts an auction
subtype: insurance_broker__insurancebroker__insurance_agent__insuranceagent__general_agent__generalagent an agent who sells insurance
subtype: investment_banker__underwriter a banker who deals chiefly in underwriting new securities
subtype: killer_bee an investment banker who devises strategies to make a target company less attractive for takeover
subtype: realtor__real_estate_broker__real_estate_agent__estate_agent__land_agent__house_agent__houseagent a person who is authorized to act as an agent for the sale of land; "in England they call a realtor a land agent"
subtype: ship_broker an agent for the ship owner; obtains cargo and may arrange for its loading or discharge
subtype: stockbroker an agent in the buying and selling of stocks and bonds
subtype: syndic one appointed to represent a city or university or corporation in business transactions
subtype: travel_agent someone who sells or arranges trips or tours for customers
subtype: businessman__man_of_affairs a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)
subtype: arbitrageur__arbitrager__arb someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential)
subtype: baron__big_businessman__bigbusinessman__business_leader__king__magnate__mogul__power__top_executive__topexecutive__tycoon a very wealthy or powerful businessman: "an oil baron"
subtype: oil_tycoon__oiltycoon a powerful person in the oil business
subtype: businesswoman a female businessman
subtype: brothel_keeper__brothelkeeper__madam a woman who runs a house of prostitution
subtype: industrialist someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise
instance: Andrew_Carnegie__Carnegie Peter_Cooper__Cooper Glenn_Hammond_Curtiss__Curtiss__Glenn_Curtiss Gottlieb_Daimler__Daimler John_Deere__Deere George_Eastman__Eastman Henry_Ford__Ford Edsel_Bryant_Ford__Ford Henry_Ford_II__Ford Henry_Clay_Frick__Frick Gillette__King_Camp_Gilette Meyer_Guggenheim__Guggenheim Henry_John_Heinz__Heinz William_Henry_Hoover__Hoover__William_Hoover Howard_Robard_Hughes__Hughes__Howard_Hughes Friedrich_Krupp__Krupp Edwin_Herbert_Land__Land__Din_Land First_Viscount_Nuffield__Nuffield__William_Richard_Morris Wilhelm_von_Opel__Opel Elisha_Graves_Otis__Otis Robert_Owen__Owen Sri_Frederick_Handley_Page__Page John_Davison_Rockefeller__Rockefeller__John_D._Rockefeller Igor_Ivanovich_Sikorsky__Sikorsky__Igor_Sikorsky Ernest_Solvay__Solvay
subtype: oilman.businessman a person who owns or operates oil wells
subtype: wildcatter an oilman who drills exploratory wells in territory not known to be an oil field
subtype: operator.businessman someone who owns or operates a business; "who is the operator of this franchise?"
subtype: supermarketer an operator of a supermarket
subtype: proprietor__owner someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business; "he is the owner of a chain of restaurants"
subtype: bookseller the proprietor of a bookstore
subtype: lessor__lease_giver__leasegiver someone who grants a lease
subtype: letter.proprietor owner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire
subtype: patronne__patron (Italian) the proprietor of an inn
subtype: innkeeper__host the owner or manager of an inn
subtype: hostess a woman innkeeper
subtype: padrone.innkeeper an owner or proprietor of an inn in Italy
subtype: victualer__victualler an innkeeper (especially British)
subtype: proprietress a woman proprietor
subtype: newspaper_publisher__newspaperpublisher__publisher the proprietor of a newspaper
subtype: press_lord__presslord a powerful newspaper proprietor
instance: 1st_Baron_Beaverbrook__Beaverbrook__William_Maxwell_Aitken Alfred_Charles_William_Harmsworth__Harmsworth__Viscount_Northcliffe Benjamin_Harris__Harris William_Randolph_Hearst__Hearst Joseph_Pulitzer__Pulitzer James_Edmund_Scripps__Scripps Edward_Wyllis_Scripps__Scripps
subtype: renter an owner who receives payment for the use of their property by another
subtype: restaurateur__restauranter the proprietor of a restaurant
subtype: saloon_keeper the proprietor of a saloon
subtype: small_businessman__smallbusinessman a businessman who runs a business employing less than 100 people
subtype: concessionaire__concessioner someone who holds or operates a concession
subtype: syndicator a businessman who forms a syndicate
subtype: transactor someone who conducts or carries on business or negotiations
instance: Ezra_Cornell__Cornell Edward_Henry_Harriman__Harriman__E._H._Harriman James_Jerome_Hill__Hill__J._J._Hill Collis_Potter_Huntington__Huntington First_Baron_Marks_of_Broughton__Marks__Simon_Marks David_Sarnoff__Sarnoff Leland_Stanford__Stanford George_Stephenson__Stephenson Henry_Villard__Villard John_Wanamaker__Wanamaker Asron_Montgomery_Ward__Ward__Montgomery_Ward Frank_Winfield_Woolworth__Woolworth Rudolf_Wurlitzer__Wurlitzer
subtype: entrepreneur__enterpriser someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it
instance: William_Henry_Gates__Gates__Bill_Gates Sir_Clive_Marles_Sinclair__Sinclair__Clive_Sinclair
subtype: exporter a businessperson who transports goods abroad (for sale)
subtype: importer someone whose business involves importing goods from outside (especially from a foreign country)
subtype: merchant__merchandiser a businessperson engaged in retail trade
subtype: baker someone who bakes commercially
subtype: bookdealer__book_seller a dealer in books; a merchant who sells books
subtype: meatman__butcher a retailer of meat
subtype: pork_butcher (British) a vendor of pork and products made from pork
subtype: clothier__haberdasher a merchant who sells men's clothing
subtype: fishmonger__fishwife someone who sells fish
subtype: grain_merchant__grainmerchant a merchant who deals in food grains
subtype: grocer a retail merchant who sells foodstuffs (and some household supplies)
subtype: greengrocer (British) a grocer who sells fresh fruits and vegetables
subtype: ironmonger__hardwareman someone who sells hardware; "in England they call a hardwareman an ironmonger"
subtype: jeweler__jeweller someone in the business of selling jewelry
subtype: milliner a merchant who designs and sells hats
subtype: poultryman__poulterer a dealer in poultry and poultry products
subtype: retailer__retail_merchant a merchant who sells goods at retail
subtype: chandler.retailer a retail dealer in provisions and supplies
subtype: ship's_chandler a dealer in sails and ropes and other supplies for sailing ships
subtype: licensee__licencee someone to who a license is granted
subtype: rug_merchant__rugmerchant a merchant who sells rugs
subtype: salt_merchant__salter someone who makes or deals in salt
subtype: schlockmeister__shlockmeister (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise
subtype: seller__marketer__vender__vendor__trafficker someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money
subtype: ticket_agent__booking_clerk someone who sells tickets (e.g., theater seats or travel accommodations)
subtype: cosmetician someone who sells or applies cosmetics
subtype: flower_girl.seller__flowergirl a woman who sells flowers in the street
subtype: fruiterer (British) a person who sells fruit
subtype: cheap-jack__cheapjack__huckster a seller of shoddy goods
subtype: costermonger__barrow-man__barrow-boy a hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrow
subtype: pedlar__peddler__packman__hawker__pitchman someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
subtype: chapman archaic term for an itinerant peddler
subtype: muffin_man (British) formerly an itinerant peddler of muffins
subtype: sandboy (British) a peddler of sand at a seashore resort; used now only to express great happiness in the expression "happy as a sandboy"
subtype: selling_agent__sellingagent someone who sells goods (on commission) for others
subtype: trafficker__dealer a seller of illicit goods; "a trafficker in stolen cars"
subtype: drug_peddler__pusher__peddler__drug_dealer__drug_trafficker an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs
subtype: underseller a seller that sells at a lower price than others do; "he went all over town looking for undersellers"
subtype: shopkeeper__tradesman__storekeeper__market_keeper a merchant who owns or manages a shop
subtype: dry_cleaner__drycleaner__cleaner the operator of dry-cleaning establishment
subtype: florist someone who grows and deals in flowers; "the florist made up an attractive bouquet"
subtype: hosier a tradesman who sells hosiery (and (in England) knitwear)
subtype: newsagent__newsdealer__newsvendor__newsstand_operator__newsstandoperator someone who sells newspapers
subtype: tobacconist a retail dealer in tobacco and tobacco-related articles
subtype: stationer__stationeryseller a merchant who sells writing materials and office supplies
subtype: trader__bargainer__dealer__monger someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold
subtype: art_dealer__artdealer a dealer in works of art requiring esthetic evaluation
subtype: print_seller__printseller someone who sells etchings and engravings etc.
subtype: barterer a trader who exchanges goods and not money
subtype: bibliopole__bibliopolist a dealer in secondhand books (especially rare or curious books)
subtype: cutler a dealer in cutlery
subtype: draper a dealer in fabrics and sewing materials (and sometimes in clothing and drygoods)
subtype: linendraper (British) a retail dealer in yard goods
subtype: fence (informal) a dealer in stolen property
subtype: horse_trader__horsetrader a hard bargainer
subtype: mercer (British) a dealer in textiles (especially silks)
subtype: seedsman__seedman a dealer in seeds
subtype: slopseller (British) a dealer in cheap ready-made clothing
subtype: stamp_dealer__stampdealer a dealer in stamps (whose customers are stamp collectors)
subtype: stock_trader__stocktrader someone who buys and sells stock shares
subtype: profit_taker someone who sells stock shares at a profit
subtype: stockjobber (British) one who deals only with brokers or other jobbers
subtype: merchant-venturer__venturer a merchant who undertakes a trading venture (especially a venture that sends goods overseas)
subtype: vintner__wine_merchant someone who sells wine
instance: Charles_Henry_Harrod__Harrod Charles_Digby_Harrod__Harrod
subtype: shipper.businessperson someone who ships goods
subtype: consigner__consignor the person who delivers over or commits merchandise
subtype: supplier__provider someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity
subtype: black_marketeer__blackmarketeer someone who engages illegally in trade in scarce or controlled commodities
subtype: caterer someone who provides food and service (as for a party)
subtype: connection.supplier a supplier (especially of narcotics)
subtype: dispenser.supplier a person who dispenses
subtype: distributor__distributer someone who markets merchandise
subtype: jobber__middleman__wholesaler someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers
subtype: meat_packer__packer a wholesaler in the meat-packing business
instance: Gustavus_Franklin_Swift__Swift
subtype: ship_chandler a dealer in equipment and supplies for ships
subtype: wool_stapler a dealer in wool
subtype: purveyor someone who supplies provisions (especially food)
subtype: recruiter.supplier someone who supplies members or employees
subtype: headhunter (informal) a recruiter of personnel (especially for corporations)
subtype: talent_scout__scout someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports)
subtype: stockist one (as a retailer or distributor) that stocks goods
subtype: sutler__victualer__victualler__provisioner a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army
subtype: financier__moneyman a person skilled in large scale financial transactions
subtype: banker someone who owns or is an executive in a bank
subtype: cashier__teller__bank_clerk an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money
instance: Rothschild
subtype: city_man a financier who works in one of the banks in the City of London
subtype: principal.financier__dealer the major party to a financial transaction; buys and sells for his own account
subtype: broker-dealer a financial specialist who trades for his own account and so acts both as a broker and principal
instance: James_Buchanan_Brady__Brady__Diamond_Jim_Brady__Diamond_Jim Jay_Cooke__Cooke Cosimo_de_Medici__Cosimo_the_Elder Stephen_Girard__Girard Jay_Gould__Gould Sir_Thomas_Gresham__Gresham William_Averell_Harriman__Harriman__Averell_Harriman Hopkins__Johns_Hopkins Andrew_William_Mellon__Mellon__Andrew_Mellon__Andrew_W._Mellon John_Pierpont_Morgan__Morgan__J._P._Morgan Robert_Morris__Morris Cecil_John_Rhodes__Rhodes__Cecil_Rhodes__Cecil_J._Rhodes Haym_Salomon__Salomon Cornelius_Vanderbilt__Vanderbilt__Commodore_VAnderbilt
subtype: holder.capitalist__bearer the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it; "the bond was marked `payable to bearer'"
subtype: ticket_holder holder of a ticket (for admission or for passage)
subtype: accumulator__collector__gatherer a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
subtype: conductor.accumulator the person who collects fares on a public conveyance
subtype: conductress__conductres a woman conductor
subtype: gleaner someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully
subtype: rent_collector a person who goes from house to house collecting rents for the owner
instance: Isabella_Stewart_Gardner__Gardner
subtype: tenant a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)
subtype: cotenant one of two or more tenants holding title to the same property
subtype: life_tenant a tenant whose legal right to retain possession of buildings or lands lasts as long as they (or some other person) lives
subtype: tenant_farmer a farmer who works land owned by someone else
subtype: investor someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns
subtype: contrarian an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors
subtype: bear.investor an investor with a pessimistic market outlook
subtype: bondholder a holder of bonds issued by a government or corporation
subtype: bull.investor an investor with an optimistic market outlook
subtype: caller.investor an investor who buys a call option
subtype: depositor a person who has deposited money in a bank or similar institution
subtype: withdrawer a depositor who withdraws funds previously deposited
subtype: lender__loaner someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters
subtype: creditor a lender to whom money is owed
subtype: mortgagee__mortgageholder the person who accepts a mortgage; "the bank became our mortgagee when it accepted our mortgage on our new home"
subtype: pawnbroker a person who lends money at interest in exchange for personal property that is deposited as security
subtype: usurer__loan_shark__moneylender__shylock someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest
subtype: rentier someone whose income is from property rents or bond interest and other investments
subtype: stockholder__shareholder__shareowner someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation
subtype: stockholder_of_record the stockholder whose name is registered on the books of the corporation as owning the shares at a particular time
subtype: materialist someone with great regard for worldly possessions
subtype: moneymaker someone who is successful in accumulating wealth
subtype: moneygrubber someone whose main interest in life is moneymaking
subtype: profiteer someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply)
instance: John_Jacob_Astor__Astor
subtype: captor__capturer a person who captures and holds people or animals
subtype: kidnapper__abductor__snatcher someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
subtype: surpriser a captor who uses surprise to capture the victim
subtype: changer__modifier a person who changes something; "an inveterate changer of the menu"
subtype: adulterator a changer who lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance
subtype: normalizer__normaliser a person who normalizes
subtype: standardizer__standardiser a person who sets a standard for things to conform to
subtype: commoner__common_man__common_person a person who holds no title
subtype: bourgeois__bourgeoi__burgher a member of the middle class
subtype: petit_bourgeois__petitbourgeoi a member of the lower middle class
subtype: nobody__cipher__cypher__nonentity a person of no influence
subtype: pip-squeak__pipsqueak__squirt__small_fry__smallfry someone who is small and insignificant
subtype: whippersnapper__jackanapes__lightweight someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous
subtype: everyman the ordinary person
subtype: Joe_Blow__John_Doe__Joe_Bloggs__man_in_the_street a hypothetical average man
subtype: layman__layperson someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
subtype: lay_reader__layreader a layman authorized to read sermons
subtype: plebeian__pleb one of the common people
subtype: philistine__lowbrow a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits
subtype: proletarian__prole__worker a member of the working class (not necessarily employed); "workers of the world--unite!"
subtype: rustic an unsophisticated country person
subtype: coon a an eccentric or undignified rustic; "I'll be a gone coon when the battle starts"
subtype: countryman.rustic a man who lives in the country and has country ways
subtype: countrywoman.rustic a woman who lives in the country and has country ways
subtype: hillbilly__bushwhacker a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person
subtype: provincial__peasant a country person
subtype: cottar__cotter a peasant farmer in the Scottish highlands
subtype: muzhik__moujik__mujik__muzjik a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917)
subtype: redneck__cracker a poor white person in the southern US
subtype: woodsman__woodman someone who lives in the woods
subtype: yokel__rube__hick__yahoo__hayseed__chawbacon not very intelligent or interested in culture
subtype: communicator a person who communicates with others
subtype: alarmist a person who alarms others needlessly
subtype: scaremonger a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble
subtype: allegorizer__allegoriser someone who communicates in allegories
subtype: announcer.communicator someone who proclaims a message publicly
subtype: caller.announcer someone who proclaims or summons in a loud voice; "the callers were mothers summoning their children home for dinner"
subtype: caller-out__caller a person who announces the changes of steps during a dance; "you need a fiddler and a caller for country dancing"
subtype: muezzin__muazzin__mu'adhdhin the Moslem official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day
subtype: town_crier__crier (formerly) an official who made public announcements
subtype: articulator.communicator someone who pronounces words
subtype: speaker__talker__utterer__verbalizer__verbaliser someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous); "the speaker at commencement"; "an utterer of useful maxims"
subtype: alliterator a speaker or writer who makes use of alliteration
subtype: caller-up__caller__phoner__telephoner the person initiating a telephone call; "there were so many callers that he finally disconnected the telephone"
subtype: chatterer__babbler__prater__chatterbox__spouter an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker
subtype: conversationalist__schmoozer someone skilled at conversation
subtype: deipnosophist someone skilled at across-the-table chit chat
subtype: conversational_partner__interlocutor a person who takes part in a conversation
subtype: drawler someone who speaks with a drawl
subtype: jabberer__driveller someone whose talk is trivial drivel
subtype: ejaculator a speaker who utters a sudden exclamation
subtype: growler.speaker a speaker whose voice sounds like a growl
subtype: inquirer__enquirer__questioner__querier__asker someone who asks a question
subtype: cross-examiner__crossexaminer__cross-questioner__crossquestioner someone who questions a witness carefully (especially about testimony given earlier)
subtype: quizzer__examiner__tester someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications
subtype: inquisitor__interrogator a questioner who is excessively harsh
subtype: interviewer a person who conducts an interview
subtype: pollster__poll_taker__headcounter someone who conducts surveys of public opinion; "a pollster conducts public opinion polls"; "a headcounter counts heads"
subtype: lecturer someone who lectures professionally
instance: Helen_Adams_Keller__Keller__Helen_Keller
subtype: lisper a speaker who lisps
subtype: mentioner a speaker who refers to something briefly or incidentally
subtype: mutterer__mumbler a person who speaks indistinctly
subtype: narrator__storyteller__teller someone who tells a story
subtype: anecdotist__raconteur a person skilled in telling anecdotes
instance: Karl_Friedrich_Hieronymus_von_Munchhausen__Munchhausen__Munchausen__Baron_Munchausen
subtype: fabulist a person who tells or invents fables
instance: Aesop
subtype: griot a storyteller in West Africa; perpetuates the oral traditions of a family or village
subtype: orator__speechmaker__rhetorician__public_speaker__speechifier a person who delivers a speech or oration
subtype: eulogist__panegyrist an orator who delivers eulogies or panegyrics
subtype: demagogue__demagog__rabble-rouser an orator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of his audience
subtype: elocutionist a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery
subtype: haranguer a public speaker who delivers a loud or forceful or angry speech
subtype: spellbinder an orator who can hold his listeners spellbound
subtype: tub-thumper__tubthumper a noisy and vigorous or ranting public speaker
instance: Edmund_Burke__Burke Marcus_Tullius_Cicero__Cicero__Tully Demosthenes Patrick_Henry__Henry Isocrates
subtype: prattler someone who speaks in a childish way
subtype: ranter__raver someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud manner
subtype: reciter someone who recites from memory
subtype: stammerer__stutterer someone who speaks with involuntary pauses and repetitions
subtype: talking_head__talkinghead a talker on television who talks directly into the cameras and whose upper body is all that is shown on the screen
subtype: vociferator a loud and vehement speaker (usually in protest)
subtype: voicer a speaker who voices an opinion
subtype: wailer a mourner who utters long loud high-pitched cries
subtype: whisperer one who speaks in a whisper
subtype: witnesser__witness__informant someone who sees an event and reports what happened
subtype: attester__attestant someone who affirms or vouches for the correctness or truth or genuineness of something
subtype: testifier__deponent a person who testifies or gives a deposition
subtype: subvocalizer__subvocaliser someone who articulates speech without uttering sounds
subtype: asserter__declarer__affirmer__asseverator__avower someone who claims to speak the truth; "a bold asserter"; "a declarer of his intentions"; "affirmers of traditional doctrine"; "an asseverator of strong convictions"; "an avower of his own great intelligence"
subtype: postulator someone who assumes or takes something for granted as the basis of an argument
subtype: avower someone who admits or acknowledges openly and boldly
subtype: broadcaster someone who broadcasts on radio or television
subtype: announcer reads news, commercials on radio or television
subtype: radio_announcer an announcer whose voice is broadcast on radio
subtype: sports_announcer__sportscaster__sports_commentator an announcer who reads sports news or describes sporting events
subtype: newscaster someone who broadcasts the news
subtype: tv_announcer__television_announcer an announcer on television
subtype: broadcast_journalist__broadcastjournalist a journalist who broadcasts on radio or television
instance: Edward_Roscoe_Murrow__Murrow__Edward_R._Murrow Lowell_Jackson_Thomas__Thomas__Lowell_Thomas
subtype: disk_jockey__disc_jockey__dj a person who announces and plays popular recorded music
subtype: telecaster a television broadcaster
subtype: conferee a member of a conference
subtype: confessor.communicator someone who confesses (discloses information damaging to themselves)
subtype: letter_writer__correspondent someone who communicates by means of letters
subtype: pen_pal__penpal__pen-friend__penfriend a person you come to know by by frequent friendly correspondence
subtype: extrovert__extravert (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings
subtype: gossiper__gossip__rumormonger__rumourmonger__newsmonger a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others
subtype: female_gossiper__cat a spiteful woman gossip; "what a cat she is!"
subtype: scandalmonger a person who spreads malicious gossip
subtype: tattletale__tattler__taleteller__talebearer__telltale__blabbermouth someone who gossips indiscreetly
subtype: yenta a woman gossip
subtype: hisser someone who communicates disapproval by hissing
subtype: informant__source a person who supplies information
subtype: informer__betrayer__rat__squealer__blabber one who reveals confidential information in return for money
subtype: fink__snitch__snitcher__stoolpigeon__stoolie__sneaker__canary someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
subtype: copper's_nark__nark (British) an informer or spy working for the police
subtype: supergrass (British) a police informer who implicates many people
subtype: leaker a surreptitious informant; "the president wanted to know who the leakers were"
subtype: laudator__lauder__extoller someone who communicates high praise
subtype: applauder__clapper someone who applauds
subtype: negotiator__negotiant__treater someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement)
subtype: mediator__go-between__intermediator__intermediary a negotiator who acts as a link between parties
subtype: mediatrix a woman who is a mediator
subtype: appeaser__conciliator__make-peace__pacifier__peacemaker__reconciler someone who tries to bring peace
subtype: arbitrator__arbiter someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue
subtype: third_party.arbitrator__thirdparty someone other than the principals who are involved in a transaction
subtype: diplomat a person who deals tactfully with others
subtype: harmonizer a mediator who brings one thing into harmonious agreement with another
subtype: interpreter.mediator__translator someone who mediates between speakers of different languages
subtype: dragoman an interpreter and guide in the Near East
subtype: symbolizer__symbolist__symboliser someone skilled in the interpretation of symbols
instance: Edward_Fitzgerald__Fitzgerald Benjamin_Jowett__Jowett William_Tyndale__Tyndale__Tindale__William_Tindale__Tindal__William_Tindal Bishop_Ulfilas__Ulfilas__Ulfila__Bishop_Ulfila__Wulfila__Bishop_Wulfila
subtype: matchmaker__matcher__marriage_broker someone who arranges (or tries to arrange) marriages for others
subtype: moderator someone who mediates disputes and attempts to avoid violence
subtype: modifier a moderator who makes less extreme or uncompromising
subtype: second_hand an intermediate person; used in the phrase "at second hand"; "he could learn at second hand from books"
subtype: bargainer negotiator of the terms of a transaction; "he is a hard bargainer"
subtype: haggler an intense bargainer
subtype: compromiser a negotiator willing to compromise; "Henry Clay was known as the Great Compromiser"
subtype: holdout.negotiator a negotiator who hopes to gain concessions by refusing to come to terms; "their star pitcher was a holdout for six weeks"
subtype: negotiatress__negotiatrix a woman negotiator
subtype: representative a person who represents others
subtype: agent.representative a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations
subtype: business_agent an agent who handles business affairs for another; especially one who deals with employers
subtype: actor's_agent__actor'sagent__theatrical_agent a business agent for an actor
subtype: literary_agent an agent who represents an author is dealings with publishers
subtype: bailee the agent to whom property involved in a bailment is delivered
subtype: booker__booking_agent__bookingagent someone who engages a person or company for performances
subtype: showman__promoter__impresario a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments
subtype: exhibitor__exhibitioner__shower someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see
subtype: organ-grinder__organgrinder a street musician who plays a hand organ or hurdy-gurdy
subtype: pornographer__porn_merchant someone who presents shows or sells writing or pictures that are sexually explicit in violation of the community mores
instance: Phineas_Taylor_Barnum__Barnum__P._T._Barnum William_Frederick_Cody__Cody__William_F._Cody__Buffalo_Bill__Buffalo_Bill_Cody Sergei_Pavlovich_Diaghilev__Diaghilev__Sergei_Diaghilev Richard_D'Oyly_Carte__D'Oyly_Carte Solomon_Hurok__Hurok__Sol_Hurok Charles_Ringling__Ringling
subtype: surrogate a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others
subtype: vicegerent someone appointed by a ruler as an administrative deputy
subtype: employment_agent someone who runs an employment agency
subtype: freight_agent__freightagent an employee of a freight carrier who directs the receipt and delivery of goods
subtype: government_agent a representative or official of a government or administrative department of a government
subtype: G-man__FBI_agent__government_man a special law-enforcement agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
subtype: revenuer a government agent responsible for collecting revenue (especially one responsible for stopping bootlegging)
subtype: T-man a special law-enforcement agent of the United States Treasury
subtype: handler an agent who handles something or someone; "the senator's campaign handlers"
subtype: mill_agent the responsible official at a mill that is under absentee ownership
subtype: next_friend a person who acts on behalf of an infant or disabled person (in law)
subtype: parliamentary_agent__parliamentaryagent a person (in Britain) who is employed to look after the affairs of businesses that are affected by legislation of the British Parliament
subtype: proxy.agent__placeholder__procurator a person authorized to act for another
subtype: purchasing_agent an agent who purchases goods or services for another
subtype: secret_agent__intelligence_officer__intelligence_agent__operative a person secretly employed in espionage for a government
subtype: agent_provocateur__agentprovocateur a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts
subtype: undercover_agent__spy a secret agent hired by a state to obtain (military) information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors
subtype: counterspy__mole a spy who works against enemy espionage
subtype: double_agent a spy who works for two mutually antagonistic countries
subtype: espionage_agent someone employed to spy on another country or business competitor
subtype: foreign_agent__foreignagent a spy for a foreign country
subtype: infiltrator.undercover_agent someone who takes up a position surreptitiously for the purpose of espionage
subtype: sleeper.undercover_agent a spy planted in advance for future use but not presently active
instance: Mata_Hari__Margarete_Gertrud_Zelle
subtype: shipping_agent the agent of a shipowner
subtype: shopper.agent a commercial agent who shops at the competitor's store in order to compare their prices and merchandise with those of the store that employs her
subtype: special_agent__specialagent someone whose authority is limited to the special undertaking they have been instructed to perform
subtype: talent_agent an agent who represents performers
subtype: universal_agent__universalagent__general_agent__generalagent someone authorized to transact every kind of business for the principal
subtype: alderman a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council); "aldermen usually represent city wards"
subtype: assemblyman someone who is a member of a legislative assembly
subtype: assemblywoman a woman assemblyman
subtype: middleman__contact a person who is in a position to give you special assistance; "he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor"
subtype: delegate a person appointed or elected to represent others
subtype: apostolic_delegate__apostolicdelegate (Roman Catholic) a representative of the Holy See in a country that has no formal diplomatic relations with it
subtype: emissary__envoy someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else
subtype: legate__official_emissary a member of a legation
subtype: head_of_state__chief_of_state the chief public representative of a country who may also be the head of government
subtype: prime_minister__primeminister__chancellor__premier the person who is head of state (in several countries)
subtype: Prime_Minister__PM__premier the person who holds the position of head of state in England
subtype: president.head_of_state the chief executive of a republic
subtype: ex-president a former president
instance: Vigdis_Finnbogadottir__Finnbogadottir
subtype: President_of_the_United_States__President__Chief_Executive the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government; "the President likes to jog every morning"
instance: President_John_Adams__Adams__John_Adams__President_Adams President_John_Quincy_Adams__Adams__John_Quincy_Adams__President_Adams Chester_Alan_Arthur__Arthur__Chester_A._Arthur__President_Arthur President_Buchanan__Buchanan__James_Buchanan George_Herbert_Walker_Bush__Bush__George_Bush__President_Bush George_Walker_Bush__Bush__George_Bush__George_W._Bush__Dubyuh__President_Bush James_Earl_Carter_Jr.__Carter__Jimmy_Carter__James_Earl_Carter__President_Carter Stephen_Grover_Cleveland__Cleveland__Grover_Cleveland__President_Cleveland William_Jefferson_Clinton__Clinton__Bill_Clinton__President_Clinton President_Coolidge__Coolidge__Calvin_Coolidge Dwight_David_Eisenhower__Eisenhower__Dwight_Eisenhower__Dwight_D._Eisenhower__Ike__President_Eisenhower President_Fillmore__Fillmore__Millard_Fillmore Gerald_Rudolph_Ford__Ford__Gerald_Ford__Gerald_R._Ford__President_Ford James_Abraham_Garfield__Garfield__James_Garfield__James_A._Garfield__President_Garfield Ulysses_Simpson_Grant__Grant__Ulysses_Grant__Ulysses_S._Grant__Hiram_Ulysses_Grant__President_Grant Warren_Gamaliel_Harding__Harding__Warren_Harding__President_Harding President_William_Henry_Harrison__Harrison__William_Henry_Harrison__President_Harrison President_Benjamin_Harrison__presidentbenjaminharrison__Harrison__Benjamin_Harrison__President_Harrison Rutherford_Birchard_Hayes__Hayes__Rutherford_B._Hayes__President_Hayes Herbert_Clark_Hoover__Hoover__Herbert_Hoover__President_Hoover Andrew_Jackson__Jackson__Old_Hickory President_Jefferson__Jefferson__Thomas_Jefferson President_Andrew_Johnson__Johnson__Andrew_Johnson__President_Johnson President_Lyndon_Johnson__Johnson__Lyndon_Johnson__Lyndon_Baines_Johnson__LBJ__President_Johnson John_Fitzgerald_Kennedy__Kennedy__Jack_Kennedy__JFK__President_Kennedy President_Lincoln__Lincoln__Abraham_Lincoln President_Madison__Madison__James_Madison President_McKinley__McKinley__William_McKinley President_Monroe__Monroe__James_Monroe Richard_Milhous_Nixon__Nixon__Richard_Nixon__Richard_M._Nixon__President_Nixon President_Pierce__Pierce__Franklin_Pierce James_Knox_Polk__Polk__James_Polk__James_K._Polk__President_Polk Ronald_Wilson_Reagan__Reagan__Ronald_Reagan__President_Reagam President_Theodore_Roosevelt__Roosevelt__Theodore_Roosevelt__President_Roosevelt President_Franklin_Roosevelt__Roosevelt__Franklin_Roosevelt__Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt__President_Roosevelt__FDR William_Howard_Taft__Taft__President_Taft President_Taylor__Taylor__Zachary_Taylor President_Truman__Truman__Harry_Truman__Harry_S_Truman President_Tyler__Tyler__John_Tyler President_Van_Buren__Van_Buren__Martin_Van_Buren President_Washington__Washington__George_Washington Thomas_Woodrow_Wilson__Wilson__Woodrow_Wilson__President_Wilson
subtype: sovereign__crowned_head__crownedhead__monarch a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right
subtype: tsar__czar__tzar a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)
instance: Boris_Fyodorovich_Godunov__Godunov__godunov__Boris_Godunov Ivan_IV__Ivan_Iv_Vasilievich__Ivan_the_Terrible Nicholas_I Nicholas_II Peter_I__Peter_the_Great
subtype: Emperor the male ruler of an empire
subtype: Empress a woman Emperor or the wife of an Emperor
instance: Catherine_I Catherine_II__Catherine__Catherine_the_Great
subtype: Holy_Roman_Emperor sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire
instance: Charlemagne__Charles_I__Charles_the_Great Charles_I__Charles_II__Charles_the_Bald Ferdinand_I Ferdinand_II Ferdinand_III Emperor_Francis_II__Francis_II Frederick_Barbarossa__Frederick_I__Barbarossa Frederick_II Otto_I__Otho_I__Otto_the_Great
subtype: Kaiser the Holy Roman Emperors or the Emperors of Austria or Germany until 1918
instance: Wilhelm_II__Kaiser_Wilhelm
subtype: mikado__tenno (archaic) the emperor of Japan; when regarded as a religious leader the emperor is called tenno
subtype: Roman_Emperor__Emperor_of_Rome sovereign of the Roman Empire
instance: Marcus_Aurelius_Antoninus__Antoninus__Aurelius__Marcus_Aurelius__Marcus_Annius_Verus Antonius_Pius Augustus__Gaius_Octavianus__Gaius_Julius_Caesar_Octavianus__Octavian Caligula__Gaius__Gaius_Caesar Tiberius_Claudius_Drusus_Nero_Germanicus__Claudius__Claudius_I Constantine_the_Great__Constantine__Constantine_I Decius Domitian__Titus_Flavius_Domitianus Hadrian__Publius_Aelius_Hadrianus__Adrian Nero_Claudius_Caesar_Drusus_Germanicus__Nero__Lucius_Domitius_Ahenobarbus Marcus_Cocceius_Nerva__Nerva Tiberius_Claudius_Nero_Caesar_Augustus__Tiberius Titus_Flavius_Vespasianus__Titus Trajan__Marcus_Ulpius_Traianus Vespasian__Titus_Flavius_Sabinus_Vespasianus
instance: Francis_Joseph_I__Francis_Joseph__Franz_Joseph__Franz_Josef_I Genghis_Khan__Jinghis_Khan__Jenghiz_Khan Haile_Selassie__Ras_Tafari_Makonnen__Ras_Tafari Michinomiya_Hirohito__Hirohito Justinian_the_Great__Justinian__Justinian_I Kublai_Khan__Kubla_Khan__Kublai_Kaan Meiji_Tenno__Mutsuhito Montezuma_II Napoleon_Bonaparte__Napoleon__Napoleon_I__Bonaparte__the_Little_Corporal Napoleon_III__Charles_Louis_Napoleon_Bonaparte Shah_Jahan
subtype: male_monarch__king a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
subtype: Messiah the awaited King of the Jews; the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people
subtype: King_of_England the sovereign ruler of England
instance: Canute_the_Great__Canute__Cnut__Knut Charles_Stuart__Charles_I Charles_II Edgar Edward_I Edward_II Edward_III Edward_IV Edward_V Edward_VI Edward_VII__Albert_Edward Edward_VIII__Duke_of_Windsor Saint_Edward_the_Confessor__Edward_the_Confessor__St_Edward_the_Confessor Saint_Edward_the_Martyr__Edward_the_Martyr__St_Edward_the_Martyr Edwy__Eadwig George_I George_II George_III George_IV George_V George_VI King_Harold_I__Harold_I__Harold_Harefoot__Harefoot King_Harold_II__Harold_II Henry_I__Henry_Beauclerc Henry_II Henry_III Henry_IV__Bolingbroke__Henry_Bolingbroke Henry_V Henry_VI Henry_VII__Henry_Tudor Henry_VIII James_I James_II John_Lackland__John Richard_I__Richard_Coeur_de_Lion__Richard_the_Lion-Heart__Richard_the_Lion-Hearted Richard_II Richard_III William_I__William_the_Conqueror William_II__William_Rufus William_III__William_of_Orange William_IV__The_Sailor_King
subtype: King_of_France the sovereign ruler of France
instance: Hugh_Capet__Capet Charles_I__Charles_II__Charles_the_Bald Charles_VII Charles_IX Henry_II.King_of_France__henryii Louis_I__Louis_the_Pious Louis_II__Louis_le_Begue__Louis_the_Stammerer Louis_III Louis_IV__Louis_d'Outremer Louis_V__Louis_le_Faineant Louis_VI__Louis_the_Far__Louis_the_Wideawake__Louis_the_Bruiser Louis_VII Louis_VIII Louis_IX__Saint_Louis__St_Louis Louis_X__Louis_le_Hutin__Louis_the_Quarreller Louis_XI Louis_XII Louis_XIII Louis_XIV__Sun_King__Louis_the_Great Louis_XV Louis_XVI
subtype: Rameses__Ramesses__Ramses any of 12 kings of ancient Egypt between 1315 and 1090 BC
instance: Rameses_II__Ramesses_II__Ramses_II__Rameses_the_Great__Ramesses_the_Great__Ramses_the_Great
instance: Ahab Akhenaton__Akhenaten__Ikhanaton__Amenhotep_IV Alaric Alfred_the_Great__Alfred__AElfred Artaxerxes_I Artaxerxes_II Ashurbanipal__Assurbanipal__Asurbanipal Athelstan Attila__Scourge_of_God__Scourge_of_the_Gods Robert_the_Bruce__Bruce__Robert_I Carl_XVI_Gustav__carlxvigustav Clovis_I__Clovis Croesus.male_monarch__croesu Cyrus_II__Cyrus_the_Elder__Cyrus_the_Great Darius_I__Darius_the_Great Darius_III David Edmund_I Edmund_II__Edmund_Ironside Edward_the_Elder Edwin Egbert Ethelbert Ethelred_I__Ethelred Ethelred_the_Unready__Ethelred__Ethelred_II Fahd_ibn_Abdel_Aziz_al-Saud__Fahd Faisal_ibn_Abdel_Aziz_al-Saud__Faisal Farouk_I__Faruk_I Ferdinand_the_Great__Ferdinand_I Ferdinand_V__Ferdinand_the_Catholic Frederick_I Frederick_the_Great__Frederick_II Frederick_William_I Frederick_William_II Frederick_William_III Frederick_William_Iv Genseric__Gaiseric Gilgamesh Gordius Gustavus_I__Gustavus Gustavus_Adolphus__Gustavus__Gustavus_II Gustavus_V Hammurabi__Hammurapi Herod_the_Great__Herod Hezekiah__Ezekias ibn_Talal_Hussein__Hussein__Husain__Husayn__King_Hussein Jeroboam_I__Jeroboam Juan_Carlos_Victor_Maria_de_Borbon_y_Borbon__Juan_Carlos Kamehameha_I__Kamehameha_the_Great Leonidas Macbeth Mithridates_the_Great__Mithridates__Mithridates_VI Nebuchadnezzar_II__Nebuchadnezzar__Nebuchadrezzar__Nebuchadrezzar_II Olaf_II__Olav_II__Saint_Olaf__Saint_Olav__St_Olaf__St_Olav Otto_I__Otho_I__Otto_the_Great Philip_II Philip_II.male_monarch__philipii Pyrrhus Saul Sennacherib Solomon Tarquin_the_Proud__Tarquin__Tarquinius__Tarquinius_Superbus__Lucius_Tarquinius_Superbus Victor_Emanuel_II Victor_Emanuel_III Xerxes_I__Xerxes_the_Great
subtype: shah title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran
instance: Mohammed_Reza_Pahlavi__Pahlavi__Pahlevi__Mohammed_Reza_Pahlevi
subtype: Hanoverian any of the British sovereigns belonging to the House of Hanover
instance: George_I George_II George_III George_IV Queen_Victoria__Victoria
subtype: personal_representative__personalrepresentative a person who manages the affairs of another
subtype: legal_representative__legalrepresentative a personal representative with legal standing (as by power of attorney or the executor of a will)
subtype: resident_commissioner the representative of Puerto Rico in the United States House of Representatives
subtype: union_representative__unionrepresentative a representative for a labor union
subtype: labor_organizer__labororganizer__organizer someone who enlists workers to join a union
instance: Eugene_Victor_Debs__Debs__Eugene_V._Debs
subtype: shop_steward__steward a union member who is elected to represent fellow workers in negotiating with management
subtype: walking_delegate__walkingdelegate a union representative who visits workers at their jobs to see whether agreements are observed
subtype: settler.negotiator a negotiator who settles disputes
subtype: persuader__inducer someone who tries to persuade or induce or lead on
subtype: lobbyist someone who tries to persuade legislators to vote for bills that the lobbyists favor
subtype: wheedler__coaxer someone who tries to persuade by blandishment and coaxing
subtype: popularizer__populariser__vulgarizer__vulgariser someone who makes attractive to the general public
subtype: presenter someone who presents a message of some sort (as a petition or an address or a check or a memorial etc.)
subtype: promisee a person to whom a promise is made
subtype: promiser__promisor a person who makes a promise
subtype: vower someone who makes a solemn promise to do something or behave in a certain way; "young vowers of eternal love"; "there are many vowers of chastity but few who observe it"
subtype: propagandist a person who disseminates messages calculated to assist some cause or some government
subtype: sloganeer someone who coins and uses slogans to promote a cause
instance: Paul_Joseph_Goebbels__Goebbels__Joseph_Goebbels
subtype: disseminator__propagator someone who spreads the news
subtype: publicist__publicizer someone who publicizes
subtype: advertiser__advertizer__adman someone whose business is advertising
subtype: huckster a person who writes radio or tv advertisements
subtype: promoter__booster__plugger someone who is an active supporter and advocate
subtype: barker someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival) and gives a loud colorful sales talk to potential customers
subtype: tout__touter someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way
subtype: press_agent__publicity_man__publicityman__public_relations_man__PR_man someone employed to arrange publicity (for a firm or a public figure)
subtype: sensationalist__ballyhoo_artist someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention
subtype: quoter a communicator (speaker or writer) who uses quotations
subtype: rambler a person whose speech or writing is not well organized
subtype: reporter__newsman__newsperson a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories
subtype: newswoman a female newsperson
subtype: television_reporter__television_newscaster__TV_reporter__TV_newsman someone who reports news stories via television
subtype: anchorman__anchor__anchorperson a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute
subtype: responder__respondent__answerer someone who responds
subtype: equivocator__hedger a respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer
subtype: interviewee a person who is interviewed
subtype: don't-know__don'tknow (colloquial) a person who responds "I don't know" in public opinion poll
subtype: testee__examinee someone who is tested (as by an intelligence test or an academic examination)
subtype: passer a student who passes and examination
subtype: roarer__bawler__bellower__screamer__screecher__shouter__yeller someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice
subtype: crier a shouter who advertises the goods they sell
subtype: sender__transmitter someone who transmits a message; "return to sender"
subtype: signaler__signaller someone who communicates by signals
subtype: signalman a railroad employee in charge of signals and point in a railroad yard
subtype: toller__bell_ringer__bellringer__ringer a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation)
subtype: whistler makes a loud high sound
subtype: signer someone who can use sign language to communicate
subtype: swearer someone who takes a solemn oath
subtype: sympathizer commiserates with someone who has had misfortune
subtype: Job's_comforter someone whose comfort is actually discouraging
subtype: mental_telepathist__telepathist__thoughtreader__mind_reader someone with the power of communicating thoughts directly
subtype: waffler someone who speaks or writes in a vague and evasive manner
subtype: warner someone who gives a warning to others
subtype: waver.communicator someone who communicates by waving
subtype: wirer someone who sends a telegram
subtype: professional_writer__writer__author writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
subtype: abstractor__abstracter one who makes abstracts or summarizes information
subtype: alliterator a speaker or writer who makes use of alliteration
subtype: authoress__authores a woman author
subtype: biographer someone who writes an account of another person's life
subtype: autobiographer someone who writes their own biography
instance: Plutarch Giles_Lytton_Strachey__Strachey__Lytton_Strachey
subtype: coauthor__joint_author__jointauthor a writer who collaborates with others in writing something
subtype: commentator a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day
subtype: contributor a writer whose work is published in a newspaper or magazine or as part of a book
subtype: drafter a writer of a draft
subtype: dramatist__playwright someone who writes plays
instance: Aeschylus Edward_Albee__Albee__Edward_Franklin_Albeen Maxwell_Anderson__Anderson Jean_Anouilh__Anouilh Aristophanes Sir_James_Matthew_Barrie__Barrie__James_Barrie__J._M._Barrie__James_Matthew_Barrie Samuel_Beckett__Beckett Bertolt_Brecht__Brecht Pedro_Calderon_de_la_Barca__Calderon__Calderon_de_la_Barca Miguel_de_Cervantes_Saavedra__Cervantes__Miguel_de_Cervantes__Cervantes_Saavedra Anton_Pavlovich_Chekhov__Chekhov__Chekov__Anton_Chekhov__Anton_Chekov__Anton_Pavlovich_Chekov Pierre_Corneille__Corneille Sir_Noel_Pierce_Coward__Coward__Noel_Coward Russel_Crouse__Crouse John_Dryden__Dryden Euripides Christopher_Fry__Fry Frederico_Garcia_Lorca__Garcia_Lorca__Lorca Hippolyte_Jean_Giraudoux__Giraudoux__Jean_Giraudoux Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe__Goethe Carlo_Goldoni__Goldoni Harley_Granville-Barker__Granville-Barker Moss_Hart__Hart Vaclav_Havel__Havel Christian_Friedrich_Hebbel__Hebbel__Friedrich_Hebbel Lillian_Hellman__Hellman Victor-Marie_Hugo__Hugo__Victor_Hugo Henrik_Ibsen__Ibsen William_Inge__Inge Eugene_Ionesco__Ionesco__ionesco Benjamin_Jonson__Jonson__Ben_Jonson George_Simon_Kaufman__Kaufman__George_S._Kaufman Bernd_Heinrich_Wilhelm_von_Kleist__Kleist__Heinrich_von_Kleist Gotthold_Ephraim_Lessing__Lessing Howard_Lindsay__Lindsay Clare_Booth_Luce__Luce Count_Maurice_Maeterlinck__Maeterlinck David_Mamet__Mamet Christopher_Marlowe__Marlowe John_Marstan__Marstan Menander Thomas_Middleton__Middleton Arthur_Miller__Miller Moliere__Jean-Baptiste_Poquelin Ferenc_Molnar__Molnar Sean_O'Casey__O'Casey__o'casey Clifford_Odets__Odets Eugene_Gladstone_O'Neill__O'Neill__Eugene_O'Neill John_James_Osborne__Osborne__John_Osborne Titus_Maccius_Plautus__Plautus Sir_Terence_Mervyn_Rattigan__Rattigan__Terence_Rattigan Elmer_Leopold_Rice__Rice__Elmer_Rice__Elmer_Reizenstein Esme_Stuart_Lennox_Robinson__Robinson__Lennox_Robinson Augustin_Eugene_Scribe__Scribe Lucius_Annaeus_Seneca__Seneca William_Shakespeare__Shakespeare__Shakspere__William_Shakspere__the_bard__thebard George_Bernard_Shaw__Shaw__G._B._Shaw Richard_Brinsley_Sheridan__Sheridan Robert_Emmet_Sherwood__Sherwood Marvin_Neil_Simon__Simon__Neil_Simon Sophocles Sir_Tom_Stoppard__Stoppard__Tom_Stoppard__Thomas_Straussler Johan_August_Strindberg__Strindberg__August_Strindberg Edmund_John_Millington_Synge__Synge__J._M._Synge__John_Millington_Synge Terence__Publius_Terentius_Afer Tirso_de_Molina__Gabriel_Tellez Peter_Alexander_Ustinov__Ustinov__Sir_Peter_Ustinov Lope_de_Vega__Vega Thornton_Niven_Wilder__Wilder__Thornton_Wilder Thomas_Lanier_Williams__Williams__Tennessee_Williams William_Wycherley__Wycherley William_Butler_Yeats__Yeats__W._B._Yeats
subtype: encyclopedist__compiler a person who compiles (or writes for) encyclopedias
subtype: essayist__litterateur a writer of literary works
instance: Charles_Lamb__Lamb__Elia
subtype: folk_writer a writer of folktales
subtype: folk_poet a folk writer who composes in verse
subtype: framer someone who writes a new law or plan; "the framers of the Constitution"
subtype: gagster__gagman__gagwriter someone who writes comic material for public performers
subtype: ghostwriter__ghost a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
subtype: Gothic_romancer__gothicromancer a writer of Gothic romances
subtype: literary_hack__hack__hack_writer a mediocre and disdained writer
subtype: journalist a writer for newspapers and magazines
subtype: broadcast_journalist__broadcastjournalist a journalist who broadcasts on radio or television
subtype: columnist a journalist who writes editorials
subtype: gossip_columnist a journalist who writes a column of gossip about celebrities
subtype: newspaper_columnist__newspapercolumnist a columnist who writes for newspapers
subtype: newspaper_critic__newspapercritic a critic who writes a column for the newspapers
subtype: correspondent__newspaperman__newspaperwoman__newswriter__pressman a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media
subtype: scribe__scribbler informal terms for journalists
subtype: sob_sister__sobsister a journalist who specializes in sentimental stories
subtype: sports_writer a journalist who writes about sports
instance: Alfred_Alistair_Cooke__Cooke__Alistair_Cooke Elizabeth_Merriwether_Gilmer__Gilmer__Dorothy_Dix Horace_Greeley__Greeley__greeley Edgar_Albert_Guest__Guest__Edgar_Guest Walter_Lippmann__Lippmann Henry_Louis_Mencken__Mencken__H._L._Mencken John_Reed__Reed Elizabeth_Cochrane_Seaman__Seaman__Elizabeth_Seaman__Nellie_Bly William_Lawrence_Shirer__Shirer Sir_Henry_Morton_Stanley__Stanley__Henry_M._Stanley__John_Rowlands Joseph_Lincoln_Steffens__Steffens__Lincoln_Steffens Isidor_Feinstein_Stone__Stone__I._F._Stone Theodore_Harold_White__White__T._H._White Alexander_Woollcott__Woollcott
subtype: librettist author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta
instance: William_Schwenk_Gilbert__Gilbert__William_Gilbert__Sir_William_Gilbert
subtype: lyricist a person who writes the words for songs
instance: Ira_Gershwin__Gershwin Oscar_Hammerstein_II__Hammerstein__Oscar_Hammerstein Lorenz_Milton_Hart__Hart__Lorenz_Hart Alan_Jay_Lerner__Lerner Timothy_Miles_Bindon_Rice__Rice__Sir_Tim_Rice
subtype: novelist someone who writes novels
instance: James_Agee__Agee Louisa_May_Alcott__Alcott Honore_de_Balzac__Balzac__Honore_Balzac William_Cuthbert_Faulkner__Faulkner__William_Faulkner__Falkner__William_Falkner Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe__Goethe Victor-Marie_Hugo__Hugo__Victor_Hugo Harry_Sinclair_Lewis__Lewis__Sinclair_Lewis George_Meredith__Meredith Marcel_Proust__Proust Emile_Zola__Zola
subtype: pamphleteer a writer of pamphlets (usually taking a partisan stand on public issues)
instance: Thomas_Paine__Paine__Tom_Paine
subtype: paragrapher a writer of paragraphs (as for publication on the editorial page of a newspaper)
subtype: poet a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
subtype: bard.poet a lyric poet
subtype: elegist the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead
subtype: poetess__poetes a woman poet
instance: Edna_Saint_Vincent_Millay__Millay__Edna_Millay Sappho
subtype: Poet_Laureate the poet officially appointed to the Royal Household in Great Britain; "the Poet Laureate is expected to provide poems for great national occasions"
subtype: sonneteer a poet who writes sonnets
instance: Alcaeus Guillaume_Apollinaire__Apollinaire__Wilhelm_Apollinaris_de_Kostrowitzki Matthew_Arnold__Arnold Jean_Arp__Arp__Hans_Arp Wystan_Hugh_Auden__Auden__W._H._Auden Charles_Pierre_Baudelaire__Baudelaire__Charles_Baudelaire William_Blake__Blake Giovanni_Boccaccio__Boccaccio Bertolt_Brecht__Brecht Rupert_Brooke__Brooke Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning__Browning Robert_Browning__Browning Robert_Burns__Burns Sixth_Baron_Byron_of_Rochdale__Byron__Lord_Byron__George_Gordon_Byron Pedro_Calderon_de_la_Barca__Calderon__Calderon_de_la_Barca Giosue_Carducci__Carducci Thomas_Carew__Carew Gaius_Valerius_Catullus__Catullus Geoffrey_Chaucer__Chaucer John_Anthony_Ciardi__Ciardi__John_Ciardi Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge__Coleridge Pierre_Corneille__Corneille Harold_Hart_Crane__Crane__Hart_Crane Cynewulf__Cynwulf Dante_Alighieri__Dante Walter_John_de_la_Mare__de_la_Mare__Walter_de_la_Mare Emily_Dickinson__Dickinson John_Donne__Donne John_Dryden__Dryden Thomas_Stearns_Eliot__Eliot__T._S._Eliot Edward_Fitzgerald__Fitzgerald Robert_Lee_Frost__Frost__Robert_Frost Frederico_Garcia_Lorca__Garcia_Lorca__Lorca William_Schwenk_Gilbert__Gilbert__William_Gilbert__Sir_William_Gilbert Allen_Ginsberg__Ginsberg Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe__Goethe Thomas_Gray__Gray Robert_Herrick__Herrick Hesiod Hugo_von_Hoffmannsthal__Hoffmannsthal James_Hogg__Hogg Homer Gerard_Manley_Hopkins__Hopkins Horace Alfred_Edward_Housman__Housman__A._E._Housman Edward_James_Hughes__Hughes__Ted_Hughes Victor-Marie_Hugo__Hugo__Victor_Hugo Henrik_Ibsen__Ibsen Randall_Jarrell__Jarrell John_Robinson_Jeffers__Jeffers__Robinson_Jeffers Juan_Ramon_Jimenez__Jimenez Benjamin_Jonson__Jonson__Ben_Jonson Erik_Axel_Karlfeldt__Karlfeldt John_Keats__Keats Francis_Scott_Key__Key Friedrich_Gottlieb_Klopstock__Klopstock Nicholas_Vachel_Lindsay__Lindsay__Vachel_Lindsay Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow__Longfellow Richard_Lovelace__Lovelace Amy_Lowell__Lowell Robert_Traill_Spence_Lowell_Jr.__Lowell__Robert_Lowell Titus_Lucretius_Carus__Lucretius Archibald_MacLeish__MacLeish Stephane_Mallarme__Mallarme Osip_Emilevich_Mandelstam__Mandelstam__Osip_Mandelstam__Mandelshtam Giambattista_Marini__Marini__Marino__Giambattista_Marino Christopher_Marlowe__Marlowe Jose_Julian_Marti__Marti Martial Andrew_Marvell__Marvell__marvell John_Edward_Masefield__Masefield__John_Masefield Edgar_Lee_Masters__Masters Vladimir_Vladimirovich_Mayakovski__Mayakovski George_Meredith__Meredith John_Milton__Milton Marianne_Craig_Moore__Moore__Marianne_Moore Thomas_Moore__Moore William_Morris__Morris Louis_Charles_Alfred_de_Musset__Musset__Alfred_de_Musset Alfred_Noyes__Noyes Omar_Khayyam Ovid__Publius_Ovidius_Naso Francis_Turner_Palgrave__Palgrave Petrarch__Petrarca__Francesco_Petrarca Pindar Ezra_Loomis_Pound__Pound__Ezra_Pound Aleksandr_Sergeyevich_Pushkin__Pushkin__Alexander_Pushkin James_Whitcomb_Riley__Riley Rainer_Maria_Rilke__Rilke Jean_Nicholas_Arthur_Rimbaud__Rimbaud__Arthur_Rimbaud Edwin_Arlington_Robinson__Robinson Alan_Seeger__Seeger Anne_Sexton__Sexton William_Shakespeare__Shakespeare__Shakspere__William_Shakspere__the_bard__thebard Percy_Bysshe_Shelley__Shelley Taras_Grigoryevich_Shevchenko__Shevchenko Sir_Philip_Sidney__Sidney Dame_Edith_Louisa_Sitwell__Sitwell__Dame_Edith_Sitwell Robert_Southey__Southey Sir_Stephen_Harold_Spender__Spender__Stephen_Spender Edmund_Spenser__Spenser Wallace_Stevens__Stevens Sir_John_Suckling__Suckling Algernon_Charles_Swinburne__Swinburne Arthur_Symons__Symons Torquato_Tasso__Tasso John_Orley_Allen_Tate__Tate__Allen_Tate Sara_Teasdale__Teasdale First_Baron_Tennyson__Tennyson__Alfred_Tennyson__Alfred_Lord_Tennyson Thespis Dylan_Marlais_Thomas__Thomas__Dylan_Thomas John_Trumbull__Trumbull Tristan_Tzara__Tzara__Samuel_Rosenstock Johann_Ludwig_Uhland__Uhland Paul_Verlaine__Verlaine Francois_Villon__Villon Virgil__Vergil__Publius_Vergilius_Maro Andrei_Voznesenski__Voznesenski Robert_Penn_Warren__Warren Isaac_Watts__Watts Phillis_Wheatley__Wheatley Walt_Whitman__Whitman John_Greenleaf_Whittier__Whittier William_Carlos_Williams__Williams William_Wordsworth__Wordsworth Sir_Thomas_Wyatt__Wyatt__Wyat__Sir_Thomas_Wyat Elinor_Morton_Hoyt_Wylie__Wylie William_Butler_Yeats__Yeats__W._B._Yeats Yevgeni_Aleksandrovich_Yevtushenko__Yevtushenko__Yevgeni_Yevtushenko Edward_Young__Young
subtype: rhymer__rhymester__versifier__poetizer a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets)
subtype: scenarist a writer of screenplays
subtype: scriptwriter someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas
subtype: screenwriter__film_writer someone who writes screenplays
instance: George_Lucas__Lucas Dalton_Trumbo__Trumbo
subtype: space_writer__spacewriter a writer paid by the area of the copy
subtype: speechwriter a writer who composes speeches for others to deliver
subtype: tragedian a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies
instance: Jean_Baptiste_Racine__Racine__Jean_Racine
subtype: wordmonger a writer who uses language carelessly or pretentiously with little regard for meaning
subtype: word-painter a writer of vivid or graphic descriptive power
subtype: wordsmith a fluent and prolific writer
instance: Horatio_Alger__Alger Hans_Christian_Andersen__Andersen Sherwood_Anderson__Anderson Louis_Aragon__Aragon Sholem_Asch__Asch__Shalom_Asch__Sholom_Asch Jane_Austen__Austen Imamu_Amiri_Baraka__Baraka__LeRoi_Jones Samuel_Beckett__Beckett Sir_Henry_Maxmilian_Beerbohm__Beerbohm__Max_Beerbohm Ambrose_Gwinett_Bierce__Bierce__Ambrose_Bierce Jorge_Luis_Borges__Borges__Jorge_Borges James_Boswell__Boswell Ray_Douglas_Bradbury__Bradbury__Ray_Bradbury Charlotte_Bronte__Bronte Emily_Jane_Bronte__Bronte__Emily_Bronte__Currer_Bell Anne_Bronte__Bronte Charles_Farrar_Browne__Browne__Artemus_Ward Pearl_Sydenstricker_Buck__Buck__Pearl_Buck John_Bunyan__Bunyan Frances_Eliza_Hodgson_Burnett__Burnett__burnett__franceshodgsonburnett Edgar_Rice_Burroughs__Burroughs William_Burroughs__Burroughs__William_Seward_Burroughs James_Branch_Cabell__Cabell Erskine_Preston_Caldwell__Caldwell__Erskine_Caldwell Albert_Camus__Camus Lewis_Carroll__Carroll__Dodgson__Reverend_Dodgson__Charles_Dodgson__Charles_Lutwidge_Dodgson Willa_Sibert_Cather__Cather__Willa_Cather Miguel_de_Cervantes_Saavedra__Cervantes__Miguel_de_Cervantes__Cervantes_Saavedra Raymond_Thornton_Chandler__Chandler__Raymond_Chandler Francois_Rene_Chateaubriand__Chateaubriand__Vicomte_de_Chateaubriand Gilbert_Keith_Chesterton__Chesterton__G._K._Chesterton Dame_Agatha_Mary_Clarissa_Christie__Christie__Agatha_Christie Sir_Winston_Leonard_Spenser_Churchill__Churchill__Winston_Churchill__Winston_S._Churchill Samuel_Langhorne_Clemens__Clemens__Mark_Twain Jean_Cocteau__Cocteau Sidonie_Gabrielle_Claudine_Colette__Colette William_Wilkie_Collins__Collins__Wilkie_Collins Sir_Arthur_Conan_Doyle__Conan_Doyle__A._Conan_Doyle__Arthur_Conan_Doyle Joseph_Conrad__Conrad__Teodor_Josef_Konrad_Korzeniowski James_Fenimore_Cooper__Cooper Stephen_Crane__Crane Edward_Estlin_Cummings__Cummings__e._e._cummings Clarence_Shepard_Day_Jr.__Day__Clarence_Day Daniel_Defoe__Defoe Thomas_De_Quincey__De_Quincey Charles_John_Huffam_Dickens__Dickens__Charles_Dickens John_Dos_Passos__Dos_Passos Feodor_Mikhailovich_Dostoyevsky__Dostoyevsky__Dostoevski__Dostoevsky__Feodor_Dostoyevsky__Fyodor_Dostoyevsky__Feodor_Dostoevski__Fyodor_Dostoevski__Feodor_Dostoevsky__Fyodor_Dostoevsky__Fyodor_Mikhailovich_Dostoyevsky__Feodor_Mikhailovich_Dostoevski__Fyodor_Mikhailovich_Dostoevski__Feodor_Mikhailovich_Dostoevsky__Fyodor_Mikhailovich_Dostoevsky Theodore_Herman_Albert_Dreiser__Dreiser__Theodore_Dreiser Alexandre_Dumas__Dumas Dame_Daphne_du_Maurier__du_Maurier Lawrence_George_Durrell__Durrell__Lawrence_Durrell Ilya_Grigorievich_Ehrenberg__Ehrenberg__Ilya_Ehrenberg George_Eliot__Eliot__Mary_Ann_Evans Ralph_Waldo_Emerson__Emerson James_Thomas_Farrell__Farrell Edna_Ferber__Ferber Henry_Fielding__Fielding Francis_Scott_Key_Fitzgerald__Fitzgerald__F._Scott_Fitzgerald Gustave_Flaubert__Flaubert Ian_Lancaster_Fleming__Fleming__Ian_Fleming Ford_Hermann_Hueffer__Ford__Ford_Madox_Ford Cecil_Scott_Forester__Forester__C._S._Forester Anatole_France__France__Jacques_Anatole_Francois_Thibault Benjamin_Franklin__Franklin Carlos_Fuentes__Fuentes Emile_Gaboriau__Gaboriau John_Galsworthy__Galsworthy Erle_Stanley_Gardner__Gardner Elizabeth_Cleghorn_Stevenson_Gaskell__Gaskell__Elizabeth_Gaskell Theodor_Seuss_Geisel__Geisel__Dr._Seuss Jean_Genet__Genet Kahlil_Gibran__Gibran Karl_Gjellerup__Gjellerup Nikolai_Vasilievich_Gogol__Gogol Sir_William_Gerald_Golding__Golding__William_Golding Oliver_Goldsmith__Goldsmith Edmond_Louis_Antoine_Huot_de_Goncourt__Goncourt__Edmond_de_Goncourt Jules_Alfred_Huot_de_Goncourt__Goncourt__Jules_de_Goncourt Nadine_Gordimer__Gordimer Maksim_Gorky__Gorky__Gorki__Maxim_Gorki__Aleksey_Maksimovich_Peshkov__Aleksey_Maximovich_Peshkov Kenneth_Grahame__Grahame Gunter_Wilhelm_Grass__Grass__Gunter_Grass Robert_Ranke_Graves__Graves__Robert_Graves Henry_Graham_Greene__Greene__Graham_Greene Zane_Grey__Grey Jakob_Ludwig_Karl_Grimm__Grimm Wilhelm_Karl_Grimm__Grimm Hagard__Rider_Haggard__Sir_Henry_Rider_Haggard Elizabeth_Sanderson_Haldane__elizabethsandersonhaldane__Haldane__Elizabeth_Haldane Edward_Everett_Hale__Hale Alex_Haley__Haley Marguerite_Radclyffe_Hall__Hall__Radclyffe_Hall Samuel_Dashiell_Hammett__Hammett__Dashiell_Hammett Knut_Hamsun__Hamsun__Knut_Pedersen Thomas_Hardy__Hardy James_Thomas_Harris__Harris__Frank_Harris Bret_Harte__Harte Nathaniel_Hawthorne__Hawthorne Ben_Hecht__Hecht Robert_Anson_Heinlein__Heinlein Joseph_Heller__Heller Ernest_Hemingway__Hemingway Hermann_Hesse__Hesse Paul_Johann_Ludwig_von_Heyse__Heyse__Paul_Heyse DuBois_Heyward__Heyward__Edwin_DuBois_Hayward Thomas_Wentworth_Storrow_Higginson__Higginson__Thomas_Higginson Ernst_Theodor_Amadeus_Hoffmann__Hoffmann__E._T._A._Hoffmann__Ernst_Theodor_Wilhelm_Hoffmann Oliver_Wendell_Holmes__Holmes William_Dean_Howells__Howells Edmond_Hoyle__Hoyle James_Langston_Hughes__Hughes__Langston_Hughes James_Henry_Leigh_Hunt__Hunt__Leigh_Hunt Aldous_Leonard_Huxley__Huxley__Aldous_Huxley John_Irving__Irving Washington_Irving__Irving Christopher_William_Bradshaw_Isherwood__Isherwood__Christopher_Isherwood Helen_Maria_Fiske_Hunt_Jackson__Jackson__Helen_Hunt_Jackson Jane_Jacobs__Jacobs William_Wymark_Jacobs__Jacobs__W._W._Jacobs Henry_James__James Johannes_Vilhelm_Jensen__Jensen Samuel_Johnson__Johnson__Dr._Johnson James_Augustine_Aloysius_Joyce__Joyce__James_Joyce Franz_Kafka__Kafka Helen_Adams_Keller__Keller__Helen_Keller Jean-Louis_Lebris_de_Kerouac__Kerouac__Jack_Kerouac Ken_Elton_Kesey__Kesey__Ken_Kesey Joseph_Rudyard_Kipling__Kipling__Rudyard_Kipling Arthur_Koestler__Koestler Jean_de_La_Fontaine__La_Fontaine Ringgold_Wilmer_Lardner__Lardner__Ring_Lardner Francois_de_La_Rochefoucauld__La_Rochefoucauld David_Herbert_Lawrence__Lawrence__D._H._Lawrence Thomas_Edward_Lawrence__Lawrence__T._E._Lawrence__Lawrence_of_Arabia John_le_Carre__le_Carre__David_John_Moore_Cornwell Elmore_John_Leonard__Leonard__Elmore_Leonard__Dutch_Leonard Mikhail_Yurievich_Lermontov__Lermontov Clive_Staples_Lewis__Lewis__C._S._Lewis Jack_London__London__John_Griffith_Chaney Clarence_Malcolm_Lowry__Lowry__Malcolm_Lowry John_Lyly__Lyly Edward_George_Earle_Bulwer-Lytton__Lytton__First_Baron_Lytton__Bulwer-Lytton Norman_Mailer__Mailer Bernard_Malamud__Malamud Sir_Thomas_Malory__Malory__Thomas_Malory Andre_Malraux__Malraux Thomas_Mann__Mann Kathleen_Mansfield_Beauchamp__Mansfield__Katherine_Mansfield John_Philip_Marquand__Marquand__John_Marquand Ngaio_Marsh__Marsh Alfred_Edward_Woodley_Mason__Mason__A._E._W._Mason William_Somerset_Maugham__Maugham__Somerset_Maugham__W._Somerset_Maugham Henri_Rene_Albert_Guy_de_Maupassant__Maupassant__Guy_de_Maupassant Andre_Maurois__Maurois__Emile_Herzog Carson_Smith_McCullers__McCullers__Carson_McCullers Herbert_Marshall_McLuhan__McLuhan__Marshall_McLuhan Herman_Melville__Melville Thomas_Merton__Merton Henry_Valentine_Miller__Miller__Henry_Miller Alan_Alexander_Milne__Milne__A._A._Milne Margaret_Munnerlyn_Mitchell__Mitchell__Margaret_Mitchell Nancy_Freeman_Mitford__Mitford__Nancy_Mitford Jessica_Lucy_Mitford__Mitford__Jessica_Mitford Michel_Eyquem_Montaigne__Montaigne__Michel_Montaigne Lucy_Maud_Montgomery__Montgomery__L._M._Montgomery Sir_Thomas_More__More__Thomas_More Toni_Morrison__Morrison Hector_Hugh_Munro__Munro__H._H._Munro__Saki Dame_Jean_Iris_Murdoch__Murdoch__Iris_Murdoch Louis_Charles_Alfred_de_Musset__Musset__Alfred_de_Musset Vladimir_vladimirovich_Nabokov__Nabokov__Vladimir_Nabokov Ogden_Nash__Nash Sir_Harold_George_Nicolson__Nicolson__Harold_Nicolson Benjamin_Franklin_Norris_Jr.__Norris__Frank_Norris Joyce_Carol_Oates__Oates Edna_O'Brien__O'Brien__o'brien Mary_Flannery_O'Connor__O'Connor__Flannery_O'Connor Liam_O'Flaherty__O'Flaherty John_Henry_O'Hara__O'Hara Philip_Michael_Ondaatje__Ondaatje__Michael_Ondaatje Baroness_Emmusca_Orczy__Orczy George_Orwell__Orwell__Eric_Arthur_Blair Thomas_Nelson_Page__Page Dorothy_Rothschild_Parker__Parker__Dorothy_Parker Boris_Leonidovich_Pasternak__Pasternak__Boris_Pasternak Alan_Stewart_Paton__Paton__Alan_Paton William_Sydney_Porter__Porter__O._Henry Ezra_Loomis_Pound__Pound__Ezra_Pound Ayn_Rand__Rand Kenneth_Roberts__Roberts Anna_Eleanor_Roosevelt__Roosevelt__Eleanor_Roosevelt Jean-Jacques_Rousseau__Rousseau Alfred_Damon_Runyon__Runyon__Damon_Runyon Ahmed_Salman_Rushdie__Rushdie__Salman_Rushdie Comte_Donatien_Alphonse_Francois_de_Sade__Sade__de_Sade__Marquis_de_Sade Jerome_David_Salinger__Salinger__J._D._Salinger George_Sand__Sand__Amandine_Aurore_Lucie_Dupin__Baroness_Dudevant Carl_Sandburg__Sandburg William_Saroyan__Saroyan Jean_Paul_Sartre__Sartre Dorothy_Leigh_Sayers__Sayers__Dorothy_Sayers__Dorothy_L._Sayers Johann_Christoph_Friedrich_von_Schiller__Schiller Sir_Walter_Scott__Scott__Walter_Scott Robert_William_Service__Service George_Bernard_Shaw__Shaw__G._B._Shaw Mary_Godwin_Wollstonecraft_Shelley__Shelley__Mary_Shelley__Mary_Wollstonecraft_Shelley Nevil_Shute_Norway__Shute__Nevil_Shute Georges_Joseph_Christian_Simenon__Simenon__Georges_Simenon Upton_Beall_Sinclair__Sinclair__Upton_Sinclair Isaac_Bashevis_Singer__Singer Tobias_George_Smollett__Smollett__Tobias_Smollett Baron_Snow_of_Leicester__Snow__C._P._Snow__Charles_Percy_Snow Alexander_Isayevich_Solzhenitsyn__Solzhenitsyn Susan_Sontag__Sontag Muriel_Sarah_Spark__Spark__Muriel_Spark__Dame_Muriel_Spark Frank_Morrison_Spillane__Spillane__Mickey_Spillane Madame_de_Stael__Stael__Baronne_Anne_Louise_Germaine_Necker_de_Steal-Holstein Sir_Richrd_Steele__Steele Gertrude_Stein__Stein John_Ernst_Steinbeck__Steinbeck__John_Steinbeck Stendhal__Marie_Henri_Beyle Sir_Leslie_Stephen__Stephen Laurence_Sterne__Sterne Robert_Louis_Balfour_Stevenson__Stevenson__Robert_Louis_Stevenson Francis_Richard_Stockton__Stockton__Frank_Stockton Abraham_Stoker__Stoker__Bram_Stoker Harriet_Elizabeth_Beecher_Stowe__Stowe__Harriet_Beecher_Stowe William_Styron__Styron Eugene_Sue__Sue John_Addington_Symonds__Symonds William_Makepeace_Thackeray__Thackeray Henry_David_Thoreau__Thoreau Alexis_Charles_Henri_Maurice_de_Tocqueville__Tocqueville Alice_B._Toklas__Toklas John_Ronald_Reuel_Tolkien__Tolkien__J._R._R._Tolkien Count_Lev_Nikolayevitch_Tolstoy__Tolstoy__Leo_Tolstoy Anthony_Trollope__Trollope Ivan_Sergeevich_Turgenev__Turgenev Louis_Untermeyer__Untermeyer John_Hoyer_Updike__Updike__John_Updike Carl_Clinton_Van_Doren__Van_Doren__Carl_Van_Doren Mario_Vargas_Llosa__Vargas_Llosa Jules_Verne__Verne Eugene_Luther_Vidal__Vidal__Gore_Vidal Voltaire__Arouet__Francois-Marie_Arouet Kurt_Vonnegut__Vonnegut John_Barrington_Wain__Wain__John_Wain Alice_Malsenior_Walker__Walker__Alice_Walker Richard_Horatio_Edgar_Wallace__Wallace__Edgar_Wallace Horatio_Walpole__Walpole__Horace_Walpole__Fourth_Earl_of_Orford Izaak_Walton__Walton Mary_Augusta_Arnold_Ward__Ward__Mrs._Humphrey_Ward Robert_Penn_Warren__Warren Evelyn_Arthur_Saint_John_Waugh__Waugh__Evelyn_Waugh Martha_Beatrice_Potter_Webb__Webb__Beatrice_Webb Herbert_George_Wells__Wells__H._G._Wells Eudora_Welty__Welty Franz_Werfel__Werfel Dame_Rebecca_West__West__Rebecca_West__Cicily_Isabel_Fairfield Elwyn_Brooks_White__White__E._B._White Patrick_Victor_Martindale_White__White__Patrick_White Eliezer_Wiesel__Wiesel__Elie_Wiesel Oscar_Fingal_O'Flahertie_Wills_Wilde__Wilde__Oscar_Wilde Thornton_Niven_Wilder__Wilder__Thornton_Wilder Angus_Frank_Johnstone_Wilson__Wilson__Sir_Angus_Wilson Owen_Wister__Wister Pelham_Grenville_Wodehouse__Wodehouse__P._G._Wodehouse Thomas_Clayton_Wolfe__Wolfe__Thomas_Wolfe Thomas_Kennerly_Wolfe_Jr.__Wolfe__Tom_Wolfe__Thomas_Wolfe Mary_Wollstonecraft_Godwin__Wollstonecraft__Mary_Wollstonecraft Ellen_Price_Wood__Wood__Mrs._Henry_Wood Adeline_Virginia_Stephen_Woolf__Woolf__Virginia_Woolf Herman_Wouk__Wouk Richard_Wright__Wright Willard_Huntington_Wright__Wright__S._S._Van_Dine Israel_Zangwill__Zangwill Stefan_Zweig__Zweig
subtype: contestant a person who participates in competitions
subtype: athlete__jock a person trained to compete in sports
subtype: acrobat an athlete who performs acts requiring skill and agility and coordination
subtype: aerialist an acrobat who performs in the air (as on a rope or trapeze)
subtype: ropewalker__ropedancer an acrobat who performs on a rope stretched at some height above the ground
subtype: balancer an acrobat who balances himself in difficult positions
subtype: circus_acrobat a acrobat who performs acrobatic feats in a circus
subtype: contortionist an acrobat able to twist into unusual positions
subtype: amateur.athlete does not play for pay
subtype: outdoor_man__outdoorman__sporting_man someone who enjoys outdoor activities
subtype: ball_hawk an team athlete who is skilled at stealing or catching the ball
subtype: ballplayer__baseball_player an athlete who plays baseball
subtype: base_runner__runner a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)
subtype: slugger__batter__hitter__batsman a ballplayer who is batting
subtype: bunter a batter who bunts
subtype: designated_hitter a ballplayer who is designated to bat in place of the pitcher
subtype: pinch_hitter__pinchhitter (baseball or softball) a substitute for the regular batter
subtype: switch-hitter a baseball player who can bat either right or left handed
subtype: whiffer a batter who strikes out by swinging at and missing the third strike
subtype: fielder a member of the baseball team that is in the field instead of at bat
subtype: infielder (baseball or softball) a person who plays a position in the infield
subtype: catcher (baseball or softball) the person who plays the position of catcher
subtype: first_baseman__firstbaseman__first_sacker__firstsacker (baseball or softball) the person who plays first base
subtype: second_baseman__second_sacker (baseball or softball) the person who plays second base
subtype: shortstop (baseball) the person who plays the shortstop position
subtype: third_baseman__thirdbaseman__third_sacker__thirdsacker (baseball or softball) the person who plays third base
subtype: outfielder (baseball or softball) a person who plays in the outfield
subtype: right_fielder__rightfielder the person who plays right field
subtype: center_fielder the person who plays center field
subtype: left_fielder the person who plays left field
subtype: little_leaguer a player between 8 and 12 years of age who is a member of a little-league team
subtype: major_leaguer__majorleaguer__big_leaguer__bigleaguer a member of a major-league baseball team
subtype: minor_leaguer__minorleaguer a player on a minor-league baseball team
subtype: hurler__pitcher__twirler (baseball or softball) the person who does the pitching; "our pitcher has a sore arm"
subtype: left-handed_pitcher__left-hander__lefty__southpaw a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand
subtype: right-handed_pitcher__right-hander__righthander (baseball) a pitcher who throws with the left hand
subtype: relief_pitcher__reliever__fireman a pitcher who does not start the game
subtype: screwballer (baseball) a pitcher who throws screwballs
subtype: starting_pitcher the pitcher who starts in a baseball game
subtype: utility_man.ballplayer__utilityman a baseball player valued for the ability to play at several positions
instance: Henry_Louis_Aaron__Aaron__Hank_Aaron Lawrence_Peter_Berra__Berra__Yogi__Yogi_Berra Joseph_Paul_DiMaggio__DiMaggio__Joe_DiMaggio Henry_Louis_Gehrig__Gehrig__Lou_Gehrig Mickey_Charles_Mantle__Mantle__Mickey_Mantle Willie_Howard_Mays_Jr.__Mays__Willie_Mays__the_Say_Hey_Kid John_Joseph_McGraw__McGraw__John_McGraw Stanley_Frank_Musial__Musial__Stan_Musial__stanmusial__Stan_the_Man Leroy_Robert_Paige__Paige__Satchel_Paige Jack_Roosevelt_Robinson__Robinson__Jackie_Robinson George_Herman_Ruth__Ruth__Babe_Ruth__Sultan_of_Swat Theodore_Samuel_Williams__Williams__Ted_Williams Carl_Yastrzemski__Yastrzemski Danton_True_Young__Young__Cy_Young
subtype: basketball_player__basketeer__cager an athlete who plays basketball
subtype: center.basketball_player (basketball) the person who plays center
subtype: dribbler a basketball player who is dribbling the ball to advance it
subtype: dunker a basketball player who is able to make dunk shots
subtype: forward.basketball_player the person who plays the position of forward on a basketball team
instance: Julius_Winfield_Erving__Erving__Julius_Erving__Dr._J
subtype: guard.basketball_player the person who plays the position of guard on a basketball team
subtype: bounder__leaper__jumper an athlete who bounds or leaps (as in basketball)
subtype: climber someone who climbs as a sport
subtype: escalader someone who gains access by the use of ladders
subtype: mountaineer__mountain_climber someone who climbs mountains
subtype: rock_climber__cragsman a climber of vertical rock faces
subtype: cricketer an athlete who plays cricket
subtype: bowler.cricketer delivers the ball to the batsman in cricket
subtype: fieldsman__fielder a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting
subtype: outfielder.fieldsman a fielder in cricket who is stationed in the outfield
subtype: wicket-keeper stands behind the wicket to catch balls
instance: John_Berry_Hobbs__Hobbs__Sir_Jack_Hobbs Sir_Leonard_Hutton__Hutton
subtype: football_player__footballer an athlete who plays American football
subtype: back.football_player (football) a person who plays in the backfield
subtype: flankerback__flanker a back stationed wide of the scrimmage line; used as a pass receiver
subtype: signal_caller__quarterback__field_general__fieldgeneral (football) the person who plays quarterback
subtype: running_back__runningback (football) a back on the offensive team (a fullback or halfback) who tries to advance the ball by carrying it on plays from the line of scrimmage
subtype: fullback.running_back (football) the running back who plays the fullback position on the offensive team
subtype: halfback.running_back (football) the running back who plays the offensive halfback position
subtype: tailback.back (football) the person who plays tailback
subtype: wingback.back (football) the person who plays wingback
subtype: ball_carrier (football) the football player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play
subtype: forward_passer__forwardpasser__passer (football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by throwing a forward pass
subtype: rusher.ball_carrier (football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by running with the ball
subtype: blocker a football player whose responsibility is to block players attempting to stop an offensive play
subtype: football_hero a football player who has achieved a reputation for success
subtype: kicker a player who kicks the football
subtype: dropkicker a football kicker who drops the ball and kicks it just as it reaches the ground
subtype: place-kicker__placekicker (football) a kicker who makes a place kick for a goal
subtype: punter (football) a person who kicks the football by dropping it from the hands and contacting it with the foot before it hits the ground
subtype: line_backer__linebacker a defensive football player who takes a position close behind the linemen
subtype: lineman.football_player one of the players on the line of scrimmage
subtype: football_snapper__center__snapper (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback; "the center fumbled the handoff"
subtype: football_end-line-man__end (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage; "the end managed to hold onto the pass"
subtype: split_end__splitend (football) an offensive end who lines up at a distance from the other linemen
subtype: tight_end__tightend (football) an offensive end who lines up close to the tackle
subtype: football_guard__guard the person who plays that position on a football team; "the left guard was injured on the play"
subtype: tackle.lineman the person who plays that position on a football team; "the right tackle is a straight A student"
subtype: pass_receiver__receiver__pass_catcher a football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass
subtype: tackler a football player who tackles the ball carrier
subtype: gymnast an athlete who is skilled in gymnastics
subtype: tumbler.gymnast a gymnast who performs rolls and somersaults and twists etc.
subtype: turner.tumbler a tumbler who is a member of a turnverein
instance: Olga_Korbut__Korbut
subtype: ice-hockey_player__hockey_player an athlete who plays hockey
subtype: center.ice-hockey_player (ice hockey) the person who plays center
subtype: goalie__goalkeeper__goaltender__netkeeper the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal
instance: Wayne_Gretzky__Gretzky Robert_Orr__Orr__Bobby_Orr
subtype: hooker (rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to hook the ball
subtype: hurdler an athlete who runs the hurdles
subtype: jumper.athlete an athlete who competes at jumping
subtype: hopper.jumper someone who hops; "at hopscotch, the best hoppers are the children"
instance: Frederick_Carleton_Lewis__Lewis__Carl_Lewis
subtype: lacrosse_player an athlete who plays lacrosse
subtype: letterman an athlete who has earned a letter in a school sport
subtype: Olympian__olympian an athlete who participates in the Olympic games
subtype: pentathlete an athlete who competes in a pentathlon
subtype: professional__pro an athlete who plays for pay
subtype: free_agent (sports) a professional athlete who is free to sign a contract to play for any team
subtype: semiprofessional__semipro an athlete who plays for pay on a part-time basis
subtype: runner.athlete a trained athlete who competes in foot races
subtype: marathoner__marathon_runner__road_runner__long-distance_runner someone who participates in long-distance races (especially in marathons)
subtype: miler a runner in a one-mile race
subtype: four-minute_man someone who has run the mile is less that 4 minutes
instance: Sir_Roger_Gilbert_Bannister__Bannister__Roger_Bannister John_Walker__Walker
subtype: sprinter someone who runs a short distance at top speed
instance: Frederick_Carleton_Lewis__Lewis__Carl_Lewis
subtype: sharpshooter.athlete an athlete noted for accurate aim
subtype: shot_putter an athlete who competes in the shot put
subtype: skater someone who skates
subtype: ice-skater__iceskater someone who engages in ice skating
subtype: roller-skater someone who engages in roller skating
subtype: skateboarder someone who skates on a skateboard
subtype: skier someone who skis
subtype: langlauffer a cross-country skier
subtype: ski_jumper__skijumper a skier who leaps through the air (especially on a ski jump)
subtype: skydiver__parachute_jumper__parachutejumper a person who jumps from a plane and performs various gymnastic maneuvers before pulling the parachute cord
subtype: sledder someone who rides a sled
subtype: luger__slider someone who races the luge
subtype: tobogganist someone who rides a toboggan
subtype: soccer_player an athlete who plays soccer
subtype: goalie__goalkeeper__goaltender__netkeeper the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal
subtype: sportsman__sport__sportswoman someone who engages in sports
subtype: striker.athlete (soccer) a forward on a soccer team
subtype: substitute__reserve an athlete who plays only when another member of the team drops out
subtype: bench_warmer__benchwarmer (sports) a substitute who seldom plays
subtype: pinch_hitter__pinchhitter (baseball or softball) a substitute for the regular batter
subtype: swimmer a trained athlete who participates in swimming meets; "he was an Olympic swimmer"
subtype: backstroker someone who swims the backstroke
subtype: breaststroker someone who swims the breaststroke
subtype: diver__plunger someone who dives (into water)
instance: Gertrude_Caroline_Ederle__Ederle__Gertrude_Ederle
subtype: swinger someone who swings sports implements
subtype: tennis_player an athlete who plays tennis
subtype: tennis_pro__professional_tennis_player someone who earns a living playing or teaching tennis
instance: Arthur_Robert_Ashe__Ashe__Arthur_Ashe John_Donald_Budge__Budge__Don_Budge Maureen_Catherine_Connolly__Connolly__Little_Mo_Connolly James_Scott_Connors__Connors__Jimmy_Conors Margaret_Court__Court Dwight_Filley_Davis__Davis__Dwight_Davis Christine_Marie_Evert__Evert__Chris_Evert__Chrissie_Evert Althea_Gibson__Gibson Stephanie_Graf__Graf__Steffi_Graf Billie_Jean_Moffitt_King__King__Billie_Jean_King Rodney_George_Laver__Laver__Rod_Laver Ivan_Lendl__Lendl Helen_Wills_Moody__Moody__Helen_Wills__Helen_Newington_Wills Martina_Navratilova__Navratilova Monica_Seles__Seles William_Tatem_Tilden_Jr.__Tilden__Big_Bill_Tilden Virginia_Wade__Wade
subtype: pole_vaulter__vaulter__pole_jumper an athlete who jumps over a high crossbar with the aid of a long pole
subtype: weightlifter__lifter an athlete who lifts barbells
subtype: winger (soccer; hockey; rugby; football) player in wing position
instance: Robert_Bruce_Mathias__Mathias__mathia__Bob_Mathias James_Cleveland_Owens__Owens__Jesse_Owens James_Francis_Thorpe__Thorpe__Jim_Thorpe Mildred_Ella_Didrikson_Zaharias__Zaharias__Babe_Zaharias__Didrikson__Babe_Didrikson__Mildred_Ella_Didrikson
subtype: defaulter a contestant who forfeits a match
subtype: entrant.contestant one who enters a competition
subtype: long_shot.contestant__longshot a contestant that is unlikely to win
subtype: also-ran__loser a contestant who loses the contest
subtype: opponent__opposition__opposite a contestant that you are matched against
subtype: player__participant a person who participates in or is skilled at some game
subtype: ballplayer__baseball_player an athlete who plays baseball
subtype: billiard_player someone who plays billiards
subtype: bowler rolls balls down an alley at pins
subtype: card_player someone who plays (or knows how to play) card games
subtype: bridge_player__hand a card player in a game of bridge; "we need a 4th hand for bridge"
subtype: bidder.bridge_player someone who makes a bid at cards
subtype: preemptor__pre-emptor__preemptor a bidder in bridge who makes a preemptive bid
subtype: bridge_partner one of a pair of bridge players who are on the same side of the game
subtype: raiser a bridge partner who increases the partner's bid
subtype: declarer__contractor the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps
subtype: cardsharp__cardsharper a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games
subtype: dealer.card_player the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game
subtype: eldest_hand__eldesthand__elder_hand__elderhand the card player on the dealer's left
subtype: shuffler.card_player the card player who shuffles the cards
instance: Ely_Culbertson__Culbertson
subtype: chess_player__chessplayer someone who plays the game of chess
subtype: chess_master__chessmaster a chess player of great skill
instance: Robert_James_Fischer__Fischer__Bobby_Fischer Anatoli_Yevgenevich_Karpov__Karpov__Anatoli_Karpov Gary_Kasparov__Kasparov__Gary_Weinstein Viktor_Lvovich_Korchnoi__Korchnoi__Viktor_Korchnoi Boris_Vasilevich_Spassky__Spassky__Boris_Spassky
subtype: patzer a poor chess player
subtype: dart_player someone who plays the game of darts
subtype: football_player__footballer an athlete who plays American football
subtype: golfer__golf_player__linksman someone who plays the game of golf
subtype: driver.golfer a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver
subtype: golf_pro__professional_golfer someone who earns a living by playing or teaching golf
subtype: hacker someone who plays golf poorly
subtype: hooker.golfer a golfer whose shots typically curve left (for right-handed golfers)
subtype: medal_winner__medalwinner__medalist__medallist (golf) the winner at medal play of a golf tournament
subtype: putter a golfer who is putting
subtype: slicer.golfer a golfer whose shots typically curve right (for right-handed golfers)
instance: William_Benjamin_Hogan__Hogan__Ben_Hogan Robert_Tyre_Jones__Jones__Bobby_Jones Jack_William_Nicklaus__Nicklaus__Jack_Nicklaus Gregory_John_Norman__Norman__Greg_Norman Arnold_Daniel_Palmer__Palmer__Arnold_Palmer Gene_Sarazen__Sarazen Lee_Buck_Trevino__Trevino__Lee_Trevino__Supermex
subtype: grandmaster a player of exceptional or world class skill in chess or bridge
subtype: International_Grandmaster a chess player who has been awarded the highest title by the International Chess Federation
subtype: ice-hockey_player__hockey_player an athlete who plays hockey
subtype: lacrosse_player an athlete who plays lacrosse
subtype: most_valuable_player__MVP the player judged to be the most important to the sport
subtype: pool_player someone who shoots pool
subtype: scorer.player a player who makes a score in a game or contest
subtype: seeded_player__seed one of the outstanding players in a tournament
subtype: server.player (court games) the player who serves to start a point
subtype: shooter (sports) a player who drives or kicks a ball at the goal (or a basketball player who shoots at the basket)
subtype: soccer_player an athlete who plays soccer
subtype: stringer.player a member of a squad on a team; "a first stringer"; "a second stringer"
subtype: tennis_player an athlete who plays tennis
subtype: volleyball_player someone who plays the game of volleyball
subtype: pothunter.contestant someone who participates in contests in order to collect trophies
subtype: qualifier a contestant who meets certain requirements and so qualifies to take part in the next stage of competition; "the tournament was won by a late qualifier"
subtype: rival__challenger__competitor__competition__contender the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"
subtype: champ__champion__title-holder__titleholder someone who has won first place in a competition
subtype: record-breaker__record-holder someone who breaks a record
subtype: comer someone with a promising future
subtype: finalist a contestant who reaches the final stages of a competition
subtype: foe__enemy a personal enemy; "they had been political foes for years"
subtype: mortal_enemy an enemy who wants to kill you
subtype: front-runner__frontrunner__favorite__favourite a competitor thought likely to win
subtype: world-beater__worldbeater__king a competitor who holds a preeminent position
subtype: runner-up__second_best the competitor who finishes second
subtype: semifinalist one of four competitors remaining in a tournament by elimination
subtype: street_fighter a contestant who is very aggressive and willing to use underhand methods
subtype: tier.rival any one of two or more competitors who tie one another
subtype: tilter.rival someone who engages in a tilt or joust
subtype: starter a contestant who is in the game at the beginning
subtype: starting_pitcher the pitcher who starts in a baseball game
subtype: winner.contestant__victor the contestant who wins the contest
subtype: medalist__medallist someone who has won a medal
subtype: upsetter an unexpected winner; someone who defeats the favorite competitor
subtype: walloper a winner by a wide margin
subtype: withdrawer.contestant a contestant who withdraws from competition
subtype: coward a person who shows fear or timidity
subtype: cur a cowardly and despicable person
subtype: caitiff (archaic) a cowardly and despicable person
subtype: dastard a malicious coward
subtype: poltroon__craven__recreant an abject coward
subtype: quaker__trembler one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear
subtype: shy_person__shyperson__shrinking_violet__shrinkingviolet someone who shrinks from familiarity with others
subtype: wallflower.shy_person remains on sidelines at social event
subtype: sissy__pantywaist__pansy__milksop__Milquetoast a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive
subtype: waverer__vacillator__hesitator__hesitater one who hesitates (out of fear)
subtype: creator a person who grows or makes or invents things
subtype: architect__designer someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)
subtype: landscape_architect__landscapearchitect__landscape_gardener__landscapegardener someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively
instance: Andrew_Jackson_Downing__Downing Andre_Le_Notre__Le_Notre Frederick_Law_Olmsted__Olmsted__olmsted Calvert_Vaux__Vaux
instance: Marcel_Lajos_Breuer__Breuer John_Merven_Carrere__Carrere Philibert_Delorme__Delorme__de_l'Orme__Philibert_de_l'Orme Richard_Buckminster_Fuller__Fuller__Buckminster_Fuller__R._Buckminster_Fuller Antonio_Gaudi__Gaudi Cass_Gilbert__Gilbert Walter_Gropius__Gropius Thomas_Hastings__thomashasting__Hastings Victor_Horta__Horta Richard_Morris_Hunt__Hunt Inigo_Jones__Jones Benjamin_Henry_Latrobe__Latrobe Le_Corbusier__Charles_Edouard_Jeanneret Pierre_Charles_L'Enfant__L'Enfant Leonardo_da_Vinci__Leonardo__da_Vinci Maya_Lin__Lin Sir_Edwin_Lutyens__Lutyens__Sir_Edwin_Landseer_Luytens Francois_Mansart__Mansart__mansart Charles_Follen_McKim__McKim Michelangelo_Buonarroti__Michelangelo Ludwig_Mies_Van_Der_Rohe__Mies_Van_Der_Rohe Pier_Luigi_Nervi__Nervi Andrea_Palladio__Palladio Ieoh_Ming_Pei__Pei__I._M._Pei Albert_Speer__Speer Edward_Durell_Stone__Stone Louis_Henry_Sullivan__Sullivan__Louis_Sullivan__Louis_Henri_Sullivan Kenzo_Tange__Tange William_Thornton__Thornton Richard_Upjohn__Upjohn Henri_Clemens_van_de_Velde__van_de_Velde__Henri_van_de_Velde Robert_Charles_Venturi__Venturi__Robert_Venturi Stanford_White__White Sir_Christopher_Wren__Wren Frank_Lloyd_Wright__Wright James_Wyatt__Wyatt
subtype: artist__creative_person a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination
subtype: illustrator an artist who makes illustrations (for books or magazines or advertisements etc.)
subtype: commercial_artist an illustrator who is supported by advertising
instance: Hablot_Knight_Browne__Browne__Phiz Norman_Rockwell__Rockwell
subtype: classic.artist an artist who has created classic works
subtype: classicist an artistic person who adheres to classicism
subtype: constructivist an artist of the school of constructivism
subtype: decorator__ornamentalist someone who decorates
subtype: draftsman__drawer an artist skilled at drawing
subtype: cartoonist a person who draws cartoons
instance: Jules_Feifer__Feifer Reuben_Lucius_Goldberg__Goldberg__Rube_Goldberg Sir_David_Alexander_Cecil_Low__Low__David_Low William_Henry_Mauldin__Mauldin__Bill_Mauldin Thomas_Nast__Nast Charles_Munroe_Schulz__Schulz__Charles_Schulz Saul_Steinberg__Steinberg Sir_John_Tenniel__Tenniel James_Grover_Thurber__Thurber__James_Thurber
subtype: pavement_artist someone who draws on the pavement with colored chalks (hoping that passers-by will give them money)
subtype: sketcher.draftsman someone who draws sketches
subtype: etcher someone who etches
subtype: expressionist an artist who is an adherent of expressionism
subtype: maestro__master an artist of consummate skill; "a master of the violin"; "one of the old masters"
subtype: old_master__oldmaster a great European painter prior to 19th century
instance: Sandro_Botticelli__Botticelli__Alessandro_di_Mariano_dei_Filipepi Pieter_Brueghel_the_Elder__Brueghel__Breughel__Bruegel__Pieter_Brueghel__Pieter_Breughel__Pieter_Bruegel__Breughel_the_Elder Michelangelo_Merisi_da_Caravaggio__Caravaggio Giovanni_Cimabue__Cimabue Antonio_Allegri_da_Correggio__Correggio Albrecht_Durer__Durer El_Greco__Greco__Domenikos_Theotocopoulos Jan_van_Eyck__Eyck__van_Eyck Giotto_di_Bondone__Giotto William_Hogarth__Hogarth Holbein_the_Elder__Holbein__Hans_Holbein Holbein_the_Younger__Holbein__Hans_Holbein Georges_de_La_Tour__La_Tour Leonardo_da_Vinci__Leonardo__da_Vinci Fra_Filippo_Lippi__Lippi Filippino_Lippi__Lippi Michelangelo_Buonarroti__Michelangelo Nicolas_Poussin__Poussin Raffaello_Santi__Raphael__Raffaello_Sanzio Rembrandt_Harmensz_van_Rijn__Rembrandt__Rembrandt_van_Rijn__Rembrandt_van_Ryn Pierre_Auguste_Renoir__Renoir Sir_Peter_Paul_Rubens__Rubens__Peter_Paul_Rubens Tintoretto__Jacopo_Robusti Titian__Tiziano_Vecellio Sir_Anthony_Vandyke__Vandyke__Van_Dyck Diego_Rodriguez_de_Silva_y_Velazquez__Velazquez Jan_Vermeer__Vermeer__Jan_van_der_Meer Paolo_Veronese__Veronese__Paola_Caliari Jean_Antoine_Watteau__Watteau__watteau
subtype: minimalist a practitioner or advocate of artistic minimalism
subtype: modernist an artist who makes a deliberate break with previous styles
subtype: musician artist who composes or conducts music as a profession
subtype: arranger__adapter__transcriber a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance
subtype: orchestrator an arranger who writes for orchestras
subtype: choirmaster__precentor__cantor the musical director of a choir
subtype: composer composes music as a profession
subtype: contrapuntist a composer who specializes in counterpoint
subtype: psalmist a composer of sacred songs; "David is called The Psalmist because he is believed to be the author of the Book of Psalms
subtype: songwriter__songster__ballad_maker a composer of words or music for popular songs
instance: Irving_Berlin__Berlin__Israel_Baline Hoagland_Howard_Carmichael__Carmichael__Hoagy_Carmichael George_Michael_Cohan__Cohan__George_M._Cohan Antoine_Domino__Domino__Fats_Domino Bob_Dylan__Dylan Stephen_Collins_Foster__Foster__Stephen_Foster Woodrow_Wilson_Guthrie__Guthrie__Woody_Guthrie Buddy_Holly__Holly__Charles_Hardin_Holley John_Lennon__Lennon Sir_James_Paul_McCartney__McCartney__Paul_McCartney Paul_Simon__Simon
instance: Johann_Sebastian_Bach__Bach Ludwig_van_Beethoven__Beethoven__van_Beethoven Louis-Hector_Berlioz__Berlioz__Hector_Berlioz Leonard_Bernstein__Bernstein Marc_Blitzstein__Blitzstein Johannes_Brahms__Brahms Maria_Luigi_Carlo_Zenobio_Cherubini__Cherubini__Luigi_Cherubini Frederic_Francois_Chopin__Chopin Aaron_Copland__Copland Sir_Noel_Pierce_Coward__Coward__Noel_Coward Karl_Czerny__Czerny Claude_Achille_Debussy__Debussy__Claude_Debussey Frederick_Delius__Delius Gaetano_Donizetti__Donizetti Antonin_Dvorak__Dvorak Sir_Edward_Elgar__Elgar Georges_Enesco__Enesco__George_Enescu George_Gershwin__Gershwin Mikhail_Ivanovich_Glinka__Glinka Christoph_Willibald_von_Gluck__Gluck Charles_Francois_Gounod__Gounod George_Percy_Aldridge_Grainger__Grainger__Percy_Grainger Edvard_hagerup_Grieg__Grieg__Edvard_Grieg Jacques_Francois_Fromental_Elie_Halevy__Halevy__Fromental_Halevy George_Frederick_Handel__Handel__Georg_Friedrich_Handel William_Christopher_Handy__Handy__W._C._Handy Franz_Joseph_Haydn__Haydn__Joseph_Haydn Paul_Hindemith__Hindemith Arthur_Honegger__Honegger Engelbert_Humperdinck__Humperdinck Charles_Edward_Ives__Ives Scott_Joplin__Joplin Jerome_David_Kern__Kern__Jerome_Kern Aram_Ilich_Khachaturian__Khachaturian__Aram_Khachaturian Leonard_Constant_Lambert__Lambert__Constant_Lambert Franz_Lehar__Lehar Franz_Liszt__Liszt Baron_Lloyd_Webber_of_Sydmonton__Lloyd_Webber__Andrew_Lloyd_Webber Frederick_Loewe__Loewe Jean_Baptiste_Lully__Lully Gustav_Mahler__Mahler Jules_Emile_Frederic_Massenet__Massenet Jakob_Ludwig_Felix_Mendelssohn-Bartholdy__Mendelssohn__Felix_Mendelssohn Gian_Carlo_Menotti__Menotti Giacomo_Meyerbeer__Meyerbeer__Jakob_Liebmann_Beer Darius_Milhaud__Milhaud Claudio_Monteverdi__Monteverdi Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart__Mozart Modest_Petrovich_Mussorgsky__Mussorgsky__Moussorgsky__Modest_Mussorgsky__Modest_Moussorgsky__Modest_Petrovich_Moussorgsky Carl_August_Nielson__Nielson Jacques_Offenbach__Offenbach Roy_Orbison__Orbison Giovanni_Pierluigi_da_Palestrina__Palestrina Cole_Albert_Porter__Porter__Cole_Porter Sergei_Sergeyevich_Prokofiev__Prokofiev Giacomo_Puccini__Puccini Sergei_Vasilievich_Rachmaninoff__Rachmaninoff__Sergei_Rachmaninoff__Rachmaninov__Sergei_Rachmaninov__Sergei_Vasilievich_Rachmaninov Ottorino_Respighi__Respighi Nikolai_Andreyevich_Rimsky-Korsakov__Rimsky-Korsakov__Rimski-Korsakov__Nikolai_Andreyevich_Rimski-Korsakov Richard_Rodgers__Rodgers Sigmund_Romberg__Romberg Giloacchino_Antonio_Rossini__Rossini Anton_Grigorevich_Rubinstein__Rubinstein__Anton_Gregor_Rubinstein Erik_Alfred_Leslie_Satie__Satie__Erik_Satie Artur_Schnabel__Schnabel Arnold_Schonberg__Schonberg__Schoenberg__Arnold_Schoenberg Franz_Peter_Schubert__Schubert__Franz_Schubert Robert_Alexander_Schumann__Schumann__Robert_Schumann Alexander_Nikolayevich_Scriabin__Scriabin Andres_Segovia__Segovia__segovia Roger_Huntington_Sessions__Sessions__Roger_Sessions Dmitri_Dmitrievich_Shostakovich__Shostakovich__Dmitri_Shostakovich Johan_Julius_Christian_Sibelius__Sibelius__Jean_Sibelius Stephen_Sondheim__Sondheim John_Philip_Sousa__Sousa__The_March_King Strauss_the_Elder__Strauss__Johann_Strauss Strauss_the_Younger__Strauss__Johann_Strauss Richard_Strauss__Strauss Igor_Fyodorovich_Stravinsky__Stravinsky__Igor_Stravinsky Arthur_Seymour_Sullivan__Sullivan__Arthur_Sullivan__Sir_Arthur_Sullivan Joseph_Deems_Taylor__Taylor__Deems_Taylor Peter_Ilich_Tchaikovsky__Tchaikovsky__Peter_Tchaikovsky__Pyotr_Tchaikovsky__Pyotr_Ilich_Tchaikovsky Georg_Philipp_Telemann__Telemann Edgard_Varese__Varese Ralph_Vaughan_Williams__Vaughan_Williams Guiseppe_Fortunino_Francesco_Verdi__Verdi__Giuseppe_Verdi Antonio_Lucio_Vivaldi__Vivaldi__Antonio_Vivaldi Wilhelm_Richard_Wagner__Wagner__Richard_Wagner Sir_William_Turner_Walton__Walton__Sir_William_Walton Baron_Karl_Maria_Friedrich_Ernst_von_Weber__Weber Kurt_Weill__Weill Hugo_Wolf__Wolf
subtype: music_director__musicdirector__conductor__director the person who leads a musical group
subtype: bandleader the leader of a dance band
instance: Benjamin_David_Goodman__Goodman__goodman__Benny_Goodman__the_King_of_Swing Woodrow_Charles_Herman__Herman__Woody_Herman Alton_Glenn_Miller__Miller__Glenn_Miller
subtype: bandmaster the conductor of a band
instance: John_Philip_Sousa__Sousa__The_March_King
subtype: drum_major the leader of a marching band or drum corps
subtype: drum_majorette a female drum major
instance: Leonard_Bernstein__Bernstein Arthur_Fiedler__Fiedler Sergei_Aleksandrovich_Koussevitzky__Koussevitzky__Serge_Koussevitzky Leonard_Constant_Lambert__Lambert__Constant_Lambert Eugene_Ormandy__Ormandy Seiji_Ozawa__Ozawa Leopold_Antoni_Stanislaw_Stokowski__Stokowski__Leopold_Stokowski George_Szell__Szell Arturo_Toscanini__Toscanini Bruno_Walter__Walter Sir_Henry_Joseph_Wood__Wood__Sir_Henry_Wood
subtype: virtuoso a musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistry
instance: Victor_Herbert__Herbert Yoko_Ono__Ono Carl_Orff__Orff
subtype: painter an artist who paints
subtype: abstractionist__abstract_artist a painter of abstract pictures
instance: Josef_Albers__Albers Piet_Mondrian__Mondrian
subtype: colorist a painter able to achieve special effects with color
subtype: cubist an artist who adheres to the principles of cubism
subtype: dauber an unskilled painter
subtype: distortionist a painter who introduces distortions
subtype: Fauve__fauvist a member of a group of French painters who followed Fauvism
subtype: impressionist a painter who follows the theories of impressionism
subtype: landscapist someone who paints landscapes
subtype: miniaturist someone who paints tiny pictures in great detail
subtype: oil_painter a painter who uses oil paints
subtype: old_master__oldmaster a great European painter prior to 19th century
subtype: pointilist a painter who uses the technique of pointilism
subtype: portraitist__portrait_painter__portrayer a painter or drawer of portraits
subtype: Postimpressionist an artist of the Postimpressionist school who revolted against impressionism
subtype: realist.painter a painter who represents the world realistically and not in an idealized or romantic style
subtype: scenic_artist__scene_painter__scenepainter an artist specializing in scenic subjects
subtype: watercolorist__watercolourist paints with watercolors
instance: Vanessa_Bell__Bell__Vanessa_Stephen Thomas_Hart_Benton__Benton Georges_Braque__Braque Paul_Cezanne__Cezanne Marc_Chagall__Chagall__chagall Giorgio_de_Chirico__Chirico John_Constable__Constable John_Singleton_Copley__Copley__John_Copley Jean_Baptiste_Camille_Corot__Corot Gustave_Courbet__Courbet Salvidor_Dali__Dali Honore_Daumier__Daumier Jacques_Louis_David__David Willem_de_Kooning__de_Kooning Ferdinand_Victor_Eugene_Delacroix__Delacroix__Eugene_Delacroix Adnre_Derain__Derain Raoul_Dufy__Dufy Max_Ernst__Ernst Jean_Honore_Fragonard__Fragonard Roger_Eliot_Fry__Fry__Roger_Fry Thomas_Gainsborough__Gainsborough Paul_Gauguin__Gauguin Alberto_Giacometti__Giacometti Francisco_Jose_de_Goya_y_Lucientes__Goya__Francisco_Goya__Francisco_de_Goya__Francisco_Jose_de_Goya Duncan_James_Corrow_Grant__Grant__Duncan_Grant Jaun_Gris__Gris Frederick_Childe_Hassam__Hassam__Childe_Hassam Katsushika_Hokusai__Hokusai__hokusai Winslow_Homer__Homer Jean_Auguste_Dominique_Ingres__Ingres Wassily_Kandinsky__Kandinsky Ernst_Ludwig_Kirchner__Kirchner Paul_Klee__Klee Gustav_Klimt__Klimt Franz_Joseph_Kline__Kline Lee_Krasner__leekrasner__Krasner Sir_Thomas_Lawrence__Lawrence Fernand_Leger__Leger Roy_Lichtenstein__Lichtenstein Laurence_Stephen_Lowry__Lowry__L._S._Lowry Rene_Magritte__Magritte Kazimir_Severinovich_Malevich__Malevich__Kazimir_Malevich Edouard_Manet__Manet Andrea_Mantegna__Mantegna Reginald_Marsh__Marsh Henri_Emile_Benoit_Matisse__Matisse__Henri_Matisse Jean_Francois_Millet__Millet Joan_Miro__Miro Modigliani__Amedeo_Modigliano Claude_Monet__Monet Samuel_Finley_Breese_Morse__Morse__Samuel_Morse__Samuel_F._B._Morse Anne_Mary_Robertson_Moses__Moses__Grandma_Moses Robert_Motherwell__Motherwell Edvard_Munch__Munch Bartolome_Esteban_Murillo__Murillo O'Keeffe__Georgia_Okeeffe Jose_Clemente_Orozco__Orozco__Jose_Orozco Maxfield_Frederick_Parrish__Parrish__Maxfield_Parrish Pablo_Picasso__Picasso Jackson_Pollock__Pollock Sir_Joshua_Reynolds__Reynolds Mark_Rothko__Rothko Le_Douanier_Rousseau__Rousseau__Henri_Rousseau John_Singer_Sargent__johnsingersargent__Sargent__sargent Georges_Pierre_Seurat__Seurat__Georges_Seurat Benjamin_Shahn__Shahn__Ben_Shahn David_Alfaro_Siqueiros__Siqueiros__David_Siqueiros Chaim_Soutine__Soutine Frank_Philip_Stella__Stella__Frank_Stella Gilbert_Charles_Stuart__Stuart__Gilbert_Stuart Thomas_Sully__Sully Yves_Tanguy__Tanguy Giovanni_Battista_Tiepolo__Tiepolo Mark_Tobey__Tobey Henri_Toulouse-Lautrec__Toulouse-Lautrec Trumbull__John_Trumbull Joseph_Mallord_William_Turner__Turner Maurice_Utrillo__Utrillo Vincent_van_Gogh__van_Gogh__Gogh Viktor_Vasarely__Vasarely Giorgio_Vasari__Vasari Marie_Louise_Elisabeth_Vigee-Lebrun__Vigee-Lebrun__Elisabeth_Vigee-Lebrun Maurice_de_Vlaminck__Vlaminck Jean_Edouard_Vuillard__Vuillard__Edouard_Vuillard Andy_Warhol__Warhol Weber__Max_Weber Benjamin_West__West James_Abbott_McNeill_Whistler__Whistler Grant_Wood__Wood Andrew_Wyeth__Wyeth
subtype: photographer someone who takes photographs professionally
subtype: cameraman__camera_operator__cinematographer a photographer who operates a movie camera
subtype: press_photographer__pressphotographer a photographer who works for a newspaper
instance: Mathew_B._Brady__Brady Alfred_Eisenstaedt__Eisenstaedt Dorothea_Lange__Lange Edward_Jean_Steichen__Steichen Alfred_Stieglitz__Stieglitz William_Henry_Fox_Talbot__Talbot__Fox_Talbot Edward_Weston__Weston
subtype: Pre-Raphaelite a painter or writer dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals
instance: William_Holman_Hunt__Hunt__Holman_Hunt Sir_John_Everett_Millais__Millais__millai Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti__Rossetti
subtype: printmaker__graphic_artist__graphicartist an artist who designs and makes prints
subtype: engraver.printmaker a printmaker who prints from an engraved printing plate
subtype: lithographer a printmaker who uses lithography
instance: Nathaniel_Currier__Currier Honore_Daumier__Daumier James_Merritt_Ives__Ives__James_Ives
subtype: romanticist__romantic an artist of the romantic period or someone influenced by romanticism
subtype: sculptor__sculpturer__carver__statue_maker an artist who creates sculptures
subtype: sculptress a woman sculptor
instance: Constantin_Brancusi__Brancusi Alexander_Calder__Calder Benvenuto_Cellini__Cellini Thomas_Crawford__Crawford Donatello__Donato_di_Betto_Bardi Sir_Jacob_Epstein__Epstein__Jacob_Epstein Daniel_Chester_French__French Alberto_Giacometti__Giacometti Dame_Barbara_Hepworth__Hepworth__Barbara_Hepworth Malvina_Hoffman__Hoffman Gaston_Lachaise__Lachaise Leonardo_da_Vinci__Leonardo__da_Vinci Maya_Lin__Lin Jacques_Lipchitz__Lipchitz Lysippus Aristide_Maillol__Maillol Michelangelo_Buonarroti__Michelangelo Modigliani__Amedeo_Modigliano Henry_Spencer_Moore__Moore__Henry_Moore Louise_Nevelson__Nevelson Isamu_Noguchi__Noguchi Pablo_Picasso__Picasso Francois_Auguste_Rene_Rodin__Rodin__Auguste_Rodin George_Segal__Segal David_Roland_Smith__Smith__David_Smith Lorado_Taft__Taft
subtype: stylist an artist who is a master of a particular style
subtype: surrealist an artist who is a member of the movement called surrealism
subtype: symbolist a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols
instance: Jean_Arp__Arp__Hans_Arp John_James_Audubon__Audubon Marcel_Duchamp__Duchamp Jasper_Johns__Johns Edward_Lear__Lear Louis_Comfort_Tiffany__Tiffany
subtype: builder__developer__constructor someone who contracts for and supervises the construction of a building
subtype: boatbuilder a person who builds boats
subtype: contractor someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things
subtype: defense_contractor__defensecontractor a contractor concerned with the development and manufacture of systems of defense
subtype: hauler__haulier a haulage contractor
subtype: garbage_carter__garbagecarter__carter__garbage_hauler__garbagehauler a hauler of garbage; "there is a web site where licensed carters and would-be customers can make connections"
subtype: ship-breaker a contractor who buys old ships and breaks them up for scrap
subtype: subcontractor someone who enters into a subcontract with the primary contractor
subtype: homebuilder__housebuilder someone who builds houses as a business
subtype: jerry-builder__jerrybuilder someone who builds cheap buildings out of poor materials on speculation for a quick profit
subtype: road_builder someone whose business is to build roads
subtype: shipbuilder.builder a person who builds ships as a business
subtype: choreographer someone who creates new dances
instance: Alvin_Ailey__Ailey Alicia_Alonso__Alonso Sir_Frederick_Ashton__Ashton George_Balanchine__Balanchine Mikhail_Baryshnikov__Baryshnikov Merce_Cunningham__Cunningham Agnes_George_De_Mille__De_Mille__Agnes_De_Mille Martha_Graham__Graham Lev_Ivanov__Ivanov Judith_Jamison__Jamison Robert_Joffrey__Joffrey Rudolph_Laban__Laban Leonide_Fedorovitch_Massine__leonidefedorovitchmassine__Massine__Leonid_Fyodorovich_Myasin Jerome_Robbins__Robbins__robbin Ted_Shawn__Shawn Ruth_St._Denis__St._Denis__Saint_Denis__Ruth_Saint_Denis Twyla_Tharp__Tharp Antony_Tudor__Tudor
subtype: couturier__fashion_designer__fashiondesigner__clothesdesigner someone who designs clothing
subtype: costumier__costumer__costume_designer__costumedesigner someone who designs or supplies costumes (as for a play or masquerade)
instance: Christian_Dior__Dior Calvin_Richard_Klein__Klein__Calvin_Klein Elsa_Schiaparelli__Schiaparelli Gianni_Versace__Versace Charles_Frederick_Worth__charlesfrederickworth__Worth
subtype: crafter a creator of great skill in the manual arts; "the jewelry was made by internationally famous craftsmen"
subtype: fantasist a creator of fantasies
subtype: farmer__husbandman__granger__sodbuster a person who operates a farm
subtype: contadino an Italian farmer
subtype: agriculturist__cultivator__grower__raiser someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil
subtype: fruit_grower__fruitgrower someone who grows fruit commercially
subtype: beekeeper__apiarist__apiculturist a farmer who keeps bees for their honey
subtype: dairy_farmer__dairyfarmer__dairyman the owner or manager of a dairy
subtype: forester__tree_farmer__arboriculturist someone trained in forestry
subtype: lumberman__lumberjack__timberman__feller__faller a person that works at lumbering and fells trees
subtype: logger a lumberman who cuts logs into lengths after the trees have been felled
subtype: scorer a logger who marks trees to be felled
instance: Paul_Bunyan__Bunyan
subtype: plantation_owner__planter the owner or manager of a plantation
subtype: rancher a person who owns or operates a ranch
subtype: grazier a rancher who grazes cattle or sheep for market
subtype: smallholder (British) a person owning or renting a smallholding
subtype: small_farmer__smallfarmer a farmer on a small farm
subtype: crofter an owner or tenant of a small farm in Great Britain
subtype: sower someone who sows
subtype: stockman__stock_raiser__stockraiser__stock_farmer__stockfarmer farmer who breed or raises livestock
subtype: stock_breeder__stockbreeder__breeder a person who breeds animals
subtype: cow_man__cowman__cattleman__beef_man a man who raises (or tends) cattle
subtype: sheepman a man who raises (or tends) sheep
subtype: tenant_farmer a farmer who works land owned by someone else
subtype: tiller.farmer someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops)
subtype: inventor__discoverer__artificer someone who is the first to think of or make something
subtype: patentee the inventor to whom a patent is issued
instance: Alexander_Graham_Bell__Bell__Alexander_Bell Sir_Henry_Bessemer__Bessemer John_Moses_Browning__Browning__John_M._Browning William_Seward_Burroughs__Burroughs Edmund_Cartwright__Cartwright Louis_Jacques_Mande_Daguerre__Daguerre Lee_De_Forest__De_Forest__The_Father_of_Radio George_Eastman__Eastman Thomas_Alva_Edison__Edison__Thomas_Edison Robert_Fulton__Fulton Richard_Jordan_Gatling__Gatling Gillette__King_Camp_Gilette Peter_Carl_Goldmark__Goldmark__Peter_Goldmark Charles_Goodyear__Goodyear James_Hargreaves__Hargreaves Hero_of_Alexandria__Hero__Heron Herman_Hollerith__Hollerith Elias_Howe__Howe Joseph_Marie_Jacquard__Jacquard__Joseph_M._Jacquard Edwin_Herbert_Land__Land__Din_Land Samuel_Pierpoint_Langley__Langley Peter_Paul_Mauser__Mauser__von_Mauser__P._P._von_Mauser Sir_Hiram_Stevens_Maxim__Maxim Cyrus_Hall_McCormick__McCormick__Cyrus_McCormick Ottmar_Mergenthaler__Mergenthaler Samuel_Finley_Breese_Morse__Morse__Samuel_Morse__Samuel_F._B._Morse Eadweard_Muybridge__Muybridge__Edward_James_Muggeridge Elisha_Graves_Otis__Otis Isaac_Merrit_Singer__Singer__Isaac_M._Singer Elmer_Ambrose_Sperry__Sperry Francis_Edgar_Stanley__Stanley Charles_Proteus_Steinmetz__Steinmetz William_Henry_Fox_Talbot__Talbot__Fox_Talbot Nikola_Tesla__Tesla James_Watt__Watt George_Westinghouse__Westinghouse Sir_Charles_Wheatstone__Wheatstone Eli_Whitney__Whitney Orville_Wright__Wright Wilbur_Wright__Wright Count_Ferdinand_von_Zeppelin__Zeppelin
subtype: shaper__maker a person who makes things
subtype: basketweaver__basketmaker someone skilled in weaving baskets
subtype: belt_maker a maker of belts
subtype: bookmaker a maker of books; someone who edits or publishes or binds books
subtype: beer_maker__brewer someone who brews beer or ale from malt and hops and water
subtype: chandler a maker (and seller) of candles and soap and oils and paints
subtype: candlemaker a person who makes or sells candles
subtype: wax-chandler__waxchandler one who deals in wax candles
subtype: shoemaker__cobbler a person who makes or repairs shoes
subtype: bootmaker__boot_maker a maker of boots
subtype: confectioner__candymaker someone who makes candies and other sweets
instance: Milton_Snavely_Hershey__Hershey
subtype: author__generator__source someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he was the generator of several complaints"
subtype: coiner someone who is a source of new words or new expressions
subtype: glassmaker some who makes glass
subtype: hatmaker__hatter__milliner__modiste someone who makes and sells hats
subtype: ironworker a person who makes articles of iron
subtype: puddler a worker who turns pig iron into wrought iron by puddling
subtype: jewelry_maker__jewelrymaker__jeweler__jeweller someone who makes jewelry
subtype: goldsmith__goldworker an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold
instance: Peter_Carl_Faberge__Faberge
subtype: silversmith__silverworker someone who makes or repairs articles of silver
instance: Paul_Revere__Revere
subtype: maltster__maltman a maker of malt
subtype: manufacturer__producer someone who manufactures something
subtype: arms_manufacturer someone who manufactures arms and munitions
instance: Alfred_Krupp__Krupp Peter_Paul_Mauser__Mauser__von_Mauser__P._P._von_Mauser
subtype: brewer the owner or manager of a brewery
subtype: distiller someone who distills alcoholic liquors
subtype: food_manufacturer a person who manufactures food products
instance: W._K._Kellogg__Kellogg__Will_Keith_Kellog
subtype: sericulturist a producer of raw silk
instance: Cyrus_Hall_McCormick__McCormick__Cyrus_McCormick John_Mercer__Mercer Isaac_Merrit_Singer__Singer__Isaac_M._Singer Eli_Whitney__Whitney
subtype: needleworker someone who does work (as sewing or embroidery) with a needle
subtype: edger.needleworker a person who puts finishing edges on a garment
subtype: embroiderer someone who ornaments with needlework
subtype: embroideress a woman embroiderer
subtype: garmentmaker__garmentworker__garment_worker__garmentworker a person who makes garments
subtype: cloakmaker__furrier someone whose occupation is making or repairing fur garments
subtype: dressmaker__modiste__needlewoman__seamstress__sempstress someone who makes or mends dresses
instance: Betsy_Griscom_Ross__Ross__Betsy_Ross
subtype: outfitter someone who provides outfits
subtype: stitcher a garmentmaker who performs the finishing steps
subtype: tailor__seamster__sartor a person whose occupation is making and altering garments
subtype: fitter someone who fits a garment to a particular person
subtype: knitter someone who makes garments (or fabrics) by intertwining yarn or thread
subtype: sewer someone who sews; "a sewer of fine gowns"
subtype: baster.sewer__tacker a sewer who fastens a garment with long loose stitches
subtype: sewing-machine_operator someone who sews by operating a sewing machine
subtype: tucker.sewer a sewer who tucks
subtype: patternmaker someone who makes patterns (as for sewing or carpentry or metalworking)
subtype: perfumer a person who makes (and sells) perfumes
subtype: piano_maker__pianomaker a person who makes pianos
instance: Heinrich_Engelhard_Steinway__Steinway__Henry_Steinway__Henry_Engelhard_Steinway
subtype: saddler a maker and repairer and seller of equipment for horses
subtype: sailmaker a maker of sails
subtype: shirtmaker a maker of shirts
subtype: thread_maker__spinner__spinster someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
subtype: steelmaker__steelworker__steelman a worker engaged in making steel
subtype: tentmaker someone who makes or repairs tents
subtype: toolmaker someone skilled in making or repairing tools
subtype: winemaker__vintner__wine_maker someone who makes wine
subtype: violin_maker someone who makes violins
instance: Nicolo_Amati__Amati__Nicola_Amati Andrea_Guarneri__Guarneri__Guarnieri__Guarnerius Guiseppe_Guarneri__Guarneri__Guarnieri__Guarnerius Antonio_Stradivari__Stradivari__Stradivarius__Antonius_Stradivarius
subtype: watchmaker__horologist__horologer someone who makes or repairs watches
subtype: wigmaker someone who makes and sells wigs
subtype: modeler__modeller a person who creates models
instance: Madame_Tussaud__Tussaud__tussaud__Marie_Tussaud__Marie_Grosholtz
subtype: originator__conceiver__mastermind someone who creates new things
subtype: beginner__founder__founding_father__father a person who founds or establishes some institution; "George Washington is the father of his country"
subtype: cofounder one of a group of founders
subtype: colonizer someone who helps to found a colony
instance: Sir_Walter_Raleigh__Raleigh__Walter_Raleigh__Ralegh__Walter_Ralegh__Sir_Walter_Ralegh Cecil_John_Rhodes__Rhodes__Cecil_Rhodes__Cecil_J._Rhodes
subtype: foundress__foundres a woman founder
subtype: innovator__pioneer someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art
subtype: proposer__mover (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion
subtype: nominator someone who proposes a candidate for appointment or election
subtype: suggester__proposer someone who advances a suggestion or proposal; "the suggester of this absurd strategy was a fool"
subtype: producer someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work)
subtype: film_maker__film_producer__movie_maker__moviemaker a producer of motion pictures
subtype: auteur a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works
subtype: New_Waver a film maker who follows New Wave ideas
instance: Allen_Stewart_Konigsberg__Allen__Woody_Allen Bernardo_Bertolucci__Bertolucci Frank_Capra__Capra Sir_Charles_Spencer_Chaplin__Chaplin__Charlie_Chaplin Jean_Cocteau__Cocteau Francis_Ford_Coppola__Coppola Cecil_Blount_De_Mille__De_Mille__Cecil_B._De_Mille Vittorio_De_Sica__De_Sica Walter_Elias_Disney__Disney__Walt_Disney Sergei_Mikhailovich_Eisenstein__Eisenstein__Sergei_Eisenstein John_Ford__Ford Jean_Luc_Godard__Godard Samuel_Goldwyn__Goldwyn__Sam_Goldwyn David_Lewelyn_Wark_Griffith__Griffith__D._W._Griffith Howard_Robard_Hughes__Hughes__Howard_Hughes John_Huston__Huston Norman_Jewison__Jewison Krzysztof_Kieslowski__Kieslowski Sir_Alexander_Korda__Korda__Sandor_Kellner Stanley_Kubrick__Kubrick Akira_Kurosawa__Kurosawa Shelton_Jackson_Lee__Lee__Spike_Lee Ernst_Lubitsch__Lubitsch George_Lucas__Lucas Louis_Burt_Mayer__Mayer__Louis_B._Mayer Sydney_Pollack__Pollack Charles_Robert_Redford__Redford__Robert_Redford Martin_Scorsese__Scorsese David_Oliver_Selznick__Selznick__David_O._Selznick Mack_Sennett__Sennett Spielburg__Steven_Spielberg George_Stevens__Stevens Oliver_Stone__Stone Quentin_Jerome_Tarantino__Tarantino__Quentin_Tarantino Andrei_Arsenevich_Tarkovsky__Tarkovsky__Andrei_Tarkovsky Jacques_Tati__Tati__Jacques_Tatischeff Francois_Truffaut__Truffaut Don_Luchino_Visconti_Conte_di_Modrone__Visconti__Luchino_Visconti Josef_von_Sternberg__von_Sternberg Andrzej_Wajda__Wajda Charles_Dudley_Warner__Warner George_Orson_Welles__Welles__Orson_Welles Samuel_Wilder__Wilder__Billy_Wilder William_Wyler__Wyler Darryl_Francis_Zanuck__Zanuck__Darryl_Zanuck Fred_Zinnemann__Zinnemann
subtype: theatrical_producer someone who produces theatrical performances
instance: Harley_Granville-Barker__Granville-Barker Sir_Herbert_Beerbohm_Tree__Tree Florenz_Ziegfeld__Ziegfeld__Flo_Ziegfeld
subtype: disputant a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy
subtype: accuser someone who imputes guilt or blame
subtype: debater__arguer someone who engages in debate
subtype: devil's_advocate__devil'sadvocate someone who takes the worse side just for the sake of argument
subtype: disprover__rebutter__refuter a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument
subtype: wrangler someone who argues noisily or angrily
subtype: denier one who denies
subtype: logomach__logomachist someone given to disputes over words
subtype: obstructionist__obstructor__obstructer__resister__thwarter someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take
subtype: naysayer someone with an aggressively negative attitude
subtype: stonewaller one who stonewalls or refuses to answer or cooperate
subtype: quarreler__quarreller a disputant who quarrels
subtype: quibbler__caviller__caviler__pettifogger a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections
subtype: radical a person who has radical ideas or opinions
subtype: anarchist__nihilist__syndicalist an advocate of anarchism
instance: Mikhail_Aleksandrovich_Bakunin__Bakunin__Mikhail_Bakunin Emma_Goldman__Goldman Pyotr_Alexeyevich_Kropotkin__Kropotkin__Prince_Peter_Kropotkin Nicola_Sacco__Sacco Benjamin_Ricketson_Tucker__Tucker Bartolomeo_Vanzetti__Vanzetti
subtype: Bolshevik__Marxist__pinko__red__bolshie emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries
subtype: extremist a person who holds extreme views
subtype: leveler__leveller a radical who advocates the abolition of political or economic or social inequalities
subtype: revolutionist__revolutionary__subversive__subverter a radical supporter of political or social revolution
subtype: counterrevolutionist__counterrevolutionary a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution
subtype: dynamiter__dynamitist a person who uses dynamite in a revolutionary cause
subtype: Girondist a member of the moderate republican party during the French Revolution; the Girondists were overthrown by their more radical rivals the Jacobins
subtype: insurgent__insurrectionist__freedom_fighter__freedomfighter__rebel a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)
subtype: mutineer open rebellion and refusal to obey authorities (especially by seamen or soldiers)
instance: Nat_Turner__Turner Denmark_Vesey__Vesey Sir_William_Wallace__Wallace
instance: Marie_Anne_Charlotte_Corday_d'Armont__Corday__Charlotte_Corday Georges_Jacques_Danton__Danton Ernesto_Guevara_de_la_Serna__Guevara__Che_Guevara Mao_Tsetung__Mao__Mao_Zedong Jean_Paul_Marat__Marat Jose_Julian_Marti__Marti Karl_Marx__Marx Comte_de_Mirabeau__Mirabeau__Honore-Gabriel_Victor_Riqueti Maxmillien_Marie_Isidore_de_Robespierre__Robespierre Leon_Trotsky__Trotsky__Lev_Davidovich_Bronstein Francisco_Villa__Villa__Pancho_Villa__Doroteo_Arango Emiliano_Zapata__Zapata Zhou_En-lai__Chou_En-lai
subtype: terrorist a radical who employs terror as a political weapon
instance: Jacobin
subtype: Trotskyite__Trotskyist__Trot radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution
subtype: Young_Turk a radical who agitates for reform
subtype: reformist__reformer__crusader__meliorist a disputant who advocates reform
subtype: abolitionist__emancipationist a reformer who favors abolishing slavery
instance: Henry_Ward_Beecher__Beecher John_Brown__Brown Frederick_Douglass__Douglass William_Lloyd_Garrison__Garrison Harriet_Elizabeth_Beecher_Stowe__Stowe__Harriet_Beecher_Stowe Arthur_Tappan__Tappan Sojourner_Truth__Truth Harriet_Tubman__Tubman Theodore_Dwight_Weld__Weld
subtype: birth-control_campaigner__birthcontrolcampaigner__birth-control_reformer__birthcontrolreformer a social reformer who advocates birth control and family planning
instance: Marie_Charlotte_Carmichael_Stopes__Stopes__Marie_Stopes
subtype: Chartist a 19th century English reformer who advocated better social and economic conditions for working people
subtype: civil_rights_leader__civil_rights_worker a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups
instance: Julian_Bond__Bond William_Edward_Burghardt_Du_Bois__Du_Bois__W._E._B._Du_Bois Medgar_Wiley_Evers__Evers__Medgar_Evers James_Leonard_Farmer__Farmer Jesse_Louis_Jackson__Jackson__Jesse_Jackson Martin_Luther_King_Jr.__King__Martin_Luther_King Malcolm_X__Malcolm_Little James_Howard_Meredith__Meredith__James_Meredith Rosa_Parks__Parks Paul_Bustill_Robeson__Robeson__robeson__paulrobeson Roy_Wilkins__Wilkins Whitney_Moore_Young_Jr.__Young__Whitney_Young
subtype: protester__demonstrator someone who participates in a public display of group feeling
subtype: picket.protester a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
subtype: dry__prohibitionist a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
instance: Carry_Amelia_Moore_Nation__Nation__Carry_Nation Frances_Elizabeth_Caroline_Willard__Willard
subtype: environmentalist__conservationist someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution
subtype: Green an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party
instance: Rachel_Louise_Carson__Carson__Rachel_Carson Barbara_Ward__Ward__Baroness_Jackson_of_Lodsworth
subtype: feminist__women's_rightist__women'srightist__women's_liberationist__women'sliberationist__libber a supporter of feminism
subtype: suffragette a woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century)
instance: Simone_de_Beauvoir__Beauvoir Betty_Naomi_Friedan__Friedan__Betty_Friedan Charlotte_Anna_Perkins_Gilman__Gilman Lucretia_Coffin_Mott__Mott Alice_Paul__Paul Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton__Stanton Gloria_Steinem__Steinem Lucy_Stone__Stone Sojourner_Truth__Truth Mary_Wollstonecraft_Godwin__Wollstonecraft__Mary_Wollstonecraft Frances_Wright__Wright__Fanny_Wright
subtype: hippie__hippy__hipster__flowerchild someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle
subtype: insurgent__insurrectionist__freedom_fighter__freedomfighter__rebel a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)
subtype: militant__activist a militant reformer
subtype: Black_Muslim activist member of a largely Black American group called The Nation of Islam
instance: Elijah_Muhammad__Muhammad
subtype: Black_Panther a member of the Black Panthers political party
instance: Malcolm_X__Malcolm_Little
subtype: non-resistant__nonresistant__passive_resister__passiveresister a reformer who believes in passive resistance
subtype: Utopian an idealistic (but usually impractical) social reformer; "a Utopian believes in the ultimate perfectibility of man"
instance: Anthony_Comstock__Comstock John_Huss__Huss__Hus__Jan_Hus Robert_Owen__Owen Girolamo_Savonarola__Savonarola Francis_Everett_Townsend__Townsend John_Wilkes__Wilkes
subtype: engineer__applied_scientist__appliedscientist__technologist a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems
subtype: aeronautical_engineer an engineer concerned with the design and construction of aircraft
instance: Reginald_Joseph_Mitchell__Mitchell__R._J._Mitchell
subtype: aerospace_engineer__aerospaceengineer an engineer of aircraft and space vehicles
subtype: army_engineer__military_engineer a member of the military who is trained in engineering and construction work
subtype: sapper a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications)
subtype: sapper.army_engineer a military engineer who lays or detects and disarms mines
subtype: automotive_engineer an engineer concerned with the design and construction of automobiles
subtype: civil_engineer__civilengineer an engineer trained to design and construct and maintain public works (roads or bridges or harbors etc.)
subtype: highway_engineer__highwayengineer a civil engineer who specializes in the design and construction of roads and highways
instance: David_Barnard_Steinman__Steinman
subtype: electrical_engineer a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity
instance: Vannevar_Bush__Bush Lee_De_Forest__De_Forest__The_Father_of_Radio Ray_M._Dolby__Dolby Oliver_Heaviside__Heaviside Arthur_Edwin_Kennelly__Kennelly__A._E._Kennelly Guglielmo_Marconi__Marconi Ernst_Werner_von_Siemens__Siemens Sir_Clive_Marles_Sinclair__Sinclair__Clive_Sinclair Charles_Proteus_Steinmetz__Steinmetz Nikola_Tesla__Tesla Elihu_Thomson__Thomson
subtype: marine_engineer__naval_engineer__navalengineer an officer responsible for the operation and maintenance of the ship's engines
subtype: mechanical_engineer a person trained to design and construct machines
subtype: tribologist a specialist in tribology
subtype: metallurgist__metallurgical_engineer__metallurgicalengineer an engineer trained in the extraction and refining and alloying and fabrication of metals
instance: Sir_Henry_Bessemer__Bessemer
subtype: mining_engineer an engineer concerned with the construction and operation of mines
subtype: computer_programmer__programmer__coder__softwareengineer a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs
subtype: hacker.computer_programmer a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers
subtype: rocket_engineer__rocket_scientist an engineer who builds and tests rockets
instance: Wernher_Magnus_Maximilian_von_Braun__Braun__von_Braun__Wernher_von_Braun
subtype: surveyor an engineer who determines the boundaries and elevations of land or structures
subtype: lineman.surveyor the surveyor who marks positions with a range pole
subtype: locator__locater a person who fixes the boundaries of land claims
instance: Gottlieb_Daimler__Daimler Rudolf_Christian_Karl_Diesel__Diesel__Rudolf_Diesel Bryan_Donkin__Donkin Alexandre_Gustave_Eiffel__Eiffel George_Washington_Goethals__Goethals Hugo_Junkers__Junkers Charles_Franklin_Kettering__Kettering__Charles_Kettering Leonardo_da_Vinci__Leonardo__da_Vinci John_Augustus_Roebling__Roebling__John_Roebling Claude_Elwood_Shannon__Shannon__shannon__Claude_Shannon__Claude_E._Shannon Sir_Charles_William_Siemens__Siemens__Karl_Wilhelm_Siemens Elmer_Ambrose_Sperry__Sperry Richard_Trevithick__Trevithick Thomas_Augustus_Watson__Watson James_Watt__Watt
subtype: entertainer a person who tries to please or amuse
subtype: bombshell.entertainer an entertainer who has a sensational effect; "she was a blonde bombshell"
subtype: busker a person who entertains people for money in public places (as by singing or dancing)
subtype: drawing_card__drawingcard__draw__attraction__attractor an entertainer who attracts large audiences; "he was the biggest drawing card they had"
subtype: humorist__humourist someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way
subtype: parodist__lampooner mimics literary or musical style for comic effect
subtype: caricaturist someone who parodies in an exaggerated manner
instance: Sir_Henry_Maxmilian_Beerbohm__Beerbohm__Max_Beerbohm
subtype: punster someone overly fond of making puns
subtype: satirist__ironist a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm
instance: Juvenal__Decimus_Junius_Juvenalis Francois_Rabelais__Rabelais Jonathan_Swift__Swift__Dean_Swift
subtype: wag__wit__card (informal) a witty amusing person who makes jokes
instance: Robert_Charles_Benchley__Benchley__Robert_Benchley Samuel_Langhorne_Clemens__Clemens__Mark_Twain Ringgold_Wilmer_Lardner__Lardner__Ring_Lardner Stephen_Butler_Leacock__Leacock__Stephen_Leacock Edward_Lear__Lear Donald_Robert_Perry_Marquis__Marquis__Don_Marquis__donmarqui William_Penn_Adair_Rogers__Rogers__Will_Rogers Henry_Wheeler_Shaw__Shaw__Josh_Billings James_Grover_Thurber__Thurber__James_Thurber
subtype: master_of_ceremonies__emcee__host a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers)
subtype: compere British term for someone who introduces television acts or cabarets etc
subtype: Lord_of_Misrule a person appointed master of revels at a Christmas celebration
subtype: question_master__quizmaster (British) the host or chairman of a radio or tv quiz show or panel game
subtype: ringmaster the person in charge of performances in a circus ring
subtype: toastmaster the person who proposes toasts and introduces speakers at a banquet
subtype: toast_mistress a woman toastmaster
instance: Edward_Vincent_Sullivan__Sullivan__Ed_Sullivan
subtype: performer__performing_artist an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience
subtype: histrion__actor__player__thespian__role_player a theatrical performer
subtype: actress__actres a female actor
subtype: leading_lady__leadinglady actress who plays the leading female role
subtype: starlet a young (film) actress who is publicized as a future star
subtype: tragedienne an actress who specializes in tragic roles
instance: Tallulah_Bankhead__Bankhead Georgiana_Emma_Barrymore__Barrymore__Georgiana_Barrymore Ethel_Barrymore__Barrymore Ingrid_Bergman__Bergman Sarah_Bernhardt__Bernhardt__Henriette_Rosine_Bernard Shirley_Temple_Black__Black__Shirley_Temple Katherine_Cornell__Cornell Joan_Crawford__Crawford Bette_Davis__Davis Marlene_Dietrich__Dietrich__Maria_Magdalene_von_Losch Eleonora_Duse__Duse Jane_Fonda__Fonda Lynn_Fontanne__Fontanne Greta_Garbo__Garbo__Greta_Louisa_Gustafsson Judy_Garland__Garland Lillian_Gish__Gish Jean_Harlow__Harlow__Harlean_Carpenter Helen_Hayes__Hayes Katharine_Houghton_Hepburn__Hepburn__hepburn__Katharine_Hepburn Glenda_Jackson__Jackson Grace_Patricia_Kelly__Kelly__Grace_Kelly__Princess_Grace_of_Monaco Lillie_Langtry__Langtry__the_Jersey_Lillie__Emilie_Charlotte_le_Breton Gertrude_Lawrence__Lawrence Eva_Le_Gallienne__Le_Gallienne Vivien_Leigh__Leigh Beatrice_Lillie__Lillie__Lady_Peel Sophia_Loren__Loren__Sofia_Scicolone Mary_Martin__Martin Anna_Amalia_Mercouri__Mercouri__Melina_Mercouri Marilyn_Monroe__Monroe__Norma_Jean_Baker Alla_Nazimova__Nazimova Mary_Pickford__Pickford__Gladys_Smith Ginger_Rogers__Rogers__Virginia_McMath Moira_Shearer__Shearer Sarah_Kemble_Siddons__Siddons__Sarah_Siddons Cornelia_Otis_Skinner__Skinner Meryl_Streep__Streep Barbra_Joan_Streisand__Streisand__Barbra_Streisand Gloria_Swanson__Swanson__Gloria_May_Josephine_Svensson Elizabeth_Taylor__Taylor Dame_Alice_Ellen_Terry__Terry__Dame_Ellen_Terry Dame_Sybil_Thorndike__Thorndike Ethel_Waters__Waters Mae_West__West Natalie_Wood__Wood Loretta_Young__Young
subtype: barnstormer__playactor__trouper an actor who travels around the country presenting plays
subtype: character_actor__characteractor an actor who specializes in playing supporting roles
subtype: comedian an actor in a comedy
subtype: comedienne.comedian a female actor in a comedy
instance: Eleanor_Gwynn__Gwynn__Gywn__Gynne__Nell_Gwynn__Nell_Gywn__Nell_Gwynne__Eleanor_Gwyn__Eleanor_Gwynne
subtype: ham_actor__hamactor__ham an unskilled actor who overacts
subtype: heavy.histrion an actor who plays villainous roles
subtype: ingenue.histrion an actress who specializes in playing the role of an artless innocent young girl
subtype: leading_man__leadingman actor who plays the leading male role
subtype: mime__mimer__mummer__pantomimer__pantomimist an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression
instance: Marcel_Marceau__Marceau
subtype: plant.histrion an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience
subtype: scene-stealer__scenestealer an actor who draws more attention than other actors in the same scene; "babies are natural scene-stealers"
subtype: star.histrion__principal__lead an actor who plays a principal role
subtype: co-star one of two actors who are given equal status as stars in a play or film
subtype: film_star__movie_star__moviestar a star who plays leading roles in the cinema
subtype: matinee_idol__matineeidol__idol someone who is adored blindly and excessively
subtype: heartthrob an object of infatuation
subtype: television_star__TV_star a star in a television show
subtype: supernumerary__spear_carrier__spearcarrier__extra a minor actor in crowd scenes
subtype: tragedian.histrion one who specializes in tragic roles
subtype: understudy__standby an actor able to replace a regular performer when required
subtype: upstager a selfish actor who upstages the other actors
subtype: walk-on plays a small part in a dramatic production
instance: Allen_Stewart_Konigsberg__Allen__Woody_Allen Fred_Astaire__Astaire Maurice_Barrymore__Barrymore__Herbert_Blythe Lionel_Barrymore__Barrymore John_Barrymore__Barrymore Humphrey_DeForest_Bogart__Bogart__Humphrey_Bogart John_Wilkes_Booth__Booth Richard_Burbage__Burbage__burbage Richard_Burton__Burton Jimmy_Cagney__Cagney__James_Cagney Maurice_Chevalier__Chevalier Frank_Cooper__Cooper__Gary_Cooper Sir_Noel_Pierce_Coward__Coward__Noel_Coward Harry_Lillis_Crosby__Crosby__Bing_Crosby James_Byron_Dean__Dean__James_Dean Robert_De_Niro__De_Niro Gerard_Depardieu__Depardieu John_Drew__Drew Douglas_Elton_Fairbanks__Fairbanks__Douglas_Fairbanks__Julius_Ullman Douglas_Fairbanks_Jr.__Fairbanks Henry_Fonda__Fonda William_Clark_Gable__Gable__gable__Clark_Gable David_Garrick__Garrick__garrick Mel_Columcille_Gerard_Gibson__Gibson__Mel_Gibson Arthur_John_Gielgud__Gielgud__Sir_John_Gielgud Cary_Grant__Grant Harley_Granville-Barker__Granville-Barker Sir_Alec_Guinness__Guinness__Alec_Guinness Thomas_J._Hanks__Hanks__Tom_Hanks Reginald_Carey_Harrison__Harrison__Rex_Harrison__Sir_Rex_Harrison John_Heming__Heming__Hemminge__John_Hemminge Dustin_Hoffman__Hoffman Sir_Anthony_Philip_Hopkins__Hopkins__Anthony_Hopkins__Sir_Anthony_Hopkins Leslie_Howard_Stainer__Howard__Leslie_Howard Al_Jolson__Jolson__Asa_Yoelson Boris_Karloff__Karloff__William_Henry_Pratt Edmund_Kean__Kean Joseph_Francis_Keaton__Keaton__Buster_Keaton Eugene_Curran_Kelly__Kelly__Gene_Kelly Charles_Laughton__Laughton Lee_Yuen_Kam__Lee__Bruce_Lee Jack_Lemmon__Lemmon__John_Uhler Harold_Clayton_Lloyd__Lloyd__Harold_Lloyd Peter_Lorre__Lorre__Laszlo_Lowestein Bela_Lugosi__Lugosi__Bela_Ferenc_Blasko Alfred_Lunt__Lunt E._G._Marshall__Marshall Steve_Martin__Martin James_Neville_Mason__Mason__James_Mason Robert_Mitchum__Mitchum Dudley_Stuart_John_Moore__Moore__Dudley_Moore Paul_Newman__Newman Sir_Laurence_Kerr_Olivier__Olivier__Laurence_Olivier__Baron_Olivier_of_Birghton Peter_Seamus_O'Toole__O'Toole__Peter_O'Toole Sidney_Poitier__Poitier Charles_Robert_Redford__Redford__Robert_Redford Sir_Ralph_David_Richardson__Richardson__Ralph_Richardson Edward_Goldenberg_Robinson__Robinson__Edward_G._Robinson George_C._Scott__Scott Peter_Sellers__Sellers Francis_Albert_Sinatra__Sinatra__Frank_Sinatra Otis_Skinner__Skinner Konstantin_Sergeevich_Stanislavsky__Stanislavsky__Konstantin_Stanislavsky__Konstantin_Sergevich_Alekseev James_Maitland_Stewart__Stewart__Jimmy_Stewart Erich_von_Stroheim__Stroheim Spencer_Tracy__Tracy Sir_Herbert_Beerbohm_Tree__Tree Peter_Alexander_Ustinov__Ustinov__Sir_Peter_Ustinov John_Wayne__Wayne__Duke_Wayne George_Orson_Welles__Welles__Orson_Welles
subtype: artiste a public performer (a dancer or singer)
subtype: baton_twirler__batontwirler__twirler someone who twirls a baton
subtype: drum_majorette.baton_twirler__drummajorette a female baton twirler who accompanies a marching band
subtype: comic__comedian a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comic acts
subtype: merry_andrew__merryandrew__clown__buffoon a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior
subtype: harlequin a clown or buffoon (after the Harlequin character in the commedia dell'arte)
subtype: jester__fool a professional clown employed to to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages
subtype: whiteface a clown whose face is covered with white make-up
subtype: zany a buffoon in one of the old comedies; imitates others for ludicrous effect
instance: Emmett_Kelly__Kelly__Weary_Willie
subtype: comedienne a female comedian
subtype: gagman__standup_comedian__standupcomedian a comedian who uses gags
subtype: jokester__joker a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes
subtype: top_banana__topbanana the leading comedian in a burlesque show
instance: George_Burns__Burns__Nathan_Birnbaum Sir_Charles_Spencer_Chaplin__Chaplin__Charlie_Chaplin Jimmy_Durante__Durante W._C._Fields__Fields__William_Claude_Dukenfield Oliver_Hardy__Hardy Benny_Hill__Hill__Alfred_Hawthorne Leslie_Townes_Hope__Hope__Bob_Hope Joseph_Francis_Keaton__Keaton__Buster_Keaton Sir_Harry_MacLennan_Lauder__Lauder__Harry_Lauder Arthur_Stanley_Jefferson_Laurel__Laurel__Stan_Laurel Steve_Martin__Martin Julius_Marx__Groucho__groucho__marx Leonard_Marx__Chico__Marx Arthur_Marx__Harpo__Marx Herbert_Marx__Zeppo__Marx Dudley_Stuart_John_Moore__Moore__Dudley_Moore
subtype: rodeo_rider__rodeorider__cowboy a performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldogging
subtype: professional_dancer__dancer a performer who dances
subtype: ballet_dancer a dancer who is a member of a ballet company
subtype: ballerina__danseuse a female ballet dancer
subtype: prima_ballerina__primaballerina a leading female ballet dancer
subtype: danseur_noble__danseurnoble__danseur a male ballet dancer who is the partner of a ballerina
subtype: ballet_master a man who directs and teaches and rehearses dancers for a ballet company
subtype: baller_mistress a woman who directs and teaches and rehearses dancers for a ballet company
subtype: belly_dancer__bellydancer__exotic_dancer a woman who performs a solo Oriental dance using exaggerated abdominal movements
subtype: chorus_girl__showgirl__chorine a woman who dances in a chorus line
subtype: hoofer__stepper a professional dancer
subtype: nautch_girl a professional dancing girl in India
subtype: tap_dancer__tapdancer a dancer who who sounds out rhythms by using metal taps on the toes and heels of the shoes
subtype: taxi_dancer a woman employed to dance with patrons who pay a fee for each dance
instance: Alicia_Alonso__Alonso Fred_Astaire__Astaire George_Balanchine__Balanchine Mikhail_Baryshnikov__Baryshnikov Merce_Cunningham__Cunningham Agnes_George_De_Mille__De_Mille__Agnes_De_Mille Isadora_Duncan__Duncan Dame_Margot_Fonteyn__Fonteyn Martha_Graham__Graham Judith_Jamison__Jamison Tamara_Karsavina__Karsavina Eugene_Curran_Kelly__Kelly__Gene_Kelly Dame_Alicia_Markova__Markova__Lilian_Alicia_Marks Leonide_Fedorovitch_Massine__leonidefedorovitchmassine__Massine__Leonid_Fyodorovich_Myasin Arthur_Mitchell__Mitchell Lola_Montez__Montez__Marie_Dolores_Eliza_Rosanna_Gilbert Vaslav_Nijinsky__Nijinsky__Waslaw_Nijinsky Rudolf_Nureyev__Nureyev Anna_Pavlova__Pavlova Ginger_Rogers__Rogers__Virginia_McMath Salome Ted_Shawn__Shawn Moira_Shearer__Shearer Ruth_St._Denis__St._Denis__Saint_Denis__Ruth_Saint_Denis Maria_Tallchief__Tallchief Twyla_Tharp__Tharp Antony_Tudor__Tudor Galina_Sergeevna_Ulanova__Ulanova__Galina_Ulanova Gaetan_Vestris__Vestris
subtype: executant a performer (usually of musical works)
subtype: fire-swallower__fire-eater a performer who pretends to swallow fire
subtype: fire_walker someone who walks barefoot on burning coals
subtype: headliner__star a performer who receives prominent billing
subtype: juggler a performer who juggles objects and performs tricks of manual dexterity
subtype: magician__prestidigitator__conjurer__conjuror__illusionist someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience
subtype: escapologist__escape_expert someone who is expert in the art of escaping
subtype: mind_reader__telepathist__thoughtreader a magician who seems to discern the thoughts of another person (usually by clever signals from an accomplice)
subtype: minstrel a performer in a minstrel show
subtype: corner_man__end_man__endman a man at one end of line of performers in a minstrel show; carries on humorous dialogue with the interlocutor
subtype: interlocutor__middleman the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk
subtype: monologist an entertainer who performs along
subtype: instrumentalist__musician__player someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)
subtype: accompanist__accompanyist a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano)
subtype: bandsman a player in a band (especially a military band)
subtype: bassoonist a musician who plays the bassoon
subtype: bell_ringer__bellringer someone who plays musical handbells
subtype: carillonneur a musician who plays a carillon
subtype: cellist some who plays a violoncello
instance: Pablo_Casals__Casals
subtype: clarinetist__clarinettist a musician who plays the clarinet
instance: Benjamin_David_Goodman__Goodman__goodman__Benny_Goodman__the_King_of_Swing
subtype: flutist__flute_player__fluteplayer someone who plays the flute
subtype: guitarist__guitar_player a musician who plays the guitar
instance: James_Marshall_Hendrix__Hendrix__Jimi_Hendrix Riley_B_King__King__B._B._King Andres_Segovia__Segovia__segovia
subtype: harpist__harper someone who plays the harp
subtype: harpsichordist someone who plays the harpsichord
instance: Wanda_Landowska__Landowska
subtype: jazz_musician__jazzman a musician who plays or composes jazz music
subtype: syncopator a musician who plays syncopated jazz music (usually in a dance band); "they called themselves the Dixie Syncopators"
instance: Louis_Armstrong__Armstrong__Satchmo Miles_Dewey_Davis_Jr.__Davis__Miles_Davis Edward_Kennedy_Ellington__Ellington__Duke_Ellington Lionel_Hampton__Hampton__hampton Woodrow_Charles_Herman__Herman__Woody_Herman Thelonious_Sphere_Monk__Monk__Thelonious_Monk Ferdinand_Joseph_La_Menthe_Morton__Morton__Jelly_Roll_Morton King_Oliver__Oliver__Joseph_Oliveer Arthur_Tatum__Tatum__Art_Tatum Thomas_Wright_Waller__Waller__Fats_Waller
subtype: koto_player a (Japanese) musician who plays the koto
subtype: lutist__lutanist__lutenist a musician who plays the lute
subtype: oboist a musician who plays the oboe
subtype: organist a person who plays an organ
instance: Johann_Sebastian_Bach__Bach Albert_Schweitzer__Schweitzer
subtype: percussionist a musician who plays percussion instruments
subtype: drummer someone who plays a drum
subtype: tympanist__timpanist a person who plays the kettledrums
instance: Ringo_Starr__Starr__Richard_Starkey
subtype: xylophonist someone who plays a xylophone
subtype: pianist__piano_player__pianoplayer a person who plays the piano
instance: Frederic_Francois_Chopin__Chopin Karl_Czerny__Czerny Dame_Myra_Hess__Hess Vladimir_Horowitz__Horowitz Jerry_Lee_Lewis__Lewis Franz_Liszt__Liszt Ignace_Jan_Paderewski__Paderewski Sergei_Vasilievich_Rachmaninoff__Rachmaninoff__Sergei_Rachmaninoff__Rachmaninov__Sergei_Rachmaninov__Sergei_Vasilievich_Rachmaninov Anton_Grigorevich_Rubinstein__Rubinstein__Anton_Gregor_Rubinstein Arthur_Rubinstein__Rubinstein__Artur_Rubinstein Artur_Schnabel__Schnabel Rudolf_Serkin__Serkin
subtype: piper__bagpiper someone who plays the bagpipe
subtype: pipe_major the chief piper in a band of bagpipes
subtype: recorder_player someone who plays the recorder
subtype: rhythm_and_blues_musician a performer (and sometimes composer) of rhythm and blues music
instance: Antoine_Domino__Domino__Fats_Domino
subtype: rock_'n'_roll_musician__rocker a performer (or composer) of rock music
subtype: rock_star a famous singer of rock music
instance: Charles_Edward_Berry__Berry__Chuck_Berry William_John_Clifton_Haley_Jr.__Haley__Bill_Haley George_Harrison__Harrison Buddy_Holly__Holly__Charles_Hardin_Holley Michael_Philip_Jagger__Jagger__Mick_Jagger John_Lennon__Lennon Jerry_Lee_Lewis__Lewis Sir_James_Paul_McCartney__McCartney__Paul_McCartney James_Douglas_Morrison__Morrison__Jim_Morrison Elvis_Aron_Presley__Presley__Elvis_Presley Ringo_Starr__Starr__Richard_Starkey
subtype: saxophonist a musician who plays the saxophone
instance: Coleman_Hawkins__colemanhawkin__Hawkins Charles_Christopher_Parker__Parker__Charlie_Parker__Yardbird_Parker__Bird_Parker Lester_Willis_Young__Young__Pres_Young
subtype: singer__vocalist__vocalizer__vocaliser a person who sings
subtype: alto.singer a singer whose voice lies in the alto clef
subtype: countertenor a male singer with a voice above that of a tenor
subtype: baritone__barytone a male singer
subtype: basso__bass an adult male singer with the lowest voice
subtype: canary (informal) a female singer
subtype: caroler__caroller a singer of carols
subtype: castrato a male singer who was castrated before puberty and retains a soprano or alto voice
subtype: chorister a singer in a choir
subtype: choirboy a boy who sings in a choir
subtype: contralto a woman singer having a contralto voice
instance: Marian_Anderson__Anderson Ernestine_Schumann-Heink__Schumann-Heink
subtype: crooner__balladeer a singer of popular ballads
instance: Harry_Lillis_Crosby__Crosby__Bing_Crosby Francis_Albert_Sinatra__Sinatra__Frank_Sinatra
subtype: folk_singer__jongleur__minstrel__poet-singer__troubadour a singer of folk songs
instance: Woodrow_Wilson_Guthrie__Guthrie__Woody_Guthrie Peter_Seeger__Seeger__Pete_Seeger
subtype: hummer a singer who produces a tune without opening the lips or forming words
subtype: lieder_singer a singer of lieder
subtype: madrigalist a singer of madrigals
subtype: opera_star__operastar__operatic_star singer of lead role in an opera
subtype: diva__prima_donna a distinguished female operatic singer; a female operatic star
subtype: rock_star a famous singer of rock music
subtype: songster a person who sings
subtype: songstress a woman songster (especially of popular songs)
subtype: soprano a female singer
subtype: coloratura_soprano__coloratura a lyric soprano who specializes in coloratura vocal music
instance: Maria_Meneghini_Callas__Callas__Maria_Callas Dame_Nellie_Melba__Melba__Helen_Porter_Mitchell
subtype: mezzo__mezzo-soprano a soprano with a voice between soprano and contralto
instance: Eileen_Farrell__Farrell Jenny_Lind__Lind__Swedish_Nightingale Marta_Brigit_Nilsson__Nilsson__Brigit_Nilsson Jessye_Norman__Norman Mary_Leontyne_Price__Price__Leontyne_Price Beverly_Sills__Sills Dame_Joan_Sutherland__Sutherland__Joan_Sutherland Renata_Tebaldi__Tebaldi Dame_Kiri_Janette_Te_Kanawa__Te_Kanawa__Dame_Kiri_Te_Kanawa Helen_Traubel__Traubel
subtype: tenor an adult male with a tenor voice
instance: Enrico_Caruso__Caruso Placido_Domingo__Domingo__domingo John_McCormick__McCormick Lauritz_Lebrecht_Hommel_Melchior__Melchior__Lauritz_Melchior Luciano_Pavarotti__Pavarotti
subtype: thrush.singer (informal) a woman who sings popular songs
subtype: torch_singer__torchsinger a singer (usually a woman) who specializes in singing torch songs
subtype: voice.singer (metonymy) a singer; "he wanted to hear trained voices sing it"
subtype: yodeller a singer who changes register rapidly (popular is Swiss folk songs)
instance: Pearl_Mae_Bailey__Bailey__Pearl_Bailey Maurice_Chevalier__Chevalier Marlene_Dietrich__Dietrich__Maria_Magdalene_von_Losch Bob_Dylan__Dylan Ella_Fitzgerald__Fitzgerald Judy_Garland__Garland Julio_Iglesias__Iglesias Mahalia_Jackson__Jackson Michael_Joe_Jackson__Jackson__Michael_Jackson Al_Jolson__Jolson__Asa_Yoelson Janis_Joplin__Joplin Riley_B_King__King__B._B._King Sir_Harry_MacLennan_Lauder__Lauder__Harry_Lauder Madonna_Louise_Ciccone__Madonna Robert_Nesta_Marley__Marley__Bob_Marley Dean_Martin__Dino_Paul_Crocetti__Martin Ethel_Merman__Merman Roy_Orbison__Orbison Edith_Piaf__Piaf__Edith_Giovanna_Gassion__Little_Sparrow Paul_Bustill_Robeson__Robeson__robeson__paulrobeson Paul_Simon__Simon Bessie_Smith__Smith Kathryn_Elizabeth_Smith__Smith__Kate_Smith Barbra_Joan_Streisand__Streisand__Barbra_Streisand Sarah_Vaughan__Vaughan Ethel_Waters__Waters Tammy_Wynette__Wynette__Tammy_Wynetter_Pugh
subtype: sitar_player__sitarplayer a musician who plays the sitar
instance: Ravi_Shankar__Shankar
subtype: soloist a musician who performs a solo
subtype: recitalist a musician who gives recitals
subtype: trombonist__trombone_player a musician who plays the trombone
subtype: cornetist__trumpeter a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet
subtype: bugler someone who plays a bugle
instance: Louis_Armstrong__Armstrong__Satchmo John_Birks_Gillespie__Gillespie__Dizzy_Gillespie
subtype: violinist__fiddler a musician who plays the violin
instance: Georges_Enesco__Enesco__George_Enescu Stephane_Grappelli__Grappelli Fritz_Kreisler__Kreisler Sir_Yehudi_Menuhin__Menuhin__Yehudi_Menuhin Niccolo_Paganini__Paganini Isaac_Stern__Stern Antonio_Lucio_Vivaldi__Vivaldi__Antonio_Vivaldi Efrem_Zimbalist__Zimbalist Pinchas_Zukerman__Zukerman
subtype: puppeteer one who operates puppets or marionettes
instance: Jim_Henson__Henson
subtype: Savoyard.performer__savoyard a person who performs in the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan
subtype: snake_charmer a performer who uses movements and music to control snakes
subtype: straight_man a performer who acts as stooge to a comedian
subtype: stripper__striptease_artist__striptease__stripteaser__exotic_dancer__ecdysiast__peeler a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music
instance: Gypsy_Rose_Lee__Lee__Rose_Louise_Hovick
subtype: vaudevillian a performer who works in vaudeville
instance: George_Burns__Burns__Nathan_Birnbaum Sophie_Tucker__Tucker
subtype: ventriloquist a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy
subtype: pleaser a pleasing entertainer; "he is quite the crowd pleaser"
subtype: expert a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully
subtype: adept__ace__maven__virtuoso__genius__hotshot__star__whiz__whizz__wizard__wiz someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
subtype: track_star__trackstar a star runner
subtype: agronomist an expert in soil management and field-crop production
subtype: all-rounder__allrounder__all_arounder__allarounder a versatile person who is expert at many things; "she's the best all-rounder they've seen in years"
subtype: analyst someone who is skilled at analyzing data
subtype: intelligence_analyst a government analyst of information about an enemy or potential enemy
subtype: assayer an analyst who assays (performs chemical tests on) metals
subtype: systems_analyst__systemsanalyst a person skilled at systems analysis
subtype: analyst.expert an expert who studies financial data (on credit or securities or sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions
subtype: credit_analyst an analyst who studies the financial statements and financial history of applicants for credit in order to evaluate their creditworthiness
subtype: financial_analyst__financialanalyst__securities_analyst an analyst who studies the financial performance of corporations
subtype: industry_analyst an analyst of conditions affecting a particular industry
subtype: oil-industry_analyst an analyst of the oil industry
subtype: market_analyst an analyst of conditions affecting a market (especially the stock market)
subtype: anatomist an expert in anatomy
subtype: comparative_anatomist__comparativeanatomist anatomist who compares the anatomy of different animals
instance: Sir_Richard_Owen__Owen
subtype: histologist anatomist who specializes in the microscopic study of animal tissues
instance: Camillo_Golgi__Golgi Marcello_Malpighi__Malpighi Santiago_Ramon_y_Cajal__Ramon_y_Cajal Theodor_Schwann__Schwann
instance: Bartolommeo_Eustachio__Eustachio Herbert_McLean_Evans__Evans Galen Georg_Meissner__Meissner Johannes_Peter_Muller__Muller Andreas_Vesalius__Vesalius Kaspar_Friedrich_Wolff__Wolff
subtype: antiquary__antiquarian an expert or collector of antiquities
subtype: arbiter__supreme_authority__supremeauthority someone with the power to settle matters at will; "she was the final arbiter on all matters of fashion"
subtype: archer__bowman a person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow
subtype: longbowman a medieval English archer who used a longbow
instance: William_Tell__Tell
subtype: authority.expert an expert whose views are taken as definitive; "he is an authority on corporate law"
subtype: adviser__advisor__consultant an expert who gives advice
subtype: amicus_curiae__friend_of_the_court an adviser to the court on some matter of law who is not a party to the case; usually someone who wants to influence the outcome of a lawsuit involving matters of wide public interest
subtype: backroom_boy__brain_truster__braintruster an expert adviser involved in making important decisions but usually lacking official status
subtype: beauty_consultant someone who gives you advice about your personal appearance
subtype: counselor__counsellor some who gives advice about problems
subtype: Dutch_uncle a counselor who admonishes frankly and sternly
instance: Nestor
subtype: county_agent__agricultural_agent__extension_agent__extensionagent an advisor employed by the government to assist people in rural areas with methods of farming and home economics
subtype: fashion_consultant__fashionconsultant__fashionmonger someone who advises you about fashionable clothing
subtype: investment_adviser__investment_advisor someone who advises others how to invest their money
subtype: management_consultant adviser to business about efficient management practices
subtype: media_consultant__mediaconsultant__medai_guru__medaiguru someone who advises about the use of communication media
subtype: security_consultant an adviser about alarm systems to prevent burglaries
subtype: tipster__tout one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack)
subtype: Church_Father__Father an early writer accepted as an authority on the teachings and practices of the Christian church
subtype: connoisseur__cognoscenti an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts
subtype: esthete__aesthete one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature
subtype: oenophile__oenophilist__wine_lover a connoisseur of fine wines; a grape nut
subtype: evaluator__judge an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality
subtype: valuator__appraiser one who estimates officially the worth or value or quality of things
subtype: valuer (Brit) someone who assesses the monetary worth of possessions
subtype: critic.evaluator anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something
subtype: appraiser__authenticator one who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity
subtype: drama_critic__dramacritic__theater_critic__theatercritic a critic of theatrical performances
instance: Alexander_Woollcott__Woollcott
subtype: grader a judge who assigns grades to something
subtype: wool_sorter__wool_stapler a person who sorts wool into different grades
subtype: music_critic__musiccritic a critic of musical performances
instance: Joseph_Deems_Taylor__Taylor__Deems_Taylor
subtype: panelist__panellist a member of a panel
subtype: juror__juryman__jurywoman someone who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury
subtype: foreperson the presiding member of the jury and the one who speaks on their behalf
subtype: foreman a man who is foreperson of a jury
subtype: forelady__forewoman a woman who is foreperson of a jury
subtype: petit_juror__petitjuror__petty_juror__pettyjuror a member of a petit jury
subtype: reviewer__referee__reader someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication
subtype: scanner.reviewer someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables
subtype: taster__tastetester__sampler someone who samples food or drink for its quality
subtype: wine_taster a taster who evaluates the quality of wines
subtype: liturgist an authority on liturgies
subtype: master.authority__professional an authority qualified to teach apprentices
subtype: past_master.master__pastmaster someone who was formerly a master
subtype: black_belt.expert__blackbelt a person who attained the rank of expert in the martial arts (judo or karate)
subtype: calculator__reckoner__figurer__computer an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)
subtype: number_cruncher.calculator__numbercruncher someone able to perform complex and lengthy calculations
subtype: statistician__actuary someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums)
subtype: surveyor.statistician someone who conducts a statistical survey
subtype: computer_expert__computer_guru an authority on computers and computing
subtype: UNIX_guru an expert on the UNIX operating system
subtype: cosmetologist an expert in the use of cosmetics
subtype: efficiency_expert__efficiency_engineer an expert in increasing the efficient use of machines and personnel
subtype: genealogist an expert in genealogy
subtype: geographer an expert on geography
subtype: cartographer__map_maker__mapmaker a person who makes maps
instance: Sebastian_Cabot__Cabot
instance: Gerardus_Mercator__Mercator__Gerhard_Kremer
subtype: horticulturist an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants)
subtype: nurseryman__gardener someone who takes care of a garden
subtype: transplanter a gardener who moves plants to new locations
instance: Luther_Burbank__Burbank
subtype: investigator someone who investigates
subtype: claims_adjuster__adjuster__adjustor__claims_adjustor__claim_agent__claimagent one who investigates insurance claims or claims for damages and recommends an effective settlement
subtype: coroner__medical_examiner__medicalexaminer a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes
subtype: detective an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public
subtype: private_detective__privatedetective__PI__private_eye__privateeye__private_investigator__privateinvestigator__operative__shamus__sherlock someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information
subtype: hotel_detective__hoteldetective__house_detective__housedetective__house_dick__housedick a private detective employed by a hotel or retail store
subtype: inquiry_agent__inquiryagent (British) a private detective
subtype: store_detective__storedetective a private detective employed by a merchant to stop pilferage
subtype: sleuth__sleuthhound a detective who follows a trail
subtype: examiner__inspector an investigator who observes carefully; "the examiner searched for clues"
subtype: bank_examiner an official appointed to audit the accounts of banks in a given jurisdiction
subtype: checker one who checks the correctness of something
subtype: scrutinizer__scrutiniser a careful examiner; someone who inspects with great care
subtype: scrutineer (British) someone who examines votes at an election
subtype: ombudsman a government appointee who investigates complaints by private persons against the government
instance: Samuel_Wiesenthal__Wiesenthal
subtype: jurist__legal_expert__legalexpert a legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations
subtype: Mufti a jurist who interprets Muslim law
instance: Jeremy_Bentham__Bentham Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Jr.__Holmes Charles_Evans_Hughes__Hughes John_Jay__Jay John_Marshall__Marshall William_Hubbs_Rehnquist__Rehnquist__William_Rehnquist Harlan_Fiske_Stone__Stone Frederick_Moore_Vinson__Vinson Earl_Warren__Warren
subtype: lapidary__lapidarist an expert on precious stones and the art of cutting and engraving them
subtype: logician__logistician a person skilled at symbolic logic
subtype: dialectician a logician skilled in dialectic
subtype: syllogist__syllogizer__syllogiser logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning
instance: William_Stanley_Jevons__Jevons Charles_Franklin_Peirce__Peirce__Charles_Peirce Willard_Van_Orman_Quine__Quine Bertrand_Arthur_William_Russell__Russell__russell__Bertrand_Russell__Earl_Russell John_Venn__Venn
subtype: mnemonist an expert in the use of mnemonics; someone able to perform unusual feats of memory
subtype: mythologist an expert on mythology
instance: Joseph_Campbell__Campbell
subtype: observer__commentator an expert who observes and comments on something
subtype: annotator a commentator who writes notes to a text
subtype: out-and-outer__outandouter (slang) someone who is excellent at something
subtype: parliamentarian an expert in parliamentary rules and procedures
instance: Henry_Martin_Robert__Robert
subtype: past_master someone who has long and thorough experience in a given activity
subtype: prosthetist an expert in prosthetics
subtype: scout__pathfinder__guide someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
subtype: hunting_guide__huntingguide guide to people hunting in unfamiliar territory
subtype: shark.expert a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways; "a card shark"
subtype: shot.expert__shooter a person who shoots (as regards their ability); "he is a crack shot"; "a poor shooter"
subtype: marksman__sharpshooter__crack_shot__crackshot someone skilled in shooting
subtype: franc-tireur__franctireur a sharpshooter (in the French army)
subtype: rifleman someone skilled in the use of a rifle
subtype: sniper a marksman who shoots at people from a concealed place
subtype: gunman__gun a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)
subtype: trapshooter a person who engages in shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled into the air by a trap
subtype: specialist__specializer an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning
subtype: enologist__oenologist__fermentologist a specialist in wine making
subtype: attache a specialist assigned to the staff of a diplomatic mission
subtype: cultural_attache an attache who is a specialist in cultural matters
subtype: military_attache an attache who is a specialist in military matters
subtype: canonist a specialist in canon law
subtype: criminologist a specialist in criminology
instance: Alphonse_Bertillon__Bertillon
subtype: dietician__dietitian__nutritionist a specialist in the study of nutrition
subtype: educationist__educationalist a specialist in the theory of education
subtype: fingerprint_expert__fingerprintexpert__fingerprint_specialist__fingerprintspecialist__fingerprint_man__fingerprintman a specialist in identifying fingerprints
subtype: graphologist__handwriting_expert__handwritingexpert a specialist in inferring character from handwriting
subtype: interior_designer__designer__interior_decorator__house_decorator__housedecorator__room_decorator__decorator a person who specializes in designing architectural interiors and their furnishings
instance: Charles_Eames__Eames
subtype: meteorologist a specialist who studies processes in the earth's atmosphere that cause weather conditions
subtype: weatherman__weather_forecaster__weatherforecaster predicts the weather
subtype: optometrist__oculist a person skilled in testing for defects of vision in order to prescribe corrective glasses
subtype: orientalist a specialist in oriental subjects
subtype: tree_surgeon__arborist a specialist in treating damaged trees
subtype: talent a person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity
subtype: technician.expert someone known for high skill in some intellectual or artistic technique
subtype: therapist__healer a person skilled in a particular type of therapy
subtype: naprapath a therapist who practices naprapathy
subtype: alleviator a therapist who makes suffering more endurable
subtype: chiropractor a therapist who practices chiropractic
subtype: electrotherapist someone who specializes in the treatment of disease by electricity
subtype: herbalist__herbdoctor a therapist who heals by the use of herbs
subtype: naturopath a therapist who practices naturopathy
subtype: osteopath__osteopathist a therapist who manipulates the skeleton and muscles
subtype: physical_therapist__physiotherapist therapist who treats injury or dysfunction with exercises and other physical treatments of the disorder
subtype: massager someone who rubs or kneads parts of the body to stimulate circulation and promote relaxation
subtype: masseur a male massager
subtype: masseuse a female massager
subtype: psychotherapist__clinical_psychologist a therapist who deals with mental and emotional disorders
subtype: speech_therapist a therapist who treats speech defects and disorders
subtype: old-timer__oldtimer__veteran__old_hand__oldhand__warhorse__old_stager__oldstager__stager an experienced person; someone who has given long service
subtype: face.person (synecdoche) a part of a person that is used to refer to a person; "he looked out at a roomful of faces"; "when he returned to work he met many new faces"
subtype: good_person a person who is good to other people
subtype: benefactor__helper a person who helps people or institutions
subtype: benefactress a woman benefactor
subtype: bondsman__bondswoman someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else
subtype: donor.benefactor__giver__presenter person who makes a gift of property
subtype: abnegator one who gives up or relinquishes or renounces something
subtype: almsgiver a person who gives alms
subtype: Indian_giver one who ask you to return the present he has given you
subtype: philanthropist__altruist someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being
instance: Andrew_Carnegie__Carnegie Peter_Cooper__Cooper Ezra_Cornell__Cornell Solomon_Guggenheim__Guggenheim John_Harvard__Harvard Milton_Snavely_Hershey__Hershey Hopkins__Johns_Hopkins Andrew_William_Mellon__Mellon__Andrew_Mellon__Andrew_W._Mellon Alfred_Bernhard_Nobel__Nobel__Alfred_Nobel First_Viscount_Nuffield__Nuffield__William_Richard_Morris John_Davison_Rockefeller__Rockefeller__John_D._Rockefeller Cornelius_Vanderbilt__Vanderbilt__Commodore_VAnderbilt Elihu_Yale__Yale
subtype: subscriber__contributor someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money
subtype: subsidizer__subsidiser someone who assists or supports by giving a subsidy
subtype: tipper a person who leaves a tip; "a generous tipper"
subtype: donor (medicine) someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person (the host)
subtype: blood_donor someone who gives blood to be used for transfusions
subtype: universal_donor a person whose type O Rh-negative blood may be safely transfused into persons with other blood types
subtype: organ_donor__organdonor someone from whom an organ is taken for transplantation
subtype: good_Samaritan__Samaritan a person who voluntarily offers help or sympathy in times of trouble
subtype: humanitarian__do-gooder__improver someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms
subtype: liberator someone who releases people from captivity or bondage
subtype: emancipator__manumitter someone who frees others from bondage; "Lincoln is known as the Great Emancipator"
subtype: obliger__accommodator someone who performs a service or does a favor
subtype: offerer__offeror someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection
subtype: patron__sponsor__supporter someone who supports or champions something
subtype: backer__angel invests in a theatrical production
subtype: godfather someone having a relation analogous to that of a male sponsor to his godchild
subtype: godparent a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism
subtype: godfather.godparent any man who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism
subtype: godmother any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism
subtype: guarantor__surety__warrantor__warranter one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another
subtype: patroness__patrones a woman who is a patron
subtype: provider someone who provides the means for subsistence
subtype: savior__saviour__rescuer__deliverer a person who rescues you from harm or danger
subtype: messiah__christ any expected deliverer
subtype: sparer someone who refrains from injuring or destroying
subtype: uncle.benefactor a source of help and advice and encouragement; "he played uncle to lonely students"
subtype: brick.good_person a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy
subtype: giver someone who devotes themselves completely; "there are no greater givers than those who give themselves"
subtype: plaster_saint__plastersaint a person (considered to be) without human failings; "he's no plaster saint"
subtype: holy_man__saint__holy_person__angel person of exceptional holiness
subtype: Buddha one who has achieved a state of perfect enlightenment
subtype: fakir__fakeer__faqir__faquir a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man
subtype: dervish an ascetic Muslim monk; a member of an order noted for devotional exercises involving bodily movements
subtype: whirling_dervish__whirler a dervish whose actions include ecstatic dancing and whirling
subtype: square_shooter__straight_shooter__straight_arrow a frank and honest person
subtype: sweetheart any well-liked individual; "he's a sweetheart"
subtype: individualist a person who pursues independent thought or action
subtype: dropout.individualist someone who withdraws from a social group or environment
subtype: loner__lone_wolf__lone_hand a person who avoids the company or assistance of others
subtype: hermit__recluse__solitudinarian__troglodyte one who lives in solitude
instance: John_the_Baptist
subtype: mugwump__independent a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)
subtype: night_owl__nightowl__nighthawk__nightbird a person who likes to be active late at night
subtype: nudist__naturist a person who practices nudity for reasons of health or religion
subtype: withdrawer.individualist an individualist who withdraws from social interaction
subtype: inhabitant__dweller__denizen a person who inhabits a particular place
subtype: Australian__Aussie a native or inhabitant of Australia
subtype: Australian_Aborigine__Aborigine__Abo__Aboriginal__native_Australian a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived
subtype: Australian_researcher
instance: nataliya@dstc.edu.au p.eklund@gu.edu.au peter.deer@dsto.defence.gov.au r.cole@gu.edu.au t.tilley@gu.edu.au daniel.goodburn@dsto.defence.gov.au
subtype: Austronesian a native or inhabitant of Austronesia
subtype: Nauruan a native or inhabitant of Nauru
subtype: Polynesian a native or inhabitant of Polynesia
subtype: Fijian.Polynesian__fijian a native or inhabitant of Fiji
subtype: Samoan a native or inhabitant of the Samoan Islands
subtype: Tahitian.Polynesian__tahitian a native or inhabitant of Tahiti
subtype: Tongan a native or inhabitant of Tonga
subtype: New_Zealander a native or inhabitant of New Zealand
subtype: American a native or inhabitant of the United States
subtype: African-American__Afro-American an American whose ancestors were born in Africa
subtype: Creole a person descended from French ancestors in southern United States especially Louisiana
subtype: Anglo-American an American who was born in England or whose ancestors were English
subtype: Alabaman__Alabamian a resident of Alabama
subtype: Alaskan a resident of Alaska
subtype: Arizonan__Arizonian a resident of Arizona
subtype: Arkansan__Arkansawyer a resident of Arkansas
subtype: Bay_Stater a resident of Massachusetts
subtype: Californian a resident of California
subtype: Carolinian a resident of the Carolinas
subtype: Coloradan a resident of Colorado
subtype: Connecticuter a resident of Connecticut
subtype: Delawarean__Delawarian a resident of Delaware
subtype: Floridian a resident of Florida
subtype: Franco-American an American who was born in France or whose ancestors were French
subtype: German_American an American who was born in Germany or whose ancestors were German
subtype: Georgian a resident of the American state of Georgia
subtype: Hawaiian.American__hawaiian a resident of Hawaii
subtype: Idahoan a resident of Idaho
subtype: Illinoisan a resident of Illinois
subtype: Indianan__Hoosier a resident of Indiana
subtype: Iowan a resident of Iowa
subtype: Kansan a resident of Kansas
subtype: Kentuckian a resident of Kentucky
subtype: Louisianan__Louisianian a resident of Louisiana
subtype: Mainer__Down_Easter a resident of Maine
subtype: Michigander__Wolverine a resident of Michigan
subtype: Minnesotan a resident of Minnesota
subtype: Mississippian a resident of Mississippi
subtype: Missourian a resident of Missouri
subtype: Montanan a resident of Montana
subtype: Nebraskan__Cornhusker a resident of Nebraska
subtype: Nevadan a resident of Nevada
subtype: New_Hampshirite a resident of New Hampshire
subtype: New_Yorker a resident of New York
subtype: East-sider a resident of the east side of Manhattan in New York City
subtype: West-sider a resident of the west side of Manhattan in New York City
subtype: North_Carolinian a resident of North Carolina
subtype: North_Dakotan a resident of North Dakota
subtype: Ohioan__Buckeye a resident of Ohio
subtype: Oregonian a resident of Oregon
subtype: Pennsylvanian a resident of Pennsylvania
subtype: Rhode_Islander a resident of Rhode Island
subtype: South_Carolinian a resident of South Carolina
subtype: South_Dakotan a resident of South Dakota
subtype: Tennessean a resident of Tennessee
subtype: Texan a resident of Texas
subtype: Utahan a resident of Utah
subtype: Vermonter a resident of Vermont
subtype: Virginian a resident of Virginia
subtype: Washingtonian a resident of the state of Washington
subtype: Washingtonian.American__washingtonian a resident of the city of Washington
subtype: West_Virginian a resident of West Virginia
subtype: Wisconsinite a resident of Wisconsin
subtype: Wyomingite a resident of Wyoming
subtype: Puerto_Rican a resident of Puerto Rico
subtype: Yankee-Doodle__Yankee__Yank an American
subtype: New_Englander__Yankee__Yank an American who lives in New England
subtype: Yankee__Yank__Northerner an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War)
subtype: Federal_soldier__Federal__Union_soldier a member of the Union Army during the American Civil War
subtype: Southerner an American who lives in the South
subtype: Confederate a supporter of the Confederate States of America
subtype: Confederate_soldier a soldier in the Army of the Confederacy during the American Civil War
subtype: bushwhacker a Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War
subtype: Rebel__Reb__Johnny_Reb__Johnny__grayback (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `grayback' derived from their gray Confederate uniforms
subtype: Spanish_American__Hispanic_American__Hispanic__Latino an American whose first language was Spanish
subtype: Tory an American who favored the British side during the American Revolution
subtype: Alsatian a native or inhabitant of Alsace
subtype: borderer an inhabitant of a border area (especially the border between Scotland and England)
subtype: cottager__cottage_dweller someone who lives in a cottage
subtype: easterner an inhabitant of an eastern area; especially of the U.S.
subtype: islander__island-dweller an inhabitant of an island
subtype: landlubber__landsman__landman a person who lives and works on land
subtype: liver.inhabitant someone who lives in a place; "a liver in cities"
subtype: Northerner an inhabitant of the North
subtype: Occidental a native inhabitant of the Occident
subtype: Philistine a non-Semitic inhabitant of ancient Philistia
subtype: plainsman an inhabitant of a plains region (especially the Great Plains of North America)
subtype: resident__occupant__occupier someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there
subtype: Latin_American__Spanish_American a resident of Latin America
subtype: spic__spik__spick ethnic slur; offensive terms for persons of Latin American descent
subtype: criollo.Latin_American a Spanish American of pure European stock (usually Spanish); "Mexico is a country of mestizos, criollos, and indigenes"
subtype: coaster.resident a resident of a coastal area
subtype: colonial a resident of a colony
subtype: dalesman a person who lives in the dales of Northern England
subtype: Galilean__Galilaean a resident of Galilee (an epithet of Jesus Christ)
subtype: inmate one of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital)
subtype: metropolitan a person who lives in a metropolis
subtype: outlier.resident a person who lives away from his place of work
subtype: owner-occupier__owneroccupier a occupant who owns the home that he/she lives in
subtype: sojourner a temporary resident
subtype: stater a resident of a particular state or group of states; "Keystone stater"; "farm staters"
subtype: suburbanite a resident of a suburb
subtype: tenant.resident any occupant who dwells in a place
subtype: towner__townsman a resident of a town or city
subtype: townee (Brit; informal) townsman unacquainted with country life especially a slick and flashy male city dweller
subtype: townie__towny resident of a college town not affiliated with the college
subtype: tellurian__earthling__earthman an inhabitant of the earth
subtype: Trinidadian inhabitant or native of Trinidad
subtype: villager one who has lived in a village most of their life
subtype: westerner an inhabitant of a western area; especially of the U.S.
subtype: native__indigen__indigene a person who was born in a particular place; an indigenous person
subtype: Levantine (formerly) a native or inhabitant of the Levant
subtype: Mauritian a native or inhabitant of Mauritius
subtype: Filipino a native or inhabitant of the Philippines
subtype: Tagalog.Filipino__tagalog a member of a people native to the Philippines chiefly inhabiting central Luzon around and including Manila
subtype: Visayan__Bisayan a member of the most numerous indigenous people of the Philippines
subtype: Cebuan inhabitant of the island of Cebu; a member of the Visayan people of the Philippines
subtype: Russian a native or inhabitant of Russia
subtype: Tatar.Russian__tatar a member of the Turkic-speaking people living from the Volga to the Ural Mountains (the name has been attributed to many other groups)
subtype: Votyak__Udmurt a member of the Finno-Ugric-speaking people living in eastern European Russia
subtype: Komi a member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia
subtype: Cheremiss__Cheremis__Mari a member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia
subtype: Inger__Ingrian__Ingerman a member of western Finnish people formerly living in the Baltic province where Saint Petersburg was built
subtype: Carelian__Karelian a member of the Finnish people living in Karelia in northwestern European Russia
subtype: Ostyak__Khanty a member of the nomadic Ugrian people living in northwestern Siberia (east of the Ural mountains)
subtype: Mordvin__Mordva__Mordvinian a member of the agricultural people living in the central Volga provinces of European Russia
subtype: Nganasan.Russian__nganasan a member of the Samoyedic people living on the Taimyr peninsula in Siberia
subtype: Ostyak-Samoyed__Selkup one of the people of mixed Ostyak and Samoyed origin in Siberia
subtype: Samoyed a Samoyedic-speaking person in northwestern Siberia
subtype: Vepse__Veps__Vepsian a member of a Finnish people of Russia
subtype: Vogul__Mansi a member of a nomadic people of the northern Ural mountains
subtype: Yeniseian a member of one of the groups living in the Yenisei river valley in western Siberia
subtype: Great_Russian a member of the chief East Slavonic people of Soviet Russia
subtype: Muscovite a resident of Moscow
subtype: Georgian.Russian__georgian a native or inhabitant of Asian Georgia
subtype: Siberian a native or inhabitant of Siberia
subtype: Seychellois a native or inhabitant of Seychelles
subtype: American.native__american a native or inhabitant of America
subtype: Creole.American__creole a person of European descent born in the West Indies or Spanish America
subtype: North_American a native or inhabitant of North America
subtype: Bermudan__Bermudian a native or inhabitant of Bermuda
subtype: Canadian a native or inhabitant of Canada
subtype: French_Canadian a Canadian descended from early French settlers and whose native language is French
subtype: Acadian an early French settler in the Maritimes
subtype: Cajun a Louisianian descended from Acadian immigrants from Nova Scotia (`Cajun' comes from `Acadian')
subtype: Canuck US slang for Canadians in general and French Canadians in particular
subtype: Central_American a native or inhabitant of Central America
subtype: Costa_Rican a native or inhabitant of Costa Rica
subtype: Guatemalan a native or inhabitant of Guatemala
subtype: Honduran a native or inhabitant of Honduras
subtype: Mexican a native of inhabitant of Mexico
subtype: greaser__wetback__taco ethnic slur; offensive terms for a person of Mexican descent
subtype: Mexican-American__Mexicano a Mexican (or person of Mexican descent) living in the United States
subtype: Nicaraguan a native or inhabitant of Nicaragua
subtype: Panamanian a native or inhabitant of Panama
subtype: South_American a native or inhabitant of South America
subtype: Argentinian a native or inhabitant of Argentina
subtype: Bolivian a native or inhabitant of Bolivia
subtype: Brazilian a native or inhabitant of Brazil
subtype: Carioca a native or inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro
subtype: Chilean a native or inhabitant of Chile
subtype: Colombian a native or inhabitant of Colombia
subtype: Ecuadorian__Ecuadoran a native or inhabitant of Ecuador
subtype: Salvadoran__Salvadorian__Salvadorean a native or inhabitant of El Salvador
subtype: Guyanese a native or inhabitant of Guyana
subtype: Paraguayan a native or inhabitant of Paraguay
subtype: Peruvian a native or inhabitant of Peru
subtype: Uruguayan a native or inhabitant of Uruguay
subtype: Venezuelan a native or inhabitant of Venezuela
subtype: West_Indian a native or inhabitant of the West Indies
subtype: Anguillan a native or inhabitant of the island of Anguilla in the West Indies
subtype: Antiguan a native or inhabitant of Antigua
subtype: Bahamian a native or inhabitant of the Bahamas
subtype: Barbadian a native or inhabitant of Barbados
subtype: Cuban a native or inhabitant of Cuba
subtype: Haitian a native or inhabitant of Haiti
subtype: Jamaican a native or inhabitant of Jamaica
subtype: Montserratian a native or inhabitant of Montserrat
subtype: Grenadian a native or inhabitant of Grenada
subtype: Tobagonian a native or inhabitant of the island of Tobago in the West Indies
subtype: innocent__inexperienced_person__inexperiencedperson a person who lacks knowledge of evil
subtype: intellectual__intellect a person who uses the mind creatively
subtype: juvenile_person__juvenile a youthful person
subtype: lover a person who loves or is loved
subtype: leader a person who rules or guides or inspires others
subtype: money_handler__moneyhandler__money_dealer__moneydealer a person who receives or invests or pays out money
subtype: national__subject a person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has a duty to his subjects"
subtype: nonreligious_person a person who does not manifest devotion to a deity
subtype: nonworker a person who does nothing
subtype: peer__equal__match__compeer a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
subtype: perceiver__observer__beholder a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses
subtype: precursor__forerunner a person who goes before or announces the coming of another
subtype: primitive_person__primitiveperson__primitive a person who belongs to early stage of civilization
subtype: religionist__religious_person__religiousperson a person who manifests devotion to a deity
subtype: sensualist a person who enjoys sensuality
subtype: traveler__traveller a person who changes location
subtype: unfortunate_person__unfortunateperson__unfortunate a person who suffers misfortune
subtype: unwelcome_person__unwelcomeperson__persona_non_grata a person who for some reason is not wanted or welcome
subtype: unskilled_person__unskilledperson a person who lacks technical training
subtype: worker a person who works at a specific job; "he is a good worker"
subtype: African a native or inhabitant of Africa
subtype: person_of_color__person_of_colour (formal) any non-European non-White person
subtype: White__white_person__whiteperson__Caucasian a member of the Caucasoid race
subtype: Slav any member of the people of Eastern Europe or Russian Asia who speak a Slavonic language
subtype: Gentile a person who is not a member of one's own religion; used in this sense by Mormons and Hindus
subtype: Jew__Hebrew__Israelite a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties
subtype: European a person of European nationality
subtype: abstinent__abstainer__nondrinker a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages
subtype: achiever__winner__success__succes a person with a record of successes; "his son would never be the achiever that his father was"; "only winners need apply"; "if you want to be a success you have to dress like a success"
subtype: acquaintance__friend a person with whom you are acquainted; "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family"
subtype: acquirer a person who acquires something (usually permanently)
subtype: actor__doer__worker a person who acts and gets things done; "he's a principal actor in this affair"; "when you want something done get a doer"; "he's a miracle worker"
subtype: adjudicator a person who adjudicates
subtype: admirer a person who admires; someone who esteems or respects or approves
subtype: adversary__antagonist__opponent__opposer someone who offers opposition
subtype: advisee someone who receives advice
subtype: advocator__advocate__proponent__exponent a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
subtype: affiant a person who makes an affidavit
subtype: amateur someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime
subtype: apprehender a person who seizes or arrests (especially a person who seizes or arrests in the name of justice)
subtype: appreciator a person who is fully aware of something and understand it; "he is not an appreciator of our dilemma"
subtype: arrogator a person who through conceit makes pretentious claims to rights or advantages that he or she is not entitled to or to qualities that he or she does not possess
subtype: authority (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others; "the authorities have issued a curfew"
subtype: autodidact a person who is self-taught
subtype: baby_boomer__boomer a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s; "they expanded the schools for a generation of baby boomers"
subtype: baby_buster__buster a person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically
subtype: baldhead__baldpate__baldy a person whose head is bald
subtype: balker__baulker a person who refuses to comply
subtype: bullfighter someone who fights bulls
subtype: bather a person who takes a bath
subtype: bedfellow a person with whom you share a bed
subtype: best.person the person who is most outstanding or excellent; "he could beat the best of them"
subtype: biter someone who bites
subtype: blond__blonde a person with fair skin and hair
subtype: bodybuilder__musclebuilder someone who does special exercises to develop the musculature
subtype: bomber.person a person who plants bombs
subtype: brunet__brunette a person with dark (brown) hair
subtype: buster a person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something; "dam buster"; "sanction buster"; crime buster"
subtype: candidate__prospect someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.)
subtype: case.person a person requiring professional services; "a typical case was the suburban housewife described by a marriage counselor"
subtype: celebrator__celebrant__celebrater a person who is celebrating
subtype: charmer a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness)
subtype: child.person__baby an immature childish person; "he remained a child in practical matters as long as he lived"; "stop being a baby!"
subtype: clumsy_person a person with poor motor coordination
subtype: aggregator__collector a person who collects things
subtype: combatant__battler__belligerent__fighter someone who fights (or is fighting)
subtype: complexifier someone makes things complex
subtype: compulsive a person with a compulsive disposition; someone who feels compelled to do certain things
subtype: copycat__imitator__emulator__ape__aper someone who copies the words or behavior of another
subtype: crawler__creeper a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
subtype: wight__creature a human being; `wight' is an archaic term
subtype: social_dancer__dancer a person who participates in a social gathering arranged for dancing (as a ball)
subtype: dead_person__dead_soul__deceased_person__deceased__decedent__departed someone who is no longer alive; "I wonder what the dead person would have done"
subtype: debaser__degrader a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins)
subtype: defecator__voider__shitter a person who defecates
subtype: delayer a person who delays; to put off until later or cause to be late
subtype: deliverer a person who gives up or transfers money or goods
subtype: demander a person who makes demands
subtype: dichromat a person with any of the various forms of dichromacy
subtype: differentiator__discriminator a person who differentiates
subtype: disentangler__unraveler__unraveller a person who removes tangles; someone who takes something out of a tangled state
subtype: dissenter__dissident__protester__objector__contestant a person who dissents from some established policy
subtype: divider a person who separates something into parts or groups
subtype: look-alike__double__image someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor); "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother"
subtype: dresser.person a person who dresses in a particular way; "she's an elegant dresser"; "he's a meticulous dresser"
subtype: driveller__dribbler__slobberer__drooler a person who dribbles; "that baby is a dribbler; he needs a bib"
subtype: drug_user__substance_abuser__substanceabuser__user a person who takes drugs
subtype: ectomorph a person with a thin non-muscular body
subtype: effecter__effector one who brings about a result or event; one who accomplishes a purpose
subtype: Elizabethan a person who lived during the reign of Elizabeth I; "William Shakespeare was an Elizabethan"
subtype: emotional_person__emotionalperson a person subject to strong states of emotion
subtype: endomorph a heavy person with a soft and rounded body
subtype: enjoyer a person who delights in having or using or experiencing something
subtype: explorer__adventurer someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)
subtype: faddist a person who subscribes to a variety of fads
subtype: faller a person who falls; "one of them was safe but they were unable to save the faller"; "a faller among thieves"
subtype: fastener a person who fastens or makes fast; "he found the door fastened and wondered who the fastener was"
subtype: fiduciary a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary; "it is illegal for a fiduciary to misappropriate money for personal gain"
subtype: first-rater__firstrater one who is first-rate
subtype: follower an ordinary person who accepts the leadership of another
subtype: free_spirit__free_agent__freewheeler someone acting freely or even irresponsibly
subtype: friend a person you know well and regard with affection and trust; "he was my best friend at the university"
subtype: fugitive__runaway someone who flees from an uncongenial situation; "fugitives from the seatshops"
subtype: gainer a person who gains (gains an advantage or gains profits); "she was clearly the gainer in that exchange"
subtype: weight_gainer__gainer a person who gains weight
subtype: gambler a person who wagers money on the outcome of games or sporting events
subtype: gatherer a person who gathers; "they were a society of hunters and gatherers"
subtype: good_guy any person who is on your side
subtype: bad_guy__badguy any person who is not on your side
subtype: granter a person who grants or gives something
subtype: greeter__saluter__welcomer a person who greets; "the newcomers were met by smiling greeters"
subtype: grinner a person who grins
subtype: groaner a person who groans
subtype: grunter a person who grunts
subtype: guesser a person who guesses
subtype: handicapped_person__handicappedperson a person who has some handicap that interferes with normal functions
subtype: hater a person who hates
subtype: heterosexual_person__heterosexual__straight_person__straight a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
subtype: homosexual__homo__gay someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex
subtype: homunculus a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell
subtype: hope.person someone (or something) on which expectations are centered; "he was their best hope for a victory"
subtype: hoper a person who hopes; "only an avid hoper could expect the team to win now"
subtype: huddler a person who crouches; "low huddlers against the wind"
subtype: hugger a person who hugs
subtype: idler__loafer__do-nothing__layabout__bum person who does no work
subtype: immune a person who is immune to a particular infection
subtype: interpreter someone who uses art to represent something; "his paintings reveal a sensitive interpreter of nature"; "she was famous as an interpreter of Shakespearean roles"
subtype: jewel__gem a person who is a brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry
subtype: slayer__killer someone who causes the death of a person or animal
subtype: relative__relation a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
subtype: kneeler.person a person in a kneeling position
subtype: knocker a person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance); "open the door and see who the knocker is"
subtype: knower__apprehender a person who knows or apprehends
subtype: large_person__largeperson a person of greater than average size
subtype: laugher a person who is laughing or who laughs easily
subtype: learner__assimilator someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs
subtype: left-hander__lefty__southpaw a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right; "their pitcher was a southpaw"
subtype: life.person a living person; "his heroism saved a life"
subtype: lightning_rod__lightningrod someone who is a frequent target of negative reactions and serves to distract attention from another
subtype: polyglot__linguist a person who speaks more than one language
subtype: literate_person__literate a person who can read and write
subtype: liver.person a person who has a special life style; "a high liver"
subtype: longer__thirster__yearner a person with a strong desire for something; "a longer for money"; "a thirster after blood"; "a yearner for knowledge"
subtype: loose_cannon__loosecannon a person who is expected to perform a particular task but who is out of control and dangerous
subtype: machine.person an efficient person; "the boxer was a magnificent fighting machine"
subtype: mailer.person a person who mails something
subtype: malcontent a person who is discontented or disgusted
subtype: human_being__humanbeing__man the generic use of the word to refer to any human being; "it was every man for himself"
subtype: manipulator a person who handles things manually
subtype: man_jack__manjack a single individual; "every man jack"
subtype: masturbator a person who practices masturbation
subtype: measurer a person who makes measurements
subtype: nonmember a person who is not a member
subtype: mesomorph a person with a well-developed muscular body
subtype: mestizo a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry)
subtype: middlebrow (informal) someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow
subtype: miracle_man__miracleman__miracle_worker__miracleworker a person who claims or is alleged to perform miracles
subtype: misogamist a person who hates marriage
subtype: mixed-blood__mixedblood a person whose ancestors belonged to two or more races
subtype: modern a contemporary person
subtype: mutilator__maimer__mangler a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples
subtype: namer a person who gives a name or names; "the owner is usually the namer of a boat"
subtype: namesake a person with the same name as another
subtype: neglecter a person who is neglectful and gives little attention or respect to people or responsibilities; "he tried vainly to impress his neglecters"
subtype: neighbor__neighbour a person who lives (or is located) near another
subtype: neutral one who does not side with any party in a war or dispute
subtype: nondescript a person is not easily classified and not very interesting
subtype: nonparticipant a person who does not participate
subtype: nonsmoker a person who does not smoke tobacco
subtype: nude_person__nude a naked person
subtype: nurser a person who treats something carefully; "a great nurser of pennies"
subtype: occultist some who practices the occult arts
subtype: old_maid.person__oldmaid a person who is primly fastidious
subtype: outcaste a person belonging to no caste
subtype: outdoorsman a person who spends time outdoors (e.g., hunting or fishing)
subtype: owner__possessor a person who owns something; "they are searching for the owner of the car"; "who is the owner of that friendly smile?"
subtype: pamperer__spoiler someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence
subtype: forgiver__pardoner__excuser a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense
subtype: partner a person who is a member of a partnership
subtype: party.person a person involved in legal proceedings; "the party of the first part"
subtype: passer.person a person who passes as a member of a different ethnic or racial group
subtype: personage another word for person; a person not meriting identification; "a strange personage appeared at the door"
subtype: personification.person one who personifies an abstract quality
subtype: perspirer__sweater a person who perspires
subtype: philosopher.person a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity
subtype: chooser__picker__selector a person who chooses or selects out
subtype: urinator__pisser a person who urinates
subtype: planner__contriver__deviser a person who makes plans
subtype: powderer someone who applies or scatters powder
subtype: preserver someone who keeps safe from harm or danger
subtype: propositus the person immediately affected by or concerned with an action
subtype: pursuer a person who pursues some plan or goal; "a pursuer of truth"
subtype: pussycat a person who is regarded as easygoing and agreeable
subtype: quarter.person an unspecified person; "he dropped a word in the right quarter"
subtype: quitter a person who gives up too easily
subtype: rectifier.person a person who corrects or sets right; "a rectifier of prejudices"
subtype: redhead__carrottop someone who has red hair
subtype: registrant a person who is formally entered (along with others) in a register (and who obtains certain rights thereby)
subtype: reliever__allayer a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies; "a reliever of anxiety"; "an allayer of fears"
subtype: repeater.person a person who repeats; "the audience consisted largely of repeaters who had seen the movie many times"
subtype: rescuer__recoverer__saver someone who saves something from danger or violence
subtype: rester a person who rests
subtype: restrainer.person__controller a person who directs and restrains
subtype: rich_person__wealthy_person__wealthyperson__have a person who possesses great material wealth
subtype: right-hander__righthander a person who uses the right hand more skillfully than the left
subtype: riser.person a person who rises (especially from bed); "he's usually a late riser"
subtype: roundhead a brachycephalic person
subtype: swayer__ruler a person who rules or commands; "swayer of the universe"
subtype: rusher a person who rushes; someone in a hurry; someone who acts precipitously
subtype: scratcher.person a person who scratches to relieve an itch
subtype: second-rater__mediocrity a person of second-rate ability or value: "a team of aging second-raters"; "shone among the mediocrities who surrounded him"
subtype: cloud_seeder__cloudseeder__seeder a person who seeds clouds
subtype: quester__seeker__searcher someone making a search or inquiry; "they are seekers after truth"
subtype: sentimentalist__romanticist someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality
subtype: sex_object__sexobject any person regarded simply as an object of sexual gratification
subtype: shaker.person__mover a person who wields power and influence; "movers and shakers in the business world"; "a shaker of traditional beliefs"; "a mover of mountains"
subtype: signatory__signer someone who signs and is bound by a document
subtype: significant_other__significantother a person with whom you have shared a long-term sexual relationship
subtype: simpleton__simple a person lacking intelligence or common sense
subtype: six-footer__sixfooter a person who is at least six feet tall
subtype: slave a person who is owned by someone
subtype: sleepyhead a sleepy person
subtype: sloucher a person who slouches; someone with a drooping carriage
subtype: small_person__smallperson a person of below average size
subtype: smasher a person who smashes something
subtype: smiler a person who smiles
subtype: sneezer a person who sneezes
subtype: sniffer a person who sniffs
subtype: snuffler a person who breathes noisily (as through a nose blocked by mucus)
subtype: socializer a person who takes part in social activities
subtype: sort.person a person of a particular character or nature; "what sort of person is he?"; "he's a good sort"
subtype: sounding_board a person whose reactions to something serve as an indication of its acceptability; "I would use newspapermen as a sounding board for such policies"
subtype: sphinx.person an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret
subtype: expectorator__spitter a person who spits (ejects saliva from the mouth)
subtype: sprawler a person who sprawls; "he is such a sprawler he needs a bed to himself"
subtype: spurner a person who rejects (someone or something) with contempt; "she was known as a spurner of all suitors"; "he was no spurner of rules"
subtype: squinter__squint-eye a person with strabismus
subtype: stifler__smotherer a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses; "he is a real conversation stifler"; "I see from all the yawn smotherers that it is time to stop"
subtype: stigmatic__stigmatist a person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ)
subtype: stooper a person who carries himself or herself with the head and shoulders habitually bent forward
subtype: struggler a person who struggles with difficulties or with great effort
subtype: guinea_pig__subject__case a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation; "the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly"; "the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities"
subtype: surrenderer a person who yields or surrenders
subtype: survivor.person one who outlives another; "he left his farm to his survivors"
subtype: suspect someone who is under suspicion
subtype: tempter a person who tempts others; "Satan is the great tempter of mankind"
subtype: termer a person who serves a specified term; "there are not many fourth termers in the Senate"
subtype: terror__scourge__threat a person who inspires fear or dread; "he was the terror of the neighborhood"
subtype: testator__testate a person who makes a will
subtype: thin_person__skin_and_bones a person who is unusually thin
subtype: third-rater__thirdrater one who is third-rate or distinctly inferior
subtype: thrower someone who projects something through the air (especially by a rapid motion of the arm)
subtype: tiger a fierce or audacious person; "he's a tiger on the tennis court"; "it aroused the tiger in me"
subtype: toucher a person who causes or allows a part of the body to come in contact with someone or something
subtype: transfer.person__transferee someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another; "the best student was a transfer from LSU"
subtype: transsexual a person whose sexual identification is entirely with the opposite sex
subtype: transvestite__cross-dresser__crossdresser someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex
subtype: attempter__trier__essayer one who tries
subtype: unfastener__undoer__opener__untier a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens; "children are talented undoers of their shoelaces"
subtype: user a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something
subtype: vanisher a person who disappears
subtype: dupe__victim a person who is tricked or swindled
subtype: Victorian a person who lived during the reign of Victoria
subtype: waiter a person who waits or awaits
subtype: waker a person who awakes; "an early waker"
subtype: wanter__needer a person who wants or needs something; "an owner of many things and needer of none"
subtype: ward a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another
subtype: warrior someone engaged in or experienced in warfare
subtype: watcher a person who keeps a devotional vigil by a sick bed or by a dead body
subtype: weakling__doormat__wus a person who is physically weak and ineffectual
subtype: squirmer__wiggler__wriggler one who can't stay still (especially a child): "the toddler was a real wiggler on plane trips"
subtype: winker a person who winks
subtype: withholder.person a person who refrains from granting; "a withholder of payments"
subtype: witness (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law
subtype: yawner a person who yawns
subtype: male_or_female_person
subtype: in_relationship_person
subtype: Person
subtype: living_physical_entity alive physical entity
subtype: living_thing__organism__being a living (or once living) entity that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently
subtype: cell the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; cells may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals
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