Owing to the clearly intellectual nature of this project, uneducated or working-class readers may encounter some figures they do not recognise. Here, you will find their profiles laid before you alphabetically in a convenient encapsulated form. Mouse over the images for alternative views. A-D ~ E-I ~ J-N ~ O-S ~ T-Z

A-D
	Eighteenth-century composer and fatass Johann Sebastian Bach (and sons). Famous for: Great organ works, having a greatly overworked organ.
	Troublesome Gallic physicist Antoine Becquerel. Famous for: Co-discovering radioactivity, using it to make dubious baked goods.
	Belligerent engineer and top-hat wearer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Famous for: Constructing Clifton suspension bridge, wearing prosthetic legs.
	That pesky Naturalist Charles Darwin. Famous for: Devising theory of evolution, displaying bottom (and finch) to ladies.
	Richard D'oyly Carte, impresario and master of the Savoy theatre. Famous for: Wearing a big fur coat, hiding something very alarming beneath it.
E-I
	Priggish Yankee supergenius Thomas Alva Edison. Famous for: Inventing everything in America, having all the best toys.
	Auguste Escoffier, famed French gastronome. Famous for: Reinventing modern cookery, enslaving Gilbert with pastry.
	Flanders and Swann, those chirpy twentieth-century songsmiths. Famous for: Humorous ditties, terrifying powers of animal transformation.
	Librettist and ill-tempered pig William Schwenck Gilbert. Famous for: Wry politial and social observation, beating up a crab in spats.
	Gilbert's longsuffering feline spouse, Lucy "Kitty" Gilbert. Famous for: Not actually famous, but she is half-cat. That's fairly noteworthy.
	Embittered French author and playwright Victor Hugo. Famous for: Writing Les Misèrables, exploding in a shower of warm, creamy fat.
J-N
	Royal fruitloop and cygnophile Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria. Famous for: Building fairytale castles, whooping like early Daffy Duck.
O-S
	French composer and fur-wearer Jacques Offenbach. Famous for: Writing "The Can-Can", doing unspeakable things with ladies' pants.
	Louis Pasteur, evil French microbiologist from Hell. Famous for: Germ theory of disease, turning flowers into bits of women.
	Morose American author Edgar Allan Poe. Famous for: Writing The Raven, moping about and wailing.
	Another physicist, this time from Germany: Wilhelm Roentgen. Famous for: Discovering X-rays, being excreted and knighted in rapid succession.
	She's spooky, she's ooky - she's Mary Wollstonecroft Shelley. Famous for: Writing Frankenstein, being insane and undead.
	Beleaguered Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. Famous for: Father of Finnish nationalist music, being pelted with vegetables.
	George Stephenson, railway engineer extraordinaire. Famous for: Winning the Rainhill trials, flinging salad leaves.
	Beardy author Bram Stoker. Famous for: Writing Dracula, generating soul-sapping tedium rays.
	Sir Arthur Sullivan, whore-loving composer and bon vivant. Famous for: Acclaimed operettas and devotional music, eating food off the floor.
T-Z
	Queen Victoria, the very model of a modern monarch. Famous for: Ruling England for over 60 years, being stuffed like a plump goose.
	Reprehensible German composer Richard Wagner. Famous for: Inventing the leitmotif (and a tuba), commanding an army of fat ladies.
	Unfortunate science fiction author H.G. (Herbert George) Wells. Famous for: Writing The Time Machine, being turned into a monkey.