Intresting people in history?

Try 'Aleister Crowley'

Frank Sinatra

Howard Hughes

Ava Gardner

Joan Crawford

If you can't do a famous person, how about somebody who might have been in close contact with that person? Like a clarinet player who was in an orchestra that was playing the world premiere of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony? Or one of the Kumeyaay Native American people who had some kind of contact (either positive or negative) with the Spanish colonialists at Mission San Diego de Alcala in California? Or one of the first people to be vaccinated against smallpox by Edward Jenner? Or one of the assistants in Ernest Rutherford's physics lab where he made his discoveries about the atomic nucleus? Or another lab assistant, Mr. Watson, who got the first "telephone call" from Alexander Graham Bell?

- Marquis de Lafayette, he was a key figure in the American Revolution, the French Revolution , and the Revolution of 1830.

- Hedy Lamarr, (born as Hewig Eva Marie Kiesler in Austria) she became a famous actress and a famous WW2 'pin-up girl' but also a famous inventor. During WW2 she co-invented a way to guide torpedoes by wireless remote control.

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- Mary Shelly, famous English writer, best known for writing Frankenstein.

End of the Cold War:

Grace Kelly

Bob Hope

Alfred Hitchcock

(Mad) King Ludwig of Bavaria.

Marie Antoinette

Mata Hari

Captain John Smith

Some ideas:

Richard III of England

The Princes in the tower (Linked to Richard III)

Anne Boleyn (Tudor)

Thomas Cromwell (Tudor)

"Bloody" Mary (Tudor)

Elizabeth I (Tudor)

One of the Romanovs (C.WW1)

Anne Frank (WW2)

Frida Kahlo (died 1954)

How about Henri Dunnant, founder of the Red Cross. Is that too famous? Your criteria are a bit vague. Surely you need someone that is know so that you can study him.

What would make someone too famous?

Might be fun to do one for Brigitte Bardot.

Leonardo he was more than just a painter.