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Chuck Taylor

Chuck TaylorBorn: June 24, 1901Converse traveling salesman whose name came to grace the classic, high-top canvas basketball sneakers known as “Chucks” over 500 million pairs have been sold…

Lawrence Taylor

Lawrence TaylorBorn: Feb. 4, 1959Football LB All-America at North Carolina (1980); only defensive player in NFL history to be consensus Player of Year (1986); led NY Giants to Super Bowl…

James Taylor

James Taylor was a big part of the folk revolution of the 1960s and early 1970s, recording hits like "Carolina in My Mind," "Sweet Baby James," and Carole King's "You've Got A Friend." Taylor was…

Zachary Taylor

A hero of the war with Mexico in 1846, Zachary Taylor was the first U.S. President who had been "regular army." He was elected in 1848 and took office in 1849. Nicknamed "Old Rough and Ready" for…

Charles Taylor

Charles Taylor was the president of Liberia from August of 1997 until August of 2003, when he stepped down amid accusations of war crimes. The son of an Americo-Liberian and a Gola tribe member,…

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift broke through in 2006 with her hit song "Tim McGraw," recorded when she was still 16 years old. Over the next decade she went beyond country to become one of the world's biggest pop…

Taylor Schilling

American actress Taylor Schilling is the blonde, wiry star of the TV series Orange Is the New Black. She grew up in the neighborhoods of Boston and studied acting at New York's Fordham College at…

Taylor Momsen

Taylor Momsen played Jenny Humphrey, the crafty and social-climbing young blonde on the prime-time soap opera Gossip Girl, from 2007-11. In later years she has been better known as the frontwoman for…

Taylor Lautner

Taylor Lautner played dark and mysterious Jacob Black in the movie versions of Stephenie Meyer's novel Twilight and its sequels. After years of martial arts competitions and small acting jobs (and…

Taylor, Tom

(Encyclopedia) Taylor, Tom, 1817–80, English dramatist and editor. His most famous play is Our American Cousin (1858), performed at Ford's Theater in Washington, D. C., when Lincoln was assassinated…