Zanies : the world's greatest eccentrics

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Albert Abrams

Hans Christian Andersen

George Antheil

Matthew Arnold

Jules W. ("Nicky") Arnstein

Russell Arundel

Mary Astor

Delia Salter Bacon

Phineas Taylor Barnum

John Sidney Blythe Barrymore

Finis Bates

Jeremy Bentham

Sarah Bernhardt

Russell Birdwell

Maxwell Bodenheim

Junius Brutus Booth

Clara Bow

James Buchanan ("Diamond Jim") Brady

John R. Brinley

Edward West ("Daddy") Browning

George Gordon Noel Byron

(Joseph Balsamo) Cagliostro

Enrico Caruso

Leonard Casley

Charles Chaplin

charles Langdon Clarke

Georges Clemenceau

Robert Coates

Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb

William Horace de Ver Cole

Thomas B. Connery

Douglas ("Wrong Way") Corrigan

John ("Bathouse John") Couglin

John Sargent Cram

Hart Crane

Francesca Cremonse

Aleister Crowley

Michael Curtiz

Salvador Dali

Charles Dawson

Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean

John Dee

Ferdinand Waldo Demara, Jr

Timothy Dexter

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev

Raymond Ditmars

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Doris Duke

Isadora Duncan

George Eastman

Thomas Alva Edison

W.C. Fields

Horace Fletcher

Henry Ford

James Vincent Forrestal

William Frawley

Marshall B. Gardner

Frank Garner

("Colonel") Dinshah Pestanji Framji Ghadiali

Clement Giglio

Samuel Goldwyn

Waxey (Irving Wexler) Gordon

Joseph Ferdinand Gould

Dr. James Graham

Harry Greb

Hett (Howland Robinson) Green

Mary Louise Cecilia ("Texas") Guinan

Nubar Gulbenkian

George Ivan Gurdjieff

Wencelaus Hanka

James A. Harden-Hickey

Gaylord Hauser

William Randolph Hearst

Jemmy Hirst

Halbert Louis Hoard

J. Edgar Hoover

Brian G. Hughes

Howard Robard Hughes, Jr

George Hull

H.L. (Haroldson Lafayette) Hunt

John Huston

Barbara Hutton

William Henry Ireland

Sanford Jarrell

Norman Jeffries

Al (Asa Yoelson) Jolson

Alvin ("Shipwreck") Kelly

Arabella Kenealy

Dr. William Koch

Fiorello La Guardia

T.E. (Thomas Edward) Lawrence

Charles Godfrey Leland

Anne De ("Ninon") Lenclos

John Llewellyn Lewis

Richard Adams Locke

Huey Pierce ("The Kingfish") Long

Count Felix von Luckner

Charles MacArthur

Bernarr MacFadden

William Francis Mannix

Marx Brothers

William Somerset Maugham

Edith Rockefeller McCormick

Mellon Brothers

William Miller

Wilson Mizner

Edward Wortley Montagu

John Mytton

Bronko Nagurski

Carry Amelia (Moore Gloyd) Nation

Florence Nightingale

Joshua Abraham Norton

John Humphrey Noyes

Charles K. Ogden

John O'Hara

Phillippus Aureolus Paracelsus

George Smith Patton

Hesketh Pearson

Elisha Perkins

Vincenzo Peruggia

Samuel Andrew Peters

Edgar Allan Poe

George Psalmanazar

John Randolph

Grigori Efimovich Rasputin

Harry Reichenbach

Robert Reidt

Armand Jean du Plessis duc de Richelieu

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Matthew (Lord Rokeby) Robinson

Michael (Harry F. Gerguson) Romanoff

Jacob Ruppert, Jr

John Ruskin

George Herman ("Babe") Ruth

Russell Sage

George Bernard Shaw

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Upton Beall Sinclair

Isaac Merit Singer

Joanna Southcott

Gertrude Stein

Charles Dillon ("Casey") Stengel

Louis T. Stone

William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday

John Cleves Symmes

Stanislaus Szukalski

Leo Taxil

John Taylor

Cyrus Reed Teed

Nikola Tesla

Mrs. Virginia ("Bridey Murphy") Tighe

Sofya Tolstoy

George Francis Train

B. Traven

Hugh Troy

Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Twain

Tristan Tzara

William Louis Veeck

William Voight

Wilbur Glenn Voliva

Erich Oswald von Stroheim

George E. ("Rube") Waddell

Ganna Walska

Charles Waterton

John Gottleib Wendel

James Marion West, Jr

Mae West

E.J. ("Stroller") White

Lewis Robert ("Hack") Wilson

Walter Winchell

Victoria Claflin Martin Woodhull

Alexander Woollcott

Basil Zaharoff