Hall of
Lesser-Known Legends
A lesser-known legend is someone who is not a household name, but who lived big and on their own terms. Not all these legends were good people (although some definitely were). Many of them were riddled with idiosyncrasies, contradictions, and demons. However, not one of their stories are boring.
Oliver Reed
Bernard Moitessier
Little Edie & Big Edie
Henrietta Lacks
L. Ron Hubbard
Pat Beatty
Zheng Yi Sao
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Lyudmila Pavlichenko
Patrick Kaufman
Simone Weil
Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Richard Proenneke
John Harvey Kellogg
Mark Palmer
Steve Ditko
Hetty Green
Henry Paget
Bobby Fischer
Bessie Coleman
John Murray Spear
Diogenes
Cassius Marcellus Clay
Lord Byron
Ed Wood
Doc Ellis
John Brown
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jake Smith
Margaret Howe Lovatt
Marcus Garvey
Carrie A. Nation
Barb Berger
Thomas Fitzpatrick
Shane MacGowan
Corbin Casarez
Pauli Murray
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