Human Category Killers

Updated: October 16, 2006

Famous for activities in their particular field of human endeavor … and Go ahead! Just try to name a runner-up!

The list is so exclusive that it consists only of:

• Marcel Marceau
• Stradivarius
• Jacques Cousteau
• Red Adair
• Marquis de Sade

On the perhaps side:

• Attila (Hun)
• Hamlet (Prince of Denmark)
• Helen Keller (deaf-mute)
• Lucy (person who lived a long time ago)
• Ravi Shankar (sitar player)
• Alexander Calder (mobile-maker)

Suggestions welcome: arose@haas.berkeley.edu