- "A red-haired Jew, he possessed a magnetic and artistic temperament, and had various special methods of arousing and restraining the revolutionary masses, including orchestral and vocal concerts of high excellence in the formerly royal theatres and the opera house of Munich." https://en.wikisource.org/…/1922_Encyclop%C3%A…/Eisner,_Kurt
Tuesday 31 July 2018
472) Kurt Eisner
- "A red-haired Jew, he possessed a magnetic and artistic temperament, and had various special methods of arousing and restraining the revolutionary masses, including orchestral and vocal concerts of high excellence in the formerly royal theatres and the opera house of Munich." https://en.wikisource.org/…/1922_Encyclop%C3%A…/Eisner,_Kurt
Monday 30 July 2018
471) Mary Vetsera
- In this forum thread, Mary Vetsera's hair are described as "chestunt" and "red". http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=16484.450
Vetsera's lock of hair (see here)
470) Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria
- "Rudolf was thirty, though he looked far older. His brownish-red hair was distressingly thin..." https://books.google.it/books…
Sunday 29 July 2018
469) Robert Turnbull Macpherson
- "He frequented the Roman Museums to draw the masterpieces where he was recognizable for his tall slender figure, long red hair and traditional Scottish kilt." http://www.luminous-lint.com/…/photog…/Robert__Macpherson/A/
- "In appearance he was the quintessential Scotsman abroad, with flaming red hair..." http://www.avictorian.com/Macpherson_Robert.html
468) Louis Drouet
- "He was tall and thin with red hair." http://www.claudioferrarini.it/immagini/Drouettte.html
467) Felix Mendelssohn
- "Weber described 'his auburn hair clustering in ringlets round his shoulders..." https://books.google.it/books…
466) Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
- "Leigh Smith was beginning each day with a visit to the rose border behind the low wall next door, where she gathered blooms to pin into her red-gold hair." https://books.google.it/
- "Barbara's friend Jessie Boucherett described her as "beautifully dressed, of radiant beauty, and with masses of golden hair..." http://www.victorianweb.org/gender/wojtczak/bodichon.html
- "The illegitimate child of a radical MP, she was tall, red-haired, vivacious and charismatic." https://www.abebooks.co.uk/…/Barbara-Leigh-Smith-Bodich…/plp
465) Clara McCandless Thomas
- "She sat up very straight, her red hair in a perfect coif and listened intently." https://www.library.yorku.ca/…/memorial-tribute-to-clara-m…/
- "Early on a cute red-headed girl marched up to me and announced that she knew who I was..." https://books.google.it/books…
464) Anna Brownell Jameson
- "Although red-haired, white-skinned and plumpy pretty when young..." https://books.google.it/books…
- "Anna Jameson's father painted miniatures on ivory of the paintings in Windsor Castle and his red-haired daughter knew these paintings well..." http://www.florin.ms/ebbflor1.html
493) Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy
- "Eventually the tombs of both saints were opened and Thaddeus’s remains were re-interred in a reliquary (he was found to have red hair)" https://roaringwaterjournal.com/…/thaddeus-mccarthy-the-bi…/
462) Zbigniew Brzezinski
- "... and he dubbed National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski 'Woody Woodpecker' because of his prominent facial features and his mound of red hair." https://books.google.it/books…
461) Miguel de Cervantes
- "... a portrait very similar to that which Cervantes gives of himself in his prefaces to the Plays, namely 'a stature between the two extremes, good complexion, chestnut-clored hair, red beard and mustachios, lively eyes and hooked nose'." https://books.google.it/books…
460) Ignacio Allende
- "He was tall and powerfully built, with curly red hair, robust whiskers, blue eyes and a prominent, slightly crooked nose." https://books.google.it/books…
Artist unknown, Ignacio Allende, 19th century, oil on canvas, Museo Nacional de Historia
459) Agnes Salm-Salm
- "She was described as red-haired, strong willed, small, and dainty." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Salm-Salm
- "The red-haired princess Agnes, daughter of General Le Clerq..." https://books.google.it/books…
Saturday 28 July 2018
458) Colette
- "For Freund Colette's colors, her flame-red hair, her favorite blue paper, her crimson scarf, definie her." https://books.google.it/books…
- "She concealed her feelings and her talent, but she flaunted her rustic accent and a plait of auburn hair as long as she was tall." https://archive.nytimes.com/…/bo…/first/t/thurman-flesh.html
457) Richard Henry Lee
- "Both combatants were tall (over six feet tall) red-haired politicians supporting the cause of American independence." http://porterbriggs.com/the-jilting-of-richard-henry-lee/
- "... Richar Henry Lee, his red hair now graying..." https://books.google.it/books…
- "Tall, slim with reddish hair, Richard Henry Lee was comfortable with speaking his opinion to the public." http://www.dsdi1776.com/signers-by-state/richard-henry-lee/
456) Patrick Henry
- "Patrick Henry was tall but rather stooped and, early in life, had red hair." https://books.google.it/books…
- "He wore spectacles, concealed his reddish-brown hair by a brown wig, not too well-fitting." https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=3053
455) Virginia Hall
- "Her name was Virginia Hall. She was a tall woman with bright red hair, an artificial foot, which she named Cuthbert, and a remarkable ability to improvise." http://spartacus-educational.com/SOEhall.htm
- "Hall was a very striking woman who once you had seen you would never forget, for she had red hair and an artificial foot." https://books.google.it/books…
454) Red Levine
- "He said he was in fights on board constantly because of his red hair and his Jewish heritage." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Levine_(mobster)
- "Yet, Levine -- a Jewish gunman whose red hair and freckles inspired his nickname -- allegedly participated in two of the most pivotal crimes in Mafia history." https://www.ibtimes.com/ballad-red-levine-mafia-assassin-wh…
Friday 27 July 2018
453) William H. Seward
- "Mary Jennings was of Irish descent, and may have been the source for her son’s thicket of unruly red hair." https://www.biography.com/people/william-seward-21010687
Wednesday 25 July 2018
452) Jeanne Samary
451) Aline Charigot
450) Mona von Bismarck
- "... the red-haired, green-eyed beauty had begun life more modestly..." https://books.google.it/books…
- "She had wide set, green eyes for which she was quite famous, and striking red hair — a combination of Anglo exoticism that evokes fairies, or sirens." https://medium.com/…/salvador-dalis-nasty-woman-f484467e3555
449) Vladimir Gippius
- "A fiery little man now in his late thirties with flaming red hair and angular shoulder..." https://books.google.it/books…
- "... a rather unusual red-haired man..." https://books.google.it/books…
448) Moira Shearer
- "As he recalled, "here was this apparition with the reddest of red hair, a figure like an hour-glass, blue-green eyes the size of saucers, the prettiest of noses and a most pleasing voice." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/…/ob…/1509410/Moira-Shearer.html
- " Her cloud of red hair, as natural and beautiful as any animal's, flamed and glittered like an autumn bonfire. She had a magnificent body. She wasn't slim, she just didn't have one ounce of superfluous flesh." https://www.scotsman.com/…/moira-shearer-star-of-the-red-sh…
447) Gwen Verdon
- "With flaming red hair and a quaver in her voice, Verdon was a critically acclaimed performer on Broadway in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Verdon
446) Agatha Christie
Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly 2 billion copies, and her estate claims that her works come third in the rankings of the world's most-widely published books, behind only Shakespeare's works and the Bible. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages.
- "I never knew that she was a flaming redhead or that her father was American." https://bookishbeck.wordpress.com/tag/agatha-christie/
Tuesday 24 July 2018
445) Magda Gabor
- "She stood 5'6" tall with red hair and gray eyes." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magda_Gabor
- "She was the oldest and the only red-headed of the three Gabor sisters." https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3220/magda-gabor
444) Red Buttons
- "The combination of his red hair and the large, shiny buttons on the bellhop uniforms inspired orchestra leader Charles "Dinty" Moore to call him "Red Buttons," the name under which he would later perform." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Buttons
- "since he wore a bellhop uniform, he was, naturally, called Buttons, and at the time his hair was red. The name stuck, even though his hair turned dark brown as he got older." https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/14/arts/14buttons.html
443) George Sanders
For his role as the acerbic, cold-blooded theatre critic Addison DeWitt in All About Eve (1950), Sanders won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
- "He had reddish-brown hair with touches of grey." https://books.google.it/books…
- "George Sanders with red hair and beard." https://theblondeatthefilm.com/2016/12/05/the-black-swan/
442) Herbert B. Swope
- "Red-haired, with a prowlike jaw and a jaunty, well-tailored figure, a man of cyclonic energies..." http://spartacus-educational.com/USAswope.htm
- "The tall, elegant, red-haired Swope was a man about town, a man who loved to gamble..." https://books.google.it/books…
Friday 20 July 2018
441) Alexandre Dumas
- "As Dumas was about to sit down for the performance, someone made a comment about his head of bushy red hair." https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Dumas%2C+Alexan…
440) Infante Francisco de Paula of Spain
Infante Francisco de Paula of Spain (1794 – 1865). Infante of Spain and the youngest son of Charles IV of Spain and Maria Luisa of Parma. He was a brother of Ferdinand VII, as well as the uncle and father-in-law of Queen Isabella II.
In 1819, he married his niece, Princess Luisa Carlotta of Naples and Sicily, the eldest daughter of his older sister Maria Isabella. The couple had eleven children (among them the Infanta Isabel Fernanda of Spain) and were very active in political affairs. Luisa Carlotta was instrumental in securing the succession for Ferdinand VII's daughter, Queen Isabella II. Luisa Carlotta died in 1844, but, under pressure from French diplomacy, Queen Isabella II married Francisco de Asis in October 1846. As father-in-law to his niece the Queen, Infante Francisco de Paula occupied a prominent position at court during Isabella II's reign.
- "Her husband is red-haired and ugly..." https://en.wikipedia.org/…/Infante_Francisco_de_Paula_of_Sp…