Famous and Notorious Personalities
What did Daddy do in the Great War?
Below you will find a list of more than 300 persons who played a role in the First World War. We left most of the generals and politicians out.
The people on this list were all extraordinary. Some of their roles may look small and insignificant, and some of them were rather unknown at that time - but in the years to come the world was going to hear from them. Even dead they had a message that came through. All these people were wounded, scratched, insulted, loved, disappointed, satisfied, challenged, brutalized, robbed from their ideals or otherwise shaped by the experiences they had during the Great War. And as they, for their part, shaped the remaining era of the 20th Century, one can hardly overestimate the influence of that war on our present-day world. So be ready for a suprise and read what Maurice Chevalier did in that war - and Humphrey Bogart, Albert Schweitzer, Charles de Gaulle, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Madame Curie, Mahatma Ghandi, Giacomo Puccini, the ´unsinkable´ Molly Brown, Hugh Lofting, Henry Moore, Monk Eastman, Ernest Hemingway and Adolf Hitler - and many others! |  Picture above: Propaganda encouraged fathers to leave their family and to play a role in the Great War. (This page was last updated on May 18, 2019) |
