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•  Peter Stuyvesant

  Peter Stuyvesant (originally Pieter or Petrus; Peter is never mentioned in historical records) (c. 1612 – August 1672) served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland (New York) from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664. He was a major figure in the early history of New York City. Stuyvesant's accomplishments as director-general included a great expansion for the settlement of New Amsterdam beyond the southern tip of Manhattan.

  

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•  Charles Fleetwood

  Charles Fleetwood (c. 1618 – 4 October 1692) was an English Parliamentary soldier and politician, Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1652-55, where he enforced the Cromwellian Settlement. At the Restoration he was included in the Act of Indemnity as among the twenty liable to penalties other than capital, and was finally incapacitated from holding any office of trust. His public career then closed.

  

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•  Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland

  Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland (c. 1610 – 20 September 1643) was an English politician, soldier and author.

  

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•  George Carteret

  Sir George Carteret, 1st Baronet (c. 1610 – 18 January 1680 N.S. ), son of Elias de Carteret, was a royalist statesman in Jersey and England, who served in the Clarendon Ministry as Treasurer of the Navy. He was also one of the original Lords Proprietor of the Carolina colony.

  

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•  Jean François Sarrazin

  Jean François Sarrazin or Sarasin (1611? – December 5, 1654), French author, son of Roger Sarasin, treasurer-general at Caen, was born at Hermanville near Caen. He was educated at Caen, and settled in Paris. As a writer of vers de société he rivalled Voiture, but he was never admitted to the inner circle of the hotel de Rambouillet. He was on terms of intimate friendship with Scarron, with whom he exchanged verses, with Ménage, and with Pellisson.

  

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•  Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan

  Charles Ogier de Batz de Castelmore, Comte d'Artagnan served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard and died at the Siege of Maastricht in the Franco-Dutch War. A fictionalized account of his life by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras formed the basis for the d'Artagnan Romances of Alexandre Dumas, most famously including The Three Musketeers.

  

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•  Peter Stent

  Peter Stent (c. 1613-1665) was a seventeenth century London printseller, who from the early 1640s until his death ran one of the biggest printmaking businesses of the day.

  

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•  Anne Bradstreet

  Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612 – September 16, 1672) was an English-American writer, the first notable American poet, and the first woman to be published in Colonial America. Her work was very influential to Puritans in her time.

  

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•  Richard Crashaw

  Richard Crashaw (c. 1613 – 25 August 1649), English poet, styled "the divine," was part of the Seventeenth-century Metaphysical School of poets.

  

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•  Donald Cargill

  Donald Cargill (1619 – 27 July 1681) was a Scottish Covenanter, working to uphold the National Covenants of 1638 and 1643 to establish and defend Presbyterianism. He was educated at Aberdeen and St Andrews Universities. In 1655 he was appointed Minister to Parish of Barony in Glasgow from which he was dismissed or ejected in 1662. He returned later and tried to hold a communion but the service was interrupted and he was arrested briefly.

  

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• Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge by likeorhate
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•  Robert Zimmermann (footballer)

  Robert Zimmermann (born May 21, 1963) is a former German football player. He spent one season in the Bundesliga with 1. FC Kaiserslautern.

  

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