Famous People Called Joan - Page 1

Joan (Dame) Sutherland

(1926 - ), Australian soprano. She became one of the world's leading bel canto operatic sopranos.

Joan Baez

(1941 - ), American folksinger. She has become famous for her 'protest songs' on civil rights and the Vietnam war in the 1960s.

Joan Crawford

[real name Lucille le Sueur], (1908 - 77), American movie actress. In 1945 she won an Oscar for her performance in Mildred Pierce.

Joan Littlewood

(1914 - 2002), English theatre director. In 1945 she formed the theatre company, Theatre Workshop.

Edgar Allan Poe

(1809 - 49), American short-story writer and poet. He wrote horror and detective stories including "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Pit and the Pendulum".