Haile Selassie I, emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 who sought to modernize his country and who steered it into the mainstream of post-World War II African politics. He brought Ethiopia into the League of Nations and the United Nations and made Addis Ababa the major center for the African Union.
Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet British surgeon and surgical pathologist. Working at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London (1834–71), Paget discovered (1834) in human muscle the parasitic worm that causes trichinosis. Paget was a professor of anatomy and surgery (1847–52) and was later vice president