People
- Adolf Wallenberg (1862–1949), German internist and neurologist
- Gustaf Wally (1905–1966), Swedish dancer, actor and theatre manager
- Knut Agathon Wallenberg (1853–1938), Swedish banker and politician
- Raoul Wallenberg (1912–c.1947), Swedish diplomat acclaimed for his role in saving a great number of Jews in the Holocaust
- Victor Wallenberg (1875–1970), Swedish sports shooter
- Wallenberg family, prominent Swedish family, renowned as bankers, industrialists, politicians, diplomats and philanthropists
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“All our civilization had meant nothing. The same culture that had nurtured the kindly enlightened people among whom I had been brought up, carried around with it war. Why should I not have known this? I did know it, but I did not believe it. I believed it as we believe we are going to die. Something that is to happen in some remote time.”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)
“So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else available. Western civilization not only provides a bit of life, a pinch of liberty and the occasional pursuance of happiness, it’s also the only thing that’s ever tried to. Our civilization is the first in history to show even the slightest concern for average, undistinguished, none-too-commendable people like us.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)
“A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)