It was given by Ray Paynter, who was a very minor figure in ornithology and, by many secondhand accounts, a really unpleasant guy. (discovermagazine.com)
I have based my portraits of Philip Franklin, Senator Smith, Sydney Buxton, Lord Mersey, Sir Rufus Isaacs and other minor figures on historical sources, but the IMM Boston agent Jack Thomas is entirely a product of my imagination. (bookbrowse.com)
It can be hard to keep up with them all — you surely know Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels, but only true aficionados are aware of the details about Felix Sater or Oleg Deripaska or other minor figures. (washingtonpost.com)