Beethoven, Ludwig van (The van or von in Dutch or German names, if not capitalized by family usage,appears after the first name; if capitalized, it appears before the last name and determines the alphabetical order.)

D'Annunzio, Gabriele

Deere-Brown, Juan (Ignore the hyphen.)

Deere-Brown, Juan-Poivre

Dante Alighieri (Some Italian names of the 15th century or before are alphabetized by first name)

D'Arcy, Pierre

de Gaulle, Charles (With French names, the de goes before the last name when the last name contains only one syllable. See de Maupassant, below.)

Descartes, René

Ford, Henry E., III

Garcia Lorca, Federico (Use full surnames for Spanish names.)

López y Quintana, María

MacDonald, George

Maupassant, Guy de

M'Cauley, Josephine

McCullers, Carson

Morris, Robert

Morris, William

Morrison, Toni

O'Keeffe, Georgia (Ignore the apostrophe.)

Pepin, R. E.

Pepin, Theophilus, Jr.

Pepino, D.

Rueda, Lope de (For Spanish names, de comes after the first name)

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de

San Marco, Josefina

St. Denis, Ruth

Von Braun, Werner (See Beethoven, above.)