Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Emma Stone
Ethan Hawke
John Philip Sousa
Charles Dow
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
King Gustavus Adolphus
Heinrich Schütz
All Personalities (537 listed)
Hara Takashi
10th Prime Minister of Japan ("Commoner Prime Minister") & Political Reformer
Harlow Shapley
Astronomer & Astrophysicist
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American Film Actress & Inventor of Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum Technology
Heinrich Schütz
German Early Baroque Composer & Organist
Heinrich von Kleist
Seminal German Romantic Playwright, Novelist & Poet Behind Michael Kohlhaas and The Broken Jug
Helen Reddy
Legendary Australian Singer, "Queen of 1970s Pop", Global Feminist Anthem Creator ("I Am Woman") & Grammy Winner
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
Prussian Field Marshal, Chief of the Prussian and German Great General Staff & Modern Military Strategist
Henri Bergson
Nobel Prize in Literature Laureate, Leading French Philosopher & Metaphysician
Henri de Saint-Simon
Visionary French Social Philosopher, Pioneer Sociologist & Founder of Saint-Simonianism
Henri Matisse
Master of Modern Art, Leader of Fauvism & Monumental Colorist of the 20th Century
Henrik Schück
Literary Historian & Academician
Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany, Italy & Burgundy (Salian Dynasty)
Herbert Austin
British Automotive Pioneer, Industrialist & Founder of the Austin Motor Company
Herbert Hoover
31st President of the United States (1929–1933), Mining Engineer & Humanitarian Relief Director
Herman J. Mankiewicz
Academy Award-Winning American Screenwriter & Journalist (Citizen Kane)
Hermann Broch
Modernist Novelist, Essayist, Philosopher & Author of The Sleepwalkers