Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Emma Stone
Ethan Hawke
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
King Gustavus Adolphus
Heinrich Schütz
All Personalities (537 listed)
Hermann Rorschach
Swiss Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst & Creator of the Rorschach Inkblot Test
Hongwu Emperor
Founding Emperor of China's Ming Dynasty (1368–1398), Peasant Revolutionary & Reformer
Horatio Nelson
British Naval Flag Officer, Victor of Trafalgar & Supreme Master of Naval Strategy
Hu Zongxian
Ming Dynasty Grand Commander, Coastal Strategist & Military Scholar
Humaira Himu
Actress & Model
Humayun Ahmed
Novelist, Dramatist, Screenwriter & Filmmaker
Ida Tarbell
Pioneering Investigative Journalist, Muckraker & Author of The History of the Standard Oil Company
Ike Turner
Rock and Roll Pioneer, Guitarist, Bandleader & Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee
Ila Mitra
Legendary Communist Leader, Peasant Rights Pioneer & Heroine of the Historic Tebhaga Movement (\"Rani Ma\")
Isaac de Benserade
French Baroque Poet, Playwright & Court Librettist to the "Sun King" Louis XIV
Ismail al-Azhari
1st Prime Minister of Sudan (1954–1956), Father of Sudanese Independence & President of the High Council of State
Ivan Bunin
First Russian Nobel Laureate in Literature (1933), Master of Realist Prose & Poetry
Ivan Turgenev
Russian Master Novelist, Short Story Writer & Playwright ('Fathers and Sons')
J. B. S. Haldane
Evolutionary Biologist, Geneticist, Polymath & Co-Founder of Modern Synthesis
J. R. Jayewardene
2nd President of Sri Lanka & Architect of Free-Market Economic Reforms
Jack Kerouac
American Novelist, Poet, Cultural Icon & Preeminent Voice of the "Beat Generation"