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)
Jorge Batlle
38th President of Uruguay, Prominent Latin American Statesman, Lawyer & Democratic Reformer
José Batlle y Ordóñez
Two-Time President of Uruguay (1903–1907, 1911–1915), Architect of Latin America's First Welfare State & Secular Democracy
Joseph Rotblat
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1995), Nuclear Physicist & Founder of Pugwash Conferences
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
Novelist, Dandy & Literary Critic
Junko Tabei
Pioneering Japanese Mountaineer, First Woman to Summit Mount Everest (1975) & Conquer the Seven Summits
K. R. Narayanan
Tenth President of India, Diplomat, Scholar & First Dalit Head of State
Kader Khan
Legendary Bollywood Screenwriter, Dialogue Maestro & Prolific Actor (300+ Films)
Kano Jigoro
Educator & Founder of Judo
Kazi Nazrul Islam
National Poet of Bangladesh & Revolutionary
Keith Emerson
Keyboardist, Composer & Virtuoso
Ken Dodd
Legendary English Comedian, Singer-Songwriter & Vaudeville Icon
Ken Miles
Legendary Sports Car Racing Engineer & Driver, Key Architect of Ford GT40 Le Mans Triumph
Khan Jahan Ali
15th-Century Sufi Saint, Regional Ruler of Khalifatabad & Master Builder of the Sixty Dome Mosque (UNESCO World Heritage)
King Chulalongkorn
King Rama V the Great of Siam, Visionary Modernizer & Savior of Thai Sovereignty
King Edward VII
King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions & Emperor of India ('The Peacemaker')
King Gustavus Adolphus
King of Sweden, "Lion of the North" & Pioneer of Modern Combined-Arms Warfare