Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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All Personalities (537 listed)
Lionel Murphy
22nd Attorney-General of Australia, High Court Justice, Creator of the Family Court & Legal Aid Pioneer
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish Nuclear Physicist & Co-Discoverer of Nuclear Fission
Lord Palmerston
Two-Time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1855–1858, 1859–1865) & Dominant Architect of Victorian Foreign Policy
Louis Althusser
Influential French-Algerian Marxist Philosopher, Structuralist Theorist & Academic
Lucan
Eminent Roman Epic Poet of Pharsalia (De Bello Civili) & Imperial Intellectual
Luchino Visconti
Count of Lonate Pozzolo, Master Film, Opera & Theater Director, Neorealism Pioneer
Luciano Berio
Visionary Italian Avant-Garde Composer, Pioneer of Electroacoustic Music & Musical Modernist
Lucy Stone
Pioneering American Abolitionist, Suffragist, Orator & Co-Founder of the American Woman Suffrage Association
Mahalia Jackson
"The Queen of Gospel", International Musical Icon, Civil Rights Pioneer & Grammy Lifetime Achievement Laureate
Mahatma Gandhi
Leader of Indian Independence & Apostle of Nonviolence
Mahmud of Ghazni
First Sultan of History, Ruler of the Ghaznavid Empire & Medieval Military Strategist
Mahn Ba Khaing
Burmese Karen Political Leader, Independence Hero, Pre-Independence Minister of Industry and Labor & National Martyr
Marco Simoncelli
2008 250cc World Motorcycle Champion, MotoGP Icon & MotoGP Legend Hall of Famer ("Super Sic")
Marcus Junius Brutus
Roman Politician, Stoic Philosopher, Defender of the Republic & Leading Assassin of Julius Caesar
Margaret Mitchell
American Author & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist (Gone with the Wind)
Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom & Stateswoman