Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Icons Remembered & Celebrated Today
Matiur Rahman (Bir Sreshtho)
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad (Bir Bikrom)
Tushar Imran
Swapna Barman
All Personalities (341 listed)
Tripti Mitra
Doyen of Modern Indian Theatre, Leading Figure of IPTA and Bohurupee & Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellow
Tycho Brahe
Renaissance Danish Astronomical Titan, Alchemist & Pioneer of Empirical Observational Science
Umberto Boccioni
Italian Futurist Painter, Sculptor & Creator of "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space"
Ursula K. Le Guin
Visionary American Author, Literary Pioneer of Speculative Fiction, Hugo & Nebula Laureate
Vaiben Louis Solomon
21st Premier of South Australia, Founding Father of Australian Federation & Constitutional Drafter
Vinicius de Moraes
Brazilian Lyricist, Poet, Diplomat & Co-Creator of Bossa Nova (The Girl from Ipanema)
W. G. Grace
"The Father of Modern Cricket", Victorian Sporting Icon & Medical Doctor
Wacław Sierpiński
Renowned Polish Mathematician, Pioneer of Set Theory, Topology & Number Theory
Walter Payton
Pro Football Hall of Fame Running Back ("Sweetness"), Super Bowl XX Champion & NFL MVP
William Grenville
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Statesman & Historic Abolitionist who Passed the Slave Trade Act 1807
William Higinbotham
Manhattan Project Physicist, Video Game Pioneer (Creator of Tennis for Two 1958) & First Chairman of Federation of American Scientists
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet & Actor (The Bard of Avon)
William Styron
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist & Essayist, Author of Sophie’s Choice and Darkness Visible
Wim Kok
Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1994–2002), Trade Union Leader & Master Architect of the "Polder Model"
Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom & Statesman