Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Matiur Rahman (Bir Sreshtho)
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad (Bir Bikrom)
Tushar Imran
Swapna Barman
All Personalities (780 listed)
Dr. Muhammad Yunus
Economist, Social Entrepreneur & Nobel Peace Laureate
Drake
Global Hip-Hop Icon, 5-Time Grammy Award Winner & Best-Selling Music Artist of the Streaming Era
Dražen Petrović
Hall of Fame Basketball Legend, EuroLeague Champion & NBA All-NBA Guard ("The Mozart of Basketball")
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th President of the United States & Five-Star General
Dylan Thomas
World-Renowned Welsh Poet, Playwright, BBC Broadcaster & Author of "Do not go gentle into that good night"
Ed Robertson
Celebrated Canadian Musician, Lead Singer & Songwriter of Barenaked Ladies, Composer of The Big Bang Theory Theme
Eddie Daniels
Heroic South African Anti-Apartheid Freedom Fighter, Robben Island Political Prisoner & Nelson Mandela’s Trusted Comrade
Eddie Kaye Thomas
American Film, Television & Stage Actor (Paul Finch in American Pie, Toby in Scorpion)
Eddy Cue
Senior Vice President of Services at Apple Inc., Architect of iTunes, App Store & Apple Music
Edith Head
Legendary Costume Designer & 8-Time Academy Award Winner
Edmond Halley
Astronomer Royal, Mathematician & Physicist
Edna St. Vincent Millay
First Woman to Win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Lyrical Poet & Playwright
Edogawa Ranpo
Father of Japanese Detective Fiction, Master of Psychological Mystery & Founder of MWJ
Edward Said
Postcolonial Literary Theorist, Cultural Critic & Author of Orientalism
Edwin van der Sar
Football Goalkeeper & Sports Executive
Egon Schiele
Austrian Expressionist Painter & Draughtsman