Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Icons Remembered & Celebrated Today
Art Garfunkel
Sam Rockwell
Eugene V. Debs
Ida Tarbell
Christiaan Eijkman
All Personalities (537 listed)
Gene Roddenberry
Visionary Television Screenwriter, Producer & Legendary Creator of "Star Trek"
Geoffrey Chaucer
"The Father of English Literature", Legendary Poet, Diplomat, Bureaucrat & Author of The Canterbury Tales
Georg Büchner
Revolutionary German Playwright, Poet, Scientist & Author of Woyzeck and Danton's Death
George Bernard Shaw
Nobel Laureate in Literature, Academy Award-Winning Playwright, Critic & Polemicist
George Boole
Mathematician, Logician & Philosopher, Father of Boolean Logic
George C. Scott
Academy Award & Emmy-Winning American Actor, Stage Director & Iconic Star of Patton and Dr. Strangelove
Georges Bizet
Immense French Romantic Composer, Virtuoso Pianist & Creator of the Masterpiece Opera Carmen
Georges Danton
Titan of the French Revolution, First President of the Committee of Public Safety & Master Orator of the Cordeliers Club
Georges Sorel
Social Philosopher & Theorist
Gerard van Honthorst
Dutch Golden Age Master Painter & Leader of the Utrecht Caravaggisti ("Gherardo delle Notti")
Gerd Müller
"Der Bomber", 1974 FIFA World Cup Champion, Ballon d'Or Winner & Bayern Munich Legend
Ghazan Khan
7th Ruler of the Mongol Ilkhanate & Renowned Political and Cultural Reformer
Gideon Sundback
Swedish-American Electrical Engineer & Inventor of the Modern Zipper (Hookless Fastener)
Gilbert Bécaud
Legendary French Singer, Chanson Composer, Pianist & "Monsieur 100,000 Volts"
Gilbert H. Grosvenor
Editor & President of the National Geographic Society ("Father of Photojournalism")
Giuditta Pasta
Legendary 19th-Century Italian Operatic Soprano / Mezzo-Soprano & Muse of Bellini and Donizetti