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)
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