Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Icons Remembered & Celebrated Today
Walter Cronkite
Will Rogers
Ruth Handler
Matthew McConaughey
Michael Crichton
Bert Patenaude
Charles Borromeo
Hara Takashi
All Personalities (482 listed)
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Visionary Film Director, Poet, Novelist, Essayist & Cultural Intellectual
Pierre Larousse
Visionary French Lexicographer, Encyclopedist & Founder of Éditions Larousse
Pierre Trudeau
15th Prime Minister of Canada, Architect of Canadian Official Bilingualism & Father of the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Pierre-Simon Girard
French Mathematician, Hydraulic Engineer & Chief Director of Canal de l'Ourcq
Pietro da Cortona
High Baroque Painter and Architect, Creator of the Palazzo Barberini Ceiling Fresco
Pietro Longhi
Venetian Master Painter of 18th-Century Social Life & Rococo Satire
Pope John Paul I
263rd Pope of the Catholic Church & Sovereign of Vatican City
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
Philosopher, Social Reformer, Founder of Ananda Marga, Author of PROUT & Composer of Prabhat Samgiita
Primo Carnera
Italian World Heavyweight Boxing Champion ("The Ambling Alp") & International Sporting Icon
Prithviraj Kapoor
Pioneer of Indian Cinema & Theatre, Founder of Prithvi Theatres & Dadasaheb Phalke Laureate
Puyi
The Last Emperor of China & Final Sovereign of the Qing Dynasty
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, Polymath & Nobel Laureate
Rafic Hariri
Prime Minister of Lebanon, Business Magnate & Architect of Beirut Post-War Reconstruction
Ramesh Chandra Lahoti
35th Chief Justice of India & Eminent Constitutional Jurist
Rashidi Yekini
Nigeria’s All-Time Record Goalscorer, 1993 African Footballer of the Year & World Cup Legend
Raymond Chow
Legendary Film Producer, Co-Founder of Golden Harvest, Martial Arts Cinema Pioneer