Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Akbar the Great
All Personalities (310 listed)
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
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 John of England
King of England (1199–1216) Who Granted the Magna Carta (1215), Bedrock of Modern Constitutional Liberty & Human Rights
King Mongkut (Rama IV)
Visionary King of Siam (Thailand) Who Modernized Science, Astronomy & Western Diplomacy to Preserve Siamese Sovereignty
Kingsley Amis
Booker Prize-Winning English Novelist, Poet, Satirist & Critic (Author of "Lucky Jim")
Kiran Sankar Roy
Revered Indian Freedom Fighter, Barrister, Leader of Bengal Provincial Congress & Home Minister of West Bengal
Kishore Kumar
Legendary Playback Singer, Actor, Composer & Director
Lakshmi Sahgal
Legendary Revolutionary, Commander of the Rani of Jhansi Regiment (INA) & Pioneer Physician
Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Essayist & Moral Philosopher
Leon Trotsky
Marxist Revolutionary, Founder and Commander of the Red Army, Soviet Commissar for War & Theorist of Permanent Revolution
Leonardo da Vinci
High Renaissance Polymath, Painter & Engineer
Lev Yashin
Legendary Soviet Football Goalkeeper ("The Black Spider"), Only Goalkeeper in History to Win the Ballon d’Or
Levi Eshkol
3rd Prime Minister of Israel, Statesman, National Water Carrier Architect & Defense Modernizer