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 (1084 listed)
Hans Merensky
South African Geologist, Prospector, Philanthropist & Discoverer of the Bushveld Platinum Complex
Hans Sachs
Celebrated Nuremberg Meistersinger, Poet, Playwright & Voice of the Reformation
Hara Takashi
10th Prime Minister of Japan ("Commoner Prime Minister") & Political Reformer
Harlow Shapley
Astronomer & Astrophysicist
Harry Hamlin
Television & Film Actor, Author & Clean Energy Advocate
Harry Houdini
Legendary Magician, Illusionist & Escapologist
Haruka Kudo
Japanese Pop Singer, Actress, Former Morning Musume Member & Tokusatsu Star
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American Film Actress & Inventor of Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum Technology
Heinrich Schütz
German Early Baroque Composer & Organist
Heinrich von Kleist
Seminal German Romantic Playwright, Novelist & Poet Behind Michael Kohlhaas and The Broken Jug
Helen Reddy
Legendary Australian Singer, "Queen of 1970s Pop", Global Feminist Anthem Creator ("I Am Woman") & Grammy Winner
Helmut Newton
World-Renowned Fashion & Portrait Photographer
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
Prussian Field Marshal, Chief of the Prussian and German Great General Staff & Modern Military Strategist
Henri Bergson
Nobel Prize in Literature Laureate, Leading French Philosopher & Metaphysician
Henri de Saint-Simon
Visionary French Social Philosopher, Pioneer Sociologist & Founder of Saint-Simonianism
Henri Matisse
Master of Modern Art, Leader of Fauvism & Monumental Colorist of the 20th Century