Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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All Personalities (672 listed)
Theodor von Oppolzer
Renowned Austrian Astronomer, Mathematician & Author of the Monumental "Canon of Eclipses"
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States, Nobel Peace Laureate, Conservationist & Historian
Thomas Babington Macaulay
British Historian, Whig Statesman, Essayist & Principal Author of the Indian Penal Code (IPC 1860)
Thomas Edison
Prolific American Inventor, Industrialist & Founder of Modern Industrial Research
Thomas Love Peacock
English Satirical Novelist, Poet & Official of the East India Company, Close Friend and Collaborator of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thomas Sankara
President of Burkina Faso, Pan-African Revolutionary & Reformer
Thorleif Haug
Legendary Norwegian Nordic Skier & Three-Time Gold Medalist at the Inaugural 1924 Winter Olympics
Timothy Leary
American Clinical Psychologist, Harvard Researcher & 1960s Counterculture Icon
Tokugawa Yoshinobu
Statesman & Last Shogun of Japan
Tom Cavanagh
Canadian Actor, Director & Star of "The Flash" (Reverse-Flash / Dr. Harrison Wells) and "Ed"
Tom Meschery
First Foreign-Born NBA All-Star, Power Forward for Warriors & SuperSonics, Published Poet & Educator
Tom Petty
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Musician, Singer-Songwriter & Frontman of The Heartbreakers and Traveling Wilburys
Tope Alabi
Queen of Nigerian Gospel Music, Film Score Composer, Singer-Songwriter & Actress
Tove Lo
Singer, Songwriter & Grammy Nominee
Tracee Ellis Ross
Actress, Producer, Director & Entrepreneur
Tripti Mitra
Doyen of Modern Indian Theatre, Leading Figure of IPTA and Bohurupee & Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellow