Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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All Personalities (341 listed)
Dylan Thomas
World-Renowned Welsh Poet, Playwright, BBC Broadcaster & Author of "Do not go gentle into that good night"
Eddie Daniels
Heroic South African Anti-Apartheid Freedom Fighter, Robben Island Political Prisoner & Nelson Mandela’s Trusted Comrade
Edith Head
Legendary Costume Designer & 8-Time Academy Award Winner
Edna St. Vincent Millay
First Woman to Win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Lyrical Poet & Playwright
Edogawa Ranpo
Father of Japanese Detective Fiction, Master of Psychological Mystery & Founder of MWJ
Edward Said
Postcolonial Literary Theorist, Cultural Critic & Author of Orientalism
Elsa Lanchester
Two-Time Academy Award-Nominated Actress (The Bride of Frankenstein & Mary Poppins)
Emily Post
World-Renowned Author, Cultural Columnist & America's Foremost Authority on Etiquette
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Giant of Northern Renaissance Humanism, Philosopher, Theologian, Satirist & Classical Scholar
Ernest Rutherford
Nuclear Physicist, Chemist & Nobel Laureate
Étienne de La Boétie
Renaissance Political Philosopher, Judge & Author of Discourse on Voluntary Servitude
Eudóxia Maria Froehlich
Brazilian Zoologist, Biodiversity Academic & World Authority on Neotropical Land Planarians
Evangelista Torricelli
Italian Physicist, Mathematician & Inventor of the Barometer
Évariste Galois
Groundbreaking French Mathematical Prodigy, Father of Galois Theory & Abstract Group Theory Pioneer
Evelyn Waugh
English Satirist, Novelist, Travel Writer & Literary Master
Ezra Pound
Visionary Modernist Poet, Literary Critic, Leader of Imagism & Author of The Cantos