Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Icons Remembered & Celebrated Today
Matiur Rahman (Bir Sreshtho)
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad (Bir Bikrom)
Tushar Imran
Swapna Barman
All Personalities (780 listed)
Robert Trujillo
Virtuoso Bassist of Metallica, Suicidal Tendencies Alum & Rock and Roll Hall of Famer
Roberto Menescal
Brazilian Bossa Nova Founding Father, Master Guitarist, Composer, Producer & Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Laureate
Roman Abramovich
International Billionaire Industrialist, Investor, Philanthropist & Transformative Owner of Chelsea FC
Ronald McNair
American Physicist, Laser Pioneer, 5th-Degree Black Belt & Heroic NASA Challenger Astronaut
Rosa Parks
Pioneering Civil Rights Activist & "The Mother of the Freedom Movement"
Roy Lichtenstein
Pioneering American Pop Artist, Painter, Sculptor & Creator of "Whaam!" and "Drowning Girl"
Ruby Dee
Legendary American Actress, Poet, Playwright, Civil Rights Activist & SAG Lifetime Honoree
Ruth Gordon
Academy Award-Winning Actress, Playwright & Screenwriter
Ryan Reynolds
Hollywood Megastar, Producer, Entrepreneur & Golden Globe Nominee ("Deadpool")
Sachin Dev Burman (S. D. Burman)
Immortal Indian/Bengali Music Director, Composer & Playback Singer
Sailesh Dey
Bengali Playwright, Novelist & Theatre Director
Sam Raimi
Visionary Film Director & Producer (Original Spider-Man Trilogy, The Evil Dead)
Samora Machel
Founding Father & First President of Independent Mozambique, Anti-Colonial Revolutionary & Pan-African Hero
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English Romantic Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher & Co-Author of "Lyrical Ballads"
Sandipan Chattopadhyay
Renowned Avant-Garde Bengali Novelist, Hungry Generation Movement Pioneer & Sahitya Akademi Award Winner