Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Icons Remembered & Celebrated Today
Stephen F. Austin
Larry Holmes
Bob Feller
Colin Kaepernick
Tajuddin Ahmad
Syed Nazrul Islam
Captain M. Mansur Ali
All Personalities (482 listed)
Herbert Hoover
31st President of the United States (1929–1933), Mining Engineer & Humanitarian Relief Director
Hermann Broch
Modernist Novelist, Essayist, Philosopher & Author of The Sleepwalkers
Hongwu Emperor
Founding Emperor of China's Ming Dynasty (1368–1398), Peasant Revolutionary & Reformer
Horatio Nelson
British Naval Flag Officer, Victor of Trafalgar & Supreme Master of Naval Strategy
Hu Zongxian
Ming Dynasty Grand Commander, Coastal Strategist & Military Scholar
Humaira Himu
Actress & Model
Humayun Ahmed
Novelist, Dramatist, Screenwriter & Filmmaker
Ida Tarbell
Pioneering Investigative Journalist, Muckraker & Author of The History of the Standard Oil Company
Ike Turner
Rock and Roll Pioneer, Guitarist, Bandleader & Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee
Ila Mitra
Legendary Communist Leader, Peasant Rights Pioneer & Heroine of the Historic Tebhaga Movement (\"Rani Ma\")
Isaac de Benserade
French Baroque Poet, Playwright & Court Librettist to the "Sun King" Louis XIV
Ismail al-Azhari
1st Prime Minister of Sudan (1954–1956), Father of Sudanese Independence & President of the High Council of State
Ivan Bunin
First Russian Nobel Laureate in Literature (1933), Master of Realist Prose & Poetry
J. B. S. Haldane
Evolutionary Biologist, Geneticist, Polymath & Co-Founder of Modern Synthesis
J. R. Jayewardene
2nd President of Sri Lanka & Architect of Free-Market Economic Reforms
Jack Kerouac
American Novelist, Poet, Cultural Icon & Preeminent Voice of the "Beat Generation"