Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Matiur Rahman (Bir Sreshtho)
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad (Bir Bikrom)
Tushar Imran
Swapna Barman
All Personalities (341 listed)
Johann Strauss II
Legendary Austrian Classical Composer, "The Waltz King", Operetta Master & Vienna Philharmonic Icon
John Boyd Dunlop
Inventor of the Modern Pneumatic Rubber Tyre & Founder of Dunlop Rubber Company
John Dewey
Pioneering American Philosopher of Pragmatism, Educational Reformer & Author of "Democracy and Education"
John le Carré
British Espionage Novelist, Creator of George Smiley & Former MI5/MI6 Intelligence Officer
John Tonkin
20th Premier of Western Australia (1971–1974), 44-Year Parliamentarian & Champion of Universal Water Desalination
John Tuzo Wilson
World-Renowned Canadian Geophysicist, Pioneer of Plate Tectonics & Transform Faults
Johnny Carson
"The King of Late Night", 30-Year Host of The Tonight Show & Television Icon
Jonas Salk
Virologist & Medical Researcher
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish Literary Satirist, Essayist, Poet & Author of Gulliver's Travels
Jorge Batlle
38th President of Uruguay, Prominent Latin American Statesman, Lawyer & Democratic Reformer
José Batlle y Ordóñez
Two-Time President of Uruguay (1903–1907, 1911–1915), Architect of Latin America's First Welfare State & Secular Democracy
Junko Tabei
Pioneering Japanese Mountaineer, First Woman to Summit Mount Everest (1975) & Conquer the Seven Summits
K. R. Narayanan
Tenth President of India, Diplomat, Scholar & First Dalit Head of State
Kader Khan
Legendary Bollywood Screenwriter, Dialogue Maestro & Prolific Actor (300+ Films)
Kano Jigoro
Educator & Founder of Judo
Kazi Nazrul Islam
National Poet of Bangladesh & Revolutionary