Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Joaquin Phoenix
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All Personalities (310 listed)
Smita Patil
Two-Time National Award-Winning Actress & Pioneer of Indian Parallel Cinema
Soong Mei-ling
Madame Chiang Kai-shek, First Lady of the Republic of China & World War II Diplomatic Force
Stanislaus Kostka
Polish Jesuit Novice & Patron Saint of Students and Youth
Stephen Hawking
Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist & Author
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Nobel Laureate in Physics (1983), Mathematical Astrophysicist & Discoverer of the Chandrasekhar Limit
Sunil Gangopadhyay
Supreme Bengali Novelist, Poet, President of Sahitya Akademi & Creator of Kakababu
Sylvia Plath
Pulitzer Prize-Winning American Poet, Novelist & Pioneer of Confessional Poetry
The Báb
Iranian Religious Reformer, Mystic Prophet, Founder of Bábism & Herald of the Baháʼí Faith
The Big Bopper
Pioneering American Rock and Roll Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist & Disc Jockey
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