Famous People: May
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All Figures for May (45 results)
Henri de Saint-Simon
Visionary French Social Philosopher, Pioneer Sociologist & Founder of Saint-Simonianism
Herbert Austin
British Automotive Pioneer, Industrialist & Founder of the Austin Motor Company
Hermann Broch
Modernist Novelist, Essayist, Philosopher & Author of The Sleepwalkers
José Batlle y Ordóñez
Two-Time President of Uruguay (1903–1907, 1911–1915), Architect of Latin America's First Welfare State & Secular Democracy
Kano Jigoro
Educator & Founder of Judo
Kazi Nazrul Islam
National Poet of Bangladesh & Revolutionary
King Edward VII
King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions & Emperor of India ('The Peacemaker')
Leonardo da Vinci
High Renaissance Polymath, Painter & Engineer
Luciano Berio
Visionary Italian Avant-Garde Composer, Pioneer of Electroacoustic Music & Musical Modernist
Niccolò Paganini
Legendary Italian Violin Virtuoso, Composer, Guitarist & Pioneer of Modern Violin Technique
Noah Webster
Pioneer Lexicographer, Educator & Father of American Scholarship
Olympe de Gouges
Author of Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791), Feminist Pioneer & Abolitionist Martyr
Orson Welles
Film Director, Actor, Screenwriter & Producer
Osman II
16th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire ("Genç Osman") & Reformer
Patricia Bath
Ophthalmologist, Inventor of the Laserphaco Probe & First Black Female Doctor to Win a Medical Patent
Pietro da Cortona
High Baroque Painter and Architect, Creator of the Palazzo Barberini Ceiling Fresco