Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Joaquin Phoenix
Frank Ocean
Edith Head
Charlie Daniels
All Personalities (672 listed)
Ruth Gordon
Academy Award-Winning Actress, Playwright & Screenwriter
Ryan Reynolds
Hollywood Megastar, Producer, Entrepreneur & Golden Globe Nominee ("Deadpool")
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
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Nobel Laureate Pathologist, Histologist & "Father of Modern Neuroscience"
Sarah Bernhardt
Legendary French Stage Actress ("The Divine Sarah"), World’s First Global Celebrity
Sarah Josepha Hale
Pioneering American Editor, Author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" & "The Mother of Thanksgiving"
Sasha Cohen
Olympic Silver Medalist Figure Skater, U.S. National Champion & Two-Time World Silver Medalist
Satyajit Ray
Filmmaker, Screenwriter, Author & Graphic Artist
Sergei Bondarchuk
Soviet-Russian Filmmaker, Academy Award Winner for "War and Peace", Actor & People's Artist of the USSR
Seth MacFarlane
Creator of "Family Guy", "American Dad!", "Ted" & "The Orville", Five-Time Emmy Award Winner & Singer
Shaggy
Two-Time Grammy-Winning Jamaican Reggae Fusion Icon & Philanthropist