Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Icons Remembered & Celebrated Today
Joaquin Phoenix
Frank Ocean
Edith Head
Charlie Daniels
All Personalities (672 listed)
Asin Thottumkal
Pan-Indian Screen Actress, Three-Time Filmfare Award Winner & Kalaimamani Laureate
Asoka Mehta
Illustrious Indian Freedom Fighter, Socialist Pioneer, Economist & Planning Commission Architect
Athena Chu
Iconic Hong Kong Actress & Singer, Star of Stephen Chow’s A Chinese Odyssey & Asian Cinema Luminary
Atul Prasad Sen
Celebrated Bengali Lyricist, Composer, Poet & Lawyer, Composer of Bengali Anthem "মোদের গরব, মোদের আশা"
Auguste Lumière
French Pioneer of Cinema, Co-Inventor of the Cinématographe & Biomedical Innovator
Ayub Bachchu
Legendary Bangladeshi Rock Musician, Singer-Songwriter, Guitar Virtuoso & Founder of Iconic Band LRB (Love Runs Blind)
Azmeri Haque Badhon
Actress & Dental Surgeon
Bahadur Shah Zafar
Last Mughal Emperor of India, Symbolic Leader of the 1857 Indian Uprising & Immortal Classical Urdu Poet
Banda Singh Bahadur
Legendary Sikh General, Commander of the Khalsa Army & Agrarian Reformer
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Founding Father & Statesman
Barack Obama
44th President of the United States & Nobel Laureate
Barry Keoghan
BAFTA Award-Winning & Academy Award-Nominated Irish Actor, Acclaimed for The Banshees of Inisherin, Saltburn, and The Batman
Baruj Benacerraf
Immunologist & Nobel Prize Laureate
BD Wong
Tony Award-Winning American Actor, Film Star & Groundbreaking Asian-American Pioneer
Beatrice Faumuina
World Champion Discus Thrower (1997), Two-Time Commonwealth Gold Medalist & ONZM
Begum Rokeya
Pioneer Feminist, Writer & Social Reformer