Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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All Personalities (537 listed)
Vinicius de Moraes
Brazilian Lyricist, Poet, Diplomat & Co-Creator of Bossa Nova (The Girl from Ipanema)
Vivien Leigh
Two-Time Academy Award-winning Actress (Scarlett O'Hara & Blanche DuBois)
W. G. Grace
"The Father of Modern Cricket", Victorian Sporting Icon & Medical Doctor
Wacław Sierpiński
Renowned Polish Mathematician, Pioneer of Set Theory, Topology & Number Theory
Walker Evans
Preeminent American Documentary Photographer (FSA) & Co-Author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Walter Cronkite
Legendary CBS Evening News Anchor & "The Most Trusted Man in America"
Walter Gieseking
Virtuoso Classical Pianist & Definitive Interpreter of Debussy and Ravel
Walter Payton
Pro Football Hall of Fame Running Back ("Sweetness"), Super Bowl XX Champion & NFL MVP
Warren G. Harding
29th President of the United States, Newspaper Publisher & Senator
Wilfred Owen
Foremost English War Poet of World War I, Soldier & Author of "Dulce et Decorum Est"
Will Durant
Pulitzer Prize-winning Historian, Philosopher & Author of The Story of Civilization
Will Rogers
Cherokee-American Humorist, Vaudeville Star, Social Philosopher & Columnist
William Cullen Bryant
American Romantic Poet (Thanatopsis), Longtime Editor of New York Evening Post & Abolitionist
William Grenville
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Statesman & Historic Abolitionist who Passed the Slave Trade Act 1807
William Higinbotham
Manhattan Project Physicist, Video Game Pioneer (Creator of Tennis for Two 1958) & First Chairman of Federation of American Scientists
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet & Actor (The Bard of Avon)