Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Dizzy Gillespie
Carrie Fisher
Ronald McNair
Jack Kerouac
Ben Bradlee
Horatio Nelson
Sir Bobby Charlton
All Personalities (268 listed)
Sir Christopher Wren
Master Architect of the English Baroque, Surveyor of the King's Works & Mastermind of St Paul's Cathedral
Sir Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist & Astronomer
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose
Polymath, Physicist & Plant Physiologist
Sir Michael Gambon
Legendary Irish-English Actor, Revered as Professor Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter & 4-Time BAFTA Winner
Sir Philip Pullman
Celebrated English Novelist, Author of "His Dark Materials" Trilogy & Astrid Lindgren Award Winner
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Victorian Polymath, Explorer, Linguist (Master of 29 Languages), Soldier, Diplomat & Translator of "One Thousand and One Nights"
Sir Roger Moore
English Actor & UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
Pioneer Islamic Reformer, Philosopher & Founder of Aligarh Muslim University
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Computer Scientist & Inventor of the World Wide Web
Smita Patil
Two-Time National Award-Winning Actress & Pioneer of Indian Parallel Cinema
Snoop Dogg
Global Hip-Hop Icon, Rapper, Record Producer, Entrepreneur & Cultural Ambassador
Stephen Hawking
Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist & Author
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Nobel Laureate in Physics (1983), Mathematical Astrophysicist & Discoverer of the Chandrasekhar Limit
Sunny Deol
Bollywood Action Superstar, Two-Time National Film Award Winner & Cultural Icon
Swapnil Joshi
Celebrated Indian Actor, Star of Marathi Cinema & Television Icon Renowned for Portraying Lord Krishna and Kush
Tariq Ali
British-Pakistani Public Intellectual, Historian, Novelist, Anti-War Activist & Editorial Board of NLR