Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Burt Lancaster
David Schwimmer
James K. Polk
Warren G. Harding
Eva Cassidy
James Thurber
George Bernard Shaw
All Personalities (482 listed)
Edward Said
Postcolonial Literary Theorist, Cultural Critic & Author of Orientalism
Edward V
King of England
Elsa Lanchester
Two-Time Academy Award-Nominated Actress (The Bride of Frankenstein & Mary Poppins)
Elvin Jones
Legendary Post-Bop Jazz Drummer (Classic John Coltrane Quartet & A Love Supreme)
Émile Bayard
Artist, Illustrator & Painter
Emily Post
World-Renowned Author, Cultural Columnist & America's Foremost Authority on Etiquette
Emperor Meiji
122nd Emperor of Japan & Monarch of the Meiji Restoration
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Giant of Northern Renaissance Humanism, Philosopher, Theologian, Satirist & Classical Scholar
Ernest Rutherford
Nuclear Physicist, Chemist & Nobel Laureate
Étienne de La Boétie
Renaissance Political Philosopher, Judge & Author of Discourse on Voluntary Servitude
Etta Moten Barnett
Pioneering African-American Contralto Singer, Actress & Cultural Ambassador
Eudóxia Maria Froehlich
Brazilian Zoologist, Biodiversity Academic & World Authority on Neotropical Land Planarians
Eugene V. Debs
Pioneering Trade Unionist, Socialist Leader & Five-Time U.S. Presidential Candidate
Eva Cassidy
Beloved American Vocalist, Acoustic Guitarist & Song Interpreter
Evangelista Torricelli
Italian Physicist, Mathematician & Inventor of the Barometer
Évariste Galois
Groundbreaking French Mathematical Prodigy, Father of Galois Theory & Abstract Group Theory Pioneer