Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Icons Remembered & Celebrated Today
Kevin Kline
F. Murray Abraham
Rosa Parks
Gene Roddenberry
Jackie Robinson
Daniel Webster
All Personalities (349 listed)
Arthur Henderson
1934 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, British Foreign Secretary & Leader of the Labour Party
Arthur Miller
Pulitzer Prize-Winning American Playwright & Essayist
Arthur Rimbaud
French Symbolist Poet, Precursor of Modern Surrealism & Author of "A Season in Hell"
Asoka Mehta
Illustrious Indian Freedom Fighter, Socialist Pioneer, Economist & Planning Commission Architect
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)
Bahadur Shah Zafar
Last Mughal Emperor of India, Symbolic Leader of the 1857 Indian Uprising & Immortal Classical Urdu Poet
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
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
Ben Bradlee
Legendary Executive Editor of The Washington Post, Watergate Champion & Presidential Medal of Freedom Laureate
Bengali-Fodé Koita
Guinean International Footballer, Africa Cup of Nations Striker & Ligue 1 / Süper Lig Star