Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Icons Remembered & Celebrated Today
Ursula K. Le Guin
Dizzy Gillespie
Carrie Fisher
Ronald McNair
Jack Kerouac
Ben Bradlee
Horatio Nelson
Sir Bobby Charlton
All Personalities (184 listed)
Kingsley Amis
Booker Prize-Winning English Novelist, Poet, Satirist & Critic (Author of "Lucky Jim")
Kishore Kumar
Legendary Playback Singer, Actor, Composer & Director
Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Essayist & Moral Philosopher
Leonardo da Vinci
High Renaissance Polymath, Painter & Engineer
Lev Yashin
Legendary Soviet Football Goalkeeper ("The Black Spider"), Only Goalkeeper in History to Win the Ballon d’Or
Liaquat Ali Khan
First Prime Minister of Pakistan, Freedom Fighter & "Quaid-e-Millat"
Lionel Murphy
22nd Attorney-General of Australia, High Court Justice, Creator of the Family Court & Legal Aid Pioneer
Lord Palmerston
Two-Time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1855–1858, 1859–1865) & Dominant Architect of Victorian Foreign Policy
Louis Althusser
Influential French-Algerian Marxist Philosopher, Structuralist Theorist & Academic
Lucy Stone
Pioneering American Abolitionist, Suffragist, Orator & Co-Founder of the American Woman Suffrage Association
Mahatma Gandhi
Leader of Indian Independence & Apostle of Nonviolence
Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom & Stateswoman
Marie Antoinette
Last Queen of France Before the Revolution & Archduchess of Austria
Marie Curie
Physicist, Chemist & Pioneer in Radioactivity
Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil Rights Leader, Baptist Minister & Nobel Laureate
Matangini Hazra
Iconic Bengali Revolutionary, Freedom Fighter & Martyr of the Quit India Movement ("Gandhi Buri")