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 (184 listed)
Samora Machel
Founding Father & First President of Independent Mozambique, Anti-Colonial Revolutionary & Pan-African Hero
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English Romantic Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher & Co-Author of "Lyrical Ballads"
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Nobel Laureate Pathologist, Histologist & "Father of Modern Neuroscience"
Sarah Bernhardt
Legendary French Stage Actress ("The Divine Sarah"), World’s First Global Celebrity
Satyajit Ray
Filmmaker, Screenwriter, Author & Graphic Artist
Sergei Bondarchuk
Soviet-Russian Filmmaker, Academy Award Winner for "War and Peace", Actor & People's Artist of the USSR
Shammi Kapoor
Legendary Indian Actor, "The Elvis Presley of India" & Pioneer of Bollywood Musical Romances
Sheikh Russel
Youngest Son of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman & Symbol of Children's Rights
Shigeru Yoshida
Historic 32nd Prime Minister of Japan (1946–1947, 1948–1954), Architect of the "Yoshida Doctrine" & Post-War Economic Miracle
Shujeo Shyam
Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra Lyricist & Composer, Freedom Fighter, Ekushey Padak Laureate & National Film Award-Winning Music Director
Sir Bobby Charlton
English Football Legend, 1966 FIFA World Cup Winner, 1966 Ballon d'Or & Manchester United Icon
Sir Charles Wheatstone
English Physicist, Pioneer of the Electric Telegraph, Inventor of the Stereoscope & Concertina
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