Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Emma Stone
Ethan Hawke
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
King Gustavus Adolphus
Heinrich Schütz
All Personalities (1084 listed)
Adolf von Baeyer
Nobel Prize-Winning Organic Chemist
Adolphe Sax
Belgian Instrument Designer, Acoustic Inventor & Creator of the Saxophone
Aga Khan III
48th Imam of Nizari Isma'ili Muslims, 1st President of All-India Muslim League & President of League of Nations
Ahmad Faraz
Urdu Poet, Resistance Intellectual & Human Rights Crusader
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Global Film Actress, Miss World 1994, Padma Shri Laureate & UN Goodwill Ambassador
Akbar the Great
Third Mughal Emperor, Architect of Religious Harmony & Statesman
Akiyama Yoshifuru
General in the Imperial Japanese Army & "Father of Modern Japanese Cavalry"
Al Hirt
American Virtuoso Jazz Trumpeter & Bandleader ('The King of the Horn')
Al Jolson
"The World’s Greatest Entertainer", Star of "The Jazz Singer" (First Feature Talkie) & Vaudeville King
Alain Delon
French Film Actor, Cultural Icon & European Cinema Legend
Alan Smith
English Premier League Footballer & England International
Alan Turing
Mathematician, Computer Scientist & Cryptanalyst
Albert Camus
French-Algerian Philosopher, Novelist & Nobel Laureate in Literature
Albert Einstein
Theoretical Physicist & Nobel Laureate
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Hungarian-American Biochemist, Nobel Laureate in Medicine (1937) & Discoverer of Vitamin C