Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Icons Remembered & Celebrated Today
Emma Stone
Ethan Hawke
John Philip Sousa
Charles Dow
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
King Gustavus Adolphus
Heinrich Schütz
All Personalities (537 listed)
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
Albertina Sisulu
South African Anti-Apartheid Leader, Human Rights Champion & Revered "Mother of the Nation"
Alberto Spencer
All-Time Top Goalscorer in Copa Libertadores History (54 Goals) & Peñarol Legend
Alexander III of Russia
Emperor of Russia ("The Peacemaker"), King of Poland & Grand Duke of Finland
Alexis Hunter
Pioneering Contemporary Feminist Artist, Photographer & Visual Educator
Alfonso II of Naples
King of Naples (1494–1495), Renaissance Military Commander & Architectural Patron
Alfred Nobel
Swedish Chemist, Engineer, Inventor of Dynamite & Founder of the Nobel Prizes
Alfred Wegener
Meteorologist, Geophysicist & Originator of the Continental Drift Theory
Alfredo Pián
Argentine Formula One Driver, South American Motorsport Pioneer & Turismo Carretera Legend
Alija Izetbegović
First President of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Statesman, Philosopher & Author
Allama Iqbal
Philosopher, Scholar, Barrister & National Poet of Pakistan ('Mufakkir-e-Pakistan')
Alois Senefelder
German-Austrian Playwright, Actor & Inventor of Lithography Printing
Alphonse de Lamartine
French Romantic Poet, Statesman, Head of the Provisional Government (1848) & Abolitionist