Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Emma Stone
Ethan Hawke
John Philip Sousa
Charles Dow
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
King Gustavus Adolphus
Heinrich Schütz
All Personalities (537 listed)
Marie Antoinette
Queen of France and Navarre & Historical Monarch of the Ancien Régime
Marie Curie
Polish-French Physicist, Chemist & Pioneer of Radioactivity
Martha Gellhorn
American War Correspondent, Novelist & Travel Writer
Martin de Porres
First Black Saint of the Americas, Dominican Lay Brother & Patron of Social Justice
Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil Rights Leader, Baptist Minister & Nobel Laureate
Mary Travers
American Folk Singer-Songwriter & Member of 'Peter, Paul and Mary'
Matangini Hazra
Iconic Bengali Revolutionary, Freedom Fighter & Martyr of the Quit India Movement ("Gandhi Buri")
Matilda of Flanders
Queen of England & Duchess of Normandy
Max Linder
Pioneer of Silent Screen Comedy, Film Director, Actor & Profound Influence on Charlie Chaplin
Max Stirner
Radical German Philosopher, Seminal Thinker of Individualist Anarchism, Egoism & Nihilism
Mehmed V
Ottoman Sultan & Caliph
Michael Crichton
Bestselling Author, Physician, Screenwriter & Creator of Jurassic Park and ER
Miguel Ángel Asturias
1967 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Pioneer of Magical Realism & Social Justice Novelist
Mikhail Artsybashev
Naturalist Russian Novelist, Dramatist & Author of Sanin
Mikhail Tal
8th World Chess Champion & Grandmaster ('The Magician from Riga')
Milkha Singh
Iconic Indian Olympic Sprinter, Asian & Commonwealth Games Gold Medalist ("The Flying Sikh")