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)
Ruby Dee
Legendary American Actress, Poet, Playwright, Civil Rights Activist & SAG Lifetime Honoree
Ruth Handler
Business Icon, Co-Founder of Mattel & Creator of the Worldwide Phenomenon Barbie Doll
Sadashiv Amrapurkar
Celebrated National Award & Filmfare-Winning Actor (Ardh Satya, Sadak) & Social Activist
Saint Malachy
Archbishop of Armagh & Reformer
Sam Shepard
Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright, Oscar-nominated Actor & Theater Icon
Samora Machel
Founding Father & First President of Independent Mozambique, Anti-Colonial Revolutionary & Pan-African Hero
Samuel Scheidt
Pioneering German Early Baroque Composer, Organist & Author of Tabulatura Nova (1624)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English Romantic Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher & Co-Author of "Lyrical Ballads"
Sandipan Chattopadhyay
Renowned Avant-Garde Bengali Novelist, Hungry Generation Movement Pioneer & Sahitya Akademi Award Winner
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
Sarah Josepha Hale
Pioneering American Editor, Author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" & "The Mother of Thanksgiving"
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
Severo Ochoa
Biochemist, Molecular Biologist & Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Laureate (1959)
Shakuntala Devi
World-Renowned Mental Calculator ("Human Computer"), Astrologer & Author