Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Ethan Hawke
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
King Gustavus Adolphus
Heinrich Schütz
All Personalities (537 listed)
Suleiman the Magnificent
Tenth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, "The Lawgiver" (Kanuni) & Imperial Patron
Süleyman Demirel
9th President of Turkey, 7-Time Prime Minister & Titan of Modern Turkish Democracy
Sultan Ibrahim I
Ottoman Sultan (reigned 1640–1648) & Sovereign of the Sublime Porte
Sunil Gangopadhyay
Supreme Bengali Novelist, Poet, President of Sahitya Akademi & Creator of Kakababu
Syed Nazrul Islam
Acting President of Bangladesh (1971) & National Leader Martyred in Jail Killing
Sylvia Plath
Pulitzer Prize-Winning American Poet, Novelist & Pioneer of Confessional Poetry
Tajuddin Ahmad
1st Prime Minister of Bangladesh & Visionary Leader of the 1971 Liberation War
Takeoff
Influential American Rapper, Lyricist & Core Member of Hip-Hop Pioneers Migos
The Báb
Iranian Religious Reformer, Mystic Prophet, Founder of Bábism & Herald of the Baháʼí Faith
The Big Bopper
Pioneering American Rock and Roll Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist & Disc Jockey
Theo van Gogh
Film Director, Columnist & Satirist
Theodor Mommsen
Classical Historian, Jurist & Nobel Prize in Literature Laureate (1902) for A History of Rome
Theodor von Oppolzer
Renowned Austrian Astronomer, Mathematician & Author of the Monumental "Canon of Eclipses"
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States, Nobel Peace Laureate, Conservationist & Historian
Thiệu Trị
3rd Emperor of the Nguyễn Dynasty of Vietnam, Scholar & Imperial Poet
Thomas Babington Macaulay
British Historian, Whig Statesman, Essayist & Principal Author of the Indian Penal Code (IPC 1860)