Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Heinrich Schütz
All Personalities (537 listed)
Asoka Mehta
Illustrious Indian Freedom Fighter, Socialist Pioneer, Economist & Planning Commission Architect
Atilio Stampone
Tango Pianist, Composer & Conductor
Attilio Ariosti
Baroque Opera Composer & Virtuoso Master of the Viola d'Amore
Atul Prasad Sen
Celebrated Bengali Lyricist, Composer, Poet & Lawyer, Composer of Bengali Anthem "মোদের গরব, মোদের আশা"
Auguste Lumière
French Pioneer of Cinema, Co-Inventor of the Cinématographe & Biomedical Innovator
Augustus Toplady
Anglican Cleric, Theologian & Immortal Hymnwriter of "Rock of Ages"
Aurangzeb
6th Mughal Emperor (Alamgir), Military Commander & Imperial Ruler
Ayub Bachchu
Legendary Bangladeshi Rock Musician, Singer-Songwriter, Guitar Virtuoso & Founder of Iconic Band LRB (Love Runs Blind)
Bahadur Shah Zafar
Last Mughal Emperor of India, Symbolic Leader of the 1857 Indian Uprising & Immortal Classical Urdu Poet
Banda Singh Bahadur
Legendary Sikh General, Commander of the Khalsa Army & Agrarian Reformer
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Founding Father & Statesman
Bangalore Nagarathnamma
Carnatic Vocalist, Cultural Activist & Builder of Saint Tyagaraja Samadhi Memorial
Begum Rokeya
Pioneer Feminist, Writer & Social Reformer
Ben Bradlee
Legendary Executive Editor of The Washington Post, Watergate Champion & Presidential Medal of Freedom Laureate
Benjamin Banneker
African-American Polymath, Astronomer, Almanac Author & Surveyor of Washington, D.C.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court & Author of the Historic Dred Scott Dissent