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)
Bram Stoker
Irish Gothic Novelist & Author of 'Dracula'
Burt Lancaster
Academy Award-Winning American Actor, Independent Film Producer & Cultural Pioneer
C. Gordon Fullerton
NASA Astronaut, Space Shuttle Commander & US Air Force Colonel
C. V. Raman
Indian Physicist & Nobel Laureate (Discoverer of the Raman Effect)
Canaletto
Supreme Venetian Landscape & Veduta Master Painter Whose Panoramic Views of Venice Defined 18th-Century European Art
Captain James Cook
Legendary British Royal Navy Captain, Maritime Explorer, Navigator & Cartographer
Captain M. Mansur Ali
3rd Prime Minister of Bangladesh & National Leader Martyred in Jail Killing
Carl Ferdinand Cori
1947 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Biochemist & Co-Discoverer of the "Cori Cycle"
Carl Sagan
American Astronomer, Planetary Scientist, Cosmologist & Science Communicator ('Cosmos')
Carlo Gnocchi
Italian Priest, Educator, WWII Military Chaplain, Humanitarian & Beatified Founder of the Pro Juventute Foundation
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
20th President of Chile, General & Founder of the Carabineros de Chile
Carlos Lamarca
Brazilian Army Captain, Marksmanship Champion & Guerrilla Leader Against Military Dictatorship
Carlos Marighella
Brazilian Marxist Political Leader, Anti-Dictatorship Revolutionary & Author
Carlos P. Garcia
8th President of the Philippines, Statesman & Champion of the "Filipino First" Policy
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Jurist, Foreign Minister of Argentina & First Latin American Nobel Peace Laureate
Caroline Unger
Historic Austrian Contralto Singer (Premiered Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony)