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)
Danielle Darrieux
Legendary French Cinema & Stage Actress, 8-Decade Film Pioneer & Honorary César Winner
Dante Quinterno
Argentine Comic Strip Creator, Animator, Creator of "Patoruzú" & Pioneer of Latin American Color Animation
David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes
Scottish Judge, Historian, Advocate & Luminary of the Scottish Enlightenment
Dean Jagger
Academy Award-Winning American Film & Television Actor
Dhirendranath Datta
Statesman, Lawyer, Pioneer of the 1948 Bengali Language Movement & Martyr of 1971
Dizzy Gillespie
American Jazz Trumpeter, Composer, Bandleader & Founding Pioneer of Bebop and Afro-Cuban Jazz
Domenico Scarlatti
Italian Baroque Composer, Keyboard Virtuoso & Master of 555 Harpsichord Sonatas
Domitian
Roman Emperor (81–96 AD), Final Ruler of the Flavian Dynasty & Empire-Wide Architectural Builder
Douglass North
Nobel Memorial Prize-winning Economist (1993) & Pioneer of New Institutional Economics
Dragutin Tadijanović
Doyen of Croatian Modernist Poetry, Literary Translator & Academician
Dražen Petrović
Hall of Fame Basketball Legend, EuroLeague Champion & NBA All-NBA Guard ("The Mozart of Basketball")
Duns Scotus
Scottish Franciscan Friar, High Scholastic Philosopher & Theologian
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th President of the United States & Five-Star General
Dylan Thomas
World-Renowned Welsh Poet, Playwright, BBC Broadcaster & Author of "Do not go gentle into that good night"
Eddie Daniels
Heroic South African Anti-Apartheid Freedom Fighter, Robben Island Political Prisoner & Nelson Mandela’s Trusted Comrade
Edith Head
Legendary Costume Designer & 8-Time Academy Award Winner