Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Icons Remembered & Celebrated Today
Ursula K. Le Guin
Dizzy Gillespie
Carrie Fisher
Ronald McNair
Jack Kerouac
Ben Bradlee
Horatio Nelson
Sir Bobby Charlton
All Personalities (184 listed)
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
11th President of India, Renowned Aerospace Scientist & "People's President"
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States
Akbar the Great
Third Mughal Emperor, Architect of Religious Harmony & Statesman
Alan Turing
Mathematician, Computer Scientist & Cryptanalyst
Albert Einstein
Theoretical Physicist & Nobel Laureate
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Hungarian-American Biochemist, Nobel Laureate in Medicine (1937) & Discoverer of Vitamin C
Albertina Sisulu
South African Anti-Apartheid Leader, Human Rights Champion & Revered "Mother of the Nation"
Alfred Nobel
Swedish Chemist, Engineer, Inventor of Dynamite & Founder of the Nobel Prizes
Alfredo Pián
Argentine Formula One Driver, South American Motorsport Pioneer & Turismo Carretera Legend
Alija Izetbegović
First President of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Statesman, Philosopher & Author
Alphonse de Lamartine
French Romantic Poet, Statesman, Head of the Provisional Government (1848) & Abolitionist
Andrew Fisher
5th Prime Minister of Australia (Three Terms), Founder of the Commonwealth Bank & National Rail
Andrey Kolmogorov
Monumental Soviet Mathematician, Father of Modern Probability Axioms & Algorithmic Complexity
Anne Sullivan
Pioneering American Educator, Lifelong Instructor, Companion & Mentor of Helen Keller
Arthur Henderson
1934 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, British Foreign Secretary & Leader of the Labour Party
Arthur Miller
Pulitzer Prize-Winning American Playwright & Essayist