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 (1084 listed)
Donny Robinson
Olympic BMX Racing Bronze Medalist (Beijing 2008) & UCI World Champion
Douglass North
Nobel Memorial Prize-winning Economist (1993) & Pioneer of New Institutional Economics
Dr. Muhammad Yunus
Economist, Social Entrepreneur & Nobel Peace Laureate
Dragutin Tadijanović
Doyen of Croatian Modernist Poetry, Literary Translator & Academician
Drake
Global Hip-Hop Icon, 5-Time Grammy Award Winner & Best-Selling Music Artist of the Streaming Era
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"
Ed Robertson
Celebrated Canadian Musician, Lead Singer & Songwriter of Barenaked Ladies, Composer of The Big Bang Theory Theme
Eddie Daniels
Heroic South African Anti-Apartheid Freedom Fighter, Robben Island Political Prisoner & Nelson Mandela’s Trusted Comrade
Eddie Kaye Thomas
American Film, Television & Stage Actor (Paul Finch in American Pie, Toby in Scorpion)
Eddy Cue
Senior Vice President of Services at Apple Inc., Architect of iTunes, App Store & Apple Music
Edith Head
Legendary Costume Designer & 8-Time Academy Award Winner
Edmond Halley
English Astronomer, Mathematician & Physicist (Halley's Comet)
Edmund Kean
Celebrated British Shakespearean Tragedian & Drury Lane Theatre Legend