Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Dizzy Gillespie
Carrie Fisher
Ronald McNair
Jack Kerouac
Ben Bradlee
Horatio Nelson
Sir Bobby Charlton
All Personalities (184 listed)
Arthur Rimbaud
French Symbolist Poet, Precursor of Modern Surrealism & Author of "A Season in Hell"
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
Ayub Bachchu
Legendary Bangladeshi Rock Musician, Singer-Songwriter, Guitar Virtuoso & Founder of Iconic Band LRB (Love Runs Blind)
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Founding Father & Statesman
Begum Rokeya
Pioneer Feminist, Writer & Social Reformer
Ben Bradlee
Legendary Executive Editor of The Washington Post, Watergate Champion & Presidential Medal of Freedom Laureate
Bill Hayden
21st Governor-General of Australia (1989–1996), Leader of the Labor Party & Foreign Minister
Bing Crosby
American Singer, Actor & Multimedia Cultural Icon
Burt Lancaster
Academy Award-Winning American Actor, Film Producer & Hollywood Golden Age Legend
Canaletto
Supreme Venetian Landscape & Veduta Master Painter Whose Panoramic Views of Venice Defined 18th-Century European Art
Carl Ferdinand Cori
1947 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Biochemist & Co-Discoverer of the "Cori Cycle"
Carrie Fisher
American Actress, Screenwriter, Best-Selling Author & Advocate ("Princess Leia" in Star Wars)
Celia Cruz
Cuban-American Salsa Legend, "The Queen of Salsa" & Presidential Medal of the Arts Laureate
César Isella
Argentine Folk Singer-Songwriter, Leader of Los Fronterizos, Composer of "Canción con todos" & UNESCO Artist
César Luis Menotti
World Cup-Winning Argentine Football Manager ("El Flaco") & Tactical Ideologue