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)
Charles Babbage
English Mathematician, Mechanical Engineer & "Father of the Computer"
Charles Gounod
Master French Romantic Opera Composer, Renowned for Faust, Roméo et Juliette, and the Immortal Méditation (Ave Maria)
Charlie Chaplin
Comic Actor, Filmmaker & Composer (The Tramp)
Chuck Berry
Singer, Songwriter, Guitar Virtuoso & "Father of Rock and Roll"
Clinton Davisson
American Physicist, Nobel Laureate in Physics (1937) for the Discovery of Electron Diffraction
Colin Powell
Four-Star General, 65th U.S. Secretary of State & First African American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Curly Howard
Legendary Vaudeville & Slapstick Comedian, The Iconic Breakout Star of "The Three Stooges"
Danielle Darrieux
Legendary French Cinema & Stage Actress, 8-Decade Film Pioneer & Honorary César Winner
Dizzy Gillespie
American Jazz Trumpeter, Composer, Bandleader & Founding Pioneer of Bebop and Afro-Cuban Jazz
Dražen Petrović
Hall of Fame Basketball Legend, EuroLeague Champion & NBA All-NBA Guard ("The Mozart of Basketball")
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th President of the United States & Five-Star General
Edna St. Vincent Millay
First Woman to Win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Lyrical Poet & Playwright
Edogawa Ranpo
Father of Japanese Detective Fiction, Master of Psychological Mystery & Founder of MWJ
Ernest Rutherford
"Father of Nuclear Physics", Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1908) & Discoverer of the Atomic Nucleus & Proton
Eudóxia Maria Froehlich
Brazilian Zoologist, Biodiversity Academic & World Authority on Neotropical Land Planarians
Evangelista Torricelli
Italian Physicist, Mathematician & Inventor of the Barometer