Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries
Filterable archive covering centuries of intellectual, artistic, and moral contributions to the human story.
Charles Bailleul
Charles Bailleul was a French linguist and Roman Catholic missionary, a member of the White Fathers.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.
Renรฉ Backmann
Renรฉ Backmann was a French journalist known for international reporting at Le Nouvel Observateur and later for his columns at Mediapart, with work focusing on the Middle East and on questions of rights and humanitarian crises. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.
Paul Glynn
Paul Glynn was an Australian Marist missionary priest and writer. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.
Abdullahi Abubakar
Abdullahi Abubakar was a Nigerian Islamic cleric and humanitarian. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.
Nancy Skinner Nordhoff
Nancy Skinner Nordhoff was an American philanthropist and environmentalist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.
Marshall Rose
Marshall Rose was an American real estate developer and philanthropist who was the founder of the Georgetown Company, which oversaw the renovation of Madison Square Garden and the construction of the IAC Building.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.
Muhammad bin Fahd Al Saud
Muhammad bin Fahd Al Saud was a Saudi prince, politician, and philanthropist who served as governor of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia from 1985 to 2013. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.
Maruxa Pita
Marรญa Dolores "Maruxa" Pita Lissarrague was a Spanish missionary and teacher who lived most of her life in the Philippines. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.
Franรงois Ponchaud
Franรงois Ponchaud was a French Catholic priest and missionary to Cambodia. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.
Louis Schittly
Louis Schittly was a French physician and humanitarian. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.
Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari
(Martti Ahtisaari)
Prรฉsident de la Rรฉpublique de Finlande et mรฉdiateur diplomatique d'exception de l'ONU en Namibie, au Kosovo et en Indonรฉsie, Nobel de la paix 2008.
William David Trimble, Baron Trimble
(David Trimble)
Homme d'รtat nord-irlandais, dirigeant du Parti unioniste d'Ulster et Premier ministre d'Irlande du Nord, prix Nobel de la paix 1998.
Paul Edward Farmer
(Paul Farmer)
Mรฉdecin et anthropologue amรฉricain, cofondateur de Partners In Health, rรฉvolutionnaire de la santรฉ mondiale offrant des soins de pointe aux populations les plus pauvres.
Thรญch Nhแบฅt Hแบกnh
(Thรญch Nhแบฅt Hแบกnh (Nguyแป
n Xuรขn Bแบฃo))
Maรฎtre bouddhiste zen vietnamien, poรจte et artisan de paix internationale, pionnier du bouddhisme engagรฉ et fondateur du Village des Pruniers.
Sir Brian Edward Urquhart
(Brian Urquhart)
Diplomate britannique lรฉgendaire de l'ONU, deuxiรจme fonctionnaire recrutรฉ lors de la fondation de l'organisation et cocrรฉateur avec Ralph Bunche des Casques bleus.
Pierantonio Costa
(Pierantonio Costa)
Italian honorary consul in Kigali who spent his personal wealth to rescue nearly two thousand people, including hundreds of children, during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.
John Hume
(John Hume)
Homme politique nord-irlandais, principal bรขtisseur de l'accord de paix du Vendredi saint de 1998 et laurรฉat du prix Nobel de la paix 1998.
John Robert Lewis
(John Lewis)
Lรฉgende des droits civiques et apรดtre du ยซ Bon dรฉsordre ยป (Good Trouble), prรฉsident du SNCC, sauvagement blessรฉ sur le pont Edmund Pettus lors du Bloody Sunday ร Selma.