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.
Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo
Towering Congolese-American basketball Hall of Famer, four-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year, and monumental humanitarian who personally funded and built the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital in Kinshasa.
Paul Richard Alexander
(Paul Alexander)
American lawyer, author, and disability rights advocate who survived in an iron lung for over 70 years after contracting polio at age six, earning a law degree and practicing in court through extraordinary human fortitude.
Johan Vincent Galtung
(Johan Galtung)
Norwegian sociologist, mathematician, and principal founder of the academic discipline of peace and conflict studies, who pioneered the concepts of "structural violence", "negative peace", and "positive peace".
Eleanor Rosalynn Carter (nรฉe Smith)
First Lady of the United States (1977โ1981), visionary mental health advocate, and humanitarian co-founder of The Carter Center. Equal partner to Jimmy Carter across 77 years of marriage, fighting disease and advancing global peace.
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.
Daniel Ellsberg
(Daniel Ellsberg)
American military analyst and courageous whistleblower who in 1971 leaked the top-secret "Pentagon Papers" to The New York Times, exposing decades of US government deception regarding the Vietnam War and precipitating the Watergate scandal.
Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.
Charismatic singer, actor, and towering civil rights champion who popularized Caribbean calypso with Day-O. Close confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. and architect of USA for Africa's We Are the World.
Dominique Lapierre
(Dominique Lapierre)
Celebrated French author and philanthropist who co-wrote monumental international historical bestsellers Is Paris Burning? and Freedom at Midnight with Larry Collins, and dedicated half of his royalties from City of Joy to rescue children with leprosy and tuberculosis in the slums of Kolkata.