Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries
Filterable archive covering centuries of intellectual, artistic, and moral contributions to the human story.
Annette Charles
(Annette Cardona)
American actress and dancer forever remembered for her show-stopping turn as 'Cha Cha' DiGregorio, the fierce dancer who wins the national dance-off with John Travolta in Grease (1978).
Andrea Pazzagli
(Andrea Pazzagli)
Italian football goalkeeper who guarded the goal for Arrigo Sacchi's legendary AC Milan side, winning the 1990 European Cup, European Super Cup, and Intercontinental Cup.
Hideki Irabu
(ไผ่ฏ้จ ็ง่ผ)
Flamethrowing Japanese pitcher whose 99 mph fastball dominated Japan's Pacific League before he signed with the New York Yankees, winning two World Series championships.
Jacques Fatton
(Jacques Fatton)
Prolific Swiss international striker nicknamed 'Jacky', who scored 274 league goals for Servette FC and famously scored twice against Brazil in the 1950 World Cup.
Jeret Peterson
(Jeret 'Speedy' Peterson)
Fearless American freestyle aerial skier nicknamed 'Speedy', who invented the breathtaking 'Hurricane' jump (three flips and five twists) to win Olympic silver at Vancouver 2010.
Michael Cacoyannis
(ฮฮนฯฮฌฮปฮทฯ ฮฮฑฮบฮฟฮณฮนฮฌฮฝฮฝฮทฯ)
Cypriot-Greek film director and theatrical visionary best known for his 1964 international classic Zorba the Greek and his acclaimed cinematic adaptations of Euripidean tragedies.
David Servan-Schreiber
(David Servan-Schreiber)
French neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and physician whose international bestsellers Healing Without Freud or Prozac and Anticancer pioneered integrative medicine and lifestyle oncology.
Amy Winehouse
(Amy Jade Winehouse)
Prodigious English singer and songwriter whose rich, expressive contralto and mix of soul, jazz, and R&B on Back to Black won five Grammy Awards and revived vintage soul music.
John Shalikashvili
(John Malchase David Shalikashvili)
General who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1993 to 1997, the first foreign-born person to hold America's highest military post, having risen from drafted private.
Lucian Freud
(Lucian Michael Freud)
British painter born in Germany, grandson of Sigmund Freud, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest figurative artists of the 20th century for his unsparing, intensely physical nudes and portraits.
Googie Withers
(Georgette Lizette Withers)
Beloved Anglo-Australian stage and film actress whose eight-decade career featured classics including Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, It Always Rains on Sunday, and Night and the City.
Roland Petit
(Roland Petit)
Legendary French choreographer and dancer who revitalized 20th-century ballet with theatrical energy, creating Le Jeune Homme et la Mort and directing the Ballet National de Marseille for 26 years.
Facundo Cabral
(Rodolfo Enrique Facundo Cabral)
Beloved Argentine singer-songwriter and philosopher whose 1970 song No soy de aquรญ ni soy de allรก became an international humanist anthem, designated a UNESCO World Messenger of Peace.
Mika Myllylรค
(Mika Kristian Myllylรค)
One of Finland's greatest cross-country skiers, who won Olympic gold in the 30 km classical at Nagano 1998 and claimed four gold medals at World Championships.
Cy Twombly
(Edwin Parker Twombly Jr.)
Master American abstract painter and sculptor whose large-scale calligraphic scribbles, graffiti-like marks, and poetic invocations of classical mythology redefined post-war contemporary art.
Otto von Habsburg
(Franz Joseph Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xaver Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius von Habsburg-Lothringen)
The last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary who renounced his claim to the imperial throne, fiercely opposed Hitler, and served as a Member of the European Parliament for two decades, co-organizing the 1989 Pan-European Picnic.
Anna Massey
(Anna Raymond Massey)
Acclaimed English actress who won the BAFTA TV Award for Hotel du Lac and starred in Michael Powell's Peeping Tom and Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy.
Peter Falk
(Peter Michael Falk)
Iconic American actor who gained global affection as the rumpled, deceptively brilliant police detective Lieutenant Columbo, and starred in independent classics for John Cassavetes.