Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries
Filterable archive covering centuries of intellectual, artistic, and moral contributions to the human story.
Mario Molina
(Mario Josรฉ Molina Henrรญquez)
Mexican physical chemist who discovered that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) decompose stratospheric ozone, earning the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and spearheading the Montreal Protocol.
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.
Gisรจle Halimi
(Zeiza Gisรจle รlise Taรฏeb)
Tunisian-born French lawyer and feminist icon who defended Algerian FLN militants against military torture, co-founded the movement Choisir la Cause des Femmes with Simone de Beauvoir, and won the landmark Bobigny Trial.
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.
Cordy Tindell Vivian
(C. T. Vivian)
Pasteur et lieutenant hรฉroรฏque de Martin Luther King Jr., Freedom Rider brutalement frappรฉ par le shรฉrif Clark ร Selma dont la dignitรฉ pacifiste fit basculer l'opinion.
John Lewis
(John Robert Lewis)
American statesman and civil rights leader who was one of the 'Big Six' leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, survived brutal beatings on Bloody Sunday in Selma, and served over three decades in Congress.
Ennio Morricone
(Ennio Morricone)
Legendary Italian composer and orchestrator whose over 400 film scores redefined cinematic music.
Wes Unseld
(Westley Sissel Unseld)
Westley Sissel 'Wes' Unseld was an immovable, selfless American basketball center who joined Wilt Chamberlain as one of only two players in NBA history to win Rookie of the Year and the regular-season MVP in the same season (1969). The cornerstone of the Baltimore/Washington Bullets franchise, he guided them to the 1978 NBA championship with bone-crushing screens and the greatest two-handed overhead outlet passes in basketball history.
Don Shula
(Donald Francis Shula)
Donald Francis Shula was an American football coaching titan who holds the all-time NFL record for the most career victories by a head coach (347 wins). The architect of the Miami Dolphins dynasty, he coached the immortal 1972 Dolphins to an unblemished 17-0 recordโthe only completely undefeated, untied regular and postseason championship in NFL history.
Idir
(ุฅูุฏูุฑ (ุญู
ูุฏ ุดุฑูุช))
Beloved Algerian Kabyle singer-songwriter and acoustic guitarist whose 1976 lullaby 'A Vava Inouva' became the first international world music hit from North Africa, heard in seventy-seven countries.
Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss
(Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss)
English racing driver, widely acclaimed as the greatest driver never to win the Formula One World Championship, winner of 212 races across disciplines.
Joseph Echols Lowery
(Joseph Lowery)
Pasteur mรฉthodiste surnommรฉ le ยซ Doyen du mouvement des droits civiques ยป, cofondateur de la SCLC avec Martin Luther King Jr., engagรฉ pour la paix et contre l'apartheid.
Betty Williams
(Betty Williams)
Militante de la paix nord-irlandaise, cofondatrice du mouvement Community of Peace People aprรจs le drame des enfants Maguire, prix Nobel de la paix 1976.
Kobe Bryant
(Kobe Bean Bryant)
Kobe Bean Bryant was an iconic American basketball player who spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, winning five NBA championships, the 2008 NBA MVP award, two Olympic gold medals, and scoring 81 points in a single game (second highest in NBA history). His relentless work ethic, codified worldwide as 'Mamba Mentality', inspired millions of athletes across the globe.
Peter Snell
(Sir Peter George Snell)
Sir Peter George Snell was a powerhouse New Zealand middle-distance runner who captured three Olympic gold medals and set world records in the 800 meters, 1,000 meters, and the mile. The premier disciple of coaching visionary Arthur Lydiard, he achieved the rare 800m/1,500m double at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and later became an eminent professor of exercise physiology.
Raymond Poulidor
(Raymond Poulidor)
French racing cyclist affectionately adored as 'Poupou', eight-time Tour de France podium finisher and winner of the 1964 Vuelta a Espaรฑa.
Ciaran McKeown
(Ciaran McKeown)
Journaliste et penseur nord-irlandais, cofondateur et thรฉoricien de la non-violence au sein du mouvement Peace People.
Sir Dawda Jawara
(Dawda Kairaba Jawara)
Founding Father and first leader of The Gambia who led the nation from independence in 1965 to 1994, preserving democratic constitutional rule in a continent dominated by military coups.