Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries
Filterable archive covering centuries of intellectual, artistic, and moral contributions to the human story.
Djamila Amrane-Minne (Daniรจle Minne)
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ููุฉ ุนู
ุฑุงู ู
ูู (ุฏุงูููู ู
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Freedom fighter in the ALN maquis of Wilaya 3, imprisoned in Barberousse, who became the pioneering university historian of women in the Algerian War.
Lorenzo Servitje
Lorenzo Servitje Sendra, was a Mexican accountant and businessman, who co-founded Grupo Bimbo, the world's largest bakery company, in 1945 with four partners, Jaime Jorba, Jaime Sendra, Alfonso Velasco and Josรฉ T. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.
Saloua Raouda Choucair
(ุณููู ุฑูุถุฉ ุดููุฑ)
Centenarian pioneer of abstract art in the Arab world, acclaimed worldwide for her modular, interlocking geometric sculptures.
Buchi Emecheta
(Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta)
Nigerian-born British novelist celebrated for The Joys of Motherhood, Second Class Citizen, and The Bride Price, whose fiction dissected the double burdens of colonial racism and patriarchal traditions.
Helena Kmieฤ
Helena Agnieszka Kmieฤ was a Polish Catholic missionary who was awarded the Polish Gold Cross of Merit. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.
Emma Tennant
Emma Christina Tennant FRSL was an English novelist and editor of Scottish extraction, known for a post-modern approach to her fiction, often imbued with fantasy or magic. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.
Hubert Lucot
Hubert Lucot was a French poet and metafiction writer. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.
Jung Mikyung
Jung Mi-Kyung was a modern South Korean novelist.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.
Eddie Long
Eddie Lee Long was an American pastor who served as the senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a megachurch in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, from 1987 until his death in 2017.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.
Nasir al-Din Nasir Hunzai
Partaw-i Shah Nasir al-Din Nasir Hubb-i 'Ali Hunzai, known also as 'Allamah Hunzai,, 'Allamah Sahib, or by his epithets, Baba-yi Burushaski, Lisan al-Qawm and Hakim al-Qalam, was a 20th and 21st century theologian, philosopher, Isma'ili scholar, poet and linguist known for his work on Islamic theology, metaphysics, hermeneutics, poetry and the Burushaski language. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.
Babette Cole
Babette Cole was an English children's writer and illustrator.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.
Erwin Obermair
Erwin Obermair was an Electrician, Austrian amateur astronomer and co-discoverer of asteroids.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Eldar Kuliev
Eldar Kaisynovich Kuliev was a Russian Soviet film director and screenwriter. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.
Walter Benz
Walter Benz was a German mathematician, an expert in geometry.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
James Fairfax
James Oswald Fairfax was an Australian company director, philanthropist, and a member of the Fairfax family, an Australian family prominent in the newspaper publisher industry.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.
Henry Foner
Henry Joseph Foner was a 20th-century Jewish-American social activist and president for more than two decades of the Joint Board, Fur, Leather and Machine Workers Union (FLM).. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.
Nikolay Neprimerov
Nikolay Neprimerov was a Doctor of Technical Sciences and professor of physics at the Kazan State University. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Alan Drysdall
Alan Roy Drysdall was an English geologist who worked in southern Africa. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.