Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries
Filterable archive covering centuries of intellectual, artistic, and moral contributions to the human story.
Juan Gelman
Juan Gelman was an Argentine poet. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.
Sir Nicholas Browne
Sir Nicholas Walker Browne, KBE, CMG was a British diplomat. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to leadership.
Manibhushan Bhattacharya
Manibhushan Bhattacharya was a major poet who transformed the language of Bengali poetry in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.
Neal Barrett Jr.
Neal Barrett Jr. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.
William Feindel
William Howard Feindel was a Canadian neurosurgeon, scientist and professor.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Zoltรกn Pรกl Dienes
Zoltรกn Pรกl Dienes, anglicized as Zoltan Paul Dienes, was a Hungarian mathematician whose ideas on education have been popular in some countries. He was a world-famous theorist and tireless practitioner of the "new mathematics": an approach to mathematics learning that uses games, songs, and dance to make it more appealing to children. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Taissa S. Hauser
Taissa S. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to philosophy.
Joel Barkan
Joel David Barkan was an American political scientist with a particular expertise in political development in Africa. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to philosophy.
Riad Barmada
Riad Barmada was a Syrian-American orthopaedic surgeon and professor. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Hadi Thayeb
Teuku Mohammad Hadi Thayeb was a senior Indonesian diplomat and politician. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to leadership.
Zbigniew Messner
Zbigniew Stefan Messner was a Polish communist politician and economist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to leadership.
Rynn Berry
Rynn Berry was an American author and scholar on vegetarianism and veganism, as well as a pioneer in the animal rights and vegan movements.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.
Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka, previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.
Marc Yor
Marc Yor was a French mathematician well known for his work on stochastic processes, especially properties of semimartingales, Brownian motion and other Lรฉvy processes, the Bessel processes, and their applications to mathematical finance.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Dale T. Mortensen
Dale Thomas Mortensen was an American economist, a professor at Northwestern University, and a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Jean-Jacques Moreau
Jean Jacques Moreau was a French mathematician and mechanician. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
D. Harold McNamara
Delbert Harold McNamara, Ph.D. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Jacques Lazarus
Jacques Lazarus was a French military officer who was a leader of the Jewish resistance in France during World War II.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.