Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries
Filterable archive covering centuries of intellectual, artistic, and moral contributions to the human story.
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.
Joy Chatel
Joy Chatel, also known as Mama Joy, was a cosmetologist, community organizer and activist based in Brooklyn, New York. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.
Robert Ascher
Robert Ascher was an American archaeologist, anthropologist, ethnomathematician, and experimental filmmaker. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to philosophy.
Alvin Aubert
Alvin Bernard Aubert was an American academic, poet, playwright, editor, literary critic, and scholar who championed African-American culture and rural life along the southern Mississippi River.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.
E. J. Lowe
Edward Jonathan Lowe, usually cited as E. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to philosophy.
Augusto Graziani
Augusto Graziani was an Italian economist, Professor in Political Economy at University la Sapienza, most known for his contribution to monetary economics in founding monetary circuit theory.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to philosophy.
Annamรกria Kinde
Annamรกria Kinde was a Romanian journalist, poet and editor.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.
M'hamed Benguettaf
M'hamed Benguettaf was an Algerian actor and playwright.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.
K. P. Udayabhanu
Kizhakke Potta Udayabhanu was an Indian playback singer and music director, mainly in Malayalam films. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to arts.