Arts and Culture
9,017 famous people found
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Jim HENSON
American puppeteer, animator, cartoonist, actor, inventor, filmmaker, and screenwriter who achieved worldwide notice as the creator of The Muppets
1936 - 1990 -
Sean CONNERY
Scottish actor
1930 - 2020 -
Steven SEAGAL
American actor, producer, screenwriter, martial artist, and musician
1952 -
Nellie BLY
American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days
1864 - 1922 -
Elie WIESEL
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor
1928 - 2016 -
Jack LONDON
American novelist, journalist, and social activist
1876 - 1916 -
Robert SCHUMANN
German composer, pianist, and influential music critic
1810 - 1856 -
Joan BAEZ
American singer, songwriter, musician and activist
1941 -
Dan BROWN
American author best known for his thriller novels
1964 -
STING
English musician and actor
1951 -
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch post-impressionist painter
1853 - 1890 -
Jane RUSSELL
American film actress and one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s
1921 - 2011 -
Chuck BERRY
American singer and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music
1926 - 2017 -
Stevie WONDER
American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
1950 -
Carly SIMON
American singer-songwriter, musician, and children's author
1945 -
James Taylor
American singer, songwriter, and musician
1948 -
Quentin TARANTINO
American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor
1963 -
Angus YOUNG
Australian musician, best known as the co-founder, lead guitarist, songwriter and the only remaining original member of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC
1955 -
Tony CURTIS
American film actor
1924 - 2010 -
Alexander PUSHKIN
Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era
1799 - 1837