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3101 famous people found
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Lisa Gherardini
Italian noblewoman and member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany
1479 - 1542
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Dom PERIGNON
French Benedictine monk
1639 - 1715
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Alexander PUSHKIN
Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era
1799 - 1837
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Diego Velázquez
Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV and of the Spanish Golden Age
1599 - 1660
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Genghis KHAN
Founder and first Great Khan and Emperor of the Mongol Empire
1162 - 1227
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Théodore GERICAULT
French painter and lithographer
1791 - 1824
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Francisco de Goya
Spanish romantic painter and printmaker
1746 - 1828
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Cesare BORGIA
Italian condottiero, nobleman, politician, and cardinal
1475 - 1507
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Jacques-Louis DAVID
French painter in the Neoclassical style
1748 - 1825
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William CAVENDISH-BENTINCK
British Whig and Tory statesman, Chancellor of the University of Oxford and twice Prime Minister of Great Britain
1738 - 1809
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Francis DRAKE
English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era
1540 - 1596
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BEAUMARCHAIS
French playwright, watchmaker, inventor, musician, diplomat, fugitive, spy, publisher, horticulturalist, arms dealer, satirist, financier, and revolutionary (both French and American)
1732 - 1799
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Hernán Cortés
Spanish Conquistador
1485 - 1547
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MAHOMET
Religious, political, and military leader
570 - 632
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Francisco PIZARRO
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire
1478 - 1541
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Leonardo DA VINCI
Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer
1452 - 1519
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Jean François CHAMPOLLION
French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs
1790 - 1832
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René DESCARTES
French philosopher, mathematician, and writer
1596 - 1650
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Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish artist and diplomat
1577 - 1640
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Lord Byron
English romantic poet and peer
1788 - 1824