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5,397 famous people found
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Léon GAUMONT
French inventor, engineer, and industrialist who was a pioneer of the motion picture industry
1864 - 1946 -
Luis Buñuel
Spanish filmmaker
1900 - 1983 -
Federico GARCÍA LORCA
Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director
1898 - 1936 -
Fred ASTAIRE
American actor, dancer, singer, choreographer, and television presenter
1899 - 1987 -
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 -
Wallis SIMPSON
American socialite and wife of the Duke of Windsor, the former British king Edward VIII
1896 - 1986 -
Robert SCHUMANN
German composer, pianist, and influential music critic
1810 - 1856 -
Jack LONDON
American novelist, journalist, and social activist
1876 - 1916 -
Nikola TESLA
Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist
1856 - 1943 -
Robert BADEN-POWELL
British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Scout Movement, and founder, with his sister Agnes, of the world-wide Girl Guide / Girl Scout Movement
1857 - 1941 -
Vincent VAN GOGH
Dutch post-impressionist painter
1853 - 1890 -
Francisco FRANCO
Spanish general who ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator
1892 - 1975 -
Johann STRAUSS
Austrian composer of light music
1825 - 1899 -
Fiodor (Fyodor) Dostoïevski (Dostoevsky)
Russian novelist, philosopher, short story writer, essayist, and journalist
1821 - 1881 -
Mahatma GANDHI
Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist
1869 - 1948 -
Alfred HITCHCOCK
English film director and producer
1899 - 1980 -
Howard CARTER
British archaeologist and Egyptologist who became world-famous after discovering the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Tutankhamun
1874 - 1939 -
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion
1892 - 1973 -
Théodore CHASSERIAU
French Romantic painter
1819 - 1856 -
Giacomo PUCCINI
Italian opera composer
1858 - 1924