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6,492 famous people found
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Francisco FRANCO
Spanish general who ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator
1892 - 1975
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Johann STRAUSS
Austrian composer of light music
1825 - 1899
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Fiodor (Fyodor) Dostoïevski (Dostoevsky)
Russian novelist, philosopher, short story writer, essayist, and journalist
1821 - 1881
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Mahatma GANDHI
Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist
1869 - 1948
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Alfred HITCHCOCK
English film director and producer
1899 - 1980
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Howard CARTER
British archaeologist and Egyptologist who became world-famous after discovering the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Tutankhamun
1874 - 1939
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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
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Théodore CHASSERIAU
French Romantic painter
1819 - 1856
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Giacomo PUCCINI
Italian opera composer
1858 - 1924
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Marie CURIE
French-Polish chemist and physicist
1867 - 1934
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Paul ÉLUARD
French poet
1895 - 1952
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Joan Miró
Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist
1893 - 1983
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MATA HARI
Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I
1876 - 1917
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Max LINDER
French actor, director, screenwriter, producer and comedian of the silent film era
1883 - 1925
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John BROWNING
American firearms designer
1855 - 1926
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Cristóbal Balenciaga
Spanish fashion designer, and the founder of the Balenciaga fashion house
1895 - 1972
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Antoni GAUDÍ
Catalan architect
1852 - 1926
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Arthur CONAN DOYLE
Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes
1859 - 1930
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Wolfram Freiherr VON RICHTHOFEN
German Generalfeldmarschall (General Field Marshal) of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) during the Second World War
1895 - 1945
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H. G. WELLS
English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre
1866 - 1946