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1,666 profilesGottlieb Daimler
17 March 1834 – 6 March 1900
Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900) was a German engineer and industrial designer who, with Wilhelm Maybach, developed the firs...
Gough Whitlam
11 July 1916 – 21 October 2014
Edward Gough Whitlam was an Australian politician who served as the 21st Prime Minister of Australia from 1972 to 1975....
Graça Machel
17 October 1945 – present
Graça Machel (born 1945) is a Mozambican politician and humanitarian who served as Mozambique's first Minister of Educat...
Grace Hopper
9 December 1906 – 1 January 1992
American computer scientist and US Navy rear admiral, a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first co...
Graham Greene
2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991
Graham Greene was an English novelist, short story writer and screenwriter whose work combined thriller plots with moral...
Gregor Mendel
20 July 1822 – 6 January 1884
Austrian friar and scientist whose experiments with pea plants established the basic laws of heredity, founding the scie...
Greta Garbo
18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990
Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American actress and one of the most celebrated stars of Hollywood's silent and early sound er...
Guglielmo Marconi
25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937
Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer known as a pioneer of long-distance radio transmission...
Guillaume de Machaut
c. 1300 – April 1377
Guillaume de Machaut was a French composer and poet, the leading figure of the fourteenth-century Ars Nova. His Messe de...
Günter Grass
16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015
Günter Grass was a German novelist, poet, playwright and graphic artist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999....
Guo Shoujing
1231 – 1316
Guo Shoujing (1231-1316) was a Chinese astronomer, mathematician, and hydraulic engineer of the Yuan dynasty who served...
Guru Dutt
9 July 1925 – 10 October 1964
Guru Dutt was an Indian film director, producer and actor who worked in Hindi cinema during the 1950s and early 1960s. A...
Guru Gobind Singh
22 December 1666 – 7 October 1708
Guru Gobind Singh (1666-1708) was the tenth and last human Guru of Sikhism, a warrior, poet and philosopher. He founded...
Guru Nanak
c. 1469 – 22 September 1539
Guru Nanak (1469-1539) was the founder of Sikhism and the first of the ten Sikh Gurus. Born in Rai Bhoi Ki Talwandi (pre...
Gustav Klimt
14 July 1862 – 6 February 1918
Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and a leading figure of the Vienna Secession movement. He is best known f...
Gustav Mahler
7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911
Gustav Mahler was an Austro-Bohemian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acte...
Gustave Eiffel
15 December 1832 – 27 December 1923
Gustave Eiffel was a French civil engineer and entrepreneur famed for the wrought-iron tower in Paris that bears his nam...
Gustave Flaubert
12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was a French novelist regarded as a leading exponent of literary realism and a master of pr...
Gustavus Adolphus
9 December 1594 – 6 November 1632
Gustavus Adolphus (1594-1632), or Gustav II Adolf, was King of Sweden from 1611 until his death in battle. Regarded as o...
Habib Bourguiba
3 August 1903 – 6 April 2000
Habib Bourguiba was a Tunisian statesman who led the country to independence from France and served as its first preside...
Hafez
c. 1325 – c. 1390
Hafez (Khwaja Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi) was a Persian lyric poet whose collected works, the Divan, are cons...
Hafez al-Assad
6 October 1930 – 10 June 2000
Hafez al-Assad was a Syrian military officer and politician who served as President of Syria from 1971 until his death i...
Haile Gebrselassie
18 April 1973 – present
Haile Gebrselassie is an Ethiopian long-distance runner and businessman. He won Olympic gold in the 10,000 metres in 199...
Haile Selassie
23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975
Haile Selassie was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, the last ruler of the Solomonic dynasty. He led Ethiopia's res...
Hakan Şükür
1 September 1971 – present
Hakan Şükür is a Turkish former footballer who played as a striker, principally for Galatasaray, and is the record goals...
Hakeem Olajuwon
21 January 1963 – present
Hakeem Olajuwon is a Nigerian-American former basketball player who spent most of his career as a centre for the Houston...
Hamdi Ulukaya
26 October 1972 – present
Hamdi Ulukaya is a Turkish-American businessman, born in 1972 to a Kurdish dairy-farming family in Ilic, Erzincan Provin...
Han Kang
27 November 1970 – present
Han Kang is a South Korean writer born in Gwangju, known for novels including The Vegetarian, Human Acts and The White B...
Hanan al-Shaykh
1945 – present
Hanan al-Shaykh is a Lebanese writer whose novels and short stories examine the lives of Arab women, war in Lebanon, and...
Hanan Ashrawi
8 October 1946 – present
Hanan Ashrawi is a Palestinian academic, legislator and diplomat. A professor of English literature at Birzeit Universit...
Hank Aaron
5 February 1934 – 22 January 2021
Hank Aaron (1934–2021) was an American baseball player who spent 23 seasons in Major League Baseball, mostly with the Mi...
Hans Bethe
2 July 1906 – 6 March 2005
Hans Bethe (1906-2005) was a German-American theoretical physicist who made major contributions to nuclear physics and a...
Hans Christian Andersen
2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875
Danish author celebrated for fairy tales such as The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, and The Snow Queen.
Hans Krebs
25 August 1900 – 22 November 1981
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs was a German-born British biochemist who discovered two fundamental metabolic pathways: the ornithi...
Har Gobind Khorana
9 January 1922 – 9 November 2011
Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian-American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for resea...
Harold Pinter
10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008
Harold Pinter was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and director whose plays include The Birthday Party, The Ca...
Harold Urey
29 April 1893 – 5 January 1981
Harold Clayton Urey was an American physical chemist who was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery...
Harold Wilson
11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995
Harold Wilson was a British Labour politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and a...
Harper Lee
28 April 1926 – 19 February 2016
Harper Lee was an American novelist from Monroeville, Alabama, best known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, whic...
Harriet Beecher Stowe
14 June 1811 – 1 July 1896
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was an American author and abolitionist whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) galvanize...
Harriet Tubman
c. 1822 – 10 March 1913
American abolitionist who escaped slavery and then guided dozens of enslaved people to freedom on the Underground Railro...
Harry Oppenheimer
28 October 1908 – 19 August 2000
Harry Oppenheimer was a South African businessman who led the Anglo American Corporation and De Beers Consolidated Mines...
Harry S. Truman
8 May 1884 – 26 December 1972
Harry S. Truman was an American politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States from 1945 to 1953. He a...
Haruki Murakami
12 January 1949 – present
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese novelist, short-story writer and translator whose fiction blends realism with surreal and...
Hassan Fathy
23 March 1900 – 30 November 1989
Hassan Fathy was an Egyptian architect and pioneer of appropriate, sustainable technology who revived traditional mud-br...
Hassan Yazdani
26 December 1994 – present
Hassan Yazdani (born 1994) is an Iranian freestyle wrestler who won the Olympic gold medal in the 74 kg category at the...
Hassiba Boulmerka
10 July 1968 – present
Hassiba Boulmerka is an Algerian former middle-distance runner, born in Constantine in 1968. She won the 1500 metres at...
Hayao Miyazaki
5 January 1941 – present
Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese animator, director, and manga artist, co-founder of Studio Ghibli, and one of the most accl...