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1,666 profilesHoward Hughes
24 December 1905 – 5 April 1976
Howard Hughes was an American business magnate, aviator, engineer and film producer. He inherited the Hughes Tool Compan...
Huang Daopo
c. 1245 – c. 1330
Huang Daopo (c. 1245-c. 1330) was a textile innovator of the late Song and Yuan dynasties who revolutionized China's cot...
Huda Sha'arawi
23 June 1879 – 12 December 1947
Huda Sha'arawi was an Egyptian feminist leader and nationalist who founded the Egyptian Feminist Union. She became a pio...
Hugh Masekela
4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018
Hugh Masekela was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer and singer regarded as a founding figure of modern...
Hugo Chávez
28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013
Hugo Chávez was a Venezuelan military officer and politician who served as President of Venezuela from 1999 until his de...
Hugo Grotius
10 April 1583 – 28 August 1645
Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) was a Dutch humanist, jurist, and statesman widely regarded as a father of international law. H...
Hurrem Sultan
c. 1504 – 15 April 1558
Hurrem Sultan (c. 1504-1558), known in Europe as Roxelana, was the chief consort and legal wife of Ottoman sultan Suleim...
Hussein of Jordan
14 November 1935 – 7 February 1999
Hussein bin Talal was the king of Jordan from 1952 until his death in 1999, one of the longest-reigning monarchs of the...
Ibn al-Nafis
c. 1213 – 17 December 1288
Ibn al-Nafis was an Arab physician and polymath of the Mamluk era, best known as the first person to describe the pulmon...
Ibn Arabi
28 July 1165 – 16 November 1240
Ibn Arabi was an Andalusian Sufi mystic, philosopher, and poet, honored in the Islamic tradition as 'al-Shaykh al-Akbar'...
Ibn Battuta
25 February 1304 – 1369
Ibn Battuta (1304–1369) was a Moroccan scholar and the greatest traveller of the medieval world. Over nearly thirty year...
Ibn Khaldun
27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406
Arab historian and social theorist whose Muqaddimah laid foundations for historiography, sociology, and economics.
Ibrahim El-Salahi
5 September 1930 – present
Ibrahim El-Salahi is a Sudanese painter regarded as a pioneer of African and Arab modernism. A leading figure of the Kha...
Ichiro Suzuki
22 October 1973 – present
Ichiro Suzuki is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder who played in Nippon Professional Baseball for the O...
Ida B. Wells
16 July 1862 – 25 March 1931
Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early civil rights leader born into sla...
Idi Amin
c. 1925 – 16 August 2003
Idi Amin was a Ugandan military officer who ruled Uganda as president from 1971 to 1979 after seizing power in a coup. H...
Ignatius of Loyola
c. 1491 – 31 July 1556
Ignatius of Loyola (c. 1491-1556) was a Spanish Basque priest and theologian who founded the Society of Jesus (the Jesui...
Ignaz Semmelweis
1 July 1818 – 13 August 1865
Ignaz Semmelweis was a Hungarian physician who discovered that the incidence of puerperal (childbed) fever could be dras...
Igor Sikorsky
25 May 1889 – 26 October 1972
Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (1889-1972) was a Russian-American aviation pioneer who designed and flew the world's first mult...
Igor Stravinsky
17 June 1882 – 6 April 1971
Igor Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, pianist and conductor widely regarded as one of the most influential musici...
Ihara Saikaku
1642 – 9 September 1693
Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693) was a Japanese poet and writer of the Edo period, the creator of the ukiyo-zōshi ('floating wo...
Ilya Prigogine
25 January 1917 – 28 May 2003
Ilya Prigogine was a Russian-born Belgian physical chemist who worked on non-equilibrium thermodynamics. He received the...
Ilya Repin
5 August 1844 – 29 September 1930
Ilya Repin (1844-1930) was a Russian realist painter, widely regarded as the most renowned Russian artist of the 19th ce...
Immanuel Kant
22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804
German philosopher whose Critique of Pure Reason reshaped Western philosophy by examining the limits and structure of hu...
Imran Khan
5 October 1952 – present
Imran Khan is a Pakistani politician and former cricketer who captained Pakistan to victory in the 1992 Cricket World Cu...
Indira Gandhi
19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984
Indian stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of India for a total of 15 years — the country's first and, to date, onl...
Ingmar Bergman
14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007
Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish film and theatre director, writer, and producer regarded as one of the most influential fil...
Ingrid Bergman
29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982
Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who became one of the most acclaimed film stars of Hollywood's golden age and inter...
Ingvar Kamprad
30 March 1926 – 27 January 2018
Ingvar Kamprad was a Swedish businessman, born in Smaland in 1926, who founded the furniture retailer IKEA in 1943 at th...
Irving Langmuir
31 January 1881 – 16 August 1957
Irving Langmuir was an American chemist and physicist who was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research...
Isaac Asimov
2 January 1920 – 6 April 1992
Isaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemistry, born in Russia and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He w...
Isaac Newton
4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727
English mathematician and physicist who formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation and, independently of Le...
Isabel Allende
2 August 1942 – present
Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American writer whose first novel, The House of the Spirits, was published in 1982 and estab...
Isabella Bird
15 October 1831 – 7 October 1904
Isabella Bird (1831-1904) was an English traveler, writer, and naturalist whose journeys took her to America, Hawaii, Ja...
Isabella I of Castile
22 April 1451 – 26 November 1504
Isabella I was Queen of Castile from 1474 until her death in 1504, and with her husband Ferdinand II of Aragon laid the...
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) was a British civil and mechanical engineer regarded as one of the most ingenious fi...
Isamu Noguchi
17 November 1904 – 30 December 1988
Isamu Noguchi was a Japanese-American artist and landscape architect renowned for his sculpture, public gardens, furnitu...
Ismail al-Jazari
c. 1136 – c. 1206
Ismail al-Jazari (c. 1136 - c. 1206) was a Muslim polymath, mechanical engineer, and inventor who served the Artuqid dyn...
Ismail I
17 July 1487 – 23 May 1524
Ismail I (1487-1524) was the founder of the Safavid dynasty of Iran, ruling as shah from 1501 until his death. He establ...
Ismat Chughtai
21 August 1915 – 24 October 1991
Ismat Chughtai was an Indian Urdu writer known for her bold, feminist fiction that explored female sexuality, class conf...
Issey Miyake
22 April 1938 – 5 August 2022
Issey Miyake was a Japanese fashion designer known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrance...
Italo Calvino
15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985
Italo Calvino was an Italian writer and journalist, born in Cuba to Italian botanists and raised in San Remo. After figh...
Itzhak Perlman
31 August 1945 – present
Itzhak Perlman is an Israeli-American violinist, conductor and teacher. Left with impaired mobility after contracting po...
Ivan Pavlov
26 September 1849 – 27 February 1936
Ivan Pavlov was a Russian physiologist known chiefly for his work on classical conditioning, in which he demonstrated co...
Ivan the Terrible
25 August 1530 – 28 March 1584
Ivan IV Vasilyevich, known as Ivan the Terrible, was Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 and the first Tsar of all Russia f...
J. J. Thomson
18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940
Sir Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940) was a British physicist credited with the discovery of the electron in 1897, the fir...
J. K. Rowling
31 July 1965 – present
J. K. Rowling is a British writer, best known as the author of the Harry Potter series of seven fantasy novels published...
J. M. Coetzee
9 February 1940 – present
J. M. Coetzee is a South African-born novelist, essayist and translator who later became an Australian citizen. He wrote...