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1,666 profilesAleksandr Solzhenitsyn
11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian writer who spent eight years in Soviet labour camps after being arrested in 1945 fo...
Alessandro Volta
18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827
Alessandro Volta was an Italian physicist and chemist who invented the voltaic pile in 1799, the first electrical batter...
Alex Ferguson
31 December 1941 – present
Alex Ferguson is a Scottish former football manager and player who managed Manchester United from 1986 to 2013. He first...
Alexander Fleming
6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955
Scottish physician and microbiologist best known for discovering penicillin in 1928, which launched the antibiotic era o...
Alexander Graham Bell
3 March 1847 – 2 August 1922
Scottish-born inventor and scientist credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also worked extensively a...
Alexander Grothendieck
28 March 1928 – 13 November 2014
Alexander Grothendieck was a French mathematician regarded as one of the greatest and most influential mathematicians of...
Alexander Hamilton
c. 1755 – 12 July 1804
Alexander Hamilton (1755 or 1757 - 1804) was an American statesman, a Founding Father of the United States, and the firs...
Alexander II of Russia
29 April 1818 – 13 March 1881
Alexander II (1818-1881) was Emperor of Russia from 1855 until his assassination in 1881, known as the 'Tsar Liberator'...
Alexander McQueen
17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010
Alexander McQueen was a British fashion designer who trained on Savile Row before taking a master's degree at Central Sa...
Alexander Nevsky
c. 1221 – 14 November 1263
Alexander Nevsky was Prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince of Vladimir who became one of the most celebrated figures of me...
Alexander Pope
21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan age, famed for The Rape of the...
Alexander Pushkin
6 June 1799 – 10 February 1837
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist widely considered the founder of modern Russi...
Alexander von Humboldt
14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859
Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian naturalist, geographer, and explorer whose five-year expedition through the Americ...
Alexandre Dumas
24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) was a French novelist and playwright, one of the most widely read French authors in the worl...
Alexei Leonov
30 May 1934 – 11 October 2019
Alexei Leonov was a Soviet cosmonaut and air force officer who, on 18 March 1965, became the first person to conduct a s...
Alfred Hitchcock
13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980
Alfred Hitchcock was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in...
Alfred Nobel
21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896
Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, and industrialist best known for inventing dynamite and for bequ...
Alfred Russel Wallace
8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913
Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist, explorer, and biologist who independently conceived the theory of evolut...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) was an English poet who served as Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland for 42 ye...
Ali Daei
21 March 1969 – present
Ali Daei (born 1969) is an Iranian former footballer and manager who played as a striker for Iran from 1993 to 2006, sco...
Ali Farka Touré
31 October 1939 – 6 March 2006
Ali Farka Touré was a Malian singer and guitarist whose playing linked the music of the Niger river region to American b...
Ali Javan
26 December 1926 – 12 September 2016
Ali Javan (1926-2016) was an Iranian-American physicist born in Tehran who completed his doctorate at Columbia Universit...
Ali Khamenei
19 April 1939 – 28 February 2026
Ali Khamenei is an Iranian cleric and politician who has served as Supreme Leader of Iran since 1989. Trained in the sem...
Alice Munro
10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024
Alice Munro was a Canadian writer known almost exclusively for short fiction, much of it set in small-town southwestern...
Alice Paul
11 January 1885 – 9 July 1977
Alice Paul was an American suffragist and women's rights activist who led the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to t...
Aliko Dangote
10 April 1957 – present
Aliko Dangote is a Nigerian businessman and the founder of the Dangote Group, a conglomerate with interests in cement, s...
Allan MacLeod Cormack
23 February 1924 – 7 May 1998
Allan MacLeod Cormack was a South African-born American physicist who worked out the mathematical basis for reconstructi...
Alvar Aalto
3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976
Alvar Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer whose work spanned architecture, furniture, textiles, and glassware. A...
Ama Ata Aidoo
23 March 1942 – 31 May 2023
Ama Ata Aidoo was a Ghanaian author, playwright and academic whose work addressed the position of women in modern Africa...
Amancio Ortega
28 March 1936 – present
Amancio Ortega is a Spanish businessman who founded the clothing retailer Zara and its parent company, Inditex. He began...
Amartya Sen
3 November 1933 – present
Amartya Sen is an Indian economist and philosopher known for his work on welfare economics, social choice theory, and th...
Ambroise Paré
c. 1510 – 20 December 1590
Ambroise Paré (c. 1510-1590) was a French barber-surgeon who served four French kings and is considered one of the fathe...
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim
17 October 1959 – present
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim is a Mauritian biodiversity scientist and politician who served as the sixth President of Mauritius...
Amelia Earhart
24 July 1897 – 2 July 1937
American aviation pioneer and the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She disappeared over the Pacific in...
Amerigo Vespucci
9 March 1454 – 22 February 1512
Florentine explorer and navigator who argued that the newly found lands across the Atlantic were a separate continent, l...
Amílcar Cabral
12 September 1924 – 20 January 1973
Amílcar Cabral was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agronomist and revolutionary leader who led the independence moveme...
Amir Kabir
c. 1807 – 10 January 1852
Amir Kabir (Mirza Taghi Khan Farahani, c. 1807-1852) was chief minister of Iran under Naser al-Din Shah Qajar and one of...
Amir Khusrau
1253 – October 1325
Amir Khusrau was a 13th-14th century poet, musician, and scholar of the Delhi Sultanate, often called the 'Parrot of Ind...
Amitabh Bachchan
11 October 1942 – present
Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian actor who has worked mainly in Hindi cinema since his debut in 1969. He became one of the...
Amnon Shashua
1960 – present
Amnon Shashua is an Israeli computer scientist and entrepreneur, a professor of computer science at the Hebrew Universit...
Amos Oz
4 May 1939 – 28 December 2018
Amos Oz was an Israeli writer and essayist whose novels include My Michael and the memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness. H...
Amrita Pritam
31 August 1919 – 31 October 2005
Amrita Pritam was an Indian writer who worked in Punjabi and Hindi, publishing poetry, fiction and essays over six decad...
Amrita Sher-Gil
30 January 1913 – 5 December 1941
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1941) was a Hungarian-Indian painter regarded as one of the most important modern artists of 20th-...
Amy Winehouse
14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011
Amy Winehouse was an English singer and songwriter known for her deep contralto voice and her blend of soul, jazz and rh...
Anders Celsius
27 November 1701 – 25 April 1744
Anders Celsius was a Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician who founded the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory....
André-Marie Ampère
20 January 1775 – 10 June 1836
André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836) was a French physicist and mathematician who founded the science of electrodynamics, now...
Andrea Bocelli
22 September 1958 – present
Andrea Bocelli is an Italian tenor and singer-songwriter who came to prominence after winning the newcomers' section of...
Andrea Palladio
30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580
Andrea Palladio was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic, widely considered the most influen...