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1,666 profilesLouis de Broglie
15 August 1892 – 19 March 1987
Louis de Broglie (1892-1987) was a French physicist who introduced the revolutionary idea that matter has wave propertie...
Louis IX of France
25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270
Louis IX, commonly known as Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death in 1270. Renowned for his piety, j...
Louis Kahn
20 February 1901 – 17 March 1974
Louis Kahn was an Estonian-born American architect known for monumental, weighty buildings that combined modernism with...
Louis Leakey
7 August 1903 – 1 October 1972
Louis Leakey was a Kenyan-born British palaeoanthropologist whose excavations at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania helped establ...
Louis Pasteur
27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895
French chemist and microbiologist who proved the germ theory of disease, invented pasteurization, and developed vaccines...
Louis XIV
5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715
King of France for 72 years, the longest verified reign of any monarch, who centralized royal power, built the Palace of...
Louis XVI
23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793
Louis XVI (1754-1793) was the last King of France before the fall of the monarchy in the French Revolution, reigning fro...
Louisa May Alcott
29 November 1832 – 6 March 1888
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American novelist and poet, best known for Little Women (1868), drawn from her chil...
Louise Bourgeois
25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010
Louise Bourgeois was a French-American artist best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, including h...
Lu Xun
25 September 1881 – 19 October 1936
Lu Xun was a Chinese writer, essayist, and literary critic widely regarded as the father of modern Chinese literature. W...
Lubna Olayan
1955 – present
Lubna Olayan is a Saudi Arabian businesswoman who led the Olayan Financing Company, the Saudi arm of the family-owned Ol...
Luciano Pavarotti
12 October 1935 – 6 September 2007
Luciano Pavarotti was an Italian operatic tenor who became one of the most commercially successful and beloved singers i...
Ludwig Boltzmann
20 February 1844 – 5 September 1906
Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906) was an Austrian physicist and one of the founders of statistical mechanics, which explains...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
27 March 1886 – 17 August 1969
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German-American architect widely regarded as a pioneer of modernist architecture. He serv...
Ludwig van Beethoven
December 1770 – 26 March 1827
German composer who bridged the Classical and Romantic eras and continued to produce masterworks, including the Ninth Sy...
Luigi Galvani
9 September 1737 – 4 December 1798
Luigi Galvani was an Italian physician, physicist, and biologist who discovered that the muscles of dead frogs twitched...
Luis Barragan
9 March 1902 – 22 November 1988
Luis Barragan was a Mexican architect and engineer whose emotional, minimalist work fused modernism with Mexican vernacu...
Luis Buñuel
22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983
Luis Buñuel was a Spanish-Mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain and is regarded as one of the most i...
Luís de Camões
c. 1524 – 10 June 1580
Luís Vaz de Camões was Portugal's greatest poet, author of the national epic Os Lusíadas, which celebrates Vasco da Gama...
Luis Federico Leloir
6 September 1906 – 2 December 1987
Luis Federico Leloir was an Argentine biochemist who won the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of sugar nu...
Luis Walter Alvarez
13 June 1911 – 1 September 1988
Luis Walter Alvarez was an American experimental physicist who worked at the University of California, Berkeley for most...
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
27 October 1945 – present
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is a Brazilian politician and former metalworker who served as President of Brazil from 2003 t...
Luo Guanzhong
c. 1330 – c. 1400
Luo Guanzhong (c. 1330 - c. 1400) was a Chinese writer of the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, traditionally credited...
Lyndon B. Johnson
27 August 1908 – 22 January 1973
Lyndon Baines Johnson was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969...
Lynn Margulis
5 March 1938 – 22 November 2011
Lynn Margulis was an American evolutionary biologist best known for the endosymbiotic theory of the origin of mitochondr...
M.F. Husain
17 September 1915 – 9 June 2011
Maqbool Fida Husain was an Indian artist regarded as one of the most important figures of modern Indian art. A founding...
M.S. Subbulakshmi
16 September 1916 – 11 December 2004
Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi was an Indian Carnatic vocalist widely regarded as one of the greatest exponents of...
Machado de Assis
21 June 1839 – 29 September 1908
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was a Brazilian novelist, short story writer, and poet, widely regarded as th...
Madhvacharya
c. 1238 – c. 1317
Madhvacharya (c. 1238 - c. 1317) was an Indian Hindu philosopher and the founder of the Dvaita (dualist) school of Vedan...
Madonna
16 August 1958 – present
Madonna Louise Ciccone is an American singer, songwriter, and actress widely referred to as the 'Queen of Pop.' Known fo...
Mae Jemison
17 October 1956 – present
Mae Jemison is an American engineer, physician and former NASA astronaut who in 1992 became the first African American w...
Magdi Yacoub
16 November 1935 – present
Magdi Yacoub is an Egyptian-British cardiothoracic surgeon known for his work in heart and heart-lung transplantation. B...
Mahasweta Devi
14 January 1926 – 28 July 2016
Mahasweta Devi was an Indian writer in Bengali and an activist who worked with Adivasi and other marginalised communitie...
Mahathir Mohamad
10 July 1925 – present
Mahathir Mohamad is a Malaysian physician and politician who served as Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003 and...
Mahatma Gandhi
2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948
Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successfu...
Mahmoud Darwish
13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008
Mahmoud Darwish was a Palestinian poet and author regarded as the national poet of Palestine. His work often addressed e...
Maimonides
c. 1138 – 12 December 1204
Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon, c. 1138 - 1204) was a Sephardic Jewish philosopher, jurist, and physician, one of the most...
Majed Abdullah
11 January 1959 – present
Majed Abdullah is a Saudi Arabian former footballer who played as a forward. He spent his club career with Al-Nassr, for...
Malala Yousafzai
12 July 1997 – present
Pakistani activist for girls' education who survived a Taliban assassination attempt at 15 and became the youngest-ever...
Malcolm X
19 May 1925 – 21 February 1965
Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights e...
Manmohan Singh
26 September 1932 – 26 December 2024
Manmohan Singh was an Indian economist and politician who served as Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014. Trained a...
Mansa Musa
c. 1280 – c. 1337
Mansa Musa (c. 1280 - c. 1337) was the ninth mansa (emperor) of the Mali Empire, often described as one of the wealthies...
Manu Chandaria
1 March 1929 – present
Manu Chandaria is a Kenyan industrialist and philanthropist of Indian descent. He trained as an engineer in the United S...
Manu Dibango
12 December 1933 – 24 March 2020
Manu Dibango (1933–2020) was a Cameroonian saxophonist, vibraphonist and bandleader who fused African rhythms with jazz...
Mao Zedong
26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976
Mao Zedong was a Chinese communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he led...
Marc Chagall
7 July 1887 – 28 March 1985
Marc Chagall was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin, associated with several major modernist movements....
Marcel Duchamp
28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968
Marcel Duchamp was a French-American artist whose work profoundly influenced the development of conceptual art. Associat...
Marcel Khalife
10 June 1950 – present
Marcel Khalife is a Lebanese composer, singer and oud player whose work draws on Arabic musical traditions and on the po...