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1,666 profilesOmar M. Yaghi
9 February 1965 – present
Omar M. Yaghi is a Jordanian-American chemist known for developing reticular chemistry and the porous crystalline materi...
Omar Sharif
10 April 1932 – 10 July 2015
Omar Sharif was an Egyptian actor who began his career in Egyptian cinema in the 1950s and became internationally known...
Oprah Winfrey
29 January 1954 – present
American talk show host, producer and philanthropist whose syndicated show ran for 25 years and made her one of the most...
Orhan Pamuk
7 June 1952 – present
Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist whose books, including My Name Is Red, Snow and The Museum of Innocence, explore memor...
Orson Welles
6 May 1915 – 10 October 1985
Orson Welles was an American director, actor, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film. He is best kn...
Orville Wright
19 August 1871 – 30 January 1948
American aviation pioneer who, with his brother Wilbur, achieved the first sustained powered flight of a heavier-than-ai...
Osamu Tezuka
3 November 1928 – 9 February 1989
Osamu Tezuka was a Japanese manga artist, animator and physician whose prolific output shaped the modern forms of manga...
Óscar Arias
13 September 1940 – present
Óscar Arias Sánchez (born 1940) is a Costa Rican politician who served two terms as President of Costa Rica, from 1986 t...
Oscar Niemeyer
15 December 1907 – 5 December 2012
Oscar Niemeyer was a Brazilian architect considered one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Re...
Óscar Romero
15 August 1917 – 24 March 1980
Óscar Arnulfo Romero was a prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of San Salvador from 1977 to 1980. He...
Oscar Wilde
16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish poet, playwright and wit, celebrated for works including The Picture of Dorian Gray...
Osei Tutu
c. 1660 – c. 1717
Osei Kofi Tutu I was the founder and first Asantehene (king) of the Asante Empire in present-day Ghana. With his adviser...
Osman I
c. 1254 – c. 1324
Osman I (c. 1254 - c. 1324) was a Turkoman tribal leader and the founder of the Ottoman dynasty, which grew into the Ott...
Otto Hahn
8 March 1879 – 28 July 1968
Otto Hahn (1879-1968) was a German chemist and pioneer of radiochemistry who discovered nuclear fission of uranium with...
Otto von Bismarck
1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898
Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) was a Prussian statesman who masterminded the unification of Germany and served as the fir...
Otto von Guericke
20 November 1602 – 11 May 1686
Otto von Guericke was a German scientist, inventor, and politician who served for decades as mayor of Magdeburg. He inve...
Ousmane Sembène
1 January 1923 – 9 June 2007
Ousmane Sembène was a Senegalese film director, producer, and writer often called the 'father of African cinema.' Largel...
Pablo Casals
29 December 1876 – 22 October 1973
Pablo Casals was a Catalan-Spanish cellist, conductor, and composer widely regarded as one of the greatest cellists of a...
Pablo Neruda
12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973
Pablo Neruda was the pen name of Chilean poet and diplomat Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, one of the most influ...
Pablo Picasso
25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973
Spanish painter and sculptor, co-founder of Cubism and one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, with a c...
Pachacuti
c. 1418 – c. 1471
Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui (died c. 1471) was the ninth Sapa Inca of Cusco and the ruler who transformed the Kingdom of Cus...
Paracelsus
c. 1493 – 24 September 1541
Paracelsus (c. 1493-1541), born Theophrastus von Hohenheim, was a Swiss physician, alchemist, and natural philosopher of...
Park Chan-wook
23 August 1963 – present
Park Chan-wook is a South Korean film director, screenwriter and producer. He studied philosophy at Sogang University be...
Park Chung Hee
14 November 1917 – 26 October 1979
Park Chung Hee was a South Korean army officer and politician who took power in a military coup in May 1961 and served a...
Patrice Lumumba
2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961
Patrice Lumumba was a Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first prime minister of the Democra...
Patrice Motsepe
28 January 1962 – present
Patrice Motsepe is a South African businessman and lawyer who founded African Rainbow Minerals. Trained as a mining lawy...
Paul Cézanne
19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906
Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose analytical approach to form and colour laid the f...
Paul Dirac
8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984
Paul Dirac was an English theoretical physicist and one of the founders of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics...
Paul Erdős
26 March 1913 – 20 September 1996
Paul Erdős was a Hungarian mathematician and one of the most prolific mathematicians of the 20th century, publishing aro...
Paul Gauguin
7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French Post-Impressionist painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose bold colour and Symboli...
Paul Kagame
23 October 1957 – present
Paul Kagame is a Rwandan politician and former military officer who has served as President of Rwanda since 2000. He gre...
Paul Klee
18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940
Paul Klee was a Swiss-German artist whose highly individual style was influenced by expressionism, cubism, and surrealis...
Paul McCartney
18 June 1942 – present
Paul McCartney is an English singer, songwriter, and musician who gained worldwide fame as bassist and co-lead vocalist...
Paul Nurse
25 January 1949 – present
Sir Paul Nurse is a British geneticist and cell biologist who identified the genes that control the cell cycle, work for...
Paul Rand
15 August 1914 – 26 November 1996
Paul Rand was an American graphic designer and art director best known for his corporate logo designs. He created enduri...
Paulo Freire
19 September 1921 – 2 May 1997
Paulo Freire was a Brazilian educator and philosopher of education whose adult-literacy work in north-eastern Brazil gre...
Pedro Álvares Cabral
c. 1467 – c. 1520
Pedro Álvares Cabral (c. 1467-c. 1520) was a Portuguese nobleman and navigator who commanded the first expedition to rea...
Pedro II of Brazil
2 December 1825 – 5 December 1891
Pedro II was the second and last emperor of Brazil, reigning for more than fifty-eight years from 1831 to 1889. A schola...
Pelé
23 October 1940 – 29 December 2022
Brazilian footballer, the only player to win three FIFA World Cups, and for decades the sport's most famous face.
Percy Julian
11 April 1899 – 19 April 1975
Percy Lavon Julian was an American chemist who pioneered the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants, includin...
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
17 September 1879 – 24 December 1973
E. V. Ramasamy, known as Periyar, was an Indian social activist and politician who founded the Self-Respect Movement and...
Peter Abelard
1079 – 21 April 1142
Peter Abelard (1079-1142) was a French philosopher, theologian, and logician, one of the most influential thinkers of th...
Peter Higgs
29 May 1929 – 8 April 2024
Peter Higgs (1929-2024) was a British theoretical physicist who in 1964 proposed the mechanism by which elementary parti...
Peter Medawar
28 February 1915 – 2 October 1987
Sir Peter Brian Medawar was a British biologist regarded as the father of transplantation immunology. He shared the 1960...
Peter Paul Rubens
28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640
Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist and diplomat, the most influential painter of the Flemish Baroque tradition. From...
Peter the Great
9 June 1672 – 8 February 1725
Peter I (1672-1725), known as Peter the Great, was Tsar and later the first Emperor of Russia, ruling from 1682 until hi...
Petrarch
20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374
Francesco Petrarca, known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar and poet of the early Renaissance, often called...
Philip Glass
31 January 1937 – present
Philip Glass is an American composer whose repetitive, additive musical language became one of the defining styles of la...