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1,666 profilesPhilip II of Spain
21 May 1527 – 13 September 1598
Philip II was King of Spain from 1556 until his death in 1598, and also ruled Portugal, Naples, Sicily, and the Spanish...
Phillis Wheatley
c. 1753 – 5 December 1784
Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784) was an American poet and the first African American author to publish a book of poetry....
Philo Farnsworth
19 August 1906 – 11 March 1971
Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906-1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer who developed the first fully functi...
Pierre Beaumarchais
24 January 1732 – 18 May 1799
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) was a French playwright, watchmaker, financier, and diplomat, best kno...
Pierre Corneille
6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684
Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) was a French tragedian and one of the three great dramatists of seventeenth-century France,...
Pierre de Fermat
c. 1607 – 12 January 1665
Pierre de Fermat (c. 1607-1665) was a French lawyer and mathematician who made his living as a magistrate at the Parleme...
Pierre Omidyar
21 June 1967 – present
Pierre Omidyar (born 1967) is a French-born Iranian-American entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the online mark...
Pierre Trudeau
18 October 1919 – 28 September 2000
Pierre Elliott Trudeau was a Canadian politician who served as the 15th Prime Minister of Canada, in office for most of...
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was a French painter and a leading figure of the Impressionist movement, celebrated fo...
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
24 October 1932 – 18 May 2007
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was a French physicist who showed that methods developed for simple systems could be generalised...
Pierre-Simon Laplace
23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) was a French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer sometimes called the 'French Newt...
Piet Mondrian
7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944
Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter and a pioneer of 20th-century abstract art. He is best known for his non-representatio...
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
c. 1527 – 9 September 1569
Pieter Bruegel the Elder was the most significant painter of the sixteenth-century Netherlandish Renaissance, renowned f...
Piri Reis
c. 1465 – 1553
Piri Reis (c. 1465 - 1553) was an Ottoman admiral, navigator, and cartographer. He is famous for his 1513 world map, one...
Plácido Domingo
21 January 1941 – present
Plácido Domingo is a Spanish opera singer and conductor who has performed more than 150 stage roles, first as a tenor an...
Pol Pot
19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998
Pol Pot, born Saloth Sar, was a Cambodian politician who led the Communist Party of Kampuchea and served as prime minist...
Pontiac
c. 1720 – 20 April 1769
Pontiac (c. 1720-1769) was an Odawa (Ottawa) war leader who became the namesake of Pontiac's War (1763-1766), a broad Na...
Pope John Paul II
18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005
Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła, was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 1978...
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
6 February 1925 – 30 April 2006
Pramoedya Ananta Toer was an Indonesian novelist and essayist whose work spans the late colonial period, the revolution...
Primo Levi
31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987
Primo Levi was an Italian chemist and writer. Arrested as a member of an anti-fascist partisan group in 1943, he was dep...
Prince
7 June 1958 – 21 April 2016
Prince was an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist renowned for his flamboyant style, wide vocal range...
Princess Diana
1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997
Diana, Princess of Wales, was a member of the British royal family celebrated for her humanitarian work, from AIDS aware...
Pu Songling
5 June 1640 – 25 February 1715
Pu Songling (1640-1715) was a Chinese writer of the early Qing dynasty, best known as the author of Strange Tales from a...
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period, the first Russian composer to achiev...
Pyotr Kapitsa
9 July 1894 – 8 April 1984
Pyotr Kapitsa was a Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate known for his pioneering work in low-temperature physics. He dis...
Qaboos bin Said
18 November 1940 – 10 January 2020
Qaboos bin Said al Said was Sultan of Oman from 1970 until his death in 2020, the longest-serving ruler in the modern Ar...
Qi Baishi
1864 – 16 September 1957
Qi Baishi was a Chinese painter celebrated for the whimsical, freehand style of his works depicting animals, plants, shr...
Qian Xuesen
11 December 1911 – 31 October 2009
Qian Xuesen was a Chinese aerodynamicist and rocket scientist who studied under Theodore von Karman at Caltech and helpe...
Qianlong Emperor
25 September 1711 – 7 February 1799
The Qianlong Emperor was the fifth emperor of the Qing dynasty, reigning officially from 1735 to 1796 and retaining powe...
Queen Elizabeth II
21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022
Queen of the United Kingdom from 1952 to 2022 — the longest-reigning British monarch, whose seven-decade reign spanned t...
Queen Nzinga
c. 1583 – 17 December 1663
Nzinga Ana de Sousa Mbande was queen of the Ambundu kingdoms of Ndongo and Matamba in present-day Angola. A skilled dipl...
Queen Victoria
24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901
Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901, whose sixty-three-year reign gave its name to the Victorian era.
R.K. Narayan
10 October 1906 – 13 May 2001
R.K. Narayan was an Indian writer known for his novels and stories set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. Hi...
Rabindranath Tagore
7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941
Bengali poet, writer, and composer who became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He founded th...
Rachel Carson
27 May 1907 – 14 April 1964
Rachel Carson was an American marine biologist and writer whose books brought ecology to a wide public. Her sea trilogy,...
Rafael Nadal
3 June 1986 – present
Rafael Nadal is a Spanish former professional tennis player who won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, including a record 14...
Rafic Hariri
1 November 1944 – 14 February 2005
Rafic Hariri was a Lebanese businessman and politician who served as Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and fro...
Rainer Maria Rilke
4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926
Rainer Maria Rilke was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist widely regarded as one of the most lyrically intense poets...
Raj Kapoor
14 December 1924 – 2 June 1988
Raj Kapoor was an Indian actor, film director and producer who worked in Hindi cinema. He founded R. K. Films in 1948 an...
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
22 May 1772 – 27 September 1833
Raja Ram Mohan Roy (1772-1833) was an Indian reformer, scholar, and founder of the Brahmo Sabha, often called the 'Fathe...
Raja Ravi Varma
29 April 1848 – 2 October 1906
Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906) was an Indian painter from the princely state of Travancore who fused European academic tech...
Ralph Bunche
7 August 1904 – 9 December 1971
Ralph Bunche was an American political scientist and diplomat who played a leading role in the mid-20th-century decoloni...
Ramanuja
c. 1017 – c. 1137
Ramanuja (traditionally c. 1017 - c. 1137) was a South Indian Hindu philosopher, theologian, and the most influential ex...
Ramkhamhaeng
c. 1237 – 1298
Ramkhamhaeng (c. 1237/1247 - 1298) was the third king of the Sukhothai Kingdom, reigning from around 1279 until his deat...
Rani Lakshmibai
19 November 1828 – 18 June 1858
Rani Lakshmibai (1828–1858) was the queen of the princely state of Jhansi and one of the leading figures of the Indian R...
Raoul Wallenberg
4 August 1912 – c. 1947
Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat and humanitarian who saved tens of thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary du...
Raphael
1483 – 6 April 1520
Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, renowned for the clarity and grace of works such as The School of...
Raphael Lemkin
24 June 1900 – 28 August 1959
Raphael Lemkin was a Polish lawyer of Jewish descent who coined the term genocide and campaigned for its recognition as...