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1,666 profilesAndreas Vesalius
31 December 1514 – 15 October 1564
Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) was a Flemish anatomist and physician, widely regarded as the founder of modern human anato...
Andrei Sakharov
21 May 1921 – 14 December 1989
Andrei Sakharov was a Soviet nuclear physicist who played a leading role in the development of the Soviet hydrogen bomb....
Andrei Tarkovsky
4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986
Andrei Tarkovsky was a Soviet Russian film director and screenwriter regarded as one of the most important and influenti...
Andrés Segovia
21 February 1893 – 2 June 1987
Andrés Segovia was a Spanish classical guitarist widely credited with establishing the guitar as a serious concert instr...
Andrew Carnegie
25 November 1835 – 11 August 1919
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-born American industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry in the l...
Andrew Lloyd Webber
22 March 1948 – present
Andrew Lloyd Webber is an English composer and theatre producer known for musicals written from the late 1960s onward, m...
Andrey Kolmogorov
25 April 1903 – 20 October 1987
Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov was a Soviet mathematician who made foundational contributions to probability theory, turb...
Andy Grove
2 September 1936 – 21 March 2016
Andy Grove was a Hungarian-born American engineer and business executive who joined Intel as its third employee in 1968...
Andy Warhol
6 August 1928 – 22 February 1987
Andy Warhol was an American artist, film director, and producer who became a leading figure of the Pop Art movement. He...
Aneurin Bevan
15 November 1897 – 6 July 1960
Aneurin Bevan was a Welsh Labour Party politician who, as Minister of Health from 1945 to 1951, was the chief architect...
Ang Lee
23 October 1954 – present
Ang Lee is a Taiwanese film director, producer and screenwriter. He moved to the United States for film study and direct...
Angela Merkel
17 July 1954 – present
Angela Merkel is a German politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021, the first woman to hold the...
Angélique Kidjo
14 July 1960 – present
Angélique Kidjo is a Beninese-French singer, songwriter and activist whose music blends West African traditions with fun...
Anita Roddick
23 October 1942 – 10 September 2007
Anita Roddick was a British businesswoman and campaigner who founded The Body Shop, a cosmetics retailer that grew from...
Anna Akhmatova
23 June 1889 – 5 March 1966
Anna Akhmatova was a Russian poet and one of the most acclaimed figures of 20th-century Russian literature. A leading vo...
Anna Komnene
1 December 1083 – c. 1153
Anna Komnene was a Byzantine princess, the eldest daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, and one of the first known fem...
Anna Pavlova
12 February 1881 – 23 January 1931
Anna Pavlova was a Russian prima ballerina, one of the most celebrated dancers of her era and the first to tour ballet a...
Anne Frank
12 June 1929 – c. 1945
German-born Jewish diarist who documented her family's two years in hiding in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation. Her...
Annie Besant
1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933
Annie Besant was a British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, and supporter of Indian and Irish self-rule....
Anousheh Ansari
12 September 1966 – present
Anousheh Ansari is an Iranian-American engineer and businesswoman who co-founded the telecommunications company Telecom...
Ansel Adams
20 February 1902 – 22 April 1984
Ansel Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist best known for his black-and-white images of the...
Anselm of Canterbury
c. 1033 – 21 April 1109
Anselm of Canterbury (c. 1033-1109) was a Benedictine monk, philosopher, and theologian who served as Archbishop of Cant...
Anthony van Dyck
22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641
Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) was a Flemish Baroque painter who became the leading court portraitist in England as princi...
Antoine Lavoisier
26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794
French chemist regarded as the father of modern chemistry, who identified and named oxygen and helped establish the law...
Anton Chekhov
29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, regarded as one of the greatest masters of th...
Antoni Gaudi
25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926
Antoni Gaudi was a Catalan architect and the most celebrated practitioner of Catalan Modernisme. Known for a highly indi...
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
24 October 1632 – 26 August 1723
Dutch cloth merchant and self-taught scientist who used his handcrafted microscopes to become the first person to observ...
Antonín Dvořák
8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) was a Czech composer who became one of the most celebrated musicians of the Romantic era, kno...
Antônio Carlos Jobim
25 January 1927 – 8 December 1994
Antônio Carlos Jobim was a Brazilian composer, pianist, and songwriter who was a principal creator of the bossa nova gen...
Antonio Stradivari
c. 1644 – 18 December 1737
Antonio Stradivari was an Italian luthier from Cremona, universally regarded as the greatest violin maker in history. Ov...
Antonio Vivaldi
4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741
Antonio Vivaldi was an Italian Baroque composer, virtuoso violinist, and Catholic priest, nicknamed 'il Prete Rosso' (th...
Anwar Sadat
25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981
Anwar Sadat was an Egyptian military officer and politician who served as the third president of Egypt. He led Egypt in...
Aphra Behn
c. 1640 – 16 April 1689
Aphra Behn (c. 1640-1689) was an English playwright, poet, translator, and fiction writer of the Restoration era, and on...
Arcangelo Corelli
17 February 1653 – 8 January 1713
Arcangelo Corelli was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist whose sonatas and concerti grossi shaped instrumental mu...
Aretha Franklin
25 March 1942 – 16 August 2018
Aretha Franklin was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist known as the 'Queen of Soul.' With a career spanning six...
Arnold Schoenberg
13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951
Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist and painter associated with the expressionist moveme...
Artemisia Gentileschi
8 July 1593 – c. 1656
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-c.1656) was an Italian Baroque painter and one of the most accomplished followers of Caravag...
Arthur Ashe
10 July 1943 – 6 February 1993
Arthur Ashe was an American tennis player who won three Grand Slam singles titles, the US Open in 1968, the Australian O...
Arthur C. Clarke
16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008
Arthur C. Clarke was a British science-fiction writer and science writer. In 1945 he published a paper describing the us...
Arthur Conan Doyle
22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a British writer and physician, best known as the creator of the detective Sherlo...
Arthur Eddington
28 December 1882 – 22 November 1944
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944) was an English astrophysicist who pioneered the study of the internal structure...
Arthur Miller
17 October 1915 – 10 February 2005
Arthur Miller was an American playwright, essayist, and screenwriter regarded as one of the greatest dramatists of the 2...
Arthur Schopenhauer
22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was a German philosopher best known for his work 'The World as Will and Representation',...
Arundhati Roy
24 November 1961 – present
Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer and political essayist. Her first novel, The God of Small Things, won the Booker Prize...
Arvo Pärt
11 September 1935 – present
Arvo Pärt (born 1935) is an Estonian composer of classical and sacred music, best known for the minimalist tintinnabuli...
Asghar Farhadi
7 May 1972 – present
Asghar Farhadi is an Iranian film director and screenwriter whose dramas centre on moral dilemmas within families. A Sep...
Asha Bhosle
8 September 1933 – 12 April 2026
Asha Bhosle is an Indian playback singer who has recorded songs for Hindi cinema and in many other Indian languages sinc...
Askia Muhammad I
c. 1443 – 1538
Askia Muhammad I (c. 1443 - 1538), also known as Askia the Great, was the founder of the Askia dynasty of the Songhai Em...