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1,666 profilesTal Brody
30 August 1943 – present
Tal Brody is an American-born Israeli former basketball player and sports executive. After a college career at the Unive...
Tansen
c. 1500 – c. 1586
Tansen was a 16th-century Hindustani classical musician and composer, celebrated as the greatest vocalist of his age. Af...
Tarsila do Amaral
1 September 1886 – 17 January 1973
Tarsila do Amaral was a Brazilian painter and a central figure in the development of modern art in Brazil. Her painting...
Tasuku Honjo
27 January 1942 – present
Tasuku Honjo is a Japanese immunologist and professor at Kyoto University. He identified the immune receptor PD-1 in 199...
Tawakkol Karman
7 February 1979 – present
Tawakkol Karman is a Yemeni journalist, politician and human rights activist. She co-founded the group Women Journalists...
Tayeb Salih
12 July 1929 – 18 February 2009
Tayeb Salih (1929–2009) was a Sudanese novelist and broadcaster whose 1966 novel Season of Migration to the North is wid...
Taylor Swift
13 December 1989 – present
Taylor Swift is an American singer-songwriter born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1989. She began as a country artist...
Tebello Nyokong
20 October 1951 – present
Tebello Nyokong is a Lesotho-born South African chemist and professor at Rhodes University, where she works on phthalocy...
Tennessee Williams
26 March 1911 – 25 February 1983
Tennessee Williams was an American playwright and one of the foremost dramatists of 20th-century American theater. His m...
Tenzing Norgay
c. 1914 – 9 May 1986
Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986) was a Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer who, with Edmund Hillary, made the first confirmed asc...
Teresa of Ávila
28 March 1515 – 4 October 1582
Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582) was a Spanish Carmelite nun, mystic, and religious reformer who founded the Discalced Carmel...
Teresa Teng
29 January 1953 – 8 May 1995
Teresa Teng was a Taiwanese singer whose Mandarin, Taiwanese, Cantonese, Japanese and English recordings made her one of...
Thelonious Monk
10 October 1917 – 17 February 1982
Thelonious Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his highly individual improvisational style and dist...
Theodore Roosevelt
27 October 1858 – 6 January 1919
Theodore Roosevelt was an American statesman, conservationist, and author who served as the 26th President of the United...
Theodore von Kármán
11 May 1881 – 6 May 1963
Theodore von Kármán (1881-1963) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist who was a pion...
Thomas Adeoye Lambo
29 March 1923 – 13 March 2004
Thomas Adeoye Lambo was a Nigerian psychiatrist and the first Western-trained psychiatrist to practise in Nigeria. He pi...
Thomas Aquinas
c. 1225 – 7 March 1274
Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274) was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and theologian whose synthesis of Aristotelia...
Thomas Edison
11 February 1847 – 18 October 1931
American inventor and businessman who held over a thousand patents, including the phonograph and a practical incandescen...
Thomas Henry Huxley
4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895
Thomas Henry Huxley was an English biologist and anthropologist known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his vigorous public defe...
Thomas Hobbes
5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was an English philosopher best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, a foundational work of mode...
Thomas Hunt Morgan
25 September 1866 – 4 December 1945
Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and embryologist who demonstrated that genes are...
Thomas Jefferson
13 April 1743 – 4 July 1826
Principal author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States, who doubled the nation's t...
Thomas Mann
6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955
Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, and essayist widely regarded as one of the foremost figures of 20...
Thomas More
7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535
English lawyer, humanist author of Utopia, and Lord Chancellor who was executed for refusing to accept Henry VIII as hea...
Thomas Newcomen
February 1664 – 5 August 1729
Thomas Newcomen was an English inventor and ironmonger who created the first practical atmospheric steam engine in 1712....
Thomas Paine
9 February 1737 – 8 June 1809
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an English-born American political writer and revolutionary whose pamphlet Common Sense (17...
Thomas Sankara
21 December 1949 – 15 October 1987
Thomas Sankara was a Burkinabè military officer and revolutionary who served as president of Burkina Faso from 1983 unti...
Thomas Sydenham
10 September 1624 – 29 December 1689
Thomas Sydenham was an English physician known as 'the English Hippocrates' for reviving careful bedside observation of...
Thomas Watson Jr.
14 January 1914 – 31 December 1993
Thomas J. Watson Jr. was an American businessman who served as president and chief executive of IBM from the 1950s to 19...
Thurgood Marshall
2 July 1908 – 24 January 1993
Thurgood Marshall was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who became the first African American to serve on the U...
Tim Berners-Lee
8 June 1955 – present
English computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web while at CERN, then gave it to the world royalty-free and has...
Tim Cook
1 November 1960 – present
Tim Cook is an American business executive who became chief executive officer of Apple Inc. in 2011, succeeding Steve Jo...
Timnit Gebru
1983 – present
Timnit Gebru is an Ethiopian-born computer scientist who works on algorithmic bias and data mining. She co-authored the...
Timur
c. 1336 – February 1405
Timur (c. 1336-1405), also known as Tamerlane, was a Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire from his capi...
Tina Turner
26 November 1939 – 24 May 2023
Tina Turner, born Anna Mae Bullock, was an American-born Swiss singer, songwriter, and actress often called the 'Queen o...
Tipu Sultan
1 December 1751 – 4 May 1799
Tipu Sultan (1751-1799) was the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in southern India from 1782 until his death, known as the...
Tirunesh Dibaba
1 June 1985 – present
Tirunesh Dibaba is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who won three Olympic gold medals and five world titles on the trac...
Titian
c. 1488 – 27 August 1576
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) was the leading painter of the sixteenth-century Venetian school, celebrated for his mastery o...
Tokugawa Ieyasu
31 January 1543 – 1 June 1616
Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, which ruled Japan from 1603 unti...
Tom Brady
3 August 1977 – present
Tom Brady is an American former football quarterback who played 23 seasons in the National Football League, twenty with...
Toni Morrison
18 February 1931 – 5 August 2019
Toni Morrison was an American novelist and editor whose richly layered works explore the Black American experience. Best...
Tony Blair
6 May 1953 – present
Tony Blair is a British politician who led the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007 and served as Prime Minister of the United...
Tony Elumelu
22 March 1963 – present
Tony Elumelu is a Nigerian banker and investor who led the turnaround of Standard Trust Bank and its 2005 merger with Un...
Tony Fadell
22 March 1969 – present
Tony Fadell is an American engineer, designer and entrepreneur best known for leading the teams that created Apple's iPo...
Toru Takemitsu
8 October 1930 – 20 February 1996
Toru Takemitsu was a Japanese composer who combined Western avant-garde technique with Japanese instruments and aestheti...
Toshiro Mifune
1 April 1920 – 24 December 1997
Toshiro Mifune was a Japanese actor widely regarded as one of the greatest film stars in cinema history. He is best know...
Toussaint Louverture
c. 1743 – 7 April 1803
Toussaint Louverture (c. 1743-1803) was the foremost leader of the Haitian Revolution, the largest and most successful s...
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
c. 1537 – 18 September 1598
Toyotomi Hideyoshi (c. 1537-1598) was a Japanese samurai and daimyo who rose from peasant origins to complete the unific...