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1,666 profilesTran Hung Dao
c. 1228 – 1300
Tran Hung Dao (c. 1228 - 1300), born Tran Quoc Tuan, was a royal prince and supreme military commander of Dai Viet under...
Tsung-Dao Lee
24 November 1926 – 4 August 2024
Tsung-Dao Lee (1926-2024) was a Chinese-American theoretical physicist who, with Chen-Ning Yang, proposed in 1956 that p...
Tu Youyou
30 December 1930 – present
Tu Youyou is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist who discovered artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, compounds used to treat...
Tukaram
c. 1608 – c. 1650
Tukaram (c. 1608 - c. 1650) was a Marathi sant poet of the Bhakti movement in Maharashtra, India, and a devotee of the g...
Tunku Abdul Rahman
8 February 1903 – 6 December 1990
Tunku Abdul Rahman was a Malaysian statesman who served as the first Prime Minister of Malaya and later Malaysia. Known...
Túpac Amaru II
19 March 1738 – 18 May 1781
Túpac Amaru II (1738-1781), born José Gabriel Condorcanqui, was an indigenous cacique who led the largest uprising again...
Tupac Shakur
16 June 1971 – 13 September 1996
Tupac Shakur was an American rapper and actor whose albums, among them Me Against the World and All Eyez on Me, made him...
Tycho Brahe
14 December 1546 – 24 October 1601
Danish astronomer whose naked-eye observations were the most accurate of his age and provided the data from which Kepler...
U Thant
22 January 1909 – 25 November 1974
U Thant was a Burmese diplomat and educator who served as the third Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1961 to...
Uğur Şahin
19 September 1965 – present
Uğur Şahin is a Turkish-German physician, immunologist and entrepreneur. A professor at the University of Mainz, he co-f...
Ulugh Beg
22 March 1394 – 27 October 1449
Ulugh Beg (1394-1449) was a Timurid sultan, astronomer, and mathematician, grandson of the conqueror Timur. As governor...
Ulysses S. Grant
27 April 1822 – 23 July 1885
Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was the commanding general of the Union Army during the American Civil War and the 18th Pre...
Umberto Eco
5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, semiotician and novelist who taught at the University of Bologna. His academic w...
Umm Kulthum
c. 1904 – 3 February 1975
Umm Kulthum was an Egyptian singer, songwriter, and actress widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential...
Ursula K. Le Guin
21 October 1929 – 22 January 2018
Ursula K. Le Guin was an American writer known for the Earthsea fantasy series and for science fiction novels set in the...
Utagawa Hiroshige
1797 – 12 October 1858
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of the woodblock landscape...
Václav Havel
5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011
Václav Havel was a Czech playwright, dissident, and statesman who became a leading figure of the Velvet Revolution again...
Valentina Tereshkova
6 March 1937 – present
Valentina Tereshkova is a Russian former cosmonaut and politician who in June 1963 became the first woman to fly in spac...
Vallabhbhai Patel
31 October 1875 – 15 December 1950
Vallabhbhai Patel, known as Sardar Patel, was an Indian independence leader and the first Deputy Prime Minister and Home...
Vannevar Bush
11 March 1890 – 28 June 1974
Vannevar Bush (1890-1974) was an American engineer, inventor, and science administrator who headed the U.S. Office of Sc...
Vasco da Gama
c. 1460 – 24 December 1524
Portuguese explorer who commanded the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India around the Cape of Good Hope.
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
c. 1475 – January 1519
Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c. 1475-1519) was a Spanish explorer, conquistador, and colonial governor who in 1513 became the...
Vaslav Nijinsky
12 March 1889 – 8 April 1950
Vaslav Nijinsky was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish descent, widely regarded as one of the greatest...
Vehbi Koç
20 July 1901 – 25 February 1996
Vehbi Koç was a Turkish businessman and philanthropist who founded Koç Holding, one of Turkey's largest industrial congl...
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
1 April 1952 – present
Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan is an Indian-born British and American structural biologist who shared the 2009 Nobel P...
Vera Rubin
23 July 1928 – 25 December 2016
Vera Rubin (1928-2016) was an American astronomer whose pioneering studies of galaxy rotation curves provided some of th...
Victor Hugo
26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885
French poet, novelist, and statesman of the Romantic movement, author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
Victor Jara
28 September 1932 – 16 September 1973
Victor Jara was a Chilean singer-songwriter, theater director, and political activist who was a key figure in the Nueva...
Vincent van Gogh
30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890
Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose bold color and expressive brushwork profoundly influenced modern art. He created...
Vint Cerf
23 June 1943 – present
Vinton Gray Cerf is an American computer scientist widely regarded as one of the 'fathers of the Internet' for co-design...
Virat Kohli
5 November 1988 – present
Virat Kohli is an Indian cricketer who has played for the India national team since 2008 and captained it across all thr...
Virginia Apgar
7 June 1909 – 7 August 1974
Virginia Apgar was an American physician, anesthesiologist, and medical researcher best known for inventing the Apgar sc...
Virginia Woolf
25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941
English modernist writer whose novels pioneered stream-of-consciousness narration. With her husband Leonard she founded...
Viswanathan Anand
11 December 1969 – present
Viswanathan Anand is an Indian chess grandmaster who in 1988 became the first grandmaster from India and who held the Wo...
Vitus Bering
August 1681 – 19 December 1741
Vitus Jonassen Bering was a Danish-born navigator in the service of the Russian Navy who led the First and Second Kamcha...
Vivienne Westwood
8 April 1941 – 29 December 2022
Vivienne Westwood was a British fashion designer and businesswoman widely credited with bringing punk and new wave fashi...
Vlad the Impaler
c. 1431 – c. 1477
Vlad III, known as Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Dracula, was Voivode of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death. He...
Vladimir Horowitz
1 October 1903 – 5 November 1989
Vladimir Horowitz was a Russian-born American classical pianist widely regarded as one of the greatest of all time. Reno...
Vladimir Lenin
22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924
Vladimir Lenin was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who led the Bolshevik Party to power in t...
Vladimir Nabokov
22 April 1899 – 2 July 1977
Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian-American novelist, poet, and lepidopterist widely regarded as one of the greatest prose s...
Vladimir Zworykin
30 July 1888 – 29 July 1982
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin was a Russian-American inventor and pioneer of television technology. Working at Westinghouse an...
Vo Nguyen Giap
25 August 1911 – 4 October 2013
Vo Nguyen Giap was a Vietnamese general and communist politician who commanded the Viet Minh and later the People's Army...
Voltaire
21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778
French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famed for his wit, his advocacy of civil liberties, and his sati...
W. E. B. Du Bois
23 February 1868 – 27 August 1963
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, and civil rights activist who was the first Afr...
W. H. Auden
21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973
Wystan Hugh Auden was an English-American poet whose work ranged over politics, love, religion and morality in a wide va...
W.B. Yeats
13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and dramatist who was one of the foremost figures of twentieth-century literature...
Wallace Carothers
27 April 1896 – 29 April 1937
Wallace Hume Carothers was an American chemist who led organic chemistry research at DuPont, where his group invented ne...
Walt Disney
5 December 1901 – 15 December 1966
American animator and entrepreneur who created Mickey Mouse, pioneered the animated feature film, and built the Disneyla...