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1,666 profilesCarlos Gardel
c. 1890 – 24 June 1935
Carlos Gardel was a French-Argentine singer, songwriter, and actor considered the most prominent figure in the history o...
Carlos Ghosn
9 March 1954 – present
Carlos Ghosn (born 1954) is a Brazilian-born businessman of Lebanese descent who led the turnaround of Nissan after 1999...
Caroline Herschel
16 March 1750 – 9 January 1848
Caroline Herschel was a German-born British astronomer who discovered eight comets and catalogued hundreds of nebulae wh...
Caster Semenya
7 January 1991 – present
Caster Semenya is a South African middle-distance runner who won the 800 metres at the 2009, 2011 and 2017 World Champio...
Catherine de' Medici
13 April 1519 – 5 January 1589
Catherine de' Medici was an Italian-born noblewoman who became queen consort of France and, as queen mother, the dominan...
Catherine of Siena
25 March 1347 – 29 April 1380
Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) was an Italian mystic, activist, and author associated with the Dominican Third Order who...
Catherine the Great
2 May 1729 – 17 November 1796
Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796 who expanded the empire, championed Enlightenment culture, and presided over a golde...
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
10 May 1900 – 7 December 1979
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979) was a British-American astronomer whose 1925 doctoral thesis first showed that star...
Celia Cruz
21 October 1925 – 16 July 2003
Celia Cruz was a Cuban-American singer widely known as the 'Queen of Salsa.' Over a career spanning five decades she rec...
Cesar Chavez
31 March 1927 – 23 April 1993
Cesar Chavez was an American labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association...
César Milstein
8 October 1927 – 24 March 2002
César Milstein was an Argentine-British biochemist who shared the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for develop...
Cesare Beccaria
15 March 1738 – 28 November 1794
Cesare Beccaria was an Italian Enlightenment philosopher, jurist, and economist from Milan. His treatise On Crimes and P...
Cesária Évora
27 August 1941 – 17 December 2011
Cesária Évora was a Cape Verdean singer known for her interpretations of morna, the melancholic song form of her home is...
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
18 February 1486 – 14 June 1533
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was a 15th-16th century Bengali Hindu saint and the founder of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, a devotional tr...
Charles Aznavour
22 May 1924 – 1 October 2018
Charles Aznavour was a French singer, songwriter and actor of Armenian descent whose career spanned more than seventy ye...
Charles Babbage
26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871
English mathematician and inventor who originated the concept of a programmable computer with his Difference and Analyti...
Charles Baudelaire
9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a French poet, essayist, and art critic whose collection Les Fleurs du mal (1857) tra...
Charles Darwin
12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882
English naturalist whose theory of evolution by natural selection, set out in On the Origin of Species, transformed the...
Charles de Gaulle
22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970
French general and statesman who led the Free French forces during the Second World War and later founded the Fifth Repu...
Charles Dickens
7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870
English novelist of the Victorian era whose works, including Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, and Great Expectations, ex...
Charles Eames
17 June 1907 – 21 August 1978
Charles Eames was an American designer, architect, and filmmaker who, together with his wife Ray Eames, made major contr...
Charles Goodyear
29 December 1800 – 1 July 1860
Charles Goodyear (1800-1860) was an American self-taught chemist and manufacturer who developed vulcanized rubber. After...
Charles K. Kao
4 November 1933 – 23 September 2018
Charles Kuen Kao was a Chinese-born electrical engineer and physicist whose work on light transmission in glass fibres u...
Charles Lyell
14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875
Sir Charles Lyell was a Scottish geologist whose Principles of Geology popularized uniformitarianism, the idea that the...
Charles R. Drew
3 June 1904 – 1 April 1950
Charles Richard Drew was an American surgeon and medical researcher whose work on blood plasma storage shaped modern blo...
Charles Sherrington
27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington was an English neurophysiologist who shared the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558
Charles V was Holy Roman Emperor from 1519 to 1556 and, as Charles I, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, ruling an empire...
Charles XII of Sweden
17 June 1682 – 30 November 1718
Charles XII (1682-1718) was King of Sweden from 1697 until his death, spending almost his entire reign fighting the Grea...
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
14 June 1736 – 23 August 1806
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was a French military engineer and physicist best known for formulating Coulomb's law, descr...
Charlie Chaplin
16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977
English comic actor and filmmaker whose Tramp character made him a global icon of the silent era, and one of film's firs...
Charlie Parker
29 August 1920 – 12 March 1955
Charlie Parker was an American jazz saxophonist and composer who was a leading figure in the development of bebop. Known...
Charlotte Brontë
21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels becam...
Charlotte Perriand
24 October 1903 – 27 October 1999
Charlotte Perriand was a French architect and designer who was a major figure in modern furniture design. She worked for...
Che Guevara
14 June 1928 – 9 October 1967
Che Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, and guerrilla leader who was a major figure in the Cuban...
Cheikh Anta Diop
29 December 1923 – 7 February 1986
Cheikh Anta Diop was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist and physicist who argued that ancient Egypt was a Black Afri...
Chen Jingrun
22 May 1933 – 19 March 1996
Chen Jingrun was a Chinese mathematician who worked in analytic number theory at the Institute of Mathematics of the Chi...
Chen-Ning Yang
1 October 1922 – 18 October 2025
Chen-Ning Yang (1922-2025) was a Chinese theoretical physicist who co-developed Yang-Mills gauge theory, a foundation of...
Chester Carlson
8 February 1906 – 19 September 1968
Chester Carlson was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney best known for inventing electrophotography, th...
Chiang Kai-shek
31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975
Chiang Kai-shek was a Chinese Nationalist military and political leader who led the Republic of China from 1928 until hi...
Chico Mendes
15 December 1944 – 22 December 1988
Chico Mendes was a Brazilian rubber tapper, trade unionist and environmental campaigner from the state of Acre. He organ...
Chien-Shiung Wu
31 May 1912 – 16 February 1997
Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) was a Chinese-American experimental physicist, often called the 'First Lady of Physics', who...
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
1653 – 6 January 1725
Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) was a Japanese dramatist of the Edo period, often called the greatest playwright of Jap...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
15 September 1977 – present
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer whose novels include Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah....
Chinua Achebe
16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013
Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic widely regarded as a foundational figure of modern African liter...
Chrétien de Troyes
c. 1130 – c. 1191
Chrétien de Troyes was a French poet of the late twelfth century and the most influential author of Arthurian romance. W...
Christiaan Barnard
8 November 1922 – 2 September 2001
Christiaan Barnard was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart t...
Christiaan Huygens
14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695
Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, one of the leading scientists of th...
Christian Dior
21 January 1905 – 24 October 1957
Christian Dior was a French fashion designer who founded the House of Dior, one of the world's most prestigious fashion...