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1,666 profilesChristiane Nüsslein-Volhard
20 October 1942 – present
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is a German developmental biologist who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicin...
Christine de Pizan
1364 – c. 1430
Christine de Pizan was an Italian-born French court writer and poet, widely regarded as Europe's first professional woma...
Christoph Willibald Gluck
2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787
Christoph Willibald Gluck was a German-born composer of Italian and French opera who worked mainly in Vienna and Paris....
Christopher Columbus
1451 – 20 May 1506
Genoese navigator whose 1492 Atlantic crossing under the Spanish crown opened sustained contact between Europe and the A...
Christopher Marlowe
c. 1564 – 30 May 1593
Christopher Marlowe was an English playwright and poet of the Elizabethan era, the foremost tragedian before Shakespeare...
Christopher Wren
30 October 1632 – 8 March 1723
Sir Christopher Wren was an English architect, astronomer and mathematician, widely regarded as one of the greatest arch...
Chuck Berry
18 October 1926 – 18 March 2017
Chuck Berry was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who was one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. Throug...
Chung Ju-yung
25 November 1915 – 21 March 2001
Chung Ju-yung was a South Korean industrialist who founded the Hyundai Group. Born to a farming family in what is now No...
Cindy Sherman
19 January 1954 – present
Cindy Sherman is an American photographer and conceptual artist celebrated for her series of self-portraits in which she...
Clara Barton
25 December 1821 – 12 April 1912
Clara Barton (1821-1912) was an American nurse, humanitarian, and founder of the American Red Cross. Known as the 'Angel...
Clara Schumann
13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896
Clara Schumann (1819-1896) was a German pianist and composer, one of the most distinguished concert pianists of the Roma...
Clarice Lispector
10 December 1920 – 9 December 1977
Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer, considered one of the most important Portuguese-langu...
Claude Debussy
22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918
Claude Debussy was a French composer regarded as one of the most influential figures in music at the turn of the 20th ce...
Claude Monet
14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926
French painter and founder of Impressionism, whose studies of light and atmosphere reshaped modern art. His late Water L...
Claude Shannon
30 April 1916 – 24 February 2001
Claude Elwood Shannon was an American mathematician and electrical engineer known as the father of information theory. H...
Claudio Monteverdi
c. 1567 – 29 November 1643
Claudio Monteverdi was an Italian composer, string player, and choirmaster whose work bridged the Renaissance and Baroqu...
Claus von Stauffenberg
15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944
Claus von Stauffenberg was a German army officer who served in Poland, France, the Soviet Union and North Africa, where...
Clement Attlee
3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967
Clement Attlee was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and led the...
Coco Chanel
19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971
French fashion designer who liberated women's fashion from the corseted silhouette, founded the House of Chanel, and cre...
Constantin Brâncuși
19 February 1876 – 16 March 1957
Constantin Brâncuși was a Romanian-born sculptor who worked primarily in France and is regarded as a pioneer of modern a...
Corazon Aquino
25 January 1933 – 1 August 2009
Corazon Aquino was a Filipino politician who served as the 11th President of the Philippines and the first woman to hold...
Cosimo de' Medici
27 September 1389 – 1 August 1464
Florentine banker and statesman who founded the Medici political dynasty and became the leading patron of the early Rena...
Count Basie
21 August 1904 – 26 April 1984
Count Basie was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer who led one of the most important big bands...
Cristiano Ronaldo
5 February 1985 – present
Cristiano Ronaldo is a Portuguese professional footballer who has played as a forward for Sporting CP, Manchester United...
Cristóbal Balenciaga
21 January 1895 – 23 March 1972
Cristóbal Balenciaga was a Spanish couturier and the founder of the Balenciaga fashion house, revered as a master of tai...
Cumrun Vafa
1 August 1960 – present
Cumrun Vafa is an Iranian-American theoretical physicist at Harvard University who works on string theory. With Andrew S...
Czesław Miłosz
30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004
Czesław Miłosz was a Polish poet, essayist and translator who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980. Born in wh...
Dag Hammarskjöld
29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961
Dag Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations f...
Dai Zhen
19 January 1724 – 1 July 1777
Dai Zhen was a Chinese philosopher, philologist, and mathematician of the Qing dynasty, a leading figure of the evidenti...
Dambisa Moyo
1969 – present
Dambisa Moyo is a Zambian-born economist and author who writes on macroeconomics and international development. After wo...
Dan Shechtman
24 January 1941 – present
Dan Shechtman is an Israeli materials scientist who discovered quasicrystals, ordered solids whose atomic arrangement is...
Daniel Barenboim
15 November 1942 – present
Daniel Barenboim is an Argentine-born pianist and conductor who has led the Orchestre de Paris, the Chicago Symphony Orc...
Daniel Bernoulli
8 February 1700 – March 1782
Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist of the famous Bernoulli family, remembered above al...
Daniel Boone
2 November 1734 – 26 September 1820
Daniel Boone (1734-1820) was an American frontiersman and pioneer whose exploration and settlement of Kentucky made him...
Daniel Defoe
c. 1660 – 24 April 1731
Daniel Defoe (c. 1660-1731) was an English writer, trader, journalist, and pamphleteer, best remembered for the novel Ro...
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
24 May 1686 – 16 September 1736
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was a physicist and instrument maker, born in Danzig and active mainly in the Dutch Republic....
Daniel Kahneman
5 March 1934 – 27 March 2024
Daniel Kahneman was an Israeli-American psychologist whose work with Amos Tversky on judgement under uncertainty helped...
Dante Alighieri
c. 1265 – 14 September 1321
Dante Alighieri was an Italian poet, writer, and political thinker from Florence, best known for the Divine Comedy, wide...
Dara Khosrowshahi
28 May 1969 – present
Dara Khosrowshahi is an Iranian-American business executive. Born in Tehran, he left Iran with his family as a child and...
Dara Shikoh
20 March 1615 – 30 August 1659
Dara Shikoh (1615-1659) was the eldest son of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan and the heir apparent to the Mughal throne....
David Attenborough
8 May 1926 – present
David Attenborough is a British broadcaster and natural historian best known for writing and presenting the BBC's Life s...
David Ben-Gurion
16 October 1886 – 1 December 1973
David Ben-Gurion was a Zionist leader and the primary founder and first prime minister of the State of Israel. He led th...
David Bowie
8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016
David Bowie was an English singer-songwriter and actor renowned for his reinvention and visual presentation, becoming on...
David Grossman
25 January 1954 – present
David Grossman is an Israeli writer whose novels include See Under: Love, To the End of the Land and A Horse Walks into...
David Hilbert
23 January 1862 – 14 February 1943
David Hilbert was a German mathematician and one of the most influential figures in modern mathematics. He made foundati...
David Hume
7 May 1711 – 25 August 1776
David Hume (1711-1776) was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, and essayist, celebrated for his empiricism...
David Livingstone
19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873
David Livingstone (1813-1873) was a Scottish physician, missionary, and explorer who spent three decades traveling in so...
David Lloyd George
17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945
David Lloyd George was a British Liberal statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922,...