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Famous Personalities of the world
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865) US
President during American civil war
Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945) – leader of
Nazi Germany 1933-45.
Al Gore – US presidential
candidate and environmental campaigner
Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) German
scientist – theory of relativity.
Alfred Hitchcock (1899 – 1980) – English
/ American film producer
Amelia Earhart (1897– 1937) – Female aviator
Angelina Jolie (1975 – ) Actress,
director, humanitarian.
Anne Frank (1929-1945) – Dutch Jewish
author who died in Holocaust.
Audrey Hepburn (1929 – 1993) British
actress and humanitarian.
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945 – ) Burmese
opposition leader.
Babe Ruth (1895 – 1948) American baseball
player
Barack Obama (1961- ) US President
Benazir Bhutto (1953 – 2007) – Prime
Minister of Pakistan
Bill Gates (1955 – ) American
businessman, founder of Microsoft
Billie Holiday (1915 – 1959) American
jazz singer.
Billie Jean King (1943 – ) – American
tennis players and campaigner for equality.
Bob Geldof (1951 – ) – Irish musician,
charity worker
Brad Pitt (1963 – ) Actor
C.S. Lewis (1898 – 1963) – British author
Carl Lewis (1961 – ) – US athlete and
Olympian
Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882) British
scientist proposed theory of evolution.
Charles de Gaulle (1890 – 1970) French
resistance leader and President.
Christiano Ronaldo – Portuguese
footballer.
Christopher Columbus (1451 – 1506) –
Italian explorer
Cleopatra (69 -30 BC) Queen of Egypt.
Coco Chanel (1883-1971) – French Fashion
designer
Dalai Lama (1938 – ) Spiritual and
political leader of Tibetans
David Beckham (1975 – ) English
footballer
Desmond Tutu (1931 – ) South African
Bishop and opponent of apartheid
Donald Trump (1946 – ) Businessman, politician
Elvis Presley (1935 – 1977) American pop
singer.
Emile Zatopek – Czech athlete
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) –
English suffragette.
Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961) American
author
Eva Peron (1919 – 1952) – First Lady of
Argentina
Fidel Castro (1926-) Cuban revolutionary
leader.
Florence Nightingale – British nurse
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 – 1945) – US
President 1932 – 1945.
George Bush jnr (1946 – ) US
President 2000-2008.
George Clooney (1961 – ) –
American actor and political activist.
George Orwell (1903 – 1950) British
author of 1984, Animal farm
Grace Kelly (1929-1982) American actress
and later Princess of Monaco.
Haile Selassie (1892 – 1975) head of
state of Ethiopia
Henry Ford (1863 – 1947) US Industrialist
Indira Gandhi (1917 – 1984) – Third Prime
Minister of India.
Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) Swedish
actress. Featured in Casablanca.
J.K.Rowling (1965 – ) British author of
Harry Potter series.
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973) – British
author of Lord of the Rings
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929 – 1994)
– American wife of JF Kennedy
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) Indian Prime
Minister
Jesse Owens (1913-1980) US track athlete
won 4 golds at 1936 Olympics.
Jimmy Wales – American creator of
Wikipedia
John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963) US
President
John Lennon (1940 – 1980) British popstar
and member of the Beatles.
John M Keynes (1883 – 1946) British
economist.
Jon Stewart (1962 – ) – American comic
and tv presenter New York.
Joseph Stalin (1879 – 1953) Soviet leader
from 1924-1953.
Julie Andrews – British singer
Katherine Hepburn (1907-2003) – American
actress.
Kylie Minogue – Australian singer
and actress
Lance Armstrong (1971- ) American
cyclist.
Lech Walesa – Polish leader of Solidarity
movement
Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910 ) – Russian
author and philosopher.
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) Russian
Marxist revolutionary
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) Italian,
painter, scientist, polymath
Lionel Messi (1987- ) Argentinian
footballer
Lord Baden Powell (1857 – 1941) British
Founder of scout movement
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) – French
chemist and microbiologist.
Ludwig Beethoven (1770 – 1827) – German
composer
Lyndon Johnson (1908 – 1973) – US
President 1963-69
Madonna (1958 – ) American Pop singer
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948) Leader of
Indian independence.
Malala Yousafzai – (1997- ) Pakistani human rights
activist.
Malcolm X (1925 – 1965) American
Black nationalist leader
Mao Zedong (1893-1976) Leader of Chinese
Communist revolution
Margaret Thatcher (1925 – ) British Prime
Minister.
Marie Antoinette (1755 – 1793) French
Queen, executed during the French revolution
Marie Curie – Polish / French scientist
Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962) American
actress / singer / model.
Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) –
American civil rights campaigner
Mary Magdalene (4 BC – 40AD) – devotee of
Jesus Christ
Mata Hari (1876-1917) Dutch exotic
dancer, executed as spy.
Michael Jackson (1958 – 2009) – American
Pop singer
Michael Jordon (1963 – ) US Basketball
star.
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931 – ) Russian
President during end of Cold War.
More famous people
Mother Teresa (1910 – 1997) Catholic
missionary nun / charity worker
Muhammad Ali (1942 – ) American Boxer and
civil rights campaigner.
Neil Armstrong (1930 – 2012) US
Pilot , first person to land on moon.
Nelson Mandela (1918 – ) – South African
President anti-apartheid campaigner.
Oprah Winfrey (1954 – ) US media
celebrity.
Oscar Wilde (1854- 1900) Irish author,
poet, playwright.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) – Spanish
modern artists
Paul Krugman – American Nobel Prize
winning economist
Paul McCartney (1942 – ) British
musician, member of Beatles.
Pele (1940 – ) Brazilian footballer,
considered greatest of 20th Century.
Peter Sellers (1925 – 1980) British film
actor and comedian
Plato (423 BC – 348 BC) Greek philosopher
Pope Francis (1936 – ) – First pope from
the Americas.
Pope John Paul II (1920 – 2005) Polish
Pope.
Prince Charles (1948 – ) Heir to
British throne
Queen Elizabeth II (1926 – ) British
monarch since 1954.
Queen Victoria ( 1819 –1901) British
Queen during Nineteenth Century
Richard Branson (1950 – ) British
entrepreneur founder of Virgin.
Roger Federer (1981 – ) Swiss Tennis
player
Roman Abramovich – Russian
oligarch.
Ronald Reagan (1911 – 2004) – US
President (1981-1989).
Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005) – American civil
rights activist
Rupert Murdoch – Media owner of
News Corporation.
Sacha Baron Cohen (1971 – ) –
English comedian
Shakira – Colombian singer
Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) Austrian
psychoanalyst
Simon Bolivar (1783 – 1830) ‘Liberator’
of Latin America.
Stephen Hawking – British scientist
Stephen King (1947 – )
Contemporary horror and fantasy writer
Steve Jobs (1955 – 2012) Key figure in
Apple computers
Sting (1951
– ) British musician.
Thomas Edison ( 1847 – 1931) – American
inventor
Tiger Woods (1975 – ) American
golfer
Tim Berners Lee (1955- ) English creator
of World Wide Web
Tom Cruise (1962 ) – American
actor
Usain Bolt (1986 – ) – Jamaican athlete.
Record holder at 100m and 200m
V.Lenin (1870-1924) – Leader of Russian
Revolution 1917.
Vincent Van Gogh (1853 – 1890) Dutch
artist
Walt Disney (1901 – 1966) American film
producer
Winston Churchill (1874- 1965) – British
Prime Minister during WWII
Woodrow Wilson (1856 – 1924) US
president.
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Famous
Writers
A list of famous writers / authors /
poets throughout history.
Agatha Christie (1890 – 1976) British fictional crime writer. Many of her books focused on series featuring her detectives ‘Poirot’ and Mrs Marple.
Albert Camus (1913
– 1960) – French author, journalist, and philosopher. Associated with
existentialism and absurdism. Famous works included The Myth of
Sisyphus, The Stranger and The Plague.
Alexandre Dumas (1802
– 1870) French author of historical dramas, including – The Count of
Monte Cristo (1844), and The Three Musketeers (1844). Also
prolific author of magazine articles, pamphlets and travel books.
Alfred Tennyson (1809
– 1892) Popular Victorian poet, wrote Charge of the Light Brigade, Ulysses,
and In Memoriam A.H.H.
Anne Frank (1929 –
1945) Dutch-Jewish diarist. Known for her diary ‘Anne Frank‘ Published
posthumously by her father – recalling her life hiding from Gestapo in occupied
Holland.
arcel Proust (1871
– 1922) French author. Best known for epic novel l À la recherche du
temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) published in seven parts
between 1913 and 1927.
Barbara Cartland (1901
– 2000) One of most prolific and best selling authors of the romantic fiction
genre. Some suggest she has sold over 2 billion copies worldwide.
Beatrix Potter (1866
– 1943) English conservationist and author of imaginative children’s books,
such as the Tales of Peter Rabbit (1902).
C.S. Lewis (1898
– 1963) Irish / English author and professor at Oxford University. Lewis is
best known for The Chronicles of Narnia, a children’s fantasy
series. Also well known as a Christian apologist.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870) –
English writer and social critic. His best-known works include novels such
as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and A
Christmas Carol.
Charlotte Bronte (1816
– 1855) English novelist and poet, from Haworth. Her best known novel is ‘Jane
Eyre’ (1847).
D H Lawrence (1885
– 1930) English poet, novelist and writer. Best known works include Sons
and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love and Lady Chatterley’s
Lover (1928) – which was banned for many years.
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)
Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, is one of most
influential European works of literature. Dante is also called the “Father of
the Italian language”.
Douglas Adams (1952 – 2001) British
writer of humorous and absure science fiction. Adams wrote a best selling
trilogy (of five books) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy –
which began as a BBC play.
Emily Bronte (1818 –
1848) English novelist. Emily Bronte is best known for her novel Wuthering
Heights (1847), and her poetry.
Emily Dickinson (1830
– 1886) American female poet. Led secluded lifestyle, and left legacy of many
short vivid poems, often on themes of death and immortality.
Enid Blyton (1897
– 1968) British children’s writer, known for her series of children’s books –
The Famous Five and The Secret Seven. Blyton wrote an estimated 800 books over
40 years.
Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961) Ground
breaking modernist American writer. Famous works included For Whom The
Bell Tolls (1940) and A Farewell to Arms (1929).
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896
– 1940) American author. Iconic writer of the ‘jazz age’. Notable works
include The Great Gatsby(1925), and Tender Is the Night
(1934) – cautionary tales about the ‘Jazz decade’ and the American
Dream based on pleasure and materialism.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) Russian
novelist, journalist and philosopher. Notable works include Notes from
Underground, Crime and Punishment and The Idiot
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927
– 2014) Colombian author. Wrote: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The
Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985).
Nobel Prize in Literature (1982).
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 – 1400)
Considered the Father of English Literature. Best known for Canterbury
Tales (1475).
George Bernard Shaw (1856
– 1950) Irish playwright and wit. Famous works include: Pygmalion (1912), Man
and Superman(1903) and Back to Methuselah (1921)
George Eliot (1819
– 1880) Pen name of Mary Ann Evans. Wrote novels, The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas
Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel
Deronda (1876)
George Orwell (1903 – 1950) – English
author. Famous works include Animal Farm, and 1984. –
Both stark warnings about the dangers of totalitarian states, Orwell was also a
democratic socialist who fought in the Spanish Civil War, documenting his
experiences in “Homage to Catalonia” (1938).
George R.R Martin (1948
– ) American author of epic fantasy series – A Song of Ice and Fire,
– his international best-selling series of fantasy, adapted for the screen as a
Game of Thrones.
Henry David Thoreau (1817
– 1862) – American poet, writer and leading member of the Transcendentalist
movement. Thoreau’s “Walden” (1854) was a unique account of living close to
nature.
Homer (c.
8th Century B.C. ) Considered the greatest of the ancient Greek poets. Homer
was the author of the two epic poems, The Iliad and The
Odyssey.
Honore de Balzac (1799
– 1850) French novelist and short story writer. Balzac was an influential
realist writer who created characters of moral ambiguity – often based on his
own real life examples. His greatest work was the collection of short stories La
Comédie humaine.
J.D. Salinger (1919
– 2010) American author. Most influential novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951).
Wrote many short stories for New Yorker magazine, such as “A Perfect Day for
Bananafish”
J.K.Rowling (1965
– ) British author of the Harry Potter Series – which has become the best
selling book series of all time. Her first book was Harry Potter and
the Philosopher’s Stone (1997). Rowling has also published adult
fiction, such as The Casual Vacancy(2012) and The Cuckoo’s
Calling (2013)
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973) –
Professor of Anglo-Saxon and English at Oxford University. Tolkien wrote the
best-selling mythical trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Other
works include, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion, and
a translation of Beowulf.
James Joyce (1882
– 1941) Irish writer from Dublin. Joyce was one of most influential modernist
avant-garde writers of the Twentieth Century. His novel Ulysses (1922),
was ground-breaking for its stream of consciousness style. Other works
include Dubliners (1914) and Finnegans Wake (1939).
Jane Austen (1775 – 1817) English
author who wrote romantic fiction combined with social realism. Her novels
include: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and
Prejudice (1813) and Emma(1816).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749
– 1832) German poet, playwright, and author. Notable works of Goethe
include: Faust, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Elective
Affinities.
John Keats (1795 –
1821) English Romantic Poet, best known for his Odes, such as Ode to a
Nightingale, Endymion.
John Milton (1608
– 1674) English poet. Best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667),
written in blank verse – telling the Biblical story of man’s fall. Also
wrote Areopagitica (1644) in defence of free speech.
John Steinbeck (1902
– 1968) American writer who captured the social change experienced in the US
around the time of the Great Depression. Famous works include – Of Mice
and Men (1937), The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and East of Eden
(1952).
Jonathan Swift (1667
– 1745) Anglo-Irish writer born in Dublin. Swift was a prominent satirist,
essayist and author. Notable works include Gulliver’s Travels (1726), A
Modest Proposal and A Tale of a Tub.
Joseph Heller (1923
– 1999) American novelist, who wrote satirical and black comedy. His most
famous work is ‘Catch 22’ (1961) – a satire on the futility of war.
Kenneth Graham (1859
– 1932) Author of the Wind in the Willows (1908), a classic of children’s
literature.
Khaled Hosseini (1965
– ) Afghan born American writer. Notable works include: The Kite Runner
(2003) A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) And the
Mountains Echoed (2013
leksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918
– 2008) Russian author, historian and political critic. Solzhenitsyn was
awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970 for his work in exposing the
nature of Soviet totalitarianism. e.g, The Gulag Archipelago (1965-67).
Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910) Russian
novelist and moral philosopher. Famous works include the epic novels – War
and Peace(1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). Tolstoy
also became an influential philosopher with his brand of Christian pacificism.
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
Oxford mathematician and author. Famous for Alice in Wonderland,
Through the Looking Glass, and poems like The Snark.
Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) American
writer and humorist, considered the ‘father of American literature’. Famous
works include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn (1885).
Oscar Wilde (1854 –
1900) – Irish writer and poet. Wilde wrote humorous, satirical plays, such as ‘The
Importance of Being Earnest‘ and ‘The Picture of Dorian Grey’.
P.G.Wodehouse (1881
– 1975) English comic writer. Best known for his humorous and satirical stories
about the English upper classes, such as Jeeves and Wooster and Blandings
Castle.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 – 1822)
English romantic poet. Famous works include Queen Mab and Prometheus
Unbound
Poets
Rabindranath Tagore (1861
– 1941) Indian poet. Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature for his work – Gitanjali.
Roald Dahl (1916
– 1990) English author, best known for his children’s books, such as Willy
Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, James and The Giant Peach and The
BFG.
Robert Frost (1874
– 1963) – Influential American poet, one of most highly regarded of the
Twentieth Century. Most famous work ‘The Road Not Taken’ (1916)
Salman Rushdie (1947
– ) Anglo-Indian author. His works combine elements of magic realism, satire
and historical fiction – often based on Indian sub-continent. Notable works
include Midnight’s Children (1981), Shame (1983)
and Satanic Verses (1988).
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
Irish avant garde, modernist writer. Beckett wrote minimalist and thought
provoking plays, such as ‘Waiting for Godot’ (1953) and ‘Endgame‘
(1957). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784) British
author best known for his compilation of the English dictionary. Although not
the first attempt at a dictionary, it was widely considered to be the most
comprehensive – setting the standard for later dictionaries.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772
– 1834) English romantic poet. Author of The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner and Kublai Khan.
Sappho ( c 570 BC) One of the first
published female writers. Much of her poetry has been lost but her immense
reputation has remained. Plato referred to Sappho as one of the great ten
poets.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930)
British author of historical novels and plays. Most famous for his short
stories about the detective – Sherlock Holmes, such as The Hound of the
Baskervilles (1902) and Sign of Four (1890).
Stephen King (1947
– ) American author of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense,
science fiction, and fantasy. One of the best selling authors of modern times.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
English novelist and poet. Hardy was a Victorian realist who was influenced by
Romanticism. He wrote about problems of Victorian society – in particular,
declining rural life. Notable works include: Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Tess
of the d’Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure(1895).
Vera Brittain (1893
– 1970) British writer best known for her autobiography – Testament of
Youth (1933) – sharing her traumatic experiences of the First World
War.
Victor Hugo (1802
– 1885) French author and poet. Hugo’s novels include Les Misérables,
(1862) and Notre-Dame de Paris(1831).
Virgil (70
BC – 19 BC) Roman poet. Wrote three epics Eclogues (or Bucolics),
the Georgics, and the Aeneid.
Virginia Woolf (1882
– 1941) English modernist writer, a member of the Bloomsbury group. Famous
novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927)
and Orlando (1928).
Vladimir Nabokov (1899
– 1977) Russian author of Lolita(1955) and Pale Fire (1962)
Walt Whitman (1819
– 1892) American poet. Wrote Leaves of Grass, a ground breaking new
style of poetry.
William Blake (1757
–1827) English mystic and romantic poet, wrote Songs of Innocence and Songs
of Experience. Also hand-painted many of his works.
William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
English poet and playwright. Famous plays include Macbeth, Romeo and
Juliet, Merchant of Veniceand Hamlet. Shakespeare is
widely considered the seminal writer of the English language.
William Somerset Maugham 1874
– 1965) British novelist and writer. One of the most popular authors of 1930s.
Notable works included The Moon and Sixpence (1916), The
Razor’s Edge (1944), and Of Human Bondage (1915)
William Wordsworth (1770
– 1850) English romantic poet from Lake District, many poems related to
natures, such as his Lyrical Ballads.
Other categories of writers:
More Famous Poets – Other poets,
including W.B. Yeats, Wilfred Owen, Rumi, Czeslaw Milosz
Famous
philosophers – including Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, Baruch
Spinoza, Rene Descartes, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Paine and David Hume.
Famous Economist writers –
including Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman and Paul Krugman.
Political / social activist writers –
People who have written about political and human rights. Including Olaudah
Equiano, Frederick Douglass, Nelson Mandela, William Wilberforce and Dietrich
Bonhoeffer.
Spiritual writers –
including St Teresa of Avila, Sri Aurobindo, Meister Eckhart, Desiderius
Erasmus, St Therese of Lisieux and Swami Vivekananda.
Female authors – Female authors,
including the Bronte sisters, Maya Angelou, Jane Austen and J.K. Rowling.
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Indian Famous Personalities
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List of Scientists (प्रसिद्द वैज्ञानिकों की जीवनी )
Here is an alphabetical list of
some of the most famous scientists in history, the men and women whose crucial
discoveries and inventions changed the world:
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