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Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner who captured rural Irish life and identity in lyrical verse, acclaimed as the most important Irish poet since Yeats

German physicist and Nobel laureate who co-discovered giant magnetoresistance, revolutionizing hard disk drive technology

Amos Oz, Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual who championed a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Third President of Botswana who led the nation for a decade from 1998 to 2008, known for his political and economic leadership

American pioneer of the civil rights movement who, at 15, refused to give up her bus seat in segregated Montgomery

British chemist who co-discovered fullerenes, earning him the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work on carbon structures

American-born Swiss singer, songwriter, and actress known as the 'Queen of Rock 'n' Roll' who broke racial and gender barriers in music