Swedish business magnate, entrepreneur, and designer who founded IKEA and grew it into the world's largest furniture seller

Japanese association football player, coach, and politician who played for the Japan national team

Irish musician, singer, and principal songwriter known as the lead vocalist of the rock band The Cranberries, recognized for her distinctive mezzo-soprano voice and signature yodel

French yé-yé and pop singer who won Eurovision in 1965 and had major hits like "Ella, elle l'a" through her collaboration with Michel Berger

Indian actress and film producer cited as the "first female superstar" of Indian cinema, known for her versatile performances across Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, and Kannada language films

Canadian physicist who won the 1990 Nobel Prize for experiments proving the existence of quarks inside protons and neutrons

German American biologist and 1999 Nobel laureate who discovered the intrinsic signals governing protein transport and localization within cells

Swiss singer who won the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956 and was known for her hit 'O mein Papa'

British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author known for his significant work on black holes and the origins of the universe

Nobel laureate British biologist and geneticist known for his work on the Caenorhabditis elegans genome and leadership in human genome research, advocating for public access to science

Italian professional association football player known for his role as a central defender

English physician and athlete who became the first person in history to run a mile in under four minutes, later a respected neurologist

Swedish electronic music producer and DJ who brought EDM to mainstream radio and is regarded as one of the most successful artists in the genre

First Lady of the United States, wife of President George H. W. Bush, mother of President George W. Bush, and founder of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy

Czech-American film director who won two Academy Awards and created acclaimed films including "Amadeus" and "Hair" over a six-decade career

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

Japanese animator, director, producer, and co-founder of Studio Ghibli, widely recognized for his critically acclaimed animated feature films

South African activist and politician known as the 'Mother of the Nation' for her anti-apartheid struggle and parliamentary service

Canadian and American actress and activist, widely known for her role as Lois Lane in the Superman films and her extensive work across five decades

Polish sprinter and sports official who uniquely held world records in the 100m, 200m, and 400m, securing seven Olympic medals including three golds

Swedish neuroscientist and Nobel laureate recognized for his pioneering discoveries concerning the neurotransmitter dopamine and its impact on Parkinson's disease

American rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer known for his versatile music, exploration of emo and trap genres, and pioneering role in emo rap and SoundCloud rap

American chef, author, and television personality known for exploring international culture and cuisine

Soviet and Ukrainian film director, screenwriter, and actress known for her distinctive and unusual directorial style

Founder of the Japanese new religious group Aum Shinrikyo and convicted mastermind of the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attack

Head and Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and a pro-Russian separatist leader

Scottish economist and university teacher who won the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize for his work on the economics of asymmetric information and optimal taxation

Icelandic actor and singer best known for portraying Robbie Rotten in the children's television series LazyTown

Indian statesman, poet, and journalist who served as Prime Minister from 1998-2004 and co-founded the Bharatiya Janata Party

Russian writer and poet known for creating beloved characters like Cheburashka and Gena the Crocodile, with over 70 books and 60 cartoon adaptations

Trinidadian-British Nobel laureate writer known for uniting perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works of fiction and nonfiction

Hong Kong-British-American physicist and electrical engineer who revolutionized telecommunications with his pioneering work in fiber optics, enabling the Internet and the World Wide Web

Vietnamese politician and former police general who served as the 9th President of Vietnam

American rapper, singer, record producer, and songwriter whose debut album Blue Slide Park was the first independently distributed debut to top the US Billboard 200 since 1995

Japanese marine biologist who discovered green fluorescent protein and won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Serbian actress known for her extensive career in film, television, and theatre, and for her role in The Dark Side of the Sun

Spanish operatic soprano and recording artist, celebrated as one of the greatest voices of the 20th century, with a six-decade career and three Grammy Awards

Saudi journalist, dissident, author, columnist, and editor, known for his political writings and his tragic assassination

Armenian-French singer, songwriter, actor, and diplomat known for his distinctive tenor voice and prolific output of over 1,200 recorded songs and 1,000 written songs

Italian film director and screenwriter, renowned for films like <em>The Last Emperor</em> and honored with an Academy Award, BAFTA, César, and multiple Golden Globes

British chemist and biophysicist known for developing crystallographic electron microscopy and his Nobel-winning work on nucleic acid-protein complexes

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

Former Ethiopian President and seasoned politician who served as head of state from 2001 to 2013

Nobel Prize-winning Italian-American astrophysicist who pioneered the field of X-ray astronomy, discovering cosmic X-ray sources and teaching at Johns Hopkins University