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English poet, illustrator, and painter who co-founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and influenced the Aesthetic movement

Swedish king and military leader who transformed Sweden into a great European power and played a crucial role in the Thirty Years' War

Prolific Hungarian mathematician known for solving numerous open problems in discrete mathematics, graph theory, and number theory

Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist, and science fiction author who won the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics and plasma physics

Italian polymath who revolutionized economics and sociology through mathematical analysis and elite theory

French surgeon and biologist, Nobel laureate for vascular suturing, pioneer of organ transplantation and tissue culture

French mathematician, engineer, and physicist who rigorously established calculus, pioneered complex analysis, and contributed to abstract algebra and mathematical physics

Swedish writer, poet, and former sailor, Harry Martinson was a Nobel laureate in Literature in 1974, known for his ability to 'catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos'

Swiss author and dramatist known for epic theatre, philosophical crime novels, and macabre satire

Ukrainian politician and economist who served as the first President of Ukraine, leading the nation to independence from the Soviet Union

French composer and pianist known for his influential solo piano works like Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes, contributing to classical and modern classical genres

French statesman and historian who served as the first President of the Third French Republic from 1871 to 1873

French writer known for her romantic novels, especially "Bonjour Tristesse," written when she was a teenager

French poet, novelist, editor, and leading voice of the surrealist movement, known for his political engagement and French Resistance efforts

British Army Field Marshal and writer, known for his leadership in the First and Second World Wars, including the Irish War of Independence, and his distinguished military career.

Italian-born American film director, producer, and screenwriter, renowned as the creative force behind major award-winning films and considered the 'American Dream personified'

Vietnamese general, communist politician, and military strategist who led forces to victory in the Indochina wars and served as Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister

Greek shipping magnate who built the world's largest privately-owned shipping fleet and became one of the richest men of his era

British mathematician known for number theory, mathematical analysis, and the Hardy–Weinberg principle

English novelist, literary critic, and essayist known for exploring social class and humanism in works like 'A Room with a View' and 'A Passage to India'

French scientist, artist, and photographer, recognized for inventing the daguerreotype process and as one of the fathers of photography, also an accomplished painter and developer of the diorama theatre

Iconic French actor and singer, a key figure in French cinema known for classic films like Pépé le Moko and La grande illusion, and a recipient of the Légion d'honneur

French philosopher, essayist, literary theorist, and semiotician whose work analyzed sign systems and influenced structuralism and post-structuralism

Austrian-Jewish American composer and theorist who revolutionized classical music through developing variation and the emancipation of the dissonance