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Norwegian playwright and theatre director, celebrated as the father of modern drama and one of the world's most frequently performed dramatists

Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature for his rich narrative art

Italian–American physicist known as the 'architect of the nuclear age' who created the world's first artificial nuclear reactor and won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with neutron irradiation and slow neutrons

Spanish conquistador and explorer who led the expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought Mexico under Spanish rule in the 16th century

India's first and only female Prime Minister, a central figure in Indian politics and leader of the Indian National Congress for over 15 years

Austrian philosopher and logician known for his work in logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language

German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist who was a central figure in the development of sociology and the social sciences

New Zealand physicist and chemist known as "the father of nuclear physics" and recipient of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on elemental disintegration and radioactivity

New Zealand physicist and chemist who was a pioneering researcher in atomic and nuclear physics, known as "the father of nuclear physics" and a Nobel Prize laureate

Zhuang Chinese historian, ethnologist, educator, politician, university teacher, folklorist, and anthropologist

Celebrated French writer, playwright, and novelist known for epic historical adventures like The Count of Monte Cristo and The forty-five guardsmen

French novelist and playwright known for La Comédie humaine, a panoramic depiction of post-Napoleonic French society

Argentine professional football player and manager, widely regarded as one of the greatest players in history and a joint winner of the FIFA Player of the Century award

English modernist writer and novelist known for pioneering stream of consciousness narration and her influential works such as Mrs. Dalloway and A Room of One's Own

English modernist writer who pioneered stream of consciousness narration and authored influential 20th-century works

Japanese filmmaker who directed 30 feature films with a bold, dynamic style that bridged Eastern and Western cinema, becoming one of history's most influential directors

Japanese ukiyo-e artist, painter, and printmaker known for The Great Wave off Kanagawa and influencing European Impressionists

American bassist best known as the original bassist for the rock band Alice in Chains from 1987 to 1993

French painter and founder of Impressionism, known for his pioneering exploration of light and nature in art

French philosopher and historian of ideas who analyzed the relationships between power, knowledge, and liberty, influencing fields from criminology to feminism

French poet, essayist, and critic known for his masterful command of rhythm and rhyme, whose works explored real-life observations and an exoticism inherited from the Romantics

British singer, songwriter, and musician, globally renowned as the iconic frontman of the rock band Queen, celebrated for his flamboyant stage persona and extraordinary four-octave vocal range

French visual artist known for his pioneering use of color and fluid draughtsmanship

Russian Marxist revolutionary, central figure in the October Revolution and Russian Civil War, whose ideas founded Trotskyism