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French painter and sculptor celebrated for his academic historical and Orientalist works, and an influential teacher to generations of artists

Hungarian novelist, dramatist, and revolutionary leader whose romantic novels captivated Victorian England and earned him comparisons to Charles Dickens

Faroese physician and scientist who won the 1903 Nobel Prize for pioneering light therapy to treat diseases like lupus vulgaris

Czech composer who masterfully blended the folk music of his native Bohemia and Moravia with classical symphonic traditions, known for works like Symphony No. 9 "New World"

English-American photographer and inventor known for his pioneering studies of motion and early work in motion-picture projection

Queen of Spain whose reign from 1833 to 1868 was marked by political instability, military pronunciamientos, and personal controversy

Hungarian Jewish journalist, lawyer, and politician, renowned as the father of modern political Zionism and the visionary behind the Jewish State