American actress and singer known for her striking presence, roles in films like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and founding an international adoption program

British-American actress, celebrated for her iconic performances, pioneering celebrity, and impactful HIV/AIDS activism

Veteran English actor known for Hammer horror films and portraying Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman film series

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

Argentine novelist, essayist, painter, and physicist who won prestigious Hispanic literature prizes and became highly influential throughout Latin America

Indian spiritual guru and religious leader who was known as a godman and philanthropist, claiming to be the reincarnation of Shirdi Sai Baba

American Nobel Prize-winning chemist who illuminated the nature of chemical bonding, especially in boranes, and later studied protein structures

American director, producer, and screenwriter known for realistic New York dramas tackling social injustices and questioning authority

American physician, geneticist, and Nobel Prize winner who identified the hepatitis B virus and contributed to its vaccine development

Brazilian politician who served as the 33rd President of Brazil and held key roles as Vice President, Senator, and Governor

American medical physicist and Nobel laureate who co-developed the revolutionary radioimmunoassay technique, transforming diagnostic medicine

Hungarian legal scholar, professor, and politician who served as President of Hungary from 2000 to 2005, and as Minister of Education

Abkhazian politician who served as Prime Minister and later as the second President of Abkhazia, overseeing Russian recognition and the Russo-Georgian War

Canadian physicist and inventor who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize for co-inventing the charge-coupled device (CCD)

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

Saudi businessman and al-Qaeda founder who orchestrated the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks

American actor best known for his portrayal of the rumpled detective Lieutenant Columbo, for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe

Spanish-French writer, screenwriter, politician, and philosopher known for his literary works and his service as Spain's Minister of Culture

British singer-songwriter known for her distinctive contralto vocals and eclectic blend of soul, rhythm and blues, and jazz music

British painter and engraver known for his unflinching figurative portraits, a foremost 20th-century English portraitist

Japanese association football player and manager who represented the national team

First Lady of the United States, celebrated for her active role in social policy, women's rights advocacy, and groundbreaking candor on personal health and addiction

German politician, last crown prince of Austria-Hungary, and long-serving head of the House of Habsburg, known for advocating European unity

Japanese association football player who served as a central defender for the Japan national team

Venezuelan-American immunologist and Nobel laureate who discovered major histocompatibility complex genes, vital for the immune system's self-recognition

Canadian immunologist and cell biologist who discovered dendritic cells and was a recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Kenyan environmentalist, politician, and philanthropist who founded the Green Belt Movement and was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004

Afghan politician, pedagogue, and university teacher who served as the sixth President of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996, and again in 2001

German nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate who discovered the Mössbauer effect, revolutionizing spectroscopy and our understanding of gamma radiation

Hungarian footballer and manager, "The Emperor," who was named European Footballer of the Year in 1967 and described as one of the most elegant footballers of all time

American computer scientist who founded the discipline of artificial intelligence, coined the term AI, and developed the Lisp programming language

American mathematician and Nobel laureate who developed direct methods for determining crystal structures, changing the field of chemistry

American computer scientist and co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language

Japanese association football player who proudly represented his nation on the Japan national team

Japanese association football player who proudly represented the Japan national team

Albanian politician who served as the second and last leader of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania, and its first President of the Republic

American entrepreneur and inventor who co-founded Apple Inc. and was instrumental in the personal computer revolution and the creation of influential digital products

American evolutionary biologist who transformed understanding of cellular evolution through her endosymbiotic theory and co-developed the Gaia hypothesis

Joseph Stalin's only daughter, a writer and memoirist who famously defected from the Soviet Union to the United States

Indian-American molecular biologist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for interpreting the genetic code and its role in protein synthesis

American boxer, known as 'Smokin'', undisputed heavyweight champion from 1970 to 1973, and the first to defeat Muhammad Ali

American physicist and Nobel laureate known for inventing the separated oscillatory field method used in atomic clocks

Dutch-German actor, singer, and entertainer known for his exceptionally long career, performing until the age of 108 and maintaining popularity for decades in the German-speaking world

Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident who was the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic

Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011, also known for his work as a military personnel, politician, and film producer

English American author, journalist, and literary critic, known for his incisive intellect and contributions to New Atheism

Brazilian physician and association football player known as "Doctor Sócrates," regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of all time and a symbol of cool

German novelist and essayist who became one of the most important voices from the former East Germany