Memorials & famous biographies

Eighth and longest-serving President of Finland, lawyer, politician, and journalist who dominated Finnish politics for over three decades

Turkish politician and economist who served as the 3rd President of the Republic of Turkey from 1950 to 1960 and Prime Minister from 1937 to 1939

Hungarian biochemist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1937), credited with isolating vitamin C and discovering components of the citric acid cycle

Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden for two terms, leading the Social Democratic Party

Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer who, with Edmund Hillary, was the first confirmed to reach the summit of Mount Everest

British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963, known for his pragmatism, wit, and unflappability

British-American actor known for his debonair style, comic timing, and defining presence as a leading man during the Golden Age of Hollywood, earning him an Academy Honorary Award and ranking as the second-greatest male star by the AFI

Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, and film theorist celebrated for his spiritual and metaphysical films with slow pacing and dreamlike imagery

Indian spiritual philosopher, mystic, speaker, and writer who rejected the role of World Teacher to advocate for individual inquiry and a radical transformation of mankind

French existentialist philosopher and feminist activist who wrote the influential work "The Second Sex" and helped launch modern feminist theory

Argentine writer, essayist, poet, and translator known for his profound short stories like Ficciones and El Aleph, which explored themes of labyrinths, infinity, and dreams, and significantly influenced magical realism and philosophical literature