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American chemist and Nobel laureate known for his foundational work on polymers and macromolecules, including the Flory-Huggins theory and the concept of excluded volume

American actress, visual artist, and activist known for her early film roles and her celebrated comeback in <i>Titanic</i>

Ninth President of the Philippines, economist, and father of a future president

Japanese association football player known for his contributions to the sport

6th and 7th President of the Republic of China who oversaw the end of martial law in Taiwan and was chairman of the Kuomintang

Esteemed Japanese and South Korean association football player, coach, and referee, known as the godfather of South Korean football

Belgian Dominican friar, theologian, and resistance fighter who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1958 for his work helping refugees in post-World War II Europe

British chemist who co-invented partition chromatography, earning the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

English philosopher known for promoting logical positivism through works like Language, Truth, and Logic

Eighth President of India, lawyer, independence activist, and former Union Finance and Defence Minister who also served as Vice President

French novelist, playwright, poet, and political activist known for works like The Thief's Journal and The Balcony

British economist, writer, and Nobel laureate recognized for his influential theories on the nature of the firm and transaction costs, especially from his long tenure at the University of Chicago Law School

Romani-Belgian/French jazz guitarist and composer, hailed as one of Europe's first major jazz talents and a founder of gypsy jazz

British actor, novelist, and military personnel known for his debonair screen presence and acclaimed performances, earning an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards

Italian association football player and manager, widely regarded as one of the best players of the 20th century and a two-time World Cup winner who captained Italy to glory

German-born actress who became the first person to win multiple Academy Awards and first to win back-to-back Oscars

German civil engineer and computer scientist who built the world's first programmable computer, the Z3, and designed the first high-level programming language

Polish resistance fighter and clinical nurse specialist who, as head of the children's section of Żegota, rescued approximately 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II

French playwright, screenwriter, and director known for his powerful dramas like 'Antigone' and exploring themes of integrity and moral compromise

French biologist, biochemist, and Nobel laureate known for his discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis, and his work on the operon model

Indian-American theoretical physicist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize for his mathematical studies of stellar evolution and discovered the Chandrasekhar limit

American physicist and inventor who, with his team at Bell Labs, discovered the transistor effect and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics

French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker, and author who co-invented the Aqua-Lung and pioneered underwater documentaries

British chemist and crystallographer who advanced X-ray crystallography for biomolecules and was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry