Russian-American poet, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate known for an authorship imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity

Longest-serving President of the French Republic and the first left-wing politician to assume the presidency under the Fifth Republic

American dancer, actor, director, and choreographer known for his energetic style and pioneering 'dance for the common man'

Greek Nobel laureate, poet, and art critic known for defining romantic modernism and his monumental work *Axion Esti*

Visionary Polish film director and screenwriter known for Dekalog, The Double Life of Veronique, and the Three Colours trilogy

French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and experimental filmmaker known for <i>Hiroshima mon amour</i> and her unique narrative style

Australian-British novelist, actress, and journalist best known as the creator of the Mary Poppins series of books

British-American actress known for portraying dignified women and being a top box-office draw during Hollywood's Golden Age

American psychologist and writer who championed psychedelic drugs for mind expansion and challenged conventional thought, becoming a counterculture icon

First President of Nigeria and a driving force behind the country's independence, widely regarded as the father of Nigerian nationalism

Courageous Irish investigative journalist whose murder while reporting on organized crime led to national outrage and significant legal reforms

American historian, physicist, and philosopher who popularized the term "paradigm shift" through his influential book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

American jazz singer known as the "First Lady of Song" and "Queen of Jazz" whose purity of tone and scat singing revolutionized vocal music

Japanese association football player who represented the Japan national team

Sixth President of India and a long-serving politician who held key offices including Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and Speaker of the Lok Sabha

American stage and film actress who became one of the few major stars to work freelance during Hollywood's studio era

Soviet Armenian astrophysicist and science administrator, widely regarded as the founder of theoretical astrophysics in the Soviet Union

Bulgarian psychic and mystic known for her attributed foresight and healing abilities, who lived much of her life blind in the Belasica mountains

English physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his theoretical investigations into the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems

Polish-Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate, recognized for his isolation of cortisone, which revolutionized medical treatments

Japanese author and novelist known for exploring the complexities of faith from a Japanese Catholic viewpoint, acclaimed for works like Silence and a recipient of the Akutagawa Prize and Order of Culture

Afghan physician, diplomat, and politician who served as the 5th President of Afghanistan and General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan

British Nobel laureate in Chemistry, known for pioneering inorganic chemistry and homogeneous transition metal catalysis, particularly his work on organometallic sandwich compounds

Prolific Hungarian mathematician known for solving numerous open problems in discrete mathematics, graph theory, and number theory

The 39th Vice President of the United States and former Governor of Maryland, known for his service from 1969 to 1973

American rapper and actor known for his influential music, powerful lyrics, and acting career, becoming one of the best-selling music artists worldwide

Japanese association football player and coach who represented his country on the national team

British politician and diplomat known for serving as the acting Secretary-General of the United Nations between 1945 and 1946

Canadian-American economist and Nobel Laureate known for the Vickrey auction, congestion pricing, and contributions to public economics and incentive theory

Legendary Italian footballer and manager, celebrated for his record-setting career as a striker, a 1938 FIFA World Cup champion, and one of Italy's greatest players

Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles

2nd president and emperor of the Central African Republic

American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator known for his profound influence on public understanding of the universe

Italian actor widely regarded as one of Italy's most iconic male performers of the 20th century, starring in 147 films and earning three Oscar nominations

British paleoanthropologist known for her groundbreaking discoveries of early hominin fossils and artifacts, including the Proconsul skull, robust Zinjanthropus, and the ancient Laetoli footprints, which significantly expanded our understanding of human evolution