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American businessman who transformed McDonald's from a small restaurant chain into a global fast-food corporation and owned the San Diego Padres

American jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer known for the Count Basie Orchestra and shaping the swing era with his minimalist piano and driving rhythm section

American film director known for his revisionist Westerns and explicit action sequences

Nobel laureate who, with his wife Gerty, discovered the Cori cycle, explaining how the body breaks down and resynthesizes glycogen for energy

Polish-American mathematician who co-invented the Teller–Ulam design for thermonuclear weapons and developed the Monte Carlo method of computation

American actress who was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Actress and a major box office draw of her era

American photographer, writer, and environmentalist celebrated for his stark black-and-white images of the American West and for co-developing the Zone System of image-making

American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and musician known as the "Prince of Motown" and "Prince of Soul"

American novelist, screenwriter, and playwright regarded as a founder of New Journalism, celebrated for works like "In Cold Blood" and "Breakfast at Tiffanys"

Japanese association football player who represented the Japan national team

Nobel Prize-winning Soviet novelist known for his epic depiction of Don Cossacks during the Russian Revolution and civil war in 'And Quiet Flows the Don'

Japanese association football player who played for the Japan national team

English actor renowned for his success in both British and Hollywood cinema, nominated for three Academy Awards

1st President of the Republic of Egypt and co-leader of the Free Officers movement that ended the monarchy

Olympic gold medalist swimmer and water polo player who became a celebrated American actor

German theologian and Lutheran pastor known for his resistance to the Nazi regime and his global advocacy for human rights

French physicist, poet, university teacher, and researcher, Nobel laureate in Physics (1966) for the discovery and development of optical pumping methods

English radio astronomer and Nobel laureate who pioneered revolutionary radio telescope systems and the aperture synthesis technique, leading to the first Nobel Prize in physics for astronomical research

Spanish poet and Nobel Prize laureate who renewed the traditions of Spanish poetry between the wars

Welsh actor, film director, and producer, known for his powerful voice and dramatic intensity on stage and screen, captivating audiences with his profound performances and multifaceted contributions to the arts

Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and translator, known as a founder of the Latin American Boom who influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers

Influential French filmmaker, actor, and critic, recognized as a founder of the French New Wave and a proponent of the auteur theory

British theoretical physicist who co-founded quantum mechanics, shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics, and laid the foundations for quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory

India's first and only female Prime Minister, a central figure in Indian politics and leader of the Indian National Congress for over 15 years