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Swedish physicist and astronomer, recognized as a founder of spectroscopy and known for his work on the solar spectrum

Third President of Kenya, serving from 2002 to 2013, with a distinguished career as a politician, minister, and economist

Japanese marine biologist who discovered green fluorescent protein and won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Scottish actor best known for his iconic roles as Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter films and Dr. Edward 'Fitz' Fitzgerald in Cracker

Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel laureate recognized for developing radioactive tracers and co-discovering hafnium

Holy Roman Emperor and composer who led the empire from 1637 until 1657, balancing statecraft with a passion for music

Austrian-Japanese politician and philosopher, founding president of the Paneuropean Union and a pioneer of European integration for nearly five decades

French composer, organist, and ornithologist known for his innovative 20th-century classical music and influential teaching

German jurist, political theorist, and professor of law noted for his criticisms of parliamentary democracy and liberalism

President of Finland and pioneering Social Democrat who served as head of state for twelve years

King of Sweden who oversaw significant constitutional changes, and a respected anthropologist, art historian, collector, and classical archaeologist

French king who centralized royal power and fought against robber barons from 1108 to 1137

British statesman and naval officer who served as Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command, and oversaw India's independence as its last Viceroy and first Governor-General

Bosnian-Swiss Nobel laureate in Chemistry known for his pioneering research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions

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

South Korean filmmaker renowned for idiosyncratic art-house cinema and international festival acclaim

Austrian novelist and journalist best known for his family saga Radetzky March and his novel of Jewish life Job

The only author to win the Prix Goncourt twice, Romain Gary was a French novelist, diplomat, film director, and military aviator, also known by his pen name Émile Ajar

French artist, engraver, and satirist renowned for his incisive social and political caricatures and profound depictions of everyday life in 19th-century France

Swiss Nobel laureate and pioneering surgeon known for his revolutionary work on the thyroid gland and the introduction of aseptic surgical techniques

German jurist and politician who served as Imperial Chancellor from 1909 to 1917, overseeing Germany's entry into World War I and playing a key role in its initial years

French priest and statesman who was a leading political theorist of the French Revolution and held offices in the French Consulate and First French Empire

Mozambican politician and revolutionary who served as the first President of Mozambique from 1975 until his death in a plane crash in 1986

Croatian-Swiss Nobel laureate in Chemistry known for his work on polymethylenes, higher terpenes, and the first chemical synthesis of male sex hormones