Biography
Famous Personalities of the world
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865) US President during American civil war
Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945) – leader of Nazi Germany 1933-45.
Al Gore – US presidential candidate and environmental campaigner
Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) German scientist – theory of relativity.
Alfred Hitchcock (1899 – 1980) – English / American film producer
Amelia Earhart (1897– 1937) – Female aviator
Angelina Jolie (1975 – ) Actress, director, humanitarian.
Anne Frank (1929-1945) – Dutch Jewish author who died in Holocaust.
Audrey Hepburn (1929 – 1993) British actress and humanitarian.
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945 – ) Burmese opposition leader.
Babe Ruth (1895 – 1948) American baseball player
Barack Obama (1961- ) US President
Benazir Bhutto (1953 – 2007) – Prime Minister of Pakistan
Bill Gates (1955 – ) American businessman, founder of Microsoft
Billie Holiday (1915 – 1959) American jazz singer.
Billie Jean King (1943 – ) – American tennis players and campaigner for equality.
Bob Geldof (1951 – ) – Irish musician, charity worker
Brad Pitt (1963 – ) Actor
C.S. Lewis (1898 – 1963) – British author
Carl Lewis (1961 – ) – US athlete and Olympian
Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882) British scientist proposed theory of evolution.
Charles de Gaulle (1890 – 1970) French resistance leader and President.
Christiano Ronaldo – Portuguese footballer.
Christopher Columbus (1451 – 1506) – Italian explorer
Cleopatra (69 -30 BC) Queen of Egypt.
Coco Chanel (1883-1971) – French Fashion designer
Dalai Lama (1938 – ) Spiritual and political leader of Tibetans
David Beckham (1975 – ) English footballer
Desmond Tutu (1931 – ) South African Bishop and opponent of apartheid
Donald Trump (1946 – ) Businessman, politician
Elvis Presley (1935 – 1977) American pop singer.
Emile Zatopek – Czech athlete
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) – English suffragette.
Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961) American author
Eva Peron (1919 – 1952) – First Lady of Argentina
Fidel Castro (1926-) Cuban revolutionary leader.
Florence Nightingale – British nurse
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 – 1945) – US President 1932 – 1945.
George Bush jnr (1946 – ) US President 2000-2008.
George Clooney (1961 – ) – American actor and political activist.
George Orwell (1903 – 1950) British author of 1984, Animal farm
Grace Kelly (1929-1982) American actress and later Princess of Monaco.
Haile Selassie (1892 – 1975) head of state of Ethiopia
Henry Ford (1863 – 1947) US Industrialist
Indira Gandhi (1917 – 1984) – Third Prime Minister of India.
Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) Swedish actress. Featured in Casablanca.
J.K.Rowling (1965 – ) British author of Harry Potter series.
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973) – British author of Lord of the Rings
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929 – 1994) – American wife of JF Kennedy
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) Indian Prime Minister
Jesse Owens (1913-1980) US track athlete won 4 golds at 1936 Olympics.
Jimmy Wales – American creator of Wikipedia
John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963) US President
John Lennon (1940 – 1980) British popstar and member of the Beatles.
John M Keynes (1883 – 1946) British economist.
Jon Stewart (1962 – ) – American comic and tv presenter New York.
Joseph Stalin (1879 – 1953) Soviet leader from 1924-1953.
Julie Andrews – British singer
Katherine Hepburn (1907-2003) – American actress.
Kylie Minogue – Australian singer and actress
Lance Armstrong (1971- ) American cyclist.
Lech Walesa – Polish leader of Solidarity movement
Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910 ) – Russian author and philosopher.
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) Russian Marxist revolutionary
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) Italian, painter, scientist, polymath
Lionel Messi (1987- ) Argentinian footballer
Lord Baden Powell (1857 – 1941) British Founder of scout movement
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) – French chemist and microbiologist.
Ludwig Beethoven (1770 – 1827) – German composer
Lyndon Johnson (1908 – 1973) – US President 1963-69
Madonna (1958 – ) American Pop singer
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948) Leader of Indian independence.
Malala Yousafzai – (1997- ) Pakistani human rights activist.
Malcolm X (1925 – 1965) American Black nationalist leader
Mao Zedong (1893-1976) Leader of Chinese Communist revolution
Margaret Thatcher (1925 – ) British Prime Minister.
Marie Antoinette (1755 – 1793) French Queen, executed during the French revolution
Marie Curie – Polish / French scientist
Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962) American actress / singer / model.
Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) – American civil rights campaigner
Mary Magdalene (4 BC – 40AD) – devotee of Jesus Christ
Mata Hari (1876-1917) Dutch exotic dancer, executed as spy.
Michael Jackson (1958 – 2009) – American Pop singer
Michael Jordon (1963 – ) US Basketball star.
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931 – ) Russian President during end of Cold War.
More famous people
Mother Teresa (1910 – 1997) Catholic missionary nun / charity worker
Muhammad Ali (1942 – ) American Boxer and civil rights campaigner.
Neil Armstrong (1930 – 2012) US Pilot , first person to land on moon.
Nelson Mandela (1918 – ) – South African President anti-apartheid campaigner.
Oprah Winfrey (1954 – ) US media celebrity.
Oscar Wilde (1854- 1900) Irish author, poet, playwright.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) – Spanish modern artists
Paul Krugman – American Nobel Prize winning economist
Paul McCartney (1942 – ) British musician, member of Beatles.
Pele (1940 – ) Brazilian footballer, considered greatest of 20th Century.
Peter Sellers (1925 – 1980) British film actor and comedian
Plato (423 BC – 348 BC) Greek philosopher
Pope Francis (1936 – ) – First pope from the Americas.
Pope John Paul II (1920 – 2005) Polish Pope.
Prince Charles (1948 – ) Heir to British throne
Queen Elizabeth II (1926 – ) British monarch since 1954.
Queen Victoria ( 1819 –1901) British Queen during Nineteenth Century
Richard Branson (1950 – ) British entrepreneur founder of Virgin.
Roger Federer (1981 – ) Swiss Tennis player
Roman Abramovich – Russian oligarch.
Ronald Reagan (1911 – 2004) – US President (1981-1989).
Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005) – American civil rights activist
Rupert Murdoch – Media owner of News Corporation.
Sacha Baron Cohen (1971 – ) – English comedian
Shakira – Colombian singer
Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) Austrian psychoanalyst
Simon Bolivar (1783 – 1830) ‘Liberator’ of Latin America.
Stephen Hawking – British scientist
Stephen King (1947 – ) Contemporary horror and fantasy writer
Steve Jobs (1955 – 2012) Key figure in Apple computers
Sting (1951 – ) British musician.
Thomas Edison ( 1847 – 1931) – American inventor
Tiger Woods (1975 – ) American golfer
Tim Berners Lee (1955- ) English creator of World Wide Web
Tom Cruise (1962 ) – American actor
Usain Bolt (1986 – ) – Jamaican athlete. Record holder at 100m and 200m
V.Lenin (1870-1924) – Leader of Russian Revolution 1917.
Vincent Van Gogh (1853 – 1890) Dutch artist
Walt Disney (1901 – 1966) American film producer
Winston Churchill (1874- 1965) – British Prime Minister during WWII
Woodrow Wilson (1856 – 1924) US president.
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Famous Writers
A list of famous writers / authors / poets throughout history.
Agatha Christie (1890 – 1976) British fictional crime writer. Many of her books focused on series featuring her detectives ‘Poirot’ and Mrs Marple.
Albert Camus (1913 – 1960) – French author, journalist, and philosopher. Associated with existentialism and absurdism. Famous works included The Myth of Sisyphus, The Stranger and The Plague.
Alexandre Dumas (1802 – 1870) French author of historical dramas, including – The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), and The Three Musketeers (1844). Also prolific author of magazine articles, pamphlets and travel books.
Alfred Tennyson (1809 – 1892) Popular Victorian poet, wrote Charge of the Light Brigade, Ulysses, and In Memoriam A.H.H.
Anne Frank (1929 – 1945) Dutch-Jewish diarist. Known for her diary ‘Anne Frank‘ Published posthumously by her father – recalling her life hiding from Gestapo in occupied Holland.
arcel Proust (1871 – 1922) French author. Best known for epic novel l À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.
Barbara Cartland (1901 – 2000) One of most prolific and best selling authors of the romantic fiction genre. Some suggest she has sold over 2 billion copies worldwide.
Beatrix Potter (1866 – 1943) English conservationist and author of imaginative children’s books, such as the Tales of Peter Rabbit (1902).
C.S. Lewis (1898 – 1963) Irish / English author and professor at Oxford University. Lewis is best known for The Chronicles of Narnia, a children’s fantasy series. Also well known as a Christian apologist.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870) – English writer and social critic. His best-known works include novels such as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and A Christmas Carol.
Charlotte Bronte (1816 – 1855) English novelist and poet, from Haworth. Her best known novel is ‘Jane Eyre’ (1847).
D H Lawrence (1885 – 1930) English poet, novelist and writer. Best known works include Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love and Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) – which was banned for many years.
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, is one of most influential European works of literature. Dante is also called the “Father of the Italian language”.
Douglas Adams (1952 – 2001) British writer of humorous and absure science fiction. Adams wrote a best selling trilogy (of five books) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – which began as a BBC play.
Emily Bronte (1818 – 1848) English novelist. Emily Bronte is best known for her novel Wuthering Heights (1847), and her poetry.
Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886) American female poet. Led secluded lifestyle, and left legacy of many short vivid poems, often on themes of death and immortality.
Enid Blyton (1897 – 1968) British children’s writer, known for her series of children’s books – The Famous Five and The Secret Seven. Blyton wrote an estimated 800 books over 40 years.
Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961) Ground breaking modernist American writer. Famous works included For Whom The Bell Tolls (1940) and A Farewell to Arms (1929).
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940) American author. Iconic writer of the ‘jazz age’. Notable works include The Great Gatsby(1925), and Tender Is the Night (1934) – cautionary tales about the ‘Jazz decade’ and the American Dream based on pleasure and materialism.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) Russian novelist, journalist and philosopher. Notable works include Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment and The Idiot
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927 – 2014) Colombian author. Wrote: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). Nobel Prize in Literature (1982).
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 – 1400) Considered the Father of English Literature. Best known for Canterbury Tales (1475).
George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) Irish playwright and wit. Famous works include: Pygmalion (1912), Man and Superman(1903) and Back to Methuselah (1921)
George Eliot (1819 – 1880) Pen name of Mary Ann Evans. Wrote novels, The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876)
George Orwell (1903 – 1950) – English author. Famous works include Animal Farm, and 1984. – Both stark warnings about the dangers of totalitarian states, Orwell was also a democratic socialist who fought in the Spanish Civil War, documenting his experiences in “Homage to Catalonia” (1938).
George R.R Martin (1948 – ) American author of epic fantasy series – A Song of Ice and Fire, – his international best-selling series of fantasy, adapted for the screen as a Game of Thrones.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862) – American poet, writer and leading member of the Transcendentalist movement. Thoreau’s “Walden” (1854) was a unique account of living close to nature.
Homer (c. 8th Century B.C. ) Considered the greatest of the ancient Greek poets. Homer was the author of the two epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Honore de Balzac (1799 – 1850) French novelist and short story writer. Balzac was an influential realist writer who created characters of moral ambiguity – often based on his own real life examples. His greatest work was the collection of short stories La Comédie humaine.
J.D. Salinger (1919 – 2010) American author. Most influential novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951). Wrote many short stories for New Yorker magazine, such as “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”
J.K.Rowling (1965 – ) British author of the Harry Potter Series – which has become the best selling book series of all time. Her first book was Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997). Rowling has also published adult fiction, such as The Casual Vacancy(2012) and The Cuckoo’s Calling (2013)
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973) – Professor of Anglo-Saxon and English at Oxford University. Tolkien wrote the best-selling mythical trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Other works include, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion, and a translation of Beowulf.
James Joyce (1882 – 1941) Irish writer from Dublin. Joyce was one of most influential modernist avant-garde writers of the Twentieth Century. His novel Ulysses (1922), was ground-breaking for its stream of consciousness style. Other works include Dubliners (1914) and Finnegans Wake (1939).
Jane Austen (1775 – 1817) English author who wrote romantic fiction combined with social realism. Her novels include: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma(1816).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832) German poet, playwright, and author. Notable works of Goethe include: Faust, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Elective Affinities.
John Keats (1795 – 1821) English Romantic Poet, best known for his Odes, such as Ode to a Nightingale, Endymion.
John Milton (1608 – 1674) English poet. Best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse – telling the Biblical story of man’s fall. Also wrote Areopagitica (1644) in defence of free speech.
John Steinbeck (1902 – 1968) American writer who captured the social change experienced in the US around the time of the Great Depression. Famous works include – Of Mice and Men (1937), The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and East of Eden (1952).
Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745) Anglo-Irish writer born in Dublin. Swift was a prominent satirist, essayist and author. Notable works include Gulliver’s Travels (1726), A Modest Proposal and A Tale of a Tub.
Joseph Heller (1923 – 1999) American novelist, who wrote satirical and black comedy. His most famous work is ‘Catch 22’ (1961) – a satire on the futility of war.
Kenneth Graham (1859 – 1932) Author of the Wind in the Willows (1908), a classic of children’s literature.
Khaled Hosseini (1965 – ) Afghan born American writer. Notable works include: The Kite Runner (2003) A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) And the Mountains Echoed (2013
leksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918 – 2008) Russian author, historian and political critic. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970 for his work in exposing the nature of Soviet totalitarianism. e.g, The Gulag Archipelago (1965-67).
Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910) Russian novelist and moral philosopher. Famous works include the epic novels – War and Peace(1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). Tolstoy also became an influential philosopher with his brand of Christian pacificism.
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) Oxford mathematician and author. Famous for Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and poems like The Snark.
Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) American writer and humorist, considered the ‘father of American literature’. Famous works include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885).
Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) – Irish writer and poet. Wilde wrote humorous, satirical plays, such as ‘The Importance of Being Earnest‘ and ‘The Picture of Dorian Grey’.
P.G.Wodehouse (1881 – 1975) English comic writer. Best known for his humorous and satirical stories about the English upper classes, such as Jeeves and Wooster and Blandings Castle.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 – 1822) English romantic poet. Famous works include Queen Mab and Prometheus Unbound
Poets
Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941) Indian poet. Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature for his work – Gitanjali.
Roald Dahl (1916 – 1990) English author, best known for his children’s books, such as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, James and The Giant Peach and The BFG.
Robert Frost (1874 – 1963) – Influential American poet, one of most highly regarded of the Twentieth Century. Most famous work ‘The Road Not Taken’ (1916)
Salman Rushdie (1947 – ) Anglo-Indian author. His works combine elements of magic realism, satire and historical fiction – often based on Indian sub-continent. Notable works include Midnight’s Children (1981), Shame (1983) and Satanic Verses (1988).
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) Irish avant garde, modernist writer. Beckett wrote minimalist and thought provoking plays, such as ‘Waiting for Godot’ (1953) and ‘Endgame‘ (1957). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784) British author best known for his compilation of the English dictionary. Although not the first attempt at a dictionary, it was widely considered to be the most comprehensive – setting the standard for later dictionaries.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834) English romantic poet. Author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kublai Khan.
Sappho ( c 570 BC) One of the first published female writers. Much of her poetry has been lost but her immense reputation has remained. Plato referred to Sappho as one of the great ten poets.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) British author of historical novels and plays. Most famous for his short stories about the detective – Sherlock Holmes, such as The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) and Sign of Four (1890).
Stephen King (1947 – ) American author of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. One of the best selling authors of modern times.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) English novelist and poet. Hardy was a Victorian realist who was influenced by Romanticism. He wrote about problems of Victorian society – in particular, declining rural life. Notable works include: Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure(1895).
Vera Brittain (1893 – 1970) British writer best known for her autobiography – Testament of Youth (1933) – sharing her traumatic experiences of the First World War.
Victor Hugo (1802 – 1885) French author and poet. Hugo’s novels include Les Misérables, (1862) and Notre-Dame de Paris(1831).
Virgil (70 BC – 19 BC) Roman poet. Wrote three epics Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the Aeneid.
Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941) English modernist writer, a member of the Bloomsbury group. Famous novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928).
Vladimir Nabokov (1899 – 1977) Russian author of Lolita(1955) and Pale Fire (1962)
Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892) American poet. Wrote Leaves of Grass, a ground breaking new style of poetry.
William Blake (1757 –1827) English mystic and romantic poet, wrote Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Also hand-painted many of his works.
William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) English poet and playwright. Famous plays include Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Merchant of Veniceand Hamlet. Shakespeare is widely considered the seminal writer of the English language.
William Somerset Maugham 1874 – 1965) British novelist and writer. One of the most popular authors of 1930s. Notable works included The Moon and Sixpence (1916), The Razor’s Edge (1944), and Of Human Bondage (1915)
William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) English romantic poet from Lake District, many poems related to natures, such as his Lyrical Ballads.
Other categories of writers:
More Famous Poets – Other poets, including W.B. Yeats, Wilfred Owen, Rumi, Czeslaw Milosz
Famous philosophers – including Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, Baruch Spinoza, Rene Descartes, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Paine and David Hume.
Famous Economist writers – including Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman and Paul Krugman.
Political / social activist writers – People who have written about political and human rights. Including Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, Nelson Mandela, William Wilberforce and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Spiritual writers – including St Teresa of Avila, Sri Aurobindo, Meister Eckhart, Desiderius Erasmus, St Therese of Lisieux and Swami Vivekananda.
Female authors – Female authors, including the Bronte sisters, Maya Angelou, Jane Austen and J.K. Rowling.
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Indian Famous Personalities
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List of Scientists (प्रसिद्द वैज्ञानिकों की जीवनी )
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