Woody Allen – One of America’s Leading Filmmakers
Woody Allen
Allan Stewart Konigsberg
(December 1, 1935, Brooklyn, NY)
Nationality: United States of America
Category: Celebrities
Occupation: Film Directors, Actors
Unique distinction: One of contemporary America's leading filmmakers,...
Shania Twain – Canadian Singer and Songwriter
Shania Twain
Eilleen Twain, Eilleen Regina Edwards
(August 28, 1965, Windsor, Ontario, Canada)
Nationality: Canada
Category: Celebrities
Occupation: Singers, Models
Specification: Country Pop
Unique distinction: The author of the best-selling album...
Herbert Spencer – Founder of Social Darwinism and Synthetic Philosophy
Herbert Spencer
(27 April 1820, Derby, Derbyshire, England - 8 December 1903, Brighton, Sussex, England) (aged 83)
Nationality: United Kingdom
Category: Scientists
Occupation: Sociologists, Philosophers, Psychologists
Specification: Associative psychology
Unique...
Vinton Cerf – One of the Fathers of the Internet
Vinton Cerf
Vinton "Vint" Gray Cerf
June 23, 1943, New Haven, Connecticut
Nationality: United States of America
Category: Scientists
Occupation: Mathematics, Computer programmers
Unique distinction: One of the fathers...
Thomas Edison – The Most Prolific Inventor of all Time
Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison
(February 11 1847, Milan, Ohio - October 18 1931, West Orange, New Jersey) (aged 84)
Nationality: United States of America
Category: Scientists
Occupation:...
Nicolaus Copernicus – Creator of the heliocentric model of Universe
Nicolaus Copernicus
Name at birth: Niclas Kopernik
(19 February 1473,Toruń (Thorn), Royal Prussia, Kingdom of Poland - 24 May 1543, Frombork (Frauenburg), East Prussia) (aged 70)
Nationality:...
Mikhail Lomonosov – Founder of Russian science
Mikhail Lomonosov
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov
(19 November, 1711, Denisovka, Arkhangelsk Governorate , Russia - 15 April,1765, St. Petersburg, Russia) (aged 53)
Nationality: Russia
Category: Scientists
Occupation: Chemists, Mathematics,...
Irnerius – Italian Lawyer and cofounder of the University of Bologna
Irnerius
Guarnerius or Warnerius
(c. 1050 – after 1125)
Nationality: Italy
Category: Scientists
Occupation: Lawyers
Unique distinction: Founder of the School of Glossators, 1088 (later University of Bologna), the...
Claude Bernard – Founder of Endocrinology
Claude Bernard
(July 12, 1813, Saint-Julien - February 10, 1878, Paris, France) (Aged 64)
Nationality: France
Category: Scientists
Occupation: Physiologists, Physicians
Unique distinction: The founder of experimental medicine, ...
Ibn Khaldun – The Father of Cultural History and Historiography
Ibn Khaldun
Abu-Zaid Abd-al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn-Khaldun
(27 May 1332, Tunis -17 March 1406, Cairo, Egypt)
Nationality: Tunisia
Category: Scientists
Occupation: Historian, Sociologists, Politicians
Unique distinction: The father of...
Buddha – Founder of Buddhism
Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, The Buddha (Enlightened one), Tathagata (He who has come thus)
(563 BC, Lumbini near Kapilavastu (now Nepal), India - 483 BC, Kushinagar,...
Moses – Prophet, founder and Lawgiver of Israel
Moses
Moshe (Hebrew name means "The one who draws out"or “child”),
Moshe Rabbeinu ("Moses our Teacher"), Mūsa (Arabic)
( c. 1392 BC, Goshen, Egypt - 1272...