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Bill
Gates
Co-Founded Microsoft. One of the most wealthy men alive.
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Plato
Helped to lay the foundations of natural philosophy, science, and Western
philosophy.
Cui
Jiano
A pioneer in Chinese rock music. "The Father of Chinese Rock N' Roll"
Vladimir
Lenin
A Russian revolutionary, Bolshevik leader, communist politician, principal
leader of the October Revolution and the first head of the Soviet Union
Pavel
Korchagin
The hero of the book 'How the Steel Was Tempered' a socialist realist
novel written by Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936).
Bill
Clinton
Served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
Carried out a policy of modernization and expansion that transformed the Tsardom of Russia into the 3-billion acre Russian Empire, a major European power.
Bruce
Lee
Widely regarded as the most influential martial artist ever and a cultural
icon.
Winston
Churchill
Served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II.
Henri Matisse
A French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid, brilliant
and original draughtsmanship.
Pelé
Known for his accomplishments and contributions to the game of football
in addition to being officially declared the football ambassador of the
world by FIFA and a national treasure by the Brazilian government.
Guan
Yu
A general serving under the warlord Liu Bei during the late Eastern Han
Dynasty and Three Kingdoms era of China.
Ramesses II
Regarded as Egypt's greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh.
Charles de Gaulle
A French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World
War II.
Margaret
Thatcher
The only woman to have been the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Alfred Nobel
A Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the
inventor of dynamite. He used his enormous fortune to institute the Nobel
Prizes.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The 32nd President of the United States. He was a central figure of the
20th century during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war.
Ernest Hemingway
An American writer and journalist. A veterans of World War I. He received
the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel
Prize in Literature in 1954.
Elvis Presley
An American singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly
known simply as "Elvis," and is also sometimes referred to as
"The King of Rock 'n' Roll" or "The King".
J. Robert Oppenheimer
The scientific director of the Manhattan Project: the World War II effort
to develop the first nuclear bomb "The Father of the Atomic Bomb".
William Shakespeare
Widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the
world's preeminent dramatist.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composed over six hundred works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic,
concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. He is among the
most enduringly popular of classical composers.
Audrey Hepburn
One of the most successful film actresses in the world.
Ludwig
van Beethoven
A German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional
period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music,
and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential of all composers.
Adolf
Hitler
His Nazi forces committed numerous atrocities during the war, including
the systematic killing of as many as 17 million civilians including the
genocide of an estimated six million Jews, known as the Holocaust.
Benito
Mussolini
An Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited
with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism.
Saddam
Hussein
The President of Iraq from July 16, 1979 until April 9, 2003.
Maxim Gorky
Founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist.
Sun
Yat-sen
A Chinese revolutionary and political leader. An American citizen, he
is frequently referred to as the Father of China. Sun played an instrumental
role in overthrowing the Ta Tsing Empire in 1911.
Deng
Xiaoping
As leader of the Communist Party of China, Deng became a reformer who
led China towards market economics.
Alexander
Pushkin
A Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered to be the greatest
Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.
Lu Xun
One of the major Chinese writers of the 20th century. Considered by many
to be the founder of modern Chinese literature.
Josef
Stalin
The number of people killed under Stalin's regime are estimated from 3
to 60 million. The General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the years
following Lenin's death in 1924, he rose to become the leader of the Soviet
Union.
Leonardo
da Vinci
An Italian polymath, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist,
painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo
has often been described as the archetype of the renaissance man.
Karl
Marx
A German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist,
sociologist, communist and revolutionary credited as the founder of communism.
Charlie
Chaplin
An Academy Award-winning English comedic actor and filmmaker.
Henry
Ford
The American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly
lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile
revolutionized transportation and American industry.
Lei
Feng
A soldier of the People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of
China. He was characterised as a selfless and modest person who was devoted
to Chairman Mao Zedong and the people of China. In the posthumous "Learn
from Comrade Lei Feng" campaign, begun by Mao in 1963, the youth
of the country were indoctrinated to follow his example.
Jonas
Salk, Norman
Bethune, or Harold
E. Varmus?
The moustache is throwing me off (Neither men had a moustache as far as
I've seen). I don't think Jonas Salk or Norman Bethune is correct. Thanks
Deborah for the Herald E Varmus suggestion. Any ideas? Email mattsubmit
@ gmail.com
Sigmund
Frued
An Austrian psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology.
Jack
Kevorkian
Most noted for physician-assisted suicide; he claims to have assisted
in 130 suicides.
Chiang
Kai-Shek
A political and military leader of 20th century China.
Queen
Elizabeth II
One of the longest-reigning British monarchs.
Mike
Tyson
Was the undisputed heavyweight champion and remains the youngest man ever
to win the WBC, WBA and IBF world heavyweight titles.
Vladimir
Putin
The current Prime Minister of Russia.
Lewis
Carroll
His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its
sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting
of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within
the genre of literary nonsense.
Shirley
Temple
An actress, singer and tap dancer, who is best known for being an iconic
American child actress of the 1930s.
Leo
Tolstoy
A Russian writer widely regarded as among the greatest of European novelists.
His masterpieces, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, represent the peak
of realist fiction.
Albert
Einstein
He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass–energy
equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2.
Genghis
Khan
After founding the Mongol Empire and being proclaimed "Genghis Khan",
he started the Mongol invasions.During his life, the Mongol Empire eventually
occupied a substantial portion of Central Asia.
Napoleon
Bonaparte
A military and political leader of France whose actions shaped European
politics in the early 19th century.
Che
Guevara
An Argentine Marxist revolutionary, politician, author, physician, military
theorist, and guerrilla leader. Since death, his stylized image has become
a ubiquitous global symbol of Counterculture.
Fidel
Castro
The former Head of State of Cuba for nearly 50 years, and a leader of
the Cuban Revolution.
Marlon
Brando in The
Godfather as Don Vito Corleone
An American actor whose body of work spanned over half a century. He is
considered one of the greatest actors of all time.
Yasser
Arafat
A Palestinian leader. Spent much of his life fighting against Israel in
the name of Palestinian self-determination.
Julius
Caesar
Played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into
the Roman Empire.
Claire
Lee Chennault
A United States military aviator who commanded the "Flying Tigers"
during World War II.
Luciano
Pavoratti
An Italian operatic tenor, who also crossed over into popular music, eventually
becoming one of the most commercially successful tenors of all time.
George
W Bush
Served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
Henri
Cartier-Bresson photograph Srinagar,
Kashmir, 1948
A French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism.
The photograph is Srinagar,
Kashmir, 1948.
Osama
bin Laden
The founder of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda, best known for the
September 11 attacks on the United States and is also the FBI's most wanted
person in the world.
Liu
Xiang
The first Chinese athlete to achieve the "triple crown" of athletics
(World Record Holder, World Champion and Olympic Champion).
Dante
Alighieri
An Italian poet of the Middle Ages. Dante is also called the "Father
of the Italian language". His work 'The Divine Comedy' describes
Dante's journey through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise
(Paradiso).
Original Artists: Zhang An, Li Tiezi, and Dai
Dudu
The creators are Chinese artists. They are Dai Dudu, Liaoning Art Institute’s
Vice President; Li Tiezi, contemporary oil painter; Zhang Anjun, chairman
of the Shenyang Youth Association of Artists, and contemporary oil painter.
Dai Dudu led the effort.
According to Dai Dudu, the three began work on the painting in 2006, completing
it 10 months later. “At the time, we wanted to represent world history
within a single painting. We wanted to showcase the world’s story,
and let viewers feel as if they were flipping the pages of a history book,”
Dai said. Article
Source
Friedrich
Nietzsche
A nineteenth-century German philosopher and classical philologist. Nietzsche's
influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in
existentialism and postmodernism.
Steven
Spielberg
An American film director, screenwriter and film producer.
Pablo
Picaso
A Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. As one of the most recognized
figures in 20th-century art, he is best known for co-founding the Cubist
movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work.
Abraham
Lincoln
The 16th President of the United States. He successfully led the country
through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War.
Mao
Zedong
A Chinese Communist leader. Mao led the Communist Party of China (CPC)
to victory against the Kuomintang (KMT) in the Chinese Civil War.
Zhou
Enlai
The first Premier of the People's Republic of China.
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
Considered by many to be the most important writer in the German language
and one of the most important thinkers in Western culture.
Laozi
A philosopher of ancient China and is a central figure in Taoism.
Marilyn
Monroe
An American actress, singer, and model.
Salvador
Dalí
A Spanish painter best known for the striking and bizarre images in his
surrealist work.
Empress
Dowager Cixi
A powerful and charismatic figure who became the de facto ruler of the
Manchu Qing Dynasty, ruling over China for 48 years from her husband's
death in 1861 to her own death in 1908.
Marie
Curie
A pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first person honored with
two Nobel Prizes, and the first female professor at the University of
Paris.
Ariel
Sharon
An Israeli general and statesman, former Israeli Prime Minister.
Prince
Charles of Wales
The oldest child of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince
Philip. Though the Prince has been well known for his charity work throughout
the Commonwealth, his personal life and relationships were always a point
of tabloid focus, increasing greatly on his engagement to Lady Diana Spencer,
and dissipating with his marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles.
Kofi
Annan
A Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the
United Nations from 1 January 1997 to 1 January 2007.
Qi
Baishi
A Chinese painter. The subjects of his paintings include almost everything,
commonly animals, scenery, figures, toys, vegetables, and so on.
Qin
Shi Huang
The first emperor of a unified China in 221 BC.
Hideki
Tojo
A general in the Imperial Japanese Army and the 40th Prime Minister of
Japan during much of World War II, from 18 October 1941 to 22 July 1944.
After the end of the war, Tojo was sentenced to death for war crimes by
the International Military Tribunal of the Far East and executed on 23
December 1948.
Mother
Teresa
For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying,
while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout
India and then in other countries.
Mikhail
Gorbachev
The last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union,
serving from 1985 until 1991, and also the last head of state of the USSR,
serving from 1988 until its collapse in 1991. He was the only Soviet leader
to have been born after the October Revolution of 1917.
Soong
Ching-ling
One of the three Soong sisters—who, along with their husbands, were
amongst China's most significant political figures of the early 20th century.
Saint
Peter
One of Twelve Apostles, chosen by Jesus from his first disciples.
Otto
von Bismarck
As Minister-President of Prussia from 1862–1890, he oversaw the
unification of Germany.
Run
Run Shaw
A Hong Kong media mogul.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A major philosopher, writer, and composer of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment,
whose political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development
of modern political and educational thought.
Li
Bai
A Chinese poet. He was part of the group of Chinese scholars called the
"Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup" in a poem by fellow poet Du
Fu. Li Bai is often regarded, along with Du Fu, as one of the two greatest
poets in China's literary history.
Charles
Darwin
An English naturalist who realised and presented compelling evidence that
all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors, through
the process he called natural selection. (The Noah garb might be the artists'
attempt to illustrate the dichotomous schools of thought.)
Confucius
A Chinese thinker and social philosopher, whose teachings and philosophy
have deeply influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese and Vietnamese
thought and life.
Corneliu
Baba
A Romanian painter, primarily a portraitist, but also known as a genre
painter and an illustrator of books.
Michelangelo
An Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer.
Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines
he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender
for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival
and fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci.
Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi
The pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian
independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha—resistance
to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa
or total non-violence—which led India to independence and inspired
movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
Dwight
D. Eisenhower
The 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961 and a five-star
general in the United States Army.
Vincent
van Gogh
A Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. Some of his paintings are now among
the world's best known, most popular and expensive works of art.
Henri
de Toulouse-Lautrec
A French painter, printmaker, draftsman, and illustrator, whose immersion
in the colourful and theatrical life of fin de siècle Paris yielded
an oeuvre of excitement.
Michael
Jordan
One of the greatest basketball players of all time.
Marcel
Duchamp
A French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and
Surrealist movements.
Aristotle
A Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater,
music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology.
Liu
Bei
A general, warlord, and later the founding emperor of Shu Han during the
Three Kingdoms era of China.
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