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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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