Profiles — Creators
Directors, broadcasters, animators and makers whose work shaped what audiences watched.
Military officer and former Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution of Libya (1969-2011)
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi was a Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his overthrow by Libyan rebel forces in 2011 during the First Libyan Civil War.
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Sir Muhammad Iqbal was an Islamic philosopher and poet.
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Murasaki Shikibu, or Shijo, was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period.
Read biography ↗Founding father of the Republic of Turkey (c. 1881–1938)
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a Turkish field marshal and statesman who was the founder of the Republic of Turkey and served as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938.
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Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist.
Read biography ↗South African writer (1923–2014)
Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer and political activist.
Read biography ↗Egyptian writer (1911–2006)
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Nancy Patricia Pelosi is an American politician who was the 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives, serving from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023.
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Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses, support of ecofeminism and organized labour, and criticism of corporate globalization, fascism, and capitalism.
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