Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright.
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Directors, broadcasters, animators and makers whose work shaped what audiences watched.
Indian guru and leader of the Rajneesh movement (1931–1990)
Osho
Osho, also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Acharya Rajneesh, and simply Rajneesh, was an Indian godman, and founder of the new religious movement, the Rajneesh movement.
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Russian poet and essayist (1891-1938)
Osip Mandelstam
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam was a Russian and Soviet poet.
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German historian and philosopher (1880-1936)
Oswald Spengler
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler was a German polymath whose areas of interest included history, philosophy, mathematics, science, and art, as well as their relation to his organic theory of history.
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German statesman and Chancellor (1815-1898)
Otto von Bismarck
Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg, was a German statesman and diplomat who oversaw the unification of Germany and served as its first chancellor from 1871 to 1890.
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American showman and politician (1810–1891)
P. T. Barnum
Phineas Taylor Barnum was an American showman, businessman, and politician remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and founding the Ringling Bros.
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Chilean poet and politician (1904-1973)
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Ancient philologist who standardized classical Sanskrit through grammatical rules
Panini
Panini was an ancient Indian Sanskrit grammarian and linguist whose masterwork, the Aṣṭādhyāyī, is the foundational text of Vyākaraṇa—one of the six Vedāṅgas of ancient Indian scholarship.
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Italian politician (born 1954)
Paolo Gentiloni
Paolo Gentiloni Silveri is an Italian politician who was European Commissioner for Economy in the von der Leyen Commission from 1 December 2019 to 30 November 2024.
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