Profiles — Creators
Directors, broadcasters, animators and makers whose work shaped what audiences watched.
Italian painter of the Renaissance (1528–1588)
Paolo Caliari, known as Paolo Veronese, was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi.
Read biography ↗Swedish writer (1891–1974)
Pär Fabian Lagerkvist was a Swedish author who received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Read biography ↗Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus, was a Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance.
Read biography ↗Yogi, Kriya Yoga guru and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship (1893-1952)
Paramahansa Yogananda was an Indian and American Hindu monk, yogi, and guru who founded the Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India, a religious meditation and Kriya Yoga organization, to disseminate his teachings.
Read biography ↗Late 6th/early 5th century BC Greek pre-Socratic philosopher
Parmenides of Elea was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea in Magna Graecia.
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Pope Paschal I was the bishop of Rome and leader of the Papal States from 25 January 817 to his death in 824.
Read biography ↗Head of the Catholic Church from 1099 to 1118
Pope Paschal II, born Raniero Raineri di Bleda, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 13 August 1099 to his death in 1118.
Read biography ↗French writer
Jean Patrick Modiano, generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Read biography ↗English-born Australian writer
Patrick Victor Martindale White was an Australian novelist and playwright who explored themes of religious experience, personal identity and the conflict between visionary individuals and a materialistic, conformist society.
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