Profiles — Creators

Creators

Directors, broadcasters, animators and makers whose work shaped what audiences watched.

French painter and sculptor (1841–1919)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a leading French Impressionist artist.

French politician, philosopher, anarchist and socialist (1809-1865)

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French anarchist, socialist, philosopher, and economist who founded mutualist philosophy and is considered by many to be the "father of anarchism".

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French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace was a French polymath, a scholar whose work has been instrumental in the fields of physics, astronomy, mathematics, engineering, statistics, and philosophy.

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Dutch painter (1872–1944)

Piet Mondrian

Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, known after 1911 as Piet Mondrian, was a Dutch painter and art theoretician, who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.

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Flemish painter (1526–1569)

Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Pieter Bruegel the Elder was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes; he was a pioneer in presenting both types of subject as large paintings.

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5th-century BC Greek lyric poet

Pindar

Pindar was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes.

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Pope of the Catholic Church from 1458 to 1464 (1405–1464)

Pius II

Pope Pius II, born Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 August 1458 to his death in 1464.

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4th-century BCE Greek philosopher

Plato

Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher of Classical Athens who is most commonly considered the foundational thinker of the Western philosophical tradition.

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Roman comic playwright (c. 254 – 184 BC)

Plautus

Titus Maccius Plautus was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period.

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