Profiles — Creators
Directors, broadcasters, animators and makers whose work shaped what audiences watched.
Roman military commander and writer (AD23/24–79)
Gaius Plinius Secundus, known in English as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, scientist, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, procurator, and friend of the emperor Vespasian.
Read biography ↗Roman lawyer, author and magistrate (61 – c.113)
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, better known in English as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome.
Read biography ↗Hellenistic Platonist philosopher and founder of Neoplatonism (c. 204/5–270)
Plotinus was an ancient Greek philosopher, born and raised in Roman Egypt.
Read biography ↗Greek philosopher and historian (c. AD 46 – after AD 119)
Plutarch was a Greek and later Roman Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.
Read biography ↗Ancient Greek historian
Polybius was an ancient Greek historian of the middle Hellenistic period.
Read biography ↗Indian writer of Hindi and Urdu fiction (1880–1936); pioneer of social realism in Hindustani literature
Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, better known as Munshi Premchand based on his pen name Premchand, was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature.
Read biography ↗Thai prime minister (1900-1983)
Pridi Banomyong, also known by his noble title Luang Praditmanutham, was a Thai lawyer, professor, activist, politician, democratic socialist, and senior statesman.
Read biography ↗Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
Primo Michele Levi was a Jewish Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer.
Read biography ↗1st century BC Roman elegiac poet
Sextus Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age.
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