French writer, archaeologist and historian (1803–1870)
Prosper Mérimée
Prosper Mérimée was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story.
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Directors, broadcasters, animators and makers whose work shaped what audiences watched.
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy, better known mononymously as Ptolemy, was a Greco-Roman who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science.
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Last Emperor of Qing dynasty and Manchukuo (1906–1967)
Puyi
Puyi was the last emperor of China, having reigned as the Xuantong Emperor of the Qing dynasty and later as the Kangde Emperor of Manchukuo, a Japanese puppet state during World War II.
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Greek philosopher and mathematician (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)
Pythagoras
Pythagoras of Samos was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath, and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism.
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1st century Hispanic-born Roman educator and rhetorician
Quintilian
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was a Roman educator and rhetorician born in Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing.
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Roman historian
Quintus Curtius Rufus
Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historian, likely active in the 1st century AD.
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American marine biologist and conservationist (1907–1964)
Rachel Carson
Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose sea trilogy and book Silent Spring are credited with advancing marine conservation and the global environmental movement.
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Serbian writer (1873–1908)
Radoje Domanović
Radoje Domanović was a Serbian journalist, writer and teacher, most famous for his satirical short stories.
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Austrian poet and writer (1875–1926)
Rainer Maria Rilke
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet.
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