Profiles — Creators

Creators

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

Nicaraguan poet, journalist and diplomat (1867–1916)

Rubén Darío

Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, known as Rubén Darío, was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-language literary movement known as modernismo that flourished at the end of the 19th century.

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Persian poet, the father of Persian poetry

Rudaki

Rudaki was a poet, singer, and musician who is regarded as the first major poet to write in New Persian.

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(1846-1926) German philosopher

Rudolf Christoph Eucken

Rudolf Christoph Eucken was a German philosopher.

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Austrian social reformer, occultist and esotericist (1861–1925)

Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian New Age guru, philosopher, occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant and speaker with the dead.

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German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician (1821-1902)

Rudolf Virchow

Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow was a German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician.

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English writer and poet (1865–1936)

Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, novelist, poet and short-story writer.

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Iranian poet

Rumi

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, commonly known as Rumi, was a Sufi mystic, poet, and founder of the Islamic brotherhood known as the Mevlevi Order.

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Japanese writer (1892–1927)

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, art name Chōkōdō Shujin, was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan.

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Persian poet

Saadi

Abu Mohammad Moshrefoldin Mosleh ebn Abdollah ebn Mosharraf, better known by his pen name Saadi, was a Persian Sufi poet.

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