Profiles — Creators
Directors, broadcasters, animators and makers whose work shaped what audiences watched.
Italian poet (1544–1595)
Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1581 poem Gerusalemme liberata, in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the Siege of Jerusalem
Read biography ↗Finnish children's writer and illustrator (1914–2001)
Tove Marika Jansson was a Finland-Swedish author, novelist and comic strip author, painter and illustrator.
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Truman Garcia Capote was an American novelist, screenwriter, and playwright.
Read biography ↗Hindu saint and poet (1532–1623), author of the Ramcharitmanas and Hanuman Chalisa
Rambola Dubey, popularly known as Goswami Tulsīdās, was a Vaishnava Hindu saint, devotee and poet, renowned for his devotion to the deity Rama.
Read biography ↗Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546–1601
Tycho Brahe, generally called Tycho for short, was a Danish astronomer known for his comprehensive and unprecedentedly accurate astronomical observations which helped to turn astronomy into the first modern science and launch the Scientific Revolution.
Read biography ↗UN Secretary-General from 1961 to 1971
Thant, known honorifically as U Thant, was a Burmese diplomat and the third secretary-general of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971, the first Asian to hold the position.
Read biography ↗Italian writer and poet (1778–1827)
Ugo Foscolo, born Niccolò Foscolo, was an Italian writer, revolutionary and poet.
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Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator.
Read biography ↗French astronomer (1811-1877)
Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier was a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics.
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