Profiles — Creators
Directors, broadcasters, animators and makers whose work shaped what audiences watched.
Japanese novelist (1899–1972)
Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award.
Read biography ↗Russian author (1884–1937)
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin, sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamiatin, was a Russian author of science fiction, philosophy, literary criticism, and political satire.
Read biography ↗President of Uganda since 1986
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Tibuhaburwa is a Ugandan politician and former rebel leader who has served as the president of Uganda since 1986.
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Yun Ch'iho was a Korean politician.
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Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli medievalist, military historian, public intellectual, and popular science writer.
Read biography ↗French fashion designer (1936–2008)
Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent, better known as Yves Saint Laurent, was a French fashion designer who founded his eponymous fashion label in 1962.
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Pope Zachary was the bishop of Rome from 3 or 5 December 741 until his death on 15 March 752.
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Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid was an Iraqi and British architect, artist, and designer.
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Zeno of Citium was a Hellenistic philosopher from Citium, Cyprus.
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