Profiles — Creators

Creators

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

Greek philosopher (c. 495 – c. 430 BC)

Zeno of Elea

Zeno of Elea was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea, in what is now Southern Italy.

Chinese Taoist philosopher (c. 369–286 BC)

Zhuang Zhou

Zhuang Zhou, honorifically often known as Zhuangzi, was an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States period, a period of great development in Chinese philosophy, the Hundred Schools of Thought.

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Founder of Zoroastrianism

Zoroaster

Zarathushtra Spitama, more commonly known as Zoroaster or Zarathustra, was an Iranian religious reformer who challenged the tenets of the contemporary Ancient Iranian religion, becoming the spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism.

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Georgian politician, dissident and writer, first President of Georgia (1991–1992)

Zviad Gamsakhurdia

Zviad Konstantines dze Gamsakhurdia was a Georgian politician, human rights activist, dissident, professor of English language studies and American literature at Tbilisi State University, and writer who became the first democratically elected President of Geor

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