Profiles — Creators

Creators

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

Founder of Bábism and, according to the Baháʼís, predecessor of Baháʼu'lláh

Báb

The Báb was an Iranian religious leader who founded Bábism, and is also one of the central figures of the Baháʼí Faith.

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Founder of the Mughal Empire (1526–1530)

Babur

Babur was the founder of the Mughal Empire in South Asia.

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Founder of the Bahá'í Faith (1817–1892)

Baháʼu'lláh

Baháʼu'lláh was an Iranian religious leader who founded the Baháʼí Faith.

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Kurdish-Iranian film director (born 1969)

Bahman Ghobadi

Bahman Ghobadi is an Iranian Kurdish film director, producer and writer.

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Aragonese Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher in Castilian language (1601-1658)

Baltasar Gracián

Baltasar Gracián y Morales, better known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher.

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8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-moon is a South Korean politician and diplomat who served as the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations between 2007 and 2016.

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English graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

Banksy

Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist, and film director.

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German-born French philosopher (1723–1789)

Baron d'Holbach

Paul Thiry, Baron d'Holbach, known as d'Holbach, was a Franco-German philosopher, encyclopedist and writer, who was a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment.

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Spanish Baroque painter (1617–1682)

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was a Spanish Baroque painter.

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