Profiles — Creators
Directors, broadcasters, animators and makers whose work shaped what audiences watched.
Andalusian geographer (1100–1165)
Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani as-Sabti, or simply al-Idrisi, was an Arab Muslim geographer and cartographer who served in the court of King Roger II at Palermo, Sicily.
Read biography ↗Persian polymath, physician, chemist and philosopher (854-925)
Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, also known as Rhazes, 864 or 865 – 925 or 935 CE, was a Persian physician, philosopher and alchemist who lived during the Islamic Golden Age.
Read biography ↗8th-century classical Arabic poet
Abu Nuwas was a classical Arabic poet, and the foremost representative of the modern poetry that developed during the first years of the Abbasid Caliphate.
Read biography ↗English mathematician (1815–1852)
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine.
Read biography ↗Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)
Adam Smith was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the field of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment.
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Pope Adeodatus II, sometimes called Deodatus, was the bishop of Rome from 672 to his death on 17 June 676.
Read biography ↗An Indian philosopher and theologian who consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta and revitalized Sanskrit scholasti
Adi Shankara, also called Adi Shankaracharya, was an Indian Vedic scholar-monk, philosopher, and teacher of Advaita Vedanta.
Read biography ↗President of France from 1871 to 1873 (1797-1877)
Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers was a French statesman and historian who served as President of France from 1871 to 1873.
Read biography ↗Ancient Athenian playwright
Aeschylus was an ancient Greek tragedian, often described as the father of tragedy.
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