Profiles — Creators

Creators

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

French painter (1841-1895)

Berthe Morisot

Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot was a French painter, printmaker and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.

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British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was an English philosopher, logician, mathematician, and social reformer.

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First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977

Betty Ford

Elizabeth Anne Ford was First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977, as the wife of President Gerald Ford.

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American feminist writer and activist (1921–2006)

Betty Friedan

Betty Friedan was an American feminist writer and activist.

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42nd President of the United States (1993–2001)

Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton is an American retired politician and lawyer who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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Austrian and American filmmaker (1906–2002)

Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder was an Austrian and American film director and screenwriter.

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Norwegian writer (1832–1910)

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purit

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French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.

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Roman senator and philosopher of the early 6th century (480–524)

Boethius

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, commonly known simply as Boethius, was a Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, polymath, historian, and philosopher of the Early Middle Ages.

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