Profiles — Creators

Creators

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

French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss was a Belgian-born French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology.

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French painter (1840–1926)

Claude Monet

Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressionism who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it.

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French writer (1913–2005)

Claude Simon

Claude Eugène Henri Simon was a French novelist and recipient of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Fourth Roman emperor (41–54)

Claudius

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, or simply Claudius, was a Roman emperor, ruling from AD 41 until his death in AD 54.

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Head of the Catholic Church from 1046 to 1047

Clement II

Pope Clement II was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 25 December 1046 until his death in 1047.

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Pope of the Catholic Church from 1188 to 1191

Clement III

Pope Clement III, born Paolo Scolari, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 December 1187 to his death in 1191.

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Christian theologian (c.150 – c.215)

Clement of Alexandria

Titus Flavius Clemens, also known as Clement of Alexandria, was a Christian theologian and philosopher who taught at the Catechetical School of Alexandria.

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Pope of the Catholic Church and the fourth Avignon Pope (1342–1352)

Clement VI

Pope Clement VI, born Pierre Roger, was head of the Catholic Church from 7 May 1342 to his death, in December 1352.

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11th-century King of Denmark, Norway, and England

Cnut the Great

Cnut, also known as Canute and with the epithet the Great, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035.

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