Profiles — Creators

Creators

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

Pope

Damasus I

Pope Damasus I, also known as Damasus of Rome, was the bishop of Rome from October 366 to his death in 384.

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English trader, writer, and journalist (1660–1731)

Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist, merchant and spy.

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President of Nicaragua (1979–1990; 2007–present)

Daniel Ortega

José Daniel Ortega Saavedra is a Nicaraguan politician, revolutionary, and former guerrilla fighter who, under various titles, has been the leader of Nicaragua since 2007 and previously from 1979 to 1990.

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English filmmaker

Danny Boyle

Daniel Francis Boyle is an English film director and producer.

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Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)

Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri, widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher.

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English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator (1828-1882)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator.

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American writer (1894–1961)

Dashiell Hammett

Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories.

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Broadcaster and natural historian

David Attenborough

The broadcaster whose natural history series have shaped how audiences understand life on Earth.

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American film director (born 1962)

David Fincher

David Andrew Leo Fincher is an American filmmaker.

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