Profiles — Creators

Creators

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

Founding Father and first U.S. president (1732–1799)

George Washington

George Washington was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797.

French intellectual and literary figure (1897–1962)

Georges Bataille

Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille was a French writer, essayist, librarian and theorist whose work crossed the boundaries of literature, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, political economy, religious studies and art history.

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French painter and sculptor (1882-1963)

Georges Braque

Georges Braque was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor.

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Prime Minister of France, 1906–1909 and 1917–1920 (1841–1929)

Georges Clemenceau

Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French statesman who was prime minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920.

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French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769–1832)

Georges Cuvier

Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, baron Cuvier, known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology".

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