American modernist artist (1887–1986)
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements.
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Directors, broadcasters, animators and makers whose work shaped what audiences watched.
French writer, poet, essayist and translator (1808–1855)
Gérard de Nerval
Gérard de Nerval was the pen name of Gérard Labrunie, a French travel writer, essayist, poet, and translator.
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Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer (1512–1594)
Gerardus Mercator
Gerardus Mercator was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer.
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German dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912 (1862-1946)
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann was a German dramatist and novelist.
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Genevan-French author (1766-1817)
Germaine de Staël
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a prominent Genevan and French novelist, woman of letters, philosopher, and political theorist in both Parisian and Genevan intellectual circles.
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American author (1874–1946)
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector.
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Venetian adventurer and writer (1725–1798)
Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova was an Italian adventurer and writer who was born in the Republic of Venice and travelled extensively throughout Europe.
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Italian noble, poet, philosopher, and writer (1798-1837)
Giacomo Leopardi
Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was an Italian poet, philosopher, essayist, and philologist.
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Italian sculptor and architect (1598–1680)
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian sculptor, architect, painter and city planner.
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