Profiles — Creators
Directors, broadcasters, animators and makers whose work shaped what audiences watched.
Scottish inventor, demonstrating the world's first working television (1888–1946)
John Logie Baird was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer and innovator who demonstrated the world's first mechanical television system on 26 January 1926.
Read biography ↗President of the Republic of Ghana
John Dramani Mahama is a Ghanaian politician who has been the president of the Republic of Ghana since January 2025.
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John Sidney McCain III was an American politician and naval officer who represented Arizona in the United States Congress for over 35 years, first as a U.S.
Read biography ↗Pope of the Catholic Church in 1978
Pope John Paul I was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 26 August 1978 until his death 33 days later.
Read biography ↗President of the United States from 1825 to 1829
John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States, serving from 1825 to 1829.
Read biography ↗English writer and art critic (1819–1900)
John Ruskin was an English polymath – a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era.
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John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer and novelist.
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John Stuart Mill was an English philosopher, political economist, and politician.
Read biography ↗American novelist, poet (1932–2009)
John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic.
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