Profiles — Creators
Directors, broadcasters, animators and makers whose work shaped what audiences watched.
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade was a French writer, libertine, political activist, and nobleman best known for his libertine novels and imprisonment for sex crimes, blasphemy, and pornography.
Read biography ↗Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar (1911–1980)
Herbert Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory.
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Marsilio Ficino was an Italian scholar and Catholic priest who was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance.
Read biography ↗1st-century Latin poet from Hispania
Marcus Valerius Martialis was a Roman poet born in Bilbilis, Hispania, best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan.
Read biography ↗German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian (1878–1965)
Martin Buber was an Austrian-Israeli philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism centered on the distinction between the I–Thou relationship and the I–It relationship.
Read biography ↗7th‑century pope and martyr, bishop of Rome (649–655), exiled for opposing Monothelitism, venerated as a saint in Cathol
Pope Martin I, also known as Martin the Confessor, was the bishop of Rome from 21 July 649 to 653 or 654.
Read biography ↗Pope of the Catholic Church from 1417 to 1431
Pope Martin V, born Oddone Colonna, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 11 November 1417 to his death in February 1431.
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Martin Van Buren was the eighth president of the United States, serving from 1837 to 1841.
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Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker.
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