French playwright and political activist (1748–1793)
Olympe de Gouges
Olympe de Gouges was a French playwright and political activist.
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Turkish novelist, academic and Nobel laureate (born 1952)
Orhan Pamuk
Ferit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Italian journalist (1929–2006)
Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci was an Italian journalist and author.
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Christian scholar, ascetic, and theologian (c. 185 – c. 253)
Origen
Origen of Alexandria, also known as Origen Adamantius, was an early Christian theologian and ascetic.
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Brazilian architect (1907–2012)
Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho, known as Oscar Niemeyer, was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture.
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Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright.
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Indian guru and leader of the Rajneesh movement (1931–1990)
Osho
Osho, also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Acharya Rajneesh, and simply Rajneesh, was an Indian godman, and founder of the new religious movement, the Rajneesh movement.
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Russian poet and essayist (1891-1938)
Osip Mandelstam
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam was a Russian and Soviet poet.
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German historian and philosopher (1880-1936)
Oswald Spengler
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler was a German polymath whose areas of interest included history, philosophy, mathematics, science, and art, as well as their relation to his organic theory of history.
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