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German statesman and Chancellor (1815-1898)
Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg, was a German statesman and diplomat who oversaw the unification of Germany and served as its first chancellor from 1871 to 1890.
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Phineas Taylor Barnum was an American showman, businessman, and politician remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and founding the Ringling Bros.
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Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Panini was an ancient Indian Sanskrit grammarian and linguist whose masterwork, the Aṣṭādhyāyī, is the foundational text of Vyākaraṇa—one of the six Vedāṅgas of ancient Indian scholarship.
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Paolo Gentiloni Silveri is an Italian politician who was European Commissioner for Economy in the von der Leyen Commission from 1 December 2019 to 30 November 2024.
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Paolo Caliari, known as Paolo Veronese, was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi.
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Pär Fabian Lagerkvist was a Swedish author who received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus, was a Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance.
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Paramahansa Yogananda was an Indian and American Hindu monk, yogi, and guru who founded the Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India, a religious meditation and Kriya Yoga organization, to disseminate his teachings.
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