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Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry (1802–1884)
Elias Lönnrot was a Finnish medical doctor, philosopher, poet, musician, linguist, journalist, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry.
Read biography ↗Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist
Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda was a Jewish linguist, lexicographer, and journalist who immigrated to Jerusalem in 1881, when the Ottoman Empire ruled it.
Read biography ↗Turkish writer (born 1971)
Elif Shafak is a Turkish-British novelist, essayist, public speaker, political scientist, and activist.
Read biography ↗French portrait painter (1755–1842)
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, also known as Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun or simply Madame Le Brun, was a French painter who mostly specialized in portrait painting, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Read biography ↗English poet (1806–1861)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death.
Read biography ↗American physician, abolitionist, women's rights activist (1821-1910)
Elizabeth Blackwell was an English-American physician, notable as the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council for the United Kingdom.
Read biography ↗24th president of Liberia
Ellen Eugenia Johnson Sirleaf is a Liberian politician who served as the 24th president of Liberia from 2006 to 2018.
Read biography ↗Romanian-French philosopher and essayist (1911–1995)
Emil Mihai Cioran was a Romanian philosopher, aphorist and essayist, who published works in both Romanian and French.
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