World Biographical Encyclopedia

Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori was an Italian physician, educator and innovator acclaimed for her educational method that builds on the way children naturally learn.

George Clooney is a well-known American actor and filmmaker, who appeared in the 1990's as a famous leading man, known for his good looks and versatility. He is best known for his roles in the "Ocean's" film series and for his Oscar-winning performance in "Syriana". Besides, George is a respected director, screenwriter and human rights and political activist, who has served as one of the United N...

Rafael Ferrer

Rafael Ferrer is a Puerto Rican painter, sculptor, graphic artist, performance artist, teacher, musician. His paintings – expressionistic, hard-bitten yet beautiful representations of his native Caribbean - are remarkably alive and potent critiques of both European primitivism and "identity art."

Ama Aidoo

Ama Ata Aidoo, née Christina Ama Aidoo is a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright and academic. She was also a Minister of Education in Ghana under the Jerry Rawlings administration. She currently lives in Ghana, where in 2000 she established the Mbaasem Foundation to promote and support the work of African women writers

Jean Harlow

Jean Harlow was an American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s.

Louis Brandeis

Louis Dembitz Brandeis was an American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939.

Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei was an Italian polymath: astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician. He has been called "the father of observational astronomy," "the father of modern physics," "the father of the scientific method," and "the father of science." His experiments convincingly refuted Aristotle's speculative metaphysics and laid the foundation of classical mechanics.

Mike Piazza

Mike Piazza is an American former baseball player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Mets who is considered the best-hitting catcher in the history of the game. He played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball, from 1992 to 2007. Also, Mike manages the Italy national baseball team.

Jean-Luc Nancy

Jean-Luc Nancy is a French philosopher who has written more than twenty books and hundreds of texts or contributions to volumes, catalogues and journals. His philosophical scope is very broad: from On Kawara to Heidegger, from the sense of the world and the deconstruction of Christianity to the Jena romantics of the Schlegel brothers.

Fazil Najafov

Fazil Najafov is one of the most prominent representatives of contemporary Azerbaijani sculpture, mostly known for his dramatic and psychologically charged works.

René Descartes

René Descartes was a French scientist and philosopher, who invented analytical geometry and introduced skepticism as an essential part of the scientific method. He is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers in history.

Jirō Akagawa

Jirō Akagawa is a Japanese writer, working in a mystery genre. He is one of most successful writers in the history of Japan in terms of popularity of his works. Also known for his productivity, he has written an astounding 500 works since his first novel showed up in 1977.

Karl Popper

Karl Raimund Popper was an Austrian-born British philosopher of natural and social science. He subscribed to anti-determinist metaphysics, believing that knowledge evolves from the experience of the mind.

Richard Rorty

Richard McKay Rorty was an American pragmatist philosopher and public intellectual noted for his wide-ranging critique of the modern conception of philosophy as a quasi-scientific enterprise aimed at reaching certainty and objective truth. In politics, he argued against programs of both the left and the right in favor of what he described as a meliorative and reformist "bourgeois liberalism."

Ian Gillan

Ian Gillan is an English singer-songwriter and musician who rose to prominence as the lead vocalist and frontman of rock band Deep Purple. Perhaps one of the most underrated singers of the rock era, he famously had in-fights with band-mate Ritchie Blackmore prompting him to join other bands, most particularly Black Sabbath.

Lindsey Vonn

Lindsey Vonn is a former American alpine skier. A three-time Olympic Champion, she won four women's World Cup overall alpine skiing championships (2008–10 and 2012) and eight World Cup season titles in all five disciplines, in particular, downhill, super-G, slalom, giant slalom, and super combined. She is the all-time leader in women's World Cup race victories with 82.