World Biographical Encyclopedia

Maral Rahmanzadeh was a renowned Azerbaijani graphic artist. She depicted the nature of her native country, daily life of oilmen, wartime efforts of Soviet women, Azerbaijan's culture, customs and traditions and other subjects. In addition, Maral illustrated many literary works, including "Eugene Onegin" by Alexander Pushkin and "A Hero of Our Time" by Mikhail Lermontov.

Maynard Keenan

James Herbert Keenan known professionally as Maynard James Keenan or MJK, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, actor, author, and winemaker. He is best known as the vocalist for the rock bands Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer.

Johann Pestalozzi

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer.

Liam Hemsworth

Liam Hemsworth is an Australian actor of film and television. He started his career by acting in the Australian television series Neighbours and The Elephant Princess. He is best known for his role as Gale Hawthorne in The Hunger Games film series, based on an adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ best-selling novel series.

Ingmar Bergman

Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer, and producer who worked in film, television, theatre and radio. He is recognized as one of the most accomplished and influential filmmakers of all time.

Ilya Prigogine

Ilya Prigogine was a Russian-born Belgian physical chemist. He won the Nobel prize in 1977 for investigating the irreversibility of processes in complex physical systems that are far from equilibrium conditions.

Babe Zaharias

Babe Didrikson Zaharias, alias of Mildred Ella Zaharias, was an American sportswoman of the 20th century. After achieving success at the Olympic Games in track and field, she further shined in basketball, tennis, baseball, bowling, and most notably in golf, ruling over the professional golf circuit in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Geraldine Page

Geraldine Sue Page was an American film, television and stage actress. An eight-time Academy Award nominee, she was nominated for Hondo (1953), Summer and Smoke (1961), Sweet Bird of Youth (1962), You're a Big Boy Now (1966), Pete 'n' Tillie (1972), Interiors (1978) and The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), before winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Carrie Watts in T...

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.

Pete Buttigieg

Pete Buttigieg is an American politician and former Intelligence Officer of the United States Navy Reserve. He served as the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, from 2012 to 2018. On April 14, 2019, Buttigieg officially announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States in 2020.

Cary Grant

Cary Grant, original name Archibald Alexander Leach, was a British-born American film actor whose good looks, debonair style, and flair for romantic comedy made him one of Hollywood’s most popular and enduring stars.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in the fields of epistemology, logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. He is considered by many to be the most prominent philosopher of the XX century. Born in Vienna as an Austrian citizen, he moved to Cambridge as an adult and later was forced to acquire British citizenship afte...

Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner was a German dramatic composer and theorist whose operas and music had a revolutionary influence on the course of Western music, either by extension of his discoveries or reaction against them. Among his major works are The Flying Dutchman (1843), Tannhäuser (1845), Lohengrin (1850), Tristan und Isolde (1865), Parsifal (1882), and his great tetralogy, The Ring of the Nibelung (1869...