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Christiaan Huygens

Christiaan Huygens was a prominent Dutch mathematician and scientist.

Frederic Sackrider Remington was an American artist and author. The main subject of his paintings and sculptures was the American Old West with the characters typical for this period of time like cowboys, American Indians, the United States Cavalry and other Western personages.

Robert Plant

Robert Anthony Plant is an English singer, songwriter, and musician, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin.

Jean Dubuffet

Jean Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor, who initiated Art Brut (raw art) movement. He enjoyed a prolific art career, both in France and in America, and was featured in many exhibitions throughout his lifetime.

Belinda Carlisle

Belinda Jo Carlisle is an American singer. She gained worldwide fame as the lead singer of the Go-Go's, one of the most successful all-female bands of all time, and went on to have a prolific career as a solo act.

Sugar Ray Robinson

Sugar Ray Robinson, byname of Walker Smith, Jr., American professional boxer, six times a world champion: once as a welterweight (147 pounds), from 1946 to 1951, and five times as a middleweight (160 pounds), between 1951 and 1960. He is considered by many authorities to have been the best fighter in history.

Jimmy Page

James Patrick Page is an English musician, songwriter, and record producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin.

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms was the German composer, pianist, and conductor. He was one of the most significant composers of the 19th century, whose works greatly enriched the romantic repertory.

Pope John Paul II

Pope Saint John Paul II served as Pope of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City from 1978 to 2005. He is called Saint John Paul the Great by some Catholics.

David Smith

David Smith was an American sculptor who represented abstract expressionism in the post-war period. The artist was known for his massive welded geometric sculptural compositions made from metal in a variety of techniques from Cubism to Surrealism and Constructivism. He also produced paintings and drawings.

Cornelis van Noorde

Cornelis van Noorde was an 18th-century Dutch landscape painter and draughtsman.

David Gilmour

David Jon Gilmour is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter best known as a longtime member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd.

Itō Hirobumi

Itō Hirobumi was one of the best and most prominent Japanese prime ministers (he was the first Prime Minister of Japan) and the founding father of the modern-day Japan - Genrō. He helped the restoration of Japan in his time through Meiji Restoration. Itō is also famous for being the person who had chosen the commission which made the Meiji Constitution.

Glenn Frey

Glenn Lewis Frey was an American singer, songwriter, actor and founding member of the rock band the Eagles. Frey was the lead singer and frontman for the Eagles, roles he came to share with fellow member Don Henley, with whom he wrote most of the Eagles' material.

Lemmy Kilmister

Ian Fraser Kilmister, better known as Lemmy, was an English musician and singer-songwriter who founded and fronted the rock band Motörhead. His music was one of the foundations of the heavy metal genre.

Melvin John Ramos

Mel Ramos is an American figurative painter, specializing most often in paintings of female nudes, whose work incorporates elements of realist and abstract art.