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David Sarnoff was an American businessman and pioneer of American radio and television. Throughout most of his career he led the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in various capacities from shortly after its founding in 1919 until his retirement in 1970.

John Jay

John Jay is a Founding Father of the United States who served the new nation in both law and diplomacy. He was a true patriot and was among the American commissioners who negotiated with Great Britain during the United States’ struggle for independence from British colonial rule.

Donato Bramante

Donato Bramante was an Italian architect, who introduced Renaissance architecture to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome, where his plan for St. Peter's Basilica formed the basis of design executed by Michelangelo.

Matteo Ricci

Matteo Ricci was a Jesuit Priest from Italy that spent most of his life in China spreading Christianity. He was one of the pioneer Jesuits in China and became the Superior General of the Mission in 1592. He is known for respecting and adapting to the Chinese culture, learning the language and finding a successful way to explain Catholic faith to the Chinese people by connecting it to Confucianism...

Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer serving as President of Russia since 2012, previously holding the position from 2000 until 2008.

Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh was an English adventurer and author, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. He is noted for his contribution in the establishment of a colony near Roanoke Island, in present-day North Carolina.

Manmohan Singh

Manmohan Singh, an eminent economist, is the former Prime Minister of India and the only person after Jawaharlal Nehru to make a comeback as a Prime Minister after serving the post for a full five year's term. He is also the first non-Hindu Prime Minister of India.

Wang Qishan

Wang Qishan is a Chinese politician and government official who was an influential member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) - notably, serving on its Politburo Standing Committee (2012–17) and heading the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI; 2012–17). In 2018 he became vice president of China. He was also mayor of Beijing from 2004 to 2007.

Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was a Soviet statesman who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964.

Marky Ramone

Marc Steven Bell is an American musician best known by his stage name Marky Ramone. He is best known for being the drummer of the punk rock band the Ramones, from May 1978 until February 1983, and August 1987 until August 1996. He has also played in other notable bands, Dust, Estus, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids.

Jacques Chirac

Jacques Chirac was an influential French technocrat under Presidents Charles deGaulle and Georges Pompidou. He served as prime minister under President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1974-1976), was an unsuccessful presidential candidate in 1981, became prime minister again in 1986 under President François Mitterrand, and was elected President of France in 1995.

Paul Brach

Paul Brach was an American abstract painter and educator. He exhibited his work in New York with the Leo Castelli Gallery, the Cordier & Eckstrom Gallery, and with the André Emmerich Gallery. Paul Brach's estate is represented exclusively by Eric Firestone Gallery.

Robert "Bob" Rafelson

Robert "Bob" Rafelson is an American film director, writer and producer. He is regarded as one of the founders of the New Hollywood movement in the 1970s. Among his best-known films are Five Easy Pieces (1970), The King of Marvin Gardens (1972), and The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981).

Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He was founder of the Russian Communist Party, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and architect and first head of the Soviet state.

Robert Wilson

Robert Rathbun Wilson was a rare combination of particle physicist, philosopher, educator and artist. His work on protons in the 1950s significantly advanced knowledge of these elementary particles.