
Sarah Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker is an American award-winning TV and film actress, producer, and designer, whose starring role as Carrie Bradshaw in the series Sex and the City catapulted her to stardom.

Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico was an Italian philosopher, historian, rhetorician and jurist. He is most known for his greatest piece, the Scienza Nuova (the New Science), published in 1725. He is considered to be the founder of modern philosophy of history and one of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment era.

Charles-Michel de l'Épée
Charles-Michel de l'Épée was a philanthropic educator of 18th-century France who has become known as the "Father of the Deaf".

Leo Szilard
Leo Szilard was a Hungarian-German-American physicist and inventor, one of the leading contributors to the development of nuclear energy and the first atomic weapons. He was also among the earliest and most active campaigners for nuclear arms control. In 1942, with Enrico Fermi, Leo set up the first nuclear chain reaction. In his later years, he also helped to develop the electron microscope. Mor...

Eiji Yoshikawa
Eiji Yoshikawa was a Japanese historical novelist. Among his best-known novels are revisions of older classics. Although most of his novels are not original works, he created a huge amount of work and a renewed interest in the past.

Frederic Remington
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.

Jacob Anderson
Jacob Basil Anderson is a British actor, singer-songwriter, rapper, and record producer. As an actor, he is known for his role as Grey Worm in the television series Game of Thrones, and his recurring appearances in the first seasons of Episodes and Broadchurch. As a musician, he uses the alias Raleigh Ritchie; his debut album, You're a Man Now, Boy, was released in 2016 to very positive reviews.

Charles Steinmetz
Charles Steinmetz was a German-born American mathematician and electrical engineer and professor at Union College.

Trent Reznor
Michael Trent Reznor is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and film score composer. He is best known as the founder, primary musician, and principal songwriter of the industrial rock project Nine Inch Nails, which he founded in 1988 and of which he was the sole official member until adding long-time collaborator Atticus Ross as a permanent member in 2016.

Shannen Doherty
Shannen Doherty is an American award-winning actress, who started her career as a child artist at a very early age and has since then worked on a number of films and numerous television shows. Doherty is best known for her roles in a variety of popular television series, including Little House on the Prairie, Our House, Beverly Hills, 90210 and Charmed. She is also a television director as well a...

Carice van Houten
Carice van Houten is a Dutch actress and singer. She is known for her role in the HBO’s fantasy TV series Game of Thrones as the Melisandre of Asshai. She also has a leading role in the TV film Suzy and for her role in the film, she won Golden Calf Award for Best Acting in a Television Drama.

James Joule
James Prescott Joule was an English physicist, mathematician, and inventor who established that the various forms of energy - mechanical, electrical, and heat - are basically the same and can be changed one into another. Thus, he formed the basis of the law of conservation of energy, the first law of thermodynamics.

Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford is an American actor and producer. Ford is one of the most prolific actors in Hollywood who came to prominence for his roles in Star Wars trilogy and Indiana Jones.

John Wooden
John Wooden was an American basketball coach who directed teams of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) to 10 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championships in 12 seasons. Several of his UCLA players became professional basketball stars.

Stephen Breyer
Stephen Gerald Breyer is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1994. Stephen G. Breyer has spent more than two decades as a Supreme Court justice, and during that time he has cultivated a reputation for pragmatism, optimism, and cooperation with both political parties.
Featured profiles
Biographies by Category:
Browse Selected Biographies:
- A-AL
- AM-AS
- AT-BA
- BB-BE
- BF-BO
- BP-BR
- BS-CA
- CB-CI
- CJ-CP
- CR-DA
- DB-DI
- DJ-DZ
- EA-ER
- ES-FG
- FH-FO
- FP-GA
- GB-GM
- GN-GR
- GS-HA
- HB-HI
- HJ-HP
- HR-IN
- IO-JE
- JF-JZ
- KA-KE
- KF-KN
- KO-KŽ
- L -LC
- LD-LE
- LF-LO
- LP-MA
- MB-MC
- MD-MI
- MJ-MO
- MP-NA
- NB-NÚ
- O -OZ
- PA -PAZ
- PB-PH
- PI-PO
- PP-RA
- RB-RI
- RJ-RO
- RP-SA
- SB-SC
- SD-SH
- SI-SM
- SN-SR
- SS-ST
- SU-TA
- TB-TP
- TR-UZ
- VA-VZ
- WAA-WAZ
- WB-WH
- WI-WP
- WR-ZY