Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

male, deceased (1879) (ULM, Germany)
This German born physicist is considered one of the world's greatest thinkers in history. Not only did he shape the way people think of time,...
Milton Friedman

Milton Friedman

male, deceased (2006)
Milton Friedman (July 31 1912 - November 16 2006) was an American Nobel Laureate economist and public intellectual. An advocate of laissez-faire...
Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen

male, 76 years old
Amartya Kumar Sen CH (Hon) ("Ômorto Kumar Shen") (born 3 November 1933), is an Indian economist, philosopher, and a winner of the Bank of Sweden P...
Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel

male, deceased (1928)
Eliezer Wiesel, KBE (commonly known as Elie Wiesel, born September 30, 1928) is a Romania-born American novelist, political activist, and Holocaust...
Max Planck

Max Planck

male, deceased (1947)
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German physicist. He is considered to be the founder of quantum theory, and therefore one of the most important...
Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus

male, 69 years old
Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and founder of Grameen Bank, has shown himself to be a leader who can translate his vision into powerful...
Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

male, deceased (1941) (India)
(7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright,...
Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk

male, 57 years old
The novelist Orhan Pamuk was born on June 7, 1952 in Istanbul and carries the distinct honor of being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in...
Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

male, 70 years old
Seamus Justin Heaney 's attempts to develop poetic language in which meaning and sound are intimately related result in concentrated, sensually...
Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa

female, deceased (1997)
Mother Teresa (born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, was a Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979...