- Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29, 1958), commonly known as MJ as well as the "King of Pop", is an American musician, entertainer, and global icon whose successful career and controversial personal life have been a part of pop culture for almost 40 years. Michael Jackson is widely regarded as one of the greatest entertainers and most popular recording artists in history, displaying complicated physical techniques, … - Genghis Khan
(IPA: ; ; classic Mongolian: (see below for alternative spellings); ca. 1162 -August 18, 1227) was a Mongol "Khan" (ruler; posthumously "Khagan", emperor). Born with the name Temüüjin into the Borjigin clan, he became one of the most significant and successful military leaders in history. He united the Mongol tribes and founded the Mongol Empire, (1206 - 1368), the largest contiguous empire in world history. - James Stewart
James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 - July 2, 1997) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor, best known for his self-effacing screen persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Oscars, winning one in competition and one life achievement. He also had a noted military career, rising to the rank of Brigadier General in the United States Air Force. - Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger
Arnold clearly harbored political ambitions for a long time. In 1977, six years before he became a US citizen, he told a German magazine: "When one has money, one day it becomes less interesting. And when one is also the best in film, what can be more interesting? Perhaps power. Then one moves into politics and becomes governor or president or something." He realized that one day his movie-making days were numbered and began thinking about a career in politics. - Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 - August 16, 1977), was an American singer, musician and actor. He is often known simply as Elvis; also "The King of Rock 'n' Roll", or simply "The King". Presley began his career as one of the first performers of rockabilly, an uptempo fusion of country and rhythm and blues with a strong back beat. His novel versions of existing songs, mixing 'black' and 'white' sounds, … - Édith Piaf
Édith Piaf was one of France's most beloved singers, and became a national icon. Her singing reflected her tragic life, with her specialty being the poignant ballad performed in a heartbreaking voice. Among her famous songs are "La vie en rose" (1946), "Hymne à l'amour" (1949), "Milord" (1959), "Non, je ne regrette rien" (1960). A filmed biography on her life, titled "La Vie En Rose", is currently in release (June, 2007). - Faye Wong
Faye Wong (born August 8, 1969 in Beijing) is a Chinese singer, songwriter, actress and model. She is an icon popular in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and to some extent in the West. One of the most distinguished female vocalists in recent Chinese music history, her following has grown so large and devoted that media in Hong Kong, Taiwan, … - Seraphim Rose
Seraphim Rose, born Eugene Dennis Rose (August 13, 1934-September 2, 1982), was a hieromonk or priest-monk of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in the United States, whose writings have helped spread Orthodox Christianity throughout modern America and the West. Although not formally canonized, he is venerated by some Orthodox Christians as a saint in iconography, liturgy, and prayer. - Linda Lovelace
Linda Susan Boreman, better known by her stage name Linda Lovelace, was a pornographic actress in the 1972 film "Deep Throat", who went on to leave the pornography industry and became a spokeswoman for the anti-pornography movement. "Deep Throat" was notable for beginning a brief fad of porn chic; it was also the inspiration for Bob Woodward's name of his secret Watergate source, W. Mark Felt. - Rose Chan
Rose Chan was a cabaret dancer turned "Queen of Striptease" who has become something of a legend in Malaysia. Her brazen exploitation of her sexuality, predating Madonna, made her a controversial icon in her homeland. In the late 1970s, she received a RM3 million offer from an American publisher for her autobiography, but the deal fell through when she insisted on USD$3 million. - Silvia Dimitrova
Silvia Dimitrova (born 1970) in Pleven) is an icon painter. She won a place at the prestigious School of Applied Arts at Troyan at the age of 13. She graduated in 1989. She then studied icon painting in Sofia under the tuition of Georgi Tchouchev, the grand master of Bulgarian icons, and was invited to exhibit her work in Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, amongst the elite group of icon painters. She held a successful solo exhibition in Paris, … - Frederick Forsyth
Frederick Forsyth, CBE (born August 25, 1938) is an English author and occasional political commentator. He is best known for thrillers such as "The Day of the Jackal", "The Odessa File", "The Dogs of War", "The Fist of God", "Icon", "The Veteran", "Avenger" and recently "The Afghan". - Andrei Rublev
Andrei Rublev (c.1360 or 1370 - 1427 or January 29, 1430) is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of icons and frescoes. There is little information about his life. It is not known where he was born. Andrei Rublev probably lived in the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra under Nikon of Radonezh, who became hegumen after the death of Sergii Radonezhsky (1392). - Marcin Kazanowski
Marcin Kazanowski was a noble (szlachcic), magnate, castellan of Halice from 1622, voivode of Podole Voivodship from 1632 and Field Crown Hetman of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1633. Married to Katarzyna Starzycka in 1600. Parent of Dominik Aleksander Kazanowski (1605-1648), voivode of Bracław. His family, the Kazanowski family, descendants of Komesi Mediolańcy founded to town of Kazanów in 1566. - Pope Stephen III
Pope Stephen III, (720 - January 24, 772), pope August 7, 768 - January 24, 772, was a native of Sicily. He came to Rome during the pontificate of Gregory III and gradually rose to high office in the service of successive popes. On the deposition of Antipope Constantine II, Stephen was chosen to succeed him. Fragmentary records are preserved of the council (April 769) at which the degradation of Constantine was completed, certain new arrangements for papal elections made, … - Juan Diego Diego
Saint Juan Diego (1474 - May 30, 1548) was an indigenous Mexican who reported an apparition of the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1531. He had a significant impact on the spread of the Catholic faith within Mexico. The Roman Catholic Church canonized him in 2002, as its first indigenous American saint. - Miguel Cabrera
Miguel Mateo Maldonado y Cabrera was an indigenous Zapotec painter during the Viceroyalty of New Spain, today's Mexico. During his lifetime, he was recognized as the greatest painter in all of New Spain. He was born in Antequera, today's Oaxaca, Oaxaca, and moved to Mexico City in 1719. It is thought he studied under the Rodríguez Juárez brothers, but he may have been trained by José de Ibarra. Cabrera was a favorite painter of the Archbishop and of the Jesuit order, … - Mark Sandman
Mark Sandman was an American singer, songwriter, musical instrument inventor and multi-instrumentalist. An indie rock icon and longtime fixture on the Boston/Cambridge music scene, Sandman was best known as the lead singer and slide bass player of the band Morphine. Sandman was also known as a prominent member of the Boston blues band Treat Her Right and the founder of Hi-n-Dry, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based recording studio and independent record label. - Alvy Ray Smith
Alvy Ray Smith III (born 8 September 1943) is a noted pioneer in computer graphics. In 1965, he received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University. In 1970 he received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, with a dissertation on cellular automata. From 1969 to 1973 he was an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at New York University. - Stephen Gaskin
Stephen Gaskin is a counterculture hippie icon best known for his presence in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco in the 1960s and for co-founding "The Farm", a famous spiritual Intentional Community in Summertown, Tennessee. He was a Green Party presidential primary candidate in 2000 on a platform which included Campaign Finance Reform, Universal Health Care, and Marijuana Decriminalization. - Inayat Hussain Bhatti
Inayat Hussain Bhatti (1928-1999) was a multidimensional icon of Pakistan. His body of work includes contributions as a singer, actor, producer, director, script writer, social worker, columnist, religious scholar and a protagonist of the development of Punjabi language and literature. - Françoise Hardy
Françoise Hardy is a French singer, actress and astrologer. Hardy is considered an iconic figure in many respects (fashion, music style, personality) in the Francophile world. - Ingrid Jonker
Ingrid Jonker (19 September 1933 - 19 July 1965) (OIS), was a South African poet. Although she wrote in Afrikaans, her poems have been widely translated into other languages. Jonker has reached iconic status in South Africa and is often called the South African Sylvia Plath, owing to the intensity of her work and the tragic course of her turbulent life. Her work has also been compared to that of Anne Sexton. - Ivan Argunov
Ivan Petrovich Argunov was a Russian painter, one of the founders of the Russian school of portrait painting. He was a serf belonging to Count Sheremetev and had grown in the family of his uncle, Semyon Mikhaylovich Argunov who was a steward of princess Cherkassky and later a major-domo for count Sheremetev. For many years Semyon managed Sheremetev's house on Millionnaya street in Saint-Petersburg and that was the house where Ivan grew up. - Alexei Antropov
Alexei Petrovich Antropov was a Russian barocco painter active primarily in St. Petersburg, where he was born and died. He also worked in Moscow and fresco-ed churches in Kiev. His preferred medium was oil, but he also painted miniatures and icons. Alexei was born to a family of government official working in Armory and in the "Department of Building" (kantselyatiya stroeniy). Since 1732 Alexei also working at the same department under his relative A. Matveyev, … - Richard Roundtree
Richard Roundtree (born July 9 1942) is an American actor and former male fashion model famous for portraying John Shaft in the film "Shaft" (1971) and in its two sequels, "Shaft's Big Score" (1972) and "Shaft in Africa" (1973). Roundtree was born in New Rochelle, New York to Kathryn, a nurse and housekeeper, and John Roundtree, a caterer and garbage collector. He attended Southern Illinois University. - James Debarge
James DeBarge (born 22 August 1963, Grand Rapids, Michigan) is an American R&B and soul singer. He was one of the charter members of the family group DeBarge, who became stars with their 1980s classic songs "All This Love", "In a Special Way", "Rhythm of the Night", and "Who's Holding Donna Now?". James DeBarge is arguably more famous for his 1984 marriage to pop icon Janet Jackson. - Thomas Chatterton
Thomas Chatterton was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry. Committing suicide by arsenic rather than die of starvation at the young age of 17, he served as an icon of unacknowledged genius for the Romantics. - Theophanes The Greek
Theophanes the Greek or Feofan Grek (ca. 1340-ca. 1410) was one of the greatest icon painters, or iconographers, of Muscovite Russia, and was noted as the teacher and mentor of the great Andrei Rublev. Theophanes was born in the Byzantine Empire and worked in Constantinople. In 1370 he moved to Novgorod, and in 1395 to Moscow. His style is considered unsurpassed in expression achieved by almost mono-colored painting. - Steve Strange
Steve Strange (born Steven John Harrington on May 28, 1959) is a British singer and pop icon, best remembered as an influential party promoter and as the frontman and lead singer for Visage. Strange is often referred to as the "ultimate New Romantic," as his influence on the British club scene of the early 1980s and on synthesized music can still be seen today. - Daniil Chyorny
Daniil Chyorny was a Russian iconographer. Together with his companion Andrei Rublev and other painters, Daniil Chyorny worked at the Assumption Cathedral in Vladimir (1408) and Trinity Cathedral in the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra in Sergiyev Posad (1420s). Some icons for these cathedrals are believed to have been painted by Daniil Chyorny. The icons of the Assumption Cathedral are currently displayed at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and Russian Museum in St.Petersburg. - Bill Travis
Bill Travis (born 1957) is an American photographer known for his cityscapes and the sensual male figure. His discovery of photography came through art history, having earned a Ph.D. in medieval art and taught at the university level for several years, and this background has influenced his creative work. His earliest forays consisted of photographic transfers on gilt boards, using a technique of his invention that let the gold shine through to the surface. - Alex Arcadia
Alex Arcadia is a contemporary American painter, sculptor and conceptual artist whose work is compared to Jeff Koons, Hans Bellmer, Andy Warhol and Constantin Brancusi. His self-titled cosmology ‘Arcadia’ provides the framework for his large scale paintings, sculptures and installations, which engage audiences as both post-Warholian pop, and deviant in the readymade tradition of Marcel Duchamp. Arcadia is best known for his SuperGymnast image, … - Alfred A. Foucher
Alfred Foucher, a French scholar, identified the Buddha image as having Greek origins. He made his first trip to northeastern India in 1895. In 1922 he was asked by the governments of France and Afghanistan to organize an archeological co-operative which became the "Délégation Archéologique Française en Afghanistan". - Photios Kontoglou
Photis Kontoglou (Greek: Φώτης Κόντογλου, occasionally signed also as Kontoglous-b. Aivali or Ayvalik c.1895-d. Athens 1965) was a Greek writer, painter and iconographer. - Paul Smith
Sir Paul Smith, RDI, (born in Beeston, Nottingham on July 5, 1946) is an English fashion designer, whose business and reputation is founded upon his menswear Smith only took up fashion design after having been injured in a cycling accident. He set up his first shop in Nottingham in 1970. He gradually expanded his retail business, being the first fashion brand to open on Floral Street in London's Covent Garden in 1979, … - Alexey Tyranov
Alexei Vasilievich Tyranov (1801-59) was a Russian painter. Early in his career he painted icons with his brother; he then traveled to St. Petersburg to study at the Academy, where he took lessons with Alexei Venetsianov. From 1836 he was a pupil of Karl Bryullov. Tyranov chiefly painted portraits and genre scenes; he exhibited at a number of venues in the city throughout the 1830s and 40s. - Robert Klymasz
Robert Bohdan Klymasz is the premier Ukrainian-Canadian folklorist. Educated at the University of Toronto (Russian, 1957), the University of Manitoba (MA in Slavic Studies, under Jaroslav Rudnyckyj, 1960), Harvard University (1960–62), and Indiana University (PhD in Folklore Studies, 1971), he was a long-time Curator of the Slavic and East European Program at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa. He has taught at several North American universities, … - John Wood, The Elder
John Wood (1704- May 23, 1754, Bath), also named "Wood of Bath", was an English architect. He worked principally in the city of Bath, South West England. John Wood, (The Elder), was born in Yorkshire, Northern England. He is known for designing many of the streets and buildings of Bath, such as the "Circus", "Queen Square", "Prior Park", the "North and South Parades", and other notable houses. - Firmin Bouisset
Etienne Maurice Firmin Bouisset was a French painter, poster artist and printmaker. He was born to a working class family in the town of Moissac in the Tarn-et-Garonne département in southwestern France. As an artist, Firmin Bouisset specialized in painting children subjects and did a number of illustrated books such as "La Petite Ménagère" (The Little Housekeeper) in 1890. At a time when posters were a popular form of advertising, …
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