Zbigniew Brzezinski

Zbigniew Brzezinski

male, 81 years old
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (born March 28, 1928, Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish-American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who...
Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet

male, deceased (1877)
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting.
Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu

male
Sun Tzu was the author of "The Art of War", an immensely influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy. He is also one of the earliest...
Thomas Eakins

Thomas Eakins

male, deceased (1916)
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was a painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He was one of the greatest American painters of his time,...
Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Wyeth

male, 92 years old
Andrew Newell Wyeth (born July 12, 1917) is an American realist painter, one of the best-known of the 20th century and sometimes referred to as the...
William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells

male, deceased (1920)
William Dean Howells was an American realist author and literary critic.
Richard Estes

Richard Estes

male, 73 years old
Richard Estes (born May 14, 1936 in Kewanee, Illinois) is an American painter who is best known for his photorealistic paintings. The paintings...

Philip Pearlstein

male, 85 years old
Philip Pearlstein (born May 24, 1924) is an American painter, one of the most important and innovative artists of the contemporary Realist school....
Theodor Fontane

Theodor Fontane

male, deceased (1898)
Theodor Fontane was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many to be the most important 19th-century German-language realist writer.

Niccolò Machiavelli

male, deceased (1527)
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian political philosopher, musician, poet, and romantic comedic playwright. He is a figure of the I...