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Historical Figures by Profession (Tile Select)
Select all of the historical figures who practiced this profession.
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Last updated: December 19, 2021
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Photographers
Yousuf Karsh
Walter Gropius
Alberto Giacometti
John Cage
Carleton Watkins
Jamini Roy
Margaret Bourke-White
Louis Daguerre
Okakura Kakuzō
José Clemente Orozco
Philip Johnson
Nicéphore Niépce
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Nicéphore Niépce is usually credited as the inventor of photography, as he invented a technique called heliography which he then used to create the oldest surviving product of a photographic process. Louis Daguerre invented the daguerreotype, the first publicly available photographic process, in 1839. Carleton Watkins' photos of Yosemite Valley lead to the United States Congress' decision to preserve it as a National Park. Margaret Bourke-White was the first foreign photographer to take pictures of Soviet industry and was also the first American female war photojournalist. Yousuf Karsh photographed notable individuals, with his most famous being of Winston Churchill, and he has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century. Alberto Giacometti was a sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker; Okakura Kakuzō was an artist and scholar; José Clemente Orozco was a caricaturist and painter; there are two architects called Philip Johnson, one alive and one dead; John Cage was a composer, music theorist, artist, and philosopher; Walter Gropius was a German architect who founded the Bauhaus School; and Jamini Roy was a painter.
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Admirals
Fyodor Ushakov
Al-Nasir
Hayreddin Barbarossa
Joseph Bonaparte
Zheng He
Afonso de Albuquerque
Saigō Takamori
Chester W. Nimitz
Lysander
Samuel Hood
Demosthenes
Rafael Urdaneta
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Hayreddin Barbarossa was a corsair who was later appointed Kapudan Pasha, or grand admiral, of the Ottoman Navy. Afonso de Albuquerque was a Portuguese general, admiral and statesman who served as the viceroy of Portuguese India from 1509 to 1515. Fyodor Ushakov won every engagement he participated in as the Admiral of the Russian fleet. There were two related British admirals called Samuel Hood. Zheng He commanded the Ming treasure voyages, which sailed to Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, Western Asia and East Africa. Lysander was a Spartan admiral who commanded the Spartan fleet in the Hellespont and defeated the Athenians at Aegospotami. Chester W. Nimitz was a U.S. admiral who served as Chief of Naval Operations from 1945 to 1947. Demosthenes was a statesman and orator of ancient Athens; Joseph Bonaparte was the older brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, and was King of Naples then King of Spain; Saigō Takamori was a samurai and nobleman who was one of the leaders of the Meiji Restoration and later the Satsuma Rebellion; Rafael Urdaneta was a Venezuelan general who served as the fourth president of Gran Colombia; and Al-Nasir was one of the caliphs of the Abassid Caliphate.
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Architects
Robertson Davies
Louis Sullivan
Isaac Albéniz
Vitruvius
Jørn Utzon
Praxiteles
Filippo Brunelleschi
Frederick Wordsworth Ward
Hugues de Payens
Andrea Palladio
Inigo Jones
Kanō Eitoku
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Vitruvius was a Roman architect, as well as an author and engineer, who wrote De architectura, the only surviving major book on architecture from classical antiquity. Filippo Brunelleschi, considered to be a founding father of Renaissance architecture, is most famous for designing the dome of Florence Cathedral. Andrea Palladio was an influential Renaissance architect, whose works became the basis for Palladian architecture. Inigo Jones was an English architect who was the first person to introduce the classical architecture of Rome and Italian Renaissance architecture to Britain. Louis Sullivan was an American architect who was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright and who designed influential early skyscrapers with the architect Dankmar Adler. Jørn Oberg Utzon was a Danish architect who designed the Sydney Opera House. Praxiteles was an Athenian sculptor who was the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-sized statue; Hugues de Payens was the co-founder and first Grand Master of the Knights Templar; Kanō Eitoku was a painter whose patrons included Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi; Frederick Wordsworth Ward, whose pseudonym was Captain Thunderbolt, was the longest roaming bushranger in Australian history; Isaac Albéniz was a Spanish composer, conductor and pianist who was one of the foremost composers of the Post-Romantic era; and Robertson Davies was one of Canada's best known authors.
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Palaeontologists
James Clerk Maxwell
Karl Klaus von der Decken
John Bell Hatcher
Richard Owen
William Buckland
Philippe-Charles Schmerling
John Dalton
Charles Doolittle Walcott
Aphra Behn
Mary Anning
Huang Zongxi
Barnum Brown
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Philippe-Charles Schmerling was an early Dutch/Belgian palaeontologist who discovered the first Neanderthal fossil. William Buckland wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur (Megalosaurus) and pioneered the use of fossilised faeces in reconstructing ecosystems. Mary Anning made several discoveries at Lyme Regis in southwest England, such as the first correctly identified icthyosaur skeleton and the first two nearly complete plesiosaur skeletons. Richard Owen coined the word Dinosauria and was the driving force behind the establishment of the Natural History Museum in London. Charles Doolittle Walcott discovered the Burgess Shale, an important fossil bed with many fossils of Cambrian animals. John Bell Hatcher discovered Triceratops and Torosaurus, while Barnum Brown (nicknamed Mr. Bones) discovered the first documented remains of Tyrannosaurus. John Dalton was an English chemist and physicist who introduced atomic theory into chemistry and researched colour blindness; James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish mathematician and scientist responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation; Aphra Behn was one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing; Huang Zongxi was a Chinese phillosopher who believed that ministers should be openly critical of their emperor; and Karl Klaus von der Decken was a German explorer who was the first European to attempt to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.
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Prime ministers
Christiaan Barnard
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Patrice Lumumba
Yitzhak Rabin
Hermann Hesse
Aristide Briand
Ramsay MacDonald
Gia Long
Louis St. Laurent
Ibrahim Lodhi
Octavia E. Butler
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Aristide Briand served eleven terms as Prime Minister of France during the French Third Republic. Ramsay MacDonald was the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who belonged to the Labour party. Louis St. Laurent was the second French Canadian to be Prime Minister of Canada. Yitzhak Rabin was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, and was assassinated in 1995. Patrice Lumumba was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) after the country's independence. Ibrahim Lodi was the last Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate; Vasco Núñez de Balboa was a conquistador who was the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World (by crossing the Isthmus of Panama); Gia Long was the founder of the Nguyễn dynasty; Hermann Hesse was a German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946; Christiaan Barnard was a South African surgeon who performed the first human-to-human heart transplant operation; Boutros Boutros-Ghali was the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations; and Octavia E. Butler was an American science fiction writer, the first to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.
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