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Alvar Aalto — Architect
Berenice Abbott — Photographer
Virgil Abloh — Fashion Designer
Marina Abramović — Performance Artist
Chinua Achebe — Novelist
Ansel Adams — Photographer
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — Writer
David Adjaye — Architect
Ai Weiwei — Artist
Otl Aicher — Graphic Designer
Chantal Akerman — Film Director
Anna Akhmatova — Poet
Azzedine Alaïa — Fashion Designer
Josef Albers — Painter
Dante Alighieri — Poet
Pedro Almodóvar — Director
Wes Anderson — Film Director
Tadao Ando — Architect
Maya Angelou — Poet
Michelangelo Antonioni — Director
Thomas Aquinas — Philosopher
Diane Arbus — Photographer
Archimedes — Mathematician
Hannah Arendt — Philosopher
Aristotle — Philosopher
Giorgio Armani — Fashion Designer
Louis Armstrong — Trumpeter
Jean Arp — Sculptor
Augustine of Hippo — Philosopher
Marcus Aurelius — Philosopher
Jane Austen — Novelist
Richard Avedon — Photographer
Avicenna — Philosopher
Charles Babbage — Mathematician
Johann Sebastian Bach — Composer
Francis Bacon — Painter
James Baldwin — Novelist
Cristóbal Balenciaga — Fashion Designer
Honoré de Balzac — Novelist
Shigeru Ban — Architect
Luis Barragán — Architect
Roland Barthes — Critic
Béla Bartók — Composer
John Baskerville — Type Designer
Jean-Michel Basquiat — Painter
Saul Bass — Graphic Designer
Herbert Bayer — Graphic Designer
Lester Beall — Graphic Designer
Simone de Beauvoir — Philosopher
Bernd and Hilla Becher — Photographers
Samuel Beckett — Playwright
Ludwig van Beethoven — Composer
Peter Behrens — Architect
Walter Benjamin — Philosopher
Ingmar Bergman — Film Director
Hector Berlioz — Composer
Tim Berners-Lee — Computer Scientist
Leonard Bernstein — Composer
Bernardo Bertolucci — Director
Joseph Beuys — Artist
Justin Bieber — Singer
Michael Bierut — Graphic Designer
Max Bill — Designer
Björk — Singer
William Blake — Poet
Lina Bo Bardi — Architect
Giambattista Bodoni — Type Designer
Niels Bohr — Physicist
Bong Joon-ho — Film Director
Pierre Bonnard — Painter
Irma Boom — Graphic Designer
Jorge Luis Borges — Writer
Hieronymus Bosch — Painter
Sandro Botticelli — Painter
Louise Bourgeois — Sculptor
Margaret Bourke-White — Photographer
David Bowie — Musician
Johannes Brahms — Composer
Constantin Brâncuși — Sculptor
Marianne Brandt — Designer
Georges Braque — Painter
Brassaï — Photographer
Robert Bresson — Director
Marcel Breuer — Architect
Benjamin Britten — Composer
Alexey Brodovitch — Art Director
Neville Brody — Graphic Designer
Charlotte Brontë — Novelist
Emily Brontë — Novelist
Anton Bruckner — Composer
Pieter Bruegel the Elder — Painter
Luis Buñuel — Director
Michelangelo — Sculptor
Judith Butler — Philosopher
Lord Byron — Poet
John Cage — Composer
Santiago Calatrava — Architect
Alexander Calder — Sculptor
Harry Callahan — Photographer
Italo Calvino — Novelist
Jane Campion — Director
Albert Camus — Writer
Georg Cantor — Mathematician
Robert Capa — Photographer
Caravaggio — Painter
Pierre Cardin — Fashion Designer
Lewis Carroll — Writer
David Carson — Graphic Designer
Rachel Carson — Biologist
Matthew Carter — Type Designer
Henri Cartier-Bresson — Photographer
William Caslon — Type Designer
A. M. Cassandre — Poster Designer
Mary Cassatt — Painter
Achille Castiglioni — Industrial Designer
Miguel de Cervantes — Novelist
Paul Cézanne — Painter
Marc Chagall — Painter
Coco Chanel — Fashion Designer
Charlie Chaplin — Director
Geoffrey Chaucer — Poet
Anton Chekhov — Playwright
David Chipperfield — Architect
Noam Chomsky — Linguist
Frédéric Chopin — Composer
Seymour Chwast — Graphic Designer
John Coltrane — Saxophonist
Confucius — Philosopher
Joseph Conrad — Novelist
John Constable — Painter
Muriel Cooper — Graphic Designer
Nicolaus Copernicus — Astronomer
Francis Ford Coppola — Director
Le Corbusier — Architect
Charles Correa — Architect
Julio Cortázar — Writer
Gustave Courbet — Painter
Wim Crouwel — Graphic Designer
Imogen Cunningham — Photographer
Marie Curie — Physicist
Salvador Dalí — Painter
Charles Darwin — Naturalist
Miles Davis — Trumpeter
Giorgio de Chirico — Painter
Vittorio De Sica — Director
Claude Debussy — Composer
Edgar Degas — Painter
Eugène Delacroix — Painter
Claire Denis — Director
René Descartes — Philosopher
Charles Dickens — Novelist
Emily Dickinson — Poet
Edsger W. Dijkstra — Computer Scientist
Christian Dior — Fashion Designer
Robert Doisneau — Photographer
Balkrishna Doshi — Architect
Fyodor Dostoevsky — Novelist
Arthur Conan Doyle — Novelist
Carl Theodor Dreyer — Director
Henry Dreyfuss — Industrial Designer
W. E. B. Du Bois — Sociologist
Marcel Duchamp — Artist
Albrecht Dürer — Painter
Antonín Dvořák — Composer
Bob Dylan — Singer-Songwriter
Charles Eames — Designer
Ray Eames — Designer
William Eggleston — Photographer
Albert Einstein — Physicist
Sergei Eisenstein — Director
Kenji Ekuan — Industrial Designer
Edward Elgar — Composer
George Eliot — Novelist
T. S. Eliot — Poet
Duke Ellington — Composer
Ralph Waldo Emerson — Writer
Douglas Engelbart — Engineer
Brian Eno — Musician
Paul Erdős — Mathematician
Max Ernst — Painter
Elliott Erwitt — Photographer
Euclid — Mathematician
Leonhard Euler — Mathematician
Walker Evans — Photographer
Jan van Eyck — Painter
Frantz Fanon — Philosopher
Michael Faraday — Physicist
Rainer Werner Fassbinder — Director
William Faulkner — Novelist
Gabriel Fauré — Composer
Federico Fellini — Film Director
Richard Feynman — Physicist
Ella Fitzgerald — Singer
John Ford — Director
Norman Foster — Architect
Michel Foucault — Philosopher
Robert Frank — Photographer
Aretha Franklin — Singer
Rosalind Franklin — Chemist
Tobias Frere-Jones — Type Designer
Sigmund Freud — Psychoanalyst
Lee Friedlander — Photographer
Caspar David Friedrich — Painter
Adrian Frutiger — Type Designer
Sou Fujimoto — Architect
Naoto Fukasawa — Industrial Designer
Shigeo Fukuda — Graphic Designer
Buckminster Fuller — Architect
Galileo Galilei — Astronomer
John Galliano — Fashion Designer
Évariste Galois — Mathematician
Claude Garamond — Type Designer
Federico García Lorca — Poet
Gabriel García Márquez — Novelist
Antoni Gaudí — Architect
Jean-Paul Gaultier — Fashion Designer
Carl Friedrich Gauss — Mathematician
Frank Gehry — Architect
Artemisia Gentileschi — Painter
Karl Gerstner — Graphic Designer
Greta Gerwig — Film Director
Alberto Giacometti — Sculptor
Eric Gill — Type Designer
Hubert de Givenchy — Fashion Designer
Milton Glaser — Graphic Designer
Philip Glass — Composer
Jean-Luc Godard — Director
Kurt Gödel — Mathematician
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Writer
Vincent van Gogh — Painter
Nan Goldin — Photographer
Francisco Goya — Painter
Michael Graves — Architect
Eileen Gray — Designer
Konstantin Grcic — Industrial Designer
April Greiman — Graphic Designer
Edvard Grieg — Composer
Walter Gropius — Architect
Zaha Hadid — Architect
Halston — Fashion Designer
Margaret Hamilton — Computer Scientist
George Frideric Handel — Composer
Michael Haneke — Director
Kenya Hara — Graphic Designer
Thomas Hardy — Novelist
Joseph Haydn — Composer
Werner Heisenberg — Physicist
Ernest Hemingway — Novelist
Jimi Hendrix — Guitarist
Barbara Hepworth — Sculptor
Werner Herzog — Director
Eva Hesse — Sculptor
David Hilbert — Mathematician
Alfred Hitchcock — Film Director
Hannah Höch — Artist
David Hockney — Painter
Josef Hoffmann — Architect
Armin Hofmann — Graphic Designer
Katsushika Hokusai — Artist
Billie Holiday — Singer
Homer — Poet
Grace Hopper — Computer Scientist
Victor Hugo — Novelist
David Hume — Philosopher
Hypatia — Mathematician
Bjarke Ingels — Architect
Arata Isozaki — Architect
Toyo Ito — Architect
Jonathan Ive — Industrial Designer
Henry James — Novelist
Leoš Janáček — Composer
Jasper Johns — Painter
Katherine Johnson — Mathematician
Philip Johnson — Architect
James Joyce — Novelist
Donald Judd — Artist
Carl Jung — Psychoanalyst
Franz Kafka — Writer
Frida Kahlo — Painter
Louis Kahn — Architect
Tibor Kalman — Graphic Designer
Yusaku Kamekura — Graphic Designer
Wassily Kandinsky — Painter
Immanuel Kant — Philosopher
Anish Kapoor — Sculptor
Susan Kare — Graphic Designer
Yousuf Karsh — Photographer
Yasunari Kawabata — Novelist
Rei Kawakubo — Fashion Designer
Buster Keaton — Director
John Keats — Poet
Johannes Kepler — Astronomer
Francis Kéré — Architect
André Kertész — Photographer
Ibn Khaldun — Historian
Abbas Kiarostami — Director
Chip Kidd — Graphic Designer
Krzysztof Kieślowski — Director
Paul Klee — Painter
William Klein — Photographer
Gustav Klimt — Painter
Hilma af Klint — Painter
Florence Knoll — Designer
Beyoncé — Singer
Donald Knuth — Computer Scientist
Rem Koolhaas — Architect
Willem de Kooning — Painter
Hirokazu Kore-eda — Director
Josef Koudelka — Photographer
Stanley Kubrick — Film Director
Kengo Kuma — Architect
Shiro Kuramata — Designer
Kisho Kurokawa — Architect
Akira Kurosawa — Film Director
Yayoi Kusama — Artist
Fela Kuti — Musician
Karl Lagerfeld — Fashion Designer
Kendrick Lamar — Rapper
Fritz Lang — Director
Dorothea Lange — Photographer
Laozi — Philosopher
Yves Saint Laurent — Fashion Designer
Ursula K. Le Guin — Novelist
David Lean — Director
Fernand Léger — Painter
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — Philosopher
Annie Leibovitz — Photographer
Saul Leiter — Photographer
Sergio Leone — Director
Sol LeWitt — Artist
Daniel Libeskind — Architect
Roy Lichtenstein — Painter
Zuzana Licko — Type Designer
Clarice Lispector — Writer
El Lissitzky — Artist
Franz Liszt — Composer
John Locke — Philosopher
Raymond Loewy — Industrial Designer
Adolf Loos — Architect
Ada Lovelace — Mathematician
Herb Lubalin — Graphic Designer
Alvin Lustig — Graphic Designer
David Lynch — Director
Charles Rennie Mackintosh — Architect
René Magritte — Painter
Gustav Mahler — Composer
Vivian Maier — Photographer
Fumihiko Maki — Architect
Kazimir Malevich — Painter
Terrence Malick — Director
Benoit Mandelbrot — Mathematician
Édouard Manet — Painter
Thomas Mann — Novelist
Robert Mapplethorpe — Photographer
Martin Margiela — Fashion Designer
Enzo Mari — Designer
Mary Ellen Mark — Photographer
Bob Marley — Singer-Songwriter
Kerry James Marshall — Painter
Agnes Martin — Painter
Karl Marx — Philosopher
Henri Matisse — Painter
Herbert Matter — Graphic Designer
James Clerk Maxwell — Physicist
Barbara McClintock — Geneticist
Marshall McLuhan — Media Theorist
Alexander McQueen — Fashion Designer
Julie Mehretu — Painter
Lise Meitner — Physicist
Georges Méliès — Filmmaker
Herman Melville — Novelist
Jean-Pierre Melville — Director
Erich Mendelsohn — Architect
Felix Mendelssohn — Composer
Max Miedinger — Type Designer
John Milton — Poet
Joan Miró — Painter
Maryam Mirzakhani — Mathematician
Yukio Mishima — Novelist
Joni Mitchell — Singer
Issey Miyake — Fashion Designer
Hayao Miyazaki — Animator
Kenji Mizoguchi — Director
Amedeo Modigliani — Painter
László Moholy-Nagy — Artist
Molière — Playwright
Piet Mondrian — Painter
Rafael Moneo — Architect
Claude Monet — Painter
Thelonious Monk — Pianist
Claudio Monteverdi — Composer
Henry Moore — Sculptor
Stanley Morison — Typographer
Berthe Morisot — Painter
Ennio Morricone — Composer
Jasper Morrison — Industrial Designer
Toni Morrison — Novelist
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Composer
Zanele Muholi — Photographer
Josef Müller-Brockmann — Graphic Designer
Bruno Munari — Artist
Edvard Munch — Painter
Haruki Murakami — Novelist
Glenn Murcutt — Architect
F. W. Murnau — Director
Modest Mussorgsky — Composer
Vladimir Nabokov — Novelist
George Nelson — Industrial Designer
Pablo Neruda — Poet
John von Neumann — Mathematician
Richard Neutra — Architect
Marc Newson — Industrial Designer
Isaac Newton — Physicist
Oscar Niemeyer — Architect
Friedrich Nietzsche — Philosopher
Emmy Noether — Mathematician
Isamu Noguchi — Sculptor
Jean Nouvel — Architect
Georgia O'Keeffe — Painter
Frank Ocean — Singer
J. Robert Oppenheimer — Physicist
George Orwell — Novelist
Nagisa Ōshima — Director
Ovid — Poet
Yasujirō Ozu — Director
Nam June Paik — Artist
Sergei Parajanov — Director
Park Chan-wook — Director
Charlie Parker — Saxophonist
Gordon Parks — Photographer
Arvo Pärt — Composer
Blaise Pascal — Mathematician
Pier Paolo Pasolini — Director
Louis Pasteur — Chemist
I. M. Pei — Architect
Irving Penn — Photographer
Charlotte Perriand — Designer
Fernando Pessoa — Poet
Renzo Piano — Architect
Astor Piazzolla — Composer
Pablo Picasso — Painter
Cipe Pineles — Art Director
Camille Pissarro — Painter
Max Planck — Physicist
Sylvia Plath — Poet
Plato — Philosopher
Edgar Allan Poe — Writer
Henri Poincaré — Mathematician
Paul Poiret — Fashion Designer
Jackson Pollock — Painter
Gio Ponti — Architect
Miuccia Prada — Fashion Designer
Prince — Musician
Sergei Prokofiev — Composer
Marcel Proust — Novelist
Jean Prouvé — Designer
Giacomo Puccini — Composer
Henry Purcell — Composer
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Composer
Srinivasa Ramanujan — Mathematician
Dieter Rams — Industrial Designer
Paul Rand — Graphic Designer
Raphael — Painter
Robert Rauschenberg — Artist
Maurice Ravel — Composer
Man Ray — Photographer
Satyajit Ray — Director
Steve Reich — Composer
Rembrandt — Painter
Paul Renner — Type Designer
Jean Renoir — Director
Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Painter
Alain Resnais — Director
Gerhard Richter — Painter
Bernhard Riemann — Mathematician
Gerrit Rietveld — Architect
Bridget Riley — Painter
Rainer Maria Rilke — Poet
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — Composer
Dennis Ritchie — Computer Scientist
Richard Rogers — Architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe — Architect
Éric Rohmer — Director
Roberto Rossellini — Director
Aldo Rossi — Architect
Gioachino Rossini — Composer
Mark Rothko — Painter
Jean-Jacques Rousseau — Philosopher
Peter Paul Rubens — Painter
Vera Rubin — Astronomer
Emil Ruder — Typographer
Eero Saarinen — Architect
Eliel Saarinen — Architect
Carl Sagan — Astronomer
Stefan Sagmeister — Graphic Designer
Ryuichi Sakamoto — Composer
Sebastião Salgado — Photographer
Sappho — Poet
Jean-Paul Sartre — Philosopher
Erik Satie — Composer
Peter Saville — Graphic Designer
Carlo Scarpa — Architect
Paula Scher — Graphic Designer
Elsa Schiaparelli — Fashion Designer
Egon Schiele — Painter
Friedrich Schiller — Playwright
Arnold Schoenberg — Composer
Erwin Schrödinger — Physicist
Franz Schubert — Composer
Clara Schumann — Pianist
Robert Schumann — Composer
Kurt Schwitters — Artist
Martin Scorsese — Film Director
Denise Scott Brown — Architect
Kazuyo Sejima — Architect
Richard Serra — Sculptor
Georges Seurat — Painter
William Shakespeare — Playwright
Ravi Shankar — Sitarist
Claude Shannon — Mathematician
Mary Shelley — Novelist
Percy Bysshe Shelley — Poet
Cindy Sherman — Photographer
Dmitri Shostakovich — Composer
Jean Sibelius — Composer
Paul Signac — Painter
Nina Simone — Singer
Raf Simons — Fashion Designer
Álvaro Siza — Architect
Socrates — Philosopher
Susan Sontag — Writer
Ettore Sottsass — Designer
Erik Spiekermann — Type Designer
Baruch Spinoza — Philosopher
Philippe Starck — Industrial Designer
Edward Steichen — Photographer
Alfred Stieglitz — Photographer
James Stirling — Architect
Paul Strand — Photographer
Igor Stravinsky — Composer
Hiroshi Sugimoto — Photographer
Louis Sullivan — Architect
Deborah Sussman — Graphic Designer
Ladislav Sutnar — Graphic Designer
Rabindranath Tagore — Poet
Ikko Tanaka — Graphic Designer
Kenzō Tange — Architect
Andrei Tarkovsky — Film Director
Gerda Taro — Photographer
Béla Tarr — Director
Jacques Tati — Director
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Composer
Nikola Tesla — Inventor
Henry David Thoreau — Writer
Titian — Painter
Leo Tolstoy — Novelist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec — Painter
François Truffaut — Director
Jan Tschichold — Typographer
Alan Turing — Mathematician
J. M. W. Turner — Painter
Mark Twain — Writer
Jørn Utzon — Architect
Agnès Varda — Film Director
Ralph Vaughan Williams — Composer
Diego Velázquez — Painter
Robert Venturi — Architect
Giuseppe Verdi — Composer
Johannes Vermeer — Painter
Gianni Versace — Fashion Designer
Dziga Vertov — Filmmaker
Massimo Vignelli — Graphic Designer
Leonardo da Vinci — Painter
Madeleine Vionnet — Fashion Designer
Virgil — Poet
Luchino Visconti — Director
Antonio Vivaldi — Composer
Voltaire — Philosopher
Diana Vreeland — Editor
Wilhelm Wagenfeld — Industrial Designer
Otto Wagner — Architect
Richard Wagner — Composer
Andrzej Wajda — Director
Kara Walker — Artist
Beatrice Warde — Typographer
Andy Warhol — Artist
Wolfgang Weingart — Typographer
Orson Welles — Director
Wim Wenders — Director
Edward Weston — Photographer
Vivienne Westwood — Fashion Designer
Walt Whitman — Poet
Norbert Wiener — Mathematician
Oscar Wilde — Writer
Billy Wilder — Director
Garry Winogrand — Photographer
Ludwig Wittgenstein — Philosopher
Wong Kar-wai — Film Director
Virginia Woolf — Novelist
William Wordsworth — Poet
Frank Lloyd Wright — Architect
Yohji Yamamoto — Fashion Designer
Sori Yanagi — Industrial Designer
Tadanori Yokoo — Graphic Designer
Thom Yorke — Musician
Hermann Zapf — Type Designer
Peter Zumthor — Architect
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