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Ursula K. Le Guin |
American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018) |
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Vaclav Smil |
science author and distinguished professor University of Manitoba |
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Vajiralongkorn |
King of Thailand since 2016 |
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Valérie Trierweiler |
French journalist |
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Valery Zaluzhnyi |
Ukrainian military officer (born 1973) |
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Véra Nabokov |
editor, translator (1902–1991) |
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Vince Gilligan |
American writer, producer, and director (born 1967) |
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Vincent D'Onofrio |
American actor and filmmaker (born 1959) |
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Vince Offer |
Israeli-American infomercial salesman, director, screenwriter |
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Vissarion Belinsky |
Russian literary critic (1811-1848) |
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Vitruvius |
Roman architect and engineer |
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Vladimir Mayakovsky |
Russian and Soviet poet (1893–1930) |
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Vyasa |
Legendary ancient Indian sage, compiler of the Vedas, and author of the Mahabharata |
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Waleed Aly |
Australian television presenter |
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Walter Isaacson |
American author, journalist and professor (born 1952) |
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Walter Lippmann |
American journalist and political commentator (1889–1974) |
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Walter Scott |
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832) |
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Wang Yangming |
Chinese philosopher and general (1472–1529) |
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Wayne Dyer |
American writer (1940-2015) |
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W. C. Fields |
American comedian, actor, juggler and writer (1880–1946) |
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Wendy McElroy |
Canadian individualist anarchist and individualist feminist (born 1951) |
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Wentworth Miller |
American and British actor |
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Werner Söllner |
German writer (1951–2019) |
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Whitney Cummings |
American actress, comedian and writer (born 1982) |
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Wilfred Owen |
English poet and soldier (1893-1918) |
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Wilhelm Reich |
Austrian-American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, sex educator and sociologist (1897–1957) |
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Willard Van Orman Quine |
American philosopher and logician (1900–2000) |
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William Ewart Gladstone |
British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom |
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William Golding |
British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1911–1993) |
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William H. Macy |
American actor |
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William Kristol |
American writer |
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William Lawvere |
American mathematician |
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William Luther Pierce |
American neo-Nazi (1933–2002) |
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William MacAskill |
Scottish philosopher and ethicist (born 1987) |
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William Somerset Maugham |
English playwright and author (1874–1965) |
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William Tecumseh Sherman |
United States Army general (1820–1891) |
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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin |
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907) |
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William Whewell |
English philosopher and historian of science (1794–1866) |
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William Wilberforce |
English politician and abolitionist (1759–1833) |
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Wilt Chamberlain |
American basketball player (1936–1999) |
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Wil Wheaton |
American actor and writer |
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Wojciech Cejrowski |
Polish traveler and journalist |
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Wyndham Lewis |
English painter, writer and critic (1882–1957) |
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Xenophon |
Greek philosopher, historian, soldier (c. 430–355/354 BC) |
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Xuanzang |
7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar (602–664) |
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Yair Lapid |
Leader of the Opposition in the Knesset (Israeli Parliament), Former Prime Minister of Israel in 2022 and Chairman of the Yesh Atid Party |
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown |
Ugandan-born British journalist and author |
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Yasujirō Ozu |
Japanese film director, screenwriter (1903–1963) |
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Yasunari Kawabata |
Japanese novelist (1899–1972) |
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Yogi Hale Hendlin |
environmental philosopher and public health researcher |