National
Discover renowned personalities from all walks of life in our comprehensive list of National celebrities. From politicians and activists to entertainers and sports stars, explore the lives and achievements of notable figures who have shaped and inspired the nation.

Frantisek CELAKOVSKY
Czech poet, translator, literary critic. His cycles of poems "Echo of Russian Songs" and "Echo of Czech Songs" have firmly entered the treasury of Czech classical poetry.

Antun Pasko Kazalic
Dalmatian poet, novelist and translator

Krishna Das
USA
USAAmerican singer and musician

Galaktion Tabidze
Georgian Soviet poet, People's Poet of the Georgian SSR (1933), Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR (1944).

Guarino Da Verona
Italy
ItalyItalian poet, translator, humanist.

Wawrzyniec Korwin
Poland
PolandA 16th-century Polish writer known as Novoforensis

Mirza Asadullah-khan Ghalib
India
IndiaIndian poet

Simon Osiashvili
Ukraine
UkrainePoet, songwriter

Stephen Foster
USA
USAAmerican composer, poet and singer.

Adolph Green
USA
USAAmerican songwriter, screenwriter and actor

Heinrich Seidel
Germany
GermanyGerman poet, copper engraver, engineer by profession

Tahakasi Rumiko
Japan
JapanWriter

Fethullah Gulen
Turkey
TurkeyTurkish writer

Platon Voronko
Ukrainian Soviet poet

Ayoub Ogada
South Africa
South AfricaPerformer of national songs. Sings in Luo and Kiswahili

Ludmila Senchina
Ukraine
UkraineFolk singer

Zeca Afonso
Portugal
PortugalPortuguese musician

Israel Zangwill
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer and Jewish activist

Igniat Dzhurdzhevich
Writer

Janos Arany
Hungary
HungaryOutstanding Hungarian poet.

Ferdowsi
Persian poet, author of the epic poem "Shahnameh" (Book of Kings)

Lukyan Golosov
Duma nobleman, poet, translator.

Alim Qasimov
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani singer, khanende

Guido Casoni
Italy
ItalyItalian poet, writer and lawyer, polymath

Hiro Arikawa
Japan
JapanJapanese light novel writer

Mikhail Kulesh
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian writer

Andrey Pumpurs
Latvia
LatviaLatvian poet, author of the epic "Lachplesis". The case is unique: only the Latvian people can boast that they know the name of the author of their folk epic, who, by the way, is an officer in the Russian army.

Lawrence Brezove
Czech writer and chronicler of the Hussite Wars

Michel Deguy
France
FranceFrench poet, essayist, translator, literary organizer.

Lata Mangeshkar
India
IndiaIndian singer

Rafik Shami
Syria
SyriaSyrian and German writer.

Eslyam Zikibaev
Kazakhstan
KazakhstanFamous Kazakh poet and writer.

Tomas Iriarte
Spain
SpainSpanish poet and fabulist, nephew of Juan Iriarte

Vladimir Weidle
Literary scholar, cultural scientist, liberal thinker, cultural historian, poet

Hirsh Glick
Jewish poet, author of the legendary Partisan Hymn

Amir Khusrau
India
IndiaIndian and Tajik-Persian poet, scholar, musician

Ernest Bush
Germany
GermanyGerman singer and public figure

Jules Laforgue
France
FranceFrench symbolist poet.

Friedrich Wilhelm Weber
Germany
GermanyGerman poet.

Baba Taher
One of the early representatives of Persian poetry, a mystic. Much of his biography remains unclear.

Christoph Wedekind
Germany
GermanyGerman poet, composer of topical poems and songs

Konstantin Verenitsyn
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian poet

Jean Journet
France
FranceFrench socialist poet

Chinua Achebe
Nigeria
NigeriaNigerian Classic

Svetlana Rybalchenko
Russia
RussiaNational singer

Silva Kaputikyan
Armenia
ArmeniaThe largest Armenian poetess of the 20th century, writer and publicist, academician, winner of numerous international awards.

Adolf Digasinskiy
Poland
PolandPolish writer, publicist, teacher; one of the founders of Polish naturalism and its largest representative.

Nikifor Vasyanka
Chuvash poet

Gerbert Montreuil
France
FranceFrench poet

Ivan Antun Kaznacic
Dalmatian patriotic poet