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.

Dutch poet, translator, essayist

Belarusian poet.

Mirza Asadullah-khan Ghalib

Soviet and Russian opera, chamber and pop singer (baritone), People's Artist of the RSFSR (1974)

Musa Tashmuhamedov

Uzbek Soviet writer

Archibald Kronin

Scottish writer.

Michele Cappellari

Mexican-American singer best known for her work in the banda and norteña genres

Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz

Jewish liturgical poet

Kamal Ad-Din Binoi

Tajik poet and thinker

Jumaniyaz Jabbarov

People's poet of Uzbekistan.

American singer and musician

Richard Brotigan

American writer and poet, an iconic figure of the counterculture of the 1960s and 70s.

Orison Swett Marden

American writer

American songwriter, screenwriter and actor

Giovanni Chiampoli

Italian writer.

Ukrainian Soviet poet

Indian and Tajik-Persian poet, scholar, musician

Gustave Benedit

French poet and music critic.

Writer, one of the most scandalous, controversial and famous manga artists in the history of the manga industry

Alexander Koniskiy

Ukrainian poet, prose writer

Heinrich Seidel

German poet, copper engraver, engineer by profession

Moldavian Soviet poet.

Zurab Sotkilava

Georgian singer, People's Artist of the USSR, performer of lyric and dramatic parts at the Georgian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, and then at the Bolshoi Theatre, tenor.

Szymon Zimorowic

One of the greatest poets of Poland. The founder of realism in Polish literature. He gained European fame with his poetry in Latin, and in his homeland he received the name of "the Polish Pindar".

Azerbaijani singer, khanende

Japanese writer and monk of the Rinzai school.

Andrey Malushko

Ukrainian Soviet poet, translator

Wolfgang Kirchbach

African musician

Nikifor Vasyanka

Jozef Bogdan Zaleskiy

Polish poet of the "Ukrainian school"

Fethullah Gulen

Wislawa Szymborska

Polish poetess; winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.

German poet and author of Jewish descent

Georgiy Zalokostas

Jamaican entertainer, songwriter and businessman

Carl Adam Kaltenbrunner

Austrian national poet.

Ellie Greenwich

Musician, songwriter

"God of Manga", one of the key figures in the history of Japanese culture of the 20th century, creator of the aesthetics and techniques of modern manga and anime

Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder

German writer, close friend of Ludwig Tieck

Angelo Poliziano

Poet, humanist, court poet, friend of Lorenzo de' Medici, teacher of his sons.

Gotphrid Burher

German poet, supporter of the Great French Revolution

Polish poet, the second poet of his doomed generation after Baczyński.