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Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
Sigmund Freud
Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
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Danish physicist (1885–1962)
Leon Trotsky
Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)
Nadine Gordimer
South African writer (1923–2014)
Harold Pinter
British playwright (1930–2008)
Roman Polanski
French-Polish filmmaker (born 1933)
Erich Fromm
German sociologist and psychoanalyst (1900–1980)
Theodor Herzl
father of modern political Zionism (1860–1904)
Stanisław Lem
Polish science fiction author, philosopher and futurologist, studied medical doctor (1921–2006)
Claude Lévi-Strauss
French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)
Lev Landau
Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)
Eugene Wigner
Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902–1995)
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
Vitaly Ginzburg
Russian physicist (1916–2009)
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician (1913–1996)
Mikhail Botvinnik
Soviet chess player
Zhores Alferov
Soviet-Russian physicist (1930–2019)
Dan Shechtman
Israeli scientist
Sydney Brenner
South African biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002
Peter Singer
Australian moral philosopher (born 1946)
Stephen Fry
Sir Stephen John Fry is an English actor, comedian, presenter and writer. He began his career on the sketch comedy series Alfresco (1983–1984) and the sitcom Blackadder (1986–1989), before gaining recognition as part of the comedy duo Fry and Laurie alongside Hugh Laurie, appearing together in A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1989–1995) and Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993). His later television roles include Kingdom (2007–2009), Bones (2007–2017), and It's a Sin (2021). Fry was the original host of the comedy panel show QI (2003–2016), for which he was nominated for six British Academy Television Awards. In 2006, the British public ranked Fry number 9 in ITV's poll of TV's 50 Greatest Stars.
Harry Kroto
British chemist (1939-2016)
Ernst Bloch
German philosopher (1885–1977)
Cesare Lombroso
Italian psychiatrist, physician, and criminologist (1835-1909)
Mátyás Rákosi
former First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party (1892-1971)
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Chilean-French filmmaker and comics writer
Bruce Beutler
American immunologist and geneticist
Anton Rubinstein
Russian pianist, composer and conductor (1829–1894)
Ed Miliband
British politician (born 1969)
A. J. Ayer
English philosopher
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
Jacques Hadamard
French mathematician (1865–1963)
Georg Brandes
Danish literature critic and scholar (1842–1927)
Yakov Zeldovich
Soviet physicist, physical chemist and cosmologist (1914-1987)
Natalia Ginzburg
Italian writer (1916–1991)
Jason Isaacs
British actor (born 1963)
Taika Waititi
New Zealand filmmaker, actor, and comedian (born 1975)
Paul Ehrenfest
Austrian and Dutch theoretical physicist (1880–1933)
Mike Leigh
English writer and director (born 1943)
Hugo Steinhaus
Polish mathematician (1887–1972)
Alain de Botton
Swiss-born British philosopher and writer
Nigella Lawson
English food writer and television cook (born 1960)
Alissa White-Gluz
Canadian singer
David Miliband
British politician (born 1965)
Alan Sugar
British business magnate, media personality, and political advisor (born 1947)
Hermann Bondi
Austrian-British mathematician and cosmologist
Rosika Schwimmer
Hungarian activist, editor (1877-1948)
Matt Lucas
British actor, comedian and screenwriter
Miriam Margolyes
British-Australian actress
Sarah Polley
Canadian actress, film director and screenwriter
Carl Djerassi
American chemistry professor, inventor, author, playwright (1923–2015)
Siegfried Kracauer
German writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist (1889-1966)
Geddy Lee
Canadian musician
Ernő Gerő
former First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party
Herman Kahn
American futurist noted for his views on nature of thermonuclear war (1922–1983)
Günther Anders
German-Austrian philosopher (1902–1992)
Vilém Flusser
Czech philosopher and photographer
Lenny Abrahamson
Irish film director