Multilingual writers

Pope Leo XIV is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City since May 2025. He is the first pope to have been born in the United States, the first to hold either U.S. or Peruvian citizenship, the first from the Order of Saint Augustine, and the second from the Americas.

American pathologist, euthanasia activist (1928-2011)

Indian-born American author, actress, model, television host and executive producer

artist, scientist and philosopher from the Northern Netherlands (1607-1678)

Canadian writer and hyperpolyglot (born 1978)

46th patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church

Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum (18 September 1945), commonly known by his pseudonym Volin, was a Russian anarchist intellectual. He became involved in revolutionary socialist politics during the 1905 Russian Revolution, for which he was forced into exile, where he gravitated towards anarcho-syndicalism.

French linguist, astronomer, diplomat and professor (1510–1581)

Canadian composer (1948–1983)

Greek physician and Dragoman of the Porte (1636-1709)

Beninese writer, poet, storyteller, and translator

Swedish diplomat, linguist and diarist

English naturalist and television presenter

Chinese Tatar educator (1906–1945)

researcher and Wikimedian

Venezuelan writer (1890–1930)

Brazilian journalist

Ukrainian dancer and archaeologist (1894–1979)

Swiss journalist

Israeli businessman and scholar of antisemitism (1937–2021)

sephardic rabbi (d. 1931)