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The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, a 1978 book; 100 Greatest Britons, a BBC series about historical figures from the United Kingdom; Great South Africans, a South African TV series to determine the "100 Greatest South Africans" Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the American world
The word is derived from the Latin celebrity, from the adjective celeber ("famous," "celebrated"). Being a celebrity is often one of the highest degrees of notability, although the word notable is mistaken to be synonymous with the title celebrity, fame, prominence etc. As in Wikipedia, articles written about notable people doesn't necessarily ...
العربية; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца)
Afghans; Albanians; Algerians; Americans; Andorrans; Angolans; Antiguans and Barbudans; Argentines; Armenians; Arubans; Australians; Austrians; Azerbaijanis; Bahamians
Julián Marías (1914–2005), philosopher; wrote the History of Philosophy Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1869–1968), philologist, historian and erudite member of Generation of '98 Antonio de Nebrija (1441–1522), scholar, published the first grammar of the Spanish language ( Gramática Castellana , 1492), which was the first grammar produced of ...
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, then-Wikimedia Foundation executive director Katherine Maher, and other Wikipedians at Wikimania 2017. This list of Wikipedians includes notable editors of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia who create and maintain the site, as well as other notable people associated with the project and the larger Wikipedia community
Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, civil engineer most famous as co-designer, alongside Benjamin Baker, of the Forth Railway Bridge Jesse Hartley (1780–1860), civil engineer J. B. Hartley (1814–1869), civil engineer
Subject Father / mother Reason African-American history: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg [54]: For his "[research and raising] awareness of the great contributions that Afro-Latin Americans and African Americans have made to society,...[being] an important intellectual figure in the Harlem Renaissance [and, over] the years, [collecting] literature, art, slave narratives, and other materials of ...