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100 Personas Simbólicas en La Historia
100 Personas Simbólicas en La Historia
Afghan Girl This photo was taken as part of the National Geographic Green Eyes project, tracking the genetic trait of green eyes passed down through the Mongols of Genghis Khans time. The subject was Sharbat Gula and a retrospective on her life done by National Geographic can be found here. Date: 1985. Photographer: Steve McCurry, National Geographic.
Buzz Aldrin This image was captured in 1969, the day that the Eagle lunar lander made the first touchdown on the moon, by NeilArmstrong of fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Date: 1969. Photographer: Neil Armstrong.
Muhammad Ali Ali was a three-time heavyweight World Champion in boxing. Born Cassius Clay, he changed his name to Muhammad Ali after joining the Nation of Islam. Date: 1967. Photographer: Ira Rosenberg.
Woody Allen Allen is a celebrated movie director, playwright, and comedy writer who was responsible for such great movies as Annie Hall. Equally infamous for having a relationship with his stepdaughter, Soon-Yi Previn, who he is still with as of 2009. Date and photographer:
Marie Antoinette Antoinette was the last Queen of France and one of the more famous victims of the guillotine during the French Revolution. Antoinette was famous for her excess in a time of extreme economic hardship for her country. Date: 1769. Artist: Joseph Ducreux
Joan of Arc
Louis Armstrong
Neil Armstrong An American aviator and a former astronaut, test pilot, university professor, and United States Naval Aviator. He was the first person to set foot on the Moon. Date: 1969. Photographer: NASA/Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.
Fred Astaire Astaire starred in many musical films, ten of which were with Ginger Rogers. Astaire acted until 1981, amazing considering that he got his start in vaudeville. Date and photographer: Unknown.
Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential of all composers. Date: 1820. Painter: Joseph
Alexander Graham Bell An eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone. Date: 1904. Photographer: Unknown - Print from Library of Congress.
Marlon Brando Brando starred in a host of movies including A Streetcar Named Desire and The Wild One.
Humphrey Bogart Best known for The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca, Bogart was a mega-star in the golden
Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon arranged a coup detat which brought him to power in 1799. Five years after that he
Bono
Al Capone
Fidel Castro
Charlie Chaplin
Jesus Christ
Winston Churchill
Marie Curie
Salvador Dali
Leonardo Da Vinci Da Vinci defined the Renaissance Man with his inventions, art and scientific theories. This
Charles Darwin
Bette Davis Bette Davis was not only a famous screen actress, but the first female president of the
Miles Davis Davis played tirelessly from his teenage years right on up until his death in 1991. He received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement award in 1991. Davis was not just a pioneer of jazz, but one of
Charles De Gaulle De Gaulle led the Free French Forces, or French Resistance, during the Nazi occupation of France. He founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President for 10
James Dean
Princess Diana Princess Diana married Prince Charles and found herself divorced from him just a few years afterwards due to his persistent philandering with his current wife, Camilla Parker Bowles.
Charles Dickens The most popular English novelist of the Victorian era. He was a vigorous social campaigner, both in his own personal endeavours as well as through the recurrent themes of his literary enterprise. Date: 1858. Artist: Charles Baugniet.
Marlene Dietrich Dietrich rose from German cabaret acts to film stardom in the pre-war US. She left her native Germany for the US even after being invited back by the Nazi party prior to the outbreak of World War II due to her distaste for their policies. Date: 1951 Photographer: Publicity Shot for No Highway in the Sky.
Walt Disney Walt Disney founded Walt Disney Corp. from humble beginnings as an animator. His studio produced some of the most timeless childrens movies ever and still continues to do so. Date and photographer: Unknown.
Bob Dylan Dylan wrote the soundtrack to the American civil unrest of the 1960s. Winning a number of awards for his music including an honourary Pulitzer, Dylan created some controversy for his fans when he switched from acoustic guitar to electric midway through his career. One of his most famous songs, All Along The Watchtower, was used as a key plot device in the 2003 incarnation of the science fiction series Battlestar Galactica. Date and photographer: Unknown.
Amelia Earhart Earhart was the first female pilot to fly solo over the Atlantic. Earhart disappeared in a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 near Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean. Date: 1932. Photographer: Unknown.
Thomas Edison This photo of a young Edison was taken with the phonograph that he invented. He was most famous for inventing a long-lasting, practical lightbulb. Date: 1877-1878. Photographer: Levin C. Handy.
Farrah Fawcett Farrah Fawcett became famous through a combination of the hit 70s series Charlies Angels and this photograph which was popularized as a poster. Date: 1976. Photographer: Bruce McBroom.
Federico Fellini Fellini was one of the most iconic filmmakers of the 20th century, with an enigmatic style that
Anne Frank Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl who hid from the Nazis with her family in Amsterdam and wrote an account of it in her diary. The Diary of Anne Frank is universally read by schoolchildren all over the world as an account of the Holocaust. This portrait was taken just a few months after Frank and her family went into hiding on October 10, 1942. Date: 1942. Photographer: Unknown.
Benjamin Franklin One of the founding fathers of the United States, Franklin served in many positions to further the independence of the United States, including a few posts as foreign ambassador in order to raise funds for the formation of the new country. This portrait of Ben Franklin by Duplessis was immortalized on the American one hundred dollar bill. Date: Unknown. Artist: Joseph Siffred
Sigmund Freud Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of repression and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for curing psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. Date: 1920. Photographer: Unknown.
Clark Gable The King of Hollywood in his day, most remember Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in Gone With The Wind. Date: 1938. Photographer: Publicity Shot for It Happened One Night.
Yuri Gagarin Gagarin was the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the earth. He died in a training
Galileo Galilei
The father of modern observational astronomy, Galileo invented improvements to the telescope and supported the theory put forward by Copernicus that the Earth orbited the Sun, and not the other way around. He was also a pioneer in the field of physics. Galileo spent the latter part of his life under house arrest for heresy against the Catholic Church. Date:1605. Artist: Domenico Robusti.
Mahatma Gandhi Gandhi was responsible for getting the British to allow India to form its own government through his technique of satyagraha, or non-violence. Date: 1930s. Photographer: Unknown.
While Garland had a successful film career, no appearance of hers could even come close to The Wizard of Oz. Before the days of instant content access, kids would camp out in front of the TV for this feature film extravaganza, which still felt modern right on up until the 1980s, mostly due to Garlands masterful acting of what would have otherwise been a very twodimensional character. Date: Unknown. Photographer: Publicity shot for The Wizard of Oz
Bill Gates The founder of Microsoft and a primary benefactor of the largest charitable foundation in the world, Bill Gates was one of the first tech visionaries. Date and photographer: Unknown.
Betty Grable Queen of the pin-ups, mostly due to this 1942 portrait. Grables legs were insured by her studio for a million dollars with Lloyds of London. Date: 1942. Photographer: 20th Century Fox.
Cary Grant Grant, born Archibald Alec Leach, starred in a number of movies spanning from the 1930s to the 1970s. He was one of Hitchocks favourite actors. Date and photographer: Unknown.
Dr. Stephen Hawking Dr. Hawking achieved fame in academic circles as a theoretical physicist, and introduced his
Ernest Hemingway Hemingway wrote many memorable novels, including The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, and A Farewell to Arms. His life is almost more colourful than one of his novels, full of trips all over the world and the popularization of the daiquiri. Date: 1957. Photographer: Yousuf Karsh.
Jimi Hendrix
Widely considered to be the best electric guitarist in history, Hendrix is known for Are You Experienced, his rendition of All Along the Watchtower by Dylan, and his version of The StarSpangled Banner, along with many others. Hendrix was also one of the first artists to add effects to his music in the studio. Date: Unknown. Photographer: Unknown.
Henry VIII Henry VIII was one of the most infamous kings in English history. He formed what is now known as the Anglican church in order to divorce his first wife when the Pope would not grant him a dispensation to do so. He also fostered humanist learning and was key in getting the Royal Navy off to a good start with great investments in shipbuilding. Hans Holbein The Younger was a court painter to Henry VIII and was not only responsible for portraits of Henry VIII, but most of
Adolf Hitler
Buddy Holly
Houdini A Hungarian-American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer, as well as a skeptic and investigator of spiritualists. He became world-renowned for his stunts and feats of escapology even more than for his magical illusions. Date and photographer:
Rock Hudson Rock Hudson was in over 70 movies, including a number of comedies with Doris Day. He was one of the first celebrities to die from an AIDS-related illness. Date and photographer: Unknown.
Michael Hutchence Hutchence was the lead singer of INXS, who produced a string of musical hits throughout the 90s. Hutchence committed suicide in 1997. Date and photographer: Unknown.
Michael Jackson Micheal Jackson is just as famous for his many commercial musical successes as he is for his odd and outlandish lifestyle. Date: 1992. Photographer: Unknown.
Mick Jagger A Golden Globe and Grammy Award winning English singer, songwriter and occasional actor, best known for his work as lead vocalist of The Rolling Stones. Date and photographer: Unknown.
Steve Jobs Steve Jobs founded Apple, left it to start NEXT, and returned to catapult Apple into
Janis Joplin An American singer, songwriter, and music arranger, from Port Arthur, Texas. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Joplin number 46 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.
Michael Jordan
Jordan is known as one of the best defensive players in basketball. He helped to popularize the NBA through the 1980s and 1990s through his participation in various marketing campaigns both for the NBA and for various corporations. Date: 2006. Photographer: Joshua Massel.
Andy Kaufman
John F. Kennedy The 35th President of the United States. JFK presided over the Cuban Missile Crisis and established NASA to put America on the moon. His assassination was controversial and untimely. Date: 1961. Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt.
Martin Luther King King was famous for his civil rights actions to bring about equality for African-Americans,
Stanley Kubrick
Kubrick was one of the greatest directors of the 20th Century. A perfectionist when it came to lighting, sound, acting and all other aspects of his movies, his triumphs included movies on diverse subject matter such as Spartacus, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange. Date: Late 1940s for LOOK Magazine. Photographer: Stanley Kubrick.
Heath Ledger Ledger was a film actor that died of a drug overdose in 2008, shortly after completing his iconic role as The Joker in The Dark Knight. This insightful painted portrait of Heath Ledger won the Peoples Choice Archibald Prize for 2008. The artist and Ledger were friends for a number of years. Date: 2008. Artist: Vincent Fantauzzo.
Bruce Lee Scenes involving Bruce Lees fists and legs actually had to be slowed down through the process of shooting the film at a higher framerate in order for audiences to be able to watch him fight in some of his movies. Lee was an icon of the Chinese martial arts, particularly Kung Fu and Wing Chun. Date: Unknown. Artist: Columbia Pictures.
Vladimir Lenin
Lenin was instrumental in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and was elected Chairman of the Soviet Union in that same year. His particular brand of Marxist theory was branded Leninism. Date: 1920. Photographer: L. Lonido.
John Lennon The lead singer for the Beatles enjoyed a successful solo career after the Beatles disbanded before his untimely assassination. He campaigned for the end of the Vietnam War and for peace between the US and Russia during the Cold War. Date: Unknown. Photographer: Andy Warhol
Yoko Ono and John Lennon This photo graced one of the most famous Rolling Stone covers of all time, celebrating the famous love of John Lennon for his lover, Yoko Ono, which had been recently popularized in a love-in staged at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. Date: 1980. Photographer: Annie Leibovitz
Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States and was responsible for abolishing slavery in the United States through the enactment of the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. He also held the dubious honour of being the first president to be assassinated. This photo was taken by one of Lincolns best-known photographers, Alexander Gardner. Date: Nov. 8 1863. Photographer: Alexander Gardner.
Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela was elected the first African President of South Africa in 1994, officially ending a long tradition of apartheid in South Africa. Mandela had been jailed for speaking out against apartheid until it was abolished in 1990. Date: 1994 Photographer: African National Congress.
Bob Marley Bob Marley and the Wailers are the best known performers of reggae music. Marley was also a key proponent of the Rastafarian movement, bringing it into popular culture. Date and photographer: Unknown.
Mona Lisa No collection of portraits would be complete without this one. There is little to be said about this painting that hasnt been said already, so well direct you to Wikipedia if you want to know more. Date: 1503-1506. Artist: Leonardo da Vinci.
Freddie Mercury Born Farrokh Bulsara, this icon fronted one of the great supergroups of the 1970s, Queen. Date and photographer: Unknown.
Migrant Mother This photo of Florence Owens Thompson and her children was taken in February or March of 1936 in Nipomo, California. In addition to being an iconic photo of the Great Depression, it influenced Steinbeck in his writing of The Grapes of Wrath. Date: 1936. Photographer: Dorothea Lange.
Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe was a screen actress who died under mysterious circumstances that were officially ruled as a suicide. Widely considered to be one of the most beautiful actresses ever, Monroe was married to a few husbands, including baseball player Joe DiMaggio, and is widely
Demi Moore Demi Moore was the first actress to command a $10 million salary. She has been married to actor Bruce Willis and is currently married to Ashton Kutcher, who some of you may know as aplusk on Twitter. This Vanity Fair cover was pulled from some shelves and only sold off others in a brown paper bag. Moore intended to show an anti-glitz attitude in shooting the cover. Date: 1991. Photographer: Annie Leibovitz.
Jim Morrison Morrison was the frontman for the Doors and is collectively responsible with his bandmates for
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart composed over 600 works of music, including The Magic Flute. He began composing at the age of five. Date: 1819. Artist: Barbara Krafft.
Paul Newman Before he put his name on salad dressing, Newman was an Academy Award-winning actor that appeared in dozens of movies. His food company, Newmans Own, is famous for donating all of their profits to charity. Date and photographer: Unknown.
Sir Isaac Newton Isaac Newton is considered, amongst other things, to be one of the fathers of modern science. Universal gravitation and the three laws of motion are just two of his many theories. He also invented the first reflecting telescope. Date: 15th/16th Century. Artist: Sir Godfrey Kneller.
Jack Nicholson
Nicholson is best known for portraying psychopathic characters in various movies throughout his career, including One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and The Shining. Date: Unknown. Photographer: Arthur Schatz.
Robert De Niro De Niro has been a critically acclaimed actor since the 1970s, appearing in a wide range of movies. Known principally for his method acting. DeNiro has also tried his hand at directing successfully with such films as The Good Shepherd. Date: 2008. Photographer: Petr Novk,
From Godfather to Scarface to Scent of a Woman, Pacino has consistently wowed audiences with animated and heartfelt performances. Date: Unknown. Photographer: Unknown.
Louis Pasteur
Pope John Paul II John Paul II was known not only as a religious leader but as a proponent of world peace during the delicate days of the Cold War. He is credited with having a heavy hand in ending communism in his native Poland and throughout Eastern Europe. He was Pope for 27 years, the second longest papacy in history. Date: Unknown. Photographer: Unknown.
Evita Peron Eva Peron, or Evita as she was known to the people of Argentina, was a supporter of womens
Pablo Picasso Picasso was one of the pre-eminent artists of the 20th century and a major proponent of the Cubist movement. While being shot for this portrait, Picasso could view himself in the wide angle lens of the camera and instinctively moved to place himself where he needed to be for the
Plato & Artistotle This commonly cropped part of The School of Athens by Raffaello Sanzio features the two famous philosophers, presumably arguing about philosophy. Aristotle was Platos student. Date:
Edgar Allan Poe Poe was an eccentric and prolific author that published some of the best horror fiction ever known. He also coined Poes Law, which was that poems should be short enough to read in a single sitting. Date: 1848. Photographer: W.S. Hartshorn.
Elvis Presley Elvis Presley popularized a more sexually charged style of music called Rock and Roll that was the delight of younger people of his generation and the bane of parents who credited his style of music with demoralizing a generation.
Grigorij Rasputin This photo of Russias Mad Monk showcases his piercing eyes. Rasputin was an unstable monk that the Russian royal family took in to heal their son, believing that he had a supernatural ability to heal the boy. Russian nobles decided to oust him through a legendary execution. Date: 1914-1916. Photographer: Unknown.
Ronald Reagan Reagans administration is credited with helping to bring about the end of the Cold War. While he got his start as a famous film actor, Reagan always had anti-communist political leanings. Date: 1981. Photographer: Official White House Photograph.
Rembrandt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt was an advocate for civil and womans rights. She also founded the UN Association of the United States in order to foster American support for the United Nations.
The Scream Portrait or not? Many interpretations of this work by Edvard Munch see the central figure as the artist trying to block out the outside world, or the Scream of nature, as the artist entitled the work in German (Der Schrei der Natur). One thing is for sure - it had insurance companies screaming after it was stolen twice. Date: 1893. Artist: Edvard Munch.
Frank Sinatra Sinatra was a popular musician and film actor that was the recipient of 11 Grammy awards. During the latter part of his career he once again made a name for himself as one of the foremost acts in Las Vegas. Date: Unknown. Photographer: John Domini.
Josef Stalin Stalin seized power in Communist Russia following Lenins death in 1924 and held onto it until his death in 1953. Stalin frequently had Soviet censors edit images of himself, cropping out political enemies. Date: 1922-1940. Photographer: Office of War Information.
Mother Teresa At the time of her death in 1997, Mother Teresas Missionaries of Charity organization was running 610 missions in 123 countries. Date: 1986. Photographer: Trelio.
Nicola Tesla
Tesla was best known for his inventions which formed the basis for alternating current power, which is the kind of electric current that powers homes today. He also invented wireless radio and was known for countless other inventions. After making numerous improvements at the Edison company, he was denied a promised bonus and raise, at which point he left to focus on his own work. Date: Unknown but prior to 1896. Artist/Photographer: Photographed by Napoleon Sarony and engraved by T. Johnson.
Harriet Tubman Tubman was a powerhouse; she helped over seventy slaves escape through the Underground Railroad, she acted as a Union spy, and she was an activist for womens suffrage. Date: 18501900. Photographer: H. B. Lindsley
Mark Twain An American author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is extensively quoted. Date: 1907. Photographer: Unknown.
Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh is responsible for creating some of the most famous works of art, including Starry Night. Van Gogh also created many self-portraits throughout his lifetime. One of his other self-portraits, Self-portrait without beard, sold for $71.5 million. Date: September 1889.
Christopher Walken Christopher Walken is a great example of a celebrity that was made even more popular through the internet in the 21st Century. While he has been in a string of movies, he is more famous throughout the Intertubes for his Saturday Night Live skit in which he demands more cowbell. Date: April 2003. Photographer: Mark Seliger.
Andy Warhol Warhol was a prolific photographer and artist who produced many works of art, photos, and films. Warhol took many self-portraits throughout his life, as well as creating pop-culture
George Washington Washington was the first President of the United States. Prior to that, he led key battles as a
Waynes rugged masculinity landed him a number of lead film roles in westerns. 142 of his roles were as the lead actor. Date: 1957. Photographer: Loomis Dean
Orson Welles Welles worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio. His best known feat is his radio broadcast of H.G. Wells War of the Worlds that was so realistic that audiences actually believed it was happening. Date: 1937. Photographer: Carl Van Vechten
Whistlers Mother This painting, Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painters Mother, was the pinnacle of James Whistlers career. It was purchased by France and is now in the Musee DOrsay in Paris. Date: 1871. Artist: James Whistler.
Malcolm X
Born as Malcolm Little, he changed his surname to X when he joined the Nation of Islam, a common practice among members. He fought for civil rights, sometimes using violent methods to do so. He denounced leaders of the civil rights movement as being stooges for the establishment. Date: 1964. Photographer: Marion S. Trikosko.