People

Person Petrarch Italian scholar and poet (1304-1374) Person Plato 4th-century BCE Greek philosopher Person Plutarch Greek philosopher and historian (c. AD 46 – after AD 119) Person Pope Francis 266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025) Person Ptolemy 2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer Person Pythagoras Greek philosopher and mathematician (c. 570 – c. 495 BC) Person Rabindranath Tagore Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941) Person Rafael Orozco Maestre Colombian singer (1954-1992) Person Rainer Maria Rilke Austrian poet and writer (1875–1926) Person Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher (1803–1882) Person Raphael Italian painter and architect (1483–1520) Person Rembrandt Dutch painter and printmaker (1606–1669) Person René Descartes French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650) Person Richard Dawkins English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941) Person Richard Feynman American theoretical physicist (1918–1988) Person Richard Wagner German composer (1813–1883) Person Rihanna Barbadian singer (born 1988) Person Roald Amundsen Norwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole (1872–1928) Person Robert De Niro American actor (born 1943) Person Robert Louis Stevenson Scottish novelist and poet (1850-1894) Person Robin Williams American actor and comedian (1951–2014) Person Romain Rolland French author (1866-1944) Person Ronald Reagan president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and actor (1911–2004) Person Rudyard Kipling English writer and poet (1865–1936)