Leading Figures in History

Discover the people who shaped our world — from rulers and scientists to artists and activists.

39106 persons found

Philippe Gaucher

b. 1854

French dermatologist

Philippe Gaumont

French cyclist (1973–2013)

Philippe Gilbert

b. 1982

Belgian cyclist (born 1982)

Philippe Halsman

American photographer

Philippe II, Duke of Orléans

b. 1674

Regent of France from 1715 to 1723

Philippe Lafontaine

b. 1955

Belgian singer and composer (born 1955)

Philippe Néricault Destouches

French playwright (1680–1754)

Philippe Panneton

b. 1895

Canadian physician, academic, diplomat and writer

Philippe Pétain

b. 1856

French general and dictator (1856–1951)

Philippe Petit

b. 1949

French highwire artist (born 1949)

Philippe Pinel

b. 1745

French psychiatrist (1745–1826)

Philippe Quinault

b. 1635

French dramatist and librettist

Philippe Sarde

b. 1948

French composer

Philippe Vallois

b. 1948

Philippe van Lansberge

b. 1561

Flemish Minister, astronomer and Mathematician

Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller (1464–1534)

Philippé Wynne

Musical artist (1941–84)

Phillip Adams (writer)

b. 1939

Australian humanist

Phillip Allen Sharp

b. 1944

American geneticist and molecular biologist

Phillip D. Cagan

American economist

Phillip Lindsay

b. 1994

American football player (born 1994)

Phillip Longman

b. 1956

American demographer and author

Phillip Noyce

b. 1950

Australian filmmaker (born 1950)

Phillip Tobias

South African palaeoanthropologist (1925–2012)