Leading Figures in History

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

24411 persons found

Jeremy Spencer

b. 1948

British musician (born 1948)

Jeremy Swift

b. 1960

British actor (born 1960)

Jeremy Thorpe

b. 1929

British politician (1929–2014)

Jeremy Vine

b. 1965

English presenter and journalist (born 1965)

Jeri Taylor

b. 1938

American screenwriter (1938–2024)

Jermaine Gresham

b. 1988

American football player (born 1988)

Jeroen Brouwers

b. 1940

Dutch writer (1940–2022)

Jeroen Verhoeven

b. 1980

Dutch footballer

Jerome Bixby

American writer

Jerome Brown

American football player (1965–1992)

Jerome Bruner

American psychologist and scholar (1915–2016)

Jerome Callet

b. 1930

American musical artist (1930–2019)

Jerome K. Jerome

b. 1859

English writer and humorist (1859–1927)

Jerome Karle

American physical chemist (1918–2013)

Jerome Kersey

b. 1962

American basketball player (1962–2015)

Jérôme Lejeune

b. 1926

French pediatrician and geneticist (1926–1994)

Jérôme Louis Heldring

Dutch journalist (1917–2013)

Jerome of Prague

14/15th-century Czech reformist theologian and scholastic philosopher

Jérôme Romain

b. 1971

Jerome Taylor

b. 1984

Jamaican cricketer (born 1984)

Jerónima de la Asunción

b. 1555

Spanish nun and Servant of God

Jerri Nielsen

American ER physician (1952–2009)

Jerry Apodaca

American politician (1934–2023)

Jerry Barber

b. 1916

American professional golfer (1916–1994)