Artist List
by asiftanzirat | created - 21 Mar 2021 | updated - 5 months ago | Public
1. Robert Bresson
Writer | Au hasard Balthazar
Robert Bresson trained as a painter before moving into films as a screenwriter, making a short film (atypically a comedy), Public Affairs (1934) in 1934. After spending more than a year as a German POW during World War II, he made his debut with Angels of Sin (1943) in 1943. His next film, The ...
2. Aki Kaurismäki
Producer | Le Havre
Aki Kaurismäki did a wide variety of jobs including postman, dish-washer and film critic, before forming a production and distribution company, Villealfa (in homage to Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965)) with his older brother Mika Kaurismäki, also a film-maker. Both Aki and Mika are prolific ...
3. Gilles Deleuze
Writer | The Thoughts That Once We Had
Gilles Deleuze was born on January 18, 1925 in Paris, France. He was a writer and actor, known for The Thoughts That Once We Had (2015), The Tilted X (1986) and George qui? (1973). He was married to Denise Paul Grandjouan. He died on November 4, 1995 in Paris, France.
4. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Producer | Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da
Nuri Bilge Ceylan was born in Istanbul on January 26th, 1959. In 1976, he began studying chemical engineering at Istanbul Technical University, in a context of strong student unrest, boycotts and political polarization. In 1978, he switched courses to Electrical Engineering at Bogazici University. ...
5. Satyajit Ray
Writer | Pather Panchali
Satyajit Ray was born in Calcutta on May 2, 1921. His father, Late Sukumar Ray was an eminent poet and writer in the history of Bengali literature. In 1940, after receiving his degree in science and economics from Calcutta University, he attended Tagore's Viswa-Bharati University. His first movie ...
6. Ritwik Ghatak
Director | Jukti, Takko Aar Gappo
Ritwik Ghatak was born on November 4, 1925 in Dacca, Bengal Presidency, British India [now in Dhaka, Bangladesh]. He was a director and writer, known for Jukti, Takko Aar Gappo (1974), Musafir (1957) and The Cloud-Capped Star (1960). He was married to Surama Ghatak. He died on February 6, 1976 in ...
7. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Writer | The Double
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born on November 11, 1821, in Moscow, Russia. He was the second of seven children of Mikhail Andreevich and Maria Dostoevsky. His father, a doctor, was a member of the Russian nobility, owned serfs and had a considerable estate near Moscow where he lived with his ...
8. Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Writer | Television
Mostofa Sarwar Farooki is a Bangladeshi film director, screenwriter and film producer. Farooki is considered one of the leading figures to bring modernism/realism in Bangladeshi Cinema, those who have bridged the gap between escapism and reality. "Mostofa Sarwar Farooki could be the next South-east...
9. Sheikh Niamat Ali
Writer | Onno Jibon
Sheikh Niamat Ali was born on April 30, 1940 in 24 Parganas, West Bengal, British India. He was a writer and director, known for Onno Jibon (1995), Surja Dighal Bari (1979) and Dahan (1985). He died on November 24, 2003 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
10. Morshedul Islam
Director | Dukhai
Morshedul Islam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh on December 1, 1958. He made his film making debut in 1984 with the short film "Agami" while he was a student. He completed his Bachelor and Master degree in Pharmacy from the University of Dhaka. After participating in a film appreciation course ...
11. Samaresh Basu
Writer | Kitaab
Samaresh Basu was born on December 11, 1924. Samaresh was a writer, known for Kitaab (1977), Mouchak (1974) and Teen Bhubaner Parey (1969). Samaresh died on March 12, 1988.
12. Lev Tolstoy
Writer | Anna Karenina
Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828, in his ancestral estate Yasnaya Polyana, South of Moscow, Russia. He was the fourth of five children in a wealthy family of Russian landed Gentry. His parents died when he was a child, and he was brought up by his elder brothers and ...
13. Ernest Hemingway
Writer | To Have and Have Not
Ernest Hemingway was an American writer who won the Pulitzer Prize (1953) and the Nobel Prize in Literature (1954) for his novel The Old Man and the Sea, which was made into a 1958 film The Old Man and the Sea (1958).
He was born into the hands of his physician father. He was the second of six ...
14. Peter Brunette
Peter Brunette is known for Legion (2017), The Rookie (2018) and The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour (2011).
16. Bimal Roy
Director | Bandini
Bimal Roy (July 12, 1909 - January 8, 1966) was an Indian film director. He is particularly noted for his realistic and socialistic films such as Do Bigha Zamin (1953), Bandini (1963), Biraj Bahu (1954), Madhumati (1958) which he employed to portray realism. He won a number of awards throughout his...
17. Vittorio De Sica
Director | Ladri di biciclette
Vittorio De Sica grew up in Naples, and started out as an office clerk in order to raise money to support his poor family. He was increasingly drawn towards acting, and made his screen debut while still in his teens, joining a stage company in 1923. By the late 1920s he was a successful matinee ...
18. Giovanni Verga
Writer | Cavalleria rusticana
Giovanni Verga was born on September 2, 1840 in Catania, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies [now Catania, Sicily, Italy]. He was a writer, known for Fatal Desire (1953), Tigre reale (1916) and Cavalleria rusticana (1916). He died on January 27, 1922 in Catania, Sicily, Italy.
19. Luigi Capuana
Writer | Il vampiro
Luigi Capuana was born on May 28, 1839 in Mineo, Sicily, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies [now Sicily, Italy]. He was a writer, known for Il vampiro (1914), I girovaghi (1956) and Malìa (1912). He died on November 29, 1915 in Catania, Sicily, Italy.
20. Nino Martoglio
Writer | Il salto del lupo
Nino Martoglio was born on December 3, 1870 in Belpasso, Sicily, Italy. Nino was a writer and director, known for A Fugitive at Bay (1913), Sperduti nel buio (1914) and Capitan Blanco (1914). Nino died on September 15, 1921 in Catania, Sicily, Italy.
21. Mario Camerini
Director | Il signor Max
Mario Camerini was born on February 6, 1895 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Il signor Max (1937), I'll Give a Million (1935) and I grandi magazzini (1939). He was married to Assia Noris. He died on February 4, 1981 in Gardone Riviera, Lombardy, Italy.
22. Alessandro Blasetti
Director | Prima comunione
Alessandro Blasetti was born on July 3, 1900 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for First Communion (1950), La corona di ferro (1941) and Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1966). He was married to Maria Laura Quagliotti. He died on February 1, 1987 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
23. Yasujirô Ozu
Writer | Tôkyô monogatari
Tokyo-born Yasujiro Ozu was a movie buff from childhood, often playing hooky from school in order to see Hollywood movies in his local theatre. In 1923 he landed a job as a camera assistant at Shochiku Studios in Tokyo. Three years later, he was made an assistant director and directed his first ...
24. Jean Renoir
Writer | La règle du jeu
Son of the famous Impressionist painter Pierre Auguste, he had a happy childhood. Pierre Renoir was his brother, and Claude Renoir was his nephew. After the end of World War I, where he won the Croix de Guerre, he moved from scriptwriting to filmmaking. He married Catherine Hessling, for whom he ...
25. Roberto Rossellini
Writer | Roma città aperta
The master filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, as one of the creators of neo-realism, is one of the most influential directors of all time. His neo-realist films influenced France's nouvelle vague movement in the 1950s and '60s that changed the face of international cinema. He also influenced American ...
26. István Szöts
Director | Emberek a havason
István Szöts was born on June 30, 1912 in Szentgyörgyválya, Austria-Hungary [now Valea Sangeorgiului, Romania]. He was a director and writer, known for Emberek a havason (1942), Ének a búzamezökröl (1947) and Szerelmes szívek (1944). He died on November 5, 1998 in ...
27. Michelangelo Antonioni
Writer | Blow-Up
Together with Fellini, Bergman and Kurosawa, Michelangelo Antonioni is credited with defining the modern art film. And yet Antonioni's cinema is also recognized today for defying any easy categorization, with his films ultimately seeming to belong to their own distinctive genre. Indeed, the ...
28. Luchino Visconti
Writer | Il gattopardo
Born in his ancestral palazzo, situated in the same Milanese square as both the opera house La Scala and the Milan Cathedral, Luchino Visconti (1906 - 1976) was raised under the auspices of aristocratic privilege, theater and Catholicism. This triangulation of monuments would create an equally ...
29. Giuseppe De Santis
Writer | Caccia tragica
Giuseppe De Santis was born on February 11, 1917 in Fondi, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Tragic Hunt (1947), Giorni d'amore (1954) and Bitter Rice (1949). He was married to Gordana Miletic. He died on May 16, 1997 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
30. Federico Fellini
Writer | Le notti di Cabiria
The women who both attracted and frightened him and an Italy dominated in his youth by Mussolini and Pope Pius XII - inspired the dreams that Fellini started recording in notebooks in the 1960s. Life and dreams were raw material for his films. His native Rimini and characters like Saraghina (the ...
31. Alberto Lattuada
Writer | Guendalina
Alberto Lattuada was born on November 13, 1914 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Guendalina (1957), Flesh Will Surrender (1947) and Bambina (1974). He was married to Carla Del Poggio. He died on July 3, 2005 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
32. Cesare Zavattini
Writer | Ladri di biciclette
Cesare Zavattini was born on September 20, 1902 in Luzzara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Bicycle Thieves (1948), Umberto D. (1952) and It's Forever Springtime (1950). He was married to Olga Berni. He died on October 13, 1989 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
33. Suso Cecchi D'Amico
Writer | Ladri di biciclette
Suso Cecchi D'Amico was born on July 21, 1914 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was a writer and actress, known for Bicycle Thieves (1948), The Leopard (1963) and Rocco and His Brothers (1960). She was married to Fidele d'Amico. She died on July 31, 2010 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
34. Bruno Caruso
Writer | Mafioso
Caruso was born on August 8th 1927 in Palermo, Sicily. He started painting under the stern gaze of his father as early as age five, copying works of the ancient masters, in particular those of Leonardo, Mantegna and Pisanello. He studied Classics at University until disrupted by WWII, which in turn...
35. Sameer Ahmed
Editor | Laal Moroger Jhuti
Sameer Ahmed is known for Laal Moroger Jhuti (2021), Guerrilla (2011) and Unknown Love (2015).
36. Tanvir Mokammel
Writer | Chitra Nodir Pare
Tanvir Mokammel is a film-maker and an author of books from Bangladesh. He was born in March 8, 1955 in Khulna, Bangladesh (then East Pakistan). He has made seven full-length feature films and fourteen documentaries till date (2018).
His films, some of which have received national and international ...
37. David Fincher
Director | Se7en
David Fincher was born in 1962 in Denver, Colorado, and was raised in Marin County, California. When he was 18 years old he went to work for John Korty at Korty Films in Mill Valley. He subsequently worked at ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) from 1981-1983. Fincher left ILM to direct TV commercials...
38. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Writer | Il Decameron
Pier Paolo Pasolini achieved fame and notoriety long before he entered the film industry. A published poet at 19, he had already written numerous novels and essays before his first screenplay in 1954. His first film Accattone (1961) was based on his own novel and its violent depiction of the life ...
39. Damien Chazelle
Writer | La La Land
Damien Sayre Chazelle is an American director and screenwriter. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island. His mother, Celia Sayre (Martin) Chazelle, is an American-Canadian writer and professor of history at The College of New Jersey. His father, Bernard Chazelle, is a French-American Eugene Higgins...
40. Anuja Joshi
Actress | The Resident
Anuja Joshi is an actress based in New York City, Los Angeles, and Mumbai, India.
Born into a performing arts family, her father was a renowned child actor in the Hindi Film Industry who went by the stage name Master Alankar, and her aunt is the Indian National Award winning Pallavi Joshi. Alongside...
41. Hema Malini
Actress | Baghban
Hema was born in the Tamil-speaking Chakravarthy household on October 16, 1948 in Ammankudi, Tamil Nadu. Her dad's name is V.S.R. Chakravarthy and her mom, Jaya, was a film producer. She was enrolled in the Chennai-based Andhra Mahila Sabha.
After performing as a dancer in a 1961 regional movie, she...
42. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Actor | Songram
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman often shortened as Sheikh Mujib or Mujib, was a Bangladeshi politician, statesman and Founding Father of Bangladesh who served as the first President and later as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 17 April 1971 until his assassination on 15 August 1975.[1] He is considered...
43. Hariprasad Chaurasia
Composer | Darr
Hariprasad Chaurasia was born on July 1, 1938. He is a composer and actor, known for Darr (1993), The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014) and Chandni (1989).
44. Fazlur Rahman Babu
Actor | Nonajoler Kabbo
Fazlur Rahman Babu is a famous actor and singer in Bangladesh. He has very impressive acting skill. He played lots of character in Television Drama and Films. Some of his notable work is The Unnamed (2016), Monpura (2009). He is also a playback singer in Bangladesh film industry. Some of his songs ...
45. Eric Clapton
Soundtrack | Lethal Weapon 3
Eric Clapton was born in Ripley, Surrey, England, on March 30, 1945. His real father was a Canadian pilot but he didn't find that out until he was 53. When he was 2 his mother felt she was unable to look after him, so Eric then went to live with his grandparents. When he was 14 he took up the ...
46. Bob Dylan
Soundtrack | Renaldo and Clara
Robert Allen Zimmerman was born 24 May 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota; his father Abe worked for the Standard Oil Co. Six years later the family moved to Hibbing, often the coldest place in the US, where he taught himself piano and guitar and formed several high school rock bands. In 1959 he entered the...
47. George Harrison
Actor | A Hard Day's Night
A master musician, a film producer and actor, best known as the lead guitarist and occasionally lead vocalist of The Beatles, George Harrison was born February 25, 1943, in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. He was also the youngest of four children, born to Harold Harrison and Louise Harrison.
Like ...
48. Ringo Starr
Actor | A Hard Day's Night
Ringo Starr is a British musician, actor, director, writer, and artist best known as the drummer of The Beatles who also coined the title 'A Hard day's Night' for The Beatles' first movie.
He was born Richard Starkey on July 7, 1940, in a small two-storey house in the working class area of Liverpool...
49. Ravi Shankar
Composer | Gandhi
Ravi Shankar was a world-renowned musician, composer, performer, and scholar of classical Indian music. He was one of the leading cultural figures of the twentieth century whose accomplishments placed him as the leading figure of an important musical tradition. His long and distinguished musical ...
50. Ali Akbar Khan
Soundtrack | The Darjeeling Limited
Ali Akbar Khan was born on April 14, 1922 in Shibpur, Comilla, Bengal Presidency, British India [now Bangladesh]. He was a composer, known for The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Taking Woodstock (2009) and Jhinder Bandi (1961). He was married to Mary Khan. He died on June 18, 2009 in San Anselmo, ...
51. Ustad Alauddin Khan
Self | Raga
52. Nobonita Chowdhury
Music_department | The Last Thakur
Nobonita Chowdhury is known for The Last Thakur (2008).
53. Muhammad Ali
Actor | The Greatest
Muhammad Ali beat more champions and top contenders than any heavyweight champion in history. He defeated heavyweight kings Sonny Liston (twice), Floyd Patterson (twice), Ernie Terrell, Jimmy Ellis, Ken Norton (twice), Joe Frazier (twice), George Foreman and Leon Spinks. He defeated ...
54. Bismillah Khan
Soundtrack | The Namesake
Bismillah Khan was born on March 21, 1916 in Dumraon, Bihar and Orissa Province, British India. He was an actor and composer, known for The Namesake (2006), Goonj Uthi Shehnai (1959) and Sanadhi Appanna (1977). He died on August 21, 2006 in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
55. Mrinal Sen
Director | Chorus
Sen is one of his nation's most politically active filmakers. After having studied physics at university in Calcutta, Sen worked as a freelance journalist, a salesman of patent medicines and a sound technician in a film studio. In the mid-1940s he joined the Indian People's Theatre Association and ...
56. Munshi Premchand
Writer | Mazdoor
He is one of the greatest Hindi writers. His stories gives the correct picture of village realities. He used his stories to great effect for social reforms. He married a child widow Shivarani Devi when widow marriages were considered as a sin in Indian society. He also wrote varios novels voicing ...
57. Mamata Shankar
Actress | Agantuk
Mamata Shankar hails from one of the most illustrious families of West Bengal, India. She is the daughter of Uday and Amala Shankar, sister of Ananda Shankar and niece of the famous sitar-player and classical Indian music scholar Ravi Shankar. She is an accomplished singer, dancer, choreographer, ...
58. Uday Shankar
Director | Kalpana
Uday Shankar was born on December 8, 1900 in Udaipur, British India. He was a director and actor, known for Kalpana (1948). He was married to Amala Shankar. He died on September 26, 1977 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India.
59. Amala Shankar
Actress | Kalpana
Amala Shankar was born on June 27, 1919 in Bengal Presidency, British India. She was an actress, known for Kalpana (1948). She was married to Uday Shankar. She died on July 24, 2020 in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
60. Junaid Halim
Editor | Maya - The Lost Mother
Junaid Halim is known for Maya - The Lost Mother (2019), Shankhonad (2004) and Britter Bairey (2009).
61. Tareque Masud
Writer | Matir Moina
Tareque Masud was born in Nurpur Village of Faridpur District in Bangladesh. At an early age he was sent off to madrassa (Islamic school) by his deeply religious father. He studied in the madrassa system until 1971, when the upheaval brought about by the 9-month Liberation War interrupted his ...
62. Goutam Ghose
Director | Paar
Goutam Ghose was born on July 24, 1950 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India. He is a director and writer, known for Paar (1984), Abar Aranye (2003) and Moner Manush (2010).
63. Do Kyung-soo
Actor | Sin-gwa ham-kke: Jwi-wa beol
Do Kyung-soo, better known by his stage name D.O., is a South Korean singer and actor. He is best known as a member and one of the main vocalists of the South Korean-Chinese boy group EXO and it's sub-unit EXO-K. Apart from his group's activities, D.O. has also starred in various television dramas ...
64. Byun Baekhyun
Actor | Dalui Yeonin - Bobogyungsim Ryeo
Byun Baek-hyun, better known mononymously as Baekhyun, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, and actor. He debuted in 2012 as a member of the South Korean-Chinese boy group EXO, and its sub-group EXO-K and sub-unit EXO-CBX. In July 2019, he made his debut as a soloist with the release of his debut ...
65. Xiumin
Soundtrack | Dalui Yeonin - Bobogyungsim Ryeo
Kim Min-Seok was born in Guri, Gyeonggi, Korea on March 26, 1990. In 2008, he placed second in the S.M. Everysing Contest and later became a trainee with S.M. Entertainment's Casting System. In January 2012, he was revealed to be the seventh member of the South Korean-Chinese boy group, EXO, and ...
66. Park Chan-yeol
Soundtrack | Sseul-sseul-ha-go cha-ran-ha-sin-do-ggae-bi
Park Chan-yeol, better known mononymously as Chanyeol, is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, producer, actor and model. He is a member of the South Korean-Chinese boy group EXO, its sub-group EXO-K and sub-unit EXO-SC.
Park Chanyeol was born in Seoul, South Korea. He attended Hyundai High ...
67. Amjad Hossain
Writer | Golapi Ekhon Traine
Amjad Hossain was born on 14 August, 1942 in Jamalpur, East Bengal, British India (now Bangladesh) in a Muslim family. He started writing rhymes and poems at his early age. He also wrote short stories, juvenile stories and novels. Hossain was directed connected with Mass uprising in 1969 against ...
68. Mithun Chakraborty
Actor | The Tashkent Files
Mithun Chakraborty, whose birth name was Gouranga Chakraborty, is an actor, producer, and politician. He is a former Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament and has worked in several Hindi and Bengali films.
He studied at Oriental Seminary and then cleared his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from Scottish Church...
69. Jonathan Knight
Actor | Fuller House
Jonathan was born in Massachusetts in 1968, the son of Marlene and Allan Knight. He grew up in the Dorchester area of Boston with his 5 brothers and sisters and numerous foster children his mother took in. He shot to fame in the late 80's with the group New Kids On The Block. From the 80's to 90's ...
70. Victoria Derbyshire
Actress | 'Orrible
Victoria Derbyshire was born on October 2, 1968 in Bury, England, UK. She is an actress, known for 'Orrible (2001), Victoria Derbyshire (2015) and Kiri (2018).
71. Delwar Jahan Jhantu
Writer | Bir Soinik
Delwar Jahan Jhantu is known for Bir Soinik (2003), Five Rifles (1997) and Konnadaan (1995).
72. Tinto Brass
Writer | La vacanza
Giovanni Brass was born on 26 March 1933 into the family of a famous artist, Italico Brass, who was his grandfather. Italico gave his grandson a nickname "Tintoretto," which Giovanni later adapted into his cinematic name, Tinto Brass.
Tinto inherited his grandfather's artistic skills, but he applied...
73. Chanchal Chowdhury
Actor | Aynabaji
Chanchal Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi actor. Critically acclaimed for his performances in Monpura (2009), Aynabaji (2016), and Debi (2018), he has received two Bangladesh National Film Awards for Best Actor and three Meril Prothom Alo Awards for Best Actor. A household name in Bangladesh, Chowdhury ...
74. Fahadh Faasil
Actor | Pushpa: The Rise - Part 1
Fahadh is the son of Malayalam film director Fazil, and his wife Rozina. He has two sisters, Ahameda and Fatima, and a brother, Farhaan Faasil. He completed his schooling from SDV Central School Alleppey, Lawrence School Ooty and Choice School Thripunithara. He went on to pursue his degree from ...
75. Humayun Ahmed
Writer | Aguner Poroshmoni
With the publishing of his first book, "Nondito Noroke" in 1972, Humayun Ahmed came into the limelight as a promising young writer. He proved later on that he was not there to be lost among others. His next book, "Shonkhonil Karagar", was another huge success with the readers. Most of his earlier ...
76. Srijit Mukherji
Director | Vinci Da
Srijit Mukherji was born on September 23, 1977 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India. He is a director and writer, known for Vinci Da (2019), Ek Je Chhilo Raja (2018) and Chotushkone (2014). He has been married to Rafiath Rashid Mithila since December 6, 2019.
77. Benedict Cumberbatch
Actor | The Imitation Game
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch was born and raised in London, England. His parents, Wanda Ventham and Timothy Carlton (born Timothy Carlton Congdon Cumberbatch), are both actors. He is a grandson of submarine commander Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, and a great-grandson of diplomat Henry Arnold ...
78. Priyanka Chopra Jonas
Actress | Barfi!
Priyanka Chopra Jonas (née Chopra) was born on July 18, 1982 in Jamshedpur, India, to the family of Capt. Dr. Ashok Chopra and Dr. Madhu Chopra, both Indian Army physicians. She had a very varied upbringing. She started her education at La Martinière Girls College in Lucknow as a resident student; ...
79. Asif Tanzir
Director | Lottery
Asif Tanzir is a Bangladeshi independent filmmaker. He is a film director, writer, cinematographer, and actor. He is a student in Film & Television department at Jagannath University. His debut short film is River & Friendship. He generally makes films for his academic projects. He has a production...
80. Rafiath Rashid Mithila
Actress | Mayaa
Rafiath Rashid Mithila is known for Mayaa (2023), Kajolrekha (2024) and O Abhagi (2024). She has been married to Srijit Mukherji since December 6, 2019. She was previously married to Tahsan Rahman Khan.
81. N. Rashed Chowdhury
Writer | Chandrabati Kotha
N. Rashed Chowdhury is known for Chandrabati Kotha (2019), Meghmallar (2014) and Alpha (2019).
82. Andrei Tarkovsky
Writer | Offret
The most famous Soviet film-maker since Sergei Eisenstein, Andrei Tarkovsky (the son of noted poet Arseniy Tarkovsky) studied music and Arabic in Moscow before enrolling in the Soviet film school VGIK. He shot to international attention with his first feature, Ivan's Childhood (1962), which won the...
83. David Wall
Producer | Gold Dust
David Wall is known for Gold Dust (2020). He is married to Kerry Wall. They have four children.
84. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Soundtrack | Amadeus
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart grew up in Salzburg under the regulation of his strict father Leopold who also was a famous composer of his time. His abilities in music were obvious even when Mozart was still young so that in 1762 at the age of six, his father took him with his elder sister on a concert ...
85. Ken Loach
Director | I, Daniel Blake
Unlike virtually all his contemporaries, Ken Loach has never succumbed to the siren call of Hollywood, and it's virtually impossible to imagine his particular brand of British socialist realism translating well to that context.
After studying law at St. Peter's College, Oxford, he branched out into ...
86. Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Producer | Cike Nie Yin Niang
Of the ten films that Hsiao-Hsien Hou directed between 1980 and 1989, seven received best film or best director awards from prestigious international films festivals in Venice, Berlin, Hawaii, and the Festival of the Three Continents in Nantes. In a 1988 worldwide critics' poll, Hou was championed ...
87. Fatboy Slim
Soundtrack | Bastille Day
Fatboy Slim was born on July 31, 1963 in Bromley, Kent, England, UK. He is a music artist and composer, known for Bastille Day (2016), Moulin Rouge! (2001) and Lost in Space (1998). He has been married to Zoë Ball since August 20, 1999. They have two children. He was previously married to Philippa ...
88. Krishnakumar Kunnath
Music_department | Om Shanti Om
Krishnakumar Kunnath or K.K. (as he is popularly known as) was born on August 23, 1968. This Delhi-based singer came to Mumbai in 1994 in search for his career and finally, he got a call to sing a one-minute jingle for singer Leslie Lewis for UTV which kick started his career. He started singing ...
89. Lucky Ali
Music_department | Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai
Lucky Ali was born on September 19, 1958 in India. He is a music artist and actor, known for Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai (2000), Tamasha (2015) and Sur (2002).
90. Shahid Kapoor
Actor | Haider
Shahid's rise to stardom reads like a bollywood script: from a struggler to a winner. With his hard work, perseverance and sincerity, he has written his own destiny.
Shahid is a mine of unabashed talent and spark, beneath his calm and innocent veneer. Shahid Kapoor is young and vibrant, with a ...
91. Kareena Kapoor
Actress | 3 Idiots
Kareena was born to Sindhi-speaking Babita (nee Shivdasani) and Punjabi-speaking Randhir Kapoor in Bombay, India. She has an elder sister, Karisma.
She is born in a family that have been actors for generations, including her paternal great-grandfather, Prithviraj Kapoor; her grandfather, Raj Kapoor;...
92. Ustad Rashid Khan
Music_department | Jab We Met
Ustad Rashid Khan was born on July 1, 1966 in Badayun, Uttar Pradesh, India. Ustad Rashid is known for Jab We Met (2007), CityLights (2014) and Dassehra (2018).
93. Ustad Rashid Khan
Music_department | Jab We Met
Ustad Rashid Khan was born on July 1, 1966 in Badayun, Uttar Pradesh, India. Ustad Rashid is known for Jab We Met (2007), CityLights (2014) and Dassehra (2018).
94. Ananta Jalil
Actor | Most Welcome 2
Ananta Jalil is known for Most Welcome 2 (2014), Nisshartho Bhalobasha: What is Love! (2013) and Khoj, the Search (2010). He has been married to Afiea Nusrat Barsha since 2012.
95. Dilip Joshi
Actor | Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah
Dilip Joshi is famous for his character of Jethalal Gada in the popular comedy show "Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashma". He earned several accolades for his performance in the show.
Joshi was born on 26 May 1968 into a Gujarati Brahmin family from the Gosa village of Porbandar. He is married to Jaymala...
96. Narendra Modi
Writer | Garbo
Narendra Modi was born on September 17, 1950 in Vadnagar, State of Bombay, India. He is an actor and writer, known for Garbo (2023), Leera the Soulmate (2018) and The Vial.
97. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Director | Biutiful
Alejandro González Iñárritu (ih-nyar-ee-too), born August 15th, 1963, is a Mexican film director.
González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the Directors Guild of America for Best Director. He is also the first Mexican-born ...
98. Ram Charan
Actor | RRR (Rise Roar Revolt)
Konidela Ram Charan is an Indian actor, producer and entrepreneur who primarily works in Telugu cinema. He is one of the highest-paid actors in Indian cinema and has featured in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list since 2013. Ram Charan is the recipient of several National & International awards. Ram...
99. Chiranjit
Actor | Sansar Sangram
Chiranjit was born on November 2, 1955 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India. He is an actor and writer, known for Sansar Sangram (1995), Abaidha (2002) and Bhoy (1996).
100. Boris Johnson
Actor | Have I Got News for You
Boris Johnson was born on June 19, 1964 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Have I Got News for You (1990), EastEnders (1985) and PMQs (2010). He has been married to Carrie Johnson since May 29, 2021. They have two children. He was previously married to Marina Wheeler and ...
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