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Mary MacKillop
Mary MacKillop was an Australian nun who went on to become the first saint from the country
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan is the one of the most famous emperors in history, who founded the Mongol empire
Manuel Ortiz Guerrero
Paraguayan-born Manuel Ortiz Guerrero was a renowned bilingual poet, playwright and musician
Czesław Miłosz
Czeslaw Milosz was a prominent Polish-American novelist, translator, essayist and a Nobel laureate
Jacques Vergès
Jacques Vergès was a lawyer known for defending clients such as the infamous Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie
Abune Paulos
His Holiness Abune Paulos was the Fifth Patriarch of the ‘Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church’
Mileva Marić
Mileva Marić was an exceptional physics scholar from Serbia who was also the first wife of Albert Einstein
Herman Potočnik
Herman Potočnik was a Slovenian rocket engineer who is most remembered for his outstanding contribution in the field of space travel.
John McCain
John McCain was an American politician who served as the senior Senator from Arizona