Lives connected to places

Vietnamese Buddhist monk and activist (1926–2022)

Ethiopian double Olympic marathon champion

Ethiopian long-distance runner and businessman (born 1973)

Brazilian racing driver

Polish novelist (1847–1912)

Indian tennis player

Norwegian biathlete and cross-country skier

Norwegian linguist and poet, dubbed the father of Nynorsk (1813 – 1896)

French artist, film director, screenwriter and photographer (1928–2019)

Chinese ophthalmologist known for warning about the coronavirus in December 2019 (1986-2020)

South African cardiac surgeon

Czech tennis player

Greek basketball player

Spanish-Venezuelan tennis player

Chinese-American physicist (1912–1997)

Nepalese poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist

British-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist

Canadian psychologist (1925–2021)

Finnish Formula 1 racing driver

German philosopher (1885–1977)

German expressionist novelist (1878–1957)

Indian author

Chinese grandmaster and former World Chess Champion

Canadian journalist and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation

Australian tennis player

Australian racing driver

Brazilian racing driver (born 1952)

director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany

Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind

Canadian racecar driver (born 1971)