Lives connected to places

Romanian writer (1884–1935)

Iranian artist, film director, and photographer (born 1957)

Turkish Sunni Muslim theologian of Kurdish origin (1876-1960)

Anglo-Irish novelist and diarist

Nigerian writer (1944–2017)

Croatian journalist and novelist (born 1949)

Latvian conductor (1943–2019)

Armenian poet, writer and political activist (1919–2006)

Icelandic crime writer, former journalist and film critic

Icelandic pianist and conductor from Russia (born 1937)

Ethiopian female Olympic long-distance runner

Ugandan athletics competitor

Prince turned King of Nepal, Mass Murderer and Assassin

Russian businessman

Qatari track and field athlete (1991-)

South Sudanese-British basketball player

American-Yemeni imam and suspected Islamist extremist (1971–2011)

Congolese-Spanish basketball player

New Zealand screenwriter, producer and film director

New Zealander and Australian war heroine

Estonian writer (1878–1940)

Belarusian tennis player

ancient Egyptian ruler

last king of Egypt and the Sudan, who ruled as an infant (1952–1953)

Egyptian hijacker and one of the ringleaders of the September 11 attacks (1968–2001)

Slovak biathlete

Chinese-American businessman

Taiwanese female tennis player

Luxembourgish road bicycle racer

American chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965)