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British impresario and theatre director (1866–1941), Fred Karno founded a music-hall troupe that revolutionized burlesque comedy. He trained Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel among others, helping to shape the rise of comic cinema worldwide.

Franco-Polish film director, essayist, and theorist (1897–1953), Jean Epstein is a major figure of the French cinematic avant-garde of the 1920s–1930s. He coined the concept of "photogénie" and directed experimental works such as *The Fall of the House of Usher*.

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was one of the greatest American playwrights of the 20th century. His plays, marked by psychological tension and the decline of the American South, profoundly reshaped modern theatre.

Co-founder of Google with Sergey Brin in 1998, Larry Page revolutionized access to information on the Internet through the PageRank algorithm. He led Google then Alphabet, one of the most highly valued companies in the world.