I pointed out this lack of film & voice recording of Orwell purely as a curiosity. Though it now looks as if a small film record of him has been found recently. Still, as someone who worked for the BBC it’s an interesting factoid that his famously strained voice has not been recorded.
Howard Hughes was almost never photographed, after about 1948.
I bet the guy who played The Invisible Man in the British TV series has never been photographed.
Most women of Saudi Arabia, full-face that is.
Which of them were famous or notable?
Royalty and aristocracy? The only one I’ve seen full-faced in pictures is Mai Yamani.
The same might be said of The Far Side’s Gary Larson. I know of only a couple photographic portraits, plus a 1986 interview on 20/20.
German-American author B. Traven. There are one or two photos of the person he is thought to be, but none of a person who professed to be Traven.
I realized this thread’s been resurrected, but right now there’s a photo of Harry Winston right on his Wikipedia page: Harry Winston - Wikipedia
Has anyone ever seen a picture of Buckethead?
… the guitarist?
William Buelow Gould, the convict-artist who died in Tasmania in 1853, was apparently never photographed.
As with post which named Japanese figures, the standard of universal photography of notable figures would seem to have to be applied later in the Far East, though in fairness OP did say ‘developed world’ albeit a somewhat anachronistic (now’s not 1840’s) term.
There are no photographs of St Andrew Kim Dae-geon (first Korean Catholic priest, martyred in 1846) or AFAIK any of the other Korean martyrs, important people to Korean Catholics, notable to all Catholics. Most died well before photography but others as late as the 1880’s.
he looks exactly like the dad in the strip except he grew out a beard because some fans noticed it too in the one picture of him ive ever seen
But a lot of people thought that if you took a picture it captured your soul in the picture…