People
Qin Shi Huang - founder of the Qin dynasty and first emperor of a unifited China
Suleiman the Magnificent - expansionist Sultan at the apex of the Ottoman Empire
Catherine the Great - Empress of Russia from 1762-1796, Russia recognized as one of the great power of Europe under her reign
Laozi - founder of philosophical Taoism, reputed author of the Tao Te Ching
Adi Shankara - early 8th century Indian philosopher and theologian, credited with unifying and establishing the main currents of thought in Hinduism
Ferdinand Magellan - Portuguese explorer, first to circumnavigate the world
Li Bai - One of the two most prominent figures of Chinese poetry in the Tang dynasty, the "Golden Age of Chinese Poetry"
Murasaki Shikibu - author of The Tale of Genji, Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court during the Heian period
Miguel de Cervantes - author of Don Quixote
Hokusai - Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, painter and printmaker of the Edo period
Hildegard of Bingen - German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath
Igor Stravinsky - 20th century Russian composer
Akira Kurosawa - Japanese filmmaker
Jabir ibn Hayyan, Latinized as "Geber" - Muslim polymath of the Islamic Golden Age: "The Book of the Composition of Alchemy", influenced evolution of chemistry
Shen Kuo - Han Chinese polymathic scientist and statesman of the Song Dynasty
Antoine Lavoisier
Werner Heisenberg
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Emmy Noether
Kurt Gödel
Nagarjuna
Ibn Khaldun
