Entertainers, 107

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Actors and Actresses, 77

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Silent movies, 6
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Americas
  1. Harold Lloyd - Harold Lloyd
  2. Lillian Gish - Lillian Gish
  3. Buster Keaton - Buster Keaton
  4. Mary Pickford - Mary Pickford
  5. Gloria Swanson - Gloria Swanson
Europe
  1. Asta Nielsen - Asta Nielsen
Modern era, 71
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Africa, 0
Americas, 35
USA
  1. Fred Astaire - Fred Astaire
  2. Sarah Bernhardt - Sarah Bernhardt
  3. Humphrey Bogart - Humphrey Bogart
  4. Marlon Brando - Marlon Brando
  5. Marx Brothers - Marx Brothers
  6. James Cagney - James Cagney
  7. Charlie Chaplin - Charlie Chaplin
  8. Claudette Colbert - Claudette Colbert
  9. Gary Cooper - Gary Cooper
  10. Joan Crawford - Joan Crawford
  11. Bette Davis - Bette Davis
  12. Robert De Niro - Robert De Niro
  13. James Dean - James Dean
  14. Henry Fonda - Henry Fonda
  15. Jane Fonda - Jane Fonda
  16. Clark Gable - Clark Gable
  17. Judy Garland - Judy Garland
  18. Whoopi Goldberg - Whoopi Goldberg
  19. Cary Grant - Cary Grant
  20. Tom Hanks - Tom Hanks
  21. Katharine Hepburn - Katharine Hepburn
  22. Grace Kelly - Grace Kelly
  23. Gene Kelly - Gene Kelly
  24. Marilyn Monroe - Marilyn Monroe
  25. Eddie Murphy - Eddie Murphy
  26. Jack Nicholson - Jack Nicholson
  27. Gregory Peck - Gregory Peck
  28. Barbara Stanwyck - Barbara Stanwyck
  29. James Stewart - James Stewart
  30. Meryl Streep - Meryl Streep
  31. Elizabeth Taylor - Elizabeth Taylor
  32. Shirley Temple - Shirley Temple
  33. Spencer Tracy - Spencer Tracy
  34. John Wayne - John Wayne
  35. Mae West - Mae West
  36. Robin Williams - Robin Williams
Asia, 4
China
  1. Bruce Lee - Bruce Lee
India
  1. Amitabh Bachchan - Amitabh Bachchan
  2. Pran (actor) - Pran
Japan
  1. Toshiro Mifune - Toshiro Mifune
Europe, 31
France
  1. Brigitte Bardot - Brigitte Bardot
  2. Jean-Paul Belmondo - Jean-Paul Belmondo
  3. Louis de Funès - Louis de Funès
  4. Alain Delon - Alain Delon
  5. Fernandel - Fernandel
  6. Jean Gabin - Jean Gabin
  7. Jean Marais - Jean Marais
  8. Gérard Philipe - Gérard Philipe
Great Britain
  1. Richard Burton - Richard Burton
  2. Michael Caine - Michael Caine
  3. Sean Connery - Sean Connery
  4. Daniel Day-Lewis - Daniel Day-Lewis
  5. Audrey Hepburn - Audrey Hepburn
  6. Anthony Hopkins - Anthony Hopkins
  7. Edmund Kean - Edmund Kean
  8. Vivien Leigh - Vivien Leigh
  9. Laurence Olivier - Laurence Olivier
  10. Peter O'Toole - Peter O'Toole
  11. Peter Sellers - Peter Sellers
Italy
  1. Adriano Celentano - Adriano Celentano
  2. Gina Lollobrigida - Gina Lollobrigida
  3. Sophia Loren - Sophia Loren
  4. Marcello Mastroianni - Marcello Mastroianni
Sweden
  1. Ingrid Bergman - Ingrid Bergman
  2. Greta Garbo - Greta Garbo
USSR
  1. Mikhail Ulyanov - Mikhail Ulyanov
  2. Yevgeny Leonov - Yevgeny Leonov
  3. Innokenty Smoktunovsky - Innokenty Smoktunovsky
  4. Armen Dzhigarkhanyan - Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Other
  1. Marlene Dietrich - Marlene Dietrich
  2. Maximilian Schell - Maximilian Schell

Performing artists, 40

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  1. Alvin Ailey - Alvin Ailey
  2. Marian Anderson - Marian Anderson
  3. Frederick Ashton - Frederick Ashton
  4. Mikhail Baryshnikov - Mikhail Baryshnikov*
  5. Maurice Béjart - Maurice Béjart
  6. Carlo Blasis - Carlo Blasis
  7. Andrea Bocelli - Andrea Bocelli
  8. Erik Bruhn - Erik Bruhn
  9. George Carlin - George Carlin
  10. Enrico Caruso - Enrico Caruso
  11. Cyd Charisse - Cyd Charisse
  12. Boris Christoff - Boris Christoff
  13. David Copperfield (illusionist) - David Copperfield
  14. Plácido Domingo - Plácido Domingo
  15. Isadora Duncan - Isadora Duncan
  16. Fanny Elssler - Fanny Elssler
  17. Michel Fokine - Michel Fokine
  18. Margot Fonteyn - Margot Fonteyn
  19. Gregory Hines - Gregory Hines
  20. Harry Houdini - Harry Houdini
  21. Avdotia Istomina - Avdotia Istomina
  22. Tamara Karsavina - Tamara Karsavina
  23. Rudolf von Laban - Rudolf von Laban
  24. Jenny Lind - Jenny Lind
  25. Natalia Makarova - Natalia Makarova
  26. Vaslav Nijinsky - Vaslav Nijinsky
  27. Birgit Nilsson - Birgit Nilsson
  28. Rudolf Nureyev - Rudolf Nureyev
  29. Luciano Pavarotti - Luciano Pavarotti
  30. Anna Pavlova - Anna Pavlova
  31. Marius Petipa - Marius Petipa*
  32. Leontyne Price - Leontyne Price*
  33. Jerome Robbins - Jerome Robbins
  34. Renata Scotto - Renata Scotto
  35. Beverly Sills - Beverly Sills
  36. Frederica von Stade - Frederica von Stade
  37. Marie Taglioni - Marie Taglioni
  38. Maria Tallchief - Maria Tallchief
  39. Twyla Tharp - Twyla Tharp
  40. Gaétan Vestris - Gaétan Vestris

Visual artists, 111

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Western painters and illustrators, 77

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Ancient era
Europe
  1. Phidias - Phidias
  2. Vitruvius - Vitruvius
Medieval era
Europe
  1. Hieronymus Bosch - Hieronymus Bosch
  2. Jan van Eyck - Jan van Eyck
  3. Giotto - Giotto
  4. Andrei Rublev - Andrei Rublev
Renaissance to early modern era
  1. El Greco - El Greco
France
  1. Jacques-Louis David - Jacques-Louis David
  2. Eugène Delacroix - Eugène Delacroix
  3. François Mansart - François Mansart
  4. Nicolas Poussin - Nicolas Poussin
Germany
  1. Albrecht Dürer - Albrecht Dürer
  2. Caspar David Friedrich - Caspar David Friedrich
  3. Hans Holbein the Younger - Hans Holbein the Younger
  4. Karl Friedrich Schinkel - Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Italy
  1. Francesco Borromini - Borromini
  2. Caravaggio - Caravaggio
  3. Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Bernini
  4. Giovanni Bellini - Giovanni Bellini
  5. Sandro Botticelli - Sandro Botticelli
  6. Donato Bramante - Bramante
  7. Canaletto - Canaletto
  8. Piero della Francesca - Piero della Francesca
  9. Andrea Mantegna - Andrea Mantegna
  10. Masaccio - Masaccio
  11. Michelangelo - Michelangelo
  12. Andrea Palladio - Palladio
  13. Raphael - Raphael
  14. Andrea del Sarto - Andrea del Sarto
  15. Tintoretto - Tintoretto
  16. Titian - Titian
  17. Paolo Veronese - Paolo Veronese
  18. Leonardo da Vinci - Leonardo da Vinci
Netherlands
  1. Anthony van Dyck - Anthony van Dyck
  2. Peter Paul Rubens - Peter Paul Rubens
  3. Rembrandt - Rembrandt
  4. Johannes Vermeer - Johannes Vermeer
Spain
  1. Jusepe de Ribera - Jusepe de Ribera
  2. Diego Velázquez - Diego Velázquez
Modern era (painters)
  1. Marc Chagall - Marc Chagall
  2. Marcel Duchamp - Marcel Duchamp
  3. René Magritte - René Magritte
Americas
Mexico
  1. Frida Kahlo - Frida Kahlo
United States
  1. Mary Cassatt - Mary Cassatt
  2. Georgia O'Keeffe - Georgia O'Keeffe
  3. Jackson Pollock - Jackson Pollock
  4. Mark Rothko - Mark Rothko
  5. Andy Warhol - Andy Warhol
  6. Grant Wood - Grant Wood
Europe
  1. Paul Klee - Paul Klee
  2. Gustav Klimt - Gustav Klimt
  3. Edvard Munch - Edvard Munch
  4. Victor Vasarely - Victor Vasarely
France
  1. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
  2. Marie-Antoine Carême - Marie-Antoine Carême
  3. Paul Cézanne - Paul Cézanne
  4. Edgar Degas - Edgar Degas
  5. Paul Gauguin - Paul Gauguin
  6. Édouard Manet - Édouard Manet
  7. Henri Matisse - Henri Matisse
  8. Claude Monet - Claude Monet
  9. Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  10. Henri Rousseau - Henri Rousseau
  11. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Toulouse-Lautrec
  12. Georges Seurat - Georges Seurat
Great Britain
  1. Francis Bacon (artist) - Francis Bacon (artist)
  2. William Hogarth - William Hogarth
  3. J. M. W. Turner - J. M. W. Turner
Netherlands
  1. Vincent van Gogh - Vincent van Gogh
  2. Piet Mondrian - Piet Mondrian
Russia
  1. Wassily Kandinsky - Wassily Kandinsky
  2. Kazimir Malevich - Kazimir Malevich
  3. Ilya Repin - Ilya Repin
  4. Nicholas Roerich - Nicholas Roerich
Spain
  1. Salvador Dalí - Salvador Dalí
  2. Francisco Goya - Francisco Goya
  3. Joan Miró - Joan Miró
  4. Pablo Picasso - Pablo Picasso

Sculptors, 2

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  1. Auguste Rodin - Auguste Rodin
  2. Donatello - Donatello

Architects, 26

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Africa
Egypt
  1. Imhotep - Imhotep
Americas
Brazil
  1. Oscar Niemeyer - Oscar Niemeyer
United States
  1. Walter Burley Griffin - Walter Burley Griffin
  2. William Le Baron Jenney - William Le Baron Jenney
  3. Frank Gehry - Frank Gehry
  4. Frank Lloyd Wright - Frank Lloyd Wright
  5. Richard Meier - Richard Meier
  6. Louis Sullivan - Louis Sullivan
Asia
  1. I. M. Pei - I. M. Pei
  2. Mimar Sinan - Mimar Sinan
  3. Kenzō Tange - Kenzo Tange
Europe
  1. Alvar Aalto - Alvar Aalto
  2. Le Corbusier - Le Corbusier
  3. Antoni Gaudí - Gaudí
  4. Victor Horta - Victor Horta
  5. Inigo Jones - Inigo Jones
  6. Richard Neutra - Richard Neutra
  7. Renzo Piano - Renzo Piano
  8. Christopher Wren - Christopher Wren
Germany
  1. Günter Behnisch - Günter Behnisch
  2. Peter Behrens - Peter Behrens
  3. Walter Gropius - Walter Gropius
  4. Erich Mendelsohn - Erich Mendelsohn
  5. Frei Otto - Frei Otto
  6. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  7. Hans Scharoun - Hans Scharoun

Non-Western traditions, 5

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China
  1. Shitao - Shitao
India
  1. Raja Ravi Varma - Raja Ravi Varma
Japan
  1. Hiroshige - Hiroshige
  2. Hokusai - Hokusai
  3. Sesshū Tōyō - Sesshū Tōyō

Writers, 244

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  1. Abu Nuwas - Abu Nuwas
  2. Adam Mickiewicz - Adam Mickiewicz
  3. Alexander Pushkin - Alexander Pushkin
  4. Alejo Carpentier - Alejo Carpentier
  5. Alexandre Dumas - Alexandre Dumas
  6. Alice Walker - Alice Walker
  7. Allen Ginsberg - Allen Ginsberg
  8. Amir Khusrow - Amir Khusrow
  9. Anton Chekhov - Anton Chekhov
  10. Arthur Rimbaud - Arthur Rimbaud
  11. Brothers Grimm - Brothers Grimm
  12. Carl Sandburg - Carl Sandburg
  13. Charles Dickens - Charles Dickens
  14. Cicero - Cicero
  15. Dashiell Hammett - Dashiell Hammett
  16. Douglas Adams - Douglas Adams
  17. Du Fu - Du Fu
  18. Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe
  19. Eino Leino - Eino Leino
  20. Emily Dickinson - Emily Dickinson
  21. Erich Maria Remarque - Erich Maria Remarque
  22. Ernest Hemingway - Ernest Hemingway
  23. F. Scott Fitzgerald - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  24. Franz Kafka - Franz Kafka
  25. Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  26. John Donne - John Donne
  27. Gabriel García Márquez - Gabriel García Márquez
  28. Geoffrey Chaucer - Geoffrey Chaucer
  29. George Bernard Shaw - George Bernard Shaw
  30. George Orwell - George Orwell
  31. Ghalib - Ghalib
  32. H. G. Wells - H. G. Wells
  33. Hans Christian Andersen - Hans Christian Andersen
  34. Harold Pinter - Harold Pinter
  35. Heinrich Heine - Heinrich Heine
  36. Henrik Ibsen - Henrik Ibsen
  37. Henry James - Henry James
  38. Henry Miller - Henry Miller
  39. Hermann Hesse - Hermann Hesse
  40. Hildegard of Bingen - Hildegard of Bingen
  41. Ilf and Petrov - Ilf and Petrov
  42. Isaac Asimov - Isaac Asimov
  43. Ivan Vazov - Ivan Vazov
  44. J. R. R. Tolkien - J. R. R. Tolkien
  45. Jack Kerouac - Jack Kerouac
  46. Jack London - Jack London
  47. Rumi - Rumi
  48. James Joyce - James Joyce
  49. Jane Austen - Jane Austen
  50. Jerome K. Jerome - Jerome K. Jerome
  51. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  52. John Steinbeck - John Steinbeck
  53. John Updike - John Updike
  54. Jonathan Swift - Jonathan Swift
  55. Jorge Luis Borges - Jorge Luis Borges
  56. José Martí - José Martí
  57. José Saramago - José Saramago
  58. Jules Verne - Jules Verne
  59. Kālidāsa - Kālidāsa
  60. Langston Hughes - Langston Hughes
  61. Leo Tolstoy - Leo Tolstoy
  62. Lewis Carroll - Lewis Carroll
  63. Li Bai - Li Bai
  64. Lord Byron - Lord Byron
  65. Marcel Proust - Marcel Proust
  66. Mark Twain - Mark Twain
  67. Mario Vargas Llosa - Mario Vargas Llosa
  68. Matsuo Bashō - Matsuo Bashō
  69. Maxim Gorky - Maxim Gorky
  70. Miguel de Cervantes - Miguel de Cervantes
  71. Mikhail Bulgakov - Mikhail Bulgakov
  72. Molière - Molière
  73. Murasaki Shikibu - Murasaki Shikibu
  74. Naguib Mahfouz - Naguib Mahfouz
  75. Nathaniel Hawthorne - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  76. Nikolai Gogol - Nikolai Gogol
  77. Nikos Kazantzakis - Nikos Kazantzakis
  78. Olaf Stapledon - Olaf Stapledon
  79. Omar Khayyám - Omar Khayyám
  80. Pablo Neruda - Pablo Neruda
  81. Petrarch - Petrarch
  82. Philip K. Dick - Philip K. Dick
  83. Rabindranath Tagore - Rabindranath Tagore
  84. Rainer Maria Rilke - Rainer Maria Rilke
  85. Gabriele D'Annunzio - Gabriele D’Annunzio
  86. Brontë family - Brontë family
  87. Robert A. Heinlein - Robert A. Heinlein
  88. Saadi Shirazi - Saadi Shirazi
  89. Salman Rushdie - Salman Rushdie
  90. Sappho - Sappho
  91. Saul Bellow - Saul Bellow
  92. Thomas Hardy - Thomas Hardy
  93. Thomas Mann - Thomas Mann
  94. Thomas Pynchon - Thomas Pynchon
  95. Toni Morrison - Toni Morrison
  96. Truman Capote - Truman Capote
  97. Umberto Eco - Umberto Eco
  98. Victor Hugo - Victor Hugo
  99. Yasunari Kawabata - Yasunari Kawabata
  100. Yukio Mishima - Yukio Mishima

Ancient, 13

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  1. Qu Yuan - Qu Yuan
  2. Aesop - Aesop
  3. Menander - Menander
  4. Aeschylus - Aeschylus
  5. Aristophanes - Aristophanes
  6. Euripides - Euripides
  7. Hafez - Hafez
  8. Homer - Homer
  9. Horace - Horace
  10. Ovid - Ovid
  11. Plutarch - Plutarch
  12. Sophocles - Sophocles
  13. Virgil - Virgil
  14. Pliny the Elder - Pliny the Elder

Middle Ages, 10

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  1. Dante Alighieri - Dante Alighieri
  2. Ferdowsi - Ferdowsi
  3. Jami - Jami
  4. Kabir - Kabir
  5. Nizami Ganjavi - Nizami Ganjavi
  6. Rudaki - Rudaki
  7. Giovanni Boccaccio - Giovanni Boccaccio
  8. Ali-Shir Nava'i - Ali-Shir Nava'i
  9. William Shakespeare - William Shakespeare
  10. Chrétien de Troyes - Chrétien de Troyes
  11. Christine de Pizan - Christine de Pizan
  12. François Villon - François Villon

Renaissance, 13

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  1. Fuzûlî - Fuzûlî
  2. Tulsidas - Tulsidas
  3. Pedro Calderón de la Barca - Pedro Calderón de la Barca
  4. Luís de Camões - Luís de Camões
  5. Pierre Corneille - Pierre Corneille
  6. Daniel Defoe - Daniel Defoe
  7. Gavrila Derzhavin - Gavrila Derzhavin
  8. John Dryden - John Dryden
  9. Samuel Johnson - Samuel Johnson
  10. John Milton - John Milton
  11. Michel de Montaigne - Michel de Montaigne
  12. Jean Racine - Jean Racine
  13. Lope de Vega - Lope de Vega

Modern, 83

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  1. Chinua Achebe - Chinua Achebe
  2. Samuel Beckett - Samuel Beckett
  3. William Blake - William Blake
  4. Bertolt Brecht - Bertolt Brecht
  5. Ray Bradbury - Ray Bradbury
  6. Raymond Chandler - Raymond Chandler
  7. Agatha Christie - Agatha Christie
  8. Arthur C. Clarke - Arthur C. Clarke
  9. Arthur Conan Doyle - Arthur Conan Doyle
  10. Roald Dahl - Roald Dahl
  11. Robert Frost - Robert Frost
  12. Aldous Huxley - Aldous Huxley
  13. Rudyard Kipling - Rudyard Kipling
  14. Astrid Lindgren - Astrid Lindgren
  15. Arthur Miller - Arthur Miller
  16. Vladimir Nabokov - Vladimir Nabokov
  17. Mary Shelley - Mary Shelley
  18. Wole Soyinka - Wole Soyinka
  19. Robert Louis Stevenson - Robert Louis Stevenson
  20. Walt Whitman - Walt Whitman
  21. Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde
  22. Mary Wollstonecraft - Mary Wollstonecraft
  23. Virginia Woolf - Virginia Woolf
  24. W. B. Yeats - W. B. Yeats
  25. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  26. J. M. Coetzee - J. M. Coetzee
  27. Nadine Gordimer - Nadine Gordimer
  28. Margaret Atwood - Margaret Atwood
  29. Pearl S. Buck - Pearl S. Buck
  30. Washington Irving - Washington Irving
  31. Jaroslav Hašek - Jaroslav Hašek
  32. Andrzej Szczypiorski - Andrzej Szczypiorski
  33. T. S. Eliot - T. S. Eliot
  34. Mihai Eminescu - Mihai Eminescu
  35. William Faulkner - William Faulkner
  36. Ken Kesey - Ken Kesey
  37. Guillaume Apollinaire - Guillaume Apollinaire
  38. Constantine P. Cavafy - Constantine P. Cavafy
  39. Stendhal - Stendhal
  40. William Golding - William Golding
  41. Stephen King - Stephen King
  42. Ursula K. Le Guin - Ursula K. Le Guin
  43. Sinclair Lewis - Sinclair Lewis
  44. Herman Melville - Herman Melville
  45. Margaret Mitchell - Margaret Mitchell
  46. Mario Puzo - Mario Puzo
  47. Ezra Pound - Ezra Pound
  48. J. D. Salinger - J. D. Salinger
  49. Isaac Bashevis Singer - Isaac Bashevis Singer
  50. Harriet Beecher Stowe - Harriet Beecher Stowe
  51. Kurt Vonnegut - Kurt Vonnegut
  52. William Carlos Williams - William Carlos Williams
  53. Jorge Amado - Jorge Amado
  54. Chinghiz Aitmatov - Chinghiz Aitmatov
  55. Muhammad Iqbal - Muhammad Iqbal
  56. Haruki Murakami - Haruki Murakami
  57. Kenzaburō Ōe - Kenzaburō Ōe
  58. Orhan Pamuk - Orhan Pamuk
  59. Lu Xun - Lu Xun
  60. Kahlil Gibran - Kahlil Gibran
  61. France Prešeren - France Prešeren
  62. Ismail Kadare - Ismail Kadare
  63. Joseph Conrad - Joseph Conrad
  64. Sándor Petőfi - Sándor Petőfi
  65. Henryk Sienkiewicz - Henryk Sienkiewicz
  66. Taras Shevchenko - Taras Shevchenko
  67. Anna Akhmatova - Anna Akhmatova
  68. Joseph Brodsky - Joseph Brodsky
  69. Ivan Bunin - Ivan Bunin
  70. Nikolay Karamzin - Nikolay Karamzin
  71. Mikhail Lermontov - Mikhail Lermontov
  72. Vladimir Mayakovsky - Vladimir Mayakovsky
  73. Nikolay Nekrasov - Nikolay Nekrasov
  74. Boris Pasternak - Boris Pasternak
  75. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  76. Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy - Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
  77. Ivan Turgenev - Ivan Turgenev
  78. Honoré de Balzac - Honoré de Balzac
  79. Charles Baudelaire - Charles Baudelaire
  80. Karen Blixen - Karen Blixen
  81. Gustave Flaubert - Gustave Flaubert
  82. Anne Frank - Anne Frank
  83. Federico García Lorca - Federico García Lorca
  84. André Gide - André Gide
  85. Knut Hamsun - Knut Hamsun
  86. Eugène Ionesco - Eugène Ionesco
  87. Selma Lagerlöf - Selma Lagerlöf
  88. Luigi Pirandello - Luigi Pirandello
  89. Friedrich Schiller - Friedrich Schiller
  90. August Strindberg - August Strindberg
  91. Tristan Tzara - Tristan Tzara
  92. Émile Zola - Émile Zola
  93. Kingsley Amis - Kingsley Amis
  94. W. H. Auden - W. H. Auden
  95. Enid Blyton - Enid Blyton
  96. Anthony Burgess - Anthony Burgess
  97. Robert Graves - Robert Graves
  98. John Keats - John Keats
  99. C. S. Lewis - C. S. Lewis
  100. Alan Moore - Alan Moore
  101. Walter Scott - Walter Scott
  102. John Millington Synge - John Millington Synge
  103. William Wordsworth - William Wordsworth
  104. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  105. Percy Bysshe Shelley - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Musicians and composers, 150

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Western art music

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Composers
  1. Gustav Holst - Gustav Holst
  2. Jon Lord - Jon Lord
  3. Alan Parsons - Alan Parsons
  4. Pancho Vladigerov - Pancho Vladigerov
  5. Richard Strauss - Richard Strauss
Medieval and Renaissance
  1. Guillaume Dufay - Guillaume Dufay
  2. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Giovanni da Palestrina
Baroque period (1600–1760)
  1. Johann Sebastian Bach - Johann Sebastian Bach
  2. George Frideric Handel - George Frideric Handel
  3. Claudio Monteverdi - Claudio Monteverdi
  4. Antonio Vivaldi - Antonio Vivaldi
Classical period (1730–1820)
  1. Joseph Haydn - Joseph Haydn
  2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Romantic period (1815–1910)
  1. Mily Balakirev - Mily Balakirev
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven - Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Hector Berlioz - Hector Berlioz
  4. Georges Bizet - Georges Bizet
  5. Alexander Borodin - Alexander Borodin
  6. Johannes Brahms - Johannes Brahms
  7. Anton Bruckner - Anton Bruckner
  8. Frédéric Chopin - Frédéric Chopin
  9. César Cui - César Cui
  10. Antonín Dvořák - Antonín Dvořák
  11. Edvard Grieg - Edvard Grieg
  12. Franz Liszt - Franz Liszt
  13. Gustav Mahler - Gustav Mahler
  14. Felix Mendelssohn - Felix Mendelssohn
  15. Modest Mussorgsky - Modest Mussorgsky
  16. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  17. Gioachino Rossini - Gioachino Rossini
  18. Franz Schubert - Franz Schubert
  19. Robert Schumann - Robert Schumann
  20. Bedřich Smetana - Bedřich Smetana
  21. Johann Strauss II - Johann Strauss
  22. Gilbert and Sullivan - Gilbert and Sullivan
  23. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  24. Giuseppe Verdi - Giuseppe Verdi
  25. Richard Wagner - Richard Wagner
20th century
  1. Harold Arlen - Harold Arlen
  2. Béla Bartók - Béla Bartók
  3. Claude Debussy - Claude Debussy
  4. Joe Hisaishi - Joe Hisaishi
  5. Sergei Prokofiev - Sergei Prokofiev
  6. Giacomo Puccini - Giacomo Puccini
  7. Maurice Ravel - Maurice Ravel
  8. Arnold Schoenberg - Arnold Schoenberg
  9. Dmitri Shostakovich - Dmitri Shostakovich
  10. Jean Sibelius - Jean Sibelius
  11. Igor Stravinsky - Igor Stravinsky
Performers
Conductors
  1. Leonard Bernstein - Leonard Bernstein
Singers
  1. Umm Kulthum - Umm Kulthum
  2. Vladimir Vysotsky - Vladimir Vysotsky
Violinists/celist
  1. Yo-Yo Ma - Yo-Yo Ma
  2. Niccolò Paganini - Niccolò Paganini

Non-Western art music

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  1. Ravi Shankar - Ravi Shankar
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  1. ABBA - ABBA
  2. Mariah Carey - Mariah Carey
  3. Cher - Cher
  4. David Coverdale - David Coverdale
  5. Doris Day - Doris Day
  6. Bruce Dickinson - Bruce Dickinson
  7. Ronnie James Dio - Ronnie James Dio
  8. Celine Dion - Celine Dion
  9. Michael Jackson - Michael Jackson
  10. Elton John - Elton John
  11. Madonna (entertainer) - Madonna
  12. Bob Marley - Bob Marley
  13. Dean Martin - Dean Martin
  14. Liza Minnelli - Liza Minnelli
  15. Joni Mitchell - Joni Mitchell
  16. Frank Sinatra - Frank Sinatra
  17. Barbra Streisand - Barbra Streisand
  18. Stevie Wonder - Stevie Wonder
American folk and country
  1. Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash
  2. Bing Crosby - Bing Crosby
  3. Faith Hill - Faith Hill
  4. George Jones - George Jones
  5. Peter, Paul and Mary - Peter, Paul and Mary
  6. Reba McEntire - Reba McEntire
  7. Ronnie Milsap - Ronnie Milsap
  8. Dolly Parton - Dolly Parton
  9. Hank Williams - Hank Williams
Blues and soul
  1. Ray Charles - Ray Charles*
  2. Aretha Franklin - Aretha Franklin*
  3. B.B. King - B.B. King
Composers and songwriters
  1. Vangelis - Vangelis
Film music
  1. Jerry Goldsmith - Jerry Goldsmith
  2. Henry Mancini - Henry Mancini
  3. Ennio Morricone - Ennio Morricone
  4. Richard Rodgers - Richard Rodgers
  5. Miklós Rózsa - Miklós Rózsa
  6. Max Steiner - Max Steiner
  7. John Williams - John Williams
Funk
  1. James Brown - James Brown
Guitarists
  1. John Lee Hooker - John Lee Hooker
  2. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Hip-hop and rap
  1. Eminem - Eminem
  2. Dr. Dre - Dr. Dre
  3. Tupac Shakur - Tupac Shakur
Jazz
  1. Louis Armstrong - Louis Armstrong
  2. Miles Davis - Miles Davis
  3. George Gershwin - George Gershwin
  4. Antônio Carlos Jobim - Antônio Carlos Jobim
  5. Glenn Miller - Glenn Miller
Musical comedy and lyricists
  1. Irving Berlin - Irving Berlin
  2. Jerome Kern - Jerome Kern
  3. Cole Porter - Cole Porter
  4. Andrew Lloyd Webber - Andrew Lloyd Webber
Non-English language singers
  1. Édith Piaf - Édith Piaf
  2. Lata Mangeshkar - Lata Mangeshkar
  3. Alla Pugacheva - Alla Pugacheva
  4. Mohammed Rafi - Mohammed Rafi
  5. Zhou Xuan - Zhou Xuan
Rock
  1. AC/DC - AC/DC
  2. John Barry (composer) - John Barry
  3. The Beatles - The Beatles
    1. John Lennon - John Lennon
    2. Paul McCartney - Paul McCartney
  4. Chuck Berry - Chuck Berry
  5. David Bowie - David Bowie
  6. Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton
  7. Joe Cocker - Joe Cocker
  8. Phil Collins - Phil Collins
  9. Alice Cooper - Alice Cooper
  10. Deep Purple - Deep Purple
  11. The Doors - The Doors
  12. Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
  13. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel
  14. Simon & Garfunkel - Simon & Garfunkel
  15. Jimi Hendrix - Jimi Hendrix
  16. Janis Joplin - Janis Joplin
  17. Metallica - Metallica
  18. Gary Moore - Gary Moore
  19. Nirvana (band) - Nirvana
  20. Ozzy Osbourne - Ozzy Osbourne
  21. Pink Floyd - Pink Floyd
    1. Roger Waters - Roger Waters
  22. Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
  23. Queen (band) - Queen
    1. Freddie Mercury - Freddie Mercury
  24. Linda Ronstadt - Linda Ronstadt
  25. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
  26. Bruce Springsteen - Bruce Springsteen
  27. The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones
    1. Keith Richards - Keith Richards
    2. Mick Jagger - Mick Jagger
  28. Tina Turner - Tina Turner
  29. U2 - U2
  30. Frank Zappa - Frank Zappa
  31. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

Criminals, 4

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  1. Billy the Kid - Billy the Kid
  2. Jack the Ripper - Jack the Ripper
  3. Al Capone - Al Capone
  4. Pablo Escobar - Pablo Escobar

Directors, producers & screenwriters, 78

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  1. Woody Allen - Woody Allen
  2. Pedro Almodóvar - Pedro Almodóvar
  3. Robert Altman - Robert Altman
  4. Jean-Jacques Annaud - Jean-Jacques Annaud
  5. Roberto Benigni - Roberto Benigni
  6. Ingmar Bergman - Ingmar Bergman
  7. Bernardo Bertolucci - Bernardo Bertolucci
  8. Danny Boyle - Danny Boyle
  9. Ken Burns - Ken Burns
  10. James Cameron - James Cameron
  11. Frank Capra - Frank Capra
  12. Jean Cocteau - Jean Cocteau
  13. Clint Eastwood - Clint Eastwood
  14. Francis Ford Coppola - Francis Ford Coppola
  15. George Cukor - George Cukor
  16. Walt Disney - Walt Disney
  17. Carl Theodor Dreyer - Carl Theodor Dreyer
  18. Sergei Eisenstein - Sergei Eisenstein
  19. Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  20. Federico Fellini - Federico Fellini
  21. John Ford - John Ford
  22. Miloš Forman - Miloš Forman
  23. Bob Fosse - Bob Fosse
  24. Jean-Luc Godard - Jean-Luc Godard
  25. Samuel Goldwyn - Samuel Goldwyn
  26. Terry Gilliam - Terry Gilliam
  27. D. W. Griffith - D. W. Griffith
  28. Alfred Hitchcock - Alfred Hitchcock
  29. Ron Howard - Ron Howard
  30. John Huston - John Huston
  31. Elia Kazan - Elia Kazan
  32. Raj Kapoor - Raj Kapoor
  33. Takeshi Kitano - Takeshi Kitano
  34. Andrei Konchalovsky - Andrei Konchalovsky
  35. Stanley Kubrick - Stanley Kubrick
  36. Akira Kurosawa - Akira Kurosawa
  37. Fritz Lang - Fritz Lang
  38. David Lean - David Lean
  39. Ang Lee - Ang Lee
  40. Frank Lloyd - Frank Lloyd
  41. George Lucas - George Lucas
  42. Sidney Lumet - Sidney Lumet
  43. Auguste and Louis Lumière - Auguste and Louis Lumière
  44. Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  45. Frances Marion - Frances Marion
  46. Nikita Mikhalkov - Nikita Mikhalkov
  47. Lewis Milestone - Lewis Milestone
  48. Brian De Palma - Brian De Palma
  49. Alan Parker - Alan Parker
  50. Roman Polanski - Roman Polanski
  51. Sydney Pollack - Sydney Pollack
  52. Carlo Ponti - Carlo Ponti
  53. Leni Riefenstahl - Leni Riefenstahl
  54. Satyajit Ray - Satyajit Ray
  55. Robert Redford - Robert Redford
  56. Jean Renoir - Jean Renoir
  57. Carlos Saura - Carlos Saura
  58. Martin Scorsese - Martin Scorsese
  59. David O. Selznick - David O. Selznick
  60. Mack Sennett - Mack Sennett
  61. Vittorio De Sica - Vittorio De Sica
  62. Aaron Sorkin - Aaron Sorkin
  63. Steven Spielberg - Steven Spielberg
  64. Konstantin Stanislavsky - Constantin Stanislavski
  65. Oliver Stone - Oliver Stone
  66. Quentin Tarantino - Quentin Tarantino
  67. Irving Thalberg - Irving Thalberg
  68. Giuseppe Tornatore - Giuseppe Tornatore
  69. Lars von Trier - Lars von Trier
  70. Luchino Visconti - Luchino Visconti
  71. Hal B. Wallis - Hal B. Wallis
  72. Wim Wenders - Wim Wenders
  73. Orson Welles - Orson Welles
  74. Billy Wilder - Billy Wilder
  75. Robert Wise - Robert Wise
  76. William Wyler - William Wyler
  77. Darryl F. Zanuck - Darryl F. Zanuck
  78. Robert Zemeckis - Robert Zemeckis

Businesspeople, 39

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Ancient, 1
  1. Marcus Licinius Crassus - Marcus Licinius Crassus
Middle age, 1
  1. Lorenzo de' Medici - Lorenzo de' Medici
Industrial revolution, 18
  1. Samuel Crompton - Samuel Crompton
  2. Thomas Newcomen - Thomas Newcomen
  3. John Jacob Astor - John Jacob Astor
  4. Jamsetji Tata - Jamsetji Tata
United States
  1. Andrew Carnegie - Andrew Carnegie
  2. James Buchanan Duke - James Buchanan Duke
  3. Warren Buffett - Warren Buffett
  4. Henry Ford - Henry Ford
  5. Meyer Guggenheim - Meyer Guggenheim
  6. Howard Hughes - Howard Hughes
  7. J. P. Morgan - J. P. Morgan
  8. J. Paul Getty - J. Paul Getty
  9. William Randolph Hearst - William Randolph Hearst
  10. John D. Rockefeller - John D. Rockefeller
  11. Leland Stanford - Leland Stanford
  12. Cornelius Vanderbilt - Cornelius Vanderbilt
  13. Madam C. J. Walker - Madam C. J. Walker
  14. George Westinghouse - George Westinghouse
Modern, 7
  1. Coco Chanel - Coco Chanel
  2. Alan Sugar - Alan Sugar
  3. Dhirubhai Ambani - Dhirubhai Ambani
  4. Muhammad Yunus - Muhammad Yunus
  5. Enzo Ferrari - Enzo Ferrari
United States
  1. Ray Kroc - Ray Kroc
  2. Sam Walton - Sam Walton
Contemporary, 12
  1. Mukesh Ambani - Mukesh Ambani
  2. Carlos Slim - Carlos Slim
  3. Sergey Brin - Sergey Brin
  4. Richard Branson - Richard Branson
United States
  1. Bill Gates - Bill Gates
  2. Steve Jobs - Steve Jobs
  3. Elon Musk - Elon Musk
  4. Larry Page - Larry Page
  5. Donald Trump - Donald Trump
  6. Ted Turner - Ted Turner
  7. Oprah Winfrey - Oprah Winfrey
  8. Mark Zuckerberg - Mark Zuckerberg

Explorers, 30

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Earlier
  1. Ibn Battuta - Ibn Battuta
  2. Leif Erikson - Leif Ericson
Age of discovery
  1. Willem Barentsz - Willem Barentsz
  2. John Cabot - John Cabot
  3. Pedro Álvares Cabral - Pedro Álvares Cabral
  4. Jacques Cartier - Jacques Cartier
  5. Christopher Columbus - Christopher Columbus
  6. Hernán Cortés - Hernán Cortés
  7. Francis Drake - Francis Drake
  8. Juan Sebastián Elcano - Juan Sebastián Elcano
  9. Vasco da Gama - Vasco da Gama
  10. Ferdinand Magellan - Ferdinand Magellan
  11. Juan Ponce de León - Ponce de Leon
  12. Francisco Pizarro - Francisco Pizarro
  13. Marco Polo - Marco Polo
  14. Hernando de Soto - Hernando de Soto
  15. Abel Tasman - Abel Tasman
  16. Amerigo Vespucci - Amerigo Vespucci
  17. Zheng He - Zheng He
Early modern
  1. Vitus Bering - Vitus Bering
  2. James Cook - James Cook
  3. Alexander von Humboldt - Alexander von Humboldt
  4. David Livingstone - David Livingstone
  5. Henry Morton Stanley - Henry Morton Stanley
Modern
  1. Roald Amundsen - Roald Amundsen
  2. Neil Armstrong - Neil Armstrong
  3. Yuri Gagarin - Yuri Gagarin
  4. John Glenn - John Glenn
  5. Edmund Hillary - Edmund Hillary
  6. Tenzing Norgay - Tenzing Norgay

Philosophers, historians, political and social scientists, 197

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Philosophers, 96

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Ancient, 23
  1. Aristotle - Aristotle
  2. Augustine of Hippo - Augustine of Hippo
  3. Confucius - Confucius
  4. Democritus - Democritus
  5. Diogenes of Sinope - Diogenes of Sinope
  6. Epicurus - Epicurus
  7. Gorgias - Gorgias
  8. Han Fei - Han Fei
  9. Heraclitus - Heraclitus
  10. Laozi - Laozi
  11. Li Si - Li Si
  12. Mencius - Mencius
  13. Parmenides - Parmenides
  14. Plato - Plato
  15. Plotinus - Plotinus
  16. Seneca the Younger - Seneca the Younger
  17. Shang Yang - Shang Yang
  18. Socrates - Socrates
  19. Thales - Thales
  20. Xun Kuang - Xunzi
  21. Zeno of Citium - Zeno of Citium
  22. Zeno of Elea - Zeno of Elea
  23. Zhuang Zhou - Zhuangzi
Middle Ages, 13
  1. Peter Abelard - Peter Abelard
  2. Averroes - Averroes
  3. Boethius - Boethius
  4. Francis Bacon - Francis Bacon
  5. Giordano Bruno - Giordano Bruno
  6. Hasdai Crescas - Hasdai Crescas
  7. Duns Scotus - Duns Scotus
  8. Maimonides - Maimonides
  9. Nicholas of Cusa - Nicholas of Cusa
  10. Thomas Aquinas - Thomas Aquinas
  11. Wang Yangming - Wang Yangming
  12. William of Ockham - William of Ockham
  13. Zhu Xi - Zhu Xi
Early modern, 25
  1. George Berkeley - George Berkeley
  2. John Amos Comenius - Johan Amos Comenius
  3. René Descartes - René Descartes
  4. Friedrich Engels - Friedrich Engels
  5. Desiderius Erasmus - Desiderius Erasmus
  6. Hugo Grotius - Hugo Grotius
  7. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  8. Thomas Hobbes - Thomas Hobbes
  9. David Hume - David Hume
  10. William James - William James
  11. Immanuel Kant - Immanuel Kant
  12. Søren Kierkegaard - Søren Kierkegaard
  13. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
  14. John Locke - John Locke
  15. John Stuart Mill - John Stuart Mill
  16. Montesquieu - Montesquieu
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche - Friedrich Nietzsche
  18. Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  19. Max Scheler - Max Scheler
  20. Friedrich Schleiermacher - Friedrich Schleiermacher
  21. Arthur Schopenhauer - Arthur Schopenhauer
  22. Herbert Spencer - Herbert Spencer
  23. Baruch Spinoza - Baruch Spinoza
  24. Emanuel Swedenborg - Emanuel Swedenborg
  25. Voltaire - Voltaire
Modern, 35
  1. Theodor W. Adorno - Theodor W. Adorno
  2. Raymond Aron - Raymond Aron
  3. Simone de Beauvoir - Simone de Beauvoir
  4. Henri Bergson - Henri Bergson
  5. Isaiah Berlin - Isaiah Berlin
  6. Ernst Bloch - Ernst Bloch
  7. Martin Buber - Martin Buber
  8. Albert Camus - Albert Camus
  9. Ernst Cassirer - Ernst Cassirer
  10. Benedetto Croce - Benedetto Croce
  11. Gilles Deleuze - Gilles Deleuze
  12. Jacques Derrida - Jacques Derrida
  13. John Dewey - John Dewey
  14. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  15. Ludwig Feuerbach - Ludwig Feuerbach
  16. Johann Gottlieb Fichte - Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  17. Gottlob Frege - Gottlob Frege
  18. Yan Fu - Yan Fu
  19. Hans-Georg Gadamer - Hans-Georg Gadamer
  20. Jürgen Habermas - Jürgen Habermas
  21. Martin Heidegger - Martin Heidegger
  22. Edmund Husserl - Edmund Husserl
  23. Thomas Kuhn - Thomas Kuhn
  24. Imre Lakatos - Imre Lakatos
  25. Marshall McLuhan - Marshall McLuhan
  26. Maurice Merleau-Ponty - Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  27. Karl Popper - Karl Popper
  28. John Rawls - John Rawls
  29. Bertrand Russell - Bertrand Russell
  30. Jean-Paul Sartre - Jean-Paul Sartre
  31. Henry David Thoreau - Henry David Thoreau
  32. Miguel de Unamuno - Miguel de Unamuno
  33. Alfred North Whitehead - Alfred North Whitehead
  34. Ludwig Wittgenstein - Ludwig Wittgenstein
  35. Kang Youwei - Kang Youwei

Historians, 21

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Ancient, 8
  1. Eusebius - Eusebius
  2. Herodotus - Herodotus
  3. Livy - Livy
  4. Ammianus Marcellinus - Ammianus Marcellinus
  5. Tacitus - Tacitus
  6. Thucydides - Thucydides
  7. Sima Qian - Sima Qian
  8. Xenophon - Xenophon
Middle Ages, 3
  1. Bede - Bede
  2. Ibn Khaldun - Ibn Khaldun
  3. Rashid-al-Din Hamadani - Rashid-al-Din Hamadani
Early modern, 3
  1. Edward Gibbon - Edward Gibbon
  2. Leopold von Ranke - Leopold von Ranke
  3. Adolphe Thiers - Adolphe Thiers
Modern, 7
  1. Fernand Braudel - Fernand Braudel
  2. Michel Foucault - Michel Foucault
  3. Christopher Hill (historian) - Christopher Hill
  4. Theodor Mommsen - Theodor Mommsen
  5. A. J. P. Taylor - A. J. P. Taylor
  6. Barbara W. Tuchman - Barbara W. Tuchman
  7. Frederick Jackson Turner - Frederick Jackson Turner

Economists, 14

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Early modern period, 4
  1. Thomas Robert Malthus - Thomas Robert Malthus
  2. François Quesnay - François Quesnay
  3. David Ricardo - David Ricardo
  4. Adam Smith - Adam Smith
Modern, 10
  1. Milton Friedman - Milton Friedman
  2. Hermann Heinrich Gossen - Hermann Heinrich Gossen
  3. John Maynard Keynes - John Maynard Keynes*
  4. Peter Kropotkin - Peter Kropotkin
  5. Paul Krugman - Paul Krugman
  6. John Forbes Nash, Jr. - John Forbes Nash, Jr.*
  7. Gunnar Myrdal - Gunnar Myrdal
  8. Bertil Ohlin - Bertil Ohlin
  9. Paul Samuelson - Paul Samuelson
  10. Werner Sombart - Werner Sombart
  11. William Vickrey - William Vickrey

Linguists, 7

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Antiquity
  1. Mesrop Mashtots - Mesrop Mashtots
  2. Pāṇini - Pāṇini
Modern
  1. Mikhail Bakhtin - Mikhail Bakhtin
  2. Noam Chomsky - Noam Chomsky*
  3. Julia Kristeva - Julia Kristeva
  4. Yuri Lotman - Yuri Lotman
  5. Ferdinand de Saussure - Ferdinand de Saussure

Sociologists, 13

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  1. Ulrich Beck - Ulrich Beck
  2. Pierre Bourdieu - Pierre Bourdieu
  3. Auguste Comte - Auguste Comte
  4. Émile Durkheim - Émile Durkheim
  5. Norbert Elias - Norbert Elias
  6. Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens - Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens
  7. Erving Goffman - Erving Goffman
  8. Bruno Latour - Bruno Latour
  9. Robert K. Merton - Robert K. Merton
  10. Talcott Parsons - Talcott Parsons
  11. Pitirim Sorokin - Pitirim Sorokin
  12. Max Weber - Max Weber*
  13. C. Wright Mills - C. Wright Mills

Political writers, 9

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Antiquity, 1
  1. Chanakya - Chanakya
Middle Ages, 1
  1. Niccolò Machiavelli - Niccolò Machiavelli
Early Modern, 1
  1. Edmund Burke - Edmund Burke
Modern, 6
  1. Judith Butler - Judith Butler
  2. Antonio Gramsci - Antonio Gramsci
  3. Thomas Paine - Thomas Paine
  4. Rosa Luxemburg - Rosa Luxemburg*
  5. Karl Marx - Karl Marx*
  6. Hans Morgenthau - Hans Morgenthau

Psychologists, 31

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  1. Alfred Adler - Alfred Adler
  2. Gordon Allport - Gordon Allport
  3. Albert Bandura - Albert Bandura
  4. Raymond Cattell - Raymond Cattell
  5. Hans Eysenck - Hans Eysenck
  6. Albert Ellis - Albert Ellis
  7. Erik Erikson - Erik Erikson
  8. Gustav Fechner - Gustav Fechner*
  9. Leon Festinger - Leon Festinger
  10. Sigmund Freud - Sigmund Freud*
  11. Erich Fromm - Erich Fromm
  12. Jane Goodall - Jane Goodall
  13. Donald O. Hebb - Donald O. Hebb
  14. Hermann von Helmholtz - Hermann von Helmholtz
  15. Karl Jaspers - Karl Jaspers
  16. Carl Jung - Carl Jung
  17. Kurt Lewin - Kurt Lewin
  18. Abraham Maslow - Abraham Maslow*
  19. David McClelland - David McClelland
  20. George Armitage Miller - George Armitage Miller*
  21. Ivan Pavlov - Ivan Pavlov*
  22. Jean Piaget - Jean Piaget*
  23. Carl Rogers - Carl Rogers
  24. Otto Rank - Otto Rank
  25. Stanley Schachter - Stanley Schachter
  26. B. F. Skinner - B. F. Skinner*
  27. Benjamin Spock - Benjamin Spock
  28. Edward Thorndike - Edward Thorndike
  29. John B. Watson - John B. Watson
  30. Wilhelm Wundt - Wilhelm Wundt
  31. Lev Vygotsky - Lev Vygotsky

Anthropologists and cultural scientists, 2

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  1. Claude Lévi-Strauss - Claude Lévi-Strauss
  2. Margaret Mead - Margaret Mead

Art historians and critics, 3

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  1. Walter Benjamin - Walter Benjamin
  2. Clement Greenberg - Clement Greenberg
  3. Erwin Panofsky - Erwin Panofsky

Religious figures, 130

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Abrahamic religions, 88

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  1. Abraham - Abraham
  2. Adam - Adam
  3. Daniel (biblical figure) - Daniel
  4. David - David
  5. Elijah - Elijah
  6. Ezra - Ezra
  7. Gabriel - Gabriel
  8. Isaiah - Isaiah
  9. Jacob - Jacob
  10. Joseph (patriarch) - Joseph (son of Jacob)
  11. Moses - Moses
  12. Noah - Noah
  13. Solomon - Solomon
Christianity, 55
  1. Mary (mother of Jesus) - Mary (mother of Jesus)
  2. Jesus - Jesus
  3. John the Apostle - John the Apostle
  4. John the Baptist - John the Baptist
  5. Thomas More - Thomas More
  6. Paul the Apostle - Paul the Apostle
  7. Saint Peter - Saint Peter
Eastern Christianity
  1. Arius - Arius
  2. Athanasius of Alexandria - Athanasius of Alexandria
  3. Basil of Caesarea - Basil of Caesarea
  4. John Chrysostom - John Chrysostom
  5. Clement of Alexandria - Clement of Alexandria
  6. Cyril of Alexandria - Cyril of Alexandria
  7. John of Damascus - John of Damascus
  8. Saints Cyril and Methodius - Saints Cyril and Methodius
  9. Gregory of Nazianzus - Gregory of Nazianzus
  10. Nestorius - Nestorius
  11. Saint Nicholas - Saint Nicholas
  12. Patriarch Nikon of Moscow - Patriarch Nikon
  13. Gregory of Nyssa - Gregory of Nyssa
  14. Origen - Origen
Popes
  1. Pope Clement I - Pope Clement I
  2. Pope Gregory I - Pope Gregory I
  3. Pope Leo I - Pope Leo I
  4. Pope Paul VI - Pope Paul VI
  5. Pope Pius IX - Pope Pius IX
Protestantism
  1. Jacobus Arminius - Jacobus Arminius
  2. Karl Barth - Karl Barth
  3. Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  4. John Calvin - John Calvin*
  5. Thomas Cranmer - Thomas Cranmer
  6. Mary Baker Eddy - Mary Baker Eddy
  7. Billy Graham - Billy Graham
  8. John Knox - John Knox
  9. Philip Melanchthon - Philipp Melanchthon*
  10. Menno Simons - Menno Simons
  11. Joseph Smith - Joseph Smith
  12. Charles Spurgeon - Charles Spurgeon
  13. John Wesley - John Wesley
  14. Huldrych Zwingli - Huldrych Zwingli
Western Christianity
  1. Ambrose - Ambrose
  2. Francis of Assisi - Francis of Assisi
  3. Bonaventure - Bonaventure
  4. Columba - Columba
  5. John of the Cross - John of the Cross
  6. Saint George - Saint George
  7. Jan Hus - Jan Hus
  8. Irenaeus - Irenaeus
  9. Jerome - Jerome
  10. Ignatius of Loyola - Ignatius of Loyola
  11. Benedict of Nursia - Benedict of Nursia
  12. Tertullian - Tertullian
  13. Tomás de Torquemada - Tomás de Torquemada
  14. John Wycliffe - John Wycliffe
  15. Francis Xavier - Francis Xavier
Islam, 13
  1. Fatimah - Fatimah
  2. Muhammad - Muhammad
Shi'a Islam
  1. Ali - Ali
  2. Husayn ibn Ali - Hussein ibn Ali
  3. Ja'far al-Sadiq - Ja'far al-Sadiq
Sunni Islam
  1. Muhammad al-Bukhari - Muhammad al-Bukhari
  2. Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj - Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
  3. Al-Nawawi - Al-Nawawi
  4. Al-Shafi‘i - Al-Shafi‘i
  5. Malik ibn Anas - Malik ibn Anas
  6. Ahmad ibn Hanbal - Ahmad ibn Hanbal
  7. Abu Hanifa - Abū Ḥanīfa
  8. Ibn Taymiyyah - Ibn Taymiyyah
Judaism, 8
  1. Judah Loew ben Bezalel - Judah Loew ben Bezalel
  2. Vilna Gaon - Vilna Gaon
  3. Akiva ben Joseph - Akiva ben Joseph
  4. Rashi - Rashi
  5. Baal Shem Tov - Baal Shem Tov
Others, 2
  1. Al-Ghazali - Al-Ghazali
  2. Ibn Arabi - Ibn Arabi

Buddhism, 17

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  1. Gautama Buddha - Gautama Buddha
  2. Thích Nhất Hạnh - Thich Nhat Hanh
  3. 14th Dalai Lama - 14th Dalai Lama
  4. Longchenpa - Longchenpa
  5. Nagarjuna - Nagarjuna
  6. Padmasambhava - Padmasambhava
Chinese Buddhism
  1. Bodhidharma - Bodhidharma
  2. Huineng - Huineng
  3. Huiyuan (Buddhist) - Huiyuan (Buddhist)
  4. Kumārajīva - Kumārajīva
  5. Zhiyi - Zhiyi
Indian Buddhism
  1. Ananda - Ananda
  2. Maudgalyayana - Maudgalyayana
  3. Sariputta - Sariputta
  4. Vasubandhu - Vasubandhu
Japanese Buddhism
  1. Dōgen - Dōgen
  2. Kūkai - Kūkai

Hinduism, 18

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Ancient
  1. Kanada (philosopher) - Kanada
  2. Kapila - Kapila
  3. Patanjali - Patanjali
  4. Valmiki - Valmiki
  5. Vyasa - Vyasa
Medieval
  1. Basava - Basava
  2. Kumārila Bhaṭṭa - Kumārila Bhaṭṭa
  3. Gaudapada - Gaudapada
  4. Madhvacharya - Madhvacharya
  5. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu - Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
  6. Ramanuja - Ramanuja
  7. Adi Shankara - Adi Shankara
Modern
  1. Sri Aurobindo - Sri Aurobindo
  2. Ramana Maharshi - Ramana Maharshi
  3. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada - A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  4. Ramakrishna - Ramakrishna
  5. Swami Vivekananda - Swami Vivekananda
  6. Paramahansa Yogananda - Paramahansa Yogananda

Others, 7

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Bahá'í
  1. Báb - Báb
  2. Bahá'u'lláh - Bahá'u'lláh
Sikhism
  1. Guru Nanak - Guru Nanak
  2. Guru Gobind Singh - Guru Gobind Singh
Zoroastrianism
  1. Zoroaster - Zoroaster
Mystics
  1. Nostradamus - Nostradamus
  2. Grigori Rasputin - Grigori Rasputin

Politicians and leaders, 349

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Ancient, 48

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Asia
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Central Asia
  1. Cyrus the Great - Cyrus the Great
  2. Semiramis - Semiramis
Eastern Asia
  1. Qin Shi Huang - Qin Shi Huang
  2. Sun Tzu - Sun Tzu
Egypt
  1. Akhenaten - Akhenaten
  2. Cleopatra - Cleopatra
  3. Djoser - Djoser
  4. Hatshepsut - Hatshepsut
  5. Nefertiti - Nefertiti
  6. Ptahhotep - Ptahhotep
  7. Ptolemy I Soter - Ptolemy I Soter
  8. Ramesses II - Ramesses II
  9. Thutmose III - Thutmose III
  10. Tutankhamun - Tutankhamun
  11. Seti I - Seti I
Southern Asia
  1. Ashoka - Ashoka
  2. Chandragupta Maurya - Chandragupta Maurya
Western Asia
  1. Croesus - Croesus
  2. Hammurabi - Hammurabi
  3. Mithridates VI of Pontus - Mithridates VI of Pontus
  4. Queen of Sheba - Queen of Sheba
  5. Darius I - Dareios I.
  6. Emperor Gaozu of Han - Emperor Gaozu of Han
Europe
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Ancient Rome
  1. Antoninus Pius - Antoninus Pius
  2. Augustus - Augustus
  3. Caligula - Caligula
  4. Constantine the Great - Constantine the Great
  5. Domitian - Domitian
  6. Julius Caesar - Julius Caesar
  7. Marcus Aurelius - Marcus Aurelius
  8. Nero - Nero
  9. Theodosius I - Theodosius I
  10. Tiberius - Tiberius
  11. Trajan - Trajan
Eastern Europe
  1. Attila - Attila
  2. Pyrrhus of Epirus - Pyrrhus of Epirus
Hellenistic Kingdom
  1. Seleucus I Nicator - Seleucus I Nicator
Macedonia
  1. Alexander the Great - Alexander the Great
  2. Philip II of Macedon - Philip II of Macedon
Greece
  1. Alcibiades - Alcibiades
  2. Demosthenes - Demosthenes
  3. Pericles - Pericles
  4. Solon - Solon
Western Europe
  1. Alaric I - Alaric I
  2. Arminius - Arminius
  3. Boudica - Boudica
  4. Vercingetorix - Vercingetorix
  5. Hannibal - Hannibal

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Asia
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Byzantine Empire
  1. Basil II - Basil II
  2. Heraclius - Heraclius
  3. Justinian I - Justinian I
  4. Leo III the Isaurian - Leo III the Isaurian
  5. Manuel I Komnenos - Manuel I Komnenos
Caliphates
  1. Abu Bakr - Abu Bakr
  2. Harun al-Rashid - Harun al-Rashid
  3. Muawiyah I - Muawiyah I
  4. Umar - Umar
  5. Uthman - Uthman ibn Affan
Central Asia
  1. Batu Khan - Batu Khan
  2. Hulagu Khan - Hulagu Khan
  3. Timur - Timur
  4. Ulugh Beg - Ulugh Beg
China
  1. Kublai Khan - Kublai Khan
Eastern Asia
  1. Genghis Khan - Genghis Khan
  2. Ögedei Khan - Ögedei Khan
Western Asia
  1. Mehmed the Conqueror - Mehmed the Conqueror
  2. Osman I - Osman I
  3. Saladin - Saladin
Europe
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Eastern Europe
  1. Matthias Corvinus - Matthias Corvinus
  2. Simeon I of Bulgaria - Simeon I of Bulgaria
  3. Stephen I of Hungary - Stephen I of Hungary
  4. Vlad the Impaler - Vlad the Impaler
England and Scotland
  1. Alfred the Great - Alfred the Great
  2. Edward I of England - Edward I of England
  3. Henry II of England - Henry II of England
  4. John, King of England - John, King of England
  5. Richard I of England - Richard I of England
  6. William the Conqueror - William the Conqueror
France
  1. Charlemagne - Charlemagne
  2. Chlothar I - Chlothar I
  3. Clovis I - Clovis I
  4. Louis the Pious - Louis the Pious
  5. Louis XI of France - Louis XI of France
  6. Philip II of France - Philip II of France
  7. Philip IV of France - Philip IV of France
Germany
  1. Arnulf of Carinthia - Arnulf of Carinthia
  2. Charles the Fat - Charles the Fat
  3. Henry the Fowler - Henry the Fowler
Holy Roman Empire
  1. Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
  2. Charles the Bald - Charles the Bald
  3. Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor - Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
  4. Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
  5. Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor - Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
  6. Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor - Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
  7. Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor - Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
Italy
  1. Girolamo Savonarola - Girolamo Savonarola
  2. Lucrezia Borgia - Lucrezia Borgia
Papal States
  1. Pope Alexander VI - Pope Alexander VI
  2. Pope Boniface VIII - Pope Boniface VIII
  3. Pope Gregory VII - Pope Gregory VII
  4. Pope Innocent III - Pope Innocent III
Poland and Lithuania
  1. Bolesław I Chrobry - Bolesław I Chrobry
  2. Władysław II Jagiełło - Jogaila
  3. Mieszko I of Poland - Mieszko I of Poland
Russia
  1. Alexander Nevsky - Alexander Nevsky
  2. Ivan III of Russia - Ivan III of Russia
  3. Sviatoslav I of Kiev - Sviatoslav I of Kiev
  4. Vladimir the Great - Vladimir the Great
Southern Europe
  1. Theoderic the Great - Theoderic the Great
Western Europe
  1. Afonso I of Portugal - Afonso I of Portugal
  2. Cnut the Great - Cnut the Great
  3. Ferdinand II of Aragon - Ferdinand II of Aragon
  4. Henry the Navigator - Henry the Navigator
  5. Isabella I of Castile - Isabella I of Castile
  6. Lothair I - Lothair I

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Americas
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Americas
  1. Atahualpa - Atahualpa
  2. Moctezuma II - Moctezuma II
  3. Sitting Bull - Sitting Bull
United States
  1. Alexander Hamilton - Alexander Hamilton
  2. George Washington - George Washington
  3. James Madison - James Madison
  4. John Adams - John Adams
  5. Thomas Jefferson - Thomas Jefferson
Asia
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Central Asia
  1. Abbas I of Persia - Abbas I of Persia
  2. Babur - Babur
  3. Humayun - Humayun
Japan
  1. Oda Nobunaga - Oda Nobunaga
  2. Tokugawa Ieyasu - Tokugawa Ieyasu
  3. Toyotomi Hideyoshi - Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Southern Asia
  1. Akbar - Akbar
  2. Aurangzeb - Aurangzeb
  3. Shah Jahan - Shah Jahan
Western Asia
  1. Mehmed IV - Mehmed IV
  2. Selim I - Selim I
  3. Selim III - Selim III
  4. Suleiman the Magnificent - Suleiman the Magnificent
Europe
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England and Scotland
  1. Charles I of England - Charles I of England
  2. Elizabeth I of England - Elizabeth I of England
  3. Henry VIII of England - Henry VIII
  4. James VI and I - James VI and I
  5. Mary I of England - Mary I of England
  6. Mary, Queen of Scots - Mary, Queen of Scots
  7. Robert Walpole - Robert Walpole
  8. William III of England - William III of England
  9. William Pitt the Younger - William Pitt the Younger
France
  1. Cardinal Mazarin - Cardinal Mazarin
  2. Cardinal Richelieu - Cardinal Richelieu
  3. Catherine de' Medici - Catherine de' Medici
  4. Francis I of France - Francis I of France
  5. Henry IV of France - Henry IV of France
  6. Louis XIV of France - Louis XIV
  7. Louis XV of France - Louis XV of France
  8. Louis XVI of France - Louis XVI of France
Holy Roman Empire
  1. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
  2. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
  3. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
  4. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
  5. Maria Theresa - Maria Theresa
  6. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
Italia and Papal States
  1. Pope Clement VII - Pope Clement VII
  2. Pope Julius II - Pope Julius II
Poland and Lithuania
  1. John III Sobieski - John III Sobieski
  2. Sigismund III Vasa - Sigismund III Vasa
Russia
  1. Alexis of Russia - Alexis of Russia
  2. Boris Godunov - Boris Godunov
  3. Catherine the Great - Catherine the Great
  4. Elizabeth of Russia - Elizabeth of Russia
  5. Ivan the Terrible - Ivan the Terrible
  6. Peter the Great - Peter the Great
Western Europe
  1. Charles XII of Sweden - Charles XII of Sweden
  2. Christian IV of Denmark - Christian IV of Denmark
  3. Frederick the Great - Frederick the Great
  4. Philip II of Spain - Philip II of Spain
  5. Philip V of Spain - Philip V of Spain
  6. William the Silent - William the Silent

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Africa, 17
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Eastern Africa
  1. Haile Selassie - Haile Selassie I
  2. Idi Amin - Idi Amin
  3. Julius Nyerere - Julius Nyerere
Northern Africa
  1. Abdelkader El Djezairi - Abdelkader El Djezairi
  2. Anwar Sadat - Anwar Sadat
  3. Gamal Abdel Nasser - Gamal Abdel Nasser
  4. Muammar Gaddafi - Muammar Gaddafi
  5. Muhammad Ali of Egypt - Muhammad Ali of Egypt
Southern and Central Africa
  1. Cecil Rhodes - Cecil Rhodes
  2. Hastings Banda - Hastings Banda
  3. Mobutu Sese Seko - Mobutu Sese Seko
  4. Nelson Mandela - Nelson Mandela
  5. Robert Mugabe - Robert Mugabe
  6. Shaka - Shaka
Western Africa
  1. Kofi Annan - Kofi Annan
  2. Kwame Nkrumah - Kwame Nkrumah
  3. Léopold Sédar Senghor - Léopold Sédar Senghor
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Brazil
  1. Pedro I of Brazil - Pedro I of Brazil
  2. Pedro II of Brazil - Pedro II of Brazil
Canada
  1. Pierre Trudeau - Pierre Trudeau
Central America and Caribbean
  1. Daniel Ortega - Daniel Ortega
  2. Fidel Castro - Fidel Castro
Mexico
  1. Benito Juárez - Benito Juárez
  2. Porfirio Díaz - Porfirio Díaz
South America
  1. Alfredo Stroessner - Alfredo Stroessner
  2. Augusto Pinochet - Augusto Pinochet
  3. Eva Perón - Eva Perón
  4. Hugo Chávez - Hugo Chávez
  5. José de San Martín - José de San Martín
  6. Salvador Allende - Salvador Allende
  7. Simón Bolívar - Simón Bolívar
United States
  1. George W. Bush - George W. Bush
  2. Jimmy Carter - Jimmy Carter
  3. Bill Clinton - Bill Clinton
  4. Dwight D. Eisenhower - Dwight D. Eisenhower
  5. Andrew Jackson - Andrew Jackson
  6. Lyndon B. Johnson - Lyndon B. Johnson
  7. John F. Kennedy - John F. Kennedy
  8. Henry Kissinger - Henry Kissinger
  9. Abraham Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln
  10. Douglas MacArthur - Douglas MacArthur
  11. James Monroe - James Monroe
  12. Richard Nixon - Richard Nixon
  13. James K. Polk - James K. Polk
  14. Ronald Reagan - Ronald Reagan
  15. Eleanor Roosevelt - Eleanor Roosevelt
  16. Franklin D. Roosevelt - Franklin D. Roosevelt
  17. Theodore Roosevelt - Theodore Roosevelt
  18. Harry S. Truman - Harry S. Truman
  19. Woodrow Wilson - Woodrow Wilson
Asia, 36
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China
  1. Empress Dowager Cixi - Empress Dowager Cixi
  2. Zhou Enlai - Zhou Enlai
  3. Hu Jintao - Hu Jintao
  4. Chiang Kai-shek - Chiang Kai-shek
  5. Puyi - Puyi
  6. Deng Xiaoping - Deng Xiaoping
  7. Sun Yat-sen - Sun Yat-sen
  8. Mao Zedong - Mao Zedong
Eastern Asia
  1. Park Chung-hee - Park Chung-hee
  2. Hirohito - Hirohito
  3. Kim Il-sung - Kim Il-sung
  4. Emperor Meiji - Emperor Meiji
  5. Eisaku Satō - Eisaku Satō
Central Asia
  1. Heydar Aliyev - Heydar Aliyev
  2. Nursultan Nazarbayev - Nursultan Nazarbayev
  3. Saparmurat Niyazov - Saparmurat Niyazov
  4. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
India
  1. Indira Gandhi - Indira Gandhi
  2. Jawaharlal Nehru - Jawaharlal Nehru
  3. Vallabhbhai Patel - Vallabhbhai Patel
Southeastern Asia
  1. Corazon Aquino - Corazon Aquino
  2. Ferdinand Marcos - Ferdinand Marcos
  3. Ho Chi Minh - Ho Chi Minh
  4. Mahathir Mohamad - Mahathir Mohamad
  5. Pol Pot - Pol Pot
  6. Suharto - Suharto
  7. Sukarno - Sukarno
  8. Lee Kuan Yew - Lee Kuan Yew
Southern Asia
  1. Benazir Bhutto - Benazir Bhutto
  2. Muhammad Ali Jinnah - Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Western Asia
  1. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  2. David Ben-Gurion - David Ben-Gurion
  3. Abdul Hamid II - Abdul Hamid II
  4. Saddam Hussein - Saddam Hussein
  5. Mahmud II - Mahmud II
  6. Golda Meir - Golda Meir
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Austria-Hungary
  1. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria - Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
  2. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor - Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
  3. Franz Joseph I of Austria - Franz Joseph I of Austria
  4. Klemens von Metternich - Klemens von Metternich
Eastern Europe
  1. Alexander Dubček - Alexander Dubček
  2. Enver Hoxha - Enver Hoxha
  3. Leonid Kuchma - Leonid Kuchma
  4. Josip Broz Tito - Josip Broz Tito
  5. Józef Piłsudski - Józef Piłsudski
  6. Lech Wałęsa - Lech Wałęsa
  7. Nicolae Ceaușescu - Nicolae Ceaușescu
  8. Slobodan Milošević - Slobodan Milošević
  9. Václav Havel - Václav Havel
France
  1. Charles de Gaulle - Charles de Gaulle
  2. François Mitterrand - François Mitterrand
  3. Louis Philippe I - Louis Philippe I
  4. Napoleon - Napoleon
  5. Napoleon III - Napoleon III
Germany
  1. Adolf Hitler - Adolf Hitler
  2. Erich Honecker - Erich Honecker
  3. Willy Brandt - Willy Brandt
  4. Helmut Kohl - Helmut Kohl
  5. Konrad Adenauer - Konrad Adenauer
  6. Otto von Bismarck - Otto von Bismarck
  7. Joseph Goebbels - Joseph Goebbels
  8. Wilhelm II, German Emperor - Wilhelm II, German Emperor
  9. William I, German Emperor - William I, German Emperor
Italia and Papal States
  1. Pope John Paul II - Pope John Paul II
Russia and USSR
  1. Alexander II of Russia - Alexander II of Russia
  2. Boris Yeltsin - Boris Yeltsin
  3. Eduard Shevardnadze - Eduard Shevardnadze
  4. Joseph Stalin - Joseph Stalin
  5. Leonid Brezhnev - Leonid Brezhnev
  6. Mikhail Gorbachev - Mikhail Gorbachev
  7. Nicholas I of Russia - Nicholas I of Russia
  8. Nicholas II of Russia - Nicholas II of Russia
  9. Nikita Khrushchev - Nikita Khrushchev
United Kingdom
  1. Benjamin Disraeli - Benjamin Disraeli
  2. Clement Attlee - Clement Attlee
  3. Diana, Princess of Wales - Diana, Princess of Wales
  4. Elizabeth II - Elizabeth II
  5. Margaret Thatcher - Margaret Thatcher
  6. Queen Victoria - Queen Victoria
  7. William Ewart Gladstone - William Ewart Gladstone
  8. Winston Churchill - Winston Churchill
  9. Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell - Robert Baden-Powell
Western Europe
  1. António de Oliveira Salazar - António de Oliveira Salazar
  2. Benito Mussolini - Benito Mussolini
  3. Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour - Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
  4. Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim - Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
  5. Charles XIV John of Sweden - Charles XIV John of Sweden
  6. Dag Hammarskjöld - Dag Hammarskjöld
  7. Francisco Franco - Francisco Franco
  8. Gro Harlem Brundtland - Gro Harlem Brundtland
  9. Juan Carlos I of Spain - Juan Carlos I of Spain
  10. Leopold II of Belgium - Leopold II of Belgium
  11. Christian Michelsen - Christian Michelsen
  12. Giuseppe Garibaldi - Giuseppe Garibaldi
  13. Alcide De Gasperi - Alcide De Gasperi

Current political leaders, 13

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Many Wikipedias have provisions for including current heads of government in their expanded vital article list. This list suggests the heads of the G8 countries, plus Brazil, China, India, the current U.N. Secretary General and the current Pope

  1. Ban Ki-moon - Ban Ki-moon (U.N.)
  2. Pope Francis - Pope Francis (Pope)
  3. Dilma Rousseff - Dilma Rousseff (Brazil)
  4. Stephen Harper - Stephen Harper (Canada)
  5. Xi Jinping - Xi Jinping (China)
  6. François Hollande - François Hollande (France)
  7. Angela Merkel - Angela Merkel (Germany)
  8. Manmohan Singh - Manmohan Singh (India)
  9. Matteo Renzi - Matteo Renzi (Italy)
  10. Shinzō Abe - Shinzō Abe (Japan)
  11. Vladimir Putin - Vladimir Putin (Russia)
  12. David Cameron - David Cameron (U.K.)
  13. Barack Obama - Barack Obama (U.S.)

Military leaders and military theorists, 16

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  1. Flavius Aetius - Flavius Aetius
  2. Pompey - Pompey
  3. Scipio Africanus - Scipio Africanus
  4. Sulla - Sulla
  5. Prince Eugene of Savoy - Prince Eugene of Savoy
  6. Alexander Suvorov - Alexander Suvorov
  7. Carl von Clausewitz - Carl von Clausewitz
  8. Ulysses S. Grant - Ulysses S. Grant
  9. T. E. Lawrence - T. E. Lawrence
  10. Robert E. Lee - Robert E. Lee
  11. George Marshall - George Marshall
  12. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson - Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
  13. Erwin Rommel - Erwin Rommel
  14. Võ Nguyên Giáp - Vo Nguyen Giap
  15. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
  16. Georgy Zhukov - Georgy Zhukov

Rebels, revolutionaries and activists, 35

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Africa
  1. Steve Biko - Steve Biko
  2. Thomas Sankara - Thomas Sankara
Asia
  1. Yasser Arafat - Yasser Arafat
  2. Aung San Suu Kyi - Aung San Suu Kyi
  3. Mahatma Gandhi - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
  4. Ruhollah Khomeini - Ruhollah Khomeini
  5. Osama bin Laden - Osama bin Laden
Europe
  1. Joan of Arc - Joan of Arc
  2. Oliver Cromwell - Oliver Cromwell
  3. Georges Danton - Georges Danton
  4. Vladimir Lenin - Vladimir Lenin
  5. Vasil Levski - Vasil Levski
  6. Martin Luther - Martin Luther
  7. Florence Nightingale - Florence Nightingale
  8. Emilia Plater - Emilia Plater
  9. Gavrilo Princip - Gavrilo Princip
  10. Maximilien Robespierre - Maximilien de Robespierre
  11. Spartacus - Spartacus
  12. Mother Teresa - Mother Teresa
  13. Leon Trotsky - Leon Trotsky
  14. William Wallace - William Wallace
  15. Simon Wiesenthal - Simon Wiesenthal
Americas
  1. Che Guevara - Che Guevara
  2. Pancho Villa - Pancho Villa
USA
  1. Susan B. Anthony - Susan B. Anthony
  2. Emma Goldman - Emma Goldman
  3. Al Gore - Al Gore
  4. Mary Harris Jones - Mother Jones
  5. Helen Keller - Helen Keller
  6. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
  7. Rosa Parks - Rosa Parks
  8. Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  9. Sojourner Truth - Sojourner Truth
  10. Harriet Tubman - Harriet Tubman
  11. Malcolm X - Malcolm X

Scientists, inventors and mathematicians, 282

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Pre-modern, 26

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Ancient
  1. Al-Biruni - Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī
  2. Archimedes - Archimedes
  3. Apollonius of Perga - Apollonius of Perga
  4. Archytas - Archytas
  5. Aryabhata - Aryabhata
  6. Diophantus - Diophantus
  7. Eratosthenes - Eratosthenes
  8. Euclid - Euclid
  9. Eudoxus of Cnidus - Eudoxus of Cnidus
  10. Hipparchus - Hipparchus
  11. Hippocrates - Hippocrates
  12. Hypatia - Hypatia
  13. Pappus of Alexandria - Pappus of Alexandria
  14. Ptolemy - Ptolemy
  15. Pythagoras - Pythagoras
  16. Su Song - Su Song
Middle Ages
  1. Alhazen - Alhacen
  2. Bhāskara II - Bhāskara II
  3. Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī - Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
  4. Nasir al-Din al-Tusi - Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
  5. Avicenna - Avicenna
  6. Brahmagupta - Brahmagupta
  7. Fibonacci - Fibonacci
  8. Jabir ibn Hayyan - Geber
  9. William Gilbert (astronomer) - William Gilbert
  10. Seki Takakazu - Seki Takakazu

Physics and astronomy, 79

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Astronomy
  1. Tycho Brahe - Tycho Brahe
  2. Nicolaus Copernicus - Nicolaus Copernicus
  3. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
  4. Galileo Galilei - Galileo Galilei
  5. Edmond Halley - Edmond Halley
  6. Edwin Hubble - Edwin Hubble
  7. Johannes Kepler - Johannes Kepler
  8. Ole Rømer - Ole Rømer
  9. Carl Sagan - Carl Sagan
Early modern
  1. Robert Hooke - Robert Hooke
  2. Christiaan Huygens - Christiaan Huygens
  3. Mikhail Lomonosov - Mikhail Lomonosov
  4. Isaac Newton - Isaac Newton
Modern
  1. André-Marie Ampère - André-Marie Ampère
  2. Amedeo Avogadro - Amedeo Avogadro
  3. Johann Jakob Balmer - Johann Jakob Balmer
  4. William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
  5. Henri Becquerel - Henri Becquerel
  6. Hans Bethe - Hans Bethe
  7. Niels Bohr - Niels Bohr
  8. Ludwig Boltzmann - Ludwig Boltzmann
  9. Max Born - Max Born
  10. William Henry Bragg - William Henry Bragg
  11. Henry Cavendish - Henry Cavendish
  12. James Chadwick - James Chadwick
  13. Steven Chu - Steven Chu
  14. Marie Curie - Marie Curie
  15. Pierre Curie - Pierre Curie
  16. John Dalton - John Dalton
  17. James Dewar - James Dewar
  18. Johannes Diderik van der Waals - Johannes Diderik van der Waals
  19. Paul Dirac - Paul Dirac
  20. Albert Einstein - Albert Einstein
  21. Michael Faraday - Michael Faraday
  22. Enrico Fermi - Enrico Fermi
  23. Richard Feynman - Richard Feynman
  24. Léon Foucault - Léon Foucault
  25. Augustin-Jean Fresnel - Augustin-Jean Fresnel
  26. Stephen Hawking - Stephen Hawking
  27. Werner Heisenberg - Werner Heisenberg
  28. James Prescott Joule - James Prescott Joule
  29. Gustav Kirchhoff - Gustav Kirchhoff
  30. Lev Landau - Lev Landau
  31. Ernest Lawrence - Ernest Lawrence
  32. Hendrik Lorentz - Hendrik Lorentz
  33. Ernst Mach - Ernst Mach
  34. James Clerk Maxwell - James Clerk Maxwell
  35. Lise Meitner - Lise Meitner
  36. Albert A. Michelson - Albert A. Michelson
  37. Robert Andrews Millikan - Robert Andrews Millikan
  38. Pieter van Musschenbroek - Pieter van Musschenbroek
  39. Georg Ohm - Georg Ohm
  40. J. Robert Oppenheimer - J. Robert Oppenheimer
  41. Wolfgang Pauli - Wolfgang Pauli
  42. Max Planck - Max Planck
  43. Wilhelm Röntgen - Wilhelm Röntgen
  44. Andrei Sakharov - Andrei Sakharov
  45. Erwin Schrödinger - Erwin Schrödinger
  46. Arnold Sommerfeld - Arnold Sommerfeld
  47. G. I. Taylor - G. I. Taylor
  48. Edward Teller - Edward Teller
  49. J. J. Thomson - J. J. Thomson
  50. Thomas Young (scientist) - Thomas Young
  51. Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich
  52. Hans Christian Ørsted - Hans Christian Ørsted
  53. Murray Gell-Mann - Murray Gell-Mann
  54. Wallace Carothers - Wallace Carothers
  55. George Francis FitzGerald - George FitzGerald
  56. Victor Francis Hess - Victor Francis Hess
  57. Gerard 't Hooft - Gerard 't Hooft
  58. Alfred Kastler - Alfred Kastler
  59. Philipp Lenard - Philipp Lenard
  60. Osborne Reynolds - Osborne Reynolds
  61. Johannes Rydberg - Johannes Rydberg
  62. Michael Servetus - Michael Servetus
  63. Joseph Stefan - Joseph Stefan
  64. John Hasbrouck Van Vleck - John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
  65. Eugene Wigner - Eugene Wigner
  66. Robert Woodrow Wilson - Robert Wilson

Chemistry, 25

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  1. Svante Arrhenius - Svante Arrhenius
  2. Jöns Jacob Berzelius - Jöns Jacob Berzelius
  3. Humphry Davy - Humphry Davy
  4. Robert Boyle - Robert Boyle
  5. Peter Debye - Peter Debye
  6. Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
  7. Josiah Willard Gibbs - Josiah Willard Gibbs
  8. Otto Hahn - Otto Hahn
  9. Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
  10. Dorothy Hodgkin - Dorothy Hodgkin
  11. Antoine Lavoisier - Antoine Lavoisier
  12. Justus von Liebig - Justus von Liebig
  13. Dmitri Mendeleev - Dmitri Mendeleev
  14. Joseph Priestley - Joseph Priestley
  15. Tadeusz Reichstein - Tadeus Reichstein
  16. Ernest Rutherford - Ernest Rutherford
  17. Willis R. Whitney - Willis R. Whitney
  18. Frederick Soddy - Frederick Soddy
  19. Linus Pauling - Linus Pauling
  20. Gilbert N. Lewis - Gilbert Lewis
  21. Fritz Haber - Fritz Haber
  22. Frederick Sanger - Frederick Sanger
  23. Vladimir Vernadsky - Vladimir Vernadsky
  24. Robert Burns Woodward - Robert Burns Woodward
  25. Carl Bosch - Carl Bosch

Natural sciences, 28

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Biology
  1. Norman Borlaug - Norman Borlaug
  2. Santiago Ramón y Cajal - Santiago Ramón y Cajal
  3. Francis Crick - Francis Crick
  4. Thomas Henry Huxley - Thomas Henry Huxley
  5. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
  6. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  7. Carl Linnaeus - Carl Linnaeus
  8. Konrad Lorenz - Konrad Lorenz
  9. Gregor Mendel - Gregor Mendel
  10. James Watson - James Watson
Medicine
  1. Casimir Funk - Casimir Funk
  2. William Harvey - William Harvey
  3. Paracelsus - Paracelsus
  4. Louis Pasteur - Louis Pasteur
  5. Jonas Salk - Jonas Salk
  6. Ignaz Semmelweis - Ignaz Semmelweis
  7. Andreas Vesalius - Andreas Vesalius
Natural sciences
  1. John James Audubon - John James Audubon
  2. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
  3. Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot - Sadi Carnot
  4. Rachel Carson - Rachel Carson
  5. Jacques Cousteau - Jacques Cousteau
  6. Charles Darwin - Charles Darwin
  7. Alexander Fleming - Alexander Fleming
  8. Galen - Galen
  9. Ernst Haeckel - Ernst Haeckel
  10. Edward Jenner - Edward Jenner
  11. Richard Leakey - Richard Leakey

Inventors, 56

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  1. John Logie Baird - John Logie Baird
  2. John Bardeen - John Bardeen
  3. Georg Bednorz - Georg Bednorz
  4. Alexander Graham Bell - Alexander Graham Bell
  5. Karl Benz - Karl Benz
  6. Emile Berliner - Emile Berliner
  7. Gerd Binnig - Gerd Binnig
  8. Clarence Birdseye - Clarence Birdseye
  9. Wernher von Braun - Wernher von Braun
  10. David Brewster - David Brewster
  11. Wright brothers - Wright brothers
  12. Nolan Bushnell - Nolan Bushnell
  13. Josephine Cochrane - Josephine Cochrane
  14. Christopher Cockerell - Christopher Cockerell
  15. Louis Daguerre - Louis Daguerre
  16. Raymond Vahan Damadian - Raymond Vahan Damadian
  17. Robert H. Dennard - Robert H. Dennard
  18. Rudolf Diesel - Rudolf Diesel
  19. George Eastman - George Eastman
  20. Thomas Edison - Thomas Edison
  21. Leo Fender - Leo Fender
  22. Lee de Forest - Lee De Forest
  23. Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
  24. Arthur Fry - Arthur Fry
  25. Buckminster Fuller - Buckminster Fuller
  26. Robert Fulton - Robert Fulton
  27. Gordon Gould - Gordon Gould
  28. Wilson Greatbatch - Wilson Greatbatch
  29. Johannes Gutenberg - Johannes Gutenberg
  30. Elias Howe - Elias Howe
  31. Joseph Marie Jacquard - Joseph Marie Jacquard
  32. Robert Jarvik - Robert Jarvik
  33. Philippe Kahn - Philippe Kahn
  34. John G. Kemeny - John George Kemeny
  35. Jack Kilby - Jack Kilby
  36. Stephanie Kwolek - Stephanie Kwolek
  37. Jaron Lanier - Jaron Lanier
  38. Ignacy Łukasiewicz - Ignacy Łukasiewicz
  39. Guglielmo Marconi - Guglielmo Marconi
  40. Cyrus McCormick - Cyrus McCormick
  41. Robert Metcalfe - Robert Metcalfe
  42. Samuel Morse - Samuel Morse
  43. Alfred Nobel - Alfred Nobel
  44. Robert Noyce - Robert Noyce
  45. Charles Algernon Parsons - Charles Algernon Parsons
  46. Roy J. Plunkett - Roy J. Plunkett
  47. William Shockley - William Shockley
  48. Alan Shugart - Alan Shugart
  49. Isaac Singer - Isaac Singer
  50. Nikola Tesla - Nikola Tesla
  51. Alessandro Volta - Alessandro Volta
  52. Ernest Walton - Ernest Walton
  53. James Watt - James Watt
  54. Wilhelm Eduard Weber - Wilhelm E. Weber
  55. Eli Whitney - Eli Whitney
  56. Charles Thomson Rees Wilson - Charles Wilson

Mathematicians, 49

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Early modern
  1. Daniel Bernoulli - Daniel Bernoulli
  2. Jacob Bernoulli - Jacob Bernoulli
  3. Bonaventura Cavalieri - Bonaventura Cavalieri
  4. Jean le Rond d'Alembert - Jean le Rond d'Alembert
  5. Leonhard Euler - Leonhard Euler
  6. Pierre de Fermat - Pierre de Fermat
  7. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  8. Blaise Pascal - Blaise Pascal
Modern
  1. Niels Henrik Abel - Niels Henrik Abel
  2. Vladimir Arnold - Vladimir Arnold
  3. Stefan Banach - Stefan Banach
  4. Isaac Barrow - Isaac Barrow
  5. George Boole - George Boole
  6. Georg Cantor - Georg Cantor
  7. Élie Cartan - Élie Cartan
  8. Augustin-Louis Cauchy - Augustin-Louis Cauchy
  9. Richard Dedekind - Richard Dedekind
  10. Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet - Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
  11. Gotthold Eisenstein - Gotthold Eisenstein
  12. Ronald Fisher - Ronald Fisher
  13. Joseph Fourier - Joseph Fourier
  14. Évariste Galois - Évariste Galois
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss - Carl Friedrich Gauss
  16. Alexander Grothendieck - Alexander Grothendieck
  17. Kurt Gödel - Kurt Gödel
  18. Jacques Hadamard - Jacques Hadamard
  19. William Rowan Hamilton - William Hamilton
  20. G. H. Hardy - G. H. Hardy
  21. Charles Hermite - Charles Hermite
  22. David Hilbert - David Hilbert
  23. Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi - Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
  24. Felix Klein - Felix Klein
  25. Andrey Kolmogorov - Andrey Kolmogorov
  26. Joseph-Louis Lagrange - Joseph Louis Lagrange
  27. Pierre-Simon Laplace - Pierre-Simon Laplace
  28. Nikolai Lobachevsky - Nikolai Lobachevsky
  29. Benoit Mandelbrot - Benoit Mandelbrot
  30. Pierre Louis Maupertuis - Pierre Louis Maupertuis
  31. Gaspard Monge - Gaspard Monge
  32. John von Neumann - John von Neumann
  33. Emmy Noether - Emmy Noether
  34. Grigori Perelman - Grigori Perelman
  35. Henri Poincaré - Henri Poincaré
  36. Jean-Victor Poncelet - Jean-Victor Poncelet
  37. Srinivasa Ramanujan - Srinivasa Ramanujan
  38. Bernhard Riemann - Bernhard Riemann
  39. James Harris Simons - James Harris Simons
  40. Karl Weierstrass - Karl Weierstrass
  41. Hermann Weyl - Hermann Weyl

Computer scientists, 19

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  1. John Vincent Atanasoff - John Vincent Atanasoff
  2. Charles Babbage - Charles Babbage
  3. Tim Berners-Lee - Tim Berners-Lee
  4. Dan Bricklin - Dan Bricklin
  5. Seymour Cray - Seymour Cray
  6. Ward Cunningham - Ward Cunningham
  7. Edsger W. Dijkstra - Edsger W. Dijkstra
  8. Douglas Engelbart - Douglas Engelbart
  9. Herman Hollerith - Herman Hollerith
  10. Gary Kildall - Gary Kildall
  11. Donald Knuth - Donald Knuth
  12. Ada Lovelace - Ada Lovelace
  13. Dennis Ritchie - Dennis Ritchie
  14. Richard Stallman - Richard Stallman
  15. Linus Torvalds - Linus Torvalds
  16. Alan Turing - Alan Turing
  17. Niklaus Wirth - Niklaus Wirth
  18. Steve Wozniak - Steve Wozniak
  19. Konrad Zuse - Konrad Zuse

Journalists, 19

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  1. Christiane Amanpour - Christiane Amanpour
  2. Robert Fisk - Robert Fisk*
  3. John Pilger - John Pilger
  4. Arun Shourie - Arun Shourie
United States
  1. Ed Bradley - Ed Bradley
  2. Tom Brokaw - Tom Brokaw
  3. Walter Cronkite - Walter Cronkite
  4. Hedda Hopper - Hedda Hopper
  5. David McCullough - David McCullough*
  6. Edward R. Murrow - Edward R. Murrow*
  7. Joseph Pulitzer - Joseph Pulitzer
  8. Dan Rather - Dan Rather
  9. Geraldo Rivera - Geraldo Rivera
  10. John Stossel - John Stossel
  11. Ed Sullivan - Ed Sullivan
  12. Mike Wallace - Mike Wallace
  13. Barbara Walters - Barbara Walters
  14. Walter Winchell - Walter Winchell
  15. Bob Woodward - Bob Woodward*

Sports figures, 171

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Athletics, 24
  1. Roger Bannister - Roger Bannister*
  2. Usain Bolt - Usain Bolt*
  3. Bob Beamon - Bob Beamon
  4. Sergey Bubka - Sergey Bubka
  5. Sebastian Coe - Sebastian Coe
  6. Dick Fosbury - Dick Fosbury
  7. Haile Gebrselassie - Haile Gebrselassie
  8. Eric Heiden - Eric Heiden (US)
  9. Stefka Kostadinova - Stefka Kostadinova
  10. Jackie Joyner-Kersee - Jackie Joyner-Kersee*
  11. Rafer Johnson - Rafer Johnson (US)
  12. Yelena Isinbayeva - Yelena Isinbayeva
  13. Sawao Kato - Sawao Kato
  14. Carl Lewis - Carl Lewis* (US)
  15. Kipchoge Keino - Kipchoge Keino
  16. Bobby Morrow - Bobby Morrow (US)
  17. Edwin Moses - Edwin Moses (US)
  18. Paavo Nurmi - Paavo Nurmi*
  19. Jesse Owens - Jesse Owens* (US)
  20. Lilia Podkopayeva - Lilia Podkopayeva
  21. Wilma Rudolph - Wilma Rudolph (US)
  22. Babe Didrikson Zaharias - Babe Didrikson Zaharias (US)
  23. Elena Zamolodchikova - Elena Zamolodchikova
  24. Emil Zátopek - Emil Zátopek*
Alpine skiing, 5
  1. Jean-Claude Killy - Jean-Claude Killy
  2. Hermann Maier - Hermann Maier
  3. Annemarie Moser-Pröll - Annemarie Moser-Pröll
  4. Ingemar Stenmark - Ingemar Stenmark
  5. Lindsey Vonn - Lindsey Vonn (US)
American/Irish/Australian Football, 4
  1. Jim Brown - Jim Brown* (US)
  2. O. J. Simpson - O. J. Simpson* (US)
  3. Jerry Rice - Jerry Rice* (US)
  4. Johnny Unitas - Johnny Unitas* (US)
Badminton, 2
  1. Lin Dan - Lin Dan
  2. Peter Gade - Peter Gade
Basketball, 11
  1. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - K. Abdul-Jabbar (US)
  2. Sergei Belov - Sergei Belov
  3. Larry Bird - Larry Bird (US)
  4. Wilt Chamberlain - Wilt Chamberlain (US)
  5. Tim Duncan - Tim Duncan (US)
  6. Magic Johnson - Magic Johnson* (US)
  7. Michael Jordan - Michael Jordan* (US)
  8. Dražen Petrović - Dražen Petrović
  9. Bill Russell - Bill Russell* (US)
  10. Arvydas Sabonis - Arvydas Sabonis
  11. Pat Summitt - Pat Summitt (US)
Baseball, 7
  1. Hank Aaron - Hank Aaron (US)
  2. Ty Cobb - Ty Cobb (US)
  3. Lou Gehrig - Lou Gehrig (US)
  4. Willie Mays - Willie Mays (US)
  5. Sadaharu Oh - Sadaharu Oh
  6. Jackie Robinson - Jackie Robinson (US)
  7. Babe Ruth - Babe Ruth* (US)
Biathlon, 1
  1. Ole Einar Bjørndalen - Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Bicycle, 6
  1. Jacques Anquetil - Jacques Anquetil
  2. Gino Bartali - Gino Bartali
  3. Fausto Coppi - Fausto Coppi
  4. Bernard Hinault - Bernard Hinault
  5. Miguel Indurain - Miguel Indurain
  6. Eddy Merckx - Eddy Merckx*
Boxing, 8
  1. Muhammad Ali - Muhammad Ali* (US)
  2. Henry Armstrong - Henry Armstrong (US)
  3. Jack Dempsey - Jack Dempsey (US)
  4. Rocky Marciano - Rocky Marciano (US)
  5. Joe Louis - Joe Louis (US)
  6. Ingemar Johansson - Ingemar Johansson
  7. Sugar Ray Robinson - Sugar Ray Robinson (US)
  8. Sugar Ray Leonard - Sugar Ray Leonard (US)
Chess, 2
  1. Bobby Fischer - Bobby Fischer* (US)
  2. Garry Kasparov - Garry Kasparov*
Cricket, 3
  1. Don Bradman - Don Bradman
  2. W. G. Grace - W.G. Grace
  3. Sachin Tendulkar - Sachin Tendulkar*
Equestrian, 1
  1. Reiner Klimke - Reiner Klimke
Field hockey, 2
  1. Luciana Aymar - Luciana Aymar
  2. Dhyan Chand - Dhyan Chand
Figureskating, 7
  1. Robin Cousins - Robin Cousins
  2. Scott Hamilton (figure skater) - Scott Hamilton (US)
  3. Sonja Henie - Sonja Henie
  4. Michelle Kwan - Michelle Kwan (US)
  5. Tara Lipinski - Tara Lipinski (US)
  6. Axel Paulsen - Axel Paulsen
  7. Irina Rodnina - Irina Rodnina
Golf, 9
  1. Ben Hogan - Ben Hogan (US)
  2. Bobby Jones (golfer) - Bobby Jones (US)
  3. Jack Nicklaus - Jack Nicklaus (US)
  4. Arnold Palmer - Arnold Palmer (US)
  5. Gary Player - Gary Player
  6. Sam Snead - Sam Snead (US)
  7. Annika Sörenstam - Annika Sörenstam
  8. Lee Trevino - Lee Trevino (US)
  9. Tiger Woods - Tiger Woods* (US)
Gymnastics, 6
  1. Nadia Comăneci - Nadia Comăneci
  2. Olga Korbut - Olga Korbut
  3. Larisa Latynina - Larisa Latynina
  4. Li Ning - Li Ning
  5. Vitaly Scherbo - Vitaly Scherbo
  6. Ludmilla Tourischeva - Ludmilla Tourischeva
Icehockey, 11
  1. Viacheslav Fetisov - Viacheslav Fetisov
  2. Wayne Gretzky - Wayne Gretzky*
  3. Valeri Kharlamov - Valeri Kharlamov
  4. Gordie Howe - Gordie Howe
  5. Bobby Hull - Bobby Hull
  6. Mario Lemieux - Mario Lemieux
  7. Sergei Makarov (ice hockey) - Sergei Makarov
  8. Bobby Orr - Bobby Orr
  9. Maurice Richard - Maurice Richard
  10. Börje Salming - Börje Salming
  11. Vladislav Tretiak - Vladislav Tretiak
Motorsports, 6
  1. Mario Andretti - Mario Andretti
  2. Juan Manuel Fangio - Juan Manuel Fangio
  3. Alain Prost - Alain Prost
  4. Michael Schumacher - Michael Schumacher*
  5. Ayrton Senna - Ayrton Senna
  6. Jackie Stewart - Jackie Stewart
Nordic skiing, 2
  1. Bjørn Dæhlie - Bjørn Dæhlie
  2. Matti Nykänen - Matti Nykänen
Sailing, 2
  1. Ben Ainslie - Ben Ainslie
  2. Paul Elvstrøm - Paul Elvstrøm
Soccer, 23
  1. Franz Beckenbauer - Franz Beckenbauer
  2. David Beckham - David Beckham*
  3. Gianluigi Buffon - Gianluigi Buffon
  4. Iker Casillas - Iker Casillas
  5. Bobby Charlton - Bobby Charlton*
  6. Johan Cruyff - Johan Cruyff*
  7. Alfredo Di Stéfano - Alfredo Di Stéfano
  8. Eusébio - Eusébio
  9. Alex Ferguson - Sir Alex Ferguson
  10. Garrincha - Garrincha
  11. Mia Hamm - Mia Hamm
  12. Diego Maradona - Diego Maradona*
  13. Lionel Messi - Lionel Messi*
  14. Gerd Müller - Gerd Müller*
  15. Michel Platini - Michel Platini
  16. Ferenc Puskás - Ferenc Puskas*
  17. Ronaldinho - Ronaldinho
  18. Ronaldo - Ronaldo*
  19. Cristiano Ronaldo - Cristiano Ronaldo
  20. Pelé - Pelé*
  21. Marco van Basten - Marco van Basten
  22. Lev Yashin - Lev Yashin
  23. Zinedine Zidane - Zinedine Zidane*
Speedskating, 2
  1. Bonnie Blair - Bonnie Blair
  2. Johann Olav Koss - Johann Olav Koss
Swimming, 4
  1. Jim Thorpe - Jim Thorpe*
  2. Mark Spitz - Mark Spitz*
  3. Michael Phelps - Michael Phelps* (US)
  4. Greg Louganis - Greg Louganis (US)
Table tennis, 1
  1. Jan-Ove Waldner - Jan-Ove Waldner
Team handball, 2
  1. Ivano Balić - Ivano Balić
  2. Anja Andersen - Anja Andersen
Tennis, 16
  1. Andre Agassi - Andre Agassi* (US)
  2. Björn Borg - Björn Borg
  3. Margaret Court - Margaret Court
  4. Chris Evert - Chris Evert (US)
  5. Roger Federer - Roger Federer*
  6. Pancho Gonzales - Pancho Gonzales (US)
  7. Steffi Graf - Steffi Graf*
  8. Billie Jean King - Billie Jean King (US)
  9. Rod Laver - Rod Laver
  10. Suzanne Lenglen - Suzanne Lenglen
  11. John McEnroe - John McEnroe (US)
  12. Rafael Nadal - Rafael Nadal
  13. Martina Navratilova - Martina Navratilova*
  14. Pete Sampras - Pete Sampras* (US)
  15. Bill Tilden - Bill Tilden (US)
  16. Serena Williams - Serena Williams (US)
Volleyball, 1
  1. Karch Kiraly - Karch Kiraly (US)

Sports executives and administrators

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  1. Sepp Blatter - Sepp Blatter
  2. Pierre de Coubertin - Pierre de Coubertin
  3. Juan Antonio Samaranch - Juan Antonio Samaranch

Mythical and legendary people, 29

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  1. Achilles - Achilles
  2. Aeneas - Aeneas
  3. Agamemnon - Agamemnon
  4. Andromeda (mythology) - Andromeda
  5. Argonauts - Argonauts
  6. King Arthur - King Arthur
  7. Atlas (mythology) - Atlas (mythology)
  8. Beowulf - Beowulf
  9. Castor and Pollux - Castor and Pollux
  10. Cyclops - Cyclops
  11. Cerberus - Cerberus
  12. Grendel - Grendel
  13. Hansel and Gretel - Hansel and Gretel
  14. Heracles - Heracles
  15. Jason - Jason
  16. Electra - Electra
  17. Europa (mythology) - Europa
  18. Ganymede (mythology) - Ganymede
  19. Helen of Troy - Helen of Troy
  20. Medea - Medea
  21. Medusa - Medusa
  22. Odysseus - Odysseus
  23. Oedipus - Oedipus
  24. Orion (mythology) - Orion
  25. Perseus - Perseus
  26. Peter Pan - Peter Pan
  27. Roland - Roland
  28. Sphinx - Sphinx
  29. Siren (mythology) - Sirens

Fictional characters, 15

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  1. Batman - Batman
  2. Mickey Mouse - Mickey Mouse
  3. Snow White - Snow White
  4. Superman - Superman
  5. The Adventures of Tintin - Tintin
  6. Baba Yaga - Baba Yaga
  7. Santa Claus - Santa Claus
  8. Aladdin - Aladdin
  9. James Bond - James Bond
  10. The Cat in the Hat - The Cat in the Hat
  11. Count Dracula - Count Dracula
  12. Sherlock Holmes - Sherlock Holmes
  13. Tarzan - Tarzan
  14. The Three Musketeers - The Three Musketeers
  15. Superhero - Superhero