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People, 1971[edit source]

Entertainers, 115[edit source]

3

Actors, 45[edit source]

  1. Fred Astaire
  2. Amitabh Bachchan
  3. Roberto Benigni
  4. Humphrey Bogart
  5. Marlon Brando
  6. Richard Burbage
  7. James Cagney
  8. Charlie Chaplin
  9. Sean Connery
  10. Gary Cooper
  11. Robert De Niro
  12. Gérard Depardieu
  13. Clint Eastwood
  14. Henry Fonda
  15. Clark Gable
  16. David Garrick
  17. John Gielgud
  18. Cary Grant
  19. Alec Guinness
  20. Tom Hanks
  21. Kamal Haasan
  22. Anthony Hopkins
  23. Henry Irving
  24. Derek Jacobi
  25. Shintaro Katsu
  26. Edmund Kean
  27. Buster Keaton
  28. Gene Kelly
  29. Klaus Kinski
  30. Charles Laughton
  31. Bruce Lee
  32. Jean Marais
  33. Marcello Mastroianni
  34. Ian McKellen
  35. Toshiro Mifune
  36. Jack Nicholson
  37. Philippe Noiret
  38. Laurence Olivier
  39. Peter O'Toole
  40. Gregory Peck
  41. Sidney Poitier
  42. Rajinikanth
  43. James Stewart
  44. Spencer Tracy
  45. John Wayne

Actresses, 39[edit source]

  1. Isabelle Adjani
  2. Julie Andrews
  3. Lauren Bacall
  4. Ingrid Bergman
  5. Sarah Bernhardt
  6. Claudette Colbert
  7. Joan Crawford
  8. Bette Davis
  9. Doris Day
  10. Judi Dench
  11. Marlene Dietrich
  12. Edith Evans
  13. Greta Garbo
  14. Judy Garland
  15. Lillian Gish
  16. Setsuko Hara
  17. Rita Hayworth
  18. Audrey Hepburn
  19. Katharine Hepburn
  20. Isabelle Huppert
  21. Grace Kelly
  22. Deborah Kerr
  23. Vivien Leigh
  24. Sophia Loren
  25. Ida Lupino
  26. Ethel Merman
  27. Helen Mirren
  28. Marilyn Monroe
  29. Jeanne Moreau
  30. Vanessa Redgrave
  31. Ginger Rogers
  32. Hanna Schygulla
  33. Maggie Smith
  34. Barbara Stanwyck
  35. Meryl Streep
  36. Elizabeth Taylor
  37. Shirley Temple
  38. Ellen Terry
  39. Mae West

Dancers, 8[edit source]

Ballet, 5[edit source]

  1. Mikhail Baryshnikov
  2. Margot Fonteyn
  3. Vaslav Nijinsky
  4. Rudolf Nureyev
  5. Anna Pavlova

Modern, 3[edit source]

  1. Josephine Baker
  2. Isadora Duncan
  3. Martha Graham

Comedians, 18[edit source]

  1. Abbott and Costello
  2. Woody Allen
  3. Lucille Ball
  4. Mel Brooks
  5. Lenny Bruce
  6. Carol Burnett
  7. George Carlin
  8. Peter Cook
  9. Bill Cosby
  10. Louis de Funès
  11. Jackie Gleason
  12. Laurel and Hardy
  13. Steve Martin
  14. Marx Brothers
  15. Monty Python
  16. Richard Pryor
  17. Jerry Seinfeld
  18. Robin Williams

Hosts and performers, 5[edit source]

  1. Johnny Carson
  2. Dick Clark
  3. Harry Houdini
  4. Marcel Marceau
  5. Ed Sullivan

Visual artists, 108[edit source]

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Western painters and illustrators, 64[edit source]

Ancient era, 2[edit source]

  1. Parrhasius
  2. Zeuxis

Medieval era, 3[edit source]

  1. Giotto
  2. Hieronymus Bosch
  3. Jan van Eyck

Renaissance to early modern era, 17[edit source]

  1. Caravaggio
  2. Jacques-Louis David
  3. Albrecht Dürer
  4. Thomas Gainsborough
  5. El Greco
  6. Francisco Goya
  7. William Hogarth
  8. Leonardo da Vinci
  9. Masaccio
  10. Michelangelo
  11. Nicolas Poussin
  12. Raphael
  13. Rembrandt
  14. Peter Paul Rubens
  15. Titian
  16. Diego Velázquez
  17. Johannes Vermeer

Modern era (painters), 32[edit source]

  1. Paul Cézanne
  2. Marc Chagall
  3. Salvador Dalí
  4. Edgar Degas
  5. Marcel Duchamp
  6. Thomas Eakins
  7. Paul Gauguin
  8. Vincent van Gogh
  9. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
  10. Frida Kahlo
  11. Wassily Kandinsky
  12. Paul Klee
  13. René Magritte
  14. Édouard Manet
  15. Franz Marc
  16. Henri Matisse
  17. Piet Mondrian
  18. Claude Monet
  19. Edvard Munch
  20. Georgia O'Keeffe
  21. Pablo Picasso
  22. Jackson Pollock
  23. Frederic Remington
  24. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  25. Gerhard Richter
  26. Diego Rivera
  27. Henri Rousseau
  28. John Singer Sargent
  29. Georges Seurat
  30. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  31. J. M. W. Turner
  32. Andy Warhol

Cartoonists, comics artists, and illustrators, 10[edit source]

  1. Carl Barks
  2. Aubrey Beardsley
  3. Will Eisner
  4. Jean Giraud
  5. Hergé
  6. Jack Kirby
  7. Winsor McCay
  8. Norman Rockwell
  9. Dr. Seuss
  10. Osamu Tezuka

Other visual arts, 39[edit source]

Sculptors, 7[edit source]

  1. Gian Lorenzo Bernini
  2. Joseph Beuys
  3. Constantin Brâncuși
  4. Donatello
  5. Alberto Giacometti
  6. Henry Moore
  7. Auguste Rodin

Architects, 22[edit source]

  1. Alvar Aalto
  2. Tadao Ando
  3. Le Corbusier
  4. Buckminster Fuller
  5. Antoni Gaudí
  6. Frank Gehry
  7. Walter Gropius
  8. Zaha Hadid
  9. Imhotep
  10. Philip Johnson
  11. Louis Kahn
  12. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  13. Frederick Law Olmsted
  14. Oscar Niemeyer
  15. Andrea Palladio
  16. I. M. Pei
  17. Mimar Sinan
  18. Louis Sullivan
  19. Vitruvius
  20. Christopher Wren
  21. Frank Lloyd Wright
  22. Peter Zumthor

Designers, 4[edit source]

  1. Marcel Breuer
  2. Coco Chanel
  3. Charles and Ray Eames
  4. Raymond Loewy

Photographers, 5[edit source]

  1. Ansel Adams
  2. Henri Cartier-Bresson
  3. Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
  4. Man Ray
  5. Edward Weston

Instrument makers, 1[edit source]

  1. Antonio Stradivari

Non-Western traditions, 5[edit source]

  1. Hokusai
  2. Hiroshige
  3. Kanō Masanobu
  4. Sesshū Tōyō
  5. Shitao

Writers, 251[edit source]

Ancient, 15[edit source]

3

Asia, 2[edit source]

  1. Kālidāsa
  2. Qu Yuan

Europe, 13[edit source]

  1. Aeschylus
  2. Aesop
  3. Aristophanes
  4. Euripides
  5. Homer
  6. Horace
  7. Menander
  8. Ovid
  9. Plutarch
  10. Sappho
  11. Sophocles
  12. Virgil
  13. Xenophon

Post-classical, 28[edit source]

3

Asia, 20[edit source]

  1. Bhavabhuti
  2. Du Fu
  3. Ferdowsi
  4. Hafez
  5. Han Yu
  6. Jami
  7. Kabir
  8. Omar Khayyám
  9. Amir Khusrow
  10. Li Bai
  11. Luo Guanzhong
  12. Murasaki Shikibu
  13. Nizami Ganjavi
  14. Abu Nuwas
  15. Ouyang Xiu
  16. Rudaki
  17. Rumi
  18. Saadi Shirazi
  19. Su Shi
  20. Wang Wei

Europe, 8[edit source]

  1. Dante Alighieri
  2. Giovanni Boccaccio
  3. Geoffrey Chaucer
  4. Chrétien de Troyes
  5. Christine de Pizan
  6. Hildegard of Bingen
  7. Petrarch
  8. François Villon

Early modern, 27[edit source]

3

Asia, 6[edit source]

  1. Fuzûlî
  2. Matsuo Bashō
  3. Mir Taqi Mir
  4. Tukaram
  5. Tulsidas
  6. Wu Cheng'en

Europe, 21[edit source]

  1. Pedro Calderón de la Barca
  2. Luís de Camões
  3. Miguel de Cervantes
  4. Pierre Corneille
  5. Daniel Defoe
  6. Gavrila Derzhavin
  7. John Donne
  8. John Dryden
  9. Samuel Johnson
  10. Ben Jonson
  11. Christopher Marlowe
  12. John Milton
  13. Michel de Montaigne
  14. Thomas More
  15. Molière
  16. Nostradamus
  17. Jean Racine
  18. William Shakespeare
  19. Edmund Spenser
  20. Jonathan Swift
  21. Lope de Vega

Modern, 181[edit source]

3

Africa, 7[edit source]

  1. Chinua Achebe
  2. Ben Okri
  3. Naguib Mahfouz
  4. Wole Soyinka
  5. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  6. J. M. Coetzee
  7. Nadine Gordimer

Americas, 50[edit source]

US and Canada, 42

  1. Isaac Asimov
  2. Margaret Atwood
  3. Saul Bellow
  4. Ray Bradbury
  5. Raymond Chandler
  6. Philip K. Dick
  7. Emily Dickinson
  8. T. S. Eliot
  9. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  10. William Faulkner
  11. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  12. Robert Frost
  13. Allen Ginsberg
  14. Dashiell Hammett
  15. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  16. Robert A. Heinlein
  17. Ernest Hemingway
  18. Langston Hughes
  19. Henry James
  20. Jack Kerouac
  21. Stephen King
  22. Ursula K. Le Guin
  23. Jack London
  24. Herman Melville
  25. Arthur Miller
  26. Margaret Mitchell
  27. Toni Morrison
  28. Vladimir Nabokov
  29. Sylvia Plath
  30. Edgar Allan Poe
  31. Ezra Pound
  32. Thomas Pynchon
  33. J. D. Salinger
  34. Isaac Bashevis Singer
  35. John Steinbeck
  36. Wallace Stevens
  37. Harriet Beecher Stowe
  38. Mark Twain
  39. Kurt Vonnegut
  40. Alice Walker
  41. Edith Wharton
  42. Walt Whitman

Latin America, 8

  1. Jorge Amado
  2. Jorge Luis Borges
  3. Alejo Carpentier
  4. Gabriel García Márquez
  5. Machado de Assis
  6. José Martí
  7. Pablo Neruda
  8. Mario Vargas Llosa

Asia, 15[edit source]

  1. Chinghiz Aitmatov
  2. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  3. Ghalib
  4. Kahlil Gibran
  5. Muhammad Iqbal
  6. Yasunari Kawabata
  7. Lao She
  8. Lu Xun
  9. Yukio Mishima
  10. Haruki Murakami
  11. Natsume Sōseki
  12. Kenzaburō Ōe
  13. Orhan Pamuk
  14. Premchand
  15. Rabindranath Tagore

Europe, 108[edit source]

Central Europe, 9

  1. Adam Mickiewicz
  2. France Prešeren
  3. Ismail Kadare
  4. Ivan Cankar
  5. Joseph Conrad
  6. Sándor Petőfi
  7. Henryk Sienkiewicz
  8. Taras Shevchenko
  9. Elie Wiesel

Russia, 20

  1. Anna Akhmatova
  2. Joseph Brodsky
  3. Mikhail Bulgakov
  4. Ivan Bunin
  5. Anton Chekhov
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Maxim Gorky
  8. Nikolay Karamzin
  9. Nikolai Gogol
  10. Mikhail Lermontov
  11. Vladimir Mayakovsky
  12. Nikolay Nekrasov
  13. Boris Pasternak
  14. Alexander Pushkin
  15. Mikhail Sholokhov
  16. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  17. Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
  18. Leo Tolstoy
  19. Ivan Turgenev
  20. Fyodor Tyutchev

Western Europe, 37

  1. Hans Christian Andersen
  2. Antonin Artaud
  3. Honoré de Balzac
  4. Charles Baudelaire
  5. Karen Blixen
  6. Bertolt Brecht
  7. Albert Camus
  8. Alexandre Dumas
  9. Umberto Eco
  10. Gustave Flaubert
  11. Anne Frank
  12. Federico García Lorca
  13. André Gide
  14. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  15. Brothers Grimm
  16. Knut Hamsun
  17. Heinrich Heine
  18. Hermann Hesse
  19. Victor Hugo
  20. Henrik Ibsen
  21. Eugène Ionesco
  22. Franz Kafka
  23. Selma Lagerlöf
  24. Astrid Lindgren
  25. Thomas Mann
  26. Fernando Pessoa
  27. Luigi Pirandello
  28. Marcel Proust
  29. Arthur Rimbaud
  30. Rainer Maria Rilke
  31. José Saramago
  32. Friedrich Schiller
  33. Stendhal
  34. August Strindberg
  35. Tristan Tzara
  36. Jules Verne
  37. Émile Zola

UK and Ireland, 42

  1. W. H. Auden
  2. Jane Austen
  3. Samuel Beckett
  4. William Blake
  5. Enid Blyton
  6. Charlotte Brontë
  7. Anthony Burgess
  8. Lord Byron
  9. Lewis Carroll
  10. Agatha Christie
  11. Arthur C. Clarke
  12. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  13. Roald Dahl
  14. Charles Dickens
  15. Arthur Conan Doyle
  16. George Eliot
  17. Thomas Hardy
  18. Aldous Huxley
  19. James Joyce
  20. John Keats
  21. Rudyard Kipling
  22. Philip Larkin
  23. C. S. Lewis
  24. Alan Moore
  25. V. S. Naipaul
  26. Seán O'Casey
  27. George Orwell
  28. Harold Pinter
  29. Salman Rushdie
  30. Walter Scott
  31. George Bernard Shaw
  32. Percy Bysshe Shelley
  33. Robert Louis Stevenson
  34. John Millington Synge
  35. Dylan Thomas
  36. J. R. R. Tolkien
  37. H. G. Wells
  38. Oscar Wilde
  39. Mary Wollstonecraft
  40. William Wordsworth
  41. Virginia Woolf
  42. W. B. Yeats

Oceania, 1[edit source]

  1. Banjo Paterson

Journalists, 14[edit source]

3
  1. James Gordon Bennett, Sr.
  2. Nellie Bly
  3. Walter Cronkite
  4. Robert Fisk
  5. Horace Greeley
  6. Walter Lippmann
  7. H. L. Mencken
  8. Edward R. Murrow
  9. Joseph Pulitzer
  10. Ernie Pyle
  11. Upton Sinclair
  12. Ida Tarbell
  13. Hunter S. Thompson
  14. Bob Woodward

Musicians and composers, 173[edit source]

3

Western art music, 68[edit source]

Composers, 47[edit source]

Medieval and Renaissance, 4

  1. Guillaume de Machaut
  2. Josquin des Prez
  3. Guillaume Dufay
  4. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Baroque, 4

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach
  2. George Frideric Handel
  3. Claudio Monteverdi
  4. Antonio Vivaldi

Classical, 3

  1. Ludwig van Beethoven
  2. Joseph Haydn
  3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Romantic, 20

  1. Hector Berlioz
  2. Johannes Brahms
  3. Anton Bruckner
  4. Frédéric Chopin
  5. Antonín Dvořák
  6. Edward Elgar
  7. Gilbert and Sullivan
  8. Franz Liszt
  9. Gustav Mahler
  10. Felix Mendelssohn
  11. Modest Mussorgsky
  12. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  13. Gioachino Rossini
  14. Franz Schubert
  15. Robert Schumann
  16. Johann Strauss II
  17. Richard Strauss
  18. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  19. Giuseppe Verdi
  20. Richard Wagner

20th century, 12

  1. Béla Bartók
  2. Benjamin Britten
  3. Aaron Copland
  4. Claude Debussy
  5. Giacomo Puccini
  6. Sergei Prokofiev
  7. Sergei Rachmaninoff
  8. Maurice Ravel
  9. Arnold Schoenberg
  10. Dmitri Shostakovich
  11. Jean Sibelius
  12. Igor Stravinsky

Avant-garde, 4

  1. Pierre Boulez
  2. John Cage
  3. Philip Glass
  4. Karlheinz Stockhausen

Pedagogues, 1[edit source]

  1. Nadia Boulanger

Performers, 20[edit source]

Cellists, 2

  1. Pablo Casals
  2. Mstislav Rostropovich

Conductors, 3

  1. Leonard Bernstein
  2. Herbert von Karajan
  3. Arturo Toscanini

Pianists, 4

  1. Glenn Gould
  2. Vladimir Horowitz
  3. Sviatoslav Richter
  4. Arthur Rubinstein

Singers, 9

  1. Marian Anderson
  2. Maria Callas
  3. Enrico Caruso
  4. Plácido Domingo
  5. Kiri Te Kanawa
  6. Birgit Nilsson
  7. Luciano Pavarotti
  8. Leontyne Price
  9. Joan Sutherland

Violinists, 2

  1. Niccolò Paganini
  2. Itzhak Perlman

Non-Western art music, 6[edit source]

Carnatic classical, 2[edit source]

  1. Muthuswami Dikshitar
  2. Tyagaraja

Hindustani classical, 2[edit source]

  1. Ali Akbar Khan
  2. Ravi Shankar

Qawwali, 1[edit source]

  1. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Persian traditional, 1[edit source]

  1. Mohammad-Reza Shajarian

Folk and popular music, 99[edit source]

  1. ABBA
  2. Bee Gees
  3. Cher
  4. Bing Crosby
  5. Michael Jackson
  6. Elton John
  7. Kraftwerk
  8. Madonna
  9. Miriam Makeba
  10. Bob Marley
  11. Joni Mitchell
  12. Prince
  13. Diana Ross
  14. Frank Sinatra
  15. Barbra Streisand
  16. Stevie Wonder

Composers and songwriters, 3[edit source]

  1. Brian Eno
  2. Stephen Foster
  3. Vangelis

Non-English language singers, 10[edit source]

  1. Charles Aznavour
  2. Jacques Brel
  3. Serge Gainsbourg
  4. Umm Kulthum
  5. Lata Mangeshkar
  6. Nana Mouskouri
  7. Édith Piaf
  8. Alla Pugacheva
  9. Teresa Teng
  10. Vladimir Vysotsky

Afrobeat, 1[edit source]

  1. Fela Kuti

Blues and soul, 7[edit source]

  1. Ray Charles
  2. Sam Cooke
  3. Aretha Franklin
  4. Marvin Gaye
  5. Robert Johnson
  6. B.B. King
  7. Otis Redding

Flamenco, 1[edit source]

  1. Paco de Lucía

American folk and country, 8[edit source]

  1. Joan Baez
  2. Johnny Cash
  3. Patsy Cline
  4. Woody Guthrie
  5. Bill Monroe
  6. Dolly Parton
  7. Les Paul
  8. Hank Williams

Funk, 1[edit source]

  1. James Brown

Hip-hop and rap, 1[edit source]

  1. Tupac Shakur

Jazz, 14[edit source]

  1. Louis Armstrong
  2. John Coltrane
  3. Miles Davis
  4. Duke Ellington
  5. George Gershwin
  6. Benny Goodman
  7. Billie Holiday
  8. Antônio Carlos Jobim
  9. Scott Joplin
  10. Glenn Miller
  11. Jelly Roll Morton
  12. Charlie Parker
  13. Django Reinhardt
  14. Art Tatum

Latin, 3[edit source]

  1. Celia Cruz
  2. João Gilberto
  3. Julio Iglesias

Musical comedy and lyricists, 6[edit source]

  1. Irving Berlin
  2. Jerome Kern
  3. Cole Porter
  4. Rodgers and Hammerstein
  5. Stephen Sondheim
  6. Andrew Lloyd Webber

Rock, 28[edit source]

  1. AC/DC
  2. Aerosmith
  3. The Beatles
  4. The Beach Boys
  5. Black Sabbath
  6. Bob Dylan
  7. Chuck Berry
  8. David Bowie
  9. Eric Clapton
  10. The Doors
  11. Jimi Hendrix
  12. Buddy Holly
  13. Janis Joplin
  14. Led Zeppelin
  15. Little Richard
  16. John Lennon
  17. Metallica
  18. Paul McCartney
  19. Nirvana (band)
  20. Pink Floyd
  21. Elvis Presley
  22. Queen
  23. The Rolling Stones
  24. Bruce Springsteen
  25. U2
  26. The Who
  27. Neil Young
  28. Frank Zappa

Directors, producers and screenwriters, 50[edit source]

3
  1. Michelangelo Antonioni
  2. Ingmar Bergman
  3. Luis Buñuel
  4. James Cameron
  5. Frank Capra
  6. Jean Cocteau
  7. Francis Ford Coppola
  8. Cecil B. DeMille
  9. Vittorio De Sica
  10. Walt Disney
  11. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  12. Sergei Eisenstein
  13. Federico Fellini
  14. John Ford
  15. Miloš Forman
  16. Bob Fosse
  17. Jean-Luc Godard
  18. Samuel Goldwyn
  19. D. W. Griffith
  20. Howard Hawks
  21. Werner Herzog
  22. Alfred Hitchcock
  23. Wong Kar-wai
  24. Elia Kazan
  25. Akira Kurosawa
  26. Stanley Kubrick
  27. Fritz Lang
  28. David Lean
  29. Ang Lee
  30. George Lucas
  31. Frances Marion
  32. Georges Méliès
  33. Hayao Miyazaki
  34. Yasujirō Ozu
  35. Roman Polanski
  36. Satyajit Ray
  37. Jean Renoir
  38. Leni Riefenstahl
  39. Martin Scorsese
  40. David O. Selznick
  41. Steven Spielberg
  42. Andrei Tarkovsky
  43. Jacques Tati
  44. Irving Thalberg
  45. Hal B. Wallis
  46. Orson Welles
  47. Wim Wenders
  48. Billy Wilder
  49. William Wyler
  50. Darryl F. Zanuck

Businesspeople, 33[edit source]

3
  1. Mukesh Ambani
  2. John Jacob Astor
  3. P. T. Barnum
  4. Richard Branson
  5. Warren Buffett
  6. Al Capone
  7. Andrew Carnegie
  8. Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours
  9. Larry Ellison
  10. Henry Ford
  11. Jakob Fugger
  12. Bill Gates
  13. J. Paul Getty
  14. William Randolph Hearst
  15. Howard Hughes
  16. Steve Jobs
  17. Ingvar Kamprad
  18. Ray Kroc
  19. Li Ka-shing
  20. Andrew W. Mellon
  21. Lakshmi Mittal
  22. Shigeru Miyamoto
  23. J. P. Morgan
  24. Akio Morita
  25. John D. Rockefeller
  26. Rothschild family
  27. Carlos Slim
  28. Jamsetji Tata
  29. Ted Turner
  30. Cornelius Vanderbilt
  31. Sam Walton
  32. George Westinghouse
  33. Oprah Winfrey

Explorers, 31[edit source]

3

Ancient history, 1[edit source]

  1. Zhang Qian

Post-classical history, 5[edit source]

  1. Ibn Battuta
  2. Leif Erikson
  3. Marco Polo
  4. Xuanzang
  5. Zheng He

Early modern history, 14[edit source]

  1. Willem Barentsz
  2. Vitus Bering
  3. Pedro Álvares Cabral
  4. Jacques Cartier
  5. Christopher Columbus
  6. James Cook
  7. Semyon Dezhnev
  8. Juan Sebastián Elcano
  9. Vasco da Gama
  10. Ferdinand Magellan
  11. Juan Ponce de León
  12. Hernando de Soto
  13. Abel Tasman
  14. Amerigo Vespucci

Modern history, 11[edit source]

  1. Roald Amundsen
  2. Neil Armstrong
  3. Amelia Earhart
  4. Yuri Gagarin
  5. Thor Heyerdahl
  6. Edmund Hillary
  7. Alexander von Humboldt
  8. David Livingstone
  9. Fridtjof Nansen
  10. Tenzing Norgay
  11. David Thompson

Philosophers, historians, political and social scientists, 142[edit source]

Philosophers, 60[edit source]

3

Ancient, 16[edit source]

  1. Aristotle
  2. Augustine of Hippo
  3. Confucius
  4. Democritus
  5. Diogenes of Sinope
  6. Gorgias
  7. Han Fei
  8. Laozi
  9. Li Si
  10. Mencius
  11. Plato
  12. Seneca the Younger
  13. Socrates
  14. Thales
  15. Xunzi
  16. Shang Yang

Post-classical, 7[edit source]

  1. Thomas Aquinas
  2. Averroes
  3. Desiderius Erasmus
  4. Duns Scotus
  5. William of Ockham
  6. Wang Yangming
  7. Zhu Xi

Early modern, 13[edit source]

  1. Francis Bacon
  2. George Berkeley
  3. René Descartes
  4. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  5. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  6. Thomas Hobbes
  7. David Hume
  8. Immanuel Kant
  9. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
  10. John Locke
  11. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  12. Baruch Spinoza
  13. Voltaire

Modern, 24[edit source]

  1. Simone de Beauvoir
  2. Henri Bergson
  3. Isaiah Berlin
  4. Michel Foucault
  5. Gilles Deleuze
  6. Jacques Derrida
  7. Jürgen Habermas
  8. Martin Heidegger
  9. Edmund Husserl
  10. William James
  11. Søren Kierkegaard
  12. Thomas Kuhn
  13. Marshall McLuhan
  14. John Stuart Mill
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche
  16. Charles Sanders Peirce
  17. Karl Popper
  18. John Rawls
  19. Bertrand Russell
  20. Jean-Paul Sartre
  21. Arthur Schopenhauer
  22. Henry David Thoreau
  23. Alfred North Whitehead
  24. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Historians, 19[edit source]

3

Ancient, 5[edit source]

  1. Eusebius
  2. Herodotus
  3. Tacitus
  4. Thucydides
  5. Sima Qian

Post-classical, 5[edit source]

  1. Bartolomé de las Casas
  2. Bede
  3. Jean Froissart
  4. Geoffrey of Monmouth
  5. Ibn Khaldun

Early modern, 1[edit source]

  1. Edward Gibbon

Modern, 8[edit source]

  1. Charles A. Beard
  2. Fernand Braudel
  3. Eric Hobsbawm
  4. Theodor Mommsen
  5. Leopold von Ranke
  6. Sergey Solovyov
  7. A. J. P. Taylor
  8. Frederick Jackson Turner

Social scientists, economists and political writers, 33[edit source]

3

Antiquity, 2[edit source]

  1. Chanakya
  2. Pāṇini

Post-classical, 1[edit source]

  1. Niccolò Machiavelli

Early modern period, 6[edit source]

  1. Edmund Burke
  2. Hugo Grotius
  3. Thomas Robert Malthus
  4. Thomas Paine
  5. David Ricardo
  6. Adam Smith

Modern, 24[edit source]

  1. Theodor W. Adorno
  2. Franz Boas
  3. Pierre Bourdieu
  4. Noam Chomsky
  5. Émile Durkheim
  6. Friedrich Engels
  7. Milton Friedman
  8. John Kenneth Galbraith
  9. Clifford Geertz
  10. Antonio Gramsci
  11. John Maynard Keynes
  12. Peter Kropotkin
  13. Claude Lévi-Strauss
  14. Karl Marx
  15. Marcel Mauss
  16. Bronisław Malinowski
  17. Margaret Mead
  18. Ferdinand de Saussure
  19. Herbert Spencer
  20. Talcott Parsons
  21. Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
  22. Paul Samuelson
  23. Max Weber
  24. Noah Webster

Psychologists, 30[edit source]

3
  1. Alfred Adler
  2. Gordon Allport
  3. Albert Bandura
  4. Raymond Cattell
  5. Kenneth and Mamie Clark
  6. Hans Eysenck
  7. Albert Ellis
  8. Erik Erikson
  9. Leon Festinger
  10. Anna Freud
  11. Sigmund Freud
  12. Jane Goodall
  13. Donald O. Hebb
  14. Clark L. Hull
  15. Carl Jung
  16. Jerome Kagan
  17. Kurt Lewin
  18. Seymour Martin Lipset
  19. Alexander Luria
  20. Abraham Maslow
  21. George Armitage Miller
  22. Ivan Pavlov
  23. Jean Piaget
  24. Carl Rogers
  25. Otto Rank
  26. B. F. Skinner
  27. Edward Thorndike
  28. Lev Vygotsky
  29. John B. Watson
  30. Wilhelm Wundt

Religious figures, 132[edit source]

Hinduism, 18[edit source]

3

Ancient, 5[edit source]

  1. Kanada
  2. Kapila
  3. Patanjali
  4. Valmiki
  5. Vyasa

Medieval, 7[edit source]

  1. Adi Shankara
  2. Basava
  3. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
  4. Gaudapada
  5. Kumārila Bhaṭṭa
  6. Madhvacharya
  7. Ramanuja

Modern, 6[edit source]

  1. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  2. Paramahansa Yogananda
  3. Ramakrishna
  4. Ramana Maharshi
  5. Sri Aurobindo
  6. Swami Vivekananda

Buddhism, 15[edit source]

3
  1. Gautama Buddha
  2. 14th Dalai Lama
  3. Nagarjuna
  4. Padmasambhava

Chinese Buddhism, 5[edit source]

  1. Bodhidharma
  2. Kumārajīva
  3. Huiyuan
  4. Zhiyi
  5. Huineng

Indian Buddhism, 4[edit source]

  1. Ananda
  2. Maudgalyayana
  3. Sariputta
  4. Vasubandhu

Japanese Buddhism, 2[edit source]

  1. Dōgen
  2. Kūkai

Abrahamic religions, 94[edit source]

3
  1. Abraham
  2. Daniel
  3. David
  4. Elijah
  5. Ezra
  6. Isaac
  7. Isaiah
  8. Ishmael
  9. Jacob
  10. Joseph (patriarch)
  11. Moses
  12. Solomon

Judaism, 6[edit source]

  1. Baal Shem Tov
  2. Akiva ben Joseph
  3. Judah Loew ben Bezalel
  4. Maimonides
  5. Rashi
  6. Vilna Gaon

Christianity, 58[edit source]

  1. Jesus
  2. Mary (mother of Jesus)
  3. Mary Magdalene
  4. John the Baptist
  5. Judas Iscariot
  6. Paul the Apostle
  7. Saint Peter
  8. John the Apostle

Eastern Christianity, Orthodox Church, 13

  1. Arius
  2. Athanasius of Alexandria
  3. Basil of Caesarea
  4. Clement of Alexandria
  5. Cyril of Alexandria
  6. Gregory of Nazianzus
  7. Gregory of Nyssa
  8. John Chrysostom
  9. John of Damascus
  10. Saints Cyril and Methodius
  11. Saint Nicholas
  12. Patriarch Nikon of Moscow
  13. Origen

Western Christianity, Catholic Church, 22

  1. Ambrose
  2. Benedict of Nursia
  3. Bonaventure
  4. Columba
  5. Francis of Assisi
  6. Saint George
  7. Jan Hus
  8. Ignatius of Loyola
  9. Irenaeus
  10. Jerome
  11. John of the Cross
  12. Mother Teresa
  13. Tertullian
  14. Tomás de Torquemada
  15. John Wycliffe
  16. Francis Xavier

Popes, 6

  1. Pope Clement I
  2. Pope Gregory I
  3. Pope John Paul II
  4. Pope Leo I
  5. Pope Paul VI
  6. Pope Pius IX

Protestantism, 13

  1. Jacobus Arminius
  2. Karl Barth
  3. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  4. John Calvin
  5. Thomas Cranmer
  6. Billy Graham
  7. John Knox
  8. Martin Luther
  9. Philipp Melanchthon
  10. Menno Simons
  11. Charles Spurgeon
  12. John Wesley
  13. Huldrych Zwingli

Others, 2

  1. Mary Baker Eddy
  2. Joseph Smith

Islam, 18[edit source]

  1. Muhammad
  2. Fatimah
  3. Khadija bint Khuwaylid

Shia Islam, 3

  1. Ali
  2. Husayn ibn Ali
  3. Ja'far al-Sadiq

Sunni Islam, 8

  1. Ahmad ibn Hanbal
  2. Abū Ḥanīfa
  3. Malik ibn Anas
  4. Muhammad al-Bukhari
  5. Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
  6. Al-Shafi‘i
  7. Ibn Taymiyyah
  8. Al-Nawawi

Others, 4

  1. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
  2. Al-Ghazali
  3. Ibn Arabi
  4. Mulla Sadra

Others, 5[edit source]

3

Bahá'í, 1[edit source]

  1. Bahá'u'lláh

Jainism, 1[edit source]

  1. Mahavira

Sikhism, 2[edit source]

  1. Guru Gobind Singh
  2. Guru Nanak

Zoroastrianism, 1[edit source]

  1. Zoroaster

Politicians and leaders, 478[edit source]

Ancient, 71[edit source]

Africa, 13[edit source]

3
  1. Ezana of Axum
  2. Genseric

Egypt, 11

  1. Akhenaten
  2. Narmer
  3. Hatshepsut
  4. Nefertiti
  5. Ramesses II
  6. Sheshonk I
  7. Tutankhamun
  8. Thutmose I
  9. Thutmose III
  10. Cleopatra
  11. Ptolemy I Soter

Asia, 27[edit source]

3

Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus, 2

  1. Cyrus the Great
  2. Tigranes the Great

Eastern Asia, 7

  1. Cao Cao
  2. Emperor Gaozu of Han
  3. Gwanggaeto the Great
  4. Modu Chanyu
  5. Qin Shi Huang
  6. Emperor Wu of Han
  7. Yu the Great

Southern Asia, 7

  1. Ajatasatru
  2. Ashoka
  3. Chandragupta II
  4. Chandragupta Maurya
  5. Kanishka
  6. Menander I
  7. Samudragupta

Western Asia, 11

  1. Ashurbanipal
  2. Darius I
  3. Hammurabi
  4. Mithridates VI of Pontus
  5. Nebuchadnezzar II
  6. Queen of Sheba
  7. Sargon of Akkad
  8. Xerxes I

Hellenistic Kingdoms, 3

  1. Antigonus I Monophthalmus
  2. Antiochus III the Great
  3. Seleucus I Nicator

Europe, 31[edit source]

3

Eastern Europe, 13

  1. Attila
  2. Decebalus
  3. Lysimachus
  4. Pyrrhus of Epirus

Greece, 6

  1. Alcibiades
  2. Demosthenes
  3. Draco (lawgiver)
  4. Lycurgus of Sparta
  5. Pericles
  6. Solon

Macedonia, 3

  1. Alexander the Great
  2. Antipater
  3. Philip II of Macedon

Western Europe, 18

  1. Alaric I
  2. Arminius
  3. Boudica
  4. Theodoric I
  5. Vercingetorix

Ancient Rome, 13

  1. Tiberius Gracchus
  2. Augustus
  3. Julius Caesar
  4. Caligula
  5. Cicero
  6. Constantine the Great
  7. Domitian
  8. Hadrian
  9. Marcus Aurelius
  10. Nero
  11. Theodosius I
  12. Tiberius
  13. Trajan

Post-classical, 127[edit source]

Africa, 7[edit source]

3
  1. Amda Seyon I
  2. Baibars
  3. Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
  4. Musa I of Mali
  5. Al-Mustansir Billah
  6. Al-Nasir Muhammad
  7. Zara Yaqob

Americas, 1[edit source]

3
  1. Eight Deer Jaguar Claw

Asia, 45[edit source]

3

Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus, 12

  1. Batu Khan
  2. Bumin Qaghan
  3. Hulagu Khan
  4. Jochi
  5. Khosrau I
  6. Muhammad II of Khwarezm
  7. Nizam al-Mulk
  8. Tamar of Georgia
  9. Timur
  10. Tokhtamysh
  11. Tughril
  12. Ulugh Beg

Eastern Asia, 12

  1. Genghis Khan
  2. Ögedei Khan
  3. Sejong the Great
  4. Taejo of Goryeo
  5. Taejo of Joseon

China, 7

  1. Hongwu Emperor
  2. Kublai Khan
  3. Emperor Taizong of Tang
  4. Emperor Taizu of Song
  5. Emperor Wen of Sui
  6. Wu Zetian
  7. Yongle Emperor

Southeastern Asia, 8

  1. Anawrahta
  2. Ram Khamhaeng
  3. Gajah Mada
  4. Jayavarman VII
  5. Suryavarman II

Vietnam, 3

  1. Lê Lợi
  2. Lê Thánh Tông
  3. Trần Thánh Tông

Southern Asia, 4

  1. Prithviraj Chauhan
  2. Harsha
  3. Alauddin Khilji
  4. Raja Raja Chola I

Western Asia, 9

  1. Saladin
  2. Osman I
  3. Mehmed the Conqueror

Caliphates, 6

  1. Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan
  2. Abu Bakr
  3. Harun al-Rashid
  4. Muawiyah I
  5. Umar
  6. Uthman

Europe, 74[edit source]

3

Eastern Europe, 32

  1. Stephen Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia
  2. Stephen III of Moldavia
  3. Svatopluk I of Moravia
  4. Vlad the Impaler

Bulgaria, 5

  1. Krum
  2. Boris I of Bulgaria
  3. Simeon I of Bulgaria
  4. Samuel of Bulgaria
  5. Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria

Byzantine Empire, 6

  1. Justinian I
  2. Heraclius
  3. Basil II
  4. Leo III the Isaurian
  5. Manuel I Komnenos
  6. Irene of Athens

Hungary, 4

  1. Stephen I of Hungary
  2. Béla IV of Hungary
  3. Louis I of Hungary
  4. Matthias Corvinus

Poland and Lithuania, 6

  1. Bolesław I Chrobry
  2. Casimir III the Great
  3. Gediminas
  4. Władysław II Jagiełło
  5. Mieszko I of Poland
  6. Vytautas

Russia, 7

  1. Alexander Nevsky
  2. Daniel of Galicia
  3. Dmitry Donskoy
  4. Ivan III of Russia
  5. Vladimir the Great
  6. Sviatoslav I of Kiev
  7. Yaroslav the Wise

Western Europe, 42

  1. Cnut the Great
  2. Margaret I of Denmark

England and Scotland, 7

  1. Alfred the Great
  2. Edward I of England
  3. Henry II of England
  4. John, King of England
  5. Richard I of England
  6. Robert the Bruce
  7. William the Conqueror

France, 8

  1. Charlemagne
  2. Charles Martel
  3. Clovis I
  4. Louis the Pious
  5. Louis IX of France
  6. Louis XI of France
  7. Philip II of France
  8. Philip IV of France

Germany, 2

  1. Charles the Fat
  2. Henry the Lion

Holy Roman Empire, 6

  1. Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
  2. Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
  3. Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
  4. Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
  5. Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
  6. Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor

Italy, 7

  1. Cosimo de' Medici
  2. Lorenzo de' Medici
  3. Robert Guiscard
  4. Roger II of Sicily
  5. Girolamo Savonarola
  6. Theoderic the Great
  7. Totila

Papal States, 4

  1. Pope Alexander VI
  2. Pope Boniface VIII
  3. Pope Gregory VII
  4. Pope Innocent III

Spain and Portugal, 6

  1. Abd al-Rahman I
  2. Abd-ar-Rahman III
  3. Afonso I of Portugal
  4. Ferdinand II of Aragon
  5. Henry the Navigator
  6. Isabella I of Castile

Early modern period, 107[edit source]

Africa, 4[edit source]

3
  1. Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi
  2. Ahmad al-Mansur
  3. Askia Mohammad I
  4. Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba

Americas, 14[edit source]

3
  1. Atahualpa
  2. Moctezuma I
  3. Moctezuma II
  4. Pachacuti
  5. Popé
  6. Tecumseh
  7. Túpac Amaru
  8. Túpac Amaru II

United States, 6

  1. Benjamin Franklin
  2. George Washington
  3. John Adams
  4. Thomas Jefferson
  5. Alexander Hamilton
  6. James Madison

Asia, 42[edit source]

3

Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus, 6

  1. Abbas I of Persia
  2. Ahmad Shah Durrani
  3. Babur
  4. Humayun
  5. Ismail I
  6. Nader Shah

Eastern Asia, 12

  1. Jeongjo of Joseon
  2. Seonjo of Joseon

China, 7

  1. Heshen
  2. Hong Taiji
  3. Jiajing Emperor
  4. Kangxi Emperor
  5. Nurhaci
  6. Qianlong Emperor
  7. Wanli Emperor

Japan, 3

  1. Toyotomi Hideyoshi
  2. Tokugawa Ieyasu
  3. Oda Nobunaga

Southern Asia, 10

  1. Akbar
  2. Aurangzeb
  3. Robert Clive
  4. Hyder Ali
  5. Prithvi Narayan Shah
  6. Shah Jahan
  7. Sher Shah Suri
  8. Tipu Sultan
  9. Shivaji
  10. Krishnadevaraya

Southeastern Asia, 9

  1. Sultan Agung of Mataram
  2. Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke
  3. Iskandar Muda
  4. Naresuan
  5. Nguyễn Huệ

Burma, 4

  1. Alaungpaya
  2. Bayinnaung
  3. Bodawpaya
  4. Tabinshwehti

Western Asia, 5

  1. Mehmed IV
  2. Roxelana
  3. Selim I
  4. Selim III
  5. Suleiman the Magnificent

Europe, 47[edit source]

3

Eastern Europe, 12

  1. Bohdan Khmelnytsky

Poland and Lithuania, 4

  1. Augustus II the Strong
  2. John III Sobieski
  3. Stephen Báthory
  4. Sigismund III Vasa

Russia, 7

  1. Alexis of Russia
  2. Boris Godunov
  3. Catherine the Great
  4. Elizabeth of Russia
  5. Ivan the Terrible
  6. Peter the Great
  7. Grigory Potemkin

Western Europe, 32

  1. Philip II of Spain
  2. Philip V of Spain
  3. Frederick the Great
  4. Frederick William I of Prussia
  5. Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal
  6. William the Silent

England and Scotland, 10

  1. Charles I of England
  2. Elizabeth I of England
  3. Henry VIII of England
  4. James VI and I
  5. Oliver Cromwell
  6. Mary I of England
  7. Mary, Queen of Scots
  8. William III of England
  9. William Pitt the Younger
  10. Robert Walpole

France, 10

  1. Catherine de' Medici
  2. Francis I of France
  3. Gaspard II de Coligny
  4. Henry IV of France
  5. Louis XIV of France
  6. Louis XV of France
  7. Louis XVI of France
  8. Cardinal Mazarin
  9. Madame de Pompadour
  10. Cardinal Richelieu

Holy Roman Empire, Austria, 6

  1. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
  2. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
  3. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
  4. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
  5. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
  6. Maria Theresa

Northern Europe, 1

  1. Charles XII of Sweden

Southern Europe, 2

  1. Cesare Borgia
  2. Pope Julius II

Modern, 173[edit source]

Africa, 25[edit source]

3

Eastern Africa, 6

  1. Idi Amin
  2. Haile Selassie
  3. Julius Nyerere
  4. Menelik II
  5. Rainilaiarivony
  6. Yohannes IV

Northern Africa, 7

  1. Muammar Gaddafi
  2. Isma'il Pasha
  3. Muhammad Ahmad
  4. Muhammad Ali of Egypt
  5. Gamal Abdel Nasser
  6. Abdelkader El Djezairi
  7. Anwar Sadat

Southern and Central Africa, 7

  1. Hastings Banda
  2. Laurent-Désiré Kabila
  3. Mobutu Sese Seko
  4. Nelson Mandela
  5. Robert Mugabe
  6. Cecil Rhodes
  7. Shaka

Western Africa, 5

  1. Kofi Annan
  2. Nnamdi Azikiwe
  3. Kwame Nkrumah
  4. Olusegun Obasanjo
  5. Léopold Sédar Senghor

Americas, 40[edit source]

3

Canada, 2

  1. John A. Macdonald
  2. Pierre Trudeau

Mexico, 3

  1. Porfirio Díaz
  2. Benito Juárez
  3. Antonio López de Santa Anna

United States, 19

  1. George W. Bush
  2. Jimmy Carter
  3. Henry Clay
  4. Dwight D. Eisenhower
  5. Andrew Jackson
  6. John F. Kennedy
  7. Lyndon B. Johnson
  8. Abraham Lincoln
  9. John Marshall
  10. Richard Nixon
  11. Barack Obama
  12. James K. Polk
  13. Ronald Reagan
  14. Eleanor Roosevelt
  15. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  16. Theodore Roosevelt
  17. Sitting Bull
  18. Harry S. Truman
  19. Woodrow Wilson

Central America and Caribbean, 5

  1. Fidel Castro
  2. Toussaint Louverture
  3. Francisco Morazán
  4. Daniel Ortega
  5. Rafael Trujillo

South America, 11

  1. Salvador Allende
  2. Simón Bolívar
  3. Hugo Chávez
  4. José de San Martín
  5. Eva Perón
  6. Augusto Pinochet
  7. Antonio José de Sucre
  8. Alfredo Stroessner

Brazil, 3

  1. Pedro I of Brazil
  2. Pedro II of Brazil
  3. Getúlio Vargas

Asia, 50[edit source]

3

Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus, 8

  1. Heydar Aliyev
  2. Ruhollah Khomeini
  3. Nursultan Nazarbayev
  4. Saparmurat Niyazov
  5. Mohammad Mosaddegh
  6. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
  7. Mohammed Zahir Shah
  8. Eduard Shevardnadze

Eastern Asia, 12

  1. Hirohito
  2. Kim Il-sung
  3. Emperor Meiji
  4. Park Chung-hee
  5. Eisaku Satō
  6. Hideki Tojo

China, 6

  1. Chiang Kai-shek
  2. Empress Dowager Cixi
  3. Deng Xiaoping
  4. Mao Zedong
  5. Puyi
  6. Zhou Enlai

Southeastern Asia, 12

  1. Corazon Aquino
  2. Chulalongkorn
  3. Ferdinand Marcos
  4. George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
  5. Ho Chi Minh
  6. Lee Kuan Yew
  7. Mahathir Mohamad
  8. Mindon Min
  9. Ne Win
  10. Pol Pot
  11. Suharto
  12. Sukarno

Southern Asia, 9

  1. Benazir Bhutto
  2. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  3. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

India, 6

  1. Indira Gandhi
  2. Jawaharlal Nehru
  3. Vallabhbhai Patel
  4. Manmohan Singh
  5. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  6. Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Western Asia, 9

  1. Abdul Hamid II
  2. Yasser Arafat
  3. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  4. David Ben-Gurion
  5. Saddam Hussein
  6. Ibn Saud
  7. Mahmud II
  8. Golda Meir
  9. Saud of Saudi Arabia

Europe, 58[edit source]

3

Austria-Hungary, 4

  1. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
  2. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
  3. Franz Joseph I of Austria
  4. Klemens von Metternich

Eastern Europe, 23

  1. Ion Antonescu
  2. Nicolae Ceaușescu
  3. Alexander Dubček
  4. Václav Havel
  5. Enver Hoxha
  6. Slobodan Milošević
  7. Ante Pavelić
  8. Symon Petliura
  9. Józef Piłsudski
  10. Josip Broz Tito
  11. Lech Wałęsa

Russia and USSR, 12

  1. Alexander II of Russia
  2. Leonid Brezhnev
  3. Mikhail Gorbachev
  4. Nikita Khrushchev
  5. Vladimir Lenin
  6. Nicholas I of Russia
  7. Nicholas II of Russia
  8. Vladimir Putin
  9. Joseph Stalin
  10. Pyotr Stolypin
  11. Leon Trotsky
  12. Boris Yeltsin

Western Europe, 31

  1. Gro Harlem Brundtland
  2. Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
  3. Charles XIV John of Sweden
  4. Francisco Franco
  5. Juan Carlos I of Spain
  6. Leopold II of Belgium
  7. Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
  8. Benito Mussolini
  9. Charles Stewart Parnell
  10. António de Oliveira Salazar
  11. Dag Hammarskjöld

France, 6

  1. Charles de Gaulle
  2. François Mitterrand
  3. Louis Philippe I
  4. Napoleon
  5. Napoleon III
  6. Adolphe Thiers

Germany, 7

  1. Konrad Adenauer
  2. Otto von Bismarck
  3. Adolf Hitler
  4. Erich Honecker
  5. Helmut Kohl
  6. William I, German Emperor
  7. Wilhelm II, German Emperor

United Kingdom, 7

  1. Queen Victoria
  2. William Ewart Gladstone
  3. Benjamin Disraeli
  4. Winston Churchill
  5. Clement Attlee
  6. Elizabeth II
  7. Margaret Thatcher

Military leaders and theorists, 48[edit source]

3

Ancient history, 7[edit source]

  1. Flavius Aetius
  2. Hannibal
  3. Zhuge Liang
  4. Pompey
  5. Scipio Africanus
  6. Sulla
  7. Sun Tzu

Post-classical history, 9[edit source]

  1. 'Amr ibn al-'As
  2. El Cid
  3. Godfrey of Bouillon
  4. John Hunyadi
  5. Subutai
  6. Trần Hưng Đạo
  7. William Wallace
  8. Jan Žižka
  9. Khalid ibn al-Walid

Early modern history, 14[edit source]

  1. Diego de Almagro
  2. Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba
  3. Hayreddin Barbarossa
  4. John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
  5. Hernán Cortés
  6. Michiel de Ruyter
  7. Francis Drake
  8. Prince Eugene of Savoy
  9. Francisco Pizarro
  10. Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny
  11. Maurice de Saxe
  12. Alexander Suvorov
  13. Albrecht von Wallenstein
  14. Yi Sun-sin

Modern history, 18[edit source]

  1. Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
  2. Carl von Clausewitz
  3. Enver Pasha
  4. Giuseppe Garibaldi
  5. Ulysses S. Grant
  6. T. E. Lawrence
  7. Robert E. Lee
  8. Erich Ludendorff
  9. Douglas MacArthur
  10. Alfred Thayer Mahan
  11. George Marshall
  12. Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
  13. Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
  14. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
  15. Erwin Rommel
  16. Võ Nguyên Giáp
  17. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
  18. Georgy Zhukov

Rebels, revolutionaries and activists, 50[edit source]

3

Ancient history, 1[edit source]

  1. Spartacus

Post-classical history, 4[edit source]

  1. Abu Muslim
  2. Babak Khorramdin
  3. Joan of Arc
  4. Huang Chao

Early modern history, 7[edit source]

  1. Guy Fawkes
  2. Thomas Müntzer
  3. Yemelyan Pugachev
  4. William Wilberforce

France, 3[edit source]

  1. Georges Danton
  2. Jean-Paul Marat
  3. Maximilien de Robespierre

Modern history, 38[edit source]

Africa, 6[edit source]

  1. Steve Biko
  2. Mohamed Bouazizi
  3. Patrice Lumumba
  4. Sayyid Qutb
  5. Thomas Sankara
  6. Ken Saro-Wiwa

Americas, 18[edit source]

  1. Che Guevara
  2. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
  3. Pancho Villa
  4. Emiliano Zapata

United States, 14

  1. Susan B. Anthony
  2. John Brown
  3. Frederick Douglass
  4. Eugene V. Debs
  5. Betty Friedan
  6. Helen Keller
  7. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  8. Malcolm X
  9. John Muir
  10. Rosa Parks
  11. Margaret Sanger
  12. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  13. Sojourner Truth
  14. Harriet Tubman

Asia, 10[edit source]

  1. B. R. Ambedkar
  2. Aung San
  3. Osama bin Laden
  4. Subhas Chandra Bose
  5. Diponegoro
  6. Mahatma Gandhi
  7. Hong Xiuquan
  8. José Rizal
  9. Sun Yat-sen
  10. Aung San Suu Kyi

Europe, 4[edit source]

  1. Emma Goldman
  2. Theodor Herzl
  3. Rosa Luxemburg
  4. Nestor Makhno

Scientists, inventors and mathematicians, 233[edit source]

Ancient figures, 21[edit source]

3

Ancient, 10[edit source]

  1. Archimedes
  2. Diophantus
  3. Eratosthenes
  4. Euclid
  5. Galen
  6. Hypatia
  7. Hippocrates
  8. Ptolemy
  9. Pythagoras
  10. Zhang Heng

Post-classical, 11[edit source]

  1. Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi
  2. Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī
  3. Alhazen
  4. Aryabhata
  5. Avicenna
  6. Brahmagupta
  7. Fibonacci
  8. Jābir ibn Hayyān
  9. Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
  10. Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
  11. Shen Kuo

Physics and astronomy, 64[edit source]

3

Early modern, 5[edit source]

  1. William Gilbert
  2. Robert Hooke
  3. Christiaan Huygens
  4. Mikhail Lomonosov
  5. Isaac Newton

Modern, 50[edit source]

  1. Amedeo Avogadro
  2. André-Marie Ampère
  3. Henri Becquerel
  4. Hans Bethe
  5. Niels Bohr
  6. Ludwig Boltzmann
  7. Max Born
  8. William Henry Bragg
  9. Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
  10. Henry Cavendish
  11. James Chadwick
  12. John Cockcroft
  13. Marie Curie
  14. Pierre Curie
  15. John Dalton
  16. Paul Dirac
  17. Albert Einstein
  18. James Dewar
  19. Michael Faraday
  20. Enrico Fermi
  21. Richard Feynman
  22. Léon Foucault
  23. Augustin-Jean Fresnel
  24. Murray Gell-Mann
  25. Stephen Hawking
  26. Werner Heisenberg
  27. James Prescott Joule
  28. Gustav Kirchhoff
  29. Ernest Lawrence
  30. Hendrik Lorentz
  31. Ernst Mach
  32. James Clerk Maxwell
  33. Lise Meitner
  34. Albert A. Michelson
  35. Robert Andrews Millikan
  36. Pieter van Musschenbroek
  37. Georg Ohm
  38. J. Robert Oppenheimer
  39. Hans Christian Ørsted
  40. Wolfgang Pauli
  41. Max Planck
  42. Wilhelm Röntgen
  43. Andrei Sakharov
  44. Erwin Schrödinger
  45. Edward Teller
  46. J. J. Thomson
  47. William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
  48. Tsung-Dao Lee
  49. Johannes Diderik van der Waals
  50. Thomas Young

Astronomy, 9[edit source]

  1. Nicolaus Copernicus
  2. Galileo Galilei
  3. Edmond Halley
  4. Edwin Hubble
  5. Georges Lemaître
  6. Carl Sagan
  7. Tycho Brahe
  8. Johannes Kepler
  9. Saul Perlmutter

Chemistry, 24[edit source]

3
  1. Svante Arrhenius
  2. Jöns Jacob Berzelius
  3. Robert Boyle
  4. Humphry Davy
  5. Peter Debye
  6. Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
  7. Josiah Willard Gibbs
  8. Fritz Haber
  9. Otto Hahn
  10. Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
  11. Dorothy Hodgkin
  12. Irving Langmuir
  13. Antoine Lavoisier
  14. Gilbert N. Lewis
  15. Justus von Liebig
  16. Dmitri Mendeleev
  17. Linus Pauling
  18. Joseph Priestley
  19. Ilya Prigogine
  20. Ernest Rutherford
  21. Frederick Sanger
  22. Harold Urey
  23. Friedrich Wöhler
  24. Robert Burns Woodward

Natural sciences, 36[edit source]

3
  1. Louis Agassiz
  2. John James Audubon
  3. Norman Borlaug
  4. Rachel Carson
  5. George Washington Carver
  6. Jacques Cousteau
  7. Charles Darwin
  8. Alexander Fleming
  9. Stephen Jay Gould
  10. W. D. Hamilton
  11. Ernst Haeckel
  12. Joseph Dalton Hooker
  13. Edward Jenner
  14. Charles Lyell
  15. Eugenius Warming

Biology, 12[edit source]

  1. Francis Crick
  2. Rosalind Franklin
  3. Thomas Henry Huxley
  4. Hans Adolf Krebs
  5. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
  6. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  7. Carl Linnaeus
  8. Konrad Lorenz
  9. Barbara McClintock
  10. Gregor Mendel
  11. Santiago Ramón y Cajal
  12. James Watson

Medicine, 9[edit source]

  1. Casimir Funk
  2. William Harvey
  3. Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister
  4. Florence Nightingale
  5. Paracelsus
  6. Louis Pasteur
  7. Jonas Salk
  8. Ignaz Semmelweis
  9. Andreas Vesalius

Inventors, 31[edit source]

3
  1. Leo Baekeland
  2. John Logie Baird
  3. John Bardeen
  4. Alexander Graham Bell
  5. Karl Benz
  6. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
  7. Emile Berliner
  8. Cai Lun
  9. Wallace Carothers
  10. Louis Daguerre
  11. Lee de Forest
  12. Karl Drais
  13. George Eastman
  14. Thomas Edison
  15. Philo Farnsworth
  16. Robert Fulton
  17. Gordon Gould
  18. Johannes Gutenberg
  19. Jack Kilby
  20. Ignacy Łukasiewicz
  21. Guglielmo Marconi
  22. Cyrus McCormick
  23. Samuel Morse
  24. Alfred Nobel
  25. Charles Algernon Parsons
  26. William Shockley
  27. Nikola Tesla
  28. Alessandro Volta
  29. James Watt
  30. Eli Whitney
  31. Wright brothers

Mathematicians, 44[edit source]

3

Early modern, 9[edit source]

  1. Jean le Rond d'Alembert
  2. Daniel Bernoulli
  3. Jacob Bernoulli
  4. Johann Bernoulli
  5. Alexis Clairaut
  6. Leonhard Euler
  7. Pierre de Fermat
  8. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  9. Blaise Pascal

Modern, 35[edit source]

  1. Niels Henrik Abel
  2. Stefan Banach
  3. George Boole
  4. Georg Cantor
  5. Augustin-Louis Cauchy
  6. Arthur Cayley
  7. Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
  8. Ronald Fisher
  9. Joseph Fourier
  10. Gottlob Frege
  11. Évariste Galois
  12. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  13. Kurt Gödel
  14. Alexander Grothendieck
  15. William Rowan Hamilton
  16. Charles Hermite
  17. David Hilbert
  18. Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
  19. Andrey Kolmogorov
  20. Leopold Kronecker
  21. Joseph-Louis Lagrange
  22. Pierre-Simon Laplace
  23. Nikolai Lobachevsky
  24. Benoit Mandelbrot
  25. Gaspard Monge
  26. John von Neumann
  27. Emmy Noether
  28. Karl Pearson
  29. Henri Poincaré
  30. Siméon Denis Poisson
  31. Srinivasa Ramanujan
  32. Bernhard Riemann
  33. Claude Shannon
  34. James Joseph Sylvester
  35. Karl Weierstrass

Computer scientists, 13[edit source]

3
  1. Charles Babbage
  2. Tim Berners-Lee
  3. Seymour Cray
  4. Edsger W. Dijkstra
  5. Douglas Engelbart
  6. Grace Hopper
  7. Donald Knuth
  8. John G. Kemeny
  9. Herman Hollerith
  10. Ada Lovelace
  11. Dennis Ritchie
  12. Alan Turing
  13. Steve Wozniak

Sports figures, 113[edit source]

Individual sports, 68[edit source]

3

Athletics, 14[edit source]

  1. Roger Bannister
  2. Fanny Blankers-Koen
  3. Usain Bolt
  4. Sergey Bubka
  5. Hicham El Guerrouj
  6. Haile Gebrselassie
  7. Florence Griffith Joyner
  8. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  9. Carl Lewis
  10. Edwin Moses
  11. Paavo Nurmi
  12. Jesse Owens
  13. Wilma Rudolph
  14. Emil Zátopek

Auto racing, 6[edit source]

  1. Juan Manuel Fangio
  2. A. J. Foyt
  3. Alain Prost
  4. Michael Schumacher
  5. Ayrton Senna
  6. Jackie Stewart

Biathlon, 1[edit source]

  1. Ole Einar Bjørndalen

Boxing, 4[edit source]

  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Henry Armstrong
  3. Joe Louis
  4. Sugar Ray Robinson

Chess, 2[edit source]

  1. Bobby Fischer
  2. Garry Kasparov

Cycling, 5[edit source]

  1. Jacques Anquetil
  2. Fausto Coppi
  3. Bernard Hinault
  4. Miguel Indurain
  5. Eddy Merckx

Figure skating, 3[edit source]

  1. Scott Hamilton
  2. Sonja Henie
  3. Irina Rodnina

Golf, 5[edit source]

  1. Jack Nicklaus
  2. Arnold Palmer
  3. Gary Player
  4. Annika Sörenstam
  5. Tiger Woods

Gymnastics, 6[edit source]

  1. Nadia Comăneci
  2. Olga Korbut
  3. Larisa Latynina
  4. Li Ning
  5. Vitaly Scherbo
  6. Ludmilla Tourischeva

Skiing, alpine, 2[edit source]

  1. Ingemar Stenmark
  2. Jean-Claude Killy

Speed skating, 2[edit source]

  1. Bonnie Blair
  2. Eric Heiden

Swimming, 2[edit source]

  1. Michael Phelps
  2. Mark Spitz

Tennis, 14[edit source]

  1. Björn Borg
  2. Margaret Court
  3. Chris Evert
  4. Roger Federer
  5. Pancho Gonzales
  6. Steffi Graf
  7. Billie Jean King
  8. Rod Laver
  9. Suzanne Lenglen
  10. Rafael Nadal
  11. Martina Navratilova
  12. Pete Sampras
  13. Bill Tilden
  14. Williams sisters

Multiple sports, 2[edit source]

  1. Jim Thorpe
  2. Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Team sports, 45[edit source]

3

American football, 3[edit source]

  1. Jim Brown
  2. Jerry Rice
  3. Johnny Unitas

Association football, 15[edit source]

  1. Franz Beckenbauer
  2. Bobby Charlton
  3. Johan Cruyff
  4. Alfredo Di Stéfano
  5. Eusébio
  6. Mia Hamm
  7. Paolo Maldini
  8. Diego Maradona
  9. Lionel Messi
  10. Pelé
  11. Michel Platini
  12. Ferenc Puskás
  13. Ronaldo
  14. Lev Yashin
  15. Zinedine Zidane

Baseball, 7[edit source]

  1. Hank Aaron
  2. Ty Cobb
  3. Lou Gehrig
  4. Willie Mays
  5. Sadaharu Oh
  6. Jackie Robinson
  7. Babe Ruth

Basketball, 6[edit source]

  1. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  2. Larry Bird
  3. Wilt Chamberlain
  4. Magic Johnson
  5. Michael Jordan
  6. Bill Russell

Cricket, 7[edit source]

  1. W. G. Grace
  2. Donald Bradman
  3. Garfield Sobers
  4. Viv Richards
  5. Shane Warne
  6. Muttiah Muralitharan
  7. Sachin Tendulkar

Field hockey, 2[edit source]

  1. Luciana Aymar
  2. Dhyan Chand

Ice hockey, 3[edit source]

  1. Wayne Gretzky
  2. Gordie Howe
  3. Vladislav Tretiak

Rugby union, 2[edit source]

  1. Gareth Edwards
  2. Colin Meads