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People, 1322
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Actors and entertainers, 151
Actors, 59
- Fred Astaire
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Humphrey Bogart
- Charles Boyer
- Marlon Brando
- Walter Brennan
- James Cagney
- Michael Caine
- Charlie Chaplin
- John Cleese
- Gary Cooper
- James Dean
- Robert De Niro
- Gerard Depardieu
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- Kirk Douglas
- Douglas Fairbanks
- Henry Fonda
- Harrison Ford
- Morgan Freeman
- Clark Gable
- Cary Grant
- Tom Hanks
- Kamal Haasan
- Charlton Heston
- William Holden
- Anthony Hopkins
- Shintaro Katsu
- Buster Keaton
- Gene Kelly
- Ben Kingsley
- Klaus Kinski
- Burt Lancaster
- Christopher Lee
- Harold Lloyd
- Jean Marais
- Marcello Mastroianni
- Ian McKellen
- Toshiro Mifune
- Robert Mitchum
- Paul Newman
- Jack Nicholson
- Philippe Noiret
- Gary Oldman
- Laurence Olivier
- Peter O'Toole
- Sean Penn
- Al Pacino
- Gregory Peck
- Sidney Poitier
- Michael Redgrave
- Edward G. Robinson
- Randolph Scott
- Will Smith
- Jimmy Stewart
- Spencer Tracy
- John Wayne
- Orson Welles
- Denzel Washington
Actresses, 43
- Isabelle Adjani
- Julie Andrews
- Lauren Bacall
- Ingrid Bergman
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Claudette Colbert
- Joan Crawford
- Bette Davis
- Doris Day
- Judi Dench
- Marlene Dietrich
- Sally Field
- Greta Garbo
- Judy Garland
- Ava Gardner
- Lillian Gish
- Jean Harlow
- Rita Hayworth
- Audrey Hepburn
- Katharine Hepburn
- Isabelle Huppert
- Glenda Jackson
- Grace Kelly
- Deborah Kerr
- Vivien Leigh
- Carole Lombard
- Sophia Loren
- Ida Lupino
- Mary Martin
- Ethel Merman
- Liza Minnelli
- Helen Mirren
- Jeanne Moreau
- Vanessa Redgrave
- Ginger Rogers
- Hanna Schygulla
- Maggie Smith
- Barbara Stanwyck
- Meryl Streep
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Shirley Temple
- Mae West
- Betty White
Dancers, 28
- Ballet
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Margot Fonteyn
- Avdotia Istomina
- Vaslav Nijinsky
- Rudolf Nureyev
- Anna Pavlova
- Marius Petipa
- Maria Tallchief
- Modern
- Alvin Ailey
- Cyd Charisse
- Isadora Duncan
- Gregory Hines
- Robert Joffrey
- Arthur Mitchell
- Jerome Robbins
- Twyla Tharp
- Unclassified
- Frederick Ashton
- Maurice Bejart
- Erik Bruhn
- Michel Fokine
- Galina Ulanova
- Gaetano Vestris
- Marie Taglioni
- Tamara Karsavina
- Rudolf Laban
- Pierina Legnani
- Natalia Makarova
- Maya Plisetskaya
Comedians, 16
- Woody Allen
- Lucille Ball
- Jack Benny
- Mel Brooks
- Lenny Bruce
- Carol Burnett
- George Carlin
- Bob Hope
- Steve Martin
- The Marx Brothers
- Eddie Murphy
- Jerry Seinfeld
- Jerry Lewis
- Bill Cosby
- Laurel & Hardy
- Carl Reiner
Stage Magicians, 4
Unclassified, 3
Artists, visual, 47
- Painters, illustrators (western art)
- Medieval era
- Renaissance to early modern era
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini
- Donatello
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Michelangelo
- Nicolas Poussin
- Raphael
- Rembrandt
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Diego Velázquez
- Johannes Vermeer
- Modern era
- Painters
- Paul Cézanne
- Joseph Cornell
- Salvador Dalí
- Marcel Duchamp
- Alberto Giacometti
- Vincent van Gogh
- Francisco Goya
- William Hogarth
- Frida Kahlo
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Édouard Manet
- Henri Matisse
- Claude Monet
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Pablo Picasso
- Jackson Pollock
- Auguste Renoir
- Andy Warhol
- Illustrators, comic artists
- Other traditions
- Sculptors, architects, designers
- Antoni Gaudí
- Constantin Brâncuşi
- Walter Gropius
- Le Corbusier
- Louis Kahn
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Henry Moore
- Andrea Palladio
- Christopher Wren
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Auguste Rodin
- Photographers
Writers, 141
- Ancient,
- Asia,
- Europe,
- Aeschylus
- Aesop
- Aristophanes
- Bede
- Euripides
- Homer
- Horace
- Ovid
- Plutarch
- Sappho
- Sophocles
- Thucydides
- Virgil
- Xenophon
- Middle Ages,
- Asia,
- Europe,
- Early modern,
- Asia,
- Europe,
- Modern,
- Africa,
- Americas,
- USA and Canada
- Saul Bellow
- Ray Bradbury
- Isaac Asimov
- Pearl S. Buck
- Philip K. Dick
- Emily Dickinson
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Robert Frost
- Allen Ginsberg
- Dashiell Hammett
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Ernest Hemingway
- Langston Hughes
- Henry James
- Jack Kerouac
- Ken Kesey
- Stephen King
- Madeleine L'Engle
- Jack London
- Arthur Miller
- Margaret Mitchel
- Toni Morrison
- Mario Puzo
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Thomas Pynchon
- J. D. Salinger
- John Steinbeck
- Mark Twain
- John Updike
- Gore Vidal
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Alice Walker
- Walt Whitman
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Latin America
- Jorge Amado
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Alejo Carpentier
- Mario Vargas Llosa
- Gabriel García Márquez
- José Martí
- Pablo Neruda
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Asia,
- Europe,
- Eastern Europe,
- Russian,
- Western Europe,
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Bertolt Brecht
- Alexandre Dumas
- Anne Frank
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Brothers Grimm
- Hermann Hesse
- Victor Hugo
- Henrik Ibsen
- Franz Kafka
- Astrid Lindgren
- Thomas Mann
- Marcel Proust
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- José Saramago
- Jules Verne
- UK and Ireland
- Kingsley Amis
- Martin Amis
- Jane Austen
- William Blake
- Anthony Burgess
- Byron
- Lewis Carroll
- Agatha Christie
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Roald Dahl
- Charles Dickens
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- W. S. Gilbert
- Thomas Hardy
- Aldous Huxley
- James Joyce
- John Keats
- Rudyard Kipling
- Philip Larkin
- C. S. Lewis
- Alan Moore
- V. S. Naipaul
- George Orwell
- Harold Pinter
- Salman Rushdie
- George Bernard Shaw
- Olaf Stapleton
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Jonathan Swift
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- H. G. Wells
- Oscar Wilde
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Virginia Woolf
- William Butler Yeats
Musicians/composers, 122
- Classical
- Composers
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Leonard Bernstein
- Alexander Borodin
- Johannes Brahms
- Anton Bruckner
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Frédéric Chopin
- Claude Debussy
- Antonín Dvorák
- Gilbert and Sullivan
- Edvard Grieg
- Georg Frideric Handel
- Joseph Haydn
- Franz Liszt
- Gustav Mahler
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Claudio Monteverdi
- Modest Moussorgsky
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Giacomo Puccini
- Maurice Ravel
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Franz Schubert
- Robert Schumann
- Jean Sibelius
- Georg Solti
- Johann Strauss
- Igor Stravinsky
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Richard Wagner
- Performers
- Marian Anderson
- Andrea Bocelli
- Maria Callas
- Enrico Caruso
- Placido Domingo
- Mario Lanza
- Jenny Lind
- Birgit Nilsson
- Luciano Pavarotti
- Itzak Perlman
- Leontyne Price
- Jean-Pierre Rampal
- Renata Scotto
- Beverly Sills
- Kiri Te Kanawa
- Frederica von Stade
- Avant-garde
- 19th to early 20th century
- Harold Arlen
- Irving Berlin
- Bing Crosby
- Stephen Foster
- Judy Garland
- George Gershwin
- Woodie Guthrie
- Robert Johnson
- Jerome Kern
- Glenn Miller
- Cole Porter
- Richard Rodgers
- Dinah Shore
- Modern
- ABBA
- AC/DC
- Louis Armstrong
- Charles Aznavour
- Burt Bacharach
- Joan Baez
- The Band
- Jacques Brel
- James Brown
- The Beatles
- Chuck Berry
- Garth Brooks
- Mariah Carey
- Johnny Cash
- Ray Charles
- Eric Clapton
- Jimmy Cliff
- Patsy Cline
- Leonard Cohen
- John Coltrane
- Fairport Convention
- Sam Cooke
- Celia Cruz
- Celine Dion
- Bob Dylan
- Enya
- John Fahey
- Pink Floyd
- Aretha Franklin
- Miles Davis
- Grateful Dead
- Duke Ellington
- Serge Gainsbourg
- Gamble and Huff
- Marvin Gaye
- João Gilberto
- Johnny Hallyday
- Marvin Hamlisch
- Jimi Hendrix
- Buddy Holly
- Julio Iglesias
- Janet Jackson
- Michael Jackson
- Elton John
- Quincy Jones
- Janis Joplin
- Scott Joplin
- B.B. King
- Carole King
- Alison Krauss
- Led Zeppelin
- Madonna
- Henry Mancini
- Bob Marley
- Dean Martin
- Joni Mitchell
- Jim Morrison
- Nana Mouskouri
- Charlie Parker
- Dolly Parton
- Les Paul
- Édith Piaf
- Elvis Presley
- Prince
- The Rolling Stones
- Diana Ross
- Carlos Santana
- Selena
- Frank Sinatra
- Barbra Streisand
- Shania Twain
- U2
- Vangelis
- Caetano Veloso
- The Who
- Hank Williams
- Brian Wilson
- Stevie Wonder
- Middle East/Indian classical music
Directors, producers & screenwriters, 55
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Roberto Benigni
- Ingmar Bergman
- Luis Buñuel
- Ken Burns
- James Cameron
- Frank Capra
- Joel and Ethan Coen
- Francis Ford Coppola
- George Cukor
- Vittorio De Sica
- Walt Disney
- Clint Eastwood
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Federico Fellini
- John Ford
- Miloš Forman
- Bob Fosse
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Samuel Goldwyn
- Werner Herzog
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Ron Howard
- Peter Jackson
- Wong Kar-wai
- Elia Kazan
- Akira Kurosawa
- Fritz Lang
- David Lean
- Ang Lee
- Frank Lloyd
- George Lucas
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Frances Marion
- Lewis Milestone
- Roman Polanski
- Sydney Pollack
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Satyajit Ray
- Robert Redford
- Martin Scorsese
- David O. Selznick
- Aaron Sorkin
- Steven Spielberg
- Oliver Stone
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Jacques Tati
- Irving G. Thalberg
- Hal B. Wallis
- Wim Wenders
- Billy Wilder
- Robert Wise
- William Wyler
- Darryl F. Zanuck
- Robert Zemeckis
Businesspeople, 14
Explorers, 30
- Roald Amundsen
- Neil Armstrong
- Willem Barents
- Ibn Battuta
- Vitus Bering
- Daniel Boone
- Jacques Cartier
- Christopher Columbus
- James Cook
- Hernán Cortés
- Davy Crockett
- Francis Drake
- Juan Sebastián Elcano
- Leif Ericson
- Vasco da Gama
- Yuri Gagarin
- John Glenn
- Edmund Hillary
- Alexander Humboldt
- Juan Ponce de León
- Lewis and Clark
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Tenzing Norgay
- Francisco Pizarro
- Marco Polo
- Hernando de Soto
- Abel Tasman
- Amerigo Vespucci
- Xuanzang
- Zheng He
Philosophers and social scientists, 89
- Alfred Adler
- Gordon Allport
- Thomas Aquinas
- Aristotle
- Augustine of Hippo
- Averroes
- Avicenna
- Francis Bacon
- Albert Bandura
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Benedict of Nursia
- Henri Bergson
- Isaiah Berlin
- Raymond Cattell
- Noam Chomsky
- Confucius
- Jacques Derrida
- René Descartes
- Émile Durkheim
- Albert Ellis
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Erik Erikson
- Hans Eysenck
- Leon Festinger
- Michel Foucault
- Sigmund Freud
- Milton Friedman
- Edward Gibbon
- Jane Goodall
- Antonio Gramsci
- Germaine Greer
- Jürgen Habermas
- Ernst Haeckel
- Donald O. Hebb
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Martin Heidegger
- Herodotus
- Hippocrates
- Thomas Hobbes
- Clark L. Hull
- David Hume
- Edmund Husserl
- William James
- Carl Jung
- Jerome Kagan
- Immanuel Kant
- John Maynard Keynes
- Ibn Khaldun
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Thomas Samuel Kuhn
- Kurt Lewin
- John Locke
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Seymour Martin Lipset
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Robert Malthus
- Karl Marx
- Abraham Maslow
- David McClelland
- John Stuart Mill
- George Armitage Miller
- Neal E. Miller
- Hans Morgenthau
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Thomas Paine
- Ivan Pavlov
- Jean Piaget
- Plato
- Sima Qian
- Otto Rank
- John Rawls
- Carl Rogers
- Stein Rokkan
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Bertrand Russell
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- B.F. Skinner
- Adam Smith
- Socrates
- Baruch Spinoza
- Benjamin Spock
- Edward Thorndike
- Sun Tzu
- Thales
- Voltaire
- John B. Watson
- Max Weber
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Religious figures, 54
- Bahá'í
- Buddhism
- 14th Dalai Lama
- Ananda
- Bodhidharma
- Dōgen
- Gautama Buddha
- Huineng
- Kūkai
- Longchenpa
- Nagarjuna
- Sariputta
- Thich Nhat Hanh
- Vasubandhu
- Christianity
- Thomas Aquinas
- Francis of Assisi
- John Calvin
- Ignatius of Loyola
- James the Just
- Jesus
- John of the Cross
- John the Baptist
- Martin Luther
- Thomas Merton
- Thomas More
- Origen
- Paul of Tarsus
- Mother Teresa
- Saint Peter
- Pope John Paul II
- Pope Paul VI
- Tertullian
- Hinduism
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- Adi Shankara
- Paramahansa Yogananda
- Patanjali
- Ramakrishna
- Ramana Maharshi
- Sri Aurobindo
- Swami Vivekananda
- Islam
- Judaism
- Baal Shem Tov
- Akiba ben Joseph
- David
- Elohist
- Jahwist
- Judah Loew ben Bezalel
- Maimonides
- Rashi
- Vilna Gaon
- Sikhism
- Zoroastrianism
Politicians and leaders, 95
- Ancient, 17
- Akhenaten
- Alexander the Great
- Attila the Hun
- Augustus
- Julius Caesar
- Cleopatra VII
- Cyrus the Great
- Constantine I
- Hammurabi
- Hannibal
- Hatshepsut
- Nefertiti
- Ramesses II
- Qin Shi Huang
- Semiramis
- Queen of Sheba
- Tutankhamun
- Middle Ages, 4
- Early modern period, 10
- Akbar
- Charles V
- Lucrezia Borgia
- Catherine II of Russia
- Elizabeth I of England
- Charles XII of Sweden
- Maria Theresa of Austria
- Mary I of Scotland
- Peter I of Russia
- Suleiman the Magnificent
- Modern, 64
- Africa, 8
- Kofi Annan
- Nnamdi Azikiwe
- Hastings Banda
- Nelson Mandela
- Kwame Nkrumah
- Anwar Sadat
- Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
- Shaka
- Gamal Abdel Nasser
- Americas, 22
- United States, 18
- John Adams
- George W. Bush
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Benjamin Franklin
- Andrew Jackson
- Thomas Jefferson
- John F. Kennedy
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Henry Kissinger
- Abraham Lincoln
- Douglas MacArthur
- James Madison
- Richard M. Nixon
- Ronald Reagan
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt
- George Washington
- Harry S. Truman
- Central America and Caribbean, 1
- South America, 3
- Asia, 16
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- Empress Dowager Cixi
- Ferdinand Marcos
- Indira Gandhi
- Hirohito
- Ho Chi Minh
- Lee Kuan Yew
- Mohammad Mosaddegh
- Golda Meir
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- Mao Zedong
- Mahathir bin Mohamad
- Puyi
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
- Pol Pot
- Suharto
- Europe, 24
- Eastern Europe, 6
- Western Europe, 18
- Otto von Bismarck
- Tony Blair
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
- Winston Churchill
- Francisco Franco
- Garibaldi
- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
- Charles de Gaulle
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Adolf Hitler
- Christian Michelsen
- Benito Mussolini
- Napoleon I of France
- Gerhard Schröder
- Margaret Thatcher
- Victoria of the United Kingdom
- Wilhelm II of Germany
Revolutionaries and activists, 22
- Joan of Arc
- Stephen Biko
- Helen Caldicott
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Emma Goldman
- Che Guevara
- Diogenes
- Mother Jones
- Helen Keller
- Ruhollah Khomeini
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- John Muir
- Florence Nightingale
- Rosa Parks
- Sitting Bull
- Ken Saro-Wiwa
- Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Tubman
- Patrice Lumumba
- Pancho Villa
- Malcolm X
- Emiliano Zapata
Scientists, inventors and mathematicians, 198
- Pre-modern figures, 8
- Alhacen
- Archimedes
- Eratosthenes
- Euclid
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- William Gilbert
- Hypatia
- Diophantus
- Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
- Nasir al-Din Tusi
- Galileo Galilei
- Pythagoras
- Vitruvius
- Scientists
- Physical sciences, 31
- André Marie Ampère
- Amedeo Avogadro
- Johann Balmer
- Antoine Henri Becquerel
- J. Georg Bednorz
- Daniel Bernoulli
- Nikolay Bogolyubov
- Niels Bohr
- Ludwig Boltzmann
- William Henry Bragg
- Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
- Henry Cavendish
- Steven Chu
- John Cockcroft
- Marie Curie
- Pierre Curie
- Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
- Michael Faraday
- Albert Einstein
- James Dewar
- Enrico Fermi
- Richard Feynman
- Léon Foucault
- Joseph Fourier
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel
- Murray Gell-Mann
- J. Willard Gibbs
- Edmund Halley
- William Rowan Hamilton
- Stephen Hawking
- Edwin Hubble
- Christiaan Huygens
- James Prescott Joule
- Gustav Kirchhoff
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange
- Antoine Lavoisier
- Ernest Orlando Lawrence
- Mikhail Lomonosov
- Hendrik Lorentz
- Ernst Mach
- James Clerk Maxwell
- Dmitri Mendeleev
- Albert Abraham Michelsonn
- Robert Millikan
- Pieter van Musschenbroek
- Isaac Newton
- Georg Ohm
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Hans Christian Ørsted
- Wolfgang Pauli
- Max Planck
- Joseph Priestley
- Ilya Prigogine
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
- Ernest Rutherford
- Carl Sagan
- Andrei Sakharov
- Erwin Schrödinger
- Edward Teller
- William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
- Charles Hard Townes
- Tsung-Dao Lee
- Thomas Young
- Natural sciences, 10
- John James Audubon
- Tycho Brahe
- Rachel Carson
- Jacques Cousteau
- Charles Darwin
- Alexander Fleming
- Casimir Funk
- W. D. Hamilton
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Stephen J. Gould
- Alexander von Humboldt
- Edward Jenner
- Johannes Kepler
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- Carolus Linnaeus
- Konrad Lorenz
- Gregor Johann Mendel
- Louis Pasteur
- Jonas Salk
- Ignaz Semmelweis
- Eugenius Warming
- Inventors, 16
- John Logie Baird
- John Bardeen
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Karl Benz
- Karl Drais
- Emile Berliner
- Gerd Binnig
- Wallace H. Carothers
- Lee De Forest
- Alfred V. du Pont
- George Eastman
- Thomas Edison
- Leo Fender
- Benjamin Franklin
- Buckminster Fuller
- Robert Fulton
- Gordon Gould
- Johann Gutenberg
- Joseph Marie Jacquard
- Ignacy Lukasiewicz
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Alfred Nobel
- Charles A. Parsons
- William Shockley
- Nikola Tesla
- Alessandro Volta
- James Watt
- Eli Whitney
- Wright brothers
- Mathematicians and computer scientists, 11
- Vladimir Arnold
- Charles Babbage
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Seymour Cray
- Leonhard Euler
- Douglas Engelbart
- Pierre de Fermat
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Kurt Gödel
- G. H. Hardy
- David Hilbert
- Herman Hollerith
- John George Kemeny
- Jack Kilby
- Donald Knuth
- Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Gottfried Leibniz
- Benoît Mandelbrot
- Robert Noyce
- Blaise Pascal
- Henri Poincaré
- Bernhard Riemann
- Alan Turing
- Steve Wozniak
Journalists, 34
- Nellie Bly
- Ed Bradley
- David Brinkley
- Tom Brokaw
- John F. Burns
- John Chancellor
- Walter Cronkite
- Robert Fisk
- Seymour Hersh
- Hedda Hopper
- John Humphrys
- Chet Huntley
- Marvin Kalb
- Jim Lehrer
- David McCullough
- Robert MacNeil
- Bill Moyers
- Edward R. Murrow
- John Pilger
- Dan Rather
- Harry Reasoner
- Mike Royko
- Diane Sawyer
- Eric Sevareid
- Upton Sinclair
- Howard K. Smith
- I.F. Stone
- Ida M. Tarbell
- Studs Terkel
- Hunter Thompson
- Mike Wallace
- Barbara Walters
- Walter Winchell
- Bob Woodward
Psychics and Mystics, 6
Sports figures, 265
Individual sports, 111
Athletics
- Roger Bannister
- Abebe Bikila
- Usain Bolt
- Mary Decker
- Hicham El Guerrouj
- Haile Gebrselassie
- Bruce Jenner
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- Kipchoge Keino
- Carl Lewis
- Bob Mathias
- Bobby Joe Morrow
- Edwin Moses
- Paavo Nurmi
- Jesse Owens
- Jim Thorpe
- Wilma Rudolph
- Lasse Virén
- Emil Zatopek
Auto racing
- Mario Andretti
- Dale Earnhardt
- Juan Manuel Fangio
- Richard Petty
- Alain Prost
- Michael Schumacher
- Ayrton Senna
- Jackie Stewart
Boxing
- Muhammad Ali
- Henry Armstrong
- Jack Dempsey
- Ingemar Johansson
- Sugar Ray Leonard
- Joe Louis
- Rocky Marciano
- Manny Pacquiao
- Sugar Ray Robinson
Cycling
- Jacques Anquetil
- Lance Armstrong
- Fausto Coppi
- Bernard Hinault
- Miguel Indurain
- Greg LeMond
- Eddy Merckx
Diving
Figure skating
- Shizuka Arakawa
- Brian Boitano
- Robin Cousins
- Peggy Fleming
- Scott Hamilton
- Dorothy Hamill
- Sonja Henie
- Sarah Hughes
- Ilya Kulik
- Michelle Kwan
- Tara Lipinski
- Axel Paulsen
- Irina Rodnina
- Katarina Witt
- Kristi Yamaguchi
Golf
- Seve Ballesteros
- Ben Hogan
- Jack Nicklaus
- Lorena Ochoa
- Se Ri Pak
- Arnold Palmer
- Gary Player
- Patty Sheehan
- Sam Snead
- Annika Sörenstam
- Lee Trevino
- Karrie Webb
- Tiger Woods
Gymnastics
- Nadia Comaneci
- Paul Hamm
- Olga Korbut
- Larissa Latynina
- Lilia Podkopayeva
- Mary Lou Retton
- Vitaly Scherbo
- Ludmilla Tourischeva
- Elena Zamolodchikova
Horse racing
Skiing, alpine
Speed skating
Swimming
Tennis
- Andre Agassi
- Arthur Ashe
- Don Budge
- Margaret Court
- Chris Evert
- Roger Federer
- Althea Gibson
- Pancho Gonzales
- Steffi Graf
- Billie Jean King
- Rod Laver
- John McEnroe
- Rafael Nadal
- Martina Navratilova
- Pete Sampras
- Monica Seles
- Bill Tilden
- Serena Williams
- Venus Williams
Multiple sports
Team sports, 154
Association football
- Marco van Basten
- Franz Beckenbauer
- David Beckham
- George Best
- Iker Casillas
- Johan Cruyff
- Kenny Dalglish
- Alfredo Di Stéfano
- Eusébio
- Ryan Giggs
- Paolo Maldini
- Diego Maradona
- Stanley Matthews
- Lionel Messi
- Pelé
- Michel Platini
- Ferenc Puskás
- Ronaldo
- Sócrates
- George Weah
- Lev Yashin
- Zinedine Zidane
Baseball
- Hank Aaron
- Cap Anson
- Yogi Berra
- Barry Bonds
- Alexander Cartwright
- Roger Clemens
- Roberto Clemente
- Ty Cobb
- Eddie Collins
- Joe DiMaggio
- Curt Flood
- Lou Gehrig
- Bob Gibson
- Josh Gibson
- Rickey Henderson
- Rogers Hornsby
- Shoeless Joe Jackson
- Ban Johnson
- Walter Johnson
- Sandy Koufax
- Kenesaw Mountain Landis
- Connie Mack
- Greg Maddux
- Mickey Mantle
- Christy Mathewson
- Willie Mays
- John McGraw
- Marvin Miller
- Stan Musial
- Buck O'Neil
- Satchel Paige
- Albert Pujols
- Cal Ripken, Jr.
- Jackie Robinson
- Pete Rose
- Branch Rickey
- Babe Ruth
- Nolan Ryan
- Mike Schmidt
- Tom Seaver
- Bud Selig
- Warren Spahn
- Albert Spalding
- Tris Speaker
- George Steinbrenner
- Casey Stengel
- Honus Wagner
- John Montgomery Ward
- Ted Williams
- Harry Wright
- Cy Young
Basketball
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Red Auerbach
- Elgin Baylor
- Larry Bird
- Wilt Chamberlain
- Bob Cousy
- Tim Duncan
- Julius Erving
- Phil Jackson
- Magic Johnson
- Michael Jordan
- Jerry Lucas
- Pete Maravich
- Shaquille O'Neal
- Oscar Robertson
- David Robinson (basketball)
- Bill Russell
- Dean Smith
- Jerry West
- John Wooden
Cricket
- W. G. Grace
- Jack Hobbs
- Donald Bradman
- Garfield Sobers
- Viv Richards
- Brian Lara
- Shane Warne
- Muttiah Muralitharan
- Sachin Tendulkar
American Football
- Sammy Baugh
- Bill Belichick
- Bobby Bowden
- Terry Bradshaw
- Tom Brady
- Bear Bryant
- Jim Brown
- Paul Brown
- Dick Butkus
- John Elway
- Brett Favre
- Otto Graham
- Red Grange
- William Heffelfinger
- Don Hutson
- Dick Lane (American football)
- Vince Lombardi
- John Madden
- Peyton Manning
- Dan Marino
- Joe Montana
- Marion Motley
- Bronko Nagurski
- Joe Namath
- Joe Paterno
- Walter Payton
- Jerry Rice
- Knute Rockne
- Pete Rozelle
- Barry Sanders
- Don Shula
- O. J. Simpson
- Emmitt Smith
- Amos Alonzo Stagg
- Roger Staubach
- Lawrence Taylor
- Emlen Tunnell
- Johnny Unitas
- Bill Walsh
- Reggie White
Ice hockey
Criminals, 9
Mythical and fictional people, 33
- People from mythology
- Chinese mythology
- Abrahamic religions
- Greek mythology
- Achilles
- Aeneas
- Agamemnon
- Argonauts
- Hercules
- Jason
- Electra
- Medea
- Odysseus
- Oedipus
- Perseus
- Ulysses
- Cassandra
- Medieval European mythology and Arthurian legends
- Fictional people from literature/dramatic arts
- Aladdin
- Gulliver
- James Bond
- Peter Pan
- Robinson Crusoe
- Sherlock Holmes
- Svengali
- Three Musketeers
- Prince Hamlet
- Ebenezer Scrooge
- Hansel and Gretel
- Don Quixote
- Mr. Spock
- Dorothy Gale
- People from modern folklore
- Comic book characters