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Actors and entertainers, 185
Actors, 81
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- Robert Mitchum
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- Philippe Noiret
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- Sean Penn
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- Gregory Peck
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- Ralph Richardson
- Edward G. Robinson
- Paul Scofield
- Randolph Scott
- Will Smith
- Jimmy Stewart
- Spencer Tracy
- Denzel Washington
- John Wayne
- Orson Welles
- Bruce Willis
Actresses, 52
- Isabelle Adjani
- Julie Andrews
- Peggy Ashcroft
- Lauren Bacall
- Ingrid Bergman
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Claudette Colbert
- Joan Crawford
- Bette Davis
- Doris Day
- Judi Dench
- Marlene Dietrich
- Edith Evans
- Sally Field
- Jane Fonda
- Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
- Greta Garbo
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- Ava Gardner
- Lillian Gish
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- Rita Hayworth
- Audrey Hepburn
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- Isabelle Huppert
- Glenda Jackson
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- Nicole Kidman
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- Sophia Loren
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- Liza Minnelli
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- Jeanne Moreau
- Mrs. Patrick Campbell
- Vanessa Redgrave
- Julia Roberts
- Ginger Rogers
- Hanna Schygulla
- Maggie Smith
- Barbara Stanwyck
- Meryl Streep
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Shirley Temple
- Ellen Terry
- Mae West
- Betty White
Dancers, 28
- Ballet, 19
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Margot Fonteyn
- Avdotia Istomina
- Vaslav Nijinsky
- Rudolf Nureyev
- Anna Pavlova
- Marius Petipa
- Maria Tallchief
- Frederick Ashton
- Maurice Bejart
- Erik Bruhn
- Michel Fokine
- Galina Ulanova
- Gaetano Vestris
- Marie Taglioni
- Pierina Legnani
- Tamara Karsavina
- Natalia Makarova
- Maya Plisetskaya
- Modern, 9
- Alvin Ailey
- Cyd Charisse
- Isadora Duncan
- Gregory Hines
- Robert Joffrey
- Rudolf Laban
- Arthur Mitchell
- Jerome Robbins
- Twyla Tharp
Comedians, 48
- Abbot and Costello
- Woody Allen
- Lucille Ball
- John Belushi
- Roberto Benigni
- Jack Benny
- Milton Berle
- Mel Brooks
- Lenny Bruce
- Carol Burnett
- Burns and Allen
- Sid Caesar
- George Carlin
- Chevy Chase
- Imogene Coca
- Sacha Baron Cohen
- Peter Cook
- Bill Cosby
- Billy Crystal
- Larry David
- Tina Fey
- Ricky Gervais
- Jackie Gleason
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Bob Hope
- Laurel & Hardy
- Benny Hill
- Tom Lehrer
- Jerry Lewis
- Steve Martin
- The Marx Brothers
- Lorne Michaels
- Spike Milligan
- Eddie Murphy
- Mike Myers
- Monty Python
- Bob Newhart
- Richard Pryor
- Carl Reiner
- Will Rogers
- Jennifer Saunders
- Jerry Seinfeld
- Martin Short
- Stiller and Meara
- Lilly Tomlin
- Stanley Unwin
- Robin Williams
Stage Magicians, 6
Unclassified, 3
Artists, visual, 65
Western painters and illustrators, 38
- Ancient era
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- Renaissance to early modern era
- Donatello
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Michelangelo
- Nicolas Poussin
- Raphael
- Rembrandt
- Peter Paul Rubens
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- Modern era (painters)
- Paul Cézanne
- Joseph Cornell
- Salvador Dalí
- Marcel Duchamp
- Alberto Giacometti
- Vincent van Gogh
- Francisco Goya
- William Hogarth
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- Wassily Kandinsky
- Édouard Manet
- Henri Matisse
- Piet Mondrian
- Claude Monet
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Pablo Picasso
- Jackson Pollock
- Auguste Renoir
- Gerhard Richter
- Andy Warhol
- Illustrators and comic artists
Other visual arts, 28
- Sculptors
- Architects
- Alvar Aalto
- Tadao Ando
- Le Corbusier
- Antoni Gaudí
- Frank Gehry
- Walter Gropius
- Zaha Hadid
- Herzog & de Meuron
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser
- Philip Johnson
- Louis Kahn
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Oscar Niemeyer
- Andrea Palladio
- I. M. Pei
- Vitruvius
- Christopher Wren
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Peter Zumthor
- Designers
- Photographers
- Instrument makers
Non-Western traditions, 2
Writers, 152
Ancient, 16
- Asia, 2
- Europe, 14
Middle Ages, 23
- Asia, 17
- Abu Nuwas
- Amir Khusrow
- Bhavabhuti
- Du Fu
- Ferdowsi
- Guan Hanqing
- Hafez
- Jami
- Li Bai
- Luo Guanzhong
- Kabir
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Nezami Ganjavi
- Omar Khayyam
- Rudaki
- Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Saadi
- Europe, 6
Early modern, 13
- Asia, 6
- Europe, 7
Modern,116
Africa, 3
Americas, 43
- USA and Canada
- Saul Bellow
- Ray Bradbury
- Isaac Asimov
- Pearl S. Buck
- Philip K. Dick
- Emily Dickinson
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Robert Frost
- Allen Ginsberg
- John Grisham
- Dashiell Hammett
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Ernest Hemingway
- Langston Hughes
- Henry James
- Jack Kerouac
- Ken Kesey
- Stephen King
- Ursula K. LeGuin
- 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
Asia, 8
- Chinghiz Aitmatov
- Muhammad Iqbal
- Yasunari Kawabata
- Yukio Mishima
- Kenzaburō Ōe
- Mirza Ghalib
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Lu Xun
Europe, 32
- Eastern Europe,
- Adam Mickiewicz
- France Prešeren
- Ismail Kadare
- Ivan Cankar
- Joseph Conrad
- Sándor Petőfi
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Taras Shevchenko
- Elie Wiesel
- Russia
- Anna Akhmatova
- Alexander Belyayev
- Joseph Brodsky
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Ivan Bunin
- Anton Chekhov
- Korney Chukovsky
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Maxim Gorky
- Alexander Grin
- Nikolay Karamzin
- Nikolai Gogol
- Mikhail Lermontov
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Nikolay Nekrasov
- Boris Pasternak
- Alexander Pushkin
- Mikhail Sholokhov
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
- Leo Tolstoy
- Ivan Turgenev
- Fyodor Tyutchev
- Western Europe,
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Charles Baudelaire
- Bertolt Brecht
- Alexandre Dumas
- Anne Frank
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Brothers Grimm
- Hermann Hesse
- Victor Hugo
- Henrik Ibsen
- Franz Kafka
- Selma Lagerlöf
- Astrid Lindgren
- Thomas Mann
- Marcel Proust
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- José Saramago
- Jules Verne
UK and Ireland, 36
- Kingsley Amis
- Martin Amis
- Jane Austen
- William Blake
- Anthony Burgess
- Lord Byron
- Lewis Carroll
- Agatha Christie
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Roald Dahl
- Charles Dickens
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- W. S. Gilbert
- Robert Graves
- 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, 162
Classical, 53
- Composers
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Béla Bartók
- Hector Berlioz
- Leonard Bernstein
- Alexander Borodin
- Pierre Boulez
- Johannes Brahms
- Anton Bruckner
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Frédéric Chopin
- Claude Debussy
- Antonín Dvorák
- Arthur 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
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Franz Schubert
- Robert Schumann
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- 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
- Glenn Gould
- Vladimir Horowitz
- Mario Lanza
- Jenny Lind
- Birgit Nilsson
- Luciano Pavarotti
- Itzak Perlman
- Rosa Ponselle
- Leontyne Price
- Jean-Pierre Rampal
- Renata Scotto
- Beverly Sills
- Kiri Te Kanawa
- Frederica von Stade
- Avant-garde
Popular music, 102
- 19th to early 20th century
- Harold Arlen
- Louis Armstrong
- Irving Berlin
- Bing Crosby
- Stephen Foster
- George Gershwin
- Woodie Guthrie
- Robert Johnson
- Scott Joplin
- Jerome Kern
- Frederick Loewe
- Glenn Miller
- Cole Porter
- Jimmie Rodgers
- Richard Rodgers
- Dinah Shore
- Fats Waller
- Hank Williams
- Modern
- ABBA
- AC/DC
- Charles Aznavour
- Burt Bacharach
- Joan Baez
- The Band
- Bee Gees
- David Bowie
- Jacques Brel
- James Brown
- The Beatles
- Chuck Berry
- Garth Brooks
- Mariah Carey
- Johnny Cash
- Ray Charles
- Cher
- Eric Clapton
- Jimmy Cliff
- Patsy Cline
- Leonard Cohen
- John Coltrane
- Fairport Convention
- Sam Cooke
- Celia Cruz
- Miles Davis
- Depeche Mode
- Celine Dion
- Bob Dylan
- Duke Ellington
- Eminem
- Enya
- John Fahey
- Pink Floyd
- Aretha Franklin
- Serge Gainsbourg
- Gamble and Huff
- Marvin Gaye
- João Gilberto
- Dexter Gordon
- Grateful Dead
- Johnny Hallyday
- Marvin Hamlisch
- Jimi Hendrix
- Buddy Holly
- Whitney Houston
- Julio Iglesias
- Janet Jackson
- Michael Jackson
- Antonio Carlos Jobim
- Elton John
- Quincy Jones
- Janis Joplin
- B.B. King
- Carole King
- Alison Krauss
- Fela Kuti
- Led Zeppelin
- Gordon Lightfoot
- Madonna
- Henry Mancini
- Bob Marley
- Dean Martin
- Joni Mitchell
- Jim Morrison
- Nana Mouskouri
- Charlie Parker
- Dolly Parton
- Les Paul
- Édith Piaf
- Elvis Presley
- Prince
- Queen
- The Rolling Stones
- Diana Ross
- Carlos Santana
- Selena
- Tupac Shakur
- Frank Sinatra
- Stephen Sondheim
- Britney Spears
- Barbra Streisand
- Shania Twain
- U2
- Vangelis
- Caetano Veloso
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- The Who
- Brian Wilson
- Stevie Wonder
- Jay Z
- Frank Zappa
Middle East/Indian classical music, 4
Lyricists/Librettists, 6
Directors, producers & screenwriters, 55
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Roberto Benigni
- Ingmar Bergman
- Luis Buñuel
- Ken Burns
- Tim Burton
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- 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
- Hayao Miyazaki
- 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, 32
- Karl Albrecht
- Mukesh Ambani
- Bernard Arnault
- Eike Batista
- Warren Buffett
- Andrew Carnegie
- Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours
- Larry Ellison
- Henry Ford
- Amancio Ortega Gaona
- Bill Gates
- J. Paul Getty
- Meyer Guggenheim
- William Randolph Hearst
- Howard Hughes
- H. L. Hunt
- Steve Jobs
- Ingvar Kamprad
- Ray Kroc
- Li Ka-shing
- Andrew W. Mellon
- Lakshmi Mittal
- J.P. Morgan
- Aristotle Onassis
- Carlos Slim
- Donald Trump
- Ted Turner
- Sam Walton
- George Westinghouse
- John D. Rockefeller
- Oprah Winfrey
- Mark Zuckerberg
Explorers, 28
- Ancient history,
- Middle Ages,
- Early modern history,
- Willem Barents
- Vitus Bering
- Pedro Álvares Cabral
- Jacques Cartier
- Christopher Columbus
- James Cook
- Juan Sebastián Elcano
- Vasco da Gama
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Juan Ponce de León
- Abel Tasman
- Amerigo Vespucci
- Hernando de Soto
- Modern history,
Philosophers, historians, political and social scientists, 91
Philosophers,
- Ancient,
- Middle Ages,
- Early modern,
- René Descartes
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- William James
- Immanuel Kant
- Søren Kierkegaard
- John Locke
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Voltaire
- Modern,
Historians,
Political scientists and writers,
- Ancient,
- Middle Ages,
- Early modern,
- Modern,
Social scientists, economists,
Antiquity,
Medieval and Renaissance periods,
Early modern period,
Twentieth century,
Psychologists, behaviorists,
- Alfred Adler
- Gordon Allport
- Albert Ellis
- Erik Erikson
- Sigmund Freud
- Jane Goodall
- Carl Jung
- Claude Levi-Strauss
- Abraham Maslow
- Ivan Pavlov
- Jean Piaget
- B.F. Skinner
- Benjamin Spock
- Albert Bandura
- Raymond Cattell
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Hans Eysenck
- Leon Festinger
- Edward Gibbon
- Ernst Haeckel
- Donald O. Hebb
- Thomas Hobbes
- Clark L. Hull
- David Hume
- Edmund Husserl
- Jerome Kagan
- Ibn Khaldun
- Kurt Lewin
- Seymour Martin Lipset
- Robert Malthus
- David McClelland
- John Stuart Mill
- George Armitage Miller
- Neal E. Miller
- Hans Morgenthau
- Thomas Paine
- Sima Qian
- Otto Rank
- John Rawls
- Carl Rogers
- Stein Rokkan
- Baruch Spinoza
- Edward Thorndike
- John B. Watson
Religious figures,
- Buddhism, 18
- Chinese Buddhism,
- Indian Buddhism,
- Japanese Buddhism,
- Abrahamic religions, 6
- Judaism, 6
- Christianity, 53
- Eastern Christianity, Orthodox Church, 14
- Arius
- Athanasius of Alexandria
- Basil of Caesarea
- Clement of Alexandria
- Cyril of Alexandria
- Gregory of Nazianzus
- Gregory of Nyssa
- John Chrysostom
- John of Damascus
- Saints Cyril and Methodius
- Nestorius
- Saint Nicholas
- Patriarch Nikon
- Origen
- Western Christianity, Catholic Church, 20
- Ambrose
- Benedict of Nursia
- Bonaventure
- Clement of Rome
- Francis of Assisi
- Jan Hus
- Ignatius of Loyola
- Irenaeus
- Jerome
- John of the Cross
- Mother Teresa
- Tertullian
- Tomás de Torquemada
- John Wycliffe
- Francis Xavier
- Popes, 5
- Protestantism, 13
- Jacobus Arminius
- Karl Barth
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- John Calvin
- Billy Graham
- Thomas Cranmer
- John Knox
- Martin Luther
- Philipp Melanchthon
- Menno Simons
- Charles Spurgeon
- Huldrych Zwingli
- John Wesley
- Islam, 15
- Shi'a Islam, 3
- Sunni Islam, 8
- Ahmad ibn Hanbal
- Abū Ḥanīfa
- Malik ibn Anas
- Muhammad al-Bukhari
- Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Nishapuri
- Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi`i
- Ibn Taymiyyah
- Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi
- Others, 2
- Hinduism, 19
- Ancient, 6
- Medieval, 7
- Modern,
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- Paramahansa Yogananda
- Ramakrishna
- Ramana Maharshi
- Sri Aurobindo
- Swami Vivekananda
- Others, 5
- Bahá'í
- Sikhism
- Zoroastrianism
Politicians and leaders,
Ancient, 37
Africa, 17
- Egypt, 15
- Akhenaten
- Djoser
- Menes
- Narmer
- Hatshepsut
- Nefertiti
- Necho II
- Psamtik I
- Ramesses II
- Sheshonk I
- Tutankhamun
- Tuthmosis I
- Tuthmosis III
- Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, 2
Asia, 10
- Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus,
- Eastern Asia,
- Southern Asia, 3
- Southeastern Asia,
- Western Asia,
- Hellenistic kingdoms, 3
Europe, 23
- Eastern Europe, 16
- Greece, 6
- Macedonia, 4
- Western Europe, 18
- Ancient Rome, 11
Middle Ages,
Africa, 7
Asia,
- Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus, 12
- Batu Khan
- Bumin Qaghan
- Hulagu Khan
- Jochi
- Khosrau I
- Muhammad II of Khwarezm
- Nizam al-Mulk
- Tamar of Georgia
- Timur
- Tokhtamysh
- Tuğrul Beg
- Ulugh Beg
- Eastern Asia, 10
- China, 5
- Hongwu Emperor
- Kublai Khan
- Emperor Taizong of Tang
- Temür Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan
- Yongle Emperor
- Southern Asia,
- Southeastern Asia, 9
- Vietnam, 3
- Western Asia, 9
Caliphates, 6
Europe, 70
- Eastern Europe, 29
- Krum
- Simeon I of Bulgaria
- Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria
- Stephen I of Hungary
- Béla IV of Hungary
- Louis I of Hungary
- Matthias Corvinus
- Stephen Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia
- Stephen III of Moldavia
- Svatopluk I
- Byzantine Empire, 6
- Poland and Lithuania, 6
- Rus', 7
- Alexander Nevsky
- Daniel of Galicia
- Dmitry Donskoy
- Ivan III of Russia
- Vladimir I of Kiev
- Sviatoslav I of Kiev
- Yaroslav I the Wise
- Western Europe, 42
- Abd al-Rahman I
- Abd-ar-Rahman III
- Afonso I of Portugal
- Cnut the Great
- Ferdinand II of Aragon
- Henry the Navigator
- Isabella I of Castile
- Lothair I
- Margaret I of Denmark
- Totila
- England and Scotland, 5
- France, 8
- Charlemagne
- Charles the Bald
- Chlothar I
- Clovis I
- Louis the Pious
- Louis XI
- Philip II of France
- Philip IV of France
- Germany, 5
- Holy Roman Empire, 6
- Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
- Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
- Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
- Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
- Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
- Italia, 5
- Papal States, 4
Early modern period, 97
Africa,
Americas, 9
- United States, 4
Asia, 38
- Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus, 6
- Eastern Asia, 13
- China, 8
- Japan, 3
- Southern Asia, 10
- Akbar
- Aurangzeb
- Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive
- Hyder Ali
- Prithvi Narayan Shah
- Shah Jahan
- Sher Shah Suri
- Tipu Sultan
- Shivaji
- Krishnadevaraya
- Southeastern Asia, 9
- Burma, 4
- Western Asia, 5
Europe, 49
- Eastern Europe, 12
- Poland and Lithuania, 4
- Russia, 7
- Alexis of Russia
- Boris Godunov
- Catherine II of Russia
- Elizabeth of Russia
- Ivan the Terrible
- Peter I of Russia
- Grigory Potemkin
- Western Europe, 37
- Charles XII of Sweden
- Philip II of Spain
- Philip V of Spain
- Frederick the Great
- Frederick William I of Prussia
- Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo
- William the Silent
- England and Scotland, 9
- Charles I
- Elizabeth I
- Henry VIII
- Oliver Cromwell
- Mary I of England
- Mary I of Scotland
- William III of England
- William Pitt the Younger
- Robert Walpole
- France, 10
- Catherine de' Medici
- Francis I
- Gaspard II de Coligny
- Henry IV
- Louis XIV
- Louis XV
- Louis XVI
- Cardinal Mazarin
- Madame de Pompadour
- Cardinal Richelieu
- Holy Roman Empire, Austria, 6
- Charles V
- Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
- Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
- Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
- Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
- Maria Theresa of Austria
- Italia and Papal States, 3
Modern, 175
Africa, 25
- Eastern Africa, 6
- Idi Amin
- Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
- Julius Nyerere
- Menelik II of Ethiopia
- Rainilaiarivony
- Yohannes IV of Ethiopia
- Nothern Africa, 7
- Muammar Gaddafi
- Isma'il Pasha
- Muhammad Ahmad
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt
- Gamal Abdel Nasser
- Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri
- Anwar El Sadat
- Southern and Central Africa, 7
- Hastings Banda
- Laurent-Désiré Kabila
- Mobutu Sese Seko
- Nelson Mandela
- Robert Mugabe
- Cecil Rhodes
- Shaka
- Western Africa, 5
Americas, 40
- Canada, 1
- Mexico, 3
- United States, 19
- George W. Bush
- Grover Cleveland
- William Jefferson Clinton
- Jefferson Davis
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Andrew Jackson
- John F. Kennedy
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Henry Kissinger
- Abraham Lincoln
- James Madison
- James Monroe
- Richard M. Nixon
- Barack Obama
- Ronald Reagan
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Harry S. Truman
- Woodrow Wilson
- Central America and Caribbean, 5
- South America, 12
- Salvador Allende
- Simon Bolivar
- Hugo Chávez
- José de San Martín
- Eva Perón
- Augusto Pinochet
- Antonio José de Sucre
- Alfredo Stroessner
- Brazil, 4
Asia, 57
- Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus, 7
- Heydar Aliyev
- Ruhollah Khomeini
- Nursultan Nazarbayev
- Saparmurat Niyazov
- Mohammad Mosaddegh
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- Mohammed Zahir Shah
- Eastern Asia, 11
- China, 6
- Southeastern Asia, 12
- Bagyidaw
- Corazon Aquino
- Chulalongkorn
- Ferdinand Marcos
- Ho Chi Minh
- Lee Kuan Yew
- Mahathir bin Mohamad
- Mindon Min
- Ne Win
- Pol Pot
- Suharto
- Sukarno
- Southern Asia, 9
- India, 6
- Indira Gandhi
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
- Manmohan Singh
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- Western Asia, 7
Europe, 59
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
- Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
- Franz Joseph I of Austria
- Klemens von Metternich
- Eastern Europe, 26
- Ion Antonescu
- Nicolae Ceaușescu
- Alexander Dubček
- Václav Havel
- Enver Hoxha
- Leonid Kuchma
- Slobodan Milošević
- Symon Petliura
- Józef Pilsudski
- Josip Broz Tito
- Lech Wałęsa
- Russia and USSR, 15
- Alexander II of Russia
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Boris Yeltsin
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Andrei Gromyko
- Alexei Kosygin
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Vladimir Lenin
- Nicholas I of Russia
- Nicholas II of Russia
- Vladimir Putin
- Eduard Shevardnadze
- Joseph Stalin
- Pyotr Stolypin
- Leon Trotsky
- Western Europe, 27
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
- Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour
- Charles XIV John of Sweden
- Francisco Franco
- Juan Carlos I of Spain
- Leopold II of Belgium
- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
- Benito Mussolini
- António de Oliveira Salazar
- France, 6
- Germany, 7
- Konrad Adenauer
- Otto von Bismarck
- Adolf Hitler
- Erich Honecker
- Helmut Kohl
- William I, German Emperor
- Wilhelm II of Germany
- United Kingdom, 7
Military leaders and military theorist, 34
- Ancient history, 7
- Middle Ages, 6
- 'Amr ibn al-'As
- Godfrey of Bouillon
- John Hunyadi
- Subutai
- Trần Hưng Đạo
- William Wallace
- Jan Žižka
- Khalid ibn al-Walid
- Early modern history, 12
- Diego de Almagro
- Hernán Cortés
- Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba
- Francis Drake
- Hayreddin Barbarossa
- Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
- Francisco Pizarro
- Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny
- Prince Eugene of Savoy
- Maurice de Saxe
- Alexander Suvorov
- Albrecht von Wallenstein
- Yi Sun-sin
- Modern history,
Rebels, revolutionaries and activists, 31
- Ancient history, 1
- Middle Ages, 3
- Early modern history, 3
- Modern history, 23
- Africa, 3
- Americas, 13
- USA, 9
- Mary Harris Jones
- Helen Keller
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Malcolm X
- John Muir
- Rosa Parks
- Sitting Bull
- Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Tubman
- Asia, 7
- Aung San
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Diponegoro
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- Hong Xiuquan
- Ruhollah Khomeini
- Sun Yat-sen
- Europe, 3
- Oceania, 1
Scientists, inventors and mathematicians, 149
Ancient figures, 16
- Ancient, 8
- Middle Ages, 8
Physics and astronomy, 63
- Early modern,
- Modern,
- Amedeo Avogadro
- André Marie Ampère
- Johann Balmer
- Antoine Henri Becquerel
- J. Georg Bednorz
- 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
- Albert Einstein
- James Dewar
- Michael Faraday
- Enrico Fermi
- Richard Feynman
- Léon Foucault
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel
- Murray Gell-Mann
- Stephen Hawking
- James Prescott Joule
- Gustav Kirchhoff
- Ernest Orlando Lawrence
- Hendrik Lorentz
- Ernst Mach
- James Clerk Maxwell
- Albert Abraham Michelsonn
- Robert Millikan
- Pieter van Musschenbroek
- Georg Ohm
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Hans Christian Ørsted
- Wolfgang Pauli
- Max Planck
- Ilya Prigogine
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
- Andrei Sakharov
- Erwin Schrödinger
- Edward Teller
- William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
- Charles Hard Townes
- Tsung-Dao Lee
- Thomas Young
- Astronomy,
Chemist,
Natural sciences, 21
- Louis Agassiz
- John James Audubon
- Rachel Carson
- Jacques Cousteau
- Charles Darwin
- Alexander Fleming
- Casimir Funk
- W. D. Hamilton
- Stephen J. Gould
- Alexander von Humboldt
- Edward Jenner
- Konrad Lorenz
- Eugenius Warming
- Biology,
- Medicine,
Inventors, 28
- 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
- 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, 42
- Early modern, 11
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert
- Jacob Bernoulli
- Johann Bernoulli
- Alexis Clairaut
- Leonhard Euler
- Pierre de Fermat
- Joseph Louis Lagrange
- Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Gottfried Leibniz
- Gaspard Monge
- Blaise Pascal
- Modern, 28
- Niels Henrik Abel
- Vladimir Arnold
- George Boole
- Augustin Cauchy
- Arthur Cayley
- Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
- Joseph Fourier
- Evariste Galois
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Kurt Gödel
- Alexandre Grothendieck
- William Rowan Hamilton
- G. H. Hardy
- Charles Hermite
- David Hilbert
- Carl G. J. Jacobi
- Sofia Kovalevskaya
- Leopold Kronecker
- Nikolai Lobachevsky
- Benoît Mandelbrot
- Henri Poincaré
- Siméon Denis Poisson
- Jean-Victor Poncelet
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Bernhard Riemann
- Claude Shannon
- James Joseph Sylvester
- Karl Weierstrass
Computer scientists, 12
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, 7
Sports figures, 260
Individual sports, 112
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
- Vasiliy Bubka
Auto racing
- Mario Andretti
- Dale Earnhardt
- Juan Manuel Fangio
- A. J. Foyt
- 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, 149
Association football
- Marco van Basten
- Franz Beckenbauer
- David Beckham
- George Best
- Iker Casillas
- Johan Cruyff
- Kenny Dalglish
- Alfredo Di Stéfano
- Eusébio
- Ryan Giggs
- Mia Hamm
- 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
- 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, legendary and fictional people/characters, 77
People from mythology and ancient scriptures, 24
- Abrahamic religions,
- Chinese mythology,
- Greek mythology
- Achilles
- Aeneas
- Agamemnon
- Argonauts
- Hercules
- Jason
- Electra
- Medea
- Odysseus (Ulysses)
- Oedipus
- Perseus
- Cassandra
- Ancient scriptures and folklores of India, 2
- Medieval European mythology and Arthurian legends
Characters from Western folklore, 4
Characters from literature and drama, 24
- Aladdin
- Frodo Baggins
- Big Brother
- Leopold Bloom
- James Bond
- Juliet Capulet
- The Cat in the Hat
- Holden Caulfield
- Dorothy Gale
- Gandalf
- Mother Goose
- Gulliver
- Prince Hamlet
- Hansel and Gretel
- Sherlock Holmes
- Kurtz
- Philip Marlowe
- Romeo Montague
- Peter Pan
- Ebenezer Scrooge
- Winston Smith
- Sam Spade
- Svengali
- Three Musketeers
- Winnie-the-Pooh
Characters from film, television and games, 14
- Bugs Bunny
- Daffy Duck
- Darth Vader
- Donald Duck
- Grinch
- Kermit the Frog
- Erica Kane
- Captain Kirk
- Mario
- Mickey Mouse
- Victor Newman
- Harry Potter
- Luke Skywalker
- Mr. Spock
- Astro Boy