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Revision as of 07:51, 19 August 2014
People, 1976
Entertainers, 144
Actors, 59
- Fred Astaire
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Roberto Benigni
- Humphrey Bogart
- Marlon Brando
- Richard Burbage
- James Cagney
- Michael Caine
- Charlie Chaplin
- Sean Connery
- Gary Cooper
- Robert De Niro
- Gérard Depardieu
- Kirk Douglas
- Clint Eastwood
- Douglas Fairbanks
- Henry Fonda
- Morgan Freeman
- Clark Gable
- David Garrick
- John Gielgud
- Cary Grant
- Alec Guinness
- Tom Hanks
- Kamal Haasan
- Anthony Hopkins
- Henry Irving
- Derek Jacobi
- Shintaro Katsu
- Edmund Kean
- Buster Keaton
- Gene Kelly
- Klaus Kinski
- Charles Laughton
- Bruce Lee
- Christopher Lee
- Harold Lloyd
- Jean Marais
- Marcello Mastroianni
- Ian McKellen
- Toshiro Mifune
- Robert Mitchum
- Paul Newman
- Jack Nicholson
- Philippe Noiret
- Laurence Olivier
- Peter O'Toole
- Al Pacino
- Gregory Peck
- Sidney Poitier
- Rajinikanth
- Robert Redford
- Michael Redgrave
- Edward G. Robinson
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Paul Scofield
- James Stewart
- Spencer Tracy
- John Wayne
Actresses, 44
- 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
- Jane Fonda
- Greta Garbo
- Judy Garland
- Lillian Gish
- 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
- Marilyn Monroe
- Jeanne Moreau
- Vanessa Redgrave
- Ginger Rogers
- Hanna Schygulla
- Maggie Smith
- Barbara Stanwyck
- Meryl Streep
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Shirley Temple
- Ellen Terry
- Mae West
Dancers, 7
Ballet, 5
Modern, 2
Comedians, 28
- Abbott and Costello
- Woody Allen
- Lucille Ball
- Jack Benny
- Milton Berle
- Mel Brooks
- Lenny Bruce
- Carol Burnett
- George Burns
- George Carlin
- Peter Cook
- Bill Cosby
- Louis de Funès
- Jackie Gleason
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Bob Hope
- Laurel and Hardy
- Jerry Lewis
- Steve Martin
- Marx Brothers
- Spike Milligan
- Eddie Murphy
- Monty Python
- Bob Newhart
- Richard Pryor
- Will Rogers
- Jerry Seinfeld
- Robin Williams
Hosts and performers, 6
Visual artists, 106
Western painters and illustrators, 63
Ancient era, 2
Medieval era, 3
Renaissance to early modern era, 17
- Caravaggio
- Jacques-Louis David
- Albrecht Dürer
- Thomas Gainsborough
- El Greco
- Francisco Goya
- William Hogarth
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Masaccio
- Michelangelo
- Nicolas Poussin
- Raphael
- Rembrandt
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Titian
- Diego Velázquez
- Johannes Vermeer
Modern era (painters), 31
- Paul Cézanne
- Marc Chagall
- Salvador Dalí
- Edgar Degas
- Marcel Duchamp
- Thomas Eakins
- Paul Gauguin
- Vincent van Gogh
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
- Frida Kahlo
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Paul Klee
- René Magritte
- Édouard Manet
- Franz Marc
- Henri Matisse
- Piet Mondrian
- Claude Monet
- Edvard Munch
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Pablo Picasso
- Jackson Pollock
- Frederic Remington
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Gerhard Richter
- Henri Rousseau
- John Singer Sargent
- Georges Seurat
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- J. M. W. Turner
- Andy Warhol
Cartoonists, comics artists, and illustrators, 10
- Carl Barks
- Aubrey Beardsley
- Will Eisner
- Jean Giraud
- Hergé
- Jack Kirby
- Winsor McCay
- Norman Rockwell
- Dr. Seuss
- Osamu Tezuka
Other visual arts, 38
Sculptors, 7
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini
- Joseph Beuys
- Constantin Brâncuși
- Donatello
- Alberto Giacometti
- Henry Moore
- Auguste Rodin
Architects, 22
- Alvar Aalto
- Tadao Ando
- Le Corbusier
- Buckminster Fuller
- Antoni Gaudí
- Frank Gehry
- Walter Gropius
- Zaha Hadid
- Imhotep
- Philip Johnson
- Louis Kahn
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Frederick Law Olmsted
- Oscar Niemeyer
- Andrea Palladio
- I. M. Pei
- Mimar Sinan
- Louis Sullivan
- Vitruvius
- Christopher Wren
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Peter Zumthor
Designers, 3
Photographers, 5
Instrument makers, 1
Non-Western traditions, 5
Writers, 240
Ancient, 15
Asia, 2
Europe, 13
Post-classical, 24
Asia, 16
- Abu Nuwas
- Amir Khusrow
- Bhavabhuti
- Du Fu
- Ferdowsi
- Hafez
- Jami
- Li Bai
- Luo Guanzhong
- Kabir
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Nizami Ganjavi
- Omar Khayyám
- Rudaki
- Rumi
- Saadi Shirazi
Europe, 8
Early modern, 24
Asia, 6
Europe, 18
Modern, 177
Africa, 7
Americas, 52
US and Canada, 45
- Isaac Asimov
- Margaret Atwood
- Saul Bellow
- Ray Bradbury
- Raymond Chandler
- Philip K. Dick
- Emily Dickinson
- T. S. Eliot
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- William Faulkner
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Robert Frost
- Allen Ginsberg
- Dashiell Hammett
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Ernest Hemingway
- Langston Hughes
- Henry James
- Jack Kerouac
- Stephen King
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Jack London
- Herman Melville
- Arthur Miller
- Margaret Mitchell
- Toni Morrison
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Sylvia Plath
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Ezra Pound
- Thomas Pynchon
- J. D. Salinger
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- John Steinbeck
- Wallace Stevens
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Mark Twain
- John Updike
- Gore Vidal
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Alice Walker
- Edith Wharton
- Walt Whitman
- William Carlos Williams
Latin America, 7
- Jorge Amado
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Alejo Carpentier
- Mario Vargas Llosa
- Gabriel García Márquez
- José Martí
- Pablo Neruda
Asia, 9
- Chinghiz Aitmatov
- Muhammad Iqbal
- Yasunari Kawabata
- Yukio Mishima
- Kenzaburō Ōe
- Ghalib
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Lu Xun
- Kahlil Gibran
Europe, 108
Central Europe, 9
- Adam Mickiewicz
- France Prešeren
- Ismail Kadare
- Ivan Cankar
- Joseph Conrad
- Sándor Petőfi
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Taras Shevchenko
- Elie Wiesel
Russia, 20
- Anna Akhmatova
- Joseph Brodsky
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Ivan Bunin
- Anton Chekhov
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Maxim Gorky
- 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, 37
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Antonin Artaud
- Honoré de Balzac
- Charles Baudelaire
- Karen Blixen
- Bertolt Brecht
- Albert Camus
- Alexandre Dumas
- Umberto Eco
- Gustave Flaubert
- Anne Frank
- Federico García Lorca
- André Gide
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Brothers Grimm
- Knut Hamsun
- Heinrich Heine
- Hermann Hesse
- Victor Hugo
- Henrik Ibsen
- Eugène Ionesco
- Franz Kafka
- Selma Lagerlöf
- Astrid Lindgren
- Thomas Mann
- Fernando Pessoa
- Luigi Pirandello
- Marcel Proust
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- José Saramago
- Friedrich Schiller
- Stendhal
- August Strindberg
- Tristan Tzara
- Jules Verne
- Émile Zola
UK and Ireland, 42
- Kingsley Amis
- W. H. Auden
- Jane Austen
- Samuel Beckett
- William Blake
- Enid Blyton
- Charlotte Brontë
- Anthony Burgess
- Lord Byron
- Lewis Carroll
- Agatha Christie
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Roald Dahl
- Charles Dickens
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- George Eliot
- Thomas Hardy
- Aldous Huxley
- James Joyce
- John Keats
- Rudyard Kipling
- Philip Larkin
- C. S. Lewis
- Alan Moore
- V. S. Naipaul
- Seán O'Casey
- George Orwell
- Harold Pinter
- Salman Rushdie
- Walter Scott
- George Bernard Shaw
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- John Millington Synge
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- H. G. Wells
- Oscar Wilde
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- William Wordsworth
- Virginia Woolf
- W. B. Yeats
Oceania, 1
Journalists, 15
Musicians and composers, 176
Western art music, 70
Composers, 47
Medieval and Renaissance, 4
Baroque, 4
Classical, 3
Romantic, 20
- Hector Berlioz
- Johannes Brahms
- Anton Bruckner
- Frédéric Chopin
- Antonín Dvořák
- Edward Elgar
- Gilbert and Sullivan
- Franz Liszt
- Gustav Mahler
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Modest Mussorgsky
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Gioachino Rossini
- Franz Schubert
- Robert Schumann
- Johann Strauss II
- Richard Strauss
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Richard Wagner
20th century, 12
- Béla Bartók
- Benjamin Britten
- Aaron Copland
- Claude Debussy
- Giacomo Puccini
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Maurice Ravel
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Jean Sibelius
- Igor Stravinsky
Avant-garde, 4
Pedagogues, 1
Performers, 22
Cellists, 2
Conductors, 4
Pianists, 4
Singers, 10
- Marian Anderson
- Maria Callas
- Enrico Caruso
- Plácido Domingo
- Kiri Te Kanawa
- Birgit Nilsson
- Luciano Pavarotti
- Leontyne Price
- Renata Scotto
- Joan Sutherland
Violinists, 2
Non-Western art music, 6
- Muthuswami Dikshitar
- Ali Akbar Khan
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
- Mohammad-Reza Shajarian
- Ravi Shankar
- Tyagaraja
Folk and popular music, 100
- ABBA
- Bee Gees
- Cher
- Bing Crosby
- Michael Jackson
- Billy Joel
- Elton John
- Kraftwerk
- Madonna
- Miriam Makeba
- Bob Marley
- Joni Mitchell
- Prince
- Diana Ross
- Frank Sinatra
- Barbra Streisand
- Stevie Wonder
Composers and songwriters, 3
Non-English language singers, 8
- Charles Aznavour
- Jacques Brel
- Serge Gainsbourg
- Lata Mangeshkar
- Nana Mouskouri
- Édith Piaf
- Alla Pugacheva
- Teresa Teng
Afrobeat, 1
Blues and soul, 7
Flamenco, 1
American folk and country, 8
Funk, 1
Hip-hop and rap, 1
Jazz, 14
- Louis Armstrong
- John Coltrane
- Miles Davis
- Duke Ellington
- George Gershwin
- Benny Goodman
- Billie Holiday
- Antônio Carlos Jobim
- Scott Joplin
- Glenn Miller
- Jelly Roll Morton
- Charlie Parker
- Django Reinhardt
- Art Tatum
Latin, 3
Musical comedy and lyricists, 8
- Irving Berlin
- Lorenz Hart
- Jerome Kern
- Alan Jay Lerner
- Cole Porter
- Rodgers and Hammerstein
- Stephen Sondheim
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
Rock, 28
- AC/DC
- Aerosmith
- The Beatles
- The Beach Boys
- Black Sabbath
- Bob Dylan
- Chuck Berry
- David Bowie
- Eric Clapton
- The Doors
- Jimi Hendrix
- Buddy Holly
- Janis Joplin
- Led Zeppelin
- Little Richard
- John Lennon
- Metallica
- Paul McCartney
- Nirvana (band)
- Pink Floyd
- Elvis Presley
- Queen
- The Rolling Stones
- Bruce Springsteen
- U2
- The Who
- Neil Young
- Frank Zappa
Directors, producers and screenwriters, 51
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Ingmar Bergman
- Luis Buñuel
- James Cameron
- Frank Capra
- Jean Cocteau
- Francis Ford Coppola
- George Cukor
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Vittorio De Sica
- Walt Disney
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Federico Fellini
- John Ford
- Miloš Forman
- Bob Fosse
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Samuel Goldwyn
- D. W. Griffith
- Howard Hawks
- Werner Herzog
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Wong Kar-wai
- Elia Kazan
- Akira Kurosawa
- Stanley Kubrick
- Fritz Lang
- David Lean
- Ang Lee
- George Lucas
- Frances Marion
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Roman Polanski
- Satyajit Ray
- Jean Renoir
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Martin Scorsese
- David O. Selznick
- Aaron Sorkin
- Steven Spielberg
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Jacques Tati
- Irving Thalberg
- Hal B. Wallis
- Orson Welles
- Wim Wenders
- Billy Wilder
- William Wyler
- Darryl F. Zanuck
Businesspeople, 34
- Karl Albrecht
- Mukesh Ambani
- Bernard Arnault
- John Jacob Astor
- Jeff Bezos
- Richard Branson
- Warren Buffett
- Al Capone
- Andrew Carnegie
- Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours
- Larry Ellison
- Henry Ford
- Amancio Ortega Gaona
- Bill Gates
- J. Paul Getty
- William Randolph Hearst
- Howard Hughes
- Steve Jobs
- Ingvar Kamprad
- Ray Kroc
- Li Ka-shing
- Andrew W. Mellon
- Lakshmi Mittal
- Shigeru Miyamoto
- J. P. Morgan
- Akio Morita
- John D. Rockefeller
- Rothschild family
- Carlos Slim
- Ted Turner
- Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Sam Walton
- George Westinghouse
- Oprah Winfrey
Explorers, 31
Ancient history, 1
Post-classical history, 5
Early modern history, 14
- Willem Barentsz
- Vitus Bering
- Pedro Álvares Cabral
- Jacques Cartier
- Christopher Columbus
- James Cook
- Semyon Dezhnyov
- Juan Sebastián Elcano
- Vasco da Gama
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Juan Ponce de León
- Hernando de Soto
- Abel Tasman
- Amerigo Vespucci
Modern history, 11
Philosophers, 58
Ancient, 16
- Aristotle
- Augustine of Hippo
- Confucius
- Democritus
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Gorgias
- Han Fei
- Laozi
- Li Si
- Mencius
- Plato
- Seneca the Younger
- Socrates
- Thales
- Xunzi
- Shang Yang
Post-classical, 6
Early modern, 13
- Francis Bacon
- George Berkeley
- René Descartes
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Thomas Hobbes
- David Hume
- Immanuel Kant
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- John Locke
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Baruch Spinoza
- Voltaire
Modern, 23
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Henri Bergson
- Isaiah Berlin
- Michel Foucault
- Gilles Deleuze
- Jacques Derrida
- Jürgen Habermas
- Martin Heidegger
- Edmund Husserl
- William James
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Thomas Kuhn
- John Stuart Mill
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Karl Popper
- John Rawls
- Bertrand Russell
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Henry David Thoreau
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Historians, 21
Ancient, 5
Post-classical, 5
Early modern, 1
Modern, 10
Social scientists, economists and political writers, 32
Antiquity, 2
Post-classical, 1
Early modern period, 5
Modern, 24
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Franz Boas
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Noam Chomsky
- Émile Durkheim
- Friedrich Engels
- Milton Friedman
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- Clifford Geertz
- Antonio Gramsci
- John Maynard Keynes
- Peter Kropotkin
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Karl Marx
- Marcel Mauss
- Bronisław Malinowski
- Margaret Mead
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Herbert Spencer
- Talcott Parsons
- Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
- Paul Samuelson
- Max Weber
- Noah Webster
Psychologists, 29
- Alfred Adler
- Gordon Allport
- Albert Bandura
- Raymond Cattell
- Kenneth and Mamie Clark
- Hans Eysenck
- Albert Ellis
- Erik Erikson
- Leon Festinger
- Sigmund Freud
- Jane Goodall
- Donald O. Hebb
- Clark L. Hull
- Carl Jung
- Jerome Kagan
- Kurt Lewin
- Seymour Martin Lipset
- Alexander Luria
- Abraham Maslow
- George Armitage Miller
- Ivan Pavlov
- Jean Piaget
- Carl Rogers
- Otto Rank
- B. F. Skinner
- Benjamin Spock
- Edward Thorndike
- Lev Vygotsky
- John B. Watson
Religious figures, 128
Hinduism, 18
Ancient, 5
Medieval, 7
Modern, 6
Buddhism, 15
Chinese Buddhism, 5
Indian Buddhism, 4
Japanese Buddhism, 2
Abrahamic religions, 89
Judaism, 6
Christianity, 56
Eastern Christianity, Orthodox Church, 13
- 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
- Saint Nicholas
- Patriarch Nikon of Moscow
- Origen
Western Christianity, Catholic Church, 22
- Ambrose
- Benedict of Nursia
- Bonaventure
- Columba
- Francis of Assisi
- Saint George
- Jan Hus
- Ignatius of Loyola
- Irenaeus
- Jerome
- John of the Cross
- Mother Teresa
- Tertullian
- Tomás de Torquemada
- John Wycliffe
- Francis Xavier
Popes, 6
Protestantism, 15
- Jacobus Arminius
- Karl Barth
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- John Calvin
- Thomas Cranmer
- Mary Baker Eddy
- Billy Graham
- John Knox
- Martin Luther
- Philipp Melanchthon
- Menno Simons
- Joseph Smith
- Charles Spurgeon
- John Wesley
- Huldrych Zwingli
Islam, 15
Shi'a Islam, 3
Sunni Islam, 8
- Ahmad ibn Hanbal
- Abū Ḥanīfa
- Malik ibn Anas
- Muhammad al-Bukhari
- Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
- Al-Shafi‘i
- Ibn Taymiyyah
- Al-Nawawi
Others, 2
Others, 6
Bahá'í, 2
Jainism, 1
Sikhism, 2
Zoroastrianism, 1
Politicians and leaders, 473
Ancient, 71
Africa, 15
Egypt, 13
Asia, 20
Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus, 2
Eastern Asia, 4
Southern Asia, 2
Western Asia, 12
- Sargon of Akkad
- Hammurabi
- Croesus
- Midas
- Ashurbanipal
- Mithridates VI of Pontus
- Darius I
- Xerxes I
- Queen of Sheba
Hellenistic Kingdoms, 3
Europe, 36
Eastern Europe, 16
Greece, 6
Macedonia, 4
Western Europe, 20
Ancient Rome, 13
Post-classical, 126
Africa, 7
Asia, 41
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
- Tughril
- Ulugh Beg
Eastern Asia, 11
China, 6
Southeastern Asia, 9
Vietnam, 3
Western Asia, 9
Caliphates, 6
Europe, 78
Eastern Europe, 32
Bulgaria, 5
Byzantine Empire, 6
Hungary, 4
Poland and Lithuania, 6
- Bolesław I Chrobry
- Casimir III the Great
- Gediminas
- Władysław II Jagiełło
- Mieszko I of Poland
- Vytautas
Russia, 7
- Alexander Nevsky
- Daniel of Galicia
- Dmitry Donskoy
- Ivan III of Russia
- Vladimir the Great
- Sviatoslav I of Kiev
- Yaroslav the Wise
Western Europe, 46
England and Scotland, 7
- Alfred the Great
- Edward I of England
- Henry II of England
- John, King of England
- Richard I of England
- Robert the Bruce
- William the Conqueror
France, 9
- Charlemagne
- Charles Martel
- Chlothar I
- Clovis I
- Lothair I
- Louis the Pious
- Louis XI of France
- 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
Italy, 7
- Cosimo de' Medici
- Lorenzo de' Medici
- Robert Guiscard
- Roger II of Sicily
- Girolamo Savonarola
- Theoderic the Great
- Totila
Papal States, 4
Spain and Portugal, 6
Early modern period, 105
Africa, 1
Americas, 14
United States, 6
Asia, 42
Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus, 6
Eastern Asia, 12
China, 7
Japan, 3
Southern Asia, 10
- Akbar
- Aurangzeb
- Robert Clive
- Hyder Ali
- Prithvi Narayan Shah
- Shah Jahan
- Sher Shah Suri
- Tipu Sultan
- Shivaji
- Krishnadevaraya
Southeastern Asia, 9
Burma, 4
Western Asia, 5
Europe, 48
Eastern Europe, 12
Poland and Lithuania, 4
Russia, 7
- Alexis of Russia
- Boris Godunov
- Catherine the Great
- Elizabeth of Russia
- Ivan the Terrible
- Peter the Great
- Grigory Potemkin
Western Europe, 32
- Philip II of Spain
- Philip V of Spain
- Frederick the Great
- Frederick William I of Prussia
- Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal
- William the Silent
England and Scotland, 10
- Charles I of England
- Elizabeth I of England
- Henry VIII of England
- James VI and I
- Oliver Cromwell
- Mary I of England
- Mary, Queen of Scots
- William III of England
- William Pitt the Younger
- Robert Walpole
France, 10
- Catherine de' Medici
- Francis I of France
- Gaspard II de Coligny
- Henry IV of France
- Louis XIV of France
- Louis XV of France
- Louis XVI of France
- Cardinal Mazarin
- Madame de Pompadour
- Cardinal Richelieu
Holy Roman Empire, Austria, 6
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
- Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
- Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
- Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
- Maria Theresa
Northern Europe, 1
Southern Europe, 3
Modern, 171
Africa, 25
Eastern Africa, 6
Northern Africa, 7
- Muammar Gaddafi
- Isma'il Pasha
- Muhammad Ahmad
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt
- Gamal Abdel Nasser
- Abdelkader El Djezairi
- Anwar 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, 39
Canada, 2
Mexico, 3
United States, 18
- George W. Bush
- Jimmy Carter
- Henry Clay
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Andrew Jackson
- John F. Kennedy
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Abraham Lincoln
- John Marshall
- Richard Nixon
- Barack Obama
- James K. Polk
- Ronald Reagan
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Sitting Bull
- Harry S. Truman
- Woodrow Wilson
Central America and Caribbean, 5
South America, 11
- Salvador Allende
- Simón Bolívar
- Hugo Chávez
- José de San Martín
- Eva Perón
- Augusto Pinochet
- Antonio José de Sucre
- Alfredo Stroessner
Brazil, 3
Asia, 49
Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus, 8
- Heydar Aliyev
- Ruhollah Khomeini
- Nursultan Nazarbayev
- Saparmurat Niyazov
- Mohammad Mosaddegh
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- Mohammed Zahir Shah
- Eduard Shevardnadze
Eastern Asia, 11
China, 6
Southeastern Asia, 13
- Bagyidaw
- Corazon Aquino
- Chulalongkorn
- Ferdinand Marcos
- George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
- Ho Chi Minh
- Lee Kuan Yew
- Mahathir Mohamad
- Mindon Min
- Ne Win
- Pol Pot
- Suharto
- Sukarno
Southern Asia, 9
India, 6
- Indira Gandhi
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Vallabhbhai Patel
- Manmohan Singh
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Western Asia, 8
Europe, 58
Austria-Hungary, 4
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
- Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
- Franz Joseph I of Austria
- Klemens von Metternich
Eastern Europe, 23
- Ion Antonescu
- Nicolae Ceaușescu
- Alexander Dubček
- Václav Havel
- Enver Hoxha
- Slobodan Milošević
- Ante Pavelić
- Symon Petliura
- Józef Piłsudski
- Josip Broz Tito
- Lech Wałęsa
Russia and USSR, 12
- Alexander II of Russia
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Vladimir Lenin
- Nicholas I of Russia
- Nicholas II of Russia
- Vladimir Putin
- Joseph Stalin
- Pyotr Stolypin
- Leon Trotsky
- Boris Yeltsin
Western Europe, 31
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
- Charles XIV John of Sweden
- Francisco Franco
- Juan Carlos I of Spain
- Leopold II of Belgium
- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
- Benito Mussolini
- Charles Stewart Parnell
- António de Oliveira Salazar
- Dag Hammarskjöld
France, 6
Germany, 7
- Konrad Adenauer
- Otto von Bismarck
- Adolf Hitler
- Erich Honecker
- Helmut Kohl
- William I, German Emperor
- Wilhelm II, German Emperor
United Kingdom, 7
Military leaders and theorists, 46
Ancient history, 7
Post-classical history, 8
- 'Amr ibn al-'As
- Godfrey of Bouillon
- John Hunyadi
- Subutai
- Trần Hưng Đạo
- William Wallace
- Jan Žižka
- Khalid ibn al-Walid
Early modern history, 13
- Diego de Almagro
- Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba
- Hayreddin Barbarossa
- John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
- Hernán Cortés
- Francis Drake
- Francisco Pizarro
- Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny
- Prince Eugene of Savoy
- Maurice de Saxe
- Alexander Suvorov
- Albrecht von Wallenstein
- Yi Sun-sin
Modern history, 18
- Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
- Carl von Clausewitz
- Enver Pasha
- Giuseppe Garibaldi
- Ulysses S. Grant
- T. E. Lawrence
- Robert E. Lee
- Erich Ludendorff
- Douglas MacArthur
- Alfred Thayer Mahan
- George Marshall
- Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
- Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
- Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
- Erwin Rommel
- Võ Nguyên Giáp
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Georgy Zhukov
Rebels, revolutionaries and activists, 46
Ancient history, 1
Post-classical history, 4
Early modern history, 7
France, 3
Modern history, 34
Africa, 5
Americas, 18
United States, 14
- Susan B. Anthony
- John Brown
- Frederick Douglass
- Eugene V. Debs
- Betty Friedan
- Helen Keller
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Malcolm X
- John Muir
- Rosa Parks
- Margaret Sanger
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Tubman
Asia, 8
- Aung San
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Diponegoro
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Osama bin Laden
- José Rizal
- Hong Xiuquan
- Sun Yat-sen
Europe, 3
Scientists, inventors and mathematicians, 229
Ancient figures, 21
Ancient, 10
Post-classical, 11
Physics and astronomy, 64
Early modern, 3
Modern, 53
- Amedeo Avogadro
- André-Marie Ampère
- Johann Jakob Balmer
- Henri Becquerel
- Hans Bethe
- Niels Bohr
- Ludwig Boltzmann
- Max Born
- William Henry Bragg
- Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
- Henry Cavendish
- James Chadwick
- Steven Chu
- John Cockcroft
- Marie Curie
- Pierre Curie
- John Dalton
- Paul Dirac
- Albert Einstein
- James Dewar
- Michael Faraday
- Enrico Fermi
- Richard Feynman
- Léon Foucault
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel
- Murray Gell-Mann
- Stephen Hawking
- Werner Heisenberg
- James Prescott Joule
- Gustav Kirchhoff
- Ernest Lawrence
- Hendrik Lorentz
- Ernst Mach
- James Clerk Maxwell
- Lise Meitner
- Albert A. Michelson
- Robert Andrews Millikan
- Pieter van Musschenbroek
- Georg Ohm
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Hans Christian Ørsted
- Wolfgang Pauli
- Max Planck
- Wilhelm Röntgen
- Andrei Sakharov
- Erwin Schrödinger
- Edward Teller
- J. J. Thomson
- William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
- Charles Hard Townes
- Tsung-Dao Lee
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals
- Thomas Young
Astronomy, 8
Chemistry, 24
- Svante Arrhenius
- Jöns Jacob Berzelius
- Robert Boyle
- Humphry Davy
- Peter Debye
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
- Josiah Willard Gibbs
- Fritz Haber
- Otto Hahn
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
- Dorothy Hodgkin
- Irving Langmuir
- Antoine Lavoisier
- Gilbert N. Lewis
- Justus von Liebig
- Dmitri Mendeleev
- Linus Pauling
- Joseph Priestley
- Ilya Prigogine
- Ernest Rutherford
- Frederick Sanger
- Harold Urey
- Friedrich Wöhler
- Robert Burns Woodward
Natural sciences, 33
- Louis Agassiz
- John James Audubon
- Norman Borlaug
- Rachel Carson
- George Washington Carver
- Jacques Cousteau
- Charles Darwin
- Alexander Fleming
- Stephen Jay Gould
- W. D. Hamilton
- Ernst Haeckel
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Edward Jenner
- Charles Lyell
- Eugenius Warming
Biology, 12
- Francis Crick
- Rosalind Franklin
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Hans Adolf Krebs
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- Carl Linnaeus
- Konrad Lorenz
- Barbara McClintock
- Gregor Mendel
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal
- James Watson
Medicine, 6
Inventors, 32
- John Logie Baird
- John Bardeen
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Karl Benz
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- Emile Berliner
- Cai Lun
- Wallace Carothers
- Louis Daguerre
- Lee de Forest
- Karl Drais
- Alfred V. du Pont
- George Eastman
- Thomas Edison
- Philo Farnsworth
- Leo Fender
- Robert Fulton
- Gordon Gould
- Johannes Gutenberg
- Jack Kilby
- Ignacy Łukasiewicz
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Cyrus McCormick
- Samuel Morse
- Alfred Nobel
- Charles Algernon Parsons
- William Shockley
- Nikola Tesla
- Alessandro Volta
- James Watt
- Eli Whitney
- Wright brothers
Mathematicians, 42
Early modern, 9
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert
- Daniel Bernoulli
- Jacob Bernoulli
- Johann Bernoulli
- Alexis Clairaut
- Leonhard Euler
- Pierre de Fermat
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Blaise Pascal
Modern, 33
- Niels Henrik Abel
- Stefan Banach
- George Boole
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy
- Arthur Cayley
- Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
- Ronald Fisher
- Joseph Fourier
- Évariste Galois
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Kurt Gödel
- Alexander Grothendieck
- William Rowan Hamilton
- Charles Hermite
- David Hilbert
- Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
- Andrey Kolmogorov
- Leopold Kronecker
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange
- Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Nikolai Lobachevsky
- Benoit Mandelbrot
- Gaspard Monge
- John von Neumann
- Emmy Noether
- Karl Pearson
- Henri Poincaré
- Siméon Denis Poisson
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Bernhard Riemann
- Claude Shannon
- James Joseph Sylvester
- Karl Weierstrass
Computer scientists, 13
Sports figures, 117
Individual sports, 68
Athletics, 14
- Roger Bannister
- Fanny Blankers-Koen
- Usain Bolt
- Sergey Bubka
- Hicham El Guerrouj
- Haile Gebrselassie
- Florence Griffith Joyner
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- Carl Lewis
- Edwin Moses
- Paavo Nurmi
- Jesse Owens
- Wilma Rudolph
- Emil Zátopek
Auto racing, 6
Biathlon, 1
Boxing, 4
Chess, 2
Cycling, 5
Figure skating, 3
Golf, 5
Gymnastics, 6
Skiing, alpine, 2
Speed skating, 2
Swimming, 2
Tennis, 14
- Björn Borg
- Margaret Court
- Chris Evert
- Roger Federer
- Pancho Gonzales
- Steffi Graf
- Billie Jean King
- Rod Laver
- Suzanne Lenglen
- Rafael Nadal
- Martina Navratilova
- Pete Sampras
- Bill Tilden
- Williams sisters
Multiple sports, 2
Team sports, 49
American football, 3
Association football, 17
- Franz Beckenbauer
- George Best
- Bobby Charlton
- Johan Cruyff
- Alfredo Di Stéfano
- Eusébio
- Mia Hamm
- Paolo Maldini
- Diego Maradona
- Lionel Messi
- Gerd Müller
- Pelé
- Michel Platini
- Ferenc Puskás
- Ronaldo
- Lev Yashin
- Zinedine Zidane
Baseball, 8
Basketball, 6
Cricket, 7
- W. G. Grace
- Donald Bradman
- Garfield Sobers
- Viv Richards
- Shane Warne
- Muttiah Muralitharan
- Sachin Tendulkar
Field hockey, 2
Ice hockey, 4
Rugby union, 2