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[edit] People, 1333

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[edit] Actors and Actresses, 115

  1. Al Pacino
  2. Alain Delon
  3. Alberto Sordi
  4. Amitabh Bachchan
  5. Anthony Hopkins
  6. Anthony Quinn
  7. Audrey Hepburn
  8. Ava Gardner
  9. Barbara Stanwyck
  10. Barbra Streisand
  11. Bette Davis
  12. Bill Cosby
  13. Bing Crosby
  14. Bob Hope
  15. Bourvil
  16. Brigitte Bardot
  17. Burt Lancaster
  18. Buster Keaton
  19. Carole Lombard
  20. Cary Grant
  21. Charles Bronson
  22. Charlie Chaplin
  23. Charlton Heston
  24. Clark Gable
  25. Claudette Colbert
  26. Claudia Cardinale
  27. Dean Martin
  28. Debbie Reynolds
  29. Deborah Kerr
  30. Dinah Shore
  31. Doris Day
  32. Dustin Hoffman
  33. Ed Sullivan
  34. Edward G. Robinson
  35. Elizabeth Taylor
  36. Ethel Merman
  37. Fernandel
  38. Francisco Martínez Soria
  39. Fred Astaire
  40. Gary Cooper
  41. Gene Hackman
  42. Gene Kelly
  43. George Carlin
  44. Gérard Philipe
  45. Gina Lollobrigida
  46. Ginger Rogers
  47. Gong Li
  48. Grace Kelly
  49. Gregory Peck
  50. Greta Garbo
  51. Guru Dutt
  52. Harold Lloyd
  53. Harrison Ford
  54. Henry Fonda
  55. Humphrey Bogart
  56. Ida Lupino
  57. Ingrid Bergman
  58. Jack Benny
  59. Jack Nicholson
  60. James Cagney
  61. James Dean
  62. James Stewart
  63. Jane Fonda
  64. Jean Gabin
  65. Jean Harlow
  66. Jean Marais
  67. Jean-Paul Belmondo
  68. Jeremy Irons
  69. Jerry Lewis
  70. Joan Crawford
  71. John Cleese
  72. John Wayne
  73. Johnny Carson
  74. Jon Voight
  75. Judi Dench
  76. Judy Garland
  77. Julie Andrews
  78. Kamal Haasan
  79. Katharine Hepburn
  80. Kirk Douglas
  81. Lauren Bacall
  82. Laurence Olivier
  83. Lillian Gish
  84. Liza Minelli
  85. Louis de Funès
  86. Mae West
  87. Marcello Mastroianni
  88. Marilyn Monroe
  89. Marlene Dietrich
  90. Marlon Brando
  91. Mary Martin
  92. Mary Pickford
  93. Meryl Streep
  94. Michel Piccoli
  95. Morgan Freeman
  96. Orson Welles
  97. Paul Newman
  98. Peter O'Toole
  99. Randolph Scott
  100. Rita Hayworth
  101. Rob Schneider
  102. Robert De Niro
  103. Robert Duvall
  104. Robert Mitchum
  105. Sarah Bernhardt
  106. Shirley Temple
  107. Sidney Poitier
  108. Sophia Loren
  109. Spencer Tracy
  110. Steve McQueen
  111. The Marx Brothers
  112. Toshirō Mifune
  113. Vivien Leigh
  114. William Holden
  115. Yuri Nikulin

[edit] Artists / Architects, visual, 77

  1. Albrecht Dürer
  2. Andrea del Sarto
  3. Palladio
  4. Andrei Rublev
  5. Andy Warhol
  6. Anthony van Dyck
  7. Gaudí
  8. Auguste Renoir
  9. Auguste Rodin
  10. Canaletto
  11. Caravaggio
  12. Christopher Wren
  13. Claude Monet
  14. Diego Velázquez
  15. Donatello
  16. Bramante
  17. Édouard Manet
  18. Edvard Munch
  19. Erich Mendelsohn
  20. Borromini
  21. Francisco Goya
  22. François Mansart
  23. Frank Gehry
  24. Frank Lloyd Wright
  25. Frei Otto
  26. Frida Kahlo
  27. Georgia O'Keeffe
  28. Bernini
  29. Giotto
  30. Giovanni Bellini
  31. Günter Behnisch
  32. Hans Scharoun
  33. Toulouse-Lautrec
  34. Henri Matisse
  35. Hieronymus Bosch
  36. Hokusai
  37. I.M. Pei
  38. Ilya Repin
  39. Jackson Pollock
  40. David
  41. Jan van Eyck
  42. Johannes Vermeer
  43. Jusepe de Ribera
  44. Kallikrates
  45. Karl Friedrich Schinkel
  46. Kenzo Tange
  47. Le Corbusier
  48. Leonardo da Vinci
  49. Louis Sullivan
  50. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  51. Margaret Mee
  52. Masaccio
  53. Michelangelo
  54. Mimar Sinan
  55. Myron
  56. Nicolas Poussin
  57. Pablo Picasso
  58. Veronese
  59. Paul Cézanne
  60. Peter Behrens
  61. Peter Paul Rubens
  62. Phidias
  63. Raphael
  64. Rembrandt
  65. Renzo Piano
  66. Richard Meier
  67. Richard Neutra
  68. Salvador Dalí
  69. Tintoretto
  70. Titian
  71. Victor Horta
  72. Victor Vasarely
  73. Vincent van Gogh
  74. Vitruvius
  75. Walter Gropius
  76. William Hogarth
  77. William LeBaron Jenney

[edit] Authors / Poets, 104

  1. Abu Nuwas
  2. Adam Mickiewicz
  3. Aldous Huxley
  4. Aleksandr Pushkin
  5. Alexandre Dumas
  6. Anton Chekhov
  7. Aristophanes
  8. Arthur C. Clarke
  9. Arthur Conan Doyle
  10. Arthur Miller
  11. Arthur Rimbaud
  12. Astrid Lindgren
  13. Bertolt Brecht
  14. Brothers Grimm
  15. Carl Sandburg
  16. Charles Dickens
  17. Clifford D. Simak
  18. Dante Alighieri
  19. Dashiell Hammett
  20. Douglas Adams
  21. Du Fu
  22. Edgar Allan Poe
  23. Eino Leino
  24. Emily Dickinson
  25. Erich Maria Remarque
  26. Ernest Hemingway
  27. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  28. Franz Kafka
  29. Fyodor Dostoevsky
  30. Gabriel García Márquez
  31. Geoffrey Chaucer
  32. George Bernard Shaw
  33. George Orwell
  34. H. G. Wells
  35. Hans Christian Andersen
  36. Heinrich Heine
  37. Henrik Ibsen
  38. Henry Miller
  39. Hildegard of Bingen
  40. Homer
  41. Horace
  42. Ilf and Petrov
  43. Isaac Asimov
  44. Ivan Vazov
  45. J. R. R. Tolkien
  46. Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
  47. James Joyce
  48. Jane Austen
  49. Jerome K. Jerome
  50. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  51. John Steinbeck
  52. Jorge Luis Borges
  53. José Saramago
  54. Jules Verne
  55. Kālidāsa
  56. Langston Hughes
  57. Leo Tolstoy
  58. Li Bai
  59. Livius Andronicus
  60. Lord Byron
  61. Marcel Proust
  62. Mark Twain
  63. Mary Wollstonecraft
  64. Matsuo Bashō
  65. Maxim Gorky
  66. Miguel de Cervantes
  67. Mikhail Bulgakov
  68. Molière
  69. Murasaki Shikibu
  70. Naguib Mahfouz
  71. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  72. Nikolai Gogol
  73. Nikos Kazantzakis
  74. O. Henry
  75. Olaf Stapleton
  76. Omar Khayyam
  77. Oscar Wilde
  78. Ovid
  79. Pablo Neruda
  80. Petrarch
  81. Plutarch
  82. Rainer Maria Rilke
  83. Ray Bradbury
  84. Raymond Chandler
  85. Robert A. Heinlein
  86. Robert Frost
  87. Robert Louis Stevenson
  88. Robert Sheckley
  89. Sappho
  90. Sophocles
  91. Thomas Mann
  92. Truman Capote
  93. Umberto Eco
  94. Victor Hugo
  95. Virgil
  96. Vladimir Nabokov
  97. W. S. Gilbert
  98. Walt Whitman
  99. William Blake
  100. William Butler Yeats
  101. William Shakespeare
  102. Yasunari Kawabata
  103. Yukio Mishima
  104. Zeami Motokiyo

[edit] Composers and musicians, 126

  1. Harold Arlen
  2. Louis Armstrong
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach
  4. Mily Balakirev
  5. John Barry
  6. Béla Bartók
  7. The Beatles
  8. Irving Berlin
  9. Hector Berlioz
  10. Leonard Bernstein
  11. Ritchie Blackmore
  12. Alexander Borodin
  13. Johannes Brahms
  14. Chuck Berry
  15. Ludwig van Beethoven
  16. Johnny Cash
  17. Ray Charles
  18. Frédéric Chopin
  19. Eric Clapton
  20. Joe Cocker
  21. Phil Collins
  22. Alice Cooper
  23. David Coverdale
  24. César Cui
  25. Claude Debussy
  26. Adolph Deutsch
  27. Bruce Dickinson
  28. Ronnie James Dio
  29. Celine Dion
  30. Antonín Dvorák
  31. Bob Dylan
  32. Aretha Franklin
  33. Peter Gabriel
  34. George Gershwin
  35. Gilbert and Sullivan
  36. Ian Gillan
  37. David Gilmour
  38. Jerry Goldsmith
  39. Edvard Grieg
  40. Rob Halford
  41. Georg Frideric Handel
  42. Steve Harris
  43. Joseph Haydn
  44. Jimi Hendrix
  45. Ken Hensley
  46. James Hetfield
  47. Faith Hill
  48. Gustav Holst
  49. John Lee Hooker
  50. Glenn Hughes
  51. Tony Iommi
  52. Alan Jackson
  53. Michael Jackson
  54. Mick Jagger
  55. Antônio Carlos Jobim
  56. George Jones
  57. Janis Joplin
  58. Jerome Kern
  59. B.B. King
  60. Franz Liszt
  61. John Lennon
  62. Jon Lord
  63. Madonna
  64. Gustav Mahler
  65. Henry Mancini
  66. Barbara Mandrell
  67. Bob Marley
  68. Brian May
  69. Paul McCartney
  70. Reba McIntire
  71. Felix Mendelssohn
  72. Freddie Mercury
  73. Glenn Miller
  74. Ronnie Milsap
  75. Joni Mitchell
  76. Claudio Monteverdi
  77. Gary Moore
  78. Ennio Morricone
  79. Modest Moussorgsky
  80. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  81. Peter, Paul and Mary
  82. Ozzy Osbourne
  83. Niccolò Paganini
  84. Jimmy Page
  85. Alan Parsons
  86. Dolly Parton
  87. Edith Piaf
  88. Robert Plant
  89. Cole Porter
  90. Elvis Presley
  91. Sergei Prokofiev
  92. Giacomo Puccini
  93. Maurice Ravel
  94. Keith Richards
  95. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  96. Richard Rogers
  97. Linda Ronstadt
  98. Miklós Rózsa
  99. Arnold Schoenberg
  100. Franz Schubert
  101. Robert Schumann
  102. Simon and Garfunkel
  103. Dmitri Shostakovich
  104. Bedrich Smetana
  105. Max Steiner
  106. Jean Sibelius
  107. Frank Sinatra
  108. Johann Strauss
  109. Igor Stravinsky
  110. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  111. Anahit Tsitsikian
  112. Tina Turner
  113. en:Umm Kulthum
  114. Vangelis
  115. Stevie Ray Vaughan
  116. Giuseppe Verdi
  117. Antonio Vivaldi
  118. Pancho Vladigerov
  119. Vladimar Vystorsky
  120. Richard Wagner
  121. Roger Waters
  122. Andrew Lloyd Webber
  123. Hank Williams
  124. John Williams
  125. Stevie Wonder
  126. Angus Young

[edit] Directors, producers & screenwriters, 71

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

[edit] Entrepreneurs, 22

  1. Mukesh Ambani
  2. John Jacob Astor
  3. Andrew Carnegie
  4. Marcus Licinius Crassus
  5. Lorenzo de' Medici
  6. Henry Ford
  7. Bill Gates
  8. Muhammad Yunus
  9. J. Paul Getty
  10. Meyer Guggenheim
  11. William Randolph Hearst
  12. Howard Hughes
  13. Steve Jobs
  14. Ray Kroc
  15. J.P. Morgan
  16. John D. Rockefeller
  17. Carlos Slim
  18. Donald Trump
  19. Ted Turner
  20. Sam Walton
  21. George Westinghouse
  22. Xu Rongmao

[edit] Explorers, 25

  1. Roald Amundsen
  2. Neil Armstrong
  3. Willem Barents
  4. Ibn Battuta
  5. Vitus Bering
  6. Jacques Cartier
  7. Christopher Columbus
  8. James Cook
  9. Hernán Cortés
  10. Francis Drake
  11. Juan Sebastián Elcano
  12. Leif Ericson
  13. Vasco da Gama
  14. Yuri Gagarin
  15. John Glenn
  16. Edmund Hillary
  17. Alexander Humboldt
  18. Ponce de Leon
  19. Ferdinand Magellan
  20. Tenzing Norgay
  21. Francisco Pizarro
  22. Marco Polo
  23. Hernando de Soto
  24. Abel Tasman
  25. Zheng He

[edit] Performing artists, 40

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

[edit] Philosophers, historians, political and social scientists, 107

[edit] Philosophers, 53

Ancient, 15
  1. Aristotle
  2. Augustine of Hippo
  3. Confucius
  4. Diogenes of Sinope
  5. Han Fei
  6. Laozi
  7. Li Si
  8. Mencius
  9. Plato
  10. Seneca the Younger
  11. Socrates
  12. Xun Zi
  13. Shang Yang
  14. Thales
  15. Ptahhotep
Middle Ages, 6
  1. Thomas Aquinas
  2. Averroes
  3. Francis Bacon
  4. Maimonides
  5. Wang Yangming
  6. Zhu Xi
Early modern, 14
  1. René Descartes
  2. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  3. Thomas Hobbes
  4. David Hume
  5. William James
  6. Immanuel Kant
  7. Søren Kierkegaard
  8. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
  9. John Locke
  10. John Stuart Mill
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche
  12. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  13. Baruch Spinoza
  14. Voltaire
Modern, 18
  1. Simone de Beauvoir
  2. Henri Bergson
  3. Isaiah Berlin
  4. Michel Foucault
  5. Gilles Deleuze
  6. Jacques Derrida
  7. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  8. Jürgen Habermas
  9. Martin Heidegger
  10. Edmund Husserl
  11. Karl Popper
  12. Thomas Samuel Kuhn
  13. John Rawls
  14. Bertrand Russell
  15. Jean-Paul Sartre
  16. Max Weber
  17. Alfred North Whitehead
  18. Ludwig Wittgenstein

[edit] Historians, 10

Ancient, 4
  1. Eusebius of Caesarea
  2. Herodotus
  3. Thucydides
  4. Sima Qian
Middle Ages, 1
  1. Ibn Khaldun
Early modern, 1
  1. Edward Gibbon
Modern, 4
  1. Theodor Mommsen
  2. A.J.P. Taylor
  3. Barbara Tuchman
  4. Frederick Jackson Turner

[edit] Social scientists, economists and political writers, 15

Antiquity, 1
  1. Chanakya
Middle Ages, 1
  1. Niccolò Machiavelli
Early modern period, 2
  1. Robert Malthus
  2. Adam Smith
Modern, 11
  1. Noam Chomsky
  2. Émile Durkheim
  3. Milton Friedman
  4. Antonio Gramsci
  5. John Maynard Keynes
  6. Thomas Paine
  7. Claude Levi-Strauss
  8. Rosa Luxemburg
  9. Karl Marx
  10. Hans Morgenthau
  11. Stein Rokkan

[edit] Psychologists, 29

  1. Alfred Adler
  2. Gordon Allport
  3. Albert Bandura
  4. Raymond Cattell
  5. Hans Eysenck
  6. Albert Ellis (psychologist)
  7. Erik Erikson
  8. Leon Festinger
  9. Sigmund Freud
  10. Jane Goodall
  11. Donald O. Hebb
  12. Clark L. Hull
  13. Carl Jung
  14. Jerome Kagan
  15. Kurt Lewin
  16. Seymour Martin Lipset
  17. Abraham Maslow
  18. David McClelland
  19. George Armitage Miller
  20. Neal E. Miller
  21. Ivan Pavlov
  22. Jean Piaget
  23. Carl Rogers
  24. Otto Rank
  25. Stanley Schachter
  26. B.F. Skinner
  27. Benjamin Spock
  28. Edward Thorndike
  29. John B. Watson

[edit] Religious figures, 40

  1. Abraham
  2. Adam
  3. Akiba ben Joseph
  4. Ali
  5. Amun Ra
  6. Atlas (mythology)
  7. Baal Shem Tov
  8. Báb
  9. Bahá'u'lláh
  10. Benedict of Nursia
  11. Gautama Buddha
  12. John Calvin
  13. David
  14. Francis of Assisi
  15. Archangel Gabriel
  16. Ghazali
  17. Guru Gobind Singh
  18. Billy Graham
  19. Imam
  20. Jesus
  21. Joseph Smith, Jr.
  22. Lilith
  23. Judah Loew ben Bezalel
  24. Thomas More
  25. Moses
  26. Muhammad
  27. Nagarjuna
  28. Guru Nanak Dev
  29. Noah
  30. Paul the Apostle
  31. Saint Peter
  32. Pharaoh
  33. Priest
  34. Rashi
  35. Adi Shankara
  36. Umar
  37. Vilna Gaon
  38. John Wesley
  39. Woden
  40. Zoroaster

[edit] Politicians and leaders, 111

  1. Akbar
  2. Alexander the Great
  3. Ashoka
  4. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  5. Attila the Hun
  6. Augustus
  7. Marcus Aurelius
  8. Robert Baden-Powell
  9. Hastings Banda
  10. David Ben-Gurion
  11. Otto von Bismarck
  12. Simón Bolívar
  13. Lucrezia Borgia
  14. Gro Harlem Brundtland
  15. Fidel Castro
  16. Catherine II of Russia
  17. Julius Caesar
  18. Charlemagne
  19. Empress Dowager Cixi
  20. Winston Churchill
  21. Cleopatra VII
  22. Constantine I
  23. Cyrus the Great
  24. Diana, Princess of Wales
  25. Elizabeth I of England
  26. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
  27. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
  28. Indira Gandhi
  29. Garibaldi
  30. Charles de Gaulle
  31. Mikhail Gorbachev
  32. Hammurabi
  33. Hannibal
  34. Hatshepsut
  35. Henry VIII
  36. Hirohito
  37. Ho Chi Min
  38. Adolf Hitler
  39. Andrew Jackson
  40. Thomas Jefferson
  41. Pope John Paul II
  42. John F. Kennedy
  43. Genghis Khan
  44. Lee Kuan Yew
  45. Lyndon B. Johnson
  46. Vladimir Lenin
  47. Abraham Lincoln
  48. Louis XIV
  49. Rosa Luxemburg
  50. Nelson Mandela
  51. Douglas MacArthur
  52. Mao Zedong
  53. Maria Theresa of Austria
  54. Mary I of Scotland
  55. Golda Meir
  56. Christian Michelsen
  57. Mahathir bin Mohamad
  58. Benito Mussolini
  59. Napoleon I of France
  60. Nefertiti
  61. Jawaharlal Nehru
  62. Kwame Nkrumah
  63. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
  64. Eva Perón
  65. Peter I of Russia
  66. Józef Pilsudski
  67. Pol Pot
  68. Qin Shi Huang
  69. Ramasses II
  70. Ronald Reagan
  71. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  72. Theodore Roosevelt
  73. Anwar Sadat
  74. Saladin
  75. Gerhard Schröder
  76. Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
  77. Semiramis
  78. Seti I
  79. Shaka
  80. Queen of Sheba
  81. Simeon I of Bulgaria
  82. Sitting Bull
  83. Joseph Stalin
  84. Suleiman the Magnificent
  85. Sun Yat-Sen
  86. Sun Tzu
  87. Tamarlane
  88. Margaret Thatcher
  89. Josip Broz Tito
  90. Timur
  91. Leon Trotsky
  92. Harry S. Truman
  93. Tutankhamun
  94. Umar
  95. Victoria of the United Kingdom
  96. Lech Walesa
  97. George Washington
  98. Wilhelm II of Germany
  99. Frederick II of Prussia

[edit] Current political leaders, 12

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

  1. Ban Ki-Moon (U.N.)
  2. Pope Benedict XVI (Pope)
  3. Silvio Berlusconi (Italy)
  4. David Cameron (U.K.)
  5. Stephen Harper (Canada)
  6. Hu Jintao (China)
  7. Naoto Kan (Japan)
  8. Dmitry Medvedev (Russia)
  9. Angela Merkel (Germany)
  10. Barack Obama (U.S.)
  11. Nicolas Sarkozy (France)
  12. Manmohan Singh (India)


[edit] Revolutionaries and activists, 18

  1. Joan of Arc
  2. Mahatma Gandhi
  3. Emma Goldman
  4. Che Guevara
  5. Diogenes
  6. Mother Jones
  7. Helen Keller
  8. Ruhollah Khomeini
  9. Martin Luther
  10. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  11. Osama bin Laden
  12. Florence Nightingale
  13. Rosa Parks
  14. Emilia Plater
  15. Gavrilo Princip
  16. Mother Teresa
  17. Sojourner Truth
  18. Harriet Tubman

[edit] Scientists, inventors and mathematicians, 200

  1. Alhacen
  2. André Marie Ampère
  3. Archimedes
  4. Vladimir Arnold
  5. John Vincent Atanasoff
  6. John James Audubon
  7. Avicenna
  8. Amadeo Avogadro
  9. Charles Babbage
  10. Johann Balmer
  11. John Bardeen
  12. John Logie Baird
  13. Antoine Henri Becquerel
  14. J. Georg Bednorz
  15. Alexander Graham Bell
  16. Karl Benz
  17. Emile Berliner
  18. Tim Berners-Lee
  19. Daniel Bernoulli
  20. Gerd Binnig
  21. Clarence Birdseye
  22. Niels Bohr
  23. William Henry Bragg
  24. Tycho Brahe
  25. David Brewster
  26. Dan Bricklin
  27. Nolan Bushnell
  28. Sadi Carnot
  29. Wallace H. Carothers
  30. Rachel Carson
  31. Henry Cavendish
  32. Steven Chu
  33. Josephine Cochrane
  34. Christopher Cockerell
  35. Nicolaus Copernicus
  36. Jacques Cousteau
  37. Seymour Cray
  38. Ward Cunningham
  39. Marie Curie
  40. Pierre Curie
  41. Dave Cutler
  42. Raymond V. Damadian
  43. Charles Darwin
  44. Robert Dennard
  45. James Dewar
  46. Diophantus
  47. Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
  48. Christian Andreas Doppler
  49. Alfred V. du Pont
  50. George Eastman
  51. Thomas Edison
  52. Albert Einstein
  53. Douglas Engelbart
  54. Eratosthenes
  55. Euclid
  56. Leonhard Euler
  57. Michael Faraday
  58. Leo Fender
  59. James Fergason
  60. Pierre de Fermat
  61. Enrico Fermi
  62. Richard Feynman
  63. Fibonacci
  64. George Francis FitzGerald
  65. Alexander Fleming
  66. Lee De Forest
  67. Léon Foucault
  68. Joseph Fourier
  69. Benjamin Franklin
  70. Augustin-Jean Fresnel
  71. Arthur Fry
  72. Buckminster Fuller
  73. Robert Fulton
  74. Casimir Funk
  75. Robert Gair
  76. Galen
  77. Galileo Galilei
  78. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  79. Geber
  80. Murray Gell-Mann
  81. J. Willard Gibbs
  82. William Gilbert
  83. Charles Ginsburg
  84. Kurt Gödel
  85. Gordon Gould
  86. Wilson Greatbatch
  87. Johann Gutenberg
  88. Ernst Haeckel
  89. Edmund Halley
  90. William Hamilton
  91. G. H. Hardy
  92. Ray Harryhausen
  93. Stephen Hawking
  94. Victor Franz Hess
  95. Hippocrates
  96. David Hilbert
  97. Herman Hollerith
  98. Gerard t' Hooft
  99. Edwin Hubble
  100. Elias Howe
  101. Thomas Henry Huxley
  102. Christiaan Huygens
  103. Hypatia of Alexandria
  104. Jean Ichbiah
  105. Joseph Marie Jacquard
  106. Richard James
  107. Robert K. Jarvik
  108. Edward Jenner
  109. George Jessup
  110. James Prescott Joule
  111. Philippe Kahn
  112. Alfred Kastler
  113. John George Kemeny
  114. Johannes Kepler
  115. Jack Kilby
  116. Gary Kildall
  117. Gustav Kirchhoff
  118. Donald Knuth
  119. al-Khwarizmi
  120. Stephanie Kwolek
  121. Joseph-Louis Lagrange
  122. Jaron Lanier
  123. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
  124. Pierre-Simon Laplace
  125. Antoine Lavoisier
  126. Ernest Orlando Lawrence
  127. Philip Leder
  128. Gottfried Leibniz
  129. Philipp von Lenard
  130. Carolus Linnaeus
  131. Hendrik Lorentz
  132. Ignacy Lukasiewicz
  133. Ernst Mach
  134. Guglielmo Marconi
  135. James Clerk Maxwell
  136. Cyrus McCormick
  137. Robert Metcalfe
  138. Dmitri Mendeleev
  139. Albert A. Michelson
  140. Robert Millikan
  141. Pieter van Musschenbroek
  142. Isaac Newton
  143. Alfred Nobel
  144. Robert Noyce
  145. Georg Ohm
  146. Scott Olson
  147. J. Robert Oppenheimer
  148. Hans Christian Ørsted
  149. Charles A. Parsons
  150. Blaise Pascal
  151. Louis Pasteur
  152. Wolfgang Pauli
  153. Arno Penzias
  154. Martin L. Perl
  155. Max Planck
  156. Roy J. Plunkett
  157. Henri Poincaré
  158. Joseph Priestly
  159. Pythagoras
  160. Srinivasa Ramanujan
  161. Santiago Ramón y Cajal
  162. Osborne Reynolds
  163. Bernhard Riemann
  164. Dennis Ritchie
  165. Ole Rømer
  166. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
  167. James Russell
  168. Ernest Rutherford
  169. Janne Rydberg
  170. Carl Sagan
  171. Andrei Sakharov
  172. Jonas Salk
  173. Erwin Schrödinger
  174. Semmelweis
  175. Michael Servetus
  176. William Shockley
  177. Alan Shugart
  178. Isaac Singer
  179. Richard Stallman
  180. Josef Stefan
  181. Edward Teller
  182. Nikola Tesla
  183. Linus Torvalds
  184. Alan Turing
  185. Nasir al-Din Tusi
  186. John H. van Vleck
  187. Alessandro Volta
  188. Ernest Walton
  189. David Warren
  190. James Watt
  191. Wilhelm E. Weber
  192. Eli Whitney
  193. Willis R. Whitney
  194. Eugene Wigner
  195. Charles Wilson
  196. Robert Wilson
  197. Niklaus Wirth
  198. Wright brothers
  199. James Wright
  200. Thomas Young

[edit] Journalists, 42

  1. Christiane Amanpour
  2. Ed Bradley
  3. David Brinkley
  4. Tom Brokaw
  5. John F. Burns
  6. John Chancellor
  7. Walter Cronkite
  8. Bill Curtis
  9. Ann Curry
  10. John Derbyshire
  11. Jean-Pierre Elkabbach
  12. Robert Fisk
  13. Hedda Hopper
  14. John Humphrys
  15. Chet Huntley
  16. Marvin Kalb
  17. Jim Lehrer
  18. Irving R. Levine
  19. Joan Lunden
  20. David McCullough
  21. Robert MacNeil
  22. Bob Mersereau
  23. Roger Mudd
  24. Edward R. Murrow
  25. Edwin Newman
  26. John Pilger
  27. Dan Rather
  28. Harry Reasoner
  29. Geraldo Rivera
  30. Diane Sawyer
  31. Eric Sevareid
  32. Howard K. Smith
  33. Lesley Stahl
  34. John Stossel
  35. Udo Ulfkotte
  36. Meredith Vieira
  37. Mike Wallace
  38. Barbara Walters
  39. Walter Winchell
  40. Bob Woodward
  41. Herbert Zimmermann
  42. Amy Goodman

[edit] Olympic/sports figures, 187

  1. Hank Aaron
  2. K. Abdul-Jabbar
  3. Muhammad Ali
  4. Andre Agassi
  5. Mario Andretti
  6. Shizuka Arakawa
  7. Eddie Arcaro
  8. Henry Armstrong
  9. Lance Armstrong
  10. Arthur Ashe
  11. Terry Baker
  12. Roger Bannister
  13. Sammy Baugh
  14. Elgin Baylor
  15. David Beckham
  16. Larry Bird
  17. Bonnie Blair
  18. Brian Boitano
  19. Barry Bonds
  20. Don Bradman
  21. Terry Bradshaw
  22. Tom Brady
  23. Bear Bryant
  24. Jim Brown
  25. Bob Bourne
  26. Don Budge
  27. Dick Butkus
  28. Steve Cauthen
  29. Wilt Chamberlain
  30. Bobby Charlton
  31. Roberto Clemente
  32. Roger Clemens
  33. Ty Cobb
  34. Nadia Comaneci
  35. Robin Cousins
  36. Bob Cousy
  37. Mary Decker
  38. Jack Dempsey
  39. Joe DiMaggio
  40. Tim Duncan
  41. John Elway
  42. Julius Erving
  43. Chris Evert
  44. Juan Manuel Fangio
  45. Brett Favre
  46. Peggy Fleming
  47. Lou Gehrig
  48. Althea Gibson
  49. Bob Gibson
  50. Josh Gibson
  51. Phil Garner
  52. W.G. Grace
  53. Steffi Graf
  54. Otto Graham
  55. Red Grange
  56. Wayne Gretzky
  57. Ken Griffey
  58. Scott Hamilton
  59. Dorothy Hamill
  60. Paul Hamm
  61. Eric Heiden
  62. Sonja Henie
  63. Orel Hershiser
  64. Ben Hogan
  65. Rogers Hornsby
  66. Gordie Howe
  67. Sarah Hughes
  68. Bobby Hull
  69. Don Hutson
  70. Bruce Jenner
  71. Ingemar Johansson
  72. Magic Johnson
  73. Rafer Johnson
  74. Randy Johnson
  75. Walter Johnson
  76. Bobby Jones
  77. Michael Jordan
  78. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  79. Kipchoge Keino
  80. Jean-Claude Killy
  81. Billie Jean King
  82. Judi Brown King
  83. Olga Korbut
  84. Johann Olav Koss
  85. Stefka Kostadinova
  86. Sandy Koufax
  87. Ilya Kulik
  88. Michelle Kwan
  89. Larissa Latynina
  90. Tara Lipinski
  91. Rod Laver
  92. Mario Lemieux
  93. Greg LeMond
  94. Sugar Ray Leonard
  95. Carl Lewis
  96. Greg Louganis
  97. Joe Louis
  98. Jerry Lucas
  99. Peyton Manning
  100. Mickey Mantle
  101. Rocky Marciano
  102. Dan Marino
  103. Roger Maris
  104. Christy Mathewson
  105. Bob Mathias
  106. Stanley Matthews
  107. Willie Mays
  108. John McEnroe
  109. Mark McGwire
  110. Joe Montana
  111. Bobby Joe Morrow
  112. Edwin Moses
  113. Gerd Müller
  114. Dale Murphy
  115. Stan Musial
  116. Bronco Nagurski
  117. Joe Namath
  118. Martina Navratilova
  119. Jack Nicklaus
  120. Paavo Nurmi
  121. Bobby Orr
  122. Jesse Owens
  123. Arnold Palmer
  124. Ara Parseghian
  125. Joe Paterno
  126. Axel Paulsen
  127. Walter Payton
  128. Pelé
  129. Michael Phelps
  130. Lilia Podkopayeva
  131. Johnny Podres
  132. Mary Lou Retton
  133. Jerry Rice
  134. Maurice Richard
  135. Cal Ripken, Jr.
  136. Oscar Robertson
  137. David Robinson
  138. Jackie Robinson
  139. Sugar Ray Robinson
  140. Irina Rodnina
  141. Pete Rose
  142. Pete Rozelle
  143. Wilma Rudolph
  144. Bill Russell
  145. Babe Ruth
  146. Nolan Ryan
  147. Jim Ryun
  148. Pete Sampras
  149. Tom Seaver
  150. Patty Sheehan
  151. Curt Schilling
  152. Willie Shoemaker
  153. Don Shula
  154. O.J. Simpson
  155. Dean Smith
  156. Sam Snead
  157. Sammy Sosa
  158. Warren Spahn
  159. Rory Sparrow
  160. Mark Spitz
  161. Willie Stargell
  162. Roger Staubach
  163. Jackie Stewart
  164. Lawrence Taylor
  165. Sachin Tendulkar
  166. Jim Thorpe
  167. Bill Tilden
  168. Ludmilla Tourischeva
  169. Lee Trevino
  170. Johnny Unitas
  171. Ken Venturi
  172. Dwyane Wade
  173. Honus Wagner
  174. Clyde Walcott
  175. Seth Wescott
  176. Jerry West
  177. Doug Williams
  178. Reggie Williams
  179. Ted Williams
  180. John Wooden
  181. Tiger Woods
  182. Kristi Yamaguchi
  183. Carl Yastrzemski
  184. Cy Young
  185. Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  186. Elena Zamolodchikova
  187. Emil Zatopek

[edit] Mythical and legendary people 29

  1. Achilles
  2. Aeneas
  3. Agamemnon
  4. Andromeda
  5. Argonauts
  6. Beowulf
  7. Cassiopeia
  8. Castor and Pollux
  9. Cyclops
  10. Cerberus
  11. Grendel
  12. Hades
  13. Hansel and Gretel
  14. Hercules
  15. Jason
  16. Echo and Narcissus
  17. Electra
  18. Europa
  19. Ganymede
  20. Medea
  21. Medusa
  22. Odysseus
  23. Oedipus
  24. Orion
  25. Paul Bunyan
  26. Perseus
  27. Peter Pan
  28. Sphinx
  29. Sirens

[edit] Fictional/cartoon characters, 19

  1. Asterix
  2. Batman
  3. Big Bird
  4. Bugs Bunny
  5. Donald Duck
  6. Godzilla
  7. Kermit the Frog
  8. Mario
  9. Mickey Mouse
  10. Rugrats
  11. Homer Simpson
  12. Snow White
  13. Sonic the Hedgehog
  14. Spider-Man
  15. Superman
  16. Tintin
  17. Winnie-the-Pooh
  18. Wonder Woman
  19. Woody Woodpecker
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