[edit] Arts and entertainment, 58
[edit] Athletes and related, 7
- B Muhammad Ali
- Michael Jordan
- Bruce Lee
- Sta Pelé
- B Jackie Robinson
- Babe Ruth
- B Jesse Owens
[edit] Artists and architects, 11
- Giotto di Bondone
- Vincent van Gogh
- Michelangelo
- Claude Monet
- Pablo Picasso
- Raphael
- Rembrandt
- Auguste Rodin
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Andy Warhol
- Frank Lloyd Wright
[edit] Music, 6
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- The Beatles
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- B Elvis Presley
- Giuseppe Verdi
[edit] Performing arts misc., 5
- Charlie Chaplin
- Walt Disney
- B Alfred Hitchcock
- B Akira Kurosawa
- Sta Mikhail Baryshnikov
[edit] Writers, 29
- Non-Western, 0
[edit] Ancient world, 3
- Aeschylus
- B Homer
- B Virgil
[edit] English language, 14
- Jane Austen
- Lord Byron
- Charles Dickens
- B T.S. Eliot
- A Ernest Hemingway
- James Joyce
- John Milton
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Ezra Pound
- William Shakespeare
- Walter Scott
- Mark Twain
- Walt Whitman
- William Butler Yeats
[edit] Continental European languages, 12
- B Dante Alighieri
- Jorge Luis Borges
- B Miguel de Cervantes
- B Fyodor Dostoevsky
- B Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Brothers Grimm
- Victor Hugo
- Henrik Ibsen
- B Franz Kafka
- Marcel Proust
- Leo Tolstoy
- Voltaire
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[edit] Leaders and public figures, 70
[edit] Politicians and leaders, 51
[edit] Americas, 7
- B Simón Bolívar
- B Hernando Cortes
- B Benjamin Franklin
- Thomas Jefferson
- A Abraham Lincoln
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- George Washington
[edit] Asia and Africa, 17
- Africa, 4
- B Cleopatra VII of Egypt
- B Hannibal
- B Nelson Mandela
- B Shaka
- Asia, to 1000 AD, 4
- A Cyrus the Great, 500s, Persia
- Sta Hammurabi, 1700s BC, Babylon
- B Qin Shi Huang, 200s BC, China
- Emperor Taizong of Tang, 600s, China
- Asia, 1000 to 1899 AD, 5
- B Akbar, 1500s, Central Asia, Mughal Empire
- B Genghis Khan, 1200s, Mongol Empire, SE Asia
- B Saladin, 1100s, Egypt
- Suleiman the Magnificent, 1500s. Ottoman Empire
- B Timur, 1300s, Central Asia
- Asia, 20th century, 4
- B Indira Gandhi, 1900s, India
- Hirohito, 1900s, Japan
- B Ho Chi Minh, 1900s, Vietnam
- B Mao Zedong, 1900s, China
[edit] Europe, 30
- Ancient world to 500 AD, 5
- B Alexander the Great
- B Attila the Hun
- B Augustus
- Constantine the Great
- Julius Caesar
- 500 AD to 1600 AD, 6
- Charlemagne
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
- Heraclius
- Ivan IV of Russia
- Philip II of Spain
- British Isles, 6
- Winston Churchill
- Edmund Burke
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Henry II of England
- Henry VIII of England
- B William I of England (William the Conqueror)
- France, 3
- Joan of Arc
- Louis XIV of France (the Sun King)
- B Napoleon I of France
- Germany, 3
- B Otto von Bismarck
- B Frederick the Great
- B Adolf Hitler
- Russia, 5
- Catherine the Great
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- B Vladimir Lenin
- B Peter I of Russia
- B Joseph Stalin
- Elsewhere, 1
- B Benito Mussolini
[edit] Religious figures, 10
- B Augustine of Hippo
- B Gautama Buddha
- John Calvin
- Columba
- Francis of Assisi
- Jesus
- B Martin Luther
- B Muhammad
- Paul of Tarsus
- Zoroaster
[edit] Revolutionaries and activists, 7
- Frederick Douglass
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Che Guevara
- B Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Margaret Sanger
- B Mother Teresa
- Mary Wollstonecraft
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[edit] Thinkers and explorers, 68
[edit] Explorers, 5
- Neil Armstrong
- B Christopher Columbus
- Ferdinand Magellan
- B Marco Polo
- B Zheng He
[edit] Inventors and scientists, 32
[edit] Biologists and doctors, 6
- Sta Hippocrates
- Charles Darwin
- Carolus Linnaeus
- Joseph Lister
- Gregor Mendel
- B Louis Pasteur
[edit] Inventors, 9
- Charles Babbage
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Louis Daguerre
- Thomas Edison
- B Johann Gutenberg
- Henry Ford
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Ts'ai Lun
- B Wright brothers
[edit] Physical scientists, 17
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Albert Einstein
- Michael Faraday
- Galileo Galilei
- Stephen Hawking
- Johannes Kepler
- Antoine Lavoisier
- James Clerk Maxwell
- Isaac Newton
- Alfred Nobel
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- A Linus Pauling
- Max Planck
- Ptolemy
- Ernest Rutherford
- Nikola Tesla
- James Watt
[edit] Mathematicians, 9
- B Archimedes
- B Euclid
- Leonard Euler
- Pierre de Fermat
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- B Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
- B Gottfried Leibniz
- Blaise Pascal
- B Pythagoras
[edit] Philosophers, 18
[edit] Ancient China, 3
- B Confucius
- B Laozi
- Sta Sun Tzu
[edit] Ancient Greece, 3
- Aristotle
- A Plato
- B Socrates
[edit] Middle Ages and modern, 12
- B Thomas Aquinas
- Francis Bacon
- B René Descartes
- Thomas Hobbes
- David Hume
- B Immanuel Kant
- Søren Kierkegaard
- John Locke
- B Niccolò Machiavelli
- B Friedrich Nietzsche
- B Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Henry Thoreau
[edit] Social scientists, 9
- Sigmund Freud
- Sta Edward Gibbon
- B Herodotus
- John Maynard Keynes
- B Karl Marx
- Thomas Malthus
- B Adam Smith
- Thucydides
- Max Weber
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