Notable people of the 20th century

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Contents

1 Significant people
2 Miscellaneous

[edit] Significant people

[edit] World leaders

Africa
Americas
- Juan Perón, Argentina
- Eva Perón, Argentina
- Victor Paz Estenssoro Bolivia
- Getúlio Vargas, Brazil
- Luis Carlos Prestes, Brazil
- Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazil
- Wilfrid Laurier, Canada
- William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada
- Robert Borden, Canada
- Pierre Trudeau, Canada
- Salvador Allende, Chile
- Augusto Pinochet, Chile
- Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, Colombia
- Alfonso López Pumarejo, Colombia
- Fidel Castro, Cuba
- Linden Forbes Burnham, Guyana
- Cheddi Jagan, Guyana (formerly British Guyana)
- Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Argentina/Cuba
- Emiliano Zápata, Mexico
- Pancho Villa, Mexico
- Lázaro Cárdenas del Río, Mexico
- Emilio Alvarez Montalván, Nicaragua
- Augusto César Sandino, Nicaragua
- Manuel Noriega, Panama
- Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peru
- Alberto Kenyo Fujimori, Peru
- Theodore Roosevelt, USA
- Woodrow Wilson,USA
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, USA
- Harry S. Truman, USA
- Dwight Eisenhower, USA
- John F. Kennedy, USA
- Lyndon B. Johnson, USA
- Richard Nixon, USA
- Ronald Reagan, USA
- George H. W. Bush, USA
- Bill Clinton, USA
- José Batlle y Ordóñez, Uruguay
- Juan Vicente Gómez, Venezuela
- Marcos Pérez Jiménez, Venezuela
- Romulo Betancourt, Venezuela
- Hugo Chávez, Venezuela
Asia

Australia and Oceania
Europe
- Levon Ter-Petrossian, Armenia
- Franz Joseph of Austria, Austria-Hungary
- Václav Havel, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic
- Franjo Tuđman, Croatia
- Archbishop Makarios III, Cyprus
- Thorvald Stauning, Denmark
- Lennart Meri, Estonia
- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finland
- Urho Kekkonen, Finland
- Georges Clemenceau, France
- Philippe Pétain, France
- Charles de Gaulle, France
- François Mitterrand, France
- Jacques Chirac, France
- Kaiser Wilhelm II, Germany
- Friedrich Ebert, Germany
- Adolf Hitler, Germany
- Konrad Adenauer, West Germany
- Walter Ulbricht, East Germany
- Erich Honecker, East Germany
- Willy Brandt, West Germany
- Helmut Kohl, Germany
- Gerhard Schröder, Germany
- Eleftherios Venizelos, Greece
- Ioannis Metaxas, Greece
- Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greece
- Andreas Papandreou, Greece
- Miklós Horthy, Hungary
- Imre Nagy, Hungary
- Benito Mussolini, Italy
- Aldo Moro, Italy
- Eamon de Valera, Ireland
- Einar Gerhardsen, Norway
- Józef Piłsudski, Poland
- Lech Wałęsa, Poland
- António de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal
- Mário Soares, Portugal
- Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romania
- Milan Kučan, Slovenia
- Francisco Franco, Spain
- Felipe González, Spain
- Adolfo Suárez, Spain
- Olof Palme, Sweden
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkey
- Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, United Kingdom
- The Duke of Winsor, United Kingdom
- George VI of the United Kingdom
- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
- David Lloyd George, United Kingdom
- Neville Chamberlain, United Kingdom
- Winston Churchill, United Kingdom
- Clement Atlee, United Kingdom
- Harold Wilson, United Kingdom
- Edward Heath, United Kingdom, Europe
- Margaret Thatcher, United Kingdom
- John Major, United Kingdom
- Tony Blair, United Kingdom
- Josip Broz Tito,Yugoslavia
- Slobodan Milošević, Yugoslavia
Russia and Soviet Union
Middle East
- Reza Shah Pahlavi, Iran
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran
- Mohammad Mosaddeq, Iran
- Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran
- Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran
- Mohammad Khatami, Iran
- Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt or United Arab Republic
- Anwar Sadat, Egypt or United Arab Republic
- David Ben-Gurion, Israel
- Golda Meir, Israel
- Menachem Begin, Israel
- Yitzhak Rabin, Israel
- Hafez el Assad, Syria
- Saddam Hussein, Iraq
- King Hussein, Jordan
- Yassar Arafat, Palestine

[edit] Activists and Revolutionaries

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Gerry Adams
Emilio Aguinaldo
Benigno Aquino
Steve Biko
Guy Debord
W.E.B. Du Bois
Buenaventura Durruti
Gadaffi
Emma Goldman
Aung San Suu Kyi
Mohandas Gandhi
Che Guevara
Alexandra Kollontai
Doreen Lawrence mother of Stephen Lawrence
Lenin
Martin Luther King Jr.
Patrice Lumumba
Rosa Luxemburg
Nestor Makhno
Errico Malatesta
Nelson Mandella
Melita Norwood
Rosa Parks
Andrei Sakharov
Thomas Sankara
Victor Serge
Malcolm X
Michael X
Clara Zetkin

[edit] Scientists

Biology and Anthropology

Chemistry

Computer Science

Mathematics

Medicine and Pharmacy

Physics and Astronomy

Psychology and Psychoanalysis

[edit] Humanities

- Erving Goffman

[edit] Business

[edit] Automotive pioneers

[edit] Aerospace pioneers

[edit] Spiritual figures

Sayyid Abul A'la Maududi
The 13th Dalai Lama of Tibet, Thubten Gyatso
The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, Tenzin Gyatso
The Rev. Billy Graham
Mahatma Gandhi
Aurobindo Ghosh
G. I. Gurdjieff
L. Ron Hubbard
Ayatollah Khomeini
Ayatollah Khamenei
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Ramana Maharshi
Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Rasputin
Sathya Sai Baba
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Jaime Cardinal Sin
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Desmond Tutu
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda

[edit] Artists

[edit] Music

Main article: 20th century music

Composers: Georges Auric, Béla Bartók, Alban Berg, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Carlos Chavez, Aaron Copland, Luigi Dallapiccola, Claude Debussy, Louis Durey, Manuel de Falla, George Gershwin, Alberto Ginastera, Philip Glass, Manos Hadjidakis, Gustav Holst, Bradley Joseph, Aram Khachaturian, György Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, Darius Milhaud, Luigi Nono, Francis Poulenc, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Steve Reich, Joaquin Rodrigo, Erik Satie, Arnold Schönberg, Dmitri Shostakovich, Jean Sibelius, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Mikis Theodorakis, Germaine Tailleferre, Edgard Varèse, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Anton Webern, Iannis Xenakis, La Monte Young, Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Williams, Yanni
Jazz: Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Scott Joplin, Charlie Parker, Oscar Peterson, Sonny Rollins, Archie Shepp, Sarah Vaughan
Blues: John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson
Pop Groups: ABBA, Aerosmith, Beastie Boys, Black Sabbath, Bon Jovi, Boøwy, B'z, Cheap Trick, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Guns N' Roses, Jefferson Airplane, Jethro Tull, Journey, Kraftwerk, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Minor Threat, Motörhead, Nirvana, Outkast, Pink Floyd, Queen, Radiohead, Right Said Fred, Rollins Band, Roxy Music, Rush, Sonic Youth, T. Rex, The Animals, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Bee Gees, The Clash, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, The Ramones, The Rolling Stones, Run-D.M.C., The Sex Pistols, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Velvet Underground, The Who, U2, X Japan
Individual Pop Stars: Bryan Adams, King Sunny Ade, Chuck Berry, Björk, Michael Bolton, David Bowie, James Brown, Captain Beefheart, Mariah Carey, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Cher, George Clinton, Dalida, Kurt Cobain, Eric Clapton, Gary Davis, John Denver, Céline Dion, Joe Dolan, Jason Donovan, Jacques Dutronc, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Serge Gainsbourg, Jerry Garcia, Marvin Gaye, Amy Grant, Francoise Hardy, George Harrison, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Tom Jones, Janis Joplin, Lemmy Kilmister, Kino, Fela Kuti, John Lennon, Sir Paul McCartney, Madonna, Bob Marley, Joni Mitchell, Stephen Patrick Morrissey, Gianna Nannini, Mica Paris, Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard, Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Frank Sinatra, Tupac Shakur, Ringo Starr, Van Morrison, Caetano Veloso, Tom Waits, Christopher Wallace, Neil Young, Frank Zappa
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Carlos Gardel
Umm Kulthum
Yo-Yo Ma
Édith Piaf
Ástor Piazzolla
Michel Polnareff
Ravi Shankar
Phil Spector

[edit] Television

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Further information: Television Hall of Fame

[edit] Theatre

Antonin Artaud, Augusto Boal, Bertolt Brecht, Peter Brook, Edward Gordon Craig, Jerzy Grotowski, Ariane Mnouchkine, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Max Reinhardt, Tim Rice, Konstantin Stanislavski, Peter Stein, Lee Strasberg, Giorgio Strehler, Jean Vilar, Andrew Lloyd Webber

[edit] Dance

George Balanchine, Pina Bausch, Merce Cunningham, Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Gypsy Rose Lee, Felicity Colby, Gret Palucca, Mary Wigman

[edit] Film

[edit] Writers and poets

Main article: Literature of the 20th century

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

Muhammad Iqbal

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

W. B. Yeats

Z

Louis Zukofsky

[edit] Sports figures

American Football: George Halas; Jim Brown; Joe Montana; Red Grange; Vince Lombardi; Reggie White; Joe Namath; Walter Payton; Lawrence Taylor; Steve Young; Dick Butkus; Mike Ditka; Bill Walsh; Bill Belichick; Troy Aikman; John Elway; Dan Marino; Emmitt Smith; Jerry Rice; Terry Bradshaw; Barry Sanders; Jason Witten; Tony Romo; Vince Young

Athletics: Al Oerter; Christina Boxer; Zola Budd; Steve Cram; Betty Cuthbert; Bob Beamon; Emil Zátopek; Fanny Blankers-Koen; Jim Thorpe; Paavo Nurmi; Hicham El Guerrouj; Steve Ovett; Seb Coe; Jesse Owens; Carl Lewis; Michael Johnson; John Walker; Peter Snell; Fatima Whitbread; Tessa Sanderson; Steve Backley

Baseball: Hank Aaron; Barry Bonds; Roger Clemens; Roberto Clemente; Joe DiMaggio; Lou Gerhig; Josh Gibson; Luke Hochevar; Derek Jeter; Sadaharu Oh; Satchel Paige; Albert Pujols; Babe Ruth; Jackie Robinson; Ted Williams

Basketball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; Elgin Baylor; Larry Bird; Wilt Chamberlain; Bob Cousy; Tim Duncan; Julius Erving; Magic Johnson; Michael Jordan; Pete Maravich; Oscar Robertson; Bill Russell; Jerry West

Bodybuilding: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Boxing: Jack Dempsey; Joe Louis; Muhammad Ali; Larry Holmes; Rocky Marciano; Mike Tyson

Cricket: Brian Lara; Sachin Tendulkar; Sir Don Bradman; Douglas Jardine; Sir Gary Sobers; George Headley; Herbert Sutcliffe; Sir Jack Hobbs; Len Hutton; Malcolm Marshall; Ray Lindwall; Richard Hadlee; Ian Botham; Shane Warne; Steve Waugh; Sunil Gavaskar; Victor Trumper; Sir Vivian Richards; Wasim Akram; Wilfred Rhodes; Chris Cairns; Fred Trueman

Cycling: Eddy Merckx; Fausto Coppi; Lance Armstrong

Equestrian: Mark Todd

Football (soccer): Gunnar Nordahl; Ronaldo; Gunnar Gren; Nils Liedholm; Michel Platini; Alfredo Di Stéfano; Giuseppe Meazza; Bill Shankly; Bobby Charlton; Bobby Moore; Denis Law; Diego Maradona; Hristo Stoichkov; Eusébio; Ferenc Puskás; Franz Beckenbauer; Gordon Banks; George Best; Sir Ian Wright; Johann Cruyff; Kenny Dalglish; Lev Yashin; Pelé; Obdulio Varela; Ryan Giggs; Sir Stanley Matthews; David Beckham; Zinedine Zidane

Golf: Bobby Jones; Walter Hagen; Arnold Palmer; Gary Player; Jack Nicklaus; Severiano Ballesteros; Tiger Woods

Horse Racing: Lester Piggott; A. P. McCoy

Ice Hockey: Wayne Gretzky; Bobby Orr; Gordie Howe; Mario Lemieux; Maurice Richard; Mark Messier; Peter Forsberg; Steve Yzerman; Sergei Fedorov; Teemu Selänne; Phil Esposito; Patrick Roy; Marcel Dionne; Raymond Bourque; Joe Sakic; Jaromir Jagr; Saku Koivu

Martial Arts: Bruce Lee

Motor Sport: Ayrton Senna; Jim Clark (racing driver); Juan Manuel Fangio; Michael Schumacher

Mountaineering: Sir Edmund Hillary; Tenzing Norgay

Rugby Football: Colin Meads; Gareth Edwards; Wally Lewis

Skiing: Jean-Claude Killy; Franz Klammer; Ingemar Stenmark

Squash: Jahangir Khan; Jansher Khan

Swimming: Sharon Davies; Dawn Fraser; Mark Spitz; Martin Strel; Esther Williams

Tennis: Martina Navrátilová; Arthur Ashe; Rod Laver; Fred Perry; Pete Sampras; Andre Agassi; Bill Tilden; Bobby Riggs; Steffi Graf; John McEnroe; Björn Borg; Boris Becker; Jimmy Connors; Venus Williams; Serena Williams

[edit] Miscellaneous

Anna Anderson

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