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People, 2000

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Entertainers, 112

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Actors and Actresses, 77

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Performing artists, 35

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Visual artists, 112

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Western painters and illustrators, 79

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Ancient era
Europe
  1. Phidias
  2. Vitruvius
Medieval era
Europe
  1. Hieronymus Bosch
  2. Jan van Eyck
  3. Giotto
  4. Andrei Rublev
Renaissance to early modern era
  1. El Greco
France
  1. Jacques-Louis David
  2. Eugène Delacroix
  3. François Mansart
  4. Nicolas Poussin
Germany
  1. Albrecht Dürer
  2. Caspar David Friedrich
  3. Hans Holbein the Younger
  4. Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Italy
  1. Borromini
  2. Caravaggio
  3. Bernini
  4. Giovanni Bellini
  5. Sandro Botticelli
  6. Bramante
  7. Canaletto
  8. Piero della Francesca
  9. Andrea Mantegna
  10. Masaccio
  11. Michelangelo
  12. Palladio
  13. Raphael
  14. Andrea del Sarto
  15. Tintoretto
  16. Titian
  17. Paolo Veronese
  18. Leonardo da Vinci
Netherlands
  1. Anthony van Dyck
  2. Peter Paul Rubens
  3. Rembrandt
  4. Johannes Vermeer
Spain
  1. Jusepe de Ribera
  2. Diego Velázquez
Modern era (painters)
  1. Marc Chagall
  2. Marcel Duchamp
  3. René Magritte
Americas
Mexico
  1. Frida Kahlo
United States
  1. Mary Cassatt
  2. Georgia O'Keeffe
  3. Jackson Pollock
  4. Mark Rothko
  5. Andy Warhol
  6. Grant Wood
Europe
  1. Paul Klee
  2. Gustav Klimt
  3. Edvard Munch
  4. Victor Vasarely
France
  1. Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
  2. Marie-Antoine Carême
  3. Paul Cézanne
  4. Edgar Degas
  5. Paul Gauguin
  6. Édouard Manet
  7. Henri Matisse
  8. Claude Monet
  9. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  10. Henri Rousseau
  11. Toulouse-Lautrec
  12. Georges Seurat
Great Britain
  1. Francis Bacon (artist)
  2. William Hogarth
  3. J. M. W. Turner
Netherlands
  1. M. C. Escher
  2. Vincent van Gogh
  3. Piet Mondrian
Russia
  1. Wassily Kandinsky
  2. Kazimir Malevich
  3. Ilya Repin
  4. Nicholas Roerich
Spain
  1. Salvador Dalí
  2. Francisco Goya
  3. Joan Miró
  4. Pablo Picasso

Sculptors, 2

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  1. Auguste Rodin
  2. Donatello

Architects, 26

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Africa
Egypt
  1. Imhotep
Americas
Brazil
  1. Oscar Niemeyer
United States
  1. Walter Burley Griffin
  2. William Le Baron Jenney
  3. Frank Gehry
  4. Frank Lloyd Wright
  5. Richard Meier
  6. Louis Sullivan
Asia
  1. I. M. Pei
  2. Mimar Sinan
  3. Kenzo Tange
Europe
  1. Alvar Aalto
  2. Le Corbusier
  3. Gaudí
  4. Victor Horta
  5. Inigo Jones
  6. Richard Neutra
  7. Renzo Piano
  8. Christopher Wren
Germany
  1. Günter Behnisch
  2. Peter Behrens
  3. Walter Gropius
  4. Erich Mendelsohn
  5. Frei Otto
  6. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  7. Hans Scharoun

Non-Western traditions, 5

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China
  1. Shitao
India
  1. Raja Ravi Varma
Japan
  1. Hiroshige
  2. Hokusai
  3. Sesshū Tōyō

Writers, 246

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  1. Abu Nuwas
  2. Adam Mickiewicz
  3. Alexander Pushkin
  4. Alejo Carpentier
  5. Alexandre Dumas
  6. Alice Walker
  7. Allen Ginsberg
  8. Amir Khusrow
  9. Anton Chekhov
  10. Arthur Rimbaud
  11. Brothers Grimm
  12. Carl Sandburg
  13. Charles Dickens
  14. Cicero
  15. Dashiell Hammett
  16. Douglas Adams
  17. Du Fu
  18. Edgar Allan Poe
  19. Eino Leino
  20. Emily Dickinson
  21. Erich Maria Remarque
  22. Ernest Hemingway
  23. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  24. Franz Kafka
  25. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  26. John Donne
  27. Gabriel García Márquez
  28. Geoffrey Chaucer
  29. George Bernard Shaw
  30. George Orwell
  31. Ghalib
  32. H. G. Wells
  33. Hans Christian Andersen
  34. Harold Pinter
  35. Heinrich Heine
  36. Henrik Ibsen
  37. Henry James
  38. Henry Miller
  39. Hermann Hesse
  40. Hildegard of Bingen
  41. Ilf and Petrov
  42. Isaac Asimov
  43. Ivan Vazov
  44. J. R. R. Tolkien
  45. Jack Kerouac
  46. Jack London
  47. Rumi
  48. James Joyce
  49. Jane Austen
  50. Jerome K. Jerome
  51. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  52. John Steinbeck
  53. John Updike
  54. Jonathan Swift
  55. Jorge Luis Borges
  56. José Martí
  57. José Saramago
  58. Jules Verne
  59. Kālidāsa
  60. Langston Hughes
  61. Leo Tolstoy
  62. Lewis Carroll
  63. Li Bai
  64. Lord Byron
  65. Marcel Proust
  66. Mark Twain
  67. Mario Vargas Llosa
  68. Matsuo Bashō
  69. Maxim Gorky
  70. Miguel de Cervantes
  71. Mikhail Bulgakov
  72. Molière
  73. Murasaki Shikibu
  74. Naguib Mahfouz
  75. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  76. Nikolai Gogol
  77. Nikos Kazantzakis
  78. Olaf Stapledon
  79. Omar Khayyám
  80. Pablo Neruda
  81. Petrarch
  82. Philip K. Dick
  83. Rabindranath Tagore
  84. Rainer Maria Rilke
  85. Gabriele D’Annunzio
  86. Brontë family
  87. Robert A. Heinlein
  88. Saadi Shirazi
  89. Salman Rushdie
  90. Sappho
  91. Saul Bellow
  92. Thomas Hardy
  93. Thomas Mann
  94. Thomas Pynchon
  95. Toni Morrison
  96. Truman Capote
  97. Umberto Eco
  98. Victor Hugo
  99. Yasunari Kawabata
  100. Yukio Mishima

Ancient, 13

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  1. Qu Yuan
  2. Aesop
  3. Menander
  4. Aeschylus
  5. Aristophanes
  6. Euripides
  7. Hafez
  8. Homer
  9. Horace
  10. Ovid
  11. Plutarch
  12. Sophocles
  13. Virgil
  14. Pliny the Elder

Middle Ages, 10

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  1. Dante Alighieri
  2. Ferdowsi
  3. Jami
  4. Kabir
  5. Nizami Ganjavi
  6. Rudaki
  7. Giovanni Boccaccio
  8. Ali-Shir Nava'i
  9. William Shakespeare
  10. Chrétien de Troyes
  11. Christine de Pizan
  12. François Villon

Renaissance, 14

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  1. Fuzûlî
  2. Tulsidas
  3. Pedro Calderón de la Barca
  4. Luís de Camões
  5. Pierre Corneille
  6. Daniel Defoe
  7. Gavrila Derzhavin
  8. John Dryden
  9. Samuel Johnson
  10. John Milton
  11. Michel de Montaigne
  12. François Rabelais
  13. Jean Racine
  14. Lope de Vega

Modern, 84

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  1. Chinua Achebe
  2. Samuel Beckett
  3. William Blake
  4. Bertolt Brecht
  5. Ray Bradbury
  6. Raymond Chandler
  7. Agatha Christie
  8. Arthur C. Clarke
  9. Arthur Conan Doyle
  10. Roald Dahl
  11. Robert Frost
  12. Aldous Huxley
  13. Rudyard Kipling
  14. Astrid Lindgren
  15. Guy de Maupassant
  16. Arthur Miller
  17. Vladimir Nabokov
  18. J. K. Rowling
  19. Mary Shelley
  20. Wole Soyinka
  21. Robert Louis Stevenson
  22. Walt Whitman
  23. Oscar Wilde
  24. Mary Wollstonecraft
  25. Virginia Woolf
  26. W. B. Yeats
  27. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  28. J. M. Coetzee
  29. Nadine Gordimer
  30. Margaret Atwood
  31. Pearl S. Buck
  32. Washington Irving
  33. Jaroslav Hašek
  34. T. S. Eliot
  35. Mihai Eminescu
  36. William Faulkner
  37. Ken Kesey
  38. Guillaume Apollinaire
  39. Constantine P. Cavafy
  40. Stendhal
  41. William Golding
  42. Stephen King
  43. Ursula K. Le Guin
  44. Sinclair Lewis
  45. Herman Melville
  46. Margaret Mitchell
  47. Mario Puzo
  48. Ezra Pound
  49. J. D. Salinger
  50. Isaac Bashevis Singer
  51. Harriet Beecher Stowe
  52. Kurt Vonnegut
  53. William Carlos Williams
  54. Jorge Amado
  55. Chinghiz Aitmatov
  56. Muhammad Iqbal
  57. Haruki Murakami
  58. Kenzaburō Ōe
  59. Orhan Pamuk
  60. Lu Xun
  61. Kahlil Gibran
  62. France Prešeren
  63. Ismail Kadare
  64. Joseph Conrad
  65. Sándor Petőfi
  66. Henryk Sienkiewicz
  67. Taras Shevchenko
  68. Anna Akhmatova
  69. Joseph Brodsky
  70. Ivan Bunin
  71. Nikolay Karamzin
  72. Mikhail Lermontov
  73. Vladimir Mayakovsky
  74. Nikolay Nekrasov
  75. Boris Pasternak
  76. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  77. Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
  78. Ivan Turgenev
  79. Honoré de Balzac
  80. Charles Baudelaire
  81. Karen Blixen
  82. Gustave Flaubert
  83. Anne Frank
  84. Federico García Lorca
  85. André Gide
  86. Knut Hamsun
  87. Eugène Ionesco
  88. Selma Lagerlöf
  89. Luigi Pirandello
  90. Friedrich Schiller
  91. August Strindberg
  92. Tristan Tzara
  93. Émile Zola
  94. Kingsley Amis
  95. W. H. Auden
  96. Enid Blyton
  97. Anthony Burgess
  98. Robert Graves
  99. John Keats
  100. C. S. Lewis
  101. Alan Moore
  102. Walter Scott
  103. John Millington Synge
  104. William Wordsworth
  105. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  106. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Musicians and composers, 149

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Western art music

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Composers
  1. Gustav Holst
  2. Jon Lord
  3. Alan Parsons
  4. Pancho Vladigerov
  5. Richard Strauss
Medieval and Renaissance
  1. Guillaume Dufay
  2. Giovanni da Palestrina
Baroque period (1600–1760)
  1. Johann Sebastian Bach
  2. George Frideric Handel
  3. Claudio Monteverdi
  4. Antonio Vivaldi
Classical period (1730–1820)
  1. Joseph Haydn
  2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Romantic period (1815–1910)
  1. Mily Balakirev
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Hector Berlioz
  4. Georges Bizet
  5. Alexander Borodin
  6. Johannes Brahms
  7. Anton Bruckner
  8. Frédéric Chopin
  9. César Cui
  10. Antonín Dvořák
  11. Edvard Grieg
  12. Franz Liszt
  13. Gustav Mahler
  14. Felix Mendelssohn
  15. Modest Mussorgsky
  16. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  17. Gioachino Rossini
  18. Franz Schubert
  19. Robert Schumann
  20. Bedřich Smetana
  21. Johann Strauss
  22. Gilbert and Sullivan
  23. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  24. Giuseppe Verdi
  25. Richard Wagner
20th century
  1. Harold Arlen
  2. Béla Bartók
  3. Claude Debussy
  4. Joe Hisaishi
  5. Sergei Prokofiev
  6. Giacomo Puccini
  7. Maurice Ravel
  8. Arnold Schoenberg
  9. Dmitri Shostakovich
  10. Jean Sibelius
  11. Igor Stravinsky
Performers
Conductors
  1. Leonard Bernstein
Singers
  1. Umm Kulthum
  2. Vladimir Vysotsky
Violinists/celist
  1. Yo-Yo Ma
  2. Niccolò Paganini
Non-Western art music
  1. Ravi Shankar
Folk and popular music
  1. ABBA
  2. Mariah Carey
  3. Cher
  4. David Coverdale
  5. Doris Day
  6. Bruce Dickinson
  7. Ronnie James Dio
  8. Celine Dion
  9. Michael Jackson
  10. Elton John
  11. Madonna
  12. Bob Marley
  13. Dean Martin
  14. Liza Minnelli
  15. Joni Mitchell
  16. Frank Sinatra
  17. Barbra Streisand
  18. Stevie Wonder
American folk and country
  1. Johnny Cash
  2. Bing Crosby
  3. Faith Hill
  4. George Jones
  5. Peter, Paul and Mary
  6. Reba McEntire
  7. Dolly Parton
  8. Hank Williams
Blues and soul
  1. Ray Charles
  2. Aretha Franklin
  3. B.B. King
Composers and songwriters
  1. Vangelis
Film music
  1. Jerry Goldsmith
  2. Henry Mancini
  3. Ennio Morricone
  4. Richard Rodgers
  5. Miklós Rózsa
  6. Max Steiner
  7. John Williams
Funk
  1. James Brown
Guitarists
  1. John Lee Hooker
  2. Stevie Ray Vaughan
Hip-hop and rap
  1. Eminem
  2. Dr. Dre
  3. Tupac Shakur
Jazz
  1. Louis Armstrong
  2. Miles Davis
  3. George Gershwin
  4. Antônio Carlos Jobim
  5. Glenn Miller
Musical comedy and lyricists
  1. Irving Berlin
  2. Jerome Kern
  3. Cole Porter
  4. Andrew Lloyd Webber
Non-English language singers
  1. Édith Piaf
  2. Lata Mangeshkar
  3. Alla Pugacheva
  4. Mohammed Rafi
  5. Zhou Xuan
Rock
  1. AC/DC
  2. John Barry
  3. The Beatles
    1. John Lennon
    2. Paul McCartney
  4. Chuck Berry
  5. David Bowie
  6. Eric Clapton
  7. Joe Cocker
  8. Phil Collins
  9. Alice Cooper
  10. Deep Purple
  11. The Doors
  12. Bob Dylan
  13. Peter Gabriel
  14. Simon & Garfunkel
  15. Jimi Hendrix
  16. Janis Joplin
  17. Metallica
  18. Gary Moore
  19. Nirvana
  20. Ozzy Osbourne
  21. Pink Floyd
    1. Roger Waters
  22. Elvis Presley
  23. Queen
    1. Freddie Mercury
  24. Linda Ronstadt
  25. Black Sabbath
  26. Bruce Springsteen
  27. The Rolling Stones
    1. Keith Richards
    2. Mick Jagger
  28. Tina Turner
  29. U2
  30. Frank Zappa
  31. Led Zeppelin

Criminals, 4

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  1. Billy the Kid
  2. Jack the Ripper
  3. Al Capone
  4. Pablo Escobar

Directors, producers & screenwriters, 78

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Businesspeople, 40

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Explorers, 30

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Philosophers, historians, political and social scientists, 202

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Philosophers, 97

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Ancient, 23
  1. Aristotle
  2. Augustine of Hippo
  3. Confucius
  4. Democritus
  5. Diogenes of Sinope
  6. Epicurus
  7. Gorgias
  8. Han Fei
  9. Heraclitus
  10. Laozi
  11. Li Si
  12. Mencius
  13. Parmenides
  14. Plato
  15. Plotinus
  16. Seneca the Younger
  17. Shang Yang
  18. Socrates
  19. Thales
  20. Xun Kuang
  21. Zeno of Citium
  22. Zeno of Elea
  23. Zhuang Zhou
Middle Ages, 13
  1. Peter Abelard
  2. Averroes
  3. Boethius
  4. Francis Bacon
  5. Giordano Bruno
  6. Hasdai Crescas
  7. Duns Scotus
  8. Maimonides
  9. Nicholas of Cusa
  10. Thomas Aquinas
  11. Wang Yangming
  12. William of Ockham
  13. Zhu Xi
Early modern, 26
  1. George Berkeley
  2. John Amos Comenius
  3. René Descartes
  4. Denis Diderot
  5. Friedrich Engels
  6. Desiderius Erasmus
  7. Hugo Grotius
  8. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  9. Thomas Hobbes
  10. David Hume
  11. William James
  12. Immanuel Kant
  13. Søren Kierkegaard
  14. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
  15. John Locke
  16. John Stuart Mill
  17. Montesquieu
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche
  19. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  20. Max Scheler
  21. Friedrich Schleiermacher
  22. Arthur Schopenhauer
  23. Herbert Spencer
  24. Baruch Spinoza
  25. Emanuel Swedenborg
  26. Voltaire
Modern, 38
  1. Theodor W. Adorno
  2. Raymond Aron
  3. Mikhail Bakunin
  4. Simone de Beauvoir
  5. Henri Bergson
  6. Isaiah Berlin
  7. Martin Buber
  8. Albert Camus
  9. Ernst Cassirer
  10. Benedetto Croce
  11. Gilles Deleuze
  12. Jacques Derrida
  13. John Dewey
  14. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  15. Ludwig Feuerbach
  16. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  17. Gottlob Frege
  18. Yan Fu
  19. Hans-Georg Gadamer
  20. Jürgen Habermas
  21. Martin Heidegger
  22. Edmund Husserl
  23. Thomas Kuhn
  24. Imre Lakatos
  25. Marshall McLuhan
  26. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  27. Maria Montessori
  28. Karl Popper
  29. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
  30. John Rawls
  31. Bertrand Russell
  32. Jean-Paul Sartre
  33. Henry David Thoreau
  34. Alexis de Tocqueville
  35. Miguel de Unamuno
  36. Alfred North Whitehead
  37. Ludwig Wittgenstein
  38. Kang Youwei

Historians, 21

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Economists, 14

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Linguists, 7

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Sociologists, 13

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Political writers, 9

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Psychologists, 31

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Anthropologists and cultural scientists, 2

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Art historians and critics, 4

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Religious figures, 130

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Abrahamic religions, 89

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Buddhism, 16

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Hinduism, 18

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Others, 7

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Politicians and leaders, 351

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Ancient, 48

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Middle Ages, 67

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Early modern period, 61

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Modern, 146

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Africa, 17
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Eastern Africa
  1. Haile Selassie I
  2. Idi Amin
  3. Julius Nyerere
Northern Africa
  1. Abdelkader El Djezairi
  2. Anwar Sadat
  3. Gamal Abdel Nasser
  4. Muammar Gaddafi
  5. Muhammad Ali of Egypt
Southern and Central Africa
  1. Cecil Rhodes
  2. Hastings Banda
  3. Mobutu Sese Seko
  4. Nelson Mandela
  5. Robert Mugabe
  6. Shaka
Western Africa
  1. Kofi Annan
  2. Kwame Nkrumah
  3. Léopold Sédar Senghor
Americas, 34
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Brazil
  1. Pedro I of Brazil
  2. Pedro II of Brazil
  3. Canada
  4. Pierre Trudeau
Central America and Caribbean
  1. Daniel Ortega
  2. Fidel Castro
Mexico
  1. Benito Juárez
  2. Porfirio Díaz
South America
  1. Alfredo Stroessner
  2. Augusto Pinochet
  3. Eva Perón
  4. Hugo Chávez
  5. José de San Martín
  6. Salvador Allende
  7. Simón Bolívar
United States
  1. George W. Bush
  2. Jimmy Carter
  3. Bill Clinton
  4. Dwight D. Eisenhower
  5. Andrew Jackson
  6. Lyndon B. Johnson
  7. John F. Kennedy
  8. Henry Kissinger
  9. Abraham Lincoln
  10. Douglas MacArthur
  11. James Monroe
  12. Richard Nixon
  13. Barack Obama
  14. James K. Polk
  15. Ronald Reagan
  16. Eleanor Roosevelt
  17. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  18. Theodore Roosevelt
  19. Harry S. Truman
  20. Woodrow Wilson

Asia, 36

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China
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  1. Empress Dowager Cixi
  2. Zhou Enlai
  3. Hu Jintao
  4. Chiang Kai-shek
  5. Puyi
  6. Deng Xiaoping
  7. Sun Yat-sen
  8. Mao Zedong
Eastern Asia
  1. Park Chung-hee
  2. Hirohito
  3. Kim Il-sung
  4. Emperor Meiji
  5. Eisaku Satō
Central Asia
  1. Heydar Aliyev
  2. Nursultan Nazarbayev
  3. Saparmurat Niyazov
  4. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
India
  1. Indira Gandhi
  2. Jawaharlal Nehru
  3. Vallabhbhai Patel
Southeastern Asia
  1. Corazon Aquino
  2. Ferdinand Marcos
  3. Ho Chi Minh
  4. Mahathir Mohamad
  5. Pol Pot
  6. Suharto
  7. Sukarno
  8. Lee Kuan Yew
Southern Asia
  1. Benazir Bhutto
  2. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Western Asia
  1. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  2. David Ben-Gurion
  3. Abdul Hamid II
  4. Saddam Hussein
  5. Mahmud II
  6. Golda Meir
Europe, 59
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Austria-Hungary
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
  1. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
  2. Franz Joseph I of Austria
  3. Klemens von Metternich
Eastern Europe
  1. Alexander Dubček
  2. Enver Hoxha
  3. Leonid Kuchma
  4. Josip Broz Tito
  5. Józef Piłsudski
  6. Lech Wałęsa
  7. Nicolae Ceaușescu
  8. Slobodan Milošević
  9. Václav Havel
France
  1. Charles de Gaulle
  2. François Mitterrand
  3. Louis Philippe I
  4. Napoleon
  5. Napoleon III
Germany
  1. Adolf Hitler
  2. Erich Honecker
  3. Willy Brandt
  4. Helmut Kohl
  5. Konrad Adenauer
  6. Otto von Bismarck
  7. Joseph Goebbels
  8. Wilhelm II, German Emperor
  9. William I, German Emperor
Italia and Papal States
  1. Pope John Paul II
Russia and USSR
  1. Alexander II of Russia
  2. Boris Yeltsin
  3. Eduard Shevardnadze
  4. Joseph Stalin
  5. Leonid Brezhnev
  6. Mikhail Gorbachev
  7. Nicholas I of Russia
  8. Nicholas II of Russia
  9. Nikita Khrushchev
United Kingdom
  1. Benjamin Disraeli
  2. Clement Attlee
  3. Diana, Princess of Wales
  4. Elizabeth II
  5. Margaret Thatcher
  6. Queen Victoria
  7. William Ewart Gladstone
  8. Winston Churchill
  9. Robert Baden-Powell
Western Europe
  1. António de Oliveira Salazar
  2. Benito Mussolini
  3. Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
  4. Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
  5. Charles XIV John of Sweden
  6. Dag Hammarskjöld
  7. Francisco Franco
  8. Gro Harlem Brundtland
  9. Juan Carlos I of Spain
  10. Leopold II of Belgium
  11. Christian Michelsen
  12. Giuseppe Garibaldi
  13. Alcide De Gasperi

Current political leaders, 13

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Many Wikipedias have provisions for including current heads of government in their expanded vital article list. This list suggests the heads of the G7 countries, plus Brazil, China, India, Russia, the current U.N. Secretary General and the current Pope

  1. António Guterres (U.N.)
  2. Pope Francis (Pope)
  3. Michel Temer (Brazil)
  4. Justin Trudeau (Canada)
  5. Xi Jinping (China)
  6. François Hollande (France)
  7. Angela Merkel (Germany)
  8. Narendra Modi (India)
  9. Paolo Gentiloni (Italy)
  10. Shinzō Abe (Japan)
  11. Vladimir Putin (Russia)
  12. Theresa May (U.K.)
  13. Donald Trump (U.S.)

Military leaders and military theorists, 16

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Rebels, revolutionaries and activists, 35

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Scientists, inventors and mathematicians, 283

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Pre-modern, 27
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Ancient
  1. Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī
  2. Archimedes
  3. Apollonius of Perga
  4. Archytas
  5. Aryabhata
  6. Diophantus
  7. Eratosthenes
  8. Euclid
  9. Eudoxus of Cnidus
  10. Hipparchus
  11. Hippocrates
  12. Hypatia
  13. Pappus of Alexandria
  14. Ptolemy
  15. Pythagoras
  16. Su Song
Middle Ages
  1. Alhacen
  2. Bhāskara II
  3. Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
  4. Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
  5. Avicenna
  6. Brahmagupta
  7. Fibonacci
  8. Jabir ibn Hayyan
  9. William Gilbert
  10. Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi
  11. Seki Takakazu
Physics and astronomy, 81
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Astronomy
  1. Tycho Brahe
  2. Nicolaus Copernicus
  3. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
  4. Galileo Galilei
  5. Edmond Halley
  6. William Herschel
  7. Edwin Hubble
  8. Johannes Kepler
  9. Ole Rømer
  10. Carl Sagan
Early modern
  1. Robert Hooke
  2. Christiaan Huygens
  3. Mikhail Lomonosov
  4. Isaac Newton
Modern
  1. André-Marie Ampère
  2. Amedeo Avogadro
  3. Johann Jakob Balmer
  4. William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
  5. Henri Becquerel
  6. Hans Bethe
  7. Niels Bohr
  8. Ludwig Boltzmann
  9. Max Born
  10. William Henry Bragg
  11. Henry Cavendish
  12. James Chadwick
  13. Steven Chu
  14. Marie Curie
  15. Pierre Curie
  16. John Dalton
  17. James Dewar
  18. Johannes Diderik van der Waals
  19. Paul Dirac
  20. Albert Einstein
  21. Michael Faraday
  22. Enrico Fermi
  23. Richard Feynman
  24. Léon Foucault
  25. Augustin-Jean Fresnel
  26. Stephen Hawking
  27. Werner Heisenberg
  28. James Prescott Joule
  29. Gustav Kirchhoff
  30. Lev Landau
  31. Ernest Lawrence
  32. Hendrik Lorentz
  33. Ernst Mach
  34. James Clerk Maxwell
  35. Lise Meitner
  36. Albert A. Michelson
  37. Robert Andrews Millikan
  38. Pieter van Musschenbroek
  39. Georg Ohm
  40. J. Robert Oppenheimer
  41. Wolfgang Pauli
  42. Max Planck
  43. C. V. Raman
  44. Wilhelm Röntgen
  45. Andrei Sakharov
  46. Erwin Schrödinger
  47. Arnold Sommerfeld
  48. G. I. Taylor
  49. Edward Teller
  50. J. J. Thomson
  51. Thomas Young (scientist)
  52. Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich
  53. Hans Christian Ørsted
  54. Murray Gell-Mann
  55. Wallace Carothers
  56. George FitzGerald
  57. Victor Francis Hess
  58. Gerard 't Hooft
  59. Alfred Kastler
  60. Philipp Lenard
  61. Osborne Reynolds
  62. Johannes Rydberg
  63. Michael Servetus
  64. Joseph Stefan
  65. John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
  66. Eugene Wigner
  67. Robert Wilson
Chemistry, 24
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  1. Svante Arrhenius
  2. Jöns Jacob Berzelius
  3. Humphry Davy
  4. Robert Boyle
  5. Peter Debye
  6. Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
  7. Josiah Willard Gibbs
  8. Otto Hahn
  9. Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
  10. Dorothy Hodgkin
  11. Antoine Lavoisier
  12. Justus von Liebig
  13. Dmitri Mendeleev
  14. Joseph Priestley
  15. Tadeus Reichstein
  16. Ernest Rutherford
  17. Frederick Soddy
  18. Linus Pauling
  19. Gilbert N. Lewis
  20. Fritz Haber
  21. Frederick Sanger
  22. Vladimir Vernadsky
  23. Robert Burns Woodward
  24. Carl Bosch
Natural sciences, 30
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Biology
  1. Norman Borlaug
  2. Santiago Ramón y Cajal
  3. Francis Crick
  4. Thomas Henry Huxley
  5. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
  6. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  7. Carl Linnaeus
  8. Konrad Lorenz
  9. Gregor Mendel
  10. Alfred Russel Wallace
  11. James Watson
Medicine
  1. Claude Bernard
  2. Casimir Funk
  3. William Harvey
  4. Robert Koch
  5. Paracelsus
  6. Louis Pasteur
  7. Jonas Salk
  8. Andreas Vesalius
Natural sciences
  1. John James Audubon
  2. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
  3. Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
  4. Rachel Carson
  5. Jacques Cousteau
  6. Charles Darwin
  7. Alexander Fleming
  8. Galen
  9. Ernst Haeckel
  10. Edward Jenner
  11. Richard Leakey
Inventors, 53
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  1. John Logie Baird
  2. John Bardeen
  3. Georg Bednorz
  4. Alexander Graham Bell
  5. Karl Benz
  6. Emile Berliner
  7. Gerd Binnig
  8. Wernher von Braun
  9. David Brewster
  10. Wright brothers
  11. Nolan Bushnell
  12. Josephine Cochrane
  13. Christopher Cockerell
  14. Louis Daguerre
  15. Raymond Vahan Damadian
  16. Rudolf Diesel
  17. George Eastman
  18. Thomas Edison
  19. Leo Fender
  20. Lee De Forest
  21. Benjamin Franklin
  22. Buckminster Fuller
  23. Robert Fulton
  24. Gordon Gould
  25. Wilson Greatbatch
  26. Johannes Gutenberg
  27. Elias Howe
  28. Joseph Marie Jacquard
  29. Robert Jarvik
  30. Philippe Kahn
  31. John George Kemeny
  32. Jack Kilby
  33. Stephanie Kwolek
  34. Jaron Lanier
  35. Ignacy Łukasiewicz
  36. Guglielmo Marconi
  37. Cyrus McCormick
  38. Robert Metcalfe
  39. Samuel Morse
  40. Alfred Nobel
  41. Robert Noyce
  42. Charles Algernon Parsons
  43. Roy J. Plunkett
  44. William Shockley
  45. Alan Shugart
  46. Isaac Singer
  47. Nikola Tesla
  48. Alessandro Volta
  49. Ernest Walton
  50. James Watt
  51. Wilhelm Eduard Weber
  52. Eli Whitney
  53. Charles Wilson
Mathematicians, 49
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Early modern
  1. Daniel Bernoulli
  2. Jacob Bernoulli
  3. Bonaventura Cavalieri
  4. Jean le Rond d'Alembert
  5. Leonhard Euler
  6. Pierre de Fermat
  7. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  8. Blaise Pascal
Modern
  1. Niels Henrik Abel
  2. Vladimir Arnold
  3. Stefan Banach
  4. Isaac Barrow
  5. George Boole
  6. Georg Cantor
  7. Élie Cartan
  8. Augustin-Louis Cauchy
  9. Richard Dedekind
  10. Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
  11. Gotthold Eisenstein
  12. Ronald Fisher
  13. Joseph Fourier
  14. Évariste Galois
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  16. Alexander Grothendieck
  17. Kurt Gödel
  18. Jacques Hadamard
  19. William Hamilton
  20. G. H. Hardy
  21. Charles Hermite
  22. David Hilbert
  23. Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
  24. Felix Klein
  25. Andrey Kolmogorov
  26. Joseph Louis Lagrange
  27. Pierre-Simon Laplace
  28. Nikolai Lobachevsky
  29. Benoit Mandelbrot
  30. Pierre Louis Maupertuis
  31. Gaspard Monge
  32. John von Neumann
  33. Emmy Noether
  34. Grigori Perelman
  35. Henri Poincaré
  36. Jean-Victor Poncelet
  37. Srinivasa Ramanujan
  38. Bernhard Riemann
  39. James Harris Simons
  40. Karl Weierstrass
  41. Hermann Weyl
Computer scientists, 19
[edit]
  1. John Vincent Atanasoff
  2. Charles Babbage
  3. Tim Berners-Lee
  4. Dan Bricklin
  5. Seymour Cray
  6. Ward Cunningham
  7. Edsger W. Dijkstra
  8. Douglas Engelbart
  9. Herman Hollerith
  10. Gary Kildall
  11. Donald Knuth
  12. Ada Lovelace
  13. Dennis Ritchie
  14. Richard Stallman
  15. Linus Torvalds
  16. Alan Turing
  17. Niklaus Wirth
  18. Steve Wozniak
  19. Konrad Zuse

Journalists, 19

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Sports figures, 165

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Athletics, 23
  1. Roger Bannister
  2. Usain Bolt
  3. Bob Beamon
  4. Sergey Bubka
  5. Sebastian Coe
  6. Dick Fosbury
  7. Haile Gebrselassie
  8. Eric Heiden
  9. Stefka Kostadinova
  10. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  11. Rafer Johnson
  12. Yelena Isinbayeva
  13. Sawao Kato
  14. Carl Lewis
  15. Kipchoge Keino
  16. Bobby Morrow
  17. Edwin Moses
  18. Paavo Nurmi
  19. Jesse Owens
  20. Lilia Podkopayeva
  21. Wilma Rudolph
  22. Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  23. Emil Zátopek
Alpine skiing, 5
  1. Jean-Claude Killy
  2. Hermann Maier
  3. Annemarie Moser-Pröll
  4. Ingemar Stenmark
  5. Lindsey Vonn
American/Irish/Australian Football, 4
  1. Jim Brown
  2. O. J. Simpson
  3. Jerry Rice
  4. Johnny Unitas
Badminton, 2
  1. Lin Dan
  2. Peter Gade
Basketball, 10
  1. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  2. Sergei Belov
  3. Larry Bird
  4. Wilt Chamberlain
  5. Tim Duncan
  6. Magic Johnson
  7. Michael Jordan
  8. Dražen Petrović
  9. Bill Russell
  10. Arvydas Sabonis
Baseball, 6
  1. Hank Aaron
  2. Ty Cobb
  3. Lou Gehrig
  4. Willie Mays
  5. Jackie Robinson
  6. Babe Ruth
Biathlon, 1
  1. Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Bicycle, 6
  1. Jacques Anquetil
  2. Gino Bartali
  3. Fausto Coppi
  4. Bernard Hinault
  5. Miguel Indurain
  6. Eddy Merckx
Boxing, 8
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Henry Armstrong
  3. Jack Dempsey
  4. Rocky Marciano
  5. Joe Louis
  6. Ingemar Johansson
  7. Sugar Ray Robinson
  8. Sugar Ray Leonard
Chess, 2
  1. Bobby Fischer
  2. Garry Kasparov
Cricket, 3
  1. Don Bradman
  2. W. G. Grace
  3. Sachin Tendulkar
Equestrian, 1
  1. Reiner Klimke
Field hockey, 2
  1. Luciana Aymar
  2. Dhyan Chand
Figureskating, 7
  1. Robin Cousins
  2. Scott Hamilton
  3. Sonja Henie
  4. Michelle Kwan
  5. Tara Lipinski
  6. Axel Paulsen
  7. Irina Rodnina
Golf, 8
  1. Ben Hogan
  2. Bobby Jones
  3. Jack Nicklaus
  4. Arnold Palmer
  5. Gary Player
  6. Annika Sörenstam
  7. Lee Trevino
  8. Tiger Woods
Gymnastics, 6
  1. Nadia Comăneci
  2. Olga Korbut
  3. Larisa Latynina
  4. Li Ning
  5. Vitaly Scherbo
  6. Ludmilla Tourischeva
Icehockey, 9
  1. Wayne Gretzky
  2. Valeri Kharlamov
  3. Gordie Howe
  4. Bobby Hull
  5. Mario Lemieux
  6. Sergei Makarov
  7. Bobby Orr
  8. Maurice Richard
  9. Vladislav Tretiak
Motorsports, 6
  1. Mario Andretti
  2. Juan Manuel Fangio
  3. Alain Prost
  4. Michael Schumacher
  5. Ayrton Senna
  6. Jackie Stewart
Nordic skiing, 2
  1. Bjørn Dæhlie
  2. Matti Nykänen
Sailing, 2
  1. Ben Ainslie
  2. Paul Elvstrøm
Soccer, 23
  1. Franz Beckenbauer
  2. David Beckham
  3. Gianluigi Buffon
  4. Iker Casillas
  5. Bobby Charlton
  6. Johan Cruyff
  7. Alfredo Di Stéfano
  8. Eusébio
  9. Sir Alex Ferguson
  10. Garrincha
  11. Mia Hamm
  12. Diego Maradona
  13. Lionel Messi
  14. Gerd Müller
  15. Michel Platini
  16. Ferenc Puskas
  17. Ronaldinho
  18. Ronaldo
  19. Cristiano Ronaldo
  20. Pelé
  21. Marco van Basten
  22. Lev Yashin
  23. Zinedine Zidane
Speedskating, 2
  1. Bonnie Blair
  2. Johann Olav Koss
Swimming, 4
  1. Jim Thorpe
  2. Mark Spitz
  3. Michael Phelps
  4. Greg Louganis
Table tennis, 1
  1. Jan-Ove Waldner
Team handball, 2
  1. Ivano Balić
  2. Anja Andersen
Tennis, 16
  1. Andre Agassi
  2. Björn Borg
  3. Margaret Court
  4. Chris Evert
  5. Roger Federer
  6. Pancho Gonzales
  7. Steffi Graf
  8. Billie Jean King
  9. Rod Laver
  10. Suzanne Lenglen
  11. John McEnroe
  12. Rafael Nadal
  13. Martina Navratilova
  14. Pete Sampras
  15. Bill Tilden
  16. Serena Williams
Volleyball, 1
  1. Karch Kiraly
Sports executives and administrators
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Mythical and legendary people, 29

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Fictional characters, 15

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