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Actors and Actresses, 120 redigér
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Asta Nielsen Valdemar Psilander
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- USA
Modern era redigér
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Victor Borge Marlene Dietrich Yuri Nikulin Francisco Martínez Soria
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Amitabh Bachchan Guru Dutt Pran
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Fred Astaire Lauren Bacall Jack Benny Sarah Bernhardt Humphrey Bogart Marlon Brando Charles Bronson Marx Brothers James Cagney George Carlin Johnny Carson Charlie Chaplin Claudette Colbert Gary Cooper Bill Cosby Joan Crawford Bing Crosby Tom Cruise Peter Cushing Bette Davis Doris Day Robert De Niro James Dean Johnny Depp Kirk Douglas Henry Fonda Jane Fonda Harrison Ford Morgan Freeman Clark Gable Ava Gardner Judy Garland Cary Grant Gene Hackman Tom Hanks Rita Hayworth Katharine Hepburn Charlton Heston Dustin Hoffman Bob Hope Samuel L. Jackson Buster Keaton Grace Kelly Gene Kelly Deborah Kerr Burt Lancaster Jerry Lewis Bela Lugosi Dean Martin Steve McQueen Liza Minnelli Marilyn Monroe Eddie Murphy Paul Newman Jack Nicholson Al Pacino Gregory Peck Sidney Poitier Anthony Quinn Ginger Rogers William Shatner Barbara Stanwyck James Stewart Meryl Streep Barbra Streisand Ed Sullivan Elizabeth Taylor Shirley Temple Spencer Tracy John Wayne Orson Welles Mae West Robin Williams Bruce Willis
Artists / Architects, visual, 105 redigér
Western painters and illustrators, 73 redigér
- Ancient era
- Europe
Callicrates Myron Phidias Vitruvius
- Medieval era
- Europe
Hieronymus Bosch Jan van Eyck Giotto Andrei Rublev
- Renaissance to early modern era
- France
Jacques-Louis David Eugène Delacroix François Mansart Nicolas Poussin
- Germany
Caspar David Friedrich Albrecht Dürer Karl Friedrich Schinkel
- Italy
Borromini Caravaggio Bernini Giovanni Bellini Sandro Botticelli Bramante Canaletto Piero della Francesca Andrea Mantegna Masaccio Michelangelo Palladio Raphael Andrea del Sarto Tintoretto Titian Paolo Veronese Leonardo da Vinci
- Netherlands
Anthony van Dyck Peter Paul Rubens Rembrandt Johannes Vermeer
- Spain
Jusepe de Ribera Diego Velázquez
- Modern era (painters)
- Americas
- Mexico
- United States
Mary Cassatt Georgia O'Keeffe Jackson Pollock Andy Warhol Grant Wood
- Europe
Paul Klee Gustav Klimt Edvard Munch Mark Rothko Victor Vasarely
- France
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Paul Cézanne Edgar Degas Paul Gauguin Édouard Manet Henri Matisse Claude Monet Pierre-Auguste Renoir Henri Rousseau Toulouse-Lautrec
- Great Britain
Francis Bacon (artist) William Hogarth Margaret Mee J. M. W. Turner
- Netherlands
Vincent van Gogh Piet Mondrian
- Russia
Wassily Kandinsky Kazimir Malevich Ilya Repin
- Spain
Salvador Dalí Francisco Goya Joan Miró Pablo Picasso
Sculptors, 2 redigér
Architects, 24 redigér
- Americas
- Brazil
- United States
Walter Burley Griffin William Le Baron Jenney Frank Gehry Frank Lloyd Wright Richard Meier Louis Sullivan
- Asia
I. M. Pei Mimar Sinan Kenzo Tange
- Europe
Alvar Aalto Le Corbusier Gaudí Victor Horta Richard Neutra Renzo Piano Christopher Wren
- Germany
Günter Behnisch Peter Behrens Walter Gropius Erich Mendelsohn Frei Otto Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Hans Scharoun
Non-Western traditions, 6 redigér
- China
- India
- Iran
- Japan
Authors / Poets, 240 redigér
Abu Nuwas Adam Mickiewicz Aeschylus Agatha Christie Aldous Huxley Alexander Pushkin Alejo Carpentier Alexandre Dumas Alice Walker Allen Ginsberg Amir Khusrow Anton Chekhov Aristophanes Arthur C. Clarke Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur Miller Arthur Rimbaud Astrid Lindgren Bertolt Brecht Brothers Grimm Carl Sandburg Charles Dickens Clifford D. Simak Dante Alighieri Dashiell Hammett Douglas Adams Du Fu Edgar Allan Poe Eino Leino Emily Dickinson Erich Maria Remarque Ernest Hemingway Euripides F. Scott Fitzgerald Franz Kafka Fyodor Dostoyevsky Gabriel García Márquez Geoffrey Chaucer George Bernard Shaw George Orwell Ghalib H. G. Wells Hafez Hans Christian Andersen Harold Pinter Heinrich Heine Henrik Ibsen Henry James Henry Miller Hermann Hesse Hildegard of Bingen Homer Horace Ilf and Petrov Isaac Asimov Ivan Vazov J. R. R. Tolkien Jack Kerouac Jack London Rumi James Joyce Jane Austen Jerome K. Jerome Johann Wolfgang von Goethe John Steinbeck John Updike Jonathan Swift Jorge Luis Borges José Martí José Saramago Jules Verne Kālidāsa Kurt Vonnegut Langston Hughes Leo Tolstoy Lewis Carroll Li Bai Livius Andronicus Lord Byron Marcel Proust Mark Twain Mario Vargas Llosa Martin Amis Mary Wollstonecraft Matsuo Bashō Maxim Gorky Miguel de Cervantes Mikhail Bulgakov Molière Murasaki Shikibu Naguib Mahfouz Nathaniel Hawthorne Nikolai Gogol Nikos Kazantzakis O. Henry Olaf Stapledon Omar Khayyám Oscar Wilde Ovid Pablo Neruda Petrarch Philip K. Dick Plutarch Rabindranath Tagore Rainer Maria Rilke Ray Bradbury Raymond Chandler Roald Dahl Robert A. Heinlein Robert Frost Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Sheckley Rudyard Kipling Saadi Shirazi Salman Rushdie Sappho Saul Bellow Sophocles Thomas Hardy Thomas Mann Thomas Pynchon Toni Morrison Truman Capote Umberto Eco Victor Hugo Virgil Virginia Woolf Vladimir Nabokov W. S. Gilbert Walt Whitman William Blake W. B. Yeats William Shakespeare Yasunari Kawabata Yukio Mishima Zeami Motokiyo
Ancient, 3 redigér
Middle Ages, 8 redigér
Ferdowsi Jami Kabir Nizami Ganjavi Rudaki Giovanni Boccaccio Chrétien de Troyes Christine de Pizan
Middle Ages, 14 redigér
Fuzûlî Tulsidas Wu Cheng'en Pedro Calderón de la Barca Luís de Camões Pierre Corneille Gavrila Derzhavin John Dryden Christopher Marlowe John Milton Jean Racine Edmund Spenser Lope de Vega
Modern, 79 redigér
Chinua Achebe Wole Soyinka Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o J. M. Coetzee Nadine Gordimer Margaret Atwood Pearl S. Buck T. S. Eliot William Faulkner John Grisham Ken Kesey Stephen King Ursula K. Le Guin Sinclair Lewis Herman Melville Margaret Mitchell Mario Puzo Ezra Pound J. D. Salinger Isaac Bashevis Singer Harriet Beecher Stowe Gore Vidal William Carlos Williams Jorge Amado Chinghiz Aitmatov Muhammad Iqbal Kenzaburō Ōe Lu Xun Kahlil Gibran France Prešeren Ismail Kadare Joseph Conrad Sándor Petőfi Henryk Sienkiewicz Taras Shevchenko Elie Wiesel Anna Akhmatova Joseph Brodsky Ivan Bunin Alexander Grin Nikolay Karamzin Mikhail Lermontov Vladimir Mayakovsky Nikolay Nekrasov Boris Pasternak Mikhail Sholokhov Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy Ivan Turgenev Fyodor Tyutchev Antonin Artaud Honoré de Balzac Charles Baudelaire Karen Blixen Gustave Flaubert Anne Frank Federico García Lorca André Gide Knut Hamsun Eugène Ionesco Selma Lagerlöf Eugenio Montale Luigi Pirandello Friedrich Schiller August Strindberg Tristan Tzara Émile Zola Kingsley Amis W. H. Auden Enid Blyton Anthony Burgess Robert Graves John Keats C. S. Lewis Alan Moore V. S. Naipaul Walter Scott John Millington Synge William Wordsworth
Composers and musicians, 139 redigér
Western art music redigér
- Composers
Mily Balakirev Georges Bizet Alexander Borodin César Cui Guillaume Dufay Gustav Holst Jon Lord Alan Parsons Bedřich Smetana Anahit Tsitsikian Pancho Vladigerov
- Medieval and Renaissance
- Baroque period (1600–1760)
Johann Sebastian Bach George Frideric Handel Claudio Monteverdi Antonio Vivaldi
- Classical period (1730–1820)
Joseph Haydn Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Romantic period (1815–1910)
Ludwig van Beethoven Hector Berlioz Johannes Brahms Anton Bruckner Frédéric Chopin Antonín Dvořák Edvard Grieg Franz Liszt Gustav Mahler Felix Mendelssohn Modest Mussorgsky Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Gioachino Rossini Franz Schubert Robert Schumann Johann Strauss Gilbert and Sullivan Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Giuseppe Verdi Richard Wagner
- 20th century
Harold Arlen Béla Bartók Claude Debussy Joe Hisaishi Sergei Prokofiev Giacomo Puccini Maurice Ravel Arnold Schoenberg Dmitri Shostakovich Jean Sibelius Igor Stravinsky
- Performers
- Conductors
- Singers
- Violinists/celist
Non-Western art music redigér
Folk and popular music redigér
ABBA Mariah Carey Cher David Coverdale Bruce Dickinson Ronnie James Dio Celine Dion Michael Jackson Elton John Madonna Bob Marley Joni Mitchell Frank Sinatra Stevie Wonder
- American folk and country
Johnny Cash Faith Hill Alan Jackson George Jones Barbara Mandrell Peter, Paul and Mary Reba McEntire Ronnie Milsap Dolly Parton Hank Williams
- Blues and soul
Ray Charles* Aretha Franklin* B.B. King
- Composers and songwriters
- Film music
Jerry Goldsmith Henry Mancini Ennio Morricone Richard Rogers Miklós Rózsa Max Steiner John Williams
- Guitarists
John Lee Hooker Stevie Ray Vaughan
- Hip-hop and rap
- Jazz
Louis Armstrong Miles Davis George Gershwin Antônio Carlos Jobim Glenn Miller
- Musical comedy and lyricists
Irving Berlin Jerome Kern Cole Porter Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Non-English language singers
Édith Piaf Lata Mangeshkar Alla Pugacheva Mohammed Rafi Zhou Xuan
- Rock
AC/DC John Barry The Beatles John Lennon Paul McCartney Chuck Berry David Bowie Eric Clapton Joe Cocker Phil Collins Alice Cooper Deep Purple The Doors Bob Dylan Peter Gabriel Simon & Garfunkel Jimi Hendrix Janis Joplin Metallica Gary Moore Nirvana Ozzy Osbourne Pink Floyd Roger Waters Elvis Presley Queen Freddie Mercury Linda Ronstadt Black Sabbath Bruce Springsteen The Rolling Stones Keith Richards Mick Jagger Tina Turner U2 Led Zeppelin
Criminals, 3 redigér
Billy the Kid Al Capone Pablo Escobar
Directors, producers & screenwriters, 72 redigér
Woody Allen Pedro Almodóvar Robert Altman Jean-Jacques Annaud Roberto Benigni Ingmar Bergman Bernardo Bertolucci Danny Boyle Ken Burns James Cameron Frank Capra Clint Eastwood Francis Ford Coppola George Cukor Walt Disney Carl Theodor Dreyer Sergei Eisenstein Rainer Werner Fassbinder John Ford Miloš Forman Bob Fosse Jean-Luc Godard Samuel Goldwyn Terry Gilliam D. W. Griffith Alfred Hitchcock Ron Howard John Huston Elia Kazan Andrei Konchalovsky Stanley Kubrick Akira Kurosawa Fritz Lang David Lean Ang Lee Frank Lloyd George Lucas Sidney Lumet Auguste and Louis Lumière Joseph L. Mankiewicz Frances Marion Nikita Mikhalkov Lewis Milestone Brian De Palma Alan Parker Roman Polanski Sydney Pollack Carlo Ponti Leni Riefenstahl Satyajit Ray Robert Redford Jean Renoir Carlos Saura Martin Scorsese David O. Selznick Mack Sennett Vittorio De Sica Aaron Sorkin Steven Spielberg Oliver Stone Quentin Tarantino Irving Thalberg Giuseppe Tornatore Lars von Trier Luchino Visconti Hal B. Wallis Wim Wenders Billy Wilder Robert Wise William Wyler Darryl F. Zanuck Robert Zemeckis
Entrepreneurs, 40 redigér
- Ancient, 1
- Middle age, 1
- Industrial revolution, 19
Samuel Crompton Thomas Newcomen John Jacob Astor Joseph Seligman Jamsetji Tata
- United States
Andrew Carnegie James Buchanan Duke Henry Ford Meyer Guggenheim Charles T. Hinde Howard Hughes J. P. Morgan J. Paul Getty William Randolph Hearst John D. Rockefeller Leland Stanford Cornelius Vanderbilt Madam C. J. Walker George Westinghouse
- Modern, 8
Xu Rongmao Coco Chanel Alan Sugar Dhirubhai Ambani Muhammad Yunus
- United States
- Contemporary, 11
Mukesh Ambani Carlos Slim Sergey Brin Richard Branson
- United States
Bill Gates Steve Jobs Elon Musk Larry Page Donald Trump Ted Turner Mark Zuckerberg
Explorers, 30 redigér
- Earlier
- Age of discovery
Willem Barentsz John Cabot Pedro Álvares Cabral Jacques Cartier Christopher Columbus Hernán Cortés Francis Drake Juan Sebastián Elcano Vasco da Gama Ferdinand Magellan Ponce de Leon Francisco Pizarro Marco Polo Hernando de Soto Abel Tasman Amerigo Vespucci Zheng He
- Early modern
Vitus Bering James Cook Alexander von Humboldt David Livingstone Henry Morton Stanley
- Modern
Roald Amundsen Neil Armstrong Yuri Gagarin John Glenn Edmund Hillary Tenzing Norgay
Performing artists, 40 redigér
Alvin Ailey Marian Anderson Frederick Ashton Mikhail Baryshnikov* Maurice Béjart Carlo Blasis Andrea Bocelli Erik Bruhn Enrico Caruso Cyd Charisse Boris Christoff Plácido Domingo Isadora Duncan Fanny Elssler Michel Fokine Margot Fonteyn Gregory Hines Avdotia Istomina Robert Joffrey Tamara Karsavina Rudolf von Laban Jenny Lind Natalia Makarova Arthur Mitchell Vaslav Nijinsky Birgit Nilsson Rudolf Nureyev Luciano Pavarotti Anna Pavlova Marius Petipa Leontyne Price Jerome Robbins Renata Scotto Antoinette Sibley Beverly Sills Frederica von Stade Marie Taglioni Maria Tallchief Twyla Tharp Gaétan Vestris
Philosophers, historians, political and social scientists, 170 redigér
Philosophers, 84 redigér
- Ancient, 18
Aristotle Augustine of Hippo Boethius Confucius Diogenes of Sinope Han Fei Heraclitus Laozi Li Si Mencius Plato Ptahhotep Seneca the Younger Shang Yang Socrates Thales Xunzi Zhuangzi
- Middle Ages, 10
Averroes Francis Bacon Giordano Bruno Duns Scotus Maimonides Nicholas of Cusa Thomas Aquinas Wang Yangming William of Ockham Zhu Xi
- Early modern, 21
George Berkeley Johan Amos Comenius René Descartes Desiderius Erasmus Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Thomas Hobbes David Hume William James Immanuel Kant Søren Kierkegaard Gotthold Ephraim Lessing John Locke John Stuart Mill Montesquieu Friedrich Nietzsche Jean-Jacques Rousseau Friedrich Schleiermacher Arthur Schopenhauer Baruch Spinoza Emanuel Swedenborg Voltaire
- Modern, 35
Theodor W. Adorno Mikhail Bakhtin Simone de Beauvoir Walter Benjamin Henri Bergson Isaiah Berlin Ernst Bloch Martin Buber Albert Camus Ernst Cassirer Benedetto Croce Gilles Deleuze Jacques Derrida John Dewey Ralph Waldo Emerson Ludwig Feuerbach Johann Gottlieb Fichte Gottlob Frege Hans-Georg Gadamer Jürgen Habermas Martin Heidegger Edmund Husserl Julia Kristeva Thomas Kuhn Imre Lakatos Yuri Lotman Marshall McLuhan Maurice Merleau-Ponty Karl Popper John Rawls Bertrand Russell Jean-Paul Sartre Miguel de Unamuno Alfred North Whitehead Ludwig Wittgenstein
Historians, 15 redigér
- Ancient, 6
Eusebius Herodotus Livy Thucydides Sima Qian Xenophon
- Middle Ages, 1
- Early modern, 2
Edward Gibbon Leopold von Ranke
- Modern, 6
Fernand Braudel Christopher Hill Theodor Mommsen A. J. P. Taylor Barbara W. Tuchman Frederick Jackson Turner
Social scientists, economists and political writers, 35 redigér
- Antiquity, 1
- Middle Ages, 1
- Early modern period, 4
Thomas Robert Malthus François Quesnay David Ricardo Adam Smith
- Modern, 29
Raymond Aron Pierre Bourdieu Noam Chomsky* Émile Durkheim Michel Foucault Milton Friedman Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens Hermann Heinrich Gossen Antonio Gramsci John Maynard Keynes* Paul Krugman Thomas Paine Talcott Parsons Claude Lévi-Strauss Rosa Luxemburg* Karl Marx* C. Wright Mills Hans Morgenthau Bertil Ohlin Max Scheler Max Weber*
Psychologists, 30 redigér
Alfred Adler Gordon Allport Albert Bandura Raymond Cattell Hans Eysenck Albert Ellis Erik Erikson Gustav Fechner* Leon Festinger Sigmund Freud* Erich Fromm Jane Goodall Donald O. Hebb Hermann von Helmholtz Karl Jaspers Carl Jung Kurt Lewin Abraham Maslow* David McClelland George Armitage Miller* Ivan Pavlov* Jean Piaget* Carl Rogers Otto Rank Stanley Schachter B. F. Skinner* Benjamin Spock Edward Thorndike John B. Watson Lev Vygotsky
Religious figures, 126 redigér
Abrahamic religions, 86 redigér
Abraham Adam Daniel David Elijah Ezra Gabriel Isaiah Moses Noah Solomon
- Christianity, 55
Mary (mother of Jesus) Jesus John the Apostle John the Baptist Thomas More Paul the Apostle Saint Peter
- Eastern Christianity
Arius Athanasius of Alexandria Basil of Caesarea John Chrysostom Clement of Alexandria Cyril of Alexandria John of Damascus Saints Cyril and Methodius Gregory of Nazianzus Nestorius Saint Nicholas Patriarch Nikon Gregory of Nyssa Origen
- Popes
Pope Clement I Pope Gregory I Pope Leo I Pope Paul VI Pope Pius IX
- Protestantism
Jacobus Arminius Thomas Cranmer Billy Graham Huldrych Zwingli Huineng Huiyuan (Buddhist) Kumārajīva Zhiyi
- Indian Buddhism
Ananda Maudgalyayana Sariputta Vasubandhu
- Japanese Buddhism
Hinduism, 18 redigér
- Ancient
Kanada Kapila Patanjali Valmiki Vyasa
- Medieval
Basava Kumārila Bhaṭṭa Gaudapada Madhvacharya Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Ramanuja Adi Shankara
- Modern
Sri Aurobindo Ramana Maharshi A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Ramakrishna Swami Vivekananda Paramahansa Yogananda
Others, 5 redigér
- Bahá'í
- Sikhism
- Zoroastrianism
Politicians and leaders, 341 redigér
Ancient redigér
Asia redigér
- Central Asia
- Eastern Asia
- Egypt
Akhenaten Cleopatra Djoser Hatshepsut Nefertiti Ptolemy I Soter Ramesses II Thutmose III Tutankhamun Seti I
- Southern Asia
- Western Asia
Croesus Hammurabi Mithridates VI of Pontus Queen of Sheba
Europe redigér
- Ancient Rome
Antoninus Pius Augustus Constantine the Great Domitian Julius Caesar Marcus Aurelius Nero Theodosius I Tiberius Trajan
- Eastern Europe
- Hellenistic Kingdom
- Macedonia
Alexander the Great Philip II of Macedon
- Greece
Alcibiades Demosthenes Pericles Solon
- Western Europe
Alaric I Arminius Boudica Vercingetorix Hannibal
Middle Ages redigér
Asia redigér
- Byzantine Empire
Basil II Heraclius Justinian I Leo III the Isaurian Manuel I Komnenos
- Caliphates
Abu Bakr Harun al-Rashid Muawiyah I Umar Uthman ibn Affan
- Central Asia
Batu Khan Hulagu Khan Timur Ulugh Beg
- China
- Eastern Asia
- Western Asia
Mehmed the Conqueror Osman I Saladin
Europe redigér
- Eastern Europe
Matthias Corvinus Simeon I of Bulgaria Stephen I of Hungary Vlad the Impaler
- England and Scotland
Alfred the Great Edward I of England Henry II of England John, King of England Richard I of England William the Conqueror
- France
Charlemagne Chlothar I Clovis I Louis the Pious Louis XI of France Philip II of France Philip IV of France
- Germany
Arnulf of Carinthia Charles the Fat Henry the Fowler
- Holy Roman Empire
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor Charles the Bald 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
Girolamo Savonarola Lucrezia Borgia
- Papal States
Pope Alexander VI Pope Boniface VIII Pope Gregory VII Pope Innocent III
- Poland and Lithuania
Bolesław I Chrobry Jogaila Mieszko I of Poland
- Russia
Alexander Nevsky Ivan III of Russia Sviatoslav I of Kiev Vladimir the Great
- Southern Europe
- Western Europe
Afonso I of Portugal Cnut the Great Ferdinand II of Aragon Henry the Navigator Isabella I of Castile Lothair I
Early modern period redigér
Americas redigér
- Americas
Atahualpa Moctezuma II Sitting Bull
- United States
Alexander Hamilton George Washington James Madison John Adams Thomas Jefferson
Asia redigér
- Central Asia
Abbas I of Persia Babur Humayun
- Japan
Oda Nobunaga Tokugawa Ieyasu Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- Southern Asia
- Western Asia
Mehmed IV Selim I Selim III Suleiman the Magnificent
Europe redigér
- England and Scotland
Charles I of England Elizabeth I of England Henry VIII James VI and I Mary I of England Mary, Queen of Scots Robert Walpole William III of England William Pitt the Younger
- France
Cardinal Mazarin Cardinal Richelieu Catherine de' Medici Francis I of France Henry IV of France Louis XIV Louis XV of France Louis XVI of France
- Holy Roman Empire
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor Maria Theresa Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
- Italia and Papal States
Pope Clement VII Pope Julius II
- Poland and Lithuania
John III Sobieski Sigismund III Vasa
- Russia
Alexis of Russia Boris Godunov Catherine the Great Elizabeth of Russia Ivan the Terrible Peter the Great
- Western Europe
Charles XII of Sweden Christian IV of Denmark Frederick the Great Philip II of Spain Philip V of Spain William the Silent
Modern redigér
Africa redigér
- Eastern Africa
Haile Selassie I Idi Amin Julius Nyerere
- Northern Africa
Abdelkader El Djezairi Anwar Sadat Gamal Abdel Nasser Muammar Gaddafi Muhammad Ali of Egypt
- Southern and Central Africa
Cecil Rhodes Hastings Banda Mobutu Sese Seko Nelson Mandela Robert Mugabe Shaka
- Western Africa
Kofi Annan Kwame Nkrumah Léopold Sédar Senghor
Americas redigér
- Brazil
Pedro I of Brazil Pedro II of Brazil
- Canada
- Central America and Caribbean
- Mexico
- South America
Alfredo Stroessner Augusto Pinochet Eva Perón Hugo Chávez José de San Martín Salvador Allende Simón Bolívar
- United States
George W. Bush Jimmy Carter Bill Clinton Dwight D. Eisenhower Andrew Jackson Lyndon B. Johnson John F. Kennedy Henry Kissinger Abraham Lincoln Douglas MacArthur James Monroe Richard Nixon James K. Polk Ronald Reagan Franklin D. Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Harry S. Truman Woodrow Wilson
Asia redigér
- China
Empress Dowager Cixi Zhou Enlai Hu Jintao Chiang Kai-shek Puyi Deng Xiaoping Sun Yat-sen Mao Zedong
- Eastern Asia
Park Chung-hee Hirohito Kim Il-sung Emperor Meiji Eisaku Satō
- Central Asia
Heydar Aliyev Nursultan Nazarbayev Saparmurat Niyazov Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- India
Indira Gandhi Jawaharlal Nehru Vallabhbhai Patel
- Southeastern Asia
Corazon Aquino Ferdinand Marcos Ho Chi Minh Mahathir Mohamad Pol Pot Suharto Sukarno Lee Kuan Yew
- Southern Asia
Benazir Bhutto Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- Western Asia
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk David Ben-Gurion Abdul Hamid II Saddam Hussein Mahmud II Golda Meir
Europe redigér
- Austria-Hungary
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria Klemens von Metternich
- Eastern Europe
Alexander Dubček Enver Hoxha Leonid Kuchma Josip Broz Tito Józef Piłsudski Lech Wałęsa Nicolae Ceaușescu Slobodan Milošević Václav Havel
- France
Charles de Gaulle François Mitterrand Louis Philippe I Napoleon Napoleon III
- Germany
Adolf Hitler Erich Honecker Helmut Kohl Konrad Adenauer Otto von Bismarck Wilhelm II, German Emperor William I, German Emperor
- Italia and Papal States
- Russia and USSR
Alexander II of Russia Boris Yeltsin Eduard Shevardnadze Joseph Stalin Leonid Brezhnev Mikhail Gorbachev Nicholas I of Russia Nicholas II of Russia Nikita Khrushchev
- United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli Clement Attlee Diana, Princess of Wales Elizabeth II Margaret Thatcher Queen Victoria William Ewart Gladstone Winston Churchill Robert Baden-Powell
- Western Europe
António de Oliveira Salazar Benito Mussolini Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Charles XIV John of Sweden Dag Hammarskjöld Francisco Franco Gerhard Schröder Gro Harlem Brundtland Juan Carlos I of Spain Leopold II of Belgium Christian Michelsen Giuseppe Garibaldi
Current political leaders, 13 redigér
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Ban Ki-moon (U.N.) Pope Francis (Pope) Dilma Rousseff (Brazil) Stephen Harper (Canada) Xi Jinping (China) François Hollande (France) Angela Merkel (Germany) Manmohan Singh (India) Enrico Letta (Italy) Shinzō Abe (Japan) Vladimir Putin (Russia) David Cameron (U.K.) Barack Obama (U.S.)
Military leaders and military theorists, 16 redigér
Flavius Aetius Pompey Scipio Africanus Sulla Prince Eugene of Savoy Alexander Suvorov Carl von Clausewitz Ulysses S. Grant T. E. Lawrence Robert E. Lee George Marshall Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson Erwin Rommel Vo Nguyen Giap Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Georgy Zhukov
Revolutionaries and activists, 34 redigér
- Africa
- Asia
Yasser Arafat Aung San Suu Kyi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Ruhollah Khomeini Osama bin Laden
- Europe
Joan of Arc Oliver Cromwell Georges Danton Vladimir Lenin Vasil Levski Martin Luther Florence Nightingale Emilia Plater Gavrilo Princip Spartacus Mother Teresa Leon Trotsky William Wallace Simon Wiesenthal
- Americas
- USA
Susan B. Anthony Emma Goldman Al Gore Mother Jones Helen Keller Martin Luther King, Jr. Rosa Parks Elizabeth Cady Stanton Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman Malcolm X
Latest Prize winners, 5 redigér
Cate Blanchett (Academy Award for Best Actress 2013) Matthew McConaughey (Academy Award for Best Actor 2013) Eleanor Catton (Man Booker Prize 2013) Alice Munro (Nobel Prize in Literature 2013) Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (Nobel Peace Prize 2013)
Scientists, inventors and mathematicians, 244 redigér
Pre-modern, 35 redigér
- Ancient
Archimedes Apollonius of Perga Archytas Aryabhata Diophantus Eratosthenes Euclid Eudoxus of Cnidus Hipparchus Hippocrates Hypatia Pappus of Alexandria Ptolemy Pythagoras Su Song
- Middle Ages
Alhacen Bhāskara II Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī Nasir al-Din al-Tusi Avicenna Brahmagupta Fibonacci Geber William Gilbert Seki Takakazu
Physics and astronomy, 72 redigér
- Astronomy
Tycho Brahe Nicolaus Copernicus Galileo Galilei Edmond Halley Edwin Hubble Johannes Kepler Ole Rømer Carl Sagan
- Early modern
Christiaan Huygens Isaac Newton
- Modern
André-Marie Ampère Amedeo Avogadro Johann Jakob Balmer William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin Henri Becquerel Hans Bethe Niels Bohr Ludwig Boltzmann William Henry Bragg Henry Cavendish Steven Chu Marie Curie Pierre Curie John Dalton James Dewar Paul Dirac Albert Einstein Michael Faraday Enrico Fermi Richard Feynman Léon Foucault Augustin-Jean Fresnel Stephen Hawking Werner Heisenberg James Prescott Joule Gustav Kirchhoff Lev Landau Ernest Lawrence Hendrik Lorentz Ernst Mach James Clerk Maxwell Albert Abraham Michelson Robert Andrews Millikan Pieter van Musschenbroek Georg Ohm J. Robert Oppenheimer Wolfgang Pauli Max Planck Wilhelm Röntgen Andrei Sakharov Erwin Schrödinger Arnold Sommerfeld G. I. Taylor Edward Teller J. J. Thomson Thomas Young Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich Hans Christian Ørsted Murray Gell-Mann Wallace Carothers George FitzGerald Victor Francis Hess Gerard 't Hooft Alfred Kastler Philipp Lenard Osborne Reynolds Johannes Rydberg Michael Servetus John Hasbrouck Van Vleck Eugene Wigner Robert Wilson
Chemistry, 8 redigér
Robert Boyle Josiah Willard Gibbs Antoine Lavoisier Dmitri Mendeleev Joseph Priestley Tadeus Reichstein Ernest Rutherford Willis R. Whitney
Natural sciences, 20 redigér
- Biology
Santiago Ramón y Cajal Thomas Henry Huxley Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Carl Linnaeus Gregor Mendel
- Medicine
Casimir Funk Louis Pasteur Jonas Salk Ignaz Semmelweis
- Natural sciences
John James Audubon Sadi Carnot Rachel Carson Jacques Cousteau Charles Darwin Alexander Fleming Galen Ernst Haeckel Edward Jenner Richard Leakey Philip Leder
Inventors, 57 redigér
James Russell (inventor) John Logie Baird John Bardeen Georg Bednorz Alexander Graham Bell Karl Benz Emile Berliner Gerd Binnig Clarence Birdseye David Brewster Wright brothers Nolan Bushnell Josephine Cochrane Christopher Cockerell Raymond Vahan Damadian Robert H. Dennard George Eastman Thomas Edison Leo Fender James Fergason Lee De Forest Benjamin Franklin Arthur Fry Buckminster Fuller Robert Fulton Charles Ginsburg Gordon Gould Wilson Greatbatch Johannes Gutenberg Elias Howe Joseph Marie Jacquard Robert Jarvik George Jessup Philippe Kahn John George Kemeny Jack Kilby Stephanie Kwolek Jaron Lanier Ignacy Łukasiewicz Guglielmo Marconi Cyrus McCormick Robert Metcalfe Alfred Nobel Robert Noyce Charles Algernon Parsons Roy J. Plunkett Alfred V. du Pont William Shockley Alan Shugart Isaac Singer Nikola Tesla Alessandro Volta Ernest Walton James Watt Wilhelm E. Weber Eli Whitney Charles Wilson
Mathematicians, 47 redigér
- Early modern
Daniel Bernoulli Jacob Bernoulli Bonaventura Cavalieri Jean le Rond d'Alembert Leonhard Euler Pierre de Fermat Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Blaise Pascal
- Modern
Niels Henrik Abel Vladimir Arnold Stefan Banach Isaac Barrow George Boole Georg Cantor Élie Cartan Augustin-Louis Cauchy Richard Dedekind Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet Gotthold Eisenstein Ronald Fisher Joseph Fourier Évariste Galois Carl Friedrich Gauss Alexander Grothendieck Kurt Gödel Jacques Hadamard William Hamilton G. H. Hardy Charles Hermite David Hilbert Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi Felix Klein Andrey Kolmogorov Joseph Louis Lagrange Pierre-Simon Laplace Benoit Mandelbrot Gaspard Monge John von Neumann Emmy Noether Grigori Perelman Henri Poincaré Jean-Victor Poncelet Srinivasa Ramanujan Bernhard Riemann James Harris Simons Karl Weierstrass Hermann Weyl
Computer scientists, 16 redigér
John Vincent Atanasoff Charles Babbage Tim Berners-Lee Dan Bricklin Seymour Cray Ward Cunningham Douglas Engelbart Herman Hollerith Jean Ichbiah Gary Kildall Donald Knuth Dennis Ritchie Richard Stallman Linus Torvalds Alan Turing Niklaus Wirth
Journalists, 26 redigér
Christiane Amanpour John F. Burns Barkha Dutt Jean-Pierre Elkabbach Robert Fisk* John Humphrys Doan Viet Hoat Arun Shourie Herbert Zimmermann
- United States
Ed Bradley David Brinkley Tom Brokaw Hedda Hopper David McCullough* Dan Rather Geraldo Rivera Eric Sevareid Mike Wallace Barbara Walters Walter Winchell
- Athletics
Roger Bannister* Usain Bolt* Bob Beamon Sergey Bubka Sebastian Coe Nadia Comăneci* Dick Fosbury Haile Gebrselassie Eric Heiden (US) Stefka Kostadinova Jackie Joyner-Kersee* Rafer Johnson (US) Sawao Kato Carl Lewis* (US) Kipchoge Keino Olga Korbut Larisa Latynina Bobby Morrow (US) Edwin Moses (US) Paavo Nurmi* Jesse Owens* (US) Lilia Podkopayeva Wilma Rudolph (US) Ludmilla Tourischeva Babe Didrikson Zaharias (US) Elena Zamolodchikova Emil Zátopek*
- American/Irish/Australian Football
Tom Brady (US) Terry Bradshaw (US) Jim Brown* (US) Dick Butkus* (US) John Elway (US) Brett Favre (US) Otto Graham (US) Walter Payton (US) O. J. Simpson* (US) Vince Lombardi (US) Peyton Manning (US) Dan Marino* (US) Joe Montana* (US) Jerry Rice* (US) Barry Sanders (US) Johnny Unitas* (US)
- Badminton
- Basketball
K. Abdul-Jabbar (US) Elgin Baylor (US) Larry Bird (US) Wilt Chamberlain (US) Bob Cousy (US) Tim Duncan (US) Julius Erving (US) Magic Johnson* (US) Michael Jordan* (US) Bill Russell* (US) Oscar Robertson (US) Pat Summitt (US) John Wooden (US)
- Baseball
Hank Aaron (US) Barry Bonds* (US) Roger Clemens (US) Ty Cobb (US) Joe DiMaggio (US) Lou Gehrig (US) Mickey Mantle (US) Willie Mays (US) Sadaharu Oh Cal Ripken, Jr. (US) Babe Ruth* (US) Jackie Robinson (US) Sammy Sosa Cy Young* (US)
- Bicycle
Jacques Anquetil Lance Armstrong Gino Bartali Fausto Coppi Bernard Hinault Miguel Indurain Eddy Merckx*
- Boxing
Muhammad Ali* (US) Henry Armstrong (US) Jack Dempsey (US) Rocky Marciano (US) Joe Louis (US) Ingemar Johansson Sugar Ray Robinson (US) Sugar Ray Leonard (US)
- Chess
Bobby Fischer* (US) Garry Kasparov*
- Cricket
Don Bradman W.G. Grace Sachin Tendulkar* Clyde Walcott
- Equestrian
Eddie Arcaro Steve Cauthen (US) Reiner Klimke Bill Shoemaker (US)
- Golf
Ben Hogan (US) Bobby Jones (US) Jack Nicklaus (US) Arnold Palmer (US) Patty Sheehan (US) Sam Snead (US) Annika Sörenstam Lee Trevino (US)
- Icehockey
Bob Bourne (US) Wayne Gretzky* Gordie Howe Bobby Hull Mario Lemieux Bobby Orr Maurice Richard
- Figureskating
Robin Cousins Scott Hamilton (US) Sonja Henie Michelle Kwan (US) Tara Lipinski (US) Axel Paulsen Irina Rodnina
- Motorsports
Mario Andretti Juan Manuel Fangio Alain Prost Michael Schumacher* Ayrton Senna Jackie Stewart
- Sailing
- Skiing
Jean-Claude Killy Hermann Maier Annemarie Moser-Pröll Ingemar Stenmark Lindsey Vonn (US)
- Soccer
Franz Beckenbauer David Beckham* Iker Casillas Bobby Charlton* Johan Cruyff* Eusébio Sir Alex Ferguson Mia Hamm Michael Laudrup Diego Maradona* Stanley Matthews Lionel Messi* Bobby Moore Gerd Müller* Ferenc Puskas* Ronaldinho Ronaldo* Pelé* Marco van Basten Peter Schmeichel Lev Yashin Zinedine Zidane*
- Speedskating
- Swimming
Jim Thorpe* Mark Spitz* Michael Phelps* (US) Greg Louganis (US)
- Table tennis
- Team handball
- Tennis
Andre Agassi* (US) Arthur Ashe* (US) Don Budge (US) Chris Evert (US) Roger Federer* Althea Gibson (US) Steffi Graf* Billie Jean King (US) Rod Laver John McEnroe (US) Rafael Nadal Pete Sampras* (US) Bill Tilden (US) Martina Navratilova*
- Volleyball
Karch Kiraly (US)
Sports executives and administrators redigér
Sepp Blatter Pierre de Coubertin Juan Antonio Samaranch
Mythical and legendary people, 29 redigér
Achilles Aeneas Agamemnon Andromeda Argonauts King Arthur Atlas (mythology) Beowulf Cassiopeia Castor and Pollux Cyclops Cerberus Grendel Hansel and Gretel Heracles Jason Echo and Narcissus Electra Europa Ganymede Medea Medusa Odysseus Oedipus Orion Perseus Peter Pan Sphinx Sirens
Fictional/cartoon characters, 50 redigér
Asterix Batman Big Bird Bugs Bunny Donald Duck Godzilla Kermit the Frog Lucky Luke Mario Mickey Mouse Rugrats Homer Simpson Snow White Sonic the Hedgehog Spider-Man Superman Tintin Winnie-the-Pooh Wonder Woman Woody Woodpecker Baba Yaga Don Juan Easter Bunny Santa Claus Tooth fairy Aladdin Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four) James Bond (literary character) The Cat in the Hat Holden Caulfield Count Dracula C. Auguste Dupin Mother Goose Sherlock Holmes Philip Marlowe Ossian Hercule Poirot Quasimodo Ebenezer Scrooge Tarzan The Three Musketeers Jean Valjean Astro Boy (character) Daffy Duck Pokémon Conan the Barbarian Hulk (comics) Peanuts Superhero Uncle Sam