1.
2. Akbar the Great - third Mughal Emperor of
3. Amenhotep III (c.1391 - c.1354 BC) - pharaoh at the height of Egyptian civilization
4. Idi Amin Dada – President of
5. Hans Christian Andersen – author noted for his children’s stories
6. Kofi Annan – Secretary General of the United Nations
7. Marie Antoinette - Queen of
8. Corazon Aquino – president of the Phillipines
9. Yasser Arafat – leader of the state of
10. Archimedes (c.287 - c.212 BC) - ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician
11. Aristotle - Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great
12. Attila the Hun (c.410-c.453 AD) - leader of the Hunnic Empire from 440 to 453 AD
13. Marcus Aurelius – Roman emperor
14. Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) - 19th century author
15. Johann Sebastian Bach - German composer and an organist
16. Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) - Renaissance philosopher, statesman, scientist
17. Mikhail Baryshnikov – Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
18. Ibn Battuta - scholar and traveler who is known for the account of his travels and excursions
19. Thomas Becket (c.1120 - 1170) - medieval archbishop of
20. Ludwig van Beethoven - one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time
21. David Ben-Gurion - first Prime Minister of Israel
22. Louise Bennett-Coverley - Jamaican folklorist, writer, and artist
23. Benazir Bhutto – Prime Minister of
24. Steve Biko - anti-apartheid activist in
25. Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) - first chancellor of united
26. Anne Boleyn (c.1504 - c.1536) - second wife of Henry VIII, executed
27. Simon Bolivar - National hero of
28. Usain Bolt – Jamaican sprinter, Olympic champion
29. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821) - 18th-19th century emperor of
30. Brontë sisters – Charlotte, Emily and Anne, writers
31. Lord Byron (1788-1824) - 19th century Romantic poet
32. Julius Caesar (100BC - 44BC) - Roman warlord and politician
33. Caligula (AD 12 - 41) - Roman emperor, megalomaniac
34. Caravaggio (1571-1610) - Italian Baroque artist
35. Fidel Castro (1926- ) - 20th century communist revolutionary, president of
36. Catherine the Great (1729 – 1796) - Russian empress for more than 30 years
37.
38. Charlemagne (c. 747 - c. 814) - King of the Franks and Christian Emperor of the West.
39. Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400) - 14th century author, wrote 'The Canterbury Tales'
40. Hugo Chávez – president of
41. Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) - 20th century Chinese nationalist leader
42. Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) - statesman, World War Two prime minister, national hero
43. Claudius (10 BC - 54 AD) - Roman emperor, conqueror of
44. Cleopatra (c.69 BC - 30 BC) - Egyptian ruler, last of the Ptolemys, lover of Julius Caesar
45. Christopher Columbus (1451 - 1506) - Italian explorer, discovered the
46. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) - 19th-20th century author, created Sherlock Holmes
47. Copernicus (1473-1543) - astronomer, said earth orbits the sun
48. Confucius - thinker and social philosopher
49. Hernando Cortés (1485-1547) - Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec empire
50. Celia Cruz – Cuban salsa singer
51. Marie Curie (1867 - 1934) - 19th-20th century scientist, winner of two Nobel prizes
52. Leonardo da Vinci (1452 -1519) - Italian Renaissance artist, inventor
53.
54. Dante – Italian poet and writer
55. Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) - Victorian naturalist, formulated theory of evolution
56. Oscar de la Renta – leading fashion designer
57. Catherine de Medici (1519 – 1589) - Italian-born French queen and regent
58. René Descartes - dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy"
59. Diana, Princess of Wales - first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
60. Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) - Victorian author
61. Sir Francis Drake (c.1540 - c.1596) - Elizabethan mariner, explorer
62. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) - theoretical physicist, Nobel prize winner
63. Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603) - Tudor queen of
64. Elizabeth II (1926-) - queen of the
65. Leif Erikson (11th century) - 11th century explorer, may have discovered the
66.
67. Michael Faraday (1791-1867) - 19th century inventor, electrical pioneer
68. Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) - 20th century physician, discovered penicillin
69. Anne Frank - her diary documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the
70. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) - 19th-20th century pioneer of pyschoanalysis
71. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) - Italian Renaissance scientist, philosopher
72. Mohandas Gandhi (1869 - 1948) - 20th century leader of
73. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836 - 1917) -
74. Marcus Garvey - advanced a Pan-African philosophy
75. Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970) - 20th century French general, president, national hero
76. Indira Ghandi – Prime Minister of
77. Lady Godiva (? - c.1067) - semi-mythical Anglo-Saxon heroine
78. Mikhail Gorbachev - Russian premier who helped end Communism in
79. Che Guevara (1928 - 1967) - Cuban revolutionary leader
80. Johann Gutenberg – inventor of movable type printing
81. Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742) - 17th-18th century astronomer, scientist
82. Hannibal - military commander and tactician
83. Hatshepsut - the second pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt
84. Henry VIII – English monarch
85.
86. Sir Edmund Percival Hillary & Tenzing Norgay - first climbers known to have reached the summit of
87. Heinrich Himmler (1900 - 1945) - Nazi, head of the SS, architect of genocide
88. Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989) - Japanese emperor during World War Two
89. Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945) - leader of Nazi Germany, architect of genocide
90. Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) - 20th century Vietnamese revolutionary leader
91. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) - 17th century political philosopher
92. Homer (circa 750-650 BC) - ancient Greek author, wrote the 'Odyssey' and 'Iliad'
93. Saddam Hussein - President of
94. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 - 1895) - Victorian biologist, developed theory of evolution
95. Hypatia – first notable woman in mathematics
96. Imhotep (2667 BC - 2648 BC) - Egyptian architect of the first known pyramid
97. Wycleef Jean – Haitian singer
98. Joan of Arc - national heroine of
99. Franz Kafka - major fiction writer of the 20th century
100. Frida Kahlo – painter known for use of vibrant colors
101. John Keats (1795-1821) - 19th century Romantic poet
102. Jomo Kenyatta - served as the first Prime Minister and President of Kenya
103. John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946) - influential 20th century economist
104. Khafra (Khephren) (c.2558 BC - c.2532 BC) - ancient Egyptian architect, model for the Sphinx
105. Genghis Khan - founder of the Mongol Empire
106. Ayatollah Khomeini (1900-1989) - 20th century leader of
107. Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) - Cold War Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis
108. Khufu (2609 BC - 2584 BC) - Egyptian pharaoh, built Great Pyramid at
109. Kim Jong-Il – Supreme Leader of
110. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) - 19th-20th century writer, Nobel prize winner
111. Fela Kuti – pioneer of afrobeat music
112. Toussaint L'Ouverture – leader of Haitian independence movement
113. Louis, Mary & Richard Leakey - archaeologists and naturalists whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in
114. Ang Lee – Academy Award winning film director
115. Vladimir Lenin (1870 - 1924) - Russian revolutionary, leader of the
116. John Lennon – musician, peace activist and founding member of The Beatles
117.
118. Louis XVI – leader of
119. Martin Luther (1483-1546) - German theologian, inspired the Protestant Reformation
120. Wangari Maathai - Kenyan environmental and political activist
121. Niccolò Machiavelli – Italian philosopher/writer, founder of modern political science
122. Ferdinand Magellan (1480 - 1521) - Portuguese explorer, first European to cross the Pacific
123. Miriam Makeba – South African singer and civil rights activist
124. Nelson Mandela (1918 - ) - The first democratically-elected president of his country
125. Norman Manley – Premier of
126. Mansa Musa - tenth mansa or emperor of the Mali Empire during its height
127. Mao Zedong (1893-1976) - Chinese communist leader, founder of the People's Republic of
128. Ferdinand Marcos – president of the
129. Imelda Marcos – First Lady of the
130. Bob Marley - Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician
131. Karl Marx (1818 - 1883) - 19th century philosopher, developed theory of international communism
132. Mary, Queen of Scots (1542 - 1587) - queen of
133. Hugh Masekela - South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer
134. Henri Matisse – French painter
135. Golda Meir – Prime Minister of
136. Gregor Mendel - dubbed the "Father of Genetics"
137. Josef Mengele – ran Nazi death camps
138. Michelangelo (1475-1564) - Italian Renaissance artist
139.
140. Claude Monet (1840-1926) - 19th-20th century Impressionist artist
141. Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) - World War Two fascist dictator of
142. Nefertiti - the Great Royal Wife (chief consort) of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten
143. Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727) - 17th century mathematician, physicist, discovered gravity
144. Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910) - Victorian pioneer of nursing
145. Kwame Nkrumah – leader of
146. Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) - invented dynamite, established the Nobel prizes
147. Nostradamus - reputed seer who published collections of prophecies
148. Lorena Ochoa – LPGA golfer
149. George Orwell (1903 - 1950) - 20th century journalist, author, wrote '1984'
150. Manny Pacquiao – World champion boxer
151. Blaise Pascal – French mathematician
152. Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895) - French chemist, biologist, proved the germ theory of disease
153. Pelé – Brazilian football (soccer) player
154. Eva Perón - second wife of President Juan Domingo Perón (1895–1974) and served as the First Lady of Argentina
155. Jean Piaget - known for his pedagogical studies
156. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - 20th century Spanish artist
157. Emmeline Pankhurst - woman suffrage organizer in
158. Marco Polo (c.1254 - 1324) - 13th century Venetian explorer of
159. Pol Pot (1925-1998) - 20th century Cambodian communist leader, architect of genocide
160. Giacomo Puccini - Italian composer of operas
161. Pythagoras (c.580 BC - c.500 BC) - ancient Greek scientist, mathematician
162. Rameses the Great (reigned 1279-1213 BC) - Egyptian pharaoh, prolific builder on monumental scale
163. Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino) - an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance
164. Rembrandt (1606-1669) - 17th century Dutch artist
165. Auguste Renoir - leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style
166. Jack the Ripper (?) - late Victorian serial killer in
167. Diego Rivera – Mexican painter
168. Auguste Rodin - progenitor of modern sculpture
169. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) - French 18th century political philosopher
170. J. K. Rowling – author of the Harry Potter series
171. Rumi – Persian poet and philosopher
172. Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937) - 20th century nuclear physicist, Nobel prize winner
173. Andrei Sakharov - eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist
174. Arturo Sandoval - jazz trumpeter and pianist
175. Oskar Schindler (1908–1974) - German businessman who saved his Jewish workers from the Holocaust
176. Edward Seaga – Prime Minister of
177. Mobutu Sese Seko – president of
178. Haile Selassie I – Emperor of
179. Ernest Shackleton (1874 - 1922) - Antarctic explorer, led the 'Endurance' expedition
180. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) - Elizabethan playwright, poet
181. Omar Sharif – Academy Award nominated actor
182. Socrates – classical Greek philosopher
183. Spartacus (died 71 BC) - Roman slave and gladiator
184. Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953) - World War Two Soviet leader, dictator
185. Igor Stravinsky - Russian composer, pianist, and conductor
186. Sun Tzu - believed to have authored The Art of War
187. Aung San Suu Kyi - renowned freedom fighter and advocate of nonviolence
188. Ichiro Suzuki – Major League Baseball All-Star
189. Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ) - 20th century Conservative prime minister
190. Mother Teresa - ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying
191. Rafael Trujillo - ruled the
192. Tutankhamun (1336 BC - 1327 BC) - short-lived Egyptian pharaoh whose tomb was found intact
193. Desmond Tutu - South African anti-apartheid activist
194. Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) - Dutch post-Impressionist artist
195. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723) - 17th century pioneer of microbiology
196. Victoria (1819 - 1901) - queen of
197. Pancho Villa - Mexican revolutionary leader who advocated for the poor and wanted agrarian reform
198. Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC) - ancient Roman poet, wrote the 'Aeneid'
199. Vlad the Impaler – dubbed “Dracula”
200.
201. James Watt - Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer, developed steam engine
202. William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833) - 18th-19th century anti-slavery campaigner
203. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) - Victorian playwright, jailed for his homosexuality
204. William the Conqueror (c.1028 - c.1087) - first Norman king of
205. Sir Christopher Wren (1632 - 1723) - 17th-18th century architect, built
206. Emiliano Zapata - a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution
