People
493 historical figures
Category
Theodore Roosevelt
US President, progressive era
Modern
influential
133
John Milton
Paradise Lost
Early Modern
influential
133
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Supreme Court Justice
Contemporary
influential
133
Richard Nixon
US President, Watergate
Modern
influential
132
Sun Tzu
The Art of War
Ancient
influential
132
B.F. Skinner
Behaviorism
Modern
influential
132
J.P. Morgan
Banking magnate
Modern
influential
132
Julius Nyerere
Father of Tanzania
Modern
influential
131
Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan, social contract
Early Modern
influential
131
Xunzi
Confucian philosopher
Ancient
influential
130
Jorge Luis Borges
Short fiction, magical realism
Modern
influential
130
Federico Garcia Lorca
Spanish poet and playwright
Modern
influential
130
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Neo-expressionist painter
Modern
influential
130
Max Planck
Quantum theory
Modern
influential
129
Edward Snowden
NSA whistleblower
Contemporary
influential
129
Woodrow Wilson
US President, League of Nations
Modern
influential
128
Bob Dylan
Singer-songwriter, Nobel laureate
Contemporary
influential
128
George Washington
First US President
Early Modern
influential
127
Montesquieu
Separation of powers
Early Modern
influential
127
Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis, surrealist fiction
Modern
influential
127