People

Harriet Tubman

Underground Railroad conductor

Modern influential

67

Amelia Earhart

Aviation pioneer

Modern influential

67

Gregor Mendel

Father of genetics

Modern influential

66

C.S. Lewis

Narnia, Christian apologist

Modern influential

66

Jawaharlal Nehru

First Prime Minister of India

Modern influential

65

Martin Luther King Jr.

Civil rights leader

Modern influential

63

Shaka Zulu

Zulu Kingdom founder

Modern influential

63

Louis Pasteur

Germ theory, pasteurization

Modern influential

62

Albert Schweitzer

Missionary, Nobel laureate

Modern influential

62

Marie Curie

Radioactivity research, Nobel laureate

Modern influential

61

Werner Heisenberg

Quantum mechanics, uncertainty principle

Modern influential

61

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment, Brothers Karamazov

Modern influential

61

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Gulag Archipelago

Modern influential

59

H.G. Wells

Science fiction pioneer

Modern influential

59

Gustav Klimt

Art Nouveau painter

Modern influential

59

Adolf Hitler

Nazi dictator, WWII

Modern influential

57

Langston Hughes

Harlem Renaissance poet

Modern influential

57

Pablo Neruda

Chilean poet, Nobel laureate

Modern influential

56

Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)

Children's author

Modern influential

55

Yuri Gagarin

First man in space

Modern influential

55