People
238 historical figures
Category
Vincent van Gogh
Post-impressionist painter
Modern
influential
116
Mao Zedong
Founder of People's Republic of China
Modern
influential
115
Louis Armstrong
Jazz trumpeter
Modern
influential
115
Henri Matisse
Fauvist painter
Modern
influential
115
Pele
Brazilian soccer legend
Modern
influential
114
Audrey Hepburn
Actress, humanitarian
Modern
influential
114
Enrico Fermi
Nuclear reactor, physics
Modern
influential
113
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Transcendentalism
Modern
influential
113
Frederick Douglass
Abolitionist, orator
Modern
influential
113
James Joyce
Ulysses, modernist literature
Modern
influential
112
Alfred Hitchcock
Master of suspense filmmaker
Modern
influential
112
Kwame Nkrumah
First president of Ghana
Modern
influential
111
Virginia Woolf
Modernist novelist
Modern
influential
111
James Baldwin
Novelist, essayist, civil rights
Modern
influential
111
Muhammad Ali
Boxer, activist, greatest of all time
Modern
influential
109
Alexander Fleming
Discovery of penicillin
Modern
influential
108
Franklin D. Roosevelt
US President during WWII
Modern
influential
108
Otto von Bismarck
Unified Germany
Modern
influential
108
Sigmund Freud
Psychoanalysis
Modern
influential
108
Robert Frost
Poet
Modern
influential
108