People

587 historical figures

Era

All Eras Ancient Contemporary Early Modern Medieval Modern

Category

All influential weird famous

Alexander Hamilton

Founding Father, Treasury

Early Modern influential
113

Imelda Marcos

3000 pairs of shoes, extravagance

Contemporary weird famous
113

James Joyce

Ulysses, modernist literature

Modern influential
112

Alfred Hitchcock

Master of suspense filmmaker

Modern influential
112

Julian Assange

WikiLeaks founder

Contemporary 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

Grigori Perelman

Solved Poincare conjecture, refused Fields Medal

Contemporary weird famous
111

Richard the Lionheart

English king, Crusader

Medieval influential
110

John Rawls

Theory of justice

Contemporary influential
110

Jim Jones

Peoples Temple cult leader

Contemporary weird famous
110

Whitney Houston

Vocalist

Contemporary influential
109

Muhammad Ali

Boxer, activist, greatest of all time

Modern influential
109

Floyd Mayweather

Flashy boxer, money displays

Contemporary weird famous
109

Conor McGregor

MMA fighter, trash talker

Contemporary weird famous
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

Ivan the Terrible

First Tsar of Russia

Early Modern influential
108