People

Chiang Kai-shek

Chinese Nationalist leader

Modern influential

95

Rabindranath Tagore

Indian poet, Nobel laureate

Modern influential

95

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust, German literature

Early Modern influential

95

Larry Page

Google co-founder

Contemporary influential

95

Serena Williams

Tennis champion

Contemporary influential

95

Ram Dass (Richard Alpert)

Psychedelics to spirituality

Contemporary weird famous

95

Marina Abramovic

Extreme performance artist

Contemporary weird famous

95

Salman Rushdie

Satanic Verses, magical realism

Contemporary influential

94

Emmeline Pankhurst

Suffragette leader

Modern influential

94

Vasco da Gama

Sea route to India

Early Modern influential

94

Kyrie Irving

Flat earth beliefs, controversial statements

Contemporary weird famous

94

Alexander Graham Bell

Telephone inventor

Modern influential

93

Dmitri Mendeleev

Periodic table of elements

Modern influential

93

Robert Koch

Germ theory, tuberculosis

Modern influential

93

Voltaire

Enlightenment philosopher

Early Modern influential

93

Hannah Arendt

Banality of evil, political theory

Modern influential

93

Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot, absurdist theater

Modern influential

93

Bob Marley

Reggae legend

Modern influential

93

Jackson Pollock

Abstract expressionism

Modern influential

93

Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page)

Rock innovators

Modern influential

93