People

238 historical figures

Era

All Eras Ancient Contemporary Early Modern Medieval Modern

Category

All influential weird famous

Hedy Lamarr

Actress and frequency-hopping inventor

Modern influential
138

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes

Modern influential
137

Ayn Rand

Objectivism, Atlas Shrugged

Modern influential
136

Lord Byron

Romantic poet

Modern influential
136

Claude Monet

Impressionism founder

Modern influential
136

William Randolph Hearst

Media mogul, yellow journalism

Modern influential
135

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Railroad magnate

Modern influential
134

Charles Lindbergh

Transatlantic flight

Modern influential
134

Theodore Roosevelt

US President, progressive era

Modern influential
133

Richard Nixon

US President, Watergate

Modern 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

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

Woodrow Wilson

US President, League of Nations

Modern influential
128

Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis, surrealist fiction

Modern influential
127

Richard Pryor

Comedian

Modern influential
127