People

493 historical figures

Era

All Eras Ancient Contemporary Early Modern Medieval Modern

Category

All influential weird famous

John Locke

Empiricism, natural rights

Early Modern influential
115

Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Contemporary influential
115

Stephen King

Horror fiction

Contemporary influential
115

Louis Armstrong

Jazz trumpeter

Modern influential
115

Henri Matisse

Fauvist painter

Modern influential
115

Cervantes

Don Quixote

Early Modern influential
114

Bill Gates

Microsoft co-founder

Contemporary influential
114

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

Alexander Hamilton

Founding Father, Treasury

Early Modern influential
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

Richard the Lionheart

English king, Crusader

Medieval influential
110