People

Satoshi Nakamoto

Bitcoin creator

Contemporary influential

14

Al-Khwarizmi

Father of algebra

Medieval influential

13

Hypatia

Mathematician, philosopher

Ancient influential

13

Ramesses II

Egyptian pharaoh

Ancient influential

12

Galen

Roman physician, anatomy

Ancient influential

11

William the Conqueror

Norman conquest of England

Medieval influential

11

Ray Charles

Soul music pioneer

Modern influential

11

Guglielmo Marconi

Radio communication

Modern influential

10

Jose de San Martin

South American liberator

Early Modern influential

9

Abraham

Patriarch of Judaism, Christianity, Islam

Ancient influential

8

Johannes Gutenberg

Printing press

Medieval influential

8

Attila the Hun

Hunnic Empire ruler

Ancient influential

7

Jensen Huang

NVIDIA founder

Contemporary influential

5

Robert Browning

Victorian poet of dramatic monologues

Modern influential

1

Mitch Albom

Author of Tuesdays with Morrie

Contemporary influential

1

Erich Fromm

Social psychologist who wrote The Art of Loving

Modern influential

1

George Eliot

Victorian novelist (Middlemarch, Silas Marner)

Modern influential

1

Rudyard Kipling

Nobel laureate poet and author of The Jungle Book

Modern influential

1

William Makepeace Thackeray

Victorian novelist (Vanity Fair)

Modern influential

1

Honoré de Balzac

French novelist, author of La Comédie humaine

Modern influential

1