People

George Carlin

Comedian, social critic

Contemporary influential

172

Howard Hughes

Billionaire, extreme OCD recluse

Contemporary weird famous

172

Richard Feynman

Quantum electrodynamics

Modern influential

171

Cleopatra

Last pharaoh of Egypt

Ancient influential

168

Lil Nas X

Controversial music videos, provocateur

Contemporary weird famous

168

Diego Maradona

Argentine soccer legend

Contemporary influential

167

Francisco Franco

Spanish dictator

Modern influential

166

Yayoi Kusama

Polka dot artist, lives in asylum by choice

Contemporary weird famous

166

Queen Victoria

British monarch, Victorian era

Modern influential

164

Dave Chappelle

Comedian

Contemporary influential

164

Pol Pot

Cambodian dictator, Khmer Rouge

Modern influential

163

Angela Merkel

German Chancellor

Contemporary influential

163

Cristiano Ronaldo

Soccer star

Contemporary influential

163

Stephen Hawking

Black holes, cosmology

Contemporary influential

162

Francis Bacon

Empiricism, scientific method

Early Modern influential

162

Ovid

Metamorphoses

Ancient influential

162

Stanley Kubrick

Filmmaker

Modern influential

162

P.T. Barnum

Showman, circus, hoaxes

Contemporary weird famous

162

Charles de Gaulle

French leader, WWII resistance

Modern influential

161

Boris Yeltsin

First Russian Federation president

Contemporary influential

161