People

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

Jill Churchill

American mystery novelist

Contemporary influential

1

Leonardo DiCaprio

Actor; environmental activist

Contemporary influential

1

Theodore Hesburgh

Notre Dame president emeritus and civil-rights leader

Contemporary influential

1

Washington Irving

Author of Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Modern influential

1