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Historical figures iceberg is an iceberg chart topic. On r/IcebergCharts, the highest-scoring available chart on it, "Historical Figures Iceberg (3000 Entries!)", was posted by u/Gottaimproveatmath on 19 October 2022 and had about 676 upvotes when it was collected.[1] The subreddit has 1 other chart on the same or closely related topics; see Other versions. A text version, "Ultimate Historical Figures" by noahg3768, is hosted on IcebergThreads, where it had 1,552 views as of 29 October 2026.[2]

The IcebergThreads author describes it as: "Reposted from icebergcharts.com, **edited down to 10 layers for size** -- Original author: u/Gottaimproveatmath -- Artwork by: /u/TheBestYTPer"

Entries reflect the chart authors' choices and are not verified fact.

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"Historical Figures Iceberg (3000 Entries!)" by u/Gottaimproveatmath (19 October 2022)

Tiers[edit]

Tiers and entries from the IcebergThreads version[2]. Notes after a dash are shortened from the author's explanations.

Tier 1: The Two Most Influential People in History[edit]

  • Jesus
  • Muhammad

Tier 2: Other Key Figures of Major World Religions[edit]

  • Buddha
  • Confucius
  • Laozi
  • Guru Nanak
  • Zoroaster

Tier 3: Founders of Fields, Leaders of Empires, Cultural Icons, etc.[edit]

  • Paul the Apostle
  • Genghis Khan
  • Alexander the Great
  • Socrates
  • Plato
  • Aristotle
  • Homer
  • Qin Shi Huang
  • Adi Shankara
  • Hippocrates
  • Julius Caesar
  • Augustus
  • Avicenna
  • Archimedes
  • Johannes Gutenberg
  • Hammurabi
  • Mary, mother of Jesus
  • Isaac Newton
  • Ramesses II
  • Hatshepsut
  • Ashoka
  • Charlemagne
  • Pythagoras
  • Cyrus the Great
  • Galileo Galilei
  • John the Apostle
  • Saint Peter
  • Mahavira
  • Judas Iscariot
  • John the Baptist
  • Mary Magdalene
  • Thales of Miletus
  • Rishabhanatha
  • Saint Nicholas
  • Martin Luther
  • Christopher Columbus
  • William Shakespeare
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Abraham
  • Herodotus
  • Constantine the Great
  • Ānanda
  • Augustine of Hippo
  • David
  • Albert Einstein
  • Ali

Tier 4:[edit]

  • Napoleon
  • George Washington
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Vladimir Lenin
  • Joseph Stalin
  • Mao Zedong
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nelson Mandela
  • Karl Marx
  • Simón Bolívar
  • Cicero
  • Marco Polo
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Euclid
  • Ferdinand Magellan
  • Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Murasaki Shikibu
  • Charles Darwin
  • Shen Kuo
  • Adam Smith
  • Mansa Musa
  • Ibn Khaldun
  • Suleiman the Magnificent
  • Akbar
  • Niccolò Machiavelli
  • Carl Linnaeus
  • René Descartes
  • John Locke
  • Elizabeth I
  • Catherine the Great
  • Florence Nightingale
  • Joan of Arc
  • Vasco da Gama
  • Jabir ibn Hayyan
  • Virgil
  • Immanuel Kant
  • Antoine Lavoisier
  • Michael Faraday
  • Louis Pasteur
  • James Clerk Maxwell
  • Dmitri Mendeleev
  • Thomas Edison
  • Nikola Tesla
  • Marie Curie
  • Niels Bohr
  • Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
  • Leonhard Euler
  • Dante Alighieri
  • Miguel de Cervantes
  • Voltaire
  • Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Emmy Noether
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Sigmund Freud
  • Kurt Gödel
  • Michelangelo
  • Rembrandt
  • James Cook
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Vincent van Gogh
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Jane Austen
  • Louis XIV
  • Maimonides
  • Nagarjuna
  • Sun Tzu
  • Nebuchadnezzar II
  • Trajan
  • Hannibal
  • Nero
  • Attila
  • Kublai Khan
  • Aeschylus
  • Aesop
  • Pompey
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Diogenes
  • Swami Vivekananda
  • Umar
  • Timur
  • Babur
  • Cai Lun
  • Johannes Kepler
  • Christiaan Huygens
  • Ernest Rutherford
  • Imhotep
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  • Alan Turing
  • Henry Ford
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Galen
  • Heraclitus
  • Origen
  • Elijah
  • Mencius
  • Xunzi
  • Aristophanes
  • Ramanuja
  • Ezra
  • Aaron
  • Xenophon
  • Athanasius of Alexandria
  • Thomas Aquinas
  • Zhang Heng
  • Madhvacharya
  • Bodhidharma
  • Maudgalyayana
  • Śāriputra
  • Akhenaten
  • Aurangzeb
  • Cleopatra
  • Rumi

Tier 5.1:[edit]

  • Walt Disney
  • Winston Churchill
  • Pierre-Simon Laplace
  • Che Guevara
  • James Joyce
  • Rabindranath Tagore
  • Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Richard Wagner
  • Zheng He
  • Claude Monet
  • Frida Kahlo
  • Hokusai
  • Mark Twain
  • Franz Kafka
  • Benito Mussolini
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Osama bin Laden
  • Marie Antoinette
  • Louis XVI
  • Maximilien Robespierre
  • Hernán Cortés
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Tutankhamun
  • Roald Amundsen
  • Charles Dickens
  • Marcus Aurelius
  • Chandragupta Maurya
  • Giuseppe Garibaldi
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Frédéric Chopin
  • Sappho
  • Sophocles
  • Carl Jung
  • Saladin
  • Francis Bacon
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Otto von Bismarck
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Wright brothers
  • Amelia Earhart
  • Yuri Gagarin
  • Neil Armstrong
  • Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Omar Khayyam
  • Nicholas II of Russia
  • Queen Victoria
  • Henry VIII
  • Alexander Hamilton
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Enrico Fermi
  • Antonio Vivaldi
  • Peter the Great
  • Leonidas I
  • Pope Alexander VI
  • James VI and I
  • Ferdinand II of Aragon
  • Isabella I of Castile
  • Pericles
  • Alfred the Great
  • John Lennon
  • George Harrison
  • Elvis Presley
  • Nefertiti
  • Mark Antony
  • John Adams
  • Niccolò Paganini
  • Ivan the Terrible
  • Averroes
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Gian Lorenzo Bernini
  • Auguste Rodin
  • Pope Urban II
  • Hans Christian Andersen
  • Lord Byron
  • Henrik Ibsen
  • Bertrand Russell
  • Edmund Burke
  • John Calvin
  • John Knox
  • Edward I of England
  • Edward III of England
  • Wu Zetian
  • Justinian I
  • Saint George
  • Molière
  • John Milton
  • Oliver Cromwell
  • Matsuo Bashō
  • Du Fu
  • Li Bai
  • Ovid
  • Euripides
  • Hypatia
  • Brahmagupta
  • Vyasa
  • Kūkai
  • Epicurus
  • Erasmus
  • William James
  • Edward Jenner
  • Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
  • Henry V of England
  • Gustavus Adolphus
  • William the Conqueror
  • John, King of England
  • Frederick the Great
  • Charles I of England
  • Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
  • Francis of Assisi
  • Ignatius of Loyola
  • Pope John Paul II
  • Aisha
  • Abu Bakr
  • George Frideric Handel
  • Pāṇini
  • Thucydides
  • Denis Diderot
  • Thomas Hobbes
  • Jeremy Bentham
  • Michel de Montaigne
  • Thomas Robert Malthus
  • David Hume
  • Baruch Spinoza
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • Ptolemy
  • Ronald Fisher
  • John von Neumann
  • James Watt
  • Isambard Kingdom Brunel
  • Werner Heisenberg
  • J. J. Thomson
  • William Herschel
  • Edwin Hubble
  • Jacques-Louis David
  • Vitruvius
  • Peter Paul Rubens
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  • Joseph Lister
  • Georg Cantor
  • Joseph Priestley
  • David Hilbert
  • Gregor Mendel
  • Svante Arrhenius
  • Robert Boyle
  • Humphry Davy
  • Bernhard Riemann
  • Blaise Pascal
  • Mehmed II
  • Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
  • Philip II of Spain
  • Zhang Qian
  • Henry II of England
  • Caligula
  • Xuanzang
  • Ivan III of Russia
  • Wilhelm II, German Emperor
  • Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
  • William III of England
  • Emperor Wen of Sui
  • Richard I of England
  • Maria Theresa
  • Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
  • Prince Eugene of Savoy
  • Emperor Meiji
  • Aryabhata
  • Chanakya
  • Horace
  • Xerxes I
  • William Tyndale
  • Zhu Xi
  • Pedro Álvares Cabral
  • Emperor Wu of Han
  • Kaṇāda
  • Robert Hooke
  • Baháʼu'lláh
  • Francis Xavier
  • Clement of Rome
  • Francis Drake
  • Fatima
  • Kapila
  • Arius
  • Uthman
  • Yongle Emperor
  • Osman I
  • Otto the Great
  • Thomas the Apostle
  • Baybars
  • Matthias Corvinus
  • Ashurbanipal
  • Ibn Battuta
  • Michael Jackson

Tier 5.2:[edit]

  • Padmasambhava
  • Cyril of Alexandria
  • Anton Chekhov
  • August Strindberg
  • Plutarch
  • Hafez
  • Samuel Johnson
  • John Donne
  • Daniel Defoe
  • Lope de Vega
  • Kahlil Gibran
  • Paul Cézanne
  • Antonín Dvořák
  • Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
  • Charles Babbage
  • Emperor Taizong of Tang
  • Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
  • Heraclius
  • Kabir
  • Mozi
  • Saint Joseph
  • Eratosthenes
  • Hipparchus
  • Tycho Brahe
  • Shah Jahan
  • Muhammad of Ghor
  • Kangxi Emperor
  • Franz Joseph I of Austria
  • Darius the Great
  • Theodosius I
  • Khalid ibn al-Walid
  • Hermann Weyl
  • Max Born
  • Philip II of France
  • Demosthenes
  • Al-Biruni
  • George III
  • Thutmose III
  • Abu Bakr al-Razi
  • Afonso I of Portugal
  • Hildegard of Bingen
  • Diocletian
  • Alexander Pope
  • Lucian
  • Al-Ghazali
  • Anselm of Canterbury
  • Sargon of Akkad
  • Mu'awiya I
  • Vlad the Impaler
  • Robert the Bruce
  • Husayn ibn Ali
  • Nader Shah
  • Jan Hus
  • Ibn Taymiyya
  • Huineng
  • Boudica
  • Zenobia
  • Ismail I
  • Ahmad Shah Durrani
  • Louis I of Hungary
  • Emperor Gaozu of Han
  • Qianlong Emperor
  • Elizabeth II
  • Max Weber

Tier 6.1:[edit]

  • Marilyn Monroe
  • George Orwell
  • Freddie Mercury
  • Charles de Gaulle
  • Fidel Castro
  • Ho Chi Minh
  • Pol Pot
  • Toussaint Louverture
  • Nikita Khrushchev
  • Francisco Franco
  • José de San Martín
  • Haile Selassie
  • Hirohito
  • Sun Yat-sen
  • Rosalind Franklin
  • Richard Feynman
  • Stephen Hawking
  • Rosa Parks
  • Leif Erikson
  • El Greco
  • Malcolm X
  • Themistocles
  • John Maynard Keynes
  • Frederick Douglass
  • Harriet Tubman
  • Sojourner Truth
  • Frank Lloyd Wright
  • John D. Rockefeller
  • Steve Jobs
  • Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  • Heinrich Himmler
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Amerigo Vespucci
  • Jakob Fugger
  • Norman Rockwell
  • Ada Lovelace
  • Leopold II of Belgium
  • David Lloyd George
  • Margaret Thatcher
  • Joseph Goebbels
  • Douglas MacArthur
  • Georgy Zhukov
  • Erwin Rommel
  • Leon Trotsky
  • Friedrich Engels
  • Alfred Nobel
  • Alexander Graham Bell
  • J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Erwin Schrödinger
  • Josip Broz Tito
  • John Glenn
  • Michael Collins (astronaut)
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Hernando de Soto
  • Francisco Pizarro
  • Raphael
  • J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Victor Hugo
  • David Livingstone
  • Claude Debussy
  • Maurice Ravel
  • Walt Whitman
  • Cardinal Richelieu
  • Deng Xiaoping
  • Indira Gandhi
  • Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Subhas Chandra Bose
  • Kim Il-sung
  • Ferdinand Marcos
  • Corazon Aquino
  • Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Bartolomé de las Casas
  • Theodor Herzl
  • Mother Teresa
  • David Ben-Gurion
  • Harry S. Truman
  • Syngman Rhee
  • Helmut Kohl
  • Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
  • Ruhollah Khomeini
  • Anne Frank
  • Joseph Smith
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Pocahontas
  • Johannes Vermeer
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Gustav Mahler
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Shaka
  • Wernher von Braun
  • Otto Hahn
  • Fibonacci
  • George Washington Carver
  • Franz Boas
  • Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Samuel Morse
  • Eli Whitney
  • Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Johannes Brahms
  • Igor Stravinsky
  • Montesquieu
  • W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Cyril and Methodius
  • Francisco Goya
  • Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Simone de Beauvoir
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Edward Elgar
  • Franz Liszt
  • Søren Kierkegaard
  • John Dewey
  • John Stuart Mill
  • Robert Burns
  • Alexander Fleming
  • Linus Pauling
  • Francis Crick
  • Henri Matisse
  • Hieronymus Bosch
  • Pieter Bruegel the Elder
  • Caravaggio
  • William Harvey
  • Henri Poincaré
  • Dorothy Hodgkin
  • Srinivasa Ramanujan
  • Fritz Haber
  • Auguste and Louis Lumière
  • Empress Dowager Cixi
  • Mary, Queen of Scots
  • Alexander I of Russia
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Pope Gregory VII
  • Nicholas I of Russia
  • Emmeline Pankhurst
  • Basava
  • Jane Addams
  • Vitus Bering
  • Louis Daguerre
  • Lorenzo de' Medici
  • Charles Martel
  • El Cid
  • Erich Ludendorff
  • James Chadwick
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Leonid Brezhnev
  • Chiang Kai-shek
  • Zhou Enlai
  • Benjamin Disraeli
  • Walter Raleigh
  • Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Teresa of Ávila
  • Richard II of England
  • Huldrych Zwingli
  • Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
  • Mikhail Bakunin
  • John A. Macdonald
  • Josiah Willard Gibbs
  • Edmond Halley
  • Ernest Lawrence
  • John Wesley
  • Diego Velázquez
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Franz Schubert
  • William Hogarth
  • Mimar Sinan
  • Christopher Wren
  • Philippe Pétain
  • Jorge Luis Borges
  • Camille Pissarro
  • George Bernard Shaw
  • Saddam Hussein
  • Paul von Hindenburg
  • Park Chung-hee
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • Giotto
  • Michel Foucault
  • Jacques Derrida
  • Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
  • Antoni Gaudí
  • Albrecht Dürer
  • Prince Henry the Navigator
  • Abbas the Great
  • Mikhail Gorbachev

Tier 6.2:[edit]

  • Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  • Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
  • Pedro I of Brazil
  • Afonso de Albuquerque
  • H. G. Wells
  • Zhuang Zhou
  • Parshvanatha
  • Charles Wesley
  • Auguste Comte
  • Shang Yang
  • Mary Shelley
  • Edmund Husserl
  • Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Georges Lemaître
  • Giovanni Boccaccio
  • Antonio Gramsci
  • Alfred North Whitehead
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
  • Edward Teller
  • Titian
  • Philip V of Spain
  • Mahmud of Ghazni
  • Ibn Saud
  • Clement Attlee
  • Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
  • Sigismund III Vasa
  • Jules Verne
  • Pope Pius IX
  • Elizabeth of Russia
  • Josquin des Prez
  • Pope Julius II
  • John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
  • Hesiod
  • Pliny the Elder
  • Herman Melville
  • Charles XII of Sweden
  • Hurrem Sultan
  • Sandro Botticelli
  • Alessandro Volta
  • Oda Nobunaga
  • Tokugawa Ieyasu
  • al-Zahrawi
  • Al-Farabi
  • Gerolamo Cardano
  • Pope Leo I
  • Robert Koch
  • Lise Meitner
  • Alexander Grothendieck
  • Marquis de Sade
  • Cnut
  • Ibn al-Haytham
  • Alexander Suvorov
  • Norman Borlaug
  • Zeno of Citium
  • Tertullian
  • Apollonius of Perga
  • Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • Jan van Eyck
  • Sulla
  • Aurelian
  • François Rabelais
  • James Prescott Joule
  • Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
  • John Hunyadi
  • John Wycliffe
  • Thomas Cranmer
  • Tiberius
  • Khadija bint Khuwaylid
  • Gregory of Nazianzus
  • Basil of Caesarea
  • Scipio Africanus
  • Irenaeus
  • William Wilberforce
  • Clement of Alexandria
  • Harun al-Rashid
  • Cato the Elder
  • Joseph Conrad
  • Gregory of Nyssa
  • Mulla Sadra
  • Hermann Göring
  • Muhammad Iqbal
  • Ahmad ibn Hanbal
  • Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
  • Plotinus
  • John of Damascus
  • Malik ibn Anas
  • al-Shafi'i
  • Benedict of Nursia
  • Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
  • Shivaji
  • Clovis I
  • Domitian
  • Richard Strauss
  • Stephen I of Hungary
  • Fuzuli
  • Rabbi Akiva
  • Gaudapada
  • Zhiyi
  • Vasubandhu
  • Ptolemy I Soter
  • Eleanor of Aquitaine
  • Frederick Barbarossa
  • Nizami Ganjavi
  • Han Yu
  • Augustin-Jean Fresnel
  • John Chrysostom
  • Andreas Vesalius
  • Benazir Bhutto
  • Abd Allah al-Mahdi Billah
  • Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan
  • Manuel I Komnenos
  • Antigonus I Monophthalmus
  • Basil II
  • Vladimir the Great
  • Alcibiades
  • Władysław II Jagiełło
  • Kanishka
  • Menander I
  • Tamar of Georgia
  • Tughril I
  • Tokhtamysh
  • Tipu Sultan
  • Bayinnaung
  • Tabinshwehti
  • Bolesław I the Brave
  • Anawrahta
  • Khosrow I
  • Alauddin Khalji
  • Émile Durkheim
  • Pyrrhus of Epirus

Tier 7.1:[edit]

  • Aretha Franklin
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Salvador Dalí
  • Andy Warhol
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Spartacus
  • Jacques Cartier
  • Andrew Carnegie
  • Marcus Licinius Crassus
  • Miles Davis
  • Steve Biko
  • Juan Ponce de León
  • Reinhard Heydrich
  • Al Capone
  • Charles Lindbergh
  • Michael Collins (Irish leader)
  • Desmond Tutu
  • Agatha Christie
  • Albert Camus
  • Billie Holiday
  • Idi Amin
  • Muammar Gaddafi
  • Mobutu Sese Seko
  • Thomas Sankara
  • Patrice Lumumba
  • Julius Nyerere
  • António de Oliveira Salazar
  • Augusto Pinochet
  • Salvador Allende
  • Boris Yeltsin
  • Richard Nixon
  • François Mitterrand
  • Mohamed Naguib
  • Nicolae Ceaușescu
  • Alfredo Stroessner
  • Nostradamus
  • Aaron Burr
  • Orson Welles
  • J. P. Morgan
  • Cornelius Vanderbilt
  • Henry Morton Stanley
  • Samuel de Champlain
  • Thomas Paine
  • Jonathan Swift
  • Robert Falcon Scott
  • Ernest Shackleton
  • George Eliot
  • Jackie Robinson
  • Jesse Owens
  • Muhammad Ali
  • Bruce Lee
  • William Blake
  • Petrarch
  • Georgia O'Keeffe
  • Gustave Eiffel
  • Carl Sagan
  • Rachel Carson
  • William Jones
  • Ivan Pavlov
  • Le Corbusier
  • William Wallace
  • John Dalton
  • Max Planck
  • Wilhelm Röntgen
  • Jonas Salk
  • René Magritte
  • Edvard Munch
  • Pablo Neruda
  • Fridtjof Nansen
  • Juan Perón
  • Eva Perón
  • Marcus Garvey
  • Slobodan Milošević
  • Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
  • Võ Nguyên Giáp
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Emiliano Zapata
  • Pancho Villa
  • Rosa Luxemburg
  • Nestor Makhno
  • Ayn Rand
  • H. P. Lovecraft
  • Isaac Asimov
  • Francisco Morazán
  • José Martí
  • Anwar Sadat
  • Hideki Tojo
  • George H. W. Bush
  • Alexis of Russia
  • George Eastman
  • Jacques Cousteau
  • Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
  • Qu Yuan
  • Erich Honecker
  • Jiang Qing
  • Puyi
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Thérèse of Lisieux
  • Lee Kuan Yew
  • Pierre Trudeau
  • Sukarno
  • Suharto
  • Abdul Hamid II
  • Peter Kropotkin
  • Yasser Arafat
  • Han Fei
  • Ante Pavelić
  • Sima Qian
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
  • Giacomo Puccini
  • Federico Fellini
  • Irving Thalberg
  • Édouard Manet
  • William Faulkner
  • Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Milton Friedman
  • Nicolas Poussin
  • Alexander Pushkin
  • Jomo Kenyatta
  • Donatello
  • Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Alvar Aalto
  • Bernard Montgomery
  • George C. Marshall
  • Napoleon III
  • Pope Gregory I
  • Jacob Grimm
  • Wilhelm Grimm
  • W. B. Yeats
  • Pedro II of Brazil
  • Maxim Gorky
  • Herbert Spencer
  • Roald Dahl
  • Prince
  • Adolf Eichmann
  • Éamon de Valera
  • Henry Clay
  • Alexander II of Russia
  • Caspar David Friedrich
  • Friedrich Hayek
  • Porfirio Díaz
  • Benito Juárez
  • Antonio López de Santa Anna
  • Mikhail Lomonosov
  • John C. Calhoun
  • Samudragupta
  • Chandragupta II
  • Enver Pasha
  • William Ewart Gladstone
  • Mary I of England
  • Rudyard Kipling
  • Honoré de Balzac
  • Walter Scott
  • Henry James
  • Kwame Nkrumah
  • Theodor W. Adorno
  • Martin Heidegger
  • Georges Cuvier
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Democritus
  • Christina, Queen of Sweden
  • Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Selim I
  • Alexandre Dumas
  • Henry IV of France
  • Sequoyah
  • Ögedei Khan
  • Aung San
  • Cesare Beccaria
  • Konrad Zuse
  • Yukio Mishima
  • Pelé
  • Konrad Lorenz
  • Jacob Bernoulli
  • Daniel Bernoulli
  • Johann Bernoulli
  • Guglielmo Marconi
  • Bob Marley
  • Chuck Berry
  • Stanley Kubrick
  • Grigori Rasputin
  • Seneca the Younger
  • Abu Nuwas
  • Golda Meir

Tier 7.2:[edit]

  • Dylan Thomas
  • Sher Shah Suri
  • James K. Polk
  • Louis XV
  • Paracelsus
  • Robert Schumann
  • Robert Peel
  • Carl Benz
  • Philip II of Macedon
  • James Madison
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Hector Berlioz
  • Vallabhbhai Patel
  • Thomas Henry Huxley
  • Mary Baker Eddy
  • Lucretius
  • Ernst Haeckel
  • Ludwig Boltzmann
  • Giordano Bruno
  • Pope Innocent III
  • Muhammad Ali Pasha
  • Hadrian
  • Eusebius
  • C. V. Raman
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
  • Robert Fulton
  • Cardinal Mazarin
  • Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne
  • Catherine de' Medici
  • Stephen the Great
  • George Berkeley
  • Subramania Bharati
  • Joseph Fourier
  • Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba
  • Ibn Arabi
  • Bede
  • Pachacuti
  • Ambrose
  • William Blackstone
  • Hans Holbein the Younger
  • Wang Wei
  • Josephus
  • Nicéphore Niépce
  • Ferdowsi
  • Lord Kelvin
  • Hugo Chávez
  • Gabriel Fauré
  • Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Dr. Seuss
  • Marc Chagall
  • Roxelana
  • Peter Abelard
  • Teresa Teng
  • Raj Kapoor
  • Elia Kazan
  • John III Sobieski
  • Wilhelm Wundt
  • Rama I
  • Seleucus I Nicator
  • Narmer
  • John Marshall
  • Leon Festinger
  • Lycurgus
  • Solon
  • Margaret I of Denmark
  • Plautus
  • Geoffrey of Monmouth
  • Abraham Maslow
  • Raymond Cattell
  • John of the Cross
  • Johannes Diderik van der Waals
  • Giuseppe Verdi
  • Muhammad al-Bukhari
  • Ulugh Beg
  • Ramakrishna
  • Hongwu Emperor
  • Adam Mickiewicz
  • Tulsidas
  • Giacomo Casanova
  • Vilna Gaon
  • Judah Loew ben Bezalel
  • Kumārajīva
  • Abu Hanifa
  • Joseph Banks
  • Henry III of England
  • Su Shi
  • Amir Khusrau
  • Saadi Shirazi
  • Henry Cavendish
  • Robert Andrews Millikan
  • Harold Urey
  • Louis Agassiz
  • John James Audubon
  • Hendrik Lorentz
  • Alfred Wegener
  • John Bardeen
  • Sergei Korolev
  • Robert H. Goddard
  • John Brown
  • Ramesses III
  • al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
  • Béla IV of Hungary
  • Toyotomi Hideyoshi
  • Boris I of Bulgaria
  • Decebalus
  • Antiochus III the Great
  • Tigranes the Great
  • Arminius
  • Yu the Great
  • Sejong the Great
  • Ivan Asen II
  • Prithvi Narayan Shah
  • Alaungpaya
  • Atahualpa
  • Mieszko I
  • Stefan Dušan
  • Nizam al-Mulk
  • Rajaraja I
  • Hulagu Khan
  • Girolamo Savonarola
  • Theodoric the Great
  • Draco
  • Muhammad Ali of Egypt
  • Claude Shannon
  • David Lynch
  • Wilhelm I

Tier 8.1:[edit]

  • Hannah Arendt
  • Chinua Achebe
  • Édith Piaf
  • Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Ansel Adams
  • Margaret Sanger
  • Helen Keller
  • Fela Kuti
  • Hergé
  • Bobby Fischer
  • Ravi Shankar
  • Marvin Gaye
  • Toni Morrison
  • Marlon Brando
  • John Wayne
  • Judy Garland
  • Diego Maradona
  • David Bowie
  • B. R. Ambedkar
  • Coco Chanel
  • J. Edgar Hoover
  • Alexander von Humboldt
  • Jimi Hendrix
  • Gabriel García Márquez
  • D. W. Griffith
  • Audrey Hepburn
  • Humphrey Bogart
  • John Wilkes Booth
  • Tenzing Norgay
  • Edmund Hillary
  • Henri de Saint-Simon
  • Cecil Rhodes
  • Babe Ruth
  • Wilt Chamberlain
  • Laurence Olivier
  • Betty White
  • Erik Erikson
  • David Ricardo
  • Albert Speer
  • Hunter S. Thompson
  • Harvey Milk
  • Jim Thorpe
  • Sugar Ray Robinson
  • Emma Goldman
  • Robert Johnson
  • George Westinghouse
  • Langston Hughes
  • Robert Frost
  • Sitting Bull
  • Philip K. Dick
  • Ida Tarbell
  • George Gershwin
  • Sylvia Plath
  • Kalidasa
  • Betty Friedan
  • Booker T. Washington
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Ida B. Wells
  • M. C. Escher
  • David Thompson
  • José Rizal
  • Hanno the Navigator
  • Tecumseh
  • Robert Mugabe
  • Kenneth Kaunda
  • Hastings Banda
  • Václav Havel
  • Diana, Princess of Wales
  • Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
  • Hussein of Jordan
  • Getúlio Vargas
  • Abel Tasman
  • Fred Astaire
  • Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Elizabeth Taylor
  • Cary Grant
  • Ingrid Bergman
  • Grace Kelly
  • Mary Pickford
  • Lewis Carroll
  • Leonard Bernstein
  • Mortimer Wheeler
  • Noah Webster
  • James Cagney
  • Jean Racine
  • Bette Davis
  • Greta Garbo
  • James Stewart
  • Antoine Watteau
  • Walter Gropius
  • Marcel Proust
  • Johann Strauss II
  • Sergei Eisenstein
  • F. W. de Klerk
  • Kofi Annan
  • D. S. Senanayake
  • Eduard Shevardnadze
  • William Wordsworth
  • Edward Gibbon
  • Irene of Athens
  • Dag Hammarskjöld
  • William Godwin
  • Ingmar Bergman
  • Barbara Stanwyck
  • Cecil B. DeMille
  • David Lean
  • Josiah Wedgwood
  • Willem Barentsz
  • Karl Popper
  • Trofim Lysenko
  • Mohammad Mosaddegh
  • Woody Guthrie
  • Howard Hughes
  • Charles XIV John
  • Chulalongkorn
  • Mahmud II
  • Pierre Bourdieu
  • Oscar Niemeyer
  • Gustave Courbet
  • Moctezuma II
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Akira Kurosawa
  • Helena Blavatsky
  • Isaiah Berlin
  • William S. Burroughs
  • Allen Ginsberg
  • Hans Bethe
  • Aleister Crowley
  • François Truffaut
  • Josephine Baker
  • Henry VII of England
  • James Brown
  • John Rawls
  • James II of England
  • Empress Matilda
  • James Baldwin
  • John Ford
  • Warren G. Harding
  • Túpac Amaru
  • Túpac Amaru II
  • Nikolai Gogol
  • Jacques Rivette
  • Alec Guinness
  • André Gide
  • Arnold Schoenberg
  • Alfonso XIII
  • Mohammed Zahir Shah
  • Louis Braille
  • Georges Clemenceau
  • Ray Bradbury
  • Cesar Chavez
  • Hank Williams
  • Thomas More
  • Pope John XXIII
  • Charles II of England
  • Jean-Luc Godard
  • Vaslav Nijinsky
  • Léopold Sédar Senghor
  • Heinrich Heine
  • Humayun
  • Pierre de Fermat
  • Paul Gauguin
  • Andrei Sakharov
  • Pierre de Coubertin
  • John Steinbeck
  • Raymond Chandler
  • Elie Wiesel
  • Miriam Makeba
  • Charlie Parker
  • B. F. Skinner
  • Jack L. Warner
  • Louis IX of France
  • Upton Sinclair
  • Hayreddin Barbarossa
  • Barbara McClintock
  • Georges Méliès
  • Lavrentiy Beria
  • Ernst Mach
  • Jerome
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Charles K. Kao
  • Godfrey of Bouillon
  • Winsor McCay
  • Georg Ohm
  • Johnny Cash
  • Kim Jong Il
  • Enver Hoxha
  • Jiajing Emperor
  • Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Jane Goodall
  • James Watson

Tier 8.2:[edit]

  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Paco de Lucía
  • Louis XI
  • Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
  • Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Gottlob Frege
  • Hugo Grotius
  • Antonio Stradivari
  • Claudio Monteverdi
  • Ben Jonson
  • James Abbott McNeill Whistler
  • Carl von Clausewitz
  • Clifford Geertz
  • Paul Dirac
  • Grace Hopper
  • Stephen Jay Gould
  • Tristan Tzara
  • George Stephenson
  • Yi Sun-sin
  • Francis Galton
  • William Shockley
  • Philip IV of France
  • Robert Walpole
  • Dōgen
  • Hans Christian Ørsted
  • Klemens von Metternich
  • Frantz Fanon
  • William Randolph Hearst
  • Felix Mendelssohn
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • Jean Piaget
  • Robert A. Heinlein
  • Arthur C. Clarke
  • Mirabai
  • Sayyid Qutb
  • Antônio Carlos Jobim
  • Duke Ellington
  • Scott Joplin
  • Osamu Tezuka
  • John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Æthelstan
  • Louis B. Mayer
  • Emperor Taizu of Song
  • Sri Aurobindo
  • Ida Lupino
  • Enid Blyton
  • Pope Boniface VIII
  • William Pitt the Younger
  • Sergei Prokofiev
  • Cao Cao
  • Marius Petipa
  • Nadia Boulanger
  • John Cage
  • Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba
  • Thomas Carlyle
  • Diophantus
  • Robert Clive
  • Theodor Mommsen
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Paul Samuelson
  • Kazimir Malevich
  • Eric Hobsbawm
  • Arturo Toscanini
  • Edmund Spenser
  • Brigham Young
  • Jean Sibelius
  • D. H. Lawrence
  • Constantine XI Palaiologos
  • Shitao
  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca
  • Duns Scotus
  • William of Ockham
  • Karen Blixen
  • Philip Melanchthon
  • Ilya Repin
  • Luis Buñuel
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Billy Wilder
  • Jonathan Edwards
  • William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
  • Guru Gobind Singh
  • Margot Fonteyn
  • Aetius
  • Gerardus Mercator
  • Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Benjamin Britten
  • Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
  • Bonaventure
  • Augustus II the Strong
  • Subutai
  • Jan Žižka
  • Amr ibn al-As
  • Karl Barth
  • William Wyler
  • Jean Cocteau
  • Henry Moore
  • Chuck Yeager
  • Wassily Kandinsky
  • Piet Mondrian
  • Enrico Caruso
  • Stephen Báthory
  • George Armitage Miller
  • Yaroslav the Wise
  • Maya Angelou
  • Frederick Law Olmsted
  • Jacobus Arminius
  • Albert Bandura
  • Augustin-Louis Cauchy
  • Edward Thorndike
  • Shinzo Abe
  • Modest Mussorgsky
  • Hiroshige
  • Gilbert N. Lewis
  • Terence
  • Wang Yangming
  • Taejo of Joseon
  • Ghalib
  • John Singer Sargent
  • Charles Baudelaire
  • James Hutton
  • Ramana Maharshi
  • Valmiki
  • Charles Aznavour
  • Rudaki
  • Rashi
  • Buckminster Fuller
  • Andrea Palladio
  • Louis the Pious
  • Christopher Marlowe
  • Glenn Gould
  • Mstislav Rostropovich
  • Guillaume Du Fay
  • Guillaume de Machaut
  • Charles Perrault
  • Henryk Sienkiewicz
  • Tukaram
  • Luís de Camões
  • Edward Drinker Cope
  • Joseph Dalton Hooker
  • Alfred Kinsey
  • Christine de Pizan
  • Harald Hardrada
  • Jin Yong
  • Lu Xun
  • Premchand
  • Ouyang Xiu
  • Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
  • Tao Yuanming
  • Jean-François Champollion
  • Albert A. Michelson
  • Jöns Jacob Berzelius
  • Ignaz Semmelweis
  • Leo Baekeland
  • John Logie Baird
  • Lee de Forest
  • Philo Farnsworth
  • Amda Seyon I
  • Moctezuma I
  • Henry the Lion
  • Sviatoslav I
  • Abd al-Rahman I
  • Abd al-Rahman III
  • Seonjo of Joseon
  • Sultan Agung of Mataram
  • Zara Yaqob
  • Quang Trung
  • Naresuan
  • Ajatashatru
  • Theodoric I
  • Mithridates VI Eupator
  • Vercingetorix
  • Gwanggaeto the Great
  • Modu Chanyu
  • Hyder Ali
  • Batu Khan
  • Taejo of Goryeo
  • Ahmad al-Mansur
  • Askia Muhammad I
  • Dmitry Donskoy
  • Gediminas
  • Hong Taiji
  • Krum
  • Wanli Emperor
  • Krishnadevaraya
  • La Malinche
  • Casimir III the Great
  • Vytautas
  • Svatopluk I of Moravia
  • Cosimo de' Medici
  • Robert Guiscard
  • Ram Khamhaeng
  • Gajah Mada
  • Lê Lợi
  • Roger II of Sicily
  • Lê Thánh Tông
  • Jayavarman VII
  • Prithviraj Chauhan
  • Kurt Vonnegut
  • Gaiseric
  • Alaric I
  • Agnès Varda
  • Talaat Pasha
  • Edward Said

Tier 9.1:[edit]

  • Umm Kulthum
  • Selena
  • Leni Riefenstahl
  • Harry Houdini
  • Madhubala
  • Katharine Hepburn
  • Stan Lee
  • Paul Allen
  • Samuel Colt
  • James Dean
  • Sarah Bernhardt
  • Pablo Escobar
  • Jack the Ripper
  • Lucille Ball
  • Billy Graham
  • Jack Kirby
  • Jim Henson
  • Oskar Schindler
  • Tupac Shakur
  • Little Richard
  • Jack London
  • I. M. Pei
  • Bing Crosby
  • Joseph Pulitzer
  • Joe Louis
  • Martha Graham
  • Samuel Beckett
  • Marcel Marceau
  • Rita Hayworth
  • Henry Dunant
  • Shirley Temple
  • Ezra Pound
  • Antonio José de Sucre
  • Isoroku Yamamoto
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Siad Barre
  • Hafez al-Assad
  • Robert F. Kennedy
  • Edward Bernays
  • Jim Jones
  • Alexander Dubček
  • Józef Piłsudski
  • Syed Ahmad Khan
  • Buddy Holly
  • Anna Pavlova
  • Spencer Tracy
  • Rudolf Nureyev
  • Doris Day
  • Gary Cooper
  • Kirk Douglas
  • Lauren Bacall
  • Rudolph Valentino
  • Clark Gable
  • Satyajit Ray
  • Gregory Peck
  • Toshiro Mifune
  • Naguib Mahfouz
  • Ion Antonescu
  • Louis XIII
  • Joan Crawford
  • Henry Fonda
  • Jackson Pollock
  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • W. S. Gilbert
  • Arthur Sullivan
  • Jean Gabin
  • Groucho Marx
  • Louis Riel
  • U Thant
  • Mae West
  • Ginger Rogers
  • Julius Nepos
  • Sean Connery
  • B.B. King
  • Charles M. Schulz
  • Willy Brandt
  • Konrad Adenauer
  • Vivien Leigh
  • Frank Capra
  • Fritz Lang
  • Marcello Mastroianni
  • Claudette Colbert
  • Edith Wharton
  • Lata Mangeshkar
  • Francisco Macías Nguema
  • P. T. Barnum
  • Peng Dehuai
  • William Lyon Mackenzie King
  • John Curtin
  • John Gielgud
  • Tennessee Williams
  • Arthur Miller
  • Celia Cruz
  • Philip III of Spain
  • Ray Charles
  • Caroline Herschel
  • Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
  • Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
  • Billy the Kid
  • Rafael Trujillo
  • Polybius
  • Juan Manuel de Rosas
  • Barry Goldwater
  • Huey Long
  • Talcott Parsons
  • Vilfredo Pareto
  • Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
  • Francisco I. Madero
  • Jack Kerouac
  • George V
  • Mary of Teck
  • Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
  • Luis Walter Alvarez
  • François Duvalier
  • James, brother of Jesus
  • Vladimir Nabokov
  • George VI
  • Prince Rupert of the Rhine
  • Marcel Duchamp
  • Sun Myung Moon
  • Eugene V. Debs
  • Johnny Carson
  • Charles A. Beard
  • Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Émile Zola
  • Jacques Offenbach
  • Mikhail Lermontov
  • Friedrich Schiller
  • Gustave Flaubert
  • Federico García Lorca
  • Miklós Horthy
  • Babrak Karmal
  • Mohammad Najibullah
  • Charles Lyell
  • Anna Freud
  • John Muir
  • Claudius
  • Margaret Mead
  • Janis Joplin
  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
  • Philip the Apostle
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • George Carlin
  • Sidney Poitier
  • Li Si
  • Alfred Thayer Mahan
  • Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
  • Umberto Eco
  • Richard III of England
  • Andrew the Apostle
  • Matthew the Apostle
  • Mark the Evangelist
  • Luke the Evangelist
  • John the Evangelist
  • Hermann Hesse
  • Walter Lippmann
  • Stephen Foster
  • Lev Yashin
  • Suzanne Lenglen
  • Ty Cobb
  • Hong Xiuquan
  • Samuel Adams
  • Patrick Henry
  • Horace Greeley
  • Benny Goodman
  • Saint Stephen
  • Frederick Sanger
  • Diego Rivera
  • Constantin Brâncuși
  • Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal
  • Nnamdi Azikiwe
  • Karl Pearson
  • Henri Bergson
  • Blackbeard
  • A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Alejo Carpentier
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss
  • Charlotte Brontë
  • Aaron Copland
  • Robert Peary
  • Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Maria Callas
  • Banjo Paterson
  • William Gilbert
  • Philip Johnson
  • John Dryden
  • Thomas Young
  • George Boole
  • William Rowan Hamilton
  • Arthur Cayley
  • Charles the Fat
  • Franz Beckenbauer
  • Francis I of France
  • Manmohan Singh
  • Jochi
  • Fred Rogers
  • Hans Krebs
  • Tsung-Dao Lee
  • Ramkhamhaeng
  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Tier 9.2:[edit]

  • John B. Watson
  • Henry VI of England
  • Charles Stewart Parnell
  • Frederick William I of Prussia
  • Carlos Fuentes
  • Hasan ibn Ali
  • Aubrey Beardsley
  • Gordie Howe
  • Parmenides
  • Isadora Duncan
  • Freeman Dyson
  • A. J. P. Taylor
  • Madame de Pompadour
  • Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
  • Man Ray
  • Louis Philippe I
  • James Naismith
  • Pierre Curie
  • Machado de Assis
  • Thiruvalluvar
  • Lillian Gish
  • Irving Berlin
  • Cesare Borgia
  • Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
  • Eugène Delacroix
  • Gioachino Rossini
  • Menelik II
  • W. G. Grace
  • William the Silent
  • Marshall McLuhan
  • C. S. Lewis
  • Lucretia
  • Django Reinhardt
  • Carl Rogers
  • Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
  • Paavo Nurmi
  • Isma'il Pasha of Egypt
  • John Jacob Astor
  • Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
  • Louis de Funès
  • Rainilaiarivony
  • Tewodros II
  • Jamsetji Tata
  • Abbas Kiarostami
  • Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
  • Thomas Müntzer
  • Dennis Ritchie
  • Mohammad-Reza Shajarian
  • Saul Bellow
  • George Balanchine
  • Zhuge Liang
  • Miyamoto Musashi
  • William Golding
  • Báb
  • Sobekneferu
  • Leon Battista Alberti
  • Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Jean le Rond d'Alembert
  • Emil Zátopek
  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  • Georges Seurat
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  • Yasujirō Ozu
  • George Armstrong Custer
  • Vladimir Mayakovsky
  • Douglas Engelbart
  • Rani of Jhansi
  • Alberto Giacometti
  • José Saramago
  • J. M. W. Turner
  • Anton Bruckner
  • Marcel Mauss
  • Joan Miró
  • Almanzor
  • Baldwin I of Jerusalem
  • Buster Keaton
  • Catullus
  • Menander
  • Alexander Nevsky
  • Maria Montessori
  • Vladimir Horowitz
  • Luciano Pavarotti
  • Bronisław Malinowski
  • Theodora
  • Ivan Bunin
  • Boris Pasternak
  • Mikhail Sholokhov
  • Leopold von Ranke
  • György Ligeti
  • Pierre Boulez
  • Saint Valentine
  • Bohdan Khmelnytsky
  • Anna Akhmatova
  • V. S. Naipaul
  • Georges Danton
  • Jean-Paul Marat
  • Trần Hưng Đạo
  • Max Ernst
  • Knut Hamsun
  • Stan Laurel
  • Oliver Hardy
  • Miloš Forman
  • Jean Renoir
  • Ousmane Sembène
  • Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Selim III
  • Edgar, King of England
  • Robert Bresson
  • Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Mehmed IV
  • Antonin Artaud
  • Rudolf Diesel
  • Kurt Lewin
  • Taras Shevchenko
  • Stephen, King of England
  • Skanderbeg
  • Ivan Turgenev
  • Pierre Corneille
  • Ja'far al-Sadiq
  • Kenzaburō Ōe
  • Paul Klee
  • John Constable
  • Patrick White
  • Nikolay Karamzin
  • Albert Ellis
  • Lev Vygotsky
  • Al-Nasir Muhammad
  • Élie Metchnikoff
  • Leo III the Isaurian
  • William Caxton
  • Serge Gainsbourg
  • Edward Weston
  • Nadine Gordimer
  • Will Eisner
  • Astrid Lindgren
  • Jami
  • Jesse Helms
  • Franz Marc
  • Eugène Ionesco
  • Joan Sutherland
  • Halldór Laxness
  • Guy de Maupassant
  • Luigi Pirandello
  • Sviatoslav Richter
  • Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
  • Pablo Casals
  • Sándor Petőfi
  • Herbert von Karajan
  • Kirsten Flagstad
  • Mir Taqi Mir
  • Baal Shem Tov
  • Kumārila Bhaṭṭa
  • Albertus Magnus
  • Chinghiz Aitmatov
  • Yasunari Kawabata
  • Lao She
  • Natsume Sōseki
  • Bai Juyi
  • Heinrich Hertz
  • Montgolfier brothers
  • Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
  • Wallace Carothers
  • Léon Foucault
  • Peter Debye
  • Henri Becquerel
  • André-Marie Ampère
  • Murray Gell-Mann
  • Amedeo Avogadro
  • Gustav Kirchhoff
  • Irving Langmuir
  • Justus von Liebig
  • Friedrich Wöhler
  • Robert Burns Woodward
  • Santiago Ramón y Cajal
  • Li Shizhen
  • Emile Berliner
  • Charles Algernon Parsons
  • John Bunyan
  • Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
  • Joseph-Louis Lagrange
  • Gaspard Monge
  • Siméon Denis Poisson
  • Karl Weierstrass
  • Jeongjo of Joseon
  • Thutmose I
  • Ezana of Axum
  • Iskandar Muda
  • Daniel of Galicia
  • Muhammad II of Khwarazm
  • Bumin Qaghan
  • Trần Thánh Tông
  • Suryavarman II
  • Harsha
  • Jahangir
  • Jim Brown
  • James the Great
  • Pontius Pilate
  • Sennacherib
  • Hulegu Khan
  • Willie Mays
  • Alain Delon
  • Edward Hopper
  • Nurhaci

Tier 10.1:[edit]

  • Robert Moses
  • Walter Cronkite
  • The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Edward R. Murrow
  • Nellie Bly
  • J. Paul Getty
  • Kobe Bryant
  • Bill Russell
  • Jeffrey Epstein
  • Augusto César Sandino
  • Qasem Soleimani
  • Gutzon Borglum
  • Richard Pryor
  • Oswald Mosley
  • Eusébio
  • Hank Aaron
  • John Philip Sousa
  • Manuel Noriega
  • Coretta Scott King
  • Andrew Mellon
  • Sally Ride
  • Ngo Dinh Diem
  • Jim Morrison
  • Dolores del Río
  • Anna May Wong
  • Sessue Hayakawa
  • Joseph Bonaparte
  • Paul Newman
  • Joseph McCarthy
  • Whitney Houston
  • Donna Summer
  • Alex Trebek
  • Richard Attenborough
  • Sergio Leone
  • Amin al-Husseini
  • Vidkun Quisling
  • Robert Menzies
  • Peter Fraser
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
  • Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
  • Luo Guanzhong
  • Bettie Page
  • Junko Tabei
  • Ian Fleming
  • Bolesław Prus
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Charles Manson
  • George Martin
  • Setsuko Hara
  • Larry King
  • Alexios I Komnenos
  • Pope Leo III
  • Alexandra Feodorovna
  • Michael Servetus
  • Ted Kennedy
  • Ayub Khan
  • Benjamin Constant
  • Max Stirner
  • Karl Liebknecht
  • Shel Silverstein
  • Hugh Hefner
  • John Foster Dulles
  • Dusty Springfield
  • Lou Reed
  • Leonard Cohen
  • José Eduardo dos Santos
  • Zora Neale Hurston
  • Abigail Adams
  • Edward G. Robinson
  • Julius Evola
  • Josef Mengele
  • Simon Wiesenthal
  • Edward Heath
  • Harold Wilson
  • Guy Burgess
  • Kim Philby
  • Kurt Cobain
  • Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
  • Zhu De
  • He Long
  • Macbeth, King of Scotland
  • Reza Shah
  • Martin Bormann
  • Rudolf Hess
  • Karl Dönitz
  • Pete Conrad
  • Jamal Khashoggi
  • Norodom Sihanouk
  • Huey P. Newton
  • Fred Hampton
  • Lester B. Pearson
  • Anaximander
  • Anaximenes of Miletus
  • Anaxagoras
  • Henry George
  • Ed Sullivan
  • Walter Ulbricht
  • Jorge Rafael Videla
  • Hugo Banzer
  • Eduard Bernstein
  • János Kádár
  • Wojciech Jaruzelski
  • Imre Nagy
  • Mátyás Rákosi
  • Jacobo Árbenz
  • Carlos Castillo Armas
  • Marcos Pérez Jiménez
  • Lázaro Cárdenas
  • Irving Fisher
  • Diego de Almagro
  • Vasco Núñez de Balboa
  • Miguel López de Legazpi
  • William Walker
  • Anastasio Somoza García
  • Manuel L. Quezon
  • Ninoy Aquino
  • Hissène Habré
  • Idriss Déby
  • Scottsboro Boys
  • Adolphe Thiers
  • Don Bradman
  • Miguel Ángel Asturias
  • Jorge Amado
  • Daniel Inouye
  • Hubert Humphrey
  • Edmund Muskie
  • Daniel Webster
  • Robert M. La Follette
  • Michiel de Ruyter
  • Pope Leo X
  • Urho Kekkonen
  • Ken Kesey
  • Alan Shepard
  • Wolfgang Pauli
  • Said bin Sultan
  • Jacques Chirac
  • Stanislaw Ulam
  • T. S. Eliot
  • John Keats
  • John Coltrane
  • Heinrich Schliemann
  • Cuauhtémoc
  • Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
  • Martha Washington
  • Stanley Baldwin
  • Gerald Ford
  • Henri Rousseau
  • Bob Hope
  • Earl Warren
  • Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  • Margaret Murray
  • H.D.
  • Claude Chabrol
  • Christopher Lee
  • Alexei Rykov
  • Grigory Zinoviev
  • Jan Smuts
  • August Weismann
  • Herbert Marcuse
  • William-Adolphe Bouguereau
  • Werner Sombart
  • Yuri Andropov
  • Mohammed Daoud Khan
  • William Whewell
  • Edmund Barton
  • Fulgencio Batista
  • Gerald Gardner
  • J. Marion Sims
  • Edward Sapir
  • Frank Zappa
  • Menachem Mendel Schneerson
  • Avvakum
  • Belisarius
  • Thurgood Marshall
  • Benjamin Lee Whorf
  • Carrie Fisher
  • Debbie Reynolds
  • Hafizullah Amin
  • Constantine V
  • Charles I of Austria
  • Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
  • Hua Guofeng
  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • Saint Patrick
  • James Monroe
  • Paul Erdős
  • Zaha Hadid
  • Bertolt Brecht
  • Fernando Pessoa
  • Huiyuan
  • Nikolai Lobachevsky
  • James, son of Alphaeus
  • John VI of Portugal
  • Henry Kissinger
  • Muhammad Ayub Khan
  • Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Franjo Tuđman
  • Jamshedji Tata
  • Kim Ku
  • Liu Shaoqi
  • Edward IV
  • Manuel Belgrano
  • Jimmy Carter
  • Gloria Romero
  • Antonio Salieri
  • Yang Guifei
  • W. H. Auden
  • Brian Wilson
  • Soong Mei-ling
  • Luigi Galvani
  • Cleisthenes
  • Gordon Allport
  • Louis de Broglie

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References[edit]

  1. ↑ u/Gottaimproveatmath. Historical Figures Iceberg (3000 Entries!). Reddit (r/IcebergCharts). 19 October 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 noahg3768. Ultimate Historical Figures. IcebergThreads. 24 April 2026. Retrieved 29 October 2026.