Famous People

Business People

A. Alfred Taubman Mary Kay Ash Jay Gould John D. Rockefeller Jr. Andrew Carnegie H. L. Hunt Sam Walton David Ogilvy Estee Lauder John D. Rockefeller George Stephen Conrad Hilton

Scientists

Joseph Henry Seymour Kety Ernst Haeckel Carl Sagan Alexander Fleming Louis Pasteur

Ernest Rutherford Lord Kelvin William Osler Isaac Newton Galileo Galilei Hippocrates

Writers

A. A. Milne Gwendolyn Brooks Thomas Merton H. P. Lovecraft Aldous Huxley Henry Van Dyke Carl Sandburg Audre Lorde Henry Van Dyke Jerome K. Jerome Ayn Rand Anais Nin

Philosophers

Jeremy Bentham Martin Buber

Ludwig Wittgenstein Meister Eckhart Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius Rudolf Steiner Albert Schweitzer Thales Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Sun Tzu Socrates Plato

Musicians

Aaron Funk Giovanni Gabrieli Jacques Arcadelt Tomas Luis De Victoria Johann Pachelbel Christoph Willibald Gluck Luca Marenzio George Frideric Handel Cesar Cui Antonio Lucio Vivaldi Francesca Caccini Leos Janacek

Poets

Matthew Arnold Francesco Petrarch Matthew Arnold Virgil Sophocles Robert Browning Ovid Omar Khayyam Jorge Luis Borges John Milton George Herbert Dylan Thomas

Painters

Rodolfo Amoedo Jacopo Amigoni Lizzy Ansingh Friedrich von Amerling Edmond Aman-Jean Milton Avery Karel Appel Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Michael Ancher Anna Ancher John Altoon Louis Anquetin

Spiritual & Religious Leaders

Moses John Calvin St Ignatius of Loyola Zoroaster Martin Luther St Paul St Francis of Assisi John The Baptist John Wesley John Huss Isaiah Swedenborg

Political Leaders

Aaron Burr Zachary Taylor Jacques Chirac Raul Castro

Alexander Hamilton Yitzhak Rabin Yoshiro Mori Winston Churchill Vladimir Lenin Saddam Hussein Tunku Abdul Rahman Betty Williams

Economists

Trygve Haavelmo William Vickrey Sir Richard Stone Gunnar Myrdal Wassily Leontief Sir Arthur Lewis Simone Weil Bertil Gotthard Ohlin Gerard Debreu Herbert Simon Paul Samuelson Ragnar Frisch

Mathematicians

Joseph Fourier John Napier Johann Heinrich Lambert Jacob Bernoulli Christian Doppler Carl Ludwig Siegel Gottfried W. Leibniz Georg Cantor Arthur Cayley Emmy Noether Felix Christian Klein Pythagoras

Astronomers

Tycho Brahe Willebrord Snell Edwin Powell Hubble Claudius Ptolemy Edmond Halley Johannes Kepler Caroline Herschel Charles Messier

Physicists

Sir William Rowan Hamilton Wilhelm Weber Sadi Carnot Michael Faraday James Maxwell Georg Ohm Albert Einstein Andre Marie Ampere William Gilbert Amadeo Avogadro

Physicians

George Richards Minot Theodor Kocher Orvan Hess Joseph Lister Richard Lower Ren Laennec Charles Horace Mayo William Harvey William James Mayo Daniel Carleton Gajdusek Henry Gray Janet Lane-Claypon

Revolutionaries

William Wallace Emiliano Zapata Samuel Adams Patrick Henry

Others

Eleanor Roosevelt Ansel Adams Jackie Kennedy

Singers

Aaliyah

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Abraham Lincoln Adolf Hitler Charles de Gaulle Fidel Castro Henry Kissinger Ho Chi Minh Barack Obama John F. Kennedy Joseph Stalin George Washington Margaret Thatcher Martin Luther King Jr. Mikhail Gorbachev Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Nelson Mandela Saddam Hussein Thomas Jefferson Vladimir Lenin Winston Churchill Yasser Arafat Most Famous Writers and Poets Can you imagine literature without Shakespeare's sonnets or the beautiful poems by Wordsworth. Literature is what it is today, mainly due to the

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