Figures

The people who shaped us.

Pharaohs and prophets, philosophers and revolutionaries. Each card opens into a life — and 54 of them open into a 48-second mini-documentary.

Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddha)

c. 563 BCE – 483 BCE

Religious teacher · Founder of Buddhism

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Confucius

551 BCE – 479 BCE

Philosopher · Teacher · Sage of the East

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Mansa Musa

c. 1,280 CE – 1,337 CE

Ruler of Mali

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Sun Tzu

c. 544 BCE – 496 BCE

Strategist · General · Author of the Art of War

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Plato

428 BCE – 347 BCE

Philosopher · Founder of the Academy

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Aristotle

384 BCE – 322 BCE

Philosopher · Polymath · Founder of the Lyceum

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Ashoka the Great

c. 304 BCE – 232 BCE

Mauryan Emperor · The Conqueror Who Wept

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Al-Khwarizmi

c. 780 CE – 850 CE

Mathematician and astronomer

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Rumi

1,207 CE – 1,273 CE

Sufi Mystic · Poet · Founder of the Mevlevi Order

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Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

980 CE – 1,037 CE

Polymath · Physician · Philosopher

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Qin Shi Huang

259 BCE – 210 BCE

First Emperor of Unified China

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Filippo Brunelleschi

1,377 CE – 1,446 CE

Architect · Engineer · The Architect of the Renaissance

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Martin Luther

1,483 CE – 1,546 CE

Theologian · Reformer · Translator

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1,756 CE – 1,791 CE

Composer · Classical Era

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Ludwig van Beethoven

1,770 CE – 1,827 CE

Composer · The Bridge to Romanticism

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Nikola Tesla

1,856 CE – 1,943 CE

Inventor · Electrical Engineer

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Frederick Douglass

1,818 CE – 1,895 CE

Abolitionist · Orator · Statesman

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Marie Curie

1,867 CE – 1,934 CE

Physicist · Chemist · Two-time Nobel Laureate

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Julius Caesar

100 BCE – 44 BCE

General · Statesman · Dictator of Rome

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Winston Churchill

1,874 CE – 1,965 CE

British Prime Minister · War Leader · Author

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Eleanor Roosevelt

1,884 CE – 1,962 CE

First Lady of the United States · UN Delegate · Drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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Mother Teresa

1,910 CE – 1,997 CE

Catholic Nun · Founder of the Missionaries of Charity

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Rosa Parks

1,913 CE – 2,005 CE

Civil Rights Activist · Seamstress

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Indira Gandhi

1,917 CE – 1,984 CE

Prime Minister of India · Daughter of Nehru

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Maya Angelou

1,928 CE – 2,014 CE

Poet · Memoirist · Civil Rights Activist

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Stephen Hawking

1,942 CE – 2,018 CE

Theoretical Physicist · Cosmologist

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Malala Yousafzai

1,997 CE

Pakistani Education Activist · Youngest-Ever Nobel Laureate

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Cyrus the Great

c. 600 BCE – 530 BCE

Achaemenid King · Founder of the Persian Empire

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Voltaire

1,694 CE – 1,778 CE

Philosopher · Satirist · Essayist of the Enlightenment

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Mary Wollstonecraft

1,759 CE – 1,797 CE

Philosopher · Feminist · Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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Abraham Lincoln

1,809 CE – 1,865 CE

16th President of the United States

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Queen Victoria

1,819 CE – 1,901 CE

Queen of the United Kingdom · Empress of India

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Karl Marx

1,818 CE – 1,883 CE

Philosopher · Economist · Revolutionary

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Florence Nightingale

1,820 CE – 1,910 CE

Nurse · Statistician · Founder of Modern Nursing

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Ada Lovelace

1,815 CE – 1,852 CE

Mathematician · The First Programmer

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Susan B. Anthony

1,820 CE – 1,906 CE

Suffragist · Abolitionist

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Sitting Bull

c. 1,831 CE – 1,890 CE

Hunkpapa Lakota Holy Man · War Chief

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Sun Yat-sen

1,866 CE – 1,925 CE

Founding Father of the Republic of China

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Emmeline Pankhurst

1,858 CE – 1,928 CE

Suffragette · Founder of the Women's Social and Political Union

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Catherine the Great

1,729 CE – 1,796 CE

Empress of All the Russias · Enlightened Despot

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Hatshepsut

c. 1,507 BCE – 1,458 BCE

Pharaoh of Egypt · Builder of Deir el-Bahri

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Socrates

c. 470 BCE – 399 BCE

Athenian Philosopher · The Gadfly of Athens

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Hannibal Barca

247 BCE – 183 BCE

Carthaginian General

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Augustus

63 BCE – 14 CE

First Roman Emperor

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Marcus Aurelius

121 CE – 180 CE

Roman Emperor · Stoic Philosopher

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Leo Tolstoy

1,828 CE – 1,910 CE

Novelist · Moral Philosopher · Christian Anarchist

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Vincent van Gogh

1,853 CE – 1,890 CE

Post-Impressionist Painter

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Pablo Picasso

1,881 CE – 1,973 CE

Painter · Sculptor · Co-Founder of Cubism

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Frida Kahlo

1,907 CE – 1,954 CE

Mexican Painter · Surrealist · Communist

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Wu Zetian

624 CE – 705 CE

Empress Regnant · Founder of the Zhou Dynasty

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Murasaki Shikibu

c. 973 CE – 1,014 CE

Lady-in-Waiting · Author of The Tale of Genji

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Eleanor of Aquitaine

c. 1,122 CE – 1,204 CE

Duchess · Queen of France · Queen of England · Crusader

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Joan of Arc

c. 1,412 CE – 1,431 CE

Peasant · Visionary · Military Commander · Saint

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Johannes Gutenberg

c. 1,400 CE – 1,468 CE

Goldsmith · Printer · Inventor of Movable-Type Printing in Europe

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Christopher Columbus

1,451 CE – 1,506 CE

Genoese Navigator · Admiral of the Ocean Sea

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Ferdinand Magellan

1,480 CE – 1,521 CE

Portuguese Navigator · Captain-General of the Armada de Molucca

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Michelangelo Buonarroti

1,475 CE – 1,564 CE

Sculptor · Painter · Architect · Poet

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Akbar the Great

1,542 CE – 1,605 CE

Mughal Emperor

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Elizabeth I

1,533 CE – 1,603 CE

Queen of England and Ireland · The Virgin Queen

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William Shakespeare

1,564 CE – 1,616 CE

Playwright · Poet · Actor · Shareholder

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Galileo Galilei

1,564 CE – 1,642 CE

Astronomer · Physicist · Engineer

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Michael Faraday

1,791 CE – 1,867 CE

Physicist · Chemist · Electromagnetism Pioneer

Thomas Edison

1,847 CE – 1,931 CE

Inventor · Entrepreneur · Holder of 1,093 US patents

Alan Turing

1,912 CE – 1,954 CE

Mathematician · Codebreaker · Father of Computer Science

Richard Feynman

1,918 CE – 1,988 CE

Theoretical Physicist · Manhattan Project · Nobel Laureate

J. Robert Oppenheimer

1,904 CE – 1,967 CE

Theoretical Physicist · Director of the Manhattan Project

Steve Jobs

1,955 CE – 2,011 CE

Co-founder of Apple · Founder of NeXT · CEO of Pixar

Bill Gates

1,955 CE

Co-founder of Microsoft · Philanthropist · Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Elon Musk

1,971 CE

Founder/CEO of SpaceX · CEO of Tesla · Owner of X · Founder of Neuralink and xAI

Tim Berners-Lee

1,955 CE

Computer Scientist · Inventor of the World Wide Web

Leonhard Euler

1,707 CE – 1,783 CE

Mathematician · Physicist · Author of 866 Works

Euclid

c. 325 BCE – 265 BCE

Mathematician · Author of the Elements

Johann Sebastian Bach

1,685 CE – 1,750 CE

Composer · Cantor · Organist of the Baroque

The Beatles

1,960 CE – 1,970 CE

Rock Band · Cultural Phenomenon · Liverpool

Homer

c. 800 BCE – 750 BCE

Poet · Author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

Dante Alighieri

1,265 CE – 1,321 CE

Poet · Political Exile · Author of the Divine Comedy

Miguel de Cervantes

1,547 CE – 1,616 CE

Novelist · Author of Don Quixote

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1,821 CE – 1,881 CE

Novelist · Author of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov

René Descartes

1,596 CE – 1,650 CE

Philosopher · Mathematician · Father of Modern Philosophy

Immanuel Kant

1,724 CE – 1,804 CE

Philosopher · Author of the Critique of Pure Reason

Friedrich Nietzsche

1,844 CE – 1,900 CE

Philosopher · Classical Philologist · Author of Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Franklin D. Roosevelt

1,882 CE – 1,945 CE

32nd US President · Four-term Wartime Leader

John F. Kennedy

1,917 CE – 1,963 CE

35th US President · Cold War Statesman

Adolf Hitler

1,889 CE – 1,945 CE

Dictator of Nazi Germany · Architect of the Holocaust

Joseph Stalin

1,878 CE – 1,953 CE

General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party · Dictator 1924–1953

Neil Armstrong

1,930 CE – 2,012 CE

Astronaut · First Person on the Moon

Moses

c. 1,391 BCE – 1,271 BCE

Prophet · Lawgiver · Liberator of the Hebrew Slaves

Abraham

c. 1,996 BCE – 1,821 BCE

Patriarch of the Three Abrahamic Religions

Queen Elizabeth II

1,926 CE – 2,022 CE

Queen of the United Kingdom · Head of the Commonwealth

George Washington

1,732 CE – 1,799 CE

1st President of the United States · Commander of the Continental Army

Thomas Jefferson

1,743 CE – 1,826 CE

3rd President of the United States · Author of the Declaration of Independence

Benjamin Franklin

1,706 CE – 1,790 CE

Polymath · Founding Father · Diplomat · Inventor

Alexander Hamilton

1,755 CE – 1,804 CE

1st Secretary of the Treasury · Co-author of The Federalist Papers

Johannes Vermeer

1,632 CE – 1,675 CE

Dutch Golden Age painter · Master of light and domestic interior

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

1,571 CE – 1,610 CE

Italian Baroque painter · Pioneer of chiaroscuro and tenebrism

Diego Velázquez

1,599 CE – 1,660 CE

Spanish Baroque painter · Court painter to Philip IV of Spain

Francisco de Goya

1,746 CE – 1,828 CE

Spanish painter and printmaker · Court painter turned unflinching witness of war

Richard Wagner

1,813 CE – 1,883 CE

Composer of the Ring Cycle · Founder of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus

Johannes Brahms

1,833 CE – 1,897 CE

Romantic composer · Master of the symphony, concerto, and German lied

Franz Schubert

1,797 CE – 1,828 CE

Master of the German lied · Composer of 600+ songs, symphonies, and chamber music

Antonio Vivaldi

1,678 CE – 1,741 CE

Baroque composer and violinist · Composer of The Four Seasons

Peter the Great

1,672 CE – 1,725 CE

Tsar of All Russia · Founder of the Russian Empire

Vladimir Lenin

1,870 CE – 1,924 CE

Founder of the Soviet State · Leader of the October Revolution

Leon Trotsky

1,879 CE – 1,940 CE

Founder of the Red Army · Leader of the October Revolution

Mikhail Gorbachev

1,931 CE – 2,022 CE

Last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union · Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

King Sejong the Great

1,397 CE – 1,450 CE

Fourth King of Joseon · Creator of the Hangul Alphabet

Katsushika Hokusai

1,760 CE – 1,849 CE

Ukiyo-e Master · Painter of The Great Wave

Du Fu

712 CE – 770 CE

Tang Dynasty Poet · the Poet Sage (Shisheng)

Admiral Yi Sun-shin

1,545 CE – 1,598 CE

Admiral of the Joseon Navy · Commander at Hansando and Myeongnyang

John Locke

1,632 CE – 1,704 CE

Empiricist Philosopher · Author of Two Treatises of Government

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1,712 CE – 1,778 CE

Philosopher · Author of The Social Contract · Precursor of Romanticism

David Hume

1,711 CE – 1,776 CE

Scottish Empiricist Philosopher · Historian · Author of A Treatise of Human Nature

Adam Smith

1,723 CE – 1,790 CE

Scottish Economist · Moral Philosopher · Father of Modern Economics · Author of The Wealth of Nations

José Rizal

1,861 CE – 1,896 CE

Novelist · National Hero of the Philippines · Polymath

Aung San Suu Kyi

1,945 CE

Nobel Peace Laureate · Leader of the National League for Democracy · State Counsellor of Myanmar

Lee Kuan Yew

1,923 CE – 2,015 CE

Founding Prime Minister of Singapore · Architect of the Singapore Miracle

Sukarno

1,901 CE – 1,970 CE

First President of Indonesia · Founder of the Non-Aligned Movement · Architect of Indonesian Independence

Jane Austen

1,775 CE – 1,817 CE

Novelist · Author of Pride and Prejudice

Charles Dickens

1,812 CE – 1,870 CE

Novelist · Author of Oliver Twist and Bleak House

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1,749 CE – 1,832 CE

Poet · Novelist · Playwright · Author of Faust

Franz Kafka

1,883 CE – 1,924 CE

Czech-Austrian Novelist · Author of The Trial and The Metamorphosis

Rabindranath Tagore

1,861 CE – 1,941 CE

Bengali Polymath · Nobel Laureate in Literature

Swami Vivekananda

1,863 CE – 1,902 CE

Hindu Monk · Founder of Ramakrishna Mission

Chandragupta Maurya

c. 350 BCE – 295 BCE

Founder of the Maurya Empire

B.R. Ambedkar

1,891 CE – 1,956 CE

Architect of the Indian Constitution · Dalit Leader

Édouard Manet

1,832 CE – 1,883 CE

Modernist painter · Olympia · Bar at the Folies-Bergère

Paul Cézanne

1,839 CE – 1,906 CE

Post-Impressionist painter · Father of Modern Art · Mont Sainte-Victoire

Edgar Degas

1,834 CE – 1,917 CE

Realist and Impressionist painter · Sculptor · Painter of dancers and modern life

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1,841 CE – 1,919 CE

Impressionist painter · Bal du moulin de la Galette · Celebrant of Parisian life

Zoroaster

c. 1,200 BCE – 1,000 BCE

Founder of Zoroastrianism · Prophet of Ahura Mazda

Solomon

c. 990 BCE – 931 BCE

King of Israel · Builder of the First Temple in Jerusalem

Nebuchadnezzar II

c. 642 BCE – 562 BCE

King of the Neo-Babylonian Empire · Destroyer of Jerusalem · Builder of Babylon

Suleiman the Magnificent

1,494 CE – 1,566 CE

10th Ottoman Sultan · Lawgiver · Patron of the Golden Age of Ottoman Culture

Trajan

53 CE – 117 CE

Roman Emperor · Conqueror of Dacia · Builder of Trajan's Forum and Column

Hadrian

76 CE – 138 CE

Roman Emperor · Builder of Hadrian's Wall · Restorer of the Pantheon · Philhellene

Constantine the Great

c. 272 CE – 337 CE

First Christian Roman Emperor · Founder of Constantinople · Convener of the Council of Nicaea

Diocletian

244 CE – 311 CE

Roman Emperor · Architect of the Tetrarchy · Reformer of the Roman State

Jean-Paul Sartre

1,905 CE – 1,980 CE

Existentialist philosopher · Playwright · Novelist · Nobel Prize refuser

Simone de Beauvoir

1,908 CE – 1,986 CE

Philosopher · Feminist theorist · Novelist · Author of The Second Sex

Albert Camus

1,913 CE – 1,960 CE

Algerian-French philosopher · Novelist · Nobel Laureate in Literature

Hannah Arendt

1,906 CE – 1,975 CE

German-American political philosopher · Author of The Origins of Totalitarianism

Timur (Tamerlane)

1,336 CE – 1,405 CE

Turco-Mongol Conqueror · Founder of the Timurid Empire

Abu Rayhan al-Biruni

973 CE – 1,048 CE

Persian Polymath · Astronomer · Mathematician

Ulugh Beg

1,394 CE – 1,449 CE

Timurid Astronomer-King · Builder of the Samarkand Observatory

Babur

1,483 CE – 1,530 CE

Founder of the Mughal Empire in India · Poet and Memoirist

William the Conqueror

c. 1,028 CE – 1,087 CE

Duke of Normandy · King of England · Architect of the Norman Conquest

Richard the Lionheart

1,157 CE – 1,199 CE

King of England · Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine · Commander of the Third Crusade

Henry V

1,386 CE – 1,422 CE

King of England · Heir to France · Victor of Agincourt

Henry VIII

1,491 CE – 1,547 CE

King of England · Supreme Head of the Church of England · Architect of the English Reformation

Imhotep

c. 2,700 BCE – 2,600 BCE

Architect · Vizier · Healer · God of Medicine

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Sappho

c. 620 BCE – 550 BCE

Lyric Poet · The Tenth Muse

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Lao Tzu

c. 601 BCE – 531 BCE

Philosopher · The Old Master

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Aryabhata

476 CE – 550 CE

Mathematician · Astronomer

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Toussaint Louverture

1,743 CE – 1,803 CE

Liberator of Haiti

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Harriet Tubman

c. 1,822 CE – 1,913 CE

Abolitionist · Conductor of the Underground Railroad

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Greta Thunberg

2,003 CE

Swedish Climate Activist

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Frederick the Great

1,712 CE – 1,786 CE

King of Prussia · Enlightened Soldier-King

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Emily Dickinson

1,830 CE – 1,886 CE

Poet

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Sargon of Akkad

c. 2,334 BCE – 2,279 BCE

King of Akkad · First Empire-Builder

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Nefertiti

c. 1,370 BCE – 1,330 BCE

Great Royal Wife of Akhenaten · Possible Pharaoh

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Pythagoras

c. 570 BCE – 495 BCE

Mathematician · Philosopher · Founder of the Pythagorean Brotherhood

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Aspasia of Miletus

c. 470 BCE – 400 BCE

Influential Companion · Salonnière of Periclean Athens

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Hypatia of Alexandria

c. 360 CE – 415 CE

Mathematician · Astronomer · Neoplatonist

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Justinian I

482 CE – 565 CE

Byzantine Emperor · Lawgiver of Rome

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Empress Theodora

c. 500 CE – 548 CE

Byzantine Empress · Co-Sovereign

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Leonardo of Pisa (Fibonacci)

c. 1,170 CE – 1,250 CE

Mathematician · Translator of Indo-Arabic numerals

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Saladin (Salah ad-Din)

1,137 CE – 1,193 CE

Sultan of Egypt and Syria · Founder of the Ayyubid Dynasty

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Hildegard of Bingen

1,098 CE – 1,179 CE

Benedictine Abbess · Composer · Visionary · Polymath

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Thomas Aquinas

1,225 CE – 1,274 CE

Dominican Friar · Theologian · Doctor of the Church

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Christine de Pizan

c. 1,364 CE – 1,430 CE

Author · Court Poet · First Professional Woman Writer in Europe

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Mary, Queen of Scots

1,542 CE – 1,587 CE

Queen of Scotland · Queen Consort of France · Pretender to England

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Pocahontas (Matoaka)

c. 1,596 CE – 1,617 CE

Powhatan Princess · Cultural Intermediary

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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

1,648 CE – 1,695 CE

Hieronymite Nun · Poet · Playwright · Scholar

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James Clerk Maxwell

1,831 CE – 1,879 CE

Physicist · Theorist of Electromagnetism

Niels Bohr

1,885 CE – 1,962 CE

Physicist · Architect of Quantum Theory

Louis Pasteur

1,822 CE – 1,895 CE

Chemist · Microbiologist · Father of Germ Theory

Carl Sagan

1,934 CE – 1,996 CE

Astronomer · Author · Public Educator of Science

Sigmund Freud

1,856 CE – 1,939 CE

Neurologist · Founder of Psychoanalysis

Rosalind Franklin

1,920 CE – 1,958 CE

Chemist · X-ray Crystallographer

Archimedes of Syracuse

c. 287 BCE – 212 BCE

Mathematician · Engineer · Inventor

Carl Friedrich Gauss

1,777 CE – 1,855 CE

Mathematician · Physicist · The Prince of Mathematicians

Sandro Botticelli

1,445 CE – 1,510 CE

Painter · Master of the Florentine Renaissance

Raphael

1,483 CE – 1,520 CE

Painter · Architect · Master of the High Renaissance

Rembrandt van Rijn

1,606 CE – 1,669 CE

Painter · Etcher · Master of the Dutch Golden Age

Claude Monet

1,840 CE – 1,926 CE

Painter · Founder of Impressionism

Andy Warhol

1,928 CE – 1,987 CE

Pop Artist · Filmmaker · Founder of the Factory

Frédéric Chopin

1,810 CE – 1,849 CE

Composer · Pianist of the Romantic Era

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

1,840 CE – 1,893 CE

Composer of the Russian Romantic School

Elvis Presley

1,935 CE – 1,977 CE

Singer · The King of Rock and Roll

Bob Dylan

1,941 CE

Singer-Songwriter · Nobel Laureate in Literature

Michael Jackson

1,958 CE – 2,009 CE

Singer · Dancer · The King of Pop

Muhammad Ali

1,942 CE – 2,016 CE

Heavyweight Boxer · Civil Rights Voice

Walt Disney

1,901 CE – 1,966 CE

Animator · Studio Founder · Theme-Park Visionary

Mark Twain

1,835 CE – 1,910 CE

Novelist · Humourist · The Father of American Literature

Yuri Gagarin

1,934 CE – 1,968 CE

Cosmonaut · First Person in Space

Amelia Earhart

1,897 CE – 1,937 CE

Aviation Pioneer · First Woman to Fly the Atlantic Solo

Marco Polo

1,254 CE – 1,324 CE

Venetian Merchant · Travel Writer · Diplomat to the Khan

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

1,935 CE

Spiritual Leader of Tibetan Buddhism · Nobel Peace Laureate

Princess Diana

1,961 CE – 1,997 CE

Princess of Wales · Humanitarian Campaigner

Pierre de Fermat

1,607 CE – 1,665 CE

Mathematician · Lawyer · Amateur Number-Theorist

Salvador Dalí

1,904 CE – 1,989 CE

Painter · Surrealist Provocateur

Hammurabi

1,810 BCE – 1,750 BCE

King of Babylon

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Alexander the Great

356 BCE – 323 BCE

Macedonian King

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Cleopatra VII

69 BCE – 30 BCE

Pharaoh of Egypt

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Jesus of Nazareth

c. 4 BCE – 30 CE

Religious teacher

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Prophet Muhammad

570 CE – 632 CE

Founder of Islam

Charlemagne

742 CE – 814 CE

Emperor

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Genghis Khan

1,162 CE – 1,227 CE

Mongol Emperor

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Leonardo da Vinci

1,452 CE – 1,519 CE

Polymath

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Isaac Newton

1,643 CE – 1,727 CE

Scientist

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Napoleon Bonaparte

1,769 CE – 1,821 CE

Emperor of France

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Charles Darwin

1,809 CE – 1,882 CE

Naturalist

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Mahatma Gandhi

1,869 CE – 1,948 CE

Leader of Independence

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Albert Einstein

1,879 CE – 1,955 CE

Physicist

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Martin Luther King Jr.

1,929 CE – 1,968 CE

Civil Rights Leader

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Nelson Mandela

1,918 CE – 2,013 CE

President of South Africa

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Mao Zedong

1,893 CE – 1,976 CE

Leader

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Zheng He

1,405 CE – 1,433 CE

Ming fleet commander

Ibn Battuta

c. 1,325 CE – 1,354 CE

Traveller and narrator of the Rihla

Al-Idrisi

c. 1,100 CE – 1,166 CE

Geographer and cartographer

Kate Sheppard

1,847 CE – 1,934 CE

Women’s suffrage organiser

Confucius

551 BCE – 479 BCE

Philosopher

Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddha)

563 BCE – 483 BCE

Religious teacher