Hint | Answer |
Italian polymath known for his works like 'Mona Lisa' and 'The Last Supper' | Leonardo da Vinci |
Polish astronomer who proposed the heliocentric theory | Nicolaus Copernicus |
Italian sculptor, painter, and architect known for his works such as 'The David' | Michelangelo Buonarotti |
German theologian who initiated the Protestant Reformation with his '95 Theses' | Martin Luther |
English Queen whose reign marked the flourishing of drama and exploration | Elizabeth I of England |
Portuguese explorer who led the first circumnavigation of the Earth | Ferdinand Magellan |
French theologian during the Protestant Reformation and founder of Calvinism | John Calvin |
Italian diplomat and philosopher best known for 'The Prince' | Niccolò Machiavelli |
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire who ruled during its peak in power and influence | Suleiman the Magnificent |
English philosopher known for his advocation of the scientific method | Francis Bacon |
Italian astronomer who observed Jupiter's moons with his telescope | Galileo Galilei |
English playwright and poet during the Elizabethan Era known for 'Macbeth' | William Shakespeare |
English mathematician who formulated the laws of motion | Isaac Newton |
Dutch painter and etcher known for his works like 'The Night Watch' | Rembrandt |
French philosopher known for his statement "Cogito, ergo sum" | René Descartes |
French mathematician and inventor of the calculator | Blaise Pascal |
German astronomer known for his laws of planetary motion | Johannes Kepler |
English philosopher known for advocating for natural rights and the social contract | John Locke |
French monarch known as the "Sun King" who ruled for over 70 years | Louis XIV of France |
French explorer and founder of Quebec | Samuel de Champlain |
French Enlightenment philosopher known for advocating for freedom of speech | Voltaire |
American founding father and polymath known for inventing bifocals | Benjamin Franklin |
French philosopher known for his work on political theory and the social contract | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
First President of the United States | George Washington |
Empress of Russia who promoted Westernization | Catherine the Great |
Scottish economist and author of 'The Wealth of Nations' | Adam Smith |
German philosopher known for 'Critique of Pure Reason' | Immanuel Kant |
Austrian composer who is widely considered the greatest of all time | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
French military leader and emperor who was exiled to an island | Napoleon Bonaparte |
Queen of France who was executed during the French Revolution | Marie Antoinette |
English naturalist who developed the theory of evolution by natural selection | Charles Darwin |
16th President of the United States during the Civil War who abolished slavery | Abraham Lincoln |
German philosopher who co-authored 'The Communist Manifesto' | Karl Marx |
Queen of the U.K. who expanded the British Empire to India | Queen Victoria |
French chemist who developed the germ theory of disease | Louis Pasteur |
American inventor known for creating the electric lightbulb and phonograph | Thomas Edison |
Russian novelist known for his works 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina' | Leo Tolstoy |
Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud |
English nurse during the Crimean War and founder of modern nursing | Florence Nightingale |
Serbian-American inventor known for his work on AC electrical systems | Niokola Tesla |
German-born physicist who developed the theory of relativity | Albert Einstein |
Indian nationalist who led the non-violent struggle for independence from Britain | Mahatma Gandhi |
32nd President of the United States during WWII and the Great Depression | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
British Prime Minister during World War II | Winston Churchill |
Polish-French physicist who pioneered radioactivity and won the Nobel Prize | Marie Curie |
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and the country's first Black president | Nelson Mandela |
American civil rights leader who championed non-violent resistance | Martin Luther King Jr. |
Spanish artist who co-founded Cubism | Pablo Picasso |
Argentine Marxist revolutionary who played a key role in the Cuban Revolution | Che Guevara |
35th President of the United States known for his role in the Cuban Missile Crisis | John F. Kennedy |
Spanish conquistador whose expedition caused the fall of the Aztec Empire | Hernán Cortés |
First Tsar of Russia | Ivan the Terrible |
Mughal Emperor who consolidated the Empire and promoted religious tolerance | Akbar the Great |
English scholar who translated the Bible into English | William Tyndale |
English mathematician, astronomer, and occult philosopher of the Elizabethan Era | John Dee |
Danish astronomer who aided in the formulation of the laws of planetary motion | Tycho Brahe |
Spanish novelist and author of 'Don Quixote' | Miguel de Cervantes |
First Englishman to circumnavigate the globe | Sir Francis Drake |
King of England who established the Church of England after breaking from Rome | Henry VIII of England |
French philosopher who popularized the essay as a literary form | Michel de Montaigne |
English leader who led the Parliamentarian victory and ruled as Lord Protector | Oliver Cromwell |
English poet best known for his work 'Paradise Lost' | John Milton |
Russian Tsar who modernized and expanded Russia | Peter the Great |
English preacher and author of 'The Pilgrim's Progress' | John Bunyan |
German Jesuit scholar who made significant contributions to the study of Egypt | Athanasius Kircher |
Dutch philosopher in the Enlightenment known for 'Ethics' | Baruch Spinoza |
Dutch astronomer known for discovering Titan, Saturn's Moon | Christiaan Hayes |
German composer and musician known for his work 'D Minor Partita' | Johann Sebastian Bach |
English philosopher and author of 'Leviathan' | Thomas Hobbes |
American Revolutionary War general who spied for the British | Benedict Arnold |
Irish philosopher known for his critique of the French Revolution | Edmund Burke |
Scottish engineer known for improving the steam engine | James Watt |
French philosopher, co-founder and chief editor of the Enclyclopédie | Denis Diderot |
English-born American political activist and author of 'Common Sense' | Thomas Paine |
English chemist who discovered oxygen | Joseph Priestley |
Prussian King who expanded Prussian territory and influence in Europe | Frederick the Great |
Italian writer known for his memoirs depicting European high society in the 1700s | Casanova |
English poet known for his satirical work and translation of Homer | Alexander Pope |
British statesman known for his leadership during the Seven Years' War | William Pitt the Elder |
British monarch during the American Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars | George III of the U.K. |
English novelist known for his works 'A Christmas Carol' and 'Oliver Twist' | Charles Dickens |
German statesman who unified Germany and served as its first Chancellor | Otto van Bismarck |
Deaf German composer during the Classical and Romantic eras | Ludwig van Beethoven |
Scottish-born inventor credited with inventing the telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
American women's rights activist during the suffrage movement | Susan B. Anthony |
American abolitionist and orator known for gaining freedom as a former slave | Frederick Douglass |
Italian general and nationalist who played a large role in unifying Italy | Giuseppe Garibaldi |
German composer and pianist during the Romantic period known for 'Wiegenlied' | Johannes Brahms |
American writer and poet known for her posthumously published works | Emily Dickinson |
American novelist known for works like 'The Old Man and the Sea' | Ernest Hemingway |
Leader of the Bolshevik Party and founder of the Soviet Union | Vladimir Lenin |
Soviet leader who led during the Great Purge and World War II | Joseph Stalin |
American architect known for his designs such as Fallingwater | Frank Lloyd Wright |
American aviator and first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean | Amelia Earhart |
American historian, civil rights activist and co-founder of the NAACP | W.E.B. Du Bois |
English writer known for her works 'Mrs. Dalloway' and 'To the Lighthouse' | Virginia Woolf |
American film producer and entrepreneur known for pioneering animated films | Walt Disney |
Cuban politician who led the Cuban Revolution | Fidel Castro |
Chilean poet and diplomat awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature | Pablo Neruda |
Leader of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland | John Knox |
Spanish conquistador who led the conquest of the Inca Empire | Francisco Pizarro |
Italian architect who founded Palladian architecture | Andrea Palladio |
Flemish cartographer who created the 1569 world map | Gerardus Mercator |
Portuguese explorer and first European to reach India by sea | Vasco da Gama |
Greek painter, sculptor, architect, and precursor to modern art and Mannerism | El Greco |
German painter known for his impact on the Northern Renaissance | Albrecht Dürer |
Spanish priest who founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) | Ignatius of Loyola |
King of Spain who ruled during the defeat of the Spanish Armada | Philip II of Spain |
Spanish philosopher and founder of international law | Francisco de Vitoria |
English physician and first person to describe the circulation of blood in humans | William Harvey |
Dutch scientist known as the father of microbiology | Antonie van Leeuwenhoek |
German philosopher and mathematician who co-founded calculus | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz |
French statesman who served as the Minister of Finances under the "Sun King" | Jean-Baptiste Colbert |
Swedish Queen who abdicated her throne to convert to Catholicism | Christina of Sweden |
Swiss mathematician who contributed to the field of probability | Jacob Bernoulli |
English scientist known for his law of elasticity | Robert Hooke |
French naturalist and early proponent of evolutionary theory | Jean-Baptiste Lamarck |
Scottish philosopher known for his empirical skepticism | David Hume |
English cleric and founder of Methodism | John Wesley |
British explorer who made maps of the Pacific and discovered numerous islands | James Cook |
British admiral known for his naval victory at the Battle of Trafalgar | Horatio Nelson |
French lawyer and politician who led during the Reign of Terror | Maximilien Robespierre |
English writer and author of 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' | Mary Wollstonecraft |
Austrian scientist known for his experiments with pea plants | Gregor Mendel |
German philosopher known for the concept of the "Übermensch" | Friedrich Nietzsche |
French painter and founder of Impressionism known for works like 'Water Lillies' | Claude Monet |
French novelist and author of 'Les Misérables' | Victor Hugo |
American abolitionist and conductor of the Underground Railroad | Harriet Tubman |
Swedish chemist and inventor who established the Nobel Prizes | Alfred Nobel |
Scottish-American industrialist known for his work in the steel industry | Andrew Carnegie |
German dictator and leader of Nazi Germany | Adolf Hitler |
Swiss reformer who played a key role in the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland | Ulrich Zwingli |
Italian Renaissance painter and one of the first female artists to gain popularity | Sofonisba Anguissola |
Italian philosopher and advocate of the infinite universe theory | Giordano Bruno |
English playwright and poet known for 'Volpone' and 'The Alchemist' | Ben Jonson |
Catholic missionary who helped spread Christianity to Japan and India | Francis Xavier |
Spanish painter known for his masterpiece 'Las Meninas' | Diego Velázquez |
French clergyman and key figure during the Thirty Years' War | Cardinal Richelieu |
French barber surgeon considered one of the fathers of modern surgery | Ambroise Paré |
Italian sculptor and architect known for works such as Ecstasy of Saint Teresa | Gian Lorenzo Bernini |
English diarist known for his account of 17th century England and the Great Fire | Samuel Pepys |
English Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania | William Penn |
English naturalist considered the father of English natural history | John Ray |
English explorer who explored parts of the Arctic and northeastern North America | Henry Hudson |
French political philosopher best known for his theory of the separation of powers | Montesquieu |
Russian novelist and author of works such as 'Crime and Punishment' | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Norwegian playwright often called the father of modern drama | Henrik Ibsen |
Polish composer and pianist known for his nocturnes and ballades | Frederic Chopin |
Portuguese navigator credited with the discovery of Brazil | Pedro Álvares Cabral |
Queen of France who had significant influence during the French Wars of Religion | Catherine de' Medici |
English composer known for his music such as the '40-oart motet Spem in alium' | Thomas Tallis |
Female Regent of the Netherlands who played a key role in 16th century politics | Margaret of Austria |
German-Swiss painter known for his portraits of prominent figures like Henry VIII | Hans Holbein the Younger |
Spanish mystic known for her contributions to the Carmelite Order | Saint Teresa of Ávila |
Italian Jesuit priest known for his exchange efforts between China and the West | Matteo Ricci |
Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain who ruled during the 16th century | Charles V |
Governor of the Plymouth Colony who helped establish colonies in New England | William Bradford |
Irish chemist known as one of the founders of modern chemistry | Robert Boyle |
English Puritan lawyer and helped found the Massachusetts Bay Colony | John Winthrop |
Playwright and one of the first English women to earn a living by writing | Aphra Behn |
Grand Duke of Tuscany who supported Galileo | Ferdinando II de' Medici |
French dramatist known for his tragedies such as 'Phèdre' | Jean Racine |
English writer who recorded observations during the English Civil War | John Evelyn |
Dutch jurist known for his work 'On the Law of War and Peace' | Hugo Grotius |
3rd President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
English writer known for compiling 'A Dictionary of the English Language' in 1755 | Samuel Johnson |
Austrian composer known as the "Father of the Symphony" | Joseph Haydn |
4th President of the United States known as the "Father of the Constitution" | James Madison |
French revolutionary leader during the Revolution known for his radical stance | Jean-Paul Marat |
English physician who pioneered the smallpox vaccine | Edward Jenner |
English philosopher and author of 'On Liberty and Utilitarianism' | John Stuart Mill |
Italian composer known for his operas such as 'Aida' and 'La Traviata' | Giuseppe Verdi |
English poet known for his works such as 'Songs of Innocence and of Experience' | William Blake |
British geologist and author of 'Principles of Geology' | Charles Lyell |
British naturalist who made the theory of evolution by natural selection with Darwin | Alfred Russel Wallace |
German philosopher known for his critique of religion and Marxist thought | Ludwig Feuerbach |
French painter known for works like 'Olympia' | Édouard Manet |
French mathematician known for his work on statistics and celestial mechanics | Pierre-Simon Laplace |
German engineer who made the first automobile powered by internal engines | Karl Benz |
German geographic who made contributions to biogeography and climatology | Alexander von Humboldt |
Swiss-French architect and pioneer of the International Style | Le Corbusier |
Her refusal to give up her bus seat greatly impacted the fight against segregation | Rosa Parks |
First female British Prime Minister known for her conservative politics | Margaret Thatcher |
British computer scientist who developed Enigma during WWII | Alan Turing |
African-American Muslim minister and activist during the Civil Rights Movement | Malcolm X |
Mexican painter known for her self-portraits exploring identity and gender | Frida Kahlo |
First Prime Minister of India | Jawaharlal Nehru |
American artist and leading figure in the Pop Art movement | Andy Warhol |
English writer and author of '1984' and 'Animal Farm' | George Orwell |
Italian author known for 'The Book of the Courtier' | Baldassare Castiglione |
Swiss physician who revolutionized medicine by avoiding the use of chemicals | Paracelsus |
Flemish Renaissance painter known for 'The Hunters in the Snow' | Pieter Bruegel the Elder |
Spanish explorer and first European to navigate the length of the Amazon River | Francisco de Orellana |
Venetian painter known for his work 'Assumption of the Virgin' | Titian |
Dutch Anabaptist religious leader and helped develop the Mennonite church | Menno Simons |
French poet and prominent member of the Pléiade group of poets | Pierre de Ronsard |
Flemish Baroque painter known for his work for royal courts across Europe | Peter Paul Rubens |
Founder of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan lasting over 250 years | Tokugawa Ieyasu |
Japanese poet regarded as the master of haikus | Matsuo Basho |
Dutch painter known for his works like 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' | Johannes Vermeer |
Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire whose reign ended the Thirty Years' War | Ferdinand III |
French playwright and author of 'The Declaration of the Rights of Woman' | Olympe de Gouges |
German composer known for his operas such as 'The Ring of Nibelung' | Richard Wagner |
English mathematician known as the first computer programmer | Ada Lovelace |
Abolitionist and women's rights activist known for her speech 'Ain't I a Woman?' | Sojourner Truth |
South American revolutionary who helped many countries gain independence | Simón Bolívar |
French philosopher, father of sociology and founder of positivism | Auguste Comte |
French poet and author of 'Les Fleurs du Mal' | Charles Baudelaire |
English politician and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade in Britain | William Wilberforce |
Chinese regent who ruled during the late Qing Dynasty | Empress Dowager Cixi |
French civil engineer known for designing the Eiffel Tower | Gustave Eiffel |
American theoretical physicist who led the Manhattan Project | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
Founder of Pakistan | Muhammad Ali Jinnah |
Polish labor leader and founder of Solidarity | Lech Wałęsa |
American feminist and author of 'The Feminine Mystique' | Betty Friedan |
Soviet cosmonaut and first person to journey into outer space | Yuri Gagarin |
Burmese leader of the pro-democracy movement in Myanmar | Aung San Suu Kyi |
American activist and key figure in the feminist movement of the late 20th century | Gloria Steinem |
Founder of the State of Israel and its first Prime Minister | David Ben-Gurion |
German-American political theorist known for work 'The Origins of Totalitarianism' | Hannah Arendt |
French astrologer famous for his book of prophecies | Nostradamus |
German Lutheran reformer and collaborator of Martin Luther | Philipp Melanchthon |
Duke of Parma and commander in the wars against Protestant states of Europe | Alessandro Farnese |
Duke of Mantua and builder of the Palazzo Te | Federico II Gonzaga |
Huguenot leader in the French Wars of Religion | Gaspard II de Coligny |
Scottish scholar and tutor of King James VI of Scotland | George Buchanan |
English poet and author of 'Arcadia' and 'Astrophil and Stella' | Philip Sidney |
Italian poet best known for his epic 'Orlando Furioso' | Lodovico Ariosto |
American poet and first published female poet in the English colonies | Anne Bradstreet |
Russian polymath who contributed to literature, chemistry and education | Mikhail Lomonosov |
Italian biologist known as the father of microscopical anatomy | Marcello Malpighi |
Archbishop of Canterbury known for his efforts to reform the Church of England | William Laud |
English physician known as the "English Hippocrates" | Thomas Sydenham |
American colonist captured by Native Americans and known for escaping captivity | Hannah Dutton |
English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal | John Flamsteed |
German-American colonist who led a rebellion against British authorities in NY | Jacob Leisler |
British aristocrat born into slavery and raised a free gentlewoman in England | Dido Elizabeth Belle |
English inventor who developed the power loom | Edmund Cartwright |
First Lady of the United States and advocate for women's rights in the early 1800s | Abigail Adams |
Swedish astronomer who invented a temperature scale in his name | Anders Celsius |
Leader of the Haitian Revolution | Toussaint Louverture |
Italian librettist who worked on famous operas such as 'Don Giovanni' | Lorenzo Da Ponte |
English philosopher and founder of modern utilitarianism | Jeremy Bentham |
English naturalist who participated in Captain Cook's first voyage to the Pacific | Joseph Banks |
Italian Neoclassical sculptor known for his work 'Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss' | Antonio Canova |
French painter known for works like 'The Death of Socrates' | Jacques-Louis David |
Swedish Botanist who developed the modern system of naming organisms | Carl Linnaeus |
Scottish philosopher and one of the founding figures of the Scottish Enlightenment | Francis Hutcheson |
British officer who helped establish British control in India | Robert Clive |
Italian physicist known for inventing the electric battery and discovering methane | Alessandro Volta |
Hint | Answer |
English inventor who invented the water frame | Richard Arkwright |
English scientist who made discoveries in electromagnetism and electrochemistry | Michael Faraday |
Hungarian composer and conductor known for 'La campanella' | Franz Liszt |
American abolitions who led the raid on Harpers Ferry to start a slave revolt | John Brown |
American philosopher known for 'Walden' | Henry David Thoreau |
American suffragist, activist, and a leader of the women's rights movement | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
Female German pianist and composer during the Romantic era | Clara Schumann |
Emperor of Mexico whose reign ended after the fall of the Second Mexican Empire | Maximilian I of Mexico |
English author of 'Frankenstein' and pioneer of Gothic literature | Mary Shelley |
German philosopher and co-founder of Marxist Theory | Friedrich Engels |
American inventor who developed a code in his name and made the telegraph | Samuel Morse |
English novelist best known for her works 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Emma' | Jane Austen |
Scottish physicist and developer of the theory of electromagnetic radiation | James Clerk Maxwell |
Belgian King responsible for the colonization of the Congo Free State | Leopold II of Belgium |
Irish poet and playwright known for his work 'The Importance of Being Earnest' | Oscar Wilde |
American writer and poet best known for her novel 'Little Women' | Louisa May Alcott |
American author known for 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' | Mark Twain |
American abolitionist and author of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
English novelist and author of 'Wuthering Heights' | Emily Brontë |
French novelist and author of 'Madame Bovary' | Gustave Flaubert |
English cardinal who converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism | John Henry Newman |
French novelist known for his 'Les Rougon-Macquart' series | Émile Zola |
Spanish architect who built the Sagrada Família basilica in Barcelona | Antoni Gaudí |
American painter known for his illustrations of birds in 'The Birds of America' | John James Audubon |
English poet known for her sonnets and epic poem 'Aurora Leigh' | Elizabeth Barret Browning |
English poet known for his collection 'Men and Women' | Robert Browning |
British poet who served as Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
Italian opera composer known for 'La Bohéme' and 'Madame Butterfly' | Giacomo Puccini |
American poet known for his macabre stories such as 'The Raven' | Edgar Allen Poe |
American-British author of the novel 'The Portrait of a Lady' | Henry James |
Irish author best known for his Gothic novel 'Dracula' | Bram Stoker |
French composer known for his work 'Clair de Lune' | Claude Debussy |
American writer and author of the 'The Last of the Mohicans' | James Fenimore Cooper |
English novelist and author of 'Jane Eyre' | Charlotte Brontë |
American novelist and author of 'Moby Dick' | Herman Melville |
French author of 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' | Jules Verne |
Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary whose reign spanned nearly 68 years | Franz Joseph I |
English landscape painter known for his series of the River Stour | John Constable |
English novelist known for her works 'Middlemarch' and 'The Mill on the Floss' | George Eliot |
American Civil War general known for his "scorched earth" policies | William T Sherman |
German playwright, poet, and author of The Threepenny Opera | Bertolt Brecht |
Russian composer known for his work 'The Rite of Spring' | Igor Stravinsky |
American jazz singer known for her songs like 'Strange Fruit' | Billie Holiday |
American playwright best known for his work 'A Streetcar Named Desire' | Tennessee Williams |
American jazz singer known as the "First Lady of Song" | Ella Fitzgerald |
Irish modernist writer best known for his novel 'Ulysses' | James Joyce |
British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement | Emmeline Pankhurst |
American baseball player who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball | Jackie Robinson |
English actor who pioneered the silent film comedy as 'The Tramp' | Charlie Chaplin |
English writer best known for his work 'The Lord of the Rings' | J.R.R. Tolkien |
Soviet leader whose reforms led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union | Mikhail Gorbachev |
American medical researcher who developed the first effective polio vaccine | Jonas Salk |
American ciivl rights activist and author of 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings' | Maya Angelou |
American singer, actor, and "Rat Pack" member known for his song 'My Way' | Frank Sinatra |
American composer and conductor best known for his musical 'West Side Story' | Leonard Bernstein |
American poet, social activist, and leader of the Harlem Renaissance | Langston Hughes |
U.S. Attorney General under Kennedy who campaigned for the presidency | Robert F. Kennedy |
French fashion designer who founded her own fashion label in Paris in the 1920s | Coco Chanel |
British winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on x-ray crystallography | Dorothy Hodgkin |
First Lady of the United States during the Great Depression and World War II | Eleanor Roosevelt |
British economist and founder of modern macroeconomics | John Maynard Keynes |
American activist and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement | Dorothy Day |
First Lady known for her style and efforts to restore and preserve American culture | Jacqueline Kennedy |
American mathematician who calculated the first U.S. crewed spaceflight | Katherine Johnson |
American nurse and founder of the American Red Cross | Clara Barton |
Native American leader of the Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux tribe | Sitting Bull |
English writer known for his novel 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' | Thomas Hardy |
American landscape architect who designed New York's Central Park | Frederick Law Olmsted |
Scottish-American naturalist and key figure of the creation of National Parks | John Muir |
British statesman of the 19th century who served as Prime Minister four times | William Gladstone |
American political economist known for his work 'Progress and Poverty' | Henry George |
Founder and editor of the New-York Tribune | Horace Greeley |
British writer and explorer known for finding Dr David Livingstone | Henry Morton Stanley |
British surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery | Joseph Lister |
French neurologist known as the "father of modern neurology" | Jean-Martin Charcot |
Russian Emperor known for emancipating the serfs in 1861 | Alexander II of Russia |
Russian chemist and inventor of the Periodic Table of Elements | Dmitri Mendeleev |
American sharpshooter known for her role in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show | Annie Oakley |
King of the United Kingdom who reigned from 1901-1910 | Edward VII |
Jamaican nurse who played a key role in caring for soldiers in the Crimean War | Mary Seacole |
American novelist and author of 'The Age of Innocence' | Edith Wharton |
British Methodist preacher and founder of The Salvation Army | William Booth |
American inventor known for creating the cotton gin | Eli Whitney |
Mexican painter known for his involvement in the Mexican muralism movement | Diego Rivera |
American blues singer known as the "Empress of the Blues" | Bessie Smith |
American marine biologist, environmentalist, and author of 'Silent Spring' | Rachel Carson |
Prussian-American author best known for his novel 'Lolita' | Vladimir Nabokov |
American anthropologist who studied Pacific Islands in 'Coming of Age in Samoa' | Margaret Mead |
British conductor known for working with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Disney | Leopold Stokowski |
Italian inventor known for creating the radio | Guglielmo Marconi |
American dancer known as the 'Mother of Modern Dance' | Isadora Duncan |
American photographer known for her Depression-era work 'Migrant Mother' | Dorothea Lange |
Vietnamese revolutionary and leader of North Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh |
American jazz saxophonist and composer known for works like 'A Love Supreme' | John Coltrane |
French painter, sculptor and key figure in Fauvism | Henry Matisse |
American novelist and social critic known for his work 'Go Tell It on the Mountain' | James Baldwin |
American composer known for work Rhapsody in Blue' and opera 'Porgy & Bess' | George Gershwin |
Fourth Prime Minister of Israel and first woman to hold the office | Golda Meir |
Belgian surrealist artist known for images such as 'The Son of Man' | Rene Magritte |
American jazz bandleader known as the 'King of Swing' | Benny Goodman |
German industrialist who saved many Jews in the Holocaust by employing them | Oskar Schindler |
American poet and first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize | Gwendolyn Brooks |
American novelist and author of 'The Grapes of Wrath' and 'Of Mice and Men' | John Steinbeck |
Chinese communist revolutionary and founder of the People's Republic of China | Mao Zedong |
Female tennis player known for winning the "Battle of the Sexes" match in 1973 | Billie Jean King |
American actress first African-American to be nominated for an Academy Award | Dorothy Dandridge |
American poet and author of 'Leaves of Grass' | Walt Whitman |
Tennis player and first African-American to win Wimbledon and the U.S. Open | Arthur Ashe |
French artillery officer and central figure in the Dreyfus Affair | Alfred Dreyfus |
Cuban poet and key figure in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain | José Martí |
South African monarch who transformed the Zulu Kingdom during the early 1800s | Shaka Zulu |
British businessman in South Africa and founder of De Beers and Rhodesia | Cecil Rhodes |
Spanish painter known for works like 'The Third of May 1808' | Francisco Goya |
Chinese politician considered the founding father of the Republic of China | Sun Yat-sen |
Scottish writer known for works 'The French Revolution: A History' | Thomas Carlyle |
American industrialist and founder of the Central Pacific Railroad | Leland Stanford |
Third President of Egypt who played a key role in the Camp David Accords | Anwar Sadat |
Chilean politician and first Marxist to be elected president in a democratic country | Salvador Allende |
First Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo | Patrice Lumumba |
Israeli Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate for the Oslo Accords | Yitzhak Rabin |
Israeli Prime Minister who played a key role in the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty | Menachem Begin |
President of Uganda known for his brutal regime | Idi Amin |
Jordanian king who modernized Jordan and kept peace in the Middle East | King Hussein of Jordan |
Argentine First Lady who worked with the labor movement and women's suffrage | Eva Perón |
Kenyan environmentalist and founder of the Green Belt Movement | Wangari Maathai |
Yugoslav communist revolutionary who maintained independence from the Soviets | Josip Broz Tito |
Pakistani leader and first women to lead government in a Muslim-majority country | Benazir Bhutto |
Chancellor of West Germany known for his Ostpolitik policy | Willy Brandt |
Leader of the Iranian Revolution and first Supreme Leader of Iran | Ruhollah Khomeini |
33rd U.S. President known for ordering the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Harry S. Truman |
Iranian Shah and last Iranian monarch before the Revolution | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
Emperor of Ethiopia known for his leadership during the Italian invasion | Haile Selassie |
First Prime Minister and President of Ghana | Kwame Nkrumah |
First Chancellor of West Germany and key figure in post-war reintegration | Konrad Adenauer |
Leader of the Ismaili Muslims and figure inn founding the All-India Muslim League | Aga Khan III |
Leader of the Republic of China and the Kuomintang during the Chinese Civil War | Chiang Kai-shek |
British Prime Minister who established the National Health Service in the U.K. | Clement Attlee |
Egyptian President and key figure in the Non-Aligned Movement | Gamal Abdel Nasser |
First President of Senegal and proponent of the concept of Negritude | Leopold Senghor |
Chinese politician who led economic reforms and modernized 20th century China | Deng Xiaoping |
Yugoslav leader who kept Yugoslavia independent from Soviets in the Cold War | Marshal Josip Tito |
36th President of the U.S. who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law | Lyndon B. Johnson |
15th Prime Minister of Canada known for fostering Canadian unity | Pierre Trudeau |
Founder of the Fascist Party and leader of Italy during World War II | Benito Mussolini |
Mexican revolutionary leader who became an icon of peasant resistance | Emiliano Zapata |
General who led campaigns against government in the Mexican Revolution | Pancho Villa |
Irish revolutionary leader and key figure in the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty | Michael Collins |
Jamaican politician and activist who promoted Pan-Africanism | Marcus Garvey |
Polish-German Marxist theorist and co-founder of the Spartacist League | Rosa Luxemburg |
French political economist, diplomat and a founding father of the European Union | Jean Monnet |
French philosopher and founder of deconstruction | Jacques Derrida |
Russian Marxist and founder of the Red Army | Leon Trotsky |
Spanish military dictator who ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War | Francisco Franco |
French Prime Minister during WWII and figure in the Treaty of Versailles | George Clemenceau |
French film director and pioneer of the French New Wave Cinema | Jean-Luc Godard |
Panamanian leader ousted by a U.S. invasion for his role in drug trafficking | Manuel Noriega |
Japanese Emperor who led during World War II and post-war recovery | Emperor Hirohito |
Russian military engineer known for designing the AK-47 assault rifle | Mikhail Kalashnikov |
Indonesian President & leader of the independence movement against the Dutch | Sukarno |
First Jewish person and first socialist to serve as Prime Minister of France | Leon Blum |
Military officer, politician and President of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War | Nguyễn Van Thiếu |
Chancellor of West Germany who unified Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall | Helmut Kohl |
First President of South Vietnam known for his anti-communist stance | Ngo Dinh Diem |
President of the Philippines known for his declaration of martial law | Ferdinand Marcos |
President of Serbia and Yugoslavia during the Yugoslav Wars | Slobodan Milošević |
Leader of the Soviet Union who initiated the de-Stalinization process | Nikita Khrushchev |
Prime Minister of Portugal who established the Estado Novo regime | António Salazar |
French Supreme Allied Commander during World War I | Ferdinand Foch |
First President of South Korea with anti-communist policies during the Korean War | Syngman Rhee |
Founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk |
Longest-reigning British monarch throughout the 20th century | Queen Elizabeth II |
Dictator of the Dominican Republic during the early 20th century | Rafael Trujillo |
Dutch athlete and gold medal Olympian known as the "Flying Housewife" | Fanny Blankers-Koen |
Prime Minister of Iran who nationalized the Iranian oil industry | Mohammad Mosaddegh |
The first African-American student at the segregated University of Mississippi | James Meredith |
American suffragist who campaigned for the 19th and Equal Rights Amendments | Alice Paul |
Bosnian Serb nationalist and assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Gavrilo Princip |
American First Lady and founder of a substance abuse center in her name | Betty Ford |
28th President of the U.S. during WWI and a founder of the League of Nations | Woodrow Wilson |
Salvadoran Catholic archbishop and outspoken critic of human rights abuses | Oscar Romero |
Czechoslovak politician and leader of the Prague Spring | Alexander Dubček |
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | Konstantin Chernenko |
Russian writer who exposed the Soviet Union's gulag system | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
German/U.S. engineer who helped develop rocket technology in Nazi Germany | Wernher von Braun |
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom known for his role in decolonization post-war | Harold Macmillan |
President of Argentina who implemented free-market reforms | Carlos Menem |
First Tunisian President who led Tunisia to independence from France | Habib Bourguiba |
Soviet cosmonaut and figure in the Soviet Space program and Soyuz 11 mission | Vladislav Volkov |
Martinican psychiatrist known for his work 'The Wretched of the Earth' | Frantz Fanon |
Russian composer known for works like 'Peter and the Wolf' | Sergei Prokofiev |
First President of the Russian Federation after the collapse of the Soviet Union | Boris Yeltsin |
Nepali Sherpa mountaineer and one of the first to reach Mount Everest's summit | Tenzing Norgay |
New Zealand mountaineer and one of the first to reach Mount Everest's summit | Edmund Hillary |
American military leader and architect of the plan to rebuild Europe after WWII | George C. Marshall |
Chinese Premier and key figure in the Chinese Communist Party | Zhou Enlai |
Burkinabé military captain and leader of Burkina Faso | Thomas Sankara |
Austrian Archduke whose assassinated triggered the events leading to WWI | Franz Ferdinand |
Last King of Afghanistan who ruled from 1933 until he was overthrown in 1973 | Mohammed Zahir Shah |
American biologist known for the Kinsey Reports | Alfred Kinsey |
Pashtun independence activist known for his nonviolent opposition to British rule | Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
British primatologist known for her studies of chimpanzee behavior in Tanzania | Jane Goodall |
American professional boxer known for his opposition to the Vietnam War | Muhammad Ali |
Russian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 'Doctor Zhivago' | Boris Pasternak |
Nicaraguan President and leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front | Daniel Ortega |
Soviet physicist known for developing the Soviet hydrogen bomb | Andrei Sakharov |
American economist known for influencing modern conservative economic thought | Milton Friedman |
Czech playwright and key figure in the Velvet Revolution | Vaclav Havel |
American birth control activist and founder of Planned Parenthood | Margaret Sanger |
British writer known for his dystopian novel 'Brave New World' | Aldous Huxley |
31st President of the U.S. criticized for his handling of the Great Depression | Herbert Hoover |
President of France who oversaw the modernization of the French economy | Georges Pompidou |
Haitian dictator nicknamed "Papa Doc" known for his authoritarian regime | Jean-Claude Duvalier |
South Korean activist awarded the Nobel Prize for peace efforts with North Korea | Kim Dae-jung |
African-American entrepreneur and first female self-made millionaire in the U.S. | Madame C.J. Walker |
American architect known for designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial | Maya Lin |
Founding Prime Minister of Singapore responsible for its financial positioning | Lee Kuan Yew |
Polish diplomat and National Security Advisor to U.S. President Jimmy Carter | Zbigniew Brzezinski |
Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who protested in South Vietnam | Thích Quang Đức |
Cambodian king who led Cambodia through independence and monarchy | Norodom Sihanouk |
General Secretary of the Communist Party of China during its economic growth | Jiang Zemin |
Guatemalan indigenous and human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner | Rigoberta Menchú |
American actress turned Princess of Monaco | Grace Kelly |
German actress and singer known for her support for the Allied forces in WWII | Marlene Dietrich |
American comedian known for her television program 'I Love Lucy' | Lucille Ball |
South African President of the African National Congress during its years in exile | Oliver Tambo |
First African-American woman elected to the United States Congress | Shirley Chisholm |
Canadian leader of the UN peacekeeping mission during the Rwandan Genocide | Roméo Dallaire |
Israeli politician known for founding the Israeli Defense Force and UN speeches | Abba Ban |
First woman to become President of Nicaragua who ended the Sandinista regime | Violeta Chamorro |
First Nigerian President regarded as a founding father of Nigeria | Nnamdi Azikiwe |
British royal known for charitable work and humanitarian efforts in the 80s and 90s | Diana, Princess of Wales |
Taoiseach and President of Ireland who fought for Irish independence | Éamon de Valera |
Mexican writer known for works like 'The Death of Artemio Cruz' | Carlos Fuentes |
American astronaut and first American to orbit the Earth | John Glenn |
First President of Tanzania known for his philosophy of Ujamaa | Julius Nyerere |
Nigerian writer best known for his novel "Things Fall Apart" | Chinua Achebe |
Soviet film director and pioneer of montage theory known for 'Battleship Potemkin' | Sergei Einstein |
First American woman to win three gold medals in track & field in a single Olympic | Wilma Rudolph |
Australian Prime Minister who introduced universal healthcare and free college | Gough Whitlam |
Argentina Formula One driver who won five World Championships in the 1950s | Juan Manuel Fangio |
Brazilian architect known for designing the city of Brasília | Oscar Niemeyer |
First African-American Justice of the United States Supreme Court | Thurgood Marshall |
Norwegian explorer and first person to reach the South Pole | Roald Amundsen |
American philanthropist, billionaire, and co-founder of Microsoft | Bill Gates |
French entertainer, 1920s icon and member of the French Resistance | Josephine Baker |
French artist known for his paintings and sculptures depicting dancers | Edgar Degas |
American awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the Green Revolution | Norman Borlaug |
Romanian gymnast and first gymnast to score a perfect 10 at the Olympics | Nadia Comâneci |
French Nobel Peace Prize winner for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights | Rene Cassin |
French cabaret singer known for her song 'La Vie en rose' | Edith Piaf |