People
Writers and journalists View All
Jane Austen
English novelist (1775–1817)
Anna Wintour
British and American media executive (born 1949)
Tucker Carlson
American political commentator (born 1969)
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet (1564–1616)
Daniel Pearl
American journalist beheaded by militants in Pakistan (1963–2002)
Stephen King
American writer
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist
J. K. Rowling
British author and philanthropist (born 1965)
Ronan Farrow
American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author
Anne Frank
Diarist and Holocaust victim (1929–1945)
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Kenyan writer and academic (1938–2025)
Steve Bannon
American media executive and political strategist (born 1953)
Oscar Wilde
19th-century Irish poet, playwright and aesthete
Julian Assange
Australian journalist, publisher, activist and founder of WikiLeaks
George Orwell
English author and journalist (1903–1950)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
Anderson Cooper
American journalist
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
Franz Kafka
Austrian and Czech writer (1883–1924)
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet, philosopher, writer and novelist (1861–1941)
Jann Wenner
American magazine founder
Ezra Pound
American poet and critic (1885–1972)
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer known for use of stream of consciousness
Artists, musicians, and composers View All
Brian Wilson
American musician (1942–2025)
The Beach Boys
American rock band
Sean Combs
American rapper and producer (born 1969)
Bob Dylan
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
XXXTentacion
American rapper and singer-songwriter (1998–2018)
Taylor Swift
American singer-songwriter (born 1989)
Billy Joel
American singer, songwriter, and pianist (born 1949)
Michael Jackson
American singer (1958–2009)
Miley Cyrus
American singer and actress (born 1992)
Freddie Mercury
British rock musician (1946–1991)
Bruce Springsteen
American rock musician (born 1949)
Lady Gaga
American singer and songwriter (born 1986)
Elvis Presley
American singer and actor (1935–1977)
Mariah Carey
American singer (born 1969)
Lorde
New Zealand singer-songwriter (born 1996)
Justin Bieber
Canadian singer (born 1994)
Billie Eilish
American singer-songwriter (born 2001)
Kanye West
American rapper and producer (born 1977)
Jennifer Lopez
American singer and actress (born 1969)
Ariana Grande
American singer and actress (born 1993)
Beyoncé
American singer, songwriter and actress (born 1981)
Alanis Morissette
Canadian-American musician (born 1974)
Eminem
American rapper (born 1972)
David Bowie
English musician and actor (1947–2016)
Prince (musician)
American musician (1958–2016)
Actors, directors, producers, and screenwriters View All
Tom Cruise
American actor and film producer (born 1962)
Jayne Mansfield
American actress and Playmate (1933–1967)
Paul Reubens
American actor and comedian (1952–2023)
Ryan Gosling
Canadian actor (born 1980)
Keanu Reeves
Canadian actor (born 1964)
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Austrian and American bodybuilder, actor and politician (born 1947)
Scarlett Johansson
American actress (born 1984)
Clint Eastwood
American actor and director (born 1930)
Tom Hardy
English actor (born 1977)
Wes Anderson
American filmmaker (born 1969)
Mel Brooks
American entertainer (born 1926)
Preity Zinta
Indian actress (born 1975)
Brad Pitt
American actor (born 1963)
Nicole Kidman
Australian and American actress (born 1967)
Mata Hari
Dutch exotic dancer (1876–1917)
Ben Affleck
American actor and filmmaker (born 1972)
Karisma Kapoor
Indian actress (born 1974)
Jackie Chan
Hong Kong actor and martial artist (born 1954)
George Clooney
American actor and filmmaker (born 1961)
Robin Williams
American actor and comedian (1951–2014)
Ryan Reynolds
Canadian-American actor and businessman (born 1976)
Jimmy Savile
English DJ, media personality and suspected sex offender (1926–2011)
Natalie Portman
Israeli and American actress (born 1981)
Ewan McGregor
Scottish actor (born 1971)
Angelina Jolie
American actress (born 1975)
Philosophers, historians, political and social scientists View All
Jordan Peterson
Canadian clinical psychologist (born 1962)
Sigmund Freud
Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis
Socrates
Classical Greek Athenian philosopher (c. 470 – 399 BC)
Aristotle
Classical Greek philosopher and polymath, founder of the Peripatetic School
Karl Marx
Philosopher (1818–1883)
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher
Walter Isaacson
American author, journalist and professor
Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (1875–1961)
Noam Chomsky
American linguist, philosopher and activist
Confucius
Chinese philosopher and politician
Jeffrey Sachs
American economist (born 1954)
Amartya Sen
Indian economist and philosopher
Muhammad Yunus
Chief Adviser of Bangladesh since 2024
Niccolò Machiavelli
Florentine statesman, diplomat, and political theorist (1469–1527)
Augustine of Hippo
Catholic theologian, philosopher, Church Father, bishop and Christian saint (354– 430)
Cicero
Roman statesman, lawyer, orator and philosopher
René Descartes
17th-century French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
Ibram X. Kendi
American academic
Sam Harris
American philosopher and neuroscientist (born 1967)
Zahi Hawass
Egyptian Egyptologist (born 1947)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
US Supreme Court justice from 1993 to 2020
Michel Foucault
French philosopher
Henry David Thoreau
19th-century American essayist, poet and philosopher
Thomas Aquinas
Italian Dominican theologian and philosopher (1225–1274)
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724–1804)
Religious figures View All
Jesus
Central figure of Christianity
Muhammad
Founder of Islam (c. 570 – 632)
The Buddha
Founder of Buddhism
Mother Teresa
Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910–1997)
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church
Grigori Rasputin
Russian mystic
Pope Pius XII
Head of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958
Pope John XXIII
Head of the Catholic Church from 1958 to 1963
Mary Magdalene
Follower of Jesus
Saint Peter
Christian apostle
Pope John Paul II
Head of the Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005
Rajneesh
Indian godman, mystic and founder of the Rajneesh movement
Martin Luther
German priest, theologian and author (1483–1546)
Paul the Apostle
Christian apostle and missionary
Jim Jones
American cult leader and mass murderer (1931–1978)
Swami Vivekananda
Indian Hindu monk and philosopher (1863–1902)
Pope Benedict XVI
Head of the Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013
Mary, mother of Jesus
Mother of Jesus Christ, according to the Christian New Testament
Pope Leo XIII
Head of the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
Husayn ibn Ali
Grandson of Muhammad and the 3rd Imam (626–680)
14th Dalai Lama
Spiritual leader of Tibet since 1940
Judas Iscariot
Disciple and betrayer of Christ
Joseph Smith
Founder of the Latter Day Saint movement
L. Ron Hubbard
American writer and Scientology founder (1911–1986)
Politicians and leaders View All
Ali Khamenei
Supreme Leader of Iran since 1989
Donald Trump
President of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025)
Cleopatra
Pharaoh of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC
Emmanuel Macron
President of France since 2017
Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister of Israel (1996–1999; 2009–2021; since 2022)
Ruhollah Khomeini
Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979
Adolf Hitler
Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945
Saddam Hussein
President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
Barack Obama
President of the United States from 2009 to 2017
Charles III
King of the United Kingdom since 2022
Joe Biden
President of the United States from 2021 to 2025
Elizabeth II
Queen of the United Kingdom from 1952 to 2022
Vladimir Putin
President of Russia (1999–2008, 2012–present)
Bill Clinton
President of the United States from 1993 to 2001
John F. Kennedy
President of the United States from 1961 to 1963
Ronald Reagan
President of the United States from 1981 to 1989
Queen Victoria
Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901
George W. Bush
President of the United States from 2001 to 2009
Napoleon
Emperor of the French (r. 1804–1814, 1815)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
President of the United States from 1933 to 1945
Abraham Lincoln
President of the United States from 1861 to 1865
Keir Starmer
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 2024
Nicolae Ceaușescu
Leader of Romania from 1965 to 1989
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
President of Iran from 2005 to 2013
Military personnel, revolutionaries, and activists View All
Greta Thunberg
Swedish activist (born 2003)
Harvey Milk
American gay rights activist (1930–1978)
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
Malcolm X
American civil rights activist (1925–1965)
B. R. Ambedkar
Indian economist, social reformer, jurist and politician (1891–1956)
Helen Keller
American deaf-blind author, political activist and lecturer
Che Guevara
Argentine revolutionary (1928–1967)
Rodney King
Black American victim of police brutality (1965–2012)
Martin Luther King Jr.
American civil rights leader (1929–1968)
Qasem Soleimani
Iranian military officer (1957–2020)
Tommy Robinson
British far-right activist (born 1982)
Joan of Arc
15th-century French folk heroine and Roman Catholic saint
Ulysses S. Grant
Civil War general and U.S. president
Edward Snowden
American whistleblower and NSA contractor (born 1983)
Benedict Arnold
Army officer and merchant
George S. Patton
United States Army general (1885–1945)
Blackbeard
English pirate
Hermann Göring
German Nazi war criminal, politician and military leader
Mark Antony
Roman politician and general
Malala Yousafzai
Pakistani activist and Nobel laureate
Otto Skorzeny
Austrian Waffen-SS officer (1908–1975)
Oskar Schindler
German industrialist and Righteous Among the Nations
Bhagat Singh
Indian socialist revolutionary
Robert E. Lee
Confederate States Army general (1807–1870)
Ayman al-Zawahiri
Egyptian Islamist militant and physician (1951–2022)
Scientists, inventors, and mathematicians View All
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
Nikola Tesla
Serbian American inventor
Stephen Hawking
English theoretical physicist (1942–2018)
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
Isaac Newton
English polymath (1642–1726)
Alan Turing
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
John Forbes Nash Jr.
American mathematician
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator
Josef Mengele
Nazi SS doctor at Auschwitz (1911–1979)
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist, innovator, and armaments manufacturer (1833–1896)
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and inventor (1914–2000)
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Indian mathematician (1887–1920)
Galileo Galilei
Florentine physicist and astronomer (1564–1642)
Enrico Fermi
Italian-American physicist
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science educator
Wernher von Braun
German-American aerospace engineer (1912–1977)
Alexander Graham Bell
19/20th-century scientist and inventor best known for his work on the telephone
Pythagoras
6th century BC Ionian Greek philosopher and mystic
Wright brothers
American aviation pioneers, inventors of the airplane
John von Neumann
Mathematician and physicist
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
Jane Goodall
English primatologist and anthropologist
Sports figures View All
Cristiano Ronaldo
Portuguese footballer (born 1985)
Novak Djokovic
Serbian tennis player (born 1987)
Lionel Messi
Argentine footballer (born 1987)
Rafael Nadal
Spanish tennis player (born 1986)
Virat Kohli
Indian cricketer (born 1988)
Magnus Carlsen
Norwegian chess grandmaster (born 1990)
Roger Federer
Swiss former tennis player (born 1981)
Michael Jordan
American basketball former player (born 1963)
Shaquille O'Neal
American basketball player and analyst (born 1972)
Jon Jones
American mixed martial artist (born 1987)
LeBron James
American basketball player (born 1984)
Kevin Durant
American basketball player (born 1988)
Neymar
Brazilian footballer (born 1992)
Kobe Bryant
American basketball player (1978–2020)
Bruce Lee
Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor (1940–1973)
Lewis Hamilton
British racing driver (born 1985)
Dale Earnhardt
American racing driver (1951–2001)
O. J. Simpson
American football player and actor (1947–2024)
Caitlyn Jenner
American media personality, political candidate and retired decathlete
Andre Agassi
American tennis player (born 1970)
Shohei Ohtani
Japanese baseball player (born 1994)
Billie Jean King
Retired American professional tennis player
Zlatan Ibrahimović
Swedish association football player
David Beckham
English association football player and businessman
Peyton Manning
American football quarterback
Miscellaneous View All
Elon Musk
Businessman (born 1971)
Osama bin Laden
Militant leader (1957–2011)
Jeffrey Epstein
American sex offender and financier (1953–2019)
Jeff Bezos
American businessman (born 1964)
Larry Hoover
American gang leader (born 1950)
Jeffrey Dahmer
American serial killer (1960–1994)
Kylie Jenner
American media personality (born 1997)
Steve Jobs
American businessman and inventor (1955–2011)
Ted Bundy
American serial killer (1946–1989)
Warren Buffett
American investor, entrepreneur, and businessperson
George Floyd
American police murder victim (1973–2020)
Pablo Escobar
Colombian drug lord (1949–1993)
Ed Gein
American murderer and human trophy collector (1906–1984)
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and travel documentarian (1956–2018)
Christopher Columbus
Late 15th-century Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer
Al Capone
American gangster and businessman
Bernard Arnault
French businessman
Charles Manson
American criminal and cult leader
Ted Kaczynski
American domestic terrorist (1942–2023)
Bill Gates
American businessman and philanthropist (born 1955)
Gordon Ramsay
British chef (born 1966)
Rothschild family
Family descending from Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Elizabeth Holmes
American businesswoman (born 1984)
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
American member of the British royal family (born 1981)
Ed and Lorraine Warren
American paranormal investigators