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Volume 1: A–Ba
Hank Aaron 1
Ralph Abernathy 4
Bella Abzug 7
Chinua Achebe 10
Abigail Adams 12
Ansel Adams 15
John Adams 17
Samuel Adams 20
Joy Adamson 22
Jane Addams 25
Alfred Adler 27
Aeschylus 29
Spiro Agnew 31

Alvin Ailey 34
Madeleine Albright 37
Louisa May Alcott 39
Alexander II 41
Alexander the Great 43
Muhammad Ali 47
Woody Allen 49
Isabel Allende 52
Julia Alvarez 54
American Horse 57
Entries by Nationality xvii
Reader’s Guide xxxi
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Idi Amin 59
Hans Christian Andersen 62
Carl David Anderson 64
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson 66
Marian Anderson 69
Fra Angelico 71
Maya Angelou 73
Kofi Annan 76
Susan B. Anthony 79
Virginia Apgar 81
Benigno Aquino 84
Yasir Arafat 86
Archimedes 89
Hannah Arendt 91
Jean-Bertrand Aristide 93
Aristophanes 96
Aristotle 98

Louis Armstrong 101
Neil Armstrong 102
Benedict Arnold 105
Mary Kay Ash 108
Arthur Ashe 110
Isaac Asimov 113
Fred Astaire 116
John Jacob Astor 118
Margaret Atwood 120
W. H. Auden 123
John James Audubon 125
Augustus 128
Aung San Suu Kyi 130
Jane Austen 132
Baal Shem Tov 137
Charles Babbage 139
Johann Sebastian Bach 141
Francis Bacon 143
Roger Bacon 145
Joan Baez 147
F. Lee Bailey 150
Josephine Baker 152
George Balanchine 154
James Baldwin 156
Lucille Ball 159
David Baltimore 161
Honoré de Balzac 164
Benjamin Banneker 166
Frederick Banting 168
Klaus Barbie 170

Christiaan Barnard 173
Clara Barton 175
Count Basie 177
Index xxxv
Volume 2: Be–Cap
Beatles 181
William Beaumont 185
Simone de Beauvoir 187
Samuel Beckett 189
Ludwig van Beethoven 192
Menachem Begin 194
Alexander Graham Bell 196
Clyde Bellecourt 200
Saul Bellow 202
William Bennett 204
Ingmar Bergman 206
Irving Berlin 208
Leonard Bernstein 210
Chuck Berry 213
Mary McLeod Bethune 215
Benazir Bhutto 218
Owen Bieber 220
Billy the Kid 223
Larry Bird 224
Shirley Temple Black 227
Elizabeth Blackwell 229
Tony Blair 232
William Blake 234
Konrad Bloch 237
Judy Blume 239

Humphrey Bogart 242
Julian Bond 244
Daniel Boone 246
John Wilkes Booth 248
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William Booth 250
Lucrezia Borgia 252
P. W. Botha 255
Sandro Botticelli 257
Margaret Bourke-White 259
Boutros Boutros-Ghali 261
Ray Bradbury 264
Ed Bradley 266
Mathew Brady 269
Johannes Brahms 271
Louis Braille 273
Louis Brandeis 275
Marlon Brando 278
Leonid Brezhnev 280
Charlotte Brontë 283
Emily Brontë 284
Gwendolyn Brooks 286
Helen Gurley Brown 289
James Brown 291

John Brown 294
Rachel Fuller Brown 297
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 299
Robert Browning 302
Pat Buchanan 305
Pearl S. Buck 308
Buddha 310
Ralph Bunche 312
Warren Burger 314
Robert Burns 317
Aaron Burr 320
George Bush 323
George W. Bush 326
Laura Bush 329
Lord Byron 331
Julius Caesar 335
Caligula 338
Maria Callas 340
Cab Calloway 342
John Calvin 344
Ben Nighthorse Campbell 346
Albert Camus 349
Al Capone 352
Truman Capote 354
Frank Capra 357
Index xxxv
Volume 3: Car–Da
Lázaro Cárdenas 361
Stokely Carmichael 363
Andrew Carnegie 367

Lewis Carroll 370
Johnny Carson 372
Kit Carson 374
Rachel Carson 377
Jimmy Carter 379
George Washington Carver . . 383
Pablo Casals 386
Mary Cassatt 388
Vernon and Irene Castle 390
Fidel Castro 393
Willa Cather 397
Catherine of Aragon 399
Catherine the Great 401
Henry Cavendish 404
Anders Celsius 407
Miguel de Cervantes 408
Paul Cézanne 411
Marc Chagall 414
Wilt Chamberlain 416
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar 419
Charlie Chaplin 421
Charlemagne 424
Charles, Prince of Wales 427
Ray Charles 430
Geoffrey Chaucer 433
César Chávez 436
Dennis Chavez 438
Linda Chavez 440
Benjamin Chavis Muhammad 443
John Cheever 447

Anton Chekhov 449
Dick Cheney 451
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Mary Boykin Chesnut 454
Chiang Kai-shek 456
Julia Child 459
Shirley Chisholm 461
Frédéric Chopin 464
Jean Chrétien 467
Agatha Christie 469
Winston Churchill 472
Marcus Tullius Cicero 475
Liz Claiborne 478
Cleopatra VII 480
Bill Clinton 483
Hillary Rodham Clinton 487
Ty Cobb 490
Nat “King” Cole 492
Bessie Coleman 494
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 496
Marva Collins 499
Michael Collins 501
Confucius 503
Sean Connery 506

Joseph Conrad 508
Nicolaus Copernicus 510
Aaron Copland 513
Francis Ford Coppola 515
Bill Cosby 518
Jacques Cousteau 521
Noel Coward 523
Michael Crichton 525
Davy Crockett 527
Oliver Cromwell 529
Walter Cronkite 532
E. E. Cummings 535
Marie Curie 538
Roald Dahl 543
Dalai Lama 546
Salvador Dali 549
Clarence Darrow 551
Charles Darwin 554
Bette Davis 556
Miles Davis 558
Ossie Davis 561
Sammy Davis Jr. 563
Index xxxv
Volume 4: De–Ga
James Dean 567
Claude Debussy 569
Ruby Dee 571
Daniel Defoe 574
Edgar Degas 576
Charles de Gaulle 579

F. W. de Klerk 581
Cecil B. DeMille 585
Deng Xiaoping 587
René Descartes 590
Hernando de Soto 592
John Dewey 594
Diana, Princess of Wales 597
Charles Dickens 600
Emily Dickinson 603
Denis Diderot 606
Joe DiMaggio 608
Walt Disney 611
Elizabeth Dole 613
Placido Domingo 616
Donatello 619
John Donne 621
Fyodor Dostoevsky 624
Frederick Douglass 626
Arthur Conan Doyle 629
Francis Drake 632
Alexandre Dumas 634
Paul Laurence Dunbar 636
Pierre du Pont 638
François Duvalier 640
Amelia Earhart 643
George Eastman 646
Clint Eastwood 648
Thomas Edison 650
Albert Einstein 654
Dwight D. Eisenhower 657

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Mamie Eisenhower 661
Joycelyn Elders 662
George Eliot 665
T. S. Eliot 668
Elizabeth I 672
Elizabeth II 675
Duke Ellington 678
Ralph Waldo Emerson 680
Desiderius Erasmus 683
Euclid 686
Euripides 688
Medgar Evers 690
Gabriel Fahrenheit 695
Fannie Farmer 696
Louis Farrakhan 698
William Faulkner 701
Dianne Feinstein 704
Enrico Fermi 707
Geraldine Ferraro 710
Bobby Fischer 713
Ella Fitzgerald 715
F. Scott Fitzgerald 718
Gustave Flaubert 721

Malcolm Forbes 723
Henry Ford 725
Francis of Assisi 729
Benjamin Franklin 731
Sigmund Freud 735
Betty Friedan 738
Robert Frost 741
John Kenneth Galbraith 745
Galen 748
Galileo 750
George Gallup 753
Indira Gandhi 754
Mohandas Gandhi 758
Gabriel García Márquez 762
Judy Garland 764
Marcus Garvey 767
Bill Gates 769
Paul Gauguin 773
Karl Friedrich Gauss 775
Index xxxv
Volume 5: Ge–I
Hans Geiger 779
Theodor Geisel 781
Genghis Khan 784
J. Paul Getty 786
Kahlil Gibran 788
Althea Gibson 790
Dizzy Gillespie 792
Ruth Bader Ginsburg 794
Whoopi Goldberg 797

William Golding 800
Samuel Gompers 801
Jane Goodall 804
Benny Goodman 807
Mikhail Gorbachev 809
Berry Gordy Jr. 813
Al Gore 816
Jay Gould 818
Stephen Jay Gould 821
Katharine Graham 824
Martha Graham 827
Cary Grant 829
Graham Greene 831
Wayne Gretzky 833
Brothers Grimm 836
Woody Guthrie 838
Alex Haley 843
Alexander Hamilton 846
Oscar Hammerstein 849
John Hancock 852
George Frideric Handel 854
Thomas Hardy 857
Stephen Hawking 860
Nathaniel Hawthorne 862
William Randolph Hearst 865
Werner Heisenberg 868
Joseph Heller 870
Lillian Hellman 872
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Ernest Hemingway 875
Jimi Hendrix 878
Henry VIII 880
Patrick Henry 883
Audrey Hepburn 886
Katharine Hepburn 888
Herod the Great 891
William Herschel 893
Thor Heyerdahl 895
Edmund Hillary 898
S. E. Hinton 900
Hippocrates 902
Hirohito 904
Alfred Hitchcock 907
Adolf Hitler 909
Ho Chi Minh 912
Thomas Hobbes 915
Billie Holiday 918
Oliver Wendell Holmes 920
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. . . . . . . 923
Homer 926
Soichiro Honda 929
bell hooks 931
Benjamin Hooks 933
Bob Hope 936

Anthony Hopkins 938
Lena Horne 940
Harry Houdini 943
Gordie Howe 946
Julia Ward Howe 949
Howard Hughes 951
Langston Hughes 954
Victor Hugo 957
Zora Neale Hurston 960
Saddam Hussein 962
Lee Iacocca 967
Henrik Ibsen 970
Imhotep 972
Washington Irving 975
Index xxxv
Volume 6: J–L
Andrew Jackson 979
Jesse Jackson 983
Michael Jackson 986
Reggie Jackson 989
P. D. James 991
Thomas Jefferson 994
Mae Jemison 997
Jesus of Nazareth 1000
Jiang Zemin 1003
Joan of Arc 1005
Steve Jobs 1007
Elton John 1011
John Paul II 1013
Lyndon B. Johnson 1016

Magic Johnson 1020
Samuel Johnson 1023
Al Jolson 1025
James Earl Jones 1027
Quincy Jones 1029
Ben Jonson 1032
Michael Jordan 1034
James Joyce 1038
Benito Juárez 1040
Carl Jung 1043
Franz Kafka 1047
Wassily Kandinsky 1050
Immanuel Kant 1052
John Keats 1054
Helen Keller 1056
Gene Kelly 1058
Edward Kennedy 1061
John F. Kennedy 1064
John F. Kennedy Jr. 1069
Robert Kennedy 1071
Johannes Kepler 1074
Jack Kerouac 1076
Charles F. Kettering 1078
Ayatollah Khomeini 1081
Nikita Khrushchev 1083
B. B. King 1086
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Billie Jean King 1089
Coretta Scott King 1091
Martin Luther King Jr. 1094
Stephen King 1098
Rudyard Kipling 1101
Henry Kissinger 1104
Calvin Klein 1107
Kublai Khan 1109
Marquis de Lafayette 1113
Lao Tzu 1115
Ralph Lauren 1117
Emma Lazarus 1119
Mary Leakey 1121
Bruce Lee 1124
Spike Lee 1126
Tsung-Dao Lee 1129
Vladimir Lenin 1131
Leonardo da Vinci 1136
C. S. Lewis 1139
Carl Lewis 1141
Sinclair Lewis 1144
Roy Lichtenstein 1146
Maya Lin 1148
Abraham Lincoln 1150
Charles Lindbergh 1154
Carl Linnaeus 1157
Joseph Lister 1159

Andrew Lloyd Webber 1161
Alain Locke 1163
John Locke 1166
Jack London 1168
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1170
Joe Louis 1173
George Lucas 1175
Patrice Lumumba 1178
Martin Luther 1181
Index xxxv
Volume 7: M–Ne
Douglas MacArthur 1185
Niccolò Machiavelli 1188
Dolley Madison 1191
James Madison 1194
Madonna 1197
Ferdinand Magellan 1201
Najib Mahfuz 1203
Norman Mailer 1205
Bernard Malamud 1208
Malcolm X 1210
David Mamet 1214
Nelson Mandela 1216
Édouard Manet 1219
Wilma Mankiller 1221
Mickey Mantle 1224
Mao Zedong 1226
Rocky Marciano 1230
Ferdinand Marcos 1233
Marcus Aurelius 1236

Marie Antoinette 1238
Mark Antony 1240
Thurgood Marshall 1243
Karl Marx 1246
Mary, Queen of Scots 1249
Cotton Mather 1252
Henri Matisse 1255
Mayo Brothers 1258
Willie Mays 1261
Joseph McCarthy 1264
Hattie McDaniel 1267
John McEnroe 1270
Terry McMillan 1273
Aimee Semple McPherson 1275
Margaret Mead 1277
Catherine de’ Medici 1281
Golda Meir 1284
Rigoberta Menchú 1286
Felix Mendelssohn 1289
Kweisi Mfume 1292
Michelangelo 1295
Harvey Milk 1298
John Stuart Mill 1301
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1303
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Arthur Miller 1305
Henry Miller 1308
Slobodan Milosevic 1310
John Milton 1313
Joan Miró 1316
Molière 1318
Claude Monet 1320
Thelonious Monk 1323
Marilyn Monroe 1325
Joe Montana 1327
Montesquieu 1329
Maria Montessori 1331
Thomas More 1334
Jim Morrison 1336
Toni Morrison 1338
Samuel F. B. Morse 1341
Moses 1343
Grandma Moses 1345
Mother Teresa 1347
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1350
Hosni Mubarak 1353
Muhammad 1355
Elijah Muhammad 1358
John Muir 1360
Edvard Munch 1362
Rupert Murdoch 1364
Benito Mussolini 1367
Vladimir Nabokov 1371
Ralph Nader 1373

Napoleon Bonaparte 1376
Ogden Nash 1379
Nefertiti 1381
Isaac Newton 1382
Index xxxv
Volume 8: Ni–Re
Friedrich Nietzsche 1387
Florence Nightingale 1390
Richard Nixon 1392
Alfred Nobel 1397
Isamu Noguchi 1398
Manuel Noriega 1401
Jessye Norman 1404
Nostradamus 1406
Rudolf Nureyev 1409
Joyce Carol Oates 1413
Sandra Day O’Connor 1416
Georgia O’Keefe 1420
Laurence Olivier 1422
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 1425
Eugene O’Neill 1428
George Orwell 1430
Ovid 1432
Jesse Owens 1435
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi 1439
Arnold Palmer 1441
Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus 1443
Charlie Parker 1445
Blaise Pascal 1447
Louis Pasteur 1450

Linus Pauling 1453
Luciano Pavarotti 1456
Ivan Pavlov 1459
Anna Pavlova 1462
I. M. Pei 1464
Pelé 1467
William Penn 1469
Pericles 1472
Eva Perón 1474
Jean Piaget 1477
Pablo Picasso 1479
Sylvia Plath 1483
Plato 1485
Pocahontas 1488
Edgar Allan Poe 1490
Sidney Poitier 1493
Pol Pot 1495
Marco Polo 1498
Juan Ponce de León 1501
Alexander Pope 1502
Cole Porter 1505
Katherine Anne Porter 1507
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Emily Post 1509

Colin Powell 1511
Dith Pran 1514
Elvis Presley 1517
André Previn 1520
Leontyne Price 1522
E. Annie Proulx 1524
Marcel Proust 1526
Ptolemy I 1528
Joseph Pulitzer 1531
George Pullman 1533
Aleksandr Pushkin 1535
Vladimir Putin 1537
Pythagoras 1540
Mu‘ammar al-Qadhafi 1543
Walter Raleigh 1547
Sri Ramakrishna 1550
A. Philip Randolph 1552
Harun al-Rashid 1555
Ronald Reagan 1557
Christopher Reeve 1561
Erich Maria Remarque 1564
Rembrandt 1566
Janet Reno 1568
Pierre Auguste Renoir 1571
Paul Revere 1574
Index xxxv
Volume 9: Rh–S
Cecil Rhodes 1577
Condoleezza Rice 1580
Armand-Jean du Plessis de Richelieu 1583

Sally Ride 1585
Leni Riefenstahl 1588
Cal Ripken Jr. 1591
Diego Rivera 1593
Paul Robeson 1596
Maximilien de Robespierre 1599
Smokey Robinson 1601
John D. Rockefeller 1604
Norman Rockwell 1607
Richard Rodgers 1610
Auguste Rodin 1613
Will Rogers 1615
Rolling Stones 1618
Eleanor Roosevelt 1621
Franklin D. Roosevelt 1624
Theodore Roosevelt 1628
Diana Ross 1631
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1634
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1636
Carl Rowan 1639
J. K. Rowling 1641
Peter Paul Rubens 1643
Wilma Rudolph 1646
Salman Rushdie 1649
Babe Ruth 1651
Nolan Ryan 1653
Albert Sabin 1657
Carl Sagan 1659
Andrei Sakharov 1662
J. D. Salinger 1664

Jonas Salk 1667
George Sand 1669
Carl Sandburg 1671
Margaret Sanger 1673
Jean-Paul Sartre 1676
Oskar Schindler 1678
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. 1681
Franz Schubert 1684
Charles M. Schulz 1687
Martin Scorsese 1690
Walter Scott 1693
Haile Selassie 1696
Selena 1698
Sequoyah 1701
William Shakespeare 1702
George Bernard Shaw 1706
Mary Shelley 1708
Percy Shelley 1711
Beverly Sills 1714
Neil Simon 1716
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Frank Sinatra 1719
Upton Sinclair 1722
Isaac Bashevis Singer 1724

Bessie Smith 1727
Socrates 1729
Stephen Sondheim 1732
Sophocles 1734
Steven Spielberg 1737
Benjamin Spock 1740
Joseph Stalin 1743
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1747
Edith Stein 1749
Gertrude Stein 1752
John Steinbeck 1755
Robert Louis Stevenson 1757
Bram Stoker 1759
Oliver Stone 1761
Tom Stoppard 1764
Harriet Beecher Stowe 1766
Antonio Stradivari 1769
Johann Strauss 1771
Igor Stravinsky 1773
Barbra Streisand 1776
Sun Yat-sen 1779
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Volume 10: T–Z
Maria Tallchief 1785
Amy Tan 1787
Elizabeth Taylor 1790
Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky 1792
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1795
Valentina Tereshkova 1798
William Makepeace Thackeray 1801

Twyla Tharp 1804
Clarence Thomas 1807
Dylan Thomas 1810
Henry David Thoreau 1813
Jim Thorpe 1816
James Thurber 1819
Marshal Tito 1821
J. R. R. Tolkien 1824
Leo Tolstoy 1827
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1830
Eiji Toyoda 1832
Harry S. Truman 1834
Donald Trump 1837
Sojourner Truth 1840
Tu Fu 1843
Tutankhamen 1845
Desmond Tutu 1847
Mark Twain 1850
John Updike 1855
Vincent Van Gogh 1859
Jan Vermeer 1862
Jules Verne 1864
Amerigo Vespucci 1867
Victoria 1869
Gore Vidal 1872
Virgil 1874
Antonio Vivaldi 1877
Voltaire 1879
Wernher von Braun 1882
Kurt Vonnegut 1884

Richard Wagner 1889
Alice Walker 1891
Madame C. J. Walker 1894
Barbara Walters 1897
An Wang 1900
Booker T. Washington 1903
George Washington 1906
James Watt 1910
John Wayne 1913
Daniel Webster 1916
Noah Webster 1919
Orson Welles 1922
Eudora Welty 1925
Edith Wharton 1928
James Whistler 1929
E. B. White 1932
Walt Whitman 1935
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Elie Wiesel 1938
Oscar Wilde 1940
Laura Ingalls Wilder 1943
Thornton Wilder 1946
Tennessee Williams 1948
Woodrow Wilson 1951

Oprah Winfrey 1954
Anna May Wong 1958
Tiger Woods 1960
Virginia Woolf 1962
William Wordsworth 1965
Wright Brothers 1969
Frank Lloyd Wright 1972
Richard Wright 1975
William Butler Yeats 1979
Boris Yeltsin 1982
Paul Zindel 1987
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African American
Hank Aaron 1: 1
Ralph Abernathy 1: 4
Alvin Ailey 1: 34
Muhammad Ali 1: 47
Marian Anderson 1: 69
Maya Angelou 1: 73
Louis Armstrong 1: 101
Arthur Ashe 1: 110
Josephine Baker 1: 152
James Baldwin 1: 156

Benjamin Banneker 1: 166
Count Basie 1: 177
Chuck Berry 2: 213
Mary McLeod Bethune 2: 215
Julian Bond 2: 244
Gwendolyn Brooks 2: 286
James Brown 2: 291
Ralph Bunche 2: 312
Stokely Carmichael 3: 363
George Washington Carver 3: 383
Wilt Chamberlain 3: 416
Ray Charles 3: 430
Benjamin Chavis Muhammad . . . 3: 443
Shirley Chisholm 3: 461
Nat “King” Cole 3: 492
Bessie Coleman 3: 494
Marva Collins 3: 499
Bill Cosby 3: 518
Miles Davis 3: 558
Ossie Davis 3: 561
Sammy Davis Jr. 3: 563
Ruby Dee 4: 571
Frederick Douglass 4: 626
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Paul Laurence Dunbar 4: 636
Joycelyn Elders 4: 662
Duke Ellington 4: 678
Medgar Evers 4: 690
Louis Farrakhan 4: 698
Ella Fitzgerald 4: 715
Althea Gibson 5: 790
Dizzy Gillespie 5: 792
Whoopi Goldberg 5: 797
Berry Gordy Jr. 5: 813
Alex Haley 5: 843
Jimi Hendrix 5: 878
Billie Holiday 5: 918
bell hooks 5: 931
Benjamin Hooks 5: 933
Lena Horne 5: 940
Langston Hughes 5: 954
Zora Neale Hurston 5: 960
Jesse Jackson 6: 983
Michael Jackson 6: 986
Reggie Jackson 6: 989
Mae Jemison 6: 997
Magic Johnson 6: 1020
James Earl Jones 6: 1027
Quincy Jones 6: 1029
Michael Jordan 6: 1034
B. B. King 6: 1086
Coretta Scott King 6: 1091

Martin Luther King Jr. 6: 1094
Spike Lee 6: 1126
Carl Lewis 6: 1141
Alain Locke 6: 1163
Malcolm X 7: 1210
Thurgood Marshall 7: 1243
Willie Mays 7: 1261
Hattie McDaniel 7: 1267
Terry McMillan 7: 1273
Kweisi Mfume 7: 1292
Thelonious Monk 7: 1323
Toni Morrison 7: 1338
Elijah Muhammad 7: 1358
Jessye Norman 8: 1404
Jesse Owens 8: 1435
Charlie Parker 8: 1445
Sidney Poitier 8: 1493
Colin Powell 8: 1511
Leontyne Price 8: 1522
A. Philip Randolph 8: 1552
Condoleezza Rice 9: 1580
Paul Robeson 9: 1596
Smokey Robinson 9: 1601
Diana Ross 9: 1631
Wilma Rudolph 9: 1646
Bessie Smith 9: 1727
Sojourner Truth 10: 1840
Alice Walker 10: 1891
Madame C. J. Walker 10: 1894
Booker T. Washington 10: 1903

Oprah Winfrey 10: 1954
Tiger Woods 10: 1960
Richard Wright 10: 1975
Albanian
Mother Teresa 7: 1347
American
Hank Aaron 1: 1
Ralph Abernathy 1: 4
Bella Abzug 1: 7
Abigail Adams 1: 12
Ansel Adams 1: 15
John Adams 1: 17
Samuel Adams 1: 20
Jane Addams 1: 25
Spiro Agnew 1: 31
Alvin Ailey 1: 34
Madeleine Albright 1: 37
Louisa May Alcott 1: 39
Muhammad Ali 1: 47
Woody Allen 1: 49
Julia Alvarez 1: 54
American Horse 1: 57
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Carl David Anderson 1: 64

Marian Anderson 1: 69
Maya Angelou 1: 73
Susan B. Anthony 1: 79
Virginia Apgar 1: 81
Louis Armstrong 1: 101
Neil Armstrong 1: 102
Benedict Arnold 1: 105
Mary Kay Ash 1: 108
Arthur Ashe 1: 110
Isaac Asimov 1: 113
Fred Astaire 1: 116
John Jacob Astor 1: 118
W. H. Auden 1: 123
John James Audubon 1: 125
Joan Baez 1: 147
F. Lee Bailey 1: 150
Josephine Baker 1: 152
George Balanchine 1: 154
James Baldwin 1: 156
Lucille Ball 1: 159
David Baltimore 1: 161
Benjamin Banneker 1: 166
Clara Barton 1: 175
Count Basie 1: 177
William Beaumont 2: 185
Alexander Graham Bell 2: 196
Clyde Bellecourt 2: 200
Saul Bellow 2: 202
William Bennett 2: 204
Irving Berlin 2: 208

Leonard Bernstein 2: 210
Chuck Berry 2: 213
Mary McLeod Bethune 2: 215
Owen Bieber 2: 220
Billy the Kid 2: 223
Larry Bird 2: 224
Shirley Temple Black 2: 227
Judy Blume 2: 239
Humphrey Bogart 2: 242
Julian Bond 2: 244
Daniel Boone 2: 246
John Wilkes Booth 2: 248
Margaret Bourke-White . . 2: 259
Ray Bradbury 2: 264
Ed Bradley 2: 266
Mathew Brady 2: 269
Louis Brandeis 2: 275
Marlon Brando 2: 278
Gwendolyn Brooks 2: 286
Helen Gurley Brown 2: 289
James Brown 2: 291
John Brown 2: 294
Rachel Fuller Brown 2: 297
Pat Buchanan 2: 305
Pearl S. Buck 2: 308
Ralph Bunche 2: 312
Warren Burger 2: 314
Aaron Burr 2: 320
George Bush 2: 323
George W. Bush 2: 326

Laura Bush 2: 329
Maria Callas 2: 340
Cab Calloway 2: 342
Ben Nighthorse Campbell 2: 346
Al Capone 2: 352
Truman Capote 2: 354
Frank Capra 2: 357
Stokely Carmichael 3: 363
Andrew Carnegie 3: 367
Johnny Carson 3: 372
Kit Carson 3: 374
Rachel Carson 3: 377
Jimmy Carter 3: 379
George Washington Carver 3: 383
Mary Cassatt 3: 388
Irene Castle 3: 390
Willa Cather 3: 397
Wilt Chamberlain 3: 416
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar . . . 3: 419
Ray Charles 3: 430
César Chávez 3: 436
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Dennis Chavez 3: 438
Linda Chavez 3: 440

Benjamin Chavis Muhammad . . . 3: 443
John Cheever 3: 447
Dick Cheney 3: 451
Mary Boykin Chesnut 3: 454
Julia Child 3: 459
Shirley Chisholm 3: 461
Liz Claiborne 3: 478
Bill Clinton 3: 483
Hillary Rodham Clinton 3: 487
Ty Cobb 3: 490
Nat “King” Cole 3: 492
Bessie Coleman 3: 494
Marva Collins 3: 499
Aaron Copland 3: 513
Francis Ford Coppola 3: 515
Bill Cosby 3: 518
Michael Crichton 3: 525
Davy Crockett 3: 527
Walter Cronkite 3: 532
E. E. Cummings 3: 535
Clarence Darrow 3: 551
Bette Davis 3: 556
Miles Davis 3: 558
Ossie Davis 3: 561
Sammy Davis Jr. 3: 563
James Dean 4: 567
Ruby Dee 4: 571
Cecil B. DeMille 4: 585
John Dewey 4: 594
Emily Dickinson 4: 603

Joe DiMaggio 4: 608
Walt Disney 4: 611
Elizabeth Dole 4: 613
Frederick Douglass 4: 626
Paul Laurence Dunbar 4: 636
Pierre Du Pont 4: 638
Amelia Earhart 4: 643
George Eastman 4: 646
Clint Eastwood 4: 648
Thomas Edison 4: 650
Albert Einstein 4: 654
Dwight D. Eisenhower 4: 657
Mamie Eisenhower 4: 661
Joycelyn Elders 4: 662
T. S. Eliot 4: 668
Duke Ellington 4: 678
Ralph Waldo Emerson 4: 680
Medgar Evers 4: 690
Fannie Farmer 4: 696
Louis Farrakhan 4: 698
William Faulkner 4: 701
Dianne Feinstein 4: 704
Enrico Fermi 4: 707
Geraldine Ferraro 4: 710
Bobby Fischer 4: 713
Ella Fitzgerald 4: 715
F. Scott Fitzgerald 4: 718
Malcolm Forbes 4: 723
Henry Ford 4: 725
Benjamin Franklin 4: 731

Betty Friedan 4: 738
Robert Frost 4: 741
John Kenneth Galbraith . 4: 745
George Gallup 4: 753
Judy Garland 4: 764
Bill Gates 4: 769
Theodor Geisel 5: 781
J. Paul Getty 5: 786
Althea Gibson 5: 790
Dizzy Gillespie 5: 792
Ruth Bader Ginsburg 5: 794
Whoopi Goldberg 5: 797
Samuel Gompers 5: 801
Benny Goodman 5: 807
Berry Gordy Jr. 5: 813
Al Gore 5: 816
Jay Gould 5: 818
Stephen Jay Gould 5: 821
Katharine Graham 5: 824
Martha Graham 5: 827
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Woody Guthrie 5: 838
Alex Haley 5: 843
Alexander Hamilton 5: 846

Oscar Hammerstein 5: 849
John Hancock 5: 852
Nathaniel Hawthorne 5: 862
William Randolph Hearst 5: 865
Joseph Heller 5: 870
Lillian Hellman 5: 872
Ernest Hemingway 5: 875
Jimi Hendrix 5: 878
Patrick Henry 5: 883
Katharine Hepburn 5: 888
S. E. Hinton 5: 900
Billie Holiday 5: 918
Oliver Wendell Holmes 5: 920
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. 5: 923
bell hooks 5: 931
Benjamin Hooks 5: 933
Bob Hope 5: 936
Lena Horne 5: 940
Harry Houdini 5: 943
Julia Ward Howe 5: 949
Howard Hughes 5: 951
Langston Hughes 5: 954
Zora Neale Hurston 5: 960
Lee Iacocca 5: 967
Washington Irving 5: 975
Andrew Jackson 6: 979
Jesse Jackson 6: 983
Michael Jackson 6: 986
Reggie Jackson 6: 989
Thomas Jefferson 6: 994

Mae Jemison 6: 997
Steve Jobs 6: 1007
Lyndon B. Johnson 6: 1016
Magic Johnson 6: 1020
Al Jolson 6: 1025
James Earl Jones 6: 1027
Quincy Jones 6: 1029
Michael Jordan 6: 1034
Helen Keller 6: 1056
Gene Kelly 6: 1058
Edward Kennedy 6: 1061
John F. Kennedy 6: 1064
John F. Kennedy Jr. 6: 1069
Robert Kennedy 6: 1071
Jack Kerouac 6: 1076
Charles F. Kettering 6: 1078
B. B. King 6: 1086
Billie Jean King 6: 1089
Coretta Scott King 6: 1091
Martin Luther King Jr. 6: 1094
Stephen King 6: 1098
Henry Kissinger 6: 1104
Calvin Klein 6: 1107
Ralph Lauren 6: 1117
Emma Lazarus 6: 1119
Bruce Lee 6: 1124
Spike Lee 6: 1126
Tsung-Dao Lee 6: 1129
Carl Lewis 6: 1141
Sinclair Lewis 6: 1144

Roy Lichtenstein 6: 1146
Abraham Lincoln 6: 1150
Charles Lindbergh 6: 1154
Alain Locke 6: 1163
Jack London 6: 1168
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . . 6: 1170
Joe Louis 6: 1173
George Lucas 6: 1175
Douglas MacArthur 7: 1185
Dolley Madison 7: 1191
James Madison 7: 1194
Madonna 7: 1197
Norman Mailer 7: 1205
Bernard Malamud 7: 1390
Malcolm X 7: 1210
David Mamet 7: 1214
Wilma Mankiller 7: 1221
Mickey Mantle 7: 1224
Rocky Marciano 7: 1230
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Thurgood Marshall 7: 1243
Cotton Mather 7: 1252
Mayo Brothers 7: 1258
Willie Mays 7: 1261

Joseph McCarthy 7: 1264
Hattie McDaniel 7: 1267
John McEnroe 7: 1270
Terry McMillan 7: 1273
Aimee Semple McPherson 7: 1275
Margaret Mead 7: 1277
Kweisi Mfume 7: 1292
Harvey Milk 7: 1298
Edna St. Vincent Millay 7: 1303
Arthur Miller 7: 1305
Henry Miller 7: 1308
Thelonious Monk 7: 1323
Marilyn Monroe 7: 1325
Joe Montana 7: 1327
Jim Morrison 7: 1336
Toni Morrison 7: 1338
Samuel F. B. Morse 7: 1341
Grandma Moses 7: 1345
Elijah Muhammad 7: 1358
John Muir 7: 1360
Vladimir Nabokov 7: 1371
Ralph Nader 7: 1373
Ogden Nash 7: 1379
Richard Nixon 8: 1392
Isamu Noguchi 8: 1398
Jessye Norman 8: 1404
Joyce Carol Oates 8: 1413
Sandra Day O’Connor 8: 1416
Georgia O’Keeffe 8: 1420
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis . . . 8: 1425

Eugene O’Neill 8: 1428
Jesse Owens 8: 1435
Arnold Palmer 8: 1441
Charlie Parker 8: 1445
Linus Pauling 8: 1453
I. M. Pei 8: 1464
Sylvia Plath 8: 1483
Pocahontas 8: 1488
Edgar Allan Poe 8: 1490
Sidney Poitier 8: 1493
Cole Porter 8: 1505
Katherine Anne Porter . . . . . . 8: 1507
Emily Post 8: 1509
Colin Powell 8: 1511
Elvis Presley 8: 1517
André Previn 8: 1520
Leontyne Price 8: 1522
E. Annie Proulx 8: 1524
Joseph Pulitzer 8: 1531
George Pullman 8: 1533
A. Philip Randolph 8: 1552
Ronald Reagan 8: 1557
Christopher Reeve 8: 1561
Erich Maria Remarque . . . . . . 8: 1564
Janet Reno 8: 1568
Paul Revere 8: 1574
Condoleezza Rice 9: 1580
Sally Ride 9: 1585
Cal Ripken, Jr. 9: 1591
Paul Robeson 9: 1596

Smokey Robinson 9: 1601
John D. Rockefeller 9: 1604
Norman Rockwell 9: 1607
Richard Rodgers 9: 1610
Will Rogers 9: 1615
Eleanor Roosevelt 9: 1621
Franklin D. Roosevelt 9: 1624
Theodore Roosevelt 9: 1628
Diana Ross 9: 1631
Carl Rowan 9: 1639
Wilma Rudolph 9: 1646
Babe Ruth 9: 1651
Nolan Ryan 9: 1653
Albert Sabin 9: 1657
Carl Sagan 9: 1659
J. D. Salinger 9: 1664
Jonas Salk 9: 1667
Carl Sandburg 9: 1671
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Margaret Sanger 9: 1673
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. 9: 1681
Charles M. Schulz 9: 1687
Martin Scorsese 9: 1690
Selena 9: 1698

Sequoyah 9: 1701
Beverly Sills 9: 1714
Neil Simon 9: 1716
Frank Sinatra 9: 1719
Upton Sinclair 9: 1722
Isaac Bashevis Singer 9: 1724
Bessie Smith 9: 1727
Stephen Sondheim 9: 1732
Steven Spielberg 9: 1737
Benjamin Spock 9: 1740
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 9: 1747
Gertrude Stein 9: 1752
John Steinbeck 9: 1755
Oliver Stone 9: 1761
Harriet Beecher Stowe 9: 1766
Igor Stravinsky 9: 1773
Barbra Streisand 9: 1776
Maria Tallchief 10: 1785
Amy Tan 10: 1787
Elizabeth Taylor 10: 1790
Twyla Tharp 10: 1804
Clarence Thomas 10: 1807
Henry David Thoreau 10: 1813
Jim Thorpe 10: 1816
James Thurber 10: 1819
Harry S. Truman 10: 1834
Donald Trump 10: 1837
Sojourner Truth 10: 1840
Mark Twain 10: 1850
John Updike 10: 1855

Gore Vidal 10: 1872
Wernher von Braun 10: 1882
Kurt Vonnegut 10: 1884
Alice Walker 10: 1891
Madame C. J. Walker 10: 1894
Barbara Walters 10: 1897
An Wang 10: 1900
Booker T. Washington . . . . . . 10: 1903
George Washington 10: 1906
John Wayne 10: 1913
Daniel Webster 10: 1916
Noah Webster 10: 1919
Orson Welles 10: 1922
Eudora Welty 10: 1925
Edith Wharton 10: 1928
James Whistler 10: 1929
E. B. White 10: 1932
Walt Whitman 10: 1935
Elie Wiesel 10: 1938
Laura Ingalls Wilder 10: 1943
Thornton Wilder 10: 1946
Tennessee Williams 10: 1948
Woodrow Wilson 10: 1951
Oprah Winfrey 10: 1954
Anna May Wong 10: 1958
Tiger Woods 10: 1960
Wright Brothers 10: 1969
Frank Lloyd Wright 10: 1972
Richard Wright 10: 1975
Paul Zindel 10: 1987

Arabian
Muhammad 7: 1355
Argentine
Eva Perón 8: 1474
Asian American
Tsung-Dao Lee 6: 1129
Maya Lin 6: 1148
Isamu Noguchi 8: 1398
I. M. Pei 8: 1464
Amy Tan 10: 1787
An Wang 10: 1900
Anna May Wong 10: 1958
Tiger Woods 10: 1960
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Australian
Rupert Murdoch 7: 1364
Austrian
Joy Adamson 1: 22
Alfred Adler 1: 27
Sigmund Freud 4: 735
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 7: 1350
Franz Schubert 9: 1684
Johann Strauss 9: 1771
Belgian

Audrey Hepburn 5: 886
Brazilian
Pelé 8: 1467
Burmese
Aung San Suu Kyi 1: 130
Cambodian
Pol Pot 8: 1495
Dith Pran 8: 1514
Canadian
Margaret Atwood 1: 120
Frederick Banting 1: 168
Jean Chrétien 3: 467
John Kenneth Galbraith 4: 745
Wayne Gretzky 5: 833
Gordie Howe 5: 946
Aimee Semple McPherson 7: 1275
Chilean
Isabel Allende 1: 52
Chinese
Chiang Kai-shek 3: 456
Confucius 3: 503
Deng Xiaoping 4: 587
Jiang Zemin 6: 1003
Lao Tzu 6: 1115
Tsung-Dao Lee 6: 1129
Mao Zedong 7: 1226
I. M. Pei 8: 1464
Sun Yat-sen 9: 1779
Tu Fu 10: 1843
An Wang 10: 1900

Colombian
Gabriel García Márquez . 7: 762
Congolese
Patrice Lumumba 6: 1178
Cuban
Fidel Castro 3: 393
Czech
Madeleine Albright 1: 37
Franz Kafka 6: 1047
Tom Stoppard 9: 1764
Danish
Hans Christian Andersen . . . . . . 1: 62
Dutch
Desiderius Erasmus 4: 683
Rembrandt 8: 1566
Vincent Van Gogh 10: 1859
Egyptian
Boutros Boutros-Ghali 2: 261
Cleopatra VII 3: 480
Imhotep 5: 972
Najib Mahfuz 7: 1203
Moses 7: 1343
Hosni Mubarak 7: 1353
Nefertiti 7: 1381
Tutankhamen 10: 1845
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English
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson 1: 66
W. H. Auden 1: 123
Jane Austen 1: 132
Charles Babbage 1: 139
Francis Bacon 1: 143
Roger Bacon 1: 145
Beatles 2: 181
Elizabeth Blackwell 2: 229
William Blake 2: 234
William Booth 2: 250
Charlotte Brontë 2: 283
Emily Brontë 2: 284
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2: 299
Robert Browning 2: 302
Lord Byron 2: 331
Lewis Carroll 3: 370
Vernon Castle 3: 390
Henry Cavendish 3: 404
Charlie Chaplin 3: 421
Charles, Prince of Wales 3: 427
Geoffrey Chaucer 3: 433
Agatha Christie 3: 469
Winston Churchill 3: 472
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 3: 496
Joseph Conrad 3: 508
Noel Coward 3: 523
Oliver Cromwell 3: 529

Charles Darwin 3: 554
Daniel Defoe 4: 574
Diana, Princess of Wales 4: 597
Charles Dickens 4: 600
John Donne 4: 621
Arthur Conan Doyle 4: 629
Francis Drake 4: 632
George Eliot 4: 665
T. S. Eliot 4: 668
Elizabeth I 4: 672
Elizabeth II 4: 675
William Golding 5: 800
Jane Goodall 5: 804
Cary Grant 5: 829
Graham Greene 5: 831
George Frideric Handel 5: 854
Thomas Hardy 5: 857
Stephen Hawking 5: 860
Henry VIII 5: 880
Alfred Hitchcock 5: 907
Thomas Hobbes 5: 915
P. D. James 6: 991
Elton John 6: 1011
Samuel Johnson 6: 1023
Ben Jonson 6: 1032
John Keats 6: 1054
Rudyard Kipling 6: 1101
Mary Leakey 6: 1121
Joseph Lister 6: 1159
Andrew Lloyd Webber 6: 1161

John Locke 6: 1166
John Stuart Mill 7: 1301
John Milton 7: 1313
Thomas More 7: 1334
Isaac Newton 7: 1382
Florence Nightingale 8: 1390
Laurence Olivier 8: 1422
George Orwell 8: 1430
William Penn 8: 1469
Alexander Pope 8: 1502
Walter Raleigh 8: 1547
Cecil Rhodes 9: 1577
Rolling Stones 9: 1618
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 9: 1634
J. K. Rowling 9: 1641
William Shakespeare 9: 1702
Mary Shelley 9: 1708
Percy Shelley 9: 1711
Tom Stoppard 9: 1764
Alfred, Lord Tennyson . . . . . . 10: 1795
William Makepeace Thackeray . 10: 1801
J. R. R. Tolkien 10: 1824
Victoria 10: 1869
Oscar Wilde 10: 1940
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Virginia Woolf 10: 1963
William Wordsworth 10: 1965
Ethiopian
Haile Selassie 9: 1697
Filipino
Benigno Aquino 1: 84
Ferdinand Marcos 7: 1233
Flemish
Peter Paul Rubens 9: 1643
Frankish
Charlemagne 3: 424
French
John James Audubon 1: 125
Honoré de Balzac 1: 164
Simone de Beauvoir 2: 187
Louis Braille 2: 273
John Calvin 2: 344
Albert Camus 2: 349
Paul Cézanne 3: 411
Jacques Cousteau 3: 521
Marie Curie 3: 538
Claude Debussy 4: 569
Edgar Degas 4: 576
Charles de Gaulle 4: 579
René Descartes 4: 590
Denis Diderot 4: 606
Alexandre Dumas 4: 634
Gustave Flaubert 4: 721
Paul Gauguin 4: 773

Victor Hugo 5: 957
Joan of Arc 6: 1005
Marquis de Lafayette 6: 1113
Édouard Manet 7: 1219
Marie Antoinette 7: 1238
Henri Matisse 7: 1255
Molière 7: 1318
Claude Monet 7: 1320
Montesquieu 7: 1329
Napoleon Bonaparte 7: 1376
Nostradamus 8: 1406
Blaise Pascal 8: 1447
Louis Pasteur 8: 1450
Marcel Proust 8: 1526
Pierre Auguste Renoir 8: 1571
Armand-Jean du Plessis
de Richelieu 9: 1583
Maximilien de Robespierre 9: 1599
Auguste Rodin 9: 1613
Jean-Jacques Rousseau . . . . . . 9: 1636
George Sand 9: 1669
Jean-Paul Sartre 9: 1676
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 10: 1830
Jan Vermeer 10: 1862
Jules Verne 10: 1864
Voltaire 10: 1879
German
Hannah Arendt 1: 91
John Jacob Astor 1: 118
Johann Sebastian Bach 1: 141

Klaus Barbie 1: 170
Ludwig van Beethoven 2: 192
Konrad Bloch 2: 237
Johannes Brahms 2: 271
Catherine the Great 3: 401
Albert Einstein 4: 654
Gabriel Fahrenheit 4: 695
Karl Friedrich Gauss 4: 775
Hans Geiger 5: 779
Brothers Grimm 5: 836
George Frideric Handel 5: 854
Werner Heisenberg 5: 868
William Herschel 5: 893
Adolf Hitler 5: 909
Franz Kafka 6: 1047
Immanuel Kant 6: 1052
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Johannes Kepler 6: 1074
Henry Kissinger 6: 1104
Martin Luther 6: 1181
Karl Marx 7: 1246
Felix Mendelssohn 7: 1289
Friedrich Nietzsche 8: 1387
André Previn 8: 1520

Erich Maria Remarque 8: 1564
Leni Riefenstahl 9: 1588
Oskar Schindler 9: 1678
Edith Stein 9: 1749
Wernher von Braun 10: 1882
Richard Wagner 10: 1889
Ghanian
Kofi Annan 1: 76
Greek
Aeschylus 1: 29
Archimedes 1: 89
Aristophanes 1: 96
Aristotle 1: 98
Euclid 4: 686
Euripides 4: 688
Galen 4: 748
Hippocrates 5: 902
Homer 5: 926
Pericles 8: 1472
Plato 8: 1485
Pythagoras 8: 1540
Socrates 9: 1729
Sophocles 9: 1734
Guatemalan
Rigoberta Menchú 7: 1286
Haitian
Jean-Bertrand Aristide 1: 93
François Duvalier 4: 640
Hispanic American
César Chávez 3: 436

Dennis Chavez 3: 438
Linda Chavez 3: 440
Selena 9: 1698
Hungarian
Joseph Pulitzer 8: 1531
Indian
Buddha 2: 310
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar . . . 3: 419
Indira Gandhi 4: 754
Mohandas Gandhi 4: 758
Sri Ramakrishna 8: 1550
Salman Rushdie 9: 1649
Iranian
Ayatollah Khomeini 6: 1081
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi 8: 1439
Iraqi
Saddam Hussein 5: 962
Irish
Samuel Beckett 2: 189
Michael Collins 3: 501
James Joyce 6: 1038
C. S. Lewis 6: 1139
George Bernard Shaw 9: 1706
Bram Stoker 9: 1759
Oscar Wilde 10: 1940
William Butler Yeats 10: 1979
Israeli
Menachem Begin 2: 194
Golda Meir 7: 1284
Italian

Fra Angelico 1: 71
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Lucrezia Borgia 2: 252
Sandro Botticelli 2: 257
Caligula 2: 338
Frank Capra 2: 357
Donatello 4: 619
Enrico Fermi 4: 707
Francis of Assisi 4: 729
Galileo 4: 750
Leonardo da Vinci 6: 1136
Niccolò Machiavelli 7: 1188
Catherine de’ Medici 7: 1281
Michelangelo 7: 1295
Maria Montessori 7: 1331
Benito Mussolini 7: 1367
Luciano Pavarotti 8: 1456
Antonio Stradivari 9: 1769
Amerigo Vespucci 10: 1867
Antonio Vivaldi 10: 1877
Jamaican
Marcus Garvey 4: 767
Japanese
Hirohito 5: 904

Soichiro Honda 5: 929
Eiji Toyoda 10: 1832
Judean
Herod the Great 5: 891
Lebanese
Kahlil Gibran 5: 788
Libyan
Mu‘ammar al-Qadhafi 8: 1543
Lithuanian
Al Jolson 6: 1025
Macedonian
Alexander the Great 1: 43
Ptolemy I 8: 1528
Mexican
Lázaro Cárdenas 3: 361
Benito Juárez 6: 1040
Diego Rivera 9: 1593
Mongolian
Genghis Khan 5: 784
Kublai Khan 6: 1109
Native American
American Horse 1: 57
Clyde Bellecourt 2: 200
Ben Nighthorse Campbell 2: 346
Wilma Mankiller 7: 1221
Pocahontas 8: 1488
Sequoyah 9: 1701
Maria Tallchief 10: 1785
New Zealander
Edmund Hillary 5: 898

Nigerian
Chinua Achebe 1: 10
Norwegian
Thor Heyerdahl 5: 895
Henrik Ibsen 5: 970
Edvard Munch 7: 1362
Pakistani
Benazir Bhutto 2: 218
Palestinian
Yasir Arafat 1: 86
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