People

Paulo Freire

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Modern influential

97

Sam Altman

OpenAI CEO

Contemporary influential

97

John F. Kennedy

US President, Cuban Missile Crisis

Modern influential

96

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

Modern influential

96

Jack Kerouac

On the Road, Beat Generation

Modern influential

96

Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451

Modern influential

96

Jackie Robinson

Broke baseball color barrier

Modern influential

96

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady, human rights

Modern influential

96

Francisco Pizarro

Conquered Inca Empire

Early Modern influential

96

Chiang Kai-shek

Chinese Nationalist leader

Modern influential

95

Rabindranath Tagore

Indian poet, Nobel laureate

Modern influential

95

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust, German literature

Early Modern influential

95

Larry Page

Google co-founder

Contemporary influential

95

Serena Williams

Tennis champion

Contemporary influential

95

Salman Rushdie

Satanic Verses, magical realism

Contemporary influential

94

Emmeline Pankhurst

Suffragette leader

Modern influential

94

Vasco da Gama

Sea route to India

Early Modern influential

94

Alexander Graham Bell

Telephone inventor

Modern influential

93

Dmitri Mendeleev

Periodic table of elements

Modern influential

93

Robert Koch

Germ theory, tuberculosis

Modern influential

93