People

William Butler Yeats

Irish poet

Modern influential

80

Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal)

Founder of modern Turkey

Modern influential

79

Estee Lauder

Cosmetics mogul

Modern influential

79

Albert Einstein

Theory of relativity

Modern influential

78

Victor Hugo

Les Miserables

Modern influential

78

Susan B. Anthony

Women's suffrage leader

Modern influential

78

George Orwell

1984, Animal Farm

Modern influential

77

Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart

Modern influential

77

Madam C.J. Walker

First female self-made millionaire

Modern influential

75

Meiji Emperor

Modernized Japan

Modern influential

74

Emile Durkheim

Sociology founder

Modern influential

74

Simone Weil

Philosopher, mystic, activist

Modern influential

74

Georg Simmel

Sociologist, philosopher

Modern influential

72

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass

Modern influential

72

J.R.R. Tolkien

Lord of the Rings

Modern influential

72

Ho Chi Minh

Vietnamese independence leader

Modern influential

71

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace

Modern influential

71

William James

Pragmatism, psychology

Modern influential

70

Sitting Bull

Lakota Sioux chief

Modern influential

69

Michael Faraday

Electromagnetic induction

Modern influential

67