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Top 50 Most memorable people in History

- the MIT project Pantheon ranked every person.
https://pantheon.world/explore/rankings?show=people&years=-3501,2023
- guess the top 50 According to the 2022 Ranking.
- The countries are adjusted to modern countries.
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Last updated: October 5, 2023
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Ocuupation
Year Of birth
Country
1
Muhammad
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
570
Saudi Arabia
2
Isaac Newton
PHYSICIST
1643
United Kingdom
3
Jesus
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
4 BC
Israel / Palestine
4
Genghis Khan
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1162
Mongolia
5
Leonardo da Vinci
INVENTOR
1452
Italy
6
Aristotle
PHILOSOPHER
384 BC
Greece
7
Plato
PHILOSOPHER
427 BC
Greece
8
Ludwig van Beethoven
COMPOSER
1770
Germany
9
Marco Polo
EXPLORER
1254
Italy
10
Alexander the Great
MILITARY PERSONNEL
356 BC
Greece
11
Galileo Galilei
ASTRONOMER
1564
Italy
12
Napoleon
POLITICIAN
1769
France
13
Socrates
PHILOSOPHER
470 BC
Greece
14
Adolf Hitler
POLITICIAN
1889
Austria
15
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
COMPOSER
1756
Austria
16
Christopher Columbus
EXPLORER
1451
Italy
17
Albert Einstein
PHYSICIST
1879
Germany
18
Moses
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1393 BC
Egypt
19
Julius Caesar
POLITICIAN
100 BC
Italy
20
Johann Sebastian Bach
COMPOSER
1685
Germany
21
Martin Luther
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1483
Germany
22
Abraham
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1813 BC
Iraq
23
Confucius
PHILOSOPHER
551 BC
China
24
Archimedes
MATHEMATICIAN
287 BC
Italy
25
Ferdinand Magellan
EXPLORER
1480
Portugal
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Ocuupation
Year Of birth
Country
26
Nicolaus Copernicus
ASTRONOMER
1473
Poland
27
Adam Smith
ECONOMIST
1723
United Kingdom
28
Homer
WRITER
800 BC
Greece
29
Pythagoras
PHILOSOPHER
570 BC
Greece
30
Louis XIV of France
POLITICIAN
1638
France
31
Karl Marx
ECONOMIST
1818
Germany
32
Michelangelo
PAINTER
1475
Italy
33
Mary, mother of Jesus
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
100 BC
Israel / Palestine
34
Thomas Edison
INVENTOR
1847
United States
35
René Descartes
PHILOSOPHER
1596
France
36
William Shakespeare
WRITER
1564
United Kingdom
37
Joseph Stalin
POLITICIAN
1879
Georgia
38
Gautama Buddha
PHILOSOPHER
566 BC
Nepal
39
Immanuel Kant
PHILOSOPHER
1724
Russia
40
Marie Curie
PHYSICIST
1867
Poland
41
Nikola Tesla
INVENTOR
1856
Croatia
42
Charles Darwin
BIOLOGIST
1809
United Kingdom
43
Che Guevara
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1928
Argentina
44
Dante Alighieri
WRITER
1265
Italy
45
Elizabeth II
NOBLEMAN
1926
United Kingdom
46
Vasco da Gama
EXPLORER
1460
Portugal
47
Vincent van Gogh
PAINTER
1853
Netherlands
48
Cleopatra
POLITICIAN
69 BC
Egypt
49
Vladimir Lenin
POLITICIAN
1870
Russia
50
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
PHILOSOPHER
1712
Switzerland
5 Comments
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Level 66
Oct 5, 2023
Wow, four communists: Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Guevara. I agree with them adding Marx, however the others I would not consider to be as socially impactful as the likes of Washington or Ghandi who are not listed here. This list reeks of liberal college thought.
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Level 49
Oct 6, 2023
How about accepting queen Elizabeth 2? Never heard of Smith and I live in this country!
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Level 57
Nov 6, 2023
Could you accept Skłodowska for Maria Curie? Her full name is Maria Skłodowska-Curie after all
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Level 46
Nov 7, 2023
it is accepted using a normal "L"
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Level 33
Mar 26, 2024
Tesla is Serbian.