Statistics for The 100 Most Significant Figures in History

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The leader of Nazi Germany	Adolf Hitler	99%
The first president of the United States	George Washington	98%
A central figure in Christianity and is emulated as the incarnation of God by many Christians all over the world	Jesus Christ	98%
A French military general, the first emperor of France and one of the world's greatest military leaders	Napoleon Bonaparte	96%
The 16th president of the United States	Abraham Lincoln	92%
The Virgin Queen	Elizabeth I	92%
Most famous for his three basic laws of gravity	Isaac Newton	92%
Ruled the Soviet Union for more than two decades, instituting a reign of death and terror while modernizing Russia and helping to defeat Nazism	Joseph Stalin	91%
Author of The Communist Manifesto	Karl Marx	91%
Renaissance artist and engineer, known for paintings like "The Last Supper" and "Mona Lisa"	Leonardo da Vinci	91%
German composer whose Symphony 5 is a beloved classic	Ludwig van Beethoven	91%
Often called England's national poet, he is considered the greatest dramatist of all time	William Shakespeare	91%
A physicist who developed the general theory of relativity	Albert Einstein	90%
Best known for his contributions to the science of evolution	Charles Darwin	90%
He nailed his '95 Theses' to a church door in 1517, sparking the Protestant Reformation	Martin Luther	90%
His "New Deal" led the nation through the Great Depression	Franklin D. Roosevelt	88%
He famously married a series of six wives in his search for political alliance	Henry VIII	88%
Twice named prime minister of Great Britain, he helped to defeat Nazi Germany in World War II	Winston Churchill	88%
A prolific artist, an Austrian composer who created a string of operas, concertos, symphonies and sonatas that profoundly shaped classical music	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	88%
An ancient Macedonian ruler and one of history’s greatest military minds	Alexander the Great	87%
Italian explorer who discovered the 'New World' of the Americas	Christopher Columbus	87%
A New York governor who became the 26th U.S. president	Theodore Roosevelt	85%
Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India	Queen Victoria	84%
Author of the Declaration of Independence and the third U.S. president	Thomas Jefferson	83%
Founder of the Russian Communist Party	Vladimir Lenin	83%
Mongolian warrior and ruler who created the largest empire in the world, the Mongol Empire	Genghis Khan	82%
The Watergate scandal	Richard Nixon	82%
Painter of the Sistine Chapel	Michelangelo	80%
Ancient Greek philosopher who founded the Academy and is the author of philosophical works of unparalleled influence in Western thought	Plato	80%
Expanded the Frankish kingdom, eventually establishing the Carolingian Empire	Charlemagne	79%
Born Siddhartha Gautama, his teachings serve as the foundation of the Buddhist religion	Gautama Buddha	79%
The prophet and founder of Islam	Muhammed	79%
Credited with inventions such as the first practical incandescent light bulb and the phonograph	Thomas Edison	78%
One of the world’s greatest artists, with paintings such as ‘Starry Night’ and ‘Sunflowers'	Vincent van Gogh	78%
The primary leader of India’s independence movement and also the architect of a form of nonviolent civil disobedience	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	77%
An Austrian neurologist best known for developing the theories and techniques of psychoanalysis	Sigmund Freud	77%
One of the biggest names in rock 'n' roll history	Elvis Presley	76%
The 43rd president of the United States	George W. Bush	76%
A Founding Father, the first vice president of the United States and the second president	John Adams	76%
Sentenced to death by hemlock poisoning	Socrates	76%
An Italian astronomer, mathematician, physicist, philosopher and professor	Galileo Galilei	75%
He revoked the Edict of Nantes and is known for his aggressive foreign policy	Louis XIV	75%
The Philippines are named after him	Philip II	75%
An Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist who is still considered one of the greatest thinkers in politics, psychology and ethics	Aristotle	74%
The 35th U.S. president	John F. Kennedy	74%
He was married to Marie Antoinette and was executed for treason by guillotine in 1793	Louis XVI	74%
The first Roman emperor	Augustus	73%
Author of 'Great Expectations'	Charles Dickens	72%
Author of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'	Mark Twain	69%
The 28th U.S. president, led America through World War I	Woodrow Wilson	69%
Best known as one of the Founding Fathers who never served as president	Benjamin Franklin	68%
A king of England, Scotland and Ireland, whose conflicts with parliament and his subjects led to civil war and his execution	Charles I	66%
The monarch of England, Scotland and Ireland during much of the latter half of the 17th century, marking the Restoration era	Charles II	66%
Was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519	Charles V	66%
Ruled the British kingdom through turbulent times, including the American Revolutionary War	George III	66%
Helped redefine the purpose of government and pressured the Soviet Union to end the Cold War	Ronald Reagan	66%
Presided over the end of WWII and dropped the atomic bomb on Japan	Harry S. Truman	65%
Martyr, saint and military leader, acting under divine guidance, led the French army to victory over the English during the Hundred Years' War	Joan of Arc	65%
A magnificent baroque-era composer, he is revered through the ages for his work's musical complexities and stylistic innovations	Johann Sebastian Bach	65%
Ruled the British Isles as Lord Protector from 1653 until his death in 1658	Oliver Cromwell	65%
King of England from 1066 until his death in 1087	William the Conqueror	65%
British navigator who charted New Zealand and Australia's Great Barrier Reef	James Cook	64%
First Stuart king of England	James I	63%
One of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, and one of the first leaders of the early Church	Saint Peter	63%
His wife had an affair with Lancelot	King Arthur	61%
Served as U.S. general and commander of the Union armies during the late years of the American Civil War, later becoming the 18th U.S. president	Ulysses S. Grant	61%
The leading Confederate general during the U.S. Civil War	Robert E. Lee	59%
Author of 'The Wealth of Nations'	Adam Smith	58%
Author of 'The Divine Comedy'	Dante Alighieri	58%
A Christian apostle who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world	Paul	58%
Founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement	Joseph Smith	57%
Made history in 1978 by becoming the first non-Italian pope in more than 400 years	Pope John Paul II	56%
Described in the Hebrew Bible as king of the United Monarchy of Israel and Judah	David	52%
The fourth U.S. president	James Madison	52%
The seventh president of the United States	Andrew Jackson	51%
His work includes the 'The Sleeping Beauty' and 'The Nutcracker'	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	51%
A Founding Father, a Constitutional Convention delegate, author of the Federalist papers and the first secretary of the U.S. treasury	Alexander Hamilton	50%
Instrumental in establishing the concept of a heliocentric solar system, in which the sun, rather than the earth, is the center of the solar system	Nicolaus Copernicus	50%
A scientist whose inventions include alternating-current (AC) electricity, and the discovery of the rotating magnetic field	Nikola Tesla	49%
“I think; therefore I am"	René Descartes	48%
Roman emperor who ruled early in the 4th century and also the first Christian emperor	Constantine I	47%
Author of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'	Oscar Wilde	47%
The only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms	Grover Cleveland	44%
German philosopher who is known for his writings on good and evil	Friedrich Nietzsche	43%
Germany's first-ever chancellor	Otto von Bismarck	42%
Best known for creating several complex operas, including 'Tristan and Isolde' and 'Ring Cycle'	Richard Wagner	42%
Author of 'Candide'	Voltaire	42%
Author of 'Critique of Pure Reason'	Immanuel Kant	37%
Killed on the Ides of March	Julius Caeser	36%
Author of 'The Tell-Tale Heart'	Edgar Allan Poe	35%
Considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists	Cicero	29%
Martin Luther's successor as the preeminent Protestant theologian	John Calvin	26%
English Renaissance statesman and philosopher, best known for his promotion of the scientific method	Francis Bacon	24%
He is considered to be the greatest German literary figure of the modern era	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	24%
A theologian, philosopher, and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia	Augustine of Hippo	22%
"Tabula Rasa"	John Locke	17%
He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy"	Carl Linnaeus	16%
Italian Dominican theologian who was one of the most influential medieval thinkers of Scholasticism	Thomas Aquinas	14%
Author of 'A Discourse on the Arts and Sciences'	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	13%
Founder of Sufism	Ali	11%

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