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The leader of Nazi Germany | Adolf Hitler | 99%
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A central figure in Christianity and is emulated as the incarnation of God by many Christians all over the world | Jesus Christ | 98%
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The first president of the United States | George Washington | 97%
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A French military general, the first emperor of France and one of the world's greatest military leaders | Napoleon Bonaparte | 96%
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The 16th president of the United States | Abraham Lincoln | 92%
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The Virgin Queen | Elizabeth I | 92%
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Most famous for his three basic laws of gravity | Isaac Newton | 91%
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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%
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Author of The Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx | 91%
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Renaissance artist and engineer, known for paintings like "The Last Supper" and "Mona Lisa" | Leonardo da Vinci | 91%
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Often called England's national poet, he is considered the greatest dramatist of all time | William Shakespeare | 91%
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A physicist who developed the general theory of relativity | Albert Einstein | 90%
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Best known for his contributions to the science of evolution | Charles Darwin | 90%
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German composer whose Symphony 5 is a beloved classic | Ludwig van Beethoven | 90%
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He nailed his '95 Theses' to a church door in 1517, sparking the Protestant Reformation | Martin Luther | 89%
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His "New Deal" led the nation through the Great Depression | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 88%
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He famously married a series of six wives in his search for political alliance | Henry VIII | 88%
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Twice named prime minister of Great Britain, he helped to defeat Nazi Germany in World War II | Winston Churchill | 88%
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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%
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An ancient Macedonian ruler and one of history’s greatest military minds | Alexander the Great | 87%
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Italian explorer who discovered the 'New World' of the Americas | Christopher Columbus | 87%
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A New York governor who became the 26th U.S. president | Theodore Roosevelt | 85%
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Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India | Queen Victoria | 84%
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Author of the Declaration of Independence and the third U.S. president | Thomas Jefferson | 83%
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Founder of the Russian Communist Party | Vladimir Lenin | 83%
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Mongolian warrior and ruler who created the largest empire in the world, the Mongol Empire | Genghis Khan | 82%
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The Watergate scandal | Richard Nixon | 82%
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Painter of the Sistine Chapel | Michelangelo | 81%
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The prophet and founder of Islam | Muhammed | 80%
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Expanded the Frankish kingdom, eventually establishing the Carolingian Empire | Charlemagne | 79%
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Born Siddhartha Gautama, his teachings serve as the foundation of the Buddhist religion | Gautama Buddha | 79%
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Ancient Greek philosopher who founded the Academy and is the author of philosophical works of unparalleled influence in Western thought | Plato | 79%
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Credited with inventions such as the first practical incandescent light bulb and the phonograph | Thomas Edison | 78%
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One of the world’s greatest artists, with paintings such as ‘Starry Night’ and ‘Sunflowers' | Vincent van Gogh | 78%
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The primary leader of India’s independence movement and also the architect of a form of nonviolent civil disobedience | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | 77%
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An Austrian neurologist best known for developing the theories and techniques of psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud | 77%
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The 43rd president of the United States | George W. Bush | 76%
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One of the biggest names in rock 'n' roll history | Elvis Presley | 75%
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An Italian astronomer, mathematician, physicist, philosopher and professor | Galileo Galilei | 75%
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A Founding Father, the first vice president of the United States and the second president | John Adams | 75%
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Sentenced to death by hemlock poisoning | Socrates | 75%
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An Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist who is still considered one of the greatest thinkers in politics, psychology and ethics | Aristotle | 74%
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The 35th U.S. president | John F. Kennedy | 74%
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He revoked the Edict of Nantes and is known for his aggressive foreign policy | Louis XIV | 74%
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He was married to Marie Antoinette and was executed for treason by guillotine in 1793 | Louis XVI | 74%
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The Philippines are named after him | Philip II | 74%
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The first Roman emperor | Augustus | 72%
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Author of 'Great Expectations' | Charles Dickens | 72%
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The 28th U.S. president, led America through World War I | Woodrow Wilson | 69%
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Best known as one of the Founding Fathers who never served as president | Benjamin Franklin | 68%
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Author of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' | Mark Twain | 68%
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A king of England, Scotland and Ireland, whose conflicts with parliament and his subjects led to civil war and his execution | Charles I | 66%
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The monarch of England, Scotland and Ireland during much of the latter half of the 17th century, marking the Restoration era | Charles II | 66%
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Was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 | Charles V | 66%
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Ruled the British kingdom through turbulent times, including the American Revolutionary War | George III | 66%
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Presided over the end of WWII and dropped the atomic bomb on Japan | Harry S. Truman | 65%
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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%
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A magnificent baroque-era composer, he is revered through the ages for his work's musical complexities and stylistic innovations | Johann Sebastian Bach | 65%
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Helped redefine the purpose of government and pressured the Soviet Union to end the Cold War | Ronald Reagan | 65%
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King of England from 1066 until his death in 1087 | William the Conqueror | 65%
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British navigator who charted New Zealand and Australia's Great Barrier Reef | James Cook | 64%
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Ruled the British Isles as Lord Protector from 1653 until his death in 1658 | Oliver Cromwell | 64%
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First Stuart king of England | James I | 63%
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One of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, and one of the first leaders of the early Church | Saint Peter | 62%
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His wife had an affair with Lancelot | King Arthur | 61%
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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%
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The leading Confederate general during the U.S. Civil War | Robert E. Lee | 58%
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Author of 'The Wealth of Nations' | Adam Smith | 57%
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Author of 'The Divine Comedy' | Dante Alighieri | 57%
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A Christian apostle who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world | Paul | 57%
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Founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement | Joseph Smith | 56%
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Made history in 1978 by becoming the first non-Italian pope in more than 400 years | Pope John Paul II | 55%
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Described in the Hebrew Bible as king of the United Monarchy of Israel and Judah | David | 52%
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The fourth U.S. president | James Madison | 52%
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The seventh president of the United States | Andrew Jackson | 51%
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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%
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His work includes the 'The Sleeping Beauty' and 'The Nutcracker' | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | 50%
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A Founding Father, a Constitutional Convention delegate, author of the Federalist papers and the first secretary of the U.S. treasury | Alexander Hamilton | 49%
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A scientist whose inventions include alternating-current (AC) electricity, and the discovery of the rotating magnetic field | Nikola Tesla | 48%
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Roman emperor who ruled early in the 4th century and also the first Christian emperor | Constantine I | 47%
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Author of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' | Oscar Wilde | 46%
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“I think; therefore I am" | René Descartes | 46%
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The only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms | Grover Cleveland | 44%
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German philosopher who is known for his writings on good and evil | Friedrich Nietzsche | 43%
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Germany's first-ever chancellor | Otto von Bismarck | 42%
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Best known for creating several complex operas, including 'Tristan and Isolde' and 'Ring Cycle' | Richard Wagner | 41%
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Author of 'Candide' | Voltaire | 41%
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Author of 'Critique of Pure Reason' | Immanuel Kant | 37%
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Killed on the Ides of March | Julius Caeser | 35%
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Author of 'The Tell-Tale Heart' | Edgar Allan Poe | 34%
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Considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists | Cicero | 28%
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Martin Luther's successor as the preeminent Protestant theologian | John Calvin | 26%
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English Renaissance statesman and philosopher, best known for his promotion of the scientific method | Francis Bacon | 23%
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He is considered to be the greatest German literary figure of the modern era | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 23%
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A theologian, philosopher, and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia | Augustine of Hippo | 22%
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"Tabula Rasa" | John Locke | 17%
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He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy" | Carl Linnaeus | 16%
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Italian Dominican theologian who was one of the most influential medieval thinkers of Scholasticism | Thomas Aquinas | 13%
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Author of 'A Discourse on the Arts and Sciences' | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 12%
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Founder of Sufism | Ali | 11%
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