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First president of the United States | George Washington | 94%
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HMS Endeavor and Discovery, mapped much of the Pacific Ocean before being killed in Hawaii | Captain James Cook | 85%
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Wrote the US Declaration of Independence and was the third US president. | Thomas Jefferson | 85%
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Child prodigy who died at the age of 35 but managed to compose over 600 symphonies, operas, etc | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 85%
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The Wealth of Nations, Theory of Moral Sentiments. Those who quote the former to support capitalism should read the latter before citing this Scottish author. | Adam Smith | 80%
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Inventor of the electrical battery | Alessandro Volta | 80%
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German princess, ruled Russia by usurping her husband, expanded and modernized Russia. Had an affair with a Polish noble who she made king of Poland. | Catherine the Great | 80%
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Writer, newspaper editor, ambassador to France, US founding father, scientist | Benjamin Franklin | 76%
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French Enlightenment thinker and satirist. Wrote Candide. | Voltaire | 76%
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Prior to becoming the Russian Tsar, he worked in a Dutch shipyard. Modernized the Russian state and established St Petersburg as a window to the West. | Peter the Great | 72%
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German composer and organist | Johan Sebastian Bach | 70%
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English-American radical and revolutionary, author of Common Sense | Thomas Paine | 67%
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English writer and journalist best know for Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | 65%
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German Baroque composer best known for the Messiah | George Frideric Handel | 63%
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One of the great Baroque composers best known for the violin piece The Four Seasons | Antonio Vivaldi | 61%
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US Senator, Jefferson's VP, killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel | Aaron Burr | 57%
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Famed violin maker | Antonio Stradivari | 56%
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Inventor of the cotton gin | Eli Whitney | 56%
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His invention (or more accurately improvement) of the steam engine kick off the Industrial Revolution | James Watt | 56%
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Anglo-Irish satirist, literary critic and political writer best known for Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | 56%
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An important figure in the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, he was eventually executed. | Maximillen Robespierre | 56%
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Swedish astronomer who proposed the most commonly used temperature scale that bears his name | Anders Celsius | 54%
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His Critique of Pure Reason was an attempt to refute the skepticism of David Hume. Residents of Konigsberg set their clocks according to his daily walk. | Immanuel Kant | 54%
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Wrote the Social Contract, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Emile, etc. French Enlightenment figure. Left his children in an orphanage. | Jean Jacques Rousseau | 54%
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Founding writer of German Romanticism, he is best know for The Sorrow of Young Werther and Faust. | JohannWolfgang von Goethe | 48%
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Developed the mercury thermometer and a temperature scale now considered dated and used mostly in the US. | Daniel Fahrenheit | 44%
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A proponent of enlightened absolutism, he modernized the Prussian state ruling for over 40 years. | Frederick II | 44%
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The first monarch of the new Kingdom of Great Britain (1707) as opposed to a joint monarch of England and Scotland. | Queen Anne | 44%
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Generally considered the first prime minister of Great Britain serving from 1721 - 1742 | Robert Walpole | 44%
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Spanish painter, known as the last of the masters and the first of the moderns | Francisco Goya | 43%
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Pacific explorer finishes charting the Pacific coastline in North America and Australia. He has several places named after him including a city and an island in Canada | George Vancouver | 43%
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Danish explorer working for Russia explored Alaska. Bodies of water, land, and a glacier were named after him. | Vitus Bering | 43%
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The father of immunology, he developed the first small pox vaccine | Edward Jenner | 41%
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Helped lead the Haitian Revolution | Tousssaint L'Ouverture | 39%
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Swiss mathematician and physicist who spent most of career in St Petersburg and Berlin. Made several important discoveries in calculus and geometry | Leonhard Euler | 37%
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British Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer during the Napoleonic era, generally regarded as one of the best PMs | William Pitt the Younger | 37%
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Perhaps the best skeptical philosopher. He wrote A Treatise of Human Nature | David Hume | 35%
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The Methodist church is founded by these two brothers | John and Charles Wesley | 33%
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English slave trader who after undergoing a Christian conversion wrote Amazing Grace | John Newton | 33%
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Published An Essay on the Principle of Population suggesting population growth would lead to poverty. | Thomas Malthus | 33%
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French scientist commonly referred to as the father of modern chemistry | Antoine Lavoisier | 30%
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Wrote The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Edward Gibbon | 30%
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English writer and advocate for women's rights best known for writing A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Mary Wollstonecraft | 26%
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A moderate Jacobin in the French Revolution and was the first President of the Committee of Public Safety. He was guillotined in 1794 | Georges Danton | 24%
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English essayists, biographer, critic and poet. | Samuel Johnson | 22%
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Began as Duke of Parma, then King of Naples and Sicily and then finally as the King of Spain, unified and centralized Spanish governance, curtailed the Inquisition and the Jesuits | Charles III | 20%
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Led Sweden during the Great Northern War (1700 - 1721) in which he pillaged his way through central and eastern Europe. In the end he was defeated, Sweden declined as a great power and Prussia and Russia rose to take its place | Charles XII | 19%
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Widely viewed as the founding political philosopher of modern conservatism, he was an Anglo-Irish statesmen who supported the American Revolution | Edmund Burke | 17%
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Quebec City is conquered by the British. Both French and British commanders die in battle. | Montcalm and Wolfe | 17%
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Islamic scholar and revivalist preacher who claimed to return Islam to its original state. Began a power sharing arrangement with the Saud family that continues today in Saudi Arabia where his version of Islam is supported by the monarchy. | Muhammad ibn Add al-Wahhab | 17%
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After assisting in the American Revolution, he returned home to Poland where he was defeated attempting to stop the Second Partition | Tadeusz Kosciuszko | 15%
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Swedish botanist who developed modern taxonomy | Carl Linnaeus | 11%
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American revivalist preacher and Puritan theologian | Jonathan Edwards | 11%
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English chemist and theologian usually credited with the discovery of oxygen and the development of laughing gas or nitrous oxide | Joseph Priestly | 9%
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Reigning over 60 years, this emperor expanded China and oversaw a general period of prosperity | Qianlong Emperor | 9%
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British scientist known for the discovery of hydrogen, a theory of heat and developed an experiment to measure the density of the earth. | Henry Cavendish | 7%
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Through a palace coup he became the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and ended a period of modernizaiton and starting the long period of stagnation and decline. | Mahmud I | 7%
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Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher who argued for Idealism as opposed to the empiricism of John Locke. | George Berkely | 2%
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Created the spinning jenny helping to start the Industrial Revolution | James Hargreaves | 2%
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Founded the first Saudi state | Mohammed Ibn Saud | 2%
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