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A
- A. A. Milne 1882–1956
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada 1896–1977
- A. Kollontaĭ 1872–1952
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 1931–2015
- Aage Bohr 1922–2009
- Aaliyah 1979–2001
- Aaron Burr 1756–1836
- Aaron Swartz 1986–2013
- Abbas Kiarostami 1940–2016
- Abbas the Great 1571–1629
- Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa 1937–2021
- Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan c. AD 646–705
- Abdelkader El Djezairi 1808–1883
- Abdul Hamid I 1725–1789
- Abdul Hamid II 1842–1918
- Abdülaziz 1830–1876
- Abdullah I of Jordan 1882–1951
- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia 1924–2015
- Abdülmecid I 1823–1861
- Abdurrahman Wahid 1940–2009
- Abdus Salam 1926–1996
- Abigail Adams 1744–1818
- Abraham Lincoln 1809–1865
- Abraham Maslow 1908–1970
- Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani as-Sabti c. 1110–1166
- Abu Bakr AD 573–634
- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi 1971–2019
- Abu Bakr al-Razi c. AD 866–925
- Abū Ḥanīfa c. AD 699–767
- Abu Nuwas c. AD 762–814
- Ada Lovelace 1815–1852
- Adam Mickiewicz 1798–1855
- Adelbert von Chamisso 1781–1838
- Adeodatus I c. AD 570–618
- Ādi Shankara c. AD 788–820
- Adolf Butenandt 1903–1995
- Adolf Eichmann 1906–1962
- Adolf Hitler 1889–1945
- Adolf von Baeyer 1835–1917
- Adolphe Sax 1814–1894
- Adolphe Thiers 1797–1877
- Adrian I c. AD 700–795
- Adrian II c. AD 792–872
- Adrian V 1205–1276
- Adrian VI 1459–1523
- Aeschylus c. 525–456 BC
- Aesop c. 620–564 BC
- Afonso I of Portugal c. 1109–1185
- Agatha Christie 1890–1976
- Agatho c. AD 574–681
- Agostinho Neto 1922–1979
- Ahmad ibn Billah 1916–2012
- Ahmad ibn Hanbal AD 780–855
- Ahmad Shah Massoud 1953–2001
- Ahmad Yasin 1937–2004
- Ahmed I 1590–1617
- Ahmed II 1643–1695
- Ahmed III 1673–1736
- Ahmed Sékou Touré 1922–1984
- Ahmed Zewail 1946–2016
- Aisha c. AD 614–678
- Akbar 1542–1605
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani 1934–2017
- Akira Kurosawa 1910–1998
- Akira Toriyama 1955–2024
- Al Capone 1899–1947
- Al-Biruni 973–1048
- Al-Ghazali c. 1058–1111
- Al-Kindi c. AD 801–873
- Al-Mas'udi c. AD 896–957
- Al-Shafi'i AD 767–820
- Alain Delon 1935–2024
- Alan Arkin 1934–2023
- Alan García 1949–2019
- Alan Rickman 1946–2016
- Alan Shepard 1923–1998
- Alan Turing 1912–1954
- Albert Abraham Michelson 1852–1931
- Albert Camus 1913–1960
- Albert Einstein 1879–1955
- Albert Hofmann 1906–2008
- Albert I of Belgium 1875–1934
- Albert Schweitzer 1875–1965
- Albert Speer 1905–1981
- Albert Szent-Györgyi 1893–1986
- Alberto Fujimori 1938–2024
- Alberto Moravia 1907–1990
- Albertus Magnus c. 1200–1280
- Albrecht Dürer 1471–1528
- Alcibiades c. 450–404 BC
- Alcide De Gasperi 1881–1954
- Aldo Moro 1916–1978
- Aldous Huxley 1894–1963
- Alec Douglas-Home 1903–1995
- Alec Guinness 1914–2000
- Aleister Crowley 1875–1947
- Alejo Carpanter 1904–1980
- Aleksandr Kuprin 1870–1938
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918–2008
- Aleksey Tolstoy 1883–1945
- Alessandro Manzoni 1785–1873
- Alessandro Volta 1745–1827
- Alexander Alekhine 1892–1946
- Alexander Blok 1880–1921
- Alexander Borodin 1833–1887
- Alexander Dubček 1921–1992
- Alexander Fleming 1881–1955
- Alexander Graham Bell 1847–1922
- Alexander Hamilton 1757–1804
- Alexander Herzen 1812–1870
- Alexander I of Russia 1777–1825
- Alexander II of Russia 1818–1881
- Alexander III c. 1100–1181
- Alexander III of Russia 1845–1894
- Alexander Kerensky 1881–1970
- Alexander Kolchak 1874–1920
- Alexander Nevsky 1220–1263
- Alexander Pope 1688–1744
- Alexander Prokhorov 1916–2002
- Alexander Pushkin 1799–1837
- Alexander Scriabin 1872–1915
- Alexander Suvorov 1730–1800
- Alexander the Great 356–323 BC
- Alexander VI 1431–1503
- Alexander VII 1599–1667
- Alexander VIII 1610–1691
- Alexander von Humboldt 1769–1859
- Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse) 1872–1918
- Alexandre Dumas 1802–1870
- Alexandre Dumas fils 1824–1895
- Alexei Abrikosov 1928–2017
- Alexei I of Russia 1629–1676
- Alexey Leonov 1934–2019
- Alexios I Komnenos c. 1048–1118
- Alexis Carrel 1873–1944
- Alexis de Tocqueville 1805–1859
- Alfonso X of Castile and Leon 1221–1284
- Alfonso XIII 1886–1941
- Alfred Adler 1870–1937
- Alfred de Musset 1810–1857
- Alfred de Vigny 1797–1863
- Alfred Dreyfus 1859–1935
- Alfred Hitchcock 1899–1980
- Alfred Jodl 1890–1946
- Alfred Kastler 1902–1984
- Alfred Marshall 1842–1924
- Alfred Nobel 1833–1896
- Alfred North Whitehead 1861–1947
- Alfred Rosenberg 1893–1946
- Alfred Russel Wallace 1823–1913
- Alfred Sisley 1839–1899
- Alfred Tennyson 1809–1892
- Alfred the Great c. AD 849–899
- Alfred Werner 1866–1919
- Alfredo Di Stéfano 1926–2014
- Alfredo Stroessner 1912–2006
- Ali Abdullah Saleh 1947–2017
- Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib c. AD 599–661
- Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441–1501
- Alice Munro 1931–2024
- Alija Izetbegović 1925–2003
- Allen Ginsberg 1926–1997
- Allvar Gullstrand 1862–1930
- Alp Arslan 1029–1072
- Alphonse Daudet 1840–1897
- Alphonse de Lamartine 1790–1869
- Alphonse Mucha 1860–1939
- Alva Myrdal 1902–1986
- Alvar Aalto 1898–1976
- Ambrose c. AD 339–397
- Amedeo Avogadro 1776–1856
- Amedeo Modigliani 1884–1920
- Amelia Earhart 1897–1939
- Amerigo Vespucci 1454–1512
- Amir Khusrau c. 1253–1325
- Ammianus Marcellinus c. AD 330–395
- Amy Winehouse 1983–2011
- Anacreon c. 570–485 BC
- Anaïs Nin 1903–1977
- Anastas Mikoyan 1895–1978
- Anastasius I c. AD 340–401
- Anatole France 1844–1924
- Anatoliy Solovyanenko 1932–1999
- Anaxagoras c. 500–428 BC
- Anaximander c. 610–546 BC
- Anaximenes of Miletus c. 585–525 BC
- Anders Celsius 1701–1744
- André Breton 1896–1966
- André Chénier 1762–1794
- André Gide 1869–1951
- André Malraux 1901–1976
- André Maurois 1885–1967
- André-Marie Ampère 1775–1836
- Andrea Palladio 1508–1580
- Andreas Vesalius 1515–1564
- Andrei Gromyko 1909–1989
- Andrei Sakharov 1921–1989
- Andrei Tarkovsky 1932–1986
- Andrew Carnegie 1835–1919
- Andrew Jackson 1767–1845
- Andrew Johnson 1808–1875
- Andrey Kolmogorov 1903–1987
- Andrzej Wajda 1926–2016
- Andy Warhol 1928–1987
- Angela Lansbury 1925–2022
- Anita Ekberg 1931–2015
- Anna Akhmatova 1889–1966
- Anna I of Russia 1693–1740
- Anna Komnene c. 1083–1154
- Anna Magnani 1908–1973
- Anna Nicole Smith 1967–2007
- Anna Pavlova 1882–1931
- Anna Politkovskaya 1958–2006
- Anne Bancroft 1931–2005
- Anne Baxter 1923–1985
- Anne Frank c. 1929–1945
- Anne of Great Britain 1665–1714
- Anne Rice 1941–2021
- Annie Besant 1847–1933
- Annie Jump Cannon 1863–1941
- Ansel Adams 1902–1984
- Anselm of Canterbury c. 1033–1109
- Anthony Bourdain 1956–2018
- Anthony Burgess 1917–1993
- Anthony Eden 1897–1977
- Anthony of Padua 1195–1231
- Anthony Quinn 1915–2001
- Anthony the Great c. AD 251–357
- Anthony van Dyck 1599–1641
- Antisthenes c. 445–365 BC
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900–1944
- Antoine Henri Becquerel 1852–1908
- Antoine Lavoisier 1743–1794
- Anton Bruckner 1824–1896
- Anton Chekhov 1860–1904
- Antoni Gaudí 1852–1926
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632–1723
- Antonin Artaud 1896–1948
- Antonín Dvořák 1841–1904
- Antoninus Pius AD 86–161
- António de Oliveira Salazar 1889–1970
- Antonio Gramsci 1891–1937
- Antonio Machado 1875–1939
- Antonio Salieri 1750–1825
- Antonio Vivaldi 1678–1741
- Antony Hewish 1924–2021
- Anwar Sadat 1918–1981
- Aphra Behn 1640–1689
- Apollonius of Perga c. 262–190 BC
- Apuleius c. AD 125–170
- Aram Khachaturian 1903–1978
- Arcadius AD 377–408
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria 1863–1914
- Archilochus of Paros c. 688–645 BC
- Archimedes c. 287–212 BC
- Ardashir I c. AD 180–241
- Aretha Franklin 1942–2018
- Ariel Sharon 1928–2014
- Aristarchus of Samos c. 310–230 BC
- Aristide Briand 1862–1932
- Aristippus c. 435–355 BC
- Aristophanes c. 445–385 BC
- Aristotle c. 384–322 BC
- Aristotle Onassis 1906–1975
- Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585–1642
- Arminius c. 17 BC–AD 21
- Arno Allan Penzias 1933–2024
- Arnold J. Toynbee 1889–1975
- Arnold Schoenberg 1874–1951
- Arnold Sommerfeld 1868–1951
- Arthur Ashkin 1922–2020
- Arthur Balfour 1848–1930
- Arthur C. Clarke 1917–2008
- Arthur Conan Doyle 1859–1930
- Arthur Eddington 1882–1944
- Arthur Harden 1865–1940
- Arthur Holly Compton 1892–1962
- Arthur Koestler 1905–1983
- Arthur Leonard Schawlow 1921–1999
- Arthur Miller 1915–2005
- Arthur Rimbaud 1854–1891
- Arthur Rubinstein 1887–1982
- Arthur Schnitzler 1862–1931
- Arthur Schopenhauer 1788–1860
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769–1852
- Arturo Toscanini 1867–1957
- Aryabhata c. AD 476–550
- Ashoka c. 304–232 BC
- Ashurbanipal c. 685–631 BC
- Aslan Maskhadov 1951–2005
- Asta Nielsen 1881–1972
- Astrid Lindgren 1907–2002
- Athanasius of Alexandria c. AD 296–373
- Attar of Nishapur c. 1145–1221
- Attila c. AD 406–453
- Audrey Hepburn 1929–1993
- August Bebel 1840–1913
- August Kekulé 1829–1896
- Auguste Comte 1798–1857
- Auguste Rodin 1840–1917
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel 1788–1827
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy 1789–1857
- Augustine of Hippo AD 354–430
- Augusto Pinochet 1915–2006
- Augustus 63 BC–AD 14
- Aurangzeb 1618–1707
- Aurelian c. AD 214–275
- Aurobindo Ghosh 1872–1950
- Austen Chamberlain 1863–1937
- Ava Gardner 1922–1990
- Averroes 1126–1198
- Avicenna c. 980–1037
- Avicii 1989–2018
- Ayman al-Zawahiri 1951–2022
- Ayn Rand 1905–1982
- Ayrton Senna 1960–1994
- Ayub Khan 1907–1974
B
- B. J. Habibie 1936–2019
- B.F. Skinner 1904–1990
- Báb 1819–1850
- Baba Vanga 1911–1996
- Babe Ruth 1895–1948
- Babur 1483–1531
- Bahadur Shah Zafar 1775–1862
- Baháʼu'lláh 1817–1892
- Baltasar Gracián 1601–1658
- Barbara Bush 1925–2018
- Barbara McClintock 1902–1992
- Barbara Stanwyck 1907–1990
- Baron d'Holbach 1723–1789
- Bartolomé de las Casas 1484–1566
- Basil II c. 958–1025
- Basil of Caesarea c. AD 329–379
- Batu Khan c. 1205–1255
- Baudouin I of Belgium 1930–1993
- Bayezid I 1354–1403
- Bayezid II 1447–1512
- Beatrix Potter 1866–1943
- Bede c. AD 672–735
- Bedřich Smetana 1824–1884
- Beji Caid Essebsi 1926–2019
- Béla Bartók 1881–1945
- Bela Lugosi 1882–1956
- Belisarius c. AD 505–565
- Ben Jonson 1572–1637
- Ben Roy Mottelson 1926–2022
- Benazir Bhutto 1953–2007
- Benedetto Croce 1866–1952
- Benedict I c. AD 525–579
- Benedict II c. AD 635–685
- Benedict III c. AD 810–858
- Benedict of Nursia AD 480–547
- Benedict V c. AD 900–965
- Benedict VIII c. 980–1024
- Benedict XI c. 1240–1304
- Benedict XII c. 1280–1342
- Benedict XIII 1649–1730
- Benedict XIV 1675–1758
- Benedict XV 1854–1922
- Benedict XVI 1927–2022
- Benedictus de Spinoza 1632–1677
- Benigno Aquino III 1960–2021
- Benito Mussolini 1883–1945
- Benito Pérez Galdós 1843–1920
- Benjamin Britten 1913–1976
- Benjamin Constant 1767–1830
- Benjamin Disraeli 1804–1881
- Benjamin Franklin 1706–1790
- Benjamin Harrison 1833–1901
- Benoit Mandelbrot 1924–2010
- Bernard Montgomery 1887–1976
- Bernard of Clairvaux c. 1091–1153
- Bernardo Bertolucci 1941–2018
- Bernhard Riemann 1826–1866
- Bertha von Suttner 1843–1914
- Berthe Morisot 1841–1895
- Bertolt Brecht 1898–1956
- Bertrand Russell 1872–1970
- Bette Davis 1908–1989
- Betty Ford 1918–2011
- Betty Friedan 1921–2006
- Betty White 1922–2021
- Betty Williams 1943–2020
- Bhumibol Adulyadej 1927–2016
- Bill Russell 1934–2022
- Billie Holiday 1915–1959
- Billy Graham 1918–2018
- Billy the Kid 1859–1881
- Billy Wilder 1906–2002
- Bing Crosby 1903–1977
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832–1910
- Blaise Pascal 1623–1662
- Bob Hope 1903–2003
- Bob Hoskins 1942–2014
- Bob Marley 1945–1981
- Bob Saget 1956–2022
- Bobby Charlton 1937–2023
- Bobby Fischer 1943–2008
- Boethius c. AD 480–524
- Bolesław I the Brave c. 967–1025
- Bonar Law 1858–1923
- Bonaventure c. 1221–1274
- Boniface I c. AD 370–422
- Boniface III c. AD 540–607
- Boniface IV c. AD 550–615
- Boniface IX c. 1356–1404
- Boniface VIII 1235–1303
- Boris Godunov 1552–1605
- Boris Nemtsov 1959–2015
- Boris Pasternak 1890–1960
- Boris Spassky 1937–2025
- Boris Vian 1920–1959
- Boris Yeltsin 1931–2007
- Boudica c. AD 30–62
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali 1922–2016
- Brahmagupta c. AD 598–670
- Bram Stoker 1847–1912
- Bridget of Sweden c. 1303–1373
- Brittany Murphy 1977–2009
- Bruce Lee 1940–1973
- Bud Spencer 1929–2016
- Buddy Holly 1936–1959
- Bujar Nishani 1966–2022
- Bülent Ecevit 1925–2006
- Burt Lancaster 1913–1994
- Burt Reynolds 1936–2018
- Burton Richter 1931–2018
- Buster Keaton 1895–1966
C
- C. S. Lewis 1898–1963
- Cai Lun c. AD 48–121
- Caligula AD 12–41
- Callixtus II c. 1065–1124
- Callixtus III 1379–1458
- Calvin Coolidge 1872–1933
- Cambyses II c. 559–522 BC
- Camille Pissarro 1830–1903
- Camille Saint-Saëns 1835–1921
- Camillo Benso di Cavour 1810–1861
- Camillo Golgi 1843–1926
- Camilo José Cela 1916–2002
- Cao Cao c. AD 155–220
- Caracalla AD 188–217
- Caravaggio 1571–1610
- Cardinal Mazarin 1602–1661
- Carl Benz 1844–1929
- Carl Bosch 1874–1940
- Carl David Anderson 1905–1991
- Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777–1855
- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim 1867–1951
- Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi 1804–1851
- Carl Jung 1875–1961
- Carl Maria von Weber 1786–1826
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714–1788
- Carl Reiner 1922–2020
- Carl Rogers 1902–1987
- Carl Sagan 1934–1996
- Carl Sandburg 1878–1967
- Carl Spitteler 1845–1924
- Carl von Clausewitz 1780–1831
- Carl von Ossietzky 1889–1938
- Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742–1786
- Carl XII of Sweden 1682–1718
- Carl XV of Sweden 1826–1872
- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi 1920–2016
- Carlo Collodi 1826–1890
- Carlo Goldoni 1707–1793
- Carlos Fuentes 1928–2012
- Carlos Menem 1930–2021
- Caroline Herschel 1750–1848
- Carrie Fisher 1956–2016
- Cary Grant 1904–1986
- Caspar David Friedrich 1774–1840
- Cassius Dio c. AD 150–235
- Catherine de' Medici 1519–1589
- Catherine I of Russia 1684–1727
- Catherine II of Russia 1729–1796
- Catherine of Alexandria c. AD 287–305
- Catherine of Aragon 1485–1536
- Catherine of Siena 1347–1380
- Cato the Elder c. 234–149 BC
- Catullus c. 84–54 BC
- Cecil B. DeMille 1881–1959
- Cecil Frank Powell 1903–1969
- Cecil John Rhodes 1853–1902
- Celâl Bayar 1883–1986
- Celestine III c. 1106–1198
- Celestine V c. 1215–1296
- Cemal Gürsel 1895–1966
- Cesare Pavese 1908–1950
- Cesária Évora 1941–2011
- Chadwick Boseman 1976–2020
- Chaim Weizmann 1874–1952
- Chanakya c. 375–283 BC
- Chandragupta Maurya c. 340–297 BC
- Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman 1888–1970
- Charlemagne AD 742–814
- Charles Albert Gobat 1843–1914
- Charles Aznavour 1924–2018
- Charles Babbage 1791–1871
- Charles Baudelaire 1821–1867
- Charles Bronson 1921–2003
- Charles Bukowski 1920–1994
- Charles Darwin 1809–1882
- Charles de Gaulle 1890–1970
- Charles Dickens 1812–1870
- Charles Édouard Guillaume 1861–1938
- Charles Fourier 1772–1837
- Charles G. Dawes 1865–1951
- Charles Glover Barkla 1877–1944
- Charles Gounod 1818–1893
- Charles Hard Townes 1915–2015
- Charles I of Austria 1887–1922
- Charles I of England 1600–1649
- Charles II of England 1630–1685
- Charles II of Spain 1661–1700
- Charles III of Spain 1716–1788
- Charles IV 1316–1378
- Charles IX of France 1550–1574
- Charles K. Kao 1933–2018
- Charles Lindbergh 1902–1974
- Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran 1845–1922
- Charles Manson 1934–2017
- Charles Martel AD 688–741
- Charles Messier 1730–1817
- Charles Nicolle 1866–1936
- Charles Perrault 1628–1703
- Charles Richet 1850–1935
- Charles Sanders Peirce 1839–1914
- Charles Scott Sherrington 1857–1952
- Charles the Bald AD 823–877
- Charles the Fat c. AD 839–888
- Charles the Simple AD 879–929
- Charles Thomson Rees Wilson 1869–1959
- Charles V 1500–1558
- Charles V of France 1338–1380
- Charles VI of France 1368–1422
- Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685–1740
- Charles VII of France 1403–1461
- Charles VIII of France 1470–1498
- Charles X of France 1757–1836
- Charles XIV John of Sweden 1763–1844
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736–1806
- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754–1839
- Charlie Chaplin 1889–1977
- Charlie Kirk 1993–2025
- Charlie Parker 1920–1955
- Charlotte Brontë 1816–1855
- Charlton Heston 1923–2008
- Che Guevara 1928–1967
- Chen-ning Yang 1922–2025
- Chester A. Arthur 1829–1886
- Chester Bennington 1976–2017
- Chester W. Nimitz 1885–1966
- Chiang Kai-shek 1887–1975
- Chingiz Aĭtmatov 1928–2008
- Chinua Achebe 1930–2013
- Christiaan Eijkman 1858–1930
- Christiaan Huygens 1629–1695
- Christian de Duve 1917–2013
- Christian Dior 1905–1957
- Christian Dopplerr 1803–1853
- Christina of Sweden 1626–1689
- Christine de Pizan c. 1364–1430
- Christoph Willibald von Gluck 1714–1787
- Christopher Columbus c. 1451–1506
- Christopher Hitchens 1949–2011
- Christopher Lee 1922–2015
- Christopher Marlowe 1564–1593
- Christopher Plummer 1929–2021
- Christopher Reeve 1952–2004
- Christopher Wren 1632–1723
- Chuck Berry 1926–2017
- Chulalongkorn 1853–1910
- Cicero 107–43 BC
- Clara Schumann 1819–1896
- Clara Zetkin 1857–1933
- Clare of Assisi 1194–1253
- Clark Gable 1901–1960
- Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715–1771
- Claude Bernard 1813–1878
- Claude Debussy 1862–1918
- Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon 1760–1825
- Claude Lévi-Strauss 1908–2009
- Claude Monet 1840–1926
- Claude Shannon 1916–2001
- Claude Simon 1913–2005
- Claudette Colbert 1903–1996
- Claudia Cardinale 1938–2025
- Claudio Monteverdi 1567–1643
- Claudius 10 BC–AD 54
- Claudius Gothicus c. AD 214–270
- Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg 1907–1944
- Clement Attlee 1883–1967
- Clement II c. 1005–1047
- Clement III c. 1124–1191
- Clement IV 1190–1268
- Clement IX 1600–1669
- Clement of Alexandria c. AD 150–215
- Clement V c. 1264–1314
- Clement VI c. 1291–1352
- Clement VII 1478–1534
- Clement VIII 1536–1605
- Clement X 1590–1676
- Clement XI 1649–1721
- Clement XII 1652–1740
- Clement XIII 1693–1769
- Clement XIV 1705–1774
- Cleopatra 69–30 BC
- Clinton Davisson 1881–1958
- Clovis I c. AD 466–511
- Clyde Tombaugh 1906–1997
- Cnut the Great c. 994–1035
- Coco Chanel 1883–1971
- Colette 1873–1954
- Colin Powell 1937–2021
- Commodus AD 161–192
- Confucius c. 551–479 BC
- Conon c. AD 630–687
- Conrad Bain 1923–2013
- Constantine II c. AD 316–340
- Constantine II of Greece 1940–2023
- Constantine Stanislavsky 1863–1938
- Constantine the Great AD 272–337
- Constantius Chlorus c. AD 250–306
- Constantius II AD 317–361
- Corazon Aquino 1933–2009
- Cormac McCarthy 1933–2023
- Cornelius c. AD 180–253
- Cyprian c. AD 200–258
- Cyrano de Bergerac 1619–1655
- Cyril of Alexandria c. AD 376–444
- Cyrus the Great c. 600–530 BC
- Czesław Miłosz 1911–2004
D
- D. H. Lawrence 1885–1930
- D. W. Griffith 1875–1948
- Dag Hammarskjöld 1905–1961
- Dale Carnegie 1888–1955
- Dalida 1933–1987
- Damasus I c. AD 305–384
- Damasus II c. 1000–1048
- Daniel Bernoulli 1700–1782
- Daniel Dennett 1942–2024
- Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686–1736
- Daniel Kahneman 1934–2024
- Dante Alighieri c. 1265–1321
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828–1882
- Daphne du Maurier 1907–1989
- Dario Fo 1926–2016
- Darius I c. 550–486 BC
- Darius III c. 380–330 BC
- Dashiell Hammett 1894–1961
- David Ben-Gurion 1886–1973
- David Bowie 1947–2016
- David Hilbert 1862–1943
- David Hume 1711–1776
- David J. Thouless 1934–2019
- David Livingstone 1813–1873
- David Lloyd George 1863–1945
- David Lynch 1946–2025
- David Niven 1910–1983
- David Ricardo 1772–1823
- Dean Martin 1917–1995
- Debbie Reynolds 1932–2016
- Deborah Kerr 1921–2007
- Decius c. AD 201–251
- Demosthenes c. 384–322 BC
- Deng Xiaoping 1904–1997
- Denis Diderot 1713–1784
- Dennis Gabor 1900–1979
- Dennis Hopper 1936–2010
- Dennis M. Ritchie 1941–2011
- Derek Walcott 1930–2017
- Desmond Tutu 1931–2021
- Dian Fossey 1932–1985
- Diana, Princess of Wales 1961–1997
- Diane Keaton 1946–2025
- Didius Julianus c. AD 133–193
- Diego Maradona 1960–2020
- Diego Rivera 1886–1957
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906–1945
- Diodorus Siculus c. 90–20 BC
- Diogenes of Sinope c. 400–323 BC
- Diogo Jota 1996–2025
- Dionysius c. AD 200–268
- Diophantus of Alexandria c. AD 200–284
- Dmitri Mendeleev 1834–1907
- Dmitri Shostakovich 1906–1975
- Dolores Ibárruri 1895–1989
- Dolores O'Riordan 1971–2018
- Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448–1494
- Domenico Scarlatti 1685–1757
- Domitian AD 51–96
- Don Rickles 1926–2017
- Donald Arthur Glaser 1926–2013
- Donald Pleasence 1919–1995
- Donald Rumsfeld 1932–2021
- Donald Sutherland 1935–2024
- Donatello c. 1386–1466
- Donna Summer 1948–2012
- Doris Day 1922–2019
- Doris Lessing 1919–2013
- Dorothy Hodgkin 1910–1994
- Dorothy Parker 1893–1967
- Douglas Engelbart 1925–2013
- Douglas MacArthur 1880–1964
- Dr. Seuss 1904–1991
- Du Fu c. AD 712–770
- Duke Ellington 1899–1974
- Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890–1969
- Dylan Thomas 1914–1953
- Dzhokhar Dudayev 1944–1996
E
- E. M. Forster 1879–1970
- E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776–1822
- Éamon de Valera 1882–1975
- Eartha Kitt 1927–2008
- Ebrahim Raisi 1960–2024
- Ed Asner 1929–2021
- Edgar Allan Poe 1809–1849
- Edgar de Wahl 1867–1948
- Edgar Degas 1834–1917
- Edgar Rice Burroughs 1875–1950
- Édith Piaf 1915–1963
- Edith Stein 1891–1942
- Edith Wharton 1862–1937
- Edmond Halley 1656–1742
- Edmondo de Amicis 1846–1908
- Edmund Burke 1729–1797
- Edmund Hillary 1919–2008
- Edmund Husserl 1859–1938
- Édouard Manet 1832–1883
- Edsger W. Dijkstra 1930–2002
- Eduard Bernstein 1850–1932
- Eduard Buchner 1860–1917
- Eduard Shevardnadze 1928–2014
- Eduardo Galeano 1940–2015
- Edvard Beneš 1884–1948
- Edvard Grieg 1843–1907
- Edvard Munch 1863–1944
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1803–1873
- Edward Elgar 1857–1934
- Edward Gibbon 1737–1794
- Edward Heath 1916–2005
- Edward I of England 1239–1307
- Edward II of England 1284–1327
- Edward III of England 1312–1377
- Edward IV of England 1442–1483
- Edward Jenner 1749–1823
- Edward Mills Purcell 1912–1997
- Edward O. Wilson 1929–2021
- Edward Said 1935–2003
- Edward Sapir 1884–1939
- Edward Teller 1908–2003
- Edward VI of England 1537–1553
- Edward Victor Appleton 1892–1965
- Edward VII 1841–1910
- Edward VIII 1894–1972
- Edwin Hubble 1889–1953
- Egon Schiele 1890–1918
- Ei-ichi Negishi 1935–2021
- Eisaku Satō 1901–1975
- El Greco 1541–1614
- Elagabalus AD 203–222
- Eleanor of Aquitaine c. 1124–1204
- Eleanor Roosevelt 1884–1962
- Elia Kazan 1909–2003
- Elias Canetti 1905–1994
- Elias Lönnrot 1802–1884
- Élie Ducommun 1833–1906
- Élie Metchnikoff 1845–1916
- Elie Wiesel 1928–2016
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda 1858–1922
- Elinor Ostrom 1933–2012
- Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun 1755–1842
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806–1861
- Elizabeth Blackwell 1821–1910
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815–1902
- Elizabeth Gaskell 1810–1865
- Elizabeth I of England 1533–1603
- Elizabeth I of Russia 1709–1762
- Elizabeth II 1926–2022
- Elizabeth Taylor 1932–2011
- Ella Fitzgerald 1917–1996
- Elvis Presley 1935–1977
- Emanuel Lasker 1868–1941
- Emil Cioran 1911–1995
- Emil Fischer 1852–1919
- Emil von Behring 1854–1917
- Émile Durkheim 1858–1917
- Emile Verhaeren 1855–1916
- Émile Zola 1840–1902
- Emilia Plater 1806–1831
- Emiliano Zapata 1879–1919
- Emilio Aguinaldo 1869–1964
- Emilio G. Segrè 1905–1989
- Emily Brontë 1818–1848
- Emily Dickinson 1830–1886
- Emily Greene Balch 1867–1961
- Emma Goldman 1869–1940
- Emmanuel Swedenborg 1688–1772
- Emmeline Pankhurst 1858–1928
- Emmy Noether 1882–1935
- Empedocles c. 494–434 BC
- Emperor Gaozu of Han c. 256–195 BC
- Emperor Meiji 1852–1912
- Emperor Rudolf II 1552–1612
- Emperor Taishō 1879–1926
- Emperor Wu of Han 156–87 BC
- Empress Dowager Cixi 1835–1908
- Empress Elisabeth of Austria 1837–1898
- Enid Blyton 1897–1968
- Ennio Morricone 1928–2020
- Enrico Caruso 1873–1921
- Enrico Fermi 1901–1954
- Enver Hoxha 1908–1985
- Enver Pasha 1881–1922
- Enzo Ferrari 1898–1988
- Epictetus c. AD 50–138
- Epicurus c. 342–270 BC
- Erasmus 1466–1536
- Eratosthenes c. 276–194 BC
- Eric Hobsbawm 1917–2012
- Erich Fromm 1900–1980
- Erich Honecker 1912–1994
- Erich Kästner 1899–1974
- Erich Ludendorff 1865–1937
- Erich Maria Remarque 1898–1970
- Erich von Manstein 1887–1973
- Erik Axel Karlfeldt 1864–1931
- Erik Erikson 1902–1994
- Erik Satie 1866–1925
- Erik the Red c. 950–1003
- Ernest Borgnine 1917–2012
- Ernest Hemingway 1899–1961
- Ernest Lawrence 1901–1958
- Ernest Renan 1823–1892
- Ernest Rutherford 1871–1937
- Ernest Shackleton 1874–1922
- Ernest Walton 1903–1995
- Ernesto Sabato 1911–2011
- Ernst Abbe 1840–1905
- Ernst Haeckel 1834–1919
- Ernst Jünger 1895–1998
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880–1938
- Ernst Mach 1838–1916
- Ernst Röhm 1887–1934
- Ernst Ruska 1906–1988
- Errol Flynn 1909–1959
- Erwin Rommel 1891–1944
- Erwin Schrödinger 1887–1961
- Étienne de La Boétie 1530–1563
- Eudoxus of Cnidus c. 408–355 BC
- Eugène Delacroix 1798–1863
- Eugene II c. AD 780–827
- Eugène Ionesco 1909–1994
- Eugene IV c. 1383–1447
- Eugene O'Neill 1888–1953
- Eugene of Savoy 1663–1736
- Eugene Paul Wigner 1902–1995
- Eugenio Montale 1896–1981
- Euripides c. 481–407 BC
- Eusébio 1942–2014
- Eusebius of Caesarea c. AD 265–340
- Eva Braun 1912–1945
- Eva Perón 1919–1952
- Evangelista Torricelli 1608–1647
- Évariste Galois 1811–1832
- Evelyn Waugh 1903–1966
- Eyvind Johnson 1900–1976
- Ezra Pound 1885–1972
F
- F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896–1940
- F. W. de Klerk 1936–2021
- Faisal I of Iraq 1885–1933
- Farabi c. AD 870–951
- Farrah Fawcett 1947–2009
- Fatima AD 604–632
- Federico Fellini 1920–1993
- Federico García Lorca 1898–1936
- Felix Baumgartner 1969–2025
- Felix Bloch 1905–1983
- Felix Dzerzhinsky 1877–1926
- Felix III c. AD 440–492
- Felix Klein 1849–1925
- Felix Mendelssohn 1809–1847
- Ferdinand de Saussure 1857–1913
- Ferdinand Foch 1851–1929
- Ferdinand I of Austria 1793–1875
- Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503–1564
- Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452–1516
- Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578–1637
- Ferdinand Lassalle 1825–1864
- Ferdinand Marcos 1917–1989
- Ferdinand VII of Spain 1784–1833
- Ferdowsi c. 940–1020
- Ferenc Puskás 1927–2006
- Fernand Braudel 1902–1985
- Fernandel 1903–1971
- Fernando Pessoa 1888–1935
- Fethullah Gülen 1941–2024
- Fidel Castro 1926–2016
- Fidel Ramos 1928–2022
- Filippo Brunelleschi c. 1377–1446
- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti 1876–1944
- Florence Nightingale 1820–1910
- Formosus c. AD 816–896
- France Gall 1947–2018
- France Prešeren 1800–1849
- Frances Hodgson Burnett 1849–1924
- Francesco Cossiga 1928–2010
- Francis Bacon 1561–1626
- Francis Bacon 1909–1992
- Francis Crick 1916–2004
- Francis de Sales 1567–1622
- Francis Galton 1822–1911
- Francis I of France 1494–1547
- Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708–1765
- Francis II of France 1544–1560
- Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768–1835
- Francis of Assisi 1182–1226
- Francis William Aston 1877–1945
- Francis Xavier 1506–1552
- Francisco de Zurbarán 1598–1664
- Francisco Franco 1892–1975
- Francisco Goya 1746–1828
- Francisco Pizarro 1478–1541
- Francisco Quevedo 1584–1645
- François Arago 1786–1853
- François de La Rochefoucauld 1613–1680
- François Fénelon 1651–1715
- François Jacob 1920–2013
- François Mauriac 1885–1970
- François Mitterrand 1916–1996
- François Truffaut 1932–1984
- François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1768–1848
- Françoise Sagan 1935–2004
- Franjo Tuđman 1922–1999
- Frank Capra 1897–1991
- Frank Herbert 1920–1986
- Frank Lloyd Wright 1867–1959
- Frank Sinatra 1915–1998
- Frank Zappa 1940–1993
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882–1945
- Franklin Pierce 1804–1869
- Frans Eemil Sillanpää 1888–1964
- Frantz Fanon 1925–1961
- Franz Beckenbauer 1945–2024
- Franz Boas 1858–1942
- Franz Joseph I of Austria 1830–1916
- Franz Kafka 1883–1924
- Franz Liszt 1811–1886
- Franz Marc 1880–1916
- Franz Schubert 1797–1828
- Franz von Papen 1879–1969
- Fred Astaire 1899–1987
- Fred Hoyle 1915–2001
- Fred Rogers 1928–2003
- Freddie Mercury 1946–1991
- Frédéric Bastiat 1801–1850
- Frédéric Chopin 1810–1849
- Frédéric Joliot-Curie 1900–1958
- Frédéric Mistral 1830–1914
- Frédéric Passy 1822–1912
- Frederick Banting 1891–1941
- Frederick Barbarossa c. 1122–1190
- Frederick Douglass 1818–1895
- Frederick Hopkins 1861–1947
- Frederick II of Prussia 1712–1786
- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor 1195–1250
- Frederick III, German Emperor 1831–1888
- Frederick Reines 1918–1998
- Frederick Sanger 1918–2013
- Frederick Soddy 1877–1956
- Freeman Dyson 1923–2020
- Frida Kahlo 1907–1954
- Fridtjof Nansen 1861–1930
- Friedrich Bessel 1784–1846
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1921–1990
- Friedrich Ebert 1871–1925
- Friedrich Engels 1820–1895
- Friedrich Hayek 1899–1992
- Friedrich Hölderlin 1770–1843
- Friedrich Max Müller 1823–1900
- Friedrich Nietzsche 1844–1900
- Friedrich Paulus 1890–1957
- Friedrich Schiller 1759–1805
- Friedrich Schlegel 1772–1829
- Friedrich Schleiermacher 1768–1834
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775–1854
- Friedrich Wöhler 1800–1882
- Frits Zernike 1888–1966
- Fritz Haber 1868–1934
- Fritz Lang 1890–1976
- Fulgencio Batista 1901–1973
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821–1881
- Fyodor Tyutchev 1803–1873
G
- G. K. Chesterton 1874–1936
- G.H. Hardy 1877–1947
- Gabriel García Márquez 1927–2014
- Gabriel Lippmann 1845–1921
- Gabriela Mistral 1889–1957
- Gabriele D'Annunzio 1863–1938
- Gaetano Donizetti 1797–1848
- Gaius Marius c. 158–86 BC
- Galba 3 BC–AD 69
- Galileo Galilei 1564–1642
- Gallienus c. AD 218–268
- Gamal Abdel Nasser 1918–1970
- Garrincha 1933–1983
- Garry Marshall 1934–2016
- Garry Shandling 1949–2016
- Gary Coleman 1968–2010
- Gary Cooper 1901–1961
- Gary S. Becker 1930–2014
- Gautama Buddha c. 563–483 BC
- Gavrila Derzhavin 1743–1816
- Gavrilo Princip 1894–1918
- Gelasius I c. AD 410–496
- Gelasius II c. 1060–1119
- Gene Hackman 1930–2025
- Gene Kelly 1912–1996
- Gene Wilder 1933–2016
- Genghis Khan 1162–1227
- Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1343–1400
- Geoffrey of Monmouth c. 1100–1155
- Georg Cantor 1845–1918
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742–1799
- Georg Lukács 1885–1971
- Georg Philipp Telemann 1681–1767
- Georg Simmel 1858–1918
- Georg Simon Ohm 1789–1854
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770–1831
- George Bernard Shaw 1856–1950
- George Best 1946–2005
- George Canning 1770–1827
- George Carlin 1937–2008
- George de Hevesy 1885–1966
- George Eliot 1819–1880
- George F. Smoot 1945–2025
- George Foreman 1949–2025
- George Frideric Handel 1685–1759
- George Gershwin 1898–1937
- George H. W. Bush 1924–2018
- George Harrison 1943–2001
- George I of Great Britain 1660–1727
- George II of Great Britain 1683–1760
- George III of Great Britain 1738–1820
- George IV of the United Kingdom 1762–1830
- George Marshall 1880–1959
- George Michael 1963–2016
- George Orwell 1903–1950
- George Paget Thomson 1892–1975
- George S. Patton 1885–1945
- George Sand 1804–1876
- George Santayana 1863–1952
- George Stephenson 1781–1848
- George V 1865–1936
- George VI 1895–1952
- George Washington 1732–1799
- George Washington Carver 1864–1943
- Georges Bataille 1897–1962
- Georges Bizet 1838–1875
- Georges Braque 1882–1963
- Georges Charpak 1924–2010
- Georges Clemenceau 1841–1929
- Georges Cuvier 1769–1832
- Georges Danton 1759–1794
- Georges Lemaître 1894–1966
- Georges Méliès 1861–1938
- Georges Pompidou 1911–1974
- Georges Seurat 1859–1891
- Georges Simenon 1903–1989
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707–1788
- Georgi Dimitrov 1882–1949
- Georgi Plekhanov 1856–1918
- Georgy Malenkov 1902–1988
- Georgy Zhukov 1896–1974
- Gerald Ford 1913–2006
- Gérard Philipe 1922–1959
- Gerardus Mercator 1512–1594
- Gerd Müller 1945–2021
- Gerhard Domagk 1895–1964
- Gerhart Hauptmann 1862–1946
- Germaine de Staël 1766–1817
- Gerolamo Cardano 1501–1576
- Gerónimo 1829–1909
- Gertrude B. Elion 1918–1999
- Gertrude Stein 1874–1946
- Gerty Cori 1896–1957
- Geta AD 189–211
- Getúlio Vargas 1882–1954
- Giacomo Casanova 1725–1798
- Giacomo Leopardi 1798–1837
- Giacomo Puccini 1858–1924
- Giambattista Vico 1668–1744
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598–1680
- Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette 1757–1834
- Gilbert Gottfried 1955–2022
- Gilles Deleuze 1925–1995
- Gina Lollobrigida 1927–2023
- Ginger Rogers 1911–1995
- Gioachino Rossini 1792–1868
- Giorgio Armani 1934–2025
- Giorgio Napolitano 1925–2023
- Giorgio Vasari 1511–1574
- Giorgos Seferis 1900–1971
- Giosuè Carducci 1835–1907
- Giotto c. 1267–1337
- Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697–1768
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696–1770
- Giovanni Boccaccio c. 1313–1375
- Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625–1712
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463–1494
- Girolamo Savonarola 1452–1498
- Giulio Andreotti 1919–2013
- Giulio Natta 1903–1979
- Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807–1882
- Giuseppe Mazzini 1805–1872
- Giuseppe Meazza 1910–1979
- Giuseppe Piazzi 1746–1826
- Giuseppe Verdi 1813–1901
- Glenda Jackson 1936–2023
- Glenn Theodore Seaborg 1912–1999
- Gloria Swanson 1899–1983
- Godfrey of Bouillon c. 1060–1100
- Golda Meir 1898–1978
- Gordian I c. AD 159–238
- Gordian III AD 225–244
- Gore Vidal 1925–2012
- Gorgias c. 485–375 BC
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646–1716
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729–1781
- Gottlieb Daimler 1834–1900
- Gottlob Frege 1848–1925
- Grace Hopper 1906–1992
- Grace Kelly 1929–1982
- Graham Greene 1904–1991
- Grazia Deledda 1871–1936
- Gregor Mendel 1822–1884
- Gregory I c. AD 540–604
- Gregory II c. AD 669–731
- Gregory IV c. AD 795–844
- Gregory IX c. 1170–1241
- Gregory of Nazianzus c. AD 330–389
- Gregory of Nyssa c. AD 335–395
- Gregory Peck 1916–2003
- Gregory V c. AD 972–999
- Gregory VI c. 1000–1048
- Gregory X c. 1210–1276
- Gregory XI c. 1330–1378
- Gregory XII 1335–1417
- Gregory XIII 1502–1585
- Gregory XIV 1535–1591
- Gregory XV 1554–1623
- Gregory XVI 1765–1846
- Greta Garbo 1905–1990
- Grigori Rasputin 1869–1916
- Grigory Zinoviev 1883–1936
- Groucho Marx 1890–1977
- Grover Cleveland 1837–1908
- Guglielmo Marconi 1874–1937
- Guillaume Apollinaire 1880–1918
- Gunnar Myrdal 1898–1987
- Günter Grass 1927–2015
- Guru Gobind Singh 1666–1708
- Guru Nanak 1469–1539
- Gustaf V of Sweden 1858–1950
- Gustav Heinemann 1899–1976
- Gustáv Husák 1913–1991
- Gustav I of Sweden 1496–1560
- Gustav Kirchhoff 1824–1887
- Gustav Klimt 1862–1918
- Gustav Ludwig Hertz 1887–1975
- Gustav Mahler 1860–1911
- Gustav Stresemann 1878–1929
- Gustave Courbet 1819–1877
- Gustave Doré 1832–1883
- Gustave Eiffel 1832–1923
- Gustave Flaubert 1821–1880
- Gustave Le Bon 1841–1931
- Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer 1836–1870
- Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden 1594–1632
- Guy de Maupassant 1850–1893
- Guy Fawkes 1570–1606
H
- H. G. Wells 1866–1946
- H. H. Asquith 1852–1928
- H. P. Lovecraft 1890–1937
- H. Rider Haggard 1856–1925
- Haakon VII of Norway 1872–1957
- Habib Bourguiba 1903–2000
- Hadrian AD 76–138
- Hafez c. 1325–1389
- Haile Selassie I 1892–1975
- Hal Holbrook 1925–2021
- Halldór Laxness 1902–1998
- Hammurabi c. 1810–1750 BC
- Han Fei c. 280–233 BC
- Hank Williams 1923–1953
- Hannah Arendt 1906–1975
- Hannes Alfvén 1908–1995
- Hannibal c. 247–183 BC
- Hans Bethe 1906–2005
- Hans Christian Andersen 1805–1875
- Hans Christian Ørsted 1777–1851
- Hans Krebs 1900–1981
- Hans-Georg Gadamer 1900–2002
- Har Gobind Khorana 1922–2011
- Harald zur Hausen 1936–2023
- Harold Godwinson c. 1026–1066
- Harold Lloyd 1893–1971
- Harold Macmillan 1894–1986
- Harold Pinter 1930–2008
- Harold Urey 1893–1981
- Harold Wilson 1916–1995
- Harper Lee 1926–2016
- Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811–1896
- Harry Belafonte 1927–2023
- Harry Houdini 1874–1926
- Harry Martinson 1904–1978
- Harry Mulisch 1927–2010
- Harry S. Truman 1884–1972
- Harun al-Rashid AD 766–809
- Hasan ibn Ali c. AD 625–669
- Hasan Nasrallah 1960–2024
- Hassan II 1929–1999
- Hatshepsut c. 1507–1458 BC
- Heath Ledger 1979–2008
- Hebe Camargo 1929–2012
- Hector Berlioz 1803–1869
- Hedy Lamarr 1914–2000
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes 1853–1926
- Heinrich Böll 1917–1985
- Heinrich Heine 1797–1856
- Heinrich Hertz 1857–1894
- Heinrich Himmler 1900–1945
- Heinrich Mann 1871–1950
- Heinrich Rohrer 1933–2013
- Heinrich Schliemann 1822–1890
- Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers 1758–1840
- Heinz Guderian 1888–1954
- Helen Hayes 1900–1993
- Helen Keller 1880–1968
- Helena Augusta c. AD 250–330
- Helena Blavatsky 1831–1891
- Helmut Kohl 1930–2017
- Helmut Schmidt 1918–2015
- Helmuth von Moltke the Elder 1800–1891
- Hendrik Lorentz 1853–1928
- Henri Barbusse 1873–1935
- Henri Bergson 1859–1941
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1864–1901
- Henri Matisse 1869–1954
- Henri Moissan 1852–1907
- Henri Poincaré 1854–1912
- Henri Rousseau 1844–1910
- Henrik Ibsen 1828–1906
- Henrik Pontoppidan 1857–1943
- Henry A. Wallace 1888–1965
- Henry Cavendish 1731–1810
- Henry David Thoreau 1817–1862
- Henry Dunant 1828–1910
- Henry Fielding 1707–1754
- Henry Fonda 1905–1982
- Henry Ford 1863–1947
- Henry I of England c. 1068–1135
- Henry I the Fowler c. AD 876–936
- Henry II of England 1133–1189
- Henry II of France 1519–1559
- Henry III of England 1207–1272
- Henry III of France 1551–1589
- Henry IV 1050–1106
- Henry IV of England 1367–1413
- Henry IV of France 1553–1610
- Henry James 1843–1916
- Henry Kissinger 1923–2023
- Henry Miller 1891–1980
- Henry Moore 1898–1986
- Henry Morton Stanley 1841–1904
- Henry Purcell 1659–1695
- Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 1784–1865
- Henry V of England 1386–1422
- Henry VI of England 1421–1471
- Henry VII of England 1457–1509
- Henry VIII of England 1491–1547
- Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846–1916
- Heraclius c. AD 575–641
- Herbert Hoover 1874–1964
- Herbert Marcuse 1898–1979
- Herbert Simon 1916–2001
- Herbert Spencer 1820–1903
- Herbert von Karajan 1908–1989
- Herman Melville 1819–1891
- Hermann Göring 1893–1946
- Hermann Hesse 1877–1962
- Hermann Minkowski 1864–1909
- Hermann Staudinger 1881–1965
- Hermann von Helmholtz 1821–1894
- Hermann Weyl 1885–1955
- Hero of Alexandria c. AD 10–75
- Herod the Great c. 74–4 BC
- Herodotus c. 484–425 BC
- Heydar Aliyev 1923–2003
- Hideki Tojo 1884–1948
- Hilarius c. AD 415–468
- Hildegard of Bingen c. 1098–1179
- Hipparchus c. 190–120 BC
- Hippocrates c. 460–370 BC
- Hippolyte Taine 1828–1893
- Hirohito 1901–1989
- Ho Chi Minh 1890–1969
- Hongwu Emperor 1328–1398
- Honoré de Balzac 1799–1850
- Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau 1749–1791
- Honorius AD 384–423
- Honorius I c. AD 585–638
- Honorius III c. 1148–1227
- Honorius IV c. 1210–1287
- Horace 65–8 BC
- Horace Walpole 1717–1797
- Hormisdas c. AD 450–523
- Horst Köhler 1943–2025
- Hosni Mubarak 1928–2020
- Howard Carter 1874–1939
- Howard Hughes 1905–1976
- Hua Guofeng 1921–2008
- Huang Xianfan 1899–1982
- Hubert Humphrey 1911–1978
- Huell Howser 1945–2013
- Hugh Capet of France c. AD 940–996
- Hugh Hefner 1926–2017
- Hugo Chávez 1954–2013
- Hugo Grotius 1583–1645
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1874–1929
- Huldrych Zwingli 1484–1531
- Hulegu Khan 1217–1265
- Hulk Hogan 1953–2025
- Humayun 1508–1556
- Humphrey Bogart 1899–1957
- Humphry Davy 1778–1829
- Hunter S. Thompson 1937–2005
- Husayn ibn Ali AD 626–680
- Hussein I of Jordan 1935–1999
- Hypatia c. AD 360–415
I
- I. M. Pei 1917–2019
- Ian Fleming 1908–1964
- Ibn al-Haytham c. 965–1039
- Ibn Arabi 1165–1240
- Ibn Battuta c. 1304–1368
- Ibn Khaldun c. 1332–1406
- Ibn Saud 1876–1953
- Ibn Taymiyyah 1263–1328
- Ibrahim I 1615–1648
- Ichirō Mizuki 1948–2022
- Idriss Déby 1952–2021
- Ignatius of Antioch c. AD 35–108
- Ignatius of Loyola 1491–1556
- Ignaz Semmelweis 1818–1865
- Igor Stravinsky 1882–1971
- Igor Tamm 1895–1971
- Ilya Frank 1908–1990
- Ilya Prigogine 1917–2003
- Ilya Repin 1844–1930
- Immanuel Kant 1724–1804
- Imre Kertész 1929–2016
- Imre Nagy 1896–1958
- Indira Gandhi 1917–1984
- Ingmar Bergman 1918–2007
- Ingrid Bergman 1915–1982
- Ingvar Kamprad 1926–2018
- Innocent IV c. 1195–1254
- Innocent IX 1519–1591
- Innocent V c. 1225–1276
- Innocent VI c. 1282–1362
- Innocent VII c. 1339–1406
- Innocent X 1574–1655
- Innocent XI 1611–1689
- Innocent XII 1615–1700
- Innocent XIII 1655–1724
- Ion Antonescu 1882–1946
- Ion Iliescu 1930–2025
- Irena Sendler 1910–2008
- Irenaeus c. AD 130–202
- Irène Joliot-Curie 1897–1956
- Iris Murdoch 1919–1999
- Irving Berlin 1888–1989
- Irving Langmuir 1881–1957
- Isaac Asimov 1920–1992
- Isaac Bashevis Singer 1904–1991
- Isaac Newton 1643–1727
- Isaac Shamir 1915–2012
- Isaak Babel 1894–1940
- Isabella I of Castile 1451–1504
- Isabella II of Spain 1830–1904
- Isabelle de Charrière 1740–1805
- Isadora Duncana 1877–1927
- Isaiah Berlin 1909–1997
- Isamu Akasaki 1929–2021
- Isidor Isaac Rabi 1898–1988
- Isidore of Seville c. AD 560–636
- Islam Karimov 1938–2016
- Ismail Haniyeh 1962–2024
- Ismail I 1487–1524
- Ismail Kadare 1936–2024
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- Ivan Bunin 1870–1953
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- Ivan Krylov 1769–1844
- Ivan Mazepa 1639–1709
- Ivan Pavlov 1849–1936
- Ivan the Terrible 1530–1584
- Ivan Turgenev 1818–1883
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- Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet 1743–1794
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780–1867
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- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot 1796–1875
- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744–1829
- Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632–1687
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- Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750
- Johann Strauss II 1825–1899
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832
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- Johannes Stark 1874–1957
- Johannes V. Jensen 1873–1950
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- John Amos Comenius 1592–1670
- John Bardeen 1908–1991
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- John Calvin 1509–1564
- John Chrysostom c. AD 349–407
- John Cockcroft 1897–1967
- John Coltrane 1926–1967
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- John Couch Adams 1819–1892
- John D. Rockefeller 1839–1937
- John Dalton 1766–1844
- John Dewey 1859–1952
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- John Duns Scotus c. 1266–1308
- John Evans Atta Mills 1944–2012
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- John Forbes Nash 1928–2015
- John Ford 1894–1973
- John Frederick William Herschel 1792–1871
- John Galsworthy 1867–1933
- John Glenn 1921–2016
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- John Henry Newman 1801–1890
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- John II of France 1319–1364
- John III Sobieski 1629–1696
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- John IX c. AD 840–900
- John James Audubon 1785–1851
- John Keats 1795–1821
- John Kenneth Galbraith 1908–2006
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- John Lennon 1940–1980
- John Locke 1632–1704
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- John McCain 1936–2018
- John McCarthy 1927–2011
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- John Wesley 1703–1791
- John William Strutt 1842–1919
- John X c. AD 860–929
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- John XII c. AD 937–964
- John XIX c. 975–1032
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- John XXII c. 1244–1334
- John XXIII 1881–1963
- John, King of England 1166–1216
- Johnny Cash 1932–2003
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- Johnny Weissmuller 1904–1984
- Jomo Kenyatta 1893–1978
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- Jonathan Swift 1667–1745
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- Jordanes c. AD 490–560
- Jorge Amado 1912–2001
- Jorge Luis Borges 1899–1986
- Jorge Rafael Videla 1925–2013
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- José Echegaray 1832–1916
- José Eduardo dos Santos 1942–2022
- José Martí 1853–1895
- José Mujica 1935–2025
- José Ortega y Gasset 1883–1955
- José Raúl Capablanca 1888–1942
- José Rizal 1861–1896
- José Saramago 1922–2010
- Josef Mengele 1911–1979
- Joseph Addison 1672–1719
- Joseph Bonaparte 1768–1844
- Joseph Brodsky 1940–1996
- Joseph Conrad 1857–1924
- Joseph de Maistre 1753–1821
- Joseph Fourier 1768–1830
- Joseph Goebbels 1897–1945
- Joseph Haydn 1732–1809
- Joseph Heller 1923–1999
- Joseph Henry 1797–1878
- Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741–1790
- Joseph John Thomson 1856–1940
- Joseph Lister 1827–1912
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac 1778–1850
- Joseph McCarthy 1908–1957
- Joseph Priestley 1733–1804
- Joseph Pulitzer 1847–1911
- Joseph Schumpeter 1883–1950
- Joseph Smith 1805–1844
- Joseph Stalin 1878–1953
- Joseph von Fraunhofer 1787–1826
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736–1813
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- Joséphine de Beauharnais 1763–1814
- Josephus c. AD 37–100
- Joshua Reynolds 1723–1792
- Josiah Willard Gibbs 1839–1903
- Josip Broz Tito 1892–1980
- Jovenel Moïse 1968–2021
- Józef Piłsudski 1867–1935
- Juan Manuel Fangio 1911–1995
- Juan Perón 1895–1974
- Juan Ramón Jiménez 1881–1958
- Juana I of Castile 1479–1555
- Judy Garland 1922–1969
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- Jules Verne 1828–1905
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- Julian AD 331–363
- Julian Seymour Schwinger 1918–1994
- Juliana of the Netherlands 1909–2004
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- Julius Caesar c. 100–44 BC
- Julius II 1443–1513
- Julius III 1487–1555
- Julius Nepos c. AD 430–480
- Julius Nyerere 1922–1999
- Juscelino Kubitschek 1902–1976
- Jusepe de Ribera 1591–1652
- Justin Martyr c. AD 100–165
- Justinian I AD 482–565
- Justus von Liebig 1803–1873
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- Kahlil Gibran 1883–1931
- Kai Siegbahn 1918–2007
- Kalpana Chawla 1962–2003
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- Karen Blixen 1885–1962
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- Karl Alexander Müller 1927–2023
- Karl Barth 1886–1968
- Karl Dönitz 1891–1980
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- Karl Jaspers 1883–1969
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- Karl Kraus 1874–1936
- Karl Lagerfeld 1933–2019
- Karl Landsteiner 1868–1943
- Karl Liebknecht 1871–1919
- Karl Marx 1818–1883
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- Karl Popper 1902–1994
- Karl Weierstraß 1815–1897
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- Kary Mullis 1944–2019
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- Konstantinos XI Palaiologos 1404–1453
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- Kublai Khan 1215–1294
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- Kurt Gödel 1906–1978
- Kurt Vonnegut 1922–2007
- Kurt Waldheim 1918–2007
- Kwame Nkrumah 1909–1972
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- Leni Riefenstahl 1902–2003
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- Leo III c. AD 750–816
- Leo III the Syrian c. AD 675–741
- Leo IV c. AD 790–855
- Leo IX 1002–1054
- Leó Szilárd 1898–1964
- Leo Tolstoy 1828–1910
- Leo VI c. AD 880–929
- Leo VIII c. AD 915–965
- Leo X 1475–1521
- Leo XI 1535–1605
- Leo XII 1760–1829
- Leo XIII 1810–1903
- Leon Battista Alberti 1404–1472
- Léon Blum 1872–1950
- Leon Cooper 1930–2024
- Léon Foucault 1819–1868
- Leon M. Lederman 1922–2018
- Leon Trotsky 1879–1940
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- Leonard Cohen 1934–2016
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- Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor 1747–1792
- Leopold III of Belgium 1901–1983
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- Lou Reed 1942–2013
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- Louis Daguerre 1787–1851
- Louis de Broglie 1892–1987
- Louis de Funès 1914–1983
- Louis IX of France 1214–1270
- Louis Néel 1904–2000
- Louis Pasteur 1822–1895
- Louis the Pious c. AD 778–840
- Louis VII of France c. 1120–1180
- Louis VIII of France 1187–1226
- Louis X of France 1289–1316
- Louis XI of France 1423–1483
- Louis XII of France 1462–1515
- Louis XIII of France 1601–1643
- Louis XIV of France 1638–1715
- Louis XV of France 1710–1774
- Louis XVI of France 1754–1793
- Louis XVIII of France 1755–1824
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1894–1961
- Louis-Philippe I 1773–1850
- Louisa May Alcott 1832–1888
- Louise Fletcher 1934–2022
- Louise Glück 1943–2023
- Lu Xun 1881–1936
- Luc Montagnier 1932–2022
- Lucan AD 39–65
- Luchino Visconti 1906–1976
- Lucian of Samosata c. AD 120–180
- Lucille Ball 1911–1989
- Lucius III c. 1110–1185
- Lucius Verus AD 130–169
- Lucretius c. 94–55 BC
- Lucrezia Borgia 1480–1519
- Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874–1942
- Ludovico Ariosto 1474–1533
- Ludwig Boltzmann 1844–1906
- Ludwig Erhard 1897–1977
- Ludwig Feuerbach 1804–1872
- Ludwig II of Bavaria 1845–1886
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1886–1969
- Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827
- Ludwig von Mises 1881–1973
- Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889–1951
- Luigi Galvani 1737–1798
- Luigi Pirandello 1867–1936
- Luis Buñuel 1900–1983
- Luis Walter Alvarez 1911–1988
- Luise Rainer 1910–2014
- Lyndon B. Johnson 1908–1973
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- Madame de Pompadour 1721–1764
- Madeleine Albright 1937–2022
- Mae West 1893–1980
- Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948
- Mahmoud Darwish 1941–2008
- Mahmud I 1696–1754
- Mahmud II 1785–1839
- Malcolm X 1925–1965
- Malik ibn Anas c. AD 711–795
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- Manfred Eigen 1927–2019
- Mani AD 216–274
- Manmohan Singh 1932–2024
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- Mansa Musa c. 1280–1337
- Manuel I Komnenos 1118–1180
- Mao Zedong 1893–1976
- Marc Chagall 1887–1985
- Marcel Duchamp 1887–1968
- Marcel Pagnol 1895–1974
- Marcel Proust 1871–1922
- Marcello Mastroianni 1924–1996
- Marcellus I AD 255–309
- Marcellus II 1501–1555
- Marco Polo 1254–1324
- Marcus Aurelius AD 121–180
- Marcus Junius Brutus c. 85–42 BC
- Marcus Licinius Crassus c. 115–53 BC
- Marcus Terentius Varro c. 116–27 BC
- Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa c. 63–12 BC
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- Margaret Mitchell 1900–1949
- Margaret of Valois 1553–1615
- Margaret of Valois-Angoulême 1492–1549
- Margaret Thatcher 1925–2013
- Margot Fonteyn 1919–1991
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- Marguerite Yourcenar 1903–1987
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718–1799
- Maria Göppert Mayer 1906–1972
- Maria Meneghini Callas 1923–1977
- Maria Montessori 1870–1952
- Maria Sibylla Merian 1647–1717
- Maria Theresa of Austria 1717–1780
- Marie Antoinette 1755–1793
- Marie Curie 1867–1934
- Marie de' Medici 1575–1642
- Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma 1791–1847
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 1830–1916
- Marilyn Monroe 1926–1962
- Marina Tsvetaeva 1892–1941
- Marinus I c. AD 830–884
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- Mario Vargas Llosa 1936–2025
- Mark Antony c. 83–30 BC
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- Marlene Dietrich 1901–1992
- Marlon Brando 1924–2004
- Marquis de Sade 1740–1814
- Marshall McLuhan 1911–1980
- Marsilio Ficino 1433–1499
- Martha Washington 1731–1802
- Martial c. AD 40–104
- Martin Bormann 1900–1945
- Martin Buber 1878–1965
- Martin Heidegger 1889–1976
- Martin I AD 598–655
- Martin IV 1220–1285
- Martin Landau 1928–2017
- Martin Lewis Perl 1927–2014
- Martin Luther 1483–1546
- Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968
- Martin Niemöller 1892–1984
- Martin of Tours c. AD 316–397
- Martin Ryle 1918–1984
- Martin V c. 1369–1431
- Martin Van Buren 1782–1862
- Martinus J. G. Veltman 1931–2021
- Martti Ahtisaari 1937–2023
- Marvin Gaye 1939–1984
- Mary Cassatt 1844–1926
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- Mary Pickford 1892–1979
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- Mary, Queen of Scots 1542–1587
- Maryam Mirzakhani 1977–2017
- Masatoshi Koshiba 1926–2020
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- Matthew Arnold 1822–1888
- Matthew Perry 1969–2023
- Matthias Corvinus 1443–1490
- Mauno Koivisto 1923–2017
- Maurice c. AD 539–602
- Maurice Allais 1911–2010
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- Maurice Maeterlinck 1862–1949
- Maurice Ravel 1875–1937
- Maurice Wilkins 1916–2004
- Max Born 1882–1970
- Max Ernst 1891–1976
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- Max Stirner 1806–1856
- Max von Laue 1879–1960
- Max von Sydow 1929–2020
- Max Weber 1864–1920
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- Maximilian I 1459–1519
- Maximilian I of Mexico 1832–1867
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- Maximilien Robespierre 1758–1794
- Maximinus Thrax c. AD 173–238
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- Mehmed II 1432–1481
- Mehmed III 1566–1603
- Mehmed IV 1642–1693
- Mehmed V 1844–1918
- Mehmed VI 1861–1926
- Meister Eckhart c. 1260–1328
- Meles Zenawi 1955–2012
- Melvin Calvin 1911–1997
- Menachem Begin 1913–1992
- Mencius c. 372–289 BC
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- Michael Collins 1930–2021
- Michael Collins 1890–1922
- Michael Crichton 1942–2008
- Michael Ende 1929–1995
- Michael Faraday 1791–1867
- Michael Glinka 1804–1857
- Michael I of Russia 1596–1645
- Michael Jackson 1958–2009
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- Michel Foucault 1926–1984
- Michelangelo 1475–1564
- Michelangelo Antonioni 1912–2007
- Mickey Rooney 1920–2014
- Miguel Ángel Asturias 1899–1974
- Miguel de Cervantes 1547–1616
- Mihai Eminescu 1850–1889
- Mikhail Bakhtin 1895–1975
- Mikhail Bakunin 1814–1876
- Mikhail Botvinnik 1911–1995
- Mikhail Bulgakov 1891–1940
- Mikhail Gorbachev 1931–2022
- Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin 1875–1946
- Mikhail Kalashnikov 1919–2013
- Mikhail Kutuzov 1747–1813
- Mikhail Lermontov 1814–1841
- Mikhail Lomonosov 1711–1765
- Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin 1826–1889
- Mikhail Sholokhov 1905–1984
- Mikhail Tal 1936–1992
- Miklós Horthy 1868–1957
- Milan Kundera 1929–2023
- Miles Davis 1926–1991
- Mileva Marić 1875–1948
- Millard Fillmore 1800–1874
- Miloš Forman 1932–2018
- Milton Friedman 1912–2006
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- Miriam Makeba 1932–2008
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- Mobutu Sese Seko 1930–1997
- Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky 1839–1881
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- Mohammad Mosaddegh 1882–1967
- Mohammad Reza I of Iran 1919–1980
- Mohammed Zahir Shah 1914–2007
- Molière 1622–1673
- Momoko Kōchi 1932–1998
- Montgomery Clift 1920–1966
- Montserrat Caballé 1933–2018
- Moshe ben Maimon 1138–1204
- Moshe Dayan 1915–1981
- Mother Teresa 1910–1997
- Mozi c. 470–391 BC
- Mu'awiya I c. AD 603–680
- Muammar Gaddafi 1942–2011
- Muhammad AD 571–632
- Muhammad Ali 1942–2016
- Muhammad Ali 1769–1849
- Muḥammad ibn Ismaeel al-Bukhārī AD 810–870
- Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari c. AD 839–922
- Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi c. AD 780–850
- Muhammad Iqbal 1877–1938
- Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq 1924–1988
- Muhammadu Buhari 1942–2025
- Mumtaz Mahal 1593–1631
- Murad I 1326–1389
- Murad III 1546–1595
- Murad IV 1612–1640
- Murray Gell-Mann 1929–2019
- Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj c. AD 821–875
- Mustafa I 1591–1639
- Mustafa II 1664–1703
- Mustafa III 1717–1774
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- Nader Shah 1688–1747
- Nadezhda Krupskaya 1869–1939
- Nadine Gordimer 1923–2014
- Nagarjuna c. AD 150–250
- Naguib Mahfouz 1911–2006
- Nancy Reagan 1921–2016
- Napoleon 1769–1821
- Napoleon II 1811–1832
- Napoleon III 1808–1873
- Nasir al-Din al-Tusi 1201–1274
- Nasreddin c. 1208–1284
- Nat King Cole 1919–1965
- Natalie Wood 1938–1981
- Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804–1864
- Natsume Sōseki 1867–1916
- Nawal El Saadawi 1931–2021
- Nâzım Hikmet 1901–1963
- Nebuchadnezzar II c. 642–561 BC
- Nefertiti c. 1370–1330 BC
- Neil Armstrong 1930–2012
- Nellie Bly 1864–1922
- Nelly Sachs 1891–1970
- Nelson Mandela 1918–2013
- Nelson Rockefeller 1908–1979
- Nero AD 37–68
- Nerva AD 30–98
- Néstor Kirchner 1950–2010
- Nestor Makhno 1888–1934
- Neville Chamberlain 1869–1940
- Ngô Đình Diệm 1901–1963
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 1938–2025
- Niccolò Machiavelli 1469–1527
- Niccolò Paganini 1782–1840
- Nicholas I c. AD 820–867
- Nicholas I of Russia 1796–1855
- Nicholas II of Russia 1868–1918
- Nicholas IV 1227–1292
- Nicholas Roerich 1874–1947
- Nicholas V 1397–1455
- Nicolaas Bloembergen 1920–2017
- Nicolae Ceaușescu 1918–1989
- Nicolas Appert 1749–1841
- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636–1711
- Nicolas Carnot 1796–1832
- Nicolas Louis de Lacaille 1713–1762
- Nicolaus Copernicus 1473–1543
- Niels Bohr 1885–1962
- Niels Henrik Abel 1802–1829
- Niels Ryberg Finsen 1860–1904
- Niki Lauda 1949–2019
- Nikita Khrushchev 1894–1971
- Nikola Tesla 1856–1943
- Nikolai Berdyaev 1874–1948
- Nikolai Bukharin 1888–1938
- Nikolai Gogol 1809–1852
- Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky 1792–1856
- Nikolai Ostrovsky 1904–1936
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 1844–1908
- Nikolay Basov 1922–2001
- Nikolay Chernyshevsky 1828–1889
- Nikolay Karamzin 1766–1826
- Nikolay Nekrasov 1821–1878
- Nikos Kazantzakis 1883–1957
- Nils Gustaf Dalén 1869–1937
- Nina Simone 1933–2003
- Nizami Ganjavi c. 1141–1214
- Nora Ephron 1941–2012
- Norbert Wiener 1894–1964
- Norman Borlaug 1914–2009
- Norman Mailer 1923–2007
- Norodom Sihanouk 1922–2012
- Nostradamus 1503–1566
- Novalis 1772–1801
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- O. Henry 1862–1910
- Octave Mirbeau 1848–1917
- Octavio Paz 1914–1998
- Oda Nobunaga 1534–1582
- Odoacer c. AD 433–493
- Odysseas Elytis 1911–1996
- Ögedei Khan 1186–1241
- Olav V of Norway 1903–1991
- Ole Rømer 1644–1710
- Oliver Cromwell 1599–1658
- Oliver Goldsmith 1728–1774
- Olivia de Havilland 1916–2020
- Olivia Newton-John 1948–2022
- Olof Palme 1927–1986
- Olympe de Gouges 1748–1793
- Omar Bongo 1935–2009
- Omar Khayyám c. 1048–1131
- Omar Sharif 1932–2015
- Orhan c. 1281–1362
- Oriana Fallaci 1929–2006
- Origen c. AD 185–254
- Orson Welles 1915–1985
- Osama bin Laden 1957–2011
- Oscar Niemeyer 1907–2012
- Oscar Wilde 1854–1900
- Osho 1931–1990
- Osip Mandelstam 1891–1938
- Oskar Schindler 1908–1974
- Osman I 1258–1326
- Osman II 1604–1622
- Oswald Spengler 1880–1936
- Otho AD 32–69
- Otto Diels 1876–1954
- Otto Hahn 1879–1968
- Otto I the Great AD 912–973
- Otto Stern 1888–1969
- Otto von Bismarck 1815–1898
- Otto von Habsburg 1912–2011
- Otto Wallach 1847–1931
- Ötzi c. 3275–3230 BC
- Ovid c. 43 BC–AD 17
- Owen Chamberlain 1920–2006
- Owen Willans Richardson 1879–1959
- Ozzy Osbourne 1948–2025
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- P. T. Barnum 1810–1891
- Paavo Nurmi 1897–1973
- Pablo Escobar 1949–1993
- Pablo Neruda 1904–1973
- Pablo Picasso 1881–1973
- Panini c. 520–460 BC
- Paolo Rossi 1956–2020
- Pär Lagerkvist 1891–1974
- Paramahansa Yogananda 1893–1952
- Park Chung-hee 1917–1979
- Parmenides c. 515–470 BC
- Paschal I c. AD 775–824
- Patrice de MacMahon 1808–1893
- Patrice Lumumba 1925–1961
- Patricia Neal 1926–2010
- Patrick Blackett 1897–1974
- Patrick Swayze 1952–2009
- Patrick White 1912–1990
- Paul Allen 1953–2018
- Paul Auster 1947–2024
- Paul Cézanne 1839–1906
- Paul Claudel 1868–1955
- Paul Dirac 1902–1984
- Paul Ehrlich 1854–1915
- Paul Éluard 1895–1952
- Paul Erdős 1913–1996
- Paul Gauguin 1848–1903
- Paul Heyse 1830–1914
- Paul I c. AD 700–767
- Paul I of Russia 1754–1801
- Paul II 1417–1471
- Paul III 1468–1549
- Paul IV 1476–1559
- Paul Newman 1925–2008
- Paul Sabatier 1854–1941
- Paul Samuelson 1915–2009
- Paul the Apostle c. AD 5–66
- Paul V 1552–1621
- Paul Valéry 1871–1945
- Paul Verlaine 1844–1896
- Paul VI 1897–1978
- Paul von Hindenburg 1847–1934
- Paul Walker 1973–2013
- Paulette Goddard 1910–1990
- Pavel Cherenkov 1904–1990
- Pearl S. Buck 1892–1973
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600–1681
- Pedro I of Brazil 1798–1834
- Pedro II of Brazil 1825–1891
- Pelagius I c. AD 505–561
- Pelagius II c. AD 520–590
- Pelé 1940–2022
- Pepin the Short c. AD 714–768
- Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792–1822
- Percy Williams Bridgman 1882–1961
- Pericles c. 494–429 BC
- Pertinax AD 126–193
- Pervez Musharraf 1943–2023
- Pete Seeger 1919–2014
- Peter Abelard c. 1079–1142
- Peter Debye 1884–1966
- Peter Drucker 1909–2005
- Peter Fonda 1940–2019
- Peter Grünberg 1939–2018
- Peter Higgs 1929–2024
- Peter II of Russia 1715–1730
- Peter III of Russia 1728–1762
- Peter Kropotkin 1842–1921
- Peter O'Toole 1932–2013
- Peter Paul Rubens 1577–1640
- Peter Sellers 1925–1980
- Peter the Great 1672–1725
- Peter Ustinov 1921–2004
- Petrarch 1304–1374
- Petronius c. AD 27–66
- Phidias c. 500–430 BC
- Philip II of France 1165–1223
- Philip II of Spain 1527–1598
- Philip III of France 1245–1285
- Philip III of Spain 1578–1621
- Philip IV of France c. 1268–1314
- Philip IV of Spain 1605–1665
- Philip K. Dick 1928–1982
- Philip Roth 1933–2018
- Philip Seymour Hoffman 1967–2014
- Philip the Arab c. AD 204–249
- Philip V of Spain 1683–1746
- Philip VI of France 1293–1350
- Philip W. Anderson 1923–2020
- Philipp Lenard 1862–1947
- Philipp Melanchthon 1497–1560
- Philippe Pétain 1856–1951
- Philo of Alexandria c. 15 BC–AD 50
- Pier Paolo Pasolini 1922–1975
- Pierre Bayle 1647–1706
- Pierre Bourdieu 1930–2002
- Pierre Corneille 1606–1684
- Pierre de Coubertin 1863–1937
- Pierre de Ronsard 1524–1585
- Pierre Nkurunziza 1964–2020
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1881–1955
- Pierre Trudeau 1919–2000
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841–1919
- Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732–1799
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809–1865
- Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749–1827
- Piet Mondrian 1872–1944
- Pieter Zeeman 1865–1943
- Pietro Badoglio 1871–1956
- Pietro Mascagni 1863–1945
- Pindar c. 517–437 BC
- Pius II 1405–1464
- Pius III 1439–1503
- Pius IV 1499–1565
- Pius IX 1792–1878
- Pius V 1504–1572
- Pius VI 1717–1799
- Pius VII 1742–1823
- Pius VIII 1761–1830
- Pius X 1835–1914
- Pius XI 1857–1939
- Pius XII 1876–1958
- Plato c. 428–348 BC
- Plautus c. 250–184 BC
- Pliny the Younger c. AD 61–113
- Plotinus c. AD 205–270
- Pol Pot 1925–1998
- Polybius c. 200–120 BC
- Polykarp Kusch 1911–1993
- Pompey 106–48 BC
- Pope Francis 1936–2025
- Porfirio Díaz 1830–1915
- Porphyry c. AD 233–301
- Pran 1920–2013
- Pranab Mukherjee 1935–2020
- Premchand 1880–1936
- Primo Levi 1919–1987
- Prince 1958–2016
- Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 1819–1861
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 1921–2021
- Procopius c. AD 500–565
- Propertius c. 47–16 BC
- Prosper Mérimée 1803–1870
- Protagoras c. 490–420 BC
- Ptolemy c. AD 100–170
- Ptolemy II Philadelphus c. 308–246 BC
- Pumpuang Duangjan 1961–1992
- Puyi 1906–1967
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840–1893
- Pyotr Kapitsa 1894–1984
- Pyotr Stolypin 1862–1911
- Pyrrhus c. 318–272 BC
- Pythagoras c. 570–495 BC
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- Qaboos bin Said Al Said 1940–2020
- Qasem Soleimani 1957–2020
- Qin Shi Huang c. 259–210 BC
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother 1900–2002
- Quincy Jones 1933–2024
- Quintilian c. AD 35–96
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- Rabindranath Tagore 1861–1941
- Rachel Carson 1907–1964
- Radoje Domanović 1873–1908
- Ragnar Frisch 1895–1973
- Rainer Maria Rilke 1875–1926
- Raj Kapoor 1924–1988
- Rajendra Prasad 1884–1963
- Rajiv Gandhi 1944–1991
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803–1882
- Ram Narayan 1927–2024
- Ramakrishna 1836–1886
- Ramana Maharshi 1879–1950
- Ramesses II c. 1303–1213 BC
- Ramon Llull c. 1232–1316
- Ramsay MacDonald 1866–1937
- Rani Lakshmibai 1828–1858
- Raphael 1483–1520
- Raquel Welch 1940–2023
- Ravi Shankar 1920–2012
- Ray Bradbury 1920–2012
- Ray Charles 1930–2004
- Raymond Chandler 1888–1959
- Raymond Poincaré 1860–1934
- Reinhard Heydrich 1904–1942
- Rembrandt 1606–1669
- René Descartes 1596–1650
- René Magritte 1898–1967
- Reza Shah 1878–1944
- Riccardo Giacconi 1931–2018
- Richard Adolf Zsigmondy 1865–1929
- Richard Attenborough 1923–2014
- Richard Burton 1925–1984
- Richard Dedekind 1831–1916
- Richard Feynman 1918–1988
- Richard Francis Burton 1821–1890
- Richard Griffiths 1947–2013
- Richard I of England 1157–1199
- Richard II of England 1367–1400
- Richard III of England 1452–1485
- Richard Nixon 1913–1994
- Richard Simmons 1948–2024
- Richard Strauss 1864–1949
- Richard von Weizsäcker 1920–2015
- Richard Wagner 1813–1883
- Richard Willstätter 1872–1942
- Rita Hayworth 1918–1987
- Rita Levi-Montalcini 1909–2012
- Roald Amundsen 1872–1928
- Roald Dahl 1916–1990
- Robert A. Heinlein 1907–1988
- Robert Altman 1925–2006
- Robert Andrews Millikan 1868–1953
- Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell 1857–1941
- Robert Bárány 1876–1936
- Robert Boyle 1627–1691
- Robert Browning 1812–1889
- Robert Bunsen 1811–1899
- Robert Burns 1759–1796
- Robert Burns Woodward 1917–1979
- Robert E. Lee 1807–1870
- Robert Edwards 1925–2013
- Robert F. Kennedy 1925–1968
- Robert Falcon Scott 1868–1912
- Robert Frost 1874–1963
- Robert Fulton 1765–1815
- Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury 1830–1903
- Robert Graves 1895–1985
- Robert H. Goddard 1882–1945
- Robert Hofstadter 1915–1990
- Robert Hooke 1635–1703
- Robert I of Scotland 1274–1329
- Robert Koch 1843–1910
- Robert Louis Stevenson 1850–1894
- Robert Mitchum 1917–1997
- Robert Mugabe 1924–2019
- Robert Musil 1880–1942
- Robert Owen 1771–1858
- Robert Peel 1788–1850
- Robert Redford 1936–2025
- Robert Schuman 1886–1963
- Robert Schumann 1810–1856
- Robert Walpole 1676–1745
- Roberto Rossellini 1906–1977
- Robin Williams 1951–2014
- Rock Hudson 1925–1985
- Roger Bacon c. 1220–1292
- Roger Ebert 1942–2013
- Roger Martin du Gard 1881–1958
- Roger Moore 1927–2017
- Roh Moo-hyun 1946–2009
- Roland Barthes 1915–1980
- Romain Rolland 1866–1944
- Roman Herzog 1934–2017
- Romy Schneider 1938–1982
- Ronald Reagan 1911–2004
- Ronald Ross 1857–1932
- Ronnie James Dio 1942–2010
- Rosa Luxemburg 1871–1919
- Rosa Parks 1913–2005
- Rosalind Franklin 1920–1958
- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow 1921–2011
- Rosalynn Carter 1927–2023
- Rouget de Lisle 1760–1836
- Roy J. Glauber 1925–2018
- Rubén Darío 1867–1916
- Rudaki c. AD 859–941
- Rudolf Carnap 1891–1970
- Rudolf Christoph Eucken 1846–1926
- Rudolf Clausius 1822–1888
- Rudolf Diesel 1858–1913
- Rudolf Hess 1894–1987
- Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer 1929–2011
- Rudolf Nureyev 1938–1993
- Rudolf Steiner 1861–1925
- Rudolf Virchow 1821–1902
- Ruhollah Khomeini 1900–1989
- Rumi 1207–1273
- Rurik c. AD 830–879
- Rutger Hauer 1944–2019
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1933–2020
- Rutherford B. Hayes 1822–1893
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 1892–1927
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- Saadi c. 1210–1292
- Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah 1929–2020
- Sabinian c. AD 530–606
- Sacha Guitry 1885–1957
- Saddam Hussein 1937–2006
- Saint Anne c. 55 BC–AD 12
- Saint Dominic c. 1170–1221
- Saint George c. AD 275–303
- Saint Lucy c. AD 283–304
- Saint Nicholas c. AD 250–350
- Saint Patrick c. AD 385–461
- Saint Peter c. 1 BC–AD 65
- Saint Sebastian c. AD 255–287
- Saint Stephen c. AD 1–36
- Saint Valentine c. AD 175–273
- Saint-John Perse 1887–1975
- Saladin c. 1138–1193
- Sallust 86–35 BC
- Sally Ride 1951–2012
- Salvador Allende 1908–1973
- Salvador Dalí 1904–1989
- Salvatore Quasimodo 1901–1968
- Salvatore Schillaci 1964–2024
- Samuel Beckett 1906–1989
- Samuel Butler 1835–1902
- Samuel Colt 1814–1862
- Samuel de Champlain 1567–1635
- Samuel Finley Breese Morse 1791–1872
- Samuel Hahnemann 1755–1843
- Samuel Johnson 1709–1784
- Samuel P. Huntington 1927–2008
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772–1834
- Sándor Petőfi 1823–1849
- Sandro Pertini 1896–1990
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal 1852–1934
- Saparmyrat Nyýazow 1940–2006
- Sarah Bernhardt 1844–1923
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 1875–1950
- Sarojini Naidu 1879–1949
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 1888–1975
- Sathya Sai Baba 1926–2011
- Satyajit Ray 1921–1992
- Satyendra Nath Bose 1894–1974
- Saud of Saudi Arabia 1902–1969
- Saul Bellow 1915–2005
- Scipio Africanus c. 235–183 BC
- Seamus Heaney 1939–2013
- Sean Connery 1930–2020
- Sebastián Piñera 1949–2024
- Sei Shōnagon c. 966–1025
- Sejong the Great 1397–1450
- Seleucus I Nicator c. 358–281 BC
- Selim I 1470–1520
- Selim II 1524–1574
- Selim III 1761–1808
- Selma Lagerlöf 1858–1940
- Selman Abraham Waksman 1888–1973
- Septimius Severus c. AD 146–211
- Serge Gainsbourg 1928–1991
- Sergei Eisenstein 1898–1948
- Sergei Korolev 1907–1966
- Sergei Prokofiev 1891–1953
- Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873–1943
- Sergei Yesenin 1895–1925
- Sergio Leone 1929–1989
- Sergius I c. AD 650–701
- Sergius II c. AD 790–847
- Sergius III c. AD 860–911
- Sergius IV c. 970–1012
- Severus Alexander AD 208–235
- Shah Jahan 1592–1666
- Shamil 1797–1871
- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman 1920–1975
- Shelley Duvall 1949–2024
- Shimon Peres 1923–2016
- Shinichiro Tomonaga 1906–1979
- Shinzō Abe 1954–2022
- Shirley Temple 1928–2014
- Shivaji 1627–1680
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1887–1970
- Shota Rustaveli c. 1172–1216
- Sid Vicious 1957–1979
- Sidney Lumet 1924–2011
- Sidney Poitier 1927–2022
- Sigismund 1368–1437
- Sigismund III Vasa 1566–1632
- Sigmund Freud 1856–1939
- Sigrid Undset 1882–1949
- Silverius c. AD 477–537
- Silvio Berlusconi 1936–2023
- Sima Qian c. 145–86 BC
- Simón Bolívar 1783–1830
- Simon van der Meer 1925–2011
- Simone de Beauvoir 1908–1986
- Simone Signoret 1921–1985
- Simone Veil 1927–2017
- Simone Weil 1909–1943
- Simplicius c. AD 420–483
- Sinclair Lewis 1885–1951
- Sinéad O'Connor 1966–2023
- Siricius c. AD 334–399
- Sirimavo Bandaranaike 1916–2000
- Sisinnius c. AD 650–708
- Sixtus II c. AD 215–258
- Sixtus III c. AD 390–440
- Sixtus IV 1414–1484
- Sixtus V 1521–1590
- Skanderbeg 1405–1468
- Slobodan Milošević 1941–2006
- Snorri Sturluson c. 1179–1241
- Socrates c. 470–399 BC
- Sofia Kovalevskaya 1850–1891
- Solon c. 630–560 BC
- Sophie Germain 1776–1831
- Sophie Scholl 1921–1943
- Sophocles c. 496–406 BC
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651–1695
- Søren Kierkegaard 1813–1855
- Spartacus c. 103–71 BC
- Spencer Tracy 1900–1967
- Spiro Agnew 1918–1996
- Sridevi 1963–2018
- Srinivasa Ramanujan 1887–1920
- Stan Lee 1922–2018
- Stanisław Lem 1921–2006
- Stanley Baldwin 1867–1947
- Stanley Kubrick 1928–1999
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- Stefán Karl Stefánsson 1975–2018
- Stefan Zweig 1881–1942
- Stefania Turkevych-Lukiianovych 1898–1977
- Stendhal 1783–1842
- Stepan Bandera 1909–1959
- Stéphane Mallarmé 1842–1898
- Stephen Hawking 1942–2018
- Stephen Hillenburg 1961–2018
- Stephen I of Hungary c. 975–1038
- Stephen II c. AD 714–757
- Stephen III c. AD 720–772
- Stephen IV c. AD 770–817
- Stephen IX c. 1000–1058
- Stephen, King of England c. 1095–1154
- Steve Biko 1946–1977
- Steve Irwin 1962–2006
- Steve Jobs 1955–2011
- Steve McQueen 1930–1980
- Steven Weinberg 1933–2021
- Stieg Larsson 1954–2004
- Strabo c. 63 BC–AD 23
- Subhas Chandra Bose 1897–1945
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar 1910–1995
- Suetonius c. AD 70–150
- Suharto 1921–2008
- Sukarno 1901–1970
- Suleiman II 1642–1691
- Suleiman the Magnificent 1494–1566
- Süleyman Demirel 1924–2015
- Sulla c. 138–78 BC
- Sully Prudhomme 1839–1907
- Sun Tzu c. 544–470 BC
- Sun Yat-sen 1866–1925
- Sung Jae-gi 1967–2013
- Susan B. Anthony 1820–1906
- Susan Sontag 1933–2004
- Svante August Arrhenius 1859–1927
- Sviatoslav I of Kiev c. AD 942–972
- Swami Vivekananda 1863–1902
- Syd Barrett 1946–2006
- Sydney Brenner 1927–2019
- Sydney Pollack 1934–2008
- Sylvester III c. 1000–1063
- Sylvia Plath 1932–1963
- Symmachus c. AD 460–514
- Syngman Rhee 1875–1965
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- T. E. Lawrence 1888–1935
- T. S. Eliot 1888–1965
- Tabaré Vázquez 1940–2020
- Tacitus c. AD 55–120
- Tadeusz Kościuszko 1746–1817
- Tadeusz Reichstein 1897–1996
- Taras Shevchenko 1814–1861
- Ted Bundy 1946–1989
- Ted Kaczynski 1942–2023
- Ted Kennedy 1932–2009
- Tennessee Williams 1911–1983
- Tenzing Norgay 1914–1986
- Terence c. 185–159 BC
- Teresa of Ávila 1515–1582
- Teresa Teng 1953–1995
- Terry Pratchett 1948–2015
- Tertullian c. AD 160–240
- The Notorious B.I.G. 1972–1997
- Themistocles c. 524–459 BC
- Theodor Fontane 1819–1898
- Theodor Herzl 1860–1904
- Theodor Heuss 1884–1963
- Theodor Mommsen 1817–1903
- Theodor W. Adorno 1903–1969
- Theodore Dreiser 1871–1945
- Théodore Géricault 1791–1824
- Theodore II c. AD 840–897
- Theodore Roosevelt 1858–1919
- Theodoric the Great AD 454–526
- Theodosius I AD 347–395
- Theodosius II AD 401–450
- Théophile Gautier 1811–1872
- Theophrastus c. 371–287 BC
- Thérèse of Lisieux 1873–1897
- Thomas à Kempis c. 1379–1471
- Thomas Aquinas c. 1225–1274
- Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay 1800–1859
- Thomas Becket 1119–1171
- Thomas Carlyle 1795–1881
- Thomas Edison 1847–1931
- Thomas Gainsborough 1727–1788
- Thomas Hardy 1840–1928
- Thomas Henry Huxley 1825–1895
- Thomas Hobbes 1588–1679
- Thomas Hunt Morgan 1866–1945
- Thomas Jefferson 1743–1826
- Thomas Kuhn 1922–1996
- Thomas Mann 1875–1955
- Thomas More 1478–1535
- Thomas Paine 1737–1809
- Thomas Robert Malthus 1766–1834
- Thomas Sankara 1949–1987
- Thomas Young 1773–1829
- Thor Heyerdahl 1914–2002
- Thornton Wilder 1897–1975
- Thutmose III c. 1481–1425 BC
- Tiberius 42 BC–AD 37
- Tigran Petrosian 1929–1984
- Tigranes the Great c. 140–55 BC
- Timur 1336–1405
- Tina Turner 1939–2023
- Titus AD 39–81
- Titus Livius c. 59 BC–AD 17
- Todor Zhivkov 1911–1998
- Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543–1616
- Tom Clancy 1947–2013
- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk 1850–1937
- Tomas Tranströmer 1931–2015
- Tommaso Campanella 1568–1639
- Toni Morrison 1931–2019
- Tony Curtis 1925–2010
- Torquato Tasso 1544–1595
- Toshirō Mifune 1920–1997
- Toto Cutugno 1943–2023
- Tove Jansson 1914–2001
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537–1598
- Trajan AD 53–117
- Trần Đại Quang 1956–2018
- Tristan Tzara 1896–1963
- Truman Capote 1924–1984
- Trygve Lie 1896–1968
- Tsung-Dao Lee 1926–2024
- Tupac Shakur 1971–1996
- Turgut Özal 1927–1993
- Tutankhamun c. 1343–1324 BC
- Tycho Brahe 1546–1601
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- U Thant 1909–1974
- Ugo Foscolo 1778–1827
- Ulugh Beg 1394–1449
- Ulysses S. Grant 1822–1885
- Umar ibn Al-Khattāb c. AD 586–644
- Umar II AD 681–720
- Umaru Musa Yar'Adua 1951–2010
- Umberto Eco 1932–2016
- Umberto I of Italy 1844–1900
- Umberto II of Italy 1904–1983
- Umm Kulthum 1898–1975
- Upton Sinclair 1878–1968
- Urbain Le Verrier 1811–1877
- Urban II c. 1035–1099
- Urban IV c. 1185–1264
- Urban V c. 1310–1370
- Urban VI c. 1318–1389
- Urban VII 1521–1590
- Urban VIII 1568–1644
- Urho Kekkonen 1900–1986
- Ursula K. Le Guin 1929–2018
- Uthman ibn Affan c. AD 575–656
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- V. S. Naipaul 1932–2018
- Václav Havel 1936–2011
- Val Kilmer 1959–2025
- Valens c. AD 328–378
- Valentine c. AD 780–827
- Valentinian I AD 321–375
- Valerian c. AD 200–264
- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing 1926–2020
- Vangelis 1943–2022
- Vasily Zhukovsky 1783–1852
- Vera Rubin 1928–2016
- Vercingetorix c. 80–46 BC
- Verner von Heidenstam 1859–1940
- Vespasian AD 9–79
- Vicente Aleixandre 1898–1984
- Victor Chernomyrdin 1938–2010
- Victor Emmanuel II of Italy 1820–1878
- Victor Emmanuel III of Italy 1869–1947
- Victor Francis Hess 1883–1964
- Victor Grignard 1871–1935
- Victor Hugo 1802–1885
- Victor II c. 1018–1057
- Victor III c. 1027–1087
- Victoria 1819–1901
- Vidkun Quisling 1887–1945
- Viktor Frankl 1905–1997
- Viktor Tsoi 1962–1990
- Vilfredo Pareto 1848–1923
- Vincent van Gogh 1853–1890
- Vincenzo Bellini 1801–1835
- Virgil 70–19 BC
- Virginia Woolf 1882–1941
- Vissarion Belinsky 1811–1848
- Vitalian AD 600–672
- Vitaly Ginzburg 1916–2009
- Vitellius AD 15–69
- Vitruvius c. 80–15 BC
- Vittorio De Sica 1901–1974
- Vitus Bering 1681–1741
- Vivien Leigh 1913–1967
- Vlad the Impaler 1431–1476
- Vladimir Lenin 1870–1924
- Vladimir Mayakovsky 1893–1930
- Vladimir Nabokov 1899–1977
- Vladimir the Great c. 956–1015
- Vladimir Vernadsky 1863–1945
- Vladimir Vysotsky 1938–1980
- Vladimir Zhirinovsky 1946–2022
- Võ Nguyên Giáp 1911–2013
- Voltaire 1694–1778
- Vuk Karadžić 1787–1864
- Vyacheslav Molotov 1890–1986
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- W. E. B. Du Bois 1868–1963
- W. H. Auden 1907–1973
- Wallis Simpson 1896–1986
- Walt Disney 1901–1966
- Walt Whitman 1819–1892
- Walter Benjamin 1892–1940
- Walter Gropius 1883–1969
- Walter Houser Brattain 1902–1987
- Walter Mondale 1928–2021
- Walter Raleigh 1552–1618
- Walter Scheel 1919–2016
- Walter Scott 1771–1832
- Walter Ulbricht 1893–1973
- Walther Bothe 1891–1957
- Walther Hermann Nernst 1864–1941
- Wangari Muta Maathai 1940–2011
- Warren G. Harding 1865–1923
- Washington Irving 1783–1859
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- Wassily Leontief 1906–1999
- Werner Heisenberg 1901–1976
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- Whitney Houston 1963–2012
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- Wilhelm II 1859–1941
- Wilhelm Keitel 1882–1946
- Wilhelm Ostwald 1853–1932
- Wilhelm Reich 1897–1957
- Wilhelm Röntgen 1845–1923
- Wilhelm Steinitz 1836–1900
- Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767–1835
- Wilhelm Wien 1864–1928
- Wilhelm Wundt 1832–1920
- Wilhelmina of the Netherlands 1880–1962
- Wilkie Collins 1824–1889
- Willard Boyle 1924–2011
- Willard Libby 1908–1980
- Willem Einthoven 1860–1927
- William Alfred Fowler 1911–1995
- William Blake 1757–1827
- William Butler Yeats 1865–1939
- William Ewart Gladstone 1809–1898
- William Faulkner 1897–1962
- William Gilbert 1544–1603
- William Godwin 1756–1836
- William Golding 1911–1993
- William Harvey 1578–1657
- William Henry Bragg 1862–1942
- William Henry Harrison 1773–1841
- William Herschel 1738–1822
- William Hogarth 1697–1764
- William Holden 1918–1981
- William Howard Taft 1857–1930
- William Hurt 1950–2022
- William II of England c. 1060–1100
- William III of England 1650–1702
- William IV 1765–1837
- William James 1842–1910
- William Lawrence Bragg 1890–1971
- William Makepeace Thackeray 1811–1863
- William McKinley 1843–1901
- William Morris 1834–1896
- William of Ockham c. 1287–1349
- William Pitt the Younger 1759–1806
- William Ramsay 1852–1916
- William Rowan Hamilton 1805–1865
- William S. Burroughs 1914–1997
- William Saroyan 1908–1981
- William Shakespeare 1564–1616
- William Shockley 1910–1989
- William Somerset Maugham 1874–1965
- William Tecumseh Sherman 1820–1891
- William the Conqueror 1028–1087
- William the Silent 1533–1584
- William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin 1825–1907
- William Wallace c. 1270–1305
- William Wordsworth 1770–1850
- William Wyler 1902–1981
- Willis Lamb 1913–2008
- Willy Brandt 1913–1992
- Wilt Chamberlain 1936–1999
- Winnie Madikizela-Mandela 1936–2018
- Winston Churchill 1874–1965
- Wisława Szymborska 1923–2012
- Władysław II Jagiełło c. 1362–1434
- Władysław Reymont 1867–1925
- Wojciech Jaruzelski 1923–2014
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791
- Wolfgang Paul 1913–1993
- Wolfgang Pauli 1900–1958
- Woodrow Wilson 1856–1924
- Wu Zetian AD 624–705
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- Xenophanes c. 570–478 BC
- Xenophon c. 430–354 BC
- Xerxes I c. 519–465 BC
- Xuanzang AD 602–664
- XXXTentacion 1998–2018
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- Yahya Sinwar 1962–2024
- Yakub Kolas 1882–1956
- Yanka Kupala 1882–1942
- Yasser Arafat 1929–2004
- Yasuhiro Nakasone 1918–2019
- Yasunari Kawabata 1899–1972
- Yevgeny Prigozhin 1961–2023
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko 1933–2017
- Yevgeny Zamyatin 1884–1937
- Yitzhak Rabin 1922–1995
- Yoichiro Nambu 1921–2015
- Yukio Mishima 1925–1970
- Yul Brynner 1920–1985
- Yun Ch'iho 1864–1945
- Yun Hyon-seok 1984–2003
- Yuri Andropov 1914–1984
- Yuri Gagarin 1934–1968
- Yves Montand 1921–1991
- Yves Saint Laurent 1936–2008
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- Zachary c. AD 679–752
- Zachary Taylor 1784–1850
- Zaha Hadid 1950–2016
- Zbigniew Brzezinski 1928–2017
- Zeno of Citium c. 334–263 BC
- Zeno of Elea c. 490–425 BC
- Zheng He c. 1371–1433
- Zhores Alferov 1930–2019
- Zhou Enlai 1898–1976
- Zhu Xi 1130–1200
- Zhuang Zhou c. 369–288 BC
- Zine El Abidine Ben Ali 1936–2019
- Zsa Zsa Gabor 1917–2016
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto 1928–1979
- Zviad Gamsakhurdia 1939–1993
- Zygmunt Bauman 1925–2017