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Top 100 people of all time

The most recognised people in history, ranked by everyone, one head-to-head pick at a time.

  1. Cleopatra 68–29 BC
  2. Albert Einstein 1879–1955
  3. Benedict XVI 1927–2022
  4. Leonardo da Vinci 1452–1519
  5. Isaac Newton 1643–1727
  6. Genghis Khan 1162–1227
  7. Pope Francis 1936–2025
  8. Donald Trump 1946–
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878–1953
  10. Alexander the Great 355–322 BC
  11. Vladimir Putin 1952–
  12. Michael Jackson 1958–2009
  13. Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827
  14. Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948
  15. William Shakespeare 1564–1616
  16. Julius Caesar 99–43 BC
  17. Elizabeth II 1926–2022
  18. Jimmy Carter 1924–2024
  19. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791
  20. Marie Curie 1867–1934
  21. Vladimir Lenin 1870–1924
  22. Christopher Columbus 1451–1506
  23. Che Guevara 1928–1967
  24. Napoleon 1769–1821
  25. Vincent van Gogh 1853–1890
  26. Socrates 469–398 BC
  27. Karl Marx 1818–1883
  28. Homer 900–800 BC
  29. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750
  30. Nelson Mandela 1918–2013
  31. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968
  32. Saint Peter ?–64
  33. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832
  34. Charles Dickens 1812–1870
  35. Winston Churchill 1874–1965
  36. Mother Teresa 1910–1997
  37. Plato 428–348 BC
  38. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892–1973
  39. Pythagoras 582–490 BC
  40. Leo XIV 1955–
  41. Charlie Chaplin 1889–1977
  42. Aristotle 383–321 BC
  43. Galileo Galilei 1564–1642
  44. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844–1900
  45. Confucius 550–478 BC
  46. Elizabeth I of England 1533–1603
  47. Michelangelo 1475–1564
  48. Charles III 1948–
  49. Augustine of Hippo 354–430
  50. Nikola Tesla 1856–1943
  51. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712–1778
  52. George Washington 1732–1799
  53. John F. Kennedy 1917–1963
  54. Steven Spielberg 1946–
  55. Charles Darwin 1809–1882
  56. Bill Gates 1955–
  57. John Paul II 1920–2005
  58. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821–1881
  59. Paul the Apostle 5–66
  60. Lionel Messi 1987–
  61. Dante Alighieri 1265–1321
  62. Agatha Christie 1890–1976
  63. Immanuel Kant 1724–1804
  64. Constantine the Great 272–337
  65. Leo Tolstoy 1828–1910
  66. Barack Obama 1961–
  67. Marilyn Monroe 1926–1962
  68. Pelé 1940–2022
  69. Elon Musk 1971–
  70. Sigmund Freud 1856–1939
  71. Edgar Allan Poe 1809–1849
  72. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646–1716
  73. Akbar 1542–1605
  74. Frédéric Chopin 1810–1849
  75. Thomas Jefferson 1743–1826
  76. Al Pacino 1940–
  77. Abraham Lincoln 1809–1865
  78. Gabriel García Márquez 1927–2014
  79. Charles V 1500–1558
  80. George VI 1895–1952
  81. Marco Polo 1254–1324
  82. Victor Hugo 1802–1885
  83. Louis XIV of France 1638–1715
  84. Steve Jobs 1955–2011
  85. Raphael 1483–1520
  86. Anne Frank 1929–1945
  87. Muhammad Ali 1942–2016
  88. Bob Dylan 1941–
  89. Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi 780–850
  90. Benjamin Netanyahu 1949–
  91. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473–1543
  92. Cristiano Ronaldo 1985–
  93. Emmanuel Macron 1977–
  94. Mao Zedong 1893–1976
  95. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882–1945
  96. Charlemagne 748–814
  97. Elvis Presley 1935–1977
  98. Stephen Hawking 1942–2018
  99. Voltaire 1694–1778
  100. Benito Mussolini 1883–1945

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