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World Leaders
- Adolf Hitler
- Alexander the Great
- Che Guevara
- Cleopatra
- Fidel Castro
- Genghis Khan
- Henry VIII
- Joseph Stalin
- Julius Caesar
- King Tutankhamun
- Mao Zedong
- Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Nelson Mandela
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Queen Victoria
- Ramses the Great
- Vladimir Lenin
- Vladimir Putin
- Winston Churchill
Women Leaders
Religious Leaders
Artists
Authors
Entrepreneurs
Inventors and Scientists
- Albert Einstein
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Ben Franklin
- Charles Darwin
- Dmitri Mendeleev
- Edwin Hubble
- Galileo Galilei
- Johannes Gutenberg
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Louis Braille
- Louis Pasteur
- Marie Curie
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Nikola Tesla
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Stephen Hawking
- The Wright Brothers
- Thomas Edison
Musicians
- Aretha Franklin
- Bob Dylan
- Bob Marley
- Jimi Hendrix
- John Lennon
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Ravi Shankar
- Wolfgang Mozart
Philosophers
US Presidents
- Donald Trump
- Abraham Lincoln
- Barack Obama
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- George W. Bush
- John F. Kennedy
- Richard M. Nixon
- Ronald Reagan
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Bill Clinton
- Woodrow Wilson
First Lady Profile
The Explorers
- Amelia Earhart
- Christopher Columbus
- Edmund Hillary
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Ibn Battuta
- James Cook
- Leif Eriksson
- Louise Boyd
- Neil Armstrong
- Vasco da Gama