Top 500 Most Memorable People in History

Can you identify the top 500 most memorable people in humanitarian history according to Pantheon?!

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Rank	Person
1	Muhammad
2	Isaac Newton
3	Jesus
4	Genghis Khan
5	Leonardo da Vinci
6	Aristotle
7	Plato
8	Ludwig van Beethoven
9	Marco Polo
10	Alexander the Great
11	Galileo Galilei
12	Napoleon
13	Socrates
14	Adolf Hitler
15	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
16	Christopher Columbus
17	Albert Einstein
18	Moses
19	Julius Caesar
20	Johann Sebastian Bach
21	Martin Luther
22	Abraham
23	Confucius
24	Archimedes
25	Ferdinand Magellan
26	Nicolaus Copernicus
27	Adam Smith
28	Homer
29	Pythagoras
30	Louis XIV of France
31	Karl Marx
32	Michelangelo
33	Mary, mother of Jesus
34	Thomas Edison
35	René Descartes
36	William Shakespeare
37	Joseph Stalin
38	The Buddha
39	Immanuel Kant
40	Marie Curie
41	Nikola Tesla
42	Charles Darwin
43	Che Guevara
44	Dante Alighieri
45	Elizabeth II
46	Vasco da Gama
47	Vincent van Gogh
48	Cleopatra
49	Vladimir Lenin
50	Jean-Jacques Rousseau
51	Thomas Jefferson
52	Pope Francis
53	Augustus
54	Sigmund Freud
55	Joan of Arc
56	Avicenna
57	Muhammad Ali
58	Herodotus
59	Charlemagne
60	Paul the Apostle
61	Johannes Gutenberg
62	Pablo Picasso
63	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
64	Frédéric Chopin
65	Vladimir Putin
66	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
67	Blaise Pascal
68	Raphael
69	Fyodor Dostoevsky
70	Mahatma Gandhi
71	Solomon
72	Nelson Mandela
73	Suleiman the Magnificent
74	John Locke
75	Antonio Vivaldi
76	Rembrandt
77	Niccolò Machiavelli
78	Saint Peter
79	Hippocrates
80	J. R. R. Tolkien
81	David
82	Friedrich Nietzsche
83	Carl Friedrich Gauss
84	Hans Christian Andersen
85	John the Baptist
86	Timur
87	Saladin
88	Francis Bacon
89	Elizabeth I of England
90	Louis Pasteur
91	Alfred Nobel
92	Voltaire
93	Jimmy Carter
94	Augustine of Hippo
95	Carl Linnaeus
96	Thales of Miletus
97	Johannes Kepler
98	Thomas Aquinas
99	Freddie Mercury
100	Winston Churchill
101	Constantine the Great
102	Charlie Chaplin
103	Edgar Allen Poe
104	Benito Mussolini
105	Sophocles
106	Tutankhamun
107	Giuseppe Verdi
108	Hannibal
109	Frida Kahlo
110	Otto von Bismarck
111	Stephen Hawking
112	James Watt
113	Hammurabi
114	Cicero
115	Leo Tolstoy
116	Franz Kafka
117	Zoroaster
118	Mikhail Gorbachev
119	Max Weber
120	Victor Hugo
121	Attila
122	Henry VIII of England
123	Hurrem Sultan
124	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
125	Saint Nicholas
126	Yuri Gagarin
127	Virgil
128	Mao Zedong
129	Franz Schubert
130	Queen Victoria
131	Salvador Dalí
132	Claude Monet
133	Commodus
134	Montesquieu
135	Steve Jobs
136	Ptolemy
137	Joseph Haydn
138	Dmitri Mendeleev
139	Pelé
140	Jacob
141	Nefertiti
142	Giordano Bruno
143	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
144	Pope John Paul II
145	Richard Wagner
146	Johannes Vermeer
147	Osman I
148	Abraham Lincoln
149	Qin Shi Huang
150	Aesop
151	Peter Paul Rubens
152	Marie Antoinette
153	Louis XVI of France
154	Ramesses II
155	Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
156	Albrecht Dürer
157	Marilyn Monroe
158	Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
159	Justinian I
160	Neil Armstrong
161	Sylvester Stallone
162	Thomas Hobbes
163	Richard III of England
164	Francis of Assisi
165	Democritus
166	Umar
167	Arthur Schopenhauer
168	Jules Verne
169	Amerigo Vespucci
170	Bob Marley
171	Selim II
172	Franz Joseph I of Austria
173	Akhenaten
174	George Frideric Handel
175	Miguel de Cervantes
176	Edvard Munch
177	Grace Kelly
178	Eratosthenes
179	Epicurus
180	Leonhard Euler
181	Jean-Paul Sartre
182	Pericles
183	Michael Faraday
184	Caravaggio
185	Ragnar Lodbrok
186	Maria Theresa
187	Ulysses S. Grant
188	Nero
189	Ovid
190	Vlad the Impaler
191	Francisco Goya
192	Antoni Gaudí
193	Aaron
194	Isaac
195	Leon Trotsky
196	Saint George
197	Peter the Great
198	Franklin D. Roosevelt
199	Nostradamus
200	Molière
201	Angela Merkel
202	Malcolm X
203	Saddam Hussein
204	Agatha Christie
205	Sandro Botticelli
206	Boris Yeltsin
207	Jack the Ripper
208	Nebuchadnezzar II
209	Alan Turing
210	Steven Spielberg
211	Anton Chekhov
212	Saint Joseph
213	Nikita Khrushchev
214	Andrew the Apostle
215	Marcus Aurelius
216	Seneca the Younger
217	Albert Camus
218	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
219	Fidel Castro
220	Ahmed I
221	Omar Khayyam
222	Bartolomeu Dias
223	Martin Van Buren
224	Charles de Gaulle
225	Josip Broz Tito
226	Benjamin Franklin
227	Petrarch
228	Erasmus
229	Catherine the Great
230	Euclid
231	Gregor Mendel
232	Wilhelm Röntgen
233	Anne Frank
234	Elijah
235	John Calvin
236	Mehmed the Conqueror
237	Auguste Comte
238	Nicholas II of Russia
239	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
240	Henry Kissinger
241	Ali
242	Empress Elisabeth of Austria
243	Alain Delon
244	John F. Kennedy
245	Margaret Thatcher
246	Caligula
247	Elvis Presley
248	Giovanni Boccaccio
249	Rumi
250	Alessandro Volta

Rank	Person
251	Bruce Lee
252	Friedrich Engels
253	James K. Polk
254	Averroes
255	Alexander Graham Bell
256	Mary I of England
257	Hillary Clinton
258	Huang Xianfan
259	Émile Durkheim
260	Le Corbusier
261	Muammar Gaddafi
262	Ronald Reagan
263	Honoré de Balzac
264	Frederick the Great
265	Diego Velázquez
266	Roald Amundsen
267	Heraclitus
268	Michael Jackson
269	Alfred Hitchcock
270	Ernest Hemingway
271	Darius the Great
272	Murad III
273	Ivan the Terrible
274	Richard I of England
275	Grigori Rasputin
276	Napoleon III
277	Joe Biden
278	Charles Dickens
279	Ashoka
280	Hirohito
281	Selim I
282	Trajan
283	Florence Nightingale
284	Nicolae Ceaușescu
285	Ibn Battuta
286	Niccolò Paganini
287	James Cook
288	Parmenides
289	Kösem Sultan
290	Abu Bakr
291	Francisco Franco
292	Johannes Brahms
293	Baruch Spinoza
294	Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
295	Philip II of England
296	Coco Chanel
297	Horace
298	Franz Liszt
299	Paul Cézanne
300	Henri Matisse
301	Alexander Fleming
302	Matthew the Apostle
303	Hypatia
304	Pablo Escobar
305	George Washington
306	Anne Boleyn
307	Walt Disney
308	Alexandre Dumas
309	Heinrich Himmler
310	Antoine Lavoisier
311	Paul Gauguin
312	Leonid Brezhnev
313	Galen
314	Édith Piaf
315	Max Planck
316	Louis XV of France
317	Giacomo Puccini
318	Giuseppe Garibaldi
319	Henry IV of France
320	Hernán Cortés
321	Aeschylus
322	Saint Barbara
323	Samson
324	Wilhelm II, German Emperor
325	Murad IV
326	Martin Heidegger
327	John Maynard Keynes
328	Uthman
329	Aretha Franklin
330	Martin Scorsese
331	Mary, Queen of Scots
332	Oscar Wilde
333	Anaximander
334	George Orwell
335	Al-Ghazali
336	Diogenes
337	Alexander Pushkin
338	Marcel Proust
339	Jan Hus
340	Theodosius I
341	Paracelsus
342	Al Pacino
343	Hermann Hesse
344	Robert Hooke
345	Karl Dönitz
346	Titian
347	Kim Il-sung
348	Denis Diderot
349	Gustav Mahler
350	Robert Schumann
351	Spartacus
352	Friedrich Schiller
353	Pierre Curie
354	Jean-Paul Belmondo
355	Lord Byron
356	Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
357	Jane Austen
358	Pontius Pilate
359	Carl Jung
360	Martin of Tours
361	Hans Christian Ørsted
362	Aristophanes
363	Pocahontas
364	Mehmed III
365	Euripides
366	Erwin Rommel
367	John Dalton
368	Laozi
369	Rajneesh
370	David Hume
371	Søren Kierkegaard
372	Strabo
373	Donatello
374	Gustav Klimt
375	Pieter Bruegel the Elder
376	Mark Twain
377	Rosa Luxemburg
378	Jean Piaget
379	Jonah
380	Saint Stephen
381	Simone de Beauvoir
382	Mother Teresa
383	Protagoras
384	Philip IV of France
385	Hadrian
386	Mary II of England
387	John the Apostle
388	Eugène Delacroix
389	Herod the Great
390	James Prescott Joule
391	Hermann Göring
392	André-Marie Ampère
393	Isabella I of Castile
394	Yasser Arafat
395	Ernest Rutherford
396	Pepin the Short
397	Pope Benedict XVI
398	Louis XIII of France
399	Ivan Pavlov
400	Ibn Khaldun
401	Philip II of Macedon
402	Niels Bohr
403	Hatshepsut
404	Tiberius
405	Clovis I
406	Sappho
407	Thomas More
408	Diocletian
409	Saint Lucy
410	Charles Martel
411	Husayn ibn Ali
412	Cyrus the Great
413	Mustafa I
414	Cher
415	Maria Montessori
416	Queen of Sheba
417	Édouard Manet
418	Wassily Kandinsky
419	James, son of Zebedee
420	Robert Koch
421	Samuel
422	Murad I
423	Henry Ford
424	Sun Tzu
425	Catherine of Aragon
426	Catherine of Alexandria
427	Piet Mondrian
428	Pope John Paul I
429	Howard Hughes
430	Pope John XXIII
431	Octave Mirbeau
432	Plutarch
433	Bayezid I
434	Antonín Dvořák
435	Joshua
436	Josef Mengele
437	Judas Iscariot
438	Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
439	Henry Dunant
440	Bill Gates
441	El Greco
442	Elon Musk
443	Auguste Rodin
444	Ignatius of Loyola
445	Amenhotep III
446	Zheng He
447	Arthur Conan Doyle
448	Audrey Hepburn
449	Robert De Niro
450	Gioachino Rossini
451	Lorenzo de' Medici
452	Pierre de Coubertin
453	F. Scott Fitzgerald
454	Michel de Montaigne
455	Origen
456	Saul
457	Émile Zola
458	Thucydides
459	Igor Stravinsky
460	Hokusai
461	Hieronymus Bosch
462	Al-Farabi
463	Edvard Grieg
464	Xerxes I
465	Janis Joplin
466	Claudius
467	Anthony Hopkins
468	John Lennon
469	Edward Jenner
470	14th Dalai Lama
471	Gian Lorenzo Bernini
472	Alexander von Humboldt
473	Ludwig Wittgenstein
474	Adolf Eichmann
475	Felix Mendelssohn
476	Mark Antony
477	John Amos Comenius
478	James Clerk Maxwell
479	Mary Magdalene
480	Phidias
481	Ötzi
482	Narendra Modi
483	Brigitte Bardot
484	Hesiod
485	Bertrand Russell
486	Fatimah
487	Gabriel García Márquez
488	Eleanor Roosevelt
489	Catherine de' Medici
490	Bayezid II
491	Sean Connery
492	Al Capone
493	Al-Biruni
494	Margrethe II of Denmark
495	Aisha
496	Bernhard Riemann
497	Tycho Brahe
498	Pope Gregory I
499	Kim Jong-il
500	Job

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3 Comments

Level 82

Oct 22, 2023

That was fun and I'm sure that I'm not the only one wanting to protest at a number of omissions (in my case Livingstone, Rachmaninov and FW de Klerk come to mind). I have two other observations - why do we have to arrive at no 33 before we find a woman? And why no poets?

Level 35

Oct 23, 2023

That's what I'm saying! Some of the most famous people that we would know are not recognized a lot on Pantheon. That is where I got the data from.

Level 65

Dec 20, 2025

Good quiz but lacks some of the obvious type ins

For example it would be cool if the quiz accepted birth names of popes, because Wojtyła certainly doesn't work

Also the quiz does not accept Skłodowska for Maria Skłodowska-Curie

And for the 14th Dalai Lama it would be nice to just accept "Dalai Lama"