Top 500 Most Memorable People in History - Statistics

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Rank	Person	% Correct
3	Jesus	90%
14	Adolf Hitler	89%
305	George Washington	84%
37	Joseph Stalin	81%
148	Abraham Lincoln	79%
1	Muhammad	78%
19	Julius Caesar	74%
100	Winston Churchill	74%
17	Albert Einstein	72%
430	Pope John XXIII	71%
85	John the Baptist	70%
70	Mahatma Gandhi	70%
198	Franklin D. Roosevelt	68%
244	John F. Kennedy	68%
268	Michael Jackson	68%
12	Napoleon	68%
49	Vladimir Lenin	67%
10	Alexander the Great	66%
16	Christopher Columbus	66%
488	Eleanor Roosevelt	66%
21	Martin Luther	66%
104	Benito Mussolini	65%
4	Genghis Khan	65%
5	Leonardo da Vinci	65%
2	Isaac Newton	64%
48	Cleopatra	61%
51	Thomas Jefferson	61%
36	William Shakespeare	61%
8	Ludwig van Beethoven	60%
15	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	60%
7	Plato	59%
233	Anne Frank	58%
247	Elvis Presley	58%
128	Mao Zedong	58%
13	Socrates	58%
59	Charlemagne	57%
40	Marie Curie	55%
34	Thomas Edison	55%
6	Aristotle	54%
65	Vladimir Putin	54%
226	Benjamin Franklin	53%
32	Michelangelo	53%
262	Ronald Reagan	53%
31	Karl Marx	52%
72	Nelson Mandela	52%
130	Queen Victoria	52%
468	John Lennon	51%
157	Marilyn Monroe	51%
62	Pablo Picasso	51%
38	The Buddha	51%
329	Aretha Franklin	50%
423	Henry Ford	50%
41	Nikola Tesla	50%
27	Adam Smith	49%
53	Augustus	49%
20	Johann Sebastian Bach	49%
18	Moses	49%
202	Malcolm X	48%
57	Muhammad Ali	48%
197	Peter the Great	48%
47	Vincent van Gogh	48%
11	Galileo Galilei	47%
42	Charles Darwin	46%
43	Che Guevara	46%
257	Hillary Clinton	46%
245	Margaret Thatcher	45%
160	Neil Armstrong	45%
22	Abraham	44%
118	Mikhail Gorbachev	44%
188	Nero	44%
196	Saint George	44%
241	Ali	43%
278	Charles Dickens	42%
219	Fidel Castro	42%
55	Joan of Arc	42%
251	Bruce Lee	41%
23	Confucius	41%
81	David	41%
382	Mother Teresa	41%
106	Tutankhamun	41%
255	Alexander Graham Bell	40%
45	Elizabeth II	39%
280	Hirohito	39%
152	Marie Antoinette	39%
52	Pope Francis	39%
440	Bill Gates	38%
25	Ferdinand Magellan	38%
28	Homer	38%
139	Pelé	38%
224	Charles de Gaulle	37%
287	James Cook	37%
347	Kim Il-sung	37%
499	Kim Jong-il	37%
26	Nicolaus Copernicus	37%
229	Catherine the Great	36%
102	Charlie Chaplin	36%
132	Claude Monet	36%
9	Marco Polo	36%
54	Sigmund Freud	36%
187	Ulysses S. Grant	36%
115	Leo Tolstoy	35%
476	Mark Antony	35%
144	Pope John Paul II	35%
68	Raphael	35%
442	Elon Musk	34%
357	Jane Austen	34%
93	Jimmy Carter	34%
500	Job	34%
250	Alessandro Volta	33%
291	Francisco Franco	33%
376	Mark Twain	33%
210	Steven Spielberg	33%
46	Vasco da Gama	33%
61	Johannes Gutenberg	32%
110	Otto von Bismarck	32%
29	Pythagoras	32%
131	Salvador Dalí	32%
108	Hannibal	31%
76	Rembrandt	31%
270	Ernest Hemingway	30%
64	Frédéric Chopin	30%
82	Friedrich Nietzsche	30%
437	Judas Iscariot	30%
203	Saddam Hussein	30%
135	Steve Jobs	30%
24	Archimedes	29%
99	Freddie Mercury	29%
69	Fyodor Dostoevsky	29%
39	Immanuel Kant	29%
92	Voltaire	29%
307	Walt Disney	29%
246	Caligula	28%
44	Dante Alighieri	28%
320	Hernán Cortés	28%
273	Ivan the Terrible	28%
90	Louis Pasteur	28%
306	Anne Boleyn	27%
75	Antonio Vivaldi	27%
121	Attila	27%
252	Friedrich Engels	27%
231	Gregor Mendel	27%
277	Joe Biden	27%
301	Alexander Fleming	26%
269	Alfred Hitchcock	26%
201	Angela Merkel	26%
309	Heinrich Himmler	26%
402	Niels Bohr	26%
145	Richard Wagner	26%
283	Florence Nightingale	25%
112	James Watt	25%
66	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	25%
80	J. R. R. Tolkien	25%
213	Nikita Khrushchev	25%
239	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	25%
35	René Descartes	25%
71	Solomon	25%
111	Stephen Hawking	25%
190	Vlad the Impaler	25%
373	Donatello	24%
109	Frida Kahlo	24%
275	Grigori Rasputin	24%
389	Herod the Great	24%
215	Marcus Aurelius	24%
91	Alfred Nobel	23%
169	Amerigo Vespucci	23%
334	George Orwell	23%
63	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk	23%
120	Victor Hugo	23%
448	Audrey Hepburn	22%
206	Boris Yeltsin	22%
417	Édouard Manet	22%
230	Euclid	22%
84	Hans Christian Andersen	22%
194	Isaac	22%
140	Jacob	22%
235	John Calvin	22%
195	Leon Trotsky	22%
332	Oscar Wilde	22%
397	Pope Benedict XVI	22%
126	Yuri Gagarin	22%
88	Francis Bacon	21%
393	Isabella I of Castile	21%
368	Laozi	21%
77	Niccolò Machiavelli	21%
342	Al Pacino	20%
170	Bob Marley	20%
114	Cicero	20%
116	Franz Kafka	20%
264	Frederick the Great	20%
453	F. Scott Fitzgerald	20%
391	Hermann Göring	20%
449	Robert De Niro	20%
94	Augustine of Hippo	19%
412	Cyrus the Great	19%
366	Erwin Rommel	19%
298	Franz Liszt	19%
385	Hadrian	19%
79	Hippocrates	19%
292	Johannes Brahms	19%
225	Josip Broz Tito	19%
175	Miguel de Cervantes	19%
424	Sun Tzu	19%
98	Thomas Aquinas	19%
404	Tiberius	19%
204	Agatha Christie	18%
492	Al Capone	18%
359	Carl Jung	18%
174	George Frideric Handel	18%
58	Herodotus	18%
330	Martin Scorsese	18%
261	Muammar Gaddafi	18%
141	Nefertiti	18%
78	Saint Peter	18%
87	Saladin	18%
407	Thomas More	18%
127	Virgil	18%
177	Grace Kelly	17%
97	Johannes Kepler	17%
312	Leonid Brezhnev	17%
304	Pablo Escobar	17%
363	Pocahontas	17%
358	Pontius Pilate	17%
205	Sandro Botticelli	17%
209	Alan Turing	16%
308	Alexandre Dumas	16%
447	Arthur Conan Doyle	16%
138	Dmitri Mendeleev	16%
146	Johannes Vermeer	16%
137	Joseph Haydn	16%
168	Jules Verne	16%
451	Lorenzo de' Medici	16%
183	Michael Faraday	16%
296	Coco Chanel	15%
176	Edvard Munch	15%
395	Ernest Rutherford	15%
487	Gabriel García Márquez	15%
253	James K. Polk	15%
181	Jean-Paul Sartre	15%
479	Mary Magdalene	15%
136	Ptolemy	15%
456	Saul	15%
105	Sophocles	15%
351	Spartacus	15%
161	Sylvester Stallone	15%
193	Aaron	14%
150	Aesop	14%
466	Claudius	14%
191	Francisco Goya	14%
318	Giuseppe Garibaldi	14%
113	Hammurabi	14%
207	Jack the Ripper	14%
355	Lord Byron	14%
182	Pericles	14%
151	Peter Paul Rubens	14%
149	Qin Shi Huang	14%
86	Timur	14%
282	Trajan	14%
394	Yasser Arafat	14%
310	Antoine Lavoisier	13%
184	Caravaggio	13%
469	Edward Jenner	13%
300	Henri Matisse	13%
122	Henry VIII of England	13%
435	Joshua	13%
180	Leonhard Euler	13%
315	Max Planck	13%
189	Ovid	13%
311	Paul Gauguin	13%
266	Roald Amundsen	13%
421	Samuel	13%
381	Simone de Beauvoir	13%
117	Zoroaster	13%
192	Antoni Gaudí	12%
133	Commodus	12%
101	Constantine the Great	12%
265	Diego Velázquez	12%
103	Edgar Allen Poe	12%
89	Elizabeth I of England	12%
457	Émile Zola	12%
374	Gustav Klimt	12%
379	Jonah	12%
30	Louis XIV of France	12%
236	Mehmed the Conqueror	12%
200	Molière	12%
60	Paul the Apostle	12%
154	Ramesses II	12%
346	Titian	12%
443	Auguste Rodin	11%
56	Avicenna	11%
165	Democritus	11%
228	Erasmus	11%
475	Felix Mendelssohn	11%
317	Giacomo Puccini	11%
240	Henry Kissinger	11%
461	Hieronymus Bosch	11%
429	Howard Hughes	11%
459	Igor Stravinsky	11%
465	Janis Joplin	11%
327	John Maynard Keynes	11%
153	Louis XVI of France	11%
338	Marcel Proust	11%
33	Mary, mother of Jesus	11%
331	Mary, Queen of Scots	11%
134	Montesquieu	11%
199	Nostradamus	11%
323	Samson	11%
73	Suleiman the Magnificent	11%
474	Adolf Eichmann	10%
218	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	10%
362	Aristophanes	10%
279	Ashoka	10%
414	Cher	10%
314	Édith Piaf	10%
234	Elijah	10%
365	Euripides	10%
478	James Clerk Maxwell	10%
223	Martin Van Buren	10%
276	Napoleon III	10%
482	Narendra Modi	10%
418	Wassily Kandinsky	10%
467	Anthony Hopkins	9%
408	Diocletian	9%
336	Diogenes	9%
441	El Greco	9%
179	Epicurus	9%
399	Ivan Pavlov	9%
74	John Locke	9%
432	Plutarch	9%
163	Richard III of England	9%
274	Richard I of England	9%
125	Saint Nicholas	9%
406	Sappho	9%
491	Sean Connery	9%
371	Søren Kierkegaard	9%
232	Wilhelm Röntgen	9%
173	Akhenaten	8%
333	Anaximander	8%
434	Antonín Dvořák	8%
67	Blaise Pascal	8%
483	Brigitte Bardot	8%
271	Darius the Great	8%
388	Eugène Delacroix	8%
164	Francis of Assisi	8%
349	Gustav Mahler	8%
403	Hatshepsut	8%
267	Heraclitus	8%
50	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	8%
159	Justinian I	8%
316	Louis XV of France	8%
186	Maria Theresa	8%
256	Mary I of England	8%
427	Piet Mondrian	8%
166	Umar	8%
290	Abu Bakr	7%
254	Averroes	7%
425	Catherine of Aragon	7%
313	Galen	7%
297	Horace	7%
303	Hypatia	7%
387	John the Apostle	7%
260	Le Corbusier	7%
398	Louis XIII of France	7%
302	Matthew the Apostle	7%
227	Petrarch	7%
353	Pierre Curie	7%
185	Ragnar Lodbrok	7%
249	Rumi	7%
212	Saint Joseph	7%
96	Thales of Miletus	7%
464	Xerxes I	7%
321	Aeschylus	6%
495	Aisha	6%
217	Albert Camus	6%
445	Amenhotep III	6%
214	Andrew the Apostle	6%
167	Arthur Schopenhauer	6%
293	Baruch Spinoza	6%
83	Carl Friedrich Gauss	6%
95	Carl Linnaeus	6%
410	Charles Martel	6%
158	Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor	6%
370	David Hume	6%
348	Denis Diderot	6%
178	Eratosthenes	6%
486	Fatimah	6%
129	Franz Schubert	6%
124	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	6%
107	Giuseppe Verdi	6%
319	Henry IV of France	6%
460	Hokusai	6%
339	Jan Hus	6%
386	Mary II of England	6%
119	Max Weber	6%
208	Nebuchadnezzar II	6%
238	Nicholas II of Russia	6%
147	Osman I	6%
341	Paracelsus	6%
428	Pope John Paul I	6%
281	Selim I	6%
216	Seneca the Younger	6%
162	Thomas Hobbes	6%
458	Thucydides	6%
328	Uthman	6%
446	Zheng He	6%
220	Ahmed I	5%
243	Alain Delon	5%
156	Albrecht Dürer	5%
472	Alexander von Humboldt	5%
392	André-Marie Ampère	5%
211	Anton Chekhov	5%
222	Bartolomeu Dias	5%
485	Bertrand Russell	5%
489	Catherine de' Medici	5%
405	Clovis I	5%
463	Edvard Grieg	5%
259	Émile Durkheim	5%
242	Empress Elisabeth of Austria	5%
172	Franz Joseph I of Austria	5%
356	Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor	5%
352	Friedrich Schiller	5%
143	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	5%
484	Hesiod	5%
263	Honoré de Balzac	5%
123	Hurrem Sultan	5%
354	Jean-Paul Belmondo	5%
436	Josef Mengele	5%
473	Ludwig Wittgenstein	5%
326	Martin Heidegger	5%
364	Mehmed III	5%
422	Murad I	5%
272	Murad III	5%
325	Murad IV	5%
286	Niccolò Paganini	5%
221	Omar Khayyam	5%
481	Ötzi	5%
288	Parmenides	5%
299	Paul Cézanne	5%
396	Pepin the Short	5%
480	Phidias	5%
295	Philip II of England	5%
401	Philip II of Macedon	5%
384	Philip IV of France	5%
375	Pieter Bruegel the Elder	5%
383	Protagoras	5%
416	Queen of Sheba	5%
420	Robert Koch	5%
350	Robert Schumann	5%
377	Rosa Luxemburg	5%
322	Saint Barbara	5%
171	Selim II	5%
340	Theodosius I	5%
324	Wilhelm II, German Emperor	5%
470	14th Dalai Lama	4%
337	Alexander Pushkin	4%
335	Al-Ghazali	4%
237	Auguste Comte	4%
433	Bayezid I	4%
490	Bayezid II	4%
426	Catherine of Alexandria	4%
471	Gian Lorenzo Bernini	4%
450	Gioachino Rossini	4%
142	Giordano Bruno	4%
248	Giovanni Boccaccio	4%
343	Hermann Hesse	4%
285	Ibn Battuta	4%
400	Ibn Khaldun	4%
444	Ignatius of Loyola	4%
419	James, son of Zebedee	4%
378	Jean Piaget	4%
477	John Amos Comenius	4%
345	Karl Dönitz	4%
494	Margrethe II of Denmark	4%
415	Maria Montessori	4%
360	Martin of Tours	4%
454	Michel de Montaigne	4%
155	Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi	4%
413	Mustafa I	4%
284	Nicolae Ceaușescu	4%
431	Octave Mirbeau	4%
455	Origen	4%
438	Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor	4%
452	Pierre de Coubertin	4%
498	Pope Gregory I	4%
294	Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh	4%
369	Rajneesh	4%
344	Robert Hooke	4%
409	Saint Lucy	4%
380	Saint Stephen	4%
372	Strabo	4%
497	Tycho Brahe	4%
493	Al-Biruni	3%
462	Al-Farabi	3%
496	Bernhard Riemann	3%
361	Hans Christian Ørsted	3%
439	Henry Dunant	3%
258	Huang Xianfan	3%
411	Husayn ibn Ali	3%
390	James Prescott Joule	3%
367	John Dalton	3%
289	Kösem Sultan	3%

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