Native Languages of The World's Most Famous People - Statistics

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Picture Hint Answer % Correct
Albert Einstein German: He also spoke English, French, Italian and Latin.
97%
Socrates Ancient Greek
96%
The Prophet Muhammad Arabic: During Muhammad's lifetime, there were dialects of spoken Arabic. Muhammad spoke in the dialect of Mecca, in the western Arabian peninsula, and it was in this dialect that the Quran was written
96%
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart German
94%
Christopher Columbus Italian
94%
Pablo Picasso Spanish
94%
Grigori Rasputin Russian
93%
Jackie Chan Cantonese: He also speaks Mandarin, English, and American Sign Language
92%
Vincent Van Gogh Dutch: He also taught himself French and English during his years as an art dealer in Paris and London.
92%
Joan of Arc French
91%
Bruce Lee Cantonese
89%
Yoko Ono Japanese
89%
Genghis Khan Mongolian
88%
Vlad Dracula Romanian
87%
Tutankhamen Egyptian: Tutankhamun probably primarily spoke a Middle- or Late-Egyptian variant of the Egyptian language
86%
Anne Frank Dutch: She wrote her diary in Dutch but she could also speak German.
84%
Joseph Stalin Georgian
84%
Moses Hebrew
83%
Pele Portuguese
80%
Frida Kahlo Spanish: Frida was born in Mexico
77%
Hans Christian Andersen Danish
76%
Rembrandt Dutch
73%
Alexander the Great Macedonian
72%
Ingrid Bergman Swedish
71%
Nelson Mandela Xhosa : He also spoke English
68%
William The Conqueror Norman French: He spoke a composite language now called Norman French
67%
Malala Yousafzai Urdu: She is also fluent in Pashto and English
66%
Jesus Aramaic: Hebrew was the language of scholars and the scriptures. But Jesus's "everyday" spoken language would have been Aramaic.
62%
Mother Teresa Albanian
61%
Mahatma Gandhi Gujarati: He learned English as a Second Language and a South African dialect, Xhosa as a third.
51%
Leif Eriksson Old Norse
50%
Hannibal Phoenician / Punic: He spoke the Carthaginian dialect of Phoenician, commonly called Punic. He certainly spoke Greek. And given that he spent most of his adult life fighting in Spain and then in Italy, he must have picked up some Iberian and Italic dialects, and quite likely Latin.
42%
Atilla The Hun Hunnic / Gothic
36%
Sitting Bull Lakota
31%
The Buddha Pali / Magahi: Pali is a Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language . It is the sacred language of Theravāda Buddhism
14%
Adam and Eve Adamic: The Adamic language, according to Jewish tradition (as recorded in the midrashim) and some Christians, is the language spoken by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
6%
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