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Last updated: June 20, 2020
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Helped Latin America achieve independence
Simón Bolívar
91
Founder of psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
81
Promoted sterile surgery
Joseph Lister
46
Led the U.S. through the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
28
Converted the Gentiles to Christianity
St. Paul
74
Founder of Jainism
Mahavira
77
Sometimes called the Father of Modern Science
Galileo Galilei
36
Greatest pharaoh of the New Kingdom
Ramesses II
82
Father of nuclear physics
Ernest Rutherford
47
First to sail from Europe to India
Vasco da Gama
68
Made important discoveries about electromagnetism
James Maxwell
29
Started a once-popular religion called Zoroastrianism
Zoroaster
48
Invented the airplane (two people)
Wright Brothers
61
Made huge contributions to mathematics and philosophy in the 17th century
René Descartes
32
Improved the steam engine
James Watt
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