top 100 famous people A list of famous people, chosen mainly from the Ninenteenth, Twentieth or Twenty First Century. This list includes famous actors, politicians, entrepreneurs, writers, artists and humanitarians. Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962) American actress / singer / model. Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) US President during American civil war Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997) Catholic missionary nun / charity worker John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963) US President Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) - American civil rights campaigner Nelson Mandela (1918 - ) - South African President anti-apartheid campaigner. Winston Churchill (1874- 1965) - British Prime Minister during WWII Bill Gates (1955 - ) American businessman, founder of Microsoft Muhammad Ali (1942 - ) American Boxer and civil rights campaigner. Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948) Leader of Indian independence. Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ) British Prime Minister. Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970) French resistance leader and President. Christopher Columbus (1451 – 1506) - Italian explorer George Orwell (1903 - 1950) British author of 1984, Animal farm Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) British scientist proposed theory of evolution. Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977) American pop singer. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) German scientist - theory of relativity. Paul McCartney (1942 - ) British musician, member of Beatles. Plato (423 BC – 348 BC) Greek philosopher Queen Elizabeth II (1926 - ) British monarch since 1954. Queen Victoria ( 1819 –1901) British Queen during Nineteenth Century John M Keynes (1883 – 1946) British economist. Mikhail Gorbachev (1931 - ) Russian President during end of Cold War. Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) Indian Prime Minister Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) Italian, painter, scientist, polymath Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) - French chemist and microbiologist. Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910 ) - Russian author and philosopher. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Spanish modern artists Vincent Van Gogh (1853 – 1890) Dutch artist Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 – 1945) - US President 1932 - 1945. Pope John Paul II (1920 - 2005) Polish Pope. Thomas Edison ( 1847 – 1931) - American inventor Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005) - American civil rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi (1945 - ) Burmese opposition leader. Lyndon Johnson (1908 – 1973) - US President 1963-69 Ludwig Beethoven (1770 - 1827) - German composer Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ) US media celebrity. Indira Gandhi (1917 – 1984) - Third Prime Minister of India. Eva Peron (1919 – 1952) - First Lady of Argentina Benazir Bhutto (1953 – 2007) - Prime Minister of Pakistan Desmond Tutu (1931 - ) South African Bishop and opponent of apartheid Dalai Lama (1938 - ) Spritual and political leader of Tibetans Walt Disney (1901 – 1966) American film producer Neil Armstrong (1930 – 2012) US Pilot , first person to land on moon. Peter Sellers (1925 – 1980) British film actor and comedian Barack Obama (1961- ) US President Malcolm X (1925 – 1965) American Black nationalist leader J.K.Rowling (1965 - ) British author of Harry Potter series. Richard Branson (1950 - ) British entrepreneur founder of Virgin. Pele (1940 - ) Brazilian footballer, considered greatest of 20th Century. Jesse Owens (1913-1980) US track athlete won 4 golds at 1936 Olympics. Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961) American author John Lennon (1940 – 1980) British popstar and member of the Beatles. Henry Ford (1863 – 1947) US Industrialist Haile Selassie (1892 - 1975) head of state of Ethiopia Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953) Soviet leader from 1924-1953. Lord Baden Powell (1857 – 1941) British Founder of scout movement Michael Jordon (1963 - ) US Basketball star George Bush jnr (1946 - ) US President 2000-2008. V.Lenin (1870-1924) - Leader of Russian Revolution 1917. Osama Bin Laden (1957-2011) Leader of Al Qaeda Fidel Castro (1926-) Cuban revolutionary leader. Oscar Wilde (1854- 1900) Irish author, poet, playwright. Coco Chanel (1883-1971) - French Fashion designer Pope Francis (1936 - ) - First pope from the Americas. Amelia Earhart (1897– 1937) - Female aviator Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945) - leader of Nazi Germany 1933-45. Sting (1951 - ) British musician. Mary Magdalene (4 BC - 40AD) - devotee of Jesus Christ Alfred Hitchcock (1899 – 1980) - English / American film producer Michael Jackson (1958 – 2009) - American Pop singer Madonna (1958 - ) American Pop singer Mata Hari (1876-1917) Dutch exotic dancer, executed as spy. Cleopatra (69 -30 BC) Queen of Egypt. Steve Jobs (1955 - 2012) Key figure in Apple computers Ronald Reagan (1911 – 2004) - US President. Lionel Messi (1987- ) Argentinian footballer Babe Ruth (1895 – 1948) American baseball player Bob Geldof - Irish musician, charity worker Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) Russian Marxist revolutionary Roger Federer (1981 - ) Swiss Tennis player Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) Austrian psychoanalyst Woodrow Wilson ( 1856 – 1924) US president. Mao Zedong (1893-1976) Leader of Chinese Communist revolution Katherine Hepburn (1907-2003) - American actress. Audrey Hepburn (1929 – 1993) British actress and humanitarian. David Beckham - English footballer Tiger Woods - American golfer Usain Bolt - Jamaican athlete. Record holder at 100m and 200m Bill Cosby (1937 - ) - US entertainer Carl Lewis (1961 - ) - US athlete and Olympian Prince Charles - Heir to British throne Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - American wife of JF. Kennedy C.S. Lewis - British author Billie Holiday (1915 – 1959) American jazz singer. J.R.R. Tolkien - British author of Lord of the Rings Tom Cruise (1962 ) - American actor Billie Jean King - American tennis players and campaigner for equality. Simon Bolivar (1783 – 1830) Liberator of Latin America. Anne Frank (1929-1945) - Dutch Jewish author who died in Holocaust.
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