History’s 100 Most Famous People

Ever wonder who the most famous people in history are? Well wonder no more. Here is History’s Top 100 Famous People of All Time! (It’s the official list of History)

Using a sophisticated formula, we at the Famous Persons Institute have found out who the most famous people in history are in order! This was calculated by determining if every person ever (living or dead) has heard of the famous person then dividing it by the percent the world that knew about them to get their WFSP (WFSP: World Fame Saturation Percent). We then had an intern put them in order. (Thanks Craig)

Note: This list may be slightly skewed towards Western culture, not on purpose though!

Note Two: The Famous Persons Institute has substituted Johnny Cash in for the 100th most famous person ever instead of the Chandra Gupta I, founder of the Gupta Empire of India due to gross negligence and respect for early 90’s Johnny Cash music.

Note Three: Recent (living) figures such as Clinton or Bush haven’t been added because we don’t have enough historical perspective to judge their long term fame prospects. If you are not on this list this could be the reason.

The 100 Most Famous People in History

1. Jesus

2. Mohammad

3. Buddha

4. Hitler

5. Napoleon

6. Confucius

7. Julius Ceasar

8. Genghis khan

9. Alexander the Great

10. Moses

11. Einstein

12. Darwin

13. Abraham (the original)

14. Shakespeare

15. Newton

16. Washington

17. Martin Luther (German Priest)

18. Christopher Columbus

19. Marco Polo

20. Ghandi

21. da Vinci

22. Lincoln

23. Elvis

24. Plato

25. Mozart

26. Simon Bolivar (Liberator of South America)

27. Queen Elizabeth

28. Charlemagne

29. Augustus

30. Franklin

31. Wright Brothers

32. Jefferson

33. Churchill

34. Stalin

35. Saladin (Great Anti-crusader)

36. Beethoven

37. Cleopatra

38. Attilla the hun

39. Sigmund Freud

40. Emperor Qin (The First Chinese Emperor)

41. Michelangelo Buonarotti

42. William the Conqueror

43. Aristotle

44. Hannibal Barca

45. Constantine the Great

46. Kublai Khan

47. Magellan

48. Socrates

49. Cortez

50. Henry VIII

51. King David (David & Goliath, later biblical king)

52. Joan of Arc

53. Bach

54. Sun Tzu

55. King Tut (Tutankhamun)

56. Lenin (Not the singer)

57. Carl Marx

58. Zoroaster (Founder of the once popular religion)

59. Vincent Van Gogh

60. Nero

61. Vlad the Impaler (Dracula)

62. Ivan the Terrible

63. Tamerlane (A.K.A. Timur)

64. Herodotus (Greek Father of History)

65. Ramses II

66. Suleiman the Magnificent

67. Hadrian

68. Nefertiti

69. Shaka (Zulu)

70. Chairmen Mao

71. Khufu (The guy with the biggest pyramid)

72. Frederick the Great

73. Charlie Chaplin

74. Louis XXIV

75. Philip of Macedonia

76. St. Paul (key guy in early Christian Church)

77. Sir Francis Drake

78. Cài Lún (credited as inventor of paper)

79. El Cid

80. Roosevelt (FDR)

81. Martin Luther King, jr

82. Osama Bin Laden

83. Neil Armstrong

84. Mark Twain

85. Pol Pot

86. Harry Houdini

87. John F. Kennedy

88. Scipio Africanus

89. Mother Teresa

90. Michael Jackson

91. Amelia Earhart

92. Pythagoras

93. Walt Disney

94. Babe Ruth

95. Pericles

96. Jesse James (Not the Cheater or adult film star)

97. Muhammad Ali

98. Johannes Gutenberg (inventor of the printing press)

99. Emperor Gaozu of Han (founder of the Han Dynasty in China)

100. Johny Cash