A Brilliant Brain

The 100 Most Brilliant Minds of Recorded History

Each mind is scored on Brilliance (1-10) and Stewardship (1-10). The Composite Index is their product. Rankings are influenced by the index and BrainCoin allocations from voters worldwide.

RankNameYearsOriginBrillianceStewardshipIndexBrainCoins
#1 Nikola Tesla 1856–1943 Serbia/USA 10 10 100 7
#2 Pierre Deligne 1944– Belgium 10 9 90 0
#3 Marie Curie 1867–1934 Poland/France 10 9 90 0
#4 Silvio Micali 1956– Italy/USA 10 9 90 0
#5 Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750 Germany 10 9 90 0
#6 Blaise Pascal 1623–1662 France 10 9 90 0
#7 Mark 1st century CE Israel/Ancient Near East 10 9 90 0
#8 Panini 520–460 BCE India 10 9 90 0
#9 Solomon c. 970–931 BC Israel 10 9 90 21
#10 Ivan Sutherland 1938– USA 10 9 90 0
#11 Vyasa 1500–400 BCE (traditional estimate) India 10 9 90 0
#12 Jean-Pierre Serre 1926–2022 France 10 9 90 0
#13 Isaiah 765–681 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 10 9 90 0
#14 Shing-Tung Yau 1949– China/USA 10 9 90 0
#15 Sinan 1490–1588 Ottoman Empire 10 9 90 0
#16 Thutmose III 1479–1425 BCE Egypt 10 9 90 0
#17 Valmiki circa 500 BCE–100 BCE India 10 9 90 0
#18 Michael Atiyah 1929–2019 England 10 9 90 0
#19 Ernest Rutherford 1871–1937 New Zealand 10 9 90 0
#20 Al-Tabari 838–923 Persia 10 9 90 0
#21 John G. Thompson 1932–2023 USA 10 9 90 0
#22 Louis Pasteur 1822–1895 France 10 9 90 0
#23 Donald Knuth 1938–present USA 10 9 90 0
#24 Michael Faraday 1791–1867 England 10 9 90 0
#25 Esther 5th century BCE–unknown Israel/Ancient Near East 9 10 90 0
#26 Wilma Mankiller 1945–2011 Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma, USA 9 10 90 0
#27 George Washington Carver 1864–1943 USA 9 10 90 0
#28 Jesus Christ (Jesus of Nazareth) c. 4 BC – c. AD 30/33 Roman Judea (modern-day Israel/Palestine) 9 10 90 200
#29 Phinehas circa 1400–1300 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 10 90 0
#30 Aaron c. 1395–1271 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 10 90 0
#31 Stephen c. 34–c. 35 CE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 10 90 0
#32 Barnabas c. 5–61 CE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 10 90 0
#33 Noah c. 2000–1700 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 10 90 0
#34 Chief Joseph 1840–1904 Nez Perce Nation, Pacific Northwest (USA) 9 10 90 0
#35 Martha 1st century CE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 10 90 0
#36 Amos c. 760–755 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 10 90 0
#37 Mary (mother of Jesus) c. 18 BCE–c. 48 CE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 10 90 0
#38 Daniel c. 620–538 BC Babylon/Israel 9 10 90 47
#39 Ruth c. 1200–1150 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 10 90 0
#40 Elijah 875–797 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 10 90 0
#41 Nadine Gordimer 1923–2014 South Africa 9 9 81 0
#42 Hannah 11th century BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 9 81 0
#43 Yuan Longping 1930–2021 China 9 9 81 0
#44 John the Apostle 6–100 CE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 9 81 0
#45 Chanakya (Kautilya) 375–283 BCE India 9 9 81 0
#46 John the Baptist c. 6 BCE–c. 30 CE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 9 81 0
#47 Martin Hellman 1945–present USA 9 9 81 0
#48 Josiah 649–609 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 9 81 0
#49 Askia Muhammad 1443–1538 Songhai Empire (modern-day Mali/Niger) 9 9 81 0
#50 Ramakrishna 1836–1886 India 9 9 81 0
#51 Naomi 740–681 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 9 81 0
#52 Shen Nong 2737–2697 BCE China 9 9 81 0
#53 Huangdi 2697–2597 BCE China 9 9 81 0
#54 Titus 1st century CE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 9 81 0
#55 Deng Xiaoping 1904–1997 China 9 9 81 0
#56 Amartya Sen 1933– India 9 9 81 0
#57 Elisha 900–800 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 9 81 0
#58 Squanto 1581–1622 Patuxet (present-day Massachusetts) 9 9 81 0
#59 Ngugi wa Thiong'o 1938–present Kenya 9 9 81 0
#60 Micah 750–686 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 9 81 0
#61 N. Scott Momaday 1934–2024 Kiowa (Oklahoma, USA) 9 9 81 0
#62 Barbara Liskov 1939– USA 9 9 81 0
#63 Robert Kahn 1938–present USA 9 9 81 0
#64 Queen Amina 1533–1610 Nigeria 9 9 81 0
#65 Mozi 470–391 BCE China 9 9 81 0
#66 Melchizedek circa 2000–1800 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 9 81 0
#67 Joy Harjo 1951– United States (Muscogee Nation) 9 9 81 0
#68 Begum Rokeya 1880–1932 Bangladesh 9 9 81 0
#69 Norman Borlaug 1914–2009 USA 9 9 81 0
#70 Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) c. 563–483 BC India/Nepal 9 9 81 0
#71 Fred Brooks 1931–2023 USA 9 9 81 0
#72 Cornelius 1st century CE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 9 81 0
#73 Ram Mohan Roy 1772–1833 India 9 9 81 0
#74 Samuel 1070–990 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 9 81 0
#75 Andrew 1st century CE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 9 81 0
#76 Akbar 1542–1605 Mughal Empire 9 9 81 0
#77 B.R. Ambedkar 1891–1956 India 9 9 81 0
#78 Xuan Zang 602–664 China 9 9 81 0
#79 Joshua 1407–1307 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 9 81 0
#80 Basava 1106–1167 India 9 9 81 0
#81 Lydia ca. 740–680 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 9 81 0
#82 Niklaus Wirth 1934– Switzerland 9 9 81 0
#83 Jack Dongarra 1950– USA 9 9 81 0
#84 Vinton Cerf 1943– USA 9 9 81 0
#85 Athanasius 296–373 Egypt 9 9 81 0
#86 Leah c. 1800–1750 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 9 81 0
#87 James the Apostle ~6–44 CE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 9 81 0
#88 Mary Magdalene c. 1 CE–c. 68 CE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 9 81 0
#89 Ely S. Parker 1828–1895 United States (Seneca Nation, New York) 9 9 81 0
#90 Sitting Bull 1831–1890 Lakota (North America) 9 9 81 0
#91 Vaughan Jones 1952– New Zealand 10 8 80 0
#92 Du Fu 712–770 China 10 8 80 0
#93 Svante Pääbo 1955– Sweden 10 8 80 0
#94 Wu Daozi 685–758 China 10 8 80 0
#95 Edgar Codd 1923–2003 England 10 8 80 0
#96 Tansen 1506–1589 India 10 8 80 0
#97 Robert Woodward 1917–1979 USA 10 8 80 0
#98 Ahmed Zewail 1946–2016 Egypt 10 8 80 0
#99 Chen-Ning Yang 1922–2024 China 10 8 80 0
#100 Johannes Kepler 1571–1630 Germany 10 8 80 0
#101 Ngô Bảo Châu 1972– Vietnam 10 8 80 0
#102 Stephen Cook 1939– USA 10 8 80 0
#103 William Thurston 1946–2012 USA 10 8 80 0
#104 Grigori Perelman 1966– Russia 10 8 80 0
#105 Wang Xizhi 303–361 China 10 8 80 0
#106 Alain Connes 1947–present France 10 8 80 0
#107 Socrates 469–399 BC Greece 10 8 80 0
#108 Kalidasa 375–415 India 10 8 80 0
#109 Jean Bourgain 1954–2018 Belgium 10 8 80 0
#110 Edsger Dijkstra 1930–2002 Netherlands 10 8 80 0
#111 Steven Weinberg 1933–2021 USA 10 8 80 0
#112 Peter Scholze 1987–present Germany 10 8 80 0
#113 Wilhelm Röntgen 1845–1923 Germany 10 8 80 0
#114 Augustine of Hippo 354–430 AD North Africa 10 8 80 0
#115 Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968 USA 8 10 80 0
#116 William Tyndale 1494–1536 England 8 10 80 0
#117 Florence Nightingale 1820–1910 England 8 10 80 0
#118 Abraham c. 2000 BC Mesopotamia/Canaan 8 10 80 0
#119 William Wilberforce 1759–1833 England 8 10 80 13
#120 Booker T. Washington 1856–1915 USA 8 10 80 0
#121 Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906–1945 Germany 8 10 80 0
#122 Abraham Lincoln 1809–1865 USA 8 10 80 0
#123 Aquila c. 70–140 CE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#124 David Mumford 1937– England 9 8 72 0
#125 Cédric Villani 1973– France 9 8 72 0
#126 Pocahontas 1595–1617 Powhatan Confederacy (Virginia) 9 8 72 0
#127 Maryna Viazovska 1986– Ukraine 9 8 72 0
#128 George Bernard Shaw 1856–1950 Ireland 9 8 72 0
#129 Thomas Sankara 1949–1987 Burkina Faso 9 8 72 0
#130 Ivan Pavlov 1849–1936 Russia 9 8 72 0
#131 Patanjali 400–500 CE India 9 8 72 0
#132 Lu Xun 1881–1936 China 9 8 72 0
#133 Gerhard Domagk 1895–1964 Germany 9 8 72 0
#134 Laurent Schwartz 1915–2002 France 9 8 72 0
#135 Katip Celebi 1609–1657 Ottoman Empire 9 8 72 0
#136 Ezekiel 623–573 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#137 Carlo Rubbia 1934–present Italy 9 8 72 0
#138 Peter Naur 1928–2016 Denmark 9 8 72 0
#139 Simon Donaldson 1957– England 9 8 72 0
#140 Tulsidas 1532–1623 India 9 8 72 0
#141 Al-Masudi 896–956 Iraq 9 8 72 0
#142 Allen Newell 1927–1992 USA 9 8 72 0
#143 Richard Karp 1935– USA 9 8 72 0
#144 Harold Urey 1893–1981 USA 9 8 72 0
#145 Qian Xuesen 1911–2009 China 9 8 72 0
#146 José Saramago 1922–2010 Portugal 9 8 72 0
#147 Wang Yangming 1472–1529 China 9 8 72 0
#148 Jean-Christophe Yoccoz 1957–2024 France 9 8 72 0
#149 Timothy 1st century CE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#150 Alessio Figalli 1984– Italy 9 8 72 0
#151 Felix Bloch 1905–1983 Switzerland 9 8 72 0
#152 Zhao Mengfu 1254–1322 China 9 8 72 0
#153 Seamus Heaney 1939–2013 Ireland 9 8 72 0
#154 Peter c. 5–c. 67 CE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#155 Maimonides 1138–1204 Spain/Egypt 9 8 72 0
#156 Zhang Heng 78–139 AD China 9 8 72 0
#157 Judea Pearl 1936– Israel/USA 9 8 72 0
#158 Zephaniah 645–595 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#159 Wendelin Werner 1968– France 9 8 72 0
#160 Sima Qian 145–86 BCE China 9 8 72 0
#161 Sequoyah c. 1770–1843 Cherokee Nation 9 8 72 0
#162 Xu Guangqi 1562–1633 China 9 8 72 0
#163 Al-Muqaddasi 946–1000 Palestine 9 8 72 0
#164 Bai Juyi 772–846 China 9 8 72 0
#165 Jim Gray 1944–2007 USA 9 8 72 0
#166 Butler Lampson 1943– USA 9 8 72 0
#167 Nathan c. 1000–931 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#168 Dan Shechtman 1941– Israel 9 8 72 0
#169 Hugo Duminil-Copin 1985– France 9 8 72 0
#170 Bartholomew 1st century CE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#171 Morten Meldal 1954– Denmark 9 8 72 0
#172 Fu Xi c. 2953–2838 BCE China 9 8 72 0
#173 Charles Bachman 1924–2017 USA 9 8 72 0
#174 Jawaharlal Nehru 1889–1964 India 9 8 72 0
#175 Svetlana Alexievich 1954– Belarus 9 8 72 0
#176 Dana Scott 1932–2024 USA 9 8 72 0
#177 Atle Selberg 1917–2007 Norway 9 8 72 0
#178 Al-Battani 858–929 Syria 9 8 72 0
#179 Hosea 750–715 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#180 Leslie Valiant 1949– England 9 8 72 0
#181 Michael Rabin 1931–2021 Israel 9 8 72 0
#182 Victor Ambros 1953– USA 9 8 72 0
#183 John Backus 1924–2007 USA 9 8 72 0
#184 Muhammad Iqbal 1877–1938 Pakistan 9 8 72 0
#185 Michael Freedman 1951– USA 9 8 72 0
#186 Nahum c. 660–612 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#187 Ibn al-Shatir 1304–1375 Syria 9 8 72 0
#188 Lazarus 1st century CE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#189 Orhan Pamuk 1952– Turkey 9 8 72 0
#190 Matthew c. 70–100 CE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#191 Philip 1st century CE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#192 Gideon c. 1175–1075 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#193 James Chadwick 1891–1974 England 9 8 72 0
#194 Sri Aurobindo 1872–1950 India 9 8 72 0
#195 Robert Tarjan 1948– USA 9 8 72 0
#196 Louise Glück 1943–present USA 9 8 72 0
#197 Rebekah fl. 1200–1150 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#198 Othniel circa 1350–1250 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#199 Ibn Jubayr 1145–1217 Spain 9 8 72 0
#200 Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi 1236–1311 Persia 9 8 72 0
#201 Han Yu 768–824 China 9 8 72 0
#202 Tecumseh 1768–1813 Shawnee Nation (present-day Ohio) 9 8 72 0
#203 Robert Floyd 1936–2001 USA 9 8 72 0
#204 Charles Fefferman 1949– USA 9 8 72 0
#205 Timothy Gowers 1963– England 9 8 72 0
#206 Sarah fl. 9th century BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#207 Andrei Okounkov 1969– Russia 9 8 72 0
#208 Harald zur Hausen 1936–2023 Germany 9 8 72 0
#209 Dorothy Hodgkin 1910–1994 England 9 8 72 0
#210 John Herrington 1958– Chickasaw Nation, United States 9 8 72 0
#211 Alan Perlis 1922–1990 USA 9 8 72 0
#212 Origen 185–254 Egypt 9 8 72 0
#213 Enrico Bombieri 1940– Italy 9 8 72 0
#214 Gregor Mendel 1822–1884 Austria 9 8 72 0
#215 Abigail fl. 1000–950 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#216 Wang Wei 701–761 China 9 8 72 0
#217 Malachi c. 470–450 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#218 Alan Baker 1939– England 9 8 72 0
#219 Sydney Brenner 1927–2006 South Africa 9 8 72 0
#220 Shafi Goldwasser 1958– USA 9 8 72 0
#221 Alice Munro 1931–2024 Canada 9 8 72 0
#222 Hezekiah 745–687 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#223 Silas 35–107 CE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#224 Ibn al-Baitar 1197–1264 Spain 9 8 72 0
#225 John Cockcroft 1897–1967 England 9 8 72 0
#226 Amir Pnueli 1941–2002 Israel 9 8 72 0
#227 Robin Milner 1934–2010 England 9 8 72 0
#228 Baruch Blumberg 1925–2011 USA 9 8 72 0
#229 Thomas Mann 1875–1955 Germany 9 8 72 0
#230 Carolyn Bertozzi 1966– USA 9 8 72 0
#231 William Lawrence Bragg 1890–1971 Australia 9 8 72 0
#232 David 1040–970 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#233 Raj Reddy 1937– India/USA 9 8 72 0
#234 Jael circa 1200–1150 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#235 Johannes Gutenberg c. 1400–1468 Germany 9 8 72 0
#236 Mark Knopfler 1949– Scotland, United Kingdom 9 8 72 110
#237 Zhuge Liang 181–234 AD China 9 8 72 0
#238 John Hopcroft 1939– USA 9 8 72 0
#239 Jeremiah 650–570 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#240 Douglas Engelbart 1925–2013 USA 9 8 72 0
#241 Manuel Blum 1938–present Venezuela/USA 9 8 72 0
#242 Sophocles c. 497–406 BC Ancient Greece (Athens) 9 8 72 0
#243 Al-Ghazali 1058–1111 Persia 9 8 72 0
#244 Antoni Gaudí 1852–1926 Spain 9 8 72 0
#245 Rabindranath Tagore 1861–1941 India 9 8 72 0
#246 Gutenberg c. 1400–1468 Germany 9 8 72 0
#247 Rumi 1207–1273 Persia 9 8 72 0
#248 Yi Sun-sin 1545–1598 Korea 9 8 72 0
#249 Sejong the Great 1397–1450 Korea 9 8 72 0
#250 Shinya Yamanaka 1962– Japan 9 8 72 0
#251 Katalin Karikó 1955– Hungary/USA 9 8 72 0
#252 Edward Jenner 1749–1823 England 9 8 72 0
#253 Drew Weissman 1959– USA 9 8 72 0
#254 Confucius 551–479 BC China 9 8 72 0
#255 Caleb fl. 8th century BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#256 Habakkuk 650–610 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#257 Reinhard Genzel 1952– Germany 9 8 72 0
#258 Jacob 1876–1948 Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#259 Maurice Wilkes 1913–2002 England 9 8 72 0
#260 June Huh 1983– South Korea/USA 9 8 72 0
#261 Subhas Chandra Bose 1897–1945 India 9 8 72 0
#262 Selma Lagerlöf 1858–1940 Sweden 9 8 72 0
#263 Lin Zexu 1785–1850 China 9 8 72 0
#264 Cai Lun 50–121 CE China 9 8 72 0
#265 Kip Thorne 1940– USA 9 8 72 0
#266 Heisuke Hironaka 1931–2023 Japan 9 8 72 0
#267 Adam c. 2000–1800 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#268 Zhu Xi 1130–1200 China 9 8 72 0
#269 Fernando Corbató 1917–2003 USA 9 8 72 0
#270 Miriam c. 1300–1250 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#271 Jonathan 8th–7th century BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#272 Daniel Quillen 1930–2023 USA 9 8 72 0
#273 Naguib Mahfouz 1911–2006 Egypt 9 8 72 0
#274 Eli 1080–980 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#275 Zechariah 520–518 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#276 Arthur Compton 1892–1962 USA 9 8 72 0
#277 Edmund Clarke 1949– USA 9 8 72 0
#278 David Baltimore 1938– USA 9 8 72 0
#279 Tony Hoare 1934– England 9 8 72 0
#280 Gerd Faltings 1954– Germany 9 8 72 0
#281 Bob Metcalfe 1946– USA 9 8 72 0
#282 Giorgio Parisi 1948–present Italy 9 8 72 0
#283 William Kahan 1933– Canada 9 8 72 0
#284 Curtis McMullen 1958– USA 9 8 72 0
#285 Mario Vargas Llosa 1936– Peru 9 8 72 0
#286 Martin Hairer 1975– Austria 9 8 72 0
#287 Thomas 1st century CE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#288 Cecil Frank Powell 1903–1969 England 9 8 72 0
#289 Sergei Novikov 1938–present Russia 9 8 72 0
#290 Stanley Prusiner 1942– USA 9 8 72 0
#291 Shigefumi Mori 1951– Japan 9 8 72 0
#292 Sherman Alexie 1966– Spokane-Coeur d'Alene, USA 9 8 72 0
#293 Richard Hamming 1915–1998 USA 9 8 72 0
#294 Harvey Alter 1935– USA 9 8 72 0
#295 Herbert Simon 1916–2001 USA 9 8 72 0
#296 Joel circa 650–580 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#297 Michael Stonebraker 1943– USA 9 8 72 0
#298 Al-Sufi 903–986 Persia 9 8 72 0
#299 Donna Strickland 1957– Canada 9 8 72 0
#300 Rachel circa 1170–1070 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#301 Tao Yuanming 365–427 China 9 8 72 0
#302 Ibn al-Nafis 1213–1288 Syria 9 8 72 0
#303 Pierre-Louis Lions 1956– France 9 8 72 0
#304 James Allison 1948– USA 9 8 72 0
#305 Kunihiko Kodaira 1915–1997 Japan 9 8 72 0
#306 Manjul Bhargava 1974–present Canada/USA 9 8 72 0
#307 Caucher Birkar 1978– Iran/England 9 8 72 0
#308 Tsung-Dao Lee 1926– China 9 8 72 0
#309 W.B. Yeats 1865–1939 Ireland 9 8 72 0
#310 James Wilkinson 1919–1998 England 9 8 72 0
#311 Ada Yonath 1939–present Israel 9 8 72 0
#312 Ada Lovelace 1815–1852 England 9 8 72 0
#313 Madhva 1238–1317 India 9 8 72 0
#314 Pierre Agostini 1941– France 9 8 72 0
#315 Isaac c. 2000–1800 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 9 8 72 0
#316 Paul the Apostle c. 5–67 AD Tarsus/Roman Empire 9 8 72 0
#317 Leslie Lamport 1941–present USA 9 8 72 0
#318 Frances Allen 1932–2006 USA 9 8 72 0
#319 Selman Waksman 1888–1973 USA 9 8 72 0
#320 Frances Arnold 1956– USA 9 8 72 0
#321 Lars Ahlfors 1907–1996 Finland 9 8 72 0
#322 Max von Laue 1879–1960 Germany 9 8 72 0
#323 Nicodemus c. 50 BCE – c. 120 CE Israel/Ancient Near East 8 9 72 0
#324 Guru Nanak 1469–1539 India 8 9 72 0
#325 Priscilla 1st century CE Israel/Ancient Near East 8 9 72 0
#326 Rahab c. 1400–1350 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 8 9 72 0
#327 Simon the Zealot 1–70 CE Israel/Ancient Near East 8 9 72 0
#328 Simone Weil 1909–1943 France 8 9 72 0
#329 Zerubbabel c. 520–515 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 8 9 72 0
#330 Elkanah 11th century BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 8 9 72 0
#331 Haggai 520–515 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 8 9 72 0
#332 Tim Berners-Lee 1955– England 8 9 72 0
#333 William Carey 1761–1834 England/India 8 9 72 15
#334 Thaddaeus 1st century CE Israel/Ancient Near East 8 9 72 0
#335 Obadiah c. 850–750 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 8 9 72 0
#336 Thomas More 1478–1535 England 8 9 72 0
#337 Jonas Salk 1914–1995 USA 8 9 72 0
#338 Viktor Frankl 1905–1997 Austria 8 9 72 0
#339 Hildegard of Bingen 1098–1179 Germany 8 9 72 0
#340 Frederick Douglass 1818–1895 USA 8 9 72 0
#341 Moses c. 1391–1271 BC Egypt/Israel 8 9 72 0
#342 John Stott 1921–2011 England 8 9 72 0
#343 Manoah 11th century BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 8 9 72 0
#344 Joseph (son of Jacob) c. 1745–1635 BC Canaan/Egypt 8 9 72 52
#345 James son of Alphaeus 1–62 CE Israel/Ancient Near East 8 9 72 0
#346 Abraham Joshua Heschel 1907–1972 Poland/USA 8 9 72 0
#347 Joseph of Arimathea c. 50 BCE–70 CE Israel/Ancient Near East 8 9 72 0
#348 Katherine Johnson 1918–2020 USA 8 9 72 0
#349 Dorcas 1st century CE Israel/Ancient Near East 8 9 72 0
#350 Mordecai 5th century BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 8 9 72 0
#351 Onesimus c. 50–c. 120 CE Israel/Ancient Near East 8 9 72 0
#352 John Wesley 1703–1791 England 8 9 72 0
#353 Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 India 8 9 72 0
#354 Barak fl. 1200–1150 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 8 9 72 0
#355 Asa 910–869 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 8 9 72 0
#356 C.S. Lewis 1898–1963 Ireland/England 8 9 72 0
#357 José Rizal 1861–1896 Philippines 8 9 72 0
#358 Jehoshaphat 872–848 BCE Israel/Ancient Near East 8 9 72 0
#359 Avicenna (Ibn Sina) 980–1037 Persia 10 7 70 0
#360 Cao Xueqin 1715–1763 China 10 7 70 0
#361 Archimedes c. 287–212 BC Syracuse/Greece 10 7 70 26
#362 Alan Turing 1912–1954 England 10 7 70 0
#363 Michelangelo 1475–1564 Italy 10 7 70 0
#364 Gottfried Leibniz 1646–1716 Germany 10 7 70 0
#365 Terence Tao 1975– Australia 10 7 70 0
#366 Murray Gell-Mann 1929–2019 USA 10 7 70 0
#367 Vladimir Drinfeld 1954– Ukraine 10 7 70 0
#368 Max Planck 1858–1947 Germany 10 7 70 0
#369 Richard Borcherds 1959– England 10 7 70 0
#370 Musa al-Khwarizmi c. 780–850 Persia 10 7 70 0
#371 Vladimir Voevodsky 1966–2023 Russia 10 7 70 0
#372 Paul Joseph Cohen 1934–2020 USA 10 7 70 0
#373 Srinivasa Ramanujan 1887–1920 India 10 7 70 0
#374 Thomas Aquinas 1225–1274 Italy 10 7 70 0
#375 James Clerk Maxwell 1831–1879 Scotland 10 7 70 0
#376 Galileo Galilei 1564–1642 Italy 10 7 70 0
#377 Albert Einstein 1879–1955 Germany/USA 10 7 70 0
#378 Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827 Germany 10 7 70 0
#379 Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) 965–1040 Iraq/Egypt 10 7 70 0
#380 Leonhard Euler 1707–1783 Switzerland 10 7 70 0
#381 Fanny Crosby 1820–1915 USA 7 10 70 0
#382 Sojourner Truth 1797–1883 USA 7 10 70 0
#383 Hudson Taylor 1832–1905 England/China 7 10 70 0
#384 Muhammad Yunus 1940– Bangladesh 7 10 70 0
#385 David Livingstone 1813–1873 Scotland/Africa 7 10 70 0
#386 Elizabeth Fry 1780–1845 England 7 10 70 0
#387 Paul Farmer 1959–2022 USA 7 10 70 0
#388 William Booth 1829–1912 England 7 10 70 0
#389 Oscar Romero 1917–1980 El Salvador 7 10 70 0
#390 Dorothea Dix 1802–1887 USA 7 10 70 0
#391 Jackie Robinson 1919–1972 USA 7 10 70 0
#392 Susannah Wesley 1669–1742 England 7 10 70 0
#393 Amy Carmichael 1867–1951 Ireland/India 7 10 70 0
#394 Albert Schweitzer 1875–1965 Germany/Gabon 7 10 70 0
#395 Adoniram Judson 1788–1850 USA/Burma 7 10 70 0
#396 Desmond Tutu 1931–2021 South Africa 7 10 70 0
#397 Jean-Henri Dunant 1828–1910 Switzerland 7 10 70 0
#398 Desmond Doss 1919–2006 USA 7 10 70 0
#399 Eric Liddell 1902–1945 Scotland/China 7 10 70 0
#400 Wangari Maathai 1940–2011 Kenya 7 10 70 0
#401 Denis Mukwege 2955– DR Congo 7 10 70 0
#402 Ashoka 304–232 BC India 7 10 70 0
#403 Bartolome de las Casas 1484–1566 Spain 7 10 70 0
#404 Bryan Stevenson 1959– USA 7 10 70 0
#405 George Washington 1732–1799 USA 7 10 70 0
#406 Harriet Tubman 1822–1913 USA 7 10 70 0
#407 George Muller 1805–1898 Germany/England 7 10 70 0
#408 Perpetua c. 181–203 AD Carthage 7 10 70 0
#409 Nelson Mandela 1918–2013 South Africa 7 10 70 0
#410 Roberto Clemente 1934–1972 Puerto Rico 7 10 70 0
#411 Francis of Assisi 1182–1226 Italy 7 10 70 0
#412 Catherine Booth 1829–1890 England 7 10 70 0
#413 Paulo Freire 1921–1997 Brazil 8 8 64 0
#414 Tu Youyou 1930– China 8 8 64 0
#415 Mario Molina 1943–2020 Mexico 8 8 64 0
#416 Daniel Hale Williams 1856–1931 USA 8 8 64 0
#417 Mary Anning 1799–1847 England 8 8 64 0
#418 Nehemiah c. 5th century BC Persia/Israel 8 8 64 0
#419 Luke the Physician c. 1st century AD Antioch/Roman Empire 8 8 64 0
#420 Cyrus the Great c. 600–530 BC Persia 8 8 64 0
#421 Matteo Ricci 1552–1610 Italy/China 8 8 64 0
#422 Olaudah Equiano 1745–1797 Igbo/England 8 8 64 0
#423 Ezra c. 480–440 BC Babylon/Israel 8 8 64 0
#424 Rabi'a al-Adawiyya c. 717–801 Iraq 8 8 64 0
#425 Pandita Ramabai 1858–1922 India 8 8 64 0
#426 Robert Morrison 1782–1834 Scotland/China 8 8 64 0
#427 Grace Hopper 1906–1992 USA 8 8 64 0
#428 Ignaz Semmelweis 1818–1865 Hungary 8 8 64 0
#429 Jan Amos Comenius 1592–1670 Moravia 8 8 64 0
#430 Bezalel c. 1446 BC Israel 8 8 64 0
#431 Jocelyn Bell Burnell 1943– Northern Ireland 8 8 64 0
#432 Vikram Sarabhai 1919–1971 India 8 8 64 0
#433 Charles Drew 1904–1950 USA 8 8 64 0
#434 Margaret Hamilton 1936– USA 8 8 64 0
#435 Pelé 1940–2022 Brazil 8 8 64 0
#436 Jane Jacobs 1916–2006 USA/Canada 8 8 64 0
#437 Oliver Sacks 1933–2015 England/USA 8 8 64 0
#438 Joseph Lister 1827–1912 England 8 8 64 0
#439 George Westinghouse 1846–1914 USA 8 8 64 0
#440 Kizzmekia Corbett 1986– USA 8 8 64 0
#441 Bede 672–735 AD England 8 8 64 0
#442 Charles Finney 1792–1875 USA 8 8 64 0
#443 Yo-Yo Ma 1955– France/USA 8 8 64 0
#444 Sundiata Keita c. 1217–1255 Mali Empire 8 8 64 0
#445 Watchman Nee 1903–1972 China 8 8 64 0
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#908 Howard Gardner 1943– USA 8 6 48 0
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#910 James Watt 1736–1819 Scotland 8 6 48 0
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#915 Claude Monet 1840–1926 France 8 6 48 0
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#917 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan 1952– India/England 8 6 48 0
#918 John Dewey 1859–1952 USA 8 6 48 0
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#920 LeVar Burton 1957– USA 6 8 48 0
#921 Ban Ki-moon 1944– South Korea 6 8 48 0
#922 Greta Thunberg 2003– Sweden 6 8 48 0
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#925 Augustin-Louis Cauchy 1789–1857 France 9 5 45 0
#926 Thomas Jefferson 1743–1826 USA 9 5 45 0
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#930 Milton Friedman 1912–2006 USA 9 5 45 0
#931 Pablo Neruda 1904–1973 Chile 9 5 45 0
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#933 Werner Heisenberg 1901–1976 Germany 9 5 45 0
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#936 Charles Babbage 1791–1871 England 9 5 45 0
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#939 John Maynard Keynes 1883–1946 England 9 5 45 0
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#941 Alexander Pushkin 1799–1837 Russia 9 5 45 0
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#943 Neil deGrasse Tyson 1958– USA 7 6 42 0
#944 Kublai Khan 1215–1294 Mongolia/China 7 6 42 0
#945 Willis Carrier 1876–1950 USA 7 6 42 0
#946 James Dyson 1947– England 7 6 42 0
#947 Percy Spencer 1894–1970 USA 7 6 42 0
#948 Michio Kaku 1947– USA 7 6 42 0
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#951 Ho Chi Minh 1890–1969 Vietnam 7 6 42 0
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#953 Haile Selassie 1892–1975 Ethiopia 7 6 42 0
#954 Karl Benz 1844–1929 Germany 7 6 42 0
#955 Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 Spain 10 4 40 0
#956 Alexander Grothendieck 1928–2014 France 10 4 40 0
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#958 Cleopatra VII 69–30 BC Egypt 8 5 40 0
#959 John D. Rockefeller 1839–1937 USA 8 5 40 0
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#962 Wu Zetian 624–705 AD China 8 5 40 0
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#964 Sei Shōnagon c. 966–1025 Japan 8 5 40 0
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#972 Frank Lloyd Wright 1867–1959 USA 9 4 36 0
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#981 Aung San Suu Kyi 1945– Myanmar 7 5 35 0
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#984 Louis Agassiz 1807–1873 Switzerland/USA 8 4 32 0
#985 Henry Ford 1863–1947 USA 8 4 32 0
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#988 James Watson 1928– USA 9 3 27 0
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