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    Famous People in History

    This article has a list of some of the most famous people in history, who stood out due to their monumental contributions to human knowledge and culture. If it wasn't for them, our present would have been quite different from what it is today.

    Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. - John Wooden
    Some individuals rise in stature and change the course of history through their extraordinary efforts. These are people who followed their heart and believed in their own genius. In this article, I present a list of such famous people from the annals of history, who changed the world, challenged established thought, broke the shackles of conformity and dared to be themselves. If you are looking for inspiration, it can be found in the biographies of these great men and women who have influenced generations with their thinking. We have chosen to present the names of these famous personalities in world history, according to the field of human culture to which they contributed or the role they played in shaping history.
    Famous People Who Changed the World
    Here is a list of some of the most famous personalities who broke all rules of conformity and created new paradigms of thought. They have been listed together, according to their fields of contribution.
    Great Leaders of Men
    Alexander the Great
    July 356 BC - June 323 BC Military Commander, King of Macedonia Pharaoh of Egypt, King of Persia, King of Asia
    Genghis Khan
    1162 AD - 1227 AD Supreme Khan of the Mongols Founder and Emperor of the Mongol Empire
    Julius Caesar
    100 BC - 44 BC Dictator of the Roman Republic
    Emperor Ashoka
    304 BC - 232 BC Emperor of India
    Saladin
    1138 AD - 1193 AD Sultan of Syria and Egypt
    Catherine the Great
    1729 AD - 1796 AD Empress and Autocrat of All the Russias, Empress consort of All the Russias
    Cleopatra
    69 BC - 30 BC Queen of Egypt
    Qin Shi Huang
    260 BC - 210 BC King of Qin, Emperor of China
    Attila the Hun
    406 AD - 453 AD Ruler of the Hunnic Empire
    Elizabeth I
    1533 AD - 1603 AD Queen of England and Ireland
    Queen Victoria
    1819 AD - 1901 AD Monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
    Peter I of Russia
    1672 AD - 1725 AD Emperor of All Russia, Sovereign, Tsar and Grand Prince of All Russia
    Horatio Nelson
    1758 AD - 1805 AD Vice Admiral of the White, Royal British Navy
    Oliver Cromwell
    1599 AD - 1658 AD English Political and Military Leader
    Mahatma Gandhi
    1869 - 1948 Father of India
    1874 - 1965 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
    Napoleon Bonaparte
    1769 - 1821 French Military and Political Leader
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    1882 - 1945 32nd President of the United States
    Abraham Lincoln
    1809 - 1865 16th President of the United States
    Indira Gandhi
    1917 - 1984 Prime Minister of India
    Ho Chi Minh
    1890 - 1969 1st President of Vietnam
    John F. Kennedy
    1917 - 1963 35th President of the United States
    1918 - 2013 President of South Africa
    Queen Elizabeth II
    Born 21 April, 1926 Queen of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth
    Theodore Roosevelt
    1858 - 1919 26th President of the United States
    Vladimir Lenin
    1870 - 1924 Premier of the Soviet Union
    Benjamin Franklin
    1706 - 1790 A Founding Father of the United States
    Ariel Sharon
    1928 - 2014 11th Prime Minister of Israel
    Henri La Fontaine
    1854 - 1943 President of the International Peace Bureau, Nobel Laureate
    Jacques Chirac
    Born: November 29, 1932 22nd President of France
    Thomas Jefferson
    1743 - 1826 3rd President of the United States
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Born: June 19, 1945 Burmese Politician
    Fidel Castro
    Born: August 13, 1926 President of Cuba
    Kofi Annan
    Born: April 8, 1938 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations
    Henry Kissinger
    Born: May 27, 1923 56th United States Secretary of State
    Yasser Arafat
    1929 - 2004 President of the Palestinian National Authority
    George Washington
    1732 - 1799 1st U.S. President
    Angela Merkel
    Born: July 17, 1954 Chancellor of Germany
    Religious Figures
    Bahá'u'lláh
    1817 - 1892 Founder of the Bahá'í Faith
    Jesus Christ
    7-2 BC - 30-33 AD Central figure of Christianity
    Buddha
    563 BC to 483 BC - 483 BC or 411 BC and 400 BC Sage, Founder of Buddhism
    Krishna
    Hindu Deity, Incarnation of Vishnu
    Moses
    Prophet, Religious Leader
    Prophet Muhammad
    570 AD - 632 AD Islamic Prophet
    Confucius
    551 BC - 479 BC Chinese Philosopher
    Martin Luther
    1483-1546 German Monk
    St. John the Baptist
    1st Century BC - 31 - 36 AD Religious Figure
    Mother Teresa
    1910-1997 Christian Missionary
    Saint Paul
    5 AD - 67 AD Apostle
    Ramkrishna Paramhansa
    1836 - 1886 Hindu Mystic
    Sri Aurobindo
    1872 - 1950 Indian Yogi, Poet
    St. Francis of Assisi
    1181/1182 - 1226 Italian Catholic Friar and Preacher
    Swami Vivekananda
    1863 - 1902 Indian Hindu Monk
    John Calvin
    1509 - 1564 French Theologian and Pastor
    Ayatollah Khomeini
    1902 - 1989 Iranian Religious Leader and Politician
    Desmond Tutu
    Born: October 7, 1931 South African Retired Anglican Bishop and Social Rights Activist
    Zoroaster
    Founder of Zoroastrianism
    14th Dalai Lama
    Born: July 6, 1935 Tibetan Buddhist High Monk
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
    1929 - 1968 American Pastor, Activist
    Lao-tzu
    604 BC - 531 BC Chinese Poet and Philosopher
    Mathematicians, Scientists, and Inventors
    Nicolaus Copernicus
    1473 - 1543 Polish Astronomer and Mathematician
    1564 - 1642 Italian Physicist, Mathematician, Engineer, Astronomer
    Pythagoras
    570 BC - 495 BC Greek Mathematician, Philosopher
    Greek Mathematician
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    1452 - 1519 Italian Polymath
    Joseph Louis Lagrange
    1736 - 1813 Italian Astronomer and Mathematician
    Leonhard Euler
    1707 - 1783 Swiss Physicist and Mathematician
    Albert Einstein
    1879 - 1955 German Theoretical Physicist
    Richard Feynman
    1918 - 1988 American Theoretical Physicist
    Niels Bohr
    1885 - 1962 Danish Physicist
    Paul Dirac
    1902 - 1984 English Theoretical Physicist
    Alexander Graham Bell
    1847 - 1922 Scottish Inventor of the Telephone
    Heinrich Hertz
    1857 - 1894 German Physicist
    Satyendranath Bose
    1894 - 1974 Indian Physicist
    Thomas Edison
    1847 - 1931 American Investor
    Archimedes
    287 BC - 212 BC Ancient Greek Astronomer, Mathematician
    Srinivasa Ramanujan
    1887 - 1920 Indian Autodidact, Mathematician
    Tim Berners-Lee
    Born: June 8, 1955 Inventor of the World Wide Web
    Sir Isaac Newton
    1642 - 1727 English Physicist and Mathematician
    Stefan Banach
    1892 - 1945 Polish Mathematician
    Aryabhata
    476 AD - 550 AD Indian Mathematician and Astronomer
    John von Neumann
    1903 - 1957 Hungarian-American Polymath
    Pierre de Fermat
    1601/1607 - 1665 French Lawyer, Mathematician
    James Clerk Maxwell
    1831- 1879 Scottish Theoretical Physicist
    Carl F. Gauss
    1777 - 1855 German Mathematician
    Joseph Fourier
    1768 - 1830 French Physicist and Mathematician
    Henri Poincaré
    1854 - 1912 French Theoretical Physicist, Mathematician
    David Hilbert
    1862 - 1943 German Mathematician
    Pierre-Simon Laplace
    1749 - 1827 French Astronomer and Mathematician
    John Bardeen
    1908 - 1991 American Physicist
    Henri Becquerel
    1852 - 1908 French Physicist
    James Chadwick
    1891 - 1974 English Physicist
    Hendrik Casimir
    1909 - 2000 Dutch Physicist
    Enrico Fermi
    1901 - 1954 Italian Physicist
    Robert Boyle
    1627 - 1691 Irish Physicist, Chemist
    Abdus Salam
    1926 - 1996 Theoretical Physicist
    Stephen Hawking
    Born: January 8, 1942 Theoretical Physicist
    Jack Kilby
    1923 - 2005 American Electrical Engineer
    Orville Wright
    1871 - 1948 Aviation Pioneer
    Wilbur Wright
    1867 - 1912 Aviation Pioneer
    Writers, Poets, and Philosophers
    Ernest Hemingway
    1899 - 1961 American Author, Journalist
    Hans Christian Andersen
    1805 - 1875 Danish Author
    Dante Alighieri
    1265 - 1321 Italian Poet
    Jalaluddin Rumi
    1207 - 1273 Persian Sufi Mystic, Poet
    Samuel Beckett
    1906 - 1989 Irish Playwright, Novelist, Poet, Theater Director
    Anton Chekhov
    1860 - 1904 Russian Author, Playwright, Physician
    Ray Bradbury
    1920 - 2012 American Fiction Writer
    Leo Tolstoy
    1828 - 1910 Novelist, Playwright, Essayist
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    1821- 1881 Russian Novelist, Essayist, Writer
    Isaac Asimov
    1920 - 1992 American Science Fiction Writer
    H.G.Wells
    1866 - 1946 English Science Fiction Novelist
    Arthur C. Clarke
    1917 - 2008 British Science Fiction Writer
    Cormac McCarthy
    Born: July 20, 1933 American Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter
    Pearl Buck
    1892 - 1973 American Novelist
    Jeffrey Archer
    Born: April 15, 1940 English Novelist
    George Byron
    1788 - 1824 English Poet
    Oscar Wilde
    1854 - 1900 Irish Poet and Writer
    Albert Camus
    1913 - 1960 French Author, Journalist, Philosopher, Nobel Laureate
    Truman Capote (Truman Streckfus Persons)
    1924 - 1984 American Playwright, Screenwriter, Author
    Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
    1832 - 1898 English Writer, Mathematician
    Joseph Conrad
    1857 - 1924 Polish Author
    Harper Lee
    Born: April 28, 1926 American Novelist
    T. S. Eliot
    1888 - 1965 English/American Literary and Social Critic, Playwright, Essayist
    J.R.R.Tolkien
    1892 - 1973 English Writer, Poet
    Salman Rushdie
    Born: June 19, 1947 Indian British Novelist, Essayist
    V.S. Naipaul
    Born: August 17, 1932 British Writer, Novelist
    Paulo Coelho
    Born: August 24, 1947 Brazilian Novelist and Lyricist
    Sidney Sheldon
    1917 - 2007 American Screenwriter, Novelist
    J. K. Rowling
    Born July 31, 1965 British Novelist
    W. B. Yeats
    1865 - 1939 Irish Poet
    Alfred Tennyson
    1809 - 1892 Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland
    Robert Frost
    1874 - 1963 American Poet
    Rabindranath Tagore
    1861 - 1941 Indian Poet, Writer, Playwright, Painter, Polymath
    Kahlil Gibran
    1883 - 1931 Lebanese Poet, Writer, Artist
    Mario Puzo
    1920 - 1999 Italian American Novelist, Screenwriter
    Sant Tukaram
    1577 - 1650 Spiritual Poet, Saint
    Saint Dnyaneshwar
    1275 - 1296 Indian Poet, Writer, Philosopher, Yogi
    Munshi Premchand
    1880 - 1936 Indian Novelist
    Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
    1835 - 1910 American Humorist and Writer
    P. G. Wodehouse
    1881 - 1975 English Humorist, Novelist, Journalist
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    1803 - 1882 American Poet, Lecturer, Essayist
    Henry David Thoreau
    1817 - 1862 American Author, Poet, Philosopher, Polymath
    Rudyard Kipling
    1865 - 1936 English Poet, Writer, Novelist
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    1859 - 1930 Scottish Writer, Physician
    Virginia Woolf
    1882 - 1941 English Writer
    Victor Hugo
    1802 - 1885 French Novelist, Dramatist
    William Shakespeare
    1564 - 1616 English Playwright, Poet, Actor
    William Somerset Maugham
    1874 - 1965 British Novelist, Playwright
    Walt Whitman
    1819 - 1892 American Essayist, Poet, Journalist
    Sylvia Plath
    1932 - 1963 American Poet, Novelist, Writer
    Pablo Neruda (Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto)
    1904 - 1973 Chilean Poet
    Emily Dickinson
    1830 - 1886 American Poet
    John Keats
    1795 - 1821 English Poet
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    1850 - 1894 Scottish Novelist, Poet, Essayist, Travel Writer
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    1807 - 1882 American Poet
    Karl Marx
    1818 - 1883 German Philosopher, Economist, Revolutionary Socialist, Journalist
    Friedrich Engels
    1820 - 1895 German Author, Philosopher, Social Scientist
    George Bernard Shaw
    1856 - 1950 Irish Playwright
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    1844 - 1900 German Philosopher, Writer, Cultural Critic, Poet, Composer
    Immanuel Kant
    1724 - 1804 German Philosopher
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    1905 - 1980 French Playwright, Philosopher, Literary Critic, Novelist
    David Hume
    1711 - 1776 Scottish Historian, Philosopher, Economist
    Karl Popper
    1902 - 1994 Austrian-British Philosopher, Economist
    Adam Smith
    1723 - 1790 Scottish Philosopher and Political Economist
    Francis Bacon
    1561 - 1626 English Philosopher, Scientist, Statesman
    Socrates
    470/469 BC - 399 BC Greek Philosopher
    Bertrand Russell
    1872 - 1970 British Philosopher, Mathematician
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    1770 - 1831 German Philosopher
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    1712 - 1778 German Philosopher, Composer, Writer
    Chānakya
    370 BC - 283 BC Indian Philosopher, Teacher, Royal Advisor
    W. H. Auden
    1907 - 1973 Anglo-American Poet
    Purushottam Lakshman Deshpande
    1919 - 2000 Indian Humorist, Writer, Orator, Philanthropist
    Explorers and Adventurers
    Sir Edmund Hillary
    1919 - 2008 New Zealand Mountaineer, Explorer, and Philanthropist
    Tenzing Norgay
    1914 - 1986 Nepalese Sherpa Mountaineer
    George Mallory
    1886 - 1924 English Mountaineer
    1254 - 1324 Italian Merchant Traveler
    David Livingstone
    1813 - 1873 Scottish Medical Missionary, Pioneering Explorer of Africa
    Portuguese Explorer 1480 - 1521
    Amerigo Vespucci
    1454 - 1512 Italian explorer, Navigator, Cartographer, Financier
    Christopher Columbus
    1450/1451 - 1506 Italian Navigator, Explorer, Colonizer
    Roald Amundsen
    1872 - 1928 Norwegian Polar Explorer
    Frederick Cook
    1865 - 1940 American Explorer, Physician, Ethnographer
    1728 - 1779 British Navigator, Explorer, Cartographer
    Neil Armstrong
    1930 - 2012 American Astronaut, First Lunar Explorer
    Yuri Gagarin
    1934 - 1968 Soviet Cosmonaut and Pilot
    Charles Augustus Lindbergh
    1902 - 1974 American Explorer, Aviator, Author, Inventor
    Amelia Earhart
    1897 - 1937 (Disappeared) American Aviation Pioneer, Author
    Wiley Post
    1898 - 1935 American Aviator
    Famous Actors, Actresses, and Directors
    Elizabeth Taylor
    1932 - 2011 British-American Actress
    Sir Sidney Poitier
    Born: February 20, 1927 Bahamian-American Actor, Film Director
    Clark Gable
    1901 - 1960 American Film Actor
    Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Mortenson)
    1926 - 1962 American, Actress, Model, Singer
    Marlon Brando
    1924 - 2004 American Film and Stage Actor
    Sean Connery
    Born: August 25, 1930 Scottish Actor and Producer
    Harrison Ford
    Born: July 13, 1942 American Film Actor, Producer
    Humphrey Bogart
    1899 - 1957 American Actor
    Ingrid Bergman
    1915 - 1982 Swedish Actress
    Alfred Hitchcock
    1899 - 1980 English Film Director and Producer
    Al Pacino
    Born: April 25, 1940 American Film and Stage Actor
    Robert De Niro
    Born: August 17, 1943 American Actor, Director, Producer
    Tom Hanks
    Born: July 9, 1956 American Actor, Writer, Producer, and Director
    Steven Spielberg
    Born: December 18, 1946 American film Director, Producer, Screenwriter
    Francis Ford Coppola
    Born: April 7, 1939 American film director, Screenwriter, Producer
    Robert Zemeckis
    Born: May 14, 1952 Lithuanian-American Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter
    Christopher Nolan
    Born July 30, 1970 British-American Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter
    Angelina Jolie
    Born: June 4, 1975 American Actress, Screenwriter, Film Director
    Cameron Diaz
    Born: August 30, 1972 American Actress, Model
    Meryl Streep
    June 22, 1949 American Actress
    Morgan Freeman
    Born: June 1, 1937 American Actor, Film Director
    Jim Carrey
    Born: January 17, 1962 Canadian American Actor, Comedian
    Rachel Weisz
    Born: March 7, 1970 English Film, Theater Actress
    Kate Winslet
    Born: October 5, 1975 English Actress, Singer
    Will Smith
    Born: September 25, 1968 American Actor, Producer, Rapper
    Kevin Costner
    Born: January 18, 1955 American Actor, Musician, Singer
    Russell Crowe
    Born: April 7, 1964 New Zealand Actor, Musician, Producer
    Leonardo Di Caprio
    Born: November 11, 1974 American Actor, Producer
    Jude Law (David Jude Heyworth Law)
    Born: December 29, 1972 English Actor, Director, Producer
    Robert John Downey, Jr.
    Born: April 4, 1965 American Actor
    Charlie Chaplin
    1889 - 1977 English Actor, Comedian, Filmmaker
    Paul Newman
    1925 - 2008 American Actor, Director
    Dustin Hoffman
    Born August 8, 1937 American Actor
    Richard Burton
    1925 - 1984 Welsh Actor
    Denzel Washington
    Born: December 28, 1954 American Actor, Producer, Director
    Sean Penn
    Born: August 17, 1960 American actor, Screenwriter, Director
    Kevin Spacey
    July 26, 1959 American Actor, Screenwriter, Director
    Michael Douglas
    Born: September 25, 1944 American Actor and Producer
    Tom Cruise
    Born: July 3, 1962 American Actor and Producer
    Sir Ben Kingsley
    Born: December 31, 1943 English Actor
    Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
    Bill Gates
    Born: October 28, 1955 American Inventor, Programmer, Microsoft Founder
    Steve Jobs
    1955 - 2011 American Entrepreneur, Inventor, Apple Inc. Founder, Philanthropist
    Warren Buffett
    Born: August 30, 1930 American Investor, Berkshire Hathaway CEO, Philanthropist
    Carlos Slim Helú
    Born: January 28, 1940 Mexican Businessman, Investor
    Henry Ford
    1863 - 1947 Ford Motor Company Founder, American Industrialist
    John D. Rockefeller
    1839 - 1937 Standard Oil Company Co-founder, Philanthropist
    Andrew Carnegie
    1835 - 1919 Scottish-American Industrialist
    Howard Hughes
    1905 - 1976 Aviator, Filmmaker, American Businessman
    George Eastman
    1854 - 1932 American Innovator, Entrepreneur, Eastman Kodak Company Founder
    Larry Page
    Born: March 26, 1973 Google Co-founder
    Sergey Brin
    Born: August 21, 1973 Google Co-founder
    Mark Zuckerberg
    Born: May 14, 1984 Facebook Co-founder, Computer Programmer
    Richard Branson
    Born: July 18, 1950 Virgin Group Founder, Investor
    J. R. D. Tata
    1904 - 1993 Indian Aviator, Business Tycoon
    Famous Athletes and Sportsmen
    Michael Jordan
    Born: February 17, 1963 American Professional Basketball Player
    Wayne Gretzky
    Born: January 26, 1961 Canadian Ice hockey, Head Coach
    Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay, Jr.)
    Born: January 17, 1942 American Boxer, Heavyweight Champion
    Pelé (Edson Arantes do Nascimento)
    Born: October 23, 1940 Brazilian Footballer
    Joe Montana
    Born: June 11, 1956 American Football Player
    Larry Bird
    Born: December 7, 1956 American Basketball Player
    Usain Bolt
    Born: August 21, 1986 Jamaican Sprinter
    Babe Ruth
    1895 - 1948 American Baseball Player
    Michael Phelps
    Born: June 30, 1985 American Swimmer
    Bo Jackson
    Born: November 30, 1962 American Baseball and Football Player
    Alexander Karelin
    Born: September 19, 1967 Russian Greco-Roman Wrestler
    Steffi Graf
    Born: June 14, 1969 German Tennis Player
    Björn Borg
    Born: June 6, 1956 Swedish Tennis Player
    Michael Schumacher
    Born: January 3, 1969 German Formula 1 Driver
    Paula Radcliffe
    Born: December 17, 1973 English Long-distance Runner
    Roger Federer
    Born: August 8, 1981 Swiss Tennis Player
    David Beckham
    Born: May 2, 1975 English Footballer
    Carolina Klüft
    Born: February 2, 1983 Swedish Track and Field Athlete
    Carl Lewis
    Born: July 1, 1961 American Track and Field Athlete
    Bruce Lee
    1940 - 1973 Father of Mixed Martial Arts
    Jim Thorpe
    1888 - 1953 American Athlete
    Magic Johnson
    Born: August 14, 1959 American Basketball Player
    Tom Brady
    Born: August 3, 1977 American Football Quarterback
    Jesse Owens
    1913 - 1980 American Track and Field Athlete
    Lou Gehrig
    1903 - 1941 American Baseball First Baseman
    Hank Aaron
    Born: February 5, 1934 American Baseball Player
    Chris Evert
    Born: December 21, 1954 American Tennis Player
    Yelena Isinbayeva
    Born: June 3, 1982 Russian Pole Vaulter
    Maria Sharapova
    Born: April 19, 1987 Russian Tennis Player
    Boris Becker
    Born: November 22, 1967 German Tennis Player
    Tiger Woods
    Born: December 30, 1975 American Golfer
    Lionel Messi
    Born: June 24, 1987 Argentine Footballer
    Oliver Kahn
    Born: June 15, 1969 German Football Goalkeeper
    Jackie Robinson
    1919 - 1972 American Baseball Player
    Famous Singers, Composers, and Musicians
    1685 - 1750 German Composer and Musician
    Mick Jagger
    Born: July 26, 1943 English Musician, Singer, Songwriter
    Xian Xinghai
    1905 - 1945 Chinese Composer
    Bob Marley
    1945 - 1981 Jamaican Reggae Singer-songwriter, Guitarist
    Madonna Louise Ciccone
    Born: August 16, 1958 American Singer, Songwriter
    Caetano Veloso
    Born: August 7, 1942 Brazilian Composer, Singer, Guitarist
    Fela Kuti
    1938 - 1997 Nigerian Musician, Multi-instrumentalist, Composer
    Miles Davis
    1926 - 1991 American Jazz Musician, Trumpeter, Composer
    Billie Holiday
    1915 - 1959 American Jazz Singer, Songwriter
    Robert Johnson
    1911 - 1938 American Blues Singer, Musician
    Bob Dylan
    Born: May 24, 1941 American Musician, Singer, Songwriter
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    1756 - 1791 Austrian Classical Music Composer
    Elvis Presley
    1935 - 1977 American singer, Musician, Actor
    Louis Armstrong
    1901 - 1971 American Jazz Trumpeter, Singer
    Michael Jackson
    1958 - 2009 American Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Dancer
    John Lennon
    1940 - 1980 English Musician, Singer, Songwriter
    Paul McCartney
    Born: June 18, 1942 English Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Composer
    George Harrison
    1943 - 2001 English Musician, Singer, Songwriter
    Ringo Starr
    Born: July 7, 1940 English Musician, Singer, Songwriter
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    1770 - 1827 German Composer, Pianist
    Kurt Cobain
    1967 - 1994 American Musician, Guitarist, Songwriter
    Elton John
    March 25, 1947 English Singer, Songwriter, Composer, Pianist, Record Producer
    Jimi Hendrix
    1942 - 1970 American Electric Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter
    Jim Morrison
    1943 - 1971 American Singer, Songwriter, Poet
    1946 - 1991 British Musician, Record Producer, Singer, Songwriter
    Aretha Franklin
    Born: March 25, 1942 American Singer, Musician
    Axl Rose
    Born: February 6, 1962 American Singer, Songwriter, Musician
    Whitney Houston
    1963 - 2012 American Singer, Actress, Producer
    Stevie Wonder
    Born: May 13, 1950 American Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer
    Robert Plant
    Born: 20 August, 1948 English Musician, Singer, Songwriter
    Marvin Gaye
    1939 - 1984 American Singer, Songwriter, Musician
    Bono
    Born: May 10, 1960 Irish Singer, Songwriter, Musician
    James Brown
    1933 - 2006 American Recording Artist, Musician
    Frédéric Chopin
    1810 - 1849 Polish Composer
    This is a representative list of famous people in ancient and recent history. It is simply not possible to list each and every one of the famous personalities as it's endless. All these people symbolize the phenomenal power of the human will and creativity. If you wish to be added to such a list of people who changed the world, one day, I say to you, 'Carpe Diem (Seize the Day)' and challenge the impossible.

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