1. Napoleon Bonaparte (AD 1769-1821)
Napoleon was a French general and later the emperor. He conquered most of Europe. He also instituted numerous reforms in government and education.
2. Ludwig van Beethoven (AD 1770-1827)
Beethoven was a German music composer. His composition, the Fifth Symphony is one of the greatest masterpieces.
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3. Simon Bolivar (AD 1783-1830)
Bolivar is called the ‘Liberator of South America’. He liberated Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia from Spanish rule. Bolivia is named after him.
4. Samuel Morse (AD 1791-1872)
Samuel Morse was an American inventor who developed an electric telegraph. In AD 1838, he developed the Morse Code.
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5. Charles Babbage (AD 1792-1871)
Babbage was an English mathematician inventor. He made a machine which was the predecessor of the computer.
6. Abraham Lincoln (AD 1809-1882)
Lincoln was the 16th president of USA. He abolished slavery and united the country. He gave to the world the doctrine of “Government of the people, by the people and for the people”.
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7. Charles Darwin (AD 1809-1882)
Darwin was an English naturalist. He propounded a theory of evolution called ‘The Theory of Natural Selection’.
8. Charles Dickens (AD 1812-1870)
Dickens was an English novelist. Some of his famous novels are Oliver Twist, David Copperfild, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations.
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9. Otto von Bismarck (AD 1815-1898)
Bismarck was the leader of the German Unification movement.
10. Karl Marx (AD 1818-1883)
Karl Marx was a German political thinker famous for his ideology of Marxism. He wrote The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital.
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11. Florence Nightingale (AD 1820-1910)
Florence Nightingale was an English nurse. She did commendable work during the Crimean War. She is regarded as the founder of the nursing profession.
12. Louis Pasteur (AD 1822-1895)
Pasteur was a French chemist. He proved that micro-organisms cause disease. He invented the process of ‘pasteurization’ and used vaccination in Ad 1885 for the first time against rabies.
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13. Leo Tolstoy (AD 1828-1910)
Tolstoy was a Russian author. He is regarded as one of the world’s greatest novelists. He wrote War and Peace.
14. Alfred Nobel (AD 1833-1896)
Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist who invented the dynamite. The Nobel Prizes are named after him.
15. Alexander Graham Bell (AD 1847-1922)
A G Bell was an American inventor famous for the invention of the telephone.
16. Thomas Alva Edison (AD 1847-1931)
Edison was an American inventor. He discovered the ‘Edison Effect’. He also invented the phonograph, the light bulb and perfected motion-picture equipment.
17. Sigmund Freud (AD 1856-1939)
Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psycho-analysis. The Freudian theory had a great impact on subjects like psychology and psychiatry.
18. George Bernard Shaw (AD 1856-1950)
G B Shaw was an Irist dramatist. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in AD 1925.
19. Theodore Roosevelt (AD 1858-1919)
Roosevelt was the 26th president of USA. He won the Nobel Prize in AD 1906.
20. Henry Ford (AD 1863-1947)
Henry Ford was an American industrialist who revolutionized factory production with his assembly-line methods. He developed the Model T car.
21. Sun Yat-sen (AD 1866-1925)
Sun Yat-sen is called the ‘Father of Modern China’. He popularized the Three Principles of the People-Nationalism, Democracy and People’s Livelihood.
22. Marie Curie (AD 1867-1934)
Marie Curie was a Polish-born French physicist. She is famous for her work on radioactivity and while working on it discovered polonium and radium. She was twice awarded the Nobel Prize- in AD 1903 for Physics and in AD 1911 for Chemistry.
23. Wilbur (AD 1867-1912) and Orville Wright (AD 1871-1948)
The Wright brothers were American inventors who built and flew in AD 1905, the world’s first fully practical airplane.
24. Lenin (AD 1870-1924)
Lenin was the leader of the Russian Revolution of AD 1917 and the first head of the Soviet State (from AD 1917-1924). He was the formulator of the concept of Marxism-Leninism.
25. Sir Winston Churchill (AD 1874-1965)
Churchill was a statesmen and Prime Minister of Britain.
26. Joseph Stalin (AD 1879-1953)
Stalin was the head of former USSR from AD 1941-1953. He transformed Russia into a major world power.
27. Albert Einstein (AD 1879-1955)
Einstein was a German-American physicist. He developed the Theory of Relativity.
28. Pablo Picasso (AD 1881-1973)
Picasso was a Spanish painter. He developed the cubist style of painting.
29. Franklin D Roosevelt (AD 1882-1945)
Roosevelt was the president of USA from AD 1932-1944.
30. Benito Mussolini (AD 1883-1945)
Mussolini was the dictator of Italy form AD 1922-1943. He was also called ‘II Duce’.
31. Adolf Hitler (AD 1889-1945)
Hitler was the leader of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party of Germany. He was the dictator of Germany from AD 1933-1945. He was also called ‘Further’.
32. Charlie Chaplin (AD 1889-1977)
Charlie Chaplin was a British born American actor and director. He is world famous for his comic roles in American silent movies.
33. Sir Donald Bradman (b. AD 1908)
Bradman was an Australian cricketer. He later captained Australia. He is considered the greatest batsman of all times.