No |
Picture |
Name |
Nationality/Title |
1
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Bengali poet, Brahmo philosopher, visual artist, playwright, composer, and novelist; 1913 Nobel Laureate in Literature
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2
|
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Albert Einstein
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German theoretical physicist; 1921 Nobel Laureate in Physics
|
3
|
|
George Bernard Shaw
|
Irish playwright; 1925 Nobel Laureate in Literature
|
4
|
|
Sir C. V. Raman
|
Indian physicist; 1930 Nobel Laureate in Physics
|
5
|
|
Albert Schweitzer
|
German theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician; 1952 Nobel Laureate in Peace
|
6
|
|
Linus Pauling
|
American quantum chemist and biochemist; 1954 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and 1962 Nobel Laureate in Peace for his campaign against above-ground nuclear testing
|
7
|
|
George Wald
|
American biochemist; 1967 Nobel Laureate in Medicine
|
8
|
|
Isaac Bashevis Singer
|
Polish-born American Jewish writer of short stories and novels; 1978 Nobel Laureate in Literature
|
9
|
|
Chandrashekar Subrahmanyam
|
Indian-born American astrophysicist; 1983 Nobel Laureate in Physics
|
10
|
|
Elie Wiesel
|
Hungarian novelist, philosopher, humanitarian, political activist, and Holocaust survivor; 1986 Nobel Laureate in Peace
|
12
|
|
Aung San Suu Kyi
|
Myanmar (Burma) nonviolent pro-democracy activist; 1991 Nobel Laureate in Peace
|
13
|
|
V. S. Naipaul
|
Trinidadian-born British of Hindu heritage and Indo-Trinidadian ethnicity writer; 2001 Nobel Laureate in Literature
|
14
|
|
JM Coetzee
|
South African/Australian writer; 2003 Nobel Laureate in Literature
|
15
|
|
Sir Isaac Newton
|
British physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor, and natural philosopher; father of physics
|
16
|
|
John Ray
|
British naturalist; father of English natural history
|
17
|
|
Leonardo Da Vinci
|
Italian Renaissance polymath: architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, geometer, musician, and painter
|
18
|
|
Benjamin Franklin
|
American author, journalist, scientist, inventor and statesman
|
19
|
|
Thomas Edison
|
American inventor and businessman
|
20
|
|
Nikola Tesla
|
Serbian-American inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer
|
21
|
|
Srinivasa Ramanujan
|
Indian mathematician
|
22
|
|
Edward Witten
|
American mathematical physicist and Fields Medalist
|
23
|
|
Brian Greene
|
American physicist and one of the world's foremost string theorists
|
24
|
|
Jane Goodall
|
British primatologist, ethologist and anthropologist
|
25
|
|
Vijay Raj Singh
|
Indian medical physicist
|
26
|
|
Kalpana Chawla
|
Indian-born American astronaut and space shuttle mission specialist
|
27
|
|
Steve Jobs
|
American founder and CEO of Apple Computer
|
28
|
|
Nathaniel Borenstein
|
American, creator of MIME (email) language
|
29
|
|
Alexander Dargatz
|
German athlete, 2005 Body-building World Champion, physician
|
30
|
|
Elena Walendzik
|
2005 German featherweight boxing champion
|
31
|
|
Carl Lewis
|
American track & field star, nine-time Olympic champion
|
32
|
|
Edwin C. Moses
|
American track & field star, two-time Olympic champion
|
33
|
|
Leroy Burrell
|
American track & field star, Olympic champion
|
35
|
|
Robert Parish
|
American NBA (basketball) star
|
36
|
|
Benjamin Spock
|
American pediatrician, author
|
37
|
|
John Mackey
|
American, founder of Whole Foods, the world's biggest organic grocer
|
38
|
|
Charles Darwin
|
British naturalist, geologist and originator of the evolution theory
|
39
|
|
Diogenes
|
Greek philosopher and cosmologist
|
40
|
|
Henry David Thoreau
|
American author, naturalist, pacifist, and philosopher
|
41
|
|
Plato
|
Greek saint and philosopher
|
42
|
|
Pythagoras
|
Greek mathematician and philosopher
|
43
|
|
Ralph Waldo Emerson
|
American author, poet and philosopher
|
44
|
|
Socrates
|
Greek saint and philosopher
|
45
|
|
Voltaire
|
French Enlightenment writer and philosopher
|
46
|
|
Yehudi Menuhin
|
American-British orchestral violinist and conductor
|
47
|
|
Stella McCartney
|
Renowned British fashion designer, daughter of Paul McCartney
|
48
|
|
Anna Paquin
|
Canadian actress, Oscar winner
|
49
|
|
Candice Bergen
|
Acclaimed American actress
|
50
|
|
Christian Bale
|
British actor, star of the hit movie "Batman Begins"
|
51
|
|
Danny DeVito
|
American actor, producer and director
|
52
|
|
Dustin Hoffman
|
American actor, two-time Oscar winner; Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner
|