I recently asked ChatGBT to create a list of 365 legendary creative people with a focus on historical, cultural, and intellectual contributions to the world.

This is an abbreviated list the full list of 365 can be viewed here

My intention is to paint or draw a small portrait of each over the course of this year. I had to ask a followup question to prompt an adjustment because the first response was a little too heavily weighted towards present day Hollywood and Pop culture.

The list below includes the first 135…

Artists & Designers

1. Leonardo da Vinci

2. Michelangelo

3. Vincent van Gogh

4. Pablo Picasso

5. Claude Monet

6. Salvador Dalí

7. Frida Kahlo

8. Georgia O'Keeffe

9. Alphonse Mucha

10. Katsushika Hokusai

11. Rembrandt van Rijn

12. Johannes Vermeer

13. Gustave Courbet

14. Mary Cassatt

15. Diego Rivera

Musicians & Composers

16. Ludwig van Beethoven

17. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

18. Johann Sebastian Bach

19. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

20. Frédéric Chopin

21. Antonio Vivaldi

22. Igor Stravinsky

23. Johann Strauss II

24. George Frideric Handel

25. Giuseppe Verdi

26. Richard Wagner

27. Clara Schumann

28. Bela Bartok

29. Sergei Rachmaninoff

30. Hildegard von Bingen

Writers & Poets

31. William Shakespeare

32. Jane Austen

33. Leo Tolstoy

34. Charles Dickens

35. Mark Twain

36. Fyodor Dostoevsky

37. Homer

38. Virgil

39. Dante Alighieri

40. Geoffrey Chaucer

41. Emily Dickinson

42. Rumi

43. William Blake

44. John Milton

45. Victor Hugo

Scientists & Inventors

46. Albert Einstein

47. Marie Curie

48. Isaac Newton

49. Nikola Tesla

50. Thomas Edison

51. Galileo Galilei

52. Johannes Kepler

53. James Clerk Maxwell

54. Rosalind Franklin

55. Louis Pasteur

56. Alexander Fleming

57. Gregor Mendel

58. Ada Lovelace

59. Carl Linnaeus

60. Dmitri Mendeleev

Philosophers & Thinkers

61. Socrates

62. Plato

63. Aristotle

64. Confucius

65. Laozi

66. René Descartes

67. Immanuel Kant

68. Thomas Aquinas

69. Augustine of Hippo

70. Friedrich Nietzsche

71. John Locke

72. David Hume

73. Søren Kierkegaard

74. Marcus Aurelius

75. Baruch Spinoza

Activists & Humanitarians

76. Mahatma Gandhi

77. Martin Luther King Jr.

78. Nelson Mandela

79. Harriet Tubman

80. Florence Nightingale

81. Booker T. Washington

82. Susan B. Anthony

83. Clara Barton

84. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

85. William Wilberforce

86. Elizabeth Fry

87. Jane Addams

88. St. Teresa of Ávila

89. Desmond Tutu

90. Ignatius of Loyola

Entrepreneurs & Innovators

91. Henry Ford

92. Andrew Carnegie

93. Thomas J. Watson

94. Nikolaus Otto

95. George Eastman

96. Cornelius Vanderbilt

97. James Watt

98. Johannes Gutenberg

99. Cyrus McCormick

100. Eli Whitney

101. Charles Goodyear

102. Howard Hughes

103. Guglielmo Marconi

104. Alexander Graham Bell

105. Alfred Nobel

Filmmakers & Storytellers

106. Alfred Hitchcock

107. Akira Kurosawa

108. Hayao Miyazaki

109. Sergei Eisenstein

110. Orson Welles

111. Leni Riefenstahl (noted for technique, not politics)

112. John Ford

113. Ingmar Bergman

114. Buster Keaton

115. Charlie Chaplin

116. Carl Theodor Dreyer

117. Jean Renoir

118. Yasujiro Ozu

119. Vittorio De Sica

120. Luis Buñuel

-Sports Figures & Role Models

121. Jesse Owens

122. Jackie Robinson

123. Babe Ruth

124. Wilma Rudolph

125. Jim Thorpe

126. Joe Louis

127. Roberto Clemente

128. Paavo Nurmi

129. Björn Borg

130. Nadia Comăneci

131. Althea Gibson

132. Herb Brooks

133. Edwin Moses

134. Knute Rockne

135. Abebe Bikila

This list avoids individuals whose influence stems primarily from contemporary entertainment and media, focusing instead on those whose legacies have stood the test of time or whose contributions have had a lasting impact on human progress.

The categories were created by AI and the list was generated in less than one minute.

What an incredible time saver!