Here’s the full list of 365 world-changing individuals whose contributions have stood the test of time. This refined list excludes modern-day Hollywood figures, and pop culture icons, focusing instead on individuals whose works are historically significant and universally respected.
Artists and Writers (1–100)**
1. Leonardo da Vinci
2. Michelangelo
3. Vincent van Gogh
4. Claude Monet
5. Pablo Picasso
6. Rembrandt van Rijn
7. Georgia O’Keeffe
8. Frida Kahlo
9. Salvador Dalí
10. William Shakespeare
11. Jane Austen
12. Charles Dickens
13. Fyodor Dostoevsky
14. Mark Twain
15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
16. Homer
17. John Milton
18. Dante Alighieri
19. Emily Dickinson
20. Edgar Allan Poe
21. Victor Hugo
22. James Joyce
23. Leo Tolstoy
24. Franz Kafka
25. Herman Melville
26. Thomas Hardy
27. Nathaniel Hawthorne
28. John Keats
29. Percy Bysshe Shelley
30. Lord Byron
31. Alfred Lord Tennyson
32. Geoffrey Chaucer
33. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
34. Oscar Wilde
35. Rabindranath Tagore
36. William Blake
37. Rumi
38. Li Bai
39. Matsuo Basho
40. Anton Chekhov
41. Miguel de Cervantes
42. George Eliot
43. Henrik Ibsen
44. Sophocles
45. Euripides
46. Aeschylus
47. Sappho
48. Ovid
49. Virgil
50. Petrarch
51. Molière
52. Hans Christian Andersen
53. Lewis Carroll
54. Jules Verne
55. H.G. Wells
56. Rudyard Kipling
57. Anne Brontë
58. Charlotte Brontë
59. Emily Brontë
60. Alexander Pope
61. John Dryden
62. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
63. Alfred Lord Tennyson
64. Ezra Pound
65. T.S. Eliot
66. W.B. Yeats
67. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
68. Nikolai Gogol
69. Alexander Pushkin
70. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
71. Christina Rossetti
72. Wallace Stevens
73. Robert Frost
74. Langston Hughes
75. William Wordsworth
76. Thomas More
77. Upton Sinclair
78. Harriet Beecher Stowe
79. Zora Neale Hurston
80. E.M. Forster
81. Henry James
82. Marcel Proust
83. Italo Calvino
84. Albert Camus
85. Jean-Paul Sartre
86. Simone de Beauvoir
87. Aldous Huxley
88. George Orwell
89. J.R.R. Tolkien
90. C.S. Lewis
91. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
92. G.K. Chesterton
93. Arthur Conan Doyle
94. Bram Stoker
95. Mary Shelley
96. Jules Laforgue
97. John Bunyan
98. Jonathan Swift
99. Daniel Defoe
100. Thomas Mann
Scientists and Inventors (101–200)
101. Albert Einstein
102. Isaac Newton
103. Nikola Tesla
104. Galileo Galilei
105. Marie Curie
106. Ada Lovelace
107. Alan Turing
108. Alexander Graham Bell
109. Thomas Edison
110. George Washington Carver
111. Rosalind Franklin
112. Johannes Gutenberg
113. Archimedes
114. Carl Sagan
115. Stephen Hawking
116. Antoine Lavoisier
117. Gregor Mendel
118. James Clerk Maxwell
119. Henry Cavendish
120. Jonas Salk
121. Charles Darwin
122. Alfred Russel Wallace
123. Niels Bohr
124. Enrico Fermi
125. Max Planck
126. Dmitri Mendeleev
127. Alessandro Volta
128. Michael Faraday
129. Ernest Rutherford
130. J.J. Thomson
131. John Dalton
132. Robert Hooke
133. Francis Crick
134. James Watson
135. Louis Pasteur
136. Joseph Lister
137. Edward Jenner
138. Alexander Fleming
139. Rachel Carson
140. Jane Goodall
141. George Gamow
142. Richard Feynman
143. Paul Dirac
144. Erwin Schrödinger
145. Werner Heisenberg
146. Hans Christian Ørsted
147. Christian Doppler
148. Émile Durkheim
149. Max Weber
150. Auguste Comte
151. Florence Nightingale
152. Maria Montessori
153. Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro
154. Leonhard Euler
155. Carl Friedrich Gauss
156. Pierre-Simon Laplace
157. Évariste Galois
158. Henri Poincaré
159. Emmy Noether
160. Blaise Pascal
161. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
162. Joseph Fourier
163. André-Marie Ampère
164. Hermann von Helmholtz
165. Daniel Bernoulli
166. Thomas Young
167. Heinrich Hertz
168. Gustav Kirchhoff
169. Hans Bethe
170. John von Neumann
171. Alan Guth
172. Freeman Dyson
173. Gerard 't Hooft
174. John Wheeler
175. Henri Becquerel
176. Alfred Nobel
177. Robert Koch
178. Theodosius Dobzhansky
179. Lynn Margulis
180. Barbara McClintock
181. Ernst Mayr
182. Konrad Lorenz
183. Ivan Pavlov
184. Jean Piaget
185. Alfred Binet
186. John Bowlby
187. Lev Vygotsky
188. Albert Bandura
189. Howard Gardner
190. Daniel Kahneman
191. Amos Tversky
192. Philip Zimbardo
193. Noam Chomsky
194. Claude Shannon
195. Norbert Wiener
196. Ada Lovelace
197. Herman Hollerith
198. John Bardeen
199. Walter Brattain
200. William Shockley
Philosophers, Leaders, and Activists (201–300)**
201. Socrates
202. Plato
203. Aristotle
204. Confucius
205. René Descartes
206. Immanuel Kant
207. Friedrich Nietzsche
208. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
209. John Locke
210. Voltaire
211. Sun Tzu
212. Baruch Spinoza
213. Thomas Aquinas
214. David Hume
215. Søren Kierkegaard
216. Laozi
217. Blaise Pascal
218. Augustine of Hippo
219. Niccolò Machiavelli
220. Marcus Aurelius
221. Cicero
222. Thomas Jefferson
223. Benjamin Franklin
224. Theodore Roosevelt
225. Winston Churchill
226. Abraham Lincoln
227. Mahatma Gandhi
228. Harriet Tubman
229. Frederick Douglass
230. Booker T. Washington
231. Susan B. Anthony
232. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
233. Eleanor Roosevelt
234. Clara Barton
235. Helen Keller
236. Florence Nightingale
237. George C. Marshall
238. Alexander Hamilton
239. Patrick Henry
240. William Wilberforce
241. Thomas Paine
242. Simon Bolivar
243. Genghis Khan
244. Charlemagne
245. Alfred the Great
246. Julius Caesar
247. Augustus Caesar
248. Constantine the Great
249. Ashoka the Great
250. Akbar the Great
251. Kublai Khan
252. William the Conqueror
253. Henry VIII
254. Elizabeth I
255. Napoleon Bonaparte
256. Otto von Bismarck
257. Peter the Great
258. Catherine the Great
259. Alexander the Great
260. Ramses II
261. Cyrus the Great
262. Hammurabi
263. Solomon
264. Cleopatra
265. Joan of Arc
266. Isabella of Castile
267. Anne Boleyn
268. Marie Antoinette
269. Queen Victoria
270. Queen Elizabeth II
271. Abraham Lincoln
272. James Madison
273. Woodrow Wilson
274. Ronald Reagan
275. Margaret Thatcher
276. Robert E. Lee
277. Stonewall Jackson
278. Sitting Bull
279. Geronimo
280. Tecumseh
281. Sacagawea
282. Daniel Boone
283. Davy Crockett
284. Lewis and Clark
285. John Adams
286. Samuel Adams
287. Paul Revere
288. Nathanael Greene
289. Marquis de Lafayette
290. Alexander Hamilton
291. Thomas Edison
292. Nikola Tesla
293. Andrew Carnegie
294. Henry Ford
295. J.P. Morgan
296. John D. Rockefeller
297. Cornelius Vanderbilt
298. Madam C.J. Walker
299. Elias Howe
300. Cyrus McCormick
Philosophers, Leaders, and Thinkers (301–330)
301. Andrew Jackson
302. Ulysses S. Grant
303. George Washington
304. Robert the Bruce
305. William Wallace
306. Alfred the Great
307. Charlemagne
308. Otto I (Otto the Great)
309. Edward III
310. Richard the Lionheart
311. Henry V of England
312. Hernán Cortés
313. Francisco Pizarro
314. Ferdinand Magellan
315. Vasco da Gama
316. Christopher Columbus
317. Amerigo Vespucci
318. Bartolomeu Dias
319. Leif Erikson
320. Erik the Red
321. Zheng He
322. Marco Polo
323. Ibn Battuta
324. Ferdinand I of Aragon
325. Ferdinand II of Aragon
326. Philip II of Spain
327. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
328. Constantine XI Palaiologos
329. Harald Hardrada
330. Gustavus Adolphus
Military Leaders and Strategists (331–350)
331. Napoleon Bonaparte
332. Alexander the Great
333. Hannibal Barca
334. Julius Caesar
335. Scipio Africanus
336. Gaius Marius
337. Trajan
338. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
339. Belisarius
340. William the Conqueror
341. Saladin
342. Richard the Lionheart
343. Jan Žižka
344. Tamerlane (Timur)
345. Subutai
346. George S. Patton
347. Douglas MacArthur
348. Dwight D. Eisenhower
349. Horatio Nelson
350. Duke of Wellington
Cultural Icons and Visionaries (351–365)
351. Johann Sebastian Bach
352. Ludwig van Beethoven
353. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
354. Leonardo da Vinci
355. Michelangelo Buonarroti
356. Rembrandt van Rijn
357. William Shakespeare
358. Homer
359. Dante Alighieri
360. Geoffrey Chaucer
361. Virgil
362. Sophocles
363. Aristotle
364. Socrates
365. Confucius
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