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Top 100 Most Famous Historical Figures

Thursday, June 18, 2026

A past Centumth puzzle. Play it on this page with five guesses, or read the full Top 100 ranking below.

Think about the names written in textbooks! Test your knowledge of the most renowned leaders, thinkers, and revolutionaries who shaped world history.

This list was researched and ranked by hand for Centumth. Entries near #1 are the names almost everyone thinks of first. Entries near #100 are true, a little obscure, and still fair if you think sideways. Sources below are the starting point — the final order can include small editorial calls so the daily puzzle stays balanced.

You can play this archive puzzle with five guesses, or reveal the complete ranking if you came here looking for the list. Revealing locks this puzzle — you won’t be able to play it afterward.

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The full Top 100

  1. #1Albert Einstein
  2. #2Abraham Lincoln
  3. #3George Washington
  4. #4Martin Luther King Jr.
  5. #5Julius Caesar
  6. #6Leonardo da Vinci
  7. #7Alexander the Great
  8. #8Mahatma Gandhi
  9. #9Nelson Mandela
  10. #10William Shakespeare
  11. #11Christopher Columbus
  12. #12Isaac Newton
  13. #13Charles Darwin
  14. #14Galileo Galilei
  15. #15Napoleon Bonaparte
  16. #16Cleopatra
  17. #17Winston Churchill
  18. #18Thomas Jefferson
  19. #19Thomas Edison
  20. #20Benjamin Franklin
  21. #21Rosa Parks
  22. #22Mother Teresa
  23. #23Marie Curie
  24. #24Nikola Tesla
  25. #25Joan of Arc
  26. #26Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  27. #27Ludwig van Beethoven
  28. #28Socrates
  29. #29Plato
  30. #30Aristotle
  31. #31Genghis Khan
  32. #32Franklin D. Roosevelt
  33. #33Theodore Roosevelt
  34. #34John F. Kennedy
  35. #35Queen Victoria
  36. #36Henry VIII
  37. #37Karl Marx
  38. #38Sigmund Freud
  39. #39Vincent van Gogh
  40. #40Pablo Picasso
  41. #41Michelangelo
  42. #42John Locke
  43. #43Marco Polo
  44. #44Neil Armstrong
  45. #45Amelia Earhart
  46. #46Florence Nightingale
  47. #47Helen Keller
  48. #48Harriet Tubman
  49. #49Frederick Douglass
  50. #50Malcolm X
  51. #51Susan B. Anthony
  52. #52Alexander Hamilton
  53. #53John Adams
  54. #54James Madison
  55. #55Ulysses S. Grant
  56. #56Fidel Castro
  57. #57Che Guevara
  58. #58Vladimir Lenin
  59. #59Joseph Stalin
  60. #60Mao Zedong
  61. #61Simon Bolivar
  62. #62Gautama Buddha
  63. #63Jesus Christ
  64. #64Prophet Muhammad
  65. #65Confucius
  66. #66Pythagoras
  67. #67Archimedes
  68. #68King Tutankhamun
  69. #69Ramses II
  70. #70Augustus
  71. #71Nero
  72. #72Constantine the Great
  73. #73Marcus Aurelius
  74. #74Charlemagne
  75. #75Richard the Lionheart
  76. #76William the Conqueror
  77. #77Saladin
  78. #78Sun Tzu
  79. #79Qin Shi Huang
  80. #80Queen Elizabeth I
  81. #81Mary Queen of Scots
  82. #82Catherine the Great
  83. #83Peter the Great
  84. #84Louis XIV
  85. #85Marie Antoinette
  86. #86Martin Luther
  87. #87Johannes Gutenberg
  88. #88Rene Descartes
  89. #89Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  90. #90Thomas Paine
  91. #91Wright Brothers
  92. #92Henry Ford
  93. #93John D. Rockefeller
  94. #94Andrew Carnegie
  95. #95Walt Disney
  96. #96Charles Dickens
  97. #97Jane Austen
  98. #98Edgar Allan Poe
  99. #99Mark Twain
  100. #100Anne Frank

The full ranked list is included on this page. Use Reveal full 100 list to read it, or play the game above.