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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Thomas Jefferson	United States	Architects	91.5	0.9
#2	—	Le Corbusier	Switzerland	Architects	86.7	0.0
#3	—	Frank Lloyd Wright	United States	Architects	82.8	0.1
#4	—	Antoni Gaudí	Spain	Architects	79.4	25.0
#5	—	Mimar Sinan	Turkey	Architects	73.8	0.0
#6	—	Gustave Eiffel	France	Architects	70.6	14.2
#7	—	Robert Hooke	United Kingdom	Architects	68.2	2.1
#8	—	Zaha Hadid	United Kingdom	Architects	68.2	3.5
#9	—	Christopher Wren	United Kingdom	Architects	65.3	14.1
#10	—	Oscar Niemeyer	Brazil	Architects	65.3	0.0
#11	—	Alvar Aalto	—	Architects	65.0	0.7
#12	—	I. M. Pei	United States	Architects	64.2	0.0
#13	—	Vitruvius	Italy	Architects	64.2	0.0
#14	—	Ludwig Mies van der Rohe	Germany	Architects	63.6	1.0
#15	—	Imhotep	Egypt	Architects	63.6	10.0
#16	—	Maya Lin	United States	Architects	63.5	12.2
#17	—	Walter Gropius	Germany	Architects	63.1	0.0
#18	—	Buckminster Fuller	United States	Architects	63.0	0.3
#19	—	Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester	United Kingdom	Architects	63.0	17.1
#20	—	Frank Gehry	United States	Architects	61.9	0.0
#21	—	Bianca Censori	Australia	Architects	61.1	3.8
#22	—	Amenhotep III	Egypt	Architects	60.8	15.0
#23	—	William Morris	United Kingdom	Architects	60.8	0.0
#24	—	Ai Weiwei	China	Architects	60.7	10.0
#25	—	Donato Bramante	Italy	Architects	60.5	2.3
#26	—	Raoul Wallenberg	Sweden	Architects	60.2	10.0
#27	—	Larry Silverstein	United States	Architects	60.1	15.0
#28	—	Andrea Palladio	Italy	Architects	60.0	0.0
#29	—	Isambard Kingdom Brunel	United Kingdom	Architects	59.8	7.0
#30	—	Francesco Borromini	Switzerland	Architects	59.6	15.0
#31	—	Peter Zumthor	Switzerland	Architects	59.6	8.4
#32	—	Annika Sörenstam	Sweden	Architects	59.4	2.8
#33	—	Johan Otto von Spreckelsen	—	Architects	59.0	10.0
#34	—	Paul Andreu	France	Architects	58.9	10.0
#35	—	Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa	Italy	Architects	58.3	0.1
#36	—	Hans Kammler	Germany	Architects	58.1	4.6
#37	—	Renzo Piano	Italy	Architects	58.1	0.0
#38	—	Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank	United Kingdom	Architects	58.1	0.6
#39	—	Adolfo Pérez Esquivel	Argentina	Architects	58.1	15.2
#40	—	Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban	France	Architects	58.0	2.5
#41	—	Lin Huiyin	China	Architects	57.9	3.7
#42	—	Aleijadinho	Brazil	Architects	57.8	22.0
#43	—	Robert Venturi	United States	Architects	57.6	15.4
#44	—	Nicola Rizzoli	Italy	Architects	57.6	15.0
#45	—	William McDonough	United States	Architects	57.6	0.0
#46	—	Edwin Lutyens	United Kingdom	Architects	57.5	11.3
#47	—	Dieter Rams	Germany	Architects	57.4	2.3
#48	—	Arnold Palmer	United States	Architects	57.4	0.0
#49	—	Victor Horta	—	Architects	57.0	10.2
#50	—	Ahmad Lahori	—	Architects	56.9	10.0
#51	—	Álvaro Siza Vieira	Portugal	Architects	56.8	9.6
#52	—	Richard Meier	United States	Architects	56.7	10.1
#53	—	Karl Friedrich Schinkel	Germany	Architects	56.7	0.0
#54	—	Richard Neutra	Austria	Architects	56.6	0.5
#55	—	Charlotte Perriand	France	Architects	56.6	15.0
#56	—	Robert Moses	United States	Architects	56.6	0.0
#57	—	Piero Portaluppi	Italy	Architects	56.6	2.3
#58	—	Kenzō Tange	Japan	Architects	56.5	0.0
#59	—	Ettore Sottsass	Italy	Architects	56.5	15.0
#60	—	Neri Oxman	Israel	Architects	56.5	20.6
#61	—	Inigo Jones	—	Architects	56.4	15.1
#62	—	Philip Johnson	United States	Architects	56.4	0.0
#63	—	Ernő Rubik	—	Architects	56.4	0.0
#64	—	Moshe Safdie	Canada	Architects	56.3	0.3
#65	—	Augustus Pugin	United Kingdom	Architects	56.3	17.2
#66	—	Fumihiko Maki	Japan	Architects	56.2	10.8
#67	—	Arno Breker	Germany	Architects	56.2	0.7
#68	—	Michael Graves	United States	Architects	56.2	10.0
#69	—	Eugène Viollet-le-Duc	France	Architects	56.1	0.0
#70	—	Kengo Kuma	Japan	Architects	56.1	0.0
#71	—	Adolf Loos	Austria	Architects	56.1	1.5
#72	—	Keye Luke	United States	Architects	56.1	4.6
#73	—	Hector Guimard	France	Architects	55.9	15.0
#74	—	Antonio Sant'Elia	Italy	Architects	55.9	11.0
#75	—	Ernst Fuchs	Austria	Architects	55.9	8.2
#76	—	Louis Kahn	—	Architects	55.9	1.3
#77	—	Flavio Manzoni	Italy	Architects	55.8	10.0
#78	—	Peter Behrens	—	Architects	55.7	3.3
#79	—	Stanford White	United States	Architects	55.7	23.9
#80	—	Kazuyo Sejima	Japan	Architects	55.6	1.3
#81	—	Jean Nouvel	France	Architects	55.6	2.2
#82	—	Eero Saarinen	United States	Architects	55.5	0.0
#83	—	Jacopo Sansovino	—	Architects	55.5	16.8
#84	—	Henry van de Velde	—	Architects	55.4	3.1
#85	—	John Soane	United Kingdom	Architects	55.4	9.4
#86	—	Rem Koolhaas	Netherlands	Architects	55.3	0.0
#87	—	Senenmut	Egypt	Architects	55.3	15.0
#88	—	Charles Rennie Mackintosh	United Kingdom	Architects	55.3	0.1
#89	—	Juan Pablo Escobar Henao	—	Architects	55.2	0.0
#90	—	John Augustus Roebling	United States	Architects	55.2	1.9
#91	—	Ferdinand Cheval	France	Architects	55.0	0.0
#92	—	Hans Hollein	Austria	Architects	55.0	15.0
#93	—	James Hoban	—	Architects	54.9	12.5
#94	—	Leo von Klenze	Germany	Architects	54.9	12.4
#95	—	Paul Blobel	Germany	Architects	54.9	0.0
#96	—	Jørn Utzon	—	Architects	54.9	0.1
#97	—	Minoru Yamasaki	United States	Architects	54.8	0.0
#98	—	Joseph Maria Olbrich	—	Architects	54.8	16.9
#99	—	Luis Barragán	Mexico	Architects	54.8	0.2
#100	—	François Mansart	France	Architects	54.7	15.0

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