Top Historical Figures

The most publicly visible historical figures worldwide.

339 people indexed·63 currently rising·Top: Albert Einstein

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Top historical figures globally on Fame.am — 339 ranked, top: Albert Einstein. Coverage spans 14 countries.

Category: Historical Figures
Total ranked: 339
Top person: Albert Einstein
Countries covered: 14

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	new	Albert Einstein Theoretical physicist, theory of relativity	—	Historical Figures	82.7	10.0
#2	new	Alexander the Great Acting	—	Historical Figures	75.0	0.7
#3	new	Jeffrey Dahmer	United States	Historical Figures	68.8	6.4
#4	new	Leonardo da Vinci Renaissance polymath	—	Historical Figures	67.2	10.6
#5	new	Joan of Arc	—	Historical Figures	66.8	0.3
#6	new	Ted Bundy	United States	Historical Figures	66.6	10.8
#7	new	Christopher Columbus	—	Historical Figures	64.5	0.0
#8	new	Charles Manson	United States	Historical Figures	61.4	5.7
#9	new	Ed Gein	United States	Historical Figures	60.8	5.6
#10	new	Neil Armstrong	United States	Historical Figures	60.7	15.0
#11	new	Charles de Gaulle	France	Historical Figures	60.6	15.1
#12	new	Hernán Cortés	Spain	Historical Figures	60.1	10.0
#13	new	Marie Curie Physicist & chemist, two-time Nobel laureate	—	Historical Figures	58.7	0.0
#14	new	Timur	—	Historical Figures	57.9	1.0
#15	new	Genghis Khan	—	Historical Figures	57.9	1.6
#16	new	Ted Kaczynski	United States	Historical Figures	57.8	4.0
#17	new	George S. Patton	United States	Historical Figures	57.4	17.2
#18	new	John Wayne Gacy	United States	Historical Figures	57.0	1.6
#19	new	Erwin Rommel	Germany	Historical Figures	56.5	16.8
#20	new	Klaus Barbie	Germany	Historical Figures	56.4	9.8
#21	new	Robert E. Lee	United States	Historical Figures	55.1	7.5
#22	new	Yuri Gagarin	—	Historical Figures	54.7	13.4
#23	new	Amon Göth	Austria	Historical Figures	54.3	12.5
#24	new	Osama bin Laden	—	Historical Figures	54.2	0.4
#25	new	Albert Fish	United States	Historical Figures	54.1	12.0
#26	new	Desmond Doss	France	Historical Figures	53.7	14.3
#27	new	Erich von Manstein	Germany	Historical Figures	52.3	20.7
#28	new	Bernard Montgomery	United Kingdom	Historical Figures	51.6	10.9
#29	new	Andrei Chikatilo	—	Historical Figures	51.4	10.0
#30	new	Ernest Shackleton	—	Historical Figures	51.3	18.6
#31	new	Karl Dönitz	Germany	Historical Figures	51.3	1.8
#32	new	George Armstrong Custer	United States	Historical Figures	51.2	10.9
#33	new	Golden State Killer	United States	Historical Figures	51.0	4.4
#34	new	Saigō Takamori	Japan	Historical Figures	50.9	7.2
#35	new	Lee Harvey Oswald	United States	Historical Figures	50.9	2.0
#36	new	Ulrike Meinhof	Germany	Historical Figures	50.9	35.0
#37	new	Jacques Cousteau	France	Historical Figures	50.7	11.8
#38	new	Oda Nobunaga	Japan	Historical Figures	50.6	0.0
#39	new	Stonewall Jackson	United States	Historical Figures	50.2	13.3
#40	new	Ferdinand Magellan	—	Historical Figures	50.1	0.0
#41	new	Wilhelm Keitel	Germany	Historical Figures	50.0	3.1
#42	new	Marco Polo Acting	—	Historical Figures	50.0	0.0
#43	new	Chiang Kai-shek	—	Historical Figures	49.9	0.9
#44	new	Isoroku Yamamoto	Japan	Historical Figures	49.7	4.4
#45	new	John Glenn	United States	Historical Figures	49.2	5.7
#46	new	Gerd von Rundstedt	Germany	Historical Figures	49.1	17.0
#47	new	Adolf Eichmann	—	Historical Figures	49.1	0.0
#48	new	Jack the Ripper	—	Historical Figures	49.1	0.0
#49	new	Vasco da Gama	—	Historical Figures	48.6	0.7
#50	new	Valentina Tereshkova	—	Historical Figures	48.0	15.0
#51	new	Zodiac Killer	United States	Historical Figures	47.8	0.2
#52	new	Buzz Aldrin	United States	Historical Figures	47.7	1.9
#53	new	Frederick Trump	—	Historical Figures	47.5	4.1
#54	new	Patrizia Reggiani	Italy	Historical Figures	47.4	10.1
#55	new	Erich Ludendorff	—	Historical Figures	47.2	6.7
#56	new	Yevgeny Prigozhin	—	Historical Figures	46.9	2.8
#57	new	Tokugawa Ieyasu	Japan	Historical Figures	46.9	0.3
#58	new	Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette	France	Historical Figures	46.8	1.3
#59	new	Alfred Jodl	—	Historical Figures	46.5	4.3
#60	new	Joachim Peiper	—	Historical Figures	46.5	8.8
#61	new	Wild Bill Hickok	United States	Historical Figures	46.3	5.0
#62	new	José de San Martín	Argentina	Historical Figures	46.3	11.5
#63	new	Douglas MacArthur	United States	Historical Figures	46.3	0.0
#64	new	Elizabeth Báthory	—	Historical Figures	45.6	2.2
#65	new	Chester W. Nimitz	United States	Historical Figures	45.5	4.7
#66	new	Grace O'Malley	—	Historical Figures	45.5	7.4
#67	new	Michael Collins	United States	Historical Figures	44.8	5.3
#68	new	Ferdinand Foch	France	Historical Figures	44.6	10.9
#69	new	T. E. Lawrence	United Kingdom	Historical Figures	44.2	0.6
#70	new	William Wallace	—	Historical Figures	43.7	0.5
#71	new	Heinz Guderian	Germany	Historical Figures	43.1	2.9
#72	new	John Wilkes Booth	United States	Historical Figures	43.0	0.8
#73	new	Roald Amundsen	Norway	Historical Figures	42.5	3.6
#74	new	Spartacus	—	Historical Figures	42.5	0.3
#75	new	Zheng He	—	Historical Figures	42.1	3.1
#76	new	Erich Hartmann	Germany	Historical Figures	42.0	3.9
#77	new	William Halsey Jr.	United States	Historical Figures	42.0	8.0
#78	new	Simo Häyhä	—	Historical Figures	41.9	0.5
#79	new	William Anders	United States	Historical Figures	41.8	15.0
#80	new	Germanicus	—	Historical Figures	41.7	8.3
#81	new	James Cook	—	Historical Figures	41.6	0.7
#82	new	Blackbeard	—	Historical Figures	41.3	0.0
#83	new	David Livingstone	United Kingdom	Historical Figures	41.2	3.9
#84	new	Fedor von Bock	Germany	Historical Figures	40.9	7.8
#85	new	Chūichi Nagumo	Japan	Historical Figures	40.7	13.6
#86	new	Ernst Röhm	Germany	Historical Figures	40.6	0.8
#87	new	D. B. Cooper	—	Historical Figures	40.6	0.3
#88	new	Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.	United States	Historical Figures	40.4	4.8
#89	new	Pancho Villa	Mexico	Historical Figures	40.0	0.5
#90	new	Francisco Pizarro	—	Historical Figures	39.4	1.5
#91	new	Michael Wittmann	—	Historical Figures	39.1	7.9
#92	new	Ratko Mladić	—	Historical Figures	39.1	1.2
#93	new	Nestor Makhno	—	Historical Figures	39.0	5.7
#94	new	Charles Martel	—	Historical Figures	38.9	1.2
#95	new	Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi	—	Historical Figures	38.9	0.5
#96	new	Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson	—	Historical Figures	38.8	0.0
#97	new	Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher	—	Historical Figures	38.4	4.1
#98	new	Hiroo Onoda	Japan	Historical Figures	38.1	0.2
#99	new	Anne Bonny	—	Historical Figures	38.0	1.2
#100	new	Manfred von Richthofen	—	Historical Figures	38.0	0.0

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