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  2. Top 100 historical figures - Wikipedia

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    The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, a 1978 book; 100 Greatest Britons, a BBC series about historical figures from the United Kingdom; Great South Africans, a South African TV series to determine the "100 Greatest South Africans" Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the American world

  3. Category:Lists of people - Wikipedia

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    See also Category:People. Also see the list of pages that are not yet included in this category . Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable.

  4. Historical figure - Wikipedia

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    Historical figure brand is using famous historical person in branding, for instance Mozartkugel, Chopin (vodka) or Café Einstein. Historical figure is a person who lived in the past and whose deeds exerted a significant impact on other people’s lives and consciousness.

  5. Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century - Wikipedia

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    Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century is a compilation of the 20th century's 100 most influential people, published in Time magazine across five issues in 1998 and 1999. The idea for such a list started on February 1, 1998, with a debate at a symposium in Hanoi, Vietnam.

  6. List of Renaissance figures - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of notable people associated with the Renaissance. Artists and architects Filippo ...

  7. List of historians - Wikipedia

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    A History of Historical Writing: Volume II: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2nd ed. 1967), 676 pp.; highly detailed coverage of European writers to 1900; Woolf, D. R. A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) (2 vols. 1998), excerpt and text search; Woolf, Daniel, et al.

  8. List of explorers - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 December 2024. Leif Erikson (c.970–c.1020) was a famous Norse explorer who is credited for being the first European to set foot on American soil. Explorers are listed below with their common names, countries of origin (modern and former), centuries of activity and main areas of exploration. Marco ...

  9. List of people known as the Great - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of people known as the Great, or the equivalent, in their own language. Other languages have their own suffixes, such as Persian e Bozorg and Hindustani e Azam . In Persia, the title "the Great" at first seems to have been a colloquial version of the Old Persian title "Great King" ( King of Kings , Shahanshah ).