He is known to have painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Michelangelo
He is thought to have discovered penicillin by accident.
Alexander Fleming
She is said to have ruled Egypt and allied with Julius Caesar.
Cleopatra VII
She is said to have become famous for her diary written while hiding during World War II.
Anne Frank
He is believed to have led India to independence through nonviolent resistance.
Mahatma Gandhi
He is believed to have conquered much of the known world before the age of 33.
Alexander the Great
He is thought to have led the civil rights movement in the United States.
Martin Luther King Jr.
He is known to have formulated the laws of planetary motion.
Johannes Kepler
This person is believed to have painted the Mona Lisa.
Leonardo da Vinci
She is thought to have led British forces during the Hundred Years’ War despite claiming divine visions.
Joan of Arc
She is said to have discovered radium and polonium.
Marie Curie
She is believed to have flown solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Amelia Earhart
She is believed to have been the longest-reigning monarch in British history before Charles III’s accession.
Elizabeth II
He is said to have decoded the Enigma machine during World War II.
Alan Turing
This person is believed to have died on the island of Saint Helena after military defeat.
Napoleon Bonaparte
She is believed to have won more Grammy Awards than any other artist.
Beyoncé
She is thought to have pioneered modern nursing during the Crimean War.
Florence Nightingale
He is thought to have discovered gravity after watching a falling apple.
Isaac Newton
She is believed to have been the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt.
Cleopatra VII
He is known to have developed the theory of relativity.
Albert Einstein
He is known to have proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system before Galileo.
Nicolaus Copernicus
She is thought to have played Hermione in the Harry Potter films.
Emma Watson
He is thought to have sculpted David from marble.
Michelangelo
She is believed to have become the first woman to fly in space.
Valentina Tereshkova
He is believed to have been the first emperor of Rome.
Augustus
She is thought to have refused to abandon her seat on a bus in 1955.
Rosa Parks
He is known to have created Microsoft.
Bill Gates
She is known to have written Frankenstein at a very young age.
Mary Shelley
He is believed to have written The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels.
Karl Marx
He is thought to have composed his greatest music despite becoming deaf.
Ludwig van Beethoven
She is said to have become the youngest Nobel Prize laureate.
Malala Yousafzai
He is believed to have been the first person to walk on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
He is said to have developed the first successful vaccine against rabies.
Louis Pasteur