| 1 | Muhammad | Prophet of Islam; conqueror of Arabia |
| 2 | Isaac Newton | physicist; theory of universal gravitation; laws of motion |
| 3 | Jesus Christ | founder of Christianity |
| 4 | Buddha | founder of Buddhism |
| 5 | Confucius | founder of Confucianism |
| 6 | St. Paul | proselytizer of Christianity |
| 7 | Ts'ai Lun | inventor of paper |
| 8 | Johann Gutenberg | developed movable type; printed Bibles |
| 9 | Christopher Columbus | explorer; led Europe to Americas |
| 10 | Albert Einstein | physicist; relativity; Einsteinian physics |
| 11 | Louis Pasteur | scientist; pasteurization |
| 12 | Galileo Galilei | astronomer; accurately described heliocentric solar system |
| 13 | Aristotle | influential Greek philosopher |
| 14 | Euclid | mathematician; Euclidian geometry |
| 15 | Moses | major prophet of Judaism |
| 16 | Charles Darwin | biologist; described Darwinian evolution, which had theological impact on many religions |
| 17 | Shih Huang Ti | Chinese emperor |
| 18 | Augustus Caesar | ruler |
| 19 | Nicolaus Copernicus | astronomer; taught heliocentricity |
| 20 | Antoine Laurent Lavoisier | father of modern chemistry; philosopher; economist |
| 21 | Constantine the Great | Roman emperor who completely legalized Christianity, leading to its status as state religion. Convened the First Council of Nicaea that produced the Nicene Creed, which rejected Arianism (one of two major strains of Christian thought) and established Athanasianism (Trinitarianism, the other strain) as "official doctrine." |
| 22 | James Watt | developed steam engine |
| 23 | Michael Faraday | physicist; chemist; discovery of magneto-electricity |
| 24 | James Clerk Maxwell | physicist; electromagnetic spectrum |
| 25 | Martin Luther | founder of Protestantism and Lutheranism |
| 26 | George Washington | first president of United States |
| 27 | Karl Marx | founder of Marxism, Marxist Communism |
| 28 | Orville and Wilbur Wright | inventors of airplane |
| 29 | Genghis Khan | Mongol conqueror |
| 30 | Adam Smith | economist; philosopher; expositor of capitalism; author: The Theory of Moral Sentiments |
| 31 | Edward de Verea.k.a. William Shakespeare | literature; also wrote 6 volumes about philosophy and religion |
| 32 | John Dalton | chemist; physicist; atomic theory; law of partial pressures (Dalton's law) |
| 33 | Alexander the Great | conqueror |
| 34 | Napoleon Bonaparte | French conqueror |
| 35 | Thomas Edison | inventor of light bulb, phonograph, etc. |
| 36 | Antony van Leeuwenhoek | microscopes; studied microscopic life |
| 37 | William T.G. Morton | pioneer in anesthesiology |
| 38 | Guglielmo Marconi | inventor of radio |
| 39 | Adolf Hitler | conqueror; led Axis Powers in WWII |
| 40 | Plato | founder of Platonism |
| 41 | Oliver Cromwell | British political and military leader |
| 42 | Alexander Graham Bell | inventor of telephone |
| 43 | Alexander Fleming | penicillin; advances in bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy |
| 44 | John Locke | philosopher and liberal theologian |
| 45 | Ludwig van Beethoven | composer |
| 46 | Werner Heisenberg | a founder of quantum mechanics; discovered principle of uncertainty; head of Nazi Germany's nuclear program |
| 47 | Louis Daguerre | an inventor/pioneer of photography |
| 48 | Simon Bolivar | National hero of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia |
| 49 | Rene Descartes | Rationalist philosopher and mathematician |
| 50 | Michelangelo | painter; sculptor; architect |
| 51 | Pope Urban II | called for First Crusade |
| 52 | 'Umar ibn al-Khattab | Second Caliph; expanded Muslim empire |
| 53 | Asoka | king of India who converted to and spread Buddhism |
| 54 | St. Augustine | Early Christian theologian |
| 55 | William Harvey | described the circulation of blood; wrote Essays on the Generation of Animals, the basis for modern embryology |
| 56 | Ernest Rutherford | physicist; pioneer of subatomic physics |
| 57 | John Calvin | Protestant reformer; founder of Calvinism |
| 58 | Gregor Mendel | Mendelian genetics |
| 59 | Max Planck | physicist; thermodynamics |
| 60 | Joseph Lister | principal discoverer of antiseptics which greatly reduced surgical mortality |
| 61 | Nikolaus August Otto | built first four-stroke internal combustion engine |
| 62 | Francisco Pizarro | Spanish conqueror in South America; defeated Incas |
| 63 | Hernando Cortes | conquered Mexico for Spain; through war and introduction of new diseases he largely destroyed Aztec civilization |
| 64 | Thomas Jefferson | 3rd president of United States |
| 65 | Queen Isabella I | Spanish ruler |
| 66 | Joseph Stalin | revolutionary and ruler of USSR |
| 67 | Julius Caesar | Roman emperor |
| 68 | William the Conqueror | laid foundation of modern England |
| 69 | Sigmund Freud | founded Freudian school of psychology/psychoanalysis (i.e., the "religion of Freudianism") |
| 70 | Edward Jenner | discoverer of the vaccination for smallpox |
| 71 | Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen | discovered X-rays |
| 72 | Johann Sebastian Bach | composer |
| 73 | Lao Tzu | founder of Taoism |
| 74 | Voltaire | writer and philosopher; wrote Candide |
| 75 | Johannes Kepler | astronomer; planetary motions |
| 76 | Enrico Fermi | initiated the atomic age; father of atom bomb |
| 77 | Leonhard Euler | physicist; mathematician; differential and integral calculus and algebra |
| 78 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | French deistic philosopher and author |
| 79 | Nicoli Machiavelli | wrote The Prince (influential political treatise) |
| 80 | Thomas Malthus | economist; wrote Essay on the Principle of Population |
| 81 | John F. Kennedy | U.S. President who led first successful effort by humans to travel to another "planet" |
| 82 | Gregory Pincus | endocrinologist; developed birth-control pill |
| 83 | Mani | founder of Manicheanism, once a world religion which rivaled Christianity in strength |
| 84 | Lenin | Russian ruler |
| 85 | Sui Wen Ti | unified China |
| 86 | Vasco da Gama | navigator; discovered route from Europe to India around Cape Hood |
| 87 | Cyrus the Great | founder of Persian empire |
| 88 | Peter the Great | forged Russia into a great European nation |
| 89 | Mao Zedong | founder of Maoism, Chinese form of Communism |
| 90 | Francis Bacon | philosopher; delineated inductive scientific method |
| 91 | Henry Ford | developed automobile; achievement in manufacturing and assembly |
| 92 | Mencius | philosopher; founder of a school of Confucianism |
| 93 | Zoroaster | founder of Zoroastrianism |
| 94 | Queen Elizabeth I | British monarch; restored Church of England to power after Queen Mary |
| 95 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Russian premier who helped end Communism in USSR |
| 96 | Menes | unified Upper and Lower Egypt |
| 97 | Charlemagne | Holy Roman Empire created with his baptism in 800 AD |
| 98 | Homer | epic poet |
| 99 | Justinian I | Roman emperor; reconquered Mediterranean empire; accelerated Catholic-Monophysite schism |
| 100 | Mahavira | founder of Jainism |
