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Scientists Pre-1905

No opinion   32/228   14.04%
Copernicus   7/228   3.07%
Charles Darwin   77/228   33.77%
Dirichlet   6/228   2.63%
Galileo   58/228   25.44%
Carl Friedrich Gauss   1/228   0.44%
J. Willard Gibbs   5/228   2.19%
James Clerk Maxwell   10/228   4.39%
Gregor Mendel   14/228   6.14%
Louis Pasteur   12/228   5.26%
Joseph Priestley   6/228   2.63%

Scientists Post-1905

No opinion   29/228   12.72%
Marie Curie   35/228   15.35%
Albert Einstein   110/228   48.25%
Richard Feynman   0/228   0.00%
Rosalind Franklin   12/228   5.26%
Guido Fubini   1/228   0.44%
Robert Koch   1/228   0.44%
Lise Meitner   2/228   0.88%
Emmy Noether   8/228   3.51%
Alfred Russel Wallace   1/228   0.44%
Watson and Crick   27/228   11.84%
Andrew Wiles   2/228   0.88%

Philosophers Pre-1905

No opinion   35/228   15.35%
Jeremy Bentham   1/228   0.44%
Buddha   28/228   12.28%
Confucius   19/228   8.33%
Rene Descartes   35/228   15.35%
Thomas Hobbes   7/228   3.07%
John Locke   25/228   10.96%
Karl Marx   26/228   11.40%
Friedrich Nietzsche   11/228   4.82%
John Stuart Mill   4/228   1.75%
Adam Smith   37/228   16.23%

Philosophers Post-1905

No opinion   70/228   30.70%
Simone de Beauvoir   27/228   11.84%
Jacques Derrida   5/228   2.19%
John Dewey   22/228   9.65%
William James   13/228   5.70%
Ayn Rand   23/228   10.09%
John Rawls   11/228   4.82%
Jean-Paul Sartre   30/228   13.16%
Ludwig Wittgenstein   27/228   11.84%

Literary Figures Pre-1905

No opinion   33/223   14.80%
Jane Austen   9/223   4.04%
Cervantes   8/223   3.59%
Charles Dickens   19/223   8.52%
Emily Dickinson   11/223   4.93%
Euripides   1/223   0.45%
Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot)   2/223   0.90%
Kabirdas   0/223   0.00%
Omar Khayyam   4/223   1.79%
Sappho   13/223   5.83%
Murasaki Shikibu   5/223   2.24%
Harriet Beecher Stowe   5/223   2.24%
Walt Whitman   15/223   6.73%
Goethe   9/223   4.04%
Homer   24/223   10.76%
Shakespeare   64/223   28.70%

Literary Figures Post-1905

No opinion   44/233   18.88%
T.S. Eliot   30/233   12.88%
Rachel Carson   13/233   5.58%
Robert Frost   49/233   21.03%
Langston Hughes   15/233   6.44%
James Joyce   14/233   6.01%
Franz Kafka   23/233   9.87%
Dylan Thomas   3/233   1.29%
Virginia Woolf   33/233   14.16%
William Butler Yeats   9/233   3.86%

Statesmen Pre-1905

No opinion   40/228   17.54%
Simón Bolívar   9/228   3.95%
Cleopatra   17/228   7.46%
Frederick Douglass   35/228   15.35%
Queen Elizabeth I   25/228   10.96%
Thomas Jefferson   99/228   43.42%
Queen Victoria   3/228   1.32%

Statesmen Post-1905

No opinion   32/228   14.04%
Winston Churchill   33/228   14.47%
Gandhi   68/228   29.82%
Vaclav Havel   6/228   2.63%
John F. Kennedy   14/228   6.14%
Nelson Mandela   30/228   13.16%
Jawaharlal Nehru   2/228   0.88%
Franklin Delano Roosevelt   31/228   13.60%
Teddy Roosevelt   9/228   3.95%
Mao Tse-Tung   3/228   1.32%

New Categories Pre-1905

No opinion   56/228   24.56%
Johann Sebastian Bach   47/228   20.61%
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   84/228   36.84%
Elizabeth Cady Stanton   41/228   17.98%

New Categories Post-1905

No opinion   42/228   18.42%
Andrew Carnegie   28/228   12.28%
Sigmund Freud   32/228   14.04%
Martin Luther King   99/228   43.42%
Madonna   4/228   1.75%
Mother Jones   5/228   2.19%
Margaret Sanger   16/228   7.02%
Ralph Spielman   2/228   0.88%

Food Moguls

No opinion   158/228   69.30%
Jared   7/228   3.07%
Ray Kroc   12/228   5.26%
Colonel Sanders   15/228   6.58%
Dave Thomas   36/228   15.79%

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No opinion   41/228   17.98%
Alfred   6/228   2.63%
Hegel   6/228   2.63%
Kant   8/228   3.51%
Laplace   9/228   3.95%
McKinley   40/228   17.54%
All the statesmen   6/228   2.63%
No one   77/228   33.77%
Electronic diode band   35/228   15.35%

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