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🌟 Notable Figures

The top 5,000 best-known people in history.

7,820 historical figures, born between 3275 BC and 2019, across 264 countries.

Birth years 3275 BC to 2019 · 264 countries · 10 continents · Main fields: Politics (3,182), Literature (857), Arts & Music (817), Entertainment (788), Science (621), Religion (486)

How to play

• A historical figure from Notable Figures is shown
• Drop a pin on the world map where you think they were born
• Score by how close you are, over five rounds

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Who you might get

48 of 7,820 figures in this map. Birthplaces are hidden — that's what the game asks you to guess.

• Abraham Lincoln b. 1809
• Barack Obama b. 1961
• Emmanuel Macron b. 1977
• Franklin D. Roosevelt b. 1882
• Benito Mussolini b. 1883
• Bill Clinton b. 1946
• Bill Gates b. 1955
• Alexander the Great b. 356 BC
• Donald Trump b. 1946
• Muhammad (Islamic Prophet) b. 571
• Elon Musk b. 1971
• George Washington b. 1732
• Cleopatra b. 69 BC
• Queen Victoria b. 1819
• Isaac Newton b. 1642
• Albert Einstein b. 1879
• Henry VIII b. 1491
• William Shakespeare b. 1564
• Elizabeth I b. 1533
• George H. W. Bush b. 1924
• George W. Bush b. 1946
• Che Guevara b. 1928
• Adolf Hitler b. 1889
• Stephen Hawking b. 1942
• Charles III b. 1948
• Elizabeth II b. 1926
• Theodore Roosevelt b. 1858
• Napoleon b. 1769
• Diana Spencer b. 1961
• Volodymyr Zelenskyy b. 1978
• Ali Khamenei b. 1939
• Ruhollah Khomeini b. 1902
• Jesus (Christian) b. 7 BC
• John Paul II b. 1920
• Francis b. 1936
• Benedict XVI b. 1927
• Leo XIV b. 1955
• Winston Churchill b. 1874
• Keir Starmer b. 1962
• Julius Caesar b. 100 BC
• Muhammad Ali b. 1942
• John F. Kennedy b. 1917
• Xi Jinping b. 1953
• Martin Luther King Jr. b. 1929
• Diane Keaton b. 1946
• Tupac Shakur b. 1971
• Angelina Jolie b. 1975
• Mohammad Reza Pahlavi b. 1919

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