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⭐ Most Influential People of All Time

A curated selection of history's most famous and influential figures — spanning religion, science, politics, exploration, and the arts across every era and civilization.

94 historical figures, born between 900 BC and 1931, across 34 countries.

Birth years 900 BC to 1931 · 34 countries · 6 continents · Main fields: Science (35), Politics (30), Religion (11), Philosophy (8), Exploration (4), Arts & Music (3)

How to play

• A historical figure from Most Influential People of All Time 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 94 figures in this map. Birthplaces are hidden — that's what the game asks you to guess.

• Antoine Lavoisier b. 1743
• Aristotle b. 384 BC
• Augustine of Hippo b. 354
• Confucius b. 552 BC
• Francis Bacon b. 1561
• Antonie van Leeuwenhoek b. 1632
• Alexander the Great b. 356 BC
• Charles Darwin b. 1809
• Adam Smith b. 1723
• Muhammad (Islamic Prophet) b. 571
• Edward Jenner b. 1749
• Guglielmo Marconi b. 1874
• Galileo Galilei b. 1564
• George Washington b. 1732
• Cyrus the Great b. 600 BC
• Augustus b. 63 BC
• Charlemagne b. 748
• Isaac Newton b. 1642
• John Locke b. 1632
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau b. 1712
• Constantine the Great b. 272
• Ashoka b. 304 BC
• Emperor Wen of Sui b. 541
• Johannes Gutenberg b. 1400
• Albert Einstein b. 1879
• Christopher Columbus b. 1451
• Hernán Cortés b. 1485
• Francisco Pizarro b. 1478
• Isabella I of Castile b. 1451
• Justinian I b. 482
• William Shakespeare b. 1564
• Elizabeth I b. 1533
• Plato b. 427 BC
• Johannes Kepler b. 1571
• Nicolaus Copernicus b. 1473
• Alexander Graham Bell b. 1847
• James Clerk Maxwell b. 1831
• James Watt b. 1736
• John Dalton b. 1766
• Michael Faraday b. 1791
• Enrico Fermi b. 1901
• William the Conqueror b. 1028
• Ernest Rutherford b. 1871
• Wilhelm Röntgen b. 1845
• René Descartes b. 1596
• Karl Marx b. 1818
• Cai Lun b. 48
• Martin Luther b. 1483

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