humans

Awesome Humans
https://github.com/linsa-io/humans

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Acting
- Kevin Spacey
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- Marlon Brando (2004)
Architecture
- Antoni Gaudí (1926)
- Charles Jeanneret (1965)
- Frank Gehry
- Frank Wright (1959)
- Louis Kahn (1974)
- Ludwig van der Rohe (1969)
- Philip Johnson (2005)
- Renzo Piano
- Tadao Ando
Art
- Andy Warhol (1987)
- Claude Monet (1926)
- Gustav Klimt (1918)
- Jackson Pollock (1956)
- James Eads
- Leonardo da Vinci (1519)
- M. C. Escher (1972)
- Michelangelo (1564)
- Pablo Picasso (1973)
- Rembrandt (1669)
- Salvador Dali (1989)
- Vincent van Gogh (1890)
Artificial Intelligence
- Demis Hassabis
- Geoffrey Hinton - Was one of the first researchers who demonstrated the use of generalised back propagation algorithm for training multi-layer neural nets.
- Herbert Simon (2001)
- Marvin Minsky (2016)
- Zoubin Ghahramani
Astronomy
- Carl Sagan (1996)
- Edwin Hubble (1953)
Biology
- Alexander Fleming (1955)
- Alfred Wallace (1913)
- Carl Linnaeus (1778)
- Charles Darwin (1882)
- David Baltimore
- James Watson
- Louis Agassiz (1873)
- Louis Pasteur (1895)
- Élie Metchnikoff (1916)
- Maurice Hilleman (2005)
- Rachel Carson (1964)
- Stephen Gould (2002)
Chemistry
- Kary Mullis (2019) - Invented PCR (polymerase chain reaction).
- Alexander Shulgin (2014)
- Alfred Nobel (1896)
- Antoine Lavoisier (1794)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (1907)
- Fritz Haber (1934)
- Humphry Davy (1829)
- John Dalton (1844)
- Linus Pauling (1944)
- Marie Curie (1934)
- Michael Faraday (1867)
- Robert Boyle (1691)
- Rosalind Franklin (1958)
- Stephanie Kwolek (2014)
- Svante Arrhenius (1927)
Code
- Grace Hopper (1992)
- John Carmack
- Linus Torvalds
- Steve Wozniak
Comedy
- 1994: Bill Hicks
Computer Science
- Alan Perlis (1990)
- Alan Turing (1954)
- Carl Sassenrath
- Donald Knuth
- Edgar Codd (2003)
- Edsger Dijkstra (2002)
- John von Neumann (1957)
- Konrad Zuse (1995)
- Leslie Lamport
- Stephen Cook
- Tony Hoare - Developed QuickSort algorithm.
Cryptography
- Adi Shamir
Economics
- Adam Smith (1790)
- Friedrich Hayek (1992)
- John Keynes (1946)
- Karl Marx (1883)
- Leon Walras (1910)
- Max Weber (1920)
- Milton Friedman (2006)
- Paul Samuelson (2009)
Entrepreneurs
- Andrew Carnegie (1919)
- Bill Gates
- Elon Musk
- Henry Ford (1947)
- Jack Ma
- Jeff Bezos
- John Morgan (1913)
- John Rockefeller (1937)
- Larry Page
- Steve Jobs (2011)
- Thomas Edison (1931)
- Walt Disney (1966)
Fashion
- Gabrielle Chanel (1971)
- Tom Ford
Film Directing
- Alfred Hitchcock (1980)
Genetics
- Gregor Mendel (1884)
Historians
- Arthur Schlesinger (2007)
- Edward Gibbon (1794)
- Herodotus (425 BC)
- Xenophon (354 BC)
Human computer interaction
- Larry Tesler - Pioneered cut, copy, paste action.
Industrial Design
- Dieter Rams
- James Dyson
- Jonathan Ive
- Raymond Loewy (1986)
Invention
- Alexander Bell (1922)
- Douglas Engelbart
- Eli Whitney (1825)
- George Carver (1943)
- George Eastman (1932)
- Hedy Lamarr (2000)
- James Watt (1819)
- Johannes Gutenberg (1468)
- John Baird (1946)
- Karl Benz (1929)
- Robert Fulton (1815)
- Rudolf Diesel (1913)
- Samuel Morse (1872)
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Vint Cerf
- Wright brothers (1948) - Designed, built and flew the first controlled, powered, heavier than air airplane in 1903.
Investing
- George Soros
- Warren Buffet
Language Design
- Alan Kay - Helped design Smalltalk language.
- Anders Hejlsberg - Designed Turbo Pascal and Delphi languages and works as lead architect of C+ and core developer of TypeScript.
- Bjarne Stroustrup - Designed C++ language.
- Brendan Eich - Designed Javascript language.
- Chris Lattner - Designed Swift language.
- Dennis Ritchie (2011) - Helped design C language.
- Guido van Rossum - Designed Python language.
- James Gosling - Designed Java language.
- John Backus (2007)
- Ken Thompson - Designed C language.
- Larry Wall - Designed Perl language.
- Niklaus Wirth - Designed several languages including Pascal.
- Rasmus Lerdorf - Designed PHP language.
- Rob Pike - Helped design Go language.
- Xavier Leroy - Primary developer of the OCaml system.
- Yukihiro Matsumoto - Designed ruby language.
Leaders
- Abraham Lincoln (1865)
- Adolf Hitler (1945)
- Angela Merkel
- Augustus (14)
- Catherine the Great (1796)
- Charlemagne (814)
- Franklin Roosevelt (1945)
- Genghis Khan (1227)
- Hammurabi (1750 BC)
- Hatshepsut (1458 BC)
- Jesus Christ (30)
- Joan of Arc (1431)
- John Kennedy (1963)
- Joseph Stalin (1953)
- Julius Caesar (44 BC)
- Mao Zedong (1976)
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Mustafa Ataturk (1938)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1821)
- Nelson Mandela (2013)
- Ramesses II (1231 BC)
- Suleiman the Magnificent (1566)
- Thomas Jefferson (1826)
- Vladimir Lenin (1924)
- Vladimir Putin
- Winston Churchill (1965)
Linguistics
- Noam Chomsky
Machine learning
- David Kristjanson Duvenaud
- David Kristjanson Duvenaud
Management
- Eric Schmidt
- Satya Nadella
- Sundar Pichai
- Tim Cook
Math
- Ada Lovelace (1852)
- Adrien Legendre (1833)
- Alexander Grothendieck (2014)
- Alfred Tarski (1983) - Introduced a theory of reference that shows how to relate the objects in logic to objects in the real world.
- Alonzo Church (1995)
- Amalie Noether (1935)
- Andrew Granville
- Andrew Wiles
- Andrey Markov (1922)
- Archimedes (212 BC) - Used a lot of advanced methods (something like infinitesimal calculus) which he used to derive the formulas for computing the volume of cones and other solids of revolution, he also used similar methods to investigate the properties of conics.
- Aristotle (322 BC)
- Augustin Louis Cauchy (1857)
- Bernhard Riemann (1866)
- Bertrand Russel (1970)
- Blaise Pascal (1662) - Built a famous calculating machine.
- Carl Gauss (1855) - Invented Normal Distribution.
- Carl Jacobi (1851)
- Charles Babbage (1871)
- Charles Vallee-Pussin (1962)
- Claude Shannon (2001) - Invented Information Theory.
- Cédric Villani
- David Hilbert (1943)
- Diophantus (299) - Was interested in properties of integers.
- Eratosthenes (194 BC) - Known for the Sieve of Eratosthenes, which is a method of finding prime numbers.
- Euclid (300 BC) - Mathematical treatment of “preferred outcomes” or utility was first finalised by him, gave the basis for modern proof-based mathematics.

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