Humanitarians Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965 Lutheran Chiune Sugihara 1900-1986 Raoul Wallenberg 1912-c.1947 Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968 Baptist Desmond Tutu 1931- Anglican The Dalai Lama 1935- Tibetan Buddhism Han Dongfang 1963- Thinkers and Philosophers Lao Zi [Lao Tzu] c. 600 B.C. Taoism Confucius 551-479 B.C. Confucianism Socrates 469-399 B.C. Greek philosophy Plato c. 427-347 B.C. Platonism / Greek philosophy Aristotle 384-322 B.C. Platonism / Greek philosophy Niccolo Machiavelli 1469-1527 Catholic John Locke 1632-1704 raised Puritan (Anglican); Liberal Christian Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778 born Protestant; converted as a teen to Catholic; later Deist Karl Marx 1818-1883 Jewish; Lutheran; Atheist; Marxism/Communism Kings, Emperors and Politicians Hammurabi c. 1792-1750 B.C. Alexander the Great 356-323 Greek state paganism Asoka c. 300-232 B.C. Buddhism Shi Huangdi 259-210 B.C. Julius Caesar c. 100-44 B.C. Roman state paganism Charlemagne 742-814 A.D. Catholic Kublai Khan 1214-1294 Peter the Great 1672-1725 Russian Orthodox George Washington 1732-1799 Episcopalian Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821 Catholic (nominal) Simon Bolivar 1783-1830 Catholic (nominal); Atheist Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 Regular Baptist (childhood); later ambiguous - Deist, general theist or a very personalized Christianity Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Hindu (mother was a Jain) Kemal Ataturk 1881-1938 Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945 Episcopalian Nelson Mandela 1918- Mikhail Gorbachev 1931- Russian Orthodox Religious Leaders Zoroaster c. 628-c. 551 B.C. Zoroastrianism Muhammad c. 570-632 A.D. Islam Buddha c. 563-c. 483 B.C. Hinduism; Buddhism Moses c. 13th century B.C. Judaism Jesus Christ c. 6 B.C.-c. 30 A.D. Judaism; Christianity Martin Luther 1483-1546 Catholic; Lutheran Musicians and Composers Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 Lutheran Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791 Catholic Ludwig van Beethoven 17770-1827 Catholic Richard Wagner 1813-1883 Arturo Toscanini 1867-1957 Catholic George Gershwin 1898-1937 Jewish Louis Armstrong 1898-1971 Baptist The Beatles formed 1960 Writers Homer c. 700-c. 800 B.C. Greek paganism Virgil 70-19 B.C. Dante Alighieri 1265-1321 Catholic William Shakespeare 1564-1616 Catholic; Anglican Moliere 1622-1673 Catholic Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Anglican Mark Twain 1835-1910 Presbyterian Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956 Painters, Sculptors and Architects Michelangelo 1475-1564 Catholic Rembrandt 1606-1669 Dutch Reformed Christopher Wren 1632-1723 Anglican Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849 Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851 Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890 Dutch Reformed Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959 Unitarian Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 Catholic Le Corbusier 1887-1965 Stage, Screen and Photography Charlie Chaplin 1889-1977 Anglican; agnostic Jean Renoir 1894-1979 Catholic Sergei Eisenstein 1898-1948 Russian Orthodox; Marxist; Freudian Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908- Orson Welles 1915-1985 Protestant Christian Steven Spielberg 1947- Judaism Scientists Euclid c. 330-c. 260 B.C. Platonism / Greek philosophy Archimedes c. 287-212 B.C. Greek philosophy Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519 Catholic Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 Catholic Isaac Newton 1642-1727 Anglican (rejected Trinitarianism, i.e., Athanasianism; believed in the Arianism of the Primitive Church) James Watt 1736-1819 Presbyterian (lapsed) Michael Faraday 1791-1867 Sandemanian Charles Darwin 1809-1882 Anglican (nominal); Unitarian Louis Pasteur 1822-1895 Catholic Joseph Lister 1827-1912 Quaker Sigmund Freud 1856-1939 Jewish; atheist; Freudian psychology/ psychoanalysis Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Jewish Alexander Fleming 1881-1955 Catholic Linus Pauling 1901-1994 Lutheran James Watson and Francis Crick 1928-; 1916- Inventors Zai Lun c. 50-118 A.D. Johannes Gutenberg 1400-1468 Catholic Samuel Morse 1791-1872 Christianity Nikolaus Otto 1832-1891 Alfred Nobel 1833-1896 Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922 Unitarian Thomas Alva Edison 1847-1931 Congregationalist; agnostic Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright 1871-1948; 1867-1912 United Brethren Guglielmo Marconi 1847-1937 Catholic and Anglican Explorers and Pioneers Marco Polo c. 1254-1324 Catholic Christopher Columbus 1451-1506 Catholic Ferdinand Magellan 1480-1521 Catholic Roald Amundsen 1872-1928 Yuri Gagarin 1934-1968 Neil Armstrong 1930- Search Adherents Custom
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