- [X] Socrates
- [X] Immanuel Kant
- [X] Carl Friedrich Gauss
- [X] Einstein
- [X] Georg Cantor
- [X] Salvador Dali
- [X] Edward Hopper
- [X] Charles Darwin
- [X] Alan Turing
- [X] Stephen Hawking
- [X] Roger Penrose
- [X] Plato
- [X] Euclid
- [X] Aristotle
- [X] Alexander the Great
- [X] Alcibiades
- [X] Achilles
- [X] Aristophanes
- [X] Herodotus
- [X] Jesus
- [X] Zeno
- [X] Seneca
- [X] T.S. Eliot
- [X] Joseph Fourier
- [X] David Hilbert
- [X] Alfred Tarski
- [X] Charles Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
- [X] Mark Twain
- [X] Fyodor Dostoevsky
- [X] Leo Tolstoy
- [X] Alexander Pushkin
- [X] Goethe
- [X] Erwin Schrödinger
- [X] Leonhard Euler
- [X] Thales
- [X] Homer
- [X] Confucius
- [X] Siddhartha Gautama
- [X] Diogenes
- [X] Guy Fawkes
- [X] Caravaggio
- [X] Abraham Lincoln
- [X] Marcus Aurelius
- [X] Dante Alighieri
- [X] Descartes
- [X] Mahatma Gandhi
- [X] John Conway
- [X] Carl Jung
- [X] Carl Sagan
- [X] Francis Bacon
- [X] Galileo
- [X] George Orwell
- [X] Niklas Luhmann
- [X] Newton
- [X] Nietzsche
- [X] Richard Feynman
- [X] Nikola Tesla
- [X] Shakespeare
- [X] Spinoza
- [X] Steve Jobs
- [X] Voltaire
- [X] Alexander Shulgin
- [X] Da Vinci
- [X] Hermann Ebbinghaus
- [X] Montaigne
- [X] Mortimer J. Adler
- [X] Michael Jackson
- [X] Frank Sinatra
- [X] Genghis Khan
- [X] Jacques Louis David
- [X] Eugène Delacroix
- [X] Geoffrey Chaucer
- [X] Lavoisier
- [X] Faust
- [X] Sigmund Freud
- [X] Muhammad Ali
- [X] Adam Smith
- [X] Beethoven
- [X] Sophocles


# alive; do NOT include:
- [X] Donald Knuth
- [X] Elon Musk
- [X] Eminem
- [X] Kanye West
- [X] Bill Gates