Gaius Julius Caesar, the powerful Roman leader
Queen Elizabeth I who ruled England for 45 years
George Washington, the first president of the USA
King Louis XVI, the last king of France
Winston Churchill who led Britain in the Second World War
Che Guevara, the Argentinian doctor who fought for revolution

Alessandro Volta, inventor of the battery
Michael Faraday, inventor of the electric motor
Marie Curie, famous for her work on radioactivity
Albert Einstein, creator of the Theory of Relativity
Alexander Fleming, discoverer of the first antibiotic
Linus Pauling, chemist and peace activist

Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher
Socrates, the great Greek philosopher
Aristotle, the first to organize scientific knowledge
William Wilberforce who ended the British slave trade
Karl Marx who wrote The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital
Mahatma Gandhi who helped free India from British rule

Voltaire, the French writer who believed in equality for all
Charlotte Bront, the British novelist who wrote Jane Eyre
Mark Twain, the American who wrote Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
Jacques Prvert, the writer known in France as the People’s Poet’
Ayn Rand, whose writing expressed her own philosophical ideas
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn who wrote about life in a Soviet Labour Camp