Famous People

Here we collect the most famous people from throughout history.  E-mail interopia over at yahoo dawt com to nominate a person to be added to the list!

TYPES OF FAMOUS PEOPLE
Activist/Civil Rights Leader
Actors/Comedians
Assassins
Athletes
Criminals
Entertainers (other than music/acting)
Explorers
Inventors
Musicians
Pilots
Philosophers
Politicians/Leaders
Religious Figures
Scientists
Soldiers/Military Leaders
Writers

LIST OF FAMOUS PEOPLE
A.P. Herbert
Abraham
Abraham Lincoln
Adolf Hitler
Akira Toki
Al Capone
Alan Watts
Al Gore
Albert Camus
Albert Einstein
Albert John Luthuli
Albert Schweitzer
Aldous Huxley
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Hamilton
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred North Whitehead
Alicia Keys
Alicia Silverstone
Allen Ginsberg
Amelia Earhart
Anais Nin
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Johnson
Andy Griffith
Andy Rooney
Anne Bradstreet
Anne Frank
Anne Sexton
Ansel Adams
Anthony De Mello
Anton Hoigt
Antonio de la GANDARA
Aretha Franklin
Ariel Sharon
Aristophanes
Aristotle
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arthur Ashe
Arthur Rimbaud
Arthus Schopenhauer
Audre Lorde
Augustus Caesar
Aung San Suu Kyi
Avril Lavigne
Ayatollah Khomeini
Ayn Rand
Babe Ruth
Baden-Powell of Gilwell
Barack Obama
Beethoven
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Graham
Benjamin Harrison
Benny Goodman
Bertrand Russell
Bessie Coleman
Betty Grable
Betty Williams
Bill Clinton
Bill Cosby
Bill Gates
Billy Crystal
Blaise Pascal
Bob Dylan
Bob Hope
Bob Newhart
Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie Parker
Brad Pitt
Brigham Young
Bruce Willis
Buddy Holly
Buster Keaton
Buzz Aldrin
C. Day Lewis
C. G. Jung
C. L. R. James
C. S. Lewis
Calvin Coolidge
Carl E. Sagan
Carl Sagan
Carl Sandburg
Carol Burnett
Carrie Fisher
Cesar Chavez
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Dickens
Charles E. Yeager
Charles Everett Koop
Charles Harry Murphy
Charles Lindbergh
Charles M. Schwab
Charles Manson
Charles Yeager
Charlie Brown
Charlie Chaplin
Chester Arthur
Chevy Chase
Christine M. Evert
Christopher Columbus
Chuck Berry
Chuck Yeager
Ciara
Cleopatra
Clint Eastwood
Clyde Barrow
Coco Chanel
Colin L. Powell
Columbus
Condoleezza Rice
Confucius
Conrad Hilton
Cordell Hull
Coretta Scott King
Dalai Lama
Dan Aykroyd
Dan Rather
Daniel Boone
Danny Glover
Dante Alighieri
Dave Letterman
David Beckham
David Hume
David Koresh
David Ogilvy
David Wagoner
Davy Crockett
Deep Throat
Derek Walcott
Desmond Tutu
Dian Fossey
Diana, Princess of Wales
Dick Van Dyke
Diogenes Of Sinope
Dizzy Gillespie
Dolley Madison
Doris Day
Doris Miller
Dr. Dre
Jonas E. Salk
Laura Schlesinger
Dr. Seuss
Dwight Eisenhower
Dylan Thomas
E. E. Cummings
Eddie Murphy
Edgar Allen Poe
Edith Stein
Edmund Burke
Edward I Shulkin
Edward Jenner
Edwin Binney
Edwin Goodwich Acheson
Edwin Lim
Eleanor Roosevelt
Elie Wiesel
Elizabeth (Queen)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Dole
Elizabeth Taylor
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Elvis Presley
Emiliano Zapata
Emily Dickinson
Eminem
Emma Goldman
Emmeline Pankhurst
Enrico Fermi
Epicurus
Eric Michael Norcross
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Rutherford
Ernesto “Che” Guevara
Ervin “Magic” Johnson
Estee Lauder
Ezra Pound
F D Roosevelt
F Lee Bailey
F. H. Bradley
Fala
Fidel Castro
Fifty Cent
Florence Lawrence
Florence Nightingale
Francis Bacon
Frank Lloyd Wright
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt
Fred Astaire
Frederick Douglas
Friedrich Nietzsche
G. H. Hardy
Galileo Galilei
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Geoffrey Chaucer
George W. Bush
George Bernard Shaw
George Carlin
George Elliot
George Herbert
George Herbert Walker Bush
George Santayana
George Stephen
George Washington
George Washington Carver
Gerald Ford
Gloria Steinem
Grover Cleveland
H. L. Hunt
H. P. Lovecraft
H.N. Schwarzkopf
Haile Selassie
Hank Aaron
Harriet Tubman
Harrison Ford
Harry Houdini
Helen Keller
Henri La Fontaine
Henri Mancini
Henrik Ibsen
Henry Ford
Henry George
Henry Kissinger
Henry Van Dyke
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Spencer
Hillary Duff
Hippocrates
Ho Chi Minh
Homer
Horace
Howard Hughes
Hugh Hefner
Hugo Chavez
Immanuel Kant
Indira Gandhi
Iqbal Masih
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Newton
Isaiah
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. K. Rowling
Jack Kerouac
Jack Nicholson
Jackie Kennedy
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jacques Chirac
James Brown
James Buchanan
James Dean
James Earl (Jimmy) Carter, Jr.
James Garfield
James J. Hill
James Madison
James Monroe
James Polk
James Taylor
James Weldon Johnson
James Wright
Jane Addams
Jane Austen
Jane Goodall
Janet Reno
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jay Gould
Jay-Z
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jennifer Crowe
Jerome K. Jerome
Jesse Jackson
Jessica Simpson
Jesus Christ
Jim Carrey
Jim Jones
Jim Morrison
Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Conners
Joan Baez
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Adams
John Andretti
John Belushi
John Calvin
John Candy
John Coltrane
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
John Dewey
John Donne
John F. Kennedy, Jr.
John Glenn
John H. Johnson
John Huss
John James Audubon
John Katz
John Lennon
John Locke
John Maynard Keynes
John Milton
John Quincy Adams
John Ruskin
John Stuart Mill
John The Baptist
John Travolta
John Tyler
John Walsh
John Wesley
John Wilkes Booth
Jonathan Davis
Jonathan Swift
Jorge Luis Borges
Joseph Smith
Joseph Stalin
Josephine Baker
Judith Wright
Julia Child
Julia Roberts
Julie Andrews
Justin Bieber
Justin Timberlake
Karl Marx
Karl Popper
Kayne West
Kevin Bacon
Khalil Gibran
Kim Dae Jung
Kingsley Amis
Kofi Annan
Kurt Cobain
Lady Gaga
Langston Hughes
Lao Tzu
Laura Bush
LeAnn Rimes
Lech Walesa
Left Eye Lisa
Leni Riefenstahl
Leo Burnett
Leo Tolstoy
Leon Trotsky
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo DiCaprio
Lewis And Clark
Lewis Carroll
Liberace
Lief Ericson
Lizzie Stanton
Lord Byron
Lord Kelvin
Lord Mountbatten
Louis Pasteur
Louisa May Alcott
Lucille Ball
Luther Vandross
Madam C. J. Walker
Madam Walker
Madonna
Mae West
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Mahatma Gandhi
Maimonides
Malcolm X
Manon Rheaume
Mao Zedong
Margaret Thatcher
Marie Curie
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Vos Savant
Mario Cuomo
Mario Puzo
Marion Anderson
Mark Twain
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Van Buren
Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Kay Ash
Mary Tyler Moore
Mata Amritanandamayi
Mata Hari
Maya Angelou
Mencius
Meryl Streep
Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Jordan
Michael Jackson
Michael Landon
Michel de Montaigne
Michelangelo
Michele Pfeiffer
Mikhail Gorbachev
Miles Davis
Millard Fillmore
Milton Friedman
Miss Bunny Marie Wexler
Mohammed
Mohammad Ali
Mohandas Gandhi
Molly Brown
Moses
Mother Teresa
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mr. Rogers
Munshi Premchand
Nancy Bronster
Napoleon
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Neil Armstrong
Neil Diamond
Nelson Mandela
Newt Gingrich
Norman Mailer
Norman Rockwell
Norman Schwarzkopf
O. J. Simpson
Octavio Paz
Ogden Nash
Omar Khayyam
Oprah Winfrey
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Oscar Wilde
Osho Rajneesh
Outkast
Ovid
Ozzy Osbourne
P B Shelley
P G Wodehouse
Pablo Picasso
Pancho Villa
Paracelsus
Patrick Henry
Paul Harvey
Paul McCartney
Paul Newman
Paul Revere
Paul Valery
Pelé
Peter Drucker
Peter Jennings
Peyton Manning
Phil Donahue
Philip Larkin
Phillis Wheatley
Philo
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Plato
Plutarch
Pocahontas
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope John Paul
Pope John Paul II
Primo Levi
Prince William of Wales
Princess Diana
Rabindranath Tagore
Rachel Carson
Rainer Maria Rilke
Ralph Bunche
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Raul Castro
Ray Charles
Ray Kroc
Reverend Jesse L. Jackson
Richard Allen
Richard Cheney
Richard Nixon
Robert Browning
Robert Burns
Robert Frost
Robert Hayden
Robert J. (Bob) Dole
Robert Johnson
Robin Williams
Ronald Reagan
Rosa Parks
Ross H. Perot
Ross Perot
Roy Rogers
Rudyard Kipling
Rumi
Russell Crowe
Russell Simmons
Rutherford Hayes
Sacagawea
Saddam Hussein
Sally Hemings
Salvador Dali
Sam Walton
Samuel Adams
Samuel Coleridge
Sandra Day O’Connor
Sarojini Naidu
Sean Connery
Sean John Combs (Puff Diddy)
William Shakespeare
Shaquille O’Neal
Shel Silverstein
Shirley MacLaine
Sigmund Freud
Sigourney Weaver
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Winston Churchill
Socrates
Sophocles
Soren Kierkegaard
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
St Francis of Assisi
St Ignatius of Loyola
St Paul
Stan Lee
Stanley Kubrick
Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Edwin King
Steve Jobs
Steve Martin
Steven Spielberg
Stonewall Jackson
Sun Tzu
Sun Yat Sen
Susan B. Anthony
Swedenborg
Sylvia Plath
T. S. Eliot
Teairra Mari
Ted Hughes
Terry Bradshaw
Terry Fox
Thales
The Wright Brothers
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Edison
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Merton
Thomas Moore
Thurgood Marshall
Tiger Woods
Tom Brokaw
Tom Cruise
Tom Hanks
Tony Blair
Tony Hawk
Tunku Abdul Rahman
Ulysses Grant
Usher
Valerie Harper
Victor Hugo
Vincent Van Gogh
Virgil
Virginia Woolf
Vladimir Lenin
W B Yeats
W. C. Fields
Wallace Stevens
Walt Disney
Walt Whitman
Walter Cronkite
Warren Harding
Wayne Gretzky
Weird Al Yankovic
Whitney Houston
Whoopi Goldberg
Will Smith
William F. Buckley, Jr.
William Grant Still
William Henry Harrison
William Howard Taft
William James
William Makepeace Thackeray
William Mckinley
William Osler
William Wallace
William Wordsworth
Willy Mays
Winston Churchill
Woodrow Wilson
Wynton Marsalis
Yasser Arafat
Yitzhak Rabin
Yogi Berra
Yoshiro Mori
Yuri Gagarin
Zachary Taylor
Zoroaster