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A curated list of humans who have made significant contributions to various fields, along with their achievements.

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Humans / Acting

Kevin Spacey
Leonardo DiCaprio
Marlon Brando (2004)

Humans / 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

Humans / 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)

Humans / 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)
John McCarthy (2011)
Marvin Minsky (2016)
Zoubin Ghahramani

Humans / Astronomy

Carl Sagan (1996)
Edwin Hubble (1953)

Humans / 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)

Humans / 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)

Humans / Code

Grace Hopper (1992)
Jeff Dean
John Carmack
Linus Torvalds
Steve Wozniak

Humans / Comedy

1994: Bill Hicks

Humans / 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
Margaret Hamilton (1936)
Stephen Cook
Tony Hoare Developed QuickSort algorithm

Humans / Cryptography

Adi Shamir

Humans / 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)

Humans / 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)

Humans / Fashion

Gabrielle Chanel (1971)
Tom Ford

Humans / Film Directing

Alfred Hitchcock (1980)

Humans / Genetics

Gregor Mendel (1884)

Humans / Historians

Alan Taylor (1990)
Arthur Schlesinger (2007)
Edward Gibbon (1794)
Herodotus (425 BC)
Xenophon (354 BC)

Humans / Human computer interaction

Larry Tesler Pioneered cut, copy, paste action

Humans / Industrial Design

Dieter Rams
James Dyson
Jonathan Ive
Raymond Loewy (1986)

Humans / 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

Humans / Investing

George Soros
Warren Buffet

Humans / 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
Martin Richards Developed BCPL programming 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

Humans / Leaders

Abraham Lincoln (1865)
Adolf Hitler (1945)
Alexander the Great (323 BC)
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)

Humans / Linguistics

Noam Chomsky

Humans / Machine learning

David Kristjanson Duvenaud

Humans / Management

Eric Schmidt
Satya Nadella
Sundar Pichai
Tim Cook

Humans / 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
Frank Ramsey (1930)
Georg Cantor (1918)
George Boole (1864) Worked out the details of propositional, or Boolean logic
Gerolamo Cardano (1576) First framed the idea of probability, describing it in terms of the possible outcomes of gambling events
Godfrey Hardy (1947)
Gottfried Leibniz (1716) Built a mechanical device intended to carry out operations on concepts rather than numbers
Gottlob Frege (1925) Extended Boole’s logic to include objects and relations, creating the first-order logic that is used today
Grigori Perelman
Haskell Curry (1982)
Henri Poincaré (1912)
Jacob Bernoulli (1705)
Jean Serre
Johann Lambert (1777) Invented Wave Equation
John Conway
John Littlewood (1977)
John Napier (1617) Invented logarithms
John Nash (2015)
Joseph Fourier (1830) Invented Fourier Transform
Joseph Lagrande (1813)
Karl Weierstass (1897)
Kurt Godel (1978)
Leonhard Euler (1783) Invented The Square Root of Minus One, Euler’s Formula for Polyhedra
Madhava of Sangamagrama (1425)
Niels Abel (1829)
Norbert Wiener (1964)
Paul Erdős (1996)
Peter Dirichlet (1859)
Peter Scholze
Pierre Fermat (1655)
Pierre Laplace (1827) Advanced the theory and introduced new statistical methods
Pythagoras (495 BC) Invented the famous Pythagoras’s Theorem
Rene Descartes (1650) Gave the first clear discussion of the distinction between mind and matter and of the problems that arise
Shinichi Mochizuki
Srinivasa Ramanujan (1920)
Stefan Banach (1945)
Stephen Kleene (1994)
Stephen Smale
Terrence Tao
Thales of Miletus (546 BC)
Thomas Bayes (1761) Proposed a rule for updating probabilities in light of new evidence
Évariste Galois (1832)

Humans / Medicine

Aelius Galen (210)
Alfred Blalock (1964)
Andreas Vesalius (1564)
Charles Drew (1950)
Elizabeth Blackwell (1910)
Hippocrates (370 BC)
James Parkinson (1824)
Jonas Salk (1995)
Rudolf Virchow (1902)
Virginia Apgar (1974)
William Harvey (1657)

Humans / Music

Chazwick Bundick Stage name: Tory Y Moi
Douglas Appling Stage name: Emancipator
Henry Laufer Stage name: Shlohmo
Igor Stravinsky (1971)
Irving Berlin (1989)
Jimi Hendrix (1970)
Johann Bach (1750)
John Lennon (1980)
Jon Hopkins
Jun Seba (2010) Stage name: Nujabes
Justin Vernon Band: Bon Iver
Kevin Parker Band: Tame Impala
Ludwig van Beethoven (1827)
Marcos Ortega Stage name: Lorn
Nicolas Jaar
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1908)
Paul McCartney
Wolfgang Mozart (1791)

Humans / Neuroscience

Aafia Siddiqui
Antonio Damasio
Christof Koch
Daniel Levitin
David Eagleman
Henry Markram
Paul Greengard
Robert Sapolsky
Sam Harris

Humans / Philosophy

Albert Camus (1960)
Arthur Schopenhauer (1860)
Auguste Comte (1857)
Confucius (479 BC)
David Hume (1776)
Diogenes (323 BC)
Edmund Husserl (1938)
Epictetus (135) 440 almost 5 years ago
Francis Bacon (1626)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1900)
Immanuel Kant (1804)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1778)
John Dewey (1952)
John Locke (1704)
John Mill (1873)
Karl Popper (1994)
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1951)
Manly Hall (1990)
Peter Singer
Plato (147 BC)
Socrates (399 BC)
Søren Kierkegaard (1855)
Thomas Aquinas (1274)
Thomas Hobbes (1679) Proposed that reasoning was like numerical computation, that “we add and subtract in our silent thoughts”
William Thompson (1833)

Humans / Photography

Ansel Adams (1984)
Diane Arbus (1971)
Edward Weston (1958)
Henri Cartier-Bresson (2004)
Richard Avedon (2004)
Robert Capa (1954)

Humans / Physics

Albert Einstein (1955)
Anton Zeilinger
Arnold Sommerfeld (1951)
Enrico Fermi (1954)
Ernest Rutherford (1937)
Erwin Schrödinger (1961)
Eugene Wigner (1995)
Galileo Galilei (1642)
Guglielmo Marconi (1937)
Heinrich Hertz (1894) First person to transmit and receive radio waves
Isaac Newton (1726) Invented Calculus and Law of Gravity
James Chadwick (1974)
James Maxwell (1879) Invented Maxwell’s equations
John Bardeen (1991)
John Bell (1990)
John Mauchly (1980)
Joseph Thompson (1940)
Julius Oppenheimer (1967)
Louis de Broglie (1987)
Ludwig Boltzmann (1906) Invented Schrodinger’s Equation
Max Born (1970)
Max Planck (1947)
Nicolaus Copernicus (1543)
Niels Bohr (1962)
Nikola Tesla (1943)
Paul Dirac (1984)
Pierre Curie (1906)
Richard Feynman (1988)
Robert Hooke (1703)
Roger Penrose
Satyendra Bose (1974)
Stephen Hawking
Werner Heisenberg (1976)
Wolfgang Pauli (1958)

Humans / Psychology

Abraham Maslow (1970)
Burrhus Skinner (1990)
Carl Rogers (1987)
Ivan Pavlov (1936)
Jean Piaget (1980) Known for his pioneering work in child development
Sigmund Freud (1939)

Humans / Scifi

Arthur Clarke (2008)
Dan Simmons
Douglas Adams (2001)
Herbert Wells (1946)
Howard Lovecraft (1937)
Isaac Asimov (1992)
Jules Verne (1905)
Philip Dick (1982)
Robert Heinlein (1988)
Stanislaw Lem (2006)
Stephen King
Ted Chiang
Ursula Le Guin

Humans / Spirit

Alan Watts (1973)
Gautama Buddha (400 BC) Was the man who started Buddhism
Graham Hancock
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1986)
Mahatma Gandhi (1948)
Nisargadatta Maharaj (1981)
Paul Brunton (1981)
Ramana Maharshi (1950)
Sri Aurobindo (1950)
Stanislav Grof
Terrence McKenna (2000)
Timothy Leary (1996)

Humans / Writing

Agatha Christie (1976)
Aldous Huxley (1963)
Anais Nin (1977)
Arthur Conan Doyle (1930)
Dale Carnegie (1955)
Eric Arthur Blair (1950) Known by his pen name ‘George Orwell’
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1881)
Hermann Hesse (1962)
John Milton (1674)
John Tolkien (1973)
Jorge Borges (1986)
Kurt Vonnegut (2007)
Leo Tolstoy (1910)
Mark Twain (1910)
Mikhail Bulgakov (1940)
Oscar Wilde (1900)
Paul Graham
William Shakespeare (1616)

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