Country | Most (in-)famous person | Runner ups | Woman (if not listed before) |
Austria | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Sigmund Freud, Hitler, Arnold Schwarzenegger |
Marie Antoinette, daughter of empress
Maria Theresa |
Australia | Russell Crowe |
Greg Norman
|
Evonne Goolagong |
Argentina | Juan Peron |
Diego Maradonna |
Evita |
Brazil | Pele |
Supermodel Gisele Bündchen
|
Carmen Miranda |
Canada | Pierre Trudeau |
Wayne Gretzky, Ben Johnson |
Celine Dion |
China | Mao |
Confucius |
Hua Mulan |
England |
William Shakespeare |
Churchill, Newton, Princess Diana |
Queen Elizabeth II |
France | Napoleon |
|
Joan of Arc |
Germany |
Karl Marx |
Einstein, Bach, Beethoven, Luther, Gutenberg |
Marlene Dietrich |
Ghana |
Kwame Nkrumah |
Kofi-Anan (UN Sec Gen) |
Yaa Asantewaa |
Greece | Socrates |
Aristoteles |
Maria Callas |
India | Gandhi |
|
Indira Gandhi |
Israel | Yitzhak Rabin |
|
Golda Meir |
Italy | Leonardo da Vinci |
Columbus, Michelangelo |
Sophia Loren |
Japan | Admiral Yamamoto |
Akio Morita |
Yoko Ono, wife of John Lennon |
Netherlands | Vincent van Gogh |
Rembrandt |
Anne Frank |
Poland | Pope John Paul II |
Chopin, Walesa |
Marie Curie |
Russia | Lenin |
Tschaikowski, Stalin; note: Catherine the Great
was a German Princess |
Princess Anastasia |
South Africa | Nelson Mandela |
|
Zola Budd |
Spain | Pablo Picasso |
|
Queen Isabella |
Sweden | Alfred Nobel |
Bjorn Borg |
Ingrid Bergman |
Switzerland | Jean Henri Dunant |
Euler, Pestalozzi |
Martina Hingis |
USA | Michael Jordan |
J. F. Kennedy, Washington, Lincoln, Reagan, Edison,
Monica Lewinsky, mistress of president Clinton |
Marilyn Monroe |
Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh |
|
Madam Nhu, sister-in-law of
assassinated prime minister Diem |
February 1, 2001