Table 2. Top 10 Biographies for each Time Period by Number of Language Editions (L) and Historical Popularity Index (HPI).
| Time Period |
Top 10 By L |
Top 10 by HPI |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | L | Name | HPI | |
| Before 500 | Jesus Christ | 214 | Aristotle | 31.99 |
| Confucius | 192 | Plato | 31.99 | |
| Aristotle | 152 | Jesus Christ | 31.90 | |
| Qin Shi Huang | 144 | Socrates | 31.65 | |
| Plato | 142 | Alexander the Great | 31.58 | |
| Homer | 141 | Confucius | 31.37 | |
| Alexander the Great | 138 | Julius Caesar | 31.12 | |
| Socrates | 137 | Homer | 31.11 | |
| Archimedes | 129 | Pythagoras | 31.07 | |
| Julius Caesar | 128 | Archimedes | 30.99 | |
| 500–1199 | Muhammad | 150 | Muhammad | 30.65 |
| Genghis Khan | 121 | Charlemagne | 30.48 | |
| Charlemagne | 116 | Genghis Khan | 29.74 | |
| Saladin | 104 | Saladin | 29.14 | |
| Avicenna | 102 | Avicenna | 28.89 | |
| Li Bai | 102 | Ali | 28.09 | |
| Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi | 100 | Li Bai | 28.07 | |
| Du Fu | 97 | Francis of Assisi | 28.00 | |
| Umar | 92 | Du Fu | 27.91 | |
| Omar Khayyám | 86 | Averroes | 27.83 | |
| 1200–1499 | Leonardo da Vinci | 174 | Leonardo da Vinci | 31.46 |
| Michelangelo | 158 | Michelangelo | 30.44 | |
| Christopher Columbus | 153 | Christopher Columbus | 30.18 | |
| Dante Alighieri | 137 | Dante Alighieri | 30.15 | |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | 128 | Martin Luther | 30.03 | |
| Marco Polo | 127 | Marco Polo | 29.77 | |
| Martin Luther | 125 | Jeanne d'Arc | 29.56 | |
| Ferdinand Magellan | 120 | Thomas Aquinas | 29.44 | |
| Vasco da Gama | 119 | Niccolò Machiavelli | 29.27 | |
| Albrecht Dürer | 112 | Raphael | 29.21 | |
| 1500–1749 | Isaac Newton | 191 | William Shakespeare | 30.44 |
| William Shakespeare | 163 | Isaac Newton | 30.29 | |
| Galileo Galilei | 146 | Johann Sebastian Bach | 30.17 | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | 144 | Galileo Galilei | 29.96 | |
| George Washington | 134 | Immanuel Kant | 29.69 | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 132 | René Descartes | 29.45 | |
| Miguel de Cervantes | 128 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 29.34 | |
| Immanuel Kant | 125 | Voltaire | 29.27 | |
| Rembrandt | 125 | Blaise Pascal | 29.25 | |
| Carl Linnaeus | 123 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 29.16 | |
| 1750–1849 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 177 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 30.51 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | 153 | Napoleon Bonaparte | 30.33 | |
| Karl Marx | 148 | Ludwig van Beethoven | 30.11 | |
| Charles Darwin | 148 | Karl Marx | 29.84 | |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | 145 | Charles Darwin | 29.20 | |
| Abraham Lincoln | 131 | Friedrich Nietzsche | 28.67 | |
| Thomas Edison | 126 | Victor Hugo | 28.66 | |
| Victor Hugo | 123 | Richard Wagner | 28.57 | |
| Leo Tolstoy | 123 | Claude Monet | 28.50 | |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | 117 | Frédéric Chopin | 28.47 | |
| 1850–1899 | Adolf Hitler | 169 | Adolf Hitler | 30.58 |
| Huang Xian Fan | 167 | Albert Einstein | 30.21 | |
| Albert Einstein | 166 | Vincent van Gogh | 29.74 | |
| Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | 166 | Sigmund Freud | 29.63 | |
| Vincent van Gogh | 155 | Pablo Picasso | 29.60 | |
| Charlie Chaplin | 145 | Mahatma Gandhi | 29.14 | |
| Pablo Picasso | 143 | Joseph Stalin | 28.93 | |
| Mahatma Gandhi | 138 | Vladimir Lenin | 28.92 | |
| Vladimir Lenin | 137 | Benito Mussolini | 28.55 | |
| Joseph Stalin | 134 | Oscar Wilde | 28.53 | |
| 1900–1950 | Hebe Camargo | 157 | Che Guevara | 29.16 |
| Marilyn Monroe | 143 | Martin Luther King, Jr | 28.69 | |
| George Bush | 143 | Elvis Presley | 28.62 | |
| Lech Wałęsa | 135 | Salvador Dalí | 28.59 | |
| Nelson Mandela | 133 | Marilyn Monroe | 28.35 | |
| Che Guevara | 129 | Walt Disney | 28.17 | |
| Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom | 127 | Jean-Paul Sartre | 28.15 | |
| Pope Benedict XVI | 123 | Jimi Hendrix | 27.93 | |
| Salvador Dalí | 122 | Andy Warhol | 27.92 | |
| Neil Armstrong | 121 | Mother Teresa | 27.86 | |