#List of top 100 Russian 2DRank historical figures #Ranking, Name, Birth country code, Birth country, Birth century, Gender,Language 1 Pope John Paul II PL Poland 20 M PL 2 Dmitri Mendeleev RU Russia 19 M RU 3 Peter the Great RU Russia 17 M RU 4 Catherine the Great PL Poland 18 F PL 5 Aleksander Griboyedov RU Russia 18 M RU 6 Yuri Gagarin RU Russia 20 M RU 7 Justinian I MK Macedonia 5 M WR 8 Elvis Presley US United_States 20 M EN 9 Yaroslav the Wise UA Ukraine 10 M WR 10 Vladimir Vysotsky RU Russia 20 M RU 11 Alla Pugacheva RU Russia 20 F RU 12 Pope Benedict XVI DE Germany 20 M DE 13 Anton Denikin PL Poland 19 M PL 14 Raphael IT Italy 15 M IT 15 Max Planck DE Germany 19 M DE 16 Madonna (entertainer) US United_States 20 F EN 17 Joseph Stalin GE Georgia 19 M WR 18 George Harrison UK United_Kingdom 20 M EN 19 Niels Bohr DK Denmark 19 M DA 20 Bob Dylan US United_States 20 M EN 21 Christopher Columbus IT Italy 15 M IT 22 Louis de Funès FR France 20 M FR 23 William Shakespeare UK United_Kingdom 16 M EN 24 Nikolai Gogol UA Ukraine 19 M WR 25 Hannibal TN Tunisia -3 M AR 26 Joseph Brodsky RU Russia 20 M RU 27 Nicholas Roerich RU Russia 19 M RU 28 Mary (mother of Jesus) IL Israel -1 F HE 29 Adolf Hitler AT Austria 19 M DE 30 Maxim Gorky RU Russia 19 M RU 31 J. R. R. Tolkien ZA South_Africa 19 M WR 32 Che Guevara AR Argentina 20 M ES 33 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky RU Russia 19 M RU 34 Alexander I of Russia RU Russia 18 M RU 35 David Bowie UK United_Kingdom 20 M EN 36 Arthur Conan Doyle UK United_Kingdom 19 M EN 37 Edgar Allan Poe US United_States 19 M EN 38 Louis XIV of France FR France 17 M FR 39 Benito Mussolini IT Italy 19 M IT 40 Salvador Dalí ES Spain 20 M ES 41 Viktor Yushchenko UA Ukraine 20 M WR 42 Albrecht Dürer DE Germany 15 M DE 43 Julius Caesar IT Italy -1 M IT 44 Lavrentiy Beria GE Georgia 19 M WR 45 Nikita Khrushchev RU Russia 19 M RU 46 Viktor Yanukovych UA Ukraine 20 M WR 47 Henri Poincaré FR France 19 M FR 48 Pyotr Stolypin DE Germany 19 M DE 49 Ivan III of Russia RU Russia 15 M RU 50 Leonardo da Vinci IT Italy 15 M IT 51 Grigory Potemkin RU Russia 18 M RU 52 Sergey Kirov RU Russia 19 M RU 53 Mikhail Lomonosov RU Russia 18 M RU 54 Albert Einstein DE Germany 19 M DE 55 Michael Schumacher DE Germany 20 M DE 56 Muammar Gaddafi LY Libya 20 M AR 57 Louis the Pious FR France 8 M FR 58 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn RU Russia 20 M RU 59 Sergei Korolev UA Ukraine 20 M WR 60 Ivan Paskevich UA Ukraine 18 M WR 61 Garry Kasparov AZ Azerbaijan 20 M TR 62 Viktor Tsoi RU Russia 20 M RU 63 Heydar Aliyev AZ Azerbaijan 20 M TR 64 Mikhail Frunze KG Kyrgyzstan 19 M WR 65 Quentin Tarantino US United_States 20 M EN 66 Napoleon FR France 18 M FR 67 Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling DE Germany 18 M DE 68 Timur UZ Uzbekistan 14 M WR 69 Georgy Zhukov RU Russia 19 M RU 70 Fridtjof Nansen NO Norway 19 M WR 71 Leonid Brezhnev UA Ukraine 20 M WR 72 Boris Grebenshchikov RU Russia 20 M RU 73 Andrey Kolmogorov RU Russia 20 M RU 74 Ivan Mazepa UA Ukraine 17 M WR 75 Carl Linnaeus SE Sweden 18 M SV 76 John Lennon UK United_Kingdom 20 M EN 77 Heinrich Himmler DE Germany 19 M DE 78 John the Baptist IL Israel -1 M HE 79 Vytautas LT Lithuania 14 M WR 80 Georgy Vitsin RU Russia 20 M RU 81 Stephen King US United_States 20 M EN 82 Werner Heisenberg DE Germany 20 M DE 83 Rolan Bykov UA Ukraine 20 M WR 84 Ludwig van Beethoven DE Germany 18 M DE 85 Ozzy Osbourne UK United_Kingdom 20 M EN 86 Mikhail Lermontov RU Russia 19 M RU 87 Yakov Sverdlov RU Russia 19 M RU 88 Galileo Galilei IT Italy 16 M IT 89 Andrei Tarkovsky RU Russia 20 M RU 90 Erwin Schrödinger AT Austria 19 M DE 91 Trajan ES Spain 1 M ES 92 Nikita Mikhalkov RU Russia 20 M RU 93 Genghis Khan MN Mongolia 12 M WR 94 Leonid Utyosov UA Ukraine 19 M WR 95 H. P. Lovecraft US United_States 19 M EN 96 Wright brothers US United_States 19 M EN 97 Rembrandt NL Netherlands 17 M NL 98 Sergei Lukyanenko KZ Kazakhstan 20 M WR 99 Pope John XXIII IT Italy 19 M IT 100 Nadezhda Krupskaya RU Russia 19 F RU