Tony Blair was leader of the British Labour Party from 1994 to 2007, and prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007.
At the height of his career, boxer Rubin Carter was twice wrongly convicted of a triple murder and was imprisoned for nearly two decades.
People's sexiest man alive George Clooney is an Oscar-winning actor best known for playing Dr. Doug Ross on TV's ER and Danny Ocean in the Ocean's Eleven films.
Maximilien de Robespierre was an official during the French Revolution and one of the principal architects of the Reign of Terror.
Abolitionist Martin Robison Delany was both a physician and newspaper editor, and became one of the most influential and successful anti-slavery activists of the 19th century.
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist best known for developing the theories and techniques of psychoanalysis.
Willie Mays played professional baseball for the Giants and the Mets. He was one of the best batters and fielders at the time.
American explorer Robert Edwin Peary is best known for claiming to be the first person to reach the geographic North Pole.
Virginia planter and colonial official John Rolfe was the husband of Pocahontas, daughter of the Indian chief Powhatan. He sold Virginia tobacco to England.
Italian-American actor Rudolph Valentino was admired as the “Great Lover” of the 1920s.
Orson Welles wrote, directed and starred in the film Citizen Kane, among others, which remains one of the most influential films ever made.