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👑 Historical figures

Nobel Peace Prize laureates of the 1990s

1 Mikhail Gorbachev
2 Aung San Suu Kyi
3 Rigoberta Menchú

rutero_pamplona ❤ 2 · ▲ 58 · 17 items

🔬 Scientists

Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureates of the 1920s

1 Walther Hermann Nernst
2 Fritz Pregl
3 Frederick Soddy

don_cuantico ❤ 1 · ▲ 61 · 10 items

🏛️ Leaders

The ten kings of Thailand's Chakri dynasty

1 Rama I: Phutthayotfa Chulalok
2 Rama IV: Mongkut
3 Rama IX: Bhumibol Adulyadej

ศิริพร ❤ 1 · ▲ 60 · 10 items

🏛️ Leaders

The greatest US presidents (C-SPAN historians' ranking)

1 Abraham Lincoln
2 Ronald Reagan
3 Barack Obama

sftimetraveler ❤ 0 · ▲ 60 · 23 items

👑 Historical figures

Nobel Peace Prize laureates of the 1980s

1 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
2 Desmond Tutu
3 Alfonso García Robles

sftimetraveler ❤ 0 · ▲ 17 · 11 items

💡 Inventors

Nikola Tesla's most important inventions

1 The Tesla coil (1891)
2 The AC induction motor
3 The polyphase AC power system

Neha P. ❤ 1 · ▲ 53 · 10 items

💼 Entrepreneurs

The richest people in the world (Forbes 2026)

1 Elon Musk
2 Sergey Brin
3 Larry Page

Amber Holmes ❤ 1 · ▲ 53 · 12 items

🏛️ Leaders

Every federal president of Germany

1 Theodor Heuss
2 Walter Scheel
3 Johannes Rau

die_spassvogel ❤ 2 · ▲ 48 · 12 items

✍️ Writers

Every Hindi writer who has won the Jnanpith Award

1 Sumitranandan Pant
2 Naresh Mehta
3 Sachchidananda Vatsyayan "Agyeya"

deepika_nomad ❤ 1 · ▲ 50 · 12 items

🔬 Scientists

Hungarian and Hungarian-born Nobel laureates, from Philipp Lenard to László Krasznahorkai

1 Philipp Lenard (1905)
2 Robert Bárány (1914)
3 George Olah (1994)

Molnár Ádám ❤ 1 · ▲ 48 · 20 items

👤 People

Every Miss Vietnam winner (1988–2024)

1 Bùi Bích Phương
2 Nguyễn Thu Thuỷ
3 Nguyễn Diệu Hoa

Bùi Hoàng Minh ❤ 2 · ▲ 40 · 19 items

🔬 Scientists

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureates of the 1950s

1 Edward Calvin Kendall
2 Philip Showalter Hench
3 Frederick Chapman Robbins

Craig ❤ 1 · ▲ 43 · 20 items

👤 People

All winners of the Pessoa Prize (1987–2025)

1 Maria João Pires (1989)
2 Luís Miguel Cintra (2005)
3 João Luís Carrilho da Graça (2008)

roteiro_poa ❤ 0 · ▲ 45 · 39 items

🔬 Scientists

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureates of the 1980s

1 George D. Snell
2 Niels K. Jerne
3 Jean Dausset

cientifica_lento ❤ 0 · ▲ 45 · 23 items

🔬 Scientists

Nobel Prize in Physics laureates of the 1970s

1 Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén
2 Dennis Gabor
3 Martin Ryle

Daniela Ospina Rodríguez ❤ 1 · ▲ 41 · 25 items

🔬 Scientists

Nobel Prize in Physics laureates of the 1990s

1 Henry W. Kendall
2 Georges Charpak
3 Jerome I. Friedman

cientifica_lento ❤ 1 · ▲ 39 · 22 items

🔬 Scientists

Fields Medal winners born in the Soviet Union

1 Grigory Margulis
2 Efim Zelmanov
3 Vladimir Drinfeld

Владимир Лебедев ❤ 1 · ▲ 38 · 10 items

🔬 Scientists

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureates of the 2010s

1 Bruce A. Beutler
2 Robert G. Edwards
3 Thomas C. Südhof

msfieldnotes ❤ 1 · ▲ 38 · 24 items

🔬 Scientists

Nobel Prize in Physics laureates from 1940 to 1959

1 Otto Stern
2 Isidor Isaac Rabi
3 Frits Zernike

cientifica_bucaramanga ❤ 1 · ▲ 37 · 27 items

🔬 Scientists

Nobel Prize in Physics laureates of the 2010s

1 Andre Geim
2 Konstantin Novoselov
3 Serge Haroche

Daniela Ospina Rodríguez ❤ 1 · ▲ 34 · 26 items

🔬 Scientists

Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureates of the 1960s

1 John Cowdery Kendrew
2 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
3 Robert S. Mulliken

Temitope Adeleke ❤ 1 · ▲ 32 · 15 items

👑 Historical figures

Great Greeks: the final top 10 of the Skai TV poll

1 George Papanikolaou
2 Alexander the Great
3 Ioannis Kapodistrias

athensbreadhead ❤ 0 · ▲ 34 · 10 items

👑 Historical figures

Nobel Peace Prize laureates of the 2010s

1 Liu Xiaobo
2 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
3 Tawakkol Karman

Eduardo Vargas ❤ 0 · ▲ 33 · 14 items

🔬 Scientists

Nobel Prize in Physics laureates of the 1980s

1 Val Logsdon Fitch
2 Kenneth G. Wilson
3 Nicolaas Bloembergen

Neha P. ❤ 0 · ▲ 31 · 22 items