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Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)

Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. with his early business partner Steve Wozniak as Apple Computer Company in 1976. After the company's board of directors fired him in 1985, he founded NeXT the same year and purchased Pixar in 1986, becoming its chairman and majority shareholder until 2007. Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 as CEO, where he was closely involved with the creation and promotion of many of the company's most influential products until his resignation in 2011.

Marlene Dietrich
German and American actress and singer (1901–1992)
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)

Ingmar Bergman
Swedish director and screenwriter (1918–2007)

Olaf Scholz
German politician (SPD), ninth Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (2021–2025), Member of the Bundestag

Bruce Willis
Walter Bruce Willis is a retired American actor. Widely recognised as a Hollywood icon of the action genre, he first achieved fame with a leading role on the comedy-drama series Moonlighting (1985–1989) and has appeared in over one hundred films, gaining widespread recognition as an action hero for his portrayal of John McClane in the Die Hard franchise (1988–2013).

Emma Stone
Emily Jean "Emma" Stone is an American actress and film producer. Her accolades include two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Volpi Cup. In 2017, she was the world's highest-paid actress and named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Larry Sanger
American former professor, co-founder of Wikipedia, founder of Citizendium and other projects (born 1968)

Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)

Anders Behring Breivik
Norwegian neo-Nazi terrorist and mass murderer
David Letterman
American comedian and television host
Martin Bormann
German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery (1900–1945)
Fredrik Reinfeldt
Prime Minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2014

Jeffrey Dahmer
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991.
Max von Sydow
Swedish-French actor (1929–2020)

Charles M. Schulz
American cartoonist, known for creating the comic strip, "Peanuts" (1922-2000)
Angelus Silesius
German writer

Jesse Ventura
Jesse Ventura is an American politician, Vietnam veteran, actor, and retired professional wrestler. After achieving fame in the World Wrestling Federation, he served as the 38th governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003. He was elected governor with the Reform Party and is the party's only candidate to win a major government office.

Prince Claus, Prince Consort of the Netherlands
Consort of the Netherlands (1980 - 2002)

Kevin Sorbo
American actor
Kurt Westergaard
Danish cartoonist (1935–2021)

Ben Sasse
Benjamin Eric Sasse is an American politician and academic administrator. He represented Nebraska in the United States Senate from 2015 to 2023, resigning to become the president of the University of Florida. He is a member of the Republican Party. A critic of Donald Trump, Sasse is one of seven Republican senators who voted to convict Trump of incitement of insurrection in his second impeachment trial.
Christian Bohr
Danish physician (1855-1911)
Ulf Ekman
Swedish chaplain
Walter Kaufmann
German-American philosopher (1921–1980)
PZ Myers
American biologist and blogger
Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis
Netherlands' first prominent socialist (1846-1919)
Robert Ferdinand Wagner
American politician (1877-1953)

James Holmes
American mass murderer, perpetrator of the July 20, 2012 mass shooting at a Century movie theater in Aurora, Colorado
Lee Atwater
American political consultant and strategist (1951–1991)
Jimmy Pop
American musician
Heri Joensen
Faroese singer and guitarist
Karl Plagge
German military Wehrmacht Army officer (1897–1957)
Tobias Forge
Swedish musician
Lars Roar Langslet
Norwegian politician (1936-2016)
Hannu Takkula
Finnish politician (1963-)
John Willem Gran
Norwegian bishop (1920–2008)
Gustav Wilhelm Wolff
Co-Founder of Harland and Wolff (1834-1913)
Karin Öberg
Swedish astrochemist
Eduard Magnus Jakobson
Estonian artist and missionary (1847–1903)
Lea Rosh
German television journalist
Edzo Toxopeus
Dutch politician (1918-2009)
Sue Klebold
American activist, mother of Dylan Klebold
Bill Baird
American activist