1. Winston Churchill
   Joseph Stalin
2. Donald Trump

“We shall never surrender." So said Winston Churchill, the portly boozehound who defied the Nazis at every turn. Hitler’s men never captured Britain partly due to Churchill’s stout demeanor.

1. Joe DiMaggio
   Abraham Lincoln
2. George Washington

On April 14, 1865, as the Civil War drew to a conclusion, an assassin murdered President Lincoln at a theater. It was a form of Confederate revenge.

1. Mata Hari
   Angelina Jolie
2. Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart was a bold woman who bravely took on one aviation thrill after another. In 1939, she tried to fly around the world but her plane disappeared, and her fate is still a mystery.

1. Mother Teresa
   Sister Mary
2. Queen Elizabeth

Mother Teresa spent most of her life in India, helping the world’s most impoverished people live better lives. She died in 1997, hailed as a hero for the ages.

1. Leon Trotsky
   Bob Geldof
2. Alfred Hitchcock

With his dry sense of humor and round belly, Alfred Hitchcock was a master of suspense movies. He directed more than 50 movies in his life.

1. Madonna
   Arthur Miller
2. Marilyn Monroe

Norma Jean Baker — Marilyn Monroe — was the number one sex symbol of the 20th century. But her troubled life ended tragically at the tender age of 37.

1. C.S. Lewis
   Steve Jobs
2. Sigmund Freud

Thanks to him, we have the "Freudian slip." Sigmund Freud was a rather weird guy who made some keen insights into human behavior in the late 19th and early 20th century.

1. Warren Buffett
   Bill Gates
2. Jimmy Buffett

In 1975, Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen. Their tiny software company eventually came to control much of the computer industry.

1. Queen Victoria
   Queen Mary
2. Henry VIII

In the late 1800s, Queen Victoria dominated much of Europe’s politics. Her children later married into powerful families, making the queen an influential person, indeed.

1. Buzz Aldrin
   Neil Armstrong
2. Michael Jackson

He was the commander of the Apollo 11 mission, a humble hero for all of the world. In 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first person to touch the moon.

1. Bawling Cow
   Squatting Calf
2. Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull was a Lakota holy man who had a premonition that Indian warriors would soon see a major victory. He was right — they won their greatest fight against the U.S. at the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, in which Custer made his last stand.

1. Tilda Swinton
   Rosa Parks
2. Deion Sanders

It was a calculated move, and it worked. In 1955, Rosa Parks, a black woman, refused to move for a white rider on a local bus. The resulting kerfuffle ignited the Civil Rights movement.

1. Charles Darwin
   Charles Barkley
2. Charles Dickens

In the 1800s, Charles Darwin set off around the world and made many observations about animal life. His ideas on natural selection and evolution opened new doors in the sciences.

1. Malcolm X
   Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela, he of the beaming smile, is an icon of South Africa. Imprisoned for many years, he fought on, and became an anti-apartheid hero.

1. J.R.R. Tolkien
   C.S. Lewis
2. Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf is still regarded as one Britain’s best-ever writers. But she was emotionally anguished and drowned herself at the age of 59.

1. Benjamin Harrison
   John Kennedy
2. William McKinley

It marked a dark shift in American culture. In November 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK and upturned much of the country’s political scene.

1. Eva Peron
   Ronald Reagan
2. Margaret Thatcher

Starting in the late ‘70s, Margaret Thatcher was a stalwart figure in British politics. She was the "Iron Lady" because she never backed down from a fight.

1. Albert Einstein
   Woodrow Wilson
2. Karl Marx

Albert Einstein is perhaps the most famous scientist ever to walk the Earth. His theory of relativity transformed physics in countless ways.

1. Muhammad Ali
   Martin Luther King Jr.
2. George Foreman

Cassius Clay — Muhammad Ali — was savage in the ring, becoming a heavyweight boxing champ. But his influence in politics made him an even more powerful icon.

1. Thomas Edison
   Pele
2. Michael Jordan

A Brazilian hero, Pele is often regarded as perhaps the best soccer player ever. And he transcended sports, becoming a major supporter of humanitarian causes.

1. Fidel Castro
   Ingrid Bergman
2. Joseph Stalin

He was the lord of the Red Army and one-time BFF of Hitler. Then, Germany invaded his homeland and Joseph Stalin used millions of soldiers (and civilians) to stop the Nazis.

1. Joan of Arc
   Cleopatra
2. Coco Chanel

Until 30 BC, Cleopatra was one of the most powerful women in Egypt’s history. But she made the wrong alliances and found her empire crumbling.

1. Audie Murphy
   John Tyler
2. Teddy Roosevelt

In WWII, Audie Murphy unleashed his pent-up aggression against the Nazis and won the Medal of Honor. Then he became a Westerns star ... and died young in a plane crash.

1. Hellen Keller
   Susan Sontag
2. Indira Gandhi

With her "Addams Family" hair and big personality, Indira Gandhi became the first female leader of India. But her own bodyguards killed her in 1984.

1. John Rockefeller
   Richard Branson
2. Henry Ford

In the early 20th century, Henry Ford introduced the Model T. He also perfected assembly line production, which made the car the first to be within reach of average Americans.

1. Carrie Fisher
   Paris Hilton
2. Audrey Hepburn

She started her life in ballet but graduated to acting. Audrey Hepburn is still a Hollywood icon, and it all started with "Roman Holiday."

1. Sergeant York
   Stonewall Jackson
2. Colonel Sanders

In 1952, Colonel Harlan David Sanders started the first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. His famous secret recipe came to epitomize fast food chicken in America.

1. Gerald Ford
   John Adams
2. George Washington

George Washington lost almost all of his teeth by the time he became president. But he was still the guiding force for the rebels in the American Revolution.

1. Bruce Jenner
   Carl Lewis
2. Jesse Owens

In 1935, Jesse Owens set three world records in an hour. He went on to mock Hitler at the 1936 Summer Olympics, making Owens one of the century’s most amazing athletes.

1. Donald Trump
   P.T. Barnum
2. Steve Jobs

In the late 19th century, P.T. Barnum became famous for all sorts of hoaxes (and his circus). Although there’s no proof that he coined the phrase, "there’s a sucker born every minute," he definitely took advantage of the concept.