The Pantheon project at the MIT Media Lab provides a database of humanity’s who is who. The geographic distribution of world renown philosophers: Pantheon map. And of scientists: Pantheon map. Country of birth vs. cultural domain: Pantheon matrix.

The top ten people: Aristotle, Plato, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Alexander the Great, Leonardo da Vinci, Confucius, Julius Caesar, Homer, Pythagoras.