This section is from the book "Bepler's Handy Manual of Knowledge And Useful Infomation", by David Bepler. Also available from Amazon: Bepler's Handy Manual of Knowledge and Useful Information.
Poetry
Homer, Pindar, AEschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Menander, Luceritius, Virgil, Dante, Rabelais, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Milton, Scott, Moliere, Goethe, Burns, Longfellow.
Art
Architects, Sculptors, Painters and Musicians
Phidias, Praxiteles, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michael Angelo, Corregio,Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt, Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven
Religion
Religious Founders, Reformers and Theologians
Oriental Religions - Confucius, Buddha, Mahomet. Christianity - St. Paul, St. Augustine, St. Bernard, St. Francis, Erasmus, Luther, Calvin, Loyola, Bossuet, Wesley.
Philosophy
Metaphysicians, Psychologists and Moralists
Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, John Locke, Leibnitz, Berkeley, Hume, Kant.
History
Historians, Orators and Critics
Herodotus, Thucydides, Demosthenes, Cicero, Tacitus, Plutarch, Montaigne, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, Lessing, Gibbon.
Science
Mathematicians, Physicians and Naturalists
Hippocrates, Archimedes, Galen, Copernicus, Keppler, Galileo, Harvey, Newton, Linnseus, Lavoisier, Bichat, Cuvier.
Industry
Inventors, Discoverers, Philanthropists
Gutenburg, Columbus, Palissy, Franklin, Howard, Montgolfier, Arkwright, Watt, Stephenson, Edison.
Politics
Warriors and Statesmen
Pericles, Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Caesar, Charlemagne, Alfred the Great, William the Conquerer, Charles V, William the Silent, Richelieu, Cromwell, Peter the Great, Frederick the Great, Washington, Jefferson, Nelson, Napoleon I, Wellington, Gladstone, Blaine, Lincoln, Bismark.
 
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