Santa Claus (St. Nick) - Single-handedly straightens out every kid in the world.
Sherlock Holmes -Infamous, deductive detective.
Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare created this couple, the heart of "love"
Robin Hood - "Take from the rich to give to the poor."
Oedipus - Mythical Greek king who killed his father and married his mother
Mickey Mouse - Icon of the Walt Disney Company.
Odyesseus - The hero of Homer's epic works about his long journey home from the Trojan War
Cinderella - Classic, opressed girl breaking out of her shell and finding a magical world filled of love.
Midas - Turned everything he touched into gold.
William Tell - Famous bow-and-arrow marksman who shot the apple on the the top of his sons head.
Tarzan - The man raised by the animals. Described as a flawless hero.
And, Mr. Hart's very interesting book contains biographies of all the following people, ranked in order from most influential to the mankind,
Science:
* Isaac Newton* Johann Gutenberg * Christopher Columbus * Albert Einstein * Louis Pasteur
* Galileo Galilei* Aristotle * Euclid * Charles Darwin * Nicolaus Copernicus * Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
* James Watt* Michael Faraday * Orville and Wilbur Wright * Edward de Vere * John Dalton
* Thomas Edison* Antony van Leeuwenhoek * William T.G. Morton * Guglielmo Marconi
* Oliver Cromwell * John Locke* Alexander Graham Bell * Alexander Fleming * Louis Daguerre r
* Rene Descartes * William Harvey * Ernest Rutherford * John Calvin * Gregor Mendel * Max Planck
* Joseph Lister * * Francisco Pizarro* Hernando Cortes * Sigmund Freud * Edward Jenner * Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen * Johann Sebastian Bach* Voltaire * Johannes Kepler * Enrico Fermi * Leonhard Euler * Jean-Jacques Rousseau * Francis Bacon* Henry Ford * Mencius * Nicoli Machiavelli * Thomas Malthus
* Gregory Pincus * Vasco da Gama * Menes* Charlemagne * Homer * Justinian I * Archimedes
* Charles Babbage * Cheops * Marie Curie * James Clerk* Ferdinand Magellan * Leonardo da Vinci
Politics and Arts:
* Shih Huang Ti *Augustus Caesar * Constantine the Great Maxwell * Martin Luther
* George Washington* Karl Marx * Genghis Kahn * Adam Smith * Michelangelo * Alexander the Great
* Adolf Hitler * Plato* Ludwig van Beethoven * Werner Heisenberg * Nikolaus August Otto
*Simon Bolivia * Thomas Jefferson* Queen Isabella I * Joseph Stalin * Julius Caesar
* William the Conqueror * John F. Kennedy * Mani * Lenin* Sui Wen Ti * Cyrus the Great
* Peter the Great * Mao Zedong * Queen Elizabeth I * Mikhail Gorbachev* Benjamin Franklin
* Mohandas Gandhi * Abraham Lincoln * Napoleon Bonaparte
Religious:
* Buddha * Muhammad * Jesus Christ * Lao Tzu * Confucius * St. Paul * Ts'ai Lun * Pope Urban II
* 'Umar ibn al-Khattab * Asoka *St. Augustine * Zoroaster * Mahavira *St. Thomas Aquinas *Moses
