The Representative List of figureheads of Humanity
In 2008, the International Bureau of Cultural Capitals started its election and promotion campaigns for the figureheads of mankind, willing to deepen the acknowledgement of these personalities and the contributions they made to the world.
The election of these personalities has always been done with the proposals contributed by the citizens. Subsequently, the nominations have been put to vote. The most rated ones were incorporated into the Representative List of the figureheads of Humanity, conducted by the International Bureau of Cultural Capitals.
The personalities which enter the list are as follows:
100 personalities who had the most influence on the Latin American culture
1 - Pablo Neruda
2 - Gabriel García Márquez
3 - Vinicius de Moraes
4 - Octavio Paz
5 - Andrés Bello
6 - Jorge Luis Borges
7 - Rubén Darío
8 - Rómulo Gallegos
9 - Gabriela Mistral
10 - Simón Bolívar
11 - Miguel Ángel Asturias
12 - Carlos Gardel
13 - Raúl García Zárate
14 - Oscar Niemeyer
15 - Juanes
16 - Alejo Carpentier
17 - Frida Kahlo
18 - Augusto Roa Bastos
19 - Julio Jaramillo
20 - Franz Tamayo
21 - Astor Piazzolla
22 - Antonio Carlos Jobim
23 - Alfonso Reyes
24 - Arturo Uslar Pietri
25 - José María Figueres Ferrer
26 - Quino
27 - Jorge Amado
28 - María Isabel Granda Larco
29 - Pedro Henríquez Ureña
30 - Eugenio María de Hostos
31 - Mercedes Sosa
32 - Cecilia Meireles
33 - Fernando Botero
34 - Violeta Parra |
35 - José Martí
36 - Machado de Assis
37 - Ernesto Guevara
38 - Rigoberta Menchú
39 - Miguel Hidalgo
40 - Tarsila do Amaral
41 - Julio Cortázar
42 - Francisco José de Caldas
43 - Roque Dalton García
44 - Jesús Soto
45 - João Gilberto
46 - Benito Juárez
47 - Víctor Jara
48 - Gonzalo Arango
49 - Mario Moreno
50 - Joaquín Torres García
51 - José Carlos Mariátegui La Chira
52 - Francisco de Paula Santander
53 - Jorge Negrete
54 - Froylán Turcios
55 - Ricardo J. Alfaro
56 - Mário de Andrade
57 - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
58 - Justo Arosemena
59 - Policarpa Salavarrieta
60 - Oswaldo Guayasamín
61 - Shakira
62 - Augusto César Sandino
63 - Pelé
64 - Paulo Coelho
65 - Juan Carlos Onetti
66 - José Antonio Abreu
67 - José Vasconcelos Calderón
68 - Mario Vargas Llosa |
69 - Juan Luis Guerra Sijes
70 - Roman Chalbaud
71 - Julia de Burgos
72 - Carlos Mérida
73 - Juan Diego Flórez Salom
74 - José Hernández
75 - Manuel Elkin Patarroyo
76 - Juana Inés de la Cruz
77 - Adela Zamudio
78 - Alicia Moreau de Justo
79 - João Guimarães Rosa
80 - Eloy Alfaro
81 - Pancho Villa
82 - Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
83 - José Napoleón Duarte
84 - Carlos Drummond de Andrade
85 - Graciliano Ramos
86 - Dolores del Río
87 - Luis Alberto del Paraná
88 - José Gabriel Condorcanqui
89 - Juan Pablo Duarte
90 - Guillermo Meneses
91 - Ricardo Arjona
92 - Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
93 - Luis Muñoz Marín
94 - Carmen Lyra
95 - Wilfredo Lam
96 - Manuel Ricardo Palma Soriano
97 - Jorge Icaza Coronel
98 - José Alfredo Jiménez Sandoval
99 - Eduardo Abaroa Hidalgo
100 - José Francisco Morazán Quezada |
50 personalities who had the most influence on the European culture
1 - Leonardo da Vinci
2 - Shakespeare
3 - W.A. Mozart
4 - Albert Einstein
5 - Sócrates
6 - Johann Goethe
7 - Galileo Galilei
8 - Charlemagne
9 - Erasmus of Rotterdam
10 - Fyodor Dostoevsky
11 - Johannes Gutenberg
12 - Immanuel Kant
13 - Michelangelo
14 - Beethoven
15 - Molière
16 - Isaac Newton
17 - Pablo Picasso |
18 - Sigmund Freud
19 - Miguel de Cervantes
20 - Marie Curie
21 - Lumière Brothers
22 - John XXIII
23 - John Paul II
24 - Leo Tolstoy
25 - Charles Darwin
26 – Martín Lutero
27 - Charles Dickens
28 - Jean Jacques Rousseau
29 - Julio Verne
30 - Le Corbusier
31 - Ramon Llull
32 - Alfred Nobel
33 - Voltaire
34 - Rene Descartes
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35 - Karl Marx
36 - Friedrich Nietzsche
37 - Dante Alighieri
38 - Charles Chaplin
39 - Henri Dunant
40 - Denis Diderot
41 - Simone de Beauvoir
42 - Fernando Pessoa
43 - Pierre Coubertain
44 - Pau Casals
45 - Melina Mercouri
46 - Baden Powell
47 - John Lennon
48 - Diego Velázquez
49 - Ingmar Bergman
50 - Machiavelli |
7 scholars of Catalonia
Pompeu Fabra (in the field of language and literature)
Pau Casals (music and performing arts)
Ramon Llull (humanities)
Antoni Gaudí (plastic arts)
Narcis Monturiol (science and technology)
Tecla Sala (economics)
Enric Prat de la Riba (politics)
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