Reading along
They drop in when something catches them, and sometimes they don't.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Sixteenth U.S. President, d. 1865
- Augustine of Hippo
- Bishop of Hippo, d. 430
- Baruch Spinoza
- Philosopher, d. 1677
- Charles Darwin
- Naturalist, d. 1882
- Confucius
- Teacher, d. 479 BCE
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Suffragist, d. 1902
- Emily Dickinson
- Poet, d. 1886
- Frederick Douglass
- Abolitionist, d. 1895
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Philosopher, d. 1900
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Abbess and visionary, d. 1179
- Isaac Newton
- Natural philosopher, d. 1727
- John Calvin
- Reformer of Geneva, d. 1564
- Leo Tolstoy
- Novelist, d. 1910
- Marcus Aurelius
- Roman Emperor, d. 180
- Mark Twain
- Humorist, d. 1910
- Martin Luther
- Reformer, d. 1546
- Moses Maimonides
- Rabbi, physician, philosopher, d. 1204
- Rashi
- Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki of Troyes, d. 1105
- Sigmund Freud
- Psychoanalyst, d. 1939
- Sojourner Truth
- Abolitionist and preacher, d. 1883
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Philosopher, d. 1855
- Thomas Jefferson
- Third U.S. President, d. 1826
- Thomas Paine
- Pamphleteer, d. 1809
- Voltaire
- Philosophe, d. 1778