Top 100 historical figures

A list of the top 100 historical figures was created from pages in 24 different languages, using computer algorithms to analyze the importance of people based on the links to those people's pages.
Methodology
The researchers used several different page-ranking algorithms, including Google PageRank, 2DRank, and CheiRank. They retrieved data from the text of pages in the 24 languages, and applied the algorithms to the data to create culturally-specific list of influential people, as well as a list across all the cultures examined in the project.
Among the data elements specifically targeted as indicators of importance were each person's birth country, date of birth, century of birth, and quantity of hyperlinks. In the case of hyperlinks for people's pages, both links to a person's page and links from that person's page were included in the analysis.
Results
For the English edition of , the top 10 historical figures identified by combining results of the algorithms were as follows:
# Carl Linnaeus
# Jesus
# Aristotle
# Napoleon
# Hitler
# Julius Caesar
# Plato
# William Shakespeare
# Albert Einstein
# Elizabeth II

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