Top People in Values
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Individuals who have had a major impact on the History of Values including our picks for the Top 100
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Maria Callas
1923 – 1977
Greek-American

Opera singer. She became an exemplar of theatricality and high culture.

Contemporaries
1896–1974Giorgiy Zhukov
1883–1936Grigoriy Zinoviev
1927–2013Tatyana Zaslavskaya
1884–1937Yevgeny Zamyatin
1931–2007Boris Yeltsin
1895–c. 1939Nikolai Yezhov
1880–1943Max Wertheimer
1896–1934Lev Vygotsky
1883–1954Andrey Vyshinsky
Born 1943Lech Walesa
1879–1940Leon Trotsky
c. 1886–1934Alexandre Stavisky
1906–1977Alexey Stakhanov
1879–1953Joseph Stalin
1893–1944I. J. Singer
1892–1954Esther Singer
1891–1945Maria Skobtsova
1928–2014Eduard Shevardnadze
Born 1948Natan Shcharansky
1900–1971George Seferiádés
1881–1938Alexey Rykov
1885–c. 1939Karl Radek
1947–1984Jerzy Popieluszko
1948–1969Jan Palach
1906–1975Aristotle Onassis
1938–1993Rudolf Nureyev
1890–1950Vaslav Nijinsky
1895–1958Imre Nagy
1892–1975József Mindszenty
1885–1971Georg Lukacs
1902–1977Alexander Luria
1870–1924Vladimir Lenin
1894–1941St. Maximilian Kolbe
1894–1971Nikita Khrushchev
1881–1970Alexander Kerensky
Born 1963Gary Kasparov
1883–1957Nikos Kazantzakis
1936–2011Václav Havel
1869–1955Calouste Gulbenkian
1880–1942Michel Fokine
1877–1926Felix Dzerzhinsky
1872–1929Sergei Diaghilev
1863–1933Constantine Cavafy
1888–1938Nikolay Bukharin
1871–1944Sergey Bulgakov
1923–2011Yelena Bonner
1899–1953Lavrenti Beria
1874–1948Nikolai Berdyaev
1865–1959Bernard Berenson
1899–1972Georg von Békésy
1857–1927Vladimir Bekhterev
Born 1948Mikhail Baryshnikov
1881–1938Ataturk
1883–1935Eberhard Arnold
1889–1966Anna Akhmatova