Who are/were the most influential ones?

Pantheon is a fascinating site that compares and ranks globally known people.  You can sort based on country (and city) of birth, by profession, and era.  I think this would be interesting in social studies (who are the most famous (based on pageviews and an MIT algorithms).  I created this search (see image)- clearly the popes made religious figures the largest category. By hovering over a category, you get the details.

Might be interesting to ask your students to rank or guess the most well known person and then have them compare their answer to Pantheon (and defend or rebut the results).

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