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1 - 100 of 838 historically important and notable people from the Greatest Generation, also known as the G.I. Generation, used to describe people born between 1901 and 1927. Ranked by their popularity on On This Day.
1. John F. Kennedy
2. Elizabeth II
3. Marilyn Monroe
4. Richard Nixon
5. Nicolae Ceausescu
6. Pol Pot
7. Ferdinand Marcos
8. Margaret Thatcher
9. Ginger Rogers
10. Marlene Dietrich
11. Ronald Reagan
12. Jean-Bédel Bokassa
13. Dmitri Shostakovich
14. Donald Bradman
15. George H. W. Bush
16. Mother Teresa
17. Fidel Castro
18. Frank Sinatra
19. Hirohito
20. Alan Turing
21. Judy Garland
22. Augusto Pinochet
23. Charles Lindbergh
24. Nelson Mandela
25. Leonid Brezhnev
26. Indira Gandhi
27. Clara Bow
28. Phyllis Diller
29. Lyndon B. Johnson
30. Clyde Barrow
31. John Paul II
32. Robert Oppenheimer
33. Jimmy Carter
34. Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
35. Bugsy Siegel
36. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
37. Stan Lee
38. Lou Gehrig
39. Sidney Poitier
40. Willie Sutton
41. Fulgencio Batista
42. Dr. Seuss
43. Benedict XVI
44. Prince Philip
45. Malcolm X
46. Grace Hopper
47. Bobby Riggs
48. William Hanna
49. Walt Disney
50. Christian Dior
51. Jesse Owens
52. Eddie Arcaro
53. Malcolm Forbes
54. Jackie Robinson
55. Katharine Hepburn
56. George Gallup
57. Pretty Boy Floyd
58. James Stewart
59. Albert Anastasia
60. Rocky Marciano
61. Johnny Mercer
62. Al Gross
63. Bonnie Parker
64. George Reeves
65. Margaret Hamilton
66. Josephine Baker
67. Jean Harlow
68. Lou Costello
69. Anastasia Nikolaevna
70. Vic Seixas
71. Bhagat Singh
72. Tunku Abdul Rahman
73. John Dillinger
74. Robert F. Kennedy
75. Edward Heath
76. Rosa Parks
77. Kim Il-sung
78. Baby Face Nelson
79. Joe Louis
80. Gerald Ford
81. Jerry Lewis
82. Enver Hoxha
83. Rosalind Franklin
84. Carl David Anderson
85. Pierre Trudeau
86. Henry Kissinger
87. Joe DiMaggio
88. Joseph A. Walker
89. Lana Turner
90. Alexei Nikolaevich
91. Linus Pauling
92. Federico Fellini
93. François Tombalbaye
94. Jiang Qing
95. Bette Davis
96. Adolf Eichmann
97. Bing Crosby
98. Rod Steiger
99. Desi Arnaz
100. Betty Grable