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Name the most famous person by country (or dependency) of birth according to MIT’s Pantheon Project. Country, occupation, and birth year shown. ‘*’ denotes females.

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Klinkhamer

3 years ago

A quiz where you have to choose a country and then name the famous inhabitants would be cool

Klinkhamer

3 years ago

Russia is geographically lucky in this one. 😀

Ovamiat

3 years ago

Reply to Klinkhamer

MIT chose the wrong person for their home country. So many better choices to represent The Land of DEMOCRACY! and FREEDOM!…

Klinkhamer

3 years ago

Reply to Ovamiat

Can’t deny The Great Grabsby is famous all around the globe though…

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