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Test your knowledge with our 'Most Famous Person By Letter' quiz based on MIT's Pantheon Project. Name the 50 most famous people by letter.

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Most Famous People By Letter (MIT’s Pantheon) – Choose Letter

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First enter any letter – then name the 50 most famous people beginning with that letter according to MIT’s Pantheon Project. Occupation and year of birth shown. ‘*’ denotes females.

For purposes of this quiz, the letter refers to the first letter in the name of the person on the MIT Pantheon site, this occasionally is a title (such as ‘Queen’) or a single-word name. It is NOT based on their surname usually (but in some cases).

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darin

1 year ago

Had to do this simply based on the Pantheon name as there is a large variety in how they name people – sometimes title is used, sometimes just a single name, etc. I believe the Pantheon name typically corresponds to the Wikipedia name.

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