The final list was as follows: •
Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582)
daimyō in the 16th century •
Sakamoto Ryōma (1836–1867) The
samurai who overthrew the
Tokugawa shogunate in
bakumatsu Japan. •
Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537–1598) politician, samurai who is regarded as Japan's second "great unifier" •
Matsushita Kōnosuke (1894–1989) industrialist, founder of
Panasonic •
Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616) The founder and first
shōgun of the
Tokugawa shogunate •
Minamoto Yoshitsune (1159–1189) A military commander of the Minamoto clan of Japan in the late Heian and early Kamakura periods •
Mother Teresa (1910–1997) Roman Catholic nun and missionary •
Helen Keller (1880–1968) author and lecturer who was a deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree •
Hijikata Toshizō (1835–1869) Fukucho of Shinsengumi, a great swordsman and a talented military leader who resisted the Meiji Restoration •
Noguchi Hideyo (1876–1928)
bacteriologist who in 1911 discovered the agent of
syphilis as the cause of progressive paralytic disease. •
Saigō Takamori (1828–1877) One of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration. •
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) Member of British royal family, philanthropist and known for her charity work •
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) physicist, known for theory of relativity •
Misora Hibari (1937–1989) singer and actress •
Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835–1901) Japanese author, writer, teacher, translator, entrepreneur and journalist who founded Keio University •
Anne Frank (1929–1945) diarist, known for "Het Achterhuis" •
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. •
Yoshida Shigeru (1878–1967) Prime Minister of Japan •
Walt Disney (1901–1966) Entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. •
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) German composer and pianist •
Ayrton Senna (1960–1994) One of the greatest
formula one drivers of all time •
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) polymath, universal genius •
Tezuka Osamu (1928–1989) Manga artist who created Astro Boy, cartoonist, animator, film producer, medical doctor •
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821) Emperor of French •
Prince Shōtoku (574–622) Semi-legendary regent and a politician of the Asuka period in Japan who served under Empress Suiko. •
John Lennon (1940–1980) Member of The Beatles •
Zhuge Liang (181–234) Imperial Chancellor and regent of the state of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period •
Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645) Japanese swordsman, philosopher, writer and rōnin. •
Ozaki Yutaka (1965–1992) Musician •
Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993) British actress during Hollywood's Golden Age, dancer and humanitarian. •
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) activist, that led to Indian independence movement against British rule. •
Soseki Natsume (1867–1916) novelist •
Takasugi Shinsaku (1839–1867) Samurai from the Chōshū Domain of Japan who contributed significantly to the Meiji Restoration. •
Murasaki Shikibu novelist and poet •
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Austria's greatest composer •
Yamamoto Isoroku (1884–1943) Marshal Admiral of the Navy and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II •
Miyazawa Kenji (1896–1933) author for children's literature •
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th President of United States •
Ninomiya Sontoku (1787–1856) Agricultural leader, philosopher, moralist and economist •
Kondō Isami (1834–1868) Japanese swordsman and official of the late Edo period •
Ōkubo Toshimichi (1830–1878) Main founders of Modern Japan. •
Takeda Shingen (1521–1573) pre-eminent daimyō in feudal Japan •
Himiko (d. 248) was a shaman queen of Yamataikoku in Wa (ancient Japan) •
Inō Tadataka (1745–1818) surveyor and cartographer, completed the first map of Modern Japan. •
Ishihara Yujiro (1934–1987) actor and singer •
Sen no Rikyū (1522–1591) Prominent figure who had influence on chanoyu, the Japanese "Way of Tea", particularly the tradition of wabi-cha •
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) actor of Silent Era •
Sugihara Chiune (1900–1986) Government official who served as vice consul for the Japanese Empire in Lithuania •
Date Masamune (1567–1636) Regional ruler of Japan's Azuchi–Momoyama period through early Edo period •
Tanaka Giichi (1864–1929) Prime Minister of Japan •
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong actor and martial artist •
Okita Sōji (1842–1868) The captain of the first unit of the Shinsengumi, a special police force in Kyoto during the late shogunate period •
Matsuda Yusaku (1949–1989) One of Japan's most important actors •
Marie Antoinette (1755–1793) The last Queen of France before the French Revolution •
Ōishi Kuranosuke (1659–1703) (karō) of the Akō Domain in Harima Province •
Ikariya Chosuke (1931–2004) comedian and film actor •
Wright Brothers •
Katsu Kaishū (1823–1899) statesman and naval engineer during the late Tokugawa shogunate and early Meiji period •
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) civil rights activist for black people •
Yoshida Shōin (1830–1859) distinguished intellectual in the closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate •
Kurosawa Akira (1910–1998) Japan's greatest director •
Uesugi Kenshin (1530–1578) daimyō •
Marie Curie (1867–1934) physicist and chemist, First woman to win a Nobel Prize •
Satō Eisaku (1901–1975) Prime Minister of Japan •
Sanada Yukimura (1567–1615) Samurai warrior of the Sengoku period •
Cao Cao (155–220) Chinese warlord and the penultimate Chancellor of the Eastern Han dynasty •
Kato Daijiro (1976–2003) Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, •
Cleopatra (69BC–30BC) the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt •
Tokugawa Mitsukuni (1628–1701) Prominent daimyō who was known for his influence in the politics of the early Edo period •
Elvis Presley (1935–1977) King of Rock and Roll •
Ogi Akira (1935–2005) professional Japanese baseball player, coach and manager •
Tōgō Heihachirō (1848–1934) Gensui or admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy and one of Japan's greatest naval heroes •
Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer that discovered America •
Itō Hirobumi (1841–1909) statesman and genrō •
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) 20th century best painter •
Marco Polo (1254–1324) Italian explorer •
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German theologian, organist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. •
Yosano Akiko (1878–1942) author and social activist •
Andy Hug (1964–2000) Swiss karateka and one of the best kickboxers •
Tsuburaya Eiji (1901–1970) special effects director, co-creator of Godzilla •
Joan of Arc (1412–1431) Roman Catholic saint •
Honda Minako (1967–2005) pop star •
Uemura Naomi (1941–1984) adventurer •
Sugita Genpaku (1733–1817) scholar known for his translation of Kaitai Shinsho •
Confucius (551BC–479BC) ancient philosopher •
Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (1823–1915) French naturalist, entomologist •
Natsume Masako (1957–1985) actress •
Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522 •
Honda Soichiro (1906–1991) engineer, founder of Honda •
Anne Sullivan (1866–1937) teacher, lifelong companion of Helen Keller •
Shohei "Giant" Baba (1938–1999) professional wrestler, co-founder of All Japan Pro Wrestling •
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of United States •
Dazai Osamu (1909–1948) author •
Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) Polish composer •
Ikkyū (1391–1481) iconoclastic Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and poet. •
Akechi Mitsuhide (1528–1582) samurai and general who lived during the Sengoku period of Feudal Japan •
Isaac Newton (1642–1727) physicist and theologian, known for implementing the law of gravity •
Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694) most known poet during Edo period •
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) writer, known for creating the character Sherlock Holmes ==See also==