Author
Explore 2 of history's most influential author, ranked by historical influence. Each figure links to a full biography, feats, trivia and similar people.
Stephen Hawking
87Stephen Hawking was a British theoretical physicist and cosmologist whose work on black holes and the origins of the universe, carried out despite a paralysing motor-neurone disease, made him the most famous scientist of his age.
Helen Keller
80Helen Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate and activist who, though deaf and blind from infancy, learned to communicate, graduated from college, and wrote books that inspired the world and advanced the cause of people with disabilities.