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Historical figures on the 12 Axes test
The 12 Axes test compares your result with 109 historical figures: leaders, revolutionaries and political thinkers. Each is placed on all twelve axes by what they argued for and what they did. Only people who are no longer living are included.
These placements are this site's editorial estimates. A match measures distance on twelve numbers. It is not praise or blame.
Take the 12 Axes test- Abraham Lincoln1809–1865
- Adam Smith1723–1790
- Adolf Hitler1889–1945
- Albert Einstein1879–1955
- Alexander Hamilton1757–1804
- António de Oliveira Salazar1889–1970
- Antonio Gramsci1891–1937
- Augusto Pinochet1915–2006
- Ayn Rand1905–1982
- B. R. Ambedkar1891–1956
- Benito Juárez1806–1872
- Benito Mussolini1883–1945
- Bertrand Russell1872–1970
- Catherine II of Russia1729–1796
- Charles de Gaulle1890–1970
- Che Guevara1928–1967
- Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon1760–1825
- Clement Attlee1883–1967
- David Ben-Gurion1886–1973
- Edmund Burke1729–1797
- Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
- Emiliano Zapata1879–1919
- Emma Goldman1869–1940
- Emperor Meiji1852–1912
- Fidel Castro1926–2016
- Francisco Franco1892–1975
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt1882–1945
- Friedrich Hayek1899–1992
- Gamal Abdel Nasser1918–1970
- George Orwell1903–1950
- George Washington1732–1799
- Getúlio Vargas1882–1954
- Giuseppe Garibaldi1807–1882
- Haile Selassie I1892–1975
- Hannah Arendt1906–1975
- Henry David Thoreau1817–1862
- Ho Chi Minh1890–1969
- Hugo Chávez1954–2013
- Immanuel Kant1724–1804
- Indira Gandhi1917–1984
- Jacques Ellul1912–1994
- Jawaharlal Nehru1889–1964
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–1778
- John F. Kennedy1917–1963
- John Locke1632–1704
- John Maynard Keynes1883–1946
- John Paul II1920–2005
- John Rawls1921–2002
- John Stuart Mill1806–1873
- José de San Martín1778–1850
- José Martí1853–1895
- Joseph Stalin1878–1953
- Josip Broz Tito1892–1980
- Juan Perón1895–1974
- Julius Nyerere1922–1999
- Juscelino Kubitschek1902–1976
- Karl Marx1818–1883
- Kim Il-sung1912–1994
- Konrad Adenauer1876–1967
- Kuan Yew Lee1923–2015
- Kwame Nkrumah1909–1972
- Lázaro Cárdenas1895–1970
- Leo Tolstoy1828–1910
- Leon Trotsky1879–1940
- Louis XIV of France1638–1715
- Ludwig von Mises1881–1973
- Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948
- Margaret Thatcher1925–2013
- Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968
- Mary Wollstonecraft1759–1797
- Maximilien Robespierre1758–1794
- Mikhail Bakunin1814–1876
- Mikhail Gorbachev1931–2022
- Milton Friedman1912–2006
- Mohammad Mosaddegh1882–1967
- Muammar Gaddafi1942–2011
- Murray Rothbard1926–1995
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk1881–1938
- Napoleon1769–1821
- Nelson Mandela1918–2013
- Niccolò Machiavelli1469–1527
- Oliver Cromwell1599–1658
- Olof Palme1927–1986
- Otto von Bismarck1815–1898
- Park Chung-hee1917–1979
- Patrice Lumumba1925–1961
- Pedro II of Brazil1825–1891
- Peter Kropotkin1842–1921
- Peter the Great1672–1725
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon1809–1865
- Pol Pot1925–1998
- Robert Nozick1938–2002
- Ronald Reagan1911–2004
- Rosa Luxemburg1871–1919
- Ruhollah Khomeini1902–1989
- Saddam Hussein1937–2006
- Salvador Allende1908–1973
- Simón Bolívar1783–1830
- Simone de Beauvoir1908–1986
- Sukarno1901–1970
- Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
- Thomas Hobbes1588–1679
- Thomas Jefferson1743–1826
- Thomas Sankara1949–1987
- Václav Havel1936–2011
- Vladimir Lenin1870–1924
- Voltaire1694–1778
- Willy Brandt1913–1992
- Winston Churchill1874–1965
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