Aristotle and Plato top the list of the most famous people of the last 6000 years, according to Pantheon, a new project from the Macro Connections group in M.I.T.’s Media Lab that has collected and analyzed data on cultural production from 4,000 B.C. to 2010.

These include information on more than 11,000 cultural figures and with a few clicks on its website, you can swing through time and geography, and search by country, time period and cultural domain to obtain rankings of the most influential cultural personalities.

It is noted that 6 out of 10 of the most famous people in the aforementioned list are Greek, including Socrates, Alexander the Great, Homer and Pythagoras!

See also the NYTimes: Who’s more famous than Jesus?