Google is probably one of the most dominant forces in our modern day world. If they used their logo to represent you, you must be surely be someone quite remarkable. Here are some of the famous people in history that Google’s logo have been used as a means of honoring them.

(1887 - 1985) Russian Jewish modernist artist. He was a pioneer of modernism and one of the most successful artists of the twentieth century.

(1898 - 1967) Belgian surrealist artist, famous for his often witty and amusing images.

Spanish painter and portrait artist

German architect, pioneer of modern architecture and founder of Bauhaus

Italian tenor opera singer, one of the famous ‘Three Tenors’.

Soviet cosmonaut, first man in space and to orbit the Earth.

Norwegian symbolist painter, most famous for his painting ‘Scream’.

British author and inventor of Sherlock Holmes.

American astronomer famous for his study on Mars and founder of the Lowell Observatory, which discovered Pluto subsequently.

Australian musician and classical composer.

African American minister known for his work to liberate racial discrimination and won him the Nobel Peace Prize.

Inventor of braille, a system of reading and writing for the visually impaired.

American architect and interior designer and recognized as the ‘greatest American architect of all time’ by the American Institute of Architecture.

Italian scientist, engineer and inventor but most famously known as a painter, and his works includes the Mona Lisa.

Dutch artist and pioneer of expressionism.

American soul singer and pianist, who is also blind. Considered as one of the greatest singers of all time by some.

French mathematician who created the formula for the Julia set (stuff related to fractals, whatever that is).

British film director and producer, one of the pioneers of movie suspense and psychological thriller genres.

Dutch graphic artist.

German theoretical physicist, best known for his theory of relativity and winner of the Nobel Prize.

Italian painter, sculptor, architect and engineer.

Spanish-Andalusian painter and sculptor.

American artist and illustrator, famous in the pop art movement.

Piet Mondrian
Dutch painter and significant contributor to the abstract movement.