Portrait sources

Portraits appear in the homepage gallery and historical reference cards. A gallery portrait does not mean that person is available for matching. Comparisons use written evidence, not photographs.

Each image retains the license shown below, separately from the application’s MIT license. Credit does not imply endorsement by the photographer or subject. The linked source records document the original files and reuse terms.

John Stuart Mill

London Stereoscopic Company

Source and title · Public domain

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Thomas Paine

Laurent Dabos

Source and title · Public domain

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Edmund Burke

Joshua Reynolds

Source and title · Public domain

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Margaret Thatcher

Thatcher Estate; crop and restoration by Begoon (original photographer unidentified)

Source and title · Copyrighted free use

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Ronald Reagan

Michael Evans

Source and title · Public domain

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Ayn Rand

Photo portrait credited to "Talbot" (though not on original dust jacket). Published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company .

Source and title · Public domain

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Elias Goldensky

Source and title · Public domain

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Karl Marx

John Jabez Edwin Mayall

Source and title · Public domain

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Vladimir Lenin

Pavel Zhukov

Source and title · Public domain

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Mao Zedong

Anefo

Source and title · CC0

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Mikhail Bakunin

Walerian Mroczkowski

Source and title · Public domain

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Murray Bookchin

Janet Biehl

Source and title · Public domain

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Nelson Mandela

Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel

Source and title · CC BY-SA 2.0

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Mahatma Gandhi

Elliott & Fry

Source and title · Public domain

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Napoleon

Paul Delaroche

Source and title · Public domain

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Joseph Stalin

Isaak Brodsky

Source and title · Public domain

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Benito Mussolini

Bain News Service, publisher

Source and title · Public domain

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Francisco Franco

Unknown photographer; Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa

Source and title · CC0

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Abraham Lincoln

Alexander Gardner

Source and title · Public domain

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Winston Churchill

Central Office of Information

Source and title · Public domain

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Fidel Castro

Unknown photographer

Source and title · Public domain

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Frederick Douglass

George Kendall Warren · Public domain per source record. Homepage gallery; CSS cropping and color treatment.

Mary Wollstonecraft

John Opie · Public domain per source record. Homepage gallery; CSS cropping and color treatment.

Charles de Gaulle

Anonyme, photographe

Source and title · CC0

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Adam Smith

Etching created by Cadell and Davies (1811), John Horsburgh (1828) or R.C. Bell (1872).

Source and title · Public domain

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Unknown photographer

Source and title · Public domain

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Augusto Pinochet

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile

Source and title · CC BY 2.0 cl

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Ho Chi Minh

Unknown photographer

Source and title · Public domain

Wikimedia thumbnail where available. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Lee Kuan Yew

Robert D. Ward

Source and title · Public domain

Wikimedia thumbnail. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

John F. Kennedy

Cecil W. Stoughton

Source and title · Public domain

Wikimedia thumbnail. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Barack Obama

Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

Source and title · Public domain

Wikimedia thumbnail. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Angela Merkel

EU2017EE Estonian Presidency

Source and title · CC BY 2.0

Wikimedia thumbnail. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Veni

Source and title · CC BY 2.0

Wikimedia thumbnail. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.

Deng Xiaoping

Sumin Chou (On behalf of US-China Arts Exchange)

Source and title · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wikimedia thumbnail. Displayed with CSS cropping and grayscale; image bytes otherwise unchanged. The portrait retains its stated license.