10.7910/DVN/28201 Yu, Amy Zhao Amy Zhao Yu Macro Connections, MIT Media Lab Ronen, Shahar Shahar Ronen Macro Connections, MIT Media Lab Hu, Kevin Kevin Hu Macro Connections, MIT Media Lab Lu, Tiffany Macro Connections, MIT Media Lab Hidalgo, Cesar Cesar Hidalgo Macro Connections, MIT Media Lab Harvard Dataverse 2016 Social Sciences Yu, Amy Zhao Amy Zhao Yu Macro Connections, MIT Media Lab Macro Connections Amy Yu Amy Yu Macro Connections, MIT Media Lab 2014-12 2013 2014-12-14 2016-01-04 TSV 10.1038/SDATA.2015.75 10.7910/DVN/28201/3HVSOM 10.7910/DVN/28201/VEG34D 10.7910/DVN/28201/L7P1KS 13938718 149252802 2176393 text/plain; charset=UTF-8 text/plain; charset=US-ASCII text/tab-separated-values 1.0 Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. We present the Pantheon 1.0 dataset: a manually verified dataset of individuals that have transcended linguistic, temporal, and geographic boundaries. The Pantheon 1.0 dataset includes the 11,341 biographies present in more than 25 languages in Wikipedia and is enriched with: (i) manually verified demographic information (place and date of birth, gender) (ii) a taxonomy of occupations classifying each biography at three levels of aggregation and (iii) two measures of global popularity including the number of languages in which a biography is present in Wikipedia (L), and the Historical Popularity Index (HPI) a metric that combines information on L, time since birth, and page-views (2008-2013). We compare the Pantheon 1.0 dataset to data from the 2003 book, Human Accomplishments, and also to external measures of accomplishment in individual games and sports: Tennis, Swimming, Car Racing, and Chess. In all of these cases we find that measures of popularity (L and HPI) correlate highly with individual accomplishment, suggesting that measures of global popularity proxy the historical impact of individuals.