Ford's introduction of the moving assembly line at his Highland Park plant in 1913 transformed manufacturing and made the automobile affordable to ordinary Americans, reshaping the economy, the landscape, and the culture of the 20th century. By 1927 his Model T had accounted for half of all cars sold worldwide.

Emily Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights (1847), one of the most powerful and unusual novels in the English language, with its gothic setting, brooding antihero Heathcliff, and dark exploration of passion and revenge. She published only one novel before dying of tuberculosis at 30.

Schwarzenegger won the Mr Olympia bodybuilding title seven times before becoming one of the highest-paid Hollywood stars of the 1980s and 90s through films including The Terminator, Predator, and Total Recall. He then served two terms as Governor of California from 2003 to 2011.

Nolan is one of the most commercially and critically successful directors of his generation, creating large-scale, philosophically complex films including Memento, The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk, and Oppenheimer, for which he won his first Academy Award for Best Director in 2024.

Bush became the first woman to reach number one in the UK charts with a self-written song — Wuthering Heights — at age 19. Her experimental approach to music, dance, and video made her one of the most original artists of the late 20th century, and a renewed viral interest in Running Up That Hill in 2022 introduced her to a new generation.