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"image_author": "Connormah, John Quincy Adams",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "1848-02-23",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "Deceased — low publicity-rights risk",
"backup_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Quincy_Adams_Signature.svg"
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"category": "Politics",
"rank": 90,
"full_name": "Andrew Jackson",
"wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11817",
"reason_for_ranking": "Cross-wiki notability: present on 163 language Wikipedias",
"ranking_source_urls": "https://www.gallup.com/poll/most-admired-man-woman.aspx | https://time.com/time100/",
"signature_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Andrew_Jackson_signature.png",
"signature_source_type": "Wikimedia Commons (Wikidata P109 signature file)",
"image_license": "Public domain",
"image_author": "",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "1845-06-08",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "Deceased — low publicity-rights risk",
"backup_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrew_Jackson_signature.png"
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{
"category": "Politics",
"rank": 94,
"full_name": "Calvin Coolidge",
"wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36023",
"reason_for_ranking": "Cross-wiki notability: present on 160 language Wikipedias",
"ranking_source_urls": "https://www.gallup.com/poll/most-admired-man-woman.aspx | https://time.com/time100/",
"signature_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/C_Coolidge_signature.svg",
"signature_source_type": "Wikimedia Commons (Wikidata P109 signature file)",
"image_license": "Public domain",
"image_author": "Calvin Coolidge",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "1933-01-05",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "Deceased — low publicity-rights risk",
"backup_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C_Coolidge_signature.svg"
},
{
"category": "Politics",
"rank": 96,
"full_name": "Herbert Hoover",
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"reason_for_ranking": "Cross-wiki notability: present on 159 language Wikipedias",
"ranking_source_urls": "https://www.gallup.com/poll/most-admired-man-woman.aspx | https://time.com/time100/",
"signature_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Herbert_Clark_Hoover_Signature.svg",
"signature_source_type": "Wikimedia Commons (Wikidata P109 signature file)",
"image_license": "Public domain",
"image_author": "Herbert C. Hoover",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "1964-10-20",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "Deceased — low publicity-rights risk",
"backup_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbert_Clark_Hoover_Signature.svg"
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"category": "Politics",
"rank": 97,
"full_name": "Jacques Cartier",
"wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7321",
"reason_for_ranking": "Cross-wiki notability: present on 159 language Wikipedias",
"ranking_source_urls": "https://www.gallup.com/poll/most-admired-man-woman.aspx | https://time.com/time100/",
"signature_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Jacques_Cartier_Signature.svg",
"signature_source_type": "Wikimedia Commons (Wikidata P109 signature file)",
"image_license": "Public domain",
"image_author": "Jacques Cartier",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "1557-10-04",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "Deceased — low publicity-rights risk",
"backup_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacques_Cartier_Signature.svg"
},
{
"category": "Politics",
"rank": 98,
"full_name": "Thomas Hobbes",
"wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37621",
"reason_for_ranking": "Cross-wiki notability: present on 158 language Wikipedias",
"ranking_source_urls": "https://www.gallup.com/poll/most-admired-man-woman.aspx | https://time.com/time100/",
"signature_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Unterschrift_Thomas_Hobbes_englischer_Mathematiker%2C_Staatstheoretiker_und_Philosoph.png",
"signature_source_type": "Wikimedia Commons (Wikidata P109 signature file)",
"image_license": "CC0",
"image_author": "Birkho",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "1679-12-04",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "Deceased — low publicity-rights risk",
"backup_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unterschrift_Thomas_Hobbes_englischer_Mathematiker,_Staatstheoretiker_und_Philosoph.png"
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"category": "Politics",
"rank": 100,
"full_name": "Montesquieu",
"wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15975",
"reason_for_ranking": "Cross-wiki notability: present on 157 language Wikipedias",
"ranking_source_urls": "https://www.gallup.com/poll/most-admired-man-woman.aspx | https://time.com/time100/",
"signature_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Signatur_Charles_de_Secondat%2C_Baron_de_Montesquieu.PNG",
"signature_source_type": "Wikimedia Commons (Wikidata P109 signature file)",
"image_license": "Public domain",
"image_author": "Charles_de_Secondat,_Baron_de_Montesquieu",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "1755-02-10",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "Deceased — low publicity-rights risk",
"backup_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Signatur_Charles_de_Secondat,_Baron_de_Montesquieu.PNG"
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"category": "Politics",
"rank": 101,
"full_name": "Franklin Delano Roosevelt",
"wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8007",
"reason_for_ranking": "Cross-wiki notability: present on 244 language Wikipedias",
"ranking_source_urls": "https://www.espn.com/ | https://www.olympics.com/en/athletes | https://www.laureus.com/",
"signature_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Franklin_Roosevelt_Signature.svg",
"signature_source_type": "Wikimedia Commons (Wikidata P109 signature file)",
"image_license": "Public domain",
"image_author": "Franklin Delano Roosevelt",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "1945-04-12",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "Deceased — low publicity-rights risk [recategorized Sports→Politics 2026-06-19]",
"backup_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Franklin_Roosevelt_Signature.svg"
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"category": "Oldest Signatures",
"rank": 1,
"full_name": "GAR.AMA (Uruk scribe)",
"wikidata": "https://www.schoyencollection.com/scribes-collection/scribal-training/lexical-list-oldest-autograph-ms-2494-4",
"reason_for_ranking": "Cited by the Schøyen Collection as the earliest extant autograph signature — a named scribe signing a lexical list.",
"ranking_source_urls": "https://www.schoyencollection.com/scribes-collection/scribal-training/lexical-list-oldest-autograph-ms-2494-4",
"signature_image_url": "https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/an/web-large/DP293243.jpg",
"signature_source_type": "The Met — Open Access (public domain artifact)",
"image_license": "Public domain",
"image_author": "Proto-Cuneiform tablet with seal impressions: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "c. 3100 BCE",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "clay colophon — Scribal colophon impressed in wet clay, not cursive handwriting.",
"backup_source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/329081"
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"category": "Oldest Signatures",
"rank": 2,
"full_name": "Kushim (Uruk accountant)",
"wikidata": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushim_(Uruk_period)",
"reason_for_ranking": "Widely cited as the oldest recorded personal name in history — an accountant's mark on institutional barley receipts.",
"ranking_source_urls": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushim_(Uruk_period)",
"signature_image_url": "https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/an/web-large/DP293243.jpg",
"signature_source_type": "The Met — Open Access (public domain artifact)",
"image_license": "Public domain",
"image_author": "Proto-Cuneiform tablet with seal impressions: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "c. 3200–3000 BCE",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "clay colophon — CONTESTED: 'Kushim' may be a title/office, not a person (Harari popularized it; Assyriologists are split). Impressed clay, not a handwritten autograph.",
"backup_source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/329081"
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"category": "Oldest Signatures",
"rank": 3,
"full_name": "Inspector Merer",
"wikidata": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_Merer",
"reason_for_ranking": "World's oldest surviving inscribed papyrus, written by a named first-person official.",
"ranking_source_urls": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_Merer",
"signature_image_url": "https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/eg/web-large/10.177.2_EGDP018080.jpg",
"signature_source_type": "The Met — Open Access (public domain artifact)",
"image_license": "Public domain",
"image_author": "Composite Papyrus Capital",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "c. 2560 BCE",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "papyrus log — A first-person record, not a discrete signature.",
"backup_source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/551898"
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"category": "Oldest Signatures",
"rank": 4,
"full_name": "Enheduanna",
"wikidata": "https://www.worldhistory.org/Enheduanna/",
"reason_for_ranking": "Earliest known named author in literary history; signed her own literary colophons.",
"ranking_source_urls": "https://www.worldhistory.org/Enheduanna/",
"signature_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Disk_of_Enheduanna.JPG/960px-Disk_of_Enheduanna.JPG",
"signature_source_type": "Wikimedia Commons (signature)",
"image_license": "Public domain",
"image_author": "",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "c. 2285–2250 BCE",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "clay colophon — The disc is sculpted, not handwritten; surviving tablet copies postdate her by centuries (attribution debated).",
"backup_source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/329090"
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"category": "Oldest Signatures",
"rank": 5,
"full_name": "Cleopatra VII",
"wikidata": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_Bingen_45",
"reason_for_ranking": "Argued by some scholars to be the only surviving handwritten word by Cleopatra.",
"ranking_source_urls": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_Bingen_45",
"signature_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Papyrus_document_containing_signature_of_Cleopatra_VII_of_Egypt.jpg",
"signature_source_type": "Wikimedia Commons (signature)",
"image_license": "Public domain",
"image_author": "",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "33 BCE",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "cursive (contested) — HOTLY DISPUTED (van Minnen/Zimmermann vs. Sarri/Bagnall) — may be a scribe's hand throughout.",
"backup_source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/259138"
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"category": "Oldest Signatures",
"rank": 6,
"full_name": "Charlemagne",
"wikidata": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signum_manus",
"reason_for_ranking": "Authenticated royal mark of the most important medieval Western ruler.",
"ranking_source_urls": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signum_manus",
"signature_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Charlemagne_autograph.svg/960px-Charlemagne_autograph.svg.png",
"signature_source_type": "Wikimedia Commons (signature)",
"image_license": "Public domain",
"image_author": "",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "c. 769–814 CE",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "seal monogram — Monogram device drawn by scribes; Charlemagne may have added only the central stroke. Not cursive.",
"backup_source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/464278"
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"category": "Oldest Signatures",
"rank": 7,
"full_name": "Pope Leo IX",
"wikidata": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rota_(papal_signature)",
"reason_for_ranking": "First pope to adopt the rota, the standard papal authentication for centuries.",
"ranking_source_urls": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rota_(papal_signature)",
"signature_image_url": "https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ep/web-large/LC-33_92ab-Primary_Temp.jpg",
"signature_source_type": "The Met — Open Access (public domain artifact)",
"image_license": "Public domain",
"image_author": "The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "c. 1049–1054 CE",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "seal device (rota) — Chancery-drawn symbol, not cursive handwriting.",
"backup_source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436282"
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"category": "Oldest Signatures",
"rank": 8,
"full_name": "El Cid (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar)",
"wikidata": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cid",
"reason_for_ranking": "Widely called the oldest surviving handwritten cursive autograph of a famous named individual.",
"ranking_source_urls": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cid",
"signature_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Signature_of_El_Cid.svg/960px-Signature_of_El_Cid.svg.png",
"signature_source_type": "Wikimedia Commons (signature)",
"image_license": "Public domain",
"image_author": "",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "1098 CE",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "true cursive autograph — A genuine cursive Latin subscription — the first 'true autograph' tier in this list.",
"backup_source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/466191"
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"category": "Oldest Signatures",
"rank": 9,
"full_name": "Isabella I of Castile",
"wikidata": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_I_of_Castile",
"reason_for_ranking": "Her 'Yo la Reina' authorized the European encounter with the Americas.",
"ranking_source_urls": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_I_of_Castile",
"signature_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Isabella_I_of_Castile_Signature.svg/960px-Isabella_I_of_Castile_Signature.svg.png",
"signature_source_type": "Wikimedia Commons (signature)",
"image_license": "Public domain",
"image_author": "",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "c. 1474–1504 CE",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "true cursive autograph — Genuine cursive autograph.",
"backup_source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/207259"
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"category": "Oldest Signatures",
"rank": 10,
"full_name": "Michelangelo Buonarroti",
"wikidata": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Signatures_of_Michelangelo_Buonarroti",
"reason_for_ranking": "The Pietà is the only artwork he ever signed.",
"ranking_source_urls": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Signatures_of_Michelangelo_Buonarroti",
"signature_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Michelangelo_Signature2.svg/960px-Michelangelo_Signature2.svg.png",
"signature_source_type": "Wikimedia Commons (signature)",
"image_license": "Public domain",
"image_author": "",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "1499 CE",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "carved + cursive — Pietà signature is carved marble; handwritten letter signatures also survive.",
"backup_source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435844"
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"category": "Oldest Signatures",
"rank": 11,
"full_name": "Leonardo da Vinci",
"wikidata": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Signatures_of_Leonardo_da_Vinci",
"reason_for_ranking": "Rare autographs from the defining Renaissance polymath, who seldom signed paintings.",
"ranking_source_urls": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Signatures_of_Leonardo_da_Vinci",
"signature_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Leonardo_Da_Vinci_signature_from_Forster_codex.svg/960px-Leonardo_Da_Vinci_signature_from_Forster_codex.svg.png",
"signature_source_type": "Wikimedia Commons (signature)",
"image_license": "Public domain",
"image_author": "",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "c. 1487–1519 CE",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "true cursive autograph — Wrote in mirror-script; 19+ signature files on Commons.",
"backup_source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/337494"
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"category": "Oldest Signatures",
"rank": 12,
"full_name": "Albrecht Dürer",
"wikidata": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Monogram_of_Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer",
"reason_for_ranking": "First artist's trademark defended in court — the pioneer of artistic copyright.",
"ranking_source_urls": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Monogram_of_Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer",
"signature_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_Monogramm.svg/960px-Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_Monogramm.svg.png",
"signature_source_type": "Wikimedia Commons (signature)",
"image_license": "Public domain",
"image_author": "",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "c. 1494–1528 CE",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "monogram mark — A device/brand mark plus a cursive hand in letters.",
"backup_source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436243"
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"category": "Oldest Signatures",
"rank": 13,
"full_name": "Christopher Columbus",
"wikidata": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus",
"reason_for_ranking": "One of history's most mysterious signatures — a cipher he ordered his heirs to keep using.",
"ranking_source_urls": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus",
"signature_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Columbus_Signature.svg/960px-Columbus_Signature.svg.png",
"signature_source_type": "Wikimedia Commons (signature)",
"image_license": "Public domain",
"image_author": "",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "c. 1493–1506 CE",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "true cursive autograph (sigla) — Upper tiers of the cipher remain unresolved.",
"backup_source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/466311"
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"category": "Oldest Signatures",
"rank": 14,
"full_name": "Henry VIII of England",
"wikidata": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_of_Henry_VIII",
"reason_for_ranking": "Among the most collected and most forged royal autographs in history.",
"ranking_source_urls": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_of_Henry_VIII",
"signature_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/HenryVIIISig.svg/960px-HenryVIIISig.svg.png",
"signature_source_type": "Wikimedia Commons (signature)",
"image_license": "Public domain",
"image_author": "",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "c. 1509–1547 CE",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "true cursive autograph — A dry-stamp device was used in his final illness; beware fakes.",
"backup_source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/23939"
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"category": "Oldest Signatures",
"rank": 15,
"full_name": "Martin Luther",
"wikidata": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther",
"reason_for_ranking": "Autograph letters among the most consequential documents of the Reformation.",
"ranking_source_urls": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther",
"signature_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Martin_Luther_Signature.svg/960px-Martin_Luther_Signature.svg.png",
"signature_source_type": "Wikimedia Commons (signature)",
"image_license": "Public domain",
"image_author": "",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "c. 1517–1546 CE",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "true cursive autograph — Signed 'Martinus LütheR D' with a raised-R flourish.",
"backup_source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436037"
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"category": "Oldest Signatures",
"rank": 16,
"full_name": "Queen Elizabeth I",
"wikidata": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England",
"reason_for_ranking": "One of the most recognizable autographs in English history.",
"ranking_source_urls": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England",
"signature_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Autograph_of_Elizabeth_I_of_England.svg/960px-Autograph_of_Elizabeth_I_of_England.svg.png",
"signature_source_type": "Wikimedia Commons (signature)",
"image_license": "Public domain",
"image_author": "",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "c. 1544–1603 CE",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "true cursive autograph — Distinctive humanist italic hand that evolved over her reign.",
"backup_source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/22139"
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"category": "Oldest Signatures",
"rank": 17,
"full_name": "Galileo Galilei",
"wikidata": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei",
"reason_for_ranking": "'Of the utmost rarity' — only a few authenticated specimens in private hands.",
"ranking_source_urls": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei",
"signature_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Galileo_Galilei_Signature_2.svg/960px-Galileo_Galilei_Signature_2.svg.png",
"signature_source_type": "Wikimedia Commons (signature)",
"image_license": "Public domain",
"image_author": "",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "c. 1595–1642 CE",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "true cursive autograph — Two signature SVGs confirmed on Commons.",
"backup_source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/377877"
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"category": "Oldest Signatures",
"rank": 18,
"full_name": "William Shakespeare",
"wikidata": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_handwriting",
"reason_for_ranking": "Only six authenticated signatures survive — none on any literary manuscript.",
"ranking_source_urls": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_handwriting",
"signature_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/William_Shakespeare_Signature.svg/960px-William_Shakespeare_Signature.svg.png",
"signature_source_type": "Wikimedia Commons (signature)",
"image_license": "Public domain",
"image_author": "",
"deceased": "yes",
"death_date": "1612–1616 CE",
"risk_level": "low",
"usable_in_commercial_collage": "yes",
"notes": "true cursive autograph — Secretary-hand; he spelled his own name differently across the six.",
"backup_source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/194067"
}
]