8) Switzerland

Currency: Franc

Currency denomination: 1,000 francs

Personality: Jacob Burckhardt

Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt or Jacob Burckhardt was a renowned historian of art and culture. He was one of the most influential figures in the historiography of each field. Burckhardt was refereed as one of the major progenitors of cultural history. According to Swiss historian and critic of architecture, Siegfried Giedion, Burckhardt's was "The great discoverer of the age of the Renaissance, he first showed how a period should be treated in its entirety, with regard not only for its painting, sculpture and architecture, but for the social institutions of its daily life as well."

9) Japan

Currency: Yen

Currency denomination: 10,000 yens

Personality: Fukuzawa Yukichi

An Enlightenment writer, a Japanese author, teacher and journalist, Fukuzawa Yukichi was the founder of Jiji-Shinpo newspaper, Keio-Gijuku University and Institute for Study of Infectious Diseases. He was one of the influential personalities and is regarded as one of the founders of modern Japan. His thoughts about government made a enduring impression on a rapidly changing Japan during the Meiji Era.

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