After posting the DNA and genetic explanation of red hair - here is a list of famous people. Note the people from the bible. Genetics (our cellular makeup)has always been with us, of course, we know that, but hair color was noted many years ago by historians. We all carry genes from our ancestors of long ago. If you search hard enough, you will find a picture of all of these people on the internet with red hair - Google Images. Those who were living before cameras-were painted from written descriptions.

This is a list of people with natural red hair. Red or ginger hair may come in a variety of shades from strawberry blond to auburn. It is the rarest natural hair color.  From  Encyclopedia of Hair by VICTORIA SHERROW 

Some surprising  Redheads:Achilles- Greek Warrior, Brigham Young- Leader Later Day Saints Church, Calvin Coolidge- U.S. President, Christopher Columbus – Explorer, Cleopatra- Queen of Egypt, Dwight Eisenhower- General and U.S. President, Esau – Biblical twin of Jacob, Genghis Khan- Conqueror, George Washington- General & President, James Joyce- Author, Malcolm X- Activist, Mark Twain- Author, Martin Van Buren - U.S. President, Mary Magdalene- Biblical Figure, Muhammad- Prophet of Islam, Otto II- Emperor, Rameses II – Egyptian Pharaoh, Redd Foxx – Comedian, Richard the Lionhearted- King of England, Rurik- Viking Founder of Dynasty in Russia, Thomas Jefferson- U.S. President, Ulysses S Grant - General and U.S. President, Vladimir Lenin- Bolshevik leader, William Tecumseh Sherman- U.S. General, Winston Churchill- Prime Minister.