The following sources were consulted in the preparation of the article “15 people in history who charmed their way to the top.”
- Cleopatra
- Giacomo Casanova
- Madame de Pompadour
- Theodora (wife of Justinian I)
- Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
- Ninon de l’Enclos
- Thomas Cromwell
- Anne Boleyn
- Alcibiades
- John F. Kennedy
- Ben Franklin in Paris: How He Won France’s Support for the Revolutionary War
- George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
- Cardinal Mazarin
- Lola Montez
- Grigori Rasputin