Sorry, this is a long one. But just to make sure we don't pick anybody that was on the original. Here's the complete list:
Top row:
* Sri Yukteswar Giri (guru)
* Aleister Crowley (occultist)
* Mae West (actress)
* Lenny Bruce (comedian)
* Karlheinz Stockhausen (composer)
* W. C. Fields (comedian/actor)
* Carl Gustav Jung (psychologist)
* Edgar Allan Poe (writer)
* Fred Astaire (actor/dancer)
* Richard Merkin (artist)
* The Vargas Girl (by artist Alberto Vargas)
* Leo Gorcey (actor) (removed)
* Huntz Hall (actor)
* Simon Rodia (designer and builder of the Watts Towers)
* Bob Dylan (singer/songwriter)
Second row:
* Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator)
* Sir Robert Peel (British Prime Minister)
* Aldous Huxley (writer)
* Dylan Thomas (poet)
* Terry Southern (writer)
* Dion (singer)
* Tony Curtis (actor)
* Wallace Berman (artist)
* Tommy Handley (comic)
* Marilyn Monroe (actress)
* William S. Burroughs (writer)
* Sri Mahavatar Babaji (guru)
* Stan Laurel (comedian/actor)
* Richard Lindner (artist)
* Oliver Hardy (comedian/actor)
* Karl Marx (political philosopher)
* H.G. Wells (writer)
* Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (guru)
* Sigmund Freud (psychologist) - barely visible below Bob Dylan
* Anonymous (wax hairdresser's dummy)
Third row:
* Stuart Sutcliffe (artist/former Beatle)
* Anonymous (wax hairdresser's dummy)
* Max Miller (comedian)
* The Petty Girl (by Artist George Petty)
* Marlon Brando (actor)
* Tom Mix (actor)
* Oscar Wilde (writer)
* Tyrone Power (actor)
* Larry Bell (artist)
* Dr. David Livingstone (missionary/explorer)
* Johnny Weissmuller (swimmer/actor)
* Stephen Crane (writer) - barely visible between the hand above Paul McCartney's head, and the next head to the right
* James Dean (actor) - right above the wax Mccartney's head
* Issy Bonn (comedian) - his hand is above McCartney's head
* George Bernard Shaw (playwright)
* H.C. Westermann (sculptor)
* Albert Stubbins (soccer Player)
* Sri Lahiri Mahasaya (guru)
* Lewis Carroll (writer)
* T.E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia")
Front row:
* Wax model - Sonny Liston (boxer)
* The Petty Girl (by George Petty)
* Wax model - George Harrison
* Wax model- John Lennon
* Shirley Temple (actress and diplomat)
* Wax model - Ringo Starr
* Wax model - Paul McCartney
* Albert Einstein (physicist)
* John Lennon
* Ringo Starr
* Paul McCartney
* George Harrison
* Bobby Breen (singer)
* Marlene Dietrich (actress/singer)
* Gandhi (Indian Leader) (removed)
* Tin Tan (Mexican Actor) (Changed )
* Legionnaire from the Order of the Buffalos
* Diana Dors (actress)
Other objects within the group include:
* Adolf Hitler said by album art creator Sir Peter Blake to be "in fact covered up behind the band," but still included none the less
* Cloth grandmother-figure by Jann Haworth
* Cloth Figure of Shirley Temple by Jann Haworth
* A Mexican candlestick
* A television set
* A stone figure of a girl
* Another stone figure
* A statue brought over from John Lennon's house
* A trophy
* A doll of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi
* A doll wearing a sweater giving hommage to The Rolling Stones
* A drum skin, designed by fairground artist Joe Ephgrave
* A hookah, or water tobacco pipe
* A velvet snake
* Fukusuke, Japanese china figure
* A stone figure of Snow White
* A garden gnome
* A tuba
People who were originally intended for the front cover but were ultimately excluded:
* Jesus Christ (removed because the LP would be released a few months after John Lennon's Jesus statement)
* Mahatma Gandhi (removed because EMI felt that his presence would offend the Indian market)
* Leo Gorcey (removed because he requested a fee for the use of his likeness)
* Elvis Presley (singer)
* Germán Valdés "Tin Tan" (removed because he requested Ringo change him for a Mexican Tree)
