PEOPLE OF ACTION
THE MASTER LIST
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A
Abd
ar Rahman (Founder of Ommayad Caliphate in
Spain - mid 700s)
Abraham
(Hebrew Patriarch)
Abu
Bakr (1st Caliph - 632-634)
Acheson,
Dean G. (US Secretary of State -
1949-1953)
Achilles
Adams,
John (Vice President; 2nd American
President - 1789-1801)
Adenauer,
Konrad (German Chancellor)
Adhémar
(Bishop of Le Puy)
Adrian
I (Pope - 772-795)
Agamemnon
(Semi-Mythical Greek King)
Agilulf
(Lombard King - 590-616)
Ahmed
I (Ottoman
Sultan
- 1603-1617)
Aistulf
(Lombard King - 749-756)
Akihito,
Tsugu (Japanese Emperor)
Alaric
(Visigothic Chieftain - 394-410)
Alaric
II (Visigothic Chieftain in Spain - 484-507)
Alba
(or Alva), Fernando Alvarez, Duke of
Albert
I of Habsburg (Holy Roman Emperor -
1298-1308)
Alboin
(Lombard King - 560-572)
Albuqerque, Afonso de
"the Great" (Portuguese
Explorer / Empire Builder-
1481-1515)
Alcibiades
(Athenian Politician - late 400s BC)
Alexander
III "the Great" (Macedonian/Greek
Conqueror) - 336-323
BC)
Alexander
(Byz. Emperor - 912-913)
Alexius
I Comnenus (Byz. Emperor -1081-1118)
Alexius
III (Byz. Emperor - 1195-1203)
Alexius
IV (Byz. Emperor - 1203-1204)
Alfonso
III (Visigothic King in Spain - early 900s)
Alfred
"the Great" (Saxon King - 871-899)
Ali
(4th Caliph - 656-661)
Alva
(or Alba), Fernando Alvarez, Spanish Duke of
Amalric
I of Jerusalem
Amin,
Idi
Anastasius
(Byz. Emperor - 491-518)
Andronicus
I Comnenus (Byz. Emperor -
1183-1185)
Andronicus
II (Byz. Emperor - 1282-1328)
Andronicus
III (Byz. Emperor - 1328-1341)
Anne
Stuart (Queen of England - 1702-1714)
Antigonus
Monophthalmus (Greek ruler of Babylon
and Syria - 321-301 BC)
Antipater
(Macedonian Regent - (336-319 BC)
Antoninus
Pius (Roman Emperor - 138-161)
Arafat,
Yassir
Arcadius
(Eastern Roman Emperor - 395-408)
Arpad
(Hungarian King - late 800s)
Artaxerxes
(Persian King - 464-423 BC)
Artaxerxes
II (Persian King - 404-359 BC)
Arthur
Pendragon (Semi-Mythical British King -
early 500s)
Asquith,
Herbert Henry (British Prime Minister -
1908-1916)
Assad,
Hafez
Atatürk,
Mustafa Kemal (Founder and President of
the Turkish Republic - 1923-1938)
Attlee,
Clement (British Prime Minister -
1945-1951)
Attila
(Hun Chieftain - 433-453)
Augustus
III (King of Poland - 1763)
Aurelian
(Roman Emperor - 270-275)
Authari
(Lombard King - 584-590)
B
Bagoas
(Persian General/Kingmaker - 338 BC)
Balboa,
Vasco Nuñez de (Spanish explorer - early
1500s)
Baldwin
I (King of Edessa / King of Jerusalem -
1096-1118)
Baldwin
I (Latin Byz. Emperor - 1204-1205)
Baldwin
II (Latin Byz. Emperor - -1258)
Baldwin
III of Jerusalem
Baldwin,
Stanley (British Prime Minister - 3x:
1923-1937)
Balfour,
Arthur James
Banzer,
Hugo
Basil
I "the Macedonian" (Byz. Emperor - 867-886)
Basil
II (Byz. Emperor - 976-1025)
Batista,
Fulgensia
Batu
Khan
Bayezid
I (Sultan - 1389-1402)
Baybars
( -1277)
Bayezid
I (Ottoman
Sultan
- 1389-1402)
Begin,
Menachem
Béla
III (King of Hungary - 1173-1196)
Belisarius
(Byz. Emperor - 530-563)
Benedict
of Nursia (Monastic Organizer - early
500s)
Ben
Gurion, David
Bismarck,
Prince Otto von (German Chancellor -
1871-1890)
Blair,
Tony (British Prime Minister - 1997-2007)
Bohemond
(Crusader - 1096-1111)
Boniface
(Winfrid) (English missionary to Germans
- early 700s)
Botha,
P.W.
Bradford,
William (English colonizer - early 1600s)
Brandt,
Willy (German Chancellor)
Brezhnev,
Leonid (Soviet Premier)
Buckingham
(1625-1628)
Burr,
Aaron (American politician/adventurer -
1801-1812)
Bush,
George (US President)
C
Cabot,
John (Italian/English explorer - late 1400s)
Cabot,
Sebastian (English explorer - early 1500s)
Cabral,
Pedro Alvares (Portuguese explorer - early
1500s)
Caesar,
Octavius Augustus (Roman Emperor - 31
BC - 14 AD)
Caesar,
Julius (Roman General/Emperor - 50-44
BC)
Calhoun,
John C. (American statesman -
1817-1850)
Caligula
(Roman Emperor - 37-41)
Callaghan,
James (British Prime Minister)
Cambyses
(Persian King - 529-522 BC)
Campbell-Bannerman
Canute
"the Great" (Danish King in England
1016-1035)
Capet,
Hugh (King of France - 987-996)
Caracalla
(Roman Emperor - 211-217)
Cardoso,
Fernando Henrique
Carter,
Jimmy (US President)
Cartier,
Jacques (French explorer - early 1500s)
Carus
(Roman Emperor - 282-283)
Casimir
(Kazimierz), Jan (King of Poland -
1648-1668)
Castro,
Fidel
Catherine
II "the Great" (Tsarina of Russia -
1762-1796)
Cato,
Marcus Porcius "the Elder" (Roman
Statesman 184-149 BC)
Cavour,
Camillo Benso di (Italian statesman -
1861)
Ceaucescu,
Nicholas
Cecil,
William
Chamberlain,
Neville (British Prime Minister -
1937-1940)
Champlain,
Samuel de (French explorer / colonizer
- early 1600s)
Charles
I of England
Charles
II of England
Charles
Martel (Frankish General - 714-741)
Charles
"the Great" / "Charlemagne" (Frankish
King/Emperor - 768-814)
Charles
"the Bald" (Carolingian King/Emperor-
840-877)
Charles
III "the Fat" (Carolingian King - 879-887)
Charles
IV "the Fair" (King of France - 1322-1328)
Charles
V "the Wise" (King of France - 1364-1380)
Charles
VI "the Mad" / "the Well-Beloved" (King of
France - 1380-1422)
Charles
VII (King of France - 1422-1461)
Charles
VIII of France
Charles
X (King of France - 1824-1830)
Charles
I (King of Spain / Charles V of the Holy
Roman Empire)
Charles
IV of Luxembourg (Holy Roman Emperor -
1346-1378)
Charles
V (Holy Roman Emperor - 1519-1556)
Charles
XII (King of Sweden - 1786-1797)
Chiang
Kai Shek
Childeric
(Frankish Chieftain - 457-481)
Children's
Crusade (1212)
Chirac,
Jacques (French Prime Minister - 1974-76
+ 1986-88; French President 1995-2007)
Christian
IV (King of Denmark - 1588-1648)
Churchill,
John - 1st Duke of Marlborough (English
Royal Advisor 1702-1710)
Churchill,
Winston (British Prime Minister
1940-1945; 1951-1955)
Cighala-zade
Sinan Pasha (Janissary General - late
1500s / early 1600s)
Cicero,
Marcus Tullius (Roman General/Statesman
- 50-43 BC)
Claudius
(Roman Emperor - 41-54)
Clay,
Henry (American statesman - 1806-1852)
Cleisthenes
(Reformer of Athenian Code - 502 BC)
Clement
VI (Pope - 1342-1352)
Clemenceau,
Georges (French Prime Minister -
1917-1920)
Clovis
(Frankish King - 481-511)
Clinton,
Bill (US President)
Codomannus
(Darius III) (Persian King - 338-330
BC)
Colbert,
Jean-Baptiste (French Royal Advisor -
1661-1683)
Coligny,
(French Admiral / Protestant leader -
-1572)
Columbus,
Christopher (Italian Explorer - late
1400s)
Commodus
(Roman Emperor - 180-192)
Conrad
I (Duke of Franconia and Saxony -911-918)
Conrad
II (Holy Roman Emperor - 1024-1039)
Conrad
III Hohenstaufen (Holy Roman Emperor -
1138-1152)
Constans
(Roman Co-Emperor - 337-350)
Constans
II (Byz. Emperor - 641-668)
Constantine
"the Great" (Roman Co-Emperor/Emperor 311-337)
Constantine
II (Roman Co-Emperor - 337-340)
Constantine
III (Byz. Emperor - 641)
Constantine
IV (Byz. Emperor - 668-685)
Constantine
V (Byz. Emperor - 741-775)
[Constantine
VI] (nominal Byz. Emperor -
780-797)
Constantine
VII Porphyrogenitus (Byz. Emperor
913-959)
Constantine
VIII (Byz. Emperor - 1025-1028)
Constantine
IX Monomachus (Byz. Emperor -
1042-1055)
Constantine
X Ducas (Byz. Emperor)
Constantine
XI Palaeologus (Byz. Emperor -
1449-1453)
Constantius
I Chlorus (Roman Emperor in the East
- 305-311)
Constantius
II (Roman Co-Emperor/ Emperor -
337-361)
Cortes,
Hernando (Spanish conquistador - early
1500s)
Cranmer,
Thomas ([Protestant] Archbishop of
Canterbury - 1533-1556)
Cromwell,
Oliver (English Puritan General and
"Lord Protector" - 1643-1658)
Cromwell,
Richard
Cromwell,
Thomas (1530-1540)
Cyrus
"the Great" (King of Persia - 555-529 BC)
D
Dalai
Lama
Dandolo,
Enrico (Doge of Venice - 1192-1205)
Danton,
Georges Jacques (French Revolutionary
Leader - 1789-1794)
Darius
"the Great" (Persian King - 521-485 BC)
Darius
II (Persian King - 423-404 BC)
Darius
III (Codomannus) (Persian King - 338-330
BC)
David
of Israel
Decius
(Roman Emperor - 249-251)
Demosthenes
(Athenian Orator/Statesman - mid
300s BC)
Deng
Xiaoping
Desiderius
(Lombard King - 757-774)
De
Soto, Hernando (Spanish explorer - early
1500s)
Dias,
Bartholomeu (Portuguese explorer - late
1400s)
Diem,
Ngo Den
Diocletian
(Roman Emperor - 284-305)
Disraeli,
Benjamin (English statesman -
1867-1880)
Dole,
Bob
Domitian
(Roman Emperor - 81-96)
Douglas-Home,
Sir Alec (British Foreign Secretary
- 1960-1963 + 1970-1974; Prime Minister
-
1963-1964)
Draco
(Creator of the Athenian Code - ca. 620 BC)
Drake,
Francis (English adventurer - late 1500s)
Dulles,
John Foster (US Secretary of State)
Dusan,
Stefan (King of Serbia - 1331-1355)
Duvalier,
"Papa Doc"
E
Ebert,
Friedrich (President of the German Weimar
Republic 1919-1925)
Eden,
Sir Anthony (British Foreign Secretary -
1935-1938, 1940-1945, 1951-1955;
Prime
Minister - 1955-1957)
Edgar
(Saxon King - 959-975)
Edward
"the Elder" (Saxon King - 899-924)
Edward
"the Confessor" (Saxon King - 1042-1066)
Edward
I (King of England - 1272-1307)
Edward
II (King of England - 1307-1327)
Edward
III (King of England - 1327-1377)
Edward
IV (King of England - 1461-1470 /
1471-1483)
Edward
V (King of England - 1483)
Edward
VI (King of England - 1547-1553)
Edwin
(Saxon King - mid 600s)
Egbert
(Saxon King 802-839)
Egmont
(or Egmond), Lamoraal, graaf van (Dutch
Statesman - 1568)
Eisenhower,
Dwight D.
Elagabalus
(Roman Emperor - 218-222)
Eleanor
of Aquitaine (Queen of France / Queen of England - 1137-1204)
Elizabeth
I of England
Eshkol,
Levi
Ethelbald
(Saxon King 716-757)
Ethelbert
(Saxon King - late 500s)
Ethelred
II "the Unready" (Saxon King - 978-1013
/ 1014-1016)
Ethelwulf
(Saxon King - 839-858)
F
Faisal
(King of Saudi Arabia
Farnese,
Alexander of Parma (Spanish
General/Governor in the Netherlands -
1578-1592)
Ferdinand
II (King of Aragon - 1468-1516)
Ferdinand
I (Holy Roman Emperor - 1558-1564)
Ferdinand
II of Austria (Holy Roman Emperor -
1617-1637)
Foch,
Marshal Ferdinand (French commander of
Allied Forces during latter part
of World War
One)
Ford,
Gerald (US President)
Ford,
Henry (manufacturer of the Model T Ford -
1909-1928)
Franco,
Francisco (Spanish dictator - 1939-1975)
Francis
I (King of France - 1515-1547)
Francis
I (Emperor of Austria -1765)
Franklin,
Ben (American philosopher/statesman)
Franz
Josef (Emperor of Austria / King of Hungary
- 1848-1916)
Frederick
I "Barbarossa" (Holy Roman Emperor -
1152-1190)
Frederick
II (Holy Roman Emperor - 1215-1250)
Frederick
III (Holy Roman Emperor - 1440-1493)
Frederick
III "the Wise" (Elector of Saxony -
1486-1525)
Frederick
III (Elector of Prussia - 1688-1713)
Frederick
II "the Great" (King of Prussia -
1740-1786)
Frederick
Henry of Orange (1625-1647)
Frederick
Wilhelm ("the Great Elector" of
Brandenburg-Prussia)
Frederick
Wilhelm I ("King in Prussia" - 1713-1740)
Frederick
Wilhelm II (King of Prussia - 1786-1797)
Frederick
Wilhelm III (King of Prussia - 1797-1840)
Frederick
Wilhelm IV (King of Prussia - 1840-1861)
Frei,
Edouardo
Fugger,
Jacob (German Financier - 1459-1525)
Fujimori,
Alberto
G
Gaiseric
(or Genseric) (Vandal Chieftain 428-477)
Galerius
(Roman Emperor in the West - 305-311)
Gallienus
(Roman Emperor - 260-268)
Gandhi,
Indira
Gandhi,
"Mahatma" Mohandas
Gandhi,
Rajiv
Gandhi,
Sanjay
Gama,
Vasco da (Portuguese explorer - late 1400s
/ early 1500s)
Garibaldi,
Giuseppe (Italian national leader - 1882)
Garrison,
William Lloyd (American journalist -
1831-1865)
Gates,
Bill (American computer software tycoon)
Gaulle,
Charles de (French General; French
President 1958-1969)
George
I (George Lewis) (King of England -
1714-1727)
George
II (King of England - 1727-1760)
George
III (King of England - 1760-1820)
George
IV (King of England - 1820-1830)
George
V (King of England - 1910-1936)
George
VI (King of England - 1936-1952)
Gideon
Gingrich,
Newt
Gladstone,
William (English statesman - 1868
-1894)
Godfrey
of Bouillon ("Defender of the Holy
Sepulchre" 1099-1100)
Goebbels,
Josef (Hitler's Minister of Propaganda)
Gorbachev,
Mikhail
Göring,
Hermann Wilhelm (Hitler's 2nd in command
- 1939-1945)
Gordon,
Charles George (British Imperial
Adventurer - 1855-1885)
Gracchus,
Gaius
Gracchus,
Tiberius
Grant,
Ulysses S. (American General and President
- 1861-1881)
Gratian
Gregory
I "the Great" (Pope - 590-604)
Gregory
VII (Hildebrand) (Pope - 1073-1085)
Gregory
XIV (Pope)
Godunov,
Boris (Tsar of Russia - 1598-1613)
Guiscard,
Robert (Norman adenturer - 1053-1085)
Guise,
Francis, Duke of (French Catholic Leader -
1559-1563)
Guise,
Henry, Duke of (French Catholic Leader -
-1588)
Gustavus
Adolphus (King of Sweden - 1594-1632)
H
Hadrian
(Roman Emperor - 117-138)
Hamilton,
Alexander (American Statesman 1770s
-1804
Hammarskjold,
Dag
Hannibal
Barca (Carthaginian General - 220-182
BC)
Hardecanute
(Danish King in England - 1040-1042)
Harold
I Harefoot (Danish King in England -
1035-1040)
Harold
II (Last Saxon King - 1066)
Harun
ar Rashid (Abbasid Caliph - 786-809)
Hassan
(King of Morocco
Heath,
Edward
Hengest
(Saxon Chieftain - mid 400s)
Henry
I (King of England - 1100-1135)
Henry
II (King of England - 1154-1189)
Henry
III (King of England - 1216-1272)
Henry
IV (King of England)
Henry
V (King of England)
Henry
VI (King of England)
Henry
VII Tudor (King of England)
Henry
VIII (King of England)
Henry
I (King of France - 1031-1060)
Henry
II (King of France)
Henry
III (King of France)
Henry
IV of Navarre (King of France)
Henry
"the Navigator" (Prince of Portugal - 1394
-1460)
Henry
I "the Fowler" (Carolingian King - 919-936)
Henry
II (Holy Roman Emperor - 1002-1024)
Henry
III (Holy Roman Emperor - 1039-1056)
Henry
IV (Holy Roman Emperor - 1056-1106)
Henry
V (Holy Roman Emperor - 1106-1025)
Henry
VI (Holy Roman Emperor - 1190-1197)
Henry
VII of Luxembourg (Holy Roman Emperor
1308-1313)
Henry
"the Lion" (Duke of Saxony and Bavaria -
1142-1180)
Henry
of Flanders (Latin Byz. Emperor 1206-1216)
Heracles
(Semi-Mythical Greek Warrior)
Heraclius
(Byz. Emperor - 610-641)
Hiero
II
Himmler,
Heinrich (head of Hitler's SS and Gestapo
- 1934-1945)
Hindenburg,
Paul von (German Field Marshall in
World War One; President of the Weimar
Republic - 1925-1934)
Hirohito,
Michinomiya (Japanese Emperor -
1926-1989)
Hitler,
Adolf (Führer [Leader] of Germany -
1933-1945)
Ho
Chi Minh
Honorius
(Emperor of the West -394-423)
Horn
(or Hoorne), Filips van Montmorency, graaf
van (Dutch Protestant Leader
- 1546-1568)
Horsa
(Saxon Chieftain - mid 400s)
Hudson,
Henry (English explorer - early 1600s)
Humphrey,
Hubert
Hun
Sen
Hussein
(King of Jordan
Hussein,
Saddham
I
Irene
(Byz. Empress - 780-802)
Ignatius
(Byz. Patriarch - 847-858 / 867-877)
Innocent
III (Pope - 1198-1216)
Isaac
(Hebrew Patriarach)
Isaac
I Comnenus (Byz. Emperor - 1057-1059)
Isaac
II Angelus (Byz. Emperor - 1185-1195 /
1203-1204))
Isabella
(Queen of Castile - 1474-1504)
Ivan
III "the Great" (Tsar of Russia)
Ivan
IV "the Terrible" (Tsar of Russia)
J
Jackson,
Andrew (American General and President
- 1815-1837)
Jackson,
Thomas "Stonewall" (General in American
Confederate Army - 1861-1863)
Jacob
(or Israel) (Hebrew Patriarch)
Jagello,
Ladislas (King of Lithuania/Poland - 1386)
James
I Stuart (King of England 1603-1625)
James
II (King of England - 1685-1688)
Jan
III Sobieski (King of Poland - 1674-1696)
Jefferson,
Thomas
Jenghiz
Khan (Mongol Conqueror - 1162-1227)
Jiang
Zemin
Joan
of Arc (French General - 1429-1431)
John
(King of England)
John
I "the Posthumous" (King of France - 1316)
John
II "the Good" (King of France - -1364)
John
of Brienne
John
II of Portugal (1481-1495)
John
XXII (Pope - 1316-1334)
John
I Tzimisces (Byz. Emperor - 969-976)
John
II Comnenus (Byz. Emperor - 1118-1143)
John
III Ducas Vatatzes (Byz. Emperor of Nicaea -
1222-1254)
John
IV Cantacuzenus (Byz. Emperor - 1341-1354)
John
V Palaeologus (Byz. Emperor - 1354-1391)
John
VIII Palaeologus (Byz. Emperor - 1425-1448)
Johnson,
Lyndon B. (US President)
Jolliet,
Louis (French explorer in America -
1669-1700)
Joseph
(Hebrew Patriarch)
Joseph
II (Emperor of Austria - 1765-1790)
Joshua
(Israeli Conqueror)
Jovian
(Roman Emperor - 364-365)
Julian
"the Apostate" (Roman Emperor - 361-363)
Justin
I (Byz. Emperor - 518-527)
Justin
II (Byz. Emperor - 565-578)
Justinian
I (Byz. Emperor - 527-565)
Justinian
II (Byz. Emperor - 685-695 / 705-711)
K
Kazimierz
(Casimir), Jan (King of Poland -
1648-1668)
Kennedy,
John F. (US President)
Kennedy,
Robert (US Statesman)
Kenyata,
Jomo
Khatami,
Muhammad
Khomeini,
Ayatollah
Khrushchev,
Nikita (Soviet Premier)
Kim
Dae Jung
Kim
Il Sung
King,
Martin Luther, Jr. (American Civil Rights
Leader)
Kissinger,
Henry (US Foreign Policy
Advisor/Secretary of State)
Kitchener,
Lord Horatio Herbert (British military
leader - 1886-1916)
Klerk,
F.W. de
Kohl,
Helmut
Köprülü Mehmet Pasha (Ottoman Grand Vazir -
1656-1661)
Köprülü Fazil Ahmet Pasha (Ottoman Grand Vazir -
1661-1676)
Kosciusko,
Thaddeus (1794)
Kosygin,
Alexei
Kruger,
Paul (Afrikaner leader in South Africa -
1877-1902)
Krum
(Bulgar King - early 800s)
L
Laud,
William (Archbishop - 1633-1645)
La
Salle, Robert Cavelier de (Colonizer of New
France in America - 1669-1687)
Law,
Bonar (British Prime Minister - 1922-1923)
Lee,
Robert E. (commander of American
Confederate Army 1861-1865)
Lenin,
Vladimir Ilyich (Communist leader of Soviet
Russia - 1917-1924)
Leo
I "the Great" (Pope - 440-461)
Leo
III (Pope - 795-816)
Leo
IX (Pope - 1049-1054)
Leo
I (Byz. Emperor - 457-474)
Leo
III "the Isaurian" (Byz. Emperor - 717-741)
Leo
IV (Byz. Emperor - 775-780)
Leo
V (Byz. Emperor - 813-820)
Leo
VI "the Wise" (Byz. Emperor - 886-912)
Lerma,
Francisco Gomes, Duke of (Spanish Advisor
1598-1618)
Licinius
(Roman Co-Emperor - 311-324)
Lincoln,
Abraham (American President - 1861
-1865)
Lloyd
George, David (British Prime Minister - 1916
-1922)
Lothair
(Carolingian King/Emperor 840-855)
Louis
"the Pious" (Carolingian Emperor - 813-840)
Louis
I "the Geman" (Carolingian King - 840-876)
Louis
II (Carolingian King - 855-875)
Louis
VI "the Fat" (King of France - 1108-1137)
Louis
VII "the Young" (King of France - 1137-1180)
Louis
VIII (King of France - 1223-1226)
Louis
IX "Saint Louis" (King of France - 1226-1270)
Louis
X "the Quarrelsome" (King of France - 1314
-1316)
Louis
XI (King of France - 1461-1483)
Louis
XII (King of France - 1498-1515)
Louis
XIII (King of France - 1617-1643)
Louis
XIV "the Sun King" (King of France - 1643
-1715)
Louis
XV (King of France - 1715-1774)
Louis
XVI (King of France - 1774-1792)
Louis
XVII (youthful pretender to the French
Throne - 1793-1795)
Louis
XVIII (King of France - 1814-1824)
Louis
Philippe (King of France - 1830-1848)
Liutprand
(Lombard King - 712-744)
Lycurgus
(Creator of the Spartan Code)
M
MacArthur,
General Douglas
MacDonald,
James Ramsey (British Prime Minister
- 3x: 1924-1935)
Macmillan,
Harold
Madison,
James (American statesman and
President - 1801-1817)
Magellan,
Ferdinand (Portuguese/Spanish explorer
- early 1500s)
Major,
John
al
Mansur (Caliph / Founder of Abbasid Dynasty -
754-775)
Manuel
I " the Fortunate" (King of Portugal - 1495
-1521)
Manuel
I Comnenus (Byz. Emperor 1143-1180)
Manuel
II Palaeologus (Byz. Emperor 1391-1425)
Mansur,
al (Caliph / Founder of Abbasid Dynasty -
754 -775)
Mandela,
Nelson
Mao
Zedong
Marcian
(Byz. Emperor - 450-457)
Marcos,
Ferdinand
Marcus
Aurelius (Roman Emperor - 161-180)
Margaret
of Parma (Spanish Regent in the
Netherlands - 1559-1567 / 1580-1583)
Maria
Theresa (Empress of Austria - (1765-1780)
Marius,
Gaius (107-86 BC)
Marquette,
Pere Jacques (French explorer in
America - 1673-1675)
Marshall,
John (American jurist - 1801-1835)
Marshall,
George C. (US general + Secretary of
State - 1939-1949)
Martin
V (Pope - 1417-1431)
Mary
I "Bloody Mary" (Queen of England - 1553
-1558)
Mary
Stuart (Queen of Scots - 1542-1587)
Mary
II Stuart (Queen of England - 1689-1694)
Mather,
Cotton (Puritan America political/religious
leader - 1664-1723)
Mather,
Increase (American clergyman - 1680
-1728)
Matilda
(or Maud) (Queen of England - 1135-1142)
Maurice of
Orange (1584-1625)
Maurice
(Byz. Emperor - 582-602)
Maximian
(Roman Emperor in the West - 286-305)
Maximilian
I of Bavaria (1623-1651)
Maximilian
I (Holy Roman Emperor - 1493-1519)
Maximinius
Thrax (Roman Emperor 235-238)
Mazarin,
Cardinal Jules (French Royal Advisor -
1642 -1661)
Mazzini,
Giuseppe (Italian statesman - 1872)
McCarthy,
Joe (US Senator)
Medici,
Cosimo de (Florentine/Italian Leader -
1389 -1464)
Medici,
Lorenzo de (Florentine/Italian Leader -
1449 -1492)
Médicis,
Catherine de (Queen / Regent of France -
1559-1589)
Médicis,
Marie de (Queen of France - 1610-1617)
Mehmet
I (Ottoman
Sultan
-1413-1421)
Mehmet
II "the Conqueror" (Ottoman
Sultan
-
1444 -1446 / 1451-1481)
Mehmet
III (Ottoman
Sultan
- 1594-1603)
Mehmet
IV (Ottoman
Sultan
- 1648-1687)
Meier,
Golda
Mendes-France,
Pierre
Menelaus
Merzifonlu
Kara Mustafa Pasha
(Ottoman Grand
Vazir - 1676-1683)
Michael
I Rhangabe (Byz. Emperor - 811-813)
Michael
II (Byz. Emperor - 820-829)
Michael
III (Byz. Emperor - 842-867)
Michael
IV (Byz. Emperor - 1034-1041)
Michael
VII Ducas (Byz. Emperor - 1071-1078)
Michael
VIII Paleologus (Byz. Emperor - 1259
-1282)
Michael
Cerularius (Byz. Patriarch - 1043-1059)
Mitterand,
François (French President - 1981 -
1995)
Mobutu
Sese Seku
Moi,
Daniel arap
Mojmir
(Slavic King - mid 800s)
Molotov,
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich (Soviet "Prime
Minister" 1930-1941 + Soviet Foreign
Minister
- 1939-1949 + 1953-1956)
Monroe,
James (American President - 1817-1825)
Montgomery
("Monty"), Field Marshall Bernard
Law (World War Two)
Moses
(Hebrew Liberator - 1300 BC?)
Mubarak,
Hosni
Muhammad
of Mecca (Founder of Islam - 610-632)
Mu'awiya
(Caliph / Founder of Omayyad Dynasty -
661-680)
Mugabe,
Robert
Murad
I (Ottoman
Sultan
- 1360-1389)
Murad
II (Ottoman
Sultan
- 1421-1444 /
1446-1451)
Murad
III (Ottoman
Sultan
- 1574-1595)
Murad
IV (Ottoman Sultan - 1623-1640)
Mussolini,
Benito (Duce [Leader] of Italy -
1922-1943)
N
Napoleon
Bonaparte (French General and Emperor
- 1800-1815)
Napoleon
III, Louis (President and Emperor of
France - 1848-1870)
Nasser,
Gamel Abdul
Nehru,
Jawaharlal
Nero
(Roman Emperor - 54-68)
Nerva
(Roman Emperor - 96-98)
Netanyahu,
Binyamain
Nicephorus
I (Byz. Emperor - 802-811)
Nicephorus
Phocas (Byz. Emperor - 963-969)
Nicephorus
III Botaneiates (Byz. Emperor - 1078
-1081)
Nicholas
I (Pope - 858-867)
Nicholas
II (Tsar [Emperor] of Russia - 1895-1917)
Nixon,
Richard (US President)
Nkrumah,
Kwame
North,
Frederick ("Lord North") (British Prime
Minister - 1770-1782)
Northumberland,
John Dudley, Duke of (English Politician / Regent - 1547 to 1553)
O
Ochus
(Persian King - 359-338 BC)
Odaenathus
(Roman ruler in the Eastern Empire
["Palmyra"] - ?-266)
Odoacer
(German mercenary - 476-493)
Odysseus
Offa
(Saxon King - 757-796)
Oglethorpe,
James (English reformer, colonizer in
America - 1732-1743)
Olivares,
Count-Duke of (Spanish Royal Adviser
1621-1643)
Orhan
(Ottoman
Sultan
- 1324-1360)
Orlando,
Vittorio Emanuele (Italian Prime Minister
- 1917-1919)
Osman
I Ghazi (Ottoman
Sultan
- ?-1324)
Osman
II (Ottoman
Sultan
- 1618-1622)
Otto
I (Holy Roman Emperor - 936-973)
Otto
II (Holy Roman Emperor - 973-983)
Otto
III (Holy Roman Emperor - 983-1002)
P
Palmerston
(English statesman - 1809-1865)
Patton,
General George S. (US 3rd Army tank
commander in World War Two)
Pelagius,
Cardinal
Pelayo
(Visigothic King in Spain - early 700s)
Penn,
William (English colonizer in America - (1677
-1712)
Pepin
(or Pippin) "the Short" (Frank)
Perez,
Shimon
Periander
(Tyrant of Corinth - 625-585)
Pericles
(Athenian Statesman - mid 400s BC)
Peron,
Juan
(Argentine President - 1946 -1955
and 1973 - 1974)
Perseus
Pershing,
General John J. (American Commander -
World War One)
Petain,
Henri (French General)
Peter
I "the Great" (Tsar of Russia 1689-1725)
Peter
the Hermit (Crusader - 1095-1100)
Petrovna,
Elizabeth (ruler of Russia - 1741-1761)
Philip
II (Macedonian King - 382-336 BC)
Philip
I (King of France - 1060-1108)
Philip
II Augustus (King of France - 1180-1223)
Philip
III "the Bold" (King of France - 1270-1285)
Philip
IV "the Fair" (King of France - 1285-1314)
Philip
V "the Tall" (King of France - 1317-1322)
Philip
II (King of Spain - 1556-1621)
Philip
III (King of Spain - 1598-1621)
Philip
IV (King of Spain- 1621-1665)
Phocas
(Byz. Emperor - 602-610)
Photius
(Byz. Patriarch - 858-867 / 877-886)
Pinochet,
Augusto
Pisistratus
(Tyrant of Athens - 605-527 BC)
Pitt,
William (British Prime Minister - 1756-61 and
1766-68)
Pitt,
William "the younger" (British Prime Minister
1783-1801 and 1804-1806)
Pizarro,
Francisco (Spanish conquistador - early
1500s)
Podgorny,
Nikolay V.
Poincaré,
Raymond (French Prime Minister
1912-13 + 1922-24; French President 1913
-1920)
Pol
Pot
Polo,
Marco (Italian Explorer - 1271-1295)
Pompey
(Roman General/Statesman - 82-54 BC)
Pompidou,
Georges
Ponce
de Leon, Juan (Spanish explorer - early
1500s)
Poniatowski,
Stanislaw (1763-1794)
Postumus,
Cassianius Latinius (Roman ruler of
Gaul - 259-269)
Probus
(Roman Emperor - 276-282)
Ptolemy
I Soter (Greek King of Egypt - 322-282 BC)
Pyrrhus
(Defender of Greeks against Romans
281-275 BC)
Q
Qaddafi,
Muammar
R
Rahman,
Abd ar (Founder of Ommayad Caliphate
in Spain - mid 700s)
Rabin,
Yitzhak
Raleigh,
Walter (English Adventurer - 1580-1618)
Rashid, Harun
ar (Abbasid Caliph - 786-809)
Raymond
of Saint-Gilles (Crusader, Count of Tripoli
- 1096 - )
Reagan,
Ronald (American President - 1981-1989)
Reza
Pahlavi, (Shah of Iran)
Rhee
Syngmun
Rhodes,
Cecil John (English colonial adventurer in
South Africa - 1884-1902)
Richard
I "the Lion-Hearted" (King of England -
1189-1199)
Richard
II (King of England - 1377-1399)
Richard
III (King of England - 1483-1485)
Richelieu,
(French Cardinal / Royal Adviser - 1614
-1642)
Robert
II "the Pious" (King of France - 996-1031)
Robespierre
(French Revolutionary Leader - 1789
-1794)
Rockefeller,
John D. (American businessman -
1870 -1937)
Rockefeller,
Nelson (American businessman
/statesman - 1935-1977)
Rollo
(Viking - France - early 900s)
Romanov,
Michael (Tsar of Russia - 1613-1645)
Romanus
I Lecapenus - (Byz. Emperor - 920-944)
Romanus
II (Byz. Emperor - 959-963)
Romanus
III Argyrus (Byz. Emperor - 1028-1034)
Romanus
IV Diogenes (Byz. Emperor)
Rommel,
Erwin (German Field Marshall in North
Africa and France - 1941-1944)
Roosevelt,
Franklin Delano (US President - 1933
-1945)
Roosevelt,
Theodore ("Teddy") (US President -
1901 -1909)
Rudolph
I of Habsburg (Holy Roman Emperor -
1273 -1291)
Rudolph
II of Bohemia (Holy Roman Emperor 1576
-1612)
Rurik
(Viking - Rus - mid 800s)
S
Sadat,
Anwar
Saladin (Muslim
General - -1193)
Salisbury,
Marquis of (English statesman - 1885
-1902)
Samuel
Saul
Schmidt,
Helmut
Schröder,
Gerhard
Scipio
Seleucus
I Nicator (Greek ruler of Babylon/Syria -
312-281 BC)
Selim
I "the Grim" (Ottoman
Sultan
- 1512-1520)
Selim
II (Ottoman
Sultan
- 1566-1574)
Severus,
Septimus (Roman General/Emperor -
193-211)
Severus,
Alexander (Roman Emperor - 222-235)
Sforza,
Francesco (Italian Politician -1466)
Sherman,
William T. (American General -
1862-1865)
Sihanouk,
Prince Norodim
Smith,
John (English colonizer - early 1600s)
Sokollu,
Mehmed (Grand Vazir: 1565-1579)
Solomon
Solon
(Reviser of the Athenian Code - 594 BC)
Somerset
(Edward Seymour) (English Statesman /
Regent - 1536-1550)
Somoza,
Anastasio
Soto,
Hernando de (Spanish explorer - early
1500s)
Spaak,
Paul-Henri
Speer,
Albert (Hitler's chief architect and head of
German war production)
Stalin,
Joseph (Dictator of Soviet Russia - mid
1920s -1953)
Stefan
Batory (King of Poland - 1576-1586)
Stephen
of Blois (King of England - 1135-1154)
Stephen
II (Pope - 752-757)
Stilicho
([German] Roman General/Politician -
394-408)
Strafford,
Thomas Wentworth, Earl of (English
Royal Adviser - 1628-1641)
Stroessner,
Alfredo
Stuart,
Charles Edward ("Bonnie Prince Charlie") -
mid-1700s)
Stuyvesant,
Peter (Dutch colonizer - mid 1600s)
Suharto
Sukarno
Suleyman
I "the Magnificent" (Ottoman
Sultan
-
1520-1566)
Sulla
Sully
(Maximilien de Bethune) (French Royal
Adviser 1589-1610)
Symmachus
(Roman Statesman - late 300s)
T
Talleyrand
(French Statesman - 1792 -1838)
Tamarlane
(Timur Lenk)
Tariq
ibn Zaid (Muslim Conqueror of North Africa
and Spain - early 700s)
Thatcher,
Margaret
Theodore
I Lascaris (Emperor of Nicaea -
1208-1221)
Theodore
Ducas (Emperor of Epirus - 1224-1230)
Theodore
II Lascaris (Emperor of Nicaea -
1254-1258)
Theodoric
(Ostrogoth)
Theodosius
I (Eastern/Sole Roman Emperor -
379-395)
Theodosius
II (Eastern Roman Emperor 408-450)
Theophilus
(Byz. Emperor - 829-842)
Theseus
Thiers,
Louis Adolphe (French statesman and
President - 1830-1873)
Tiberius
(Roman Emperor 14-37)
Tiberius
II (Byz. Emperor - 578-582)
Tito,
Marshall
Titus
(Roman General/Emperor - 79-81)
Tojo
Hideki, (Japanese General; Prime Minister -
1941-1944)
Trajan
(Roman Emperor - 98-117)
Trotsky,
Leon (Lenin's closest supporter + creator
of the Red Army 1917-1923)
Truman,
Harry S. (US President - 1945-1953)
Turgesius
(Thorgestr) (Viking - Ireland 832-845)
Tutu,
Desmond
U
Umar
(Arab General and 2nd Caliph - 634-644)
Urban
II (Pope - 1088-1099)
Urban
VI (Pope)
U
Thant
Uthman
(3rd Caliph - 644-656)
V
Valens
(Eastern Roman Emperor - 364-378)
Valentinian
I (Western Roman Emperor - 364-375)
Valentinian
II (Western Roman Co-Emperor
/Emperor - 375-392)
Valentinian
III (Western Roman Emperor - 423 -
455)
Valera, Eamon de
(Irish Independence leader;
Prime Minister
+ President)
Valerian
(Roman Emperor - 253-260)
Verwoerd,
Hendrik
Vespasian
(Roman Emperor - 70-79)
Victor
Emmanuel II (King of Sardinia and of Italy -
1849 -1878)
Victor
Emmanuel III (King of Italy - 1900-1946)
Victoria
(Queen of England 1837-1901)
Vladimir
I "the Saint" (Rus King - 980-1015)
Volcker,
Paul
W
Walesa,
Lech
Wallenstein
(or Waldstein), Albrecht von (Imperial
General / Governor - 1618-1634)
Walpole,
Robert - 1st Earl of Orford (British Prime
Minister - 1715-1717 ? 1721-1742)
Washington,
George (First American President -
1789-1797)
Wellington,
Duke of (Arthur Wellesley) (English
General and statesman - 1800-1830)
Wenceslas
(Holy Roman Emperor - 1378-1400)
Wentworth,
Thomas, Earl of Strafford (English
Royal Adviser - 1628-1641)
Wilhelm
I (King of Prussia, Emperor of Germany -
1861-1888)
Wilhelm
II (Emperor of Germany - 1888-1918)
William
I "the Conqueror" (King of England -
1066-1087)
William
II Rufus (King of England - 1087-1100)
William
III of Orange (Dutch Stadholder
1672-1702; King of England - 1689-1702)
William
IV (King of England - 1830-1837)
William
I "the Silent" of Orange (Dutch Protestant
Leader - 1565-1584)
Williams,
Roger (English colonizer - early / mid
1600s)
Wilson,
Harold
Wilson,
Woodrow (US President - 1913-1921)
Winthrop,
John (English colonizer - early / mid
1600s)
Wladyslaw
IV (King of Poland - 1632-1648)
Wolsey,
Thomas (English Cardinal -1529)
X
Xerxes
(Persian King - 485-465 BC)
Y
Yamamoto
Isoroku (Japanese Admiral; leader of
the attack on Pearl Harbor)
Yaroslav
"the Wise" (Rus King - d. 1054)
Yeltsin,
Boris
Young,
Brigham (American religous leader and
pioneer - 1835-1877)
Z
Zeno
(Byz. Emperor - 474-491)
Zenobia,
Septimia (Queen of Palmyra and Egypt -
266 -273)
Zhu
Rongji
Zoé
(Byz. Empress - 1028-1050)
Zygmunt
August (King of Poland - 1548-1572)
Zygmunt
III Vasa (King of Poland / Sweden -
1587-1632
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