People You Got to Know for World History

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Founder of Islam (570 – 632)
Muhammad
Islamic mathematician (780 – 850)
Al-Khwarizmi
Father of modern medicine (980 – 1037)
Ibn Sina
Pope to ignite the Crusades (1035 – 1099)
Pope Urban II
Founder of the Mongol Empire (1162 – 1227)
Genghis Khan
Creator of trigonometry (1201 – 1274)
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Founder of the Yuan Dynasty (1215 – 1294)
Kublai Khan
Founder of the Mali Empire (1217 – 1255)
Sundiata Keita
Italian traveler (1254 – 1324)
Marco Polo
Wealthiest person in history (1312 – 1337)
Mansa Musa
Moroccan Islamic traveler (1304 – 1368/1369)
Ibn Battuta
Arab historian/philosopher (1332 – 1406)
Ibn Khaldun
Turco-Mongol conqueror (1336 – 1405)
Tamerlane
Chinese Islamic navigator (1371–1435)
Zhenghe
Portuguese navigator (1394 –1460)
Prince Henry
Inventor of the printing press (1400 – 1468)
Johannes Gutenberg
Founder of the Incan Empire (1418 –1472)
Pachacuti
Ottoman conqueror (1432 – 1481)
Mehmed II
Portuguese navigator to sail around the southern tip of Africa (1450 – 1500)
Bartolmeu Dias
"First" discoverer of the New World (1451 – 1506)
Christopher Columbus
Portuguese conquistador of the Indian Ocean (1453 – 1515)
Afonso de Albuquerque
Portuguese navigator of the sea route from Europe to India (1460 – 1524)
Vasco da Gama
Final ruler of the Aztec Empire (1466 – 1520)
Montezuma II
Founder of Sikhism (1469 –1539)
Guru Nanak
Conquistador of the Incan Empire (1471 –1541)
Francisco Pizarro
Global circumnavigator (1480 – 1521)
Ferdinand Magellan
Founder of the Mughal Empire (1483 –1530)
Babur
Starter of the Protestant Reformation (1483 –1546)
Martin Luther
Spanish activist annointed as "Protector of the Indians" (1484 – 1566)
Bartolomé de las Casas
Conquistador of the Aztec Empire (1485 –1547)
Hernan Cortes
Founder of the Safavid Empire (1487 –1524)
Ishmail I
Greatest Ottoman sultan (1494 –1566)
Suleiman the Magnificent
Final ruler of the Incan Empire (1502 –1533)
Atahualpa
First tsar of Russia (1530 –1584)
Ivan IV
Tolerant ruler of the Mughals (1542 –1605)
Akbar
First shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate (1543 – 1616)
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Unifier of the Manchu (1559 –1626)
Nurhaci
Intolerant ruler of the Mughals (1618 – 1707)
Aurangzeb
French absolutist monarch (1638 –1715)
Louis XIV
English polymath (1643 – 1727)
Sir Isaac Newton
Longest-reigning emperor in Chinese history (1654 – 1722)
Kangxi
Queen of Ndongo and Matamba (1583 – 1663)
Ana Nzinga
English philosopher of the Leviathan (1588 – 1679)
Thomas Hobbes
Father of Liberalism (1632 – 1704)
John Locke
Greatest Russian tsar (1672 –1725)
Peter the Great
Jamaican revolutionary and the leader of the Maroons (1686 – 1760)
Queen Nanny
French philosopher known for his idea of seperations of power (1689 –1755)
Montesquieu
French philosopher known for his satirical work Candide (1694 –1778)
Voltaire
English inventor of the flying shuttle (1704 – 1779)
John Kay
French philosopher known for the social contract (1712 –1778)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
English inventor of the spinning jenny (1720 – 1778)
James Hargreaves
Father of Capitalism (1723 – 1790)
Adam Smith
First American president (1732 –1799)
George Washington
Scottish inventor of the steam engine (1736 – 1819)
James Watt
Incan rebel leader (1738 – 1781)
Tupac Amaru II
Cossack rebel (1742 –1775)
Yemelyan Pugachev
American philosopher and third American president (1743 – 1826)
Thomas Jefferson
Haitian revolutionary (1743 – 1803)
Toussaint Louverture
French feminist thinker of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1748 – 1793)
Olympe de Gouges
Mexican Father of the Nation (1753 – 1811)
Father Hidalgo
Fought in both the American and French Revolutions (1757 – 1834)
The Marquis de Lafayette
English feminist thinker of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1759 – 1797)
Mary Wollstonecraft
Last king of France before the French Revolution (1754 – 1793)
Louis XVI
Radical Jacobin who led the Reign of Terror (1758 – 1794)
Maximilien Robespierre
French Emperor (1769 – 1821)
Napoleon Bonaparte
El Liberatador (1783 – 1830)
Simón Bolivar
Imperial Comissioner of the Qing (1785 – 1850)
Lin Zexu
American commodore (1794 – 1858)
Matthew Perry
Inventor of Vulcanization (1800 – 1860)
Charles Goodyear
Father of Utilitarianism (1806 –1873)
John Stuart Mill
Father of evolution (1809 – 1882)
Charles Darwin
Founder of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1814 –1864)
Hong Xiuquan
Nationalist unifier of Germany (1815 – 1898)
Otto von Bismarck
American feminist activist of the Seneca Falls Convention (1815 – 1902)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Father of Communism (1818 – 1883)
Karl Marx
Father of microbiology (1822 – 1895)
Louis Pasteur
Leader of the Sepoy Mutiny (1827 – 1857)
Mangal Pandey
Mexican autocrat (1830 – 1915)
Profirio Diaz
German field marshall and creator of his namesake military plan (1833 – 1913)
Alfred von Schlieffen
Belgian imperialist of the Congo (1835 – 1909)
Leopold II
Queen Mother of the Ashanti Empire (1840 – 1921)
Yaa Asantewaa
Emperor who expanded Ethiopia to its greatest extent (1844 –1913)
Menelik II
Emperor of Japan (1852 – 1912)
Meiji
British imperialist and mining magnate (1853 – 1902)
Cecil Rhodes
Filipino nationalist (1861 – 1896)
José Rizal
American industrialist and automobile business magnate (1863 – 1947)
Henry Ford
Archduke of Austria (1863 – 1914)
Franz Ferdinand
Chinese revolutionary who founded the ROC and the KMT (1866 – 1926)
Sun Yat-sen
Last Russian tsar (1868 – 1918)
Nicholas II
Anti-colonial Indian nationalist (1869 – 1948)
Mahatma Gandhi
Russian communist revolutionary (1870 – 1924)
Vladimir Lenin
Mexican revolutionary and 37th president (1873 – 1913)
Francisco Madero
Soviet revolutionary and leader of the Soviet Union (1878 – 1953)
Joseph Stalin
American statesman and general of namesake economic relief plan (1880 – 1959)
George C. Marshall
Founder of the Republic of Turkey (1881 – 1938)
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
32nd President of the United States during the Interwar and WW2 (1882 – 1945)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Fascist dictator of Italy (1883 – 1945)
Benito Mussolini
33rd President of the United States during WW2 and the Cold War (1884 – 1972)
Harry S. Truman
Leader of Nazi Germany (1889 – 1945)
Adolf Hitler
First Prime Minister of India (1889 – 1964)
Jawaharlal Nehru
Vietnamese revolutionary and communist (1890 – 1969)
Ho Chi Minh
Fascist dictator of Nationalist Spain (1892 – 1975)
Francisco Franco
First Chairman of the Communist Party of China (1893 – 1976)
Mao Zedong
Serbian terrorist who assasinated the Archduke of Austria (1894 – 1918)
Gavrilo Princip
First President of Ghana; Pan-Africanist (1909 – 1972)
Kwame Nkrumah
Chilean military dictator (1915 – 2006)
Augusto Pinochet
First female Prime Minister of India (1917 – 1984)
Indira Gandhi
Assassinated 35th President of the United States (1917 – 1963)
John F. Kennedy
Second President of Egypt (1918 – 1970)
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Anti-apartheid activist and First President of South Africa (1918 – 2013)
Nelson Mandela
Dictator who started the Cambodian Genocide (1925 – 1998)
Pol Pot
Cuban revolutionary and leader (1926 – 2016)
Fidel Castro
Butcher of Uganda (1928 – 2003)
Idi Amin
American civil rights activist (1929 – 1968)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Leader of Communist Ethiopia and Chairman of the Derg (1937)
Mengistu Haile Mariam
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