Mononymous People

Hip hop artist known for his on-stage alias Slim Shady

Prophet who founded Islam

Irish singer-songwriter and frontman of U2

Carthaginian general who defeated the Romans at the Battle of Cannae

Female pharaoh who formed a powerful strategic alliance with both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony

Brazilian footballer who scored 1,279 goals throughout is professional career and later served as his country's Minister of Sports

Ancient Greek polymath whose best known theorem is used to calculate the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle

Brutal Roman emperor famously said to have fiddled while Rome burned

American singer whose hits include "I Got You Babe" and "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"

Athenian moral philosopher known for his 'dialogues' and for being sentenced to death by drinking hemlock

Ancient Greek polymath after whom all medical doctors swear an oath to do no harm

Singer and actress whose hits include "Like a Prayer" and "Like a Virgin"

Roman emperor who commanded the construction of a famous wall in northern Britain to guard against Scottish raiders

Ancient Greek author of The Iliad and The Odyssey

Old Testament prophet said to have led the Israelites out of slavery from Egypt

Turco-Mongol emperor and military leader, sometimes nicknamed 'The Lame'

"Hotline Bling" rapper born Aubrey Graham

Iceni queen who led an unsuccessful uprising against the Roman occupation forces in Britain

Ancient Greek polymath known as 'the Father of History'

Former vocalist of the Black Eyed Peas whose singles include "Glamorous", "Clumsy" and "London Bridge"

French Enlightenment philosopher who wrote Candide

Revolutionary who served as Indonesia's first post-independence leader

Pharaoh whose tomb was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922

Tyrannical Roman emperor whose name literally means 'little boot'

American singer who changed his name into a symbol

Renaissance artist best known for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Old Testament prophet regarded as common patriarch of Christianity, Judaism and Islam

Philosopher, student of Plato and tutor of Alexander the Great who founded the Lyceum

Japanese emperor during the Second World War

Native American woman from the Early Modern period whose life was recounted by the English colonist John Smith

Ancient Greek mathematician remembered for devising the theory of water displacement

Early philosopher whose cultural teachings influence much of the social fabric of China and wider East Asia

Roman poet whose Aeneid tells the story of the fall of Troy

English singer and bassist who was the frontman of The Police

13th century poet and Sufi mystic widely regarded as one of the most significant figures of Persian literature

Influential warrior who led the Zulu Kingdom from 1816 until his assassination in 1828