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50 Major Historical Figures

Name these 50 historical figures who had a major impact on world history
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Last updated: October 28, 2025
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Person
1) Greek who conquered from Persia to
India. Considered one of the greatest military leaders
Alexander the Great
2) Fatally stabbed on the Ides of March
Julius Caesar
3) Crossed the Alps by elephants to surprise the Romans
Hannibal
4) The Christian Son of God who was crucified on the
cross
Jesus
5) English monarch who was forced to sign the Magna Carta
King John
6) Author of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and MacBeth
William Shakespeare
7) Rejected the Catholic church and started the Protestant
Reformation in Europe
Martin Luther
8) Physicist who discovered the laws of motion
Isaac Newton
9) "Discovered" America for the Spanish crown
Christopher Columbus
10) Spanish leader who conquered the Aztecs
Hernan Cortes
11) Portuguese explorer who first circumnavigated the globe
Ferdinand Magellan
12) Military commander and Americas first president
George Washington
13) President and author of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
14) Tall president who was assassinated at Fords Theater
Abraham Lincoln
15) Controversial founder of psychoanalytic theory
Sigmund Freud
16) Famously made a daring midnight ride into the
countryside to warn colonists of the British invasion
Paul Revere
17) Patriot who was killed in a duel by rival Aaron Burr in
New York
Alexander Hamilton
18) Famous Dutch painter who cut off part of his ear
Vincent Van Gogh
19) Painted the Mona Lisa among other famous works
Leonardo DaVinci
20) Painted the Sistine Chapel and sculpted David and
the Creation of Adam
Michelangelo
21) Invented the first mechanical printing press
Johannes Gutenberg
22) Credited with the creation of the incandescent lightbulb
for commercial use
Thomas Edison
23) His theory of evolution was inspired by wildlife in the
remote Galapagos Islands
Charles Darwin
24) Shoshone native who is credited with aiding the Lewis
and Clark expedition to the Pacific
Sacagawea
25) Conquistador who defeated the Incas and established
the city of Lima
Francisco Pizarro
Hint
Person
26) Rough rider, president and overseer of the Panama Canal
Theodore Roosevelt
27) His assassination in 1914 Sarajevo ignited the first World War
Franz Ferdinand
28) Famous Chicago gangster during the 1920s Prohibition era
Al Capone
29) Infamous leader of the Nazi party of Germany
Adolf Hitler
30) Served 4 terms during his time as US president
Franklin Roosevelt
31) PM of Britain during WW2
Winston Churchill
32) Famously refused to give up her bus seat in racially segregated
Montgomery, AL
Rosa Parks
33) US president who was assassinated in a Dallas motorcade
John F Kennedy
34) Civil rights leader and political activist who gave his
I Have a Dream speech
Martin Luther King
35) President who resigned after the Watergate tapes scandal
Richard Nixon
36) Egyptian female pharaoh who had relationships with Caesar
and Mark Antony
Cleopatra
37) Astronaut credited with being the first to walk on the Moon
Neil Armstrong
38) Mongol leader who conquered much of Asia via pillages and
thousands of killings
Genghis Khan
39) She kept a dairy of her life while hidden in a secret attic in
Amsterdam during WW2
Anne Frank
40) Wrote Pride and Prejudice among other famous works
Jane Austen
41) Serbian engineer credited with the invention of the AC current
and rival to Thomas Edison
Nikola Tesla
42) Teenage leader of a French rebellion against Britain in the
Hundred Years War
Joan of Arc
43) Automaker and pioneer of a moving assembly line, introducing
the Model T
Henry Ford
44) Famous aviator who disappeared over the Pacific en route
back to the US
Amelia Earhart
45) Black ballplayer who broke the color barrier of major
league baseball
Jackie Robinson
46) Author of A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
47) Feared pirate who plundered the North Carolina coast aboard
the Queen Annes Revenge
Blackbeard
48) Pitcher and outfielder credited as the Home Run king and one of
baseballs greatest players
Babe Ruth
49) Engineer often credited as the inventor of the first practical
telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
50) Indian lawyer who championed for Indias independence, credited
as one of the greatest civil rights activists
Gandhi
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2 Comments
linhouse
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Level 45
Oct 28, 2025
Magellan did not finish his voyage as he died.
GeoDude220
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Level 46
Oct 29, 2025
Yes but His team of voyagers did
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