50 Major Historical Figures

1) Greek who conquered from Persia to India. Considered one of the greatest military leaders

2) Fatally stabbed on the Ides of March

3) Crossed the Alps by elephants to surprise the Romans

4) The Christian Son of God who was crucified on the cross

5) English monarch who was forced to sign the Magna Carta

6) Author of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and MacBeth

7) Rejected the Catholic church and started the Protestant Reformation in Europe

8) Physicist who discovered the laws of motion

9) "Discovered" America for the Spanish crown

10) Spanish leader who conquered the Aztecs

11) Portuguese explorer who first circumnavigated the globe

12) Military commander and Americas first president

13) President and author of the Declaration of Independence

14) Tall president who was assassinated at Fords Theater

15) Controversial founder of psychoanalytic theory

16) Famously made a daring midnight ride into the countryside to warn colonists of the British invasion

17) Patriot who was killed in a duel by rival Aaron Burr in New York

18) Famous Dutch painter who cut off part of his ear

19) Painted the Mona Lisa among other famous works

20) Painted the Sistine Chapel and sculpted David and the Creation of Adam

21) Invented the first mechanical printing press

22) Credited with the creation of the incandescent lightbulb for commercial use

23) His theory of evolution was inspired by wildlife in the remote Galapagos Islands

24) Shoshone native who is credited with aiding the Lewis and Clark expedition to the Pacific

25) Conquistador who defeated the Incas and established the city of Lima

26) Rough rider, president and overseer of the Panama Canal

27) His assassination in 1914 Sarajevo ignited the first World War

28) Famous Chicago gangster during the 1920s Prohibition era

29) Infamous leader of the Nazi party of Germany

30) Served 4 terms during his time as US president

31) PM of Britain during WW2

32) Famously refused to give up her bus seat in racially segregated Montgomery, AL

33) US president who was assassinated in a Dallas motorcade

34) Civil rights leader and political activist who gave his I Have a Dream speech

35) President who resigned after the Watergate tapes scandal

36) Egyptian female pharaoh who had relationships with Caesar and Mark Antony

37) Astronaut credited with being the first to walk on the Moon

38) Mongol leader who conquered much of Asia via pillages and thousands of killings

39) She kept a dairy of her life while hidden in a secret attic in Amsterdam during WW2

40) Wrote Pride and Prejudice among other famous works

41) Serbian engineer credited with the invention of the AC current and rival to Thomas Edison

42) Teenage leader of a French rebellion against Britain in the Hundred Years War

43) Automaker and pioneer of a moving assembly line, introducing the Model T

44) Famous aviator who disappeared over the Pacific en route back to the US

45) Black ballplayer who broke the color barrier of major league baseball

46) Author of A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations

47) Feared pirate who plundered the North Carolina coast aboard the Queen Annes Revenge

48) Pitcher and outfielder credited as the Home Run king and one of baseballs greatest players

49) Engineer often credited as the inventor of the first practical telephone

50) Indian lawyer who championed for Indias independence, credited as one of the greatest civil rights activists