Famous People who were Polyglots (Knew Many Languages)

A polyglot is a multilingual person, someone who can speak or write many languages (though the number of languages necessary to be considered a polyglot can vary). Name these famous people who know or knew at least five languages.

Languages in italics signify a more limited fluency.

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Life	Hint	Languages	Person
69–30 BC	The last ruling Pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt	Egyptian, Greek, +7 more	Cleopatra
1438–1481	Ottoman sultan who conquered Constantinople	Turkish, Arabic, Latin, Greek, Serbian, Persian	Mehmed II
1533–1603	Ruler of England	English, French, Spanish, Italian, Flemish, Greek, Latin, Welsh, Cornish, Scottish, Irish	Elizabeth I
1608–1674	Wrote the epic Paradise Lost	English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, Spanish, Italian, Old English, Aramaic, Syriac	John Milton
1758–1843	American English spelling reformer, dictionary author	23 languages	Noah Webster
1777–1855	German mathematician and scientist (demagnetization)	Most of the principal European languages	Carl Friedrich Gauss
1815–1898	Prussian statesman known as the "Iron Chancellor"	German, English, French, Italian, Russian, Polish, Plattdeutsch, Latin	Otto von Bismarck
1820–1895	Co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx	German, English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Russian, Polish, Irish	Friedrich Engels
1854–1891	French Symbolist poet of A Season in Hell	French, Latin, Greek, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Dutch, Arabic, Hindi, Amharic	Arthur Rimbaud
1856–1943	Serbian-American inventor who developed A/C	Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latin	Nikola Tesla
1882–1941	Irish novelist of Ulysses	English, Italian, French, German, Norwegian, Latin, Irish, Greek	James Joyce
1890–1969	Vietnamese Communist leader	Vietnamese, French, English, Russian, Cantonese, Mandarin	Ho Chi Minh
1901–1970	First president of Indonesia	Javanese, Sundanese, Balinese, Indonesian, Dutch, German, English, French, Arabic, Japanese	Sukarno
1920–2005	The second-longest-serving pope in modern history	Polish, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, English, German	Pope John Paul II
1922–2015	Played Dracula, Count Dooku, and Saruman	English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Russian, Greek	Christopher Lee
1927–	Pope from 2005-2013	German, English, Italian, French, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew	Pope Benedict
1936–	Current leader of the Catholic Church	Spanish, Italian, Latin, German, French, Portuguese, English	Pope Francis
1958–	Danish-American actor (Aragorn in Lord of the Rings)	English, Spanish, Danish, Italian, French, Arabic	Viggo Mortensen
1982–	Openly gay US presidential candidate in 2020	English, Norwegian, Spanish, French, Italian, Maltese, Arabic, Dari	Pete Buttigieg
1984–	South African comedian and host of The Daily Show	English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana, Tsonga, German	Trevor Noah
1981–	Swedish footballer (striker for AC Milan)	Swedish, Bosnian, English, French, Italian, Spanish	Zlatan Ibrahimović

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