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1187 historical figures by era, from antiquity to modern times — each can be placed on the world map in their own year.
Open the interactive world history map →Antiquity (2100–500 BCE) 71 entries
- 2100 BCEImhotep
- 2100 BCEPuabi
- 2100 BCESneferu
- 2100 BCEKhufu
- 2100 BCEKhafre
- 2100 BCEUr-Nammu
- 2100 BCEGilgamesh
- 2070 BCEYu the Great
- 2050 BCEShulgi
- 2040 BCEMentuhotep II
- 1862 BCESenusret III
- 1754 BCEHammurabi
- 1600 BCETang of Shang
- 1600 BCEMinos
- 1470 BCEHatshepsut
- 1457 BCEThutmose III
- 1346 BCEAkhenaten
- 1345 BCENefertiti
- 1323 BCETutankhamun
- 1319 BCEHoremheb
- 1274 BCERamesses II
- 1264 BCENefertari
- 1250 BCEFu Hao
- 1250 BCEMoses
- 1150 BCEOlmec Ruler (unnamed)
- 1120 BCETaibo of Wu
- 1046 BCEKing Wu of Zhou
- 1046 BCEBoyi
- 1046 BCEJiang Taigong
- 1046 BCEJiang Ziya
- 1043 BCEDuke of Zhou
- 1042 BCEDuke Shi of Shao
- 1040 BCEKangshu of Wey
- 1040 BCEWeizi Qi
- 1000 BCEDavid
- 960 BCEHiram I
- 957 BCESolomon
- 879 BCEAshurnasirpal II
- 820 BCELycurgus
- 811 BCESemiramis (legend)
- 800 BCEChavín Priest (unnamed)
- 753 BCERomulus (legendary)
- 750 BCEHomer
- 745 BCETiglath-Pileser III
- 728 BCEPiye
- 700 BCEYajnavalkya
- 690 BCETaharqa
- 663 BCEAshurbanipal
- 651 BCEDuke Huan of Qi
- 651 BCEGuan Zhong
- 632 BCEDuke Wen of Jin
- 600 BCENecho II
- 594 BCESolon
- 588 BCEZoroaster
- 587 BCENebuchadnezzar II
- 585 BCEThales
- 550 BCEAstyages
- 546 BCECroesus
- 545 BCEPasenadi
- 544 BCEBimbisara
- 540 BCEYan Ying
- 539 BCECyrus the Great
- 530 BCESima Rangju
- 528 BCEGautama Buddha
- 527 BCEMahavira
- 525 BCECambyses II
- 520 BCEDarius I
- 518 BCELaozi
- 506 BCESun Tzu
- 506 BCEWu Zixu
- 501 BCEConfucius
Classical (500 BCE–500 CE) 241 entries
- 480 BCEXerxes I
- 480 BCELeonidas
- 480 BCEThemistocles
- 473 BCEFan Li
- 473 BCEGoujian
- 464 BCEDiagoras
- 447 BCEPericles
- 440 BCEAspasia
- 440 BCEMozi
- 438 BCEPhidias
- 430 BCEHerodotus
- 424 BCEThucydides
- 415 BCEAlcibiades
- 410 BCEHippocrates
- 399 BCESocrates
- 387 BCEPlato
- 385 BCEWu Qi
- 371 BCEEpaminondas
- 356 BCEShang Yang
- 341 BCEDemosthenes
- 340 BCEDiogenes
- 335 BCEAristotle
- 333 BCESu Qin
- 331 BCEAlexander the Great
- 326 BCEPorus
- 321 BCEChandragupta Maurya
- 320 BCEMencius
- 320 BCEZhuangzi
- 313 BCEZhang Yi
- 307 BCEGan Mao
- 305 BCEPtolemy I
- 300 BCEEuclid
- 298 BCELord Mengchang
- 284 BCEYue Yi
- 280 BCEWei Ran
- 280 BCEPyrrhus
- 279 BCELian Po
- 279 BCELin Xiangru
- 279 BCETian Dan
- 278 BCEQu Yuan
- 266 BCEFan Ju
- 265 BCEXunzi
- 262 BCELord Chunshen
- 261 BCEAshoka
- 260 BCEBai Qi
- 258 BCELu Zhonglian
- 257 BCELord Pingyuan
- 257 BCELord Xinling
- 240 BCEEratosthenes
- 239 BCELü Buwei
- 234 BCEHan Fei
- 227 BCEJing Ke
- 224 BCEWang Jian
- 221 BCEQin Shi Huang
- 221 BCELi Si
- 217 BCEFabius
- 216 BCEHannibal
- 215 BCEMeng Tian
- 215 BCETouman Chanyu
- 212 BCEArchimedes
- 209 BCEChen Sheng
- 209 BCEModu Chanyu
- 207 BCEXiang Yu
- 206 BCEZhang Liang
- 206 BCEXiao He
- 204 BCEZhang Er
- 204 BCEYing Bu
- 204 BCEHan Xin
- 203 BCEPeng Yue
- 202 BCELiu Bang
- 202 BCEScipio Africanus
- 200 BCEShusun Tong
- 193 BCECao Can
- 188 BCEEmpress Lü
- 187 BCEWang Ling
- 184 BCECato the Elder
- 180 BCEChen Ping
- 180 BCEZhou Bo
- 176 BCEJia Yi
- 174 BCELaoshang Chanyu
- 170 BCEZhang Shizhi
- 167 BCEEmperor Wen of Han
- 155 BCEChao Cuo
- 154 BCEKing Xiao of Liang
- 154 BCEYuan Ang
- 154 BCEZhou Yafu
- 141 BCEMithridates I
- 139 BCELiu An, King of Huainan
- 134 BCEDong Zhongshu
- 133 BCEThe Gracchi brothers
- 129 BCELi Guang
- 127 BCEWei Qing
- 126 BCEZhang Qian
- 121 BCEHuo Qubing
- 119 BCEEmperor Wu of Han
- 112 BCELi Yannian
- 107 BCEMarius
- 105 BCEPrincess Xijun
- 100 BCESu Wu
- 91 BCESima Qian
- 88 BCEJin Midi
- 82 BCESulla
- 74 BCEHuo Guang
- 71 BCEPrincess Jieyou
- 71 BCECrassus
- 63 BCEPompey
- 63 BCECicero
- 60 BCEZheng Ji
- 51 BCEHuhanye Chanyu
- 49 BCEJulius Caesar
- 49 BCEJulius Caesar
- 45 BCEShi Xian
- 44 BCEBrutus
- 44 BCEZhizhi Chanyu
- 41 BCECleopatra VII
- 41 BCEMark Antony
- 37 BCEJumong (King Dongmyeong)
- 33 BCEWang Zhaojun
- 27 BCEAugustus
- 27 BCEAugustus (Octavian)
- 26 BCELiu Xiang
- 25 BCEAmanirenas
- 20 BCEHerod the Great
- 19 BCEVirgil
- 9 BCEAretas IV
- 9Wang Mang
- 14Livia Drusilla
- 25Liu Xiu (Emperor Guangwu of Han)
- 25Deng Yu
- 34Paul the Apostle
- 36Wu Han
- 40Kujula Kadphises
- 40Trung Trac
- 42Ma Yuan
- 43Claudius
- 61Boudica
- 64Nero
- 65Seneca the Younger
- 73Ban Chao
- 79Pliny the Elder
- 89Ban Gu
- 96Ban Zhao
- 100Plutarch
- 100Charaka
- 105Cai Lun
- 106Trajan
- 122Hadrian
- 123Ban Yong
- 127Kanishka
- 132Zhang Heng
- 146Liang Ji
- 161Marcus Aurelius
- 168Chen Fan
- 170Eucratides I
- 170Galen
- 184Zheng Xuan
- 189Dong Zhuo
- 196Lü Bu
- 197Yuan Shu
- 199Sun Ce
- 200Cao Cao
- 200Yuan Shao
- 200Xun Yu
- 200Guo Jia
- 200Nagarjuna
- 203Perpetua
- 208Zhou Yu
- 208Lu Su
- 208Zhang Fei
- 208Zhao Yun
- 208Hua Tuo
- 212Caracalla
- 213Cao Zhi
- 215Zhang Liao
- 218Elagabalus
- 219Guan Yu
- 219Lü Meng
- 220Cao Pi
- 221Liu Bei
- 222Lu Xun
- 224Ardashir I
- 224Ardashir I
- 228Zhuge Liang
- 229Sun Quan
- 238Himiko
- 242Mani
- 249Sima Yi
- 249Ruan Ji
- 260Ji Kang
- 260Shapur I
- 262Jiang Wei
- 263Deng Ai
- 263Zhong Hui
- 265Shan Tao
- 269Yang Hu
- 270Zenobia
- 280Du Yu
- 290Shi Chong
- 293Diocletian
- 304Liu Yuan
- 307Liu Kun
- 313Constantine the Great
- 313Zu Ti
- 318Wang Dao
- 329Tao Kan
- 330Shi Le
- 340Ezana of Axum
- 353Wang Xizhi
- 354Huan Wen
- 370Wang Meng
- 380Gu Kaizhi
- 383Fu Jian
- 383Xie An
- 383Xie Xuan
- 384Murong Chui
- 396Gwanggaeto the Great
- 397Augustine of Hippo
- 401Kumarajiva
- 403Huan Xuan
- 405Tao Yuanming
- 410Alaric
- 415Hypatia
- 417Wang Zhen'e
- 420Liu Yu
- 422Xie Lingyun
- 425Galla Placidia
- 430Liu Yiqing
- 431Tan Daoji
- 432Fan Ye
- 432Saint Patrick
- 439Cui Hao
- 439Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei (Tuoba Tao)
- 450Shen Qingzhi
- 451Attila
- 462Zu Chongzhi
- 470Wang Sengqian
- 486Li Chong
- 489Fan Zhen
- 494Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei
- 495Xie Tiao
- 496Clovis I
Medieval (500–1500) 343 entries
- 501Liu Xie
- 502Emperor Wu of Liang (Xiao Yan)
- 502Shen Yue
- 507Yang Dayan
- 507Cao Jingzong
- 507Wei Rui
- 526Xiao Tong, Crown Prince Zhaoming
- 528Erzhu Rong
- 530Imru' al-Qais
- 531Khosrow I Anushirvan
- 532Theodora
- 534Justinian I
- 534Gao Huan
- 537Yuwen Tai
- 541Su Chuo
- 546Wei Xiaokuan
- 549Hou Jing
- 552Wang Sengbian
- 552Bumin (Illig Khan)
- 554Wei Shou
- 557Chen Baxian
- 557Yuwen Hu
- 560Istami Khagan
- 560Muqan Khan
- 564Gao Changgong
- 571Hulü Guang
- 576Feng Xiaolian
- 581Emperor Wen of Sui
- 589Chen Shubao
- 589Gao Jiong
- 589Yang Su
- 589He Ruobi
- 589Han Qinhu
- 590Lady Xian
- 604Prince Shotoku
- 610Emperor Yang of Sui
- 613Yang Xuangan
- 615K'inich Janaab' Pakal
- 616Rædwald
- 618Yuwen Huaji
- 618Li Yuan (Emperor Gaozu of Tang)
- 619Tong Yabghu Khagan
- 621Dou Jiande
- 621Qin Qiong
- 622Muhammad
- 626Empress Zhangsun
- 626Jieli Khan
- 627Emperor Taizong of Tang
- 628Heraclius
- 629Xuanzang
- 630Wei Zheng
- 630Fang Xuanling
- 630Li Jing
- 645Emperor Tenji (Prince Naka no Oe)
- 653Zhangsun Wuji
- 656Ali ibn Abi Talib
- 657Yuknoom Ch'een II
- 668Li Ji
- 668Kim Yu-sin
- 673Emperor Tenmu
- 681Asparuh
- 690Wu Zetian
- 690Lai Junchen
- 691Di Renjie
- 695Jasaw Chan K'awiil I
- 712Qutayba ibn Muslim
- 713Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (Li Longji)
- 713Yao Chong
- 713Gao Lishi
- 716Bilge Qaghan
- 716Kul Tigin
- 716Tonyukuk
- 717Song Jing
- 731Bede the Venerable
- 732Charles Martel
- 733Zhang Jiuling
- 736Li Linfu
- 740Wang Wei
- 742Li Bai
- 743Emperor Shomu
- 744Kutlug Bilge Kul (Huairen Khan)
- 745Consort Yang
- 747Gao Xianzhi
- 753Ganjin (Jianzhen)
- 754Yang Guozhong
- 755An Lushan
- 756Yan Zhenqing
- 757Guo Ziyi
- 757Li Guangbi
- 757Zhang Xun
- 757Bayanchur (Gele Khan)
- 759Shi Siming
- 759Du Fu
- 770Rabia al-Adawiyya
- 784Lu Zhi
- 786Harun al-Rashid
- 787Li Mi
- 800Charlemagne
- 804Kukai
- 805Liu Zongyuan
- 810Adi Shankara
- 815Liu Yuxi
- 816Bai Juyi
- 817Pei Du
- 819Han Yu
- 820Al-Khwarizmi
- 844Li Deyu
- 864Boris I
- 878Alfred the Great
- 880Huang Chao
- 883Li Keyong
- 894Sugawara no Michizane
- 900Ismail Samani
- 900Rhazes
- 907Jing Xiang
- 907Zhu Wen
- 911Zhou Dewei
- 913Simeon I
- 916Han Yanhui
- 916Yelü Abaoji (Emperor Taizu of Liao)
- 918Wang Geon (King Taejo of Goryeo)
- 923Li Cunxu (Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang)
- 923Wang Yanzhang
- 925Guo Chongtao
- 926Yelü Bei
- 926Li Siyuan
- 929Abd al-Rahman III
- 936Shi Jingtang (Emperor Gaozu of Later Jin)
- 936Feng Dao
- 936Sang Weihan
- 938Ngo Quyen
- 947Yelü Wuzhi
- 951Guo Wei
- 960Emperor Taizu of Song
- 961Zhao Pu
- 962Otto I
- 965Harald Bluetooth
- 968Đinh Bộ Lĩnh
- 974Xue Juzheng
- 980Lê Hoàn
- 985Erik the Red
- 986Yang Ye
- 987Hugh Capet
- 1000Sei Shonagon
- 1000Leif Erikson
- 1000Al-Zahrawi
- 1000Stephen I
- 1000Samuel
- 1001Mahmud of Ghazni
- 1002Brian Boru
- 1004Han Derang
- 1004Xiao Talin
- 1004Xiao Chuo (Empress Dowager Chengtian)
- 1004Kou Zhun
- 1008Murasaki Shikibu
- 1010Ferdowsi
- 1010Rajaraja I
- 1010Ly Cong Uan
- 1014Basil II
- 1016Cnut the Great
- 1016Fujiwara no Michinaga
- 1017Al-Biruni
- 1019Gang Gam-chan
- 1025Rajendra I
- 1025Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
- 1036Yaroslav the Wise
- 1043Fan Zhongyan
- 1045Bi Sheng
- 1053Di Qing
- 1056Bao Zheng
- 1057Ouyang Xiu
- 1057Anawrahta
- 1066William the Conqueror
- 1069Wang Anshi
- 1072Nizam al-Mulk
- 1076Lý Thường Kiệt
- 1077Gregory VII
- 1079Omar Khayyam
- 1082Su Shi
- 1084Sima Guang
- 1084Kyansittha
- 1088Shen Kuo
- 1094Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (El Cid)
- 1102Cai Jing
- 1113Suryavarman II
- 1119Wanyan Xiyin
- 1119Hugues de Payns
- 1126Wanyan Zonghan
- 1126Wanyan Zongwang
- 1126Li Gang
- 1127Zong Ze
- 1129Li Qingzhao
- 1130Zhang Jun
- 1130Han Shizhong
- 1132Yelü Dashi
- 1139Afonso I of Portugal (Afonso Henriques)
- 1140Wanyan Zongbi
- 1140Yue Fei
- 1141Qin Hui
- 1148Anna Komnene
- 1151Hildegard von Bingen
- 1152Eleanor of Aquitaine
- 1155Frederick I (Barbarossa)
- 1161Yu Yunwen
- 1162Xin Qiji
- 1167Taira no Kiyomori
- 1169Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
- 1170Heshilie Liangbi
- 1179Zhu Xi
- 1181Jayavarman VII
- 1187Saladin
- 1190Moses Maimonides
- 1191Richard the Lionheart
- 1192Muhammad of Ghor
- 1192Minamoto no Yoritomo
- 1200Yuan Deming
- 1200Gebre Mesqel Lalibela
- 1201Albert (Bishop of Riga)
- 1206Genghis Khan
- 1209Saint Francis of Assisi
- 1214Philip II Augustus
- 1217Muqali
- 1218Muhammad II (Khwarazm Shah)
- 1220Wang Ruoxu
- 1220Zhao Bingwen
- 1220Snorri Sturluson
- 1221Jalal al-Din
- 1221Hojo Masako
- 1226Hermann von Salza
- 1229Yelü Chucai
- 1235Sundiata Keita
- 1236Razia Sultana
- 1241Subutai
- 1246Sorghaghtani Beki
- 1250Louis IX (Saint Louis)
- 1250Rumi
- 1253Mindaugas
- 1253Yao Shu
- 1256Alfonso X of Castile (the Wise)
- 1258Saadi
- 1260Lian Xixian
- 1265Thomas Aquinas
- 1267Liu Bingzhong
- 1268Liu Zheng
- 1270Ahmad
- 1270Yekuno Amlak
- 1271Kublai Khan
- 1274Sayyid Ajall
- 1274Hojo Tokimune
- 1275Marco Polo
- 1276Bayan
- 1278Rudolf I
- 1279Zhang Hongfan
- 1279Wen Tianxiang
- 1280Xu Heng
- 1281Guo Shoujing
- 1281Ilyeon
- 1283Ram Khamhaeng
- 1288Sangha
- 1288Tran Hung Dao
- 1295Edward I
- 1299Osman I
- 1307Jacques de Molay
- 1307William Tell (legend)
- 1307Dante Alighieri
- 1310Zhao Mengfu
- 1322Baiju
- 1323Gediminas
- 1324Mansa Musa
- 1325Ibn Battuta
- 1326Orhan
- 1328El Temür
- 1330Yu Ji
- 1336Gajah Mada
- 1336Ashikaga Takauji
- 1341Petrarch
- 1348Fang Guozhen
- 1351Toghto
- 1351King U Thong (Ramathibodi I)
- 1353Boccaccio
- 1353Fa Ngum
- 1355Charles IV
- 1360Liu Ji (Liu Bowen)
- 1360al-Hafiz
- 1360Hayam Wuruk
- 1361Chaghan Temür
- 1362Algirdas
- 1363Chang Yuchun
- 1368Zhu Yuanzhang
- 1368Li Shanchang
- 1368Xu Da
- 1370Timur
- 1377Ibn Khaldun
- 1386Jogaila
- 1386Jadwiga of Poland
- 1392Ashikaga Yoshimitsu
- 1392Yi Seong-gye (King Taejo of Joseon)
- 1396Bayezid I
- 1397Margaret I of Denmark
- 1399Yao Guangxiao
- 1402Fang Xiaoru
- 1402Parameswara
- 1403Zhu Di (Emperor Chengzu of Ming)
- 1405Zheng He
- 1405Xie Jin
- 1410Vytautas
- 1412Jan Hus
- 1415Henry V
- 1426Yang Shiqi
- 1428Nguyễn Trãi
- 1428Le Loi
- 1429Joan of Arc
- 1429Ulugh Beg
- 1432Jan van Eyck
- 1434Prince Henry the Navigator
- 1438Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui
- 1440Gilles de Rais
- 1443Sejong the Great
- 1443Skanderbeg
- 1449Wang Zhen
- 1449Yu Qian
- 1453Mehmed II
- 1453Mehmed II
- 1455Johannes Gutenberg
- 1458Matthias I
- 1460Hang Tuah
- 1462Vlad III
- 1465Kerei Khan and Janibek Khan
- 1471Topa Inca Yupanqui
- 1471Le Thanh Tong
- 1475Stephen the Great
- 1478Lorenzo de' Medici
- 1483Dayan Khan
- 1483Alisher Navo'i
- 1483Richard III
- 1485Henry VII
- 1490Ahmad ibn Majid
- 1492Christopher Columbus
- 1492Alexander VI
- 1492Isabella I of Castile
- 1493Askia Muhammad I
- 1493Maximilian I
- 1498Vasco da Gama
Early modern (1500–1800) 191 entries
- 1500Muhammad Shaybani Khan
- 1500Caterina Sforza
- 1500Cesare Borgia
- 1500Huayna Capac
- 1501Ismail I
- 1501Amerigo Vespucci
- 1503Leonardo da Vinci
- 1505Lucrezia Borgia
- 1508Liu Jin
- 1508Michelangelo
- 1508Michelangelo Buonarroti
- 1508Wang Yangming
- 1510Raphael
- 1513Machiavelli
- 1515Krishnadevaraya
- 1517Martin Luther
- 1517Selim I
- 1519Bernal Díaz
- 1519Hernán Cortés
- 1519La Malinche
- 1519Moctezuma II
- 1521Ferdinand Magellan
- 1521Lapulapu
- 1521Cuauhtémoc
- 1523Gustav Vasa
- 1524Pedro de Alvarado
- 1525Albert (Duke of Prussia)
- 1526Suleiman the Magnificent
- 1526Ferdinand I (Holy Roman Emperor)
- 1526Babur
- 1526Afonso I of Kongo
- 1527Huáscar
- 1532Francisco Pizarro
- 1532Atahualpa
- 1533Anne Boleyn
- 1534Henry VIII
- 1534Hürrem Sultan
- 1536Manco Inca
- 1536John Calvin
- 1538Hayreddin Barbarossa
- 1539Tabinshwehti
- 1541Pedro de Valdivia
- 1542Las Casas
- 1543Nicolaus Copernicus
- 1543Andreas Vesalius
- 1553Yang Jisheng
- 1553Lautaro
- 1556Akbar the Great
- 1557Mimar Sinan
- 1558Bayinnaung
- 1560Setthathirath
- 1561Qi Jiguang
- 1561Takeda Shingen
- 1561Uesugi Kenshin
- 1562Xu Jie
- 1565Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- 1566Hai Rui
- 1569Mercator
- 1571Miguel López de Legazpi
- 1571Túpac Amaru
- 1572William the Silent
- 1572Francisco de Toledo
- 1572Tycho Brahe
- 1572Luís de Camões
- 1573Zhang Juzheng
- 1573Oda Nobunaga
- 1578Li Shizhen
- 1580Philip II of Spain
- 1583Abdullah Khan II
- 1585Sen no Rikyu
- 1588Elizabeth I
- 1590Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- 1593Naresuan
- 1594Hugh O'Neill
- 1597Yi Sun-sin
- 1598Henry IV
- 1598Abbas the Great
- 1600William Shakespeare
- 1600Michael the Brave
- 1603Tokugawa Ieyasu
- 1604Gu Xiancheng
- 1605Guy Fawkes
- 1605James I
- 1605Miguel de Cervantes
- 1607Xu Guangqi
- 1608Samuel de Champlain
- 1609Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
- 1609Johannes Kepler
- 1610Galileo Galilei
- 1610Rubens
- 1611Nur Jahan
- 1614Pocahontas
- 1616Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal
- 1619Jan Pieterszoon Coen
- 1620Christian IV
- 1620Artemisia Gentileschi
- 1621Qin Liangyu
- 1625Wei Zhongxian
- 1626Yuan Chonghuan
- 1628Cardinal Richelieu
- 1628Sultan Agung
- 1631Gustavus Adolphus
- 1632Shah Jahan
- 1636Xu Xiake
- 1637René Descartes
- 1637Song Yingxing
- 1641Queen Nzinga
- 1642Rembrandt van Rijn
- 1644Li Zicheng
- 1644Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur Khan
- 1645Shi Kefa
- 1648Bohdan Khmelnytsky
- 1649Oliver Cromwell
- 1650Queen Christina
- 1654Jacob Kettler (Duke of Courland)
- 1656Diego Velázquez
- 1657Comenius
- 1660Frederick William, the Great Elector
- 1661Nicolas Fouquet
- 1662Koxinga
- 1670Gu Yanwu
- 1671Henry Morgan
- 1673Christiaan Huygens
- 1674Shivaji
- 1676Trunajaya
- 1676Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- 1680Tauke Khan
- 1682Louis XIV
- 1683John III Sobieski
- 1685Narai
- 1686Surapati
- 1687Isaac Newton
- 1689Kangxi Emperor
- 1689Matsuo Basho
- 1690Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
- 1691Zanabazar
- 1697Prince Eugene of Savoy
- 1699Maria Sibylla Merian
- 1701Frederick I (King of Prussia)
- 1701Osei Tutu
- 1703Peter the Great
- 1703Francis II Rákóczi
- 1704Kimpa Vita
- 1708Ivan Mazepa
- 1709Charles XII of Sweden
- 1713Frederick William I (the Soldier King)
- 1716Tokugawa Yoshimune
- 1718Blackbeard
- 1718Woodes Rogers
- 1720Anne Bonny and Mary Read
- 1720Baji Rao I
- 1721Robert Walpole
- 1723Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1739Nader Shah
- 1740Maria Theresa
- 1744Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
- 1747Ahmad Shah Durrani
- 1748Montesquieu
- 1750Qianlong Emperor
- 1752Alaungpaya
- 1753Carl Linnaeus
- 1755Marquis of Pombal
- 1756Frederick the Great
- 1757Robert Clive
- 1759Voltaire
- 1762Rousseau
- 1765Karim Khan Zand
- 1767Taksin
- 1770James Cook
- 1770Joseph Banks
- 1771Ablai Khan
- 1773Warren Hastings
- 1780Túpac Amaru II
- 1781Immanuel Kant
- 1781Joseph II
- 1782Rama I
- 1782Tipu Sultan
- 1783William Pitt the Younger
- 1785Bodawpaya
- 1786Mozart
- 1788Arthur Phillip
- 1789George Washington
- 1789Louis XVI
- 1789Marie Antoinette
- 1789Alexander Hamilton
- 1789Tiradentes
- 1789Nguyen Hue
- 1793Robespierre
- 1796Agha Mohammad Khan
- 1796Edward Jenner
- 1798Wolfe Tone
Modern (1800–present) 341 entries
- 1801Ranjit Singh
- 1801Lord Elgin
- 1801Toussaint Louverture
- 1802Emperor Gia Long (Nguyễn Phúc Ánh)
- 1802Alexander von Humboldt
- 1803Thomas Jefferson
- 1804Napoleon Bonaparte
- 1804Usman dan Fodio
- 1804Jean-Jacques Dessalines
- 1805Horatio Nelson
- 1807Stein
- 1807William Wilberforce
- 1807Frederick William III
- 1807Queen Louise
- 1807Gerhard von Scharnhorst
- 1808Goethe
- 1808Daendels
- 1810Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
- 1810Karl von Hardenberg
- 1810Wilhelm von Humboldt
- 1810Mariano Moreno
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