historical figure
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concept
A historical figure is a person from the past whose actions, ideas, or influence significantly shaped events, cultures, or societies and are remembered or studied over time.
Aliases (50)
- French person ×71
- Roman emperor ×47
- German person ×38
- Italian person ×36
- Indian independence activist ×26
- Austrian person ×24
- Enlightenment thinker ×18
- Spanish conquistador ×17
- historical person ×16
- Native American leader ×15
- Spanish nobleman ×9
- organized crime figure ×9
- 19th-century American woman ×8
- biblical patriarch ×8
- national hero ×8
- Portuguese person ×7
- Russian person ×6
- Wampanoag leader ×6
- historical people ×6
- Boer leader ×5
- Historical figure ×5
- Portuguese nobleman ×5
- Sauk leader ×5
- historian of science ×5
- Soviet person ×4
- ancient Athenian person ×4
- ancient Roman person ×4
- science historian ×4
- Dutch Golden Age figure ×3
- ancient Roman historian ×3
- culture hero ×3
- early modern philosopher ×3
- founding father ×3
- historicalPerson ×3
- late antique writer ×3
- 11th-century Scottish person ×2
- American pioneer ×2
- Renaissance scholar ×2
- Serbian person ×2
- Soviet defector ×2
- civil rights figure ×2
- colonial American figure ×2
- founder of international law ×2
- 19th-century historical figure ×1
- 1st-century Roman person ×1
- 9th-century person ×1
- American Civil War figure ×1
- American Civil War-era figure ×1
- Byzantine imperial founder ×1
- Free French leader ×1
Instances (showing first 500 of 920)
- John Proctor
- Mendaña
- Marcia ("Roman emperor")
- Martha Corey
- Myles Standish ("colonial American figure")
- Caligula ("Roman emperor")
- John Cabot
- Jacob ("biblical patriarch")
- Kasturba Gandhi ("Indian independence activist")
- Denis Diderot ("Enlightenment thinker")
- André Le Nôtre ("French person")
- José Martí ("national hero")
- Flavius Josephus ("Jewish historian")
- Baron d'Holbach ("Enlightenment thinker")
- Sarah Good
- Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez
- Ferdinand Magellan ("Portuguese person")
- Anne Hyde
- Mary Howard Darwin
- Karl Popper ("Austrian person")
- Cesare Beccaria ("Enlightenment thinker")
- Xanthippe
- Nero ("Roman emperor")
- Dolores Ibárruri ("Spanish Civil War figure")
- Cyrus the Great
- Siraj ud-Daulah
- Mongol ("historical people")
- Rani Lakshmibai
- Paul Bogle ("Jamaican national hero")
- Eva Braun ("German person")
- Bridget Bishop
- Vespasian ("Roman emperor")
- Babur
- Bahadur Shah II
- Lamprocles ("ancient Athenian person")
- Malcolm III of Scotland
- Cardinal Richelieu
- Juan de Fuca
- Nana Sahib ("Indian independence activist")
- Mangal Pandey ("Indian independence activist")
- Kato
- Henry the Navigator
- Trajan ("Roman emperor")
- James W. Marshall ("American pioneer")
- Alfred Sauvy ("French person")
- Humayun
- Hadrian ("Roman emperor")
- Pauline Bonaparte
- Akbar
- Marcus Aurelius ("Roman emperor")
- Pope Innocent IV ("Italian person")
- Frédéric Joliot-Curie ("French person")
- Captain Thomas Preston
- Silvio Micali ("Italian person")
- Jahangir
- Diocletian ("Roman emperor")
- Lucie Maria Rommel ("German person")
- Franz Cardinal König ("Austrian person")
- Auguste Comte ("French person")
- Otto Neurath ("Austrian person")
- Ernst Mach ("science historian")
- Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis ("French person")
- Thomas Hobbes ("early modern philosopher")
- Shah Jahan
- Maurice Koechlin ("French person")
- Metacom ("Wampanoag leader")
- Carlos Tavares ("Portuguese person")
- Émile Nouguier ("French person")
- Aurangzeb
- Jeremy Bentham ("Enlightenment thinker")
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini ("Italian person")
- Miloš Marić ("Serbian person")
- Rosa Maltoni Mussolini ("Italian person")
- Bhagat Singh ("Indian independence activist")
- Sauk people ("Sauk leader")
- Titus ("Roman emperor")
- Anastasie Arapova
- Ivan VI of Russia
- Uncas ("Native American leader")
- Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada ("Spanish conquistador")
- Alexander the Great
- Samuel Parris
- Tituba
- Catharina Bolnes
- Felix Unger ("Austrian person")
- Awashonks ("Wampanoag leader")
- George II of Great Britain ("German person")
- Elisabeth Pepys
- George Burroughs
- Christian Wolff ("Enlightenment thinker")
- Simão Rodrigues ("Portuguese person")
- La Malinche
- Geytie Maria du Plessis
- Tatya Tope ("Indian independence activist")
- Enrico Caterino Davila ("Italian historian")
- Shimon bar Yochai (traditional attribution of Zohar)
- Patriarch Isaac ("biblical patriarch")
- Thomas "Tad" Lincoln
- Christopher Jones
- Pedro de Valdivia ("Spanish conquistador")
- Begum Hazrat Mahal
- Philippe Erlanger ("French historian")
- Miantonomo ("Native American leader")
- Sarah Osborne
- Simón Bolívar ("national hero")
- Dom Pedro I of Brazil
- Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte ("French person")
- Cuitláhuac
- Prince Eugene of Savoy
- José de San Martín ("national hero")
- Desiderius Erasmus ("Renaissance scholar")
- his son John Hudson
- Stephanus ("Boer leader")
- Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco, 8th Marquis of Villena ("Spanish nobleman")
- Étienne-Louis Boullée ("French person")
- King Richard the Lionheart
- William d’Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel
- Isabel Carnes Church ("19th-century American woman")
- Cuauhtémoc
- Baruch Spinoza ("early modern philosopher")
- Le Corbusier ("French person")
- C. Rajagopalachari ("Indian independence activist")
- Anne Hutchinson ("colonial American figure")
- Siegel ("organized crime figure")
- Bugsy ("organized crime figure")
- Jonathan Corwin
- Georges Catroux ("Free French leader")
- Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan ("Indian independence activist")
- Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar ("Spanish conquistador")
- Isabella of France
- Hancock (Cherokee leader)
- José Gervasio Artigas ("national hero")
- Mahadev Desai ("Indian independence activist")
- Pedro de Alvarado ("Spanish conquistador")
- Lorenzo Valla ("Italian person")
- Pánfilo de Narváez ("Spanish conquistador")
- Leonardo da Vinci ("Renaissance polymath")
- Elizabeth (Betty) Parris
- James Hutton ("Enlightenment thinker")
- King Alfred the Great
- Bernal Díaz del Castillo ("Spanish conquistador")
- Meyer Lansky ("organized crime figure")
- Thomas Kuhn ("historian of science")
- Madame de Pompadour
- Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
- Saadi
- Junípero Serra ("colonial-era figure")
- William Laud
- Captain Frans Banning Cocq
- Justinian I ("Roman emperor")
- Murad Bey
- Socrates ("classical Athenian philosopher")
- Queen Anne of Austria
- Antonio Vivaldi ("Italian person")
- Mary Surratt
- Arcangelo Corelli ("Italian person")
- Narmer
- Juan Ponce de León ("Spanish nobleman")
- Cardinal Mazarin ("Italian person")
- Maulana Abul Kalam Azad ("Indian independence activist")
- Dr. Nicolaes Tulp ("Dutch Golden Age figure")
- Pierre-Simon Laplace ("French person")
- Polycrates of Samos
- Mileva Marić ("Serbian person")
- Diego de Almagro ("Spanish conquistador")
- Tacitus ("ancient Roman historian")
- Pierre Boulez ("French person")
- Hernando de Soto ("Spanish conquistador")
- Atahualpa
- Manco Inca Yupanqui
- Klara Hitler ("Austrian person")
- John Alden
- Aminah bint Wahb
- Germanic peoples ("historical people")
- Joan (first wife)
- Khadijah bint Khuwaylid
- al‑Junayd ("9th-century person")
- Benjamin ("organized crime figure")
- Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia ("Spanish nobleman")
- Aisha bint Abi Bakr
- Margarete (second wife)
- Sawda bint Zamʿa ("historical person")
- Hermann Ebbinghaus ("German person")
- Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib
- Hafsa bint Umar
- Qasim ibn Muhammad ("historical person")
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange ("Italian person")
- Tecumseh ("Native American leader")
- Mary Storer Potter
- Peter Andreas Munch ("Norwegian historian")
- Elizabeth Stuart
- Elizabeth Eldridge
- Abd al-Muttalib
- Zaynab bint Jahsh
- Abdullah ibn Muhammad ("historical person")
- Sudirman ("national hero of Indonesia")
- Michael O'Laughlen ("American Civil War-era figure")
- Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib
- Umm Salama ("historicalPerson")
- Ibrahim ibn Muhammad
- Antoine Lavoisier ("French person")
- Maximilian de Angelis ("Austrian person")
- Pope Pius V ("Italian person")
- Juwayriya bint al-Harith
- Lise Meitner ("Austrian person")
- Umm Habiba
- Muhammad Ali Pasha
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi ("Japanese historical figure")
- Mary Stilwell
- Mary (Polly) Prince
- Maria Cotton
- Safiyya bint Huyayy
- Jawaharlal Nehru ("Indian independence activist")
- Georges Cuvier ("French person")
- Fanny Imlay
- Georg Cantor ("German person")
- George William Gordon ("national hero of Jamaica")
- Livia Giuggioli ("Italian person")
- Magistrate Jonathan Corwin
- Maymunah bint al-Harith
- Domenico Trezzini ("Italian person")
- Alexander Nevsky
- Metacomet ("Wampanoag leader")
- Michel Foucault ("French person")
- Harriet Jacobs ("formerly enslaved person")
- Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel ("organized crime figure")
- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot ("Enlightenment thinker")
- Muhammad bin Qasim
- Zaynab bint Muhammad ("historicalPerson")
- Nannaya
- Manilal Gandhi ("Indian independence activist")
- Prometheus ("culture hero")
- Mir Jafar
- Philipp Frank ("science historian")
- Pope John XXIII ("Italian person")
- Sri Krishnadevaraya
- Ruqayyah bint Muhammad ("historicalPerson")
- Harriet Eckersall
- Umm Kulthum bint Muhammad
- Catherine de’ Medici ("Historical figure")
- Crispus Attucks
- Fatimah bint Muhammad
- Herbert von Karajan ("Austrian person")
- Sarah Orne
- Sarah Wildes
- Sarah Cloyce
- Paul Kruger ("Boer leader")
- Piet Retief ("South African historical figure")
- Arturo Prat Chacón ("national hero")
- Andries Pretorius ("Boer leader")
- James Caldwell
- Olympia Mancini
- Andries Hendrik Potgieter
- Sigmund Freud ("Austrian person")
- Critobulus ("ancient Athenian person")
- Atia Balba Caesonia
- Samuel Arnold ("American Civil War figure")
- Orestes ("historical person")
- Claudia Pulchra ("ancient Roman person")
- Pierre Bayle ("Enlightenment thinker")
- Scribonia ("historical person")
- Cato the Younger
- Theodora Tocco
- Alaric I
- Laurent Durand ("French person")
- Roger de Montgomery
- Livy ("ancient Roman historian")
- Helena
- Crispus ("ancient Roman person")
- Pedro de Mendoza ("Spanish conquistador")
- Livia Drusilla
- John Allan
- Cleopatra VII
- Saint Nicholas of Myra
- Françoise Gilot ("French person")
- Juan de Garay ("Spanish conquistador")
- Maya Widmaier-Picasso ("French person")
- Mark Antony
- Julius Nepos ("Roman emperor")
- Maximian ("Roman emperor")
- Fausta
- Ernst Mayr ("science historian")
- Makataimeshekiakiak ("Native American leader")
- Marie-Thérèse Walter ("French person")
- Paloma Picasso ("French person")
- Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov ("Russian person")
- Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak ("Native American leader")
- Mary Ann Holmes Booth ("19th-century American woman")
- Idelette de Bure
- John of Austria (the Elder)
- Galerius ("Roman emperor")
- Minervina
- Anna Jackson ("19th-century American woman")
- Michael Shermer ("historian of science")
- Constantius Chlorus ("Roman emperor")
- Jehan Cauvin ("French person")
- Licinius ("Roman emperor")
- Pera Atasheva ("Soviet person")
- Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples ("French person")
- Gustav Mahler ("Austrian person")
- Johanna Osthoff
- Honorius ("Roman emperor")
- Giovanni Battista Caviglia ("Italian person")
- Johanna Herting
- Kurt Schuschnigg ("Austrian person")
- Charlotte Gray Brooks ("19th-century American woman")
- Genseric
- Marthinus Wessel Pretorius ("Boer leader")
- Martin Bucer
- Fritz Lang ("Austrian person")
- Rajendra Prasad ("Indian independence activist")
- Valery Gergiev ("Russian person")
- Mrinalini Devi
- Elizabeth Clarke Manning
- Domitian ("Roman emperor")
- Empress Licinia Eudoxia
- Una Hawthorne
- Juan Bohón ("Spanish conquistador")
- Camille Doncieux ("French person")
- Margaret Blagge
- Errico Malatesta ("Italian person")
- Alexandre Brongniart ("French person")
- Ferdinand Columbus ("Renaissance scholar")
- William Whewell ("historian of science")
- Ballomar
- Antonio Maceo ("national hero")
- Pontius Pilate
- Vinoba Bhave ("Indian independence activist")
- Sylvia Hall ("historical figure from the American frontier")
- Tobias Nipkow ("German person")
- Shenoute of Atripe ("late antique writer")
- Marguerite Matisse ("French person")
- Constantinus Magnus ("Roman emperor")
- Diego de Montemayor ("Spanish conquistador")
- Barbara Frietchie
- Giovanni Battista Antonelli ("Italian person")
- Miguel López de Legazpi ("Spanish conquistador")
- Giuseppe Volpi ("Italian person")
- False Dmitry I
- Agatha, wife of Edward the Exile
- Constantine II ("Roman emperor")
- Adam Smith ("Enlightenment thinker")
- Gustave Moreau ("French person")
- Sebastián de Benalcázar ("Spanish conquistador")
- Sophia Dorothea of Celle
- Karl Ritter von Halt ("German person")
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah ("founding father")
- Constantius II ("Roman emperor")
- Pocahontas
- Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
- False Dmitry II
- George C. Yount ("American pioneer")
- Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester
- Jacoba Elizabeth Greeff
- Wilhelm Siegling ("German person")
- Emily Catherine Darwin
- Constans ("Roman emperor")
- Lucy Flucker Knox
- Martha Carrier
- Betsy Ross
- Mughal emperor Shah Alam II
- Francisco Gómez de Sandoval y Rojas, Duke of Lerma ("Spanish nobleman")
- Anne Taschenmacher ("German person")
- Francisco de Vitoria ("founder of international law")
- Nino Rota ("Italian person")
- Bastarnae ("historical people")
- Maxentius ("Roman emperor")
- Harun al-Rashid
- al-Ma'mun
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ("French person")
- al-Mu'tasim
- Oliver Brown ("civil rights figure")
- Confucius
- Natalya Naryshkina
- Gérard Huet ("French person")
- Tadeusz Kościuszko ("national hero")
- Septimius Severus ("Roman emperor")
- al-Mutawakkil III
- Werner Koch ("German person")
- Dutty Boukman
- Edda Göring ("German person")
- Crito ("ancient Athenian person")
- Augustus ("Roman emperor")
- Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots
- Olivier Blanchard ("French person")
- Maria Barbara Bach ("German person")
- Sunoho ("Wampanoag leader")
- Blue Jacket ("Native American leader")
- Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen of Scots
- Wilhelm Friedemann Bach ("German person")
- Margaret Mansfield
- Peggy Shippen
- Franz Stangl ("Austrian person")
- Edward Leister ("historical person")
- Fernando Álvarez de Toledo ("Spanish nobleman")
- Selina Huntington Bakewell Campbell
- Patriarch Hermogenes
- Thomas Müntzer ("German person")
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ("Enlightenment thinker")
- Sextus Julius Severus ("ancient Roman person")
- Bruno Latour ("French person")
- Shivaji
- Shahu I
- Mahadji Shinde
- Nana Fadnavis
- Edward Williams ("19th-century historical figure")
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ("French person")
- Lady Caroline Lamb
- Marquis de Condorcet ("Enlightenment thinker")
- Wamsutta ("Native American leader")
- Mary of Guelders, Queen of Scots
- Shakyamuni Buddha
- Johann Christian Bach ("German person")
- Jayaprakash Narayan ("Indian independence activist")
- Johann Heinrich Lambert ("Enlightenment thinker")
- Nestorius
- Guru Gobind Singh
- Catherine of Braganza (as queen consort of Scotland)
- Theodosius I ("Roman emperor")
- Maria Karoline Flachsland
- Diogo de Azambuja ("Portuguese nobleman")
- Cebes of Thebes ("historical person")
- Alcibiades
- Lucius Verus ("Roman emperor")
- Romulus Augustulus
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- Marguerite Gaudelet ("French person")
- Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt ("German person")
- Roman emperor Constantine the Great ("Roman emperor")
- Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo ("Spanish nobleman")
- Phaedo of Elis ("historical person")
- Joseph Haydn ("Austrian person")
- Katharina von Bora
- Walter Ulbricht ("German person")
- Anytus
- Commodus ("Roman emperor")
- Theodosius II ("Roman emperor")
- Mooanam ("historical person")
- al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
- ad-Darazi
- Mary Newbold Singer Sargent ("19th-century American woman")
- Elisabeth Luther
- Michel Eugène Chevreul ("French person")
- Emma Hamilton
- Maria van Reigersberch
- Pertinax ("Roman emperor")
- Paul Broca ("French person")
- Giacomo Puccini ("Italian person")
- Inca emperor Pachacuti
- Empress Alexandra Feodorovna ("Historical figure")
- Wilhelm Pieck ("German person")
- Manuel da Nóbrega ("Portuguese person")
- Michael von Faulhaber ("German person")
- Meletus
- Maria Louisa Garland ("19th-century American woman")
- al-Muqtana Baha’uddin
- Mapuche leader Colocolo
- Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie
- Hans Luther ("German person")
- Katharina Gsell
- Balaji Baji Rao
- Susanna Hoefnagel
- Edward, son of Malcolm III and Margaret ("11th-century Scottish person")
- Paul Luther ("German person")
- Isabelle Ferrer ("French person")
- Gudrun Himmler ("German person")