Leaders & Baddies
108 people, in date order
- Sargon of Akkad c. 2334–c. 2279 BCE, king
- Hammurabi c. 1810–c. 1750 BCE, king
- Hatshepsut c. 1507–c. 1458 BCE, pharaoh
- Akhenaten c. 1380–c. 1336 BCE, pharaoh
- Tutankhamun c. 1341–c. 1323 BCE, pharaoh
- Ramesses II c. 1303–1213 BCE, pharaoh
- Nebuchadnezzar II c. 642–562 BCE, king
- Cyrus the Great c. 600–530 BCE, king
- Darius the Great 550–486 BCE, king
- Leonidas I c. 540–480 BCE, king
- Xerxes I c. 518–465 BCE, king
- Pericles c. 495–429 BCE, statesman
- Alexander the Great 356–323 BCE, king
- Ashoka c. 304–232 BCE, emperor
- Qin Shi Huang 259–210 BCE, emperor
- Hannibal 247–c. 183 BCE, general
- Julius Caesar 100–44 BCE, dictator
- Cleopatra 69–30 BCE, queen
- Augustus 63 BCE–14 CE, emperor
- Boudica c. 30–c. 61, queen
- Nero 37–68, emperor
- Marcus Aurelius 121–180, emperor
- Constantine the Great c. 272–337, emperor
- Attila c. 406–453, ruler
- Justinian I c. 482–565, emperor
- Wu Zetian 624–705, empress
- Charlemagne c. 748–814, emperor
- Harun al-Rashid c. 763–809, caliph
- William the Conqueror c. 1028–1087, king
- Saladin c. 1137–1193, sultan
- Richard the Lionheart 1157–1199, king
- Genghis Khan c. 1162–1227, ruler
- King John of England 1166–1216, king
- Kublai Khan 1215–1294, emperor
- Osman I c. 1258–c. 1324, sultan
- Mansa Musa c. 1280–c. 1337, emperor
- Hongwu Emperor 1328–1398, emperor
- Timur 1336–1405, conqueror
- Henry V 1386–1422, king
- Joan of Arc c. 1412–1431, military leader
- Vlad the Impaler c. 1428–c. 1477, ruler
- Mehmed II 1432–1481, sultan
- Lorenzo de' Medici 1449–1492, ruler
- Isabella I of Castile 1451–1504, queen
- Cesare Borgia 1475–1507, nobleman
- Henry VIII 1491–1547, king
- Suleiman the Magnificent 1494–1566, sultan
- Ivan the Terrible 1530–1584, tsar
- Elizabeth I 1533–1603, queen
- Oda Nobunaga 1534–1582, warlord
- Akbar 1542–1605, emperor
- Mary, Queen of Scots 1542–1587, queen
- Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543–1616, shogun
- Shah Jahan 1592–1666, emperor
- Oliver Cromwell 1599–1658, statesman
- Louis XIV 1638–1715, king
- Peter the Great 1672–1725, tsar
- Frederick the Great 1712–1786, king
- Maria Theresa 1717–1780, ruler
- Catherine the Great 1729–1796, empress
- George Washington 1732–1799, US president
- John Adams 1735–1826, US president
- Thomas Jefferson 1743–1826, US president
- Toussaint Louverture 1743–1803, revolutionary
- Marie Antoinette 1755–1793, queen
- Marquis de Lafayette 1757–1834, military leader
- Robespierre 1758–1794, statesman
- Napoleon 1769–1821, military leader
- Simón Bolívar 1783–1830, military leader
- Abraham Lincoln 1809–1865, US president
- Otto von Bismarck 1815–1898, statesman
- Queen Victoria 1819–1901, queen
- Geronimo 1829–1909, military leader
- Sitting Bull c. 1831–1890, resistance leader
- Abdul Hamid II 1842–1918, sultan
- Theodore Roosevelt 1858–1919, US president
- Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948, resistance leader
- Vladimir Lenin 1870–1924, revolutionary
- Winston Churchill 1874–1965, prime minister
- Joseph Stalin 1878–1953, dictator
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1881–1938, statesman
- Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882–1945, US president
- Benito Mussolini 1883–1945, dictator
- Adolf Hitler 1889–1945, dictator
- Jawaharlal Nehru 1889–1964, prime minister
- Charles de Gaulle 1890–1970, statesman
- Ho Chi Minh 1890–1969, revolutionary
- Francisco Franco 1892–1975, dictator
- Mao Zedong 1893–1976, revolutionary
- John F. Kennedy 1917–1963, US president
- Nelson Mandela 1918–2013, statesman
- Margaret Thatcher 1925–2013, prime minister
- Pol Pot 1925–1998, dictator
- Elizabeth II 1926–2022, queen
- Fidel Castro 1926–2016, revolutionary
- Che Guevara 1928–1967, revolutionary
- Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968, civil rights leader
- Mikhail Gorbachev 1931–2022, statesman
- Saddam Hussein 1937–2006, dictator
- Joe Biden 1942–, US president
- Muammar Gaddafi 1942–2011, dictator
- Donald Trump 1946–, US president
- Vladimir Putin 1952–, president
- Xi Jinping 1953–, president
- Angela Merkel 1954–, chancellor
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 1954–, president
- Osama bin Laden 1957–2011, terrorist leader
- Barack Obama 1961–, US president