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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second...
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Alexander III of Macedon (commonly know as Alexander the Great was a king of the Greek kingdom of Macedon. He was undefeated in battle...
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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led...
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Saint Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" , is a national heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. A peasant girl born...
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Alexander III of Macedon (commonly know as Alexander the Great was a king of the Greek kingdom of Macedon. He was undefeated in battle...
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Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman and a distinguished writer of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the gradual...
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Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution.As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of...
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Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung , and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist...
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Genghis Khan , born Temujin and occasionally known by his temple name Taizu , was the founder and Great Khan of the Mongol Empire,...
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , pronounced . 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence...
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Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom , the...
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Augustus ;23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14) is considered the first emperor of the Roman Empire, which he ruled alone from 27 BC...
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Charlemagne was King of the Franks from 768 and Emperor of the Romans from 800 to his death in 814. He expanded the...
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Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi...
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Attila , more frequently referred to as Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. He was...
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Constantine most commonly refers to one of the following:*Constantine , a given name and surname*Constantine I, Roman Emperor from 306 to 337, commonly known as...