Historical Figures

68 people, in date order

• Spartacus c. 103–71 BCE, gladiator
• Brutus 85–42 BCE, Roman politician
• Mark Antony 83–30 BCE, Roman general
• Pontius Pilate c. 12 BCE–c. 37 CE, Roman governor
• Tomás de Torquemada 1420–1498, inquisitor
• Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478–1546, admiral
• Lucrezia Borgia 1480–1519, noblewoman
• Thomas Cromwell c. 1485–1540, statesman
• Anne Boleyn c. 1501–1536, queen consort
• Hürrem Sultan c. 1504–1558, Ottoman consort
• Grace O'Malley c. 1530–c. 1603, pirate
• Guy Fawkes 1570–1606, conspirator
• Kösem Sultan c. 1589–1651, Ottoman regent
• Pocahontas c. 1596–1617, Native American figure
• Henry Morgan c. 1635–1688, pirate
• Captain Kidd c. 1655–1701, pirate
• Blackbeard c. 1680–1718, pirate
• Calico Jack 1682–1720, pirate
• Mary Read c. 1685–1721, pirate
• Anne Bonny c. 1697–c. 1782, pirate
• Casanova 1725–1798, adventurer
• Paul Revere 1735–1818, American patriot
• Marquis de Sade 1740–1814, nobleman
• Betsy Ross 1752–1836, American patriot
• Davy Crockett 1786–1836, frontiersman
• Sojourner Truth c. 1797–1883, abolitionist
• John Brown 1800–1859, abolitionist
• Frederick Douglass 1818–1895, abolitionist
• Florence Nightingale 1820–1910, nurse
• Susan B. Anthony 1820–1906, suffragist
• Clara Barton 1821–1912, nurse
• Harriet Tubman c. 1822–1913, abolitionist
• Wild Bill Hickok 1837–1876, gunfighter
• Jesse James 1847–1882, outlaw
• Calamity Jane 1852–1903, frontierswoman
• Emmeline Pankhurst 1858–1928, suffragette
• Billy the Kid 1859–1881, outlaw
• Annie Oakley 1860–1926, sharpshooter
• Grigori Rasputin 1869–1916, mystic
• Rosa Luxemburg 1871–1919, revolutionary
• Mata Hari 1876–1917, spy
• Helen Keller 1880–1968, activist
• Joseph Goebbels 1897–1945, Nazi propagandist
• Al Capone 1899–1947, gangster
• Heinrich Himmler 1900–1945, Nazi leader
• John Dillinger 1903–1934, gangster
• Adolf Eichmann 1906–1962, Nazi officer
• Oskar Schindler 1908–1974, industrialist and rescuer
• Clyde Barrow 1909–1934, outlaw
• Bonnie Parker 1910–1934, outlaw
• Josef Mengele 1911–1979, Nazi doctor
• Raoul Wallenberg 1912–c. 1947, diplomat
• Jimmy Hoffa 1913–c. 1975, union leader
• Rosa Parks 1913–2005, activist
• Sabiha Gökçen 1913–2001, aviator
• Eva Perón 1919–1952, political figure
• Malcolm X 1925–1965, civil rights activist
• Harvey Milk 1930–1978, politician
• Charles Manson 1934–2017, cult leader
• Bernie Madoff 1938–2021, fraudster
• Lee Harvey Oswald 1939–1963, assassin
• Ted Bundy 1946–1989, serial killer
• Pablo Escobar 1949–1993, drug lord
• Jeffrey Dahmer 1960–1994, serial killer
• Diana, Princess of Wales 1961–1997, princess
• Edward Snowden 1983–, whistleblower
• Malala Yousafzai 1997–, activist
• Greta Thunberg 2003–, activist