Leading Figures in History

Discover the people who shaped our world — from rulers and scientists to artists and activists.

39103 persons found

"Superstar" Billy Graham

b. 1943

American wrestler (1943–2023)

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First 9 years of the Common Era

10s

Second decade of the first century AD

1200s BC (decade)

Decade

12th Dalai Lama

Spiritual leader of Tibet from 1860 to 1875

14th Dalai Lama

b. 1935

Spiritual leader of Tibet since 1940

1841

b. 1851

Calendar year

2005 German football match-fixing scandal

b. 1979

Sports scandal in Germany

303

Calendar year

373

Calendar year

50 Cent

b. 1975

American rapper and actor (born 1975)

65th Infantry Regiment (United States)

b. 1910

Puerto Rican regiment of the United States Army

6ix9ine

b. 1996

American rapper (born 1996)

A-FÜ

b. 1987

Taiwanese singer and songwriter (born 1987)

A. A. Gill

b. 1954

British writer and critic (1954–2016)

A. Alfred Taubman

American businessman (1924–2015)

A. B. Frost

American illustrator, graphic artist, painter and comics writer

A. B. Guthrie Jr.

American novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literary historian

A. B. Yehoshua

Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright (1936–2022)

A. C. Gibbs

b. 1825

2nd Governor of Oregon

A. E. Douglass

b. 1867

American astronomer

A. E. Hotchner

b. 1917

American writer (1917–2020)

A. E. Housman

English classicist and poet (1859–1936)

A. E. van Vogt

b. 1912

Canadian-American science fiction writer (1912–2000)