Leading Figures in History

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

58072 persons found

Alonso de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia

b. 1550

Spanish aristocrat (1550–1615)

Alonso de Orozco Mena

b. 1500

Spanish Roman Catholic priest

Alonso de Salazar

Spanish explorer (??–1526)

Alonso García de Ramón

Royal Governor of Chile

Alonso Lujambio

b. 1962

Mexican politician (1962–2012)

Alonso Sánchez Coello

Spanish painter (1531/1532–1588)

Alonzo Church

b. 1903

American mathematician and computer scientist (1903–1995)

Alou Diarra

b. 1981

French footballer (born 1981)

Aloysius Gonzaga

Italian Jesuit seminarian and saint (1568–1591)

Aloysius Jin Luxian

Chinese Catholic prelate (1916–2013)

Aloysius Paul D'Souza

b. 1941

Indian Roman Catholic Bishop

Aloysius Stepinac

b. 1898

Croatian Latin Catholic cardinal (1898–1960)

Alpay Özalan

b. 1973

Turkish footballer, manager, and politician

Alperen Şengün

b. 2002

Turkish basketball player (born 2002)

Alphons Egli

b. 1924

Swiss politician (1924–2016)

Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception

Catholic saint (1910–1946)

Alphonse Daudet

b. 1840

French novelist (1840–1897)

Alphonse de Lamartine

b. 1790

French author, poet and statesman (1790–1869)

Alphonse François Renard

Belgian geologist and petrographer

Alphonse Kirchhoffer

French fencer (1873–1913)

Alphonse Mucha

Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist (1860–1939)

Alphonse of Poitiers

13th-century French nobleman

Alphonse-Marie Parent

Canadian priest, educator and academic administrator

Alphonso Ford

American basketball player