Leading Figures in History

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

58072 persons found

Abraham Sarmiento

Filipino jurist

Abraham Sarmiento Jr.

b. 1950

Filipino student journalist

Abraham Sutzkever

b. 1913

Belarusian-Israeli poet

Abraham Trembley

Genevan naturalist (1710–1784)

Abraham van Riebeeck

b. 1653

Dutch colonial administrator (1653–1713)

Abraham Viruthakulangara

b. 1943

Indian archbishop (1943–2018)

Abraham Wachner

b. 1892

New Zealand politician (1892–1950)

Abraham Yates Jr.

American lawyer, civil servant, and pamphleteer (1724–1796)

Abraham Zacuto

b. 1452

Spanish Jewish astronomer and rabbi (1452 – c.1515)

Abraham Zapruder

b. 1905

Witness to the John F. Kennedy assassination (1905–1970)

Abrahm DeVine

b. 1996

American swimmer

Abram Hoffer

Canadian biochemist

Abram Ioffe

Soviet physicist (1880–1960)

Abram Wilson

American jazz musician (1973–2012)

Abraomas Kulvietis

Lithuanian nobleman and writer (c. 1509 – 1545)

Abu Abdulrahman al-Bilawi

Iraqi ISIL leader (1971–2014)

Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Uthman

Marinid sultan (c.1297–1351)

Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei

Iranian-Iraqi Shia marja' (1899–1992)

Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani

b. 940

Persian mathematician and astronomer (940–998)

Abu Ali Mustafa

Palestinian politician (1938–2001)

Abu as-Salt

Andalusian-Arab polymath, 1068–1134

Abu Bakr

Rashidun caliph from 632 to 634

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

b. 1971

Leader of the Islamic State from 2013 to 2019

Abu Bakr al-Razi

b. 865

10th-century Iranian physician and polymath