Leading Figures in History

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

58072 persons found

65th Infantry Regiment (United States)

b. 1910

Puerto Rican regiment of the United States Army

6ix9ine

b. 1996

American rapper (born 1996)

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A Martinez

b. 1948

American actor and singer (b. 1948)

A-FÜ

b. 1987

Taiwanese singer and songwriter (born 1987)

A. A. Gill

b. 1954

British writer and critic (1954–2016)

A. A. M. S. Arefin Siddique

b. 1953

Bangladeshi academic administrator (1953–2025)

A. Alfred Taubman

American businessman (1924–2015)

A. Ayyappan

Indian poet

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. Bartlett Giamatti

American baseball commissioner and academic administrator (1938–1989)

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

b. 1896

Indian spiritual teacher (1896–1977)

A. C. Gibbs

b. 1825

2nd Governor of Oregon

A. C. Green

b. 1963

American basketball player (born 1963)

A. Chandranehru

b. 1944

20th and 21st-century Sri Lankan politician

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)

A. G. Kripal Singh

b. 1933

Indian cricket player. (1933–1987)

A. H. Halsey

British sociologist (1923-2014)