Leading Figures in History

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

62243 persons found

Changbin

b. 1999

South Korean rapper (born 1999)

Channing Frye

b. 1983

American basketball player (born 1983)

Channing H. Cox

b. 1879

American politician (1879–1968)

Channing Tatum

b. 1980

American actor (born 1980)

Chantal Akerman

Belgian film director, screenwriter, and educator (1950–2015)

Chantal Djotodia

b. 1981

Central African-Beninese Politician

Chantal Goya

b. 1942

French singer and actress (born 1942)

Chantal Jouanno

b. 1969

French politician (born 1969)

Chantal Montellier

b. 1947

French writer/artist

Chantal Mouffe

b. 1943

Belgian post-Marxist political theorist (born 1943)

Chantal Škamlová

b. 1993

Slovak tennis player

Chantelle Newbery

b. 1977

Australian diver

Chapman Pincher

English journalist (1914–2014)

Charalambos Andreou

b. 1967

Cypriot footballer (born 1967)

Charalambos Tseroulis

Hellenic army officer (1879–1929)

Charalampos Lykogiannis

b. 1993

Greek footballer (born 1993)

Charalampos Xanthopoulos

b. 1956

Greek footballer

Charan Singh

Prime Minister of India from 1979 to 1980

Charb

b. 1967

French satirist and journalist (1967–2015)

Charbel Makhlouf

b. 1828

19th-century Lebanese Maronite monk and saint (1828–1898)

Charilaos Florakis

Greek communist politician

Charilaos Trikoupis

b. 1832

Greek politician; Prime Minister intermittently between 1875 and 1895

Charis Giannopoulos

b. 1989

Greek basketball player (born 1989)

Charisma Carpenter

b. 1970

American actress (born 1970)