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| 389368953 | Confucius | lived in China during the Warring States period and sought to restore order to China an educator and political adviser who developed the important Chinese philosophy of Confucianism | 0 | |
| 389368954 | Qin Shi Huangdi | self-proclaimed first emperor of China who established centralized rule through large-scale political organization used the philosophical system of Legalism to support his harsh ruling techniques | 1 | |
| 389368955 | Wu Di | Han emperor who established an imperial university to educate government officials in 124 BCE based around the philosophy of Confucianism held a policy of imperial expansion | 2 | |
| 389368956 | Socrates | developed a method of questioning aimed at exposing ethics and morality through a series of increasingly difficult questions who argued that honor was more important than wealth tutored Plato | 3 | |
| 389368957 | Aristotle | believed everything was based on ideal forms or ideas but really nothing was absolute believed people could depend on reason and senses to answer the mysteries of the world taught by Plato teacher of Alexander the Great | 4 | |
| 389368958 | Julius Caesar | named himself dictator of the Roman Empire for life sought to build a sense of community in Rome after civil war extended Roman borders and consolidated government succeed by Octavian (Augustus) | 5 | |
| 389368959 | Jesus | Jewish prophet and teacher whose major teachings were proper worship of God and love for fellow man basically the founder of Christianity | 6 | |
| 389368960 | Hammurabi | king of Sumerian city-state of Babylon in the 1700s BCE created Hammurabi's Code, a system of laws to govern societies written down on stone steles | 7 | |
| 389368961 | Justinian | Byzantine Emperor of the 6th century BCE responsible for great public works projects and a codification of Roman Law, the Corpus iurius civilis (Body of the Civil Law) | 8 | |
| 389368962 | Muhammad | lived in the early seventh century BCE believed himself as the last prophet of Allah after having a transformational spiritual experience basically the founder of Islam | 9 | |
| 389368963 | Genghis Khan | formerly known as Temujin a prominent Mongol warrior who brought all Mongol tribes under a single confederation in the early 13th century conquered much of Eurasia with his army and war tactics | 10 | |
| 389368964 | Marco Polo | traveler of Eurasia during Mongol times mapped out the Silk Roads and served as a foreign diplomat in the Chinese royal court | 11 | |
| 389368965 | Mansa Musa | king of West African kingdom of Mali who followed Islam and did much to bring it to his region facilitated trans-Saharan trade | 12 | |
| 389368966 | Ibn Battuta | Muslim traveler of the 14th century who kept a record of his travels in the Rihla, working in government positions in various parts of the Dar al-Islam | 13 | |
| 389368967 | Zheng He | an Islamic eunuch admiral who led seven exploratory voyages for Ming China in the early 13th century, commanding an extensive naval fleet and supporting trade in the Indian Ocean | 14 | |
| 389368968 | Christopher Columbus | an explorer from Genoa who proposed heading west to reach Asia through an all-water trade route who reached the Bahamas in 1492 | 15 | |
| 389368969 | Martin Luther | a German monk often credited with sparking the start of the Protestant Reformation in Europe | 16 | |
| 389368970 | Henry VIII | English king who established the Church of England, naming himself its head and severing ties with the Catholic Church | 17 | |
| 389368971 | Louis XIV | believed he had a divine right to rule built a centralized bureaucracy and held absolute authority | 18 | |
| 389368972 | Matteo Ricci | a Jesuit scholar from Europe who journeyed to the Ming court in the late 1500s a missionary who made efforts to bring Christianity to the East | 19 | |
| 389368973 | Suleyman the Magnificent | sultan of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century responsible for modernizing the Ottoman army, and a patron of the arts tolerant of religions, known as a Lawgiver | 20 | |
| 389368974 | Akbar the Great | a ruler of the Mughal Empire in the late 1500s who established absolute authority and had religious tolerance eliminated the jizya for Hindus like the Mughal version of Suleyman | 21 | |
| 389368975 | Ivan the Terrible | Russian czar in the mid-1500s who continued to expand authority and consolidate absolute authority | 22 | |
| 389368976 | Peter the Great | Russian czar in the late 17th and early 18th centuries known for centralizing his authority and bringing Western ideas to the Russian Empire | 23 | |
| 389368977 | Catherine the Great | a Russian czarina in the late 1700s who continued modernization and consolidation of absolute authority, also continued expansion known as an Enlightened despot | 24 | |
| 389368978 | Napoleon Bonaparte | a general in the French army who gained control of France in a coup d'etat in 1799, seizing contol from the Directory, a small group of governing aristocrats expanded the French empire and established a Civil Code | 25 | |
| 389368979 | Simon Bolivar | a Creole from South America who led a successful revolutionary movement against Spanish rule, leading many military campaigns against the Spanish | 26 | |
| 389368980 | Toussaint Louverture | an educated slave who helped lead a revolt in Haiti against white settlers, organizing an army for rebellion | 27 | |
| 389368981 | Karl Marx | a 19th century philosopher who developed a socialist theory in response to the changing nature of the workplace resulting from the Industrial Revolution had many ideas on class struggle and the evils of capitalism | 28 | |
| 389368982 | Otto von Bismarck | chancellor of the German state of Prussia who worked to unite the German-speaking states into a single nation | 29 | |
| 389368983 | Leopold | king of Belgium who established a colony known as the Congo Free State in Africa using forced labor ensure profitability of the rubber plantations | 30 | |
| 389368984 | Muhammad Ali | emerged as the ruler of Egypt following an unsuccessful invasion by Napoleon established an autonomous state in Egypt who modernized the nation | 31 | |
| 389368985 | Vladimir I. Lenin | a student of Marxism who was the seeds of a communist revolution in Russia took control of Bolshevik party after abdication of the last czar who pulled Russia out of WWI and began a series of land reforms | 32 | |
| 389368986 | Adolf Hitler | rose to power in Germany during the 1920s and 30s leader of the Nazis, a Socialist party who was appointed to chancellor in 1933 built a totalitarian state who ignored the Treaty of Versailles and built up a military to expand foreign lands led Germany during WWII | 33 | |
| 389368987 | Benito Mussolini | established fascist state in Italy, emerging as a dictator after WWI led Italy during WWII | 34 | |
| 389368988 | Mohandas Gandhi | became a popular leader among the ordinary of India, leading a series of many civil disobedience movements of nonviolence pushed for independence until 1947 | 35 | |
| 389368989 | Mao Zedong | nationalist leader in China who was influenced by Marxist ideology sought to make China a modern, industrialized nation | 36 | |
| 389368990 | Joseph Stalin | became totalitarian dictator of Soviet Union after Lenin's death introduced many land reforms led the Soviet Union during WWII | 37 | |
| 389368991 | Jomo Kenyatta | a Kenyan nationalist leader who led a movement to gain independence from Great Britain first prime minister of Kenya | 38 | |
| 389368992 | Nelson Mandela | a leader of the ANC who was arrested for military protests against apartheid and sentenced to jail for life became first black president of South Africa in 1994 | 39 | |
| 389368993 | Deng Xiaoping | replaced Mao Zedong as leader of communist China who introduced new economic reforms but little extension of individual political rights | 40 | |
| 389368994 | Mikhail Gorbachev | controlled the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 backed free-market reforms resigned in 1991 after unsuccessful coup attempt by staunch communists | 41 | |
| 389454037 | Alexander the Great | son of King Philip II of Macedonia a skilled military commander and strategist who conquered Persia and some of India and North Africa, creating the Hellenistic Empire by 323 BCE at his death | 42 | |
| 389454039 | Aurangzeb | Emperor of Mughal Empire, son of Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal pushed to extend Muslim control to all of India sought to purify India's Islam | 43 | |
| 389454041 | Batista | ruled Cuba in the mid 1900s as a dictator masses of peasants were very poor during his reign | 44 | |
| 389454042 | Batu Khan | first Mongol ruler and leader of the Golden Horde in Russia | 45 | |
| 389454044 | Brezhnev | controlled Russia from 1960s to 1980s, retreating from de-Stalinization but maintaining power | 46 | |
| 389454047 | Fidel Castro | Cuban who led guerilla movement to capture power from Batista in 1959, was a communist and ruled during the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis | 47 | |
| 389454048 | Charlemagne | first emperor of the Carolingian Empire in France unsuccessful in setting up a political structure to last his rule used Church to consolidate his legitimacy | 48 | |
| 389454050 | Leonardo da Vinci | a learned and talented individual, a true "Renaisasance man" combined talents of many into one | 49 | |
| 389454052 | Camillo di Cavour | a count of Sardinia in northern Italy who was also a prime minister aligned with France to expel Austria from rule over the north of Italy, leading to 1870 and the creation of Italy as a nation | 50 | |
| 389454054 | Bartolomeu Dias | Portuguese explorer in late 1400s who rounded the Cape of Good Hope at the tip of Africa and entered the Indian Ocean | 51 | |
| 389454056 | Porfirio Diaz | dictator of Mexico in late 19th and early 20th century under which many people were very poor | 52 | |
| 389454058 | Du Fu | a female poet under the Tang dynasty | 53 | |
| 389454060 | Empress Wu | helped to spread Buddhism during the Tang dynasty, originally a concubine of the emperor but turned into an empress | 54 | |
| 389454062 | Vasco da Gama | Spanish explorer of the late 1400s who reached Calicut, India by rounding Africa | 55 | |
| 389454064 | Indira Gandhi | one of only a couple female prime ministers of India, adopted forced sterilization policy to decrease population | 56 | |
| 389454066 | Siddhartha Gautama | lived in the 5th and 6th centuries BVE became important Indian thinker who reached enlightenment through meditation and became known as Buddha founder of Buddhism | 57 | |
| 389454068 | Chandra Gupta | founder of the Gupta Empire in 320 CE who conquered many of the regional kingdoms except the south supported Hinduism | 58 | |
| 389454070 | Homer | writer of the Iliad and the Odyssey, epic poems of Greece that conveyed the value of the hero | 59 | |
| 389454072 | Hong Xiuquan | believed himself to be the brother of Jesus leader of the Taiping Rebellion, a social reform with an army that eventually contolled much of China until its defeat by the Qings soon after 1850s | 60 | |
| 389454074 | Chiang Kai Shek | aka Jiang Jieshi inherited leadership in 1924 of the struggling Republic of China tried to work with then against the communists | 61 | |
| 389454076 | Hulegu Khan | defeated the Abbasid Caliphate in 1258 to rule in the Middle East as the head of the Il-Khanate | 62 | |
| 389454078 | Kublai Khan | defeated the Southern Song dynasty in 1279 to rule over China as a foreigner, first "emperor" of the Yuan dynasty | 63 | |
| 389454080 | Ayatollah Khomeini | religious leader in Iran who led demonstrations in 1979 that forced the Shah into exile sharia became the law of the land | 64 | |
| 389454082 | Krushchev | came to power in 1953 in Russia initiating de-Stalinization and encouraging free expression | 65 | |
| 389454084 | Philip II | king of Macedonia in the mid-300s BCE who consolidated control of his kingdom and moved into Greece | 66 | |
| 389454086 | Laozi | a sage claimed to have founded the Daoist school of thought actually just collected the Daoist wisdom into a book called the Dao te Ching | 67 | |
| 389454088 | Li Bai | a female poet during the Tang dynasty | 68 | |
| 389454090 | John Locke | English Enlightenment thinker who thought all men are born with natural rights and should be free | 69 | |
| 389454092 | Ferdinand Magellan | Spanish explorer of the early 1500s who sailed around South America to the Philippines where he was killed afterwards, his men were the first to circumnavigate the globe | 70 | |
| 389454093 | Chandragupta Maurya | in the 320s BCE, he founded the Mauryan Empire with a bureaucratic administrative system | 71 | |
| 389454094 | Ashoka Maurya | grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, major proponent of Buddhism in India, had tightly organized bureaucracy | 72 | |
| 389454095 | Montesquieu | French Enlightenment thinker who urged tolerance and a government segmented into parts that shared power | 73 | |
| 389454096 | Kwame Nkrumah | educated independence leader in Ghana who led strikes and protests to remove British from power, which happened in 1957 | 74 | |
| 389454097 | Plato | student of Socrates teacher of Aristotle wrote The Republic, describing an ideal state ruled by a philosopher king | 75 | |
| 389454098 | Pope Urban II | the pope that launched the Crusades in 1095, calling for Christian knights to take arms and seize the Holy Land | 76 | |
| 389454099 | Shah Reza | ruled Iran from 1953 to 1979, influenced by the West and pushed for modernization; very oppressive, so much opposition developed | 77 | |
| 389454100 | Rabban Sauma | a Nestorian Christian priest from Yuan China who went on pilgrimage to Jerusalem and met many people on the way did not succeed in attracting Christian Europe to support the Mongol cause | 78 | |
| 389454101 | Sun Yat-sen | aka Sun Yixian made the Three Principles of the People led uprisings against the Qing who abdicated in 1911 formed the modern Republic of China and wanted it to be progressive and democratic | 79 | |
| 389454102 | Lech Walesa | led the independent labor movement Solidarity in Poland | 80 | |
| 389454103 | Voltaire | French Enlightenment thinker who said freedom of speech should be permitted | 81 |
