A list of famous people throughout history. These famous historical figures are chosen from a range of different cultures and countries. They includes famous spiritual figures, politicians and writers who have helped to shape human history.
- 7th Cavalry Regiment
- 1887 Experiment
- Aaron Burr
- Abel
- Abraham
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abu Bakr
- Adam
- Adolf Hitler
- Afonso I of Kongo
- Agamemnon
- Agnes, Countess of Dunbar
- Ahasuerus
- Ahmad al-Mansur
- Akhenaten
- Al Capone
- Albert A. Michelson
- Albert Einstein
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander Kikin
- Alexander Taneyev
- Alexei Khvostov
- Alfred Nobel
- Allan Pinkerton
- Amanirenas
- Amanitore
- Amelia Earhart
- American Civil War
- American Hunter
- American Old West
- American Revolution
- American Revolutionary War
- Amun
- Amytis of Media
- Ancient Assyria
- Ancient Babylon
- Ancient China
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Greece
- Ancient Greek Olympics
- Ancient History
- Ancient Iraq
- Ancient Israel
- Ancient Mesopotamia
- Ancient Persia
- Ancient Rome
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Johnson
- Angola
- Anna Vyrubova
- Annie Oakley
- Antarctica
- Apollo 11
- Arabian Ruler
- Ares
- Aristotle
- Ashoka the Great
- Ashurbanipal
- Askia Mohammad I
- Aten
- Attila the Hun
- Augustus Caesar
- Austria
- Ay
- Aztec
- Aztec Emperor
- Aztec Empire
- Baigu Shu China
- Barack Obama
- Benedict Arnold
- Benito Mussolini
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Harrison
- Betsy Ross
- Bill Clinton
- Bill Gates
- Billy the Kid
- Black Bart
- Black Kettle
- Blackbeard
- Börte
- Boudicca
- Brennus
- Buffalo Bill
- Cai Lun
- Caiaphas
- Cain
- Calvin Coolidge
- Captain Pirate
- Catherine de Medici
- Catherine the Great
- Cave Painting
- Carl Bloch
- Casimir III the Great
- Caveman
- Chan Imix K'awiil
- Chandragupta Maurya
- Charlemagne
- Charles Cornwallis
- Charles de Gaulle
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Dickens
- Charles Sumner Tainter
- Charles V of Austria
- Che Guevara
- Chester A. Arthur
- Cheyenne
- Chichen Itza
- Chichester Bell
- Chinese Emperor
- Christianity
- Christina of Sweden
- Christopher Columbus
- Cleopatra VII
- Cnut the Great
- Confucius
- Conquest of Islam
- Constantine XI Palaiologos
- Cowboy Xerife
- Creation
- Creation–Evolution
- Cro-Magnon
- Cuanza River
- Cunobeline
- Cyrus the Great
- Dalai Lama
- Daniel
- Darius the Great
- David
- David Livingstone
- David Rice Atchison
- David Wilkie
- Davy Crockett
- Delilah
- Dido
- Diego Velázquez
- Dinosaurs
- Djoser
- Doc Holliday
- Donald Trump
- Douglas MacArthur
- Dunbar Castle
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Easter Island
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Edo Period
- Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville
- Edward II
- Edward S. Curtis
- Edward Smith
- Edward W. Morley
- Edwin Long
- Egyptian Female
- Egyptian Mummy
- Egyptian Sphinx
- Eleanor of Aquitaine
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Eli Whitney
- Elizabeth I
- Elizabeth II
- Elvis Presley
- Emile Berliner
- Emiliano Zapata
- Emily Warren Roebling
- Emperor Taizong of Tang
- English Monarch
- English Noble
- Enrico Dandolo
- Erik the Red
- Ernest Hemingway
- Esther
- European Knight
- Eva Perón
- Eve
- Evolution
- Felix Yusupov
- Female Chinese
- Female Noble
- Ferdinand II of Aragon
- Ferdinand Magellan
- First Empires
- First Thanksgiving
- Florence
- Florence Nightingale
- Ford Madox Brown
- Francis Bellamy
- Francis Scott Key
- Francisco Goya
- Frankenstein's Monster
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Franklin Pierce
- Frederick I Barbarossa
- Frederick II of the Holy Roman Empire
- Frederick the Great
- French Musketeer
- Futuristic City
- Futuristic Robot
- Gaius Cassius Longinus
- Gajah Mada
- Galileo Galilei
- Genghis Khan
- Georg Pencz
- George Armstrong Custer
- George H. W. Bush
- George III of the United Kingdom
- George Orwell
- George S. Patton
- George W. Bush
- George Washington
- George Washington Carver
- Gerald Ford
- Gilgamesh
- Gitarja
- Golda Meir
- Golden Age of Piracy
- Goliath
- Gorgo of Sparta
- Great Wall of China
- Grigori Rasputin
- Grover Cleveland
- Gupta Empire
- Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
- Haakon the Good
- Hades
- Haile Selassie
- Haman
- Hammurabi
- Hannibal
- Harald Bluetooth
- Harald Hardrada
- Harriet Tubman
- Harry Houdini
- Harry S. Truman
- Harun al-Rashid
- Hatfield Clan
- Hatshepsut
- Herbert Hoover
- Hermann Rorschach
- Hermogenes
- Hernán Cortés
- Hernando de Soto
- Herod the Great
- Henry Morton Stanley
- Henry VIII of England
- Hiawatha
- Hideki Tojo
- Hippie
- Hojo Tokimune
- Hongxi Emperor
- Horus
- Huayna Capac
- Huckleberry Finn
- Ice Age
- Imhotep
- Imperial China
- In the Beginning
- India
- Indian Chief
- Indira Gandhi
- Irene of Athens
- Isaac Newton
- Isabella I of Castile
- Israelite Soldier
- Italian Renaissance
- Ivan Aivazovsky
- Ivan Pavlov
- Ivan the Terrible
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Jack the Ripper
- Jadwiga of Poland
- James A. Garfield
- James Buchanan
- James K. Polk
- James S. Sherman
- James Madison
- James Monroe
- James Tissot
- Jane Austen
- Jane Goodall
- Japan
- Japanese Emperor
- Japheth
- Jayavarman VII
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Jefferson Davis
- Jesus
- Jimmy Carter
- Joan of Arc
- Johannes Gutenberg
- John Adams
- John Brown
- John Curtin
- John F. Kennedy
- John Hancock
- John II of Portugal
- John Montagu
- John Philip Sousa
- John Quincy Adams
- John Tyler
- Jonah
- Joseph Stalin
- Joséphine de Beauharnais
- Joshua
- Judas Iscariot
- Julius Caesar
- Justinian I
- Kamehameha I
- Karl Bulla
- Karna
- Khufu
- King Arthur
- Kublai Khan
- Kupe the Navigator
- Lady Godiva
- Lakshmi
- Lautaro
- Lavr Kornilov
- Leaning Tower of Pisa
- Leif Erikson
- Leon Trotsky
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Leonidas I of Sparta
- Livia Drusilla
- Lizzie Borden
- London
- Louis Armstrong
- Louis Pasteur
- Louis XIV of France
- Louisiana Purchase
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Manco Inca Yupanqui
- Mao Zedong
- Marco Polo
- Margaret Thatcher
- Maria I of Portugal
- Maria Rasputin
- Maria Theresa
- Marie Curie
- Marilyn Monroe
- Mark Antony
- Martha Washington
- Martin Luther
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Martin Van Buren
- Mary
- Mary Magdalene
- Mary Shelley
- Mary Todd Lincoln
- Matthias Corvinus
- Matthias Stom
- Maximilien Robespierre
- Maya Civilization
- Medieval Scotland
- Mehen
- Mehmed the Conqueror
- Meriwether Lewis
- Merlin
- Mesoamerican Ballcourt
- Mesoamerican Ballgame
- Mesoamerican Rubber Balls
- Miami
- Michael Faraday
- Michael Sgan-Cohen
- Michelangelo
- Millard Fillmore
- Moctezuma I
- Moctezuma II
- Modu Chanyu
- Mongolia
- Molly Pitcher
- Mona Lisa
- Mordecai
- Moscow
- Moses
- Mother Teresa
- Muhammad Ali
- Mursili I
- Musa I of Mali
- Napoleon
- Napoleonic Era
- Narmer
- Neanderthal
- Nebuchadnezzar II
- Nefertiti
- Neil Armstrong
- Nelson Mandela
- Neolithic Revolution
- New York City
- Nicolae Grigorescu
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Nikola Tesla
- Noah
- Noah's Wife
- Noël Coypel
- Nostradamus
- Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba
- Oda Nobunaga
- Ögedei Khan
- Olmec
- Olmec Statue
- Orville Wright
- Oscar Wilde
- Osman I
- Ottoman Empire
- Otto von Bismarck
- Pacal the Great
- Pachacuti
- Paleolithic
- Pancho Villa
- Paris
- Paul McCartney
- Paul Mounet
- Paul Revere
- Pat Garrett
- Pavel Milyukov
- Pax Romana
- Pedro II of Brazil
- Peking Man
- Pelé
- Pericles
- Peter the Great
- Pharaoh
- Philander C. Knox
- Philip II of Macedon
- Philip II of Spain
- Philip IV of Spain
- Philo Farnsworth
- Poundmaker
- Plato
- Pocatello
- Pontius Pilate
- Pope Gregory IX
- Prasutagus
- Prehistory
- Priam
- Prince Henry the Navigator
- Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia
- Ptolemy I Soter
- Punk Subculture
- Qin Shi Huang
- Ragnar Lodbrok
- Ramesses II
- Ram Khamhaeng
- Rembrandt
- Renaissance
- René Descartes
- Revolutionary Era Redcoat
- Richard E. Byrd
- Richard Nixon
- Rise of Agriculture
- RMS Titanic
- Robert Falcon Scott
- Robert the Bruce
- Rocky Mountains
- Roman Gladiator
- Romulus and Remus
- Ronald Reagan
- Rosa Parks
- Roswell UFO Incident
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- Sacagawea
- Saint Joseph
- Saint Peter
- Saladin
- Samson
- Samuel Adams
- Samuel Morse
- Sarah Good
- Saul
- Sejong the Great
- Selim II
- Seondeok of Silla
- September 11 Attacks
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Sergei Trufanov
- Sergio Leone
- Shaka Zulu
- Sherlock Holmes
- Shu
- Siberian Eskimo
- Sigmund Freud
- Simon Vouet
- Sinon
- Sitting Bull
- Sobekneferu
- Socrates
- Solomon
- Sophie Blanchard
- Squaw
- Stone Age
- Suleiman the Magnificent
- Suryavarman II
- Switzerland
- Taejo of Goryeo
- Tamar the Great
- Tang Dynasty
- Terra Nova Expedition
- Tex Avery
- Theodora I
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Thomas Crapper
- Thomas E. Watson
- Thomas Edison
- Thomas Tallis
- Thutmose III
- Time Machine
- Time Travel
- Time Travel Warp
- Tokugawa Iemitsu
- Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Tomás de Torquemada
- Tomyris
- Toussaint Charbonneau
- Trajan
- Treaty of Paris (1815)
- Trebuchet
- Trojan Horse
- Trojan War
- Tutankhamun
- Ub Iwerks
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Valdemar Poulsen
- Vasily Perov
- Vercingetorix
- Victoria
- Vladimir Lenin
- Vladimir Purishkevich
- Viking Age
- Vikings
- Vincent van Gogh
- Walt Disney
- Warren G. Harding
- Western United States
- Wilbur Wright
- "Wild Bill" Hickok
- Wilfrid Laurier
- Wilhelm I of Germany
- Wilhelm II of Germany
- Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
- William Clark
- William Henry Harrison
- William Howard Taft
- William Montagu
- William McKinley
- William Shakespeare
- William Tecumseh Sherman
- William the Silent
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau
- Winston Churchill
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Woodrow Wilson
- World War Soldier
- Wright Flyer
- Wright Pilot
- Wu Zetian
- Xerxes I
- Yu the Great
- Zachary Taylor
- Zara Yaqob
- Zenil
- Zeus