Significant People
The people in this section are organized according to the UN geoscheme.
| Africa | America | Asia | Europe | Oceania | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11th Century | Humai ibn Salamna Eze Nri Ìfikuánim Yahya ibn Ibrahim |
Shen Kuo Omar Khayyám Su Sung |
William the Conqueror Basil II Samuel |
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| 12th Century | Abd al-Mu'min Saladin Dunama I |
Sapa Inca | Minamoto no Yoritomo Bhaskara II Genghis Khan |
Richard I of England Henry II of England |
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| 13th Century | Sundiata Keita Dunama Dabbalemi Mansa Uli |
Marco Polo Pope John XXII |
Roy Mata | ||
| 14th Century | Kato Kintu Ibn Khaldun Muhammad Ture |
Acamapichtli | Yongle Emperor Madhava Timur |
Jan Hus | |
| 15th Century | Ilunga Tshibinda Sonni Ali Zara Yaqob |
Moctezuma I | Hongxi Emperor Guru Nanak Dev Suleiman |
Nicolaus Copernicus Leonardo DaVinci Johannes Gutenberg |
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| Africa | America | Asia | Europe | Oceania | |
| 16th Century | Idris Aloma Orompoto Ahmad al-Mansur |
Atahualpa | Xu Guangqi Shah Jahan |
William Shakespeare Christopher Columbus Galileo Galilei |
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| 17th Century | Wegbaja Osei Tutu Okomfo Anokye |
Powhatan Pocahontas Squanto |
Matsuo Basho | Sir Isaac Newton Peter the Great Thomas Hobbes |
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| 18th Century | Usman Dan Fodio Opoku Ware I Dossou Agadja |
Benjamin Franklin Thomas Jefferson George Washington |
Qianlong Emperor | Napoleon Catherine the Great Mozart |
Kamehameha I |
| 19th Century | Moshoeshoe I Shaka Menelik II |
Thomas Edison Simón Bolívar Abraham Lincoln |
Empress Dowager Cixi Mangal Pandey |
Charles Darwin Marie Curie Nikola Tesla |
Te Kooti |
| 20th Century | Mo Ibrahim Nelson Mandela Desmond Tutu |
Franklin D. Roosevelt Martin Luther King, Jr. Richard Nixon |
Mao Zedong Mahatma Gandhi Gamal Abdel Nasser |
Albert Einstein Winston Churchill Adolf Hitler |
Rolf Harris |
See also
- Lists of people by nationality
- Category:People by century
- Category:People by nationality and period
- Gottlieb, Agnes Hooper; Henry Gottlieb, Barbar Bowers, Brent Bowers (1998). 1,000 Years, 1,000 People: Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium. Kodansha International. ISBN 1-56836-253-6.
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