2nd Millennium - Significant People

Significant People

The people in this section are organized according to the UN geoscheme.

Significant people of the 2nd millennium AD
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
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
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
Africa America Asia Europe Oceania
16th Century Idris Aloma
Orompoto
Ahmad al-Mansur		 Atahualpa Xu Guangqi
Shah Jahan		 William Shakespeare
Christopher Columbus
Galileo Galilei
17th Century Wegbaja
Osei Tutu
Okomfo Anokye		 Powhatan
Pocahontas
Squanto		 Matsuo Basho Sir Isaac Newton
Peter the Great
Thomas Hobbes
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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