1292 figures
- A.M. Jeevanjee 1856 – 1936 merchant, labour contractor, politician 3
- Abdulaziz Ibn Saud 1875 – 1953 founder and first king of Saudi Arabia 9
- Abdulhamid II 1842 – 1918 sultan 1
- Abraham founding patriarch in biblical tradition 6
- Abraham Abulafia 1240 – ? Kabbalist, founder of 'prophetic' Kabbalah 2
- Abraham ibn Ezra 1089 – 1167 Bible commentator, poet, grammarian, astronomer
- Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865 sixteenth president of the United States 6
- Abraham Senior 1412 – 1493 Court rabbi, tax farmer, financier
- Achille Starace 1889 – 1945 Secretary of the National Fascist Party
- Adam Smith 1723 – 1790 economist, philosopher 3
- Adam Tooze 2
- Adlai Stevenson II 1900 – 1965 Democratic presidential nominee, UN ambassador 1
- Adolf Eichmann 1906 – 1962 SS official who managed deportations to the death camps 2
- Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945 Fuhrer and Chancellor of Nazi Germany 14
- Adolfo Calero 1931 – 2012 Contra political leader
- Adolph Joffe 1883 – 1927 Bolshevik diplomat and Trotsky ally
- Adrian VI (pope) 1459 – 1523 Pope (1522-1523)
- Aeschylus 525 BCE – 456 BCE playwright
- Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515 admiral, governor 2
- Agostinho Neto 1922 – 1979 Revolutionary leader, poet, physician, first President of Angola
- Agustin Carstens 1958 – ? General Manager of the BIS
- Ahmadou Ahidjo 1924 – 1989 first president of Cameroon 1
- Ahmed Ben Bella 1916 – 2012 Revolutionary, first President of Algeria 1
- Akbar 1542 – 1605 Emperor of the Mughal Empire (Akbar the Great)
- Al-Farabi 872 – 950 philosopher
- Al-Ghazali 1058 – 1111 philosopher, theologian
- Al-Khwarizmi 780 – 850 mathematician, astronomer 1
- Al-Kindi 801 – 873 philosopher, mathematician, scientist
- Alan Turing 1912 – 1954 mathematician, computer scientist 7
- Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955 physicist 4
- Albert II, Prince of Monaco 1958 – ? Sovereign Prince of Monaco
- Albert Luthuli 1898 – 1967 Anti-apartheid leader, ANC president, Nobel laureate
- Albert Pike 3
- Albert Speer 1905 – 1981 Reich Minister of Armaments and Hitler's architect 2
- Alcuin of York 735 – 804 scholar, teacher, abbot
- Aleister Crowley 1875 – 1947 occultist, ceremonial magician, writer 8
- Aleksei Brusilov 1853 – 1926 Imperial general, later served the Red Army
- Alexander Fleming 1881 – 1955 Bacteriologist, discoverer of penicillin 2
- Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922 inventor, teacher of the deaf 4
- Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825 Emperor of Russia who defeated Napoleon
- Alexander II 1818 – 1881 Emperor of Russia 9
- Alexander II of Russia 1818 – 1881 Emperor of Russia who freed the serfs
- Alexander III (pope) 1100 – 1181 Pope (1159-1181) 2
- Alexander III of Russia 1845 – 1894 Emperor of Russia
- Alexander Kerensky 1881 – 1970 Head of the Russian Provisional Government
- Alexander Litvinenko 1962 – 2006 former FSB officer, defector 5
- Alexander the Great 356 BCE – 323 BCE King of Macedon; conqueror of the Persian Empire 9
- Alexander VI (pope) 1431 – 1503 Pope (1492-1503) 4
- Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859 naturalist, explorer
- Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse) 1872 – 1918 The last Empress of Russia
- Alexandra Kollontai 1872 – 1952 Revolutionary, feminist, and Soviet diplomat
- Alexandre Lamfalussy 1929 – 2015 General Manager of the BIS
- Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia 1904 – 1918 Tsarevich and heir to the Russian throne
- Alexei Rykov 1881 – 1938 Head of the Soviet government after Lenin
- Alexios I Komnenos 1048 – 1118 emperor, general 1
- Alfred Chandler 1918 – 2007 business historian 3
- Alfred D. Chandler
- Alfred Krupp 1812 – 1887 industrialist, arms manufacturer 2
- Alfred Milner 1854 – 1925 colonial administrator, statesman 7
- Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896 chemist, inventor, industrialist 1
- Alfred P. Sloan 1875 – 1966 business executive, president and chairman of General Motors 1
- Alfred Rosenberg 1893 – 1946 Nazi Party chief ideologue
- Alfredo Stroessner 1912 – 2006 army general, president, dictator 1
- Alice Bailey 1880 – 1949 esoteric author, founder of the Arcane School 5
- Alice Walton 1949 – ? art collector, Walmart heir
- Aliko Dangote 1957 – ? industrialist, Dangote Group founder
- Allen Dulles 1893 – 1969 lawyer, spymaster, CIA director 23
- Amadeo Giannini 1870 – 1949 banker, founder of Bank of America 1
- Amancio Ortega 1936 – ? retailer, Inditex founder
- Amilcar Cabral 1924 – 1973 Revolutionary leader, agronomist, theorist 3
- Amschel Mayer Rothschild 1773 – 1855 banker
- Anastasio Somoza Debayle 1925 – 1980 National Guard commander, president, dictator 1
- Anatoly Chubais 1955 – ? economist, privatization chief, presidential chief of staff 7
- Anatoly Lunacharsky 1875 – 1933 Soviet Commissar of Enlightenment
- Andre Gunder Frank 1929 – 2005 economist, sociologist, historian 2
- Andre Oscar Wallenberg 1816 – 1886 banker, politician
- Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564 anatomist, physician 1
- Andrew Carnegie 1835 – 1919 steel magnate, philanthropist 8
- Andrew Colvin
- Andrew Crockett 1943 – 2012 General Manager of the BIS
- Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845 7th President of the United States 4
- Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875 17th President of the United States
- Andy Chande 1928 – 2017 Businessman, philanthropist
- Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714 Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland; first Queen of Great Britain
- Anne-Marie Peatrik 18
- Annie Besant 1847 – 1933 social reformer, Theosophist, president of the Theosophical Society
- Anselm of Canterbury 1033 – 1109 philosopher, theologian
- Ante Pavelic 1889 – 1959 Poglavnik (leader) of the Independent State of Croatia
- Antoine Gizenga 1925 – 2019 Deputy Prime Minister, Lumumbist leader, Prime Minister
- Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794 chemist
- Anton LaVey 1930 – 1997 occultist, founder of the Church of Satan 2
- Anton Makarenko 1888 – 1939 educator, writer
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723 microbiologist
- Antonio Gramsci 1891 – 1937 philosopher, Marxist theorist, politician 1
- Antonio Jose de Sucre 1795 – 1830 general, statesman 3
- Antony C. Sutton 1
- Archimedes 287 BCE – 212 BCE mathematician, engineer, physicist 2
- Ariel Sharon 1928 – 2014 army general, defense minister, prime minister of Israel 4
- Aristophanes 446 BCE – 386 BCE playwright
- Aristotle 384 BCE – 322 BCE philosopher, teacher 4
- Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930 Writer, physician 1
- Arthur Edward Waite 1857 – 1942 occult scholar, mystic, tarot designer
- Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860 philosopher
- Ashoka ? – 233 BCE Emperor of the Maurya dynasty 3
- Atahualpa 1502 – 1533 emperor 2
- Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857 philosopher, sociologist
- Augustine of Hippo 354 – 430 philosopher, theologian 2
- Augusto Pinochet 1915 – 2006 military ruler, president of Chile 12
- Augustus 63 BCE – 14 First Roman Emperor 5
- Austin Osman Spare 1886 – 1956 artist, occultist
- Averroes 1126 – 1198 philosopher, physician
- Avicenna 980 – 1037 philosopher, physician
- Ayman al-Zawahiri 1951 – 2022 leader of al-Qaeda, physician 3
- Baal Shem Tov (Israel ben Eliezer) 1698 – 1760 Mystic, healer, founder of Hasidism 1
- Bahya ibn Paquda Rabbi, moral philosopher
- Baldur von Schirach 1907 – 1974 Leader of the Hitler Youth and Gauleiter of Vienna
- Barack Obama 1961 – ? forty-fourth president of the United States 7
- Barghash bin Said 1837 – 1888 Sultan of Zanzibar 1870-1888 2
- Bartolomeu Dias 1450 – 1500 explorer, navigator 2
- Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677 philosopher 1
- Bashar al-Assad 1965 – ? President of Syria 1
- Basil II 958 – 1025 emperor 2
- Bayezid I 1360 – 1403 sultan, conqueror 2
- Beatrice Webb 1858 – 1943 Sociologist, economist, Fabian socialist, co-founder of the LSE 5
- Belisarius 500 – 565 general 1
- bell hooks 1952 – 2021 author, educator, theorist
- Ben Horowitz 1966 – ? entrepreneur, venture capitalist
- Benazir Bhutto 1953 – 2007 politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Benedict XIV (pope) 1675 – 1758 Pope (1740-1758)
- Benedict XV (pope) 1854 – 1922 Pope (1914-1922)
- Benedict XVI (pope) 1927 – 2022 Pope (2005-2013) 1
- Benito Juarez 1806 – 1872 President of Mexico 1
- Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945 Duce and dictator of Fascist Italy; founder of Fascism 3
- Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 5
- Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790 scientist, writer, statesman 14
- Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901 23rd President of the United States
- Benjamin Netanyahu 1949 – ? prime minister of Israel 3
- Benjamin Strong 1872 – 1928 Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1914-1928) 10
- Bernard Arnault 1949 – ? luxury goods executive
- Bernardo Bernardi 1
- Bernardo O'Higgins 1778 – 1842 general, revolutionary, statesman 2
- Berry Gordy 1929 – ? record executive, songwriter, producer 1
- Bertha Krupp 1886 – 1957 industrial heiress 1
- Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970 philosopher, mathematician 2
- Bethwell A. Ogot 1
- Bildad Kaggia 1921 – 2005 trade unionist, nationalist, opposition politician 9
- Bill Ackman 1966 – ? investor, hedge fund manager
- Bill Clinton 1946 – ? 42nd President of the United States 7
- Bill Gates 1955 – ? software pioneer, philanthropist 4
- Blaise Compaore 1951 – ? president of Burkina Faso, army officer 4
- Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662 mathematician, physicist, philosopher 2
- Bob Iger 1951 – ? media executive, Disney CEO
- Bob Marley 1945 – 1981 singer, songwriter, guitarist 1
- Boethius 477 – 524 philosopher, statesman
- Boniface VIII (pope) 1230 – 1303 Pope (1294-1303) 1
- Booker T. Washington 1856 – 1915 educator, author, orator 1
- Boris Berezovsky 1946 – 2013 oligarch, power broker 10
- Boris Godunov 1551 – 1605 Regent and then Tsar of Russia
- Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007 first President of the Russian Federation 12
- Brian Chesky 1981 – ? entrepreneur, Airbnb co-founder
- Brigitte Senut 1954 – ? Palaeontologist 1
- Bronislaw Malinowski 1884 – 1942 Social anthropologist, LSE professor 8
- Bruce Berman 8
- Buzz Aldrin 1930 – ? Astronaut, second person on the Moon 3
- C.L.R. James 1901 – 1989 historian, writer, Marxist theorist 4
- Cagliostro 1743 – 1795 occultist, alchemist, self-styled magician
- Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933 30th President of the United States 4
- Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855 mathematician, physicist 1
- Carl Icahn 1936 – ? investor, activist shareholder 2
- Carl Jung 1875 – 1961 psychiatrist, founder of analytical psychology 4
- Carl Kellner 1851 – 1905 industrialist, chemist, occultist 1
- Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778 botanist, naturalist 1
- Carl Mayer von Rothschild 1788 – 1855 banker, founder of the Naples house 1
- Carl von Clausewitz 1
- Carlos Slim 1940 – ? business magnate, telecom investor 1
- Caroline Elkins 13
- Carroll Quigley 5
- Catharine Beecher 1800 – 1878 educator, writer
- Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796 Empress of Russia 6
- Cecil Rhodes 1853 – 1902 businessman, politician, colonial administrator 40
- Celestine V (pope) 1215 – 1296 Pope (1294)
- Chaim Weizmann 1874 – 1952 chemist, Zionist leader, first president of Israel 2
- Chalmers Johnson 1931 – 2010 Scholar and author 1
- Chapurukha Kusimba 1
- Charlemagne 748 – 814 king, emperor 8
- Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882 naturalist, biologist 2
- Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970 Leader of Free France; President of France 4
- Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870 novelist
- Charles G. Dawes 1865 – 1951 Banker, US Vice President (1925-1929), and author of the Dawes Plan 1
- Charles George Gordon 1833 – 1885 Army officer, colonial administrator 3
- Charles Hornsby 2
- Charles I of England 1600 – 1649 King of England, Scotland and Ireland (Charles I)
- Charles II of England 1630 – 1685 King of England, Scotland and Ireland (Charles II) 1
- Charles III 1948 – ? King of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth realms 7
- Charles Koch 1935 – ? industrialist, political donor 1
- Charles Njonjo 1920 – 2022 lawyer, Attorney General, Minister for Constitutional Affairs 3
- Charles Rist 1874 – 1955 Deputy Governor of the Banque de France (1926-1929) and economist 2
- Charles V 1500 – 1558 emperor, king 7
- Charles Webster Leadbeater 1854 – 1934 clergyman, Theosophist, clairvoyant author
- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand 1754 – 1838 Diplomat, foreign minister 3
- Charlie Munger 1924 – 2023 investor, Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman
- Charlotte Mason 1842 – 1923 educator, reformer
- Che Guevara 1928 – 1967 Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader 2
- Cheddi Jagan 1918 – 1997 dentist, premier, president 3
- Chelsea Manning 1987 – ? Army intelligence analyst, whistleblower 2
- Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886 21st President of the United States
- Chiang Kai-shek 1887 – 1975 Nationalist leader, president of the Republic of China 11
- Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695 physicist, astronomer, mathematician 1
- Christian Rakovsky 1873 – 1941 Bolshevik leader and Soviet diplomat
- Christian Rosenkreuz 1378 – 1484 legendary founder of the Rosicrucian order 2
- Christine Lagarde 1956 – ? lawyer, French finance minister, IMF managing director, ECB president 1
- Christopher Ehret 1
- Christopher Marlowe 1564 – 1593 playwright, poet
- Christopher Simpson
- Chuck Berry 1926 – 2017 singer, songwriter, guitarist 2
- Cicero 106 BCE – 43 BCE philosopher, orator, statesman
- Claude Shannon 1916 – 2001 mathematician, electrical engineer 1
- Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643 composer 1
- Claudius Ptolemy 100 – 170 astronomer, geographer, astrologer, mathematician 1
- Clement Argwings-Kodhek 1923 – 1969 Barrister, politician 2
- Clement Attlee 1883 – 1967 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 3
- Clement I (pope) 35 – 99 Pope (c.88-99)
- Clement V (pope) 1264 – 1314 Pope (1305-1314) 4
- Clement VII (pope) 1478 – 1534 Pope (1523-1534) 3
- Colin Leys 5
- Comte de Saint-Germain 1712 – 1784 adventurer, courtier, alleged alchemist
- Confucius 552 BCE – 480 BCE teacher, philosopher 8
- Constantine the Great 272 – 337 emperor 4
- Constantine XI Palaiologos 1405 – 1453 emperor
- Consuelo Vanderbilt 1877 – 1964 aristocrat, socialite
- Corneliu Codreanu 1899 – 1938 Founder and leader of the Iron Guard
- Cornelius Vanderbilt 1794 – 1877 shipping and railroad magnate
- Cosimo de' Medici 1389 – 1464 banker, statesman, de facto ruler of Florence 11
- Count Basie 1904 – 1984 Pianist, bandleader
- Cyrus the Great 601 BCE – 531 BCE founder and king of the Achaemenid Persian Empire 9
- Dadabhai Naoroji 1825 – 1917 politician, economist, early nationalist
- Dag Hammarskjold 1905 – 1961 Secretary-General of the United Nations 3
- Daniel arap Moi 1924 – 2020 teacher, President of Kenya 1978-2002 34
- Daniel Branch 7
- Daniel Ellsberg 1931 – 2023 Military analyst, whistleblower 3
- Daniel Leigh economist 1
- Dante Alighieri 1265 – 1321 poet 1
- Darius I 551 BCE – 487 BCE King of the Achaemenid Persian Empire 3
- David Atlee Phillips 1922 – 1988 CIA officer
- David Ben-Gurion 1886 – 1973 Zionist leader, first prime minister of Israel 7
- David Graeber
- David Hume 1711 – 1776 philosopher
- David Koch 1940 – 2019 industrialist, political donor
- David Lloyd George 1863 – 1945 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 4
- David M. Anderson
- David McGowan
- David Miscavige 1960 – ? religious leader 2
- David Rene de Rothschild 1942 – ? banker
- David Rockefeller 1915 – 2017 banker, philanthropist 10
- David Romer 1958 – ? economist 1
- David Sacks 1972 – ? entrepreneur, investor 4
- David Solomon 1962 – ? banker, Goldman Sachs CEO
- Dedan Kimathi 1920 – 1957 Mau Mau field marshal, forest fighter 12
- Democritus 460 BCE – 370 BCE philosopher
- Deng Xiaoping 1904 – 1997 paramount leader of the People's Republic of China 8
- Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784 philosopher, writer
- Denis Sassou Nguesso 1943 – ? president of Congo-Brazzaville, army officer
- Dhirubhai Ambani 1932 – 2002 industrialist, founder of Reliance Industries 1
- Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Dietrich Eckart 1868 – 1923 Early Nazi ideologue and Hitler's mentor
- Dion Fortune 1890 – 1946 occultist, novelist, founder of the Society of the Inner Light 1
- Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907 chemist 1
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn 1949 – ? economist, politician, IMF managing director
- Donald Trump 1946 – ? 45th and 47th President of the United States 7
- Douglas Engelbart 1925 – 2013 engineer, inventor, computing visionary 2
- Douglas MacArthur 1880 – 1964 army general, administrator 2
- Dov Ber of Mezeritch ? – 1772 Hasidic leader, organizer of the movement
- Duke Ellington 1899 – 1974 Composer, bandleader
- Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852 Army commander, Prime Minister 4
- Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969 Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, thirty-fourth president of the United States 15
- E. B. Horne Colonial administrator 4
- E. Howard Hunt 1918 – 2007 CIA officer 1
- E.D. Morel 1873 – 1924 Journalist, activist, Member of Parliament 3
- Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849 writer, poet 1
- Eduardo Galeano 1940 – 2015 journalist, writer
- Eduardo Mondlane 1920 – 1969 Independence leader, academic, founder of FRELIMO 2
- Edward Bernays 1891 – 1995 public relations pioneer, propagandist 4
- Edward Colston 1636 – 1721 Merchant, slave trader, philanthropist 3
- Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794 historian
- Edward I of England 1239 – 1307 King of England (Edward I, Longshanks)
- Edward II of England 1284 – 1327 King of England (Edward II)
- Edward III of England 1312 – 1377 King of England (Edward III) 2
- Edward IV of England 1442 – 1483 King of England (Edward IV)
- Edward L. Bernays 1
- Edward S. Herman
- Edward Snowden 1983 – ? NSA contractor, whistleblower 9
- Edward Thorndike 1874 – 1949 psychologist, educational reformer
- Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553 King of England (Edward VI)
- Edward VII 1841 – 1910 King of the United Kingdom, Emperor of India 6
- Edward VIII 1894 – 1972 King of the United Kingdom (Edward VIII)
- Edwin Black 1
- Eleuthere Irenee du Pont 1771 – 1834 industrialist, founder of DuPont
- Eli Whitney 1765 – 1825 inventor, manufacturer 3
- Elias Ashmole 1617 – 1692 antiquary, alchemist, founding member of the Royal Society 3
- Elijah Masinde 1910 – 1987 Prophet, resistance figure 4
- Eliphas Levi 1810 – 1875 occultist, author, former deacon 3
- Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603 Queen of England and Ireland 12
- Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603 Queen of England (Elizabeth I)
- Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022 Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms 9
- Elizabeth Peabody 1804 – 1894 educator, reformer, publisher
- Elliott Abrams 1948 – ? Assistant Secretary of State
- Elon Musk 1971 – ? entrepreneur, Tesla and SpaceX CEO 14
- Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977 singer, actor 2
- Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772 scientist, theologian, Christian visionary
- Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 inventor 1
- Emile Moreau 1868 – 1950 Governor of the Banque de France (1926-1930) 2
- Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886 poet
- Emily Klancher Merchant
- Emma Willard 1787 – 1870 educator, reformer
- Emperor Meiji 1852 – 1912 Emperor of Japan (Meiji)
- Empress Dowager Cixi 1835 – 1908 Empress dowager and regent of the Qing dynasty 2
- Engelbert Dollfuss 1892 – 1934 Chancellor and Austrofascist dictator of Austria
- Enver Hoxha 1908 – 1985 Communist dictator of Albania
- Epictetus 50 – 135 philosopher 1
- Epicurus 341 BCE – 270 BCE philosopher
- Erasmus 1466 – 1536 humanist, scholar, teacher 2
- Eric Hobsbawm 1
- Erich Honecker 1912 – 1994 Leader of Communist East Germany
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner 1903 – 1946 Chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) 1
- Ernst Rohm 1887 – 1934 Chief of the SA (Sturmabteilung)
- Erwin Schrodinger 1887 – 1961 physicist
- Esther S. Brielle
- Euclid 325 BCE – 270 BCE mathematician 1
- Eugene Debs 1855 – 1926 labor leader, socialist, presidential candidate 1
- Eugene Meyer 1875 – 1959 financier, Federal Reserve chairman, first World Bank president, newspaper publisher 4
- Euripides 480 BCE – 406 BCE playwright
- Evelyn Baring 1
- Faisal of Saudi Arabia 1906 – 1975 king of Saudi Arabia 2
- Fanny Kaplan 1890 – 1918 Socialist Revolutionary who shot Lenin
- Fela Kuti 1938 – 1997 musician, bandleader, political activist 1
- Felix Dzerzhinsky 1877 – 1926 Founder of the Cheka secret police 2
- Felix Eboue 1884 – 1944 colonial administrator, Free French governor
- Felix Houphouet-Boigny 1905 – 1993 Independence leader, first President of Ivory Coast 4
- Felix Warburg 1871 – 1937 banker, philanthropist 1
- Felix Yusupov 1887 – 1967 Prince and aristocrat, chief killer of Rasputin
- Felix-Roland Moumie 1925 – 1960 Independence leader 1
- Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516 King of Aragon, co-sponsor of the Inquisition and 1492 expulsion
- Ferdinand Magellan 1480 – 1521 explorer, navigator 3
- Ferdinand Marcos 1917 – 1989 lawyer, president, dictator 5
- Ferenc Szalasi 1897 – 1946 Leader of the Arrow Cross Party; head of state of Hungary 1
- Fernando Henrique Cardoso 1931 – ? sociologist, president 1
- Fibonacci 1170 – 1250 mathematician 2
- Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016 Leader of Cuba 10
- Florence Farr 1860 – 1917 actress, writer, occultist
- Forrest Mars Sr. 1904 – 1999 businessman
- Frances Haugen 1983 – ? Data scientist, whistleblower 1
- Frances Yates
- Francis (pope) 1936 – 2025 Pope (2013-2025)
- Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626 philosopher, statesman 2
- Francis Baring 1740 – 1810 banker, merchant, politician 1
- Francis Crick 1916 – 2004 biologist 1
- Francis Drake 1540 – 1596 sea captain, privateer, admiral 2
- Francis Fukuyama 3
- Francis Wayland Parker 1837 – 1902 educator, reformer
- Francisco Franco 1892 – 1975 Caudillo and dictator of Spain 3
- Francisco Pizarro 1478 – 1541 conquistador, governor 8
- Francois Duvalier 1907 – 1971 physician, president, dictator
- Francois Pinault 1936 – ? businessman, art collector
- Francois-Xavier Verschave 1945 – 2005 economist, writer, activist 3
- Frank C. Mars 1883 – 1934 candy manufacturer, founder of Mars, Incorporated
- Frank Church 1924 – 1984 United States Senator 10
- Frank Wisner 1909 – 1965 CIA covert operations chief 4
- Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945 thirty-second president of the United States 16
- Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869 14th President of the United States
- Franklin Roosevelt 1
- Frantz Fanon 1925 – 1961 psychiatrist, revolutionary theorist, writer 5
- Franz Anton Mesmer 1734 – 1815 physician, theorist of animal magnetism
- Franz Joseph I of Austria 1830 – 1916 Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary
- Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924 writer
- Fred C. Koch 1900 – 1967 chemical engineer, industrialist, founder of Koch Industries
- Fred Kubai 1915 – 1996 trade unionist, nationalist politician 10
- Frederick Barbarossa 1122 – 1190 king, emperor 2
- Frederick Cooper 1
- Frederick II 1194 – 1250 king, emperor 5
- Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786 King of Prussia (Frederick II) 6
- Frederick Winslow Taylor 1856 – 1915 engineer, management theorist 3
- Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895 philosopher, industrialist, revolutionary 4
- Friedrich Froebel 1782 – 1852 educator, reformer 1
- Friedrich Hayek 1899 – 1992 Economist, political philosopher, LSE professor 11
- Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900 philosopher 1
- Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805 poet, playwright
- Fulgencio Batista 1901 – 1973 army sergeant, president, dictator 1
- Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881 novelist
- G. Edward Griffin
- G. John Ikenberry
- Galeazzo Ciano 1903 – 1944 Fascist Foreign Minister of Italy
- Galen 129 – 216 physician, philosopher
- Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642 astronomer, physicist 2
- Gamal Abdel Nasser 1918 – 1970 army officer, president, pan-Arab leader 2
- Gary Webb 1955 – 2004 Investigative journalist 4
- Gates McGarrah 1863 – 1940 First president of the BIS
- Gautam Adani 1962 – ? business magnate, Adani Group chairman
- Gautama Buddha 563 BCE – 483 BCE philosopher, spiritual teacher
- Gelasius I (pope) ? – 496 Pope (492-496) 1
- Genghis Khan 1162 – 1227 founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire 6
- Genrikh Yagoda 1891 – 1938 Head of the NKVD secret police
- Geoffrey Chaucer 1343 – 1400 poet
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831 philosopher
- George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950 Playwright, critic, Fabian socialist, co-founder of the LSE 3
- George Creel 1876 – 1953 journalist, government propaganda chief 4
- George Dyson
- George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759 composer 1
- George Gurdjieff 1866 – 1949 mystic, teacher, writer, composer
- George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018 politician, 41st President of the United States 11
- George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727 King of Great Britain and Ireland (George I)
- George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760 King of Great Britain and Ireland (George II)
- George III 1738 – 1820 King of Great Britain and Ireland 5
- George III of the United Kingdom 1738 – 1820 King of Great Britain and Ireland, later of the United Kingdom (George III)
- George IV of the United Kingdom 1762 – 1830 Prince Regent; King of the United Kingdom (George IV)
- George Orwell 1903 – 1950 writer 1
- George Padmore 1903 – 1959 Pan-Africanist, journalist, political organiser 14
- George Soros 1930 – ? investor, philanthropist 1
- George Stephenson 1781 – 1848 engineer, inventor 4
- George V 1865 – 1936 King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, Emperor of India 3
- George VI 1895 – 1952 King of the United Kingdom; last Emperor of India (George VI) 3
- George W. Bush 1946 – ? politician, 43rd President of the United States 12
- George Washington 1732 – 1799 commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, first president of the United States 30
- George Washington Williams 1849 – 1891 Historian, journalist, minister, soldier, legislator 1
- Georges Méliès 1861 – 1938 filmmaker, magician 1
- Georgi Plekhanov 1856 – 1918 The father of Russian Marxism
- Georgy Chicherin 1872 – 1936 Soviet People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs
- Georgy Lvov 1861 – 1925 First Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government
- Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006 38th President of the United States 5
- Gerald Gardner 1884 – 1964 civil servant, folklorist, founder of modern Wicca 3
- Gerard Ryle 1965 – ? Investigative journalist, ICIJ director
- Gerard Soete Police commissioner 2
- Gershom Scholem 1897 – 1982 Historian, founder of the academic study of Kabbalah 2
- Getulio Vargas 1882 – 1954 president, dictator
- Gianni Agnelli 1921 – 2003 industrialist
- Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600 philosopher, cosmologist, Dominican friar 3
- Giovanni Agnelli 1866 – 1945 industrialist, founder of Fiat
- Giovanni Boccaccio 1313 – 1375 writer, poet
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494 philosopher, humanist 1
- Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882 General, unifier of Italy 1
- Gnassingbe Eyadema 1935 – 2005 president of Togo, army officer 3
- Godfrey Muriuki
- Golda Meir 1898 – 1978 labor leader, foreign minister, prime minister of Israel 3
- Gordon Moore 1929 – 2023 chemist, semiconductor executive, Intel co-founder 8
- Gottfried Leibniz 1646 – 1716 philosopher, mathematician 1
- Grace Kelly 1929 – 1982 actress, Princess of Monaco
- Graham Wallas 1858 – 1932 Social psychologist, political scientist, Fabian, co-founder of the LSE 1
- Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia 1901 – 1918 Grand Duchess of Russia
- Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia 1878 – 1918 Grand Duke and briefly the intended heir to the throne
- Granville Sharp 1735 – 1813 Abolitionist, legal campaigner 3
- Gray Barker
- Gregoire Kayibanda 1924 – 1976 Independence leader, first President of Rwanda
- Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884 friar, botanist, geneticist 2
- Gregory I (pope) 540 – 604 Pope (590-604) 2
- Gregory II (pope) 669 – 731 Pope (715-731)
- Gregory IX (pope) 1170 – 1241 Pope (1227-1241) 2
- Gregory the Illuminator 257 – 331 bishop, missionary 1
- Gregory VII (pope) 1015 – 1085 Pope (1073-1085) 6
- Gregory XI (pope) 1329 – 1378 Pope (1370-1378)
- Gregory XIII (pope) 1502 – 1585 Pope (1572-1585) 2
- Gregory XVI (pope) 1765 – 1846 Pope (1831-1846)
- Grigori Rasputin 1869 – 1916 Peasant mystic and faith healer at the imperial court
- Grigori Sokolnikov 1888 – 1939 Soviet finance commissar
- Grigory Zinoviev 1883 – 1936 Bolshevik leader and head of the Communist International 1
- Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908 22nd and 24th President of the United States
- Guglielmo Marconi 1874 – 1937 inventor, entrepreneur 3
- Guido d'Arezzo 991 – 1033 music theorist, Benedictine monk 1
- Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach 1870 – 1950 industrialist, arms manufacturer
- H. E. Lambert 1
- H. Spencer Lewis 1883 – 1939 occultist, founder of AMORC 1
- Hafez al-Assad 1930 – 2000 military officer, President of Syria
- Haile Selassie 1892 – 1975 Emperor of Ethiopia 8
- Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani 1952 – ? Emir of Qatar 2
- Hamani Diori 1916 – 1989 first president of Niger 3
- Hammurabi King of Babylon 2
- Han Wudi 157 BCE – 88 BCE Emperor Wu of Han 1
- Hannah Arendt 1906 – 1975 philosopher, political theorist 3
- Hans Frank 1900 – 1946 Governor-General of occupied Poland
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- Harry Dexter White 1892 – 1948 Economist, US Treasury official, architect of Bretton Woods 10
- Harry Houdini 1874 – 1926 Magician, escape artist
- Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972 33rd President of the United States 1
- Harry Thuku 1895 – 1970 early nationalist, farmer 7
- Harry Truman 1884 – 1972 thirty-third president of the United States 15
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- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535 occult philosopher, physician, soldier 2
- Heinrich Himmler 1900 – 1945 Reichsfuhrer-SS and chief architect of the Holocaust 4
- Helena Blavatsky 1831 – 1891 occultist, co-founder of the Theosophical Society 5
- Hendrik Witbooi ? – 1905 Nama captain, resistance leader 3
- Henry Barnard 1811 – 1900 educator, reformer, administrator
- Henry Ford 1863 – 1947 industrialist, founder of the Ford Motor Company 10
- Henry I of England 1068 – 1135 King of England (Henry I)
- Henry II of England 1133 – 1189 King of England (Henry II) 1
- Henry III of England 1207 – 1272 King of England (Henry III)
- Henry IV 1050 – 1106 king, emperor 6
- Henry IV of England 1367 – 1413 King of England (Henry IV)
- Henry Kissinger 1923 – 2023 National Security Advisor and Secretary of State 8
- Henry Morton Stanley 1841 – 1904 Explorer, journalist, colonial agent 2
- Henry Steel Olcott 1832 – 1907 lawyer, journalist, co-founder and first president of the Theosophical Society 2
- Henry the Navigator 1394 – 1460 prince, patron of exploration 2
- Henry V of England 1386 – 1422 King of England (Henry V) 1
- Henry VI of England 1421 – 1471 King of England (Henry VI)
- Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509 King of England (Henry VII)
- Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547 King of England (Henry VIII)
- Heraclitus 535 BCE – 475 BCE philosopher 1
- Heraclius 575 – 641 emperor, general 1
- Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964 31st President of the United States 5
- Herbert Marcuse 1898 – 1979 philosopher, political theorist 2
- Hermann Goring 1893 – 1946 Reichsmarschall and head of the Luftwaffe
- Hermes Trismegistus legendary sage, reputed author of the Hermetic texts 4
- Herod the Great 74 BCE – 5 BCE Roman client king of Judea, builder 4
- Herodotus 484 BCE – 425 BCE historian 1
- Hippocrates 460 BCE – 370 BCE physician
- Hirohito 1901 – 1989 Emperor of Japan (Showa)
- Hjalmar Schacht 1877 – 1970 President of the Reichsbank (1923-1930, 1933-1939) and Minister of Economics (1934-1937) 18
- Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969 Founder and President of North Vietnam 9
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- Homer 801 BCE – 702 BCE poet
- Horace Mann 1796 – 1859 educator, reformer, politician 8
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- Hosni Mubarak 1928 – 2020 air force officer, president 2
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- Huw Bennett
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- Iamblichus 245 – 325 Neoplatonist philosopher, theurgist
- Ian Fleming 1908 – 1964 author, naval intelligence officer
- Ibn al-Haytham 965 – 1040 scientist, mathematician 1
- Ibn Khaldun 1332 – 1406 historian, sociologist
- Ibn Saud 1875 – 1953 founder and first King of Saudi Arabia 13
- Igor Sechin 1960 – ? state official, oil executive 3
- Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804 philosopher
- Immanuel Wallerstein 1930 – 2019 sociologist, historian 2
- Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984 stateswoman, Prime Minister of India 1
- Inessa Armand 1874 – 1920 Bolshevik revolutionary and women's organizer
- Innocent III (pope) 1161 – 1216 Pope (1198-1216) 7
- Innocent IV (pope) 1195 – 1254 Pope (1243-1254) 1
- Innocent XI (pope) 1611 – 1689 Pope (1676-1689)
- Ion Antonescu 1882 – 1946 Conducator and military dictator of Romania 1
- Isaac Abarbanel (Abravanel) 1437 – 1508 Statesman, financier, Bible commentator, philosopher
- Isaac Luria (the Ari) 1534 – 1572 Kabbalist, founder of Lurianic Kabbalah 4
- Isaac Newton 1643 – 1727 physicist, mathematician 4
- Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504 Queen of Castile, co-sponsor of the Inquisition and 1492 expulsion
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel 1806 – 1859 civil and mechanical engineer 2
- Isocrates 436 BCE – 338 BCE rhetorician, teacher
- Israel Regardie 1907 – 1985 occultist, writer, chiropractor
- Italo Balbo 1896 – 1940 Fascist quadrumvir; Marshal of the Air Force; Governor of Libya
- Ivan Illich 1926 – 2002 philosopher, social critic, priest
- Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584 Grand Prince of Moscow, first Tsar of All Rus 3
- Ivar Kreuger 1880 – 1932 financier, industrialist 2
- Ivy Lee 1877 – 1934 publicist, public relations pioneer
- J. Edgar Hoover 1895 – 1972 first director of the FBI 10
- J. P. Morgan 1837 – 1913 banker, financier, industrialist 19
- J. R. D. Tata 1904 – 1993 industrialist, aviator
- J. Robert Oppenheimer 1904 – 1967 physicist, director of the Los Alamos laboratory 3
- J.M. Kariuki 1929 – 1975 politician, Mau Mau detainee, populist critic 5
- Jack Dorsey 1976 – ? entrepreneur, Twitter co-founder
- Jack Ma 1964 – ? entrepreneur, Alibaba co-founder 1
- Jack Parsons 1914 – 1952 rocket engineer, chemist, occultist 6
- Jack Ruby 1911 – 1967 nightclub owner 2
- Jack Welch 1935 – 2020 business executive, chairman and CEO of General Electric
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- Jacob Fugger 1459 – 1525 banker, merchant, mining magnate
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- Jacob Schiff 1847 – 1920 banker, financier, philanthropist 1
- Jacob Wallenberg 1956 – ? banker, industrialist
- Jacobo Arbenz 1913 – 1971 president of Guatemala 12
- Jacques Foccart 1913 – 1997 presidential adviser on African affairs, intelligence organizer 2
- Jaime Caruana 1952 – ? General Manager of the BIS
- Jakob Böhme 1575 – 1624 shoemaker, Christian mystic, theosophist
- James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881 20th President of the United States
- James Anderson 1679 – 1739 Presbyterian minister, Masonic author 4
- James Buchanan 1791 – 1868 15th President of the United States
- James C. Scott
- James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879 physicist, mathematician 1
- James Gleick
- James Hargreaves 1720 – 1778 weaver, carpenter, inventor 2
- James I of England 1566 – 1625 King of Scotland (James VI); King of England (James I) 1
- James II of England 1633 – 1701 King of England, Scotland and Ireland (James II) 1
- James K. Polk 1795 – 1849 11th President of the United States 2
- James Madison 1751 – 1836 4th President of the United States 1
- James Mayer de Rothschild 1792 – 1868 banker, founder of de Rothschild Freres
- James Monroe 1758 – 1831 5th President of the United States 1
- James Watson 1928 – 2025 biologist 1
- James Watt 1736 – 1819 engineer, instrument maker, inventor 6
- Jamie Dimon 1956 – ? banker, JPMorgan Chase CEO
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- Jan Pieterszoon Coen 1587 – 1629 colonial administrator, governor-general 2
- Jan van Riebeeck 1619 – 1677 colonial administrator 5
- Jan Vansina 1
- Jane Austen 1775 – 1817 novelist
- Jane Burbank
- Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964 independence leader, prime minister 5
- Jay Dyer
- Jean Piaget 1896 – 1980 psychologist, epistemologist
- Jean Sibelius 1865 – 1957 Composer
- Jean Theophile Desaguliers 1683 – 1744 natural philosopher, clergyman, Freemason
- Jean-Baptiste Say 1767 – 1832 economist, political economist 1
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- Jean-Claude Duvalier 1951 – 2014 president, dictator
- Jean-François Bayart 1950 – ? political scientist, Africanist scholar
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778 philosopher, writer
- Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980 philosopher, writer
- Jeb Bush 1953 – ? politician, businessman 1
- Jeff Bezos 1964 – ? entrepreneur, Amazon founder 3
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- Jim Walton 1948 – ? businessman, Walmart heir
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- Joe Biden 1942 – ? 46th President of the United States 2
- Joel Bakan
- Johan van Oldenbarnevelt 1547 – 1619 statesman, Land's Advocate of Holland 3
- Johann Friedrich Herbart 1776 – 1841 philosopher, educator, psychologist
- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827 educator, reformer
- Johann Reuchlin 1455 – 1522 humanist, Hebraist, jurist 1
- Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750 composer, organist 1
- Johann Valentin Andreae 1586 – 1654 Lutheran theologian, writer 2
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832 writer, scientist
- Johannes Gutenberg 1400 – 1468 goldsmith, printer, inventor 2
- Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630 astronomer, mathematician 2
- Johannes Trithemius 1462 – 1516 abbot, cryptographer, occult writer
- John Adams 1735 – 1826 2nd President of the United States 3
- John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670 philosopher, teacher, bishop
- John arap Chemallan Broadcaster 1
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- John D. Rockefeller 1839 – 1937 oil magnate, philanthropist, founder of Standard Oil 22
- John D. Rockefeller Jr. 1874 – 1960 philanthropist, businessman 22
- John Dee 1527 – 1609 mathematician, astrologer, occultist, royal adviser 6
- John Dewey 1859 – 1952 philosopher, educator, psychologist 6
- John Elkann 1976 – ? businessman
- John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963 politician, 35th President of the United States 7
- John Foster Dulles 1888 – 1959 lawyer, Secretary of State 7
- John Githongo anti-corruption official, whistleblower 2
- John Glenn 1921 – 2016 astronaut, Marine aviator, US senator 2
- John Hawkins 1532 – 1595 Naval commander, slave trader 3
- John Hicks 1904 – 1989 economist 1
- John Jacob Astor 1763 – 1848 fur trader, merchant, real estate magnate
- John Locke 1632 – 1704 philosopher, physician
- John Lonsdale 7
- John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946 Economist and Treasury adviser 15
- John Milton 1608 – 1674 poet 1
- John Paul I (pope) 1912 – 1978 Pope (1978)
- John Paul II (pope) 1920 – 2005 Pope (1978-2005) 7
- John Perkins 2
- John Peter Zenger 1697 – 1746 printer, journalist 1
- John Poindexter 1936 – ? National Security Advisor 5
- John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848 6th President of the United States
- John S. Mbiti
- John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873 philosopher, economist 2
- John Taylor Gatto 1935 – 2018 schoolteacher, author, critic of compulsory schooling 3
- John Tyler 1790 – 1862 10th President of the United States
- John von Neumann 1903 – 1957 mathematician, computer pioneer, physicist 7
- John Wayne 1907 – 1979 Film actor
- John XXII (pope) 1244 – 1334 Pope (1316-1334) 1
- John XXIII (pope) 1881 – 1963 Pope (1958-1963) 1
- John, King of England 1166 – 1216 King of England (John)
- Jomo Kenyatta ? – 1978 Independence leader, first President of Kenya 63
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- Jonathan Kozol 1936 – ? educator, writer, activist
- Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera 1903 – 1936 Founder of the Falange
- Jose de San Martin 1778 – 1850 general, revolutionary 7
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- Jose Rizal 1861 – 1896 Writer, national hero 1
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- Joseph Chamberlain 1836 – 1914 Colonial Secretary, statesman 5
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- Joseph Mobutu 1930 – 1997 Army chief, President of Zaire, dictator 7
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- Joseph Plummer
- Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953 Dictator of the Soviet Union 2
- Joseph Suss Oppenheimer 1698 – 1738 Court Jew, financial administrator 1
- Josephus 37 – 100 military commander, historian 3
- Josiah Child 1630 – 1699 merchant, governor of the East India Company, economic writer 2
- Josiah Wedgwood 1730 – 1795 potter, manufacturer, industrialist 2
- Josip Broz Tito 1892 – 1980 partisan leader, president
- Juan Peron 1895 – 1974 army officer, president
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- Judah Loew ben Bezalel (Maharal of Prague) ? – 1609 Rabbi, talmudist, philosopher, mystic
- Judas Maccabeus ? – 161 BCE rebel commander, Hasmonean leader 4
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- Julie MacArthur
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- Julius II (pope) 1443 – 1513 Pope (1503-1513) 4
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- Julius Nyerere 1922 – 1999 independence leader, president 8
- Julius Streicher 1885 – 1946 Publisher of Der Sturmer and Gauleiter of Franconia
- Junius Spencer Morgan 1813 – 1890 banker, merchant
- Justin Trudeau 1971 – ? politician, Prime Minister of Canada
- Justinian I 482 – 565 emperor, lawgiver 1
- Juvenal Habyarimana 1937 – 1994 Army officer, President of Rwanda
- Kangxi Emperor 1654 – 1722 Emperor of the Qing dynasty 4
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- Karl Popper 1902 – 1994 Philosopher of science, LSE professor 2
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- Ken Howery 1975 – ? venture capitalist, diplomat 1
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- Kim Jong-un 1984 – ? Supreme Leader of North Korea
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- Klaus Schwab 7
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- Laozi 604 BCE – 531 BCE philosopher
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- Larry Page 1973 – ? computer scientist, Google co-founder 3
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- Leni Riefenstahl 1902 – 2003 filmmaker, actress 3
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- Leo I (pope) 400 – 461 Pope (440-461) 1
- Leo III (pope) 750 – 816 Pope (795-816) 5
- Leo IX (pope) 1002 – 1054 Pope (1049-1054)
- Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910 novelist
- Leo X (pope) 1475 – 1521 Pope (1513-1521) 2
- Leo XIII (pope) 1810 – 1903 Pope (1878-1903) 2
- Leo XIV (pope) 1955 – ? Pope (2025-present)
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- Leon Mba 1902 – 1967 first president of Gabon 1
- Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940 revolutionary, founder of the Red Army 9
- Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783 mathematician 1
- Leonid Brezhnev 1906 – 1982 General Secretary of the Communist Party, Soviet leader 2
- Leonid Krasin 1870 – 1926 Bolshevik engineer and Soviet trade commissar
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- Lev Vygotsky 1896 – 1934 psychologist, educational theorist
- Li Ka-shing 1928 – ? business magnate, investor
- Liaquat Ahamed 1
- Lionel de Rothschild 1808 – 1879 banker, politician 3
- Lionel Robbins 1898 – 1984 Economist, LSE professor 5
- Lisa Su 1969 – ? engineer, AMD CEO
- Lobengula 1845 – 1894 king 1
- Lord Byron 1788 – 1824 poet
- Lord Cromer 1841 – 1917 Consul-General of Egypt 2
- Lord Curzon 1859 – 1925 Viceroy of India, Foreign Secretary 2
- Lord Kitchener 1850 – 1916 Army commander, war administrator 6
- Lord Palmerston 1784 – 1865 Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary 5
- Lord Salisbury 1830 – 1903 Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary 7
- Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492 statesman, banker, patron of the arts 3
- Lornah Kiplagat 1974 – ? Distance runner 1
- Lothar von Trotha 1848 – 1920 General, colonial military commander 6
- Lotte Hughes 1
- Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971 trumpeter, singer, bandleader 2
- Louis Brandeis 1856 – 1941 lawyer, US Supreme Court justice 4
- Louis Claude de Saint-Martin 1743 – 1803 philosopher, mystic, writer
- Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895 chemist, microbiologist 3
- Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715 King of France (Louis XIV, the Sun King) 1
- Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793 King of France (Louis XVI)
- Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824 King of France 4
- Lucy Kibaki 1936 – 2016 teacher, First Lady of Kenya 2002-2013 1
- Ludo De Witte
- Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 – 1827 composer, pianist 1
- Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951 philosopher 1
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- Luis de Santangel ? – 1498 Royal financier, escribano de racion 1
- Lukas Pkech ? – 1950 Dini ya Msambwa preacher 1
- Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973 36th President of the United States 1
- Lyndon Johnson 1
- MacKenzie Scott 1970 – ? novelist, philanthropist
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- Maimonides 1138 – 1204 philosopher, physician 4
- Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon, Rambam) 1138 – 1204 Rabbi, philosopher, physician, codifier of Jewish law 4
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- Manuel Noriega 1934 – 2017 Military ruler of Panama 5
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- Marc Benioff 1964 – ? entrepreneur, Salesforce co-founder
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- Marcus Garvey 1887 – 1940 Pan-Africanist, publisher, movement founder 4
- Marcus Goldman 1821 – 1904 banker, founder of Goldman Sachs 1
- Marcus Wallenberg 1899 – 1982 banker, industrialist
- Margaret Kenyatta 1964 – ? trained teacher, First Lady of Kenya 2013-2022, Beyond Zero patron 3
- Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) 1847 – 1928 Empress consort of Russia
- Maria Montessori 1870 – 1952 physician, educator
- Maria Spiridonova 1884 – 1941 Leader of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries
- Marie Curie 1867 – 1934 physicist, chemist
- Marjorie Cameron 1922 – 1995 artist, actress, occultist 1
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- Mark Twain 1835 – 1910 Writer, humorist 2
- Mark Zuckerberg 1984 – ? entrepreneur, Meta founder 2
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- Marshall McLuhan 1
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- Martin Bormann 1900 – 1945 Head of the Party Chancellery and Hitler's private secretary
- Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976 philosopher
- Martin Luther 1483 – 1546 theologian, reformer 10
- Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968 minister, civil rights leader 15
- Martin Pickford Palaeontologist 1
- Martin V (pope) 1369 – 1431 Pope (1417-1431) 1
- Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862 8th President of the United States
- Martinez de Pasqually 1727 – 1774 theurgist, esoteric teacher
- Mary E. Prendergast 2
- Mary I of England 1516 – 1558 Queen of England (Mary I)
- Mary II of England 1662 – 1694 Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland (Mary II)
- Mary McLeod Bethune 1875 – 1955 educator, civil rights leader
- Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797 philosopher, writer 2
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- Matthew Connelly
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- Max Heindel 1865 – 1919 occultist, founder of the Rosicrucian Fellowship 1
- Max Horkheimer 1895 – 1973 philosopher, sociologist 1
- Max Levchin 1975 – ? engineer, PayPal co-founder 3
- Max Planck 1858 – 1947 physicist
- Max Warburg 1867 – 1946 Banker, government financial adviser 4
- Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936 Writer and founder of Socialist Realism
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- Mayer Amschel Rothschild 1744 – 1812 Banker, founder of the Rothschild banking house 4
- Mehmed II 1432 – 1481 sultan, conqueror 3
- Mehmed the Conqueror 1432 – 1481 Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (Mehmed II)
- Melinda French Gates 1964 – ? philanthropist, businesswoman
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- Menasseh ben Israel 1604 – 1657 Rabbi, printer, diplomat, writer 1
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- Menelik II 1844 – 1913 Emperor of Ethiopia 9
- Mengistu Haile Mariam 1937 – ? military ruler, head of the Derg 4
- Mervyn Beech Colonial officer and ethnographer 2
- Mesrop Mashtots 362 – 440 monk, scholar, linguist 1
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- Michael Dell 1965 – ? entrepreneur, Dell founder
- Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867 physicist, chemist, experimenter 2
- Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009 singer, songwriter, dancer 2
- Michael Maier 1568 – 1622 physician, alchemist, writer 1
- Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645 First Tsar of the Romanov dynasty
- Michal Kalecki 1899 – 1970 economist 1
- Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592 essayist, philosopher
- Michiel de Ruyter 1607 – 1676 admiral
- Miguel de Cervantes 1547 – 1616 writer
- Mikhail Frunze 1885 – 1925 Red Army commander and military reformer
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- Mikhail Kalinin 1875 – 1946 Ceremonial head of the Soviet state
- Mikhail Khodorkovsky 1963 – ? oligarch, opposition figure 9
- Mikhail Tomsky 1880 – 1936 Soviet trade union leader
- Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874 13th President of the United States
- Milton Friedman 1912 – 2006 economist, adviser 10
- Milton William Cooper 1
- Mitch Horowitz 1
- Mobutu Sese Seko 1930 – 1997 military ruler, president of Zaire 12
- Modibo Keita 1915 – 1977 first president of Mali, pan-Africanist 1
- Mohamed Siad Barre 1919 – 1995 army general, president, dictator 1
- Mohammad Mossadegh 1882 – 1967 prime minister of Iran 12
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi 1919 – 1980 Shah of Iran, monarch 6
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- Mohammed bin Salman 1985 – ? crown prince and prime minister of Saudi Arabia 5
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- Mordechai Vanunu 1954 – ? Nuclear technician, whistleblower 2
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- Moses de Leon 1240 – 1305 Kabbalist, writer 4
- Moses Isserles (Rema) 1530 – 1572 Rabbi, legal authority 1
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- Muhammad Ahmad 1844 – 1885 religious leader, revolutionary 2
- Mukesh Ambani 1957 – ? business magnate, Reliance chairman
- Musa Mwariama Mau Mau field marshal 1
- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk 1881 – 1938 general, revolutionary, president 1
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- N. Gregory Mankiw 1958 – ? economist, textbook author 1
- Nachmanides (Moses ben Nahman, Ramban) 1194 – 1270 Rabbi, Bible commentator, kabbalist, physician 1
- Nadezhda Krupskaya 1869 – 1939 Revolutionary and Lenin's wife
- Naomi Klein 2
- Napoleon Bonaparte 1769 – 1821 Emperor of the French, general 14
- Napoleon III 1808 – 1873 President of France; Emperor of the French (Napoleon III) 11
- Nat King Cole 1919 – 1965 Singer, pianist
- Nathan Mayer Rothschild 1777 – 1836 Banker, financier of the British government 4
- Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild 1840 – 1915 banker, peer
- Nathan of Gaza 1643 – 1680 Kabbalist, prophet and theologian of the Sabbatean movement 2
- Ndongo Samba Sylla development economist, writer 1
- Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012 astronaut, test pilot, aeronautical engineer 2
- Neil Postman 2
- Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013 Anti-apartheid leader, prisoner, first democratically elected President of South Africa 23
- Nelson Rockefeller 1908 – 1979 politician, businessman 5
- Ngo Dinh Diem 1901 – 1963 president of South Vietnam 5
- Ngugi wa Thiong'o 1938 – 2025 novelist, playwright, essayist, professor 4
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
- Niall Ferguson
- Niccolo Machiavelli 1469 – 1527 political philosopher, writer 1
- Niccolò Machiavelli 1
- Nicholas Biwott 1940 – 2017 businessman, cabinet minister 2
- Nicholas I (pope) 800 – 867 Pope (858-867) 1
- Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855 Emperor of Russia
- Nicholas II 1868 – 1918 last Emperor of Russia 6
- Nicholas II of Russia 1868 – 1918 Emperor of Russia (Nicholas II)
- Nicholas V (pope) 1397 – 1455 Pope (1447-1455) 2
- Nicolae Ceausescu 1918 – 1989 Communist dictator of Romania 1
- Nicolas Flamel 1330 – 1418 scribe, manuscript seller, reputed alchemist
- Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543 astronomer, mathematician, canon 3
- Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962 physicist 3
- Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971 First Secretary of the Communist Party, Soviet leader 8
- Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943 electrical engineer, inventor 1
- Nikolai Bukharin 1888 – 1938 Bolshevik theorist and editor of Pravda
- Nikolai Yezhov 1895 – 1940 Head of the NKVD during the Great Purge
- Nnamdi Azikiwe 1904 – 1996 Independence leader, first President of Nigeria 1
- Noah Webster 1758 – 1843 lexicographer, textbook author, teacher
- Noam Chomsky 1928 – ? linguist, philosopher 1
- Nomi Prins
- Odilo Globocnik 1904 – 1945 SS and Police Leader in Lublin; head of Operation Reinhard
- Oginga Odinga 1911 – 1994 first vice-president of Kenya, opposition leader 15
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- Owen D. Young 1874 – 1962 Businessman and chairman of the 1929 reparations committee 2
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- Paschal II (pope) 1050 – 1118 Pope (1099-1118)
- Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow 1865 – 1925 Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church
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- Patrick M. Wood
- Paul Allen 1953 – 2018 software pioneer, investor 4
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- Paul III (pope) 1468 – 1549 Pope (1534-1549) 4
- Paul IV (pope) 1476 – 1559 Pope (1555-1559) 2
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- Paul Kennedy
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- Peter (pope) ? – 64 Apostle; first Pope (traditional, to c.64)
- Peter Abelard 1079 – 1142 philosopher, theologian
- Peter Levenda
- Peter the Great 1672 – 1725 Tsar and first Emperor of Russia 7
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- Pius IX (pope) 1792 – 1878 Pope (1846-1878) 1
- Pius V (pope) 1504 – 1572 Pope (1566-1572) 3
- Pius VI (pope) 1717 – 1799 Pope (1775-1799) 1
- Pius VII (pope) 1742 – 1823 Pope (1800-1823) 4
- Pius X (pope) 1835 – 1914 Pope (1903-1914)
- Pius XI (pope) 1857 – 1939 Pope (1922-1939) 2
- Pius XII (pope) 1876 – 1958 Pope (1939-1958) 2
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- Plotinus 204 – 270 philosopher, founder of Neoplatonism
- Pol Pot 1925 – 1998 Leader of the Khmer Rouge; Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea 2
- Pontus Skoglund 2
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- Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484 Pope, authorized the Spanish Inquisition 2
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- Qianlong Emperor 1711 – 1799 Emperor of the Qing dynasty 3
- Qin Shi Huang 260 BCE – 211 BCE King of Qin, first emperor of a unified China 6
- Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901 Queen of the United Kingdom, Empress of India 10
- Quintilian 35 – 100 rhetorician, teacher
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- Richard A. Werner
- Richard Arkwright 1732 – 1792 inventor, industrialist 3
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- Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988 physicist
- Richard Helms 1913 – 2002 Director of Central Intelligence 4
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- Richard III of England 1452 – 1485 King of England (Richard III)
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- Richard Rhodes
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- Robert McNamara 1916 – 2009 US Secretary of Defense, World Bank president 4
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- Ron Chernow
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- Sargon of Akkad founder of the Akkadian Empire 2
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- Stephen Kinzer
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- Steve Coll
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- Terence O. Ranger
- The Beatles rock band 3
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- Tim Weiner
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- Walter Isaacson
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