Read here about the famous personalities of the world, famous people from different

departments, great personalities of India, legendary rulers and emperors, celebrities, inventors,
leaders, scientists and much more!

Abraham Lincoln
Alan Turing
Albert Einstein
Alexander Graham Bell
Amartya Sen
Andrew Carnegie
Auguste Renoir
Auguste Rodin
Aurangzeb
Ayn Rand

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Bill Gates
Brian Jacques
Bruce Lee
Bhagat Singh
Banjo Paterson - Australian bush poet, author of Waltzing Matilda
Barack Obama - 44th President of the USA
Beethoven - Brilliant pianist and classical composer
Benjamin Harrison - 23rd President of the USA
Bill Clinton - 42nd President of the USA
Bonnie Prince Charlie - pretender to the British throne
Bram Stoker - Irish writer best known for Dracula
Bruce Ismay - Chairman of the White Star Line, owners of the Titanic

Cadel Evans
Chanakya
Christopher Columbus
Claude Monet
Che Guevara
Chopin
Chuck Jones
Cicero
Coco Chanel
C V Raman
Calvin Coolidge - 30th President of the USA
 Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall - wife of Prince Charles
Carl Lewis - American athlete and 10-times Olympic medal winner
Catherine, Duchess of Cambride - wife of Prince William
Catherine of Aragon - Spanish first wife of King Henry VIII, divorced
Catherine Howard - Fifth wife of King Henry VIII, beheaded
Catherine Parr - Sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII, she survived him!
Cathy Freeman - Australian athlete and Olympic gold medal winner
Charles I - Stuart King of England from 1625 to 1649. Lost his head!
Charles II - Stuart King of England from 1660 to 1685
Prince Charles, Prince of Wales - heir to the British throne
Charles Dickens - Prolific and beloved British author
Charlotte Bront - 19th Century novelist, author of Jane Eyre
Chester Arthur - 21st President of the USA
Chris Hoy - Most successful Olympic cyclist of all time
Cristiano Ronaldo - Captain of Portugal football team, forward at Real Madrid
Christopher Columbus - Famous 15th Century explorer

David Ho
David Copperfield
Dayanand Saraswati
Diana, Princess of Wales
Dmitri Shostakovich
Douglas Adams
Daley Thompson - British decathlete and winner of Olympic medals
David Beckham - English footballing hero
David Livingstone - explore of Africa, hero of the Victorian age
Diana, Princess of Wales - Mother of Prince William and Prince Harry
Donald Trump - 45th President of the United States
Dhyan Chand - Indian field hockey player and Olympic team captain
Duke of Wellington - one of the leading military and political figures of the 19th Century.
Dwight D Eisenhower - 34th President of the USA

Edmund Hillary
Elvis Presley
Enrico Fermi
Edmund Barton - Prime Minister of Australia (1901-1903)
Edward I - King of England (1272-1307)
Edward II - King of England (1307-1327) Not a good king!
Edward III - King of England (1327-1377) during the Black Death
Edward IV - King of England (1461-1470 and 1471-1483)
 Edward V - King of England (1483), one of the Princes in the Tower
Edward VI - King of England (1547-1553), son of Henry VIII
Edward VII - King of England (1901-1910)
Edward VIII - King of England (1936), abdicated
Edward Smith - Captain of the Titanic
Elizabeth I - Great Tudor Queen of England, from 1558 to 1603
Elizabeth II - Queen of Great Britain, came to the throne in 1952
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon - the Queen Mother
Emil Zatopek - Czechoslovakian long distance runner, 1952 Olympics
Emily Bront - 19th Century novelist, author of Wuthering Heights
Enid Blyton - beloved children's author, published worldwide

Francis Eck
Franois-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
Frank Sinatra
Fanny Blankers-Koen - "The flying housewife", Dutch Olympic heroine
Francis Drake - Tudor sea captain and privateer
Florence Nightingale - Pioneering Victorian nurse
Franklin Pierce - 21st President of the USA
Franklin D Roosevelt - 32nd President of the USA

Geoffrey Chaucer
George I - King of England (1714-1727)
George II - King of England (1727 - 1760)
George III - King of Englnad (1760 - 1820) ("Mad King George", "Farmer George")
George IV - King of England (1820 - 1830)
George V - King of England (1820 - 1837)
George VI - King of England (1936 - 1952), Queen Elizabeth's father
George Bernard Shaw - Prolific Irish playwright
George Bush - 41st President of the USA
George W Bush - 43rd President of the USA
George Washington - 1st President of the USA
Gerald Ford - 38th President of the USA
Gough Whitlam - Prime Minister of Australia 1972-1975
Gordon Brown - Prime Minister of the UK and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007
until 2010
Grover Cleveland - 22nd and 24th President of the USA
Guy Fawkes - infamous 17th Century traitor and Gunpowder Plotter

 Harish Chandra
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Howard Hughes
Haile Gebrselassie - Inspirational long-distance runner from Ethiopia
Harry Styles - member of the famous boy band One Direction
Harry Truman - 33rd President of the USA
Prince Harry - Younger son of the Prince of Wales
Henry I - King of England, 1100-1135 died of food poisoning
Henry II - King of England, 1154-1189, first Plantagenet King
Henry III - King of England, 1216-1272 when Parliament was first called
Henry IV - King of England, 1399-1413, deposed his cousin Richard II
Henry V - warrior King of England, 1413-1422
Henry VI - King of England, 1422-1461, and again 1470-1471
Henry VII - brave, strong and wealthy King of England, 1485-1509
Henry VIII - extravagant King of England, 1509-1547, with six wives!
Henry Williams - one of the first missionaries to travel to New Zealand
Herbert Hoover - 31st President of the USA
Hone Heke - Maori war leader and chief

Ian Thorpe - Australian swimmer, nicknamed 'the Thorpedo'

Jackie Robinson
Jane Austen
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jesse Owens
John Calvin
John Galt
John Laws
John Muir
Johnny Cash
Jonas Salk
J.S. Bach
Jack Ma
J K Rowling - author of the Harry Potter books
J M Barrie - creator of Peter Pan, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up
Jackie Joyner-Kersee - Record-breaking, medal-winning US heptathlete
James I - King of Scotland 1567-1625 and King of England 1603-1625
James II - King of England from 1685 to 1688 (also James VII of Scotland)
 James Buchanan - 15th President of the USA
James Busby - Helped draft the Treaty of Waitangi
Captain James Cook - 18th Century explorer and navigator
James Garfield - 20th President of the USA
James Joyce - Irish 20th Century writer best known for his novel Ulysses.
James Madison - 4th President of the USA
James Monroe - 5th President of the USA
James Polk - 11th President of the USA
James Scullin - Prime Minister of Australia 1929-1932
Jane Austen - beloved English novelist of the Georgian era
Lady Jane Grey - the 'Nine Day Queen'
Jane Seymour - third and favourite wife of Henry VIII
Jenny Jones - winner of GB's first ever snow medal at Sochi 2014
Jesse Owens - hero and most successful athlete at the 1936 Olympics
Jimmy Carter - 39th President of the USA
John - King of England from 1199 to 1216
John Adams - 2nd President of the USA
John F Kennedy - 35th President of the USA
John Gorton - Prime Minister of Australia 1968-1971
John Howard - Prime Minister of Australia 1996-2007
John Logie Baird - Scottish inventor of the world's first television
John Quincy Adams - 6th President of the USA
John Tyler - 10th President of the USA
Jonathan Swift - Irish 18C author best known for Gulliver's Travels
Joseph Cook - Prime Minister of Australia 1913-1914
Joseph Lister - pioneer in antiseptic practices in hospitals and for surgery
Joseph Lyons - Prime Minister of Australia 1932-1939

Kalpana Chawla
Karl Marx
Kelly Holmes - winner of 2 gold medals in Olympics 2004
Kenneth Grahame - author of The Wind in the Willows

Leonard Bernstein
Leo Tolstoy
Larry Ellison
Lasse Viren - winner of 4 gold medals for Finland in the 1970s
Lewis Carroll - author of the Alice in Wonderland stories
Liam Payne - member of the famous boy band One Direction
Lionel Messi - footballer who plays for Argentinia and FC Barcelona
 Louis Tomlinson - member of the popular boy band One Direction
Ludwig van Beethoven - Brilliant pianist and classical composer
Lyndon B Johnson - 36th President of the USA
 Magdalena Abakanowicz
Mahatma Gandhi
Mao Zedong
Mark Twain
Martin Luther King Jr.
M.F. Hussain
Michelangelo
Michael Crichton
Miguel de Cervantes
Mother Teresa
Muhammed Ali
Malcolm Fraser - Prime Minister of Australia 1975-1983
Mark Spitz - won an incredible 7 gold medals in 1972 Olympic swimming
Martin Luther King - a leader of the civil rights movement in the 1960's
Martin Van Buren - 8th President of the USA
Mary I - eldest daughter of Henry VIII and Queen of England, 1553-1558
Mary II - Queen of England 1688-94, joint ruler with her husband William
Mary Queen of Scots - unhappy Queen of Scotland and mother of James I of England
Mary Seacole - Victorian heroine of the Crimean war
Matilda - Empress Matilda ruled England briefly in 1141, never crowned
Michael Johnson - 4-times Olympic gold winner, record-beating sprinter
Michael Phelps - Winner of 14 Olympic gold medals in swimming!
Millard Fillmore - 13th President of the USA
Molly Brown - brave lady and survivor of the sinking of the Titanic
Mother Teresa - Saint Teresa of Calcutta, missionary
Mozart - Child musical prodigy and prolific classical composer
 Muhammad Ali - champion heavyweight boxer with character!
Mungo Park - famous Scottish explorer of Africa

Neil Armstrong
Nelson Mandela
Nicholas Roerich
Nusratfateh Ali Khan
Nadia Comaneci - first female gymnast to score an Olympic perfect 10
Ned Kelly - infamous Australian bushranger
Neil Armstrong - first man to walk on the moon
Nellie Melba - Australian operatic star of the Victorian era
Nelson Mandela - South Africa's first black President
Niall Horan - member of the popular boy band One Direction

Oprah Winfrey
Osho
Olave Baden-Powell - wife of Robert Baden-Powell and Chief Guide for many years
Olga Korbut - star of the gymnastic arena in the 1972 Olympic Games
Oscar Wilde -

Pierre Auguste Renoir

Prithviraj Chauhan
Prince Michael
Prince Harry - Younger son of the Prince of Wales
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - consort to Elizabeth II
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge - second in line to the British throne
Princess Diana - Mother of Prince William and Prince Harry
Pierre de Coubertin - founder of the modern Olympic Games
Pope Francis - current Pope aka Papa Francisco and Papa Francesco

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Richard Bach
Rolf Harris
Ronaldo
 Rudyard Kipling
Richard I - King of England from 1189 to 1199
Richard II - King of England from 1377 to 1399
Richard III - King of England from 1483 to 1485
Richard Nixon - 37th President of the USA
Rihanna - world famous pop singer
Roald Dahl - author of many well-loved children's books
Rob Roy - Scottish folk hero and outlaw
Robert Baden-Powell - founder of the Scouting movement and Chief Scout
Robert Burns - most famous Scottish poet
Robert Louis Stevenson - well-loved author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped
Robert Menzies - twice Prime Minister of Australia
Robert the Bruce - also known as Robert 1, king of Scotland in early 13th century.
Ronald Reagan - 40th President of the USA
Rutherford B Hayes - 19th President of the USA

Sakunthala Devi
Shivaji
Shostakovich
Sir Edmund Hillary
Sir Francis Bacon
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Stephen King
Susan Brownell Anthony
Subash Chandra Bose
Swami Vivekananda
Sadako Sasaki - little Japanese girl who inspired peace
Saint Andrew - Jesus' disciple and patron saint of Scotland
Saint David - patron saint of Wales
Saint George - Brave Roman soldier and patron saint of England
Saint Patrick - patron saint of Ireland
Sebastian Coe - athlete, MP and Chairman of London 2012
Stanley Bruce - Prime Minister of Australia 1923-1929
Stephen - King of England from 1135 to 54
Stephen Hawking - Brilliant scientist, author of "A Brief History of Time"
Steve Irwin - well loved Aussie "Croc Hunter" and Wildlife Warrior.
Steve Redgrave - Champion in rowing in 5 Olympic Games!

The Archbishop of Canterbury

The Prince of Wales
 Tiger Woods
Tony Curtis
T.S. Eliot
Tmati Wka Nene - Maori chief and ally of the British
Tanni Grey Thompson - 11 times Paralympic gold medal winner
Theodore Roosevelt - 26th President of the USA
Thomas Jefferson - 3rd President of the USA
Thomas Telford - "Colossus of Roads" - prolific Scottish builder of roads and bridges.

Ulysses Grant - 18th President of the USA

Usain Bolt - Jamaican sprinter who wowed at 2008 and 2012 Olympics

Vincent Van Gogh

Vince Lombardi
Voltaire
Victoria - Queen of England from 1830 to 1901, the "Victorian Age"

William Shakespeare
William Wordsworth
Wallace Hartley - brave bandleader on the Titanic
Walter Raleigh - swashbuckling hero of the Tudor age
Walter Scott Scottish novelist, poet and playwright, best known Ivanhoe and Rob Roy.
Warren Harding - 29th President of the USA
William I - also known as William the Conqueror, King 1066-87
William II - King of England from 1087 to 1100.
William III - King of England from 1688-1702, joint ruler with Mary
William IV - King of England from 1830-1837
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge - second in line to the British throne
William Butler Yeats (WB Yeats) - Irish 20th century poet
William Harrison - 9th President of the USA
William Hobson - 1st Governer of New Zealand
William Kidd - 17C Scottish privateer / pirate
William McKinley - 25th President of the USA
William McMahon - Prime Minister of Australia 1971-1972
William Shakespeare - 16C English poet and playwright
William Taft - 27th President of the USA
William Wallace - fierce leader of the Scots, Braveheart of movie fame!
Winston Churchill - British prime minister during World War II and afterwards
 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Child musical prodigy and prolific classical composer
Woodrow Wilson - 28th President of the USA

Zachary Taylor - 12th President of the USA

Zayn Malik - member of the popular boy band One Direction