100 Great Leaders

Statesmen

1. Queen Hatshesut ( c 1509 - c 1469 BC ) The First Queen of Egypt
2. Pericles ( c 495 - c 429 BC ) Athen, Greece
3. Ashoka ( c 300 - c 232 BC ) The Great Ruler of India
4. Qin Shi Huangdi ( c 259 - c 210 BC ) Founder of Chinese Empire and become the first Emperor
5. Augustus ( 63 BC - 14 AD ) The first Emperor of Roman
6. Constantine the great ( 280 - 337 AD ) Rome Emperor
7. Justinian ( 483 - 565 ) Byzantine Emperor
8. Charle Magne ( 742 - 814 ) The first ruler of Europe
9. Mehmed II ( 1432 - 1481 ) Sultan of Ottpman Turkey
10. Suleyman I ( 1494 - 1566 ) The greatest of Ottoman Sultans
11. Tokugawa Leyasu ( 1543 - 1616 ) Samurai War Lord, Japan
12. Charles V ( 1500 - 1558 ) King of Spain
13. Philip II ( 1527 - 1598 ) King of Spain
14. Elizabeth I ( 1533 - 1603 ) Queen of England
15. Oliver Cromwell ( 1599 - 1658 ) Lord protector of England
16. Louis XIV ( 1638 - 1715 ) Sun King and absolute ruler of France
17. Peter the great ( 1672 - 1725 ) European power, Russia
18. John Sobieski ( 1624 - 1696 ) The last great King of Poland
19. Cathrine the great ( 1729 - 1796 ) Russia
20. Frederick the great ( 1712 - 1786 ) King of Prussia
21. George Washington ( 1732 - 1799 ) The first President of United States
22. Abraham Lincoln ( 1809 - 1885 ) The 16th President of United States
23. Victoria ( 1819 - 1901 ) Queen Victoria, England
24. Ptto von Bismarck ( 1815 - 1898 ) Prusso-German
25. Winston Churchill ( 1874 - 1965 ) Britain
26. Charles de Gaulee ( 1890 - 1970 ) France
27. Franklin D. Roosvelt ( 1882 - 1945 ) US President
28. David Ben-Gurion ( 1886 - 1973 ) Founding father of Israel
29. Gamal Nasser ( 1918 - 1970 ) The first President of Egypt
30. Ronald Reagan ( 1911 - ) The 40th US President
31. Margaret Thatcher ( 1925 - ) British first woman Prime Minister
32. Mikhail Gorbachev ( 1931 - ) The Last Soviet Leader

Military Commanders

1. Alexander the great ( 356 - 323 BC ) King of Macedonia
2. Hannibal ( 247 - 183 BC ) Carthaginian General
3. Julius Caesar ( 100 BC - 44 AD ) Roman General
4. Attilia the Hun ( 404 BC - 453 BC ) King of Spain
5. Genghis Khan ( 1167 - 1227 ) Mongol Leader, China
6. William the Conqueror ( 1027 - 1087 ) King of England
7. Saladin ( 1138 - 1193 ) Sultan of Egypt and Syria
8. St. Joan of Arc ( 1412 - 1431 ) France
9. Gustavus Adolphus ( 1594 - 1632 ) King of Gustav II of Sweden
10. Horatio Nelson ( 1758 - 1805 ) Britain
11. Napoleon Bonaparte ( 1769 - 1821 ) Emperor of France
12. Duke of Willington ( 1769 - 1852 ) Britain's Military Commander
13. Douglas MacArthur ( 1880 - 1964 ) One of US Army's most decorate Soldiers
14. William Slim ( 1891 - 1970 ) One of Britain's finest Generals
15. Dwight D. Eisenhower ( 1890 - 1969 ) US President
16. Erwin Rommel ( 1891 - 1944 ) German Commander

Relegius Leaders

1. Moses ( 14th century BC ) Hebrew Prophet
2. Buddha ( 5 or 6 century BC ) Nepal
3. Jesus of Nazareth ( 6-4 BC ) Israel
4. Gregory the great ( 540 - 604 AD ) Italy
5. Muhammad ( 570 - 632 ) Western Arabia
6. St. Benedict ( c 480 - 547 ) Italy
7. Francis of Assisi ( c 1181 - 1226 ) Italy
8. Martin Luther ( 1483 - 1546 ) Germany
9. St. Ignatus of Loyala ( 1491 - 1556 ) Spain
10. John Calvin ( 1509 - 1564 ) France
11. John Wesley ( 1703 - 1791 ) England
12. Sir Ramakrishna ( 1836 - 1886 ) India
13. Pope John Paul II ( 1920 - ) Italy
14. The Dalai Lama ( 1935 - ) Tibet

Reformers

1. William Wilberforce ( 1759 - 1833 ) England
2. Frederick Douglass ( 1818 - 1895 ) USA
3. Emmeline Pankhurst ( 1858 - 1928 ) England
4. Martin Luther King Jr. ( 1929 - 1968 ) USA

National Liberators

1. Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 - 1826 ) US President
2. Toussiant L'Ouverture ( 1743 - 1803 ) France
3. Jose De San Martin ( 1778 - 1850 ) Spain
4. Simon Boliver ( 1783 - 1830 ) Venezuela
5. Chief Joseph ( 1840 - 1904 ) Oregon Territory
6. Theodor Herzl ( 1860 - 1904 ) Vienna, Founder of Zionism
7. Kemal Ataturk ( 1881 - 1938 ) Turkey
8. Mahatma Gandhi ( 1869 - 1948 ) Nationalist Leader, India
9. Ho Chi Minh ( 1890 - 1969 ) Vietnamese Communist Leader
10. Mao Zedong ( 1893 - 1976 ) Chinese Querrilla Leader, China
11. Fidel Castro ( 1926 - ) Cuba
12. Nelson Mandela ( 1918 - ) South Africa
13. Shaka Zulu ( 1787 - 1828 ) Southern Africa's Zulu Empire
14. Chiang Kai-Shek ( 1887 - 1975 ) China
15. Aung San Suu Kyi ( 1945 - ) Myanmar

Revolutionaries

1. Spartacus ( c 120 - 71 BC ) Roman Slave and Gladiator
2. Maximilien Robespierre ( 1758 - 1794 ) France
3. Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 - 1882 ) Italy
4. Vladmir Lenin ( 1870 - 1924 ) One of the World's greatest revolutionary leader, Soviet Union
5. Che Guevara ( 1928 - 1967 ) South American Revolutionary Leader, Argentina
6. Lech Walesa ( 1943 - ) Poland

Explorers

1. Marco Polo ( 1254 - 1324 ) Venice
2. Christopher Columbus ( 1451 - 1506 ) Portugal
3. Ferdinand Magellan ( 1480 - 1521 ) Portugal
4. Hernan Cortes ( 1485 - 1547 ) Spain
5. James Cook ( 1728 - 1779 ) Marton
6. Robert Peary ( 1856 - 1920 ) USA
7. Rolad Amundsen ( 1872 - 1928 ) Norway
8. Ernest Shackleton ( 1874 - 1922 ) Irish polar explorer
9. Andrew Carnegie ( 1836 - 1919 ) Scotland
10. John D. Rockefeller ( 1839 - 1937 ) USA
11. Henry Ford ( 1863 - 1947 ) Michigan
12. Akio Morita ( 1921 - 1999 ) Japan
13. Bill Gates ( 1955 - ) USA, One of the World's Richest Man

 

 

Source: Brian Mooney 2004 Ed