S.S. Final: People
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- Robespierre
- French Revolutionary; he sent suspected traitors to the guillotine during the Reign of Terror
- Pericles
- Athenian general who led Athens during the war with Sparta
- Karl Marx
- German philosopher and economist. His ideas, called Marxism, formed the basis of communism
- Martin Luther
- German monk and leader of Protestant Reformation
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Queen of England from 1558 to 1603; the English Renaissance flourished during her reign
- King John
- King of England from 1199 to 1216; in 1215 he signed the Magna Carta
- Alexander the Great
- King of Macedonia who conquered Greece, Persia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley
- Lorenzo de' Medici
- Ruler of Florence during the Renaissance and patron of artists such as Michelangelo
- Adolf Hitler
- German dictator and led the National Socialist ( Nazi) Party, which led Germany during World War II
- Vladimir Lenin
- Bolshevik leader and founder of the Soviet Union
- Socrates
- Greek philosipher who discussed laws, customs, values and religion with students
- Diocletian
- Roman emperor who divided into two and oversaw the eastern part
- Julius Ceasar
- Roman general who became the republic's dictator in 45 B.C.
- William Shakespeare
- English dramatist and poet; considered one of the greatest writers in the English language
- Pope Urban II
- Pope who called the First Crusade to reclaim Jerusalem from the Muslims
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Italian Renaissance artist, inventor and scientist
- Petrarch
- Italian Renaissance poet & humanist
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Polish astronomer and in 1514 he discovered that the Earth and the other planets revolve around the sun
- Michelangelo
- Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet
- Johannes Gutenburg
- German printer and in 1448 he invented a printing press that used movable type
- Constantine
- Roman emperor who founded Constantinople as the eastern capital of the Roman empire
- Scipio
- Roman general who defeated Hannibal in the battle of Zama outside Carthage, North Africa in 202 B.C.
- Nicholas II
- Last Russian tsar from 1894 to 1917 and with his discontent with his policies led to the Russian Revolution of 1917
- Charlemagne
- King of the Franks from 768 to 814, and emperor of Rome from 800 to 814
- Franz Ferdinand
- Archduke of Austria whose assassination led to the outbreak of World War I
- Napolean Bonaparte
- French Revolutionary general who became emperor Napoleon I of France in 1804