List of people known as the Great

{{pp-protected|small=yes}} {{More citations needed|date=March 2026}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}} [[File:Bust of Cyrus from Duesternstrasse 43-51, Hamburg.jpg|thumb|347x347px|Cyrus II of Persia, first to use the title of "Great"]] This is a '''list of people known as the Great''', or the equivalent, in their own language. Other languages have their own suffixes, such as Persian {{lang|fa-Latn|e Bozorg}} and Hindustani {{lang|ur-Latn|e Azam}}.

In Persia, the title "the Great" at first seems to have been a colloquial version of the Old Persian title "Great King" (King of Kings, Shahanshah). It was first used by Cyrus II of Persia.<ref name="cyrus">In a clay cylinder ([https://www.livius.org/sources/content/cyrus-cylinder online]). The first Persian ruler to use the title in an Iranian context was Darius I of Persia (''Darius the Great''), in the Behistun Inscription ([https://www.livius.org/articles/place/behistun online]).</ref> The title was inherited by Alexander III when he conquered the Persian Empire, and the epithet eventually became personally associated with him. The first reference to this is in a comedy by Plautus,<ref name="plautus">Plautus, ''Mostellaria'' 775.</ref> in which it is assumed that everyone knew who "Alexander the Great" was; however, there is no evidence that he was called "the Great" before this. The early Seleucid kings, who succeeded Alexander in Persia, used "Great King" in local documents, but the title was most notably used for Antiochus III. Once the term gained currency, it was broadened to include persons in other fields, such as the philosopher Albertus.

Later rulers and commanders were given the epithet during their lifetime, for example, the Roman general Pompey. Others received the title posthumously, such as the Indian emperor Ashoka. As there are no objective criteria for "greatness", the persistence of the designation varies greatly. For example, Louis XIV of France was often referred to as "the Great" in his lifetime, but is rarely called such nowadays, later writers preferring his more specific epithet "the Sun King". German Emperor Wilhelm I was often called "the Great" in the time of his grandson Wilhelm II, but rarely before or after.

== Monarchs ==

{| class="wikitable sortable" !Name !Description !Dates !class="unsortable|{{Ref heading}} |- | Abbas I | Shah of Iran | {{Date table sorting|1587}} – {{Date table sorting|1629}} | <ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=ʿABBĀS I |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica |url=https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/abbas-i |access-date=2025-07-12 |date=2018-05-03 |volume=I |pages=71–75 |last1=Savory |first1=R. M.}}</ref> |- | Abgar VIII | King of Osroene | {{Date table sorting|177}} – {{Date table sorting|212}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Akbar | Emperor of Mughal | {{Date table sorting|1556}} – {{Date table sorting|1605}} | <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG110202 |title=Jalal al-Din Muhammad Akbar (Akbar the Great) |publisher=British Museum}}</ref> |- | Alan I | Duke of Brittany | {{Date table sorting|876}} – {{Date table sorting|907}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Alexander I | King of Georgia | {{Date table sorting|1412}} – {{Date table sorting|1442}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Alexander III | King of Macedon | {{Date table sorting|-336}} – {{Date table sorting|-323}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Alfonso III | King of León, Galicia and Asturias | {{Date table sorting|866}} – {{Date table sorting|910}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Alfred | King of Wessex | {{Date table sorting|871}} – {{Date table sorting|899}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Amenhotep III | Pharaoh of Egypt | {{Date table sorting|-1391}} – {{Date table sorting|-1353}} or {{Date table sorting|-1388}} – {{Date table sorting|-1351}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- |Ali |King of Songhai |{{Date table sorting|1464}} – {{Date table sorting|1492}} |<ref>{{Citation |year= 1999|title=The West African Empire of Songhai in 10 Easy Lessons By Robin Walker, Siaf Millar |publisher= Concept Learning|publication-place= |page= |isbn= 9781903181003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0oeGE-Vs8iYC&q=Sonni+the+great&pg=PA2 |access-date=2021-06-05|last1= Walker|first1= Robin|last2= Millar|first2= Siaf}}</ref> |- | Antiochus III | King of the Seleucid Empire | {{Date table sorting|-223}} – {{Date table sorting|-187}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Ashoka | Emperor of Maurya | {{Date table sorting|-268}} – {{Date table sorting|-232}} | <ref name=":0">{{cite book |author=Monika Khanna |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=emVJMwEACAAJ |title=Ashoka, the Great: The Great Reformist Emperor of India |publisher=Farsight Publishers & Distributors |year=2011 |isbn=978-81-89297-75-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=ʿAbbās I |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abbas-I-Safavid-shah-of-Persia |access-date=2025-07-12 |last1=Savory |first1=Roger M.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Most Powerful Kings in the World |url=https://banglorejobs.in/most-powerful-kings-in-the-world-2024 |website=Banglorejobs}}</ref> |- | Ashot I | King of Armenia | {{Date table sorting|885}} – {{Date table sorting|890}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Ashot I | King of Iberia | {{Date table sorting|813}} – {{Date table sorting|826}} or {{Date table sorting|830}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Bagrat V | King of Georgia | {{Date table sorting|1360}} – {{Date table sorting|1393}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Berengaria | Queen of Castile and Toledo | {{Date table sorting|1197}} – {{Date table sorting|1246}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Bhillama I | King of Seuna | {{Date table sorting|910}} – {{Date table sorting|930}} | <ref>{{cite book |last=H. V. Trivedi |url=https://archive.org/details/the-yadavas-and-their-times |title=The Yadavas And Their Times |pages=25–26}}</ref> |- | Bolesław I | King of Poland | {{Date table sorting|992}} – {{Date table sorting|1025}} | <ref name="Geary2010">{{cite book|author=Patrick J. Geary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sXZi1cYsPowC&pg=PA642|title=Readings in Medieval History|publisher=University of Toronto Press|year=2010|isbn=978-1-4426-0120-8|pages=642–}}</ref> |- | Borommaracha IV | King of Thonburi | {{Date table sorting|1767}} – {{Date table sorting|1782}} | <ref>{{cite book|author1=Gerald W. Fry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XaRtAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA401|title=Historical Dictionary of Thailand|author2=Gayla S. Nieminen|author3=Harold E. Smith|date=8 August 2013|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7525-8|page=401}}</ref> |- | Casimir III | King of Poland | {{Date table sorting|1333}} – {{Date table sorting|1370}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Catherine II | Empress of Russia | {{Date table sorting|1762}} – {{Date table sorting|1796}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Charles I | King of the Franks and Emperor of the Romans | {{Date table sorting|768}} – {{Date table sorting|814}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- |Chʼeen II |King of Kaan |{{Date table sorting|636}} – {{Date table sorting|686}} |<ref name="SharerTraxler2006">{{cite book |author1=Robert J. Sharer |url=https://archive.org/details/ancientmaya0006shar |title=The Ancient Maya |author2=Loa P. Traxler |publisher=Stanford University Press |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-8047-4817-9 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/ancientmaya0006shar/page/381 381]– |url-access=registration}}</ref> |- | Cnut | King of England, Denmark and Norway | {{Date table sorting|1016}} – {{Date table sorting|1035}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Constantine I | Emperor of Rome | {{Date table sorting|306}} – {{Date table sorting|337}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Cyrus II | Shahanshah of the Achaemenid Empire | {{Date table sorting|-559}} – {{Date table sorting|-530}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Darius I | Shahanshah of the Achaemenid Empire | {{Date table sorting|-522}} – {{Date table sorting|-486}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Eucratides I | King of Bactria and Yavana | {{Date table sorting|-171}} – {{Date table sorting|-145}} | <ref>{{cite book|author=Asiatic Society of Bengal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sp9JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA533|title=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal|publisher=Soc.|year=1840|page=533}}</ref> |- | Ewuare I | King of Benin | {{Date table sorting|1440}} – {{Date table sorting|1473}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Farrukhan | Chief of Tabaristan | {{Date table sorting|712}} – {{Date table sorting|728}} | <ref>{{cite book|author1=Bernard Lewis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VFQYAAAAIAAJ|title=The Encyclopaedia of Islam|author2=Charles Pellat|publisher=Brill|year=1982|page=298|isbn = 9789004067127}}</ref> |- | Ferdinand I | King of León and Count of Castile | {{Date table sorting|1037}} – {{Date table sorting|1065}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Frederick II | King of Prussia | {{Date table sorting|1740}} – {{Date table sorting|1786}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Gustav II | King of Sweden | {{Date table sorting|1611}} – {{Date table sorting|1632}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Gwanggaeto | King of Goguryeo | {{Date table sorting|391}} – {{Date table sorting|412}} | <ref name="Tourism2015">{{cite book|author=Korean Culture and Information Service Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A4dsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA191|title=FACTS ABOUT KOREA: South korea, Past and Present|date=15 January 2015|publisher=길잡이미디어|isbn=978-89-7375-584-4|pages=191–}}</ref> |- | Gwrgan | King of Ergyng | {{Date table sorting|619}} – {{Date table sorting|645}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Henry IV | King of France and Navarre | {{Date table sorting|1589}} – {{Date table sorting|1610}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Herod I | King of Judea | {{Date table sorting|-37}} – {{Date table sorting|-4}} or {{Date table sorting|-36}} – {{Date table sorting|-1}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Hugh | Co-king of France | {{Date table sorting|1017}} – {{Date table sorting|1025}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Hugh III | King of Cyprus and Jerusalem | {{Date table sorting|1267}} – {{Date table sorting|1284}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Inal | Supreme Prince of Circassia | {{Date table sorting|1427}} – {{Date table sorting|1453}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Ivan III | Grand Prince of Moscow and All-Russia | {{Date table sorting|1462}} – {{Date table sorting|1505}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Iyasu I | Emperor of Ethiopia | {{Date table sorting|1682}} – {{Date table sorting|1706}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | John II | King of Aragon and Navarre | {{Date table sorting|1458}} – {{Date table sorting|1479}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Justinian I | Emperor of Eastern Rome | {{Date table sorting|527}} – {{Date table sorting|565}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Kamehameha I | King of Hawaii | {{Date table sorting|1782}} – {{Date table sorting|1819}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Kanishka I | Emperor of Kushan | {{Date table sorting|127}} – {{Date table sorting|150}} | <ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bracey |first1=Robert |title=The Date of Kanishka since 1960 (Indian Historical Review, 2017, 44(1), 1–41) |journal=Indian Historical Review |date=2017 |volume=44 |pages=1–41 |url=https://www.academia.edu/32448882 |language=en |url-access=registration}}</ref> |- | Krešimir II | King of Croatia | {{Date table sorting|949}} – {{Date table sorting|969}} | <ref>{{cite journal |last1=Matijević-Sokol |first1=Mirjana |last2=Sokol |first2=Vladimir |date=2010 |title=Quedam Helena regina... |url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/74588 |journal=Vjesnik |language=hr |location=Zagreb |publisher=Archaeological Museum in Zagreb |page=421}}</ref> |- | Kvirike III | King of Kakheti-Hereti | {{Date table sorting|1010}} – {{Date table sorting|1037}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Leo I | Emperor of Eastern Rome | {{Date table sorting|457}} – {{Date table sorting|474}} | <ref>{{Cite book|last=Bury|first=J. B.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HqA9NA7MQ6kC|title=History of the Later Roman Empire|publisher=Dover Publications|year=1958|isbn=978-0-486-14338-5|volume=1|location=New York|pages=323, note 1|language=en|chapter=Chapter X: the reign of Leo I|quote=After the coronation of the child the two Leos would be distinguished as Λέων ὁ Μέγας and Λέων ὁ Μικρός, and this I believe, must be the origin of the designation of Leo as "the Great"; just as reversely Theodosius II. was called "the Small," because in his infancy he had been known as ὁ μικρός βασιλεύς to distinguish him from Arcadius. Leo never did anything which could conceivably earn him the title of Great in the sense in which it was bestowed by posterity on Alexander or Constantine.|author-link=J. B. Bury|orig-year=1889}}</ref> |- | Llywelyn | King of Gwynedd | {{Date table sorting|1195}} – {{Date table sorting|1240}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Louis I | King of Hungary, Croatia, and Poland | {{Date table sorting|1342}} – {{Date table sorting|1382}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Louis XIV | King of France and Navarre | {{Date table sorting|1643}} – {{Date table sorting|1715}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Misost II | Grand Prince of Kabardia | {{Date table sorting|1785}} – {{Date table sorting|1788}} | <ref>{{cite journal |last=Сокъур |first=Валерэ |year=1995 |title=Мазибл Зауэ, Джаур зауэжьым и тхыдэм щыщ |journal=Ӏуащхьэмахуэ |language=kbd |volume=6 |issue= |pages=}}</ref> |- | Mardavij | King of the Ziyarids | {{Date table sorting|930}} – {{Date table sorting|935}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Marianus IV | Judge of Arborea | {{Date table sorting|1347}} – {{Date table sorting|1376}} | <ref>Nowé, 174.</ref> |- | Miloš I | Prince of Serbia | 1817 – 1839, {{Date table sorting|1858}} – {{Date table sorting|1860}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Mircea | Prince of Wallachia | {{Date table sorting|1386}} – {{Date table sorting|1394}}, {{Date table sorting|1397}} – {{Date table sorting|1418}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Mithridates I | King of the Parthian Empire | {{Date table sorting|-165}} – {{Date table sorting|-132}} | <ref>{{cite book |title=The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History |year=2012 |publisher=Oxford University Press |last=Daryaee |first=Touraj |author-link=Touraj Daryaee |isbn=978-0-19-987575-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K-poAgAAQBAJ |page=169}}</ref> |- | Mithridates II | King of the Parthian Empire | {{Date table sorting|-124}} – {{Date table sorting|-91}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Mithridates VI Eupator | King of Pontus | {{Date table sorting|-120}} – {{Date table sorting|-63}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Mstislav I | Grand Prince of Kiev | {{Date table sorting|1088}} – {{Date table sorting|1132}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Mubarak | Sheikh of Kuwait | {{Date table sorting|1896}} – {{Date table sorting|1915}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- |Muhammad I |King of Songhai |{{Date table sorting|1493}} – {{Date table sorting|1528}} |<ref>{{cite book|author=Flora Shaw|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mvd1EeSHYqoC&pg=PA199|title=A Tropical Dependency: An Outline of the Ancient History of the Western Soudan with an Account of the Modern Settlement of Northern Nigeria|date=23 December 2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-02492-1|page=199}}</ref> |- | Nebuchadnezzar II | King of Babylon | {{Date table sorting|-605}} – {{Date table sorting|-562}} | <ref>{{Cite book|last=Sack|first=Ronald H.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nxC1wF3_IEAC|title=Images of Nebuchadnezzar: The Emergence of a Legend|publisher=Susquehanna University Press|year=2004|isbn=1-57591-079-9|edition=2nd Revised and Expanded|location=Selinsgrove|pages=}}, p. 41</ref> |- | Otto I | Emperor of the Romans | {{Date table sorting|962}} – {{Date table sorting|973}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Pakal I | King of Palenque | {{Date table sorting|615}} – {{Date table sorting|683}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Parakramabahu I | King of Polonnaruwa | {{Date table sorting|1153}} – {{Date table sorting|1186}} | <ref>{{cite book |last=Datta |first=Nonica |date=2003 |title=Indian History: Ancient and medieval |volume=1 |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica (India) and Popular Prakashan |location=Mumbai |isbn=8179910679 |page=220}}</ref> |- | Peter I | Emperor of Russia | {{Date table sorting|1682}} – {{Date table sorting|1725}} | {{citation needed|date=August 2020}} |- | Peter III | King of Aragon and Sicily | {{Date table sorting|1276}} – {{Date table sorting|1285}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Pharasmanes I | King of Iberia | {{Date table sorting|1}} – {{Date table sorting|58}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Radama I | King of Madagascar | {{Date table sorting|1810}} – {{Date table sorting|1828}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Radu IV | Prince of Wallachia | {{Date table sorting|1495}} – {{Date table sorting|1508}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Rajendra I | Emperor of Chola | {{Date table sorting|1014}} – {{Date table sorting|1044}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Rama I | King of Siam | {{Date table sorting|1782}} – {{Date table sorting|1809}} | <ref>{{Cite book |author=Sulak Sivaraksa |author-link=Sulak Sivaraksa |title=Siamese Resurgence: A Thai Buddhist Voice on Asia and a World of Change |publisher=Asian Cultural Forum on Development |year=1985 |page=175}}</ref> |- | Rama IV | King of Siam | {{Date table sorting|1851}} – {{Date table sorting|1868}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Rama IX | King of Thailand | {{Date table sorting|1946}} – {{Date table sorting|2016}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Rama V | King of Siam | {{Date table sorting|1868}} – {{Date table sorting|1910}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Ramathibodi III | King of Ayutthaya | {{Date table sorting|1656}} – {{Date table sorting|1688}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Ramesses II | Pharaoh of Egypt | {{Date table sorting|-1279}} – {{Date table sorting|-1213}} | <ref>{{cite encyclopedia |year=2004 |title=Ramses |encyclopedia=Webster's New World College Dictionary |publisher=Wiley Publishing |url=https://www.yourdictionary.com/ramses |access-date=2025-07-12 }}</ref> |- | Ramkhamhaeng | King of Sukhothai | {{Date table sorting|1279}} – {{Date table sorting|1298}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Reza | Shah of Iran | {{Date table sorting|1925}} – {{Date table sorting|1941}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Rhodri | King of Gwynedd | {{Date table sorting|844}} – {{Date table sorting|878}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Roman | Grand Prince of Kiev | {{Date table sorting|1168}} – {{Date table sorting|1205}} | <ref name='Subtelny'>{{cite book |last=Subtelny |first=Orest |title=Ukraine: A History |url=https://archive.org/details/UkraineAHistory}} {{page needed |date=March 2016}}</ref> |- | Sancho III | King of Navarre | {{Date table sorting|1004}} – {{Date table sorting|1035}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Sanphet II | King of Ayutthaya | {{Date table sorting|1590}} – {{Date table sorting|1605}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Sargon | King of Akkad | {{Date table sorting|-2334}} – {{Date table sorting|-2279}} | <ref name="Sargon inscriptions">{{cite web |title=Sargon inscriptions |url=https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/search_results.php?SearchMode=Text&requestFrom=Search&DatesReferenced=sargon. |website=cdli.ucla.edu}}</ref> |- | Sejong | King of Joseon | {{Date table sorting|1418}} – {{Date table sorting|1450}} | <ref>{{cite book|author=Christoph Bluth|title=Korea|author2=Gareth Schott|publisher=Polity|year=2007|isbn=978-0-7456-3356-5|page=10}}</ref> |- | Shahi | Sultan of Kashmir | {{Date table sorting|1418}} – {{Date table sorting|1419}}, {{Date table sorting|1420}} – {{Date table sorting|1470}} | <ref>{{cite book |last=Hasan |first=Mohibbul |url=https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032666709 |title=Kashmir Under the Sultans |date=2023-12-01 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-032-66670-9 |location=London |pages=71 |doi=10.4324/9781032666709}}</ref> |- | Shapur II | Shahanshah of the Sasanian Empire | {{Date table sorting|309}} – {{Date table sorting|379}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Simeon I | Emperor of Bulgaria | {{Date table sorting|893}} – {{Date table sorting|927}} | <ref name="Crampton2005">{{cite book|author=R. J. Crampton|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ekgD2bZoXe4C&pg=PA270|title=A Concise History of Bulgaria|date=24 November 2005|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-44823-9|page=270}}</ref> |- | Simon I | King of Kartli | {{Date table sorting|1556}} – {{Date table sorting|1569}}, {{Date table sorting|1578}} – {{Date table sorting|1599}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Solomon I | King of Imereti | {{Date table sorting|1752}} – {{Date table sorting|1765}}, {{Date table sorting|1767}} – {{Date table sorting|1784}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Stefan Uroš I | King of Serbia | {{Date table sorting|1243}} – {{Date table sorting|1276}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Stephen III | Prince of Moldavia | {{Date table sorting|1457}} – {{Date table sorting|1504}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Svatopluk I | King of Moravia | {{Date table sorting|867}} – {{Date table sorting|894}} | <ref>{{cite book |last=Havlík |first=Lubomír E. |date=2013 |title=Kronika o Velké Moravě |trans-title=Chronicle of Great Moravia |publisher=Jota |isbn=978-80-85617-04-7 |pages=362}}</ref> |- | Tamar I | Queen of Georgia | {{Date table sorting|1184}} – {{Date table sorting|1213}} | <ref>{{cite book|last=Rapp|first=Stephen H.|year=2003|title=Studies In Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts |location=Leuven |publisher=Peeters |isbn=90-429-1318-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nHIwAAAAYAAJ |page=338}}</ref> |- | Theodoric | King of the Ostrogoths, Regent of the Visigoths and Viceroy of Byzantine | {{Date table sorting|471}} – {{Date table sorting|526}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Theodosius I | Emperor of Rome | {{Date table sorting|379}} – {{Date table sorting|395}} | <ref>{{cite book |last=Cooley |year=2012 |first=Alison E. |title=The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=506 |isbn=978-0-521-84026-2 |url={{googlebooks|VlghAwAAQBAJ|plainurl=y}} |author-link=Alison E. Cooley}}</ref> |- | Thoros II | Lord of Cilicia | {{Date table sorting|1144}} or {{Date table sorting|1145}} – {{Date table sorting|1169}} | <ref name='Ghazarian'>{{cite book | last = Ghazarian | first = Jacob G. | title = The Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia during the Crusades: The Integration of Cilician Armenians with the Latins (1080–1393)}}</ref> |- | Thutmose III | Pharaoh of Egypt | {{Date table sorting|-1479}} – {{Date table sorting|-1425}} | <ref>{{cite web |url=http://dokus.w4f.eu/2019/03/18/ancient-egypts-greatest-warrior-tuthmosis-the-3rd-egypts-napoleon-full-history-documentary |title=Ancient Egypt's Greatest Warrior: TuthmosIs The 3rd – Egypt's Napoleon (Full History Documentary) |date=18 March 2019 |website=dokus4free |language=en-US |access-date=30 March 2019}}</ref> |- | Tigranes II | Emperor of Armenia | {{Date table sorting|-95}} – {{Date table sorting|-55}} | <ref>{{cite book|last=Manaseryan|first=Ruben|title=Տիգրան Մեծ՝ Հայկական Պայքարը Հռոմի և Պարթևաստանի Դեմ, մ.թ.ա. 94–64 թթ. [Tigran the Great: The Armenian Struggle Against Rome and Parthia, 94–64 B.C.]|year=2007|publisher=Lusakan Publishing|location=Yerevan|language=hy|page=needed}}</ref> |- | Tiridates III | King of Armenia | {{Date table sorting|298}} – {{Date table sorting|330}} | <ref name="DignasWinter2007">{{cite book|author1=Beate Dignas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MG2hqcRDvJgC&pg=PA180|title=Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity: Neighbours and Rivals|author2=Engelbert Winter|date=13 September 2007|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-84925-8|pages=180–}}</ref> |- | Valdemar I | King of Denmark | {{Date table sorting|1154}} – {{Date table sorting|1182}} | <ref name="Orfield1953">{{cite book|author=Lester B. Orfield|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=133bkwvienYC&pg=PA38|title=The Growth of Scandinavian Law|publisher=The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.|year=1953|isbn=978-1-58477-180-7|pages=38–}}</ref> |- | Valentinian I | Emperor of Rome | {{Date table sorting|364}} – {{Date table sorting|375}} | <ref name="BanchichLane2009">{{cite book|author1=Thomas Banchich|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8_CBAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA261|title=The History of Zonaras: From Alexander Severus to the Death of Theodosius the Great|author2=Eugene Lane|date=26 January 2009|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-42473-3|pages=261–}}</ref> |- | Vigraharaja IV | King of Chauhan | {{Date table sorting|1150}} – {{Date table sorting|1164}} | <ref>{{cite book |author=Dasharatha Sharma |title=Early Chauhān Dynasties |publisher=S. Chand / Motilal Banarsidass |year=1959 |isbn=9780842606189 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n4gcAAAAMAAJ|page=65}}</ref> |- | Vladimir I | Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince of Kiev | {{Date table sorting|970}} – {{Date table sorting|1015}} | <ref>{{cite book|author=Mike Dixon-Kennedy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eD5AkdM83iIC&pg=PA239|title=Encyclopedia of Russian and Slavic Myth and Legend|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=1998|isbn=978-1-57607-063-5|page=239}}</ref> |- | Vytautas | Grand Duke of Lithuania | {{Date table sorting|1392}} – {{Date table sorting|1430}} | <ref name="Mickūnaitė2006">{{cite book|author=Giedrė Mickūnaitė|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a5zKQM7eEMgC&pg=PA4|title=Making a Great Ruler: Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania|publisher=Central European University Press|year=2006|isbn=978-963-7326-58-5|pages=4–}}</ref> |- | Wilhelm I | Emperor of Germany | {{Date table sorting|1871}} – {{Date table sorting|1888}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Xerxes I | Shahanshah of the Achaemenid Empire | {{Date table sorting|-486}} – {{Date table sorting|-465}} | <ref name="Abbott1850">{{cite book |author=Jacob Abbott |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofxerxesg01abbo |title=History of Xerxes the Great |publisher=Harper & Brothers, publishers |year=1850}}</ref> |- | Zayed | Sheikh of Abu Dhabi | {{Date table sorting|1855}} – {{Date table sorting|1909}} | <ref>{{Cite book |last=Āl Maktūm |first=Muḥammad ibn Rāshid |title=Spirit of the union: lecture on the occasion of the United Arab Emirates' fortieth national day. |publisher=Motivate Publishing |year=2012 |isbn=9781860633300 |location=Dubai (United Arab Emirates) |page=34}}</ref> |- | Qizbech | Prince of Besleney | {{circa|1780s–1790s}} | <ref name="Kundukhov1978">{{cite book |last=Kunduh |first=Musa |url=https://circassianstudies.org/kutuphane/general-musa-kundukhovun-anilari/ |title=General Musa Kundukhov'un Anıları |publisher=Kafkas Kültür Derneği |year=1978 |location=İstanbul |pages=25-28 |language=tr}}</ref><ref name="Traho1956">{{cite book |last=Трахо |first=Р. |url=https://vtoraya-literatura.com/pdf/trakho_cherkesy_1956__ocr.pdf |title=Черкесы |publisher=Richard Stadelmeier |year=1956 |location=Мюнхен |pages=34-35 |language=ru |trans-title=Circassians}}</ref> |}

== Aristocrats ==

{| class="wikitable sortable" !Name !Description !Dates !class="unsortable|{{Ref heading}} |- | Alain I | Lord of Albret | {{Date table sorting|1440}} – {{Date table sorting|1522}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Amadeus V | Count of Savoy | {{Date table sorting|1249}} – {{Date table sorting|1323}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Arnulf I | Count of Flanders | {{Date table sorting|893}} – {{Date table sorting|964}} | <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG217017 |title=Arnulf I, Count of Flanders |publisher=British Museum}}</ref> |- | Atenulf I | Prince of Capua | {{Date table sorting|666|format=hide}}? – {{circa}} {{Date table sorting|910}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Barnim III | Duke of Stettin Pomerania | {{Date table sorting|1344}} – {{Date table sorting|1368}} | <ref>{{cite web |title=Barnim III Wielki |url=https://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo/Barnim-III-Wielki;3874521.html |website=PWN.pl |publisher=Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN}}</ref> |- | Bogislaw X | Duke of Pomerania | {{Date table sorting|1454}} – {{Date table sorting|1523}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Bogusław V | Duke of Wolgast and Słupsk | {{Date table sorting|1326}} – {{Date table sorting|1374}} | <ref>{{cite web |title=Książę wołogoski i słupski Bogusław V Wielki (1317–1374) |url=https://zamek.szczecin.pl/boguslaw-v-wielki |publisher=Zamek Książąt Pomorskich w Szczecinie}}</ref> |- | Bruno | Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Lotharingia | {{Date table sorting|925}} – {{Date table sorting|965}} | <ref>{{cite book|author=Brian D. Starr|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sOMZexvIwkMC&pg=PA121|title=Tree of Saints|publisher=Brian Daniel Starr|year=2006|isbn=978-1-4196-3302-7|pages=121–}}</ref> |- | Charles Emmanuel I | Duke of Savoy | {{Date table sorting|1562}} – {{Date table sorting|1630}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Charles III | Duke of Lotharingia | {{Date table sorting|1543}} – {{Date table sorting|1608}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Conrad I | Margrave of Meissen | {{Date table sorting|1097}} – {{Date table sorting|1157}} | <ref name=adb>{{cite web |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd121506533.html |title=Konrad Markgraf von Meißen und der Niederlausitz |publisher=ADB |access-date=2025-07-12}}</ref> |- | David III | Prince of Tao | {{Date table sorting|966}} – {{Date table sorting|1001}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Frederick II | Duke of Legnica, Brzeg, Wołów, Głogów, and Ziębice | {{Date table sorting|1488}} – {{Date table sorting|1547}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Frederick William | Duke of Prussia | {{Date table sorting|1620}} – {{Date table sorting|1688}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Gerhard III | Count of Holstein-Rendsburg | {{Date table sorting|1292}} – {{Date table sorting|1340}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Gero I | Ruler of Gero | {{Date table sorting|900}} – {{Date table sorting|965}} | <ref name=thompson>Thompson, 486. Also see [http://www.genealogie-mittelalter.de/gero_sippe/gero_1_der_grosse_markgraf_der_ostmark_965/schoelkopf_ruth.html Lexikon des Mittelalters.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604154237/http://www.genealogie-mittelalter.de/gero_sippe/gero_1_der_grosse_markgraf_der_ostmark_965/schoelkopf_ruth.html |date=2011-06-04}}</ref> |- | Godfrey I | Count of Brussels and Leuven, Duke of Lower Lorraine, Langrave of Brabant | {{Date table sorting|1060}} – {{Date table sorting|1139}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Gothelo I |Duke of Lotharingia, Count of Verdun, and Margrave of Antwerp | {{Date table sorting|967}} – {{Date table sorting|1044}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Gurgen II | Prince of Tao | {{Date table sorting|918}} – {{Date table sorting|941}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Hanno I | Carthaginian politician and military leader | {{Date table sorting|-400|format=hide}}4th century BC | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Hanno II | Carthaginian aristocrat, general, and politician | {{Date table sorting|-300|format=hide}}3rd century BC | <ref>[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/routwwromwor/hanno_late_3rd_century_bc Who's Who in The Roman World, Routledge] retrieved 15 March 2011</ref> |- | Hanno III | Carthaginian politician | {{Date table sorting|-200|format=hide}}2nd century BC | <ref>Picard, ''Life and Death of Carthage'' (1968), at 264, 286.</ref><ref>Cf., Warmington, ''Carthage'' (1960, 1964), at 119.</ref> |- | Henry I | Duke of Burgundy | {{Date table sorting|946}} – {{Date table sorting|1002}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Henry V | Count of Luxembourg | {{Date table sorting|1216}} – {{Date table sorting|1281}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Hugh | Count of Paris and Duke of the Franks | {{Date table sorting|898}} – {{Date table sorting|956}} | <ref>Pierre Riché, ''The Carolingians; A Family who Forged Europe'', Trans. Michael Idomir Allen (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1993), pp.250–1</ref> |- | Hugh | Count of Vermandois | {{Date table sorting|1057}} – {{Date table sorting|1101}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Hugh | Margrave of Tuscany | {{Date table sorting|953}} or {{Date table sorting|954}} – {{Date table sorting|1001}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Humphrey I | Baron of Trowbridge | {{Date table sorting|1100|format=hide}}? – {{Date table sorting|1123}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Intef | Nomarch of Thebes | {{Date table sorting|-2200|format=hide}}? – {{circa}} {{Date table sorting|-2135}} | <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544005 |title=Stela of the Gatekeeper Maati |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art}}</ref> |- | Matthew II | Lord of Montmorency | {{Date table sorting|1189}} – {{Date table sorting|1230}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Maximilian I | Duke of Bavaria | {{Date table sorting|1573}} – {{Date table sorting|1651}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Milo I | Lord of Montlhéry | {{Date table sorting|1095}} – {{Date table sorting|1102}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Odo | Duke of Aquitaine | {{Date table sorting|715|format=hide}}? – {{Date table sorting|735}} | <ref>Melville M. Bigelow, "The Bohun Wills," ''American Historical Review'', '''1''':3 (1896), 415.</ref> |- | Ralph IV | Count of Valois, Bar-sur-Aube, Vexin, Vitry, Amiens, Montdidier and Tardenois | {{Date table sorting|1025}} – {{Date table sorting|1074}} | <ref>{{cite journal |author-link=Robert-Henri Bautier |last=Bautier |first=Robert-Henri |date=1985 |title=Anne de Kiev, reine de France, et la politque royale au XI<sup>e</sup> siècle: Étude critique de la documentation |journal=Revue des études slaves |volume=57 |issue=4 |pages=539–64 |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/slave_0080-2557_1985_num_57_4_5520 |doi=10.3406/slave.1985.5520}}</ref> |- | Ramon Berenguer III | Count of Barcelona, Provence, and various other counties | {{Date table sorting|1082}} – {{Date table sorting|1131}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Robert I | Count of Dreux | {{Date table sorting|1123}} – {{Date table sorting|1188}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Roger | Earl of Shrewsbury and Arundel | {{Date table sorting|1080|format=hide}}? – {{Date table sorting|1094}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Roger Bernard II | Count of Foix | {{Date table sorting|1223}} – {{Date table sorting|1241}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Roger II | Count of Sicily | {{circa}} {{Date table sorting|1030}} – {{Date table sorting|1101}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Świętopełk II | Duke of Pomerania | {{Date table sorting|1195|format=hide}}? – {{Date table sorting|1266}} | <ref>{{cite web |last1=Januszajtis |first1=Andrzej |title=Sławni Gdańszczanie: Świętopełk II Wielki |url=https://www.nasz.gdansk.pl/slawni-gdanszczanie-swietopelk-ii-wielki |website=Nasz Gdańsk}}</ref> |- | Theobald II | Count of Champagne and Brie | {{Date table sorting|1090}} – {{Date table sorting|1151}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | William I | Count of Burgundy and Mâcon | {{Date table sorting|1020}} – {{Date table sorting|1087}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | William V | Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Poitou | {{Date table sorting|969}} – {{Date table sorting|1030}} | <ref>{{cite book |first=Bernard S. |last=Bachrach |title=Fulk Nerra, the Neo-Roman Consul, 987–1040 |publisher=University of California Press |year=1993}}</ref> |}

== Military == {| class="wikitable sortable" !Name !Description !Dates !class="unsortable|{{Ref heading|multi=no}} |- | Afonso | Portuguese general, statesman and empire builder | {{Date table sorting|1453}} – {{Date table sorting|1515}} | <ref>{{cite book|author=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ea-bAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA23|title=Britannica Concise Encyclopedia|date=1 May 2008|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.|isbn=978-1-59339-492-9|page=23}}</ref> |- | Melias | Byzantine general of Armenian origin | {{Date table sorting|890}} – {{Date table sorting|934}} | <ref>The name comes from Arabic ''malīh'' meaning "beautiful", "fine". Melias is probably the ''Malikh al-Armani'' of Arab chroniclers. {{cite book |last=Whittow |first=Mark |date=1996 |title=The Making of Byzantium, 600–1025 |location=Berkeley |publisher=University of California |isbn=0520204964 |page=315}}</ref> |- | Pompey | Military and political leader of Rome | {{Date table sorting|-106}} – {{Date table sorting|-48}} | <ref>Jm{{cite book|author= Leach, John|title=Pompey the Great')|page= 29}}</ref> |- | Prokop | Hussite general in Bohemia | {{Date table sorting|1380}} – {{Date table sorting|1434}} | <ref name=nie>{{Cite NIE|wstitle=Procopius, Andrew|year=1905}}</ref> |}

== Religious figures ==

=== Christian ===

{| class="wikitable sortable" !Name !Description !Dates !class="unsortable|{{Ref heading}} |- | Abraham | Monk and saint of the Church of the East | {{Date table sorting|492}} – {{Date table sorting|586}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Albertus | Medieval German philosopher and theologian | {{Date table sorting|1193}} or {{Date table sorting|1206}} – {{Date table sorting|1280}} | <ref>{{Citation |editor-last=Weisheipl |editor-first=James A. |last=Weisheipl |first=James A. |title=Albertus Magnus and the Sciences: Commemorative Essays |place=Toronto |publisher=Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies |series=Studies and texts |volume=49 |year=1980 |chapter=The Life and Works of St. Albert the Great |page=46 |isbn=978-0-88844-049-5}}</ref> |- | Anthony | Early Christian saint of Egypt | {{Date table sorting|251}} – {{Date table sorting|356}} | <ref name="Endsjo2008">{{cite book|last=Endsjø|first=Dag Øistein|title=Primordial landscapes, Incorruptible Bodies|year=2008|publisher=Peter Lang Publishing|location=New York|isbn=978-1-4331-0181-6}}</ref> |- | Arsenius | Roman anchorite saint in Egypt | {{Date table sorting|354}} – {{Date table sorting|445}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Athanasius | Early Christian saint and bishop of Alexandria | {{Date table sorting|296}} – {{Date table sorting|373}} | <ref name="Clifford1907">{{cite web |url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02035a.htm |last=Clifford |first=Cornelius |title=CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Athanasius |website=www.newadvent.org |access-date=2025-07-12}}</ref> |- | Babai | Assyrian church leader | {{Date table sorting|551}} – {{Date table sorting|628}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Basil | Greek bishop and theologian | {{Date table sorting|330}} – {{Date table sorting|379}} | <ref name =LA336>Bowersock et al. (1999), p.336</ref> |- | Bertin | Frankish Abbot of a namesake monastery | {{Date table sorting|615}} – {{Date table sorting|709}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Dioscorus I | Coptic Orthodox Church pope | {{Date table sorting|333|format=hide}}? – {{Date table sorting|454}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Euthymius | Abbot and Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint | {{Date table sorting|377}} – {{Date table sorting|473}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Gertrude | German Benedictine, mystic, theologian and Roman Catholic saint | {{Date table sorting|1256}} – {{Date table sorting|1302}} | <ref name=bossert>{{cite web |url=http://www.stgertrudes.org/vision.html |title=Bossert, Sr. Evangela. "St. Gertrude of Helfta", Monastery of St. Gertrude, Cottonwood, Idaho |access-date=18 August 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910054309/http://www.stgertrudes.org/vision.html |archive-date=2015-09-10}}</ref> |- | Gregory I | Catholic pope | {{Date table sorting|540}} – {{Date table sorting|604}} | <ref name="ce">{{CathEncy|wstitle=Pope St. Gregory I ("the Great")|volume=6|author=Huddleston, Gilbert}} Gregory had come to be known as 'the Great' by the late ninth century, a title which is still applied to him. See John Moorhead, ''Gregory the Great'', (Routledge, 2005), p1 </ref> |- | Hilarion | Ancient Roman anchorite and Orthodox and Catholic saint | {{Date table sorting|291}} – {{Date table sorting|371}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Hugh | Abbot of Cluny | {{Date table sorting|1024}} – {{Date table sorting|1109}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Isaac | Armenian Catholicos | {{Date table sorting|354}} – {{Date table sorting|439}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | James<ref name=":1" group="Note">In this case James is styled "the Greater" to distinguish him from the Apostle James the Lesser, with greater meaning older or taller, rather than more important.</ref> | One of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus | {{Date table sorting|3}} – {{Date table sorting|44}} | <ref name=camerlynck>{{cite web |url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08279b.htm |title=Catholic Encyclopedia: St. James the Greater}}</ref> |- | Joannicius | Byzantine hermit, theologian and saint | {{Date table sorting|752}} – {{Date table sorting|846}} | <ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Treadgold|first=Warren|date=January 2002|title=Photius Before His Patriarchate|journal=Journal of Ecclesiastical History|volume=53|pages=1–17|doi=10.1017/S0022046901008727|s2cid=162542349|via=Cambridge}}</ref> |- | Leo I | Catholic pope | {{Date table sorting|391}} or {{Date table sorting|400}} – {{Date table sorting|461}} | <ref name="first seven">{{cite book |last=Davis, SJ |first=Leo Donald |title=The First Seven Ecumenical Councils (325–787): Their History and Theology (Theology and Life Series 21) |year=1990 |publisher=Michael Glazier/Liturgical Press |location=Collegeville, MN |isbn=978-0-8146-5616-7 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/firstsevenec_davi_1990_000_6702418/page/342 342] |url=https://archive.org/details/firstsevenec_davi_1990_000_6702418/page/342}}</ref> |- | Macarius | Egyptian hermit | {{Date table sorting|300}} – {{Date table sorting|391}} | <ref name="apostdiak">{{cite web |website=Apostoliki Diakonia: Eorlogio |publisher=Apostoliki Diakonia (Apostolic Auxiliary) of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece |title=Μνήμη τοῦ ὁσίου πατρός ἠμῶν Μακαρίου τοῦ Αἰγυπτίου τοῦ ἀναχωρητοῦ |trans-title=Our father Makarios of Egypt the Anchorite, of blessed memory |language=el |url=https://apostoliki-diakonia.gr/gr_main/eortologio/eortologio.asp?file=jan/19.htm |access-date=2025-07-12}}</ref> |- | Michael | Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church | {{Date table sorting|1126}} – {{Date table sorting|1199}} | <ref>Wright, ''A short history of Syriac literature'', p.250, n.4, referencing Bar Hebraeus, ''Chron. Eccles.'', vol. 1, 537.</ref> |- | Nerses I | Armenian Catholicos | {{Date table sorting|333|format=hide}}? – {{Date table sorting|373}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Nicholas I | Catholic pope | {{Date table sorting|800}} – {{Date table sorting|867}} | <ref>Will Durant. ''The Age of Faith''. New York, New York, USA: Simon and Schuster, 1972. Chapter 21: Christianity in Conflict, p. 517-51</ref> |- | Photios I | Eastern Orthodox saint and Patriarch of Constantinople | {{Date table sorting|810}} – {{Date table sorting|893}} | <ref>{{cite book |url=https://photius.com/photios/photios15.html |chapter=The Life of Patriarch Photios |title=Patriarch Photios of Constantinople, His Life, Scholarly Contributions, and Correspondence, Together with a Translation of Fifty-two of His Letters |first=Despina Stratoudaki |last=White |year=1981 |publisher=Holy Cross Orthodox Press |isbn=978-0-91658626-3 |access-date=2025-07-12}}</ref> |- | Shenoute | Oriental Orthodox saint and abbot of the White Monastery | {{Date table sorting|348}} – {{Date table sorting|465}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Sisoes | An early desert father, a solitary monk pursuing asceticism in the Egyptian desert in a cave of Anthony the Great | {{Date table sorting|333|format=hide}}? – {{Date table sorting|429}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | William | Founder of the Catholic congregation of Williamites | {{Date table sorting|1140|format=hide}}? – {{Date table sorting|1157}} | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- |}

=== Jewish ===

{| class="wikitable sortable" !Name !Description !Dates !class="unsortable|{{Ref heading}} |- | Aharon I | Hasidic rabbi | {{Date table sorting|1736}} – {{Date table sorting|1772}} | <ref>{{Jewish Encyclopedia |inline=1 |article=AARON BEN JACOB OF KARLIN |url=https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/50-aaron-ben-jacob-of-karlin |access-date=2025-07-12}}</ref> |- | Eliezer | Rabbi in Judea | {{Date table sorting|100|format=hide}}1st century | <ref>''Pirkei Avot'' 2:8; ''Avot of Rabbi Natan'' 6:3</ref><ref name="Fathers145">Avot of Rabbi Natan 14:5</ref> |- | Hiyya | Rabbi in Judea | {{Date table sorting|180}} – {{Date table sorting|230}} | <ref>{{cite web |url=https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7779-hiyya-bar-abba |title=HIYYA BAR ABBA - JewishEncyclopedia.com |website=jewishencyclopedia.com |access-date=2025-07-12}}</ref> |}

== Legendary and mythological figures == {| class="wikitable sortable" !Name !Description !class="unsortable|{{Ref heading}} |- | Ajax | Greek hero in the ''Iliad'' | <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.salamina.gr/en/presentation-of-the-municipality/history/mythology-ancient-history/ajax-or-aias |title=Ajax or Aias – Municipality of Salamina |website=www.salamina.gr |access-date=2025-07-12}}</ref> |- | Beli | In medieval Welsh mythology and literature | <ref>Delamarre, Xavier. Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise, Editions Errance, Paris, 2003, pp. 70–72.</ref> |- | Belinus | Legendary king of the Britons | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Fergus | Semi-mythical king of Dál Riata | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Gradlon | Semi-mythical king of Cornouaille | {{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} |- | Hayk | Legendary founder and patriarch of the Armenian nation | <ref>{{cite book|last1=Gōsh|first1=Mkhitʻar|title=The Lawcode (Datastanagirk') of Mxit'ar Goš|date=2000|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=9789042007901|page=112|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WtRfM_muG7QC&q=Nahapet+patriarch%7Chead&pg=PA112|access-date=6 July 2016}}</ref> |- | Phrom |Legendary king of Yonok | <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chiangmainews.co.th/page/archives/881733 |title="ตำนานพระเจ้าพรหม" วีรบุรุษของโยนกล้านนา |date=2019-01-08 |trans-title="King Phrom Legend" hero of Singhanavati Lanna Kingdom |work=Chiangmainews |language=thai |access-date=2021-09-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409204456/https://www.chiangmainews.co.th/page/archives/881733 |archive-date=2023-04-09 |url-status=dead}}</ref> |- | Yu | Legendary king of Xia | <ref>Wang Quangen {{lang|zh|王泉根}}, (1993). ''Huaxia Quming Yishu'' {{lang|zh-hant|華夏取名藝術}}. (Taipei: ''Zhishu-fang Chuban Jituan'' {{lang|zh-hant|知書房出版集團}}), 42.</ref><ref>Siam_Qi. ''Records_of_the_Grand_Historian''. Translated by William H. Nienhauser as ''The Grand Scribe's Records: The Basic Annals of Antiquity''. Indiana University Press, 1994.</ref> |}

== See also ==

* List of monarchs by nickname * James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby (1607–1651), "Yn Stanlagh Mooar" ("the Great Stanley"), also Lord of Mann * Bantul the Great, a Bengali comic strip character * Wayne Gretzky, former professional ice hockey player, nicknamed "The Great One" and "The Great Gretzky" * Muhammad Ali, boxer and activist, dubbed "The Greatest"

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