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There are many people that influenced the events in history. We will try to go over them in based on different categories from politicians to well know explorers.

Table of content:

• 2009 World’s 100 Most influential people – Click Here to view Post
• World Ancient Leaders before 1000
• Famous Kings and Queens
• Well known Politicians
• Military Leaders
• Top Reformers

World Ancient Leaders before 1000

Some of the most influential leaders before 1000:

• Egypt, Summer and Babylone Leaders
• Assyrians and Persian Leaders
• Indian and Chinese Leaders
• Ancient Greece and Roman Leaders
• Barbarians Leaders
• Charlemagne
• Leaders of Anglo Saxon Britain
• Leaders of the Islamic Empire

Egypt, Summer and Babylone Leaders

• Narmer
• Cheops
• Queen Hatsehpsut
• Akhenaten
• Queen Nerfrtili
• Ramses II
• King Gilgamesh
• Hammurabi
• Suppiluliamas
• Solomon

Assyrians and Persians Leaders

• Tiglath-Pileser III
• Sargon II
• Sennacherib
• Ashurbanipal
• Nabopolassar
• Nebuchadnezzar
• Cyrus II
• Darius I

Indian and Chinese Leaders

• Chandragupta
• Asoka
• Zheng

Greece and Rome Leaders

• Pericles
• Xerxes
• Phillip II
• Alexander the Great
• Hannibal
• Scipio
• Julius Cesear
• Octavian
• Claudius
• Trajan
• Hadrian
• Commodus
• Diocletian
• Maximilian
• Constantine

Barbarians Leaders

• Alaric
• Attila, King of Huns

Charlemagne

• Charles Martel, first king of Franks in Gaul who defeated the invading Muslim armies
• Charlemagne, king of Franks grandson of Martel who created a huge empire

Leaders from Anglo Saxon Britain

• Votigen
• Arthur
• Egbert of Wessex
• Alfred the Great

Leaders from Islamic Empire

• Harun al-Rashid, Abbasid Dynasty ruler
• Harun al-Mamum, son of al-rahid who encouraged the Arts and made Baghdad a cosmopolitan center

Famous Kings and Queens

• William the Conquerer, duke of Normandy who tried to invade England
• Montezmua II, Aztec ruler who was taken hostage by Spanish Explorer Cortes
• Suleyman the Magnificient, Ottoman ruler who conquered a great empire
• Catherine de Medici, Queen of France behind the massacre of St-Bartholomew (protestant Huguenot)
• Ivan the Terrible, Russian ruler who laid the foundation of the modern country (expanded territory, Moscow capital…
• Elizabeth, the virgin Queen of England spent most of her years fighting the Catholic Spaniards
• Shah Jahan, fifth mogul emperor of India and best known for the Taj Mahal
• Louis XIV, king of France was the longest reigning European Monarch famous for declaring “I am the State”
• William of Orange
• Frederick the Great, king of Prussia who fought in the seven years war
• Catherine the Great, queen of of Prussia known for expanding Russian terriotry
• Queen Victoria, Queen of the British Empire, making Britain the richest country in the world
• Catewayo, king of Zululand defeated by the British army
• Tsar Nicholas II, last of the Russian Tsars who was shot by the Red Guard during the October Revolution
• Haile Selassie I, emperor of Ethiopia who introduced democratic government
• Emperor Hiroshito, emperor of Japan, first to visit the west

Politicians

Please note the some of the political leader mentioned above are more know for what they did wrong as for what they did right.

• Oliver cromwell, Lord Protector of Britain
• Goerge Wahington, helped composed the US constitution and became the first president
• Abraham Lincoln, first republican president who freed American slaves
• Mohatma Gandhi, fought the British through pacific means and founded the Indian State in 1947
• Vladimir Lenin, russian revolutionary and first leader of the USSR
• Winston Churchill, Britain’s leader during WW2
• Joseph Stalin, leader and dictator of the Communist party
• F.D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the USA and US leader during WW2
• Mao Zedong, founder and chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
• Adolf Hitler, infamous dictator of Germany during WW2
• Jomo Kenyatta, first president of Kenya
• Nikita Kruschev, chairman of USSR
• Salavador Allende, president of Chile killed in 1973 during the Coup led by General Pinochet and backed by US president Nixon
• Richard Nixon, US president and unfamous for the Watergate scandal
• JFK, democratic US president assassinated in 1963
• Gamal Nasar, first president of Egypt who nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956
• Nelson Mandela, politically imprisoned for more then 30 years who later became the first black President in South Africa
• Eva Paron, influential political lady in Argentina
• Kenneth Kaunda, first president of the republic of Zambia
• Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization
• Mikhail Gorbatchev, president of USSR, architect of the perestroika and glasnot

Military leader

• El Cid, known for leading the Spanish troupes against the Muslim empire
• Saladin, known to have defeated the Christians crusaders
• Genghis Khan, leader of the Mongol Empire one of the largest empire in history
• Tamerlane, Mongol ruler, descent of Genghis Khan
• Joan of Arc, famous for defeating the English at the battle of Orleans in France
• Simon Bolivar, know for leading the South American army against the Spanish and later becoming the first president of Colombia
• Napoleon Bonaparte, one of the greatest military geniuses of France
• Giuseppe Garibaldi, known for leading the Italian liberation army in his army of volunteers called the red Shirts
• General Ulysses Grant, commander of the Union force during the American civil war
• Geronimo, Apache leader who fought against the US troupes
• Leon Trotsky, leader of the Russian revolution and founder of the red army
• Benito Mussolini, Fascit dictaror of Italy, leader of the Blackshirts
• Bernard Montgomery, commander of the allied ground forces during WW2
• Dwight Eisenhower, commander of the allied forces during WW2
• Ho Chi Minh, president of North Vietnam
• Charles de Gaulle, leader of the French resistance and president of France
• Josip Tito, resistance leader and president of Yougoslavia
• Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban revolution
• Fidel Castro, leader of Cuba

Top Reformers

• Martin Luther, founder of the protestant movement
• John Calvin
• John Knox
• William Penn
• Samuel Adams
• William Wilberforce
• Thomas Paine
• Guiseppe Mazzini
• Harriet Tubman
• Carrie Chapman Catt
• Albert Schweitzer
• Rosa Lee Parks, known for refusing to give up her seat to a white man
• Martin Luther King, US Civil right leader, famous for his “I have a dream” speech
• Desmond Tutu
• Lech Walesa, leader of Solidarity movement and first elected president of Poland
• Steve Biko