Leading Figures in History

Discover the people who shaped our world — from rulers and scientists to artists and activists.

58072 persons found

Abimael Guzmán

Peruvian Maoist convicted terrorist leader (1934–2021)

Abner Doubleday

b. 1819

Union Army general (1819–1893)

Abner Haynes

American football player (1937–2024)

Abner Powell

American baseball player (1860–1953)

Abner Vinícius

b. 2000

Brazilian footballer (born 2000)

Abou Diaby

b. 1986

French footballer (born 1986)

Abraham ben Abraham

Purported Polish nobleman

Abraham Benrubi

b. 1969

American actor (born 1969)

Abraham Bueno de Mesquita

b. 1918

Dutch actor

Abraham Clark

American Founding Father and politician

Abraham Colles

b. 1773

Irish doctor, academic, President of the RSCI

Abraham Cowley

17th-century English writer

Abraham de Moivre

b. 1667

French mathematician (1667–1754)

Abraham Fraenkel

German-Israeli mathematician and Zionist (1891–1965)

Abraham Geiger

b. 1810

German rabbi and scholar (1810–1874)

Abraham Gneki Guié

b. 1986

Ivorian footballer (born 1986)

Abraham Gotthelf Kästner

German mathematician (1719–1800)

Abraham H. Cannon

American Mormon (1859–1896)

Abraham Joseph Ash

Rabbi (c. 1813–1888)

Abraham Maslow

American psychologist (1908–1970)

Abraham Nemeth

American mathematician (1918–2013)

Abraham Ortelius

Dutch cartographer, geographer and cosmographer (1527–1598)

Abraham Pais

b. 1918

Dutch-American physicist and science historian

Abraham Pineo Gesner

b. 1797

Inventor of kerosene (1797–1864)