Leading Figures in History

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

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Sonya Curry

b. 1966

Mother of American basketball players

Sonya Walger

b. 1974

British and American actress

Sophia Campbell

Early Australian settler (1777–1833)

Sophia Dorothea of Hanover

Queen in Prussia from 1713 to 1740

Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach

b. 1464

Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach

Sophia of Hanover

Electress of Hanover from 1692 to 1698

Sophia of Hungary, Duchess of Saxony

Duchess consort of Saxony

Sophia of Prussia

b. 1870

Queen of Greece (1913–1917; 1920–1922)

Sophie Axelsdatter Brahe

b. 1578

Danish noblewoman (1578–1646)

Sophie Germain

French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher

Sophie Jamal

b. 1966

Canadian endocrinologist

Sophie Kurys

b. 1925

Baseball player

Sophie of Saxony, Duchess of Pomerania

b. 1587

Sophie of Württemberg

b. 1818

Queen of the Netherlands from 1849 to 1877

Sophie Raworth

b. 1968

English journalist, newsreader and broadcaster (born 1968)

Sophie Scholl

b. 1921

German anti-Nazi student activist (1921–1943)

Sophie Walker

b. 1971

British political activist (born 1971)

Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg

Wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1868–1914)

Sophie, Princess of Albania

b. 1885

Princess consort of Albania

Soraia Chaves

b. 1982

Portuguese actress and model

Soraya (musician)

American singer-songwriter (1969–2006)

Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary

b. 1932

Queen of Iran from 1951 to 1958

Sören Bertram

b. 1991

German footballer

Søren Kierkegaard

b. 1813

Danish theologian and philosopher (1813–1855)