List of historical figures in Civ5

The following is a list of historical figures in Civilization V and its expansions. They are randomly born as "Great People" outside of the player's cities. Links to Wikipedia (or other appropriate resources) are provided here; click on one of these names to view more information on the respective historical figure.
== Great Generals ==
* Ahuitzotl
* Akbar
* Arminius
* Belisarius
* Cao Cao
* Chandragupta Maurya
* Hernan Cortez
* Oliver Cromwell
* El Cid
* Epaminondas
* Eugene of Savoy
* Gaius Marius
* Geronimo
* Gustavus Adolphus (Swedish leader in )
* Heinz Guderian
* Hamilcar Barca
* Hannibal Barca
* Ivan the Terrible
* Jeanne d'Arc
* Khaled ibn al-Walid
* Robert E. Lee
* Leonidas
* Lysander
* Charles Martel
* Maurice of Nassau
* Bernard Montgomery
* George Patton
* Francisco Pizarro
* Pompey
* Pyrrhus
* Erwin Rommel
* Sargon
* Scipio Africanus
* Winfield Scott
* Sitting Bull
* Spartacus
* Subutai
* Sun Tzu
* Timur
* Johann Tserclaes
* Vercingetorix
* Albrecht von Wallenstein
* William the Conqueror
* Zhuge Liang
* Georgy Zhukov
== Great Admirals (Great Generals or Great Merchants in vanilla) ==
* Afonso de Albuquerque
* Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
* Álvaro de Bazán
* Calonymus of Alexandria
* Jacques Cartier
* Christopher Columbus
* James Cook
* Andrew Cunningham
* Michiel de Ruyter
* George Dewey
* Don John of Austria
* Andrea Doria
* John Doukas
* Francis Drake
* Leif Ericson
* Erik the Red
* David Farragut
* Vasco da Gama
* Comte de Grasse
* Hanno
* John Hawkins
* Hayreddin Barbarossa
* Henry the Navigator
* Himilco
* John Paul Jones
* Ferdinand Magellan
* Horatio Nelson
* Chester W. Nimitz
* Matthew Perry
* Murat Reis
* Phormio
* Pytheas
* Marcus Atilius Regulus
* Roger of Lauria
* Zinovy Rozhestvensky (replaced with Stepan Makarov in the Russian localization)
* Shi Lang
* Alfred von Tirpitz
* Togo Heihachiro
* Turgut Reis
* Fyodor Ushakov
* Fernando Villaamil
* Peter Wessel Tordenskjold
* Isoroku Yamamoto
* Yi Sun-sin
* Zheng He
== Great Artists ==
* Adrien Carpentiers
* Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville
* Amedeo Modigliani
* Amir Khusro (removed in )
* Ansel Adams (only in )
* Antonello da Messina
* Antoni Gaudi (only in )
* Antonín Dvořák (Great Musician in )
* Arthur Conan Doyle (Great Writer in )
* Asher Brown Durand
* August Haake
* Bahram Kirmanshahi
* Bartolomé de las Casas (only in )
* Bartholomeus Spranger
* Bernardo Martorell
* Caravaggio
* Caspar David Friedrich
* Claude Monet
* Dante Alighieri (Great Writer in )
* Du Fu (removed in )
* Duke Ellington (Great Musician in )
* Edgar Degas
* Edmund Leighton
* Edouard Manet
* El Greco
* Emanuel Leutze
* Ernest Hemingway (only in )
* Eugène Delacroix
* Francisco de Goya
* Francisco de Zurbaran
* Francesco Hayez
* Frederic Remington
* Frank Kafka (removed in )
* Frans Post
* Friedensreich Hundertwasser (only in )
* George Gower
* George P. A. Healy
* George Seurat
* Gilbert Stuart
* Giovanni Bellini
* Giotto di Bondone
* Giuseppe Arcimboldo
* Grant DeVolson Wood
* Gustav Klimt
* Gustave Caillebotte
* Hans Holbein the Younger
* Huang Gongwang
* Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
* Henri Rousseau
* Hiranand
* Horace Vernet
* Ibn Muqlah (removed in )
* Ilya Repin
* Jacques-Louis David
* James Abbott McNeill Whistler
* Jan van Eyck
* Jan Vermeer
* Jean Clouet
* Jean Honore Fragonard
* Jean Fouquet
* Jiao Bingzhen
* Johann Friedrich von Schiller (Great Writer in )
* Johann Sebastian Bach (Great Musician in )
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Great Writer in )
* Johannes Brahms (Great Musician in )
* Joseph Conrad (removed in )
* József Borsos
* Homer (Great Writer in )
* Kālidāsa (Great Writer in )
* Kamaleddin Behzad
* Kano Masanobu
* Karl Briullov (Bryullov)
* Katsushika Hokusai
* Leonardo da Vinci
* Leo Tolstoy (Great Writer in )
* Li Po (removed in )
* Ling Lun (removed in )
* Louis Armstrong (removed in )
* Ludwig van Beethoven (Great Musician in )
* Leo Tolstoy
* Mark Twain (Great Writer in )
* Martin Johnson Heade
* Mary Cassatt
* Michelangelo Buonarroti 
* Miguel de Cervantes (Great Writer in )
* Miles Davis (removed in )
* Omar Khayyám (Great Writer in )
* Pablo Neruda (only in )
* Pablo Picasso
* Paul Cezanne
* Paul Delaroche
* Paul Gauguin
* Paolo Uccello
* Peter Paul Rubens
* Petrus Christus
* Pierre-Auguste Renoir
* Pieter Bruegel (the Younger)
* Pieter Bruegel the Elder
* Qian Xuan
* Qiu Ying
* Raffaello Sanzio
* Raja Ravi Varma
* Rembrandt van Rijn
* Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (Great Writer in )
* Salvador Dali (only in )
* Samuel F. B. Morse
* Sandro Botticelli
* Sergey Vasilyevich Ivanov]
* Stanley Kubrick (only in )
* Sultan Muhammad
* Thespis (removed in )
* Thomas Gainsborough
* Tintoretto
* Titian
* 
* Toyokuni Utagawa
* Utagawa Hiroshige
* Utagawa Kuniyoshi
* Valmiki (Great Writer in )
* Victor Hugo (Great Writer in )
* Viktor M. Vasnetsov
* Vincent van Gogh
* Virgil (Great Writer in )
* Wang Ximeng
* Wang Xizhi (removed in )
* Willem van de Velde the Younger
* William Butler Yeats (only in )
* William Bouguereau
* William Shakespeare (Great Writer in )
* William Simpson
* Winslow Homer
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Great Musician in )
* Yan Liben
* Yanagawa Shigenobu
* Yunus Emre (removed in )
* Zhang Zeduan
An Artist whose artwork got removed (along with the artist):
* Edvard Munch
== Great Writers (Great Artists in vanilla and G&K) ==
* Aesop
* Vittorio Alfieri
* Dante Alighieri
* Ludovico Ariosto
* Aristophanes
* Jane Austen
* Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube
* Bhāsa
* L. Frank Baum
* Harriet Beecher Stowe
* Cao Xueqin
* Lewis Carroll
* Miguel de Cervantes
* Geoffrey Chaucer
* Anton Chekhov
* Chikamatsu Monzaemon
* James Fenimore Cooper
* Stephen Crane
* Rubén Darío
* Charles Dickens
* Emily Dickinson
* Fyodor Dostoyevsky
* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
* Alexandre Dumas
* F. Scott Fitzgerald
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
* Nikolay Gogol
* Maksim Gorky
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
* José Hernández
* Homer
* Victor Hugo
* Washington Irving
* Jorge Isaacs
* Kālidāsa
* Omar Khayyám
* Ki no Tsurayuki
* Rudyard Kipling
* Langling Xiaoxiao Sheng
* D. H. Lawrence
* Lucian of Samosata
* Thomas Mallory
* Herman Melville
* Murasaki Shikibu
* Natsume Soseki
* Ovid
* Petrarch
* Edgar Allen Poe
* Marcel Proust
* Qu Yuan
* François Rabelais
* Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
* Johann Friedrich von Schiller
* William Shakespeare
* Mary Shelley
* Shi Naian
* Sophocles
* Edmund Spencer
* Henry David Thoreau
* Leo Tolstoy
* Mark Twain
* Ueda Akinari
* Valmiki
* Jules Verne
* Virgil
* Voltaire
* Vyasa
* H. G. Wells
* Walt Whitman
* Yoshida Kenkō
== Great Musicians (Great Artists in vanilla and G&K) ==
* John Adams
* Al-Kindi
* Alla Rakha
* Johann Sebastian Bach
* Louis Ballard
* Ludwig van Beethoven
* Prince Benbadhanabongse
* Alban Berg
* David Blanasi
* Johannes Brahms
* Benjamin Britten
* Prince Buster
* William Byrd
* John Cage
* Carlos Chávez
* Frédéric Chopin
* Sayed Darwish
* Claude Debussy
* Guillaume Dufay
* Antonín Dvořák
* Duke Ellington
* Enheduanna
* Ulvi Cemal Erkin
* Gaspar Fernandes
* Giovanni Gabrieli
* George Gershwin
* Carlo Gesualdo
* Guido d'Arezzo
* George Handel
* Franz Josef Haydn
* Gustav Holst
* Charles Ives
* Ji Kang
* Orlande de Lassus
* Solomon Linda
* Ferenc Liszt
* Emerico Lobo de Mesquita
* Gustav Mahler
* Guillaume de Machaut
* Meerabai
* Mesomedes
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
* Modest Mussorgsky
* R. Carlos Nakai
* Jacob Obrecht
* Johannes Ockeghem
* Niccolò Paganini
* Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
* Hanna Petros
* Josquin des Prez
* Maurice Ravel
* Steve Reich
* Silvestre Revueltas
* Camille Saint Saëns
* Esteban Salas y Castro
* Erik Satie
* Manuel Saumell
* Francisco Manuel da Silva
* Johann Strauss II
* Richard Strauss
* Thomas Tallis
* Taizan Higuchi
* Pyotr Tchaikovsky
* Giuseppe Verdi
* Richard Wagner
* Wasitodiningrat
* Hugo Wolf
* Yamada Kengyo
* Yatsuhashi Kengyo
* Ziryab
== Great Merchants ==
* Aretas III
* Andrew Carnegie
* Coco Chanel
* Marcus Licinius Crassus
* Enrico Dandolo (Venetian leader in )
* Anthony van Diemen
* Jakob Fugger
* Harkuf
* Edward Harriman
* Milton S. Hershey
* Ibn Battuta
* Steve Jobs
* John Maynard Keynes
* Sir James Lancaster
* Sir Alexander Mackenzie
* Giovanni de Medici
* John Stuart Mill
* Henri Nestlé
* Marco Polo (Great Merchant of Venice in )
* John D. Rockefeller
* Sir Thomas Roe
* Shah Jahan
* Adam Smith
* Levi Strauss
* Raja Todar Mal
* Thomas Twining
* Cornelius Vanderbilt
* Richard Whittington
* Wang Anshi
* Zhang Qian
== Great Engineers ==
* Archimedes
* Alexander Graham Bell
* Isambard Kingdom Brunel
* Karl Benz
* Henry Bessemer
* Bi Sheng
* Cai Lun
* Charles Augustin de Coulomb
* Louis Daguerre
* Gottlieb Daimler
* Charles Stark Draper
* George Eastman
* Thomas Edison
* Alexandre Gustave Eiffel
* Henry Ford
* Benjamin Franklin
* Robert Goddard
* George Washington Goethals
* Heron
* Imhotep
* Joseph Marie Jacquard
* Ferdinand de Lesseps
* Guglielmo Marconi
* William Morton
* Nikolaus August Otto
* Blaise Pascal
* Norbert Rillieux
* John Roebling
* Wilhelm Schickard
* Mimar Sinan
* Nain Singh
* Nikola Tesla
* James Watt
* Frank Lloyd Wright (only in )
* Orville Wright
* Wilbur Wright
* Zhang Heng
== Great Scientists ==
* Al-Khwarizmi
* Al-Razi
* Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi
* Alhazen
* Aristotle
* Aryabhata
* Francis Bacon
* Tycho Brahe
* Niels Bohr
* Nicolaus Copernicus
* Marie Curie
* John Dalton
* Charles Darwin
* René Descartes
* Albert Einstein
* Euclid
* Leonard Euler
* Michael Faraday
* Enrico Fermi
* Richard Feynman
* Rosalind Franklin
* Galileo Galilei
* Carl Friedrich Gauss
* Werner Heisenberg
* Alexander von Humboldt
* Hypatia
* Johannes Kepler
* Andrey Kolmogorov
* Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
* Mary Leakey
* Antony van Leeuwenhoek
* Gottfried Leibniz
* Carl Linnaeus
* Mikhail Lomonosov
* James Clerk Maxwell
* Gregor Mendel
* Dmitri Mendeleev
* Merit-Ptah
* Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
* Nabu-rimanni
* John von Neumann
* Isaac Newton
* Louis Pasteur
* Plato
* Ptolemy
* Ernest Rutherford
* Andrey Sakharov
* Claude Shannon
* Shen Kuo
* Socrates
* Alan Turing
* Xi Ling Shi
* Zu Chongzhi
== Khans ==
* Batu
* Berke
* Genghis
* Guyuk
* Hulegu
* Kublai
* Mongke
* Mongke Temur
* Ogedei
* Temur Khagan
== Merchants of Venice ==
* Gasparo Balbi
* Giovanni Balzoni
* Giosafat Barbaro
* Giovanni Caboto
* Alvise Cadamosto
* Ambrogio Contarini
* Niccolo de Conti
* Cesare Federici
* Antonio Pigafetta
* Maffeo Polo
* Marco Polo
* Niccolo Polo
== Scenario-specific ==
=== American Civil War ===
==== Great Generals ====
* Ambrose Burnside
* George McClellan
* George Meade
* Irvin McDowell
* Joe Hooker
* Joe Johnston
* Robert E. Lee
* Ulysses Grant
=== Scramble for Africa ===
==== Explorers ====
* Alexandre de Serpa Pinto
* Alexandrine Tinne
* Antonio da Silva Porto
* Benjamin Anderson
* Carl Peters
* David Livingstone
* Dixon Denham
* Dragutin Lerman
* Eduard Vogel
* Emil Holub
* Frederick Burnham
* Frederick Lugard
* Frederick Selous
* Friedrich Rohlfs
* Georg Schweinfurth
* Gustav Nachtigal
* Hans Meyer
* Heinrich Barth
* Henri Duveyrier
* Henry M. Stanley
* Hermenegildo Capelo
* Hugh Clapperton
* James Elton
* Johann Krapf
* Johannes Rebmann
* John Hanning Speke
* John Kirk
* Mary Kingsley
* Mirko Seljan
* Oskar Lenz
* Panayotos Potagos
* Paul de Chaillu
* Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
* Rene Caillie
* Richard Francis Burton
* Richard Lander
* Richard Mohun
* Roberto Ivens
* Romolo Gessi
* Samuel Baker
* William Stairs
== See also ==
* List of historical figures in other games
Category:Lists (Civ5)
Category:Historical figure lists