List of historical figures in Civ4

The following is a comprehensive list of the historical figures in Civilization IV and its expansions. The list matches the order in which they appear in the game, which is roughly based on chronological order. The links point to Wikipedia.

Great Prophets

Moses Narayana Guru Tsongkhapa Shankara Jeanne d'Arc Atisha Kobo-Daishi Abu Bakr St. Patrick St. Peter Mohammed Shah Narak St. John Mo Tzu

St. Thomas Aquinas St. Augustine Tipu Sultan St. Paul Mencius Chuang-Tzu Mahavira Sojourner Truth Rabbi Akiva Ananda Ramakrishna Mani Zoroaster

Great Artists

Homer Thespis Ling Lun Wang Xizhi Valmiki Virgil Kalidas Li Po Du Fu Jalal al-Din Rumi Dante Alighieri Yunus Emre Amir Khusro Ibn Muqlah Michaelangelo Raphael William Shakespeare Miguel de Cervantes Rembrandt van Rijn Elvis Presley

Johannes Vermeer J. S. Bach Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ludwig van Beethoven Victor Hugo Vincent van Gogh Johannes Brahms Antonín Dvořák Mark Twain Claude Monet Joseph Conrad Franz Kafka Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington Pablo Picasso Miles Davis Jimi Hendrix Frank Sinatra James Dean

Great Scientists

Merit Ptah Xi Ling Shi Nabu-rimanni Socrates Plato Aristotle Euclid Ptolemy Hypatia Zu Chongzhi Aryabhata Al-Kindi Al-Khwarizmi Al-Razi Alhazen Nicolaus Copernicus Francis Bacon Tycho Brahe Johannes Kepler Isaac Newton

Galileo Galilei René Descartes Antony van Leeuwenhoek Gottfried Leibniz Mikhail Lomonosov Antoine Laurent Lavoisier Carl Friedrich Gauss John Dalton Michael Faraday James Clerk Maxwell Louis Pasteur Charles Darwin Ernest Rutherford Marie Curie Albert Einstein Niels Bohr Werner Heisenberg Enrico Fermi Rosalind Franklin Andrei Sakharov

Great Merchants

Harkuf Hanno Pytheas Zhang Qian Aretas III Leif Erickson Wang Anshi Enrico Dandolo Marco Polo Ibn Battuta Richard Whittington Giovanni de Medici Zheng He Vasco da Gama Christopher Columbus

Ferdinand Magellan Jacques Cartier Raja Todar Mal Anthony van Diemen Sir Thomas Roe Shah Jahan Adam Smith James Cook Cornelius Vanderbilt Sir Alexander Mackenzie John Stuart Mill Andrew Carnegie John D. Rockefeller John Maynard Keynes Coco Chanel Steve Jobs

Great Engineers

Imhotep Archimedes Heron Cai Lun Zhang Heng Bi Sheng Leonardo da Vinci Sinan Wilhelm Schickard Blaise Pascal Benjamin Franklin Charles Augustin de Coulomb James Watt Robert Fulton Joseph Marie Jacquard Isambard Kingdom Brunel William T. G. Morton

Louis Daguerre Ferdinand de Lesseps John Roebling Norbert Rillieux Henry Bessemer Nain Singh Alexander Graham Bell Nikolaus August Otto Gottlieb Daimler Nikola Tesla Thomas Edison Guglielmo Marconi Alexandre Gustave Eiffel George Washington Goethals Henry Ford Wilbur Wright Orville Wright

Great Generals

The Great Generals are available in the Warlords and Beyond the Sword expansion packs.

Sargon Nebuchadnezzar II Sun Tzu Leonidas Lysander Chandragupta Maurya Hamilcar Barca Gaius Marius Scipio Africanus Vercingetorix Arminius Boudica Cao Cao Zhuge Liang Belisarius Khalid ibn al-Walid Charles Martel Charlemagne Jayavarman II El Cid William the Conqueror Subutai

Timur Pachacuti Auitzotl Hernan Cortés Francisco Pizzaro Ivan the Terrible Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar Gustavus II Adolphus Michiel de Ruyter Oliver Cromwell Eugene of Savoy Horatio Nelson Robert Lee Geronimo George Dewey Isoroku Yamamoto George Smith Patton Bernard Montgomery Douglas MacArthur Heinz Guderian Erwin Rommel Georgy Zhukov

Great Spies

The Great Spies are available only in the Beyond the Sword expansion pack. The last ten names on the list are taken from Beyond the Sword beta testers and not historical figures.

Pebekkamen Ephialtes Jing Ke Qin Wuyang Calippus Leone Alberti John Barlow Francis Walsingham Hattori Hanzo Balthasar Gerard Anthony Babington Ishikawa Goemon Gaspar Graziani Guy Fawkes John Honeyman Nathan Hale Charlotte Corday Giacomo Casanova

Allan Pinkerton William Melville Belle Boyd Sidney Reilly An Jung-Geun Claude Dansey Mata Hari J. Edgar Hoover Moe Berg Ethel Rosenberg Julius Rosenberg Claus von Stauffenberg Suzanne Spaak William Donovan Speaker the Lionhearted Viktor Griph Nolan Buonarroti Atlas Titanus Foshaug the Deceiver Joe Matise Eystein the Wise Daniel Cole Max Gogf Mark Swiss

Historians

The historians are not present as units, but every now and then they publish lists of civilizations ranked by their culture, power, wealth or some such.

• Herodotus
• Thucydides
• Pliny
• St. Augustine
• Gibbon
• Toynbee
• Lord McCauley
• Livy
• Tacitus
• The Venerable Bede
• Machiavelli

See also

• List of historical figures in other games