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The following is a comprehensive '''list of the historical figures''' in the [[Personal computer|PC]] game ''[[Civilization IV]]''. The list matches the order in which they appear in the game, which is roughly based on chronological order.
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The following is a comprehensive '''list of the historical figures''' in ''[[Civilization IV]]''. 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==
 
==Great Prophets==
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{{/Great Prophets}}
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*[[Moses]]
 
*[[Mahavira]]
 
*[[Zoroaster]]
 
*[[Ananda]]
 
*[[Chuang-Tzu]]
 
*[[Mencius]]
 
*[[Mo Tzu]]
 
*[[John the Apostle|St. John]]
 
*[[St. Peter]]
 
*[[Paul of Tarsus|St. Paul]]
 
*[[Rabbi Akiva]]
 
*[[Mani (prophet)|Mani]]
 
*[[Augustine of Hippo|St. Augustine]]
 
*[[St. Patrick]]
 
 
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*[[Abu Bakr]]
 
*[[Adi_Shankara|Shankara]]
 
*[[Kūkai|Kōbō Daishi]]
 
*[[Atisha]]
 
*[[St. Thomas Aquinas]]
 
*[[Mohammed Shah]]
 
*[[Tsongkhapa]]
 
*[[Joan of Arc|Jeanne d'Arc]]
 
*Narak (sic) should be [[Nanak]]
 
*[[Tipu Sultan]]
 
*[[Ramakrishna]]
 
*[[Narayana Guru]]
 
*[[Sojourner Truth]]
 
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==Great Artists==
 
==Great Artists==
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{{/Great Artists}}
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*[[Homer]]
 
*[[Thespis]]
 
*[[Ling Lun]]
 
*[[Wang Xizhi]]
 
*[[Valmiki]]
 
*[[Virgil]]
 
*[[Kalidas]]
 
*[[Li Po]]
 
*[[Du Fu]]
 
*[[Jalal ad-Din Rumi|Jalal al-Din Rumi]]
 
*[[Dante Alighieri]]
 
*[[Yunus Emre]]
 
*[[Amir Khusro]]
 
*[[Islamic calligraphy|Ibn Muqlah]]
 
*[[Michaelangelo]]
 
*[[Raphael]]
 
*[[William Shakespeare]]
 
*[[Miguel de Cervantes]]
 
*[[Rembrandt van Rijn]]
 
 
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*[[Johannes Vermeer]]
 
*[[Johann Sebastian Bach|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]]
 
*[[Elvis Presley]]
 
*[[Alanis Morrissette]]
 
*[[Michael Jackson]]|}
 
   
 
==Great Scientists==
 
==Great Scientists==
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{{/Great Scientists}}
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*[[Merit Ptah]]
 
*[[Xi Ling-Shi|Xi Ling Shi]]
 
*[[Nabu-rimanni]]
 
*[[Socrates]]
 
*[[Plato]]
 
*[[Aristotle]]
 
*[[Euclid]]
 
*[[Ptolemy]]
 
*[[Hypatia of Alexandria|Hypatia]]
 
*[[Zu Chongzhi]]
 
*[[Aryabhata]]
 
*[[Al-Kindi]]
 
*[[Al-Khwarizmi]]
 
*[[Al-Razi]]
 
*[[Alhazen]]
 
*[[Nicolaus Copernicus]]
 
*[[Francis Bacon]]
 
*[[Tycho Brahe]]
 
*[[Johannes Kepler]]
 
*[[Isaac Newton]]
 
 
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*[[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]]
 
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==Great Merchants==
 
==Great Merchants==
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{{/Great Merchants}}
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*[[Harkuf]]
 
*[[Hanno the Navigator|Hanno]]
 
*[[Pytheas]]
 
*[[Zhang Qian]]
 
*[[Aretas III]]
 
*[[Leif_Ericson|Leif Erickson]]
 
*[[Wang Anshi]]
 
*[[Enrico Dandolo]]
 
*[[Marco Polo]]
 
*[[Ibn Battuta]]
 
*[[Richard Whittington]]
 
*[[Giovanni de Medici]]
 
*[[Zheng He]]
 
*[[Vasco da Gama]]
 
*[[Christopher Columbus]]
 
 
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*[[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]]
 
|}
 
   
 
==Great Engineers==
 
==Great Engineers==
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{{/Great Engineers}}
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*[[Imhotep]] (column use in architecture)
 
*[[Archimedes]]
 
*[[Hero of Alexandria|Heron]]
 
*[[Cai Lun]] (paper)
 
*[[Zhang Heng]]
 
*[[Bi Sheng]] (movable type)
 
*[[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]]
 
 
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*[[Louis Daguerre]] (photography)
 
*[[Ferdinand de Lesseps]] (Suez Canal)
 
*[[John Roebling]] (suspension bridge)
 
*[[Norbert Rillieux]] (Multiple-effect evaporator)
 
*[[Henry Bessemer]] (Bessemer process in steel)
 
*[[Nain Singh]] (survey of Himalayas)
 
*[[Alexander Graham Bell]] (telephone)
 
*[[Nikolaus August Otto]] (internal-combustion engine)
 
*[[Gottlieb Daimler]] (Four-Stroke engine)
 
*[[Nikola Tesla]] (A/C Current)
 
*[[Thomas Edison]] (Phonograph and light bulb)
 
*[[Guglielmo Marconi]] (radio)
 
*[[Alexandre Gustave Eiffel]] (Eiffel Tower and Statue of Liberty)
 
*[[George Washington Goethals]] (Panama Canal)
 
*[[Henry Ford]] (assembly line)
 
*[[Wilbur Wright]] (airplane)
 
*[[Orville Wright]] (airplane)
 
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==Great Generals==
 
==Great Generals==
The Great Generals are available in the ''[[Civilization IV: Warlords|Warlords]]'' and ''[[Civilization IV: Beyond The Sword|Beyond The Sword]]'' expansion packs.
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The Great Generals are available in the ''[[Civilization IV: Warlords|Warlords]]'' and ''[[Beyond the Sword]]'' expansion packs.
   
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{{/Great Generals}}
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* [[Sargon of Akkad|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]]
 
 
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* [[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 E. Lee|Robert Lee]]
 
* [[Geronimo]]
 
* [[George Dewey]]
 
* [[Isoroku Yamamoto]]
 
* [[George Smith Patton]]
 
* [[Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein|Bernard Montgomery]]
 
* [[Douglas MacArthur]]
 
* [[Heinz Guderian]]
 
* [[Erwin Rommel]]
 
* [[Georgy Zhukov]]
 
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==Great Spies==
 
==Great Spies==
The Great Spies are available only in the ''[[Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword|Beyond The Sword]]'' expansion pack.
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The Great Spies are available only in the ''[[Beyond the Sword]]'' expansion pack.
   
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{{/Great Spies}}
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* [[Pebekkamen]]
 
* [[Ephialtes of Trachis|Ephialtes]]
 
* [[Jing Ke]]
 
* [[Qin Wuyang]]
 
* [[Calippus of Syracuse|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]]
 
   
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==Historians==
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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.
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* [[wikipedia:Herodotus|Herodotus]]
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* [[wikipedia:Thucydides|Thucydides]]
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* [[wikipedia:Pliny|Pliny]]
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* [[wikipedia:St. Augustine of Hippo|St. Augustine]]
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* [[wikipedia:Edward Gibbon|Gibbon]]
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* [[wikipedia:Arnold Joseph Toynbee|Toynbee]]
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* [[wikipedia:Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay|Lord McCauley]]
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* [[wikipedia:Livy|Livy]]
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* [[wikipedia:Tacitus|Tacitus]]
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* [[wikipedia:The Venerable Bede|The Venerable Bede]]
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* [[wikipedia:Machiavelli|Machiavelli]]
   
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{{enWP|List of historical figures in Civilization IV}}
* [[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]]
 
* [[Viktor Griph]]
 
* [[Joe Matise]]
 
* [[Daniel Cole]]
 
* [[Mark Swiss]]
 
* [[Foshaug the Deceiver]]
 
* [[Speaker the Lionhearted]]
 
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==Historians==
 
*[[Herodotus]]
 
*[[Thucydides]]
 
*[[Pliny]]
 
*[[St. Augustine of Hippo|St. Augustine]]
 
*[[Edward Gibbon|Gibbon]]
 
*[[Arnold Joseph Toynbee|Toynbee]]
 
*[[Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay|Lord McCauley]]
 
*[[Livy]]
 
*[[Tacitus]]
 
*[[The Venerable Bede]]
 
*[[Machiavelli]]
 
   
 
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{{enWP|List of historical figures in Civilization IV}}
 
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Revision as of 02:44, 28 September 2019

The following is a comprehensive list of the historical figures in Civilization IV. 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


Great Artists


Great Scientists


Great Merchants


Great Engineers


Great Generals

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


Great Spies

The Great Spies are available only in the Beyond the Sword expansion pack.


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.

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