List of historical figures in Civ5

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The following is a list of historical figures in Civilization V. They are randomly born as "Great People" outside of the player's cities.

Great Generals

• Akbar
• Arminius
• Auitzol
• Hamilcar Barca
• Belisarius
• Cao Cao
• Chandragupta Maurya
• Hernan Cortez
• Oliver Cromwell
• El Cid
• Eugene of Savoy
• Gaius Marius
• Geronimo
• Heinz Guderian
• Helmuth von Moltke
• Ivan the Terrible
• Jeanne d'Arc
• Robert E. Lee
• Leonidas
• Lysander
• Charles Martel
• Bernard Montgomery
• George Patton
• Francisco Pizzaro
• Erwin Rommel
• Michiel de Ruyter
• Sargon
• Scipio Africanus
• Subutai
• Sun Tzu
• Timur
• Vercingetorix
• Khaled ibn al-Walid
• William the Conqueror
• Zhuge Liang
• Georgy Zhukov

Great Admirals (Great Generals in vanilla)

• Afonso de Albuquerque
• Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
• Calonymus of Alexandria
• Andrew Cunningham
• Don John of Austria
• Ganymedes of Alexandria
• Henry the Navigator
• Horatio Nelson
• Matthew Perry
• Phormio
• Isoroku Yamamoto
• Yi Sun-sin
• Zheng He

Khans

• Batu
• Berke
• Genghis
• Hulegu
• Kublai
• Temür

Great Artists

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema
• Pieter Brueghel the Elder
• El Greco
• Eugène Delacroix
• Jean Fouquet
• Vincent van Gogh
• Hiranand
• Hans Holbein the Younger
• Hokusai
• Amir Khusrow
• Gustav Klimt
• Li Po
• Michelangelo
• Claude Monet
• Edward Munch
• Ibn Muqlah
• Pablo Picasso
• Qiu Ying
• Raja Ravi Varma
• Raphael
• Rembrandt van Rijn
• Toyokuni Utagawa
• Johannes Vermeer
• Leonardo da Vinci
• James Abbott McNeill Whistler
• Yan Liben

Great Writers (Great Artists in vanilla and G&K)

• Dante Alighieri
• Aristophanes
• Roberto Arlt
• Bhāsa
• Miguel de Cervantes
• Joseph Conrad
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Du Fu
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Homer
• Victor Hugo
• Jorge Isaacs
• Franz Kafka
• Omar Khayyam
• Rudyard Kipling
• Stanley Kubrick
• Langling Xiaoxiao Sheng
• Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
• William Shakespeare
• Mary Shelley
• Henry David Thoreau
• Thespis
• Valmiki
• Virgil
• Anton Chekhov
• Petrarch

Great Musicians (Great Artists in vanilla and G&K)

• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Johannes Brahms
• John Cage
• Carlos Chavez
• Miles Davis
• Duke Ellington
• George Gershwin
• Edward Grieg
• Gustav Holst
• Guillaume de Machaut
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Josquin de Pres
• Maurice Ravel
• Heitor Villa-Lobos
• Richard Wagner
• Taizan Higuchi
• Silvestre Revueltas
• R. Carlos Nakai

Great Engineers

• Archimedes
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel
• Carl Benz
• Henry Bessemer
• Bi Sheng
• Cai Lun
• Louis Daguerre
• Thomas Edison
• Alexandre Gustave Eiffel
• Euclid
• Henry Ford
• Benjamin Franklin
• George Washington Goethals
• Imhotep
• Guglielmo Marconi
• William Morton
• Nikolaus August Otto
• Norbert Rillieux
• John Roebling
• Wilhelm Schickard
• Mimar Sinan
• Nain Singh
• Nikola Tesla
• Orville Wright
• Wilbur Wright

Great Scientists

• Alhazen
• Aristotle
• Francis Bacon
• Tycho Brahe
• Niels Bohr
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Marie Curie
• John Dalton
• Charles Darwin
• René Descartes
• Albert Einstein
• Michael Faraday
• Richard Feynman
• Rosalind Franklin
• Galileo Galilei
• Carl Friedrich Gauss
• Werner Heisenberg
• Abdul Hai Habibi
• Johannes Kepler
• Al-Khwarizmi
• Al-Kindi
• Gottfried Leibniz
• Antony van Leeuwenhoek
• James Clerk Maxwell
• Merit-Ptah
• Nabu-rimanni
• Isaac Newton
• Blaise Pascal
• Louis Pasteur
• Plato
• Ptolemy
• Al-Razi
• Andrei Sakharov
• Socrates
• Xi Ling Shi
• Zu Chongzhi
• John von Neumann

Great Merchants

• Aretas III
• Ibn Battuta
• Andrew Carnegie
• Jacques Cartier
• Coco Chanel
• Christopher Columbus
• James Cook
• Hanno
• Harkuf
• Shah Jahan
• Steve Jobs
• John Maynard Keynes
• Sir Alexander Mackenzie
• Henri Nestlé
• Pytheas
• Sir Thomas Roe
• Adam Smith
• Raja Todar Mal
• Cornelius Venderbilt
• Richard Whittington
• Wang Anshi
• Zhang Qian

Merchants of Venice

• Niccolo de Conti