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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
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
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
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
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
More information on the names of Merchants of Venice will come soon!