In Bold – know by name, not in bold, know generally
Foundations (8000 BCE – 600 CE)
Hammurabi
Abraham
Moses
Buddha
Confucius
Laozi
Socrates
Aristotle
Alexander the Great
Shi Huang Di/ Qin Shihuangdi,
Asoka
Jesus of Nazareth
600-1450
Justinian
Muhammad
Genghis (Chinggis) Khan
Khubilai Khan
Marco Polo
Saladin
Mansa Musa
Ibn Battuta
Zheng He
Pachacuti Inca
1450-1750
Bartolomeu Dias
Christopher Columbus
Martin Luther
Hernán Cortés
Francisco Pizarro
Akbar
Atahualpa
Moctezuma II
Elizabeth I
Louis XIV
Ivan IV
Peter the Great
King Nzinga/Afonso I
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Aurangzeb
Suleyman the Magnificent
Shah Ismail
1750-1914
Napoleon Bonaparte
Adam Smith
Prince von Metternich
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Commodore Perry
Simón Bolívar
Abraham Lincoln
Porfirio Díaz
Muhammad Ali
Cecil Rhodes
Queen Victoria
King Leopold II
Alexander II
1914-present
Woodrow Wilson
Mustapha Kemal
V.I. Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Mussolini
Haile Selaisse
Sun Yat-sen / Sun Yixian
Chiang Kai-shek / Jiang Jeishi
Mao Zedong / Mao Tse-tung
Deng Xiaoping
Ho Chi Minh
Ngo Dinh Diem
Mohandas Gandhi
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Fidel Castro
Nikita Kruschev
Vaclav Havel
Ayatollah Khomeini
Mikhail Gorbachev
Jomo Kenyatta
Kwame Nkrumah
Patrice Lumumba
Nelson Mandela
Saddam Hussein
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Yitzhak Rabin
Yasser Arafat
Anwar Sadat
Kim Il-Sung
Corazon Aquino
Benazir Bhutto
King Abdallah II
Vincente Fox
Sukarnoputri Megawati