Dictator · 1889 – 1945
Adolf Hitler
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Joseph Stalin
91Joseph Stalin was the Soviet dictator who industrialized the USSR, led it to victory in World War II, and built a vast empire in Eastern Europe — but also presided over a totalitarian state that killed millions through purges, gulags, and engineered famine.
Why His great ideological enemy and military opponent on the Eastern Front, who ultimately defeated him.
Winston Churchill
90Winston Churchill was the British statesman who led the United Kingdom to victory in World War II — and a prolific historian and writer whose books and speeches won him the Nobel Prize in Literature, a rare honour for a man of action.
Why The British leader whose refusal to negotiate was central to Hitler's eventual defeat.
Otto von Bismarck
89Otto von Bismarck was the Prussian statesman who unified the German states into the German Empire in 1871, serving as its first chancellor and reshaping the balance of power in Europe through ruthless realpolitik and diplomatic mastery.
Why The founder of unified Germany whose legacy Hitler twisted to his own ends.
Julius Caesar
95Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman whose conquest of Gaul and victory in civil war made him dictator of Rome, ending the Republic and paving the way for the Empire.
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Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar
88Akbar was the third Mughal emperor, who expanded the empire across much of the Indian subcontinent and is remembered for his administrative reforms, religious tolerance and patronage of the arts during a long and powerful reign.
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Alexander the Great
96Alexander the Great was the king of Macedon who built one of the largest empires in history by his early thirties, spreading Greek culture across three continents.
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Alfred the Great
80Alfred the Great was the king of Wessex who defended Anglo-Saxon England against the Vikings, reformed law, learning and defense, and is the only English monarch ever called "the Great".
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Benito Mussolini
85Benito Mussolini was the Italian fascist dictator who founded fascism as a political movement, ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943, allied with Adolf Hitler in the Axis, and was killed by partisans in 1945 — the inventor of a totalitarian ideology that inspired and shaped the 20th century's darkest political movements.
Why Also a dictator & politician · Active in the same era
Napoleon Bonaparte
94Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader who rose during the French Revolution, crowned himself Emperor, and dominated European affairs for over a decade.
Why Also a military leader & politician · Active in the same era
Abraham Lincoln
92Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, who led the nation through its Civil War, preserved the Union, and abolished slavery before his assassination in 1865.
Why Also a politician · Active in the same era
Alexander Hamilton
87Alexander Hamilton was the American Founding Father who designed the United States financial system, co-wrote the Federalist Papers, founded the first national bank, served as the first Secretary of the Treasury, and was killed in a duel by Vice President Aaron Burr in 1804.
Why Also a military leader · Active in the same era
Che Guevara
83Che Guevara was the Argentine Marxist revolutionary who helped Fidel Castro seize power in Cuba, theorized guerrilla warfare as the path to revolution in the developing world, and became an iconic symbol of rebellion after his execution in Bolivia in 1967.
Why Also a military leader · Active in the same era
George Washington
91George Washington was the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolution and the first President of the United States, whose leadership and restraint shaped the new republic.
Why Also a military leader · Active in the same era
Geronimo
81Geronimo was the Apache leader whose decade-long guerrilla resistance against the United States and Mexico made him the most feared and pursued Native American fighter of the 19th century, requiring 5,000 US troops to finally capture 38 warriors.
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
84Giuseppe Garibaldi was the Italian nationalist military leader who united southern Italy with the north through his bold expedition of the Thousand, becoming the military hero of Italian unification and one of the most celebrated revolutionary figures of the 19th century.
Why Also a politician · Active in the same era
Horatio Nelson
86Horatio Nelson was the British naval commander whose victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 destroyed the French and Spanish combined fleet, secured British naval supremacy for a century, and made him the greatest hero of British military history — killed at the moment of his triumph.
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John Brown
81John Brown was the American abolitionist who believed that slavery could only be ended by armed violence, led the raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859, was hanged for treason, and became the most polarizing and prophetic figure of the American antislavery movement.
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Maximilien Robespierre
86Maximilien Robespierre was the French revolutionary leader who dominated the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror, using revolutionary justice to execute thousands including Louis XVI — before being overthrown and guillotined himself in Thermidor.
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Shaka Zulu
80Shaka Zulu was the founder and greatest king of the Zulu Kingdom, a military revolutionary whose new tactics and weapons transformed warfare in southern Africa and forged a small clan into a powerful nation.
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Sitting Bull
84Sitting Bull was the Hunkpapa Lakota chief and holy man who united the Sioux nations against American expansion, led the coalition that defeated Custer at the Little Bighorn in 1876, and became a symbol of Native American resistance to US conquest.
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Tecumseh
83Tecumseh was the Shawnee leader who built the largest Native American confederacy in history to resist US expansion, allied with the British in the War of 1812, and was killed at the Battle of the Thames — becoming the greatest pan-Indian leader America ever faced.
Why Also a military leader · Active in the same era
Woodrow Wilson
84Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States who led the country through World War I, proposed the League of Nations — the first international organization for collective security — and articulated the principle of national self-determination that reshaped the post-war world.
Why Also a politician · Active in the same era
Themistocles
79Themistocles was an Athenian statesman and general whose foresight built the navy that saved Greece, and whose brilliant strategy at the Battle of Salamis destroyed the Persian fleet and turned back Xerxes's invasion.
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