Prophet · 570 – 632
Muhammad
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Umar ibn al-Khattab
84Umar ibn al-Khattab was the second Rashidun caliph, one of the most powerful and influential leaders in Islamic history, under whom the early Muslim state expanded into a vast empire and developed its foundational institutions of government.
Why One of his closest companions who became the second caliph and presided over Islam's rapid expansion after Muhammad's death.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
80Khalid ibn al-Walid was one of the greatest military commanders in history, the general whose undefeated campaigns won the early Islamic conquests of Arabia, Persia and the Roman Levant for the first caliphs.
Why His greatest military commander, the undefeated general who spread Islam across Arabia and beyond.
Siddhartha Gautama
97Siddhartha Gautama, known as the Buddha, was a spiritual teacher of ancient India whose insights into suffering and liberation founded Buddhism, now one of the world's major religions.
Why A fellow founder of one of the world's great religious traditions, born roughly a thousand years earlier.
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 statesman & military leader · Comparable historical impact
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.
Why Also a military leader & statesman · Comparable historical impact
Suleiman I
90Suleiman the Magnificent was the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire, who led it to the height of its power through military conquest, legal reform and a brilliant flowering of art and architecture.
Why Also a military leader & statesman · Comparable historical impact
Moses
96Moses is the central prophet of Judaism and a foundational figure in Christianity and Islam, who according to scripture led the Hebrew people out of Egyptian slavery, received the Ten Commandments from God, and transmitted the Torah — the foundational texts of the Abrahamic religious tradition.
Why Also a prophet · Comparable historical impact
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 statesman · Comparable historical impact
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.
Why Also a military leader · Comparable historical impact
Adolf Hitler
90Adolf Hitler was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, whose ideology of racial supremacy and aggressive expansionism plunged the world into World War II and caused the Holocaust — the genocide of six million Jews and millions of others.
Why Also a military leader · Comparable historical impact
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.
Why Also a military leader · Comparable historical impact
Augustus
94Augustus was the first Roman emperor, the heir of Julius Caesar who ended a century of civil war, established the Roman Empire, and inaugurated the Pax Romana.
Why Also a statesman · Comparable historical impact
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Charles Martel
81Charles Martel was the Frankish military leader who halted the Muslim advance into Western Europe at the Battle of Tours in 732, laying the foundations of the Carolingian dynasty that his grandson Charlemagne would raise to empire.
Why Also a military leader & statesman · Active in the same era
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
81Toyotomi Hideyoshi was the warrior-statesman who completed the unification of Japan begun by Oda Nobunaga, rising from peasant origins to rule the entire country before launching ambitious and ill-fated invasions of Korea.
Why Also a statesman & military leader · Active in the same era
Mehmed II
88Mehmed II was the Ottoman sultan who conquered Constantinople in 1453, ending the Byzantine Empire and the Middle Ages, transforming the city into Istanbul and making the Ottoman Empire the dominant power of the Eastern Mediterranean.
Why Also a military leader · Active in the same era
Charlemagne
89Charlemagne was the King of the Franks who united much of Western Europe and was crowned Emperor in 800 AD, reviving the idea of a Roman empire in the West and sparking a cultural revival.
Why Also a military leader · Active in the same era
Genghis Khan
93Genghis Khan was the founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, a military genius who united the nomadic tribes of the steppe and forged the largest contiguous land empire in history.
Why Also a military leader · 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 statesman & military leader
Oliver Cromwell
81Oliver Cromwell was the English military and political leader who helped overthrow and execute King Charles I in the English Civil War, then ruled England as Lord Protector in its only period as a republic — a deeply divisive figure ever since.
Why Also a statesman & military leader
Scipio Africanus
81Scipio Africanus was a Roman general who defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama to win the Second Punic War, one of the greatest commanders of antiquity and the savior of the Roman Republic in its darkest hour.
Why Also a military leader & statesman
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 & statesman
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.
Why Also a statesman & military leader
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".
Why Also a military leader · Active in the same era
Babur
81Babur was the Central Asian conqueror who founded the Mughal Empire, a descendant of Tamerlane and Genghis Khan who, after losing his ancestral lands, invaded India and established one of the greatest empires in its history.
Why Also a military leader · Active in the same era