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World Leaders

Below we have included the biographies of some of the most powerful and influential leaders in world history.

Alexander the Great - Greek leader who conquered western Asia and northeast Africa.
Augustus - The first Emperor of Rome.
Napoleon Bonaparte - French military leader who became Emperor of the French.
Leonid Brezhnev - Leader of the Soviet Union during much of the Cold War.
Julius Caesar - Dictator of Rome who helped bring about the end of the Roman Republic.
Fidel Castro - Cuban revolutionary and longtime leader of the Cuban government.
Charlemagne - King of the Franks and the Holy Roman Emperor.
Winston Churchill - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II.
Cleopatra VII - The last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
Constantine the Great - Roman emperor who converted to Christianity..
Cyrus the Great - King and founder of the Persian Empire.
Jefferson Davis - Leader of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Queen Elizabeth I - Queen of England for 44 years.
Hatshepsut - One of the most powerful and successful pharaohs of Ancient Egypt.
Genghis Khan - Founder of the Mongol Empire.
Hammurabi - King of Babylon who established a written code of laws.
Mikhail Gorbachev - Last leader of the Soviet Union.
Adolf Hitler - Leader of Nazi Germany during World War II.

King Henry VIII - King of England famous for marrying six times.
Thomas Jefferson - Third President of the US who wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Joan of Arc - Led the French during the Hundred Years War while still a teenager.
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Civil rights leader who brought change through non-violent protest.
Kublai Khan - Mongol Emperor who established the Yuan Dynasty of China.
Vladimir Lenin - Communist revolutionary who helped found the Soviet Union.
Abraham Lincoln - President of the United States during the American Civil War.
Tsar Nicholas II - The last Tsar of Russia.
Benito Mussolini - Dictator of Italy during World War II.
Pericles - Greek leader of Athens during the Greek golden age.
Colin Powell - United States General and Secretary of State.
Emperor Qin - United China under one rule and became the first Chinese Emperor.
Maximilien Robespierre - French revolutionary who led France during the Terror.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - President of the US during the Great Depression and World War II.
Saladin - Sultan of Egypt and Syria who captured Jerusalem from the Crusaders.
Joseph Stalin - Leader of the Soviet Union during World War II.
Suleiman the Magnificent - Ruler of the Ottoman Empire during its golden age.
Margaret Thatcher - The first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Queen Victoria - Queen of England for over 63 years during the Victorian Era.
Ramses II - Considered the greatest and most powerful Egyptian Pharaoh.
George Washington - First President of the United States.
William the Conqueror - Became King of England after the Norman Conquest.
Empress Wu - The only woman to take the title of Emperor of China.
Mao Zedong - Communist revolutionary who founded the People's Republic of China.

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