Historical Figures

  • A real British monarch; often taken as Elizabeth II.

  • Given name of Saint Francis Xavier, 16th‑c. Catholic missionary

  • Real artist and activist; avant-garde and peace work

  • Yes! Barack Obama, 44th U.S. president.

  • Fits! Famous physicist; laws of motion and gravity.

  • Yes! Xerxes I, famed Achaemenid Persian king.

  • Yes! First U.S. president; led the Revolution.

  • Fits: famed UK WWII PM; led Britain to victory.

  • 12th U.S. president and Mexican-American War general

  • Yes! Napoleon Bonaparte, French emperor and general.

  • Valid—Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. president; led the Civil War.

  • Nice! Usually means JFK, US president (1961-63).

  • Valid—Soviet leader; ruled the USSR.

  • Fits: iconic English playwright and poet.

  • Boris Yeltsin, first President of Russia

  • Palestinian leader; shared Nobel Peace Prize

  • First human in space; Soviet cosmonaut hero

  • Yes - 45th U.S. president; major political figure.

  • Yes! Albert Einstein, famed physicist of relativity.

  • Real historic athlete; Jamaican sprinter, WR holder.

  • Real historic leader; US president in Civil War

  • Yes! Founding Father and inventor of bifocals.

  • Valid: US presidents Theodore and Franklin D.

  • Real person: Russian leader, longtime president

  • Famous inventor; light bulb and phonograph pioneer.

  • Founding Father; 3rd US president, Declaration author.

  • Valid—Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance polymath; painted Mona Lisa.

  • Valid - Vladimir Putin, longtime Russian president.

  • Valid - first tsar of Russia; 16th-century Ivan IV.

  • Valid: US President; helped end Cold War.

  • Refers to Donald Trump, 45th US president.

  • Roman general Ulysses (Odysseus) is mythic, but “Ulysses S. Grant” is key US Civil War general, 18th president.

  • Yes! South African leader who ended apartheid.

  • Famed explorer who reached the Americas in 1492.

  • Real person: Dutch post-Impressionist painter

  • Yes! Isaac Newton, landmark physicist and mathematician.

  • Queen Victoria, 19th-century British monarch

  • Valid—Vladimir Lenin, led the Russian Revolution; founded USSR.

  • Yes, 44th U.S. President; led 2009–2017.

  • Real physicist; developed the theory of relativity

  • Valid: civil rights icon; sparked bus boycott.

  • Xavier the great

  • Yes - Charles Darwin, evolution pioneer and naturalist.

  • Vincent van Gogh, famed Dutch painter

  • Tudor queen of England; major 16th-century ruler.

  • Short for John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. president.

  • Valid: Russian mystic, advisor to the Romanovs.

  • Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine's president and wartime leader

  • Yes! Richard Nixon, 37th U.S. president.

  • Yes! Mahatma Gandhi led India's nonviolence fight.

  • Fits: animation pioneer; founded Disney Studios.

  • Alexander Hamilton, US Founding Father.

  • Yes! Irish playwright, author of Dorian Gray.

  • Yes! Refers to Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. president.

  • Yes! 19th-century philosopher who shaped communism.

  • Real historical singer; iconic voice of the swing era.

  • Real Macedonian king; famed ancient conqueror

  • Clear misspelling of Newton’s name, a famous physicist.

  • A recognizable spelling of Mahatma Gandhi, Indian independence leader.

  • Valid - Prime Minister of India; influential leader.

  • Archduke of Austria; his assassination sparked WWI.

  • Yes! Thomas Edison, inventor and business pioneer.

  • Yes! 2nd U.S. president and Founding Father.

  • Valid: US President; resigned after Watergate.

  • Valid—William Shakespeare, famed playwright.

  • US Founding Father; first Treasury Secretary

  • FDR, US president who led during the New Deal era.

  • Last active pharaoh of Egypt; famed queen.

  • Fits: U.S. president during WWI; reformer.

  • Yes, 42nd U.S. President; 1993–2001.

  • Likely Benjamin Franklin, US founder and inventor.

  • Yes, Ludwig van Beethoven, famed composer of symphonies.

  • Valid - usually means MLK Jr, US civil rights leader.

  • Iconic silent-film actor, comedian, and director.

  • Winston Churchill, UK prime minister in WWII.

  • Yes - WWII general and 34th U.S. president.

  • French novelist; wrote Les Miserables

  • Valid - Plato, famous ancient Greek philosopher.

  • Henry Ford, auto pioneer who founded Ford Motor.

  • Naturalist who proposed evolution by selection.

  • Yes! Dwight D. Eisenhower, US president and WWII general.

  • Fits: Scottish hero who fought English rule.

  • Modern British monarch; reigned 1952–2022.

  • Valid: extremist leader of al-Qaeda, behind 9/11.

  • Yes - Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance artist-inventor.

  • Yes! US First Lady and human rights champion.

  • Real figure; 18th US President, Civil War general.

  • Likely King David of Israel; famed biblical ruler.

  • US president; general in the War of 1812

  • Yes! 4th U.S. president, 'Father of the Constitution'.

  • Yes! Roman emperor Nero, 1st-century ruler.

  • Valid—ancient Greek philosopher and teacher.

  • Yes! Refers to Galileo Galilei, famed astronomer.

  • Yes—commonly refers to a U.S. president, father or son.

  • Valid - Picasso, legendary Spanish painter and sculptor.

  • Valid - Nelson Mandela, South African president; anti-apartheid.

  • Refers to Harry S. Truman, 33rd US president.

  • Queen of Great Britain; ruled 1702–1714.

  • Usually Julius Caesar, Roman general and statesman.

  • Jewish diarist; documented life during Holocaust

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