A-Z of historical figures

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U

Pope Urban II 1035-1099

V

VINCENT VAN GOGH



W

William the conqueror


X

Xerxes I 519-465 BC

Y

Yuri Gagarin

First man in space.

Z

Zola (Emile)

A

Alexander the Great

B

Billy the Kid



C

Christoper Columbus

D

Charles Darwin

E

Edmund Hillary


F

George Stephenson


I

Should be  H

Edmond Halley, astronomer.

I

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

J

Samuel Johnson
 
Writer of  ‘A Dictionary of the English Language’.

K

Kennedy (John F)

L

Lord Kitchener



M

Mahatma Gandhi 
 
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ,( 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist, who employed non violent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British Rule.

Nobel, Alfred Bernhard

O

Oswald Mosley
 
Leader of the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists, known as the Blackshirts.


P

ramiejamie wrote:Oswald Mosley
 
Leader of the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists, known as the Blackshirts.

As featured in the last season of Peaky Blinders

Pol Pot

Queen Mary I, also known as 'Bloody Mary'.

This unfortunate nickname was thanks to her persecution of Protestant heretics, whom she burned at the stake in the hundreds


R