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PEOPLE IN HISTORY J - M

 

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People in History J - M     People in History N - Q     People in History R - Z

 

J

Jackson, Andrew
7th President of the US.

Jack the Ripper
Slice and dice.

Jackson, Jesse
Orator, politician, minister.

Jacob Johan Anckarström
The assassin of Gustav III.

James I
King of Great Britain.

James II
The one who named New York.

Jefferson, Thomas
Third president of the US.

Jesus Christ
Messiah for some, but not for others.

Joachim Murat
King of Naples.

Joan of Arc
A young and dynamic girl who understood the voices in her head.

John II of Castile
Isabella's father.

John II the Good
French king.

John Jervis
Nelson's admiral.

John of England
The one who sealed Magna Carta.

John of Gaunt
Duke of Lancaster.

John Paul II
Pope.

Jordan, Barbara
Excellent orator, among other things.

Joséphine de Beauharnais
The one who broke an emperor's heart.

Josephus (Flavius Josephus)
Historian.

Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
Discoverer of California.

Juárez, Benito
The one who was president while there was also an emperor in the country.

Judeich, Walther
Historian.

Justin (Marcus Junianus Justinus)
Historian.
 

K

Kafka, Franz
Depressed and brilliant.

Kant, Immanuel
German philosopher.

Keating, Paul
Australia's PM

Keller, Helen
Patty Duke.

Kennedy, Edward M.
U.S. senator and JFK's youngest brother.

Kennedy, John F.
The one with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Kennedy, Robert F.
Presidential adviser and U.S. senator.

Kerensky, Aleksandr F.
Prime Minister of the Provisional Government

Kerry, John
U.S. Senator.

Khrushchev, Nikita
Telling the world that Stalin was not a god.

King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Great dream, bad awakening.

Kissinger, Henry A.
US foreign policy.

Klee, Paul
Swiss painter.

Kolchak, Aleksandr Vasilyevich
Russian admiral.

Kornilov, Lavr G.
Russian general.
 

L

La Follette, Robert M.
Progressive.

Lady Godiva
British advocate for birthday suits.

Lavenson, James
Service expert.

Lawrence of Arabia
Devoted biker, occasional camel rider.

Lee, Robert E.
Son of Light-Horse Harry.

Lenglen, Suzanne
Tennis legend.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
The one who ended monarchy in Russia.

Leo IV
Pope.

Leonardo da Vinci
The one who created Mona Lisa.

Leopold I
Holy Roman Emperor.

Lepidus, Marcus Aemilius
Triumvir.

Lewis, John L.
L for Labor.

Lewis, Meriwether
The one with Clark.

Limantour, José Yves
Diaz' money manager.

Lincoln, Abraham
16th president of the US.

Lincoln, Mary Todd
Abe's girl.

Livy
Historian.

Lloyd George, David
British Premier.

Long, Huey P.
Dictator from Louisiana.

Longchamp, William
The one who ruled England but loved France.

Lothair
Son of Louis IV from Overseas.

Lothair I
Son of Louis the Pious.

Louis I de Bourbon
The 1st Prince of Condé.

Louis I the Pious
Long reigning king of the Carolingians.

Louis II the German
Son of Louis I the Pious,

Louis II the Stammerer
Son of Charles the Bold,

Louis III
Son of Louis the Stammerer,

Louis IV from Overseas
Son of Charles III the Simple.

Louis V
The Sluggard.

Louis VII
The Younger.

Louis VIII
The French guy who was invited to rule England.

Louis IX
Leader of the Seventh Crusade.

Louis XI
King of France.

Louis XIV
The one with style.

Lunacharsky, Anatoly
Russian patron of the arts.

Luther, Martin
The one who couldn't agree.

Lvov, Georgy
First Russian Prime Minister.

Lysimachus
One of Alexander's successors.
 

M

MacArthur, Douglas
U.S. general.

Macmillan, Harold
British Prime Minister.

Madero, Francisco
Mexican president.

Magaña, Gildardo
Zapata's successor.

Magellan, Ferdinand
Explorer.

Malcolm X
Black identity.

Mandela, Nelson
End of apartheid.

Mann, Thomas
Enjoy your trip to Venice.

Mao Zadong
The one with a vision for China.

Marcellinus, Ammianus
Historian.

Marcus Aurelius
Roman emperor.

Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
Octavian's pal.

Mardonius
Persian general.

Margaret I
Top chick in Scandinavia.

Margaret of Scotland
Atta girl.

Margaret Tudor
Henry VIII's elder sister.

Maria Theresa
The one who knew how to run a country.

Marie Antoinette
French queen with guillotine.

Mark Antony
Cleo's husband.

Marshall, George C.
The Marshall Plan.

Mary II
Orange William's wife.

Mary Queen of Scots
Pretty but clueless.

Mary Tudor
Henry VIII's sister.

Marx, Karl Heinrich
Philosopher and sociologist.

Massena, Andre
Duc de Rivoli.

Matilda of Canossa
Italian castle owner.

Matisse, Henri
French painter and lover of the Riviera.

Matthias I
King of Hungary.

Maximilian
Austrian Emperor of Mexico.

Mazzini, Giuseppe
The one from Genoa.

Mbeki, Thabo
President of South Africa.

McKinley, William
25th US President.

Menzies, Robert
Australian PM.

Metternich, Klemens von
Austrian expert of foreign relations.

Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel.

Mill, John Stuart
The British philosopher.

Miltiades the Younger
Hero of Marathon.

Minow, Newton
TV.

Miramon, Miguel
Mexican soldier.

Mithradates VI Eupator
The one who didn't like Rome.

Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich
Cocktail maker.

Moltke, Helmut K. B. Count von
Prussian military genius.

Monroe, James
5th U.S. President.

Montaño, Otilio
Emiliano's pen for the Plan of Ayala.

Montesquieu
A thinker.

Morny, Duc de
Napoleon III's half brother.

Moses
The prophet.

Mother Teresa
Calcutta's angel.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Austrian composer

Muhammad
Recipient of the the Holy Qur'an.


Muhammad II
Ottoman sultan.


Mussolini, Benito
Il Duce

 

 

 

 


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