R

Rasputin
Russian weasel.

Raymond IV
Crusader.

Reagan, Ronald
40th president.

Ribbentrop, Joachim von
Nazi Germany's foreign minister.

Richard the Lionheart
Richard I, King of England.

Richelieu
Cardinal.

Robespierre, Maxmilien de
Main character during the French Revolution.

Robles, Juvencio
Nasty.

Roentgen, Wilhelm Conrad
The one who could see right through.

Romanov, Michael
First Romanov tsar.

Romeo Rubio, Carmen
Porfirio's second wife.

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
32nd president of the US.

Roosevelt, Theodore (Teddy)
26th president of the US.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
The one who wrote letters to the ones that were sitting across the table.

Rubrouck, William of
French traveler.

Russell, Bertrand
Thinker from Wales.

Rykov, Aleksey
Lenin's successor
 

S

Saint Phalle, Niki de
French model and artist.

Saladin
Richard's pebble in the shoe.

Salazar, Amador
Zapata's cousin

Sampiero Corso
Corsica's hero

Sand, George
Alias Aurore Dupin

Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de
Too much spunk

Sargon II
Assyria's king

Sartre, Jean-Paul
The one who didn't want the Nobel Prize.

Schlieffen, Alfred Count von
The planner.

Schopenhauer, Arthur
Philosopher of pessimism.

Scipio Africanus the Elder
Hero of the Battle of Zama.

Scipio Africanus the Younger
Destroyer of Carthage.

Scott, James
Duke of Monmouth.

Seleucus I Nicator
One of Alexander's great generals.

Selim I the Grim
Ottoman sultan.

Servius Tullius
Ancient Rome's sixth king.

Seymour, Jane
Henry's number three.

Shakespeare, William
Playwright.

Shaw, George Bernard
The Irish writer with the huge beard.

Simonides of Ceos
Greek poetry.

Simpson, Wallis Warfield
A very smart lady.

Sitting Bull
The one who started slow.

Socrates
Seventy years old and going strong.

Spartacus
The gladiator.

Stalin, Joseph
The infamous one from Georgia.

Sulayman I
Ottoman sultan.

Sulla, Lucius Cornelius (Felix)
Roman dictator.

Sun Yat-sen
First Chinese provisional president.
 

T

Taft, William Howard
27th US president.

Tancred of Hauteville
Crusader.

Taylor, Zachary
12th president of the US.

Tennyson, Alfred
A smart poet.

Thatcher, Margaret
Britain's PM.

Themistocles
Greece's Churchill.

Theodoric
King of the Ostrogoths.

Theodosius II
Eastern Roman emperor.

Thomas Alva Edison
Inventor. American.

Thompson, David E.
US ambassador to Mexico.

Timur
Tamerlane.

Tour d'Auvergne, Henri de La
One of the few ones who benefited from the Thirty Years' War.

Trajan
Roman emperor.

Trotsky, Leon
Communist and assassinated by Stalin.

Tutankhamen
Egyptian king.
 

U

Urban VIII
Pope.
 

V

Valens
Eastern Roman emperor.

Vasily III
Father of Ivan the Terrible.

Vauban, Sébastien Le Prestre de
French military engineer

Vespasian
Roman emperor

Vespucci, Amerigo
When is the last time a continent was named after you?

Victoria, Queen Alexandrina
When is the last time an era was named after you?

Villa, Pancho
The one who might or might not have raided Columbus.

Virgil
Roman poet.

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
The one with the sharp remarks.
 

W

Wagner, Richard
Musical dramatist.

Walewska, Maria
Polish patriot and Napoleon's girl.

Walpole, Robert
First British prime minister.

Washington, George
First president of the US.

Wilhelm II
The one with the tennis arm.

William I
The Conqueror.

William III (William of Orange)
The one who ruled together with his wife.

Wilmot, John
Depp, Johnny.

Wilson, Henry Lane
US diplomat with personal edge.

Wilson, Woodrow
28th president of the US.
 

X

Xerxes I
Persian king.
 

Y

Yamamoto, Isoroku
The one who designed Pearl Harbor.

Yeltsin, Boris
Russian president.
 

Z

Zapata, Emiliano
The one who wanted land for his people.

Zapata, Eufemio
Emiliano's older brother.

Zimmermann, Arthur
Compulsive faxer.