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
The words in the list Historical Figures are words players of the word game Categories game wrote in played games, sorted by how often they were used.