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Age of Revolutions historical figures
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Simón Bolívar
Military & political leader
Napoleon Bonaparte
General & Emperor
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Catherine the Great
Empress of Russia
Charles Darwin
Naturalist & biologist
George Washington
First President of the United States
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Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States
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Pedro I of Brazil
Founder & first Emperor of Brazil
Sitting Bull
Hunkpapa Lakota leader
Susan B. Anthony
Social reformer & suffragist
Shaka
King of the Zulu Kingdom
Toussaint Louverture
General & revolutionary leader
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father & polymath
Benito Juárez
President of Mexico
Kate Sheppard
Suffragist
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Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President & Founding Father
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Ulysses S. Grant
18th U.S. President & Civil War general
Queen Victoria
Queen of the United Kingdom
Louis XIV
King of France
Marie Antoinette
Queen of France
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Frederick the Great
King of Prussia
Nat Turner
Enslaved rebellion leader
Billy the Kid
Outlaw & gunfighter
Jesse James
Outlaw & gang leader
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Blackbeard
Pirate
Ned Kelly
Bushranger
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer
James Madison
4th U.S. President & Founding Father
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Andrew Jackson
7th U.S. President
Ada Lovelace
Mathematician & writer
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematician & physicist
Gustave Eiffel
Civil engineer
James Clerk Maxwell
Physicist & mathematician
Michael Faraday
Chemist & physicist
Rembrandt
Painter & printmaker
Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
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John Locke
Philosopher & physician
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Civil & marine engineer
James Watt
Inventor & engineer
John A. Roebling
Civil engineer
Alfred Nobel
Chemist & inventor
Túpac Amaru II
Indigenous rebellion leader
Taras Shevchenko
Poet & artist
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Ang Duong
King of Cambodia
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Priest & independence leader
José de San Martín
General & independence leader
Bernardo O'Higgins
Military officer & statesman
John A. Macdonald
First Prime Minister of Canada
Tecumseh
Shawnee military leader
Sacagawea
Guide and interpreter
Mary Wollstonecraft
Writer and philosopher
Gregor Mendel
Biologist and friar
Louis Pasteur
Chemist and microbiologist
Frédéric Chopin
Composer and pianist
Giuseppe Verdi
Opera composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Composer
Rudolf Diesel
Inventor and mechanical engineer
Wilhelm Röntgen
Physicist
Dmitri Mendeleev
Chemist
Georg Cantor
Mathematician
Carl Benz
Automotive engineer
Porfirio Díaz
President of Mexico
Robert Baden-Powell
Founder of the Scout Movement
José Martí
Writer and independence leader
Antonio Maceo
Independence general
Bernardo de Gálvez
Colonial military leader and administrator
José Gervasio Artigas
Military leader and founding father
Francisco Morazán
President of the Federal Republic of Central America
Andrés Bello
Humanist and educator
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
President of Argentina
Diego Portales
Statesman
Jane Austen
Novelist
Rama I
Founder of the Chakri dynasty
Taksin
King of Thonburi
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Revolutionary leader & first ruler of independent Haiti
Henri Christophe
King of Haiti
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Alexandre Petion
President of the Republic of Haiti
Francisco Goya
Painter & printmaker
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Kamehameha I
King of Hawaii
James Cook
Explorer & naval officer
Elisha Otis
Industrialist & inventor
Charles Babbage
Mathematician & inventor
Samuel Morse
Inventor & painter
Prithvi Narayan Shah
Founding King of unified Nepal
Ratu Seru Cakobau
King of Fiji
Jon Sigurdsson
Leader of the Icelandic independence movement
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Jose Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia
Dictator of Paraguay
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