Famous Names Flashcards
Man who overthrew Charles I of England
Oliver Cromwell
French mistress to Louis XV
Madame de Pompadour
Cook who led the mutiny on the Hispaniola
Long John Silver
Frederick Barbarosa
RedBeard
Pirate Ed Teach aka
Blackbeard
English pirate hung at Old Baily - 1701
Captain Kidd
“Gentle Pirate” who aided in the Battle of New Orleans
Jean Lafitte
“The Lady with the Lamp”
Florence Nightingale
He defeated Napoleon at Waterloo
The Duke of Wellington
South American revolutionary born in Caracas
Simon Bolivar
Zulu leader
Shaka
Fidel Castro’s revolutionary friend
Che Guevara
The Angelic Doctor
St. Thomas Aquinas
17th century French philosopher and mathematician
Rene Descartes
French cardinal who fought the Huguenots
Cardinal Richelieu
Italian adventurer and lover
Giacomo Casanova
He led the mutiny on the bounty
Fletcher Christian
17th century French mathematician
Blaise Pascal
Violin maker who learned his craft from the Amatis
Antonio Stradivarius
“The Galloping Gourmet”
Graham Kerr
“The Little Corporal”
Napoleon Bonaparte
19th century banking magnate/philanthropist
J.P. Morgan
Greek philosopher/statesman poisoned by Hemlock
Socrates
Doctor who performed Barney Clark’s heart transplant
William DeVries
Man who first received an artificial heart
Barney Clark
Jean Paul Sartre’s philosopher friend
Simone de Beauvoir
Cambridge mathematician-philosopher
Bertrand Russell
Philosopher who asked - “Is man a blunder of God?”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Billionaire who disappeared from his yacht in 1991
Robert Maxwell
British tea magnate
Sir Thomas Lipton
Famous female pirates
Ann Bonnie and Mary Reed
20th century Greek shipping magnate
Aristotle Onassis
Cesare Borgia’s infamous sister and patron of the arts
Lucretia Borgia
19th century shipping magnate
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Sir Edmund Hillary’s Himalayan Sherpa guide
Tensing Norgay
Chinese Communist Party head who died in 1997
Deng Xiaoping
Man who established Chinese government on Taiwan
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chinese provisional president - 1912
Sun Yat-Sen
First chancellor of the German Empire - 1871
Otto von Bismarck
Italian leader of the Red Shirts
Garibaldi
Mexican bandit who raided U.S. border towns
Pancho Villa
Steel magnate and philanthropist
Andrew Carnegie
Greek famous as being first actor
Thespis
Violin maker family from Cremona - Italy
Amati
Man crowned Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day in 800 AD
Charlemagne
First Christian Roman emperor
Constantine
Genghis Khan’s grandson
Kubla Khan
Man who conquered the world’s largest land empire
Genghis Khan
Founder of the Persian Empire
Cyrus the Great
Roman orator and statesman
Cicero
Greek physician who promoted the work of Hippocrates
Galen
Charlemagne’s father
Pepin the short
Greek with sword hanging over his head
Damocles
Pepin the Short’s father - founder of Carolingian dynasty
Charles Martel
Greek mathematician famous for theorem
Pythagoras
Greek mathematician and geometry innovator
Euclid
Greek historian and biographer
Plutarch
Greek historian
Herodotus
Greek mathematician and founder of the science of hydrostatics
Archimedes
Greek who sought honest man
Diogenes
Greek philosopher and scientist - teacher of Alexander the Great
Aristotle
Greek philosopher - Academy founder - and student of Socrates
Plato
Greek physician - doctor’s oath named for him
Hippocrates
Red bearded crusader
Frederick Barbarosa
French queen regent implicated in St. Bartholomew’s day massacre
Catherine de Medici
Scottish reformist
John Knox
Swiss-French reformist
John Calvin