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Ancient Figure by Letter

Guess the people from ancient history whose names begin with each letter and who fit the descriptions.
For some of these, the letter is the first letter of their surname.
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Last updated: November 12, 2021
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Letter
Description
Person
A
Mathematician and engineer who discovered a law about buoyancy and created several defensive war machines to defend Syracuse.
Archimedes
B
Celtic queen who led an uprising against the Romans in 60 or 61 AD.
Boudica
C
Founder of the Achaemenid Empire.
Cyrus the Great
D
Roman emperor who farmed cabbages during his retirement.
Diocletian
E
Mathematician often called the "father of geometry".
Euclid
F
Statesman of the Roman Republic who was a dictator in 221 and 217 BC.
Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus
G
The birth name of the Buddha.
Siddhārtha Gautama
H
General who took elephants across the Alps.
Hannibal
I
Chancellor and priest who designed the first Egyptian pyramid.
Imhotep
J
Prophet who authored the Book of Kings and the Book of Lamentations.
Jeremiah
K
Pharaoh who commissioned the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Khufu
L
Philosopher credited with writing Tao Te Ching.
Laozi
M
Wrestler who supposedly died when he trapped his hands in a tree he was trying to tear apart, and was then eaten by wolves.
Milo of Croton
N
Babylonian king who ordered the construction of the Ishtar Gate and the reconstruction of Etemenanki.
Nebuchadnezzar II
O
Soldier who deposed the last Western Roman emperor and became the first King of Italy.
Odoacer
P
Sculptor who created the Statue of Zeus at Olympia.
Phidias
Q
Leader who unified all of China in 221 BC.
Qin Shi Huang
R
Pharaoh who fought the Hittites at Kadesh.
Ramesses the Great
S
First ruler of the Akkadian Empire.
Sargon the Great
T
Illyrian queen who killed an ambassador of the Roman Republic and besieged Corcyra.
Teuta
U
Founder of the Third Dynasty of Ur.
Ur-Nammu
V
Gallic king who surrendered to Julius Caesar in 52 BC.
Vercingetorix
W
The only emperor of the Xin dynasty.
Wang Mang
X
Athenian philosopher who wrote Anabasis and Cyropaedia, and who was one of the leaders of the mercenary force called the Ten Thousand.
Xenophon
Y
A prominent disciple of Confucius, and the only known disciple from the south of China.
Yan Yan
Z
Founder of the official religion of the Achaemenid and Sasanian Empires.
Zoroaster
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