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Name 120 Historical Figures #2

In 18 minutes, Name 120 figures from world history using the hints provided.
This is a sequel to Name 120 Historical Figures
Things are harder this time around. Good luck!
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Last Queen of France
Marie Antoinette
English playright and Bard of Avon
William Shakespeare
US President during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Crossed the Alps during the Punic Wars
Hannibal
Chinese warlord of the Three Kingdoms and founder of Shu Han
Liu Bei
Greek hero of the Trojan War
Achilles
1600's Dutch artist of "The Night Watch"
Rembrandt
Inventor of the printing press
Johannes Gutenberg
Engineer of the first practical telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Benedictine abbess, sacred composer, and scientific natural historian of 1100's
Hildegard von Bingen
Father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence
Alan Turing
Roman dictator renown for his voluntary surrender of power
Cincinnatus
Spanish writer of "Don Quixote"
Miguel de Cervantes
Painted "The Great Wave off Kanagawa"
Hokusai
Namesake of the theorem a² + b² = c²
Pythagoras
Ruler of the Huns and feared enemy of Eastern Rome
Attila the Hun
Former Nazi scientist who engineered the Saturn V
Wernher von Braun
Queen consort of France and England and leader of the Second Crusade
Eleanor of Aquitaine
American abolitionist, writer, and statesman who escaped slavery
Frederick Douglass
Pakistani female-education activist and youngest Nobel Prize laureate
Malala Yousafzai
Chinese explorer, admiral, and diplomat who brought goods back to China
Zheng He
Babylonian king who founded first legal code of justice
Hammurabi
Viking discoverer of North America
Leif Eriksson
Mauryan Emperor who promoted spread of Buddhism
Ashoka
Central figure of Christianity
Jesus
Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten
Nefertiti
Baron and Romantic poet of "Don Juan"
Lord Byron
Roman politician defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium
Mark Antony
Greek mathematician who discovered the principle of water displacement
Archimedes
Chinese pirate leader of the early 1800's
Ching Shih
Assassinated Archduke Ferdinand, setting in motion WWI
Gavrilo Princip
First Prime Minister of Great Britain
Robert Walpole
3rd-century Queen of Palmyra
Zenobia
Italian Proto-Renaissance artist of realism and father of European painting
Giotto
Jewish girl whose diary depicted life in hiding during WWII
Anne Frank
American inventor of the phonograph and motion-picture camera
Thomas Edison
Italian general responsible for the unification of Italy
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Theologian of the principle "the simplest explanation is usually the right one"
William of Ockham
Canadian astronaut who recorded the first music video in space
Chris Hadfield
Biblical son of Enoch said to have lived to 969-years-old
Methuselah
Great Khan and founder of the Yuan dynasty in China
Kublai Khan
First Sultan of Egypt and founder of the Ayyubid dynasty
Saladin
Pope who initiated the Crusades
Urban II
Moroccan scholar who travelled all across the Old World
Ibn Battuta
Discovered nuclear fission
Lise Meitner
Founder of the USSR
Vladimir Lenin
Father of Modern Medicine
Hippocrates
French filmmaker of "A Trip to the Moon"
Georges Méliès
First European to discover the Caribbean
Christopher Columbus
Longest-ruling Empress of Russia
Catherine the Great
Last true samurai
Saigō Takamori
Scottish knight who defeated the English at the Battle of Stirling Bridge
William Wallace
Austrian symbolist painter of "The Kiss"
Gustav Klimt
3rd-century Vietnamese warrior who resisted the expansion of Eastern Wu
Lady Triệu
Brazilian football player and winner of three World Cups
Pelé
Roman poet of the "Aeneid"
Virgil
Primary patron saint of Ireland
Saint Patrick
Formulated the theory of evolution
Charles Darwin
X-ray crystallographer who confirmed the structure of penicillin and insulin
Dorothy Hodgkin
Actor and director of "Citizen Kane"
Orson Welles
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Author of "The War of the Worlds" and "The Time Machine"
H. G. Wells
Tahitian Polynesian navigator who assisted James Cook on his voyage
Tupaia
Founder of the Incan Empire
Pachacuti
Swiss folk hero and expert crossbowman
William Tell
First deaf and blind person to graduate from college
Helen Keller
Korean scientist who recreated gunpowder from China
Choe Mu-Seon
Earliest known king
Sargon of Akkad
Nazi propaganda minister during WWII
Joseph Goebbels
Qing Empress Dowager who supervised the Tongzhi Restoration
Cixi
Ancient Greek lyric poet and symbol of lesbian sexuality
Sappho
Roman philosopher and Italian King who wrote "The Consolation of Philosophy"
Boëthius
Quantum theoretical physicist and namesake of cat-box thought experiment
Erwin Schrödinger
Spanish priest who exposed the oppression of Native Americans
Bartolomé de las Casas
Military leader of France who crowned himself Emperor
Napoleon Bonaparte
Wrote the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Swedish taxonomist who formalised binomial nomenclature
Carl Linnaeus
Greek soldier who ran the first marathon
Pheidippides
Native American woman who helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Sacagawea
Chinese-American martial artist, actor, and film director of the 1970's
Bruce Lee
Earliest written name
Kushim
English fossil collector and discoverer of the plesiosaur
Mary Anning
Italian poet of the "Divine Comedy"
Dante Alighieri
US soldier, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country"
Nathan Hale
Eccentric Spanish artist of surrealist paintings, sculptures, and films
Salvador Dali
Tang dynasty general whose rebellion killed 5% of the world population
An Lushan
Arab polymath and father of optics
Ibn al-Haytham
First Dalai Lama
Gendün Drubpa
Discovered Pluto
Clyde Tombaugh
English social reformer, statistician and founder of modern nursing
Florence Nightingale
German polymath who invented integral calculus independent of Isaac Newton
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
King of England and military leader of the Third Crusade
Richard the Lionheart
Last leader of the Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev
First queen regnant of Majapahit
Dyah Gitarja
Lead vocalist of the rock band Queen
Freddie Mercury
Mysterious airplane hijacker who disappeared with 200,000 US dollars
D.B. Cooper
African revolutionary who achieved independence for Ghana
Kwame Nkrumah
Legendary first Queen of Carthage
Dido
First King of the Visigoths who led the Sack of Rome
Alaric I
19th-century Queen of England
Victoria
Ancient Indian physician and father of plastic surgery
Sushruta
Second man on the Moon
Buzz Aldrin
Founder of Sikhism
Guru Nanak
Astronomer who first discovered evidence of dark matter
Vera Rubin
Chinese military general and high priestess of the Shang dynasty
Fu Hao
Victorian-era woman who allegedly murdered her parents with an axe
Lizzie Borden
Colombian drug lord and wealthiest criminal in history
Pablo Escobar
Ancient prophet of Iran
Zoroaster
Prime Minister of Australia during WWII
John Curtin
Wrote "The Communist Manifesto"
Karl Marx
Naga spiritual leader who led a revolt against British rule in India
Rani Gaidinliu
Danish transgender woman and early recipient of sex reassignment surgery
Lili Elbe
Canadian amputee athlete who ran across the country for cancer awareness
Terry Fox
Australian social reformer and first female member of parliament
Edith Cowan
Started the Mexican War of Independence
Miguel Hidalgo
Discovered penicillin
Alexander Fleming
Former slave and prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution
Toussaint Louverture
Ancient Queen of Nubia
Amanitore
Lakota leader who foresaw victory of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Sitting Bull
Japanese Emperor who transformed the nation into an industrial power
Meiji
Code name of female Culper Ring spy whose real identity is unknown
Agent 355
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