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French scholar best known for his love affair with the nun Héloïse | Peter Abelard | 100%
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Ming dynasty eunuch who was an explorer, diplomat, and became commander of Nanjing, and admiral of a fleet of over 300 ships, some of them possibly being the largest wooden ships ever made | Admiral Zheng He | 50%
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Eunuchs who were close allies of the Dowager Empress Cixi | An Dehai | 50%
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Li Lianying | 50%
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Very powerful eunuch who effectively ruled the Byzantine Empire alongside Empress Irene, may have ambitions to become emperor himself | Staurakios | 50%
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Castrato singer, the only one ever to making solo recordings | Alessandro Moreschi | 0%
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Han dynasty eunuch who is considered by some to have invented paper, or at least popularised the process of making paper | Cai Lun | 0%
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Influential Tang dynasty eunuch during the reign of Wu Zetian and Emperor Xuanzong | Gao Lishi | 0%
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Spanish eunuch who was a slave to the Moroccan sultan, became a military commander, and helped conquer the Songhai Empire | Judar Pasha | 0%
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One of the wealthiest people in history, very corrupt Ming dynasty eunuch who owned 10,000 tonnes of silver, and was butchered with 'death by a thousand cuts' | Liu Jin | 0%
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Eunuch who became a powerful Byzantine general in the service of Emperor Justinian | Narses | 0%
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Eunuch seen as a 'church father' and one of the most influential theologians in history | Origen | 0%
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Eunuch who was effective ruler of the kingdom of Egypt near its end, ordered the execution of Pompey, and turned pharaoh Ptolemy against Cleopatra | Pothinus | 0%
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A Viking warrior whose remains were found in an English churchyard, with signs he was a eunuch, and replaced what he'd lost with a boar's tusk | Repton Warrior | 0%
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Eunuch who Emperor Nero made into his official wife and empress, since he is meant to have strongly resembled his wife Poppaea, whom Nero missed dearly after she died from Nero kicking her to death while she was pregnant | Sporus | 0%
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The last surviving imperial eunuch in Chinese history | Sun Yaoting | 0%
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Ming dynasty eunuch considered to be the most powerful and notorious eunuch in Chinese history | Wei Zhongxian | 0%
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