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This is a list of people whose names in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 are commonly appended with the phrase "the Great", or who were called that or an equivalent phrase in their own language. Other languages have their own suffixes such as e Bozorg and e azam in Persian
Persian language

name=Persian|nativename=|pronunciation=[f??r'si]|image=|caption=Farsi in Perso-Arabic script |states= Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Bahrain....
 and Urdu
Urdu

Urdu is a Central_Indo-Aryan_languages#Central_Zone_.28Madhya_or_Hindi.29 Indo-Aryan languages of the Indo-Iranian languages, belonging to the Indo-European languages family of languages....
 respectively.

The title "the Great" at first seems to be a simplification/colloquialism of the Persian title "Great King".






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This is a list of people whose names in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 are commonly appended with the phrase "the Great", or who were called that or an equivalent phrase in their own language. Other languages have their own suffixes such as e Bozorg and e azam in Persian
Persian language

name=Persian|nativename=|pronunciation=[f??r'si]|image=|caption=Farsi in Perso-Arabic script |states= Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Bahrain....
 and Urdu
Urdu

Urdu is a Central_Indo-Aryan_languages#Central_Zone_.28Madhya_or_Hindi.29 Indo-Aryan languages of the Indo-Iranian languages, belonging to the Indo-European languages family of languages....
 respectively.

The title "the Great" at first seems to be a simplification/colloquialism of the Persian title "Great King". This title was first used by the conqueror Cyrus II
Cyrus the Great

Cyrus the Great , , also known as Cyrus II of Persia and Cyrus the Elder, was a Persian people Shah . He was the founder of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty, an empire, perhaps the most wealthy and magnificent in history....
 of Persia
Persian Empire

The 'Persian Empire' was a series of successive Iranian or Persianization empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the original Persian homeland, and beyond in Southwest Asia, South Asia, Central Asia and the Caucasus....
.

The Persian title was inherited by Alexander III
Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great , also known as Alexander III of Macedon was an ancient Greeks King of Macedon . He was one of the most successful military commanders of all time and is presumed undefeated in battle....
 of Macedon
Macedon

Macedon or Macedonia was the name of a monarchy centred in the northernmost part of ancient Greece. The homeland of the ancient Macedonians, it was bordered by the kingdom of Epirus to the west and the region of Thrace to the east....
 (336
336 BC

Events...
–323 BC) when he conquered the Persian Empire, and the epithet "Great" eventually became personally associated with him. The first reference (in a comedy by Plautus
Plautus

Titus Maccius Plautus , commonly known as Plautus, was a Ancient Rome playwright. His comedy are among the earliest surviving intact works in Latin literature....
) assumes that everyone knew who "Alexander the Great" was; however, there is no earlier evidence that Alexander III of Macedon was called "the Great".

The early Seleucid kings, who succeeded Alexander in Persia, used "Great King" in local documents, but the title was most notably used for Antiochus the Great (223
223 BC

Events...
–187 BC).

Later rulers and commanders began to use the epithet
Epithet

An epithet is a descriptive word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing, which has become a fixed formula....
 "the Great" as a personal name, like the Roman
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
 general Pompey. Others received the surname retrospectively, like the Carthaginian
Carthage

Carthage refers both to an ancient city in present-day Tunisia, and a modern-day suburb of Tunis. The civilization that developed within the city's sphere of influence is referred to as Punic or Carthaginian....
 Hanno
Hanno the Great

There were three leaders of ancient Carthage who were known as Hanno the Great, according to two historians. These figures being called for convenience: Hanno I the Great, Hanno II the Great, and Hanno III the Great....
 and the Indian
History of India

The known history of India begins with the Indus Valley Civilization, which spread and flourished in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent, from c....
 emperor Ashoka the Great
Ashoka

Ashoka was an Indian emperor, of the Maurya Empire who ruled from 273 BCE to 232 BCE. Often cited as one of India's as well as world's greatest emperors, Ashoka reigned over most of present-day India after a number of military conquests....
 and the Hindu king Shivaji
Shivaji

Shivaji Bhosle , commonly known as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj laid the foundations of the Maratha Empire. Shivaji was younger of the two sons of Shahaji and Jijabai....
 the Great. Once the surname gained currency, it was also used as an honorific surname for people without political careers, like the philosopher Albert the Great.

"The Greats"


The following people normally have the words "the Great" appended to their names.
  • Abbas the Great, Persia (Iran)
  • Akbar the Great
    Akbar the Great

    Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar , also known as Akbar the Great was the son of Nasiruddin Humayun whom he succeeded as ruler of the Mughal Empire from 1556 to 1605....
    , ruler of the Mughal Empire
    Mughal Empire

    The Mughal Empire was a Muslim imperial power of the Indian subcontinent which began in 1526, ruled most of the Indian Subcontinent by the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and ended in the mid-19th century....
     of South Asia
    South Asia

    South Asia, also known as Southern Asia, is the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan countries and, for some authorities , also includes the adjoining countries on the west and the east....
  • Alain I the Great
    Alain I of Albret

    Alain I of Albret , called "The Great", was a powerful French aristocrat. He was 16th Lord of Albret, Viscount of Tartas, the 2nd Count of Graves, and the Count of Castres....
    , Albret
  • Albert the Great
    Albertus Magnus

    Saint Albertus Magnus, Ordo Praedicatorum , also known as Saint Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, was a Dominican Order Dominican friar and bishop who achieved fame for his comprehensive knowledge of and advocacy for the peaceful Relationship between religion and science....
     (aka Albertus Magnus), medieval German philosopher and theologian
  • Alexander the Great
    Alexander the Great

    Alexander the Great , also known as Alexander III of Macedon was an ancient Greeks King of Macedon . He was one of the most successful military commanders of all time and is presumed undefeated in battle....
    , King of Persia, Greece, Egypt, and all of Mesopotamia
  • Alfonso the Great of León
  • Alfred the Great
    Alfred the Great

    Alfred the Great , also spelled ?lfred, was king of the southern Anglo-Saxons kingdom of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred is noted for his defence of the kingdom against the Danish people Vikings, becoming the only English people king to be awarded the epithet "the Great"....
     of Wessex, English
  • Anawrahta the Great
    Anawrahta

    Anawrahta , also spelled Aniruddha or Anoaraht? or Anoa-ra-ht?-soa, was a ruler of the kingdom of Pagan Kingdom and the first ruler of a unified Burma....
    , Burma
  • Anthony the Great
    Anthony the Great

    Anthony the Great , also known as Saint Anthony, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of Egypt, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Abba Antonius , and Father of All Monks, was an Christianity saint from Egypt, a prominent leader among the Desert Fathers....
    , early Christian saint of Egypt
  • Antiochus the Great, Seleucid Empire
    Seleucid Empire

    The Seleucid Empire /s?'lus?d/ was a Hellenistic empire, i.e. a successor state of Alexander the Great's empire. The Seleucid Empire was centered in the near East and at the height of its power included central Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Persia, today's Turkmenistan, Pamir Mountains and parts of Pakistan....
  • Ashoka the Great, India
    India

    India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
    n emperor of the Maurya dynasty, known as the emperor of all ages in history of the world
    History of the world

    The history of the world is the recorded history memory of the experience, around the world, of Homo sapiens. Ancient human history begins with the invention, independently at several sites on Earth, of writing, which created the infrastructure for lasting, accurately transmitted memories and thus for the diffusion and growth of knowledg...
  • Askia the Great, Mohamed Toure, Ruler of the Songhai Empire
  • Bayinnaung the Great
    Bayinnaung

    Bayinnaung was a king of the Taungoo in modern-day Myanmar. He is widely revered in the country, and is best known for unifying the kingdom and conquering the Shan States, Thailand and Laos....
    , Burma
  • Bhumibol Adulyadej the Great
    Bhumibol Adulyadej

    Bhumibol Adulyadej , is the current Monarchy of Thailand. Publicly acclaimed "the Great" , he is also known as Rama . Having reigned since 9 June 1946, he is the world's List of longest reigning current monarchs current head of state and the List of longest reigning monarchs of all time monarch in History of Thailand....
    , Thailand
  • Boleslaw the Brave
    Boleslaw I of Poland

    Boleslaw I the Brave , in the past also known as Boleslaw I the Great , ruled as Duke of Poland from 992-1025 and as the first King of Poland in 1025....
    , sometimes called "the Great", Poland
  • Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke the Great
    Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke

    Posthumously; Poraminthara Mahachakri Boromanat, Phra Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke the Great , conventionally as Rama I. He was the founder and the first Monarchy of Thailand of the current-ruling Chakri dynasty of Siam in 1782, after subjugating a rebellion against King Taksin of Thonburi....
    , Thailand
  • Canute the Great
    Canute the Great

    Canute the Great, also known as Cnut in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, or Knut was a Viking king of England, Denmark, Norway, and parts of Sweden ....
    , Danish, King of Denmark, England, and Norway
  • Casimir the Great
    Casimir III of Poland

    Casimir III the Great , last List of Polish monarchs from the Piast dynasty , was the son of King Wladyslaw I the Elbow-high and Jadwiga of Gniezno and Greater Poland....
    , Poland
  • Catherine the Great
    Catherine II of Russia

    Catherine II, called Catherine the Great .The Russian empress Catherine II, known as Catherine the Great, reigned from 1762 to 1796. Under her direct auspices the Russian Empire expanded, improved in its administration, and underwent a dramatic policy of Westernization....
    , Russia
  • Chandragupta Maurya
    Chandragupta Maurya

    Chandragupta Maurya , sometimes known simply as Chandragupta , was the founder of the Maurya Empire. Chandragupta succeeded in bringing together most of the Indian subcontinent....
    , India
    India

    India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
    n emperor of the Maurya dynasty
  • Chandragupta II
    Chandragupta II

    Chandragupta II was one of the most powerful emperors of the Gupta empire. His rule spanned 375-413/15 CE, during which the Gupta Empire achieved its zenith....
     / Vikramaditya, one of the most powerful emperors of the Gupta empire
    Gupta Empire

    The Gupta Empire was ruled by members of the Gupta dynasty from around 280 to 550 CE and covered most of Northern India, Southern and Eastern Pakistan, parts of Gujarat and Rajasthan and what is now western India and Bangladesh....
  • Charles the Great
    Charlemagne

    Charlemagne was List of Frankish kings from 768 to his death. He expanded the Franks kingdoms into a Carolingian Empire that incorporated much of Western Europe and Central Europe....
    , more commonly known as "Charlemagne
    Charlemagne

    Charlemagne was List of Frankish kings from 768 to his death. He expanded the Franks kingdoms into a Carolingian Empire that incorporated much of Western Europe and Central Europe....
    "
  • Chulalongkorn the Great
    Chulalongkorn

    Phrabat Somdet Phra Poramintramaha Chulalongkorn, Phra Chulachomklao Chaoyuhua was the fifth monarch of the Chakri dynasty. He was known to the Siamese of his time as Phra Buddhachao Luang ....
    , Thailand
  • Conrad the Great
    Conrad, Margrave of Meissen

    Conrad the Great was the Margrave of Meissen from 1123 until his retirement in 1156. He was the son of Thimo of Wettin, Count of Brehna, of the House of Wettin and Ida, daughter of Otto of Nordheim....
    , Meissen
    Meissen

    Meissen is a town of approximately 30,000 about northwest of Dresden on both banks of the Elbe river in the Saxony, in eastern Germany. Meissen is the home of Meissen porcelain, the Albrechtsburg castle, the Gothic architecture Meissen Cathedral and the Meissen Frauenkirche....
  • Constantine the Great, Rome/Byzantium
  • Cyrus the Great
    Cyrus the Great

    Cyrus the Great , , also known as Cyrus II of Persia and Cyrus the Elder, was a Persian people Shah . He was the founder of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty, an empire, perhaps the most wealthy and magnificent in history....
    , Persia (Iran)
  • Darius the Great
    Darius I of Persia

    Darius I or Darius the Great was the son of Hystaspes and Persian Empire from 522 BC to 486 BC. Darius is the dominant Latin language spelling used by the Roman historians....
    , Persia (Iran)
  • Devapala
    Devapala

    Devapala was a powerful king of Pala Empire of Magadha. He was the third king in the line and had succeeded his father, king Dharmapala of Bengal ....
    ,a powerful king of Pala dynasty of Magadha
    Magadha

    Magadha formed one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas or Kingdoms of Ancient India. The core of the kingdom was the area of Bihar south of the Ganges; its first capital was Rajagaha then Pataliputra ....
    .
  • Dharmapala of Bengal
    Dharmapala of Bengal

    Dharamapala was the second ruler of the Pala Empire of Bengal. He was the son and succeessor of Gopala , the founder of the Pala Dynasty. He greatly expanded the boundaries of the Pala Empire founded by his father and made the Palas the most dominant power in the northern and eastern Indian subcontinent....
    ,second ruler of the Pala Empire
    Pala Empire

    The Pala Empire was a dynasty in control of the northern and eastern Indian subcontinent, mainly the Bihar and Bengal regions, from the 8th to the 12th century....
     of Bengal
    Bengal

    Bengal , is a historical and geographical region in the northeast of South Asia. Today it is mainly divided between the independent sovereign nation of the Bangladesh and the state of West Bengal in India, although some regions of the previous kingdoms of Bengal are now part of the neighboring Indian states of Bihar, Assam, Tripura and Oris...
    .
  • Eudes-Henry the Great, Burgundy
  • Ferdinand the Great, Castile and León
  • Frederick the Great
    Frederick II of Prussia

    Frederick II was a monarch of Kingdom of Prussia from the House of Hohenzollern. In his role as a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire, he was Frederick IV of Margraviate of Brandenburg....
    , Prussia
  • Frederick the Great
    Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

    Frederick II , of the House of Hohenstaufen dynasty, was an Kingdom of Italy pretender to the title of King of the Romans from 1212 and unopposed holder of that monarchy from 1215....
    , Holy Roman Empire
  • Genghis Khan
    Genghis Khan

    Genghis Khan , born , was the founder, Khan and Khagan of the Mongol Empire, the World's largest empires contiguous empire in history....
    , was first Khan
    Khan

    Khan is an originally Central Asian title for a sovereign or military ruler, first used by medieval Altaic languages nomadic tribes living to the north of China....
     of the Mongol Empire
    Mongol Empire

    The Mongol Empire was the List of largest empires#Contiguous Empires empire and the largest bar none. It emerged from the unification of Mongols and Turkic peoples tribes in modern day Mongolia, and grew through Mongol invasions, after Genghis Khan had been proclaimed ruler of all Mongols in 1206....
  • Gero I the Great
    Gero

    Gero I , called the Great , ruled an initially modest Marches centred on Merseburg, which he expanded into a vast territory named after him: the marca Geronis....
     of Marca Geronis
  • Gertrude the Great
    Gertrude the Great

    Saint Gertrude the Great or Saint Gertrude was a Germany Benedictine and mystic writer.She is recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, and is inscribed, as "Saint Gertrude", not as "Saint Gertrude the Great", in the Roman Catholic calendar of the saints, for celebration throughout the Latin Rite on November 16....
     of Helfta, medieval mystic
  • Gustavus Adolphus the Great
    Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden

    Gustav II Adolf, In the era, which was characterized by nearly endless warfare, he led his armies as Monarch of Sweden—from 1611, as a seventeen year old, until his death in battle while leading a charge during 1632 in the bloody Thirty Years' war—as Sweden rose from the status as a mere regional power and run-of-the-mill king...
    , Sweden
  • Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo
    Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo

    Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo was the nineteenth monarch of Goguryeo, the northernmost of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. His full posthumous name roughly means "Very Greatest King, Broad Expander of Territory, buried in Gukgangsang.", sometimes abbreviated to Hotaewang or Taewang....
    , Korea
  • Hanno the Great
    Hanno the Great

    There were three leaders of ancient Carthage who were known as Hanno the Great, according to two historians. These figures being called for convenience: Hanno I the Great, Hanno II the Great, and Hanno III the Great....
    , Carthage
  • Harshavardhana, Indian emperor who ruled Northern India
  • Henry IV the Great
    Henry IV of France

    Henry de Bourbon, , ruled as Henry III, List of Navarrese monarchs, from 1572 to 1610, and as Henry IV, List of French monarchs, from 1589 to 1610....
    , France
  • Herod the Great
    Herod the Great

    Herod , also known as Herod I or Herod the Great , was a Roman Empire client state of Israel. Herod is known for his colossal building projects in Jerusalem and other parts of the ancient world, including the rebuilding of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, sometimes referred to as Herod's Temple....
    , Judea
  • Hugh the Great
    Hugh the Great

    Hugh the Great was duke of the Franks and count of Paris, France, son of King Robert I of France and nephew of King Odo, Count of Paris. He was born in Paris, Ile-de-France, France....
    , Franks
  • Ivan the Great
    Ivan III of Russia

    Ivan III Vasilevich , also known as Ivan the Great, was a Grand Duchy of Moscow and "Grand Prince of all Russia" Sometimes referred to as the "gatherer of the Russian lands", he tripled the territory of his state, renovated the Moscow Kremlin, and laid the foundations of the Russian state....
    , Russia
  • Jangsu The Great ,Korea
  • John the Great
    John I of Portugal

    John I, Portuguese language: Jo?o, , called the Good or of Happy Memory, was the tenth List of Portuguese monarchs and the first to use the title Lord of Ceuta....
    , Portugal
  • John II the Great
    John II of Aragon

    John II the Great was the King of Aragon and jure uxoris King of Navarre . He was the son of Ferdinand I of Aragon and his wife Eleanor of Alburquerque....
    , Aragon
  • Justinian the Great
    Justinian I

    Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus , AD 482 or 483 ? 13 or 14 November 565, was the second member of the Justinian Dynasty and List of Roman Emperors from 527 until his death....
    , Byzantium
  • Kamehameha the Great, Hawai'i
  • Kangxi the Great Emperor, Qing Empire (China)
  • Kanishka
    Kanishka

    Kanishka was a king of the Kushan Empire in Central Asia, ruling an empire extending from Bactria to large parts of India in the 2nd century of the common era, famous for his military, political, and spiritual achievements....
    , a king of the Kushan Empire in Central Asia
    Central Asia

    Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south....
  • Karim Khan the Great
    Karim Khan

    Karim Khan Zand, , , was the ruler and de facto Shah of Iran from 1760 until 1779. He founded the Zand dynasty. He never styled himself as "shah" or king, and instead used the title President ....
    , Persia (Iran)
  • Krishnadevaraya
    Krishnadevaraya

    Sri Krishna Deva Raya was the most famous king of Vijayanagara empire. Presiding over the empire at its zenith, he is regarded as a hero by Kannadigas and Telugu people, and one of the great kings of India....
     the Great, Vijayanagara, India
  • Kublai Khan
    Kublai Khan

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    ,a prominent Mongol ruler in the 13th century and the founder of the Yuan Dynasty
    Yuan Dynasty

    The Yuan Dynasty , or Great Yuan Empire was both the continuation of the Mongol Empire and the Mongol founded historical state in Mongolia and China, lasting officially from 1271 to 1368....
  • Lachit Borphukan
    Lachit Borphukan

    Lachit Borphukan was a commander and Borphukan in the Ahom kingdom known in particular for his successful leadership in the 1671 Battle of Saraighat that thwarted a strong attempt by Mughal forces under the command of Ramsingh I to take back Kamrup....
    , Assam, India
  • Llywelyn the Great
    Llywelyn the Great

    Llywelyn the Great , ), full name Llywelyn ab Iorwerth, was a Prince of Kingdom of Gwynedd in north Wales and eventually de facto ruler over most of Wales....
    , Wales
    Wales

    native_name = Cymru|conventional_long_name = Wales|common_name = Wales|image_flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg|national_motto = ...
    /Gwynedd
    Kingdom of Gwynedd

    Gwynedd is one of several Wales successor states that emerged in 5th-century sub-Roman Britain. It was based on the former Brythonic tribal lands of the Ordovices, Gangani, and the Deceangli which were collectively known as Venedotia in late Romano-British documents....
  • Louis the Great
    Louis I of Hungary

    Louis I the Great was King of Hungary from 1342 and of King of Poland from 1370.Louis was the head of the senior branch of the Angevin dynasty....
    , Hungary and Poland
  • Louis the Great
    Louis XIV of France

    Louis XIV ruled as List of French monarchs and of King of Navarre. He ascended the throne a few months before his fifth birthday, but did not assume actual personal control of the government until the death of his prime minister , the Italians Jules Cardinal Mazarin, in 1661....
    , France
  • Meiji the Great
    Emperor Meiji

    The or Meiji the Great was the 122nd Emperor of Japan of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 3 February 1867 until his death....
    , Japan
  • Menander I
    Menander I

    Menander I Soter "The Saviour" was one of the rulers of the Indo-Greek Kingdom in northern India and present-day Pakistan from either 165 BC or 155 BC to 130 BC ....
    , or Milinda the rulers of the Indo-Greek Kingdom
    Indo-Greek Kingdom

    The Indo-Greek Kingdom covered various parts of the northwest and northern Indian subcontinent during the last two centuries BC, and was ruled by more than 30 Hellenistic civilization kings, often in conflict with each other....
     in northern India
    India

    India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
     and present-day Pakistan
    Pakistan

    Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
     from either 165 or 155 BC to 130 BC
  • Mithridates the Great
    Mithridates II of Parthia

    Mithridates II the Great was the Greatest king of Parthian Empire from 123 to 88 BC. His name invokes the protection of Mithra. He adopted the title Epiphanes, "god manifest" and introduced new designs on his extensive coinage....
    , Parthia
    Parthia

    Parthia is a region of north-eastern Iran, best known for having been the political and cultural base of the Arsacid dynasty, after which the Arsacid Empire is then also known as the 'Parthian Empire'....
     (Iran)
  • Mithridates the Great
    Mithridates VI of Pontus

    Mithradates VI , from Old Persian Mithradatha, "gift of Mithra"; b. 134, d. 63 BC, also known as Mithradates the Great and Eupator Dionysius, was king of Pontus in northern Anatolia from about 119 to 63 BC....
    , Pontus
    Pontus

    Pontus or Pontos is a region on the southern coast of the Black Sea, located in modern-day northeastern Turkey. The name was applied to the coastal region in Antiquity by the Greeks who colonized the area, and derived from the Greek name of the Black Sea: Pontos Euxeinos , or simply Pontos....
  • Moctezuma the Great
    Moctezuma I

    Moctezuma I , also known as Motecuhzoma Ilhuicamina, Huehuemotecuhzoma or Montezuma I , was the fifth Aztec emperor. During his reign the Aztec Empire was consolidated, major expansion was undertaken and Tenochtitlan started becoming the dominant partner of the Aztec Triple Alliance....
    , Aztec
    Aztec

    Aztec is a term used to refer to certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl and who achieved political and military dominance over large parts of Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, a period referred to as the Late post-Classic period in Mesoamerican chronology....
     empire
  • Mstislav the Great
    Mstislav I of Kiev

    Mstislav I Vladimirovich the Great was the Velikiy Kniaz of Kiev , the eldest son of Vladimir II Monomakh by Gytha of Wessex. He figures prominently in the Norse Sagas under the name Harald, taken to allude to his grandfather, Harold Godwinson....
    , Kievan Rus
  • Mubarak Al-Sabah the Great
    Mubarak Al-Sabah

    Sheikh Mubarak bin Sabah Al-Sabah, Order of the Star of India, Order of the Indian Empire "the Great" was the Emir of Kuwait of Kuwait from May 18, 1896 to his death on November 28, 1915....
    , Kuwait
  • Nader Shah the Great
    Nader Shah

    Nader Shah Afshar ruled as Shah of Iran and was the founder of the Afsharid Persian Empire. Because of his military history genius, some historians have described him as the Napoleon I of France of Persia or the Second Alexander the Great....
    , Persia (Iran)
  • Napoleon the Great / Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, French Empire
  • Narai The Great
    Narai

    Narai became king of the Ayutthaya kingdom or Siam, today's Thailand, in 1656. His reign saw a major expansion of diplomatic missions to and from Western powers, most notably France, England, and the Vatican....
    , Thailand
  • Naresuan The Great
    Naresuan

    Naresuan was King of Siam from 1590 until his death in 1605. During his reign, Siam reached its greatest territorial extent....
    , Thailand
  • Otto I the Great, Holy Roman Empire
  • Pacal the Great
    Pacal the Great

    K'inich Janaab' Pakal was ruler of the Maya civilization polity of Palenque in the Late Classic period of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican chronology....
    , Palenque
  • Parâkramabâhu the Great
    Parâkramabâhu I

    Parakramabahu I was List of rulers of Sri Lanka of Sri Lanka from 1153?1186. During his reign from his capital Polonnaruwa Kingdom, he unified the three sub kingdoms of the island, becoming one of the last monarchs in Sri Lankan history to do so....
    , Sri Lanka
  • Petar Krešimir IV the Great
    Petar Krešimir IV of Croatia

    Petar Kre?imir IV, called the Great, was a notably energetic King of Croatia from 1059 to his death in 1074. He was the last great ruler of the Kre?imirovic branch of the House of Trpimirovic....
    , Croatia
  • Peter the Great
    Peter I of Russia

    Peter I the Great or Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov ruled Russia and later the Russian Empire from until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his weak and sickly half-brother, Ivan V of Russia....
    , Russia
  • Peter III the Great
    Peter III of Aragon

    Peter the Great was the King of Aragon of Kingdom of Valencia and of Majorca , and Sovereign Count of Barcelona from 1276 to his death. He conquered Kingdom of Sicily and became King of Sicily in 1282....
    , Aragon
  • Photius the Great, Eastern Orthodox saint and Patriarch of Constantinople
    Patriarch of Constantinople

    The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is the Archbishop of Constantinople ? New Rome ? ranking as primus inter pares in the Eastern Orthodox Church organization, which is seen by followers as the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church....
  • Pompey the Great
    Pompey

    Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, commonly known as Pompey /'p?mpi/, Pompey the Great or Pompey the Triumvir , was a distinguished military and political leader of the late Roman Republic....
    , Rome
  • Prokop the Great
    Prokop the Great

    File:Prokop Hol?.jpegProkop or Prokop the Great was one of the most prominent Hussite generals of the Hussite Wars. His name has also been given as "Prokop Holy" and "Procopius the Great"....
    , Hussite
    Hussite

    The Hussites were a Christianity movement following the teachings of Czech reformer Jan Hus or John Huss , who became one of the forerunners of the Protestant Reformation....
     leader in Bohemia
    Bohemia

    History...
  • Rajaraja The Great, India
    India

    India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
    n emperor of the Cholas.
  • Rajendra Chola The Great Tamil King of India
  • Ramesses the Great
    Ramesses II

    Ramesses II was the third Egyptian pharaoh of the Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt. He is often regarded as Ancient Egypt's greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh....
    , Ancient Egypt
  • Ramkhamhaeng the Great
    Ramkhamhaeng the Great

    Ram Khamhaeng was the third king of the Phra Ruang dynasty, ruling the Sukhothai Kingdom from 1279-1298, during its most prosperous era. He is credited with the creation of the Thai alphabet and the firm establishment of Theravada Buddhism as the state religion of the kingdom....
    , Thailand
  • Ramon Berenguer III the Great
    Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona

    Ramon Berenguer III the Great was the count of Barcelona, Girona, and Osona from 1082 , Besal? from 1111, Cerdanya from 1117, and Provence, in the Holy Roman Empire, from 1112, all until his death in Barcelona in 1131....
    , Barcelona
  • Rhodri the Great
    Rhodri the Great

    File:Wales 844-78 .svgRhodri the Great was the first ruler of Wales to be called 'Great', and the first to rule most of present-day Wales. He is referred to as "King of the Britons" by the Annals of Ulster. In some later histories, he is referred to as "King of Wales" but he did not rule all of Wales nor was this term used contempora...
    , Wales
    Wales

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    /Gwynedd
    Kingdom of Gwynedd

    Gwynedd is one of several Wales successor states that emerged in 5th-century sub-Roman Britain. It was based on the former Brythonic tribal lands of the Ordovices, Gangani, and the Deceangli which were collectively known as Venedotia in late Romano-British documents....
  • Sancho III the Great
    Sancho III of Navarre

    Sancho III Garc?s , called the Great , was King of Navarre from 1004 until his death and claimed the overlordship of the List of Castilian monarchs from 1017 to his death, appearing in a charter as "king in Castile"....
    , Navarre
  • Sargon the Great
    Sargon of Akkad

    Sargon of Akkad, also known as Sargon the Great , was an Akkadian Empire emperor famous for his conquest of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th and 23rd centuries BC....
    , Akkad
  • Sejong the Great
    Sejong the Great of Joseon

    Sejong the Great was the fourth king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea. He is best remembered for creating the Korean alphabet hangul, despite strong opposition from the scholars educated in hanja ....
    , Korea
  • Shapur the Great
    Shapur II

    Shapur II was the ninth King of the Sassanid Empire from 309 to 379. During his long reign, the Sassanid Empire saw its first golden era since the reign of Shapur I ....
    , Sassanid empire, Persia (Iran)
  • Shivaji
    Shivaji

    Shivaji Bhosle , commonly known as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj laid the foundations of the Maratha Empire. Shivaji was younger of the two sons of Shahaji and Jijabai....
     the Great of India
  • Simeon I the Great
    Simeon I of Bulgaria

    Simeon I the Great ruled over Bulgaria from 893 to 927, during the First Bulgarian Empire. Simeon's successful campaigns against the Byzantine Empire, Magyars and Serbs led Bulgaria to its greatest territorial expansion ever, making it the most powerful state in contemporary Eastern Europe....
    , Bulgaria
  • St. Basil the Great, theologian, Cappadocia
  • St. Gregory the Great, pope
  • St. James the Great, apostle
  • St. Leo the Great, pope
  • St. Macarius the Great
    Macarius of Egypt

    Macarius of Egypt was an Egyptian Christianity monasticism and hermit. He is also known as Macarius the Elder, Macarius the Great and The Lamp of the Desert....
    , Egyptian hermit
  • St. Nicholas the Great
    Pope Nicholas I

    Pope Nicholas I, , or Nicholas the Great, reigned from April 24, 858 until his death. He is remembered as a consolidator of papal authority and power, exerting decisive influence upon the historical development of the papacy and its position among the Christian nations of Western Europe, and is considered a saint....
    , pope
  • Stephen the Great
    Stephen III of Moldavia

    Stephen III of Moldavia or Stephen III , also known as Stephen the Great was List of Moldavian rulers of Principality of Moldavia between 1457 and 1504 and the most prominent representative of the House of Musat....
    , Moldavia, Romania
  • Sultan Agung of Mataram
    Sultan Agung of Mataram

    Sultan Agung of Mataram or Sultan Agung Anyokrokusumo or Sultan Agung Hanyokrokusumo was the Sultan of Mataram from 1613-1645. He was the constructor of the Karta Palace, and the Royal Graveyard of Imogiri....
    , Mataram (Java)
  • Taejo
    Taejo

    Taejo, meaning "great ancestor," is a name often applied to the founders of Korean dynasties. The term may refer to:*Taejo of Goguryeo , born Go Gung, sixth monarch of Goguryeo...
    , Goguryeo
    Goguryeo

    Goguryeo or Koguryo was an ancient Koreans Empire located in the northern and central parts of the Korean peninsula, southern Manchuria, and southern Primorsky Krai....
     (Ancient Korea)
  • Taksin the Great
    Taksin

    Somdet Phrachao Taksin Maharaj or Somdet Phrachao Krung Thonburi ; ; Teochew: D?nchao; was the first and only monarch of Thonburi kingdom....
    , Thailand
  • Tamburlaine the Great, Timurid Empire
  • Theobald the Great, Champagne
  • Theodoric the Great
    Theodoric the Great

    File:Theodoric bronze weight inlaid with silver issued by prefect Catulinus Rome 493 526.jpg'Theodoric the Great' , known in Latin as 'Flavius Theodericus' and in Greek sources, was king of the Ostrogoths , ruler of Italy , and regent of the Visigoths ....
    , Ostrogoths
  • Theodosius the Great, Rome
  • Tigranes the Great
    Tigranes the Great

    This article is about a king of Armenia in the 1st century Common Era. For other historical figures with the same name see Tigranes.Tigranes the Great was a king of Kingdom of Armenia under whom the country became, for a short time, the strongest state east of the Roman Republic....
    , Armenia
  • Tiridates the Great
    Tiridates III of Armenia

    Tiridates III was the king of Iranian Arsacid Dynasty of Armenia , and is also known as Tiridates the Great ; some scholars incorrectly refer to him as Tiridates IV as a result of the fact that Tiridates I of Armenia reigned twice)....
    , Armenia
  • Umar the Great
    Umar

    Umar , also known as Umar the Great or Omar the Great was a Muslim from the Banu Adi clan of the Quraysh Tribes of Arabia, and a sahaba of Muhammad....
    , the second caliph of Muslim Empire
  • Valdemar I the Great
    Valdemar I of Denmark

    Valdemar I of Denmark , also known as Valdemar the Great, was King of Denmark from 1157 until 1182. Buried in Skt. Bendts Church, Ringsted....
    , Denmark
  • Vladimir the Great
    Vladimir I of Kiev

    Vladimir Svyatoslavich the Great, also sometimes spelled Volodymyr Old East Slavic: ?????????? ???????????? was the grand prince of Kiev who converted to Christianity in 987, and proceeded to baptism of Kiev....
    , Kievan Rus
  • Vytautas the Great
    Vytautas the Great

    Vytautas the Great , was one of the most famous rulers of Grand Duchy of Lithuania. With the title Didysis Kunigaik?tis, the equivalent of Monarch, he was the supreme ruler of his dominions and also a member of the Order of the Dragon....
    , archduke of Lithuanian Grand Duchy
  • Wilhelm the Great, Germany and Prussia
  • William the Great, Maleval
  • William I the Great
    William I, Count of Burgundy

    William I , called the Great was Count of Burgundy and Count of M?con from 1057 to 1087. He was a son of Renaud I, Count of Burgundy and Adelaide, daughter of Richard II of Normandy....
    , Burgundy
  • William V the Great, Aquitaine
  • Xerxes the Great, Persia (Iran)
  • Yu the Great
    Yu the Great

    Yu , often regarded with legendary status as Yu the Great , was the first ruler and founder of the Xia Dynasty. He was born the year 2059 BCE, said to be on the Year of the Tiger....
    , China


See also


  • Epithet
    Epithet

    An epithet is a descriptive word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing, which has become a fixed formula....
  • List of monarchs by nickname
    List of monarchs by nickname

    This is a list of monarchs sorted by nickname.This list is divided into two parts:* Cognomens: Also called cognomina. These are names which are appended before or after the person's name, like the epithet, or Roman victory titles....
  • List of nicknames of European Royalty and Nobility: G-I
    Category:Greatest Nationals
    Category:Monarchs