List of people known as the Magnificent
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The Magnificent is an epithet
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Epithet
An epithet or byname is a descriptive term accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. It has various shades of meaning when applied to seemingly real or fictitious people, divinities, objects, and binomial nomenclature. It is also a descriptive title...
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- Edmund I (922-946), King of England
- Isma'il PashaIsma'il PashaIsma'il Pasha , known as Ismail the Magnificent , was the Khedive of Egypt and Sudan from 1863 to 1879, when he was removed at the behest of the United Kingdom...
(1830-1895), Khedive of Egypt and Sudan - Patriarch Joasaph II of ConstantinoplePatriarch Joasaph II of ConstantinopleJoasaph II, known as "the Magnificent" , was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1556 to 1565.-Life:Joasaph was born in Thrace. He studied in Ioannina and then in Nafplio, learning Arabic, Persian and Turkish...
, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1556 to 1565 - Leo I, King of Armenia (1150-1219), also known as Levon I the Magnificent
- Lorenzo de' MediciLorenzo de' MediciLorenzo de' Medici was an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance. Known as Lorenzo the Magnificent by contemporary Florentines, he was a diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists and poets...
(1449-1492), Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic - Robert I, Duke of Normandy (1000-1035), father of William the Conqueror
- Suleiman the MagnificentSuleiman the MagnificentSuleiman I was the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1520 to his death in 1566. He is known in the West as Suleiman the Magnificent and in the East, as "The Lawgiver" , for his complete reconstruction of the Ottoman legal system...
(1494-1566), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire - The Magnificent Muraco, a ring name of professional wrestler Don MuracoDon MuracoDonald Muraco , better known by his ring name "The Rock" Don Muraco, is a retired American professional wrestler...
(born 1949) - Pierre Bernard (yogi)Pierre Bernard (yogi)Pierre Arnold Bernard was a pioneering American yogi, scholar, occultist, philosopher, mystic and businessman; he held a notorious reputation as a con man, seducer and philanderer....
(1875-1955), "Oom the Magnificent", American yogi, scholar, occultist, philosopher, mystic and businessman
Fictional characters:
- Carnac the MagnificentCarnac the MagnificentCarnac the Magnificent was a recurring comedic role played by Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. One of Carson's most well known characters, Carnac was a "mystic from the east" who could psychically "divine" unseen answers to unknown questions...
, a recurring character played by late-night television host Johnny CarsonJohnny CarsonJohn William "Johnny" Carson was an American television host and comedian, known as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for 30 years . Carson received six Emmy Awards including the Governor Award and a 1985 Peabody Award; he was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987... - Mongo the MagnificentMongo the MagnificentDr. Robert "Mongo" Frederickson, a.k.a. Mongo the Magnificent, is a fictional private eye and criminologist who has dwarfism, appearing in several books by George C. Chesbro...
, a private eye and criminologist in several books by George C. Chesbro - Morgus the MagnificentMorgus the MagnificentMorgus the Magnificent, also known as Momus Alexander Morgus, is a fictional character on television shows that originated in the New Orleans, Louisiana television market. From the late 1950s into the 1980s Morgus was a "horror host" of late-night science fiction and horror movies, and is back on...
, a "horror host" of late-night science fiction and horror movies - Peter PevensiePeter PevensiePeter Pevensie is a major fictional character in the children's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis. Peter appears in four of the seven books; as a child and a principal character in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian, and as an adult in The Horse and His Boy...
, in the Chronicles of Narnia fantasy series