People

Basic Information

This page is for historical or legendary figures who might be useful in a campaign. It should be limited to people who actually existed (such as George Washington) or to people of legend who lie in the "public domain" (such as Robin Hood). Purely literary creations, (such as Captain Nemo or Bertie Wooster) are better left in their own category.

The people listed are categorized into rough historical periods. The dates given for these periods are inexact and intended only as a general guideline. We may subdivide them further in the future. Maybe.

We've also added a few thematic categories at the bottom - including one for people that went missing mysteriously.

• Ancient People (before AD 475)
  • Archimedes
  • Aristotle
  • Homer
  • King Tut
  • Saint Nicholas
  • Plato
  • Simon Magus
  • Socrates
  • Solon
• Medieval People (roughly 475-1500)
  • Frederick Barbarossa
  • The Venerable Bede
  • Michael Scott - the "wiazard" of Balwearie.
  • Genghis Khan
  • Hashim ibn Hakim
  • Pope Joan
  • Marco Polo
  • Wu Zetian
• Renaissance People (1500-1600)
  • Christopher Columbus
  • Queen Elizabeth I
  • Erasmus
  • Veronica Franco
  • Ben Johnson
  • Rabbi Judah Loew
  • Martin Luther
  • Christopher Marlowe
  • Gilles de Rais
  • William Shakespeare
• Enlightenment/Colonial Era People (1600-1800)
  • Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Peter Francisco
  • Theodore Gericault
  • Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
  • Isaac Newton
  • Cardinal Richelieu
  • the Count of St. Germain
  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
  • George Washington
  • Adam Weishaupt
  • James Wilkinson
• Victorian Era People (1800-1900)
  • Grizzly Adams
  • P.T. Barnum
  • The Bender Family, aka the Bloody Benders
  • Helena P. Blavatsky
  • Nellie Bly
  • Jim Bridger
  • John Brown
  • Julia Bulette
  • Alexis Carrel
  • Ignatius L. Donnelly
  • Biddy Early
  • Stephen Foster
  • Gilbert and Sullivan
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Mose "the Fireboy" Humphrey
  • John "Liver Eating" Johnson
  • Ranald MacDonald
  • Napoleon III
  • Pierre Parrant
  • Allan Pinkerton
  • Joseph Pulitzer
  • Alexander Scriabin
  • Ching Shih
  • Jules Verne
  • Queen Victoria
  • H.G. Wells
• Modern Era People (1900-present)
  • Joshua Blahyi
  • Al Capone
  • Jimmy Carter
  • Edgar Cayce
  • Neville Chamberlain
  • Eddie Chapman
  • Winston Churchill
  • Douglas Corrigan
  • Judge Crater
  • Charles de Gaulle
  • Albert Einstein
  • Dwight E Eisenhower
  • Charles Fort
  • John Wayne Gacy
  • Gary Gygax
  • Hergé
  • Emperor Hirohito
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov
  • Charles Lindbergh
  • Douglas MacArthur
  • Bill Mauldin
  • Armin Meiwes
  • Benito Mussolini
  • Henry Okah
  • John Whiteside Parsons
  • George S Patton
  • John J. Pershing
  • Harriet Quimby
  • Erwin Rommel
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • Cleon Skousen
  • Josef Stalin
  • Robin Stephens
  • Tokyo Rose
  • Pancho Villa

Other Groups of People

• Mythological Characters
• Fictional Characters
• People of the Bible
• Prominent Missing Persons

Game and Story Use

• Historical figures can be used as colorful NPCs that the players meet in the course of their adventures
• Important figures can be used as Patrons (You are a Secret Service Agent reporting directly to President Grant) or as Enemies (You are a King's Musketeer fighting against the plots of Cardinal Richelieu)
• In a time travel campaign, plots can involve protecting a historically significant figure or insuring that the person accomplishes what he is supposed to.