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)
- Abraham
- Saint Agnes
- Saint Anthony
- Archimedes
- Aristotle
- Ashirbanipul
- Augustus Caesar
- Cyrus the Great
- Ea-Nasir
- Enheduanna
- Gaius Appuleius Diocles
- Gaius Marius
- Hammurabi
- Homer
- Julius Caesar
- King Tut
- Kushim
- Pompey Magnus
- Saint Nicholas
- Paul the Apostle
- Plato
- Sargon of Akkad
- Simon Magus
- Sulla
- Socrates
- Solon
- Tomyris
- Medieval People (roughly 475-1500)
- Frederick Barbarossa
- The Venerable Bede
- Michael Scott - the "wizard" of Balwearie.
- Genghis Khan
- Gertrude of Nivelles
- Gilles de Rais
- Hashim ibn Hakim
- Joan of Arc
- Pope Joan
- Marco Polo
- Wu Zetian
- Renaissance People (1500-1600)
- Enlightenment/Colonial Era People (1600-1800)
- Victorian Era People (1800-1900)
- Grizzly Adams
- Hans Christian Andersen
- P.T. Barnum
- The Bender Family, aka the Bloody Benders
- Helena P. Blavatsky
- Nellie Bly
- Janos Bolyai
- Jules Bonnot and the Bonnot Gang
- Jim Bridger
- John Brown
- Julia Bulette
- Alexis Carrel
- Charles Dickens
- Ignatius L. Donnelly
- Biddy Early
- Stephen Foster
- Gilbert and Sullivan
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Mose "the Fireboy" Humphrey
- Kaspar Hauser
- John "Liver Eating" Johnson
- Ranald MacDonald
- Napoleon III
- Halbert E. Paine
- Pierre Parrant
- Allan Pinkerton
- Joseph Pulitzer
- Bass Reeves
- Alexander Scriabin
- Ching Shih
- Mark Twain
- Jules Verne
- Queen Victoria
- H.G. Wells
- White House Gunfighters
- Modern Era People (1900-present)
- Joshua Blahyi
- William Jennings Bryan
- Al Capone
- Jimmy Carter
- Edgar Cayce
- Neville Chamberlain
- Eddie Chapman
- Winston Churchill
- Douglas Corrigan
- Judge Crater
- Clarence Darrow
- Charles de Gaulle
- Albert Einstein
- Dwight E Eisenhower
- Ian Fleming
- Charles Fort
- John Wayne Gacy
- Gary Gygax
- Hergé
- Emperor Hirohito
- Adolf Hitler
- Harry Houdini
- Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov
- Frida Kahlo
- Charles Lindbergh
- H.P. Lovecraft
- Douglas MacArthur
- Bill Mauldin
- Armin Meiwes
- H.L. Mencken
- Benito Mussolini
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Henry Okah
- John Whiteside Parsons
- George S Patton
- John J. Pershing
- Harriet Quimby
- Erwin Rommel
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Cleon Skousen
- Josef Stalin
- Robin Stephens
- Tokyo Rose
- Leon Trotsky
- Alan Turing
- Pancho Villa
- von Ungern Sternberg
Other Groups of People
- Mythological Characters
- Fictional Characters
- People of the Bible
- Prominent Missing Persons
- RPG creators
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.
page revision: 102, last edited: 03 Dec 2023 23:53