Who is somebody really interesting in history?

Question

not just some random person either, somebody really unique and really interesting, also somebody who is not a cliche, like elvis or somebody like that.

Answer 1

Adolph Hitler, Benjamin Franklin, Carrol Shelby, Douglas MacArthor, Emporor Contantine, Ferdinan Magellan, George Washington, Henry Ford, Jesse James, John Glen, King Richard the Lion Hearted, Leonardo DaVinci, Martin Luthor King Jr., Nero Cesar, Nostradamus, Orson Wells, Pierre De Le'Enfant, Q-Bert (haha), Rasputan, Steven Spielburg, Thomas Eddison, Ulysses S. Grant, Victor Hugo, Walter Cronkite, x,y,z...ok...couldn't do it.

There are alot of interesting people in history. You just have to find one that interests you.
Cheers!

Answer 2

How about Red Cloud. A warrior leader of the Sioux nation, he led a force of Sioux and Cheyenne against the US Army. At the end of Red Cloud's War, the US was forced into the Treaty of Fort Laramie, ceding the Black Hills and much of what is now South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming to the Sioux, closing the Bozeman Trail, and dismantling the forts which protected that trail. This is pretty much everything the Sioux had asked for. Look through it, and Red Cloud is the only military leader to hand the US Army a complete, unquestionable defeat. Granted, the Treaty of Laramie was soon reneged on by the United States, but that does nothing to diminish Red Cloud's feat. Oh, and for the record, the US won in Vietnam, we got everything from the North Vietnamese that was asked for at the Paris Accords. That also was lost after the war.

Answer 3

French Canada if full of really interesting people

Louis Riel
Guillaume Couture
Isaac Jogues
Urbain Tessier Lavigne

Then you've got the voyageurs who explored inland from the ocean along the Great Lakes, across Illinois and down the Mississippi. Do some research on Pere Marquette, for example.

In the US, we had a plethora of interesting people in our history.

There were wonderfully colorful characters like Pierre Lafitte, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (a black Haitian who was the first settler in what's now Chicago), Fr. Gabriel Richard (the first Catholic priest to serve in Congress, founder of the University of Michigan, brought the first printing press to the Midwest, died of cholera while visiting the sick), as well as leaders from the 19th and 20th centuries like Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S Truman.

We had people like Whitney Young, Mary Cassatt, Frank Lloyd Wright, Daniel Burnham, Mies van der Rohe (who had the best quote ever: God is in the details).

Look at some of our "heroes" who led unusual lives, like Greg (Pappy) Boyington of the Black Sheep Squadron in WWII, Buffalo Bill Cody, Bill Hickok, etc.

Answer 4

Marie Antonette
George Washington
Sir Isaac Newton
Thomas Edison
Franklin Roosevelt
Benjamin Franklin
Vlad the Impaler (Dracula)
Jesus
Ramses
Cleopatra
Nefertiti

Answer 5

Manco Capac - the first Inca ruler. He was told by the sun god Inti, along with his sister/wife Mama Ocllo, to civilize the world. They were given a golden staff and where ever they placed the staff in the ground, that would become their capital. They founded/conquered the city of Cuzco and set out to show the world what they knew. Manco Capac teaching the men about agriculture and irrigation and Mama Ocollo teaching the women the art of weaving. Most historian concede that Sinchi Roca, a son of Manco Capac, might be considered the first Inca chief. There is evidence of him, but really no historical evidence of Manco Capac.

Answer 6

Nick Lowe, David Byrne, Elvis Costello.

Answer 7

I would suggest Eleanor of Aquitaine. She literally is the matriarch of most of Europe's monarchies. She married two interesting and very different men. First she married Louis of France, gave him two daughters, went on Crusade with him, then was divorced for not providing a son. Then married to the younger Henry II of England and provided him with some of the most colorful children in the Middle Ages, King Richard the Lionheart, and John Lackland. She outlived both husbands and all but two of her offspring and influenced the course of history for England and France even in her later years. She's definitely worth looking into.

Answer 8

Leonardo Davinchie
during his own time people saw Davinchie as a mad man or a lunatic ,his ideas and theories were far advanced to the current times ,today however we are able to recognize his true genus
the artist is a verry small aspect of a briliant man

Answer 9

Boudicca (AD 62)

What do we really know of this great British Queen of ancient Britain? She was married to Prasutagus, and with him she ruled over the Iceni - the tribe occupying East Anglia - but under Roman authority. Like many other rulers in Britain at this time, Boudicca witnessed the suffering caused to her people by the heavy taxes, conscription and other indignities generated by the Roman Emperor Nero. The final outrage came when her husband Prasutagus died, and the Romans plundered her chief tribesmen and brutally annexed her dominions. This was too much for the Queen and she determined to take on Nero and his Legions. In this she was not alone, for tradition tells that all of south east Britain came to her side, ready to die for the Queen who was fierce enough to take on the Roman Empire. It's noteworthy that tribes which remained loyal to the Romans, (like the Catuvellauni) were not spared Boudicca's wrath.

Boudicca's opportunity came when the Roman Governor General Seutonius Paulinus and his troops were stationed in Anglesey and North Wales. By the time Paulinus got back, the Roman municipalities of St Albans and Colchester had been burned to the ground by the Britons. Boudicca's warriors were more than a little intimidating. They virtually routed the Ninth Legion that had been marching from Lincoln to help Paulinus, and without additional support from Rome there was little he could do against the determination of these people. Eventually they marched on London and it was here at last that Paulinus faced Boudicca and her army of Britons in the field. We don't know where, (possibly the Midlands) but we do know that a desperate battle was fought, and although the Romans were the victors, they regained the province at great price.

Many thousands of Britons fell in battle and those who lived were hunted down by Roman soldiers. But it would seem that Boudicca's actions had shocked the Roman world into adopting policies that were a little kinder. Some historians believe that the relative lack of Romano-British remains in Norfolk is testimony to the severity with which the Roman Empire crushed Boudicca and the Iceni peoples.

Finally, faced with defeat, the proud warrior Queen took her own life, by drinking from a poisoned chalice. This much is well known; the challenge is to separate fact from the many legends. For instance, is she really buried under Platform 10 at London's King's Cross Station? We'll probably never know, because for centuries people have been claiming their own local sites as her final resting place.

Answer 10

Thomas Jefferson, third President of the US. Not only did he sign the Declaration, but he was an eclectic, brilliant man with different talents. For instance, he was an architect, and a scientist, and he loved to read. He said, "Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."