List of historical figures in Civilization IV

The following is a comprehensive list of the historical figures in the PC game Civilization IV. The list follows the same order of which they appears in the game, which is roughly based on chronological order.

Great Prophets

 * Moses
 * Mahavira
 * Zoroaster
 * Ananda
 * Chuang-Tzu
 * Mencius
 * Mo Tzu
 * St. John
 * St. Peter
 * St. Paul
 * Rabbi Akiva
 * Mani
 * St. Augustine
 * St. Patrick
 * Abu Bakr
 * Shankara
 * Kobo-Daishi
 * Atisha
 * St. Thomas Aquinas
 * Mohammed Shah
 * Tsongkhapa
 * Jeanne d'Arc
 * Narak (sic) should be Nanak
 * Tipu Sultan
 * Ramakrishna
 * Narayana Guru
 * Sojourner Truth
 * Charles Taylor

Great Artists

 * Homer
 * Thespis
 * Ling Lun
 * Wang Xizhi
 * Valmiki
 * Virgil
 * Kalidas
 * Li Po
 * Du Fu
 * Jalal al-Din Rumi
 * Dante Alighieri
 * Yunus Emre
 * Amir Khusro
 * Ibn Muqlah
 * Michaelangelo
 * Raphael
 * William Shakespeare
 * Miguel de Cervantes
 * Rembrandt van Rijn
 * Johannes Vermeer
 * J. S. Bach
 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 * Ludwig van Beethoven
 * Victor Hugo
 * Vincent van Gogh
 * Johannes Brahms
 * Antonín Dvořák
 * Mark Twain
 * Claude Monet
 * Joseph Conrad
 * Franz Kafka
 * Louis Armstrong
 * Duke Ellington
 * Pablo Picasso
 * Miles Davis

Great Scientists

 * Merit Ptah
 * Xi Ling Shi
 * Nabu-rimanni
 * Socrates
 * Plato
 * Aristotle (called "Aristole" in error)
 * Euclid
 * Ptolemy
 * Hypatia
 * Zu Chongzhi
 * Aryabhata
 * Al-Kindi
 * Al-Khwarizmi
 * Al-Razi
 * Alhazen
 * Nicolaus Copernicus
 * Francis Bacon
 * Tycho Brahe
 * Johannes Kepler
 * Isaac Newton
 * Galileo Galilei
 * Rene Descartes
 * Antony van Leeuwenhoek
 * Gottfried Leibniz
 * Mikhail Lomonosov
 * Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
 * Carl Friedrich Gauss
 * John Dalton
 * Michael Faraday
 * James Clerk Maxwell
 * Louis Pasteur
 * Charles Darwin
 * Ernest Rutherford
 * Marie Curie
 * Albert Einstein
 * Niels Bohr
 * Werner Heisenberg
 * Enrico Fermi
 * Rosalind Franklin
 * Andrei Sakharov

Great Merchants

 * Harkuf
 * Hanno
 * Pytheas
 * Zhang Qian
 * Aretas III
 * Leif Erickson
 * Wang Anshi
 * Enrico Dandolo
 * Marco Polo
 * Ibn Battuta
 * Richard Whittington
 * Giovanni de Medici
 * Zheng He
 * Vasco da Gama
 * Christopher Columbus
 * Ferdinand Magellan
 * Jacques Cartier
 * Raja Todar Mal
 * Anthony van Diemen
 * Sir Thomas Roe
 * Shah Jahan
 * Adam Smith
 * James Cook
 * Cornelius Vanderbilt
 * Sir Alexander Mackenzie
 * John Stuart Mill
 * Andrew Carnegie
 * John D. Rockefeller
 * John Maynard Keynes
 * Coco Chanel

Great Engineers

 * Imhotep
 * Archimedes
 * Heron
 * Cai Lun
 * Zhang Heng
 * Bi Sheng
 * Johannes Gutenberg
 * Leonardo da Vinci
 * Sinan
 * Wilhelm Schickard
 * Blaise Pascal
 * Benjamin Franklin
 * Charles Augustin de Coulomb
 * James Watt
 * Robert Fulton
 * Joseph Marie Jacquard
 * Isambard Kingdom Brunel
 * William T. G. Morton
 * Louis Daguerre
 * Ferdinand de Lesseps
 * John Roebling
 * Norbert Rillieux
 * Henry Bessemer
 * Nain Singh
 * Alexander Graham Bell
 * Nikolaus August Otto
 * Gottlieb Daimler
 * Nikola Tesla
 * Thomas Edison
 * Guglielmo Marconi
 * Alexandre Gustave Eiffel
 * George Washington Goethals
 * Henry Ford
 * Wilbur Wright
 * Orville Wright

Great Generals

 * Sargon
 * Nebuchadnezzar II
 * Sun Tzu
 * Leonidas
 * Lysander
 * Chandragupta Maurya
 * Hamilcar Barca
 * Gaius Marius
 * Scipio Africanus
 * Vercingetorix
 * Arminius
 * Boudica
 * Cao Cao
 * Zhuge Liang
 * Belisarius
 * Khalid ibn al-Walid
 * Charles Martel
 * Charlemagne
 * Jayavarman II
 * El Cid
 * William the Conqueror
 * Subutai
 * Timur
 * Jeanne d'Arc
 * Pachacuti
 * Auitzotl
 * Hernan Cortés
 * Francisco Pizzaro
 * Ivan the Terrible
 * Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar
 * Gustavus II Adolphus
 * Michiel de Ruyter
 * Oliver Cromwell
 * Eugene of Savoy
 * Marquis de Lafayette
 * Prince Edward Augustus of Kent and Strathearn
 * Horatio Nelson
 * Oliver Perry
 * Matthew Perry
 * Robert Lee
 * George Dewey
 * Isoroku Yamamoto
 * John Pershing
 * George Smith Patton
 * Bernard Montgomery
 * Douglas MacArthur
 * Heinz Guderian
 * Erwin Rommel
 * Georgy Zhukov

The Great General is available only in Warlords expansion pack.

Historians

 * Herodotus
 * Thucydides
 * Pliny
 * St. Augustine
 * Gibbon
 * Toynbee
 * Lord McCauley
 * Livy
 * Tacitus
 * The Venerable Bede
 * Machiavelli