List of people known as the Great

"The Great" redirects here. For other uses, see The Great (disambiguation).

This is a list of people known as the Great, or the equivalent, in their own language. Other languages have their own suffixes, such as Persian e Bozorg and Hindustani e Azam.

In Persia, the title "the Great" at first seems to have been a colloquial version of the Old Persian title "Great King" (King of Kings, Shahanshah). It was first used by Cyrus II of Persia. ^[1] The title was inherited by Alexander III when he conquered the Persian Empire, and the epithet eventually became personally associated with him. The first reference to this is in a comedy by Plautus, ^[2] in which it is assumed that everyone knew who "Alexander the Great" was; however, there is no evidence that he was called "the Great" before this. The early Seleucid kings, who succeeded Alexander in Persia, used "Great King" in local documents, but the title was most notably used for Antiochus III. Once the term gained currency, it was broadened to include persons in other fields, such as the philosopher Albert.

Later rulers and commanders were given the epithet during their lifetime, for example, the Roman general Pompey. Others received the title posthumously, such as the Indian emperor Ashoka. As there are no objective criteria for "greatness", the persistence of the designation varies greatly. For example, Louis XIV of France was often referred to as "the Great" in his lifetime, but is rarely called such nowadays, later writers preferring his more specific epithet "the Sun King". German Emperor Wilhelm I was often called "the Great" in the time of his grandson Wilhelm II, but rarely before or after.

Monarchs

Name	Description	Dates	Ref.
Abbas I	Shah of Iran	1587 – 1629	[3]
Abgar VIII	King of Osroene	177 – 212
Akbar	Mughal emperor of India	1556 – 1605	[4]
Alan I	Duke of Brittany	876 – 907
Alexander I	King of Georgia	1412 – 1442
Alexander III	Basileus of Macedonia and King of Kings of Persia, Pharaoh of Egypt	336 BC – 323 BC
Alfonso III	King of León, Galicia and Asturias	866 – 910
Alfred	King of Wessex and the Anglo-Saxons	871 – 899
Ali Sher Khan	Sultan of Baltiyul	1595 – 1633
Amenhotep III	Pharaoh of Egypt	1391 BC – 1353 BC or 1388 BC – 1351 BC
Antiochus III	Ruler of the Seleucid Empire	223 BC – 187 BC
Ashoka	Mauryan ruler of India and "Emperor of Emperors"	268 BC – 232 BC	[5] [6] [7]
Ashot I	King of Armenia	885 – 890
Ashot I	Bagratid king of Georgia	813 – 826 or 830
Askia Mohammad I	Ruler of the Songhai Empire	1493 – 1528	[8]
Bagrat V	King of Georgia	1360 – 1393
Barnim III	Duke of Stettin Pomerania	1344 – 1368	[9]
Berengaria	Queen of Castile and Toledo	1197 – 1246
Bhillama I	King of Seuna dynasty of India	910 – 930	[10]
Bogusław V	Duke of Wolgast and Słupsk	1326 – 1374	[11]
Bolesław I	King of Poland	992 – 1025	[12]
Borommaracha IV	King of the Thonburi Kingdom (in present-day Thailand)	1767 – 1782	[13]
Casimir III	King of Poland	1333 – 1370
Catherine II	Empress of Russia	1762 – 1796
Charlemagne	King of the Franks and Emperor of the Romans	768 – 814
Constantine I	Roman emperor	306 – 337
Cnut	King of England (1016–1035), Denmark (1018–1035) and Norway (1028–1035)	1016 – 1035
Cyrus II	Shahanshah of Persia, Achaemenid Empire (in present-day Iran)	559 BC – 530 BC
Darius I	Shahanshah of Persia, Achaemenid Empire (in present-day Iran)	522 BC – 486 BC
Eucratides I	Ruler of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom and the Indo-Greek Kingdom	171 BC – 145 BC	[14]
Ewuare I	Oba (king) of the Benin Empire (in present-day Nigeria)	1440 – 1473
Farrukhan	Ispahbadh of Tabaristan	712 – 728	[15]
Ferdinand I	King of León and Count of Castile	1037 – 1065
Frederick II	King of Prussia	1740 – 1786
Gwrgan	King of Ergyng	619 – 645
Gustav II	King of Sweden	1611 – 1632
Gwanggaeto	King of Goguryeo, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea	391 – 412	[16]
Henry IV	King of France and King of Navarre	1589 – 1610
Herod I	King of Judea	37 BC – 4 BC or 36 BC – 1 BC
Hugh III	King of Cyprus and Jerusalem	1267 – 1284
Hugh	Co-King of France	1017 – 1025
Inal	Supreme Prince of Circassia	1427 – 1453
Ivan III	Grand Prince of Moscow and All Russia	1462 – 1505
Iyasu I	Emperor of Ethiopia	1682 – 1706
John II	King of Aragon and King of Navarre	1458 – 1479
Justinian I	Byzantine Emperor	527 – 565
Kamehameha I	King of Hawaii	1782 – 1819
Kanishka I	Emperor of Kushan Empire	127 – 150	[17]
Kvirike III	King of Kakheti in eastern Georgia	1010 – 1037
Leo I	Roman emperor	457 – 474	[18]
Llywelyn	King of Gwynedd	1195 – 1240
Louis I	King of Hungary, Croatia, and Poland	1342 – 1382
Louis XIV	King of France and Navarre	1643 – 1715
Manuel I	Byzantine emperor	1143 – 1180
Marianus IV	Judge of Arborea	1347 – 1376	[19]
Michael Krešimir II	King of Croatia	949 – 969	[20]
Miloš I	Prince of Serbia	1817 – 1839, 1858 – 1860
Mircea	Voivode of Wallachia	1386 – 1394, 1397 – 1418
Mithridates I	King of Parthia (in present-day Iran)	165 BC – 132 BC	[21]
Mithridates II	King of Parthia (in present-day Iran)	124 BC – 91 BC
Mithridates VI	King of Pontus	120 BC – 63 BC
Mubarak	Ruler of Kuwait	1896 – 1915
Mstislav I	Grand Prince of Kiev	1088 – 1132
Nebuchadnezzar II	King of the Neo-Babylonian Empire	605 BC – 562 BC	[22]
Otto I	Holy Roman Emperor	962 – 973
Kʼinich Janaab Pakal I	Ruler of the Maya city-state of Palenque	615 – 683
Parakramabahu I	King of Polonnaruwa	1153 – 1186	[23]
Peter I	Tsar of Russia	1682 – 1725	[ citation needed ]
Peter III	King of Aragon and King of Sicily	1276 – 1285
Pharasmanes I	King of Iberia	1 – 58
Radama I	King of greater Madagascar	1810 – 1828
Radu IV	Voivode of Wallachia	1495 – 1508
Rajendra I	Imperial Chola Emperor of Tamilakam	1014 – 1044
Rama I	King of Siam (In present-day Thailand)	1782 – 1809	[24]
Rama IV	King of Siam (in present-day Thailand)	1851 – 1868
Rama IX	King of Thailand	1946 – 2016
Ramathibodi III	King of Ayutthaya (in present-day Thailand)	1656 – 1688
Rama V	King of Siam (in present-day Thailand)	1868 – 1910
Ramesses II	Pharaoh of Egypt	1279 BC – 1213 BC	[25]
Ram Khamhaeng	King of Sukhothai (In present-day Thailand)	1279 – 1298
Reza Shah	Shah of Iran	1925 – 1941
Rhodri	King of Gwynedd (in present-day Wales)	844 – 878
Roman	Grand Prince of Kiev	1168 – 1205	[26]
Sancho III	King of Navarre	1004 – 1035
Sanphet II	King of Ayutthaya (in present-day Thailand)	1590 – 1605
Sargon	Ruler of the Akkadian Empire	2334 BC – 2279 BC	[27]
Sejong	King of Joseon (in present-day Korea)	1418 – 1450	[28]
Shadab Khan	King of Chibhal, Governor of Kashmir and Kandahar	1463-1568
Shapur II	Shahanshah of Persia, Sassanid Empire (in present-day Iran)	309 – 379
Simeon I	Tsar of Bulgaria	893 – 927	[29]
Simon I	King of Kartli	1556 – 1569, 1578 – 1599
Solomon I	King of Imereti	1752 – 1765, 1767 – 1784
Sonni Ali	Ruler of the Songhai Empire	1464 – 1492	[30]
Stefan Uroš I	King of Serbia	1243 – 1276
Stephen III	Prince of Moldavia (in present-day Romania)	1457 – 1504
Svatopluk I	King of Moravia	867 – 894	[31]
Tamar	Queen of the Georgian Empire	1184 – 1213	[32]
Theoderic	King of the Ostrogoths, regent of the Visigoths and viceroy of the Byzantine Empire	471 – 526
Theodosius I	Roman emperor	379 – 395	[33]
Thoros II	Lord of Armenian Cilicia	1144 or 1145 – 1169	[34]
Thutmose III	Pharaoh of Egypt	1479 BC – 1425 BC	[35]
Tigranes II	Emperor of Armenia	95 BC – 55 BC	[36]
Tiridates III	King of Armenia	298 – 330	[37]
Valdemar I	King of Denmark	1154 – 1182	[38]
Valentinian I	Roman emperor	364 – 375	[39]
Vigraharaja IV	King of Chauhan Dynasty of India	1150 – 1164	[40]
Vladimir I	Prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince of Kiev	970 – 1015	[41]
Vytautas	Grand Duke of Lithuania	1392 – 1430	[42]
Xerxes I	Shahanshah of Persia, Achaemenid Empire (in present-day Iran)	486 BC – 465 BC	[43]
Yuknoom Ch'een II	Maya king of Kaan	636 – 686	[44]
Zayed	Ruler of Abu Dhabi	1855 – 1909	[45]
Zayn al-Abidin	Sultan of Kashmir	1418 – 1419, 1420 – 1470	[46]

Aristocrats

Name	Description	Dates	Ref.
Alain I	French aristocrat	1440 – 1522
Amadeus V	Count of Savoy	1249 – 1323
Arnulf I	Count of Flanders	893 – 964	[47]
Atenulf I	Prince of Capua	? – c. 910
Bogislaw X	Duke of Pomerania	1454 – 1523
Bruno	Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Lotharingia	925 – 965	[48]
Charles Emmanuel I	Duke of Savoy	1562 – 1630
Charles III	Duke of Lorraine	1543 – 1608
Conrad I	Margrave of Meissen	1097 – 1157	[49]
David III	Prince of Tao	966 – 1001
Frederick II	Duke of Legnica, Brzeg, Wołów, Głogów, and Ziębice	1488 - 1547
Frederick William	Duke of Prussia	1620 - 1688
Gerhard III	German prince	1292 – 1340
Gero I	Ruler of Marca Geronis	900 – 965	[50]
Godfrey I	Count of Brussels and Leuven; Duke of Lower Lorraine; Langrave of Brabant	1060 – 1139
Gothelo I	Duke of Lorraine; count of Verdun; and margrave of Antwerp	967 – 1044
Gurgen II	Prince of Tao	918 – 941
Hanno I	Carthaginian politician and military leader	4th century BC
Hanno II	Carthaginian aristocrat, general, and politician	3rd century BC	[51]
Hanno III	Carthaginian politician	2nd century BC	[52] [53]
Henry I	Duke of Burgundy	946 – 1002
Henry V	Count of Luxembourg	1216 – 1281
Hugh	Count of Paris and Duke of the Franks	898 – 956	[54]
Hugh	Count of Vermandois	1057 – 1101
Hugh	Margrave of Tuscany	953/954 – 1001
Humphrey I	Anglo-Norman aristocrat	? – 1123
Intef	Nomarch of Thebes	? – c. 2135 BC	[55]
Matthew II	Lord of Montmorency	1189 – 1230
Maximilian I	Ruler of Bavaria	1573 – 1651
Milo I	Lord of Montlhéry	1095 – 1102
Odo	Duke of Aquitaine	? – 735	[56]
Pompey	Military and political leader of Roman Republic	106 BC – 48 BC	[57]
Ralph IV	Count of Valois, Bar, Vexin, Vitry, Amiens, Montdidier and Tardenois	1025 – 1074	[58]
Ramon Berenguer III	Count of Barcelona, Provence, and various other counties	1082 – 1131
Robert I	Count of Dreux	1123 – 1188
Roger-Bernard II	Count of Foix	1223 – 1241
Roger	Earl of Shrewsbury and Arundel	? – 1094
Roger I	Count of Sicily	c. 1030 – 1101
Świętopełk II	Duke of Gdańsk Pomerania	? – 1266	[59]
Theobald II	Count of Blois and of Chartres as Theobald IV, Count of Champagne and of Brie	1090 – 1151
William I	Count of Burgundy and Mâcon	1020 – 1087
William V	Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Poitou	969 – 1030	[60]

Military

Name	Description	Dates	Ref.
Afonso	Portuguese general, statesman and empire builder	1453 – 1515	[61]
Melias	Byzantine general of Armenian origin	890 –934	[62]
Prokop	Hussite general in Bohemia	1380 – 1434	[63]

Religious figures

Christian

Name	Description	Dates	Ref.
Abraham	Monk and saint of the Church of the East	492 – 586
Albertus	Medieval German philosopher and theologian	1193/1206 – 1280	[64]
Anthony	Early Christian saint of Egypt	251 – 356	[65]
Arsenius	Roman anchorite saint in Egypt	354 – 445
Athanasius	Early Christian saint and bishop of Alexandria	296 – 373	[66]
Babai	Assyrian church leader	551 – 628
Basil	Greek bishop and theologian	330 – 379	[67]
Bertin	Frankish Abbot of a namesake monastery	615 – 709
Dioscorus I	Coptic Orthodox Church pope	? – 454
Euthymius	Abbot and Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint	377 – 473
Gertrude	German Benedictine, mystic, theologian and Roman Catholic saint	1256 – 1302	[68]
Gregory I	Roman Catholic pope	540 – 604	[69]
Hilarion	Ancient Roman anchorite and Orthodox and Roman Catholic saint	291 – 371
Hugh	Abbot of Cluny	1024 – 1109
Isaac	Armenian Catholicos	354 – 439
James [Note 1]	One of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus	3 – 44	[70]
Joannicius	Byzantine hermit, theologian and saint	752 – 846	[71]
Leo I	Roman Catholic pope	391 or 400 – 461	[72]
Macarius	Egyptian hermit	300 – 391	[73]
Michael	Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church	1126 – 1199	[74]
Nerses I	Armenian Catholicos	? – 373
Nicholas I	Roman Catholic pope	800 – 867	[75]
Photius I	Eastern Orthodox saint and Patriarch of Constantinople	810 – 893	[76]
Shenoute	Oriental Orthodox saint and abbot of the White Monastery	348 – 465
Sisoes	An early desert father, a solitary monk pursuing asceticism in the Egyptian desert in a cave of Anthony the Great	? – 429
William	Founder of the Catholic congregation of Williamites	? - 1157

Jewish

Name	Description	Dates	Ref.
Aharon I	Hasidic rabbi	1736 – 1772	[77]
Eliezer	Rabbi in Judea	1st century	[78] [79]
Hiyya	Rabbi in Judea	180 – 230	[80]

Legendary and mythological figures

Name	Description	Ref.
Ajax	Greek hero in the Iliad	[81]
Beli	In medieval Welsh mythology and literature	[82]
Belinus	Legendary king of the Britons
Fergus	Semi-mythical king of Dál Riata
Gradlon	Semi-mythical king of Cornouaille
Hayk	Legendary founder and patriarch of the Armenian nation	[83]
Phrom	Legendary king of Singhanavati Realm	[84]
Yu	Legendary ruler in ancient China	[85] [86]

See also

• List of monarchs by nickname
• James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby (1607–1651), "Yn Stanlagh Mooar" ("the Great Stanley"), also Lord of Mann
• Bantul the Great, a Bengali comic strip character
• Wayne Gretzky, former professional ice hockey player, nicknamed "The Great One" and "The Great Gretzky"
• Muhammad Ali, boxer and activist, dubbed "The Greatest"

Notes

1. In this case James is styled "the Greater" to distinguish him from the Apostle James the Lesser, with greater meaning older or taller, rather than more important.

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