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Explore 2,198 portrayals of 1,317 historical figures across 1,683 media works.

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Media Works 1,683

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Most Portrayed Figures(12)

Karl Marx

1818 CE – 1883 CE

Victorian Era30 portrayals

Julius Caesar

100 BCE – 44 BCE

Roman Republic20 portrayals

Henry VIII

1491 CE – 1547 CE

Tudor Era18 portrayals

Adolf Hitler

1889 CE – 1945 CE

World War II15 portrayals

Elizabeth I

1533 CE – 1603 CE

Tudor Era15 portrayals

Joan of Arc

1412 CE – 1431 CE

Late Medieval15 portrayals

Dwight D. Eisenhower

1890 CE – 1969 CE

World War II13 portrayals

Thomas Cromwell

1485 CE – 1540 CE

Tudor Era12 portrayals

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Roman Empire192 World War II101 Medieval Europe80 Roman Republic77 Victorian Era56 High Medieval47 Renaissance42 Napoleonic Era37 American Revolution37 Medieval33 French Revolution30 Cold War28

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Moses

1393 BCE – 1273 BCE

New Kingdom5 portrayals

Popular Works(8)

The World at War

1973

TV SeriesThames Television

Rome

2005

TV SeriesBruno Heller, John Milius, William J. MacDonald

Masters of Rome

1990

BookColleen McCullough

Crusader Kings III

2020

Video GameParadox Development Studio

Civilization VI

2016

GAME

Band of Brothers

2001

TV SeriesStephen E. Ambrose

War and Remembrance

1988

TV SeriesDan Curtis

I, Claudius

1976

TV SeriesJack Pulman (BBC)

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