Charles George Gordon

1792-1873

British army officer (c.1786–1865)

English army officer

Sudanese religious and political leader of Nubian descent

English whaling and sealing company head

Ukrainian cleric, priest

Russian general

Italian explorer

Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army

Recipient of the Victoria Cross

Leader of the Taiping Rebellion

British Army general

American general

American sailor

Chinese politician, general and diplomat

Emperor of the Qing Dynasty

British military historian

Prime Minister of Egypt

Union Army general

British soldier (1827–1887)

Irish journalist

Wali of Egypt and Sudan

British explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist

King of Buganda

African explorer

British Baronet

King of the Belgians

British diplomat

Slave trader and Sudanese governor

34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Egyptian soldier and colonial administrator

Italian general and politician

Welsh journalist and explorer

British politician

Sinologist and historian

British consular official in China

British linguist

Qing Dynasty prince

English social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern nursing

British poet laureate

American historian

American poet and lawyer

American settler

Saudi religious leader; founder and main prophet of Islam

Egyptian revolutionary

British soldier

British Prime Minister

British journalist

Newspaper publisher

British Liberal statesman

British soldier

Khedive of Egypt and the Sudan

British statesman, soldier and writer

British politician and author

256th Pope of the Catholic Church

Sudanese military commander

British politician

British artist

American actor and political activist

Austrian officer

French diplomat

Senior British Army officer and colonial administrator

British politician

British writer

English-born South African businessman, mining magnate, and politician

Military historian and biographer

British prince

English cleric and cardinal

Bishop of Waiapu; Scottish/British Anglican missionary bishop

British artist

British sculptor

British actor, director and producer

British historian

Irish 19th-century British Army officer, writer and adventurer

British historian

Australian journalist

British Army officer, Commander of Allied forces at the Battle of El Alamein

English Christian writer

British writer, historian, ecologist and explorer

Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

Actor

British politician

King of Lesotho

One of the twelve original apostles of Jesus Christ, known for betrayal of Jesus

7th President of Sudan

Saudi engineer, terrorist, jihadist; co-founder of al-Qaeda

Imam of the Ansar and politician of Sudan

Sudanese politician

Governor of Uganda and British Somalia

Sudanese President

Prime Minister of Sudan, 1966-67 and 1986-89

Sudanese warlord and slave trader

Sudanese politician

British Army general

British Army general

German engineer