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Historical people

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Browse historical figures ranked by the number of books linked to them.

c. 1st century–c. 1st century

Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus was a client king in Roman Britain, probably ruling in the south after the Claudian conquest. His Romanised name and possible link with […]

1 series · 1 book

Tiberius Claudius Maximus was a Roman cavalryman whose career is known from the detailed tombstone he commissioned at Philippi. He served under Domitian and Trajan, received […]

1 series · 1 book

163 BCE–134 BCE

Tiberius Gracchus was a Roman tribune whose land reform programme in 133 BC challenged senatorial power. His killing by political opponents marked a major escalation in […]

1 series · 1 book

Tigellinus

1 book

10–69

Tigellinus was a Praetorian prefect and influential associate of Nero. Ancient sources connect him with repression after the Pisonian conspiracy, court excess and the violent politics […]

1 series · 1 book

Tigidius Perennis was praetorian prefect under the emperor Commodus and became one of the most powerful administrators in the Roman Empire. Ancient accounts claim that he […]

1 series · 1 book

96 BCE–49 BCE

Titus Annius Milo was a Roman politician and gang leader in the late Republic. His killing of Clodius Pulcher in 52 BC led to a famous […]

1 series · 1 book

Tokugawa Ieyasu was a daimyō who survived the wars of Japan’s unification, won the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 and became shogun in 1603. He established […]

1 book

Tom Cribb

1 book

1781–1848

Tom Cribb was an English bare-knuckle boxer who became the dominant heavyweight champion of the Regency era. His two celebrated bouts with the African American fighter […]

1 book

Tom Molineaux

1 book

1784–1818

Tom Molineaux was an African American bare-knuckle boxer, probably born into slavery in Virginia, who travelled to Britain to pursue the heavyweight championship. His closely contested […]

1 book

Toyotomi Hideyoshi is represented in the linked historical fiction and non-fiction through court politics and dynastic power, military command and battlefield decision-making, and crime, espionage and […]

1 book