John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, was a soldier and politician who became the dominant minister of Edward VI after the fall of Somerset. He ended expensive […]
Historical people
People
Browse historical figures ranked by the number of books linked to them.
John F. Kennedy
2 booksJohn F. Kennedy served as president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in Dallas in 1963. His administration endured the failed Bay of […]
John Hay
2 booksJohn Hay was an American diplomat and writer who began his public career as a secretary to Abraham Lincoln. He later served as secretary of state, […]
John III Sobieski
2 booksJohn III Sobieski was king of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania from 1674 to 1696. A celebrated commander against the Ottoman Empire, he won at […]
John Marshal
2 booksJohn Marshal was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and royal official whose career unfolded during the Anarchy. He served first King Stephen and later Empress Matilda, held strategic […]
John Oldcastle
2 booksJohn Oldcastle was an English nobleman, soldier and prominent supporter of Lollardy. Once associated with Henry V, he was condemned for heresy, escaped imprisonment and became […]
John Wilkes Booth
2 booksJohn Wilkes Booth was an American actor and Confederate sympathiser who assassinated Abraham Lincoln. He shot the president at Ford’s Theatre in April 1865 as part […]
John XXIII
2 booksJohn XXIII was the Pisan antipope elected during the Western Schism. His authority depended on one of several competing papal obediences, and the Council of Constance […]
Joseph McCarthy
2 booksJoseph McCarthy was an American senator who became the symbol of aggressive anticommunist accusation in the early Cold War. He claimed extensive communist infiltration of government, […]
Joseph Rochefort
2 booksJoseph Rochefort is represented in the linked historical fiction through crime, espionage and covert power, military command and battlefield decision-making, and family, marriage and personal loyalty. […]