Famous Kings - page 10

The Most Famous Kings
Name	Birthday	Nationality	Bio
Sundiata Keita	August 20, 1217	Central African	Sundiata Keita was the founder of the Mali Empire in West Africa
Ashoka	304 BC	Indian	Ashoka was the third emperor of the Mauryan Dynasty and ruled almost the entire Indian subcontinent
Murad IV	July 26, 1612	Turkish	Murad IV was one of the mighty Sultans in the history of the Ottoman Empire
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia	August 1, 1924	Saudi Arabian	Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was the King of Saudi Arabia from 2005 to 2015 and the third wealthiest head of state in the world
Xerxes I	519 BC	Iranian	Xerxes I (Xerxes the Great) was the fourth and the most famous king of the Archaemenid dynasty of Persia
Sargon of Akkad	2340 BC	Iraqi	Sargon of Akkad, also called ‘Sargon the Great’, ‘Sarru-Kan’ and ‘Shar-Gani-Sharri’, was the founder and first king of the Akkadian Empire
Gia Long	February 8, 1762	Vietnamese	Gia Long was the first emperor of the Nguyen dynasty as well as the founding father of the modern nation of Vietnam
Flavius Odoacer	435	Ancient Roman	Flavius Odoacer was a soldier who went on to become the King of Italy
Suleiman The Magnificent	November 6, 1494	Turkish	Suleiman I, commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent, was the tenth and longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire
Bindusara	320 BC	Indian	Bindusara was the second Mauryan Emperor of India who ruled from c

Chandragupta Maurya was the founder of the Mauryan Empire and is credited for unifying India for the first time in history

Indian340 BC162 views

Ajatasatru was a ruler of the Haryanka dynasty of the Magadha Empire

Indian492 BC116 views

Alexander III of Russia was the emperor of Russia from 1881 to 1894, dubbed "The Peacemaker"

Mughal emperor Akbar was one of the greatest monarchs in the history of India

Alfred the Great was the King of the southern Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex from 871 to 899

British849115 views

Prithviraj Chauhan was one of the last independent Hindu kings who ruled the kingdom of Delhi

Indian1149101 views

Alauddin Khilji was the second emperor of the Khilji Dynasty and regarded as the most powerful ruler of the Delhi Sultanate

Indian1250282 views

Samudragupta was the second ruler of the Gupta Dynasty

Indian335303 views

Qin Shi Huang was the First Emperor of a unified China, who ruled from 246 BC to 210 BC

Chinese259 BC286 views

Maharaja Ranjit Singh was the founder of the Sikh Empire in the Punjab region