List of people known as the Great
The following people normally have the words "the Great" appended to their names.
- Akbár the Great
- Albert the Great, better known as Albertus Magnus, French Catholic theologian
- Alexander the Great, Macedonia
- Alfred the Great of Wessex, English
- Asoka the Great, India
- Boleslaus the Brave, sometimes called the Great, Poland
- Canute the Great, British, commanded the sea.
- Casimir the Great, Poland
- Catherine the Great, Russia
- Charles the Great, more commonly known as "Charlemagne"
- Constantine the Great Rome/Byzantium
- Cyrus the Great, Persia
- Darius the Great, Persia
- Frederick the Great, Prussia
- Gertrude the Great of Helfta, medieval mystic
- Hanno the Great, Carthage
- Herod the Great, Judea
- Ivan the Great, Russia
- Justinian the Great, Byzantium
- Louis the Great, France
- Pacal the Great, Maya state of Palenque
- Peter the Great, Russia
- Pompey the Great, Rome
- Rameses the Great, Ancient Egypt
- Sargon the Great, Akkad
- Sejong the Great, Korea
- St. Anthony the Great
- St. Basil the Great, Cappadocia
- St. Euthymius the Great, Palestine
- St. Gregory the Great, pope
- St. Leo the Great, pope
- St. Macarius the Great, Egyptian hermit
- Xerxes the Great, Persia
Related
- Ajax the Greater, hero from Homer's Iliad
- St. James the Greater, apostle
- Lorenzo il Magnifico, ("The Magnificent")
Antonyms, in various ways
- Ajax the Lesser
- Charles the Fat
- Charles the Short
- Charles the Simple
- Ethelred the Unready (i.e. ill-advised)
- Heliogabalus the Horrible
- Ivan the Terrible
- St. James the Lesser
- Sir Robin the Not-So Brave