List of people known as The Great

• 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
• Gustavus Adolphus the Great, Sweden
• 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
• Stefan the Great[?], Moldova, Romania
• 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
• Theodosius the Great[?], Rome
• Xerxes the Great, Persia

Related

• Ajax the Greater[?], hero from Homer's Iliad
• Dušan silni, ("The forceful"), Serbian tzar
• St. James the Greater, apostle
• Suleyman[?], ("The Magnificent")
• Lorenzo il Magnifico, ("The Magnificent")

Antonyms, in various ways

• Ajax the Lesser[?]
• Basilides the False[?]
• Charles the Fat
• Charles the Short[?]
• Charles the Simple
• Dionysius Exiguus ("the little"), also "Dionysious the Pseudo-Areopagite"
• Ethelred the Unready, (i.e. ill-advised)
• Heliogabalus the Horrible
• Ivan the Terrible
• St. James the Lesser[?]
• Sir Robin the Not-So Brave[?]
• William the Bastard, better known as William I of England or William the Conqueror

See also

• List of people known by initials
• List of people known by one name