The sharpshooter of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show
The warrior queen of the Iceni who rose against Rome · Celtic
Amelia Earhart, the pioneering aviator
Lady Godiva, the Anglo Saxon noblewoman of the famous ride
Grace O'Malley, the Irish pirate queen of the 16th century · Irish
Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of the British suffragettes
Mary Seacole, the Jamaican nurse of the Crimean War
Kate Sheppard, who led the campaign that won New Zealand women the vote
Empress Taytu Betul of Ethiopia, a sharp strategist · Amharic
Roald Amundsen, the first to reach the South Pole, with a team of sled dogs · Norwegian
Joseph Banks, the botanist who sailed with Captain Cook
Ibn Battuta, the great medieval traveller from Morocco · Arabic
Louis Bleriot, the first to fly across the English Channel · French
Simon Bolivar, the liberator of much of South America · Spanish
The High King of Ireland who won the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 · Irish
Jim Bridger, the American frontiersman and mountain man
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the great Victorian engineer
Richard Byrd, the polar aviator, whose terrier Igloo went with him to Antarctica
John Cabot, the Venetian navigator who reached North America in 1497 · Italian
Samuel de Champlain, the founder of Quebec · French
Thomas Chippendale, the cabinet maker of elegant furniture
Winston Churchill, the British wartime prime minister, a classic name for a bulldog · big dogs
Tom Crean, the tough Irish Antarctic explorer · Irish
Davy Crockett, the American frontiersman
Gustave Eiffel, the engineer behind the Eiffel Tower · French
Matthew Flinders, the navigator who sailed around Australia with his cat Trim
Giuseppe Garibaldi, the hero of Italian unification · Italian
Antoni Gaudi, the architect of the Sagrada Familia · Catalan
Owain Glyndwr, the last native Welsh Prince of Wales · Welsh
Johannes Gutenberg, who brought the printing press to Europe · German
The Babylonian king famous for his code of laws · Akkadian
Hereward the Wake, the Anglo Saxon rebel of the fens
The Greek writer known as the father of history · Greek
Charles Kingsford Smith, the Australian aviator who first flew across the Pacific
Llywelyn the Great, a prince of Wales, linked to the legend of the hound Gelert · Welsh
The fabulously rich emperor of Mali · Mandinka
The Venetian merchant who travelled to China · Italian
Douglas Mawson, the Australian Antarctic explorer
Menelik II, the emperor of Ethiopia who won at Adwa · Amharic
Orville Wright, one of the two brothers who made the first powered flight
Andrea Palladio, the Renaissance architect of villas · Italian
Henry Parkes, the father of Australian federation
The great statesman of ancient Athens · Greek
Pliny the Elder, the Roman naturalist · Latin
Paul Revere, the silversmith of the midnight ride
The sultan famous for his chivalry during the Crusades · Arabic
The Roman philosopher and writer · Latin
Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer of the Endurance · big dogs
The gladiator who led a great slave revolt against Rome · Latin · big dogs
George Stephenson, the father of the railways
Sundiata Keita, the founder of the Mali Empire · Mandinka
The Gaulish chieftain who stood against Julius Caesar · Gaulish · big dogs
George Washington, first US president and a keen breeder of foxhounds
Josiah Wedgwood, the potter and maker of fine china
The Chinese admiral who led great treasure fleets · Chinese