Mitchell may refer to:

People[link]

Places[link]

Australia[link]

• Mitchell, Australian Capital Territory
• Mitchell, Queensland
• Mount Mitchell, Queensland
• Mitchell, Northern Territory
• Division of Mitchell, a federal Australian Electoral Division in north-west Sydney, New South Wales
• Electoral district of Mitchell (South Australia), a state electoral district in South Australia
• Electoral district of Mitchell (Western Australia) a state electoral district in Western Australia

Canada[link]

• Mitchell, Ontario
• Mount Mitchell (Alberta) in Jasper National Park of Canada
• Mitchell, Manitoba
• Mitchell Bay, Nova Scotia
• Mitchell Island, British Columbia
• Mitchell Island (Nunavut)

United Kingdom[link]

• Mitchell, Cornwall
• Mitchell (UK Parliament constituency)

United States of America[link]

• Mitchell, Georgia
• Mitchell, Illinois
• Mitchell, Indiana
• Mitchell, Iowa
• Mitchell, Nebraska
• Mitchell, Oregon
• Mitchell, South Dakota

Companies[link]

• Mitchell Camera Corporation, which manufactured the cameras which shot the majority of Hollywood movies and early television shows from the 1930s-1990s
• Mitchell Corporation, a Japanese video game company
• Mitchell International, Inc., a software and information service provider, located in San Diego, California
• Mitchell (automobile), an automobile built in Racine, Wisconsin from 1903-1923

Film and television[link]

• Mitchell (film), a 1975 action film

Ships[link]

• USC&GS Mitchell, a United States Coast and Geodetic Survey launch in commission from 1919 to 1944
• NOAAS Mount Mitchell (S 222), a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration survey ship in commission from 1970 to 1995 which had previously served in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey as USC&GS Mount Mitchell from 1968 to 1970

Other uses[link]

• B-25 Mitchell, an American World War II-era bomber aircraft
• Billy Mitchell Award, a Civil Air Patrol Cadet Program award
• Mitchell College, a private college, located in New London, Connecticut
• Mitchell movement, a type of duplicate bridge table movement

See also[link]

• Mitchell County (disambiguation)
• Mitchell Township (disambiguation)
• Mount Mitchell (disambiguation)
• Mitchellville (disambiguation)

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

For the daughter of Senator John P. Hale, see Lucy Lambert Hale.

Lucy Hale
Hale at the 38th People's Choice Awards on January 11, 2012
Born	Karen Lucille Hale (1989-06-14) June 14, 1989 (age 23) Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, singer
Years active	2003–present
Website
www.lucyhale.com

Karen Lucille "Lucy" Hale (born June 14, 1989) is an American actress and singer. She won the reality show American Juniors. She is known for her roles as Becca Sommers in Bionic Woman, Rose Baker in Privileged, Sherrie in the horror film Scream 4, and Aria Montgomery on the hit ABC Family series Pretty Little Liars which first premiered in June 2010.

Personal life and career[link]

Hale is a native of Memphis, Tennessee.^[1] She first appeared on television in the reality show American Juniors in 2003. She was part of the vocal quintet formed with the top 5 finishers.^[2]

After American Juniors, Hale appeared as guest roles on shows such as Drake & Josh, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, The O.C., and How I Met Your Mother. She appeared in two episodes of the Disney Channel show Wizards of Waverly Place, which led to her dating co-star David Henrie for a short time.

Hale appeared in "NBC's" short-lived re-imagining of the Bionic Woman as Becca Sommers, younger sister to title character Jaime Sommers (played by Michelle Ryan).^[1] She made her big screen debut in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 portraying Effie, the younger sister of Lena Kaligaris (played by Alexis Bledel).

Hale then co-starred in the CW TV show Privileged as Rose Baker, with Ashley Newbrough and Joanna Garcia.^[3] She starred in the Lifetime TV movie Sorority Wars.^[4]

In December 2009, Hale was cast as Aria Montgomery in the TV series Pretty Little Liars, based on the book series by Sara Shepard.^[5] Hale won a 2010 Teen Choice Award ("Choice Summer TV Star: Female") for her portrayal of Aria on the show.^[6]

In January 2010, Hale guest-starred on the CSI: Miami episode "Show Stopper".^[7] In August 2010, she was cast in a small cameo in Scream 4.^[8]

Hale was cast as the lead for A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song. Filming began in February 2011.^[9] The film aired in January 2012.

Hale hosted the April 25th episode of Punk'd where she successfully pranked Ian Harding, Vanessa Hudgens and Josh Hutcherson. ^[10]

Filmography[link]

Other

Discography[link]

Singles

• 2011: "Run This Town"
• 2011: "Make You Believe"
• 2011: "Bless Myself"
• 2011: "Extra Ordinary"

Awards[link]

References[link]

1. ^ ^{a b} Lucy Hale. NBC. Accessed 2008-11-11.
2. ^ American Juniors. Allmusic. Accessed 2008-11-11.
3. ^ Robert Bianca (September 9, 2008). 'Privileged': The kids are all white, and kind of shallow, too. USA Today. Accessed 2008-11-11.
4. ^ Sorority Wars, the Definitive Lucy Hale Interview. Gosh!TV. Accessed 2009-10-17
5. ^ ABC Family Announces Additional Casting for its Upcoming Pilots "Melissa & Joey," "Untitled Michael Jacobs Project" and "Pretty Little Liars" ABC Family Press Release (December 7, 2009). Accessed 2009-12-30.
6. ^ Winners of Teen Choice 2010 Announced. Accessed 2010-09-26.
7. ^ Guest Star Alert: Lucy Hale on CSI Miami Season 8. TV.com. Accessed 2010-01-12
8. ^ Shenae Grimes, Lucy Hale Join ‘Scream 4′ Cast
9. ^ "Warner Premiere film 'Another Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song' auditions underway for ABC Family". ABC Family Auditions. 2009-01-19. http://www.abcfamilyauditions.com/2010/12/warner-premiere-film-cinderella-story.html. Retrieved 2012-02-05. 
10. ^ "Ian Harding Gets Pranked by Lucy Hale on Punk'd: "I'm So Glad I Didn't Cry!" (VIDEO)". Wetpaint Entertainment. 2012-04-27. http://www.wetpaint.com/pretty-little-liars/articles/ian-harding-gets-pranked-by-lucy-hale-on-punkd-im-so-glad-i-didnt-cry-video. 

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Lucy Hale

• Official website
• Lucy Hale at the Internet Movie Database

Ian Rankin
Born	(1960-04-28) 28 April 1960 (age 52) Fife, Scotland
Pen name	Jack Harvey
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	Scottish
Period	1984–present
Genres	Crime fiction
Notable work(s)	Inspector Rebus Dark Entries
www.ianrankin.net

Ian Rankin, OBE, DL (born 28 April 1960 in Cardenden, Fife), is a Scottish crime writer. His best known books are the Inspector Rebus novels. He has also written several pieces of literary criticism.

Background[link]

He attended Beath High School, Cowdenbeath. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh, he moved to Tottenham, London^[1] for four years and then rural France for six while he developed his career as a novelist. He was a Literature tutor at the University of Edinburgh, where he retains an involvement with the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

The 'standard biography' of Rankin, a Scot, states that before becoming a full-time novelist he worked as a grape-picker, swineherd, taxman, alcohol researcher, hi-fi journalist, college secretary and punk musician.^[2][3]

He lives in Edinburgh with his wife Miranda and their two sons Jack and Kit.

Writing[link]

Rankin did not set out to be a crime writer. He thought his first novels Knots and Crosses and Hide and Seek were mainstream books, more in keeping with the Scottish traditions of Robert Louis Stevenson and even Muriel Spark (the subject of Rankin's uncompleted Ph.D. thesis). He was disconcerted by their classification as genre fiction. Scottish novelist Allan Massie, who tutored Rankin while Massie was writer-in-residence at the University of Edinburgh, reassured him by saying, who would want to be a dry academic writer when "they could be John Buchan?"^{[citation needed]}

Rankin's Inspector Rebus novels are set mainly in Edinburgh. They are considered major contributions to the Tartan Noir genre. Ten of the novels were adapted as a television series on ITV, starring John Hannah as Rebus in Series 1 & 2, with Ken Stott taking on the role for Series 3-5.

In 2009, Rankin donated the short story "Fieldwork" to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Rankin's story was published in the Earth collection.^[4]

Ian Rankin signing copies of his debut graphic novel Dark Entries in the Edinburgh Forbidden Planet International store.

In 2009 Rankin stated on Radio Five Live that he would start work on a five- or six-issue run on the comic book Hellblazer, although he may turn the story into a stand-alone graphic novel instead. The Vertigo Comics panel at WonderCon 2009 confirmed that the story would be published as a graphic novel called Dark Entries, the second release from the company's new Vertigo Crime imprint.^[5][6][7]

Documentaries[link]

He is a regular contributor to the BBC Two arts programme Newsnight Review. His 3-part documentary series on the subject of evil was broadcast on Channel 4 in December 2002. In 2005 he presented a 30-minute documentary on BBC Four called Rankin on the Staircase, in which he investigated the relationship between real-life cases and crime fiction. It was loosely based on the Michael Peterson murder case, as covered in Jean-Xavier Lestrade's documentary series Death on the Staircase. The same year he collaborated with folk musician Jackie Leven on the album Jackie Leven Said.

In 2007, Rankin appeared in programmes for BBC Four exploring the origins of his alter-ego character, John Rebus. Titled "Ian Rankin's Hidden Edinburgh" and "Ian Rankin Investigates Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde," Rankin looks at the origins of the character and the events that led to his creation.

In the TV show Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, he takes a trip through Edinburgh with writer/cook Anthony Bourdain.

Awards and honours[link]

• Elected Hawthornden Fellow
• Won the Chandler-Fulbright Award.
• Two Crime Writers' Association (CWA) Dagger prizes for short stories
• 1997 the CWA Macallan Gold Dagger for Fiction for Black and Blue (which was also short-listed for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for best novel).
• 2002, made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the Golden Jubilee Queen's Birthday Honours for services to literature.
• 2004, Edgar Award for Resurrection Men.
• 2005, CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger to mark a lifetime's achievement in crime writing.
• 2008, ITV3 Crime Thriller Award for Author of the Year, for Exit Music.^[8]

He has honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh,^[9] the University of Abertay Dundee, the University of St Andrews and, in 2005, from the University of Hull.

Rankin's novel Exit Music was shortlisted for Theakston’s Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award 2009.^[10]

Bibliography[link]

To date he has written at least 25 novels, 2 short story collections, 1 Original Graphic Novel and 1 non-fiction book. He has also written an entry into Quick Reads 2009:

Other publications[link]

Recordings

• Jackie Leven Said (Cooking vinyl, 2005), with Jackie Leven
• The Sixth Stone (CD, 2007), with Aidan Moffat, on Ballads of the Book
• This Has Been the Death of Us (7th Realm Of Teenage Heaven, 2009), with Saint Jude's Infirmary
• The Third Gentleman (BBC Broadcast October 25, 1997. 87mins.) Black comedy set in 1790s Edinburgh.

Graphic novels

• Dark Entries (September 2009) with art by Werther Dell'Edera. Published by Vertigo Crime and starring John Constantine of Hellblazer.^[12][13]

Short stories

• An Afternoon (1984) (published in New Writing Scotland)
• Voyeurism (1985) (published in New Writing Scotland)
• Colony (1986) (published in New Writing Scotland)
• Territory (1987) (published in Scottish Short Stories 1987)
• Trip Trap (1992) (published in 1st Culprit)
• Marked for Death (1992) (published in Constable New Crimes 1)
• Well Shot (1993) (published in 2nd Culprit)
• Someone Got to Eddie (1994) (published in 3rd Culprit)
• A deep hole (1994) (published in London Noir)
• Adventures in Babysitting (1995) (published in No Alibi and in Master's Choice Two)
• Natural Selection (1996) (published in Fresh Blood)
• Auld Lang Syne (1997) (published in The Orion Book of Murder)
• Principles of Accounts (1997) (published in Mystery's Most Wanted)
• Death is Not the End (1998) (novella later expanded into Dead Souls)
• The Hanged Man (2000) (published in The World's finest mystery and crime stories)
• Saint Nicked (2003) (published in 2 numbers of Radio Times)
• Soft Spot (2005) (published in Dangerous Women)
• Not just another Saturday (August 2005) (written for SNIP, a charity organisation)
• Atonement (2005) (written for the anthology "Complete Short Stories")
• Sinner: justified (2006) (published in Superhumanatural)

Criticism[link]

• Horsley, Lee, The Noir Thriller (Houndmills & New York: Palgrave, 2001).
• Lanchester, John, ‘Rebusworld’, in London Review of Books 22.9 (27/4/2000), pp. 18–20.
• Lennard, John, 'Ian Rankin', in Jay Parini, ed., British Writers Supplement X (New York & London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004), pp. 243–60
• Mandel, Ernest, Delightful Murder: A Social History of the Crime Story (Leichhardt, NSW, & London: Pluto Press, 1984).
• Nicol, Christopher, 'Ian Rankin's 'Black & Blue' Scotnote No.24 (Glasgow:ASLS Publications, 2008)
• Ogle, Tina, ‘Crime on Screen’, in The Observer (London), 16/4/2000, Screen p. 8.
• Plain, Gill, Ian Rankin’s Black and Blue (London & New York: Continuum, 2002)
• Plain, Gillian, ‘Ian Rankin: A Bibliography’, in Crime Time 28 (2002), pp. 16–20.
• Robinson, David, ‘Mystery Man: In Search of the real Ian Rankin’, in The Scotsman 10/3/2001, S2Weekend, pp. 1–4.
• Rowland, Susan, ‘Gothic Crimes: A Literature of Terror and Horror’, in From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell (Houndmills & New York: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 110–34.

Notes[link]

1. ^ Rankin, I. (1998) Tooth & Nail. London: Orion, p.vii
2. ^ "Profile: Ian Rankin", January Magazine
3. ^ "Ian Rankin", Bookslut, April 2005
4. ^ "Ox-Tales". Oxfam.org.uk. http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/content/books/books_oxtales.html. Retrieved 2010-11-04. 
5. ^ "WC: Vertigo - Innovative and Provocative". Comic Book Resources. 1 March 2009. http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=20252. Retrieved 2009-03-02. 
6. ^ "Starting Vertigo's Crime Line: Ian Rankin on Dark Entries". Newsarama. March 25, 2009. http://www.newsarama.com/comics/030925-Vertigo-Rankin.html. 
7. ^ Duin, Steve (April 7, 2009). "Ian Rankin vs. Brian Azzarello". The Oregonian. http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2009/04/ian_rankin_vs_brian_azzarello.html. 
8. ^ Allen, Katie (2008-10-06). "Rankin and P D James pick up ITV3 awards". theBookseller.com. http://www.thebookseller.com/news/68347-rankin-and-p-d-james-pick-up-itv3-awards.html. Retrieved 2008-10-06. 
9. ^ "University of Edinburgh Honorary Degrees 2002/03". University of Edinburgh. 28 August 2003. http://www.ed.ac.uk/explore/people/honorary/2002.html. 
10. ^ "Shortlist for Theakston’s Crime Novel of the year Award 2009". digyorkshire.com. 2009-06-02. http://www.digyorkshire.com/HighlightDetails.aspx?Article=202. Retrieved 2009-06-17. 
11. ^ http://www.ianrankin.net/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=53
12. ^ "Ian Rankin Newsletter". Ianrankin.net. http://www.ianrankin.net/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=97. Retrieved 2010-11-04. 
13. ^ "Karen Berger On The Vertigo Crime Line". Newsarama.com. http://www.newsarama.com/comics/080815-VertigoCrime.html. Retrieved 2010-11-04. 

References[link]

• Nicol, Christopher: Ian Rankin's 'Black & Blue': Scotnote No.24, ASLS Publications,2008

External links[link]

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• Official website
• Ian Rankin at the Internet Movie Database
• Ian Rankin's new novel sees the Return of Malcolm Fox 12 April 2011
• Ian Rankin at Contemporary Writers (British Council)
• Macavity's Interview^{[dead link]}
• Guardian Books profile, with links to further articles.
• The Reykjavík Grapevine Interview^{[dead link]}
• Ian Rankin at Edinburgh Central Library, Oct 2010 (video interview in several parts)
• CNN interview with Ian Rankin
• 2011 radio interview at The Bat Segundo Show (1 hour)
• Two BooksfromScotland.com interviews with Ian Rankin
• Ian Rankin's introduction to the 2007 edition of^{[dead link]} James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

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There are many people in history who are commonly appended with the phrase "the Great", or who were called that or an equivalent phrase in their own language. Other languages have their own suffixes such as e Bozorg and e azam in Persian and Urdu respectively.

In Persia, the title "the Great" at first seems to be a colloquial version of the Old Persian title "Great King". This title was first used by the conqueror Cyrus II of Persia.^[1]

The Persian title was inherited by Alexander III of Macedon (336–323 BC) when he conquered the Persian Empire, and the epithet "Great" eventually became personally associated with him. The first reference (in a comedy by Plautus)^[2] assumes that everyone knew who "Alexander the Great" was; however, there is no earlier evidence that Alexander III of Macedon was called "the Great".

The early Seleucid kings, who succeeded Alexander in Persia, used "Great King" in local documents, but the title was most notably used for Antiochus the Great (223–187 BC).

Later rulers and commanders began to use the epithet "the Great" as a personal name, like the Roman general Pompey. Others received the surname retrospectively, like the Carthaginian Hanno and the Indian emperor Ashoka the Great. Once the surname gained currency, it was also used as an honorific surname for people without political careers, like the philosopher Albert the Great.

As there are no objective criteria for "greatness", the persistence of later generations in using the designation greatly varies. For example, Louis XIV of France was often referred to as "The Great" in his lifetime but is rarely called such nowadays, while Frederick II of Prussia is still called "The Great". A later Hohenzollern - Wilhelm I - was often called "The Great" in the time of his grandson Wilhelm II, but rarely later.

Rulers[link]

• Abbas I of Persia (1571–1629), Shah of Iran
• Akbar (1542–1605), ruler of the Mughal Empire of South Asia, mainly India
• Alain I of Albret (1440–1522), French aristocrat
• Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), King of Macedonia, Persia, Greece, Egypt, and all of Mesopotamia
• Alexander I of Georgia (1386–1446), King of Georgia
• Alfonso III of León (c. 848-910), King of León, Galicia and Asturias
• Alfred the Great (848/849-899), King of Wessex
• Antiochus III the Great (c. 241–187 BC), ruler of the Seleucid Empire
• Ashoka the Great (c. 304–232 BC), Indian emperor of the Maurya dynasty
• Ashot I of Iberia “the Great”(died 826/830), presiding prince of Iberia (modern Georgia),
• Askia Mohammad I (c. 1442–1538), ruler of the Songhai Empire
• Bhumibol Adulyadej (born 1927), King of Thailand
• Bolesław I Chrobry (967-1025), sometimes called "the Great", first King of Poland
• Bruno the Great (925–965), Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Lotharingia (also listed in the following section)
• Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (1736–1809), founder and ruler of the Rattanakosin Kingdom (in what is now Thailand)
• Cnut the Great (c. 985 or 995-1035), King of Denmark, England, Norway and parts of Sweden
• Casimir III the Great (1310–1370), King of Poland
• Catherine the Great (1729–1796), Empress of Russia
• Chandragupta II (reigned 375-413/415), also known as Vikramaditya, ruler of the Gupta empire in India
• Charlemagne (died 814), King of the Franks and Emperor of the Romans
• Chulalongkorn (1853–1910), King of Siam (now Thailand)
• Chlothar II (584-629), King of Neustria and King of the Franks
• Conrad, Margrave of Meissen (c. 1097-1157), Margrave of Meissen
• Constantine I (c. 272-337), Roman emperor
• Cyaxares the Great (c. 625-585 BC), third king of Media
• Cyrus the Great (c. 600 BC or 576 BC–530 BC), founder and ruler of the Persian or Achaemenid Empire
• Darius the Great (550 – 486 BC), third ruler of the Persian Empire
• Devapala (died 850), ruler of the Pala Empire in the Indian subcontinent
• Dionysius I, Greek tyrant of Syracuse^[3]
• Ferdinand I of León and Castile (c. 1015–1065), King of León and Count of Castile
• Frederick the Great (1712–1786), King of Prussia
• Genghis Khan (1162?-1227), founder and Great Khan of the Mongol Empire
• Gero (c. 900–965), ruler of Marca Geronis, a very large march in Europe
• Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1594–1632), King of Sweden, founder of the Swedish Empire, and noted military leader
• Gwanggaeto the Great, King of Goguryeo, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea^[4][5]
• Hanno the Great, the name of three leaders of Carthage, in the 4th, 3rd, and 2nd centuries BC
• Henry I, Duke of Burgundy (946–1002)
• Henry IV of France (1553–1610), King of France and King of Navarre
• Herod the Great (73/74 BC-4 BC), King of Judea
• Hugh the Great (898-956), Duke of the Franks and Count of Paris
• Hugh Magnus of France (1007–1025), co-King of France
• Hugh I, Count of Vermandois (1057–1101)
• Humphrey I de Bohun (died c. 1123), Anglo-Norman aristocrat
• Ivan III of Russia (1440–1505), Tsar of Russia
• John I of Portugal (1358–1433), King of Portugal and the Algarve
• John II of Aragon (1398–1479), King of Aragon and, through his wife, King of Navarre
• Justinian I (483-565), Byzantine Emperor
• Kamehameha I (c. 1758-1819), first King of Hawai'i
• Kanishka (died c. 127), ruler of the Kushan Empire in Central Asia and parts of India
• Kvirike III of Kakheti (1010–1029), King of Kakheti in eastern Georgia
• Kublai Khan (1215–1294), Mongol ruler in the 13th century and Emperor of China; founder of the Yuan Dynasty
• Llywelyn the Great (c. 1172–1240), Prince of Gwynedd and de facto ruler of most of Wales
• Louis I of Hungary (1326–1382), King of Hungary, Croatia and Poland
• Mangrai the Great (1238–1317), Lanna, northern Thailand
• Emperor Meiji (1852–1912), Emperor of Japan
• Mircea I of Wallachia (1355–1418)
• Mithridates II of Parthia (died 88 BC), ruler of the Parthian Empire (in present day Iran)
• Mithridates VI of Pontus (134 BC–63 BC), ruler of Pontus and the Bosporan Kingdom
• Mstislav I of Kiev (1076–1132), Grand Prince of Kievan Rus
• Naresuan (1555–1605), King of Ayutthaya
• Narai (1633–1688), King of Ayutthaya (in what is now modern Thailand)
• Odo the Great (died c. 735), Duke of Aquitaine
• Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912-973)
• K'inich Janaab' Pakal (603-683), ruler of the Mayan city-state of Palenque
• Parakramabahu I of Polonnaruwa (1123–1186), King of Sri Lanka
• Peter Krešimir IV of Croatia (died 1075), King of Croatia
• Peter the Great (1672–1725), Tsar of Russia
• Peter III of Aragon (1239–1285), King of Aragon and King of Sicily
• Pompey (106 BC-48 BC), military and political leader of the late Roman Republic, rival of Julius Caesar
• Radama I (1793–1828), first king of greater Madagascar
• Raja Raja Chola I (c. 947-1014), Indian emperor of the Cholas.^[6][7][8]
• Rajendra Chola I (reigned 1014–1044), Tamil King of India
• Ramesses II (reigned 1279 BC – 1213 BC), considered the greatest pharaoh of Ancient Egypt
• Ram Khamhaeng (around 1237 to 1247-1298), King of Sukhothai (in present day Thailand)
• Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona (1082–1131), also Count of Provence and various other counties
• Rhodri the Great (c. 820–878), King of Gwynedd (in present day Wales)
• Roman the Great (after 1160-1205), Grand Prince of Kiev
• Saladin (c. 1138-1193), Kurdish Sultan of Egypt and Syria, founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, and victor over the Crusaders
• Samudragupta (c. 335–375), ruler of the Gupta empire in the Indian subcontinent
• Sancho III of Navarre (c. 992-1035), King of Kingdom of Navarre
• Sargon of Akkad (died c. 2215 BC), ruler of the Akkadian Empire
• Sejong the Great (1397–1450), Korean king^[9]
• Shapur II (309-379), king of the Sassanid Empire, Persia
• Simeon I of Bulgaria (864/865-927), ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire
• Stephen III of Moldavia (1433–1504), Prince of Moldavia (Romania)
• Stephen Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia (c. 1308-1355), King of Serbia and Emperor of the Serbs and Greeks
• Taksin (1734–1782), King of the Thonburi Kingdom (Thailand)
• Tamar (1160-1123), Queen of the Georgian Empire
• Timur (1336–1405), better known as Tamerlane, founder of the Timurid Dynasty
• Theobald II, Count of Champagne (1090–1151), Count of Blois and of Chartres as Theobald IV, Count of Champagne and of Brie
• Theodoric the Great (454-526), King of the Ostrogoths, regent of the Visigoths and a viceroy of the Byzantine Empire
• Theodosius I (347-395), Roman emperor
• Tigranes the Great (140-55 BC), Emperor of Armenia
• Tiridates III of Armenia (285-339), King of Armenia
• Umar (c. 586 to 590–644), second caliph of the Muslim Empire
• Valdemar I of Denmark (1131–1182), King of Denmark
• Valentinian I (364-375), Roman Emperor
• Vladimir I of Kiev (c. 958-1015), ruler of Kievan Rus
• Vytautas (c. 1350-1430), archduke of the Lithuanian Grand Duchy
• William I, Count of Burgundy (1020–1087), Count of Burgandy and Mâcon
• William V, Duke of Aquitaine (969-1030), also Count of Poitou
• Xerxes I (519-465 BC), King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire (Persia)
• Yu the Great (c. 2200-2100 BC), legendary ruler in ancient China

Religious figures[link]

• Abraham the Great of Kashkar (ca. 492-586), monk and saint of the Assyrian Church of the East
• Abraham Kidunaia (died c. 366, hermit, priest, and Christian saint of Mesopotamia
• Albertus Magnus (1193/1206–1280), medieval German philosopher and theologian
• Anthony the Great (c. 251–356), early Christian saint of Egypt
• Babai the Great (c. 551–628), Assyrian church leader
• Basil of Caesarea (330-379), Greek bishop and theologian
• Bruno the Great (925–965), Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Lotharingia (also listed in the previous section)
• Euthymius the Great (377-473), abbot and Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint
• Gertrude the Great (1256-c. 1302), German Benedictine, mystic, theologian and Roman Catholic saint
• Pope Gregory I (c. 540-604)
• Hiyya the Great, 3rd-century rabbi, Palestine
• Pope John Paul II (1920–2005)
• Pope Leo I (c. 391 or 400-461)
• Macarius of Egypt (c. 300-391), Egyptian hermit
• Pope Nicholas I (c. 800-867)
• Photius I of Constantinople (c. 810–c. 893), Eastern Orthodox saint and Patriarch of Constantinople
• William of Maleval (died 1157), founder of the Catholic congregation of Williamites

Other[link]

• Beli Mawr, a figure in medieval Welsh literature and genealogies
• Emmy the Great, folk singer
• Matteo Rosso the Great, Roman politician and father of Pope Nicholas III
• Prokop the Great, Hussite general in Bohemia

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• Epithet
• List of monarchs by nickname
• List of nicknames of European Royalty and Nobility: G-I
• James, son of Zebedee, also known as James the Greater, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus
• Ajax (mythology), called Ajax the Greater
• Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, whose common honorific "Mahatma" means "Great Soul"

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