Duarte Pacheco Pereira

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Flourished	c.1451 - c.1550

Vasco da Gama

Vasco da Gama

Portuguese navigator

Francisco de Almeida

viceroy of India

João de Castro

Portuguese naval officer

Dalhousie, detail of an oil painting by Sir John Watson-Gordon, 1847; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

James Andrew Broun Ramsay, marquess and 10th earl of Dalhousie

governor-general of India

Napier, Robert Napier, 1st Baron

Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier

British field marshal

Dupleix, engraving by Marie Champion de Cernel after a portrait by Sergent

Joseph-François Dupleix

French colonial official

Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet.

Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet

British statesman

Earl of Ellenborough, detail of an oil painting by F.R. Say, c. 1845; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Edward Law, earl of Ellenborough

British governor of India

Guilluame-Thomas, abbé de Raynal, detail of an engraving by Nicolas Delaunay, 1780, after a drawing by Charles-Nicolas Cochin.

Guillaume-Thomas Raynal, abbé de Raynal

French author

Sir Philip Francis, detail of an oil painting by J. Lonsdale; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Sir Philip Francis

British politician

Sir Olaf Caroe

British administrator

Earl Amherst, detail of an oil painting after A. Devis; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

William Pitt Amherst, lst Earl Amherst

British diplomat

James Thomason

British colonial governor

Akhilesh Yadav

Indian politician

Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

Indian leader

Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great

king of Macedonia

Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru

prime minister of India

Amit Shah

Amit Shah

Indian politician

Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

English politician and author

Lord Curzon

Lord Curzon

British foreign secretary

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Buzz Aldrin. Apollo 11. Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin Aldrin, photographed July 20, 1969, during the first manned mission to the Moon's surface. Reflected in Aldrin's faceplate is the Lunar Module and astronaut Neil Armstrong, who took the picture.

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