Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

male, deceased (1938)
Battle of Gallipoli, From Thessaloniki, Field Marshal of Turkey, Turkish War of Independence, personality cult, Turkish history…reforms, far-reaching reforms, Atatürk's reforms
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was an army officer, revolutionary statesman, the founder of the Republic of Turkey and its first President. Mustafa Kemal e...
Gaius Marius

Gaius Marius

male
from Lazio, Roman governor of Hispania, cohorts, Roman armies, Marian Reforms, reforms
Gaius Marius (157 BC–January 13, 86 BC) was a Roman general and politician elected consul an unprecedented seven times during his career. He was al...
Guan Zhong

Guan Zhong

male
centralize, manpower, iron, Village, compilation, trade…reforms
Guan Zhong (管仲) (born 725 BC, died in 645 BC) was a politician in the Spring and Autumn Period. His given name was "Yíwú" (夷吾). "Zhong" was his co...
Patriarch Adrian

Patriarch Adrian

male, deceased (1700)
kazan, archmandrite, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, reforms, reform movement, Chudov Monastery
Patriarch Adrian was the last pre-revolutionary Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. Adrian caught the eye of Patriarch Joachim, when he was still...
Gerard Swope

Gerard Swope

male, deceased (1957)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, company, General Electric, efficiency, Labor Relations, reforms
Gerard Swope (December 1, 1872 - November 20, 1957) was a U.S. electronics businessman. He served as the president of General Electric Company...
Pavel Pestel

Pavel Pestel

male, deceased (1826)
executed by pre-Soviet Russia, Leib Guard, Decembrists, Colonel, Regicide, commander…reforms
Colonel Pavel Ivanovich Pestel (in Moscow - in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian revolutionary and ideologue of the Decembrists. In 1805-1809, Pavel...

Stanisław Gomułka

male, 69 years old
London School of Economics, post-communist transition, Economic system, reforms, reform movement, economic growth
Stanisław Gomułka is a Polish economist, former advisor or Polish Ministry of Finance, reader in Economics at the London School of Economics. His re...
Ahmet Adnan Saygun

Ahmet Adnan Saygun

male, deceased (1991)
Opera in Turkey, Atatürk's reforms, reforms, Turkish music, ottoman empire, From Izmir
Ahmet Adnan Saygun was a Turkish composer, musicologist and writer on music. Ahmet Adnan Saygun is acknowledged as one of the most important 20th...
Zi Chan

Zi Chan

male
realism, legalism, bronze, aristocrat, superstition, aristocratic…reforms
Zi Chan, also know as Gongsun Qiao, was the most outstanding statesman of the State of Zheng in ancient China during the Spring and Autumn Period....

Peter I of Yugoslavia I of Serbs, Croats, and Sloven

male, deceased (1921)
King Peter I of Yugoslavia, King of Serbia, House of Karađorđević, French, Yugoslav royalty, constitutional monarchy…reforms
King Peter I of Yugoslavia was King of Serbia from 1903 to 1918 after which he became the first King of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.