What are some influential figures before 1750?

Question

can't be any of these : confucius

confucius laozi

socrates

jacques benigne bossuet

hernando cortes

marco polo

montezuma

s**+ huangdi

niccolo machiavelli

leonardo davinci

asoka

zheng he

siddhartha guatama

mohammad

livy

christopher columbus

ibn battuta

mansa musa

charlemagne

pericles

king john I

martin luther

genghis khan

kublai khan

ferdinand magellan

sun tzu

saladin

suleman the magnificient

Answer 1

Jesus

Homer

Dante Alighieri

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

William Shakespeare

(Some of the early Rulers of England: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_of_en...

Aesopus

Ovid

Chariton

Heliodorus

Lucius Apuleius

Francois Rabelais

John Lyly

Thomas Nashe

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

John Bunyan

Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette

Aphra Behn

Jonathan Swift

Daniel Defoe

Jan van Huysum

Franz Freiherr von der Trenck