"How many "the Great"s can you name?" Topic

Not all that many, are there?

Cathy and Alex are the first to my mind.

Does Bobby Lee count? (ducks and runs for cover)

Let's not forget Fred.

No, Bobby doesn't count.

Game over

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*snigger* <runs off with John's ball>

Imagine how Nick's buisness card would read…

Nicholas II of Russia, last Emperor of Russia, Grand Duke of Finland, and claimant to the title of King of Poland

"Clothar the Great"?
Boy, they will let anybody in the club.

Without looking: Alexander, Darius, Constantine, Maximus Magnus (of Britain), Carlos (Charlemagne), Alfred, Ferdinand, Frederick, Catherine, Peter, plus many sundry magicians and acrobats.

Only three Alexander, Catherin, and Peter

(Looked): Dang, that's a lot of greats. And dangnabbit, I can't believe I forgot Herod.

"Maximus Magnus"

Sounds like contestant for the World Strongest Man.

Gregory

Didn't know there was a Chuck on the list.

"Charles the Great, more commonly known as "Charlemagne""

Carlus Magnus = Charles (the) Great innit?

Great Scot!

Ok, we have to have a rule…

Can't have two guys known as 'the Great' with the same first name.

We need to get all the Freds, Petes and Lous together and have 'em battle it out.

Which, in your oppinion, actually deserve the title 'the Great' and which shall, from this point on, be relegated to simply Czar, Emporer, or Archduke?

They left off The Great One, Jackie Gleason.

Gatsby
Pumpkin

Sorry Ultra Ork. Those are "The Great" and not "the Great". A technicality I know, but without order our world is chaos.

Alfred

Matilda (well, according to Cecilia Holland, anyway)

Honk

Wasn't Ivan "the terribly great"?

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Do you include Popes in the list? In which case John Paul II has been referred to by Benedict and other Catholics as John Paul the Great on multiple occasions.

Also see Popes Leo (I) the Great, Gregory (I) the Great, and Nicholas (I) the Great.

The list is missing Miloš the Great

WOW, Connard Sage, you made that Wiki page fast.. You'll do anything to spoil OFM's fun…

Bob the Great, at least that's what the women call me.

The list isn't complete Alexander Ovechkin is missing!

Alex the Great!

Donald~
it's a CAPS thang.

You'll do anything to spoil OFM's fun…

He sent me a PM

Just call me Connard the Great

ceasar's ghost!

The wikipedia list missed Gandhi – the Mahatma – 'great soul'

Not sure Darius was a great, but Cyrus was.

I hereby grant Connard possession of the game by virtue of his superior Wikipedia link-fu.

and none of you have mentioned Pompey yet, I am ashamed of you guys….

Got told a story in this weeks lectures.

A messenger ran into a room and announced to Crassus, "Magnus is coming". To which Crassus replied, "the Great What?"

Gretzky?
-Kle.

Don't care, gonna do it anyway.

Wall of China
Depression
War
Escape
Train Robbery

The Great Gatsby?

Darius the Great, the son of Hystaspes

Cyrus the Great was son of Cambyses I

Antiochus III the Great son of Seleucus II Callinicus

Vladimir the Great of Russia

Kasimierz the Great of Poland

Those are the ones I could think of without help. Here is from wikipedia:

* Abbas the Great, Persia (Iran)
* Abraham the Great of Kaskhar, monk and saint of the Assyrian Church of the East
* Abraham the Great of Kidunja, hermit, priest, and Christian saint of Mesopotamia
* Akbar the Great, ruler of the Mughal Empire of South Asia
* Alain I the Great, Albret
* Alaungpaya the Great, Burma
* Albert the Great (aka Albertus Magnus), medieval German philosopher and theologian
* Alexander the Great, King of Persia, Macedonia, Greece, Egypt, and all of Mesopotamia
* Alfonso the Great of León
* Alfred the Great of Wessex, English
* Anawrahta the Great, Burma
* Anthony the Great, early Christian saint of Egypt
* Antiochus the Great, Seleucid Empire
* Ashoka the Great, Indian emperor of the Maurya dynasty, known as the emperor of all ages in The Outline of History
* Askia the Great, Mohamed Toure, Ruler of the Songhai Empire
* Aurangzeb the Great, ruler of the Mughal Empire of South Asia
* Babai the Great, 6th century Assyrian church leader
* Bayinnaung the Great, Burma
* Bhumibol Adulyadej the Great, Thailand
* Bolesław the Brave, sometimes called "the Great", Poland
* Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke the Great, Thailand
* Canute the Great, Danish, King of Denmark, England, and Norway
* Casimir the Great, Poland
* Catherine the Great, Russian Empire
* Chandragupta Maurya, Indian emperor of the Maurya dynasty
* Chandragupta II / Vikramaditya, one of the most powerful emperors of the Gupta empire
* Charles the Great, more commonly known as "Charlemagne"
* Chulalongkorn the Great, Thailand
* Clothar the Great, Merovingian France
* Conrad the Great, Meissen
* Constantine the Great, Rome/Byzantium
* Cyrus the Great, Persia (Iran)
* Darius the Great, Persia (Iran)
* Devapala, a powerful king of Pala dynasty of Magadha
* Dharmapala of Bengal, second ruler of the Pala Empire of Bengal
* Stefan Dusan, called the "Mighty, The Great", ruled the Serbian Empire
* Ferdinand the Great, Castile and León
* Frederick the Great, Prussia
* Frederick the Great, Holy Roman Empire
* Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, known as "The Great Elector" ("Großer Kurfürst")
* Genghis Khan, was first Khan of the Mongol Empire
* Gero I the Great of Marca Geronis
* Gertrude the Great of Helfta, medieval mystic
* Gustavus Adolphus the Great, Sweden
* Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo, Korea[3][4]
* Hanno the Great, Carthage
* Han Wu the Great, Han Dynasty, China
* Harshavardhana, Indian emperor who ruled Northern India
* Eudes-Henry the Great, Burgundy
* Henry IV the Great, France
* Herod the Great, Judea
* Hongwu the Great, Ming Dynasty, China
* Hongxian the great, China
* Hugh the Great, Franks
* Ivan the Great, Tsardom of Russia
* Jangsu The Great, Korea
* John the Great, Portugal
* John II the Great, Aragon
* Justinian the Great, Byzantium
* Kamehameha the Great, Hawai'i
* Kangxi the Great Emperor, Qing Empire, China
* Kanishka the Great, of the Kushan Empire in Central Asia
* Karim Khan the Great, Persia (Iran)
* Koxinga the Great, Lord of Taiwan, Ming Dynasty, China
* Krishnadevaraya the Great, Vijayanagara, India
* Kublai Khan, a prominent Mongol ruler in the 13th century and the founder of the Yuan Dynasty
* Lachit Borphukan, Assam, India
* Llywelyn the Great, Wales/Gwynedd
* Louis the Great, Hungary and Poland
* Louis the Great, first Duke of Bourbon
* Louis the Great, France
* Mangrai the Great, King of Chiang Mai, Thailand
* Matteo Rosso the Great, Roman politician and father of Pope Nicholas III
* Meiji the Great, Japan
* Menander I, or Milinda the rulers of the Indo-Greek Kingdom in northern India and present-day Pakistan
* Mithridates the Great, Parthia (Iran)
* Mithridates the Great, Pontus
* Moctezuma the Great, Aztec empire
* Mstislav the Great, Kievan Rus
* Nader Shah the Great, Persia (Iran)
* Napoleon I the Great, First French Empire
* Narai The Great, Thailand
* Naresuan The Great, Thailand
* Nicholas II of Russia, last Emperor of Russia, Grand Duke of Finland, and claimant to the title of King of Poland
* Otto I the Great, Holy Roman Empire
* Pacal the Great, Palenque
* Parâkramabâhu the Great, Sri Lanka
* Petar Krešimir IV the Great, Croatia
* Peter the Great, Russian Empire
* Peter III the Great, Aragon
* Photius the Great, Eastern Orthodox saint and Patriarch of Constantinople
* Pompey the Great, Rome
* Prokop the Great, Hussite leader in Bohemia
* Quang Trung The Great, emperor of Vietnam
* Rajaraja The Great, Indian emperor of the Cholas[5][6][7].
* Rajendra Chola The Great Tamil King of India
* Ramesses the Great, Ancient Egypt
* Ramkhamhaeng the Great, Thailand
* Ramon Berenguer III the Great, Barcelona
* Rhodri the Great, Wales/Gwynedd
* Roy Bates the Great, Sealand
* Samudragupta of the Gupta empire, surnamed 'Napoleon of India'
* Sancho III the Great, Navarre
* Sargon the Great, Akkad
* Sejong the Great, Korea[8]
* Shapur the Great, Sassanid empire, Persia (Iran)
* Shivaji the Great of India, founder of the Maratha Empire in India
* Sihanouk the Great, Cambodia
* Simeon I the Great, Bulgaria
* Sir Senzo The Great, Investor, South Africa
* St. Basil the Great, theologian, Cappadocia
* St. Euthymius the Great, abbot
* St. Gregory the Great, pope
* St. James the Great, apostle
* St. Leo the Great, pope
* St. Macarius the Great, Egyptian hermit
* St. Nicholas the Great, pope
* Stephen the Great, Moldavia, Romania
* Sultan Agung of Mataram, Mataram (Java)
* Sun Quan the Great of Wu, China
* Taksin the Great, Thailand
* Tamburlaine the Great, Timurid Empire
* Theobald the Great, Champagne
* Theodoric the Great, Ostrogoths
* Theodosius the Great, Rome
* Tigranes the Great, Armenia
* Tiridates the Great, Armenia
* Umar the Great, the second caliph of Muslim Empire
* Valdemar I the Great, Denmark
* Vladimir the Great, Kievan Rus
* Vytautas the Great, archduke of Lithuanian Grand Duchy
* Wilhelm the Great, Germany and Prussia
* Wilhelm II, German Emperor, last German Emperor
* William the Great, Maleval
* William I the Great, Burgundy
* William V the Great, Aquitaine
* Xerxes the Great, Persia (Iran)
* Yongle the Great Emperor of Ming Empire, China
* Yu the Great, China
* Zetian the Great, Empress of China
* Zhenguan the Great, Tang Dynasty, China

Time to break out of your Western oriented myopia.

Bit late there old son

Connard Sage 02 Sep 2009 8:09 a.m. PST

Game over

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*snigger* <runs off with John's ball>

Nice try though

Add The Great Waldo Pepper to the list…….

That's an impressive list of Greats.

No movies, the list becomes effectively endless….

The ones I find interesting AREN'T listed as 'Great'. OK, the following is partially because I'm a Brit, but I'm sure other nations could say the same: Who presided out the building of the biggest Empire the world has known? Victoria the Great – whoops, she didn't make it….who fought off the world's main superpower of the day and laid the foundations for the country with the greatest Naval tradition ever: Elizabeth the Great… nope, she didn't make it either. Alfred did, and his story was a lot less impressive.

Rhodri Mawr of Gwynedd was allegedly killed by Alfed the Great in 878. Any other battles have a 'the Great' on both sides?

He got his epithet from killing seven shades out of the Vikings.

The ony Great that counts is The Great Chuck Norris.