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Also Known As Hiero I
Died 467 BCE or 466 BCE • Catania • Italy
Dionysius I
ruler of Syracuse
Dionysius II
ruler of Syracuse
Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake
English admiral
Sir John Hawkins
Sir John Hawkins
English naval commander
Charles Rigault de Genouilly
French admiral
Tran Hung Dao
Tran Hung Dao
Vietnamese military leader
Charles Howard, 1st earl of Nottingham, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, 1602; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Charles Howard, 1st earl of Nottingham
English admiral
Carlo Zeno
Venetian admiral
Sir Richard Grenville
English naval commander
Sir William Monson
English naval officer
Adelaer
Norwegian naval officer
Vettore Pisani
Venetian admiral
Thomas Howard, 1st earl of Suffolk
English commander
Sokollu Mehmed Paşa
Ottoman vizier
Niccolò Pisani
Venetian admiral
Hieron II
tyrant and king of Syracuse
Hermocrates
Syracusan diplomat
Gelon
tyrant of Gela and Syracuse
Dion
ruler of Syracuse
John Connally
American politician