Empire
Journalist Jeremy Paxman presents this five-part series that traces the complex story of the British empire. Paxman travels the globe in search of the characters, motivations and principles responsible for an empire that has influenced the modern world -- politically, technologically and socially. He investigates how the empire began and grew into a massive financial network; how the British made themselves at home wherever they settled; how Britain laid the groundwork for almost all the major sports of today; and the many ways in which Britain took and held power in the empire. … MORE
People born in Empire (First 49 people) - Page 0
Xerxes I
Persian ruler
Esther
Piri Reis
Ottoman navigator
Mensa Bonsu
Sol Star
Former Mayor of Deadwood
Victor L. Berger
Austrian-American politician
Eugen Viktor Feller
Croatian pharmacist
Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen
Johann Josef Loschmidt
Austrian scientist
Paul Puhallo von Brlog
General
Constantin Lecca
Romanian painter
Joseph Edgar Boehm
Sculptor
Henrik Weber
Hungarian painter
Lazar Tomanović
Former Prime Minister of Montenegro
Seweryn Morawski
Archbishop
Julian Sas-Kuilovsky
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
Former Austrian Finance Minister
Barbu Vlădoianu
Ivan Stupnytskyi
Dragutin Inkiostri Medenjak
Serbian painter
Leopold Horovitz
Artist
Teodora of Bulgaria, Queen of Serbia
Belisarius
Military commander
Leo II
Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire
Crispus
Theodora Maria Kantakouzene
Asporça Hatun
Orhan's wife
Eudokia Makrembolitissa
Author
Saints Cyril and Methodius
Loukas Notaras
Byzantine statesman
Roman of Bulgaria
Saint Telemachus
Monk
Irene Lekapene
Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera
Smiltsena Palaiologina
Helena Kantakouzene
John Scholasticus
Canon
Theodora Kantakouzene
Orhan's wife
Theodora Palaiologina, Empress of Bulgaria
Maria-Irene Palaiologina
Andronikos III Palaiologos' daughter
Irene Palaiologina, Empress of Bulgaria
Member of the Palaiologos
Wazir Akbar Khan
Afghan prince
Dan Bankhead
Baseball player
Liz Moeggenberg
Basketball player
Don Sutherin
American football player
Einosuke Akiya
Political leader
Reiko Okuyama
Japanese animator
