India (1759-1851): Travel writer and immigrant to the UK who introduced shampoo baths to Europe and opened the first Indian restaurant in England.
Japan (1760-1835): Surgeon said to have been the first in the world to perform surgery using general anesthesia.
Vietnam (1762-1820): First emperor of the Nguyễn Dynasty who unified what is now modern Vietnam in 1802 and drove the Siamese out of Cambodia.
Saudi Arabia (17??-1814): Ruler of the First Saudi State who conquered Mecca and Medina from the Ottoman Empire and destroyed shrines and tombs there.
Vietnam (1766-1820): Poet most known for writing the epic poem 'The Tale of Kiều'.
Laos (1767-1828): Last monarch of the Lao Kingdom of Vientiane who led the Lao Rebellion of 1826–1828 against Siam.
China (1775-1844): Prostitute turned pirate who commanded the 'Red Flag Fleet' of more than 1,500 naval vessels with a crew upwards of 180,000 and retired peacefully with her loot.
Pakistan (1780-1839): Founder of the Sikh Empire who defeated the muslim Afghan Durrani Empire in three different wars.
Myanmar (1784-1846): King of the Burmese empire who fought and lost the First Anglo-Burmese War which marked the beginning of the decline of the Konbaung dynasty.
China (1785-1850): Qing official whose forceful opposition to the opium trade was a primary catalyst for the First Opium War between China and the UK.
Thailand (1786-1855): Royal poet, and author of the 'Phra Aphai Mani'.
Iraq (1797-1856): Omani Sultan who conquered the British protectorate at Mombasa and moved his capital from Muscat to Zanzibar.
Thailand (1804-1868): King of Siam also known as Rama IV who hired Anna Leonowens as a tutor, fought the last war with Burma and signed the first unequal treaty with Europe.
China (1814-1864): Self-proclaimed brother of Jesus Christ and leader of the Taiping Rebellion, possibly the bloodiest civil war in human history.
Afghanistan (1816-1845): Emir of Afghanistan most known for killing or capturing over 16,000 British soldiers and civilians at Gandamak during the First Anglo-Afghan War.
Iran (1817-1892): Prophet who was the founder of the Bahá'í Faith.
Lebanon (1823-1889): Maronite who fought in the 1860 civil war and led a rebellion in 1866-1867 against the Ottoman Empire rule in Mount Lebanon.
India (1825-1917): Parsi Politician who was the first Asian to be elected British MP in 1892 and was one of the founders of the Indian National Congress.
India (1828-1858): Queen of Jhansi who was one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 against the British East India Company.
Japan (1830-1878): One of the leaders of the Meiji Restoration and the political, social, and industrial revolution that saw Japan become one of the world's great powers.
Singapore (1833-1895): Sultan of Johor who was a personal friend of Queen Victoria and a great proponent of modernisation.
Russia (1834-1907): Chemist who created an early version of the periodic table of elements.
China (1835-1908): Regent who effectively controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty for 47 years from 1861 until her death in 1908.
Japan (1838-1922): Prime Minister who co-founded the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff, set the precedent that the army could dismiss a cabinet and fathered Japanese militarism.
Japan (1848-1934): Admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy whose victory at the Battle of Tsushima won the Russo-Japanese War.
South Korea (1851-1895): Wife of Gojong of Korea, also known as Queen Min, who was assassinated by agents of Japan.
Bangladesh (1858-1937): One of the fathers of radio science who invented the crescograph and wrote some of the earliest Science Fiction.
Indonesia (1860-1927): Dutch doctor and physiologist who invented the first practical electrocardiogram.
Japan (1860-1938): Founder of Judo, the form of the Jujutsu martial art used in the Olympics.
India (1861-1941): Poet, composer and artist who was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature and wrote 'The Home and the World'.
Philippines (1863-1897): Revolutionary known as 'The Great Plebeian' who started the KKK or Katipunan movement against Spanish rule.
India (1863-1902): Hindu monk, nationalist and disciple of Ramakrishna who helped introduce Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world.
China (1866-1925): Revolutionary who became the first president and founding father of the Republic of China.
Japan (1867-1930): Japanese inventor and industrialist who founded Toyota Industries and made the first Japanese power looms.
India (1869-1948): Champion of nonviolent civil disobedience who became the preeminent leader of the independence movement in British-ruled India.
Philippines (1869-1964): Revolutionary and First President of the Philippines who led rebel forces against the occupying powers of Spain and the USA.
Japan (1872-1896): Pen name of Japanese author Natsu Higuchi who was the author of 'Nigorie' and 'The Thirteenth Night'.
Saudi Arabia (1875-1953): The first monarch and founder of Saudi Arabia, the third Saudi state, who unified central arabia after three decades of war against his rivals.
Pakistan (1876-1948): Leader of the All-India Muslim League who worked for the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan.
Japan (1878-1942): Pen name of Shō Hō, the Japanese poet and author of the 'Midaregami' collection.
Georgia (1878-1953): Dictator of the Soviet Union during World War II and the start of the Cold War.
Japan (1884-1948): Prime Minister responsible for ordering the attack on Pearl Harbor, which initiated war between Japan and the United States.
India (1889-1964): The first Prime Minister of India.
Syria (1891-1982): Prominent Arab Druze leader who led rebellions against both the Ottoman and French Empires.
China (1893-1976): Communist revolutionary and founding father of the People's Republic of China.
India (1894-1974): Physicist best known for his collaboration with Albert Einstein on the properties of Boson particles.
India (1896-1977): Gaudiya Vaishnava spiritual teacher and founder of the Hare Krishna Movement.
Iran (1902-1989): Ayatollah who led the 1979 Iranian Revolution that founded the Islamic Republic of Iran.
India (1903-1950): Novelist known for his opposition to totalitarianism and his novels '1984' and 'Animal Farm'.
China (1904-1997): Paramount leader who opened China to foreign investment and the global market, and encouraged private competition in a previously communist economy.
Turkey (1906-1975): Shipping magnate who amassed the world's largest privately owned shipping fleet and married the widow of American president John F. Kennedy.
Azerbaijan (1908-1968): Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics.
China (1908-1991): Biologist who helped develop the birth control pill and the process of in vitro fertilisation.
Bangladesh (1909-1966): One of the most influential and acclaimed film drectors in Bollywood known for 'Do Bigha Zamin' and 'Madhumati'.
Japan (1910-1998): Filmmaker known for 'Ikiru', 'Seven Samurai' and 'Yojimbo'.
Taiwan (1910-2007): Founder of Nissin Food Products and one of the inventors of instant noodles, instant ramen, and Cup Noodles.
Vietnam (1911-2013): General in the Vietnam People's Army during the wars with France and the USA known for his decisive victory at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.
Syria (1912-1944): Arabic singer and actress who worked as a spy during World War II.
North Korea (1912-1994): Founder and supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
China (1912-1997): Experimental physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and disproved the law of conservation of parity.
Nepal (1914-1986): One of the first two individuals known to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Sri Lanka (1916-2000): Prime Minister who was the modern world's first female head of government.
Bangladesh (1920-1975): The founding leader and first President of Bangladesh who led the struggle of independence against Pakistan.
North Korea (1920-2012): Messiah claimant and the founder of the Unification Church.
India (1920-2012): Musician who was one of the best-known exponents of the sitar.
Indonesia (1921-2008): The second President of Indonesia known for his hardline anti-communist stance and his invasion and occupation of Timor-Leste.
Israel (1922-1995): Prime Minister of Israel assassinated by Yigal Amir for agreeing the Oslo Accords peace deal with Palestine.
Singapore (1923-2015): First Prime Minister of Singapore.
Cambodia (1925-1998): Revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge and caused the deaths of approximately 25 percent of the Cambodian population.
Pakistan (1926-1996): Theoretical physicist who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for his contributions to the electroweak unification theory.
Japan (1927-2013): President of Nintendo credited with transforming it from a small hanafuda card-making company in Japan to a multibillion-dollar video game company.
Japan (1928-1989): Manga artist and creator of 'Astro Boy' known for popularising comic books in Japan.
Syria (1930-2000): Ba'athist president of Syria who instituted one-man rule and appointed his son Bashar as his successor.
China (1930-): Pharmaceutical chemist who discovered the uses of Artemisinin for treating Malaria.
Philippines (1933-2009): President of the Philippines and the most prominent figure of the 1986 People Power Revolution, which toppled the dictatorship of Ferdinand E. Marcos.
China (1933-2018): Electrical engineer and physicist who pioneered in the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications.
India (1934-1983): Pakistani playback singer whose 'Ko-Ko-Korina' is often called the first-ever South asian pop song.
China (1935-): The 14th Dalai Lama who fled to India after the Chinese invasion of Tibet.
India (1936-2021): Founder of Pakistan's uranium enrichment program for creating atomic bombs who was involved in selling atomic knowledge to Iran, Libya and North Korea.
Iraq (1937-2006): President of Iraq who invaded both Iran and Kuwait and was deposed by the USA in the 2003 Iraq War.
South Korea (1944-): Career diplomat and eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Myanmar (1945-): Burmese politician and leader of the National League for Democracy who the military held under house arrest for over two decades.
Malaysia (1948-): Fashion designer whose eponymous company is known for their handmade women's shoes.
Iraq (1950-2016): The first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize who designed the Guangzhou Opera House and the London Aquatics Centre.
Qatar (1952-): Emir who helped to found the Al Jazeera news network.
Turkey (1954-2007): Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor assassinated in Istanbul due to his criticism of Turkey's denial of the Armenian Genocide,.
China (1954-): Hong Kong martial artist, actor and film maker known for 'Drunken Master' and 'Rush Hour'.
India (1954-): Activist against child labour and founder of the Bachpan Bachao Andolan movement.
China (1955-2017): Human rights activist who is incarcerated as a political prisoner due to his calls for the end of communist single-party rule.
Saudi Arabia (1957-2001): Founder and leader of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organization that claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks on the United States.
Azerbaijan (1963-): World Chess champion whose loss to the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue marked the end of human's being better than computers at chess.
Japan (1965-): Game designer best known as the creator of the Pokémon franchise.
India (1967-): Leading Bollywood actress known for the films 'Dil', 'Beta' and 'Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!',
Taiwan (1968-): Co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc.
Iran (1969-): Footballer who is the world's all-time leading goalscorer in men's international matches.
Israel (1972-): Pen name of Sharon Cohen, the transsexual Israeli pop singer, who won the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest.
India (1973-): Batsman who holds the record for the most runs in both ODI and Test cricket.
Japan (1973-): Baseball outfielder and ten-times MLB All-Star.
China (1980-): Basketball player who was eight times NBA All-Star.
Mongolia (1980-): The first Sumo wrestler to ever win all six official tournaments in a single year.
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