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King Kamehameha (aka Kamehameha the Great - pronounced kuh-may-uh-may-uh) was the founder and first ruler of Hawaii.

Louis XIV, king of France.

Known as the guy who said "L'etat, C'est Moi." ("The State, it is me"). He is also known as the Sun King. He ruled 72 years, up until 1715. His great-grandson, Louis XV, succeeded him; he ruled another 59 years.

Magnus VI of Norway

Reigned 1263-1280. Known as 'The Law Mender',as he introduced a unified code of law in place of the fragmented arrangements which had been hitherto in place. Norwegian territories at that time included Iceland, the Shetland Islands and the Orkney Islands, the latter two of which are now part of Scotland.

Napoleon III

Nephew of Napoleon I. He was the only President of the Second French Republic. Unable to run for another term, Napoleon III seized power in 1852, becoming Emperor in his own right. At the end of his reign, Napoleon fought against a unified Germany under Otto Van Bismarck and entered into the Franco-Prussian War without allies or effective forces. Napoleon's Empire was defeated in 1870.

Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor and German King

He seemed like one of those rulers who was consistently good, but was taken for granted. He, basically, united all the German tribes under his rule. He carried out many military campaigns---but his reign was marked by relative stability within. He was in constant conflict with the Papacy; this struggle between Emperor and the Papacy would continue for centuries.

Paul I of Greece

Ruled from 1947-64. Before becoming king, he spent two periods in exile during the 1920s and 1930s, owing to the turbulence of Greek politics and the successes of anti-monarchical factions, and took refuge in the UK during WW2. He was first cousin to Prince Philip, the consort of the present Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain.

Edited to correct the suggestion that our present monarch is Elizabeth I!

Quintillus, Roman Emperor

He was an obscure figure. He gained the Empire through murder. It's possible that he was murdered himself, circa AD 270.

Rupert, King of Germany

Rupert of the Palatinate (German: Ruprecht von der Pfalz; 5 May 1352 – 18 May 1410), a member of the House of Wittelsbach, was Elector Palatine from 1398 (as Rupert III) and King of Germany (rex Romanorum) from 1400 until his death.

(formally King of the Romans)
Reign
21 August 1400 – 18 May 1410
Coronation
6 January 1401
Predecessor
Wenceslaus
Successor
Jobst of Moravia
Elector Palatine
Reign
6 January 1398 – 18 May 1410
Predecessor
Rupert II
Successor
Louis III

Born
5 May 1352
Amberg, Upper Palatinate
Died
18 May 1410 (aged 58)
Landskron Castle,
Oppenheim, Electoral Palatinate

Burial
Church of the Holy Spirit, Heidelberg
Spouse
Elisabeth of Hohenzollern

Issue
Margaret of the Palatinate
Louis III, Elector Palatine
John, Count Palatine of Neumarkt
Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken
Otto I, Count Palatine of Mosbach

House
Wittelsbach
Father
Rupert II, Elector Palatine
Mother
Beatrice of Aragon
Rupert of the Palatinate (German: Ruprecht von der Pfalz; 5 May 1352 – 18 May 1410), a member of the House of Wittelsbach, was Elector Palatine from 1398 (as Rupert III) and King of Germany (rex Romanorum) from 1400 until his death.

Rupert was born at Amberg in the Upper Palatinate, the son of Elector Palatine Rupert II and Beatrice of Aragon, daughter of King Peter II of Sicily. Rupert's great-granduncle was the Wittelsbach emperor Louis IV. He was raised at the Dominican Liebenau monastery near Worms, where his widowed grandmother Irmengard of Oettingen lived as a nun.

Sargon the Great, of Akkad. about 2300 BC.

The first Semitic speaking ruler of the Mesopotamia. Conquered the nonsemitic Sumerians, and expanded the empire beyond Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) to the Levant, and started a 100 year dynasty.

Tiberius Julius Aspurgus Philoromaios

King of the Bosporus, 8 BC - 38 AD.

Seriously folks, this guy really existed!

The Bosporan Kingdom was a client state of the Roman Empire, located in the Crimea and the territory to the East of the Sea of Azov. Aspurgus ruled with the backing of the Julio-Claudian Roman emperors Augustus and Tiberius, as shown by his adopted names Julius and Tiberius, as well as the title 'Philoromaios', which means 'lover of Romans'. His own name was of Iranian origin. His descendants ruled the kingdom for the next 300 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius_Julius_Aspurgus

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Unas, King of Egypt for 30 years, before Christ. He built a pyramid which was the smallest of all the royal pyramids, but surpassed all others because of the paintings / carvings, and the innovation of adding the Pyramid Texts, on the inside walls.

Vukan

King of Serbia 1089-1112, founder of the Vukanović dynasty. An aggressive ruler, he fought successful campaigns against the Byzantines and Macedonians.

William the Conquerer

Illegimate son of the Robert I, Duke of Normandy, William was the first Norman King of England. He reigned from 1066 until his death in 1087. William built many castles, keeps, and mottes. among them the central keep of the Tower of London, the White Tower.

X-Ussi

He was apparently a Neo-Hittite king who ruled around 640 BC. That's all I could find out.

Anna of Russia

Daughter of Ivan V and Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740. She continued the Westernization of Russia started by her uncle Peter the Great.

Bagrat I

King of Iberia 830-76 AD. Iberia roughly corresponded to the present day state of Georgia in the Caucasus.