As a westerner, I would say everyone outside the Anglosphere.
What do you mean? Everybody knows the barbarians were just sitting around waiting to be civilized.
On the upside, it’s given me a near endless amount of history to learn as an adult when I actually want to learn about it. Just search “literally_any_other_country_than_usa history” and it’s all brand spanking new stuff to me!
Just learned the beginnings of the establishment of Portugal the other day.
looked at this thread
Yeah. On that end, i would like to introduce you the man Jin Yong, the grandfather of Wuxia who wrote the legendary trilogy Legend of the Condor Heroes, Return of the Condor Heroes, and Heavenly Sword and Dragon Saber. The novel is known across the sinosphere all over the world, and made into tv series. If you ever played or watched a modern wuxia game film (like Where Winds Meet) and think “wow, those attacks are wack, and woah they all can fly”, it’s all thanks to him.
Tommy Flowers, the man who built the first computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers
Dang, we really should have learned about him in school. Talk about impact, and he even had a memorable name.
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers
Flowers’s team at Dollis Hill built the first machine in eleven months. It was immediately dubbed ‘Colossus’ by the Bletchley Park staff for its immense proportions.
Flowers was left in debt after the war after using his own personal funds to build Colossus.
It was not until the 1970s that Flowers’ work in computing was fully acknowledged. His family had known only that he had done some ‘secret and important’ work.
Josephine Baker
A black burlesque performer who left the US and moved to France because of discrimination, then became an Allied spy during WW2
She’s not overlooked, maybe not always talked about but her legacy and name are well known.
Ironically this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Siege_of_Malta
Voltaire said: “Nothing is better known than the siege of Malta.”
Zhuangzi, easily one of the top 5 authors anywhere, ever.
The Taiping civil war ended a bit before the US civil war, lasted 3x as long and almost ended with china unified under a homegrown christian theocracy.
Leonhard Euler I think is not as well known in the general public
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is pretty much unknown enough that I felt the need to make his name a link.
I was surprised to see Euler here, I was like “he’s so famous” but then I remembered I literally have a degree in mathematics and I’m fully “of course quartz”-ing
Ha ha, I’m no good at maths but have two microscopes, so I knew Van Leeuwenhoek but not Euler.
Gladys West
François de Cuvillié
Thomas Meagher
The Grand Canyon.
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