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As a civilization's culture increases, they will attract Great Persons from history. Each one counts as a Cultural Milestone; when 20 Cultural Milestones are obtained a civilization may obtain a Cultural Victory by building the United Nations wonder. A Great Person initially behaves as a non-combat unit with two points of movement. Upon reaching a city, a Great Person may either:
- Settle in that specific city, providing a permanent and significant bonus to the city.
- or be Consumed to grant a once-off civilization-wide or unique bonus. The Great Person is destroyed in this process.
Once settled, a Great Person cannot be unsettled, although they can be kidnapped by Spies.
List of person types
| Person Type |
Settling Bonus |
Consumable Bonus
|
| Great Artist/Thinker |
+50% Culture |
Convert a nearby enemy city
|
| Great Leader |
+3 Experience to new units |
Upgrade all units to Veterans
|
| Great Scientist |
+50% Science production |
Immediately complete current research goal
|
| Great Humanitarian |
+50% Population growth |
+1 population to all cities
|
| Great Builder |
-50% Building costs |
Immediately complete current city's construction objective
|
| Great Explorer/Industrialist |
+50% Gold production |
Immediately obtain some gold: +50 if in the Ancient era, +100 in Medieval, +200 in Industrial, +400 in Modern
|
List of great persons
| Name
|
Type
|
Prerequisite Technology
|
| Aesop |
Artist/Thinker |
Writing
|
| Agamemnon |
Leader |
Iron Working
|
| Roald Amundsen |
Explorer/Industrialist |
Combustion
|
| Archimedes |
Scientist |
Engineering
|
| Aristotle |
Artist/Thinker |
University
|
| Sargon |
Explorer/Industrialist |
Bronze Working
|
| Charles Babbage |
Artist/Thinker |
Networking
|
| J.S. Bach |
Artist/Thinker |
Religion
|
| Thomas Becket |
Humanitarian |
Feudalism
|
| Alexander Graham Bell |
Scientist |
Corporation
|
| Cheops |
Builder |
Masonry
|
| Christopher Columbus |
Explorer/Industrialist |
Banking
|
| Confucius |
Scientist |
Literacy
|
| Marie Curie |
Scientist |
Metallurgy
|
| Leonardo da Vinci |
Builder |
Invention
|
| David |
Leader |
Monarchy
|
| Vasco de Gama |
Explorer/Industrialist |
Navigation
|
| Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Artist/Thinker |
Industrialization
|
| Frederick Douglass |
Humanitarian |
Railroad
|
| Thomas Edison |
Scientist |
Electricity
|
| Albert Einstein |
Scientist |
Atomic Theory
|
| Enrico Fermi |
Scientist |
Nuclear Power
|
| Henry Ford |
Explorer/Industrialist |
Automobile
|
| Gilgamesh |
Builder |
Horseback Riding
|
| Johannes Gutenberg |
Humanitarian |
Printing press
|
| W.R. Hearst |
Explorer/Industrialist |
Mass Media
|
| Homer |
Artist/Thinker |
Alphabet
|
| Imhotep |
Builder |
Ceremonial Burial
|
| Otto Lilienthal |
Scientist |
Flight
|
| Guglielmo Marconi |
Scientist |
Electronics
|
| Karl Marx |
Artist/Thinker |
Communism
|
| Nebuchadnezzar |
Builder |
Construction
|
| Florence Nightingale |
Humanitarian |
Gunpowder
|
| Plato |
Artist/Thinker |
Pottery
|
| Marco Polo |
Explorer/Industrialist |
Currency
|
| Pythagoras |
Scientist |
Mathematics
|
| Albert Schweitzer |
Humanitarian |
Globalization
|
| Solomon |
Scientist |
Code of Laws
|
| Sophocles |
Artist/Thinker |
Democracy
|
| George Stephenson |
Builder |
Steel
|
| Leopold Stokowski |
Artist/Thinker |
Superconductor
|
| Tippu Sultan |
Explorer/Industrialist |
Space Flight
|
| Lao Tzu |
Humanitarian |
Irrigation
|
| James Watt |
Builder |
Steam Power
|
| Eli Whitney |
Humanitarian |
Mass Production
|
| Wilbur Wright |
Explorer/Industrialist |
Advanced Flight
|