General. He succeeded in wearing down Hannibal by being cautious, patient and avoiding battle.
Writer and donor. He established the "Company of Friends in Need" for homeless children.
Evangelist. A "Bible-believing" Baptist pastor, he felt that people of faith needed to become much more active in politics, which led to his founding The Moral Majority. He also founded Liberty University as a protest against what he considered the anti-religious, left-wing, and immoral drift of American higher education.
Film director. He provided a model of the film director as political and social critic.
Political figure. Faithful to Catholicism, he plotted against the government and was hanged.
Traveler. A Buddhist monk, he visited Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and India, and left a written account.
Film director. He was a master of fantasy and surrealism.
Roman Catholic archbishop. A tutor of Louis XIV's grandson, he got in trouble with the Court by espousing reforms and in even more trouble with the Church for defending Madame Guyon, a celebrated mystic.
Philosopher. A professor of moral philosophy at the University of Edinburg and a member of the "Common Sense" school, he tried to organize an ethical system around the concept of "perfection" (as opposed to the then more current concept of "benevolence").