Name that historical figure!

[Kameraden]

Hamed bin Muhammed, a slave trader

[Andy Ronin]

correct + rep

Hamad bin Muḥammad bin Jumah bin Rajab bin Muḥammad bin Sa‘īd al-Murghabī
to be exact

but I was really thinking everyone knew him as Tippo Tip (Tippu sometimes)

@ Lord Zhang Ku: not a sultan, but he worked for them, and retired in Zanzibar apparently
+rep too for close enough

[Kameraden]

that was too easy Kamraden

Not everyone know finnish commanders, you know. and I didn't see your answer..

I remember Tippo Tip from school, funny name he has.

Okay name that figure:



You should know him if you have any interest in second world war.

[GhirYear]

Eduard Dietl

[Lord Zhang Ku]

correct + rep

Hamad bin Muḥammad bin Jumah bin Rajab bin Muḥammad bin Sa‘īd al-Murghabī
to be exact

but I was really thinking everyone knew him as Tippo Tip (Tippu sometimes)

@ Lord Zhang Ku: not a sultan, but he worked for them, and retired in Zanzibar apparently
+rep too for close enough

Thanks. The reason I guessed is because from what pictures of Zanzibari sultans i've seen, he looked quite similar to many of the,

[Imperator Aemilianus Finnicus]

and I didn't see your answer..

someone had right answer before me did not bother to answer

[Kameraden]

Eduard Dietl

yes he is. +rep and your turn.

[GhirYear]

Thank you! It was an easy one for a change.

Here is the next one (if hints become necessary, I will post different pictures of this person. For starters here is the most obscure picture):

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Enjoy!

[ciprianrusu]

We need a hint.

[Meelis13]

Yu the Great, first emperor of Xia dynasty in china?

[Jlop985]

Oda Nobunaga

[Kameraden]

Kiyomasa Katō

[Lord Oda Nobunaga]

I need a hint.

[GhirYear]

Kiyomasa Katō

This is getting scary! How do you do that?

I was sure this picture wouldn't yield the right solution. That's why I had already prepared some better known ones:

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Your turn, Kameraden!

[Kameraden]

Okay, who's he:

[Constantius]

Well he looks like a self important dictator of some central African country, aside from that don't know, perhaps from the 1970s ???
what is it with you and the dictators?

[Andy Ronin]

Well he looks like a self important dictator of some central African country, aside from that don't know, perhaps from the 1970s ???
what is it with you and the dictators?

Mobutu! in the sixties I think, right after the Belgians fled the Congo

[Kameraden]

getting close. Of all those self important dictators this one is quite famous.

edit: Andy, Andy, Andy.. You did it again, +rep my friend. Make next one really hard

[Constantius]

Dam would of got that! was changing a nappy at the time

[Andy Ronin]

Make next one really hard

to do that I will need to make my own picture from a book, so it can't be traced on the webz.

But for now I hope to mislead a few people with this one: