The young printer's apprentice achieved greatness in a half-dozen different fields, as editor and publisher, scientist, inventor, philanthropist and statesman.

A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.

There were many great encyclopedists throughout Chinese history, including the scientist and statesman Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) with his Dream Pool Essays of 1088, the statesman, inventor, and agronomist Wang Zhen ( active 1290 – 1333 ) with his Nong Shu of 1313, and the written Tiangong Kaiwu of Song Yingxing ( 1587 – 1666 ), the latter of whom was termed the " Diderot of China " by British historian Joseph Needham.

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban, Kt., KC ( 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626 ) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author.

( in the Book of the Devil Valley Master ), A main contributor to this field was Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ), a polymath scientist and statesman who was the first to describe the magnetic-needle compass used for navigation, as well as discovering the concept of true north.

In 1088 AD, the polymath scientist and statesman Shen Kuo once wrote of the artwork of one Li Cheng, who he criticized as follows:

Besides being a statesman and political scientist, Machiavelli also translated classical works, and was a dramaturge ( Clizia, Mandragola ), a poet ( Sonetti, Canzoni, Ottave, Canti carnascialeschi ), and a novelist ( Belfagor arcidiavolo ).

* Benjamin Franklin, American leader, scientist and statesman

* April 9 – Francis Bacon, English scientist and statesman ( b. 1561 )

* Robert Grosseteste, English statesman, theologian, and scientist

* 1080 – 1081: The Chinese statesman and scientist Shen Kuo is put in command of the campaign against the Western Xia, and although he successfully halts their invasion route to Yanzhou ( modern Yan ' an ), another officer disobeys imperial orders and the campaign is ultimately a failure because of it.

* Abū ' Alī al-Husayn ibn Sīnā ( a. k. a. Avicenna ), Persian polymath: physician, philosopher, scientist, astronomer, chemist, geologist, Hafiz, logician, mathematician, physicist, poet, psychologist, Sheikh, soldier, statesman and Islamic theologian

* Shen Kuo, Chinese polymath, scientist and statesman

* April 17 – Benjamin Franklin, American scientist and statesman ( b. 1706 )

* January 22 – Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, scientist, and statesman ( d. 1626 )

* December 15 – Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, English statesman and scientist ( b. 1753 )

* The Song Dynasty Chinese polymath scientist and statesman Shen Kuo is appointed as the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy, where he begins his groundbreaking work with the colleague Wei Pu on accurately plotting the orbital paths of the stars, planets, and moon three times a night for a continuum of five years.

* The Song Dynasty Chinese polymath scientist and statesman Shen Kuo begins his defensive military campaign against the Tanguts of the Western Xia Kingdom, successfully defending the invasion route to Yan ' an.

* The Dream Pool Essays is published in this year by the polymath Chinese scientist and statesman Shen Kuo.

* The Chinese polymath statesman and scientist Su Song has the successful pilot model for his astronomical clock tower constructed in Kaifeng, China.

* The Song Dynasty Chinese polymath scientist and statesman Shen Kuo solves a heated border dispute with the Liao Dynasty by dredging up old diplomatic records ; he refutes Emperor Daozong of Liao's bluffs point for point during a meeting at Mt.

* The Song Dynasty Chinese scientist and statesman Su Song publishes his Xin Yi Xiang Fa Yao, a treatise outlining the construction and operation of his complex astronomical clocktower built in Kaifeng, China.

The Song Dynasty managed to win several military victories over the Tanguts in the early 11th century, culminating in a campaign led by the polymath scientist, general, and statesman Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ).

The mother of the scientist, general, diplomat, and statesman Shen Kuo taught him essentials of military strategy.

* Su Shi, famous Chinese poet, calligrapher, painter, travel writer, pharmacologist, and statesman

Badajoz is the birthplace of the statesman Manuel de Godoy, the Duke of Alcudia ( 1767 – 1851 ), and of the painter Luis de Morales.

Massimo Taparelli, marquis d ' Azeglio () ( October 24, 1798 – January 15, 1866 ) was an Italian statesman, novelist and painter.

* January 15-Massimo d ' Azeglio, Italian statesman, novelist and painter ( b. 1798 )

* Osman Hamdi Bey-( 1842 – 24 February 1910 ), Ottoman statesman and art expert and also a prominent and pioneering painter, the son of Edhem Pasha, a Greek by birth abducted as a youth followong the Massacre of Chios.

:“ Some thinkers, however, suppose that statesman, king, estate manager, and master of a family have a common character.

As an elder statesman with the Heat, he was regarded as a future NBA executive ( coach or general manager ).

Heorhiy Kirpa () ( July 20, 1946 in Klubivka, Khmelnytskyi Oblast – December 27, 2004 in Bortnychi, near Kiev ) was a Ukrainian railway manager, statesman and politician, best known as the head of the Ukrzaliznytsia national railway company and Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications under President Leonid Kuchma.

Preceding Livermore, future statesman Bernard M. Baruch also operated such pools before removing his investors and was later known as the " lone wolf on Wall Street ", as he managed his own fortune.

It was by his advice and that of a contemporary Turkish statesman that the celebrated corps of Janissaries was formed, an institution which European writers erroneously fix at a later date, and ascribe to Murad I.

His earliest work was a biography of the Greek statesman Philopoemen ; this work was later used as a source by Plutarch when composing his Parallel Lives, however the original Polybian text is lost.

The later Wei statesman Ximen Bao, who served Marquis Wen of Wei ( 445-396 BC ), was the first hydraulic engineer of China to have created a large irrigation canal system.

In his later years, Williams took on the role of elder statesman and mentored and influenced younger poets.

Two years later on December 6, 1875, the county's name was shortened to " Clay " by the Arkansas General Assembly ; though some sources say it was renamed for the legendary statesman Henry Clay, others say John M. Clayton remained its official namesake.

There are indications that Wulfstan, Archbishop of York and a leading statesman in Northumbrian politics, played a key role in Amlaíb's support, although he would later change his mind ( see below ).

Wimbledon House, a separate residence close to the village at the south end of Parkside ( near present day Peek Crescent ), was home in the 1790s to the exiled French statesman Vicomte de Calonne, and later to the mother of writer Frederick Marryat.

The county is named for Virginia statesman James Madison, who later became the fourth President of the United States.

* Joan Tudor, wife of William ap Yevan, son of Yevan ap William or Yevan Williams and Margaret Kemoys, and reported mother of Morgan ap William ( or Williams ) ( born Lanishen, Glamorganshire, Wales, 1479 ), later married at Putney Church, Norwell, Nottinghamshire, in 1499 to Catherine or Katherine Cromwell, born Putney, London, c. 1483, an older sister of Tudor statesman Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex.

The area was first settled in 1760 by planter George Waller, an officer in the state militia who was later promoted to Colonel, and his wife Ann Winston ( Carr ), first cousin of statesman Patrick Henry, as a protected ford across the Smith River.

Winston Churchill claims in his memoirs that had this crisis ended differently Chamberlain may have been called upon as a respected statesman to form a government of his own, but this view is not widely supported, and may be in part due to Chamberlain ’ s position as the first public champion of what later became Churchill ’ s great cause – opposition to the German Nazi government of Adolf Hitler.

Aulus Gabinius, Roman statesman and general, and supporter of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, was a prominent figure in the later days of the Roman Republic.

Edward Burleson ( December 15, 1798 – December 26, 1851 ) was a soldier, general, and statesman in the state of Missouri, the Republic of Texas, and later the U. S. state of Texas.

A few weeks later the king offered the most liberal terms to induce Pitt to form or join an administration ; and " a ministry directed by that great statesman ," says Lecky, " would have been beyond all comparison the most advantageous to the country ; it had no serious difficulty to encounter, and Pitt himself was now ready to undertake the task, but the evil genius of Lord Temple again prevailed.

: George Macartney should not be confused with Sir George Macartney, a later British statesman.

Eduard Ambrosis dze Shevardnadze ( ; born 25 January 1928 ) is a former Soviet minister of foreign affairs, and later, Georgian statesman from the height to the end of the Cold War.

The later Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 AD ) Chinese statesman Cao Cheng once wrote of early pontoon bridges in China ( spelling of Chinese in Wade-Giles format ):

Sir Robert Harley ( 1579 – 1656 ) was an English statesman who served as Master of the Mint for Charles I and later supported the parliamentarians during the English Civil War.

Three centuries later, it was awarded to the orator and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero for his part in the suppression of the Catilinarian conspiracy during his consulate in 63 BC.

Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, 1st Duke of Parma ( later 1st Duke of Cambacérès ) ( 18 October 1753 – 8 March 1824 ) was a French lawyer and statesman during the French Revolution and the First Empire, best remembered as the author of the Napoleonic code, which still forms the basis of French civil law.

Mihail Kogălniceanu (; also known as Mihail Cogâlniceanu, Michel de Kogalnitchan ; September 6, 1817 – July 1, 1891 ) was a Moldavian-born Romanian liberal statesman, lawyer, historian and publicist ; he became Prime Minister of Romania on October 11, 1863, after the 1859 union of the Danubian Principalities under Domnitor Alexandru Ioan Cuza, and later served as Foreign Minister under Carol I.

One of the most widely repeated episodes that occurred in the immediate aftermath of the fall of Goryeo was in 1392, when Taejo's fifth son, Yi Bang-won ( later King Taejong ), threw a party for the renowned scholar, poet and statesman Jeong Mong-ju, who refused to be won over by Yi despite their numerous correspondences in the form of archaic poems, and continued to be a faithful supporter the old dynasty, and a leading figure in the opposition to Yi's claim to the throne.

The Acheson family descends from the Scottish statesman Sir Archibald Acheson, 1st Baronet of Edinburgh, who later settled in Markethill, County Armagh.