Certainly agree with most of WM's list, plus Elizabeth 1st, Hatshepsut and Temujin. A couple of others:
Frederick Barbarosa
- combined military prowess and massive advances in bureaucratic organization of the HRE.
Richard III
- the last English king to lead his troops in battle, the last English king to systematically administer justice, and an all around decent guy wrongly slandered by the usurping Tudors (not that I'm prejudiced ).
Ptolemy
- one of the few of the Diodachi to create a stable state; god general, god politician, gtreat administrator.
Ahmose and Khamose (founders of the Egyptian New Kingdom)
- freakin' brilliant brothers who threw the Hyksos out of Egypt (yeah, they were "insurgents" ) and reconstructed the entire Egyptian state.
Salah al-Din
- one of the few Muslim leaders who could actually find his a&& with one hand when it came to dealing with the Crusader states; excellent administrator and war leader.
Basil II (Bulgaris)
- last of the great "military Emperors" of Byzantium; held the bureaucratic faction in check, increased the stability of the empire, annihilated the Bulgars as a threat to the Empire.
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