Civilization Revolution: Great People

School of ConfuciusCivilization Revolution has six different types of Great People that provide special abilities upon their appearance. The six types are Great Artist/Thinker, Great Builder, Great Humanitarian, Great Explorer/Industrialist, Great Leader, and Great Scientist.

Every type of great people can do two things. The first is a one-time immediate bonus, which will consume the great person. Some examples of one time bonuses are instant completion of a wonder and increase population of all your cities. The second use is settlement bonus, which provides the host city benefits such as reduced building cost, experience for newly created units, and culture/science bonus. Note that only the great people settled in cities count toward cultural victory.

You can earn Great People in following ways:

  • Accumulation of Culture: You will receive great person as your civilization accumulates culture. Each successive great person costs more culture points.
  • Economic Milestones: The 500 gold and 10,000 gold milestones both give you a great person.
  • First to Discover Benefit: Discovering Invention or Monarchy tech first will give you a great person.
  • Spies: You can kidnap great people from enemy cities using spies.
  • School of Confucius: Discovering the School of Confucius relic will instantly give you a few great people.
  • Conquest: You will gain control of any great people in the city when you capture a city.

Below is a complete list of all 46 Great People categorized by type. The associated tech for each great person is also included.

Great Person NameAssociated Technology
Great Artists/Thinkers
Use them to convert enemy city, or settle them in city for +50% culture production
Aesop Writing
AristotleUniversity
Charles BabbageNetworking
J.S. BachReligion
Fyodor DostoevskyIndustrialization
HomerAlphabet
Karl Marx Communism
PlatoPottery
Great Builders
Use them to instantly complete production of any unit/building/or wonder, or settle them in city to halve the cost of all buildings in the city for future constructions.
CheopsMasonry
Leonardo da VinciInvention
Henry FordThe Automobile
GilgameshHorseback Riding
ImhotepCeremonial Burial
NebuchadnezzarConstruction
George StephensonSteel
James WattSteam Power
SophoclesDemocracy
Leopold StokowskiSuperconductor
Great Explorer/Industrialist
Use them to get a large one-time gold bonus, or settle them in city to receive +50% gold production.
Roald AmundsenCombustion
Christopher ColumbusBanking
Vasco Da GamaNavigation
W.R. HearstMass Media
Marco Polo Currency
SargonBronze Working
Tippu SultanSpace Flight
Wilbur WrightAdvanced Flight
Great Humanitarian
Use them to add +1 population to all your cities, or settle them in city for +50% population growth rate.
Thomas BecketFeudalism
Frederick DouglassRailroad
Johannes GutenbergPrinting Press
Lao TzuIrrigation
Florence NightingaleGunpowder
Albert SchweitzerGlobalization
Eli WhitneyMass Production
Great Leader
Use them to upgrade all your units to veteran, or settle them in city so your newly created units receive +3 experience points (free upgrade if the city also has barracks).
AgamemnonIron Working
DavidMonarchy
Great Scientist
Use them to instantly finish research of current technology, or settle them in city for +50% science.
ArchimedesEngineering
Alexander G. BellThe Corporation
ConfuciusLiteracy
Marie CurieMetallurgy
Thomas EdisonElectricity
Albert EinsteinAtomic Theory
Enrico FermiNuclear Power
Otto LilienthalFlight
Guglielmo MarconiElectronics
PythagorasMathematics
SolomonCode of Laws