Characters in Rubicon

Every character you can play as in Rubicon — 104 thinkers, builders, rulers and athletes, grouped by the part of the world's knowledge they are filed under.

Rubicon is a trivia game where you type your answer in your own words and an AI judge marks what you meant rather than how you spelled it. The character you wear decides which topics you are strongest at.

Natural Sciences

• Isaac Newton — Laws of motion + calculus
• Marie Curie — Pioneered radioactivity
• Pythagoras — The Pythagorean theorem
• Euclid — Father of geometry
• Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi — Founder of algebra
• Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) — Optics + the scientific method
• Hypatia of Alexandria — Alexandria's last great scholar
• Galileo Galilei — Father of observational astronomy
• Nicolaus Copernicus — Put the Sun at the center
• Johannes Kepler — Laws of planetary motion
• Emmy Noether — Symmetry and conservation laws
• Dmitri Mendeleev — The periodic table
• Michael Faraday — Electromagnetism pioneer

Technology & Engineering

• Nikola Tesla — Alternating current + wireless dreams
• Alexander Graham Bell — Invented the telephone
• Alan Turing — Father of computer science
• Archimedes of Syracuse — Eureka! + war machines
• Ada Lovelace — First computer programmer
• Hedy Lamarr — Movie star + frequency hopping
• Charles Babbage — Father of the computer
• Hero of Alexandria — Ancient inventor of the steam engine
• Ismail al-Jazari — Father of robotics
• James Watt — Powered the Industrial Revolution

Arts & Culture

• Vincent van Gogh — Post-impressionist painter
• Leonardo da Vinci — Renaissance polymath
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Classical composer
• Hildegard of Bingen — Medieval polymath nun
• Murasaki Shikibu — Wrote The Tale of Genji
• Rembrandt van Rijn — Master of light and shadow
• Michelangelo Buonarroti — Renaissance titan
• Artemisia Gentileschi — Baroque master
• Katsushika Hokusai — Painted The Great Wave
• Ludwig van Beethoven — Composed while going deaf
• Johann Sebastian Bach — Master of counterpoint

History & Civilization

• Julius Caesar — Roman dictator + general
• Abraham Lincoln — 16th US president
• Napoleon Bonaparte — French emperor + general
• Tutankhamun — Boy pharaoh of Egypt
• Hammurabi — First written law code
• Marcus Tullius Cicero — Roman orator + statesman
• Justinian I — Byzantine emperor + Justinian Code
• Herodotus — Father of history
• Thucydides — Peloponnesian War historian
• Sojourner Truth — Abolitionist + women's rights
• Marcus Aurelius — The philosopher emperor
• Cleopatra VII — Last pharaoh of Egypt
• Mansa Musa — Richest person in history
• Eleanor of Aquitaine — Queen of France and England

Nature & Animals

• Charles Darwin — Theory of evolution
• Rachel Carson — Silent Spring author
• Carl Linnaeus — Father of taxonomy
• Alexander von Humboldt — Father of ecology
• Maria Sibylla Merian — Pioneer of insect science

Human Body & Medicine

• Alexander Fleming — Discovered penicillin
• Galen of Pergamon — Ancient Roman anatomist
• Hippocrates of Kos — Father of medicine
• Ibn Sina (Avicenna) — The Canon of Medicine
• Moses Maimonides — Rabbi, philosopher, physician
• Florence Nightingale — Founded modern nursing
• Mary Seacole — Crimean War nurse + entrepreneur
• Louis Pasteur — Germ theory and vaccines
• Andreas Vesalius — Father of modern anatomy
• Elizabeth Blackwell — First woman doctor
• Sushruta — Father of surgery

Earth & Space

• Claudius Ptolemy — Ancient astronomer + geographer
• Caroline Herschel — First paid female astronomer
• Maria Mitchell — First American woman astronomer
• Tycho Brahe — Master of the naked-eye sky
• Eratosthenes of Cyrene — Measured the Earth
• Annie Jump Cannon — Classified the stars

Geography & Places

• Gertrude Bell — Helped draw modern Iraq
• Ida Pfeiffer — World traveler
• Ibn Battuta — Medieval world's greatest traveler
• Zheng He — Admiral of China's treasure fleet

Language & Communication

• Socrates — Foundational philosopher
• Plato — Founded the Academy
• Aristotle — Logic, ethics, biology
• Thomas Aquinas — Scholastic theologian
• Homer — The Iliad + The Odyssey
• Virgil — Author of the Aeneid
• Dante Alighieri — The Divine Comedy
• Desiderius Erasmus — Renaissance humanist
• Jane Austen — Pride and Prejudice
• Phillis Wheatley — First published African-American poet
• William Shakespeare — The Bard of Avon
• Sequoyah — Invented the Cherokee syllabary
• Jalal al-Din Rumi — Sufi poet of ecstatic love
• Sappho of Lesbos — The Tenth Muse

Food & Everyday Life

• Fannie Farmer — Standardized cooking measurements
• Apicius — The original gourmet

Society & Economy

• Confucius — Chinese moral philosopher
• Mary Wollstonecraft — Vindication of the Rights of Woman
• Adam Smith — Father of economics
• Frederick Douglass — Abolitionist orator

Sports & Games

• Milo of Croton — Six-time Olympic wrestling champion
• Spartacus — Gladiator who defied Rome
• Koroibos of Elis — The first Olympic champion
• Pheidippides — The run that named the marathon
• Kyniska of Sparta — First woman to win at Olympia
• Gaius Appuleius Diocles — The richest athlete who ever lived
• Leonidas of Rhodes — Twelve Olympic crowns
• Heracles — Founded the Olympic Games

Hobbies & Pastimes

• François-André Danican Philidor — The era's greatest chess player
• Izaak Walton — Author of The Compleat Angler

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