The idea behind these thread is based on the idea that an ancient Great Artist looks like Shakespeare and the modern incarnation looks like Elvis. I'd like to extend it to individual civs. For example, instead of Elvis, how about a moptopped Beatle for England? How about a Mark Twain unit for America? How about having Confucius as a prophet for China, or that guy who usually wears a veil as an Arabian prophet? How about having an Isaac Newton who holds an apple, or a Bill Gates who hauls around a PC?

I'm going to make some requests for these units, so that we may be able to add them to mods, such as The Capo's Diplomacy mod.

Mark Twain (America)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Mark_Twain%2C_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait%2C_Feb_7%2C_1871%2C_cropped.j pg/200px-Mark_Twain%2C_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait%2C_Feb_7%2C_1871%2C_cropped.j pg

Brigham Young (America)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/B_Young.jpg

Billy Graham (America)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Billy_Graham_bw_photo%2C_April_11%2C_1966.jpg/225px-Billy_Graham_bw_photo%2C_April_11%2C_1966.jpg

Bill Gates (America)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Bill_Gates_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008_nu mber3.jpg/800px-Bill_Gates_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008_nu mber3.jpg
[He could haul around a PC]

Benjamin Franklin (America)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Benjamin_Franklin_by_Jean-Baptiste_Greuze.jpg

Thomas Edison (America)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Thomas_Edison.jpg

Alhazen (Arabia)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Ibn_al-Haytham.png/493px-Ibn_al-Haytham.png

A Mexican singer (Aztecs/Mexico)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Guadalajara_mariachis.jpg

Carlos Slim (Aztecs/Mexico)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Carlos_Slim_Hel%C3%BA.jpg/225px-Carlos_Slim_Hel%C3%BA.jpg
[Have him hold a cell phone]

Confucius (China)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Confucius_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_15250.jpg

Isaac Newton (England)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689.jpg
[He could be holding an apple]

Stephen Hawking (England)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Stephen_Hawking.StarChild.jpg/200px-Stephen_Hawking.StarChild.jpg

A Beatle (England)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/The_Fabs.JPG/600px-The_Fabs.JPG

Adam Smith (England)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/AdamSmith.jpg/402px-AdamSmith.jpg

Louis Pasteur (France)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Louis_Pasteur.jpg
[Maybe have him hold a bottle of milk]

John Calvin (France)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/John_Calvin.jpg

Albert Einstein (Germany)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Einstein1921_by_F_Schmutzer_4.jpg/480px-Einstein1921_by_F_Schmutzer_4.jpg

Beethoven (Germany)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Beethoven.jpg/480px-Beethoven.jpg

Martin Luther (Germany)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Luther46c.jpg/558px-Luther46c.jpg

Ramakrishna (India)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Ramakrishna.jpg/200px-Ramakrishna.jpg

Lakshmi Mittal (India)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Lakshmimittal22082006.jpg/225px-Lakshmimittal22082006.jpg

Hiroshi Yamauchi (Japan)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2005/12/03/2002662820.jpg
[Make him hold a handheld or a console of some sort]

Kobo-Daishi (Japan)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Kukai2.jpg

Vincent Van Gogh (Netherlands)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/VanGogh-self-portrait-with_bandaged_ear.jpg/489px-VanGogh-self-portrait-with_bandaged_ear.jpg

Zoroaster (Persia)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Zartosht.jpg


Miguel de Cervantes (Spain)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Cervates_jauregui.jpg

Pablo Picasso (Spain)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Pablo_picasso_1.jpg

Henrik Ibsen (Vikings)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Ibsen-by-Bergen.jpg

Ingvar Kamprad (Vikings)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Ingvar_Kamprad.jpg

Desmond Tutu (Zulu/Southern Africa Civs)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Archbishop-Tutu-medium.jpg/400px-Archbishop-Tutu-medium.jpg

Good idea, this would be very cool. The main thing you need; a lot of art! Sorry, I can't help you there.

If you get the art, I can help you get them in the game. (Hell, we'll put the modern day ones in the World 2009 mod!)

Here are some units for Custom Civs in the Diplomacy mod:

James Joyce (Ireland, but Irish units can be used for Celts):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Revolutionary_Joyce.jpg/447px-Revolutionary_Joyce.jpg

Robert Boyle (Ireland)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Robert_Boyle_0001.jpg/473px-Robert_Boyle_0001.jpg

St. Columban (Ireland)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/SaintColumbanus.jpg

Bono (Ireland)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Bono_WEF_2008.jpg

James Watt (Scotland, but Scottish units can be used for Celts):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Watt_James_von_Breda.jpg

Robert Burns (Scotland)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Robert_burns.jpg/657px-Robert_burns.jpg

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Gran Colombia)
http://learnspanishdc.com/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/garcia_marquez2.jpg

Michaelangelo (Italy)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Michelango_Portrait_by_Volterra.jpg/439px-Michelango_Portrait_by_Volterra.jpg

Leonardo da Vinci (Italy)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Leonardo_self.jpg/220px-Leonardo_self.jpg

Galileo (Italy)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Galileo.arp.300pix.jpg

St. Thomas Aquinas (Italy)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/St-thomas-aquinas.jpg

Copernicus (Poland)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Nikolaus_Kopernikus.jpg/514px-Nikolaus_Kopernikus.jpg

Frederic Chopin (Poland)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Image-Frederic_Chopin_photo_downsampled.jpeg/428px-Image-Frederic_Chopin_photo_downsampled.jpeg

I got an idea... you know how the Great Spy sometimes looks like James Bond? Well, how about having different Bonds for different nations? Scotland can have the Sean Connery James Bond, England can have the Roger Moore James Bond, and Ireland can have the Pierce Brosnan James Bond.

As for America, they can have Jack Bauer.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b9/Jack_Bauer.jpg/200px-Jack_Bauer.jpg

Aristotle (Greece)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Aristoteles_Louvre.jpg/200px-Aristoteles_Louvre.jpg

Pytheas (Greece)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Pyth%C3%A9as.jpg/374px-Pyth%C3%A9as.jpg

Archimedes (Greece)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Gerhard_Thieme_Archimedes.jpg

Christopher Columbus (Spain)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Colomb.jpeg/225px-Colomb.jpeg

Fray Bartolomé de las Casas (Spain)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Bartolomedelascasas.jpg

Rumi (Persia)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Muhammed_Rumi.png

Vasco da Gama (Portugal)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Vasco_da_Gama.png/411px-Vasco_da_Gama.png

Virgil (Rome)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Publius_Vergilius_Maro1.jpg/450px-Publius_Vergilius_Maro1.jpg

St. Peter (Rome)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Pope-peter_pprubens.jpg/250px-Pope-peter_pprubens.jpg

Guglielmo Marconi (Rome/Italy)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Guglielmo_Marconi.jpg/225px-Guglielmo_Marconi.jpg

Niels Bohr (Vikings)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Niels_Bohr.jpg

Does anyone have some suggestions for Great People?

We were on the subejct of Great Spies once... I suggested James Bond for the British Isles, and Jack Bauer for America...

But what about France? I just got an idea. None other than Jacques Clouseau!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/28/Sellers_pinkpanther7.jpg/180px-Sellers_pinkpanther7.jpg