3000-2901 BC (30th Century BC)

Menes
 

... - 2890 BC
First king of Egypt.

2700-2601 BC (27th Century BC)

Gilgamesh
 

Around 2700/2600 BC
The Epic.

2400-2301 BC (24th Century BC)

Sargon of Akkad
 

2354 - 2279 BC
Built one of the first empires in history.

1900-1801 BC (19th Century BC)

Hammurabi
 

... - 1750 BC
Babylonian Law Code.

1400-1301 BC (14th Century BC)

Nefertiti
 

14th Century BC
Famous Egyptian Queen.

Tutankhamen
 

14th Century BC
Egyptian king.

Moses
 

14th Century BC
The prophet.

800-701 BC (8th Century BC)

Homer
 

Before 700 BC
Ilias and Odyssey.

Sargon II
 

... - 705 BC
Assyria's king.

700-601 BC (7th Century BC)

Assurbanipal
 

7th Century BC
King of Assyria.

Hesiod
 

Around 700 BC
Greek poet.

Zoroaster
 

628-551 BC
Zoroastrianism.

Laozi
 

604-471 BC
Daoism.

600-501 BC (6th Century BC)

Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)
 

Somewhere between 6th and 4th century BC
Enlightened.

Aesop
 

Mid 6th Century BC
(if at all)

Cyrus II the Great
 

590 - 529 BC
Founder of the empire that ruled until Alexander cleaned up.

Pythagoras of Samos
 

Around 580 - 500 BC
Good with numbers.

Cambyses II
 

... - 522 BC
Son of Cyrus the Great.

Servius Tullius
 

578 - 535 BC
Ancient Rome's sixth king.

Simonides of Ceos
 

556 - 468 BC
Greek poetry.

Miltiades the Younger
 

554 - 489 BC
Hero of Marathon.

Confucius
 

551-479 BC
Incredibly wise.

Hippias
 

550 - 490 BC
Athens.

Darius I the Great
 

550 - 486 BC
Persian king.

Aeschylus
 

525 - 455 BC
The King of Tragedy.

Themistocles
 

524 - 460 BC
Greece's Churchill.

Xerxes I
 

519 - 465 BC
Persian king.

Mardonius
 

... - 479 BC
Persian general.

Cimon the Younger
 

510 - 451 BC
General from Athens.