Abraham Lincoln

Jesus

All the disciples and Paul form the Bible

Genghis Khan

You might enjoy looking at Mystery Scoop posts on YouTube. They take paintings and sculpture of historical figures and transform them into more realistic and sometimes modernized people.

Alexander the Great

Hadrian (I've been to his villa)

Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and Teddy Roosevelt

Queen Victoria

Available historical and biographical accounts for many significant figures from the past, as well as existing portraits (as for monarchs), can present a very detailed account

As far as fictional individuals some have cited, well, they're fictional. Imagine them to be as you wish.

Jack Kerouac.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

Mmmm, Elmer, I don't see any fictional persons mentioned. Could you be more specific?

I'd kind of like to see Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife to two kings and mother of two more.

I don't see any fictional individuals mentioned either. Elmer, if you're referring to Jesus, Mary and Joseph ; you are free to consider them fictional, but that does not make it so.

Honestly, I can't think of a historical figure I would like to see. I would love to just find a photograph of my paternal grandfather. All I have is a physical description of him. I would like to see photos of many of my ancestors, and I would love to meet my paternal great-grandfather. I have a photo of him and I feel a strong connection to him that I haven't felt with any other ancestor..

re: fictional characters. Helen of Troy and the Queen of Sheba are not in the archeological record. But they both figure prominently in stories from olden times. There are some indications (but no proof) that both characters were inspired by actual historical persons. I'd like to know what those real women looked and lived like, even if what we know of them today is mostly legend.

For those of you who are truly interested in history, and in particular what has been found concerning origin of religions, I highly recommend the free ten episode podcast series by Stanford University professor Thomas Sheehan that I have linked below. Sheehan, who I believe began his young adult life going in the direction of the Catholic priesthood but redirected to a secular existence, is a devout Catholic. But he is also an academic - a professor of religious studies and philosophy - who spent many years investigating and exploring what rigorous academic research conducted during the past 200 years has found concerning the so-called "Biblical period". What has been found when taking supportable and understandable facts and then trying to connect the dots. Some dots connect as expected, some dots connect unexpectedly to other things, and some dots don't connect to anything at all. The work in this field is with an effort to be objective, following accepted practices of historical research. And how those findings do and don't correspond to myths and fables that have been passed along over the centuries. The provenance of some of the findings is detailed enough to be able to find places and times for sources now known to be phony, not what they proport to be.

Sheehan is an entertaining speaker who addresses with respect, goodwill and good humor topics that are initially uncomfortable and touchy for some. For those with religious practices, I would suggest that your time is better spent listening to Dr Sheehan, an intelligent and thoughtful man with no ax to grind and no ulterior motives behind his words, than listening to a few weeks of sermons of the many preachers who see their mission as simply fulfilling their congregation's weekly quota of often fictional propaganda.

I was first told of this podcast series by a friend over 10 years ago and since then I have listened to it start to finish four times. Yes four times, I find it that interesting. Each episode is a bit over an hour so it's perfect to listen to when you have intervals of one hour available, whether driving or working in the yard or doing something else alone during which you can listen. .

You can listen from this website, or you can go to the iTunes store using an iTunes program or app (both are free) and download it to your phone or other player.

Historical Jesus

I would go in a different direction. I would like to see some of my ancestors, such as my great-grandparents or great-great-grandparents (or further back perhaps) at different stages of their lives, especially as younger adults. I don’t have photos of most of them except as older adults.

Animals, dinosaurs etc.

I would also like to see, meet, talk to my ancestors - first, those who emigrated to the USA, then farther back. I want to hear want their lives were like and what they thought. Also my great-grandfather who disappeared on a trip (according to my grandmother) in about 1918 and left no traces of any siblings or what became of him. I assume he died in the epidemic but where?

I do wonder in what guise people who wish to meet their ancestors wish to meet them in. As a modern person considering them your equal or as you would have been when they were alive. Women especially would have problems with doing so either way. This also goes with meeting historical figures.

I personally would not want to MEET any of my choices. I just want to see what they looked like in person.

I would like to meet Julia Child, Irma S Rombauer, Craig Claiborne, Anthony Bourdain, Molly Ivins, Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Hartman, John Lennon and Eleanor Roosevelt.

seagrass

Like Outside, I would like to see and talk to my ancestors.

It's magic -- seeing, talking, meeting -- it'd all work out.

Maybe for all the good things I’d have done, I‘ll have an encounter with Jesus and Gautama Buddha to present my list of whats & why’s.