Lists of ancient kings
Lists of ancient kings are organized by region and peoples, and include kings recorded in ancient history and in mythology.
Southern Europe
Greeks
Historical
- Lists of rulers of Greece
- List of ancient Greek tyrants
- List of kings of Argos
- Kings of Sparta
- Kings of Macedon
- Attalid dynasty
- List of the kings of Epirus
Mythological
- List of kings of Argos
- List of kings of Athens
Italy
- List of Etruscan rulers
Romans
- List of Roman kings
- List of Roman emperors
- List of Byzantine emperors
- Roman Emperors during the Fall of the Western Empire
- List of Roman client rulers
Balkans
- List of rulers of Illyria
- List of rulers of Thrace and Dacia
- List of Paionian kings
Northern Europe
- List of rulers of the Huns
Celts
Britain
- King of the Britons
- List of kings of the Picts
- List of kings of Dumnonia
- List of rulers of Wales
- List of monarchs of Powys
Ireland
- List of High Kings of Ireland
- Kings of Ailech
- List of kings of Connacht
- Kings of Uí Maine
- List of kings of Ulster
Germanics
- List of Frankish kings
- Kings of the Burgundians
- List of kings of the Lombards
- Kings of the Angles
- List of Anglo-Saxon monarchs and kingdoms
Northern Africa
- Magonids
- List of kings of Numidia
- List of kings of Mauretania
- List of kings of Cyrene
- List of kings of Axum
Egypt
- List of pharaohs
- Abydos King List
- Karnak king list
- Turin King List
Nubia
- List of monarchs of Kerma
- List of monarchs of Kush
Near East
- List of rulers of Saba and Himyar
Mesopotamia
- List of Mesopotamian dynasties
- Sumerian King List
- List of kings of Akkad
- List of kings of Babylon
- First Babylonian dynasty
- List of Assyrian kings
- List of rulers of Mitanni
Syria and Canaan
- List of Canaanite rulers
- List of kings of Ebla
- Kings of Ugarit
- List of rulers of Aleppo
- List of kings of Tyre
- Aramean kings
- List of Syrian monarchs
- List of rulers of Damascus
- List of Nabataean kings
- List of Palmyrene monarchs
Jews
- Kings of Israel and Judah
- Kings of Judah
- Kings of Hasmonean Judea
Anatolia
- List of Hittite kings
- List of Neo-Hittite kings
- List of kings of Urartu
- List of Kings of Lydia
- List of rulers of Cappadocia
- List of rulers of Paphlagonia
- List of rulers of Commagene
- List of Kings of Pontus
- List of rulers of Bithynia
- List of kings of Galatia
Caucasus
- List of Armenian kings
- List of Georgian monarchs
Iran
- List of rulers of Pre-Achaemenid kingdoms of Iran
- List of rulers of Elam
- List of kings of Persia
- List of Seleucid rulers
- List of Parthian kings
- List of rulers of Parthian sub-kingdoms
- Kings of Characene
- List of shahanshahs of the Sasanian Empire
Far East
- List of Emperors of Japan
- List of monarchs of Vietnam
- Monarchy of Cambodia
- List of early and legendary monarchs of Burma
India
- List of Indian monarchs
- List of Mauryan rulers
- List of Tamil monarchs
- Legendary early Chola kings
- List of rulers of Odisha
- List of rulers of Malwa
- List of Manipuri kings
- List of Sinhalese queens
China
- List of Chinese monarchs
- List of rulers of China
- List of Chinese leaders
- Kings of the Han dynasty
- List of emperors of the Han dynasty
Korea
- List of monarchs of Korea
- List of legendary monarchs of Korea
- List of Mahan confederacy monarchs
- List of Gija Joseon monarchs
- List of Wiman Joseon monarchs
Americas
Maya
- Rulers of Calakmul
- Lords of Caracol
- List of rulers of Copan
- List of the rulers of Dos Pilas
- Rulers of Dos Pilas
- Rulers of Motul de San José
- Rulers of Palenque
- List of rulers of Piedras Negras
- Rulers of Quiriguá
- Rulers of Tikal
- Yaxchilan rulers