Joseph Rao Kony AKA the Chosen One of Holy Spirit, waged civil war in Uganda against the recognized government in 1987-1995. After his marginal successes he was offered the title of the King by his allies, recognized by some of the tribes making up Uganda.
Born in 1838, Prince Adriano II of the Hapsburgs was the eldest son of King Orlan of Spain. He became a renown military tactician and one of the key figures in Spain's Second Age of Expansions. After graduating from the officer school, he was posted in New Holland where he fought border skirmishes with the British. Afterwards he was reassigned to the Indian subcontinent where he fought proxy wars with English vassals. After a bout of brinksmenship and espansionism accorss South East Asia, Adriano II negotiated a joint attack on the Japanese Shogunate along with Russia's Tzar Gleb IV (both Spain and Russia feared that UK could claim Japan first and use it to disrupt Russia's and Spain's interests in China and rest of Asia). Adriano II spent the next 10 years as the Viceroy of Spain's Japanese Colony. He acquired the late emperor's katanas which he wore as part of his military uniform. Upon returning to Spain though a scandal broke out when it became apparent Adriano married a Japanese princess without permission. The marriage wasn't recognised and he was forced to renounce any claims to the Spanish throne. He married his cousin in the Spanish Netherlands and gained title of "King of Flanders" (though the Japanese princes was still his mistress)
Prince Nikolai Gagarin (1845-1916) was quite an eccentric person, which was attributed to his origins. The father of the great game hunter, a veteran of Napoleonic wars, successfully petitioned Pavel II to recognize his second late-in-life morganatic marriage to an actress from serf theatre, who had gypsy origins, and the son inherited the looks. When making a name for himself in India and in Africa (where he published memoirs that became the base for a lot of "great white hunter" pulp novels) he was nicknamed "Gypsy Gagarin" by his companions.
The Gate Keeper is the traditional title of the head of the Royal Sardinian Household Guard. The title comes from an incident in the 16th century, when the palace was attacked by a group loyal to a rival claimant to the throne. Despite repeated attempts to breach the gate to the Queen's Quadrant (the area of the palace where the royal family had retreated to), the enemy forces were unable to break through. When the short but brutal civil war was over, King Fernando bestowed a number of honours on soldiers who had fought gallantly in his defence. The head of his guards refused to accept an honour for himself, stating that it was, "honour enough to have kept the gate". In recognition of this, the king made 'The Gate Keeper' his official title.
Mindaugas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, is known for having united the pagan Baltic tribes against the onslaught of the Livonian and Teutonic orders. Ruler of the last powerful pagan polity of Europe, he was renowned for his cruelty. Builder of the Great Kremlin of Kernavè (then capital of the Duchy), he is said to have given the bright red colour of the Kremlin's brick by painting the walls with the blood of christian children and women captured during the numerous raids he made on Christian lands. Thoses allegations are nowadays regarded as - mostly - apocryphal, and the modern Kingdom of Grand Lithuania regard him as a national hero.
"Father of Machinery", the title commonly assigned to several greek authors, most prominent of them being Hero of Alexandria, whose works when put to large scales by Basileus Alexios III in 1105, are thought to kickstart the Byzantine industrial revolution. Some of the interest of Alexios III (who was also given the title by the courtiers) was in siege engines, and his attempt to make a steam-powered "greek fire" thrower, initially starting as an interesting experiment, ended up influencing entire science direction.
Burt Malek was a film star in the late 1920s, specialising in the short serials which were shown prior to most films as 'warm-ups' to the main features. Though his longest running role was as a down-on-his-luck bartender in San Francisco, the role for which he is most famous is his portrayal of 'Travis Earp, the Lone Star Ranger', an early space series in which he played a 'Star Ranger' who jetted around the solar system in his one-man spaceship, bringing criminals to justice. The story-lines were basic and very obviously lifted straight from many western shows from the same studio, with the 'Lone Star Ranger' replacing the western 'Sheriff' or 'Marshall', but it seems that it was this similarity which made them so popular with audiences.
