The Most Evil Men and Women in History

Attila The Hun

Attila The Hun Attila was Khan of the Huns. He is remembered as the epitome of cruelty and rapacity. He passed unhindered through Austria and Germany, across the Rhine into Gaul, plundering and devastating all in his path with a ferocity unparalleled in the records of barbarian invasions and compelling those he overcame to augment his mighty army.

Bad King John

Caligula

Francisco Pizarro

Adolf Hitler

Idi Amin

Ivan the Terrible

Joseph Stalin

Nero

Pol Pot

Responsible for the Killing Fields and Year Zero Pol Pot waged a gruesome war on his own population.

Grigori Rasputin

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was an uneducated peasant who gained a reputation as a faith healer. His strange behavior and incredible influence over the imperial family made him notorious and his death made him a legend.

Thomas de Torquemada

Vlad The Impaler

Bloody Mary Tudor

Countess Dracula

Ilse Koch

She was known as "The Witch of Buchenwald" by the inmates because of her alleged cruelty and lasciviousness toward prisoners. Survivor accounts of her actions describing her abuse of prisoners as extremely sadistic and cruel.