5 Evil Tyrants You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of

The lesser-known villains who carried out despicable acts of evil

A portrait of Nader Shah by Mohammad Reza Hendi, c. 1740 (Wikimedia Commons)

Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Chairman Mao are top of the list when it comes to evil tyrants. Even if you’ve never studied the past in any detail, you probably know something about these three men and the atrocities they committed.