Search for historical figures
curl -X POST https://api.orthogonal.com/v1/run \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer orth_live_••••' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"api": "api-ninjas",
"path": "/v1/historicalfigures",
"method": "GET",
"query": {
"name": ""
}
}'
$0.0010per call
API-wide: 96.3% success · 173 ms median · 30 days
About this endpoint
Searches notable people from history, ancient to modern, by name with partial matches supported, and returns their records. Requires name.
Query parameters
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