Look, beards!
15th Century BC—Queen Hatshepsut
5th Century BC—Pheidas
10th Century AD—Otto the Great
12th-13th Century—Genghis Khan
16th Century—John Knox
Early 18th Century—Blackbeard
Early 19th Century—James "Grizzly" Adams
1856—Uncle Sam
1860—Abraham Lincoln
Charles Darwin
Leo Tolstoy
Because you need to stay warm in the cold Russian winters and look good.
1943—Yosemite Sam
1955—Wooly Willy
1957—Ernest Hemingway
Late 1970s—Dusty Hill and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top
1986—Brian Blessed as King Yrcanos in Doctor Who
2000—Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland in Cast Away
2009—Zach Galifianakis as Alan Garner in The Hangover
October 2011—Henry Cavill
March 2013—Tormund Giantsbade from Game of Thrones
Bonus points for ginger offset by snow.