Recently read through Kate Elliott's Unconquerable Sun and Furious Heaven, the first two parts of a trilogy described as genderbent Alexander the Great in space. Excellent books, but I didn't have the knowledge of Alexander's life necessary to draw the historical parallels. Fortunately, the author has a few essays up on tor.com explaining it. Unfortunately, she doesn't spell out all the connections, so here's what I have, ones stated by the author bolded:
Eirene: Phillip II of Macedon (Alexander's father)
Joao: Olympias (Alexander's mother)
Persephone "Perse" Lee: Ptolemy I Soter (Alexander's companion, later pharaoh of Egypt, noted for keeping memoirs and sponsoring mathematics)
Hestia "Hetty" Hope: Hesphaistion (Alexander's companion and lover)
Alika Vata: Perdiccas (Alexander's companion and general)
James Samtarras: does not have a historical analog, since he apparently fulfills multiple roles
Makinde Bo: Lysimachus (Alexander's general)
Razin Nazir: don't know, she hasn't shown up much, presumably one of Alexander's other companions/generals
Jade Kim: Craterus (Alexander's general, often distrusted for his ambition)
Tiana: Thais (courtesan who later became Ptolemy's consort)
Solomon: Seleuccas (Alexander's general, later founded the Seleucid Empire)
Octavian: no historical analog
Zizou: no historical analog
Crane Marshal Zaofu Samtarras: Parmenion (cautious older general contrasted against Alexander)
Anas Samtarras: Philotas (Parmenion's oldest son)
Angharad Black: Cleitus the Black (soldier who saved Alexander's life)
Moira Lee: Attalos (friend of Phillip's who arranged his marriage to Attalos's yougner relative)
Marduk Lee: Antipater (Alexander's regent in macedonia while he was away on campaign)
Nona Lee: Antigonus? I'm hesitant about this, but Nona is the only character I can think of who fits the description of "one of Philip’s old guard who unlike most of the rest of the older generation retained his importance long into and past the Alexander era"
Dimitar: Demetrius (Antigonus's son, the names match which supports the Nona=Antigonus theory)
Soaring Shan: Cleopatra (Alexander's sister)
Metis: Phillip Arhiddaeus (Alexander's half brother, deemed mentally unfit to rule)
Beau Qiang: Callisthenes (Alexander's historian)
Baron Voy: amalgamation of Demosthenes and Aeschines (athenian orators)
Baragesi: Darius III (ruler of the persians)
Jejomar Os Cook: Sisygambis (Darius's mother, captured by Alexander)
Bartholomew: Barsine (persian noblewoman who knew Alexander as a child, and later married him)
Manu: Memnon (greek mercenary who fought for persia)
Apama: this one I struggled with, Kate Elliott says, "She has an historical counterpoint and in some ways I consider her my most important gender spin in the entire story." But I couldn't find any corresponding person she could be genderbent from. Then I realized that "gender spin" could be referring, not to making a historically male figure female, but to giving a female figure the agency and role in this narrative that she didn't get in the historical record. So my guess is Apama I, a persian noblewoman from a region whose leaders were later referred to as Sabao, whose wikipedia page basically just lists her father, husband, and children.
