Hammurabi

Hammurabi was the sixth king of the First Dynasty of Babylon, in Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now Iraq. He came to the throne around 1792 BC, when Babylon was one small kingdom among several rivals. Over about forty years he built canals, repaired temples, and through war and alliance brought most of southern and central Mesopotamia under his rule. Late in his reign he had nearly three hundred laws carved on a tall black stone pillar, topped by a picture of the king standing before the sun god Shamash, the god of justice. The laws cover trade, wages, property, marriage, farming and crime, and they often set punishments according to the rank of the people involved, including the rule of an eye for an eye. Copies were set up in cities so people could know the law. The best surviving pillar was carried off as war booty to Susa in ancient times, found there by French archaeologists in 1901, and is now in the Louvre in Paris.

Faith: Faith not well documented beyond the Babylonian religion of his time; his law code presents him as chosen by the gods. Source: Wikipedia