The 100: A
Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
100 most
influential people in the world
This is a
list chosen by Michael H. Hast, from the book ‘100 most influential people in
the world‘. He chose people on a ranking of who had done the most to influence
the world.
Muhammad
(570 – 632 AD) Prophet of Islam.
Isaac Newton
(1642 – 1727) – British mathematician and scientist.
Jesus Christ
(c.5BC – 30 AD) Spiritual teacher and central figure of Christianity.
Buddha (c
563 – 483 BC) Spiritual Teacher and founder of Buddhism.
Confucius
(551 – 479 BC) – Chinese philosopher.
St. Paul (5
– AD 67) – Christian missionary and one of main writers of New Testament.
Ts’ai Lun
(AD 50 – 121) Inventor of paper.
Johann
Gutenberg (1395 – 1468) – Inventor of printing press.
Christopher
Columbus (1451 – 1506) – Italian explorer landed in America.
Albert
Einstein (1879 – 1955) German/ US scientist discovered Theory of Relativity.
Louis
Pasteur (1822 – 1895) French biologist. Developed cure for rabies and other
infectious diseases.
Galileo
Galilei (1564 – 1642) Italian scientist – confirmed heliocentric view of
universe.
Aristotle
(384 BC – 322 BC) – Greek philosopher and polymath
Euclid (c.
325 – 265 BC) – Greek mathematician
Moses (c
1391 – 1271 BC) A key figure of Jewish / Christian history gave 10 Commandments
of Old Testament
Charles
Darwin (1809 -– 1882) –Scientist who proposed and
popularised theory of evolution.
Shih Huang
Ti (259 – 210 BC) – King of the state of Qin who conquered and united different
regions of China in 221 BC.
Augustus
Caesar (63 BC – AD 14) – First Emperor of Rome
Nicolaus
Copernicus (1473-1543) Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who believed
Sun was centre of Universe – rather than earth.
Antoine
Laurent Lavoisier (1743 – 1794) French chemist and biologist who had leading
impact on the chemical revolution.
Constantine
the Great (272 AD – 337) Roman Emperor who accepted Christian religion.
James Watt
(1736 – 1819) Scottish engineer. Watt improved the Newcome steam engine
creating an efficient steam engine
Michael
Faraday (1791 – 1867) – English scientist who contributed in fields of
electromagnetism and electro-chemistry.
James Clerk
Maxwell (1831-1879) Scottish physicist. Maxwell made a significant contribution
to understanding electro-magnetism
Martin
Luther (1483-1546) Sought to reform the Roman Catholic Church – starting the
Protestant Reformation.
George
Washington (1732 – 1799) – Leader of US forces during American Revolution and
1st President of US.
Karl Marx
(1818 -– 1883) – German Communist
philosopher.
Orville and
Wilbur Wright Orville (1871 – 1948) – Wilbur (1867 – 1912) – Created and flew
first aeroplane.
Genghis Kahn
(1162 – 1227) – Military and political leader of the Mongols.
Adam Smith
(1723-1790) Scottish social philosopher and pioneer of classical economics.
William
Shakespeare (1564- 1616) English poet and playwright.
John Dalton
(1766 – 1844) English chemist and physicist. Made contributions to atomic
theory.
Alexander
the Great (356 -– 323 BC) –
King of Macedonia and military leader.
Napoleon
Bonaparte (1769 –- 1821) –
French military and political leader.
Thomas
Edison (1847 – 1931) – Inventor and businessman helped introduce electricity
and electric light bulbs.
Antony van
Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) Dutch chemist – founder of micro-biology.
William T.G.
Morton (1819 – 1868) American dentist who pioneered used of anesthetic.
Guglielmo
Marconi (1874 – 1937) Italian engineer who helped develop radio transmission.
Adolf Hitler
(1889 – 1945) – Dictator of Nazi Germany.
Plato (424 –- 348 BC) – Greek philosopher.
Oliver
Cromwell (1599-1658) – Leader of Parliamentarians in English civil war.
Alexander
Graham Bell (1847 – 1922) – Scottish inventor of telephone.
Alexander
Fleming (1881-1955) Scottish biologist who discovered penicillin.
John Locke
(1632-1704) English political philosopher. Locke promoted theory of liberal
democracy and a social contract.
Ludwig van
Beethoven (1770 – 1827) German composer of the classical and romantic period.
Werner
Heisenberg (1901–1976) German theoretical physicist – one of pioneers of
Quantum mechanics
Louis
Daguerre (1787–1851) French artist and photographer, who is credited with the
invention of the camera.
Simon
Bolivar (1783 – 1830) – Liberator of Latin American countries
Rene Descartes
(1596 – 1650) French philosopher and mathematician. “I think, therefore I am
Michelangelo
(1475 – 1564) Renaissance sculptor, painter and architect
Pope Urban
II
‘Umar ibn
al-Khattab
Asoka
St.
Augustine
William
Harvey
Ernest
Rutherford
John Calvin
Gregor
Mendel
Max Planck
Joseph
Lister
Nikolaus
August Otto
Francisco
Pizarro
Hernando
Cortes
Thomas
Jefferson (1743 – 1826) 3rd President of US. Principle author of the US
Declaration of Independence.
Queen
Isabella I
Joseph
Stalin
Julius
Caesar
William the
Conqueror
Sigmund
Freud
Edward
Jenner
Wilhelm
Conrad Roentgen
Johann
Sebastian Bach
Lao Tzu
Voltaire
Johannes
Kepler
Enrico Fermi
Leonhard
Euler
Jean-Jacques
Rousseau (1712-1778) – French philosopher, author of Social Contract
Nicoli
Machiavelli
Thomas
Malthus
John F.
Kennedy
Gregory
Pincus
Mani
Lenin
Sui Wen Ti
Vasco da
Gama
Cyrus the
Great
Peter the
Great
Mao Zedong
Francis
Bacon
Henry Ford
Mencius
Zoroaster
Queen
Elizabeth I
Mikhail
Gorbachev
Menes
Charlemagne
Homer
Justinian I
Mahavira
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