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The 14 most influential persons in world history according to a book by Michael Hart, New York. No ranking among the fourteen men is intended - the list is strictly alphabetical.
Find out the reasons why those fourteen men were selected. Click at a name in the left panel.
Such a list is bound to be controversial because it is impossible to objectively measure the exact influence of different personalities. But at the least it should stimulate a lively debate. Keep in mind that the criteria here is not most important but most influential, that is why an unkown person like T'sai lung is included.
The 30 most influential persons of the last 1,000 years according to a list compiled by the History Channel and aired by AE TV. All persons are depicted in the General Lifelines of HyperHistory except Pasteur and Ford who are shown in the Special Lifeline for 'Science'.
Such a list is bound to be controversial because it is impossible to objectively judge what is more important: the music of Mozart or the science of Newton ? The final ranking is really less important than the stimulation of a lively debate.
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30 Beethoven 29 Henry Ford S 28 J. S. Bach 27 Napoleon 26 Mozart 25 James Watt 24 St. Thomas 23 Lincoln 22 Genghis Khan 21 Washington |
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20 Adam Smith 19 Michelangelo 18 John Locke 17 Gandhi 16 Hitler 15 Jefferson 14 Edison 13 Pasteur S 12 Freud 11 Leonardo |
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10 Galileo 9 Copernicus 8 Einstein 7 Marx 6 Columbus 5 Shakespeare 4 Darwin 3 Luther 2 Newton 1 Gutenberg |
