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The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
Intersting list here. Moohammed is put at #1 for founding Zorastrainistic ISLAM. NEWTON IS PUT AT #2 for theory of universal gravitation and motional laws (note he was not the first to discover gravitity by any means)! http://www.adherents.com/adh_influ.html 1 Muhammad Islam Prophet of Islam; conqueror of Arabia; Hart recognized that ranking Muhammad first might be controversial, but felt that, from a secular historian's perspective, this was the correct choice because Muhammad is the only man to have been both a founder of a major world religion and a major military/political leader. 2 Isaac Newton Anglican (rejected Trinitarianism; believed in the Arianism of the Primitive Church) * physicist; theory of universal gravitation; laws of motion 3 Jesus Christ * Judaism; Christianity founder of Christianity 4 Buddha Hinduism; Buddhism founder of Buddhism 5 Confucius Confucianism founder of Confucianism 6 St. Paul Judaism; Christianity proselytizer of Christianity 7 Ts'ai Lun Chinese traditional religion inventor of paper 8 Johann Gutenberg Catholic developed movable type; printed Bibles 9 Christopher Columbus Catholic explorer; led Europe to Americas 10 Albert Einstein Jewish * physicist; relativity; Einsteinian physics 11 Louis Pasteur Catholic scientist; pasteurization 12 Galileo Galilei Catholic * astronomer; accurately described heliocentric solar system 13 Aristotle Platonism / Greek philosophy influential Greek philosopher 14 Euclid Platonism / Greek philosophy mathematician; Euclidian geometry 15 Moses Judaism major prophet of Judaism 16 Charles Darwin Anglican (nominal) biologist; described Darwinian evolution, which had theological impact on many religions 17 Shih Huang Ti Chinese traditional religion Chinese emperor 18 Augustus Caesar Roman state paganism ruler 19 Nicolaus Copernicus Catholic (priest) astronomer; taught heliocentricity 20 Antoine Laurent Lavoisier Catholic * father of modern chemistry; philosopher; economist 21 Constantine the Great Roman state paganism; Christianity Roman emperor who made Christianity the state religion 22 James Watt nonreligious * developed steam engine 23 Michael Faraday Sandemanian physicist; chemist; discovery of magneto-electricity 24 James Clerk Maxwell Presbyterian; Anglican; Baptist * physicist; electromagnetic spectrum 25 Martin Luther Catholic; Lutheran founder of Protestantism and Lutheranism 26 George Washington Episcopalian; Deist first president of United States 27 Karl Marx Jewish; Christian; Atheist; Marxism/Communism * founder of Communism 28 Orville and Wilbur Wright Protestant (nominal?) * inventors of airplane 29 Genghis Khan Mongolian shamanism Mongol conqueror 30 Adam Smith Liberal Protestant economist; expositor of capitalism; religious philosopher 31 Edward de Vere Christianity * literature; also wrote 6 volumes about philosophy and religion; William Shakespeare? 32 John Dalton Quaker chemist; physicist; atomic theory; law of partial pressures (Dalton's law) 33 Alexander the Great Greek state paganism conqueror 34 Napoleon Bonaparte Catholic (nominal) * French conqueror 35 Thomas Edison Congregationalist; agnostic * inventor of light bulb, phonograph, etc. 36 Antony van Leeuwenhoek Calvinist * microscopes; studied microscopic life 37 William T.G. Morton ?? pioneer in anesthesiology 38 Guglielmo Marconi Catholic and Anglican * inventor of radio 39 Adolf Hitler Catholic; Nazism conqueror; led Axis Powers in WWII 40 Plato Platonism / Greek philosophy founder of Platonism 41 Oliver Cromwell Puritan (Protestant) British political and military leader 42 Alexander Graham Bell Unitarian-Universalist inventor of telephone 43 Alexander Fleming Catholic penicillin; advances in bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy 44 John Locke raised Puritan (Anglican); Liberal Christian philosopher and liberal theologian 45 Ludwig van Beethoven Catholic composer 46 Werner Heisenberg * discovered the principle of uncertainty 47 Louis Daguerre ?? an inventor/pioneer of photography 48 Simon Bolivar Catholic (nominal); Atheist * National hero of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia 49 Rene Descartes * Catholic Rationalist philosopher and mathematician 50 Michelangelo Catholic painter; sculptor 51 Pope Urban II Catholic called for First Crusade 52 'Umar ibn al-Khattab Islam Second Caliph; expanded Muslim empire 53 Asoka Buddhism king of India who converted to and spread Buddhism 54 St. Augustine Christianity Early Christian theologian 55 William Harvey Anglican (nominal) * discovered the circulation of the blood 56 Ernest Rutherford ?? physicist; pioneer of subatomic physics 57 John Calvin Protestant; Calvinism Protestant reformer; founder of Calvinism 58 Gregor Mendel Catholic (monk) Mendelian genetics 59 Max Planck Protestant * physicist; thermodynamics 60 Joseph Lister Quaker principal discoverer of antiseptics which greatly reduced surgical mortality 61 Nikolaus August Otto ?? built first four-stroke internal combustion engine 62 Francisco Pizarro Catholic Spanish conqueror in South America; defeated Incas 63 Hernando Cortes Catholic conquered Mexico for Spain 64 Thomas Jefferson Episcopalian; Deist; Unitarian * 3rd president of United States 65 Queen Isabella I Catholic Spanish ruler 66 Joseph Stalin Russian Orthodox; Atheist; Marxism revolutionary and ruler of USSR 67 Julius Caesar Roman state paganism Roman emperor 68 William the Conqueror Catholic laid foundation of modern England 69 Sigmund Freud Jewish (non-practicing); Atheist * Freudian psychology/psychoanalysis founder of Freudian school of psychology; psychoanalysis 70 Edward Jenner Christianity * discoverer of the vaccination for smallpox 71 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen ?? discovered X-rays 72 Johann Sebastian Bach Lutheran; Catholic composer 73 Lao Tzu Taoism founder of Taoism 74 Voltaire raised in Jansenism; later Deist * writer and philosopher; wrote Candide 75 Johannes Kepler Lutheran * astronomer; planetary motions 76 Enrico Fermi Catholic * initiated the atomic age; father of atom bomb 77 Leonhard Euler Calvinist physicist; mathematician; differential and integral calculus and algebra 78 Jean-Jacques Rousseau born Protestant; converted as a teen to Catholic; later Deist French deistic philosopher and author 79 Nicoli Machiavelli Catholic wrote The Prince (influential political treatise) 80 Thomas Malthus Anglican (cleric) economist; wrote Essay on the Principle of Population 81 John F. Kennedy Catholic president of United States 82 Gregory Pincus Jewish * endocrinologist; developed birth-control pill 83 Mani Manicheanism founder of Manicheanism, once a world religion which rivaled Christianity in strength 84 Lenin Jewish (1/4); Russian Orthodox; Atheist; Marxism/Communism Russian ruler 85 Sui Wen Ti Chinese traditional religion unified China 86 Vasco da Gama Catholic navigator; discovered route from Europe to India around Cape Hood 87 Cyrus the Great Zoroastrianism founder of Persian empire 88 Peter the Great Russian Orthodox forged Russia into a great European nation 89 Mao Zedong Atheist; Communism; Maoism founder of Maoism, Chinese form of Communism 90 Francis Bacon Anglican * philosopher; delineated inductive scientific method |
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09-27-2001, 02:13 PM
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Re: The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
ADD to the list or create your own list... I'll put a concocted one: 1. Sri Krsna 1. Sri Adi Sankar Acarya. 2. Jeev Goswami. 3. Jesus Christ (non-existent) 4. Darwin 5. Clinton 6. etc... |
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09-27-2001, 02:15 PM
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Re: The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
Einstein would be in bottom fifty. His influence is completely taken out LI. Thank relative time for that. |
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09-27-2001, 02:16 PM
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Re: The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
Interesting study list for scholars. |
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09-27-2001, 02:17 PM
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Re: The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
Leonhard Euler Calvinist physicist; mathematician; differential and integral calculus and algebra where does this guy get 'his history? what a l00ser. |
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09-30-2001, 06:06 PM
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Re: The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
John the Baptist, RAmanujAcarya, Tesla, Lord Chaitanya MahAprabhu, MadhvAcarya, Noah, Henry Ford, Ben Franklin, Babe Ruth, Louis Armstrong, Beethoven, Mozart, Gandhi, St. Francis of Assisi, Charley Chaplin, Rockefeller, Carnegie. If it wasn't for Noah, we'd all be aquatics. Eternally. Only 2 choices then: fresh or salty.
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10-01-2001, 12:44 PM
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Re: The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
This list reminds me of a book out in the late '70. It described the 100 most famous (most widely known) personalities in the world. Mohammed came in at #1, Mickey Mouse at #2.
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10-01-2001, 02:01 PM
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Re: The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
interesting the list from 00's was accurate. |
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10-03-2001, 12:51 AM
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Re: The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
I was just reviewing this list again. What is interesting is almost all the members it seemed to me were of European descent (and Christian usually). Is the list culturally biased? Certainly every so often you have a Mohammed or Buddha, but that is rather rare. I'm thinking it probably isn't (biased). Western society for all of its problems has also contributed alot positively to the world. Though this list isn't about positive contributions, just influencing the world  Gauracandra |
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10-03-2001, 02:52 AM
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Re: The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
Mother YazodA is most famous of all, as her name suggests.
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{"We r prepared for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur" "We recognize there r hurdles, and we shall achieve those hurdles" "It will take time to restore order & chaos"} GWB "adanta-gobhir viSatam tamizram" PrahlAD Never trust a woman or a politician" ChAnakya PaNDit No Meat No Fish No Eggs So Pure No Need To Kill To Live So Kind - TKd |
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10-03-2001, 04:02 AM
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Re: The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
"I was just reviewing this list again. What is interesting is almost all the members it seemed to me were of European descent (and Christian usually)." Yes, Mohammed a fake personality that nvr existed is put as #1 as a distraction! [This message has been edited by Caitanyachandra (edited 10-03-2001).] |
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10-03-2001, 04:04 AM
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Re: The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
Issaiah Newton is put at #2 for things he nvr invented but stole from Arabic<-Indian researchers. Jesus is put at #3 for inventing the entire Judeo-Christian government technocritical system. |
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10-03-2001, 05:03 AM
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Re: The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
All of us will be #1, when we will have the Knowledge. |
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Re: The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
Bogus list. No Malcolm X? No Didymous Thomas? No St. Augustine? No Jeanne d'Arc? Islam gets too much recognition. Muhammed is properly listed, but Suliman is just as influential, and would have conquered the entire world if not for the black plague. What about the Huns? What about Chief Joseph? What about Kamehameha the Great? Bogus list. mad mahax
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Re: The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
His vision of "A PC on every desk, in every home" Not his. A Indian's. Joan of Arc for France. Ravana, Hiranyaksipu, Sisupala, Kamsa, Jarasandha of History referrign to modern history. No Malcolm X? ...Self answering for Madmax |
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10-03-2001, 08:44 PM
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