Who was the most influential person of the 20th century?

Answer 1

That all depends on what type of influence you're looking at. Since someone can be most influential while being one of the worst influences, then I'd have to go for Adolph Hitler.
Not only did he force the world to realize that their "Great War to end all Wars" had not been handled in a way to really end all wars, but he did the following:
- he brought the word holocaust to everyone's living room
- he is viewed as the personification of evil in modern political leadership
- he made the Americans work harder on atomic weapons than otherwise would have been possible
- he advanced rocket technology by pushing his weapons industry
- rocket technology allowed us to advance to the space age and hence, the computer age or age of information
- he is now the standard for all evil leaders to meet
- the world has tried to avoid allowing any leader to attain that degree of power and villiany at the same time ever since
- his war, WWII, allowed the Soviet Union to gain their total influence over the countries that became the Warsaw Pact, forcing the US and allies into the cold war

there is so much more, and I hate him for it.

Answer 2

The morally good most influential person of the 20th Century is Nelson Mandela. The most evil influential person of the 20th Century was Adolf Hitler.

Answer 3

The works and influences of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Lenin, Mussolini were all washed away before the end of the century. I think one has to pick someone who's legacy has remained and endured and whose contributions to Man will continue into the future, not just the meanest most murderous bastards who killed a lot of people.........

I would have to say:

1. Mohandas K. Gandhi
2. Albert Einstein
3. John Paul II
4. Margaret Thatcher

would be the four that have had the longest lasting effects upon human society during the 20th century........

Answer 4

If you go to this link it discusses Times Top 100 ( people like: Mother Theresa, Bono, Bill Gates, the Pope, Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr, etc) You can go through the list and pick out who you beleve is the best.

http://www.time.com/time/2006/time100/


Here's a few choices for you also:


1.Albert Einstein 2 Pablo Picasso 3 Bob Dylan 4 Adolph Hitler
5 Joseph Stalin 6 Franklin Rooseveldt 7 Andy Warhol
8 Mikhael Gorbachaev 9 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 10 V.S. Naipaul
11 Bell Engineers -- the transistor: Walter Houser Brattain, John Bardeen, and William Bradford Shockley.
12 Elvis Presley 13 John Lennon 14 Groucho Marx
15 Charlie Chaplin 16 Mary Pickford 17 Jean Paul Sartre
18 Albert Camus 19 Mohandas Gandhi 20 Robert Frost
21 Herman Hesse 22 Winston Churchill 23 Mao Zedung
24 William Randolph Hearst 25 Charles Lindbergh
26 Orville & Wilbur Wright 27 Stephen Hawking 28 Vladmir Lenin
29 Pope John XXIII 30 Martin Luther King Jr. 31 J. Edgar Hoover 32 Sigmund Freud 33 Thomas Edison 34 Henry Ford
35 George C. Marshall 36 Guglielmo Marconi 37 Edward Teller
38 Niels Bohr 39 Ingmar Bergman 40 Akira Kurosawa
41 John Ford 42 Sen. Joseph McCarthy 43 Richard Nixon
44 Margaret Thatcher 45 Betty Frieden 46 Simone de Beauvoir
47 Graham Greene 48 Frederico Lorca
49 Magaret Sanger (Planned Parenthood)
50 John Kenneth Galbraith 51 Marshall McLuhan
52 Ernest Hemingway 53 D.W. Griffith 54 T.S. Eliot
55 George Bernard Shaw 56 Gloria Steinem 57 George Orwell
58 Aldous Huxley 59 Benjamin Spock
60 Tim Berners-Lee (creator of World Wide Web)
61 Francis Crick and James Watson: 1953 discovery of the double helix 62 Walt Disney 63 Andre Gide 64 Andre Malraux
65 Arturs Rimbaud 66 Frank Lloyd Wright 67 Leni Riefenstal
68 Arnold Toynbee 69 Claude Monet 70 Admiral Doenitz
71 Reinhold Niebuhr
72 Frederick Winslow Taylor (efficiency expert)
73 Werner Von Braun 74 Henry Kissinger 75 Karl Popper
76 John Dewey 77 Frederico Fellini 78 Yuri Gugarin
79 Jackie Robinson 80 Salvador Dali 81 Charles De Gaulle
82 Paul McCartney 83 Bill Gates 84 Paul Joseph Goebbels
85 Franz Kafka 86 Igor Stravinsky 87 Rachel Carson
88 Jacques Cousteau 89 Isaac Assimov 90 Robert Capa
91 Woody Guthrie 92 Ray Kroc 93 Robert Crumb (artist)
94 Leonard Cohen 95 John Steinbeck 96 Elie Wiesel
97 James Joyce 98 Oscar Wilde
99 John Humphries (declaration of human rights) 100 Zhou Enlai
101 Jack Kerouac 102 Allen Ginsberg 103 Duke Ellington
104 Billie Holiday 105 Robert Johnson (blues guitarist)
106 Miles Davis 107 Louis Armstrong 108 Marlon Brando
109 Nietzsche, Friedrich
110 Nikola Tesla real inventor of electricity, radio.
111 Gary Kildall, real inventor of DOS (CP/m

Answer 5

I hate to say this but Adolf Hitler. The second world war had the most dramatic impact on the 20th century. And if not for him it never would have started. He reshaped Europe and the world in a horrifying way. And is responsible for the cold war.

Answer 6

Martin Luther King

Answer 7

Time Magazine chose Einstein as man of the century. I would have chosen Lenin or Stalin. They were despicable, but their influence on world events was undeniable. Soviet Union, China, cold war, communism in Southeast Asia, North Korea, Cuba, Etc.....

Answer 8

i could would desire to assert that the areas of return and forth, marketplace and verbal substitute have had the main impact. Ford Wright Curtis Gates In politics it is going backward and forward lots and relies upon on which united states you reside in. i could would desire to assert that interior the tip bill Gates has had the main important impact on the international.

Answer 9

Ghandi? Hitler? Stalin? Martin Luther King jr. All good choices.

Answer 10

Abraham Lincoln. The turning point of the United States and was changed forever for the better. The better was hard coming and a large price was paid plus he gave his life for it.