Beside political figures, can anyone think of a person who has made a DIFFERENCE???

Question

Beside political figures, can anyone think of a person who has made a DIFFERENCE, someone who may have books on them, websites ect....

It can be a negative or positive difference in the world....thank you!

Answer 1

Jonas Salk, Bill Gates, Mother Teresa, The Mercury Astronauts, Andrew Carnigie, Madam Curie, Ghandi,Mandella ......and if you are refering to absolutley changing the world around them?Charles Manson, Elvis Presley, and Tesla

Answer 2

Mother Theresa

Rosa Parks

Martin Luther King, Jr.

John Lennon
Thomas Edison

Christopher Columbus

Leonardo da Vinci

Negative Impact-

Jack the Ripper

Vlad the Impaler

Answer 3

How about John Chavis? He was a free African American during the antebellum (before the Civil War) in North Carolina. He taught both white and African American children. His school was one of the best in the state of North Carolina at the time, which is a HUGE acheivement for an African American in a slave state like North Carolina. He was also a Presbyterian minister and preached to both whites and African Americans.

He may not have an impact today, but he played a large role of helping whites in the early 19th century North Carolina to realize that there were some African Americans who were smart, generous, and in other ways did not fit the stereotype that existed at the time.

Answer 4

One person who I think has made a difference for women, african americans, and victims of child abuse is Oprah Winfrey. For a someone who has so much, she gives that much more back and that's truly the way to making a positive difference.

Answer 5

Mother Teresa

Answer 6

What about Florence Nightingale? At the time she went into nursing it was not a career for nice young ladies -- in fact, it was something which retired prostitutes tended to go into. Florence Nightingale was a brilliant young woman who nevertheless felt called to take up nursing and she revolutionised the sanitation of military hospitals during the Crimean War, thus not only saving many lives, but setting standards for nursing which are now applied world wide. http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Nightingale.html

There was also Joseph Lister, who discovered antiseptic and saved countless lives as a result, both during his lifetime and after it. http://www.nahste.ac.uk/isaar/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P0389.html