Good or Bad, Who is the most influential person in HIstory?

Question

Example: Hitler, Stalin, Louis XIV, Bismarck

Rules:
Can't say Jesus, or any other religous figure

Answer 1

George Washington

Answer 2

I think this is impossible to answer. I could come up with a top-ten list but to pick one would be impossible and inaccurate. We are too biased to think of things that affect us in our own time (see first answer, BUSH). There have been dictators much worse than Hitler but we call him out as the worst because his reign is recent and more photographed.

I really do think religious figures play some of the biggest parts, and I'd have to put Jesus on my top ten list not because I'm Christian or religious, but because he has been so influential - even splitting the way we record human history (BC/AD or BCE/CE whichever). I also think Martin Luther would be up there, as well as people who started other religions - Mohommad, etc.

Answer 3

First, to remove most of the most influential people ('can't say Jesus') takes a lot of punch from this question.

Plato -- Ideas have consequences. The philosophical foundation of western civilization laid the groundwork for the establishment of the individual as the basis of culture and government. This led to the Roman Empire, then the Enlightenment, and now to modern Western society, which will continue to spread its influence until all of Asia and Africa are included.

Answer 4

The greatest influence on History (before 1932, when it became journalism) has to have been Johannes Gutenberg, who invented the printing press in the 1440s CE.

Answer 5

Charlemaigne, Ghengis Kahn, Napoleon.

Answer 6

Winston Churchill was a statesman, orator, author, historian and Prime Minister who rallied the British people in the Second World War and took them from the edge of defeat to victory.

Churchill’s leadership during the war is legendary. He became Prime minister when the Cabinet were on the verge of seeking terms with Hitler and Germany. But Churchill would not contemplate defeat or even a honourable truce. His saying was ‘We will never give in’. Churchill is credited with conducting the war single-handedly. He made himself Minister for War as well as being Prime Minister and delegated the running of home affairs to junior ministers. Churchill sat at his desk in the Cabinet Office, dictating memos and orders and giving instructions but letting others get on with it. Churchill’s true talent was leadership, not performance. Churchill had a bed in his office suite and habitually slept in the afternoon. He had by a side, in his office, a mixture of brandy and water, which was continually refreshed. Critics say that this put him in a continuously drunken state.

Churchill was a historian. He wrote The History of The English Speaking Peoples, an account not just of English history but also of the British Empire and United States. This work was designed to demonstrate that the British people and their colonies are a unique culture distinct from European civilisations.

Churchill was an author. His book My Early Life, although outwardly an autobiography, is in fact novel with the young Churchill as one of the characters. In the book, Churchill sits the entrance examination for Harrow but on taking the Latin paper, carefully wrote the title, his name and the question number 1. After further thought, he adds brackets to the number but cannot think of anything to write and his paper is smudged by an inkblot. Churchill’s comments on the wisdom of the headmaster in accepting him despite this is an ironic comment not on the inability of his younger self but on the educational system of the time.

Churchill was known for his eloquence and his ready wit. On being accused of being a turncoat for changing parties twice, Churchill reposted ‘anyone can rat, but it takes a certain ingenuity to re-rat.’ When an official criticised other writers for ending sentences with propositions, Churchill added a note ‘This is the sort of English, up with which I will not put’. On one occasion a lady heckler shouted ‘Sir, you are drunk’. Churchill replied ‘And you, madam are ugly, but I shall be sober, tomorrow!’

Answer 7

whay cant one reply jesus, historicaly he was a real person, anyway, with that caveat hitler without a doubt, he changed our world forever more then any other person,a dn despite his hatred he did what noone else before him had, he had the determination to attmept to carry out his plan, today we have nothing but politics and half hearted attempts to reconcile ideals, hitler tried, but failed maybe theres a lesson in that too?

Answer 8

Impossible to pinpoint one in the history of mankind. The person in recent times could be Gandhi or Nelson Mandela.

Answer 9

Mao andor Max Planck

Answer 10

Good- Martin Luther.
Bad- Neron Caesar.