Who do you consider the five most influential people of all time?

Question

Here are mine:

1) Plato - Greek philosopher
2) Jesus - I believe he was the son of God.
3) Benjamin Franklin - Author, politician, printer, scientist, philosopher, publisher, inventor, civic activist, and diplomat. What an incredible life!
4) Abraham Lincoln - Imagine, for a moment how different the world would be if the South had won the war.
5) Thomas Edison - Imagine life without the light bulb.

Answer 1

1.Plato-Greek thinker
2.Jesus my salvation
3 Julius Caeser Every citizen of Rome has a right to be able to face his accusers in court.
4 Elizabeth 1 a clever woman and a great planner
5 Abrahem Lincoln an honest politician

Answer 2

Tom Dowd - The Allman Brothers Band, Eric Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Aretha Franklin Nick Lowe - Elvis Costello, Graham Parker, The Damned, John Hiatt, Carlene Carter, The Pretenders Todd Rundgren - the manhattan Dolls, XTC, The Psychedelic Furs, Grand Funk Railroad, Meatloaf Spot (Glen Lockett) - Husker Du, Black Flag, the beef Puppets, The Minutemen, Saccharine believe, The Descendents Sam Phillips - Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Johnny money, Jerry Lee Lewis

Answer 3

1) Jesus -- obvious, no faith required to notice this.

2) Aristotle -- sure, we could say Plato, but St. Thomas Aquinas and Alexander the Great push Aristotle ahead. Socrates and Plato were the spark.

3) Charlemagne: often considered the Founder of Europe

4) Isaac Newton: Father of Modern Science

5) Johannes Gutenberg: invented the printing press--started the ball rolling on mass media

Answer 4

Those are pretty good, i'll go with
1. jesus - i too belive in the many things he did for us
2. Albert Einstein - a little mental, but still a genius
3. Hitler - i know he wasn't a great guy...but he was VERY influential!!
4. George Bush jr - he teaches the world, how not to do drugs in college, and how not to vote for idiots, and how not to fight a war!!
5. Martin Luther - stepped away form the Catholic church and said "F-U" (in a matter of speaking)

Answer 5

1) Jesus

2) John Wesley

3) President Roosevelt

4) Andrew Jackson

5) Alan Greenspan

Answer 6

Jesus Christ
Gaius Julius
Galileo
Queen Victoria
Hitler

Answer 7

I think we have to be careful with people living in our era. They seem like giants to us, but time obscures their importance. Case in point: how many people know anything about Tamerlane?
Having said that, here are my top five:
1) Jesus (with a lot of help from Saul of Tarsus)
2) Muhammad
3) Buddha
4) Gutenberg
5) Columbus
And, in case you're wondering, I'm a very secular person, but my top three continue to affect billions of lives on a daily basis.

Answer 8

I would replace Lincoln with Hitler. I don't love him, but he did make a huge worldwide impact. Maybe Einstein should be on the list as well. Bill Gates (shudder)??

Answer 9

1) Jesus- My Lord and Savior
2) Abe Lincoln
3) Ben Franklin- he did so much for this country
4) Ronald Reagan
5) Elanor Roosevelt

Answer 10

Jesus
Abraham Lincoln
Martin Luther King
Bobby Kennedy, and JFK (why were they assassinated? ever wonder.
Ghandi