Who do you think was the most evil person in the history of the world?

Answer 1

Unfortunately there are a whole heap of killers in the 20th century...and I wouldnt put them in a top 10 list due to the fact that none of them deserve to become a number 1 killer of all time.

Idi Amin - Kill tally: 100,000-500,000 (most sources say 300,000).

Ion Antonescu - Kill tally: About 300,000 Romanian Jews and up to 500,000 Romanian soldiers.

Yasuhiko Asaka -Kill tally: 200,000-350,000 Chinese killed during the 'Rape of Nanjing'.

Bhopal Industrial Incident -Kill tally: About 22,000 killed as a result of the world's worst ever industrial incident at Bhopal, India, in December 1984. At least 100,000 more incapacitated by chronic illnesses caused by the incident.

Nicolae Ceausescu -Kill tally: An estimated 5,000 killed during the 1989 revolution that ousted Ceausescu. Possibly thousands of deaths per year during the 1980s from deprivations caused by an unnecessary austerity program. Tens of thousands more lives ruined during Ceausescu's reign.

The Duvaliers -Kill tally: 20,000-60,000.

Francisco Franco -Kill tally: Tens to hundreds of thousands. One source says 500,000 killed in the Spanish Civil War, another claims two million executed alone. More sober estimates for executions put the figure at 35,000 killed either summarily or after a hasty court martial. According to military historian Antony Beevor, the figure for non-combatants and surrendered troops killed by Franco's Nationalists during the war "must exceed 100,000 and may be closer to 200,000."

Joseph Goebbels -Kill tally: Collectively responsible for the deaths of over 46 million in Europe as a result of the Second World War.

Hermann Göring -Kill tally: Collectively responsible for the deaths of over 46 million in Europe as a result of the Second World War.

Heinrich Himmler -Kill tally: Directly responsible for the deaths of six million in German concentration camps. Collectively responsible for the deaths of over 40 million more in Europe as a result of the Second World War.

Adolf Hitler -Kill tally: Directly responsible for the deaths of over 60 million worldwide as a result of the Second World War.

Elie Hobeika -Kill tally: Approximately 1,700 Palestinians killed at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in 1982. An unknown number of others killed during the Lebanese Civil War.

Enver Hoxha -Kill tally: No reliable figures available, but probably in the thousands.

Saddam Hussein -Kill tally: Approaching two million, including between 150,000 and 340,000 Iraqi and between 450,000 and 730,000 Iranian combatants killed during the Iran-Iraq War. An estimated 1,000 Kuwaiti nationals killed following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. No conclusive figures for the number of Iraqis killed during the Gulf War, with estimates varying from as few as 1,500 to as many as 200,000. Over 100,000 Kurds killed or "disappeared". No reliable figures for the number of Iraqi dissidents and Shia Muslims killed during Hussein's reign, though estimates put the figure between 60,000 and 150,000. (Mass graves discovered following the US occupation of Iraq in 2003 suggest that the total combined figure for Kurds, Shias and dissidents killed could be as high as 300,000). Approximately 500,000 Iraqi children dead because of international trade sanctions introduced following the Gulf War.

Radovan Karadzic -Kill tally: Up to 200,000.

Kim Il Sung -Kill tally: About three million killed in the Korean War. Between 600,000 and one million North Koreans needlessly starved to death due to the economic legacy of Kim's regime. (Some reports claim that as many as three million starved.)

King Léopold II -Kill tally: Five to 15 million Congolese (the indigenous inhabitants of the Congo River basin).

Mao Tse-Tung -Kill tally: 14 to 20 million deaths from starvation during the 'Great Leap Forward'. Tens of thousands killed and millions of lives ruined during the 'Cultural Revolution'.

Ferdinand Marcos -Kill tally: No reliable figures but the Philippines democracy and economy ruined and possibly thousands killed.

Josef Mengele -Kill tally: Directly responsible for the deaths of thousands at Auschwitz concentration camp.

Slobodan Milosevic -Kill tally: Up to 230,000 killed and three million displaced.

Ratko Mladic -Kill tally: Up to 200,000.

Efraín Ríos Montt -Kill tally: About 70,000 Mayan peasants and political dissidents.

Benito Mussolini -Kill tally: Over 400,000 Italians killed during the Second World War. At least 30,000 Ethiopians killed during Italian occupation of Ethiopia.

Ante Pavelic -Kill tally: 300,000 to one million, including up to 30,000 Jews, up to 29,000 Gipsies, and between 300,000 and 600,000 Serbs.

Augusto Pinochet -Kill tally: At least 3,197 killed following the 1973 military coup d'état.

Pol Pot -Kill tally: One to three million (or between a quarter and a third of the country's population).

Anastasio Somoza -Kill tally: No reliable figures, although an estimated 50,000 killed during the Nicaraguan "revolution", 120,000 exiled and 600,000 made homeless.

Joseph Stalin -Kill tally: Approximately 20 million, including up to 14.5 million needlessly starved to death. At least one million executed for political "offences". At least 9.5 million more deported, exiled or imprisoned in work camps, with many of the estimated five million sent to the 'Gulag Archipelago' never returning alive. Other estimates place the number of deported at 28 million, including 18 million sent to the 'Gulag'.

Suharto -Kill tally: Up to two million killed following an alleged coup attempt in 1965 (most reports estimate the number at around 500,000). Over 250,000 deaths following the invasion of East Timor in 1975. Thousands more killed in various Indonesian provinces.

The Three Pashas -Kill tally: In the period 1914-1918 - About 600,000 Armenians killed, up to 300,000 Greeks killed or deported, about 100,000 Assyrians killed.

Rafael Trujillo -Kill tally: Around 20,000 Haitians killed in 1937. (Estimates of the number of Haitians killed vary from several hundred to 30,000.) An unknown number of Dominican dissidents and opposition figures killed during his 31-year reign.

United States Presidents -This is a compilation of actions by presidents of the United States, and their advisers, that affected other individuals and countries featured on this website.

Jorge Rafaél Videla -Kill tally: Up to 30,000 murdered or "disappeared" during the 'Dirty War'.

Ne Win -Kill tally: No reliable figures, but 3,000-10,000 killed in the 'Rangoon Spring' uprising of 1988. Tens to possibly hundreds of thousands killed since the 1962 military coup d'état.

Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan -Kill tally: 200,000 to three million during the 1971 conflict in East Pakistan (Bangladesh).

Answer 2

Make no mistake - evil is NOT powerful. It only gets powerful when it is disguised as good or gets control of powers which are not evil in themselves. Therefore, while Hitler and the others may have caused the most evil, they were not the most evil people in the world. For that you might have to look to the creepy loner child murderers. But if you want a historical figure, I would say Titus Oates - not blinded by fanaticism, didn't do evil that good might come, lied away the lives of many during the Popish Plot Scare he created in 1679.

Answer 3

There are plenty of evil people in history. The most evil person within living memory is Adolf Hitler. This evil monster was responsible with his gang of Nazis for the most appalling crimes against humanity, including the systematic murder of six million Jews and a few million other folks too.

It took the entire combined might of the United States of America and the British Empire and the USSR (Red Army) and the Allies to bring this Nazi empire of evil to an end.

Answer 4

Not even God knows!!! I'd put forward, I don't really know, probably many of the pope's of the Dark to renaissance ages who used people's fears and beliefs to control an entire populus. Hitler only affected a the world for 10 years, many of the current dictators are in small corners of the world and are evil, but the past we have to look at spanned hundreds of years, and made trillions of people's lives difficult simply to benefit a lucky few. That is a far worse crime than anything in recent memory.

Answer 5

I am already on record here as not believing in personified 'evil'. Instead I have a view of desirable and undesirable results of the actions of us humans.

If one views the elimination of the existence as a measure of undesirability, which would definitely be a fair view, then the answer to your question would have to be Joseph Stalin.

He personally was responsible for the termination of at least 60 million, and maybe as many as 100 million, human lives, a number that, to my understanding, has never been even approached by any other single human being.

Answer 6

It really comes down to your individual definition of 'evil'. For example, take two people, both of whom have murdered someone. The first one has just murdered an aged aunt, because he needed the money she left him in her will. The second has just gone out and murdered a random person off the street, just for fun and to get a thrill out of it. The more evil act is surely killing for fun, rather than for a rational reason, so how come the first one gets a life sentence and the second one gets sent to a mental institution? If you're not responsible for your actions, are you evil?
A similar criteria comes along when you consider dictators. Take three well-known ones: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. Hitler caused mass genocide of Jews, however he had what he considered to be a rational reason for this: they were eating food the Germans needed, and no other country wanted them. Also, he never killed anyone: are the hired killers who carried out his orders less responsible than he is? Stalin was responsible for purges of people including his supporters, generally through paranoia - a condition, does this render him not responsible for his actions? Mao caused millions of deaths through famine, due to his incompetence. Is this his responsibility, and does it make him evil? It is a difficult thing to judge, is evil.
At the same time, I think it has to have been Pol Pot. He had people executed because they wore glasses, meaning they were intellectuals!

Answer 7

Hitler believed the end justified the means and so is low down on my evil list besides Starlin killed far more I think the Illuminati are very evil but they are the puppet masters we only see the puppets. I watched a thing on Nero he did some very sick stuff tho some of the serial killers have also been really twsited I think Brady is my most evil as he killed children for no other reason than fun.

Answer 8

I think alot people will say Hitler. Its hard to argue against that, but I would like to nominate Rasputin. The reason I think is because Hitler was wrathful and greedy - evil but transparently evil. On the other hand Rasputin betrayed a tight family he was duty bound to protect and advise. That takes a different level of evil I think. To get close to people like that with the intention from the onset to betray them. Who had the darker heart? I don't know - what do you think?

Answer 9

The Spanish Conquistadors.They were ruthless. One thousand Spanish troops, led by Hernando Cortes, conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico in the three years from 1519 to 1521. One only has to examine the figures for the racial composition of the Mexican population prior to the arrival of the Spanish, and compare it to the same racial composition of after the arrival of the Spanish in Mexico after 1519, and any-one can see that there was a whole scale sexual debauchery. This Spanishized the population in almost every aspect of life. The Spanish on their death- beds bequeathed much wealth to the church ; no doubt remembering the sins of their youth. The Spanish plundered much of the wealth that was in Mexico, siphoned [ carried] it off back to Spain, in Europe.

Answer 10

why does everyone say Hitler did it all on his own did he?
read a story in the news a guy killed his seven month old baby for fun so called ordinary people like this creep are the most evil people in the world bit to close to home for most of you ! Hitler had the ideas ordinary folk like you carried them out

Answer 11

Hitler, Stalin, Richard the Lionheart, Alexander the Great, Ghengis Khan, Atilla the Hun, Ulysses S. Grant, Caesar, Charlemagne, Constantine (for the one guy). The list goes on and on.