Who is the most brilliant character in history?

Answer 1

jesus of nazareth

Answer 2

There have been brilliant people throughout history, but you should specify brilliant in what??? a brilliant human being, a brilliant scientist, a brilliant war strategist, a leader, a president, a conqueror, an emperor, a fighter, a politician, a writer, a philosopher, a prophet, anything, there have been brilliant people for everything.

I'll answer for the first one I mentioned: human being in all aspects, I'd say Jesus Christ, and I definetely dont say that because of religious reasons, but I do believe he was an extraordinary human being, because he was first of all a mortal, a man, who dedicated his life to a good and noble cause, even if he was the son of God, he was first of all a simple man here on earth.
And add to that fact that he's been a famous and public character since then, one of the most famous and talked-about, no doubt. Not even atheists can deny that....

Answer 3

Politics:
Pericles, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, John Hume, Ernesto Guevara, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Vladimir Lenin

Religion:
Moses, Jesus Christ, Buddha, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther

Economics:
Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Milton Friedman, Paul Samuelson.

Art:
Phidias, Claude Monet, Leonardo DaVinci, Pablo Picasso,Francisco Goya, Vincent Van Gogh

Philosophy:
Socrates, Aristotle, Galileo Galilei

Literature:
John Steinbeck, Edgar Alan Poe, Victor Hugo,
Oscar Wilde, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Homer,

Physics - Chemistry- Mathematics- Biology:
Pythagoras, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Alexander Fleming, Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur

Inventors:
Alexander Graham Bell, Benjamin Franklin

Psychology:
Sigmund Freud

Sports:
Michael Jordan, Pele

Theater:
Sophocles, Aristophanes, William Shakespeare, Euripides

Alexander the Great, Leonidas, Achilles, Ulysses, Mary, Queen of Scots
AND MANY MANY OTHERS.
BRILLIANT IS OUR WORLD
(IF WE WANT IT)!!

Answer 4

Almost impossible to answer...realistically, can you make a judgment call between the philosophical brilliance of Socrates, the political genius of Thomas Jefferson, the artistic vision of Da Vinci, and the scientific insight of Nikola Tesla or Charles Darwin? Every area of human inquiry has its own brilliant minds, and there's really no good way of saying that any one is better than the others.

Answer 5

If I had to choose, I'd choose Alexander the Great of Macedon. By all accounts, he was a brilliant military tactician whose battles are still required study in the military academies, he was a charismatic leader, and a man of remarkable intelligence. He changed the world by his actions and there's no telling what he might have accomplished if he hadn't died prematurely in Babylon in 323 BC, at the age of 33.

Answer 6

In terms of sheer intellect, Leonardo da Vinci, by miles.
Thomas Jefferson would be tops in US history.

As a strategic thinker, I would say Mohandas Gandhi. His ideas have affected political movements around the world for the last century.

Answer 7

I'd give the nod to Da Vinci, at least in the Western tradition, maybe followed by Darwin. I'm excluding religious figures.

Answer 8

Crazy Horse

Answer 9

'Brilliant' is a value judgement. There is no single most brilliant person in history. There are many, many brilliant people. Please be specific.

Answer 10

Nicola Tesla, no doubt about it. He was doing things a century ago that our scientists can't even do today. The world just couldn't handle that much change at once, though.

Answer 11

Bugs Bunny was a "brilliant character" indeed! He (almost) always managed to outsmart his rivals, and had more charisma in his left ear than most real people have in their entire bodies. :o)