Who are the most infamous people in history?

Question

infamous for those who don't know is famous for the wrong reasons, example da vinci is fmous for his art inventions he is famous, hitler is well know but for trying to take over europe do evil deeds kill jews ect he is infamous

Answer 1

Good and evil are subjective.

During his reign and for centuries after King Henry VIII was called "Harry The Great" because the people of England loved him for his victories in war and his many achievements such as making the UK independent from the Pope and his skill as a song writer.
These days he is infamous because he executed 2 of his wives (one as a witch, the other an adulteress) and divorced two more wives. He is certainly infamous these days even though by the standards of his day he was a beloved and fair monarch.

Genghis Khan is infamous in Europe as a savage warlord, but he worked hard and showed great bravery and skill to get where he got in life. In Mongolia he is seen as a great father of their nation.

Vlad the Impaler got his name from what he did to the dead bodies and prisoners he got in his war against the Turks. He is seen as a vampire and a mad man. But if he had not defeated the Turks with his small army and frightened them off with bloody spectacles then Europe would have almost certainly have fallen to the Turks over the course of a few centuries. In some parts of Eastern Europe he is revered as a hero and even as a saint.

So based upon the concept that anyone can be seen as good or evil as a matter of perspective - I doubt Hitler's girlfriend Eva Braun thought her beloved was evil - then the most famous person must also be the most imfamous. Because of this I would say the most infamous person in history would have to be Jesus Christ. Although he led a very good life and did not harm anyone that does not stop people from seeing him as evil and I would say at least a few million people alive today must see him as infamous not famous.

Answer 2

Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Nero, Jack the Ripper, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Judas Iscariot, Vlad the Impaler, Mao Tse-tung, Heinrich Himmler.

Answer 3

Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Osama Bin encumbered Kim Jong Il Pot Pol Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Attila the Hun Genghis Kahn Charles Manson just to call some. maximum of those human beings have been or are terrorists, dictators, or murderers. that's what makes them infamous. you could seem all of them up on Wikipedia.

Answer 4

Pontius Pilot, Genghis Khan, Benedict Arnold, Aaron Burr, Marie Antoinette, Napoleon, Hitler, Osama bin Laden, ...on GWB, the jury's still out. Depends on what Iraq looks like in 20 years.

Answer 5

GW Bush will go down in history as a leader that lead alot of soldiers the wrong way into a never ending war and killing men ,woman and children for his own glory. That's 'infamous"

Answer 6

Hitler, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Nero, King John of England & Richard III (history has tarred them both, tho historians are finding they weren't all bad), Stalin (?), and probably Saddam Hussein (I waffle because he's a little close in time to us, and it can be helpful to have a little more time before evaulating someone)

Answer 7

Nero, Lizzie Borden, Idi Amin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Vlad Tepes (Count Dracula) - I am sure that there are many, many more.

Answer 8

Curiously traitors seem to do worse than mass murderers. So Judas rates ahead of Herod.

Answer 9

history is owned by people who won the wars. the most infamous people were and are the people who lost their wars.

Answer 10

Hitler, Stalin, Benedict Arnold...that's all I can think of this morning.