Who are the 10 most influential people in the last 1,000 years?? why?

Question

just a poll i wanted to take, and see the results

Answer 1

1.Charles Darwin
2.Zigmond Froid
3.Marx
4.Sir Alexander Fleming
5.Adolf Hitler
6.Gandhi
7.Mao Zedong
8.Genghis Khan
9.Beatles
10.Alexander Graham Bell

Answer 2

-Galilleo, Newton, Darwin - For ushering in the era of modern science.
-Mao Tse-Tung: He put an end to a long traditional way of living in the most populous country on earth.
-Christopher Columbus: Opening up the America's to western colonization.
-Frederick Taylor: Introduced modern methods of labour management to the workforce, putting an end to the dominance of the artisan in the production process.
-Ghandi: Signified the greatest victory of the anti-colonization movement.
-Voltaire: The true philosopher of the French revolution. Although he did not originate the idea of democracy, he wrote in a way that spoke to the people.
-George Washington: The first to actually take up arms against the idea of Crown rule, setting up a domino effect that would see democracies and republics raise in the Americas, Europe, and elsewhere in the world.
-Karl Marx: The idea man behind not only communism, but a lot of capitalist ideas as well. His influence on sociology and economics still can't be denied today, even by his fiercest opponents.

Note that most of these people did not "do" everything by themselves. They are, however, representative of wider social movements that changed the world. Also, I make no judgement here as to whether their influence was "bad" or "good", simply that the were influential. Also, as a westerner, I can't help but be biased - I'm sure there are a lot of people in China and India (To cite just two examples)whose influence on their societies are at least as important as those here - I just might never have heard of them.

10 is not a lot of people. Here's a list of mentions of other people I feel could easily have made that list: Hitler, Lenin, Rene Descartes, Simon Bolivar, Thomas Aquinas, Pope Urban II, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Susan B Anthony, Alexander Graham Bell, James Watt, Louis Pasteur, Sigmund Freud, Genghis Kahn...

Answer 3

(In no particular order)
1. Shakespeare
2. Thomas Jefferson
3. Karl Marx
4. Edward Jenner
5. Thomas Edison
6. Marconi
7. Oppenheimer & The Manhattan Project scientists
8. Martin Luther (not Martin Luther King)
9. William Wilberforce
10. Galileo

Answer 4

1. Johann Gutenburg invented the printing press in which the common man was now able to read books which in the past was only form the influential and the Church.

2. Nikolai Copernicus through his inspiration on astronomy gave future generations to reach for the stars and other planets (influenced space programs)

3. Martin Luther with his 95 theses shook apart the Catholic Church and their world of politics and affluence and brought about a change that exists today

4. Galileo Galilei who brought about a change i the thinking pattern of the day that the earth was the center of the universe when it is the sun .He suffered for his beliefs but later was pardoned in which the Church admitted to their errors. His ideas was one reason for exploration of the earth in which man began to learn not to be afraid they would fall off the face of the earth.

5. William Shakespeare- whether we believe he existed or not his works have inspired generations of actors, educators,students and the common man to be inspired and intrigued by his language, words,and interpretation.

6.Karl Marx- founder of Communist thinking who influenced many nations to his way of thought of materialism that was directly against to the laissez-faire capitalism of his day. His thoughts have influenced billions and billions .

7. Christopher Columbus- gave explorers the dream to explore and investigate that there was a more expanded world than the limited world of flatness . He was trying to prove the world round by his reaching the Far East by sailing west. Granted he did not reach the Orient but he gave future explorers and innovators to see a New World.

8.John Locke- political philosopher whose thoughts inspired the American Revolution and his empiricism brought the ideas of the Enlightenment to a full focus

9. Albert Einstein- his scientific theories of relativity , his co-work of developing the atomic bomb which he informed FDR not to use , brought on the nuclear age in which we are still in and unfortunately we have lived on the verge of destruction ever since.

10. Thomas Jefferson who was founder of the University of Virginia, inventor ,statesman ,president of the US ,author of the Declaration of Independence , founding a political system or party that exists today as an influence in the Republican and Democratic parties which branch from his Democratic -Republican party that stood the breach of time to today etc.

Answer 5

in no real order:

1. adolf hitler
2.william shakespeare
3.karl marx
4.mohandas gandhi
5.martin luther
6.franklin delano roosevelt
7.gavrilo princip (assasinated archduke franz ferdinand, sparking WWI)
8.charles darwin
9.edward jenner
10. albert einstein

Answer 6

1. Hitler
2. Ghandi
3. idk... i cant think of anything else