Which people had the greatest positive impact, made the most important contribution to our society? For this list, do not include U.S. Presidents. Please limit your list to a maximum of five.
2007-12-08 03:47:05 · 7 answers · asked by Hammock Tester 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
edison, tesla, oppenheimer, M.L.K., jonas salk, werner von braun,
2007-12-08 03:51:38 · answer #1 · answered by sammy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Clay, John Marshall, William Seward, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Susan B. Anthony, Martin Luther King and a whole host of others.
P.S. Jefferson was extremely important more for what he did BEFORE he was President than as President but the prior poster apparently missed the fact he was in fact a President.
2007-12-08 04:09:34 · answer #2 · answered by Say_What? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Charles Goodyear, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Speilberg, Mark Twain, John D. Rockerfella founded Standard Oil, Henry Ford invented the first automobile, Wright Brothers, Walt Whitman, Andrew Carneige, Walt Disney, Eli Whitney, Henry Clay, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Earl Warren, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jackie Robinson, William Jennings Bryan, J.P. Morgan, John Dewey made the library decimal system ( dewey Decimal System) , Lyndon Baines Johnson ,Robert Oppenheimer , Hoarce Mann
2007-12-08 04:48:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Benjamin Franklin
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Margaret Sanger
Thomas Edison
Bill Gates
2007-12-08 07:02:27 · answer #4 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No since in rehashing some already good answers, but, maybe add an immigrant - Albert Einstien, some bicyclers the Wright Brothers and some business tycoons like Carnegie, Rockefeller, Gates etc...
2007-12-08 04:44:00 · answer #5 · answered by Pee Amigo No 3 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) King Louie- he decided to join the revolutionary war on the American side.
2) Martin Luther King Jr.
3) Washington Iriving because he was the first American author.
4) Eleanor Roosevelt
5) Winston Churchill
2007-12-09 03:45:18 · answer #6 · answered by Olivia 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson and John Jay were absolutely crucial in the early days of the nation. You might want to add Thomas Paine, though he was kind of a mixed bag. Since then, I'd add Thomas Edison and Henry Ford.
2007-12-08 03:53:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋