Top 10 influential person in the world

 

Top 50 influential people in the world

1. Muhammad (570 – 632 AD) Prophet of Islam.

2 . Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727) – British mathematician and scientist.

3. Jesus of Nazareth (c.5BC – 30 AD) Spiritual teacher and central figure of Christianity.

4. Buddha (c 563 – 483 BC) Spiritual Teacher and founder of Buddhism.

5. Confucius (551 – 479 BC) – Chinese philosopher.

6. St. Paul (5 – AD 67) – Christian missionary and one of the main writers of the New Testament.

7. Ts’ai Lun (AD 50 – 121) Inventor of paper.

8. Johann Gutenberg (1395 – 1468) – Inventor of the printing press.

9. Christopher Columbus (1451 – 1506) – Italian explorer landed in America.

10. Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) German/ US scientist discovered the Theory of Relativity.

11. Louis Pasteur (1822 – 1895) French biologist. Developed a cure for rabies and other infectious diseases.

12. Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642) Italian scientist – confirmed the heliocentric view of the universe.

13. Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) – Greek philosopher and polymath

14. Euclid (c. 325 – 265 BC) – Greek mathematician

15. Moses (c 1391 – 1271 BC) A key figure of Jewish / Christian history gave 10 Commandments of the Old Testament

16. Charles Darwin (1809 -– 1882) –A scientist who proposed and popularised the theory of evolution.

17. Shih Huang Ti (259 – 210 BC) – King of the state of Qin who conquered and united different regions of China in 221 BC.

18. Augustus Caesar (63 BC-AD 14) – First Emperor of Rome

19. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who believed the Sun was the center of the Universe – rather than earth.

20. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743 – 1794) French chemist and biologist who had a leading impact on the chemical revolution.

21. Constantine the Great (272 AD – 337) Roman Emperor who accepted the Christian religion.

22. James Watt (1736 – 1819) Scottish engineer. Watt improved the Newcome steam engine creating an efficient steam engine

23. Michael Faraday (1791 – 1867was ) – was an English scientist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.

24. James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) Scottish physicist. Maxwell made a significant contribution to understanding electromagnetism

25. Martin Luther (1483-1546) Sought to reform the Roman Catholic Church – starting the Protestant Reformation.

26. George Washington (1732 – 1799) – Leader of US forces during the American Revolution and 1st President of the US.

27. Karl Marx (1818 -– 1883) – German Communist philosopher.

28. Orville and Wilbur Wright Orville (1871 – 1948) – Wilbur (1867 – 1912) – Created and flew the first airplane.

29. Genghis Kahn (1162 – 1227) – Military and political leader of the Mongols.

30. Adam Smith (1723-1790) Scottish social philosopher and pioneer of classical economics.

31. William Shakespeare (1564- 1616) English poet and playwright.

32. John Dalton (1766 – 1844) English chemist and physicist. Made contributions to atomic theory.

33. Alexander the Great (356 -– 323 BC) – King of Macedonia and military leader.

34. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 –- 1821) – French military and political leader.

35. Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931) – Inventor and businessman who helped introduce electricity and electric light bulbs.

36. Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) Dutch chemist – founder of microbiology.

37. William T.G. Morton (1819 – 1868) American dentist who pioneered the use of anesthetic.

38. Guglielmo Marconi (1874 – 1937) Italian engineer who helped develop radio transmission.

39. Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945) – Dictator of Nazi Germany.

40. Plato (424 –- 348 BC) – Greek philosopher.

41. Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) – Leader of Parliamentarians in the English civil war.

42. Alexander Graham Bell (1847 – 1922) – Scottish inventor of the telephone.

43. Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) Scottish biologist who discovered penicillin.

44. John Locke (1632-1704) English political philosopher. Locke promoted a theory of liberal democracy and a social contract.

45. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) German composer of the classical and romantic period.

46. Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976) German theoretical physicist – one of the pioneers of Quantum mechanics

47. Louis Daguerre (1787–1851) French artist and photographer, who is credited with the invention of the camera.

48. Simon Bolivar (1783 – 1830) – Liberator of Latin American countries

49. Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650) French philosopher and mathematician. “I think, therefore I am.”

50. Michelangelo (1475 – 1564) Renaissance sculptor, painter.