clipped from: www.hyperhistory.com |
30 Beethoven 29 Henry Ford S 28 J. S. Bach 27 Napoleon 26 Mozart 25 James Watt 24 St. Thomas 23 Lincoln 22 Genghis Khan 21 Washington |
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20 Adam Smith 19 Michelangelo 18 John Locke 17 Gandhi 16 Hitler 15 Jefferson 14 Edison 13 Pasteur S 12 Freud 11 Leonardo |
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10 Galileo 9 Copernicus 8 Einstein 7 Marx 6 Columbus 5 Shakespeare 4 Darwin 3 Luther 2 Newton 1 Gutenberg |
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The 30 most influential persons of the last 1,000 years according to
a list compiled by the History Channel and aired by AE TV. All persons are depicted in the
General Lifelines of HyperHistory except Pasteur and Ford
who are shown in the Special Lifeline for 'Science'.
Such a list is bound to be controversial because it is impossible to objectively judge what is more important: the music of Mozart or the science of Newton ? The final ranking is really less important than the stimulation of a lively debate. |