Most Influential People of All Time

Economist, Wealth of Nations is a classic equal in status to Arthashastra of Kautilya.

Theory of class stuggle

are you kidding me? why is he not at the top of the list already? friedrich nietzsche is one of the greatest philosophers of all time, he examines how christianity and other religions impede on the progress of a society and are a huge waste of resources. Go look up a list of Nietzsche quotes and tell me you don't recognize any of them...

babylonian King

the greatest novelist of all time

USSR was born in 1922.Valdimir Ilyich Ulyanov better known as Lenin and the Bolsheviks having brought in the change.Gorbachev started reforms which resulted in a collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 with New Age Democracy notions.Russia emerged as an independent nation.

Economist, Essay on the Principle of Population, Principles of political Economy.

Influential ruler of the Roman Empire

Philosopher, his style of teaching is still emulated

German socialist philosopher, collaborated with Marx and founder of scientific socialism. Communist Manifesto.

Greek scholar,curves and spiral,parametric considerations of a line.

Pschoanalyst

Republic, Notion of Self eating immortal which made man realize mortality.

Taoism

The Spaniard who is responsible to free Spain from the Muslims.

THEY DEVELOPED A STYLE OF MUSIC THAT WILL NEVER BE DUPLICATED OR SURPASSED FOR GENERATIONS

Charismatic Leader, led South America to independence from 400 years of foreign rule.nown as The Liberator the country Bolivia is named after him.Between 1819 to 1822 , Bolivar won a series of cictories against Spain getting Colombia and Venezula getting confirmation of independence. In 1822 his general Antonio Jose de Sucre got Ecuador's independence.Two years later Bolivar made a deal with Argentinian liberator Jose de San Martin who was active in Peru. As a result Sucre defeated the Spanish at Ayacuho bringing independence to Peru.Soth American nations suffered successive military rulers and leftist liberation groups became active. The worst sufferers were the indigenous people who had lost control to white settlers from foreign lands and there was massive decimation of entire civilizations and cultures. Finally new age democracy notions arrived and by 1960's were being heard.By 1987 there was revival in the lost civilizations and Cultures and Peru became the focal point of New Age Movement.

Greatest of all Apostles after the 12. Greatest theologian sage and defender of the Christian faith in the 2nd centurzy

A literary genius neglected due to the difficulties of translation, Victor Hogo was a multifacted, myriad minded master of literature.

Founder of the electromagnetic theory; also discovered that light travels in waves.

Surgeon,open heart surgery and organ transplantation.

Developed the ideas of Charles Parsons's steam turbine,along with Mathew Boulton began building steam engines for pumping water from mines.The unit of power Watt is named after him.

Civil Rights Movement

served Israel from beginning of the state till now in a decisive manner

Continuing his seige of Richmond,the combined forces of Grant and Sheridan defeated the Confederate forces whose greatest effect was the end of slavery in USA. It redefined the place of non-whites in American life.

A great writer and defender of human rights, Salman Rushdie has by consistently defending freedom of expression and the right to peaceful civil discourse, created a legacy of rational thought that is of etrenal value to our common humanity.

Saved around 60.000 Jews from being holocausted

Saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from being murdered by the Nazis

Worst President ever and destroyer of America.

A successful military and political leader, orator.Born in nobility first became Pontifex Maximus then gained power with Marcus Crassus and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus.Their rivalry remained and after the death of Crassus, Pompey became sole consul and with the aid of Roman Senate declared Julius as enemy of the people.He defeated Pompey and became the master of Rome.Befriended Cleopatra and helped her establish her rule in Egypt.

German Philosopher,The World as Will and Idea.,emphasized the role of will as primary factor in understanding.Rejected the ideas of Hegel.

Along with Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden made important discoveries regarding structure of the atom.

King of the Vandals, he stopped the increase of power of the Catholics, but he is therefore also responsible for the loss of North Africa to Islam

He saved more than one thousand Jews from extermination

Founded the Mongol Empire

Likely the most succesful wildlife preserver. He made the Serengeti survive.

Fought against racial discrimination

Greek philosopher,developed Babylonian notions into what is known as Pythagoras theorem.

Proved heat is a form of energy,the unit of energy,joule, is named after him.

Hospital reformer, nursing

Geometer, whose works read along with those of Aryabhatta, father of trignometry and Sine angles, revolutionized human thinking

Created a system of viewing the Universe that formed the foundation to all cosmological understanding for roughly 1500 years. Established the Earth as the center of the universe, with all of the planets (including the moon and sun) orbiting it. Developed the ideas of Epicycles, Equants, and Deferents in order to more accurately account for the observed celestial phenomenon - tools which remained in use even by Copernicus, whose heliocentric model of the universe still relied on the ideas developed by Ptolemy around 100AD.

He wasn't called the great for nothing... voted the best military leader of all time (I'd say he's at least Top 3) and extremely influential... insanity that he previosly wasn't on the list.

the painter of the "MONALISA".genius.polymath....et.al.

Founder of the Indian nation. Ahinsa(Peace) and civil rights movement.

He saved the Jews in Palestine from being genocided from the Turks before the end of WW I

Expanded Russia into a powerful Eurasian nation.

A wise councellor for the British Empire in the time of Queen Victoria

Dominican friar, Campaigned against the maltreatment of Native Amerians in South America by Spanish Conquerors.

Cartoons, animated cartoons.

The founder of the Persian Empire.

Earliest surving law code was drawn up by this Mesopotanian ruler (1792-1750 Common Era).Manu's Law Codes were originally oral and codification was done only when challenge to the oral tradition came, to the earliest version of Big Bang Theory,notion of time traveller in the first chapter of Manu Smriti.Hammurabi's code contains 282 laws while Manu's Code ends with the notion of Interpretation of Statutes.

Ibn Sina has been recognized by both East and West, as one of history's great figures. He wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived. In particular, 150 of his surviving treatises concentrate on philosophy and 40 of them concentrate on medicine. His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopaedia, and The Canon of Medicine, which was a standard medical text at many medieval universities. The Canon of Medicine was used as a text-book in the universities of Montpellier and Louvain as late as 1650.

Abu Musa Jābir ibn Hayyān (Arabic: جابر بن حيان‎), (Persian: جابر بن حيان) (born c. 721 in Tous–died c. 815 in Kufa)[2] was a prominent polymath: a chemist and alchemist, astronomer and astrologer, engineer, geologist, philosopher, physicist, and pharmacist and physician. He is considered by some to be the "father of chemistry." Born and educated in Tus, located in Iran's Persian heartland of Khorasan, he later traveled to Kufa. His ethnic background have been under debate. While mentioned as being of Persian ethnicity, other sources state that he was an Arab from Azd. Jābir is held to be the first practical alchemist.

Egyptian physicist, rejected the Greek notion that eyes send out rays, Treasury of Optics.

Abu Hāmed Mohammad ibn Mohammad al-Ghazzālī (1058 – 1111) (Persian: ابو حامد محمد ابن محمد الغزالی), known as Algazel to the western medieval world, born and died in Tus, in the Khorasan province of Persia (modern day Iran) was a Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic. Ghazali has sometimes been referred to by historians as the single most influential Muslim after the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Besides his work that successfully changed the course of Islamic philosophy—the early Islamic Neoplatonism developed on the grounds of Hellenistic philosophy, for example, was so successfully refuted by Ghazali that it never recovered—he also brought the orthodox Islam of his time in close contact with Sufism. The orthodox theologians still went their own way, and so did the mystics, but both developed a sense of mutual appreciation which ensured that no sweeping condemnation could be made by one for the practices of the other.

reformator

Chemistry,chemical bonds and the structure of molecules, calculated the energies needed to make bonds,the angles at which bonds form,and the distance between atoms.

Physicist , brought in coincidence technique in sub-atomic particles, got the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954. The coincidence point theory underwent a major overhaul in 2005 when a book Methodological Frame of the Field by Manu reached CERN.The mathematics formulations got a breakthrough in the theory of gravitational spin.Super String Theory, probability by choice are bywords in New Age Mathematics.

german chancler who wastes billions of euro to save Greece from collaps and to secure the EU

One of the greatest intellects the World has ever had, William Shakespeare is the World's greatest Poet and Playwright. Shakespeare's work distinguished by intellectual profundity, wide variety and far reaching expressiveness is the pinnacle of human literary achievement.

Woman nuclear physicist.Nuclear fission,A research institute was founded in Berlin in honour of Meitner and Otto Hahn.

American engineer widely credited with developing the first practical steamboat.

Tolstoy is the greatest novelist and short story writer the World has ever seen. His many masterworks such as "War and peace" and " The cossacks" are amongst the great works of literature.

German Mathematician,Arithmetic of the infinite which resulted in theory of sets for irrational numbers.

German sage with great influence on science in the middle ages

Hollywood actor who played Ben Hur and Moses perfectly

Russian Writer,imprisoned for unfavorable remarks on Stalin's conduct of war.On release his first novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch,set in a prison camp was acclaimed in the erstwhile USSR. Denunciation of of Soviet censorship led to the banning of his later semi-autobiographical Cancer Ward and First Circle. He was expelled from USSR.His later work The Gulag Archipelago is a factual account of Stalinistic terror, reality of political oppression and personal suffering.It presents the suppressed history of a viscious epoch and a system that effected millions of people.

Comedian,his characterization of a tramp with a sense of humour despite hardship was loved by all.

British physicist,wave theory of light. The Young modulus is used to explain stress and strain in materials.

Physicist,every object in motion has a wave character.

Very influential to the entertainment industry!

Mathematician

Discovered many new elements, disproved the phlogiston theory, helped construct the metric system, and did many other things to shape modern chemistry as we know it. Also discovered that even though matter might change in shape or form, its mass is always the same.