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100 Influential People of the Millenium

Biography Channel did a survey of scholars, historians, intellectuals and viewers of their show as to who they thought were the most influential people of the last 1000 years.These are the top 100 people chosen along with their reason for being on Biography's list.

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Adolf Hitler 1889-1945 #16German dictator,Persecuted Jews,Conquered most of Europe in WWII
Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826 #15, Pres. Diplomat, inventor , Writer of the Declaration of Independance
Thomas Edison 1847-1931 #14Inventor, telegraph, lightbulb battery
Voltaire 1694-1778 #37French Philosopher, Intellectual, wrote Candide
Joseph Stalin 1879-1953 #79Russian Dictator/Psychopath Brought the Industrial age to Russia
Suleiman I 1494 - 1566 #100Known as the Magnificent, United the Arab World
Louis Armstrong 1901-1971 #98Father of Skat, Jazz, Trumpet Player
Ronald Reagan 1911-present #85, Actor, Pres., Known for hastening the Fall of the Soviet Union
Isabella I 1451-1504 #78Spanish Queen, Spanish Inquisition
Elizabeth I 1533-1603 #80English Queen whose legacy last 5 Centuries
Elvis Presley 1935-1977 #57Brought Black music to a white population King of Rock and Roll
Albert Einstein 1879-1955 #8One of hte most famous of all time. Devised the Law of Relativity
Winston Churchill 1874-1965 #52Prime Minister of England during WWII
Wolfgang Amaddeus Mozart 1756-1791 #26Child Genius Musician Created music in his head.
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827 #30Deaf Musician Created powerful & spirited music music
Marco Polo 1254-1324 #54Italian trader famous for travels to central Asia and China
Napoleon Bonaparte 1756-1791 #27Crowned himself Emperor of France. The greatest military genius' of his time.
Ferdinand Magellan c1480-1521 #55Portuguese sea captain first to circled the world by ship
Henry Ford 1863-1947 #29Developed the First Assembly-line and Car
Wright Brothers 1867-1948 #40Built & Flew the First flying machine
Madame Marie Curie 1867-1934 #53Discovered Radium One of the Greatest Women Scientist
Bill Gates 1955 - present #41Transformed the computer world with hisMicrosoft Developer
Charlie Chaplin 1889-1977 #95The Little Champ First movie star
Werner Heisenberg 1901-1976 #65Physics - Sabotaged Hilter getting the 'A' bomb
Steven Speilberg 1947- present #91Movie Director, Schindler's List, 'ET'
Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945 #60, Pres.of USA New Deal Guided US through war and domestic difficulties
Vasco da Gama c1460-1524 #99Portuguese sea captain whose fleet was the first to reach india from Europe
Jonas Salk 1914-1995 #97Developed the Polio Vaccine
Enrico Caruso 1873-1921 #96Tenor first to record music
Patient Zero 1970's #94African male-First human to get AIDS
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 #93Most active of First ladies, humanitarian,role model for women in politics
Simon Bolivar 1783-1830 #72One of South Americas greatest Generals, Known as 'The Liberator'
Florence Nightengale 1820-1910 #92Founder of the nursing program as we know it today.
Louis Daguerre 1787-1851 #90Invented the first camera
Susan B. Anthony 1820-1906 #89First Suffrogate, Worked on Women's right to vote
J. Robert Oppenheimer 1904-1967 #88Manhatten Project leader,Created the Atomic Bomb
Rachel Carson 1907 -1964 #87First Environmentalist. Worked to make the world aware of the harms of pesticides.
James Joyce 1882- 1941 #86Irish writer of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
Peter the Great 1672-1725 #83Ruthless Russian leader who made Russia a super-power
Niels Bohr 1885-1962 #82Coded the Atom
Nelson Mandela 1918- present #81South African leader opposed to Apartheid. Imprisoned for 30 years.
Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679 #77English Philosopher concerned with political theory Developed a new system of Physics and Introduced an idea of Democracy to the world
Guglielmo Marconi 1874-1937 #84Italian Inventor who invented the telegraph to send wireless signals that led to the radio
The Beatles 1970's #76Led a Pop Music Revolution in the 1960's
Gregory Pincus 1903-1967 #75Father of the Birth Control Pill
Enrico Fermi 1901-1954 #74Master of radioactivity and a participant of the 'Manhatten Project'
Princess Diana of England 1961-1997 #73Humanitarian may have been the beginning of the end of the British Monarchy
Harriet Tubman 1820-1913 #71Formed the Underground Railroad to free slaves
Pope Gregory VII 1020-1085 #70Helped clean up a corrupt church. Believed in separation of church and state
William Harvey 1578-1657 #69Father of Modern Physiology Described how the circulatory system works.
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 #68Inventor, writer politician, signer of the Declaration of Independence
Vladimir Zworykin 1889-1982 #67Russian born American physicist who invented the iconoscope and kinescope which brought TV to the public.
D.W. Griffith 1875-1948 #66A pioneer American motion picture director and producer who brought storytelling to the movie screen.
Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 #64An artist, potter, considered to be one of the most influential artists of the 1900's.
Jane Austen 1775-1817 #63An author considered to be the first great female novelist.
Walt Disney 1901-1966 #62One of the most famous motion-picture producers in history. He developed the first animated cartoons featuring Mickey Mouse.
Michael Faraday 1791-1867 #61One of the greatest English chemists and physicists, discovered the principle of electromagnetic induction.
Immanuel Kant 1724-1804 #59German philosopher who established the main lines for philosophical developments since his day.
Joan of Arc c1412-1431 #58A french national heroine who became a of the Roman Catholic Church.She led the french army against the English.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815-1902 #56One of the first women's Rights activist who sought equality for women.
Edward Jenner 1749-1823 #51Developed the smallpox vaccine.
Margaret Sanger 1879-1966 #50Started Planned Parenthood & encouraged the world to consider birth control to prevent overpopulation of the world.
Mikel Gorbachev 1931-present #49Last leader of the Soviet Union. Introduced 'Glasnost"
Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-1797 #48The original women's rights activist.British author who wrote about men and women having equality.
Charles Babbage 1792-1871 #47Mathematician who used mathematical calculations to devise the first computers on paper. he didn't have the resorces available to make a working model.
Niccolo Machiavelli 1469-1527 #46An Italian statesman and writer who is considered to be the 'Father of Modern Political Science'
William the Conqueror c1028-1087 #45He was the first Norman King of England.The only foreigner to conquer Britain
Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922 #44American born inventor of the telephone.
Mao Zedong 1893-1976 #43He led the struggle that made China a communist nation and a superpower.
Gregor Mendel 1822-1884 #42An Austrian ( monk) botanist who formulated the basic laws of heredity- genetics.
Dante Alighlieri 1265-1321 #39Italian author considered to be one of the greatest poets of the Middle Ages.
Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1616 #38An English philosopher and statesman who is the 'Father of the Scientific Method'.
Sir Alexander Fleming 1881-1955 #36A British bacteriologist who discovered the germ-killing power of green mold now known as penicillin.
Vladimir Lenin 1870-1924 #35He founded the Communist Party in Russia and set up the world's first Communist Party dictatorship.
Jean - Jaques Rousseau 1712-1778 #34A French writer who is considered the most important writer of the 'Age of Reason'. His works led to the French revolution.
Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968 #33American Civil Rights leader that tried to bring about equallity of the races through peaceful means.
Rene Descartes 1596-1650 #32Father of Modern Philosophy and Anaylical Geometry.
Watson & Crick 1928/1916 - present #31Unlocked the secrets of DNA
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 #28Virtuoso Organist and gifted musician
James Watt 1736-1819 #25Godfather of the Industrial Revolution by inventing the steam engine
Saint Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274 #24Priest who revolutionized religious thought of the time. He preached that faith andreason could co-exist.
Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 #23, 14th Pres. of U.S. during the Civil War who Immancipated slavery
Genghis Khan c1162-1227 #22Ruthless leader who made the Mongolian Nation the largest ever in the world.
George Washington 1732-1799 #21, Considered the Father of America. He was the first U.S. President and helped form it's democracy.
Adam Smith 1723-1790 #20Scottish econimist and statesman who wrote 'Wealth of nations'
Michaelangelo 1475-1564 #19One of the greatest Italian artists, sculptors, and painters of our time.
John Locke 1632-1704 #18Laid the cornerstones for democracy. He believed the common man has power.
Mahatma Ghandi 1869-1948 #17Led India to a peaceful revolution for independence from Britain.
Louis Pasteur 1822-1895 #13Discoverer of Pasteurization, heating something to kill germs and bacteria.
Sigmund Freud 1856-1939 #12Father of Psycho -analyst. Started the 'Talking Cure'
Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519 #11Prolific genius in areas of science, art, hydrolics, sculptor.
Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 #10Discovered Modern Astronomy
Nicholas Copernicus 1473-1543 #9Polish Astronomer who is considered the father of Modern Astronomy.
Karl Marx 1818-1883 #7Father of Communism
Christopher Columbus 1450-1506 #6Italian Navigator who discovered the Americas.
William Shakespeare 1564-1616 #5British writer considered to be the Greatest Writer of All Time.
Charles Darwin 1809-1882 #4British naturalist who developed the 'Theory of Evolution'
Martin Luther 1483-1546 #3He was the leader of Reformation, a religious movement that led to the birth of Protestantism.
Issac Newton 1642-1727 #2English Astronomer, mathematician who invented Calculus and considered to be the 'Founder of Modern Science'.
Johann Gutenberg c1400-1468 #1German tradesman who invented the printing press.


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