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Adolf Hitler 1889-1945 #16 | German 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 #14 | Inventor, telegraph, lightbulb battery |
Voltaire 1694-1778 #37 | French Philosopher, Intellectual, wrote Candide |
Joseph Stalin 1879-1953 #79 | Russian Dictator/Psychopath Brought the Industrial age to Russia |
Suleiman I 1494 - 1566 #100 | Known as the Magnificent, United the Arab World |
Louis Armstrong 1901-1971 #98 | Father 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 #78 | Spanish Queen, Spanish Inquisition |
Elizabeth I 1533-1603 #80 | English Queen whose legacy last 5 Centuries |
Elvis Presley 1935-1977 #57 | Brought Black music to a white population King of Rock and Roll |
Albert Einstein 1879-1955 #8 | One of hte most famous of all time. Devised the Law of Relativity |
Winston Churchill 1874-1965 #52 | Prime Minister of England during WWII |
Wolfgang Amaddeus Mozart 1756-1791 #26 | Child Genius Musician Created music in his head. |
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827 #30 | Deaf Musician Created powerful & spirited music music |
Marco Polo 1254-1324 #54 | Italian trader famous for travels to central Asia and China |
Napoleon Bonaparte 1756-1791 #27 | Crowned himself Emperor of France. The greatest military genius' of his time. |
Ferdinand Magellan c1480-1521 #55 | Portuguese sea captain first to circled the world by ship |
Henry Ford 1863-1947 #29 | Developed the First Assembly-line and Car |
Wright Brothers 1867-1948 #40 | Built & Flew the First flying machine |
Madame Marie Curie 1867-1934 #53 | Discovered Radium One of the Greatest Women Scientist |
Bill Gates 1955 - present #41 | Transformed the computer world with hisMicrosoft Developer |
Charlie Chaplin 1889-1977 #95 | The Little Champ First movie star |
Werner Heisenberg 1901-1976 #65 | Physics - Sabotaged Hilter getting the 'A' bomb |
Steven Speilberg 1947- present #91 | Movie 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 #99 | Portuguese sea captain whose fleet was the first to reach india from Europe |
Jonas Salk 1914-1995 #97 | Developed the Polio Vaccine |
Enrico Caruso 1873-1921 #96 | Tenor first to record music |
Patient Zero 1970's #94 | African male-First human to get AIDS |
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 #93 | Most active of First ladies, humanitarian,role model for women in politics |
Simon Bolivar 1783-1830 #72 | One of South Americas greatest Generals, Known as 'The Liberator' |
Florence Nightengale 1820-1910 #92 | Founder of the nursing program as we know it today. |
Louis Daguerre 1787-1851 #90 | Invented the first camera |
Susan B. Anthony 1820-1906 #89 | First Suffrogate, Worked on Women's right to vote |
J. Robert Oppenheimer 1904-1967 #88 | Manhatten Project leader,Created the Atomic Bomb |
Rachel Carson 1907 -1964 #87 | First Environmentalist. Worked to make the world aware of the harms of pesticides. |
James Joyce 1882- 1941 #86 | Irish writer of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake |
Peter the Great 1672-1725 #83 | Ruthless Russian leader who made Russia a super-power |
Niels Bohr 1885-1962 #82 | Coded the Atom |
Nelson Mandela 1918- present #81 | South African leader opposed to Apartheid. Imprisoned for 30 years. |
Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679 #77 | English Philosopher concerned with political theory Developed a new system of Physics and Introduced an idea of Democracy to the world |
Guglielmo Marconi 1874-1937 #84 | Italian Inventor who invented the telegraph to send wireless signals that led to the radio |
The Beatles 1970's #76 | Led a Pop Music Revolution in the 1960's |
Gregory Pincus 1903-1967 #75 | Father of the Birth Control Pill |
Enrico Fermi 1901-1954 #74 | Master of radioactivity and a participant of the 'Manhatten Project' |
Princess Diana of England 1961-1997 #73 | Humanitarian may have been the beginning of the end of the British Monarchy |
Harriet Tubman 1820-1913 #71 | Formed the Underground Railroad to free slaves |
Pope Gregory VII 1020-1085 #70 | Helped clean up a corrupt church. Believed in separation of church and state |
William Harvey 1578-1657 #69 | Father of Modern Physiology Described how the circulatory system works. |
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 #68 | Inventor, writer politician, signer of the Declaration of Independence |
Vladimir Zworykin 1889-1982 #67 | Russian born American physicist who invented the iconoscope and kinescope which brought TV to the public. |
D.W. Griffith 1875-1948 #66 | A pioneer American motion picture director and producer who brought storytelling to the movie screen. |
Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 #64 | An artist, potter, considered to be one of the most influential artists of the 1900's. |
Jane Austen 1775-1817 #63 | An author considered to be the first great female novelist. |
Walt Disney 1901-1966 #62 | One of the most famous motion-picture producers in history. He developed the first animated cartoons featuring Mickey Mouse. |
Michael Faraday 1791-1867 #61 | One of the greatest English chemists and physicists, discovered the principle of electromagnetic induction. |
Immanuel Kant 1724-1804 #59 | German philosopher who established the main lines for philosophical developments since his day. |
Joan of Arc c1412-1431 #58 | A french national heroine who became a of the Roman Catholic Church.She led the french army against the English. |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815-1902 #56 | One of the first women's Rights activist who sought equality for women. |
Edward Jenner 1749-1823 #51 | Developed the smallpox vaccine. |
Margaret Sanger 1879-1966 #50 | Started Planned Parenthood & encouraged the world to consider birth control to prevent overpopulation of the world. |
Mikel Gorbachev 1931-present #49 | Last leader of the Soviet Union. Introduced 'Glasnost" |
Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-1797 #48 | The original women's rights activist.British author who wrote about men and women having equality. |
Charles Babbage 1792-1871 #47 | Mathematician 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 #46 | An Italian statesman and writer who is considered to be the 'Father of Modern Political Science' |
William the Conqueror c1028-1087 #45 | He was the first Norman King of England.The only foreigner to conquer Britain |
Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922 #44 | American born inventor of the telephone. |
Mao Zedong 1893-1976 #43 | He led the struggle that made China a communist nation and a superpower. |
Gregor Mendel 1822-1884 #42 | An Austrian ( monk) botanist who formulated the basic laws of heredity- genetics. |
Dante Alighlieri 1265-1321 #39 | Italian author considered to be one of the greatest poets of the Middle Ages. |
Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1616 #38 | An English philosopher and statesman who is the 'Father of the Scientific Method'. |
Sir Alexander Fleming 1881-1955 #36 | A British bacteriologist who discovered the germ-killing power of green mold now known as penicillin. |
Vladimir Lenin 1870-1924 #35 | He founded the Communist Party in Russia and set up the world's first Communist Party dictatorship. |
Jean - Jaques Rousseau 1712-1778 #34 | A 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 #33 | American Civil Rights leader that tried to bring about equallity of the races through peaceful means. |
Rene Descartes 1596-1650 #32 | Father of Modern Philosophy and Anaylical Geometry. |
Watson & Crick 1928/1916 - present #31 | Unlocked the secrets of DNA |
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 #28 | Virtuoso Organist and gifted musician |
James Watt 1736-1819 #25 | Godfather of the Industrial Revolution by inventing the steam engine |
Saint Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274 #24 | Priest 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 #22 | Ruthless 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 #20 | Scottish econimist and statesman who wrote 'Wealth of nations' |
Michaelangelo 1475-1564 #19 | One of the greatest Italian artists, sculptors, and painters of our time. |
John Locke 1632-1704 #18 | Laid the cornerstones for democracy. He believed the common man has power. |
Mahatma Ghandi 1869-1948 #17 | Led India to a peaceful revolution for independence from Britain. |
Louis Pasteur 1822-1895 #13 | Discoverer of Pasteurization, heating something to kill germs and bacteria. |
Sigmund Freud 1856-1939 #12 | Father of Psycho -analyst. Started the 'Talking Cure' |
Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519 #11 | Prolific genius in areas of science, art, hydrolics, sculptor. |
Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 #10 | Discovered Modern Astronomy |
Nicholas Copernicus 1473-1543 #9 | Polish Astronomer who is considered the father of Modern Astronomy. |
Karl Marx 1818-1883 #7 | Father of Communism |
Christopher Columbus 1450-1506 #6 | Italian Navigator who discovered the Americas. |
William Shakespeare 1564-1616 #5 | British writer considered to be the Greatest Writer of All Time. |
Charles Darwin 1809-1882 #4 | British naturalist who developed the 'Theory of Evolution' |
Martin Luther 1483-1546 #3 | He was the leader of Reformation, a religious movement that led to the birth of Protestantism. |
Issac Newton 1642-1727 #2 | English Astronomer, mathematician who invented Calculus and considered to be the 'Founder of Modern Science'. |
Johann Gutenberg c1400-1468 #1 | German tradesman who invented the printing press. |