Most Influential Leaders In History

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    following is the list of 100 most influential people of all times:

   
   

   
   
   Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965 Lutheran
   
   Chiune Sugihara 1900-1986
   
   Raoul Wallenberg 1912-c.1947
   
   Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968 Baptist
   
   Desmond Tutu 1931- Anglican
   
   The Dalai Lama 1935- Tibetan Buddhism
   
   Han Dongfang 1963-
   
   Thinkers and Philosophers
   
   Lao Zi [Lao Tzu] c. 600 B.C. Taoism
   
   Confucius 551-479 B.C. Confucianism
   
   Socrates 469-399 B.C. Greek philosophy
   
   Plato c. 427-347 B.C. Platonism / Greek philosophy
   
   Aristotle 384-322 B.C. Platonism / Greek philosophy
   
   Niccolo Machiavelli 1469-1527 Catholic
   
   John Locke 1632-1704 raised Puritan (Anglican); Liberal Christian
   
   Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778 born Protestant;
   
   converted as a teen to Catholic;
   
   later Deist
   
   Karl Marx 1818-1883 Jewish; Lutheran;
   
   Atheist; Marxism/Communism
   
   Kings, Emperors and Politicians
   
   Hammurabi c. 1792-1750 B.C.
   
   Alexander the Great 356-323 Greek state paganism
   
   Asoka c. 300-232 B.C. Buddhism
   
   s**+ Huangdi 259-210 B.C.
   
   Julius Caesar c. 100-44 B.C. Roman state paganism
   
   Charlemagne 742-814 A.D. Catholic
   
   Kublai Khan 1214-1294
   
   Peter the Great 1672-1725 Russian Orthodox
   
   George Washington 1732-1799 Episcopalian
   
   Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821 Catholic (nominal)
   
   Simon Bolivar 1783-1830 Catholic (nominal); Atheist
   
   Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 Regular Baptist (childhood);
   
   later ambiguous -
   
   Deist, general theist or
   
   a very personalized Christianity
   
   Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Hindu (mother was a Jain)
   
   Kemal Ataturk 1881-1938
   
   Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945 Episcopalian
   
   Nelson Mandela 1918-
   
   Mikhail Gorbachev 1931- Russian Orthodox
   
   Religious Leaders
   
   Zoroaster c. 628-c. 551 B.C. Zoroastrianism
   
   Muhammad c. 570-632 A.D. Islam
   
   Buddha c. 563-c. 483 B.C. Hinduism; Buddhism
   
   Moses c. 13th century B.C. Judaism
   
   Jesus Christ c. 6 B.C.-c. 30 A.D. Judaism; Christianity
   
   Martin Luther 1483-1546 Catholic; Lutheran
   
   Musicians and Composers
   
   Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 Lutheran
   
   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791 Catholic
   
   Ludwig van Beethoven 17770-1827 Catholic
   
   Richard Wagner 1813-1883
   
   Arturo Toscanini 1867-1957 Catholic
   
   George Gershwin 1898-1937 Jewish
   
   Louis Armstrong 1898-1971 Baptist
   
   The Beatles formed 1960
   
   Writers
   
   Homer c. 700-c. 800 B.C. Greek paganism
   
   Virgil 70-19 B.C.
   
   Dante Alighieri 1265-1321 Catholic
   
   William Shakespeare 1564-1616 Catholic; Anglican
   
   Moliere 1622-1673 Catholic
   
   Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Anglican
   
   Mark Twain 1835-1910 Presbyterian
   
   Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956
   
   Painters, Sculptors and Architects
   
   Michelangelo 1475-1564 Catholic
   
   Rembrandt 1606-1669 Dutch Reformed
   
   Christopher Wren 1632-1723 Anglican
   
   Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
   
   Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851
   
   Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890 Dutch Reformed
   
   Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959 Unitarian
   
   Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 Catholic
   
   Le Corbusier 1887-1965
   
   Stage, Screen and Photography
   
   Charlie Chaplin 1889-1977 Anglican; agnostic
   
   Jean Renoir 1894-1979 Catholic
   
   Sergei Eisenstein 1898-1948 Russian Orthodox; Marxist; Freudian
   
   Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908-
   
   Orson Welles 1915-1985 Protestant Christian
   
   Steven Spielberg 1947- Judaism
   
   Scientists
   
   Euclid c. 330-c. 260 B.C. Platonism / Greek philosophy
   
   Archimedes c. 287-212 B.C. Greek philosophy
   
   Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519 Catholic
   
   Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 Catholic
   
   Isaac Newton 1642-1727 Anglican (rejected Trinitarianism, i.e., Athanasianism;
   
   believed in the Arianism of the Primitive Church)
   
   James Watt 1736-1819 Presbyterian (lapsed)
   
   Michael Faraday 1791-1867 Sandemanian
   
   Charles Darwin 1809-1882 Anglican (nominal); Unitarian
   
   Louis Pasteur 1822-1895 Catholic
   
   Joseph Lister 1827-1912 Quaker
   
   Sigmund Freud 1856-1939 Jewish; atheist; Freudian psychology/psychoanalysis
   
   Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Jewish
   
   Alexander Fleming 1881-1955 Catholic
   
   Linus Pauling 1901-1994 Lutheran
   
   James Watson and Francis Crick 1928-; 1916-
   
   Inventors
   
   Zai Lun c. 50-118 A.D.
   
   Johannes Gutenberg 1400-1468 Catholic
   
   Samuel Morse 1791-1872 Christianity
   
   Nikolaus Otto 1832-1891
   
   Alfred Nobel 1833-1896
   
   Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922 Unitarian
   
   Thomas Alva Edison 1847-1931 Congregationalist; agnostic
   
   Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright 1871-1948; 1867-1912 United Brethren
   
   Guglielmo Marconi 1847-1937 Catholic and Anglican
   
   Explorers and Pioneers
   
   Marco Polo c. 1254-1324 Catholic
   
   Christopher Columbus 1451-1506 Catholic
   
   Ferdinand Magellan 1480-1521 Catholic
   
   Roald Amundsen 1872-1928
   
   Yuri Gagarin 1934-1968
   
   Neil Armstrong 1930-

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