A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History

The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History

Revised and Updated for the Nineties

by Michael H. Hart

Mr. Hart’s very interesting book contains biographies of all the following people, ranked in order from most influential to less influential, along with the author’s reasons for so ranking them. The book is available at most bookstores and libraries.

The links will take you to a site on the Web about the person named
(not to a chapter in the book).

� Muhammad � Isaac Newton � Jesus Christ � Buddha � ConfuciusSt. Paul � Ts’ai Lun � Johann Gutenberg � Christopher ColumbusAlbert Einstein � Louis Pasteur � Galileo Galilei � Aristotle � Euclid � Moses � Charles Darwin � Shih Huang Ti � Augustus Caesar � Nicolaus Copernicus � Antoine Laurent Lavoisier � Constantine the Great � James Watt � Michael Faraday � James Clerk Maxwell � Martin Luther � George Washington � Karl Marx � Orville and Wilbur Wright � Genghis Kahn � Adam Smith � Edward de Vere � John Dalton � Alexander the Great � Napoleon BonaparteThomas Edison � Antony van Leeuwenhoek � William T.G. Morton � Guglielmo Marconi � Adolf Hitler � Plato � Oliver Cromwell � Alexander Graham Bell � Alexander Fleming � John Locke � Ludwig van Beethoven � Werner Heisenberg � Louis Daguerre � Simon Bolivar � Rene Descartes � Michelangelo � Pope Urban II � ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab � Asoka � St. Augustine � William Harvey � Ernest Rutherford � John Calvin � Gregor Mendel � Max Planck � Joseph Lister � Nikolaus August Otto � Francisco PizarroHernando Cortes � Thomas Jefferson � Queen Isabella I � Joseph Stalin � Julius Caesar � William the Conqueror � Sigmund Freud � Edward Jenner � Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen � Johann Sebastian Bach � Lao Tzu � Voltaire � Johannes Kepler � Enrico Fermi � Leonhard Euler � Jean-Jacques Rousseau � Nicoli Machiavelli � Thomas Malthus � John F. Kennedy � Gregory Pincus � Mani � Lenin � Sui Wen Ti � Vasco da Gama � Cyrus the Great � Peter the Great � Mao Zedong � Francis Bacon � Henry Ford � Mencius � Zoroaster � Queen Elizabeth I � Mikhail Gorbachev � Menes � Charlemagne � Homer � Justinian I � Mahavira � � � � �

Runner-ups:

� St. Thomas Aquinas � Archimedes � Charles Babbage � Cheops � Marie Curie � Benjamin Franklin � Mohandas Gandhi � Abraham Lincoln � Ferdinand Magellan � Leonardo da Vinci �

If you find better sites about these people (more informative, more artistic, more exhaustive) than the ones listed here, let me know and I may change the links.

Biographies and other information about many of these people and their works may be found at Access Foundation’s Encyclopedia Britannica’s Great Books site