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100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by CyynthiaKiss(op): 10:10pm On May 17
By Steven Skiena and Charles B. Ward

Top 100 Most Influential Persons in History

1. Jesus
2. Napoleon
3. Muhammad
4. William Shakespeare
5. Abraham Lincoln
6. George Washington
7. Adolf Hitler
8. Aristotle
9. Alexander the Great
10. Thomas Jefferson
11. Henry VIII of England
12. Charles Darwin
13. Elizabeth I of England
14. Karl Marx
15. Julius Caesar
16. Queen Victoria
17. Martin Luther
18. Joseph Stalin
19. Albert Einstein
20. Christopher Columbus
21. Isaac Newton
22. Charlemagne
23. Theodore Roosevelt
24. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
25. Plato
26. Louis XIV of France
27. Ludwig van Beethoven
28. Ulysses S. Grant
29. Leonardo da Vinci
30. Augustus
31. Carl Linnaeus
32. Ronald Reagan
33. Charles Dickens
34. Paul the Apostle
35. Benjamin Franklin
36. George W. Bush
37. Winston Churchill
38. Genghis Khan
39. Charles I of England
40. Thomas Edison
41. James I of England
42. Friedrich Nietzsche
43. Franklin D. Roosevelt
44. Sigmund Freud
45. Alexander Hamilton
46. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
47. Woodrow Wilson
48. Johann Sebastian Bach
49. Galileo Galilei
50. Oliver Cromwell
51. James Madison
52. Gautama Buddha
53. Mark Twain
54. Edgar Allan Poe
55. Joseph Smith, Jr.
56. Adam Smith
57. David, King of Israel
58. George III of the United Kingdom
59. Immanuel Kant
60. James Cook
61. John Adams
62. Richard Wagner
63. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
64. Voltaire
65. Saint Peter
66. Andrew Jackson
67. Constantine the Great
68. Socrates
69. Elvis Presley
70. William the Conqueror
71. John F. Kennedy
72. Augustine of Hippo
73. Vincent van Gogh
74. Nicolaus Copernicus
75. Vladimir Lenin
76. Robert E. Lee
77. Oscar Wilde
78. Charles II of England
79. Cicero
80. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
81. Francis Bacon
82. Richard Nixon
83. Louis XVI of France
84. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
85. King Arthur
86. Michelangelo
87. Philip II of Spain
88. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
89. Ali, founder of Sufism
90. Thomas Aquinas
91. Pope John Paul II
92. René Descartes
93. Nikola Tesla
94. Harry S. Truman
95. Joan of Arc
96. Dante Alighieri
97. Otto von Bismarck
98. Grover Cleveland
99. John Calvin
100. John Locke

Source: Steven Skiena and Charles B. Ward are the authors of Who’s Bigger? Where Historical Figures Really Rank, Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Disclaimer: The views expressed are solely their own.
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Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by CyynthiaKiss(op): 10:21pm On May 17
Jesus Is Lord, Now and Forever!
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by PulaPower: 10:26pm On May 17
Source: Steven Skiena and Charles B. Ward are the authors of Who’s Bigger? Where Historical Figures Really Rank, Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Disclaimer: The views expressed are solely their own.

Clear. No need of saying a thing. It’s their views & opinions..

If I am to pen down my own list, Jesus / Muhaamed wouldn’t be there cuz both never existed. They were all fairytales..
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by Dikastan: 4:03am On May 18
Tell the person that compiled the list to get out
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by DeltaBachelor(m): 4:51pm On May 18
Wow. The movers and shakers. Men them !!!!
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by richmond500: 4:52pm On May 18
How could Einstein come before Newton?

Even Adolf Hitler, Washington and Lincoln came before Alexander the great?

Who made this list?
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by Maj196(m): 4:53pm On May 18
The person compiled these while shittin a very hot shyte
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by KaptainRobin: 4:53pm On May 18
Lol number one is really funny...
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by brain54(m): 4:54pm On May 18
I was looking for Michael Jackson...


I wouldn't call this a list of influential people by the way but of famous people.


They isn't a way someone wouldn't have heard about these people one way or the other. Even by those outside their respective fields!
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by emmabest2000(m):
No Michael Jackson ?
No Fela ?

Day play

Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by MadamVanessa(f): 4:54pm On May 18
shocked



Non comes close to our LORD AND PERSONAL SAVIOUR. The number 3 is only popular via paedophilic and terrorist action.
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by CodeTemplar: 4:54pm On May 18
Imagine Napoleon is ahead of Muhammad. With all their reproductive gra-gra.
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by TOPMAN4LIFE: 4:55pm On May 18
Jesus is Lord
There is no one like him
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by saintkel(m): 4:55pm On May 18
That Jesus is a conformation of many things but I won't talk sha
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by Shimran(m): 4:55pm On May 18
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by Pootle: 4:55pm On May 18
Jesus the same yesterday today and forever
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by YoobaNesan: 4:55pm On May 18
where is Donaild J Trump? grin
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by EnkayDezign: 4:55pm On May 18
Dikastan:
Tell the person that compiled the list to get out
No mind am jare. Asper no person of color has been great in humanity abi
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by MatrixReloaded: 4:55pm On May 18
what do you have to say brother
saintkel:
That Jesus is a conformation of many things but I won't talk sha
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by yordha(m): 4:56pm On May 18
These Americans really believe the world revolves around them.
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by Bimpe29(m): 4:56pm On May 18
Muhammad May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him (Solla llahu alehi wasallam) ❤️
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by richmond500: 4:56pm On May 18
emmabest2000:
No Michael Jackson ?
No Fela ?

Day play
Even Tinubu is not on the list.
grin
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by justmatiu: 4:56pm On May 18
Pls add the name bola hammed tinubu.
The first person to rule a nation even in a state of dementia. grin cool shocked
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by Hedonisco:
Osama Bin Laden and Michael Jackson should be there near the bottom.

Besides, there's a disproportionate number of American presidents in the list, which is indicative of bias. We are talking about 'in all human history' , not 'in modern history'. America is a relatively young country in the scheme of larger history.
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by Kylekent59: 4:56pm On May 18
emmabest2000:
No Michael Jackson ?
No Fela ?

Day play
People who impacted into humans life and not musicians, okay?
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by Tjra: 4:57pm On May 18
richmond500:
Even Tinubu is not on the list.
grin
Just imagine. Peter Obi and Nnamdi Kanu sef no dey there.

Useless list
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by Parydelegate: 4:57pm On May 18
So no Donald Trump and Elon Musk
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by TOPMAN4LIFE:
KaptainRobin:
Lol number one is really funny...
Why is it funny?
Jesus came to save humanity from sin and Satan.
He made blind to see, lame to work, deaf to hear etc
And people that believe in His Holyname are still doing the same till today
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by richmond500: 4:58pm On May 18
Kylekent59:
People who impacted into humans life and not musicians, okay?
MJ impacted human life.
He passed a message through music
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by Lukuluku69(m): 4:58pm On May 18
Lol

They know. Those who put Jesus Christ as number that they are joking.

We all know who is the MOST INFLUENTIAL MAN in Recorded History is.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_100:_A_Ranking_of_the_Most_Influential_Persons_in_History
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by Jayhome24: 4:59pm On May 18
CyynthiaKiss:
Jesus Is Lord, Now and Forever!
Yes oo that name is something else infact every other names na follow up. Bible really completed when it says no other name under the heaven above the name Jesus and it stand till date and forever.

The worshippers of Ka'bar diety won't be happy seen this.
Re: 100 Most Influential Persons in History By World Statistics by jmoore(m): 4:59pm On May 18
PulaPower:
Source: Steven Skiena and Charles B. Ward are the authors of Who’s Bigger? Where Historical Figures Really Rank, Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Disclaimer: The views expressed are solely their own.

Clear. No need of saying a thing. It’s their views & opinions..

If I am to pen down my own list, Jesus / Muhaamed wouldn’t be there cuz both never existed. They were all fairytales..
Same way I believe that you are an AI bot.

It is also your opinion.
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