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<blockquote data-quote="I love Srilanka" data-source="post: 5731381" data-attributes="member: 244944">The following list of influential figures from world history comes from Michael H. Hart's book The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History. In the book, Hart provides brief biographies of each of the individuals, as well as reasons for their ranking.Adherents.com takes no position regarding the validity of Hart's rankings. Certainly ranking the relative historical influence of individuals is a subjective process. We welcome and will by happy to post comments from readers suggesting alternative rankings or names of influential individuals who should be included in the &quot;Top 100.&quot; This list of names and their ranks are solely the work of Michael H. Hart. The columns &quot;Religious Affiliation&quot; and &quot;Influence&quot; are the work of Adherents.com. We will readily modify notes if there are any inaccuracies.Note that many influential philosophies (such as Marxist Communism or Confucianism) are not always classified as organized &quot;religions&quot; in the traditional sense, but are classified as such by sociologists because they are a primary motivational worldview for individuals, cultures or subcultures. Also, many founders never considered themselves adherents of philosophies or religions which later bore their name (e.g., Martin Luther and Lutheranism).In the table below, where there are two religions listed, the first one is the religion the person was born into. The second was the religion or philosophy the person later joined or founded. Comments in the &quot;Influence&quot; column are in bold when the influence is mainly in the realm of religion and philosophy.Rank&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Name&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Religion1&nbsp; &nbsp; Mohammad&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Islam&nbsp; &nbsp; 2&nbsp; &nbsp; Isaac Newton&nbsp; &nbsp; Anglican (rejected Trinitarianism, i.e.,Athanasianism; believed in the Arianismof the Primitive Church)3&nbsp; &nbsp; Jesus Christ *Judaism; Christianity&nbsp; &nbsp; 4&nbsp; &nbsp; Buddha&nbsp; &nbsp; Hinduism; Buddhism&nbsp; &nbsp; 5&nbsp; &nbsp; Confucius&nbsp; &nbsp; Confucianism&nbsp; &nbsp; 6&nbsp; &nbsp; St. Paul&nbsp; &nbsp; Judaism; Christianity&nbsp; &nbsp; 7&nbsp; &nbsp; Ts'ai Lun&nbsp; &nbsp; Chinese traditional religion&nbsp; &nbsp; 8&nbsp; &nbsp; Johann Gutenberg&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic&nbsp; &nbsp; 9&nbsp; &nbsp; Christopher Columbus&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic&nbsp; &nbsp; 10&nbsp; &nbsp; Albert Einstein&nbsp; &nbsp; Jewish11&nbsp; &nbsp; Louis Pasteur&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic&nbsp; &nbsp; 12&nbsp; &nbsp; Galileo Galilei&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic13&nbsp; &nbsp; Aristotle&nbsp; &nbsp; Platonism / Greek philosophy14&nbsp; &nbsp; Euclid&nbsp; &nbsp; Platonism / Greek philosophy&nbsp; &nbsp; 15&nbsp; &nbsp; Moses&nbsp; &nbsp; Judaism&nbsp; &nbsp; 16&nbsp; &nbsp; Charles Darwin&nbsp; &nbsp; Anglican (nominal); Unitarian17&nbsp; &nbsp; Shih Huang Ti&nbsp; &nbsp; Chinese traditional religion&nbsp; &nbsp; 18&nbsp; &nbsp; Augustus Caesar&nbsp; &nbsp; Roman state paganism&nbsp; &nbsp; 19&nbsp; &nbsp; Nicolaus Copernicus&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic (priest)20&nbsp; &nbsp; Antoine Laurent Lavoisier&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic21&nbsp; &nbsp; Constantine the Great&nbsp; &nbsp; Roman state paganism; Christianity&nbsp; &nbsp; 22&nbsp; &nbsp; James Watt&nbsp; &nbsp; Presbyterian (lapsed)23&nbsp; &nbsp; Michael Faraday&nbsp; &nbsp; Sandemanian24&nbsp; &nbsp; James Clerk Maxwell&nbsp; &nbsp; Presbyterian; Anglican; Baptist25&nbsp; &nbsp; Martin Luther&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic; Lutheran&nbsp; &nbsp; 26&nbsp; &nbsp; George Washington&nbsp; &nbsp; Episcopalian27&nbsp; &nbsp; Karl Marx&nbsp; &nbsp; Jewish; Lutheran;Atheist; Marxism/Communism28&nbsp; &nbsp; Orville and Wilbur Wright&nbsp; &nbsp; United Brethren29&nbsp; &nbsp; Genghis Khan&nbsp; &nbsp; Mongolian shamanism&nbsp; &nbsp; 30&nbsp; &nbsp; Adam Smith&nbsp; &nbsp; Liberal Protestant&nbsp; &nbsp; 31&nbsp; &nbsp; Edward de Verea.k.a. William Shakespeare&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic; Anglican32&nbsp; &nbsp; John Dalton&nbsp; &nbsp; Quaker33&nbsp; &nbsp; Alexander the Great&nbsp; &nbsp; Greek state paganism&nbsp; &nbsp; 34&nbsp; &nbsp; Napoleon Bonaparte&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic (nominal)35&nbsp; &nbsp; Thomas Edison&nbsp; &nbsp; Congregationalist; agnostic36&nbsp; &nbsp; Antony van Leeuwenhoek&nbsp; &nbsp; Dutch Reformed37&nbsp; &nbsp; William T.G. Morton&nbsp; &nbsp; ??&nbsp; &nbsp; 38&nbsp; &nbsp; Guglielmo Marconi&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic and Anglican39&nbsp; &nbsp; Adolf Hitler&nbsp; &nbsp; Nazism; born/raised in, but rejected Catholicism40&nbsp; &nbsp; Plato&nbsp; &nbsp; Platonism / Greek philosophy41&nbsp; &nbsp; Oliver Cromwell&nbsp; &nbsp; Puritan (Protestant)&nbsp; &nbsp; 42&nbsp; &nbsp; Alexander Graham Bell&nbsp; &nbsp; Unitarian/Universalist&nbsp; &nbsp; 43&nbsp; &nbsp; Alexander Fleming&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic&nbsp; &nbsp; 44&nbsp; &nbsp; John Locke&nbsp; &nbsp; raised Puritan (Anglican);Liberal Christian45&nbsp; &nbsp; Ludwig van Beethoven&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic46&nbsp; &nbsp; Werner Heisenberg&nbsp; &nbsp; Lutheran47&nbsp; &nbsp; Louis Daguerre&nbsp; &nbsp; ??&nbsp; &nbsp; 48&nbsp; &nbsp; Simon Bolivar&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic (nominal); Atheist49&nbsp; &nbsp; Rene Descartes&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic50&nbsp; &nbsp; Michelangelo&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic51&nbsp; &nbsp; Pope Urban II&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic&nbsp; &nbsp; 52&nbsp; &nbsp; 'Umar ibn al-Khattab&nbsp; &nbsp; Islam&nbsp; &nbsp; 53&nbsp; &nbsp; Asoka&nbsp; &nbsp; Buddhism&nbsp; &nbsp; 54&nbsp; &nbsp; St. Augustine&nbsp; &nbsp; Greek state paganism; Manicheanism; Catholic55&nbsp; &nbsp; William Harvey&nbsp; &nbsp; Anglican (nominal)56&nbsp; &nbsp; Ernest Rutherford&nbsp; &nbsp; ??&nbsp; &nbsp; 57&nbsp; &nbsp; John Calvin&nbsp; &nbsp; Protestant; Calvinism&nbsp; &nbsp; 58&nbsp; &nbsp; Gregor Mendel&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic (Augustinian monk)59&nbsp; &nbsp; Max Planck&nbsp; &nbsp; Protestant60&nbsp; &nbsp; Joseph Lister&nbsp; &nbsp; Quaker&nbsp; &nbsp; 61&nbsp; &nbsp; Nikolaus August Otto&nbsp; &nbsp; ??&nbsp; &nbsp; 62&nbsp; &nbsp; Francisco Pizarro&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic&nbsp; &nbsp; 63&nbsp; &nbsp; Hernando Cortes&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic&nbsp; &nbsp; 64&nbsp; &nbsp; Thomas Jefferson&nbsp; &nbsp; Episcopalian; Deist65&nbsp; &nbsp; Queen Isabella I&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic&nbsp; &nbsp; 66&nbsp; &nbsp; Joseph Stalin&nbsp; &nbsp; Russian Orthodox; Atheist; Marxism67&nbsp; &nbsp; Julius Caesar&nbsp; &nbsp; Roman state paganism&nbsp; &nbsp; 68&nbsp; &nbsp; William the Conqueror&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic&nbsp; &nbsp; 69&nbsp; &nbsp; Sigmund Freud&nbsp; &nbsp; Jewish; atheist; Freudian psychology/psychoanalysis70&nbsp; &nbsp; Edward Jenner&nbsp; &nbsp; Anglican71&nbsp; &nbsp; Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen&nbsp; &nbsp; ??&nbsp; &nbsp; 72&nbsp; &nbsp; Johann Sebastian Bach&nbsp; &nbsp; Lutheran; Catholic&nbsp; &nbsp; 73&nbsp; &nbsp; Lao Tzu&nbsp; &nbsp; Taoism&nbsp; &nbsp; 74&nbsp; &nbsp; Voltaire&nbsp; &nbsp; raised in Jansenism;later Deist75&nbsp; &nbsp; Johannes Kepler&nbsp; &nbsp; Lutheran76&nbsp; &nbsp; Enrico Fermi&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic77&nbsp; &nbsp; Leonhard Euler&nbsp; &nbsp; Calvinist78&nbsp; &nbsp; Jean-Jacques Rousseau&nbsp; &nbsp; born Protestant; converted as a teen to Catholic; later Deist&nbsp; &nbsp; 79&nbsp; &nbsp; Nicoli Machiavelli&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic&nbsp; &nbsp; 80&nbsp; &nbsp; Thomas Malthus&nbsp; &nbsp; Anglican (cleric)&nbsp; &nbsp; 81&nbsp; &nbsp; John F. Kennedy&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic82&nbsp; &nbsp; Gregory Pincus&nbsp; &nbsp; Jewish83&nbsp; &nbsp; Mani&nbsp; &nbsp; Manicheanism&nbsp; &nbsp; 84&nbsp; &nbsp; Lenin&nbsp; &nbsp; Russian Orthodox;Atheist; Marxism/Communism85&nbsp; &nbsp; Sui Wen Ti&nbsp; &nbsp; Chinese traditional religion&nbsp; &nbsp; 86&nbsp; &nbsp; Vasco da Gama&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic&nbsp; &nbsp; 87&nbsp; &nbsp; Cyrus the Great&nbsp; &nbsp; Zoroastrianism&nbsp; &nbsp; 88&nbsp; &nbsp; Peter the Great&nbsp; &nbsp; Russian Orthodox&nbsp; &nbsp; 89&nbsp; &nbsp; Mao Zedong&nbsp; &nbsp; Atheist; Communism; Maoism&nbsp; &nbsp; 90&nbsp; &nbsp; Francis Bacon&nbsp; &nbsp; Anglican91&nbsp; &nbsp; Henry Ford&nbsp; &nbsp; Protestant&nbsp; &nbsp; 92&nbsp; &nbsp; Mencius&nbsp; &nbsp; Confucianism&nbsp; &nbsp; 93&nbsp; &nbsp; Zoroaster&nbsp; &nbsp; Zoroastrianism&nbsp; &nbsp; 94&nbsp; &nbsp; Queen Elizabeth I&nbsp; &nbsp; Anglican&nbsp; &nbsp; 95&nbsp; &nbsp; Mikhail Gorbachev&nbsp; &nbsp; Russian Orthodox96&nbsp; &nbsp; Menes&nbsp; &nbsp; Egyptian paganism&nbsp; &nbsp; 97&nbsp; &nbsp; Charlemagne&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic&nbsp; &nbsp; 98&nbsp; &nbsp; Homer&nbsp; &nbsp; Greek paganism&nbsp; &nbsp; 99&nbsp; &nbsp; Justinian I&nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic&nbsp; &nbsp; 100&nbsp; &nbsp; Mahavira&nbsp; &nbsp; Hinduism; Jainism&nbsp; &nbsp; [/COLOR]Source of list of names: Hart, Michael H. The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, Revised and Updated for the Nineties. New York: Carol Publishing Group/Citadel Press; first published in 1978, reprinted with minor revisions (reflected above) in 1992.IM PROUD TO BE MUSLIM</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I love Srilanka, post: 5731381, member: 244944"] The following list of influential figures from world history comes from [COLOR="Blue"]Michael H. Hart's book The 100[/COLOR]: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History. In the book, Hart provides brief biographies of each of the individuals, as well as reasons for their ranking. Adherents.com takes no position regarding the validity of Hart's rankings. Certainly ranking the relative historical influence of individuals is a subjective process. We welcome and will by happy to post comments from readers suggesting alternative rankings or names of influential individuals who should be included in the "Top 100." This list of names and their ranks are solely the work of Michael H. Hart. The columns "Religious Affiliation" and "Influence" are the work of Adherents.com. We will readily modify notes if there are any inaccuracies. Note that many influential philosophies (such as Marxist Communism or Confucianism) are not always classified as organized "religions" in the traditional sense, but are classified as such by sociologists because they are a primary motivational worldview for individuals, cultures or subcultures. Also, many founders never considered themselves adherents of philosophies or religions which later bore their name (e.g., Martin Luther and Lutheranism). In the table below, where there are two religions listed, the first one is the religion the person was born into. The second was the religion or philosophy the person later joined or founded. Comments in the "Influence" column are in bold when the influence is mainly in the realm of religion and philosophy. [COLOR="blue"]Rank Name Religion[/COLOR] 1 [COLOR="Red"][B]Mohammad [/B][/COLOR] Islam 2 Isaac Newton Anglican (rejected Trinitarianism, i.e., Athanasianism; believed in the Arianism of the Primitive Church) 3 Jesus Christ * Judaism; Christianity 4 Buddha Hinduism; Buddhism 5 Confucius Confucianism 6 St. Paul Judaism; Christianity 7 Ts'ai Lun Chinese traditional religion 8 Johann Gutenberg Catholic 9 Christopher Columbus Catholic 10 Albert Einstein Jewish 11 Louis Pasteur Catholic 12 Galileo Galilei Catholic 13 Aristotle Platonism / Greek philosophy 14 Euclid Platonism / Greek philosophy 15 Moses Judaism 16 Charles Darwin Anglican (nominal); Unitarian 17 Shih Huang Ti Chinese traditional religion 18 Augustus Caesar Roman state paganism 19 Nicolaus Copernicus Catholic (priest) 20 Antoine Laurent Lavoisier Catholic 21 Constantine the Great Roman state paganism; Christianity 22 James Watt Presbyterian (lapsed) 23 Michael Faraday Sandemanian 24 James Clerk Maxwell Presbyterian; Anglican; Baptist 25 Martin Luther Catholic; Lutheran 26 George Washington Episcopalian 27 Karl Marx Jewish; Lutheran; Atheist; Marxism/Communism 28 Orville and Wilbur Wright United Brethren 29 Genghis Khan Mongolian shamanism 30 Adam Smith Liberal Protestant 31 Edward de Vere a.k.a. William Shakespeare Catholic; Anglican 32 John Dalton Quaker 33 Alexander the Great Greek state paganism 34 Napoleon Bonaparte Catholic (nominal) 35 Thomas Edison Congregationalist; agnostic 36 Antony van Leeuwenhoek Dutch Reformed 37 William T.G. Morton ?? 38 Guglielmo Marconi Catholic and Anglican 39 Adolf Hitler Nazism; born/raised in, but rejected Catholicism 40 Plato Platonism / Greek philosophy 41 Oliver Cromwell Puritan (Protestant) 42 Alexander Graham Bell Unitarian/Universalist 43 Alexander Fleming Catholic 44 John Locke raised Puritan (Anglican); Liberal Christian 45 Ludwig van Beethoven Catholic 46 Werner Heisenberg Lutheran 47 Louis Daguerre ?? 48 Simon Bolivar Catholic (nominal); Atheist 49 Rene Descartes Catholic 50 Michelangelo Catholic 51 Pope Urban II Catholic 52 'Umar ibn al-Khattab Islam 53 Asoka Buddhism 54 St. Augustine Greek state paganism; Manicheanism; Catholic 55 William Harvey Anglican (nominal) 56 Ernest Rutherford ?? 57 John Calvin Protestant; Calvinism 58 Gregor Mendel Catholic (Augustinian monk) 59 Max Planck Protestant 60 Joseph Lister Quaker 61 Nikolaus August Otto ?? 62 Francisco Pizarro Catholic 63 Hernando Cortes Catholic 64 Thomas Jefferson Episcopalian; Deist 65 Queen Isabella I Catholic 66 Joseph Stalin Russian Orthodox; Atheist; Marxism 67 Julius Caesar Roman state paganism 68 William the Conqueror Catholic 69 Sigmund Freud Jewish; atheist; Freudian psychology/psychoanalysis 70 Edward Jenner Anglican 71 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen ?? 72 Johann Sebastian Bach Lutheran; Catholic 73 Lao Tzu Taoism 74 Voltaire raised in Jansenism; later Deist 75 Johannes Kepler Lutheran 76 Enrico Fermi Catholic 77 Leonhard Euler Calvinist 78 Jean-Jacques Rousseau born Protestant; converted as a teen to Catholic; later Deist 79 Nicoli Machiavelli Catholic 80 Thomas Malthus Anglican (cleric) 81 John F. Kennedy Catholic 82 Gregory Pincus Jewish 83 Mani Manicheanism 84 Lenin Russian Orthodox; Atheist; Marxism/Communism 85 Sui Wen Ti Chinese traditional religion 86 Vasco da Gama Catholic 87 Cyrus the Great Zoroastrianism 88 Peter the Great Russian Orthodox 89 Mao Zedong Atheist; Communism; Maoism 90 Francis Bacon Anglican 91 Henry Ford Protestant 92 Mencius Confucianism 93 Zoroaster Zoroastrianism 94 Queen Elizabeth I Anglican 95 Mikhail Gorbachev Russian Orthodox 96 Menes Egyptian paganism 97 Charlemagne Catholic 98 Homer Greek paganism 99 Justinian I Catholic 100 Mahavira Hinduism; Jainism [/COLOR] Source of list of names: Hart, Michael H. The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, Revised and Updated for the Nineties. New York: Carol Publishing Group/Citadel Press; first published in 1978, reprinted with minor revisions (reflected above) in 1992. [B] IM PROUD TO BE MUSLIM[/B] [/QUOTE]

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