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.
1 Muhammad (saw): Islam Prophet of Islam; conqueror of Arabia;
Hart recognized that ranking Muhammad first might be controversial, but felt that, from a secular historian’s perspective, this was the correct choice because Muhammad is the only man to have been both a founder of a major world religion and a major military/political leader.
2 Isaac Newton: Anglican (rejected Trinitarianism, i.e.,Athanasianism; believed in the Arianism
of the Primitive Church) physicist; theory of universal gravitation; laws of motion
3 Jesus Christ: Judaism; Christianity founder of Christianity
4 Buddha: Hinduism; Buddhism founder of Buddhism
5 Confucius: Confucianism founder of Confucianism
6 St. Paul: Judaism; Christianity proselytizer of Christianity
7 Ts’ai Lun: Chinese traditional religion inventor of paper
8 Johann Gutenberg: Catholic developed movable type; printed Bibles
9 Christopher Columbus: Catholic explorer; led Europe to Americas
10 Albert Einstein: Jewish physicist; relativity; Einsteinian physics
11 Louis Pasteur: Catholic scientist; pasteurization
12 Galileo Galilei: Catholic astronomer; accurately described heliocentric solar system
13 Aristotle: Platonism / Greek philosophy influential Greek philosopher
14 Euclid: Platonism / Greek philosophy mathematician; Euclidian geometry
15 Moses: Judaism major prophet of Judaism
16 Charles Darwin: Anglican (nominal); Unitarian biologist; described Darwinian evolution, which had theological impact on many religions
17 Shih Huang: Ti Chinese traditional religion Chinese emperor
18 Augustus: Caesar Roman state paganism ruler
19 Nicolaus: Copernicus Catholic (priest) astronomer; taught heliocentricity
20 Antoine Laurent Lavoisier Catholic father of modern chemistry; philosopher; economist
Subhanallah!
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