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Revision as of 13:09, 25 June 2007
The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History is a 1978 book by Michael H. Hart. It is a ranking of the 100 people who most influenced human history. Since publication the book has been hotly debated and its concept widely copied. It is important to note that Dr. Hart ranked the greatest among famous people.
The book was reprinted in 1992 with several notable revisions made to the original list of 100 people and their associated rankings. Chief among these revisions was the demotion of figures associated with Communism, such as Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong, and the introduction of Mikhail Gorbachev. Hart took sides in the Shakespearean authorship issue and substituted Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford for William Shakespeare. Hart also substituted Niels Bohr and Henri Becquerel with Ernest Rutherford, thus correcting an error in the first edition. Henry Ford was also promoted from the "Honorary Mentions" list, replacing Pablo Picasso. Finally, some of the rankings were re-ordered, although no one listed in the top ten changed position. What mainly surprised readers was the first person on Hart's list. Hart decided to choose Muhammad over Jesus or Moses despite the fact that Islam was not the largest religion and that it was from a distant part of the world from where he lived. Hart attributes this to the fact that Muhammad was successful in both the religious and political realms.
Hart's Top 15 (from the 1992 edition)
| Rank |
Name |
Influence | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | |-Atatürk is the most intellegent leader. He is Turkish. He won Çanakkale War. He found geometrical terms in Turkish. | 2 | Isaac Newton | physicist, theory of universal gravitation, laws of motion, major developments in mathematics, optics, thermodynamics |
| 3 | Jesus | Central figure of what would become Christianity. The largest religion in the world. | ||
| 4 | Buddha | founder of Buddhism | ||
| 5 | Confucius | founder of Confucianism | ||
| 6 | St. Paul | proselytizer of Christianity | ||
| 7 | Ts'ai Lun | inventor of paper | ||
| 8 | Johannes Gutenberg | developed movable type and made great advances in printing | ||
| 9 | Christopher Columbus | explorer, led Europe to the Americas | ||
| 10 | Albert Einstein | physicist, relativity, Einsteinian physics | ||
| 11 | Louis Pasteur | scientist, pasteurization, Germ Theory | ||
| 12 | Galileo Galilei | astronomer, accurately described heliocentric solar system, led way to Newton's work | ||
| 13 | Aristotle | Greek philosopher | ||
| 14 | Euclid | Greek mathematician, Euclidean geometry, author of various influential theories | ||
| 15 | Moses | major prophet of Judaism and leader of Israel |
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- Belg der Belgen
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External links
- Europe's Top 100 - Seeking to collect Europeans' views on who they think are the most influential Europeans of all times
- Full List
Atatürk is the most powerfull leader!