My guesses for who's name will be most widely known by an average person 1000 years from now, no particular order: Hitler Neil Armstrong Gandhi (showing effe

My guesses for who's name will be most widely known by an average person 1000 years from now, no particular order: Hitler Neil Armstrong Gandhi (showing effectiveness of nonviolent resistance) Einstein Vanevar Bush (for his essay "As We May Think") Bin Laden (showing power of terrorism) Craig Venter (as important early bioengineer) Milton Friedman (market economics) Lawrence Roberts (Arpanet) Steve Jobs (mainly just for the iPhone) William Shockley (Head of transistor team) Wright Brothers Richard Stallman (Just because DRM will always exist and he will be known as an early popularizer of related issues) Darwin will be far more important than any of these, but is outside your date range. Who I don't think will make the cut: Tim Berners Lee (world wide web will be too anachronistic) Turing (no emotional resonance with his work, unlike Vanevar Bush)