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For starters: Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed -- obviously. Similarly Marx. Socrates/Plato and Aristotle also had long-enduring influence on how people thought. Highl
by CurtMonash 13y ago
For starters:
Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed -- obviously. Similarly Marx.
Socrates/Plato and Aristotle also had long-enduring influence on how people thought.
Highly effective conquerors -- Alexander and Genghis Khan come to mind first, because they punched WAY over the weight of the nations they started with.
Newton, Gauss, Darwin, Einstein -- massive and enduring influences on how science and mathematics are framed.
- CurtMonash 13y agoEdison -- yes, way over Tesla. He drove and shaped adoption of a whole lot of technology. Bill Gates, similarly albeit to a lesser extent, plus he has his massive charity.
- CurtMonash 13y agoIf we're going for 100, I'd quickly add: Pasteur -- popularized the germ theory of disease. Florence Nightingale -- transformed health care, and also influenced statistics Euclid, Euler, Riemann Caesar, Stalin Paul -- the marketing brains behind Christ's enduring success
- timje1 13y agoSurely Paul the Baptist was far more influential than Jesus - there were quite a few crazies wandering around in those times telling people to sell all of their things and follow them to paradise. It took quite a bit of admin and organisation to form a religion out of the stories and rumours that were left.
- astine 13y agoI think you mean Paul/Saul of Tarsus. There is no "Paul the Baptist." John the Baptist died before Jesus did. Paul of Tarsus was certainly one of the most influential of the very early Christians, but by all accounts, Christianity has already taken off before he joined and already had an organized leadership.