Top 100 Most influential people!

[Rex]

Rank Name Religious Affiliation Influence


1 Muhammad 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. More


2 Isaac Newton Anglican (rejected Trinitarianism;
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



all 100

 

[painted wolf]

Hiawatha- Iroquois- Unifyer of the Six Iroquois nations into one of the largest and most powerful confederations in North America untill the Late 18th cent.

Sequoyah- Cherokee- inventer of the Cherokee alphabet (with help from his daughter Ahyokah) the only alpahbet invented by a single individual in use.

Montezuma- Aztec 'red/war' chief- decided to welcome the Spanish at first giving them time to set up a power base.

Chocorua- Penacook/Ossipee- who chose to "Live free or Die" and rather than leave the land he loved jumped from the top of the mountian that bares his name today in New Hampshire.

Just a few names from another view point 8)

wa:do

 

[Lightkeeper]

Black Elk, Chief Seattle, Lao Tzu, Winston Churchill.

 

[Rex]

For some reason I thought there would be much more talk about this topic..

 

[Mr Spinkles]

Sorry, Rex--I don't have anything to add, it seems like a pretty solid list.

 

[anders]

I would exclude Jesus the Christ and put St Paul, the inventor of the Christian faith, in 3rd.

 

[Mr Spinkles]

Personally, I would have had Homer way up on the list (and in case you are wondering, I am talking about Homer Simpson, not the Greek guy).

 

[anders]

I very much doubt that a fellow named Homer Simpson would influence me, even if I knew who he is and what he thinks.

 

[Mr Spinkles]

He is a character on a popular animated series in the U.S. called The Simpsons

 

[ooen]

Personally, I would have had Homer way up on the list (and in case you are wondering, I am talking about Homer Simpson, not the Greek guy).

Well, the name of the list is Religious Affiliation of History's 100 Most Influential People. If the name of the list is History's 100 Most Influential People, the Homer Simpson would be way up there!!!