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BBfan46
29-09-2010, 06:11 PM
This will be running with another site with the same poll. I'm really interested to know how it is so the contenders are....

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955)
was a theoretical physicist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_physics), philosopher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy) and author who is widely regarded as one of the most influential and best known scientists and intellectuals of all time

Barrack Obama (4 August 1961 - Present)
is the 44th (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States) and current (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Barack_Obama) President of the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States). He is the first (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_firsts) African American (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American) to hold the office.

Elvis Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977)
was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King".

John F. Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963)
often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States), serving from 1961 until his assassination (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination) in 1963.

John Lennon (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980)
was an English singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles), and together with Paul McCartney (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney) formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennon/McCartney) of the 20th century.

Madonna (August 16, 1958 - Present)
is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur.

Mahatma Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948)
was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj) during the Indian independence movement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_independence_movement). He pioneered satyagraha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyagraha). This is defined as resistance to tyranny (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny) through mass civil disobedience (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience), a philosophy firmly founded upon ahimsa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahimsa), or total nonviolence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolence). This concept helped India to gain independence, and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.

Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962),
born Norma Jeane Mortenson, but baptized (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptized) Norma Jeane Baker, was an American actress, singer and model (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_%28person%29).

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)
was an American (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_of_the_United_States) clergyman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastor), activist, and prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_%281955%E2%80%93196 8%29). He is best known for being an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_and_political_rights) in the United States and around the world, using nonviolent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolence) methods following the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi).

Michael Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009)
was an American (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_of_the_United_States) recording artist, entertainer, and philanthropist. Referred to as the King of Pop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorific_nicknames_in_popular_music), Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records). His contribution to music, dance and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_culture) for over four decades.

Queen Elizabeth II (21 April 1926 - Present)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II#cite_note-0)is the reigning queen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_regnant) and head of state (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_state) of 16 independent sovereign states (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_state) known as the Commonwealth realms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_realm)

William Shakespeare 26 April 1564 - 23 April 1616)
was an English (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_people) poet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet) and playwright (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playwright), widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language) and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

bettiepage
29-09-2010, 06:12 PM
where's Noah?

kmt.

Beastie
29-09-2010, 06:14 PM
Sir Paul McCartney?

BBfan46
29-09-2010, 06:18 PM
I asked a load of other people and these 12 came out on top.

MTVN
29-09-2010, 06:19 PM
Martin Luther King I reckon.

Beastie
29-09-2010, 06:20 PM
I voted John Lennon then! :)

red
29-09-2010, 06:24 PM
were's jesus?

Lucy.
29-09-2010, 06:25 PM
I might vote Barrack just because his birthdays sexy :laugh:

Stacey.
29-09-2010, 06:25 PM
Michael Jackson.

BBfan46
29-09-2010, 06:28 PM
were's jesus?

I've already explained why votes for Jesus weren't counted.

Shaun
29-09-2010, 06:31 PM
I'd say over the years the most famous would be Shakespeare. Not necessarily now, but for a lot longer than the others.

bettiepage
29-09-2010, 06:33 PM
William Shakespeare. even Belo knew who he was.

ILoveTRW
29-09-2010, 06:34 PM
Princess Diana FFS

BBfan46
29-09-2010, 06:38 PM
Princess Diana FFS

She's not even famous across the pond.

Niamh.
29-09-2010, 06:58 PM
I voted Einstein although I was torn between him Elvis and Michael Jackson

ILoveTRW
29-09-2010, 07:00 PM
She's not even famous across the pond.

What?!?!?!?!?
You people are crazy

BBfan46
29-09-2010, 07:06 PM
What?!?!?!?!?
You people are crazy

She's famous for dying, it wasn't my choice to not include her anyway.

ILoveTRW
29-09-2010, 07:08 PM
She's famous for dying, it wasn't my choice to not include her anyway.

You clearly know **** all

BBfan46
29-09-2010, 07:10 PM
You clearly know **** all

Slight exaggeration I admit, but getting angry over a poll on TiBB is about pathetic is it not? People voted, they didn't choose your person, you can't call people idiots for not agreeing with you.

Shaun
29-09-2010, 07:10 PM
Princess Diana is the most overrated person ever. She did **** all.

ILoveTRW
29-09-2010, 07:14 PM
Princess Diana is the most overrated person ever. She did **** all.

She put up with being ****ed by Prince Charles, I'd say thats a pretty big achievement.

BBfan46
30-09-2010, 01:24 PM
Michael Jackson is currently ahead.

Shaun
30-09-2010, 01:28 PM
She put up with being ****ed by Prince Charles, I'd say thats a pretty big achievement.

by shagging someone else behind his back?

she's a glorified charity worker. There is absolutely nothing important about her.

MTVN
30-09-2010, 02:10 PM
Princess Di was loved across the pond!

ILoveTRW
30-09-2010, 03:47 PM
When she was alive she was almost certainly the most famous women alive so I don't see how she isn't included on this list.

BBfan46
30-09-2010, 05:15 PM
When she was alive she was almost certainly the most famous women alive so I don't see how she isn't included on this list.

The public chose the nominees not me. I despise Madonna.

Smithy
30-09-2010, 05:18 PM
1 person voted Madonna, hmmmm wonder who it was

Omen
30-09-2010, 05:22 PM
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.<-Indeed Allah is powerful to choose who He wants to teach..and Muhammad had been chosen to be one..and still be at this top till the end.

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
21 Constantine the Great Roman state paganism; Christianity Roman emperor who completely legalized Christianity, leading to its status as state religion. Convened the First Council of Nicaea that produced the Nicene Creed, which rejected Arianism (one of two major strains of Christian thought) and established Athanasianism (Trinitarianism, the other strain) as "official doctrine."
22 James Watt Presbyterian (lapsed) developed steam engine
23 Michael Faraday Sandemanian physicist; chemist; discovery of magneto-electricity
24 James Clerk Maxwell Presbyterian; Anglican; Baptist physicist; electromagnetic spectrum
25 Martin Luther Catholic; Lutheran founder of Protestantism and Lutheranism
26 George Washington Episcopalian first president of United States
27 Karl Marx Jewish; Lutheran;
Atheist; Marxism/Communism founder of Marxism, Marxist Communism
28 Orville and Wilbur Wright United Brethren inventors of airplane
29 Genghis Khan Mongolian shamanism Mongol conqueror
30 Adam Smith Liberal Protestant economist; philosopher; expositor of capitalism; author: The Theory of Moral Sentiments
31 Edward de Vere
a.k.a. William Shakespeare Catholic; Anglican literature; also wrote 6 volumes about philosophy and religion
32 John Dalton Quaker chemist; physicist; atomic theory; law of partial pressures (Dalton's law)
33 Alexander the Great Greek state paganism conqueror
34 Napoleon Bonaparte Catholic (nominal) French conqueror
35 Thomas Edison Congregationalist; agnostic inventor of light bulb, phonograph, etc.
36 Antony van Leeuwenhoek Dutch Reformed microscopes; studied microscopic life
37 William T.G. Morton ?? pioneer in anesthesiology
38 Guglielmo Marconi Catholic and Anglican inventor of radio
39 Adolf Hitler Nazism; born/raised in, but rejected Catholicism conqueror; led Axis Powers in WWII
40 Plato Platonism / Greek philosophy founder of Platonism
41 Oliver Cromwell Puritan (Protestant) British political and military leader
42 Alexander Graham Bell Unitarian/Universalist inventor of telephone *
43 Alexander Fleming Catholic penicillin; advances in bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy
44 John Locke raised Puritan (Anglican);
Liberal Christian philosopher and liberal theologian
45 Ludwig van Beethoven Catholic composer
46 Werner Heisenberg Lutheran a founder of quantum mechanics; discovered principle of uncertainty; head of Nazi Germany's nuclear program
47 Louis Daguerre ?? an inventor/pioneer of photography
48 Simon Bolivar Catholic (nominal); Atheist National hero of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia
49 Rene Descartes Catholic Rationalist philosopher and mathematician
50 Michelangelo Catholic painter; sculptor; architect
51 Pope Urban II Catholic called for First Crusade
52 'Umar ibn al-Khattab Islam Second Caliph; expanded Muslim empire
53 Asoka Buddhism king of India who converted to and spread Buddhism
54 St. Augustine Greek state paganism; Manicheanism; Catholic Early Christian theologian
55 William Harvey Anglican (nominal) described the circulation of blood; wrote Essays on the Generation of Animals, the basis for modern embryology
56 Ernest Rutherford ?? physicist; pioneer of subatomic physics
57 John Calvin Protestant; Calvinism Protestant reformer; founder of Calvinism
58 Gregor Mendel Catholic (Augustinian monk) Mendelian genetics
59 Max Planck Protestant physicist; thermodynamics
60 Joseph Lister Quaker principal discoverer of antiseptics which greatly reduced surgical mortality
61 Nikolaus August Otto ?? built first four-stroke internal combustion engine
62 Francisco Pizarro Catholic Spanish conqueror in South America; defeated Incas
63 Hernando Cortes Catholic conquered Mexico for Spain; through war and introduction of new diseases he largely destroyed Aztec civilization
64 Thomas Jefferson Episcopalian; Deist 3rd president of United States
65 Queen Isabella I Catholic Spanish ruler
66 Joseph Stalin Russian Orthodox; Atheist; Marxism revolutionary and ruler of USSR
67 Julius Caesar Roman state paganism Roman emperor
68 William the Conqueror Catholic laid foundation of modern England
69 Sigmund Freud Jewish; atheist; Freudian psychology/psychoanalysis founded Freudian school of psychology/psychoanalysis (i.e., the "religion of Freudianism")
70 Edward Jenner Anglican discoverer of the vaccination for smallpox
71 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen ?? discovered X-rays
72 Johann Sebastian Bach Lutheran; Catholic composer
73 Lao Tzu Taoism founder of Taoism
74 Voltaire raised in Jansenism;
later Deist writer and philosopher; wrote Candide
75 Johannes Kepler Lutheran astronomer; planetary motions
76 Enrico Fermi Catholic initiated the atomic age; father of atom bomb
77 Leonhard Euler Calvinist physicist; mathematician; differential and integral calculus and algebra
78 Jean-Jacques Rousseau born Protestant;
converted as a teen to Catholic;
later Deist French deistic philosopher and author
79 Nicoli Machiavelli Catholic wrote The Prince (influential political treatise)
80 Thomas Malthus Anglican (cleric) economist; wrote Essay on the Principle of Population
81 John F. Kennedy Catholic U.S. President who led first successful effort by humans to travel to another "planet"
82 Gregory Pincus Jewish endocrinologist; developed birth-control pill
83 Mani Manicheanism founder of Manicheanism, once a world religion which rivaled Christianity in strength
84 Lenin Russian Orthodox;
Atheist; Marxism/Communism Russian ruler
85 Sui Wen Ti Chinese traditional religion unified China
86 Vasco da Gama Catholic navigator; discovered route from Europe to India around Cape Hood
87 Cyrus the Great Zoroastrianism founder of Persian empire
88 Peter the Great Russian Orthodox forged Russia into a great European nation
89 Mao Zedong Atheist; Communism; Maoism founder of Maoism, Chinese form of Communism
90 Francis Bacon Anglican philosopher; delineated inductive scientific method
91 Henry Ford Protestant developed automobile; achievement in manufacturing and assembly
92 Mencius Confucianism philosopher; founder of a school of Confucianism
93 Zoroaster Zoroastrianism founder of Zoroastrianism
94 Queen Elizabeth I Anglican British monarch; restored Church of England to power after Queen Mary
95 Mikhail Gorbachev Russian Orthodox Russian premier who helped end Communism in USSR
96 Menes Egyptian paganism unified Upper and Lower Egypt
97 Charlemagne Catholic Holy Roman Empire created with his baptism in 800 AD
98 Homer Greek paganism epic poet
99 Justinian I Catholic Roman emperor; reconquered Mediterranean empire; accelerated Catholic-Monophysite schism
100 Mahavira Hinduism; Jainism founder of Jainism

Sarah.
30-09-2010, 08:55 PM
John Lennon.

GypsyGoth
02-10-2010, 12:52 AM
Elvis.

Barbie
02-10-2010, 07:26 AM
Surprised Jesus, Elvis and Nelson Mandella aren't in there

Voted Michael Jackson, i dont know anyone who cant give me a line of one of his songs.

Kazanne
02-10-2010, 08:12 AM
She's not even famous across the pond.

Yes she was ,they loved her in the States,it was an American who woke me with the news she had died! Infact she was probably more loved there than here.

Jevans
02-10-2010, 09:10 AM
Wheres Simon Cowell :lol: wasn't he voted as most famous person once ?