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A&E's 100 Most Influential people of the last Millenium

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1 Johann Gutenberg (mass media--movable type for printing)
2 Isaac Newton (gravity)
3 Martin Luther (Protestant Reformation)
4 Charles Darwin (evolutionist writer)
5 William Shakespeare (Renaissance playwright)
6 Christopher Columbus (explorer)
7 Karl Marx (19th c. political writer)
8 Albert Einstein (physicist)
9 Nicolaus Copernicus (astromony)
10 Galileo Galilei (astromony)
11 Leonardo da Vinci (for science)
12 Sigmund Freud (psychoanalysis)
13 Louis Pasteur (bacteria)
14 Thomas Edison (inventor)
15 Thomas Jefferson (3rd US president, Declaration of Independence)
16 Adolf Hitler (Nazi leader during WWII)
17 M. Gandhi (led peaceful revolution in modern India)
18 John Locke (17th c. philosopher)
19 Michaelangelo (Renaissance artist/sculptor)
20 Adam Smith (18th c. Scottish philosopher and economist)
21 George Washington (1st US president, General of Revolutionary War)
22 Ghengis Khan (12th c Mongul conqueror)
23 Abraham Lincoln (16th US president)
24 St. Thomas Acquinas (Catholic philosopher)
25 James Watt (Scottish inventor; steam engine)
26 W A Mozart (great Classic composer)
27 Napoleon (French general, president and self-proclaimed emperor)
28 JS Bach (great Baroque composer)
29 H. Ford (mass production of automobile)
30 Beethoven (great late Classic/early Romantic composer)
31 Watson Crick (DNA)
32 Descartes (philosopher)
33 ML King Jr (US civil rights leader)
34 Rousseau (great philosopher of French "Enlightenment")
35 N. Lenin (Russian political lewader/writer)
36 A Fleming (pen)
37 Voltaire (great philosopher of French "Enlightenment")
38 Francis Bacon (deductive reasoning)
39 Dante Alighieri (Medieval writer)
40 Wright Bros. (first human flight)
41 Bill Gates (computer software giant)
42 Mendel (genetics)
43 Mao Tsedung (1st Chairman of Chinese Communist party)
44 A G Bell (telephone)
45 William the Conquerer (11th c. leader of Normans and English)
46 Machiavelli (political philospher)
47 Charles Babbage (17th c. early "computer" pioneer)
48 Mary Wollstonecraft (women's rights)
49 Gorbachev (1st Soviet premier to establish good relations with US)
50 Margaret Sanger (crusader for birth control legislation)
51 Edward Jenner (vaccination)
52 Winston Churchill (Prime Minister of Britain during WWII)
53 Marie Curie (radioactivity)
54 Marco Polo (explorer)
55 F. Magellan (explorer)
56 E. Stanton (womens rights)
57 Elvis Presley (first major icon of Rock and Roll)
58 Joan of Arc (French religious martyr)
59 I. Kant (philosopher)
60 FD Roosevelt (longest serving US President)
61 M. Faraday (chemist/physicist; electricity & magnetism)
62 Walt Disney (early animation)
63 Jane Austen (writer)
64 Pablo Picasso (painter)
65 Werner Heisenberg (physicist; "uncertainty principle")
66 D W Griffith (film)
67 Vlad Zworkin (TV/RCA)
68 Ben Franklin (inventor, writer, statesman)
69 William Harvey (blood circulation)
70 Pope Gregory VII (separated church & state)
71 Harriet Tubman (underground railroad)
72 Simon Bolivar (great South American general and freedom fighter)
73 Princess Diana (human rights)
74 Enrico Fermi (nuclear physicist; quantum theory)
75 Pincus (birth control pill)
76 The Beatles (most influential band in rock history)
77 Thomas Hobbes (17th c. philosopher)
78 Queen Isabella I (supporter of Columbus' voyages)
79 Joseph Stalin (ruthless Russian leader during WWII)
80 Elizabeth I (Queen of England in late Renaissance)
81 Nelson Mandela (imprisoned leader against Apartheid)
82 Niels Bohr (atom)
83 Peter the Great (Russian Czar)
84 Marconi (radio)
85 Ronald Reagan (40th US President)
86 James Joyce (author)
87 Carson (environment)
88 Oppenheimer (atomic bomb)
89 Susan B. Anthony (US women's suffrage)
90 Daguerre (photo)
91 Spielberg (film)
92 Florence Nightingale (medicine)
93 Eleanor Roosevelt (United Nations and human rights)
94 Patient Zero (1st AIDS victim)
95 Chaplan (film)
96 Caruso (famous singer and early recording star)
97 Salk (polio vaccine)
98 Louis Armstrong (great jazz trumpeter and scat singer)
99 Vasco de Gama (explorer)
100 Suleyman I (greatest Sultan of the Ottoman Empire)

:nono: @ Princess Diana. She's about as influential as fungus.

Wheres Jade Goody
and don't slag off England's rose like that

Jade Goody's rotting in the ground somewhere, honey.

And she's so bloody romanticised - she was nothing but a media-whoring charity worker. I love how people always have a go at Charles for having the affair...erm. Al Fayed? Hello?

Where is Cheryl Cole? lol :laugh:

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Originally Posted by Shaun (Post 3395723)

Jade Goody's rotting in the ground somewhere, honey.

And she's so bloody romanticised - she was nothing but a media-whoring charity worker. I love how people always have a go at Charles for having the affair...erm. Al Fayed? Hello?

Ahh yes.. people tend to do "charity work" when they are already "well off" themselves. A nice little job for them to do when "media work" has dried up. lol

Glad there is no silly people on it. Like Goody or Jordan.

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Originally Posted by Shaun (Post 3395723)

She was divorced in 96 and started a relationship with DODI in 97.
She had an affair with Hewitt.

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Originally Posted by InOne (Post 3395749)

Glad there is no silly people on it. Like Goody or Jordan.

I bet you wanted Noel or Liam Gallagher on the list.. didn't you Joe Joe? :hugesmile:

Elvis on there? Reallllly?

No Simon Cowell? He wont be happy.

No Cowell or Jade because.......A&E's 100 Most Influential people of the last Millennium

#18 is an amazing choice.

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Originally Posted by Locke. (Post 3395851)

#18 is an amazing choice.

What worries you, masters you-John Locke :spin:

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Originally Posted by spitfire (Post 3395756)

She was divorced in 96 and started a relationship with DODI in 97.
She had an affair with Hewitt.

Very true, plus Will Carling and a couple of others joined the blue cock brigade(dipped it in Di). Charles was having the affair before, during the marriage and after the marriage.

Makes you wonder who Harry's dad is.

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Originally Posted by spitfire (Post 3395756)

She was divorced in 96 and started a relationship with DODI in 97.
She had an affair with Hewitt.

Charles was having an affair with/lusting after Camilla throughout his marriage to Diana - so he was the unfaithful one! He only used her to produce heirs!

Kant should be waaaayyyyy higher than Voltaire.

Rousseau > Jefferson

Glad Copernicus is higher than Galileo.

Also, where is Richard Wagner? The man was a legend... everybody knew who he was in the 19th century, he is possibly the most written about man since Jesus and he forever altered the course of music.

Nietzsche and Victor Hugo should be there too.

WHY why why mention Louis Armstrong's pop music at the expense of Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk and... just about every great jazz musician?

Goethe?

Good to see Simon Bolivar get a mention.

Christopher Columbus obviously deserves his place, even though the man was a vile monster.

Great choice for number 1

I'm not sure if they're in order

Lise Meitner

the woman who proved e=mc2

not on the list.