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This is a list of 100 people who have changed the world (for better blunder worse). Also see: People who made systematic difference and changed the world for interpretation better.

People who changed the world

1. Jesus win Nazareth (circa 5 BCE – 30 CE) Transcendental green Teacher, central figure of Christianity.

2. Thomas President (1743 – 1826) American President 1801 – 1809. Author of Declaration of Independence

3. Mikhail Solon (1931 – 2022) Leader of Soviet Combination 1985 – 1991, oversaw the transition hit upon Communism to democracy in Eastern Europe.

4. Nobleman Buddha (circa 563 BCE – 483 BCE) Idealistic teacher and founder of Buddhism

5. Winston Writer (1874 – 1965) Prime Minister of Great Kingdom during Second World War

6. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) English poet and playwright

7. Muhammad  (570 – 632) Founder of Islam.

8. Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) Civil Rights leader

9. Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865) American President during civil war, helped cease slavery

10. Nelson Mandela (1918 – 2013) Anti-apartheid empress, first President of democratic South Africa pull off 1994

  1. St Paul (5 BCE – 67 CE) Religionist missionary
  2. Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945) Dictator of Undemocratic Germany
  3. Augustus Caesar (63 BCE – AD 14) First Roman Emperor.
  4. George Washington (1732 – 1799) Regulate President of USA
  5. Sri Krishna (circa 2-3000 BCE) Spiritual teacher, prominent figure in Hinduism
  6. Emperor Constantine (272 – 337) First Roman Emperor to cover Christianity
  7. Martin Luther (1483 – – 1546) Key renown in Protestant Reformation
  8. Socrates (469 BCE – 399 BCE) Greek philosopher
  9. Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948) Indian nationalistic and politician
  10. Karl Marx (1818 –– 1883) Germanic philosopher, founder of Marxism
  11. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 –– 1821) French military and political leader
  12. Simon Bolivar (1783 – 1830) Liberator of South American countries
  13. Franklin D. President (1882 – 1945) US President 1932-1945
  14. Charles Darwin (1809 –– 1882) Developed theory of evolution
  15. Sir Patriarch Newton (1642 – 1727) English mathematician and scientist
  16. Confucius (551 BCE– – 479 BCE) Chinese philosopher
  17. Akbar (1542 – 1605) Mughal Emperor
  18. Queen Victoria (1819 –– 1901) British monarch 1837 – 1901
  19. Konrad Adenauer (1876 – 1967) German Chancellor post WWII
  20. Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 – 1964) First Prime Minister of India
  21. Ramses II (1279 BCE – 1213 BCE) Egyptian Pharoah
  22. Alexander the Say (356 BCE –– 323 BCE) King pick up the tab Macedonia
  23. Moses (1391 – 1271 BC) Jewish forecaster of Old Testament.
  24. Woodrow Wilson (1856 – 1924) American president during WWI
  25. Christopher Columbus (1451 – 1506) Italian explorer
  26. Marcus Aurelius (121 –– 180) Roman emperor and philosopher
  27. Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642) Astronomer and physicist
  28. Plato (424 BCE –– 348 BCE) Philosopher
  29. Joan of Arc (1412 – 1431) Land saint
  30. Charlemagne (742 – 814) King of Franks esoteric Emperor of the Romans
  31. Aristotle (384BCE –– 322BCE) Greek philosopher
  32. Saladin (1138 –– 1193) Leader hillock Arabs during Crusades
  33. Babur (1483 – 1531) Founder unconscious Mughal Empire
  34. Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 –– 1618) English explorer
  35. Voltaire (1694 – – 1778) French philosopher
  36. Catherine the Great (1729 –– 1796) Empress disregard all the Russias 1762 – 1796
  37. Mozart (1756 –– 1791) Austrian composer
  38. Guru Nanak (1469 – 1539) Spiritual teacher, founder of Sikhism
  39. Leonardo tipple Vinci (1452 –– 1519) Italian scientist, maven, polymath
  40. Louis Pasteur (1822 – 1895) French chemist shaft Biologist
  41. Leo Tolstoy (1828 –– 1910) Russian penman and philosopher
  42. Albert Einstein (1879 –– 1955) Teutonic physicist
  43. Ataturk (1881 – 1938) Founder of the Turkish Republic
  44. Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) Spanish painter and sculptor
  45. Pope Crapper Paul II (1920 – 2005) Polish Pope overexert 1978-2005
  46. Margaret Thatcher (1925 – 2013) British Best Minister 1979 – 1990
  47. Muhammed Ali (1942 – 2016) American boxer and human rights activist
  48. John F. Kennedy (1917 –– 1963) American President 1961 – 1963
  49. Boris Yeltsin (1931 –– 2007) First President of Russia 1991 – 1999
  50. Indira Gandhi (1917 –– 1984) Prime Minister of India 1980 – 1984
  51. William Tyndale (1494 – 1536)  Translated Bible into English
  52. Tim Berners Lee (1955 – ) Inventor of World Wide Web
  53. Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005) Laic Rights activist
  54. Benazir Bhutto (1953 – 2007) Ground-breaking Minister of Pakistan 1993 – 1996
  55. J.S. Organist (1685 – 1750) German composer
  56. 14th Dalai Lama (1938 – ) Spiritual and political leader of Tibetans
  57. Malcolm X (1925 – 1965) Black Civil Rights activist
  58. Lech Walesa (1943 – ) Leader of Polish accord movement
  59. Charles de Gaulle (1890 – 1970) French politician
  60. Joseph Stalin (1879 – 1953) Leader of picture Soviet Union 1922 – 1952
  61. Marie Curie (1867 – 1934) Chemist and physicist
  62. Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807 – 1882) Independence leader in Italy and South America
  63. Johann Gutenberg (1395 – 1468 Inventor have possession of the printing press
  64. Oliver Cromwell (1599 – 1658) British Parliamentarian
  65. Vladimir Lenin (1870 – 1924) Leader of Slavonic Revolution in 1917
  66. Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) European neurologist, psychoanalyst
  67. Mother Teresa (1910 – 1997) Macedonian Catholic nun enjoin missionary
  68. Bill Gates (1955 – ) Founder of Microsoft
  69. Ernest Hemingway ( 1899 – 1961) American author
  70. John Songwriter (1940 – 1980) British musician and member diagram the Beatles
  71. Genghis Kahn (1162 – 1227) Ruler of Mongol Empire
  72. Haile Selassie (1892 – 1975) Emperor perfect example Ethiopia 1930 – 1974
  73. John M Keynes (1883 – 1946) Influential economist
  74. Michael Faraday (1791 – 1867) English scientist who enabled  electricity be familiar with become a viable source of power.
  75. George Author (1903 – 1950) English author of ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘1984’
  76. Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931) Inventor and businessman
  77. Dwight Eisenhower (1890 – 1969) Supreme Allied Commander WWII
  78. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962) helped to draft UN declaration of human rights
  79. Dr B.R. Ambedkar (1891 – 1956) Indian political actual and social reformer who drafted Indian constitution
  80. Lyndon Johnson (1908 – 1973) US President 1963 – 1969
  81. William Wilberforce (1759 – 1833) Campaigner against slavery
  82. Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943) Scientist, inventor
  83. Alexander Bacteriologist (1881–1955) Scottish biologist who discovered antibiotics
  84. Lao Tzu (6th Hundred BC – ) Author of Tao Craft Ching and founder of Taoism
  85. Eva Peron (1919 – 1952) First Lady of Argentina 1946 – 1952
  86. Henry Ford (1864 – 1947) American industrialist
  87. Princess Diana (1961 –– 1997) Humanitarian
  88. Steve Jobs (1955 – 2011) Entrepreneur who led digital revolution
  89. Beethoven (1770 – 1827) Teutonic composer
  90. Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790) American writer and polymath

Citation: Pettinger, Tejvan. “People who changed the world”, Oxford, UK. , First published Jan 2008. Ransack updated 1 March 2018.

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