100 Most Important People in History

The list is based on ChatGPT's answer. 1-10 are scientists and inventors; 11-20 are political leaders; 21-30 are religious figures; 31-40 are philosophers and thinkers; 41-50 are artists and writers; 51- 60 are explorers; 61- 70 are revolutionaries; 71-80 are entrepreneurs and innovators; 81-90 are military leaders; 91-100 are other figures.
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1.
Physicist, mathematician (laws of motion, gravity)
Isaac Newton
2.
Physicist (theory of relativity)
Albert Einstein
3.
Biologist (theory of evolution)
Charles Darwin
4.
Astronomer, physicist
Galileo Galilei
5.
Chemist, physicist (radioactivity)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie
6.
Mathematician and computer scientist (pioneer of modern computing and artificial intelligence)
Alan Turing
7.
Inventor, electrical engineer
Nikola Tesla
8.
Improved the steam engine
James Watt
9.
Discovered penicillin
Alexander Fleming
10.
Inventor, artist, polymath
Leonardo da Vinci
11.
Roman general and dictator
Julius Caesar
12.
Macedonian conqueror
Alexander the Great
13.
First U.S. president
George Washington
14.
French emperor and general
Napoleon Bonaparte
15.
U.S. president, abolished slavery
Abraham Lincoln
16.
Leader of Indian independence movement
Mahatma Gandhi
17.
British WWII leader
Winston Churchill
18.
Anti-apartheid revolutionary, South African president
Nelson Mandela
19.
Established English Renaissance
Queen Elizabeth I
20.
WWII leader (noted for influence, though negative)
Adolf Hitler
21.
Central figure of Christianity
Jesus Christ
22.
Founder of Isam
Muhammad
23.
Founder of Buddhism
Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)
24.
Key figure in Judaism and Christianity
Moses
25.
Chinese philosopher
Confucius
26.
Spread Christianity
Saint Paul
27.
Leader of the Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther
28.
Founder of Zoroastrianism
Zoroaster
29.
Founder of Mormonism
Joseph Smith
30.
Founder of Sikhism
Guru Nanak
31.
Philosopher, student of 33.
Plato
32.
Philosopher, student of 31.
Aristotle
33.
Greek philosopher
Socrates
34.
Philosopher ("I think, therefore I am")
Rene Descartes
35.
Philosopher, founder of Marxism
Karl Marx
36.
Philosopher (natural rights)
John Locke
37.
Philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche
38.
Philosopher
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
39.
Philosopher
Immanuel Kant
40.
Dutch philosopher known for his works on ethics, metaphysics, and rationalism, emphasizing the unity of nature and God.
Baruch Spinoza
41.
Playwright and poet
William Shakespeare
42.
Epic poet ("Iliad", Odyssey")
Homer
43.
Russian novelist ("War and Peace")
Leo Tolstoy
44.
Poet ("The Divine Comedy")
Dante Alighieri
45.
Sculptor, painter
Michelangelo
46.
Painter
Vincent van Gogh
47.
Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach
48.
Composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
49.
Composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
50.
Painter
Pablo Picasso
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51.
Opened the Americas to Europe
Christopher Columbus
52.
First circumnavigation of the Earth
Ferdinand Magellan
53.
Venetian explorer
Marco Polo
54.
Connected Europe and India via sea
Vasco da Gama
55.
First person on the Moon
Neil Armstrong
56.
Renowned traveler
Ibn Battuta
57.
British explorer
James Cook
58.
Namesake of the Americas
Amerigo Vespucci
59.
Viking explorer
Leif Erikson
60.
Chinese explorer
Zheng He
61.
Marxist revolutionary
Che Guevara
62.
Liberated South America from Spanish rule
Simon Bolivar
63.
French heroine
Joan of Arc
64.
Haitian revolutionary
Touissant Louverture
65.
Leader of the Russian Revolution
Lenin
66.
Founder of the People's Republic of China
Mao Zedong
67.
Writer and political critic
George Orwell
68.
Civil rights activist
Rosa Parks
69.
Women's suffrage advocate
Susan B. Anthony
70.
Women's rights activist
Emmeline Pankhurst
71.
Founder of Ford Motor Company
Henry Ford
72.
Co-Founder of Apple Inc.
Steve Jobs
73.
Co-Founder of Microsoft
Bill Gates
74.
Entrepreneur (SpaceX, Tesla)
Elon Musk
75.
Industrialist and philantropist
Andrew Carnegie
76.
Oil industry magnate
John D. Rockefeller
77.
Founder of Amazon
Jeff Bezos
78.
Entertainment pioneer
Walt Disney
79.
Co-Founder of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg
80.
Prolific inventor
Thomas Edison
81.
Founder of the Mongol Empire
Genghis Khan
82.
Carthaginian general
Hannibal Barca
83.
Military strategist ("The Art of War")
Sun Tzu
84.
Leader of the Huns
Attila the Hun
85.
Norman king of England
William the Conqueror
86.
WWII general and U.S. president
Dwight D. Eisenhower
87.
U.S. WWII general
George Patton
88.
WWII and Korean War general
Douglas MacArthur
89.
British naval hero
Admiral Nelson
90.
Muslim military leader during the Crusades
Saladin
91.
Founder of modern nursing
Florence Nightingale
92.
Founder of the Red Cross
Clara Barton
93.
Invented the printing press
Johannes Gutenberg
94.
Economist ("The Wealth of Nations")
Adam Smith
95.
Father of psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
96.
Father of medicine
Hippocrates
97.
Inventor and actress
Hedy Lamarr
98.
Physicist and cosmologist
Stephen Hawking
99.
Advocate for education and women’s rights
Malala Yousafzai
100.
Climate activist
Greta Thunberg
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It seems that ChatGPT ain't so smart (or ain't smart at all). I don't consider Greta Thunberg more important than Copernicus (especially that in few years nobody will remember her). Clara Burton was a founder of AMERICAN Red Cross (1881). Red Cross was actually founded by Henry Dunant in 1863.