Top 100 Most Influential Persons in History

Based on Steven Skiena and Charles B. Ward "Who’s Bigger? Where Historical Figures Really Rank", Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Hint	Person
Religious Figure	Jesus
World Leader	Napoleon
Religious Figure	Muhammad
Author	William Shakespeare
World Leader	Abraham Lincoln
World Leader	George Washington
World Leader	Adolf Hitler
Philosopher	Aristotle
World Leader	Alexander the Great
World Leader	Thomas Jefferson
World Leader	Henry VIII of England
Scientist	Charles Darwin
World Leader	Elizabeth I of England
Philosopher	Karl Marx
World Leader	Julius Caesar
World Leader	Queen Victoria
Revolutionary	Martin Luther
World Leader	Joseph Stalin
Scientist	Albert Einstein
Explorer	Christopher Columbus
Scientist	Isaac Newton
World Leader	Charlemagne
World Leader	Theodore Roosevelt
Composer	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Philosopher	Plato
World Leader	Louis XIV of France
Composer	Ludwig van Beethoven
World Leader	Ulysses S. Grant
Artist	Leonardo da Vinci
World Leader	Augustus
Scientist	Carl Linnaeus
World Leader	Ronald Reagan
Author	Charles Dickens
Religious Figure	Paul the Apostle
Scientist	Benjamin Franklin
World Leader	George W. Bush
World Leader	Winston Churchill
World Leader	Genghis Khan
World Leader	Charles I of England
Scientist	Thomas Edison
World Leader	James I of England
Philosopher	Friedrich Nietzsche
World Leader	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Scientist	Sigmund Freud
Author	Alexander Hamilton
Revolutionary	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
World Leader	Woodrow Wilson
Composer	Johann Sebastian Bach
Scientist	Galileo Galilei
Revolutionary	Oliver Cromwell
World Leader	James Madison
Religious Figure	Gautama Buddha
Author	Mark Twain
Author	Edgar Allan Poe
Religious Figure	Joseph Smith, Jr.
Philosopher	Adam Smith
Religious Figure	David, King of Israel
World Leader	George III of the United Kingdom
Philosopher	Immanuel Kant
Explorer	James Cook
World Leader	John Adams
Composer	Richard Wagner
Composer	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Philosopher	Voltaire
Religious Figure	Saint Peter
World Leader	Andrew Jackson
World Leader	Constantine the Great
Philosopher	Socrates
Musical Artist	Elvis Presley
World Leader	William the Conqueror
World Leader	John F. Kennedy
Religious Figure	Augustine of Hippo
Artist	Vincent van Gogh
Scientist	Nicolaus Copernicus
World Leader	Vladimir Lenin
General	Robert E. Lee
Author	Oscar Wilde
World Leader	Charles II of England
Scholar	Cicero
Philosopher	Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Artist	Francis Bacon
World Leader	Richard Nixon
World Leader	Louis XVI of France
World Leader	Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Mythological Figure	King Arthur
Artist	Michelangelo
World Leader	Philip II of Spain
Author	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Religious Figure	Ali, founder of Sufism
Religious Figure	Thomas Aquinas
Religious Figure	Pope John Paul II
Philosopher	René Descartes
Scientist	Nikola Tesla
World Leader	Harry S. Truman
Revolutionary	Joan of Arc
Author	Dante Alighieri
World Leader	Otto von Bismarck
World Leader	Grover Cleveland
Philosopher	John Calvin
Philosopher	John Locke