Top 100 Most Influential People in History - Statistics

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Rank	Life Span	Field	Answer	% Correct
3	4 BCE–30 CE	Religion	Jesus Christ	97%
2	1643–1727	Science	Isaac Newton	88%
1	570–632 CE	Religion/Politics	Muhammad	87%
10	1879–1955	Science	Albert Einstein	80%
9	1451–1506	Exploration	Christopher Columbus	80%
31	428 BCE–348 BCE	Philosophy	Plato	79%
26	1452–1519	Art/Science	Leonardo da Vinci	75%
30	470 BCE–399 BCE	Philosophy	Socrates	74%
29	100 BCE–44 BCE	Politics	Julius Caesar	71%
4	563 BCE–483 BCE	Religion	Buddha	70%
36	1732–1799	Politics	George Washington	70%
41	1770–1827	Music	Ludwig van Beethoven	69%
13	384 BCE–322 BCE	Philosophy	Aristotle	68%
25	1756–1791	Music	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	67%
33	1809–1865	Politics	Abraham Lincoln	64%
27	1483–1546	Religion	Martin Luther	60%
23	1564–1616	Literature	William Shakespeare	59%
54	1955–	Technology	Bill Gates	58%
53	1955–2011	Technology	Steve Jobs	57%
24	1769–1821	Politics	Napoleon Bonaparte	56%
45	1847–1931	Invention	Thomas Edison	56%
38	356 BCE–323 BCE	Politics	Alexander the Great	55%
12	1564–1642	Science	Galileo Galilei	55%
5	551 BCE–479 BCE	Philosophy	Confucius	54%
66	551 BCE – 479 BCE	Philosophy	Confucius	54%
47	1475–1564	Art	Michelangelo	54%
70	1874–1965	Politics	Winston Churchill	54%
52	1971–	Technology	Elon Musk	52%
32	1162–1227	Politics/Conquest	Genghis Khan	52%
21	1869–1948	Politics	Mahatma Gandhi	52%
42	1867–1934	Science	Marie Curie	50%
84	1881–1973	Art	Pablo Picasso	50%
44	1856–1939	Psychology	Sigmund Freud	49%
39	1685–1750	Music	Johann Sebastian Bach	48%
28	1818–1883	Politics/Philosophy	Karl Marx	47%
97	1856–1943	Science/Technology	Nikola Tesla	45%
34	1743–1826	Politics	Thomas Jefferson	45%
85	1853–1890	Art	Vincent van Gogh	45%
18	63 BCE–14 CE	Politics	Augustus Caesar	43%
57	1984–	Technology	Mark Zuckerberg	43%
71	1858–1919	Politics	Theodore Roosevelt	43%
16	1809–1882	Science	Charles Darwin	42%
15	1391 BCE–1271 BCE	Religion	Moses	42%
22	1723–1790	Economics	Adam Smith	39%
35	1706–1790	Science/Politics	Benjamin Franklin	39%
77	1480–1521	Exploration	Ferdinand Magellan	37%
43	1918–2013	Politics	Nelson Mandela	37%
96	2003–	Activism	Greta Thunberg	36%
19	1473–1543	Science	Nicolaus Copernicus	36%
50	1847–1922	Invention	Alexander Graham Bell	35%
90	69 BCE–30 BCE	Politics	Cleopatra	35%
8	1400–1468	Invention	Johann Gutenberg	35%
99	1920–1958	Science	Rosalind Franklin	35%
73	1460–1524	Exploration	Vasco da Gama	34%
64	287 BCE–212 BCE	Mathematics	Archimedes	33%
76	1254–1324	Exploration	Marco Polo	33%
37	1819–1901	Politics	Queen Victoria	33%
6	5–67 CE	Religion	Paul of Tarsus	30%
88	1883–1971	Fashion	Coco Chanel	29%
59	1596–1650	Philosophy/Math	René Descartes	29%
62	1942–2018	Science	Stephen Hawking	29%
98	1871–1948	Invention	Wright Brothers	27%
11	1822–1895	Science	Louis Pasteur	25%
14	300 BCE	Mathematics	Euclid	24%
48	1632–1704	Philosophy	John Locke	24%
74	1485–1547	Exploration	Hernán Cortés	22%
94	1412–1431	Military/Religion	Joan of Arc	22%
78	1930–2012	Exploration	Neil Armstrong	22%
68	1694–1778	Literature	Voltaire	22%
51	1736–1819	Invention	James Watt	19%
81	1775–1817	Literature	Jane Austen	19%
49	1712–1778	Philosophy	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	19%
69	1925–2013	Politics	Margaret Thatcher	19%
63	1912–1954	Technology	Alan Turing	17%
83	1828–1910	Literature	Leo Tolstoy	16%
86	1928–1987	Art	Andy Warhol	15%
89	1755–1793	Politics	Marie Antoinette	15%
58	1571–1630	Science	Johannes Kepler	14%
60	1561–1626	Science	Francis Bacon	13%
80	1897–1937	Exploration	Amelia Earhart	12%
93	1820–1910	Medicine	Florence Nightingale	12%
95	1997–	Activism	Malala Yousafzai	11%
87	1907–1954	Art	Frida Kahlo	10%
82	1821–1881	Literature	Fyodor Dostoevsky	10%
91	1729–1796	Politics	Catherine the Great	9%
17	259 BCE–210 BCE	Politics	Shih Huang Ti	9%
92	1822–1913	Politics/Activism	Harriet Tubman	8%
67	1623–1662	Mathematics	Blaise Pascal	7%
56	1973–	Technology	Larry Page	7%
55	1973–	Technology	Sergey Brin	7%
79	1934–1968	Exploration	Yuri Gagarin	7%
100	1815–1852	Mathematics	Ada Lovelace	4%
72	1632 – 1677	Philosophy	Baruch Spinoza	4%
20	1632–1723	Science	Antonine van Leeuwenhoek	3%
65	980–1037	Medicine/Philosophy	Avicenna	3%
75	1500 – 1542	Exploration	Hernando de Soto	3%
61	780–850	Mathematics	Al-Khwarizmi	2%
7	50–121 CE	Invention	Ts'ai Lun	2%
40	1920–1992	Literature	Isaac Asimov	1%
46	599 BCE–527 BCE	Religion	Mahavira	1%

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