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Who are the 10 most significant people in history?

They must have changed the Earth's history in some important way (for better or for worse).

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    Not in chronological order according to importance/significance. expanding beyond 10 too :P

    Karl Marx or Vladimir Lenin

    Adolf Hitler

    Napoleon

    Winston Churchill

    Charles Darwin

    Lord Jesus Christ

    His Holiness the Buddha

    Julius Caesar

    Sun Tzu

    Islam's Prophet Muhammad

    Plato, Aristotle, and other great Greek philopshers

    Joseph V. Stalin

    George Washington

    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edision

    Albert Einstein

  • ?
    9 years ago

    Abraham

    Augustus Caesar

    Jesus

    Mohammed

    Genghis Khan

    Karl Marx

    Isaac Newton

    Christopher Columbus

    Martin Luther

    Mao

  • ?
    9 years ago

    Jesus, Adolf Hitler, Osama Bin Laden, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawkings, Diego Armando Maradona, Martin Luther King Jr, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Amadeus Wolfgang Mozart.

  • imperialpoetpurple
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    No particular order because much would also depend on one's geography in some circumstances...

    1)Moses

    2)Jesus

    3)Mohammed

    4)Buddah

    5)Pythagorus

    6) Socrates

    7) Alexander the Great

    8)Isaac Newton

    9)Johaness Keplar

    10)Karl Marx

    11)Charles Darwin

    12) Chairman Mao

    13)Galileo

    14)Nicholai Tesla/Thomas Edison

    15)Christopher Columbus

    I put more than ten, but it's tough to cut my extra one's and there are many more that could be added too.

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  • Slushee
    9 years ago

    1. Hitler

    2. Napolean

    3. Einstein

    4. Martin Luther King Jr.

    5. Clara Barton (Started the Red Cross & Women's Suffrage Movement)

    6. Edison

    7. Karl Marx

    8. Darwin

    9. Lincoln

    10. Nelson Mandela

    Source(s): My best recollection of historical figures.
  • Toni Parr
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Religious

    Abraham

    Jesus

    Mohamed

    Bhuda

    Political

    Julius Ceaser

    Karl Marx

    Abraham Lincoln

    Science

    Johannes Gutenberg

    Alexander Fleming

    Albert Einstein

    (I would have added the person who figured out that if you add Charcoal, Sulfur and Salt Peter together it would go bang but nobody really knows who it was)

  • The Shadowman
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    Mathew, Mark, Luke, John, Apostle Paul, Apostle Peter, Isaac, Abraham, Jesus, Jehovah

  • Kat the Great
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    Darwin

    Einstein

    Roosevelt

    Newton

    Churchill

    Freud

    Caesar

    Napolean

    Bill Gates

    Von Braun

    Columbus

    Source(s): yeah I know it's 11... which one to delete? haha oohhhh damn where do I squeeze in Marx and Lenin and Curie... gosh too many to name! Errr I think your question should specify, who are some of the most important people in history AD... we don't care about BC now do we? ha
  • David
    9 years ago

    God

    Jesus

    Judas

    Satan

    Adam

    Eve

    Buddha

    The avatar

    Kurt Cobain

    And Optimus Prime

    True story

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    1. Jesus

    2. Jesus

    3. Jesus

    4. Jesus

    5. Jesus

    6. Jesus

    7. Jesus

    8. Jesus

    9. Jesus

    10. Jesus

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