Top 100 Most Influential Persons in History 1. Jesus 2. Napoleon 3. Muhammad 4. William Shakespeare 5. Abraham Lincoln 6. George Washington 7. Adolf Hitler 8. Aristotle 9. Alexander the Great 10. Thomas Jefferson 11. Henry VIII of England 12. Charles Darwin 13. Elizabeth I of England 14. Karl Marx 15. Julius Caesar 16. Queen Victoria 17. Martin Luther 18. Joseph Stalin 19. Albert Einstein 20. Christopher Columbus 21. Isaac Newton 22. Charlemagne 23. Theodore Roosevelt 24. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 25. Plato 26. Louis XIV of France 27. Ludwig van Beethoven 28. Ulysses S. Grant 29. Leonardo da Vinci 30. Augustus 31. Carl Linnaeus 32. Ronald Reagan 33. Charles Dickens 34. Paul the Apostle 35. Benjamin Franklin 36. George W. Bush 37. Winston Churchill 38. Genghis Khan 39. Charles I of England 40. Thomas Edison 41. James I of England 42. Friedrich Nietzsche 43. Franklin D. Roosevelt 44. Sigmund Freud 45. Alexander Hamilton 46. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 47. Woodrow Wilson 48. Johann Sebastian Bach 49. Galileo Galilei 50. Oliver Cromwell 51. James Madison 52. Gautama Buddha 53. Mark Twain 54. Edgar Allan Poe 55. Joseph Smith, Jr. 56. Adam Smith 57. David, King of Israel 58. George III of the United Kingdom 59. Immanuel Kant 60. James Cook 61. John Adams 62. Richard Wagner 63. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 64. Voltaire 65. Saint Peter 66. Andrew Jackson 67. Constantine the Great 68. Socrates 69. Elvis Presley 70. William the Conqueror 71. John F. Kennedy 72. Augustine of Hippo 73. Vincent van Gogh 74. Nicolaus Copernicus 75. Vladimir Lenin 76. Robert E. Lee 77. Oscar Wilde 78. Charles II of England 79. Cicero 80. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 81. Francis Bacon 82. Richard Nixon 83. Louis XVI of France 84. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 85. King Arthur 86. Michelangelo 87. Philip II of Spain 88. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 89. Ali, founder of Sufism 90. Thomas Aquinas 91. Pope John Paul II 92. René Descartes 93. Nikola Tesla 94. Harry S. Truman 95. Joan of Arc 96. Dante Alighieri 97. Otto von Bismarck 98. Grover Cleveland 99. John Calvin 100. John Locke Source: Steven Skiena and Charles B. Ward are the authors of Who’s Bigger? Where Historical Figures Really Rank, Cambridge University Press, 2013. Disclaimer: The views expressed are solely their own.

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