10 Most
Influential People in History
Muhammad
Spiritual and political Leader
Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of the
world religion of Islam.
Isaac Newton
Scientist
English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher,
alchemist, and theologian. His law of universal gravitation and three laws of
motion laid the groundwork for classical mechanics.
Jesus
Spiritual leader
The central figure of Christianity, revered by Christians as the Son of
God and the incarnation of God. Also regarded as a major prophet in Islam.
Buddha (Siddartha Gautama)
Spiritual leader
Spiritual teacher and philosopher from ancient India born in Nepal.
Founder of Buddhism. Popularly known as the Light of Asia.
Confucius
Philosopher
Chinese thinker and social philosopher, founder of Confucianism, whose
teachings and philosophy have deeply influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese,
Vietnamese and Indonesian thought and life.
Paul of Tarsus
Christian apostle
One of the most notable of early Christian missionaries, credited with
proselytizing and spreading Christianity outside of Palestine (mainly to the
Romans) and author of numerous letters of the New Testament of the Bible.
Cà i Lún
Political official in
imperial China Widely regarded as the
inventor of paper and the papermaking process.
Johannes Gutenberg
Inventor
German printer who invented the European mechanical printing press.
Christopher Columbus
Explorer
Italian navigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages led to general
European awareness of the American continents.
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist
Best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass–energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2.
